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2551. Inner Warmth

1 John 4:7-21

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... Use This Illustration In The Home: When there is a lack of expression of love between members of the family. If we truly accept the love others have for us, then by the very nature of love, its warmth will be shared with others. When an older child wants to stop attending church school. If we are to maintain the spirit of love within us, then we need to keep that warm flame burning. The study of God's word is one of the major ways of remembering what God has done for us.

2552. Try, Try Again

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... , he did not stay down, but climbed up again. This is something that we all need to remember in life. If we have difficulty doing something then we need to remember this little spider. If we fail, we should try again and again. We must not let a difficult time stop us from moving on to better things. Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home: When you see a spider. During a rainstorm. When your child gives up too easily.

2553. The Unity Of The Faith

Ephesians 4:1-16

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... united as beloved members of the family of God. Leader: And we are called to serve in larger ways for God than one alone could do. People: And we are also united with all the saints of history. Leader: Let us celebrate how nothing across the ages can stop the Church. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, in Your infinite wisdom You have blessed the Church with the power of Your presence that unites us where nothing else could bring us together. We thank You, Lord, for Your love. In Christ we ...

2554. Proper 21

Mark 9:42-50, Mark 9:38-41

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... humble service, as promised by Jesus our Messiah. Amen. Declaration of God's Forgiveness Hear the Good News! The Lord will give his people justice and have compassion on his servants. Friends, believe the Good News. In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Exhortation Do not try to stop anyone who does work of divine power in the name of Jesus. Whoever is not against us is on our side. Prayer of the Day Jesus, Messiah, Champion of God's rule, help us to gain control of our bodies so that we restrain all harmful ...

2555. Proper 25

Mark 10:46-52, Psalm 34:1-22

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

CALL TO WORSHIP Rejoice and sing aloud for joy. The Lord has done great things for us. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Observant Parent, you know who we are. We can be moved by the sight of hunger without stopping our waste of food. We see the limitations of some of our energy sources but are slow to change our ways of using more than we need. We observe hazards and hurts in confrontation and conflict but are unwilling to learn the arts of conciliation. For our intransigence and intractability ...

2556. Show Us The Father, and We Shall Be Satisfied

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Larry Powell

... know how men are when driving in a strange place, insisting that if you drive around long enough, you will eventually find what you are looking for. Having been made to feel stupid so many times for doing that very thing, I reasoned after 10 or 15 minutes to stop the car and ask the first person who gave the appearance of knowing where we wanted to go. A man and woman were walking briskly along the sidewalk. "Pardon me," I said, "could you tell us how to get to the Old Mill?" He pointed to his right. "See ...

2557. Fleshing Out The Word

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Larry Powell

... for a harmonic cosmic structure, divine a great idea, assemble a computer, construct a robot, or design a dynamic program? The missing ingredient, the key part, the thing which was to bind it all together, was added: "Male and female created he them." Let us stop talking around the word and say it: persons! It cannot be emphasized enough that of all things in the universe, the hinge article, the thing with which the Spirit of God does business, the thing which shall cause the total plan of God to work ...

2558. Are You Convinced?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... complete educational requirements and graduate, a new student pastor would appear on the scene. It was my second day on the job. I walked up and down the streets meeting everybody in sight, determined that my ministry in that place was going to count for something. Stopping at a home I knew to belong to church members, I was invited in to sit on the front porch. The man and his wife sat in a wooden swing which creaked slightly as it moved lazily back and forth. The usual pleasantries were exchanged, topics ...

2559. Receive The Holy Spirit

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Larry Powell

... earth? No, I tell you, but rather division (Luke 12:51)." So many more. And then there was all that business about the Son of Man being "mocked and scourged and crucified and raised on the third day (Matthew 20:19)." To name only these few, stop and consider what an incredibly mind-bending spectrum of remote possibilities Jesus was laying out before his disciples as absolute certainties. He was asking them to gather in a great many things for which they would have to stretch to reach. In time, however, they ...

2560. Just Speak The Word

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Larry Powell

... to the front yard, maybe even the doorstep, they will capture me." Midway down the block, I saw it. The shadowy figure of a man in the middle of the sidewalk, coming slowly toward me. I knew there must be others closing in on me from their appointed places. Stopping in my tracks, I was just about to inform the neighborhood of my predicament when a voice said, "Something about to get you, boy?" It was my father's voice. Doxology and Hail Mary! He was coming up the street to meet me. My father's voice. Only ...

2561. Strange Fishing

Luke 5:10

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... of Jesus. That is what Jesus meant when he talked about catching men. He didn't want to catch people in a net. He wanted to make them disciples. But he knew that Peter and John would understand him better if he told them that they were going to stop catching fish and instead start "catching" people. Jesus would like to make you fishers of people also. He wants all of his disciples to look for ways to teach people about the wonderful things that God can do for us. If people are going to learn about God, they ...

2562. Grow Like a Fruit Tree

Matthew 3:10

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... axe is to chop down and get rid of things that you want to get rid of around your home or work. Jesus once talked about using an axe when he was telling a parable. A parable is a story that teaches us something. Jesus said that when fruit trees stop making fruit we should get rid of them. Chop them down and use them for firewood or whatever you need the wood for. There is no sense letting a fruit tree that is not making good fruit stand and take up space where another fruit tree could grow. That sounds ...

2563. Happiness Is Finding the Lost

Luke 15:8-10

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... when they forget to worship him, or decide that they want to be their own gods, or when they hate others instead of loving people the way they were taught. These are the lost people, and God is very sad when he loses people. If you would decide to stop coming to Sunday church school and church, or if you started to live differently by cheating your friends and lying to your parents, then God would think that you were lost from him. That would make him very sad. But if you also remembered what God had taught ...

2564. Taking Life Seriously

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... that you would go to heaven?" "Yes," "No," or "I don't know," would suffice as an answer. The second question, however, was the important one, "On what does your assurance rest?" The only acceptable answer was faith in Jesus Christ. We made our first stop and rang the doorbell. A gracious and charming couple were at home and invited us in. After the pleasantries were exchanged, in which we learned that the husband was a professor of psychology at a large university, I settled back in my chair to observe ...

2565. The Wisdom In Waiting

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... waiting is not easy. Most of us regard waiting as a necessary evil. The fact that sometimes it is necessary does not diminish our regard for it as an evil, or at least, undesirable. To wait in a long checkout line at the grocery store is irritating. To be stopped on the way home by a changing traffic light and then forced to wait until it turns green is annoying. To wait for a plane that is late in arriving is a waste of time. Most of us are accustomed to filling our time with activities. We set schedules ...

2566. Two Doors; One Choice

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... , frightening. Some are never able to do it. Unfortunately, churches are crowded with people desiring the kingdom but who do not know themselves. They are busy knocking at the wide door while it is the narrow door that holds the promise. They have stopped listening to their inner voice and listen only to the authority figures who tell them what to do, how they ought to behave, and what values they should be living by. What Jesus calls his followers to risk requires courage. It means entering through ...

2567. Kingdom Etiquette

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... our Teacher and Friend, rather than our Lord and Master. It means taking full responsibility for our decisions and our actions, even as it did for him. Spiritual maturity means making choices before God and suffering the consequences before the world. The buck stops with us. Instead of forgiveness, we must accept the guilt and despair that go with the risk of trusting our own instincts and being wrong. Discerning God's will requires developing a trust in the credibility and integrity of our own being. Very ...

2568. Planting Seeds

Matthew 13:1-23

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

... sow his seeds. The seeds were all ready to produce the crop that farmer needed. However the other conditions were not quite right in most cases. Some seed fell on the roadway, and others in the thorn bushes, and still others in soil that started to grow but were stopped by other plants growing there. Only part of the seeds were in good soil! Our faith works the same way. When we hear the Word of God, Jesus tries to plant that word in our hearts so that it grows and produces His love and care for others in ...

2569. Follow Through

Luke 14:28-30

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

Object: A variety of projects that are half completed: a half-colored picture, a half-built building made of blocks, and so forth. What would say to someone who always stopped doing something half way through? A person who, for some reason, just never got around to finishing whatever he or she had started. That sounds kind of foolish, doesn't it? What if you came into the kitchen at your house at supper time and the table had only half ...

2570. Yesterday, Today, Forever

Hebrews 13:8

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

... 't change over the years. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. Jesus was there at the beginning of time. Jesus will be there at the end of time. Jesus is with us every day in between, loving and caring for us with a love that will never stop. (Write "Jesus loves you" across the top of the sheet.) That love is His promise and we can trust it forever!

2571. Straight A's - Forever!

1 Peter 1:9

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... almost anything to get it? (Let them answer.) What would you like right now that you do not have? (Let them answer.) We want a lot of things, don't we? I suppose that it is good that we can't have everything that we want or otherwise we would stop trying. Some things are more important than other things for all of us. For instance, you would all like to have good grades in school. Good grades do not come easy, do they? (Let them answer.) Let's suppose that you worked very hard in school and did all your ...

2572. God's Stamp Of Approval

1 Peter 2:20

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... means teaching Christian ways, and a lot of people in this world think that there are other ways. They like to cheat, lie, steal, and have whatever they want, when they want it. You would not want to get things this way and you may have to tell others to stop doing it. That could make you suffer. They may lie about you or try to hurt you. It may be painful being a Christian at a time like this, but you have to do it. You must suffer the pain. You could pretend that you didn't see or hear ...

2573. We All Belong To Jesus

1 Corinthians 1:11-13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... people. Some followed Paul, and that meant that they were Paul's people. And then there were others who followed Apollos and that meant that they were Apollos' people. Paul heard about this and how the different groups were quarreling and he said that they must stop it. None of the people that they said they were following were the ones to follow. They must follow Christ and only him. The church of Jesus should not be divided in that way. The same thing is true today. Some people call themselves Methodists ...

2574. Imitating

1 Thessalonians 1:6

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... and make phone calls to the lonely, and teach about Jesus to everyone who will listen. They are some of our favorite people and we just love them. We want to be like them so we watch what they do and try to do some of the same things. We stop worrying, we share our lives with people who need us, and we give people what we have when they need it. "Imitate" is a big word, but it means trying to be like other Christians who we think are great. People followed St. Paul because they loved him and they ...

2575. Proper 23

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... to be, what it was created to be, what it should be ... That's what the Bible is saying here. Is there no hope for us? Sucked into and infecting everything with our lust for power, is there no hope? Not in these verses there isn't, not if we stop at verse 14. Many Christians, seeking for that sign of hope, would latch on to the reference to the bruising of the head of the snake as meaning the promise of the ultimate defeat of the power of evil. But even John Calvin thought that was stretching things well ...

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