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2626. Bargains galore

John 2:16

Children's Sermon

... 't find anything I need to fill my shopping bag. Something's wrong! Do you know what it is? (Let them respond.) Let's look at our verse for today and see if it will tell us what's wrong. (Read verse or choose someone.) "Take them out of here! Stop making God's house a marketplace (v. 16, TEV)!" You mean, this isn't a store? (Let them respond.) I made a mistake. I thought I could buy all the things on my list. But our verse says this isn't a store. It's God's house. When we ...

2627. Do What The Coach Says

Hebrews 5:8

Children's Sermon

... football or basketball game. (If there is time, you might want to tell about the school or team it is from.) How many of you have ever been to a basketball game? (Wait for show of hands.) It's exciting to watch all the players. Sometimes they run really fast, stop quick and all of a sudden they are at the other end. It would be exciting to be one of the players and have all the fans shouting and cheering for you. Basketball looks pretty easy. But if you ask players, I think they would tell you it is hard ...

2628. Now We Can Hear!

Mark 7:31-37

Children's Sermon

Object: your ears. Lesson: Jesus said to the man, "Ephphatha," which means, "Open up!" Boys and girls, have you ever watched a television program in which the sound suddenly stopped? What was that like? (Let them answer.) All of a sudden you can see somebody's mouth moving, but you can't hear the words. It's hard to figure out what is going on, isn't it? Let's try something right now to give us a good idea ...

2629. Everything is Fixed

Romans 3:22

Children's Sermon

... about this.) How does it feel when that happens? (Let them answer.) It can really be hard on us when somebody we want to like us is angry at us instead. What could we do to fix things? That's right. We could talk to them and ask them to stop being angry. But they might not do it, especially if they thought they had a good reason. We could beg them. But that might just make them more angry. We could give them a present. But that might not work. We could say to them (or to ourselves), "Well, go ...

2630. Add a Little Salt

Mark 9:50

Children's Sermon

... seem to have any flavor? I have. The food may be perfectly good, but we don't like to eat it because it doesn't taste like anything. Even though it may be good for our bodies, if we can't get any taste out of it, we may just stop eating it altogether. Then we lose the good part. One of the flavors we can add to food that seems to need some is salt. I have some here with me today. We know that you can use too much salt on something if you are not careful. If you ...

2631. Lent 2

Philippians 3:12-4:1, Jeremiah 26:1-24, Genesis 15:1-18, Luke 13:31-35, Psalm 27:1-14, Psalm 42:1-11

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George Bass

... give thanks to him, who is the help of my countenance and my God." THE READINGS Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18 (E, C); 15:5-12, 17-18 (RC) On some Sundays it appears that the first reading harmonizes with the second reading in such a way that it stops short of the Gospel for the Day. At least one theme is built into, and basic to, the first two readings: "Trust in God and the precious promises of his word." In Genesis 15, God makes two promises to Abram: Namely and first, that he will have a son and ...

2632. Lent 5

John 7:45--8:11, Psalm 126:1-6, Isaiah 43:14-28, Philippians 3:1-11, Luke 20:9-19, John 12:1-11

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George Bass

... up on the third day. That's the part of the story that doesn't appear in the parable but that's the way it was! John 12:1-8 - "The Plot." 1. It was too much for the chief priests to take, when Jesus added insult to injury by stopping for supper at the home of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus. They couldn't allow the curious crowd that wanted to see Lazarus, whom Jesus had raised from the dead, turn into a congregation that actually worshiped Jesus. They wanted to see both of them dead. 2. The enemies of Jesus ...

2633. Maundy Thursday

John 13:1-17, Psalm 116:1-19, Exodus 12:1-30, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34, Mark 14:12-26, Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Hebrews 10:19-39, Luke 22:7-38

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George Bass

... on this day, as well as the institution of the Lord's supper and the foot-washing service motif. Time was, after the 15th century, when a papal bull, in coena domini, which condemned all heretics, was read on Holy Thursday; this practice was completely stopped by the end of the 18th century. The practice would be unthinkable in this age of ecumenism. Holy Thursday celebrates the last supper, the institution of the holy communion, and the mandate given by Jesus to serve each other as he served us; Roman ...

2634. Proper 4

Luke 7:1-10, Psalm 117:1-2, 1 Kings 8:22-61, Galatians 1:1-10

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George Bass

... . He loved their nation, they told him, and he even built their synagogue. 3. Jesus must have concluded that the man loved his servant rather than feared that he would lose money, if the man died. 4. Jesus went with the Jews, but another delegation stopped him before he reached the centurion's home, telling him that the centurion said, "I am not worthy to have you come under my roof." 5. Jesus was amazed at the man, at his humility, apparent repentance, and faith and he healed the servant, without ever ...

2635. Proper 5

Luke 7:11-17, 1 Kings 17:7-24, Galatians 1:11-24

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George Bass

... in the way that he did. Luke 7:11-17 (RC, E, L, C) Jesus, a man of perception and compassion, not only saw the funeral procession, but he saw that the chief mourner was a widow - no husband was in view - and that her only son had died. He stopped the funeral march and told the woman not to weep, approached the bier and spoke to the dead youth: "Young man, I say to you arise." And the dead man immediately came back to life. As far as the mourners were concerned, Jesus had done something that the prophets ...

2636. Proper 9

Galatians 6:11-18, Galatians 6:1-10, 1 Kings 21:1-29, Isaiah 66:1-24, Psalm 66:1-20, Luke 10:1-24

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George Bass

... :1-12, 16-20 (E); 10:1-12, 17-20 (RC, C) - "The Peace Beyond Understanding" The gospel of our Lord is the source of the only real and lasting peace that people on earth may know. When the Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev made his stop in Minnesota after the summit with President George Bush in 1990, one of the local events that had been planned was an ecumenical prayer service for peace in the St. Paul Cathedral: Apparently, Gorbachev's advance team had agreed to the service, probably after consultations ...

2637. Proper 11

Colossians 1:15-23, Luke 10:38-42, Genesis 18:16-33, Colossians 1:24--2:5, Psalm 15:1-5

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George Bass

... :8-17 (C) This is the tale, finally, of two miracles performed for a woman of Shunem, who had been kind to Elisha, first feeding him and then, with her husband, building a spare room on the roof of their home so that the prophet might have a place to stop over. The first miracle was in the birth of a son to the woman; the second, in a section of the story that was not told, was the resuscitation of the woman's dead son. God has the power to raise the dead, not merely as resuscitation, as in the ...

2638. Proper 13

Luke 12:13-21, Psalm 49:1-20, Ecclesiastes 2:17-26, 2 Kings 13:10-25, Colossians 3:1-17

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George Bass

... he called it "The Lord's arrow of victory, ... over Syria!" And Elisha prophesied that Jo'ash would fight Syria until it was destroyed. However, following the prophet's orders again, he struck a bunch of arrows on the ground three times and then he stopped, only to receive a rebuke from Elisha, who told him he should have kept on striking the arrows on the ground. Therefore, Jo'ash would only "strike down" the Syrians three times, instead of many more times, which would have meant the annihilation of Syria ...

2639. Proper 16

Luke 13:22-30, Isaiah 28:1-29, Isaiah 66:1-24, Jeremiah 28:1-17, Hebrews 12:1-13

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George Bass

... . That is more than an appetizer, because it satisfies the "hunger of the heart" of human beings. But it also creates the desire to be even closer to the Lord and to eat at his table, where he feeds people on his body and blood. 3. Earthly eating stops with death, but the feast continues at the table in heaven that has been set and prepared by Jesus Christ. That feast will be sumptuous, indeed, and will go on forever, until all are gathered around the table of the Lord God and "sup with him" in eternity ...

2640. Proper 19

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7, Psalm 51:1-19, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Hosea 4:1-19, Hosea 6:1--7:16, 1 Timothy 1:12-20

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George Bass

... (15: 1-3, 11-32) was assigned to the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year/Cycle C, and comments and a sermon suggestion may be located in the materials for that Sunday. The "short form," which contains the so-called "twin parables" of the lost sheep and the lost coin stops short of the parable of the prodigal son (or the "loving and forgiving father), but it illustrates how much God loves his people and how far he will go to save them from sin and death. Here is another form of John's "God so loved the world that ...

2641. Proper 22

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13, Amos 5:1-17, Habakkuk 1:12--2:1, Habakkuk 1:1-4, Psalm 95:1-11, Psalm 37:1-40, Luke 17:1-10

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George Bass

... ." A few weeks ago, I was sitting near a relative by marriage when he suffered a cardiac arrest; without warning, as he and I sat a few feet apart on a curved sofa watching the playoff of the U.S. Open golf tournament, his heart simply stopped beating. For all intents and purposes, he was dead then and there, and had it not been that his daughter, who teaches CPR was home and immediately began giving him artificial respiration, as well the swift response of the paramedics who responded to the 911 call ...

2642. Epiphany 6

Mark 1:40-45

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Wayne B. Keller

Liturgical Color: Green Theme: Jesus' healing of the leper - Jesus' insistence that the leper tell no one. Invitation to Worship Try this: As pastor and choir process into the sanctuary, touch some of the people, or stop and greet them. If you do not process, without announcing the purpose, come from the chancel and do the same. Then, welcome people to worship. Along with the phone company, ask them to reach out and touch someone. Remind them to go cautiously; because some may not want to be ...

2643. You Provide The Bread

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

William J. Carl

... was expected. The whole thing was impromptu. It just happened. There they were listening to Jesus’ sermon, enthralled with Jesus’ words, and some stomachs started grumbling. So Jesus, deciding that he had talked long enough, began to be concerned about the people’s hunger. He stopped and said, “Let’s feed them.” You see, our religion is not merely a spiritual, but a physical matter as well. Our faith is not in a God who remains mysterious in some heaven we can’t see. Our faith is in a God who ...

2644. Rocky

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

William J. Carl

... knew that now there would be no turning back. That’s what Peter knew the moment he saw the empty tomb and saw his risen Lord and heard his command to “Feed my sheep.” He knew that from this day forward the world would never be the same. Nothing would stop him now. Nothing, nothing at all. Not even his own bumbling or his own big mouth. Now he was ready to risk his life if need be, the way those Russian protestors did in August 1991 because in so doing he could help bring in the new order that God ...

2645. Living Sacrifices

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

William J. Carl

... case for human sacrifices. The ancient Hebrews sacrificed to appease God. But the watershed transition from human to animal sacrifice occurred in the story of the sacrifice of Isaac. You know the story -- Abraham, tested by God, raised the knife to offer his own son but God stopped him and offered a lamb. The real point of this story is not the father’s anguish; it was a great honor to offer your own son to God. No, the real point here is that among all the gods, this God no longer wanted human sacrifice ...

2646. Church People Beware!

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

William J. Carl

... us are uneducated folks, artisans, and old women who are utterly unable to describe the value of our doctrines in word, but who attest them by their deeds (Bruce L. Shelly, Church History in Plain Language, Dallas, Word Publishing, 1982, p. 88).” If we were to stop here with all this talk about the difference between saying and doing, and we were in a typical homiletics class, the critique would be that what we have said so far could not be classified as a sermon but a good pep talk that could be used ...

2647. How Does One Follow Jesus During The Threat Of War?

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

George Johnson

... cheek just doesn't work. But we meet in the name of Jesus. We may argue with Jesus. We may disagree with Jesus. We may disobey Jesus. We may choose not to follow Jesus. But don't change his teaching! Don't change his words to justify using violence to stop violence. I want us to be honest in our struggle. How do you follow Jesus during the threat of war? Jesus said, "If you live by the sword, you will die by the sword." We can call Jesus a crazy liberal, a lunatic, or a wimp. We can choose to ...

2648. Have You Accepted Jesus' Invitation?

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

George Johnson

... Jesus, then follow him; not just believe, but follow. You learn what that means in the book called the Bible. The invitation to the marriage feast is not to a cheering section sitting in the bleachers or to a good ol' boys club. It is not a rest stop, but it is an invitation to a movement, to a mission to change the world. So if you and I want to take the call seriously we will find some disciplines are important. The Bible needs to be our constant companion. We will give a priority to this operations ...

2649. Let Freedom Ring!

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... this when he wrote, “Live as free men, yet without using your freedom as a pretext for evil; but live as servants of God.” (1 Peter 2:16) Those early apostles understood the meaning of freedom when they replied to the high priest’s demand that they stop teaching in the name of Jesus, “We must obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:29) Given that Christian people should be interested in working for freedom, how do they do that? The most elementary thing they can do is to read and to become informed of ...

2650. The King of Life

Luke 19:28-44

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Thomas Slavens

... where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men.1 Ogden Nash, with tongue in cheek, expressed the disillusionment of many whose king has easily disappeared: O money, money, money, I’m not necessarily one of those who think thee holy,But I often stop to wonder how thou canst go out so fast when thou comest in so slowly.2 The author of the first letter to Timothy was expressing a basic truth when he wrote, “The love of money is the root of all evil.” (1 Timothy 6:10a) Some make ...

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