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2651. Whose Life Is It Anyway?

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... is not college material? Now there are other schools, special schools - FATHER: [angrily] My son is going to a COLLEGE and then to LAW school! TEACHER: [pleading] What’s to become of his unique abilities, his inventive brain? Mr. Horton, don’t you know James is quite extraordinary in his OWN way? It has nothing to do with making grades in English or math or history. FATHER: I WILL NOT have my son a - a LABORER! In this town our family has always been - TEACHER: But Mr. Horton, think of JAMES! College ...

2652. People Who Wear Red...

Acts 10:34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... is really a wonderful color and it makes people feel wonderful. It’s too bad that all of you don’t have some red on because then you could be favorites of mine also, but since you don’t have any red then you must understand that you are not quite as good as the ones who do have red. That’s the way a lot of people like Peter and James and other disciples of Jesus felt about people. If they were Jewish, then they were all right because that meant that they were favorites of God and any favorites ...

2653. A AND Z

Revelation 1:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... good friend because we use him in so many words. Can any of you think of some words or names that use Albert A? [Let them answer.] Very good. You can think of a lot of words and names that use the letter A. Our other friend is not used quite so often, but he is a good friend because he makes a sound like no other letter. His name is Mr. Zachary Z. Can you say the sound that Z makes? Very good. Can you think of some words or names that the letter Z is used in? That is ...

2654. TWELVE IMPORTANT MEN

Revelation 21:14

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... great city is built for everyone to live in, the apostles will be greatly honored. That’s a good reason to know their names, but it is even more important to know what they taught, since when you learn that you will know what they knew about Jesus. That was quite a dream that John had about a beautiful city. When we read about it we remember how important those first teachers of Jesus were to God and to us. Will you remember that? Good.

2655. Yarn and Patience

Romans 5:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... of people and the Christian faith. Being a Christian is not easy, and no one ever said it was. You don’t become a Christian, but you practice Christianity every day. It is like knitting a big blanket. Every day you work at it, and if you quit knitting you don’t have a big blanket but just some rows of yarn. Being a Christian involves solving problems and learning to be patient. Every day there are new problems for the Christian. If he works at the problems then he learns patience, which St. Paul says ...

2656. A Real Champion

2 Timothy 4:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... with a whip. But never once did Paul give up. It had not been an easy life, and Paul had many scars. When we listen to the lesson he wrote to his young friend, Timothy, we learn that he is now ready to retire and rest. Paul is going to quit fighting, but he is not giving up. It is the 15th round, and the fight is over for Paul. He is ready to die and glad that soon he will be with God in heaven. There are others like Timothy who must now fight the battle. They, too, must fight ...

2657. THE OLD MAN IS WASTING

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... . SETH (Dialing again) Correct. (into the receiver) Hello, Senator Thornflower, Seth Ajax here. I’ll only take a minute. You recall the conversation we had recently about a new metropolitan airport for your state? I thought you might be interested in knowing that there’s quite a bit of land available in Airdale County. Three and a quarter an acre. You might have some friends who’d like to speculate. (JAREL leans over, tries to listen) I’ll give you a ring tomorrow night. It could be a real public ...

2658. Why Should I Go On Living?

Matthew 12:38-45

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... conformity and uniformity. A sociologist tells us that if you ask them what they want out of life, it turns out to be a cautious desire to be well-fixed comfortable and happy. They want enough time and enough money to do something, but they aren’t quite sure what. They are like the lock in one of Lewis Carrol’s fantasies. This lock keeps running around looking for something, and finally somebody asks him for what. The lock replies: "I am looking for someone to open me," and hurries on. But our young ...

2659. Well, What's for Sure?

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... the other theory on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Dr. Robert Oppenheimer said: "We guess tonight, and we correct our guesses in the morning." As for the basic secrets of the cosmos, Sir James Jeans says: "The ultimate realities of the universe are, at present, quite beyond the reach of science and may be, and probably are, forever beyond the comprehension of the human mind." Listen to the words of Thomas Edison: "We don’t know the millionth part of one percent about anything. We don’t know what ...

2660. Perhaps Next Summer...

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... of those leaves that we are going to turn over, we could make a book of them. But somehow, they never got turned. How many of us are as stubborn in our procrastination as the alcoholic who was always going to reform and stop drinking but he never quite found a convenient season to do it. Finally, his family, in desperation, decided to frighten him into it. One night he came home dead drunk, and they picked him up and carried him out to the cemetery. They buried him there, with only his head protruding from ...

2661. Chapter IV

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... of existcnce, however. Many people still living can well remember sixty hour weeks, and in the ancient world there were no days of rest, or vacations in most societies, for most people. But the Hebrews were not "most societies," and their ideas about man were quite different from most of their neighbors. As the Hebrews looked at the persons around them they rejected the idea that man was just another animal. He was the crown of God’s creation. As such he had other purposes than simply to be busy producing ...

2662. Chapter VI

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... take to impliment its foreign policy, even when that policy is in its "self-interest" I am not a pacifist. I do not condone many of the demonstrations I see going on around me, some of them being carried on by people who are "against violence" but who are quite willing to kick a policeman in the groin, or throw a bag of urine in his face. Some of the demonstrators want nothing but to save their own hides, and have no deep concern for safe-guarding the lives of others. In spite of that, however, not all of ...

2663. Learning to Be Patient

Matthew 15:23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... ? Real thirsty? Are your throats dry and your mouths parched? I thought so. Would you like to have a drink? How many of you could take an ice cube back to your seat and wait until it has completely melted before you drink it? You may have to wait for quite a while. Will you wait? If you do it will taste twice as good and you will learn to be patient, won’t you? I know you will.

2664. God Wants All of Me!

Matthew 22:37

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... it? Then let’s try one more time. Let me sing a song or, better yet, we can all sing a song together if you’ll promise to stop when I tell you to. For instance, we could sing "Jesus Loves Me." (Sing it to a particular line and then quit before finishing it) When we don’t finish the song, we haven’t done it all. To sing or say a poem or look at a picture, we want to have it all. It just doesn’t seem right to have only part of it. Well, if you feel that ...

2665. Forgiveness that Never Ends

Matthew 18:21

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... to blow out this candle? ten times, five more times, twenty times, seventy times? Are you getting tired of blowing out the candle? Would you blow it out 490 times if it was necessary? How about 5,000 times? How about as often as YOU need to? That’s quite a candle, isn’t it? You can be seated, Doug, because this is a very special candle that teaches us a great lesson from Jesus. Sometimes we think we will only give someone three chances like a baseball player only gets three strikes or a bowler only gets ...

2666. Free to Be

Acts 4:23-31

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... to be God’s person, I am afraid for my security, my safety, my reputation. The early chapters of Acts describe how Peter and John used the power of God’s Spirit to heal a man paralyzed for almost forty years. The healing stirred up quite a reaction in Jerusalem among the Jewish leaders. Threatening the apostles, the temple officials forbade them from saying anything further about Jesus in Jerusalem. It was a threat Peter and John could only ignore, because as they put it, "Whether it is right in the ...

2667. Crossing the Great Divide

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... woman who could literally say, "the devil made me do it," to Herod who could make no decision but send Jesus back to Pilate, to Pilate who thought he could absolve himself by a little handwashing, to you and to me, we have become quite accustomed to passing the buck and shifting the burden of our responsibility to someone else. Our society has not helped us here. While our social scientists have opened doors of understanding how our environment and background shape our behavior, somewhere in the muddle of ...

2668. BANKER

Matthew 25:14-30

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... into large buildings that somehow seem to convey a sense of power; they are usually majestic, marble-invested shrines to commerce. The bankers themselves are dignified, old-school-tie men, who give the impression of fatherly concern for your troubles. It wasn’t quite that way in Jesus’ time. The word "banker" comes from a Greek word which means money-changer, and we know what Jesus thought about them! And the word "bank" itself comes from another Greek word which means counter or table, over which money ...

2669. BARBER

Ezekiel 4:1-5:17

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... was to insult him very deeply. There’s another footnote to history - since the Romans were clean-shaven, it is most probable that the Jews continued to be bearded as a further act of rebellion. Where have we heard that before? Today’s youth aren’t quite so modern as they would like to think! The hair of the head, also, was a matter of great care and concern, particularly during the New Testament period. The wealthy were very fond of wearing it long, a practice that disgusted St. Paul (1 Corinthians 11 ...

2670. BRICKMAKER

Exodus 5:7, 16

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... Bible lands is excellent for brick-making, being heavily clay impregnated. The bricks were made from this clay and water, were kneaded by treading them with the feet, and were then molded into oblong or square units. They were then either sun-dried or kiln-fired. Quite often rulers had their insignia or initials or some other royal mark stamped into the bricks made in their own lands. Still today, it is not unusual for a farmer to be working in his fields and unearth an ancient brick marked with the sign of ...

2671. CARVER

1 Kings 6:35

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... palm trees, and cherubs, and many other symbols. And, of course, as time went on, they became more and more adept in this art. So much so, that by the time Herod the Great rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem, it’s beauty was proverbial. I mean that quite literally - "He who has not seen Herod’s building has never seen anything beautiful," was a common proverb of that day. Although we have conflicting reports of this building, and we do know vast areas of it were covered with gold, still we may assume that a ...

2672. DREAM INTERPRETER

Genesis 40:8; Daniel 2:4

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... the interpreter inquired further, the client was obligated to give any additional information about himself. Then the interpreter, with suitable magical flourishes and much stage-dressing, gave the meaning. And, here’s where he had a distinct advantage. Since the client was quite sure that the interpreter knew what he was talking about - well, there wasn’t any harm in helping him by giving him some nice gift! That’s one way to ensure a favorable reading! Now, of course, these were the wealthy people ...

2673. FARMER

Jer. 14:4; 2 Tim. 2:6; James 5:7

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... farm from the Canaanites, and they built their villages near their fields where they worked all day. In later times, these villages grew into walled towns. Much of the farming was done on hillsides, and as a result, terracing came into practice quite early. Among the chief crops in ancient Palestine were wheat, rice, barley, oats, rye, beans, peas, lettuce, celery, cabbage, beets, turnips, mustard, radishes, onions, flax, cotton, and many others. But it wasn’t easy. The land was rocky and the farmer was ...

2674. JAILER

Acts 16:27

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... on any charge, he would have what we would consider to be "house arrest," that is, he was confined to a specified area beyond which he might not go. And if you’re thinking that this shows a remarkable degree of leniency, you are quite wrong. Prisons were seldom needed because justice was executed on the spot - and execute is the right word for what frequently happened. However, by New Testament times, prisons are mentioned as holding persons who are awaiting trial or execution, and also as punishment by ...

2675. JUDGE

Num. 25:5 ; 1 Chron. 17:10

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... will find that even in very primitive societies, certain persons serve as judges. In the earliest times, the head of the house was considered judge over his household, even with life and death. With the enlargement of the human family, this power quite naturally passed to the heads of tribes and clans. Moses, we find, followed Jethro’s advice and appointed judges for every "small matter" while Moses decided the important things. Upon Moses’ death, judges handled all the disputes. During the period known ...

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