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2676. Water Boy

Exodus 2:11-25

Sermon

Justin Tull

... will have to learn to see the need and feel the injustice. We will have to have greater compassion than we have right now for the lesser ones of our society. One of my favorite quotes from Albert Schweitzer comes from his book, Out of My Life and Thought. He shares an experience from one of his many trips. At the station at Tarascon we had to wait for our train in a distant goods shed. My wife and I, heavily laden with baggage, could hardly get along over the shingle between the lines. Thereupon a poor ...

2677. Stairways Of Heaven

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Justin Tull

... than ever of the importance of letting others know that we care when they are going through sickness, surgery or crisis. This morning I want to share with you a glimpse of some of that encouragement. It began with notes and cards that expressed one key theme: “Our thoughts and prayers are with you.” Doesn’t it make a difference when we hear those words in our time of trial? I received a tape from the kindergarten and 3- and 4-year-old classes. What a joy to listen to their voices! I received many warm ...

2678. Be One

John 17:20-26

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... from time to time. They are a real burden to carry, too, because they are heavy. Remove the pennies from the tray. So I thought I would try to bring the dollar together, so I started carrying around these. Take the nickels from your other pocket and drop ... and they continue to make quite a bit of noise. They're still a bit of burden though. Remove the nickels from the tray. I thought it would be easier if the dollar could be carried around like this. Start dropping the dimes. Drop a dime at a time. They don ...

2679. Wine from Water: The Wedding

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... loves God is my mother," he said. That's a nice saying for anyone but his real mother. It's a terrible put-down for her. She must have felt terrible - and it wasn't the first time either. Mary, standing outside that house, watching that crowd, must have thought back to another crowd, a wedding party at Cana. Those earlier harsh words might have rung in her ears: "Woman, what have you to do with me?" It is always hard to be the private family of a public person. Jesus' mother was not the only one. We could ...

2680. Saved By Water: The Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... the desert or maybe back in the old sailing days of dead calms and thirst-crazed sailors. I don't suppose many of us have ever thought of dying of thirst. About the nearest we can come to feeling thirst is when we watch an old Wagon Train movie on TV, or ... man, and they weren't even married. "Go call your husband," indeed! She was shaken to the core. "I wonder what else he knows," she thought. Maybe her throat began to feel a bit dry. "I guess you must be a prophet," she said. All of a sudden she wanted to ...

2681. The Least of These

Matthew 25:31-46

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... We have gathered to give one more gift tonamely, a proper funeral.How did this man wiggle his way into our hearts? Have you thought about it? How did he manage, in all of his weakness, to win from us a degree of respect and devotion? It is a ... Jesus was saying to us about the man who needed pajamas, or something to drink, or a visit? Perhaps this man was not whom we thought he was. He looked and acted and sounded like ___________ But, at the very least, he was an opportunity for Christian compassion and love. ...

2682. Forgive and Go Forward

Romans 8:18-27

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... heap up other guilt upon you, until you believe that forgiveness accepted from God is duty to God. I declare unto you, according to the directive found in John 20:23, the total forgiveness of all your sins. Entrust ____________ to God's mercy.The second channel for today's thoughts revolves around our feelings of anger. We are hurt. We don't like at all what's happened. We'd like to be able to try to talk him out of it. We'd like to explain to him in detail all the beautiful reasons for going on with one ...

2683. The Last Laugh

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... us crying our eyes out now. If she could be here, in this pulpit, to preach her own funeral meditation, I suspect she'd have a couple of stories to tell. She would make us happy. She would laugh that deep and hearty laugh that made you smile, whether you thought her joke was funny or not. You never left her home without something; at the very least, you knew that she had not lost her sense of humor, and didn't take life too seriously.We are directed by Holy Scripture, now, not to grieve asse who have no ...

2684. Doing Love

Revelation 21:1-27

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... other men are faster or more handsome. He even gets the flu, like everyone else.All of us here have probably survived those early notions of ours about our parents. The thoughts that mom, dad and God were equals, all powerful, and all wise are replaced with reality. We move into an adult world with one another, but sometimes we leave our thoughts and feelings about God ata childish level. Today we can't do that. We are yanked away from innocence by a brutal tragedy. God couldn't fix ___________ He couldn't ...

2685. Step Seven - Humiltiy

Mt 23:25-36 · 2 Ti 2:20-26 · Ps 51:1-14

Sermon

John A. Terry

... failure if we try to depend on our own power. Avoid being filled with evil by filling yourself with good. Your life will be filled with some spirit, with some activity. Your mind will be filled with some thoughts. We need God's strength to shun youthful passions and instead seek to fill our thoughts and actions with righteousness, faith, love and peace. We know that in the church, we have not always reached the high calling to which we have been called. Paul talks about a major reason for that failure. I ...

2686. No Room In The Inn

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Brett Blair

... for his line. He had rehearsed it all night. He began, there is…and he hesitated. He started over again. There is. . .and again his mind went completely blank. Everyone was embarrassed for him but poor Wally just didn't know what to do. Joseph thought he would improvise and started walking away toward the stable on stage left. Seeing him walking away Wally in desperation called out: “Look, there's plenty of room at my house, just come on home with me." That seems a rather delightful twist on a familiar ...

2687. It Just Doesn't Work That Way

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... and sowed weeds among the wheat, and then went away. When the plants grew large enough to begin producing grain, the field hands spotted the weeds growing with the wheat. And they went to the farmer and said, ‘What’s up with the weeds? We thought you were just growing wheat here.’ The farmer replied, ‘Do you think I’m foolish enough to PLANT weeds in my wheat field? Obviously someone planted these weeds here to ruin my crop, probably at night when everyone was asleep.’ ‘So what do you want ...

2688. Reality Check

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are real you cannot be ugly, except to people who don’t understand." "I suppose YOU are real," said the rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled. "The boy’s uncle made me real," he said, "but that was a great many years ago. But once you are real you cannot become unreal again. It lasts for always." You and I are truly loved ...

2689. Nothing Difficult Is Ever Easy

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... I know what it is. So I’ve been visiting around at some of the local churches, trying to find out where I fit in. I wonder if you could tell me what would be expected of me if I joined this church?" A word of caution: If your first thought is, "I’d send them to the preacher. That’s his department," think about this. That person just sat through a worship service, right? During the last twenty minutes of the service , give or take a few - I know, I know sometimes it seems Much longer than that - who is ...

2690. Some Assembly Required

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... ." But the flattery must have faded when Simeon started talking about how this infant would be the cause of the rising and falling of many, and how he would be opposed by many and would cause great pain to His mother. "THIS is a blessing?" Mary must have thought. And Simeon’s words DO rearrange our notions about blessings, don’t they? "This baby I hold in my arms may be your salvation, but it certainly won’t come cheap," he seems to be saying. If we are to be saved, if God is going to intervene ...

2691. Hard Times May Drop In For A Visit

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Joann Hary

... today comes from looking back on our own valleys of bones. When we realize that God has always been there, we then become more certain that God will continue to be there for us! For some of us we are talking about dry bones being "not getting what we really thought that we should have for Christmas"; for others, "not having that very special person that we want to go to the prom with us"; and for some of us it has been the pain of divorce or the loss of a spouse. Still others have cried and cried when that ...

2692. Sacrifice - Hannah and Mary, the Mother of Christ

Luke 2:41-52

Drama

Martha L. Leach

... this small boy behind. Especially one you had waited and prayed for. Hannah: The same way you gave up your son, Mary. We found our courage because we knew our sons must be about their Father's business. After Samuel had been with Eli for some time, one night he thought he heard Eli calling his name. He went to Eli to see how he could be of service, but Eli said he had not called him. Again, Samuel heard someone calling and went to Eli. Eli told him that he had not called. Eli realized that perhaps it was ...

2693. Where is the Nearest Sycamore Tree?

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... did he say ‘the lost’? Was he talking about me? And that bit about me being a ‘son of Abraham’ – was that supposed to be a compliment?" Maybe at this point Zaccheus put down his Irish lead crystal wineglass, next to the gold English bone china and thought about his real situation. Jesus has brought Zaccheus off his high perch of presumed goodness and put him back down to the only place where he can truly receive Jesus – as one of the lost, a sinner. In effect, what Jesus says is, "If you don’t ...

2694. The Women

John 20:1-9

Drama

William Grimbol

... another prophet. KAREN: Just another prophet - what is our faith without prophets? PATTI: He is truly a prophet. Yet, he is more. NANCY: We know ... AMAZING JESUS. PATTI: All I can tell you is that though I have experienced and heard his message before, though I've even thought it to myself alone at night before, there is something about his presence that makes you want to believe. I can't. I can't describe it - it is - well, it was like all the callouses covering my heart were cut away, and I wanted to hug ...

2695. Fingerprints on the Chalice

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Steven Burt

... to in the way their more saintly friends do, who want to follow the Golden Rule but find it hard to love their neighbor when the neighbor’s dog hasn’t read the Golden Rule and has defiled the front lawn. In picturing Communion, I thought of people -- people with big noses, people with fly away hair, people with strange eyes, people with wrinkles and birthmarks and warts; I remembered people; I imagined people, each person unique and individual. Let me paint a picture for you of a Communion that might ...

2696. There's Blindness, and There's Blindness

John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... of God’s displeasure with our world or with our actions. That was the answer Job’s "friends" gave him. "It’s not hard to figure out, Job. You messed up! You did something that made God angry. You said something, or did something, or maybe even just thought something that God didn’t like, and this is what you get for it! You should have known better! Shame on you!" Job didn’t care much for that answer, and neither do I. Although the Old Testament writers did speak often of God in terms of anger ...

2697. Episode 1: The Holy Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... you were a preacher. What kind of preacher are you anyway? What church do you belong to?" In one of those moments when just the right words came, I answered him quietly, "I belong to a church that throws birthday parties for prostitutes at 3:30 in the morning." Harry thought a moment, and then almost sneered as he answered, "No you don't; there is no church like that. Because if there was, I'd join it." What compels a man at 3:00 in the morning in a greasy diner on some back street to throw a birthday party ...

2698. Not Your Favorite Father's Day Scripture

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... ," Craddock replied. "Oh, so you teach preachers how to preach, do you? Well, I’ve got a story to tell you." And with that, the gentleman pulled up a chair and sat down at the table with Craddock and his wife. Dr. Craddock said he groaned inwardly and thought to himself, "Oh, no! Here comes another preacher story! It seems like everybody has at least one." The man stuck out his hand. "I’m Ben Hooper," he said. "I was born not far from here across the mountains. My mother wasn’t married when I was born ...

2699. Trying to Face the Strain

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... frightening and nothing was clear. Maybe he would find a wife and maybe he wouldn’t. Maybe his brother Esau would come after him and catch him and take revenge on him. Jacob was facing the strain, one the road between one place and another. And he thought he was alone. Maybe you know what it’s like to leave the familiar and secure life behind and move on to a new situation, a new place. The time between moving on and establishing new, intimate friendships is an unsettling time – that time when we’re ...

2700. Back to the Basics

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... okay. So I’ll just put a smaller check by that one." But there is one other commandment I would lift up to you today. You won’t find it in the 20th chapter of Exodus. It didn’t make the top ten list. But Jesus thought it was important. In fact, he thought it was the most important commandment of all. In the twelfth chapter of the Gospel according to Mark, there is a retelling of an encounter between Jesus and an expert in the law. Listen to Mark’s description of that conversation: ((read Mark 12:28 ...

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