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2801. Finish What You Started

Luke 9:51-56

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... noticed how a farmer's field has straight lines in the dirt? (response) Do you know how they make all those straight lines? The farmer keeps his eyes on some object in front of him. He looks ahead to the other side of the field. Point to some object in the ... he looks back, the plow might get crooked, and if the plow gets crooked, what happens? (the lines get crooked) Jesus told his disciples to keep their eyes on him and not to look back. When mom or dad ask you to pick up your toys or help out around the ...

2802. Saved By Water: The Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... water; there is life. Death is on one side, life on the other. The hero dies just a few paces away from life. The person whose soul has dried up is usually only a little way from water, too. His tragedy is that something hides the water from him; something keeps him from seeing and drinking the waters of life. It is usually some pet or favorite sin. Jesus had a way of getting right at that kind of problem. To strike up a conversation with Jesus, as the Samaritan woman did at the well, was to take a risk ...

2803. Beasts, Saints and Chaos

Daniel 7:15-28, Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... some, eighty years; for some, ninety years, is a greater trial than a dramatic confrontation with an athiest. That is why we hear, "Be faithful unto death." That is why, "Do not grow weary in well-doing." If what we are doing is well, then we are to keep on doing it. You notice that weariness, which is much in our minds, is not at all in the mind of the writer. Instantaneity is our thing, not patience. This sense of weariness and loss of a sense of worthwhileness is compounded by a sense of isolation. "I ...

2804. Time and Timing

Habakkuk 1:12--2:1, Habakkuk 1:1-4

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... weepingly for mercy when he himself is caught. Perhaps God might be rejecting the instantaneous response because that would mean sweeping all aside, not just the so-called guilty. That's what the story of the flood is all about. Sweep away the "baddies." Keep the "goodies." Then God discovers that the few whom he had saved were not as good as he thought. Instantaneous rightings of wrongs has its drawbacks, mostly for those who demand that kind of action. Perhaps we also get trapped in the old illusions ...

2805. Opposites

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... thought when they were done, he would be done. They thought that the nails and the cross would end it. They thought that the spear made doubly sure. They thought that the stone in front of the tomb was heavy enough to keep Christ buried forever. They thought that the guard was strong enough to keep dead bones dead.So many things looked so real to those who watched. The cross was real, to those who watched Christ become a corpse. The crown of thorns was real. The blood was real. The last breath and the last ...

2806. Opposites

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

2807. Revised Edition

Psalm 71:1-24

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... because we have less, but rather that someone else may have enough. Simplicity is not needing what the world needs. It is keeping one's needs in check. It is Thoreau at Walden Pond, Jesus and his ministry, hikers on the Appalachian trail, children playing ... us, and dependent only upon the Almighty Author forever. Into God's care, therefore, we commit ___________ and ask the Almighty to keep his promise to create a new edition, elegant, revised and corrected, fresh off his holy and personal press. God's first ...

2808. L. T.: The Lonely Terrestrial

Drama

Edward Long

... our first Christmas there after we were married until the folks moved to Florida, and we moved in here. We had our love to keep us warm, and perhaps we shall again ... (They look at each other warmly.) (Lights down.) NARRATOR: The Loft is an apartment over the ... it is nice to have nice things, but I promise to think of others too ... (The others make affirmative sounds.) SUSIE: I'm going to keep my date with Lee, if he'll still go with me. MRS. ROGERS: Thank you so much (She is beaming), for a while I thought ...

2809. Step One - Honesty

Luke 8:26-39 · Proverbs 23:29-35

Sermon

John A. Terry

... before I talk about today's Scripture readings. But what is most important for the church to understand is that the Christian faith is the spiritual foundation on which recovery is built. The Christian faith is the source of strength and self-esteem which will help keep us from self-destructive behavior. There are 12 steps commonly used in this process, returning us from exile. The exile may have been the result of chemical abuse or the abuse of food. It may have come as a result of an inability to control ...

2810. Step Three - Faith

Mt 8:5-13 · Heb 11:1-7 · Is 55:6-9

Sermon

John A. Terry

... long after it was planted that my wife asked me what was planted in each row. I was not sure, because when I planted the seeds, I had the assistance of my two little boys, who kept grabbing packets of seeds to help. Because I was so busy keeping them from helping and retrieving the seed packages, I did not write down what got planted where. In addition, I could not tell which seeds they had scattered in which rows. There was only one way to know what was planted where. Wait until the plant begins to grow ...

2811. All in All

Colossians 3:1-17

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... three. But when you get them, close your eyes or turn your head away and reach into the bowl and don't look at them. Keep them closed in your hand. Okay, come and get them, and remember, don't look at them. When everyone has their M&M's: Now ... the instructions. After the children have eaten: What colors did you eat? Who ate a red one? (response) Who ate a green? (response) Keep asking until someone says, "We don't know," or "They all taste the same." Application: That's right. Inside the different shells they ...

2812. Sign of the Times

Luke 12:54-59

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... and make us feel love again. You see, the cold not only kills the leaves, but it deadens our hearts, and God wants very much to come into our hearts and warm them with his love so they don't die and fall to the ground. Let's Pray: Lord, keep our hearts warm. Keep us from being cold-hearted. Amen.

2813. Bound for Glory

Hebrews 13:1-25

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... pass it to someone else. This will continue until you have a web formed in between the children. The adult helpers should help keep the yarn going. Now what do we have? (response) Everyone is connected together. Watch this ... Pick someone. I want you to sit ... ways that you can lift someone's web if they are feeling sad? (response) What if they are sick, what can we do? (response) Let's keep in mind this week that we can lift the web and help someone up who is down or sick. Let's Pray: Gracious God, thank you ...

2814. So You Want To Go To Bethlehem, Do You?

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... ask any of the writers of the gospels how to get to Bethlehem, I think we might be surprised by their answer. "So you want to go to Bethlehem, do you? Tell you what to do: go on out to the desert, outside of the relatively safe confines of Jerusalem. Keep going till you get to the Jordan River. You’ll know it when you see it. It’s the only river around these parts. You’ll find a man there – strange looking old coot – standing knee-deep in the water, just baptizing folks left and right, as fast as ...

2815. No Room In The Inn

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Brett Blair

... at the beginning of the rush season but late in the night when the poor innkeeper was tired and irritable after a hard day’s work. Then comes the knock on the door…the unexpected knock of destiny. So the advent message to us is to watch and wait. Keep our minds and our hearts open for his coming. For the hour approaches when Messiah will come to you and to me. And like the Bethlehem innkeeper we will be forced to make a decision. Will our lives be so cluttered with incidentals that there will be no room ...

2816. Dealing with the Devil

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... it up if you have your pocket Bible with you. If you believe what it says, if God is a God worthy of your trust, if God keeps promises, then nothing can harm you, right? If you truly believe that, God will be your parachute and give you a soft landing on that pavement way ... this First Sunday of Lent, 1999: as we wrestle with temptations of every kind and description, God stands in the shadows, keeping watch over us, just as God stood with Jesus in that wilderness encounter with Satan. No matter where we find ...

2817. Where the Scary Things Live

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... help sometimes, even when we’re trying to be helpful. What’s the first nighttime prayer we teach our children? "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, if I should DIE before I wake..." Wait a minute? What’s that all about? That "if I should die before I wake" business? What’s going to happen to keep me from waking up in the morning? The monster under the bed? The troll in the closet? And isn’t it odd that the places and situations that look innocent enough in the light of ...

2818. The Upside-down Kingdom of God

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... their help. She said, "When Jack and I brought our children here to be dedicated, you promised to help raise them in the faith. I need your help. I just can’t do it alone." After an agonizing moment of silence, a couple stood and offered to keep the children one day a week. One man, who was an accountant, offered to help her organize her finances. Another couple offered to fix dinner for the family once a week. The congregation rallied around Jill and her children, because that’s what God’s people do ...

2819. It Just Doesn't Work That Way

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

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... a lot of work involved, unless you just don’t like for grass to grow between the tomato plants. You just have to wait until the tomatoes are ripe enough to pick and harvest them. Not so with the other stuff. Like peas, for example. You have to keep the weeds from growing with your pea vines or the weeds will choke the pea vines until they die. But what if the weed looks a little bit like the pea vine? Now, those of you who are experienced gardeners probably have no trouble at all differentiating between ...

2820. How Much Is Enough?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... acids that the body needs. And the fruit in the jelly provides everything you need from that group. Add a glass of milk, and you’ve got the all the basic food groups covered. I’d rather have raspberry Kool-Aid, but I’ll the drink the milk just to keep the nutritionists happy. I can’t get any arguments about my theory at home. They just look at me, then look at each other with that "what-do-you-expect-it’s-Dad" look and go on about their business. I’ve heard people use the phrase "comfort food ...

2821. Exasperating Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... your Bible every day, pray for your enemies, take your vitamins, say a little prayer for good luck before you leave for work each day, keep your nose clean, and you’ll be alright. Grace? Yes, there is grace, and God’s grace is truly amazing, but if you step out ... than the affirmation that we are saved by the grace of God through faith." God gave up on salvation by the book and quit keeping score about 2,000 years ago, gathered up all our IOUs, marked them "paid in full," and nailed them to the cross of ...

2822. Use It or Lose It

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... meant to say. But, as we can easily see, there was lots of room for misunderstanding in what they actually said. Jesus must have thought he was being perfectly clear also. In this section of Matthew’s gospel we find Jesus repeatedly warning, "Stay on your toes, now! Keep alert! You don’t know when the Master will come. You don’t know, I don’t know, NOBODY knows except God." In spite of the fact that these words, spoken by Jesus himself and written in red ink, are recorded in the Bible, some folks to ...

2823. So You Want to go to Bethlehem, Do You?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Johnny Dean

2824. The Lantern

John 18:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... to be seen. When the meeting broke up in the very late hours, they sent for some soldiers who were stationed around the temple to guard it. Can you imagine having soldiers standing outside our church guarding it? I can't either. But that is where they were ordered to keep the night watch. One of the men who had been in the meeting approached the sergeant and told him what to do. He was to take a lantern or two and cross a valley to a certain spot in an olive grove and there arrest a certain man. The ...

2825. Hard Times May Drop In For A Visit

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Joann Hary

... singer witnesses a gangster execution and then agrees to testify. In order to protect this "wild woman of the world," the police hustle her off to an inner-city convent in San Francisco to pose as a nun so they can keep her hidden and safe until the trial. In the first place, she doesn't want to be there and keeps trying to get out, and in the second place, obviously, she just doesn't fit in with the real sisters that are a part of the convent. She talks at the wrong time, fails to get up when she is ...

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