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2926. A Fish Story

Luke 5:1-11

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... so many fish that it almost sunk the other boat. That was a miracle. JOASH: I warned you. PETER: I know, sir, but it was an, ah, unprecedented happening, you'll have to admit. JOASH: Yes, it was. PETER: And then, and this is the best part, I told him, "Leave me, Lord, for I am a sinful man." JOASH: That much is true. PETER: If you had been there you would have said the same. JOASH: I don't think so. PETER: Maybe you're right. JOASH: And what did this carpenter/preacher say to that? PETER: This is the ...

2927. The Rules

Luke 6:17-26

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

Theme: The Law of the Lord is perfect but could easily be a reason for dominating other Christians. Summary: The "Teacher" leads his little band of followers by the rules, but when he leaves, one of them questions his leadership and "the rules." Playing Time: 3 minutes Setting: A church Props: None Costumes: Contemporary, casual Time: The present Cast: Teacher -- more like a drill sergeant Student 1 Student 2 Student 3 TEACHER: (TEACHER MARCHES AND STUDENTS FOLLOW) Hup, Hoop, Harip, Hore. Hup, Hoop, Harip ...

2928. House On Sand

Luke 6:37-42

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... "! We had chicken last night. We had chicken at school today. I'm up to here with chicken! MOTHER: Well, the Lord giveth. FATHER: Well, the Lord can take that away. (LOOKS IN THE CUPBOARD) Where's the scotch? MOTHER: You don't need any scotch. FATHER: Just leave me alone. All I want to do is relax with a little drink and watch some TV ... and I don't want to be bothered! MOTHER: Sure, that's your answer to everything: get a little drink and watch television. FATHER: Bug off! (FATHER IS NOSE TO NOSE WITH ...

2929. Transfiguration

Luke 9:28-36

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... do. RALPH: Well, that's what I'm talking about. I want to stay right here and worship God. MABEL: You'd freeze. RALPH: Don't start that. I wouldn't freeze. The place is heated. Your church dollars at work. MABEL: They turn the heat down when the people leave. You'd freeze or starve or thirst to death ... in this very inspirational place. You could lay right down on the altar, here, a living sacrifice. RALPH: You're ruining the whole thing for me. MABEL: Will you get a life? You can't stay here. This is just ...

2930. Unfair - The Prodigal Son

Luke 13:1-9

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... sexual mores. All add their force that pulls young people this way and that way and leads them to attempt rash adventures away from the family nest. During this time on our program today we are going to take a look at one youth who decided to leave the security of his home and pit himself against the world. To "find his fortune," if you will. This first interview is with his seventh grade teacher. JOHN'S TEACHER: (BEING INTERVIEWED; INTERVIEWER IS NOT SHOWN) Johnny was a good boy in class. I can't remember ...

2931. The Tower Of Babel

Genesis 11:1-9

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... OVERLAPPING) FEMALES: In the land of Shinar, MALES: The fertile valley of Shinar, ALL: The descendants of Noah settled. FEMALES: The Lord God told us ... MALE 1: "Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth." (ECHO) ALL: But, we will not! We will not leave this bountiful land. FEMALES: There is more than enough water here. We have abundant crops. MALES: Here our cattle grow fat. ALL: And so do we! (ALL LAUGH IN UNISON) We will build ... FEMALES: Houses. ALL: We will build ... MALES: Granaries. ALL: We ...

2932. The Race

Luke 6:17-26, Luke 6:27-36

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... RACE. RUNNERS RUN IN PLACE) The race is long and hard. We strive to get ahead. The weak, battered and broken, are left by the wayside. (THE RUNNER IN THE MIDDLE GETS ELBOWED BY THE OTHER TWO RUNNERS AND FALLS. THE OTHER TWO RUNNERS TURN AWAY FROM THE AUDIENCE AND LEAVE THE FIRST RUNNER LYING IN A HEAP) The strong and the swift are the winners. But, what if things were different? What if we had a helper; a friend to pick us up when we are down? (JESUS COMES TO RUNNER WHO IS LYING ON THE GROUND AND HELPS THE ...

2933. Noah

Luke 12:22-34

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... , you're the birthday boy. You get to choose anything you want to do today. HAM: Yeah, Dad, what is it? NOAH: Well, I'd like to go on a picnic again. MRS. HAM: A picnic, what fun. MRS. SHEM: Everything's ready. Let's go. (THEY ALL PREPARE TO LEAVE) HAM: (HOLDING UP HANDS TO FEEL RAIN) Oh, oh. Something's happening. MRS. NOAH: Water's coming down. NOAH: That's rain. MRS. NOAH: Well, let's have our picnic in the ark, then. It'll be just like that day 300 years ago when we went to the zoo ...

2934. Take Up Your Cross

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... -- No Loss It is most obvious that what Jesus says is true when he says, "Those who want to save their life will lose it." We can all see that in many ways. The person who is the most industrious about trying to amass wealth has to leave it behind. The person who lives frantically, trying to get all of the pleasures out of life, may finally discover that he dies from just plain dissipation. The person who is the most diligent about health care must also finally surrender even after the most exotic surgery ...

2935. Which Way To Jesus?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... Lord's prayer or hear the absolution we recall the funeral of our old nature. Each time we come to the sacrament of the altar we die to sin again. Christ makes it possible to follow him into death through the Gospel and the Sacraments. In so doing we can leave behind the old self every day, and every day begin anew in him. In so doing we can live as those who can live above the world and live in him by faith, which is to live eternally, beginning right now. The Glory Of It When Jesus spoke of these ...

2936. Easter Jogging

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself." People who would rob a grave would not take the time to do all this neat folding of the napkin on his head. They might have dropped it in their haste to get out of there. Nor would they leave the linen cloths. They would have simply run out with him. So John gives the evidence that the rumor about stealing the body of Christ just does not make sense in face of the facts. The empty tomb together with the neatly arranged burial linens with the Word are ...

2937. Easter Understanding

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... what he must for the trespasses of the sinful and unbelieving world. It was a perfect death, because Christ did not surrender to death, but in perfect trust offered himself to his Father when death came. And God raised him on the third day. For Forgiveness Jesus did not leave it at that. He said, "The Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations." That is the purpose of all the activity of God and ...

2938. The Rebirth

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... . If you gaze at your problems, your problems will get you. If you gaze at your sins, your sins will get you. If you gaze at God and give him your full attention, while only glancing at your problems and sins, God will get you. You will be able to leave your problems at the foot of the cross. One man called this "the magnetism of the uplifted Lord." There is a pull of the cross to every man, woman, and child. There is a power here which we cannot fully explain. When you look at the cross you find new ...

2939. The Little Boat

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... , says, "From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view" (2 Corinthians 5:16, RSV). As mere mortals we view things "from the human point of view" -- that is, the side that we humans by our own power seem incapable of leaving. We are in the center, asking the questions, feeling that we are uncared for, asking, "What are we doing here?" That question comes at the apparent breaking point. But the breaking point may be the turning point, because we may come to see things not just from ...

2940. From Singleness To Solidarity

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

Zan W. Holmes

... her singleness all alone and was never to be heard from again. But Ruth made the decision to bear her singleness in solidarity with the singleness of Naomi. In one of the most beautiful statements of human solidarity in the Bible, she says to Naomi: Do not press me to leave you or to turn back from following you!Where you go, I will go; Where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die, I will die -- there will I be buried. May the Lord do thus and so to ...

2941. From The Redemption Of A King To A King Of Redemption

2 Samuel 23:1-7

Sermon

Zan W. Holmes

... . In his last words he affirms that it is the "spirit of the Lord" that speaks through him (v. 2). In this last will and testament he affirms his commitment to a being who rules with justice and in the fear of the Lord (v. 3). Then he leaves to his successors an "everlasting covenant" made by God (v. 5). In other words, at the heart of the theology of the Davidic Covenant was the understanding that the individual who sat on Jerusalem's throne would ensure the well-being of all individuals within the kingdom ...

2942. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Zan W. Holmes

... on Hunger he visited Ethiopia and Sudan at least six times in six years. His access to the so-called Third World continued and even Marxist leaders allowed him to help free political prisoners in Cuba, a jailed American aviator in Angola, and children who wanted to leave Vietnam to be with relatives in America. When he was criticized by some for spending time away from his home country and home district, he replied by saying, "I am as much a citizen of this world as I am of this country ... I grew up on ...

2943. No Box Seats In The Kingdom

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

William G. Carter

... want it but, once the Lord calls" ... Methodist preachers take all of this with a grain of salt, the same way Baptist congregations have learned to be somewhat skeptical when one of their preachers moves on to a better church claiming, "I hate to leave this church and I would rather stay here, but the Lord calls." Baptists note that the Lord rarely calls someone out of one church into another church unless that church has a higher salary. Methodists have likewise noted that there have been few preachers who ...

2944. It Is Blessed To Receive

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

William G. Carter

... see the priests, for that would hasten his return to society and his reunion with loved ones. Why did he turn back? Luke says the man was singing from the top of his lungs; maybe the other nine wanted some peace and quiet, and asked him to leave. Since all ten lepers were healed, perhaps the ugly divisions returned between Jews and Samaritans when they were no longer bound together by a common illness. Perhaps, as a foreigner, the tenth leper discovered on the road he did not have a priest like the others ...

2945. All Stirred Up

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Richard Patt

... song puts it, yet God never loses interest in each one of us. God's willing to spend time with us. You and I are part of God's continuing concern. Now I suspect, however, that it was Martha who initiated this encounter. The Bible writer leaves the fact open by saying "a woman named Martha received him into her house." No doubt the news traveled that Jesus was in the area. Martha enjoyed entertaining in her house, it seems. When the prospect of hosting the popular rabbi from Nazareth arose, we can imagine ...

2946. Rich In God's Sight

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Richard Patt

... plight of God's children. God realized how close to the edge our sins had gotten us; how, indeed, we had become lost sheep, shepherdless and alone. With urgency, "while we were yet sinners," God dispatched a good shepherd among us. The shepherd went forth uncomplaining, leaving the ninety and nine, to find the one lost soul so far from the green pastures. Yes, this divine shepherd -- wonder of all wonders -- became a weak, powerless Lamb of God, and went to the plank and was crucified for us all. There is a ...

2947. Sabotaging The Sabath

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Richard Patt

... by healing this woman, no matter what day of the week it was. Christ did an even more glorious deed when he mounted the cross to pay the price for our misdeeds. We will now gratefully gather on every sabbath to bring our thanksgiving in the Eucharist. And when we leave, we will feel nurtured and empowered to serve every human need around us! As we so serve one another, we will not be sabotaging the sabbath; we will be fulfilling it! "

2948. Keep Things Flowing

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Richard Patt

... that cause a buildup of plaque and clogged arteries. In recent times we've come to appreciate the cycling and recycling that go on in nature. There seems to be a constant flow, the flow of life that cleanses, enriches and makes things new. The leaves of autumn will gradually flow into the soil of a future springtime. We are learning that unless our throwaway society begins to effectively recycle what it discards, we will clog the flow of our waters and atmosphere until we're literally choked to death. You ...

2949. Nobody Owes You Anything

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Richard Patt

... it was a delicious meal, you would feel under no compulsion to gush over your servant and tell him what a good job he did. You can just get up and go to bed and let the servant eat the leftovers and then clean up. In fact, when you do leave the room, the hired hand ought to thank you for the privilege of serving you! I think you would agree that the sermon topic succinctly expresses what Jesus wanted to say on the surface of this parable: nobody owes you anything. The world we live in is God's creation ...

2950. Prepare The Way

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... of hosts (3:5). At the end of Malachi, we hear of more judgment: See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch (4:1). The book, however, ends with a promise. "Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes" (4:5). The church has always seen John the Baptist in that promise. John came into our ...

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