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Bulletin Aid

THEOLOGICAL CLUE The eschatological framework of the church year remains in place, but it does little or nothing to reveal any theological clue for worship and preaching or any specific theme for this Sunday. The church year does exert biblical and homiletical influence, however, in continuing to set aside September 21 as St. Matthew's Day. Those who have been preaching on the Gospel of St. Matth...

2927. My Brother's Keeper

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

Theme: We are not only responsible for ourselves in the Kingdom of God, but for others as well. Summary: Thomas and Matthew are trying to decide who will confront Judas about his sinful ways. Playing Time: 3 minutes Setting: The Holy Land Props: None Costumes: Disciples of Jesus Time: The time of Jesus Cast: Matthew Thomas MATTHEW: (ENTERS WITH THOMAS) Jesus told us to do it. THOMAS: I kn...

2928. On Picking Your Battles

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: a smoke detector with battery (might want to test it beforehand) Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have seen one of these around your house? Can you tell me what it is? That's right, it's a smoke detector. A smoke detector can sense if there is smoke in the air. Usually, if there is smoke in the air then that means there is a fire nearby. And a fire can be a very dangerous thi...

2929. If You’re Angry

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

Object: Card stock printed with scripture reference and verse; Assistant Speaker: I am so mad! Boy, am I mad! Do you want to hear about it? I am so mad. And do you know who I’m mad at? I’m mad at Ignatz! Ignatz Rockabalsky, that’s who! That Ignatz! He made me so mad and when I tell you what he did, you’ll be mad at him, too. Do you know what he did? You see, he … Assistant: (interrupts) Wait a m...

2930. Sunday's Special Breakfast

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some orange juice, toast, and cereal. Good morning, boys and girls. I brought along a few friends that I used this morning that I thought I would share with you and help us all to learn something about one of the teachings of Jesus. First of all, you must be ready to tell me what these things remind you of when you see them together. (Bring out the orange juice, toast, and cereal.) Here a...

2931. There's a Better Way than Shooting Somebody

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A can of oil Good morning, boys and girls: Oil is a wonderful thing. We couldn't run most of the machinery in the world without oil. Oil is a wonderful thing as long as we can control it. Some of you know about the terrible oil spill in Alaska sometime back. Millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Alaska waters and fouled the beaches and endangered wildlife. Did you know that thousand...

2932. Resolving Fights

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A referee’s whistle. Boys and girls, I have with me this whistle (blow on the whistle). This is the kind of whistle a referee would use to stop play in a ball game. I’ll bet sometimes your mother would like to have a whistle to blow if you have brothers or sisters in your home together not just because you’re noisy, but because brothers and sisters sometimes fight with each other. Do you...

2933. Discipline Hurts But Helps

Children's Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

Object: A Doctor's Syringe Good morning! I hope all of you are feeling well today! What often happens when you are not feeling well? Where do your parents take you when you are sick? (Let them answer.) That's right! They take you to see the doctor. Hold up your hand if you have ever been to see the doctor. Tell me, what did you like best about going to the doctor's office? (Let them respond.) Wh...

2934. The Incredible Promise

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: On index cards write the equation "1=1+3" with a sharpie. Also make one for each child to take and use as a bookmark, OR attach a piece of magnetic tape (available where craft supplies are sold) to use as refrigerator magnet. Say: How many of you like to clean out your garage? Have you ever helped your Mom or Dad with this job? When you work together, the job probably gets done faster and...

2935. Do We Know What We've Got?

Sermon

King Duncan

Our lesson from Matthew’s Gospel for today reminds me of a story of a pastor in a drought-stricken part of Alabama last summer who implored his people to pray for rain. In fact, he asked each member of the church to join in a prayer vigil that would continue day and night until God granted their request. Never had there been a greater sense of urgency in that church than was revealed over the nex...

2936. Church Discipline: A Cure for What Ails the Body

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

When a sixteen-year-old stays out all night drinking, then drives home, a father disciplines him with grounding. When a student cuts class, is late with papers, and turns in inferior work, a college professor disciplines him with failing marks. When an employee is lazy and is caught pilfering company goods, his boss disciplines him by firing him. At the businessman's club a member who skips meetin...

2937. The One Thing That Would Make The Biggest Difference

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

What one thing could you do that would make the biggest difference in your life and in the world? Some say praying and reading the Bible every day would make the biggest difference. Some say working for world peace would make the biggest difference. Some say doing a kind deed every day would make the biggest difference. All of these things are important, but I am increasingly convinced that the ...

2938. A Devastating Storm, An Incredible Promise

Sermon

Brett Blair

Announcing itself with shrieking, 130-mph winds, Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Gulf Coast, dumping more than 40 inches of rain over a four-day period, submerging entire neighborhoods up to their roofs. In the days before expected landfall, the Governor or Texas warned that the monster system would be “a very major disaster,” and the forecasts drew fearful comparisons to Hurricane Katrina, one ...

2939. Yes, But He Started It!

Sermon

King Duncan

In the seventeenth-century, there was a French explorer named Samuel de Champlain. Champlain reported back to the Old World on many of the wonders he encountered while journeying through Canada. In these writings, he told one story of a mixed Catholic and Huguenot community in Nova Scotia that was served by both a Roman Catholic priest and a Protestant pastor. Champlain does detail the doctrinal ...

2940. Rat Poison

Sermon

Kristin Borsgard Wee

When our son started kindergarten, I held my breath. I knew he would be a handful. Things were going along pretty well until the day he pulled the fire alarm, which he did during lunch hour. The whole school was in chaos. I got a vivid description from the principal. I felt awful. I'll always be grateful to the teacher who said that my son was not a bad kid and I shouldn't let the principal convin...

2941. Stopping the Spread of Hell

Sermon

Kristin Borsgard Wee

A month ago I had a conversation with a clerk in a store on Main Street. She told me she had had an argument with a pastor years ago and got so angry she never went back to church. She said, "Don't you think I can be just as good a Christian communing with God in the beauty of my backyard as I can be if I were going to church?" I took a deep breath and said, "No. I don't. I'm not at all sure that ...

2942. Personal Politics

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

Thomas Browne said that "the vices we scoff at in others laugh at us from within ourselves." More than any other relational failure this is true of hurt and vengeance. When the great nineteenth-century Spanish General, Ramon Narvaez, lay dying in Madrid, a priest was called in to give him last rites. "Have you forgiven your enemies?" the padre asked. "Father," confessed Narvaez, "I have no enemi...

2943. There's A Better Way Than Shooting Somebody

Sermon

King Duncan

There is a story that Alfred, Lord Tennyson once invited a Russian nobleman to his estate to do some hunting. The nobleman went off by himself one morning and returned later in the day. "How did you do?" asked Tennyson. "Not too well," replied the nobleman. "I shot two peasants." "You mean two pheasants," Lord Tennyson said with amusement. "We pronounce it with a ph. Pheasant." "No," the noble...

2944. Radical Love is Reconciling (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

To live above with those we love, well, that will be glory. To live below with those we know, well, that’s another story. That’s what this sermon is about today. Wherever two or more people come together in relationships deeper than a casual “hello,” conflict is bound to follow. In Matthew 18, Jesus gives a teaching about conflict resolution. While it is spoken to the Church, it has applications ...

2945. On Picking Your Battles

Sermon

King Duncan

There was a church where the pastor and the minister of music were not getting along. As time went by, this began to spill over into the worship service. The first week the pastor preached on commitment and how we all should dedicate ourselves to the service of God. The music director led the song, "I Shall Not Be Moved." The second week the pastor preached on tithing and how we all should gladl...

2946. For Christ’s Sake, What’s Going On?

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

"There’s no fight like a church fight," someone once told me. Unhappily, that’s proven true time and again. Of all communities, you would think (or hope, at least) that congregations organized around the cross of Christ would be exemplars to the world. We have the promises, the hope, and the forgiveness God gives to his own select community. For heaven’s sake, it ought to make a difference in the ...

2947. Gentiles 'R Us

Sermon

Johnny Dean

(Note: perhaps I should preface this sermon with a brief explanation for Web page readers of the events which occurred in the week preceding the writing – specifically, on one particular day of that week. A long-time church member – a dear, sweet lady in her late 70’s – had been hospitalized with a severe infection. While in the intensive care ward of the local hospital, she suffered cardiac arres...

2948. When Christians Quarrel: Resolving Conflict in the Church

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

One of the things I like best about the New Testament is that it is so practical. It must have been the fact that Jesus had human beings called disciples always with him that forced him to speak in such everyday terms about everyday problems. Sometimes Christians disagree in the congregation of believers. Sometimes they quarrel. Sometimes they hold grudges against each other. The Scripture for tod...

2949. A Protecting Grace

Sermon

Glenn L. Borreson

Does there exist anywhere on earth a group of people where one has not hurt another at some time? Maybe that's too large a question. So I would ask: are you a part of any group in which people never, absolutely never, do injury to another person, even by accident? You would surprise me if you could answer "Yes" to that question. All our organizations, our families, even our closest friendship grou...

2950. Proper 18, Pentecost 16, Ordinary Time 23

Bulletin Aid

Amy C. Schifrin

Confession, Instruction, And Forgiveness Leader: Holy God, in whose name we gather, we ask you to give us life and to free us from the evil that causes us to hurt the ones you love. All: What is evil? What shape does it take in our sins? Leader: For every sinful act there is an outer dimension and an inner one. There is what our families, neighbors, and colleagues feel when we act inappropriately,...

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