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Sermon

Michael Rogness

... itself. It's probably built wrong. "Never preach with your sermon three inches from your belt buckle," a teacher once told me. Pulpits are often constructed for people barely over five feet tall, with the manuscript two feet below us. No wonder we preach looking like one of those toy ducks bobbing up and down in front of a water glass! Get your sermon notes "up and out," up higher and away from you, so you don't have to look straight down to see your notes. The pulpit in my last parish was the best I've ...

277. The Sawhorse

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

Purpose: To show that even simple things can be used to serve God. Materials: A real or toy sawhorse. Lesson: Do you know what this is? It is a sawhorse and it is used by people who want to cut wood. The sawhorse holds the wood up high so that it can be easily cut. A number of years ago, a man who lived in Port Hope, Canada, ...

278. Listening To The Whistle

James 2:14-17

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... . Listen again to the whistle ... and remember that if the outside force does not pass through, the whistle would be a useless instrument. Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home: When a child fails to do what is expected. When a small child has just received a new toy whistle. After attending a game where a whistle was used by the referee.

279. A Lesson From Paper

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... as we grow older, we change; and we need to watch how we change. Materials: A candle and several sheets of paper. On one piece of paper, write a word like Hello. Lesson: A piece of paper is a very interesting object. You can fold it and it becomes a toy airplane that can fly. (Do so.) If you touch it to a flame, it turns into smoke and black ashes. (Do so, carefully. You might want a metal container nearby into which you can drop the paper.) You can write or print or draw on it and it becomes a ...

280. Call in the Clowns!

Luke 15:24

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you like a good party? (Let them answer.) Do you remember the last party that you went to? (Let them answer.) I brought along some things that I thought might help us think about a party. (Pass out the party toys.) If we were planning a really special party, we might even call in some clowns. Wouldn't that be an exciting way to have a party? When do we have parties? (Let them answer.) That's right, birthdays and other times when we want to celebrate something that ...

281. Treasures

Proverbs 3:1-35

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

Object: A jewelry box. Text: Proverbs 3:1-2 - My son, do not forget my teachings, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will prolong your life many years, and will bring you prosperity. Do you have some toys and other things that are very important to you? I don't mean the things you play with every day, but things that are extra special ... that you perhaps can only use on special occasions. When I was young I had a box on my bureau, and that was where ...

282. Trading

Philippians 2:5-11

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

... the time, trying to get something we thought was better than what we had. We would trade baseball, football, and basketball cards with each other during the seasons for those sports. We would trade desserts at lunch time at school. Sometimes we would even trade some toys we were tired of for something that our friends were also willing to trade. The key in good trading is to get something you want, or something that seems to be worth more than what you have. Today I brought some examples of things we might ...

283. A Great Big Bunch of Love

2 Corinthians 4:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... this gift is? (Let them guess.) Well, this gift can be as big as you want it to be. It will be at least as big as your heart. Another wonderful thing about this gift is that it will last forever if you want it to. How long do your toys usually last after Christmas Day? (Let them respond.) Sometimes your Christmas presents don't even make it to the next Christmas. Some of them get broken or lost. Some of them get too small for you. Gifts don't last a very long time, do they boys and girls? Well ...

284. Bristle Unity

Ephesians 4:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... do for ourselves, we are like the bristles without a handle. It may seem like the same thing but it isn't. Doing some things that may appear to be good but doing them only to get something we want is not the way of God. Giving your brother a toy so that he will be quiet is not the way of God. You may call that giving, but it is just a bristle and not the whole brush. God wants us to have the whole brush and never the bristle only. With all of us working together and listening to ...

285. How To Become What You Are

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Erskine White

... their piety by spending money on God. Instead of buying an ordinary Bible, they buy a $100 Bible with patent leather covers and 14-karat gold lettering on the carrying case. They go to the so-called "Christian" stores to buy everything from "Christian" war toys to "Christian" clothes and greeting cards. The more money they place on the altar of Christian commerce, the more they think they are demonstrating their devotion to God. Of course, this is not the way to become more Christian. As Peter told Simon, a ...

286. Do You Believe In Peace? - Memorial Day

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Erskine White

... has clearly outstripped our capacity to control it. We have too many men of science and too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through spiritual darkness while toying with precarious secrets of life and death. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace; more about killing than we know about ...

287. Stumbling Blocks

1 Corinthians 10:32

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... act or behave, they may decide that they don't want to be Christians if that's the way you turn out. Those are stumbling block Christians. They keep getting in other people's way. People who are stumbling blocks are like a room with all of the clothes and toys scattered over the floor. We all know that they don't belong there and we know that someone may get hurt, but we are careless. We forget what it is like to trip and get hurt. Some boys and girls forget what it would be like to be without Jesus ...

288. Sharing What We Have

James 5:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... it. But to buy something and not use it, but keep it hidden until it rusts or tarnishes like this, is a sin against God, and against all of God's people. The next time you look around your room you may ask yourself the same question. Do you buy toys or ask for things that you do not use, but just keep until they are thrown away? That kind of waste is what God is talking about. Maybe you could share some of the things you are not using with others who wouid use them if they had them. Using ...

289. Promises To Keep

Mark 6:14-29

Children's Sermon

... that person should be ready to follow through with it. Talk about promises. Help your children create a list of things that could be completed within the next week. These promises could include such things as: feeding the pets, helping to set the dinner table, picking up toys when finished playing with them, helping to put clean clothes away in drawers, and so forth. On an 8 1/2-by-il-inch sheet help your children create an "I Promise Sheet." On the sheet write for them, or show them how to create a list ...

290. Loaves And Fishes Book

John 6:1-15

Children's Sermon

... this week's Gospel theme at Sunday School and at home. Teachers or Parents: This is the story of the boy who shared his loaves and fishes. Here are two projects for this lesson. Younger children: Talk with them about things that they can share with others: toys, books, snacks and similar things. Have them draw a picture showing them sharing something with someone else. Older Children: Take two sheets of 8 1/2 by 11-inch paper. Fold them from the 8 1/2 side to form an eight-page booklet. Tell the children ...

291. Forgive One Another

Ephesians 4:26, 27

Children's Sermon

... were best friends. Every day in the summer they would get together to play. Sometimes they would play games outdoors like kickball or Mother May I. Sometimes they would draw on the sidewalk with colored chalk. Sometimes they would play in a backyard playhouse with their toys. One day something happened while they were playing that made one of the girls upset with the other. For some reason they started to argue. One of the girls told the other that she had enough of this arguing. She said that she was going ...

292. Stronger Than He-Man

2 Corinthians 12:9

Children's Sermon

... , boys and girls. How many of you recognize this person I have here? (Show them the doll or the shirt.) How do you know so much about He-man? (They will tell you all about it.) Yes, that's right. He's on television. And we see him in the toy stores and in comic books. How strong is He-man, really? (Let them fill you in.) How did He-man get to be so strong? Where did he get all those muscles? Do you know anybody in real life that is like that? Do you know anybody who has so ...

293. Help!

John 7:39a, John 15:26a, Acts 2:1-13

Children's Sermon

... table and someone else washes and someone rinses and someone puts the dishes away. The dishes get done a lot faster when everyone works together. Can you clean the house with everyone doing a little bit? (Let them respond.) Someone could dust, someone could clean the toys up, someone could vacuum and someone could clean the bathroom. It would all get cleaned, but no one would have to do it all. They would all be helpers. Our lesson today is for a Sunday called Pentecost. That was the day that God sent the ...

294. Blind Lead the Blind

Mark 7:31-37

Children's Sermon

... with a good opportunity for a lesson in empathy. You will need about half as many good snug blindfolds as you have students, and about the same number of sound-proof earplugs. You will also need a fairly complex task (like the assembly of a toy model or the rearranging of classroom furniture). Some of the instructions for the task should be given to the students in spoken form, while other portions of the instructions should be written (or simply diagrammed for non readers). Be certain the task is one which ...

295. High-Handed

Mark 9:33-37

Children's Sermon

... . Explain that those with "upper-class" gloves must be treated with respect from hose with the "lower-class" gloves. You may want to have the "lower-class" address their "betters" as Sir or Ma'am. Give the "upper-class" the best seats, best crayons, best toys, etc. Throughout today's lesson. You can have some fun with this but emphasize that the privileges go with the gloves not the people. You may want to collect gloves and pass them out randomly again half way through the class period to emphasize this ...

296. Epiphany 4

Psalm 71:1-24, 1 Corinthians 14:1-25, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, 1 Corinthians 12:12-31, Jeremiah 1:1-19, Luke 4:14-30

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... . And with pizza even though she cannot eat solid food anymore. 'I love parties,' she explained about her decision. 'I love the hospital.' " Kati had her party two days after Easter, just as she wanted it with the staff, family, friends, and the usual balloons, toys, a clown, a book for the guests to sign. It will surely be her last party, but that doesn't concern her; according to Stolberg, "Kati has been talking more and more frequently about heaven ... Because she cannot see, touch means a lot to Kati ...

297. How Does One Follow Jesus During The Threat Of War?

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

George Johnson

... power to bring about submission from one's enemies. It is a way of solving differences of opinion. War seems inevitable when wealth or power is threatened or stolen. It's been around a long time. Perhaps we began "learning war" when we were given children's war toys, or when we watched movies and videos that exalted war. In the movie Robin Hood, there are more than 250 acts of violence. In the media these days there is talk of war. We are preparing, we are being programmed to think war, to justify war. We ...

298. Safe With The Shepherd

John 10:22-42

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... an infant, but in his fifth year his illness grew worse and he could no longer walk. His parents spared no cost in seeing that Jimmy received the best medical care available. They purchased an electric wheelchair so that he could get around by himself, and any toy he wanted was his for the asking. As the months progressed it became obvious that Jimmy could not hang on much longer. The parents were anxious, wondering if they should say anything to him about his illness or if they should tell him he was dying ...

299. How Do You Spell Stress?

Drama

Timothy W. Ayers

... around here but he doesn't. He says work is "sooooo hard" now that the company has downsized and he needs his rest. Sure. Oh, yeah, and you should see what it's like in this house around Christmas. I won't begin to tell you about the list of toys and clothes they have and want and if they don't get them they'll "just die." No doubt about it, I spell stress, K-I-D-S. Male and Female Together: How do I spell stress? Him: W-I-F-E. Her: H-I-M. Together: When I get ...

300. Endorsing The Future

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... there is to it - the machine does nothing but switch itself off.50 Obviously, it would seem funnier if it didn't symbolize so many human lives. There are people who wake each morning for no greater purpose than to pamper themselves, accumulate a few grown-up toys, and then switch themselves off again each evening. Then, when their battery, that old ticker called the heart, runs down, they can't even do that anymore. That's not much of a legacy to hand over to the twenty-second century. Isaac Watts wrote a ...

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