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2976. God Loves Us All

Acts 10:34

Children's Sermon

... you were very unhappy with a weak god. If you had lots of food, you thought your god was happy with you, but if you did not have enough food and you were starving, then you thought your God was unhappy with you. A lot of this kind of thinking stopped after Jesus came to earth. Jesus taught his disciples that there was just one God, and that was his Father in heaven. There were not a lot of gods, but only one God and all the different people simply had different ways of knowing God. It took a long time ...

2977. Changing Bad to Good

Romans 12:21

Children's Sermon

... medicine all of the time, but I sure do like it when I have a bad cough. The cough medicine overcame the bad cough. It won, and I am glad. Cough medicine is a little like doing good. Jesus taught us that there are several ways to make bad things stop happening to you. Some people like to do bad things to you. If you want to, you can do bad things back to the people who have done them to you. Maybe you can make them quit, but usually they forget that they did it first and they just blame ...

2978. Love Is Better

1 Corinthians 13:1

Children's Sermon

... , begin to talk softly about the good things that have happened this week to you or the congregation.) It is certainly hard to hear what I have been saying while you are playing the pans. I said it is hard to hear what I have been saying ... (Have them stop playing the pans.) It is difficult to be heard over such a loud noise, but the Bible tells us that this is exactly what happens when people try to talk like Christians but do not have any love. The most important thing that a Christian can do is to love ...

2979. God's Stopwatch

Colossians 1:12

Children's Sermon

... morning. It is called a stopwatch, and people use it to find out who the fastest runner is in a race, or how fast anyone is when they just want to run around the block all by themselves. A stopwatch can be started at the beginning of a race and stopped at the end of a race. Let's pretend that we are going to have a race among all of us, to find out who the three fastest people are, so that they can race against each other in one big final race. I could time each one of you ...

2980. Repentance

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

... I could make a full confession. I didn't want to expose myself in this way to my parish, although I told him later. Do you remember that monster snowstorm we had that January? I was one of those stuck that night in downtown Atlanta after the buses had stopped running. I didn't know where to go at first, but I finally thought of the shelter at Central which I had read about in the Georgia Bulletin. I had always intended to volunteer there, but I had never called. So I went there seeking shelter, but I was ...

2981. Love Transcending Law and Custom

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

... Joseph. The story took place in Enniskillen, North Ireland, where the killing of one Irish person by another is a routine part of life. So commonplace is killing there that it is unusual when the loss of innocent life causes people to stop and actually wonder whether the long, coarse weave of vendettas and grievances might be altered. People in Belfast, Dublin, and London started trying to answer that all-important question after eleven Irish civilians were killed in Enniskillen on November 8, 1987. Among ...

2982. Submission

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

... with works by Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy. Pete Maravich, the outstanding basketball player of modern times, died on January 5, 1988. While at LSU, he averaged forty-four points per game. No one defensive system in the Southeastern Conference could stop him. Some coaches devised complicated double-team defenses to shut him down. Others let him shoot at will and put pressure on the other four players. As a professional player, Maravich consistently knocked the bottom out of the basket. His dazzling ...

2983. Getting Back To Work

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Brett Blair

... wagon and he and Paddy would drive down the streets of Chicago to sell the cheese. As the months passed, the young boy began to despair because he was not making any money, in spite of his long hours and hard work. One day he pulled his pony to a stop and began to talk to him. He said, "Paddy, there is something wrong. We are not doing it right. I am afraid we have things turned around and our priorities are not where they ought to be. Maybe we ought to serve God and place him first in our lives ...

2984. The Priorities of a Servant

Luke 17:1-10

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Brett Blair

2985. World Communion Sunday: A World In Communion

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

... split right down the middle on the issue of Viet Nam. Additionally, there were severe domestic problems with race, and there had been major rioting in several large cities. The Democratic candidate was Hubert Humphrey. The Republican candidate Richard Nixon. While Nixon was whistle stopping in upstate New York, he noticed a little girl holding up a sign which read; Bring us together. You may recall that he picked up on that and used it as his campaign theme. Maybe when we come forward to take the bread and ...

2986. The Doubting Sum

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

... and about people who have accomplished what you wish to accomplish. Study what they do. 8. Pray about it. Ask the Lord for strength but believe he has already given it to you. 9. Look at what you are gaining, not at what you are giving up. We must stop. Please remember that the sum of doubt is zero, or worse, a negative number! The sum of faith is living power in Jesus Christ. This power will give you and me the courage to change and free us from old ruts of negative thought and physical addictions. It will ...

2987. Jesus’ Hospital

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

... concern. There was a story published in the Gospel Herald that said: Dr. Howard A. Kelly was a renowned physician and surgeon, and also a devout practicing Christian. During the summer holidays when in medical school Dr. Kelly sold books to help with expenses. Becoming thirsty, he stopped one day at a farmhouse for a glass of water. A girl came to the door. When he asked for a glass of water, she sweetly said: "I will give you a glass of milk if you wish!" He drank the cool, refreshing milk heartily. The ...

2988. Cowherding Christians

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Gary W. Houston

... other than where they are. Toki Miyashina wrote a modern version of Psalm 23 that is appropriate. It changes the image of the Lord as Shepherd into the Lord as Pacesetter. It goes like this: The Lord is my pace-setter, I shall not rush: He makes me stop and rest for quiet intervals, He provides me with images of stillness, which restores my serenity. He leads me in the way of efficiency, through calmness of mind; and His guidance is peace. Even though I have a great many things to accomplish each day I will ...

2989. Searching for Peace

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

... them had had a chance to disturb the moon. As I was preparing this message I asked my teenage daughter what the word "peace" meant to her. She replied directly and quickly: "No war!" This may not be a very positive definition, but when you stop and think about it war is easier for us to visualize and describe than peace. We have more experience with war, and it definitely makes a more exciting movie background for television shows than does peace. Ministers Research Service has concluded that since 1919 ...

2990. Advent 2

Isaiah 11:1-16, Psalm 72:1-20, Romans 14:1--15:13, Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon Aid

... everything to do with the incarnation and with Advent. SERMON SUGGESTIONS A sermon suggested by the Gospel (Matthew 3:1-12) A contemporary setting for a sermon on Matthew 3: Two young boys were recently expelled from their school in North Carolina because they refused to stop preaching the Gospel as their parents had taught them to do. One of them is about ten years old, the other is five. They stand outside their school, holding up what could be a Bible alongside their faces to act as a megaphone, and they ...

2991. Epiphany 5

Psalm 112:1-10, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Isaiah 58:1-14, Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon Aid

... and compassion toward people. The two are inseparable: to assert one's love for God in any form requires affirmation of that expression in the contacts one has with others in this world. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 This passage should make preachers stop and reexamine the content of their preaching. Paul makes it clear that the proclamation of the gospel is not a philosophical system that is articulated in Christian pulpits; Christian preaching is theological, the announcement of what God did - and is still doing ...

2992. Transfiguration of Our Lord

Matthew 17:1-13, 2 Peter 1:12-21, Exodus 24:1-18, Psalm 2:1-12

Sermon Aid

... , but completely misunderstood what was taking place, as the evengelist tells us the story. 4. Peter, James, and John probably couldn't wait to get down the mountain to tell the others what they had experienced with Jesus. But Jesus knew what they wanted to do and stopped them in their tracks: "Tell no one the vision, until the Son of man is raised from the dead." How could this come about, that the Son of God, the Jesus they had just seen glorified by the Father, could possibly be put to death in Jerusalem ...

2993. Easter 2

Acts 2:14-41, Psalm 105:1-45, 1 Peter 1:1-12, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon Aid

... of us. The text lends itself beautifully to a biblical narrative sermon. The risen Christ can go anywhere he wants to; there is no barrier that can prevent him from communicating with his own. Neither the thickest wall, the stoutest door, nor the hardest heart, can stop the Lord from reaching his faithful people. He does it with his Word, "Peace be with you" and the report of the witnesses who say and heard him speak. Like Thomas, people always want more than a word, a report, a tall tale; those who would ...

2994. Proper 8 & Pentecost 6

2 Kings 4:8-37, Genesis 32:22-32, Psalm 89:1-52, Psalm 17:1-15, Isaiah 2:6-22, Jeremiah 28:1-17, Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon Aid

... , 16-18 (R) This is the tale, finally, of two miracles performed for a woman of Shunem, who had been kind to Elisha, first feeding him and then, with her husband, building a spare room on the roof of their home so that the prophet might have a place to stop over. The first miracle was in the birth of a son to the woman; the second, in a section of the story that was not told, was the resuscitation of the woman's dead son. God has the power to raise the dead, not merely as resuscitation, as in the ...

2995. Proper 12 & Pentecost 10

1 Kings 3:1-15, Exodus 3:1-22, Romans 8:18-27, Romans 8:28-39, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon Aid

... man who has discovered the treasure in the field is ready to cheat the owner(s), if necessary, in order to obtain it for himself. Of course, what Jesus is getting at is that the treasure - the kingdom of heaven - is of such value that one should stop at nothing in order to gain it. The second parable - the pearl of great price - emphasizes the same truth about the kingdom of heaven; heaven is to be gained at any cost. In considering these parables for preaching, the emphasis is on the unmatched value of the ...

2996. Proper 13 & Pentecost 11

Matthew 14:13-21, Nehemiah 9:1-37, Exodus 12:1-30, Romans 8:28-39, Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon Aid

... home from severe damage. Coffee and food appeared from everywhere, more than enough to refresh all who participated in the filling and placing of the sand bags. What happened in Jamaica made that earlier incident seem like child's play; there was no way to stop the water, no way to prevent wind damage. Half the houses on the island suffered severe damage, and most of the buildings at the university were also affected. But, our friend said, We pushed water out night and day for many days, tried to prepare ...

2997. Proper 14 & Pentecost 12

1 Kings 19:9-18, Psalm 29:1-11, Psalm 106:1-48, Romans 9:1-29, Matthew 14:22-36, Exodus 13:17--14:31, Jonah 2:1-10, Psalm 85:1-13

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... water. As most people know, he lost his faith after a few steps, began to sink, and had to call to Christ to save him. He did, verbally chastising him for his lack of faith. They reached the boat, got into it, and the wind stopped blowing. This prompted a confession from the disciples, "Truly you are the Son of God." Matthew, most scholars would agree, was using this story to speak to his congregation; the boat represents the church, the gale is the persecution they are experiencing, which Jesus will see ...

2998. Pentecost 23

Exodus 22:16-31, Leviticus 19:1-37, Ruth 2:1-23, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16, Matthew 22:34-40, Matthew 22:41-46, Psalm 1:1-6

Sermon Aid

... gospel to them but the "whole lives," as well. His picture of the congregation at Thessalonika is positive and appealing in this part of his letter to them. Matthew 22:34-40 (R); 22:34-40 (41-46) (L); 22:34-46 (E, C) In this pericope, Jesus stops the questions and the attempts of the scribes and Pharisees to entrap him in his teachings once and for all. The lawyer who went to him, hoping to trip up Jesus with his question, "Teacher, which is the great commandment of the law?", received an answer provided by ...

2999. Thanksgiving Day

Deuteronomy 8:1-20, Philippians 4:2-9, Philippians 4:10-20, 1 Timothy 2:1-15, Luke 17:11-19

Sermon Aid

... tells how the first Pilgrim landing party in 1520 saw some Indians and pursued them in the hope of making contact and replenishing their supplies; the voyage from England to New England had taken sixty-days. Unsuccessful, they made their way back to the Mayflower, stopping long enough in a field where they had seen some strange mounds, to dig up a number of them, discovering that they contained the seed corn of the Indians. The party helped themselves to the corn, returned to the ship, where a prayer of ...

3000. I Started to be Grateful

Luke 17:11-19

Illustration

Brett Blair

... atmosphere. People began to talk with one another. The waitress said, "We should do that every morning." "All of a sudden," said our friend, "my whole frame of mind started to improve. From that little girl's example, I started to thank God for all that I did have and stop majoring in all that I didn't have. I started to be grateful."

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