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Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Dirty dishes. Good morning, boys and girls. Look what I brought with me today. [Show them the dirty dishes.] Oh, no, dishes! Dirty Dishes! What do you think I didn’t do? That’s right, I forgot to wash the dishes. I didn’t really forget, I just didn’t do them. I hate to wash dishes. Why do I have to keep washing the same dishes over and over? How many of you feel as I do? How many of you h...

3002. Why We Need to Forgive

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A baseball glove Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever been to a baseball game? How many of you have ever played baseball? How about Tee-ball? Baseball is a great sport. It not only is lots of fun, but the exercise is good for your body. Baseball also teaches you the importance of belonging to a team. Let’s pretend in our imagination for just a moment that we are playin...

3003. How Many Times?

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: a handful of Play-doh or other modeling clay Good morning, boys and girls. This morning I want to talk to you about forgiveness. Do you know what "forgiveness" is? (Wait for 1 or 2 answers) Those are good answers. When someone is mean to you, and instead of getting angry or being mean back to them, you choose to let go of your anger and love that person anyway, that's forgiveness. Have yo...

3004. How Many Times?

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: You will need a small bag of M&M's for each child as well as a very large bag of M&M's – enough to count out 490 – for your demonstration. Pour your M&M's into a large bowl. Say: Peter, one of Jesus' disciples, asked him how many times he should forgive someone. He wondered if seven times would be enough. What do you think? Should you forgive someone 7 times? What if your brother or siste...

3005. Set Free Through Forgiveness!

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A bone or a dog biscuit Good morning, boys and girls: Last week we talked about a fable from Aesop about four bulls. Another of my favorite fables by Aesop is about a dog that was given a delicious bone by a neighbor. On his way, home the dog held the bone firmly in his teeth while he crossed a bridge over a river. Looking down into the river he saw his own reflection and thought it was a...

3006. Forgiveness that Never Ends

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: "Go out candle" - this is a brand name - it is a candle that, once lit, will continue to relight itself every time it’s blown out; toy punching bag that returns to its standing position Good morning to you and let me wish somebody here a happy birthday. Is there anyone who’s going to have a birthday tomorrow? (If there are very young children present - one of them is bound to have a birth...

3007. Political Pardon

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

My parents were married in the wave of weddings that followed World War II. Dad came home from military operations in Europe to start a new life on the farm, and Mom became his partner in the enterprise. There was only one problem — Dad had an older brother who was destined to take over the family agricultural enterprise, and there was not enough work or income to support two families. So Dad beg...

3008. Forgive Us Our Debts

Sermon

Brett Blair

As with so many of the stories of Jesus, the parable of the debtors arose out of a question that was posed to Jesus. Simon Peter said to him: “Master, if my brother sins against me, how many times should I forgive him? Seven times? Even as he asks that question my mind cannot help but think about children and how they will sometimes confess something they do wrong expecting to get praise from a te...

3009. A Difficult Day to Follow Jesus

Sermon

King Duncan

It’s hard to believe this is the tenth anniversary of the tragic event we know simply by its date, 9-11. On September 11, 2001 nineteen members of the terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board. Both buildings collapsed ...

3010. When It's Time For Forgiveness

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

A Gallup Poll asked Americans what they try to do when they are wronged? Forty-eight percent said they try to forgive; eight percent said they try to get even. In our minds at least, forgiveness outdoes revenge six to one. Forgiveness—what a wonderful idea! Forgiveness is the oil that lubricates the human machine. Without it, all of life becomes hot and squeaky. Or as my favorite author on the su...

3011. Unlimited Forgiveness

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

I don’t know how much arithmetic Simon Peter knew. But if he did not understand the answer Jesus gave to his question about how many times a person should forgive one who has wronged him, it was not because he was deficient in mathematics, but because he was short on love. In asking the question, Peter must have known that he was speaking for a lot of other people. Injuries of one kind or another...

3012. The Power to Change the Past

Sermon

David E. Leininger

You are no doubt familiar with the name Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Nazi hunter. Wiesenthal was a prisoner in a concentration camp in Poland. One day he was assigned to clean out rubbish from a barn the Germans had improvised into a hospital for wounded soldiers. Toward evening a nurse took Wiesenthal by the hand and led him to a young SS trooper, his face bandaged with filthy rags, eyes tucked b...

3013. Seventy-Seven

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Most adults recognize it is their “job” to teach children right from wrong, good from bad, safe from scary, yes from no. But there are some lessons that children are better at teaching us. Think about celebrations like birthdays (especially Christmas), and Easter, and any other special days that have the possibility of “presents” attached. Kids LOVE them, anticipate and adore them. Children love ...

3014. Good News! You Are Going To Be Tortured

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

Some of you may be familiar with the two-minute radio program, Ask Dr. Science. Dr. Science, as the initiated know, isn't a real doctor. He has a master's degree . . . in science! This disclaimer always runs at the end of the program, however. In the meantime, the announcer asks Dr. Science a question sent in by a listener like, "Why can I only see the stars at night?" Then Dr. Science answers the...

3015. The Merciful

Sermon

John A. Terry

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as a gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. (The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, scene 1) In our practice of "mercy" there is a kind of "I'll scratch your back -- you scratch my back" philoso...

3016. The Power to Forgive

Sermon

King Duncan

Pastor John Ortberg tells a humorous story about an umpire in a softball league in Colorado. One day, during the off season, this unfortunate umpire got stopped by a police officer for speeding. He pleaded for mercy. He explained to the policeman that he was a good driver and told why this particular day he had to be in a hurry. The officer didn’t buy his argument. “Tell it to the judge,” he said...

3017. Throwing Away the Calculator

Sermon

Kristin Borsgard Wee

If we had Bibles in the pews I would ask you to open them up now. Something remarkable is going on in Matthew 18. I'll give you a brief summary. • Chapter 18 begins with the disciples asking Jesus who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Jesus puts a child in their midst and says that anyone who becomes as humble as the child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. • Second, Jesus tells t...

3018. How to Forgive

Sermon

King Duncan

Old Joe was dying. For years he’d been at odds with Bill, formerly one of his best friends. Wanting to straighten things out, he sent word for Bill to come and see him. When Bill arrived, Joe told him that he was afraid to go into eternity with such bad feelings between them. Then, very reluctantly and with great effort, Joe apologized for things he had said and done. He also assured Bill that he...

3019. The Condition Of Mercy

Sermon

Donald Dotterer

Let us pray: Our Father and our God, on this day we give you thanks for all the blessings of our lives. In these moments, may we learn something about what it is for which we need to be most thankful. Lord, in these moments may we experience your mercy and your grace. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. A social psychologist by the name of David Myers has written a book titled The Pursuit of Happiness....

3020. Why We Need to Forgive

Sermon

King Duncan

A certain married couple had many sharp disagreements. Yet somehow the wife always stayed calm and collected. One day her husband commented on his wife’s restraint. “When I get mad at you,” he said, “you never fight back. How do you control your anger?” The wife said: “I work it off by cleaning the toilet.” The husband asked: “How does that help?” She said: “I use your toothbrush!” A motorcycl...

3021. How Many Times?

Sermon

King Duncan

A woman with fourteen children, ages one through fourteen, sued her husband for divorce on the grounds of desertion. "When did he desert you?" the judge asked. "Thirteen years ago," she replied. "If he left thirteen years ago, where did all these children come from?" asked the judge. "Oh," said the woman, "he kept coming back to say he was sorry." Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many ti...

3022. Ten Million Dollar Winners

Sermon

Shirley Gupton Lynn

Years ago, scientists identified two types of human behavior: Type A, in a hurry, impatient, often angry; and Type B, laidback, calm, slow to anger. Physicians found Type A people much more likely to suffer heart attacks. But only much later did researchers come up with a theory as to WHY this is so. Dr. Redford Williams and his associates at DukeUniversity believe it is the hostility alone tha...

3023. Living In Spite House

Sermon

King Duncan

Ron Lee Davis in his book, Mistreated, tells about a millionaire who owned a lot in an exclusive residential area of a large city. This lot presented an unusual problem. It was only a couple yards wide by nearly a hundred feet long. There was nothing he could do with such an oddly proportioned piece of real estate but sell it to one of the neighbors on either side. He went first to the neighbor on...

3024. Set Free Through Forgiveness!

Sermon

King Duncan

Just a few years back, a man in Hardeeville, South Carolina went down to the Jasper County Courthouse. There he filed a deed restriction. The restriction barred the sale of any part of his 1,688 acre plantation to anyone north of the Mason-Dixon Line and anyone named Sherman. It seems that more than a century before, General William T. Sherman's troops burned every building on this man's property...

3025. How Many Times Should We Forgive?

Sermon

King Duncan

There's an old, old story about a little guy who was sitting in a restaurant when a big bully came in. The bully walked over to the little guy, grabbed him forcefully and threw him over his shoulder. "That's Judo," he said, "Picked it up in Japan." Next he hit him square on the back of the neck. "That's karate. Picked it up in Korea." The little guy squirmed away from the bully and went out to his...

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