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3076. Jars of Bad Candy

Matthew 22:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... were many hypocrites trying to trap Jesus into saying or doing something that would be against the law. They wanted Jesus to go away so that they would not have to see the good that he did and then could do the bad without being ashamed. Jesus made the hypocrites feel ashamed. If you ate that jar of candy, the worst would happen to you. That is too much candy. If you talk and act one way and think another, you can be a hypocrite. The next time you see something that is so tempting and looks so good but you ...

3077. The Best Trophy of All

Matthew 5:12

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A large trophy. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever won something? (Let them answer.) What did you win? (Let them tell you of some things they won.) That is very good. It feels good to win when we try hard. Of course it should make us feel good to just try hard even if we don't win. Doing our best is something that we must always do, even if we don't win first prize. But sometimes when we win, we receive a prize. I brought along something that is sometimes given if you win ...

3078. Our Dwelling Place In All Generations

Psalm 90:1-17

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... ’ve come to bury. I’ve had people say to me, “I want you to do my funeral, but I’m not a religious person. I don’t want you to put me in heaven or make me into some kind of saint.” I think that’s the way * would feel today. To me, it’s a comfort to say, as the psalmist does, that God has been “our dwelling place in all generations.” “The years of our life are threescore and ten, or even by reason of strength fourscore ...,” the psalmist says, underscoring the transience of life. What ...

3079. Our Dwelling Place In All Generations

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... not seem very biblical to say of enemies, “Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see,” as the psalmist does in Psalm 69 (v. 23), but that’s what the psalmist says. Those who wrote the psalms are very human, and they know what it is to feel strong emotion. They cry in pain. They shout with joy. They praise God with trumpet, lute, and harp. In all of life, they see reason to praise God. We have talked today about our memories of **, and now we praise God for * and for the memories we have of ...

3080. God Can Change The Past

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... God can turn the past around. That’s what this Scripture says. Of course there’s tragedy in death. Even when death comes as no surprise, and even when it’s expected, as it was for Jesus on the cross, death is terrible and tragic, and we often feel forsaken. But death is not the last word. That’s what the Scripture says. Isaiah might have written his words, “I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations,” about the nation Israel or about some human savior who lived in ...

3081. God The Creator

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... that we have committed *, we commit ourselves, to the power of the one true living God. Let Us Pray Almighty God, one through whom all things were made and will be remade, we trust you, and we believe the promise which you bring in Jesus. Understand our grief. Understand our feelings as we face the tragedy of *’s death. And hold us up Lord. We commit * to you, and put our faith in you — the one true living God, the one we know most perfectly in Jesus. Amen. *Person’s first name**Person’s full name

3082. Wash Up First For The Meal Before You Eat!

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... sacrament of holy communion if we want to obtain all its blessings to the fullest. It will mean a little more to you; this will not just be another communion service for you, if you come to the communion table aware of your total dependence on God, feeling repentant for your sins, and resolved to play the role of servant to our God and our fellow creatures. Yet the good news is that this preparation work has already been done to you. Our preparation has been manifested. It happened to you in your baptism ...

3083. The Meeting Of Marriage Partners At The Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... 's call or the needs of our neighbor? We gain more than we give. So often God calls us to respond to him, and we feel inadequate to the task. Yet in those moments God will set us out on these tasks only after he first serves us, only after he ... that in mind the next time you are called to serve: You are getting something for nothing. We are that Samaritan woman, called by Jesus, feeling unworthy of the task to which he calls us, and surprised by the generosity of his offer. What happens to her and us next? At ...

3084. Robert Paul, You Were Right!

Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... had faith in him turned things around for Hershiser and he went on to become one of the premier pitchers in major league baseball. He now calls his blunt-speaking manager: “a true motivator, encourager, cheerleader.”2 We all need someone who will help us feel good about ourselves. Fortunately, God has a way of sending that select person to us at the right time. Ira Progoff through his intensive journal workshops has taught people how to get in touch with their past by using a journal. He makes much of ...

3085. Everything Except God

Amos 5:1-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... as Woody Allen, as intelligent as Jimmy Connors, as comical as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger, and nothing like Robert Redford -- but you will take him anyway. At times, it seems that we do not really have much to do about the way we feel in our deepest personal relationships. Being a part of dynamic worship is like that, too. We are drawn together not by infatuation with externals, but by sincere love. We have been overcome by an irresistible love. We cannot stay away from the service. We are ...

3086. The Road To Jerusalem

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... Palm Sunday, I want to remind us of what is before us today. If we want to be bystanders parade watchers - palm waving, flag waving Christians who go home after the parade and forget it, then we can do just that. Drop in $10, pay our dues, have a good feeling, be at ease and let the world go to hell. But, let me warn you. If you are serious about this Jesus stuff, if you want to be a participant, then you had better watch out and prepare yourself and get ready because these things are before us on this ...

3087. Wedding: The Aroma of Love

Sermon Aid

Randall S. Lehman

... and cry together. We say thank you for the blessings of this moment. Our future prayers of praise and need will be to You and we will present ourselves in Jesus’ name. Amen The most beautiful experience in life is finding that one who makes you feel whole because you feel a completeness with each other. We have come together today because ____ and ____ have found this completeness with each other and with God and wish to be joined by God in holy marriage. Love is a soul quality, not of the senses, but of ...

3088. Wedding: Five Cs Spell Marriage

John 2:1-11

Sermon Aid

Hollis A. Miller

... talk with each other. This is all-important. When we forgo prayer and a time of daily communion with God, we find ourselves drawing further away from him. The same is true with human beings. We need to talk, to communicate, in order to maintain a closeness of feeling and relationship together. I know that you will be busy and there will always be a hundred other things that you could be doing. But even if it’s only for fifteen minutes at the close of the day, please share with each other something of what ...

3089. Wedding: 1 Corinthians 13

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon Aid

Joseph R. Foster

... and friend circles to assist you in your marriage. None of us, who have ever been in this journey would fail to admit that it is sometimes a lonely journey, even when you have a spouse to share it with you. But, my dear friends, you need not feel you journey alone. St. Paul gives us a great piece of advice, but it will mean nothing if we forget that without the Christ at the center of our relationships, we are fallible, we are filled with disappointment, we can hurt another, we can experience pain. Only ...

3090. Where You Go — I Will Go.

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

Robert A. Kramer

... that the laws of humanity do not alter its course,” also confront them. ____ and ____ have found this freeing quality in each other’s presence. Some insight to the self occurs when we are valued, treasured, loved. Some new encounter with untouched feelings, ideas, abilities re-creates us. The partnership becomes more than the sum of two persons uniting. It is the budding of new risks of self and meaning, the discovery of beauty, truth, and goodness. One couple put it this way: “This is the beginning ...

3091. What Is God Like?

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... to exile in Babylon, the Living God has suffered right beside them. Moreover, the God we meet in Jesus Christ is a God who voluntarily gave up all the privileges and powers of the Almighty to become a human being in our world - to feel what we feel, to suffer what we suffer - to be tempted just as we are tempted. Can you visualize even for a moment the bridge God crossed from divinity to humanity? Can you visualize a God who has suffered physical torture, rejection, the abandonment of friends, betrayal ...

3092. Time's Up

Matthew 24:36-51

Illustration

John Jamison

... , a couple of class members had made it their mission to keep the pastor informed as to what was being taught. Each week it had become stranger and stranger, and the pastor had begun to wonder how to talk to the old man about retiring (without hurting his feelings) when one Sunday morning after class he walked right into the pastor's office and resigned. It seemed he just didn't have the time to prepare a lesson each week and still get enough work done on the "project." And, he said without a smile, "I'm ...

3093. Matthias · A Second Choice

Acts 1:21-26

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... a man who betrayed Jesus was not easy, but Matthias knew that he could do it. All of his life he had prepared for his one moment and he would not fail. That is the way it is with us. Some of us feel that we will never be chosen first. It is always someone else. Sometimes we even feel that God has forgotten about people like you and me, but he hasn't. There is a time when God will need you and he will choose what that time will be. But stick around and do what is asked, even if ...

3094. Bartholomew · A Salesman with a Special Work

Luke 6:12-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... that he was being called in a foreign language. He wasn't even sure that he understood what was being said but he knew that someone wanted him to travel to another place. The feeling did not pass, and when Bartholomew mentioned it to others they remembered how he used to talk about doing a special work with strangers. This was the call to be a foreign missionary for Jesus, and Bartholomew answered it. The voice that he heard came from a country called Armenia ...

3095. When God Has Enough

Zephaniah 1:4-13, Zephaniah 1:14--2:3

Sermon

Sims Robert

... recently that read, “Don’t follow me, I’m lost too.” Everyone appears to be following everyone else and no one seems to know where anyone is going. There is a significant absence of leadership. We turn to the politicians and feel deceived. We turn to the religious leaders and feel betrayed. We turn to the scientists and find that they can lead us no further than the limits of the physical world. We turn to the economists and find that the poor are getting poorer. There is a vacuum of leadership in ...

3096. The Spontaneous Routine

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... , surmises that "all the 10, surely, were grateful, but none of them hurried home first ... One of them, however, had a disposition which made him act at once as his feelings bade him; he sought out the person who had helped him and refreshed his soul with the spirit of gratitude."3 A "disposition" to act spontaneously on one's feelings suggests that gratitude is for that person a "natural response," unplanned and unreasoned, and flowing out of a pattern of life that makes an act of gratitude as specific as ...

3097. The Glorious Company

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... from the early 19th century - a hymn prepared for Saint Stephen's Day - poses the contemporary question, "Who follows in their train?"3 How do we hear the Beatitudes in our day? A friend once said, both humorously and honestly, "I am beaten by the Beatitudes. I feel totally overwhelmed." Frankly, I find that a more honest approach to the spirit of these teachings of our Lord than that of hanging them as a piece of framed needlework on the wall, or using a pleasant sentence or two on the front of a greeting ...

3098. Dust And Ashes

Genesis 18:16-33

Sermon

Erskine White

... into the spiritual demands of the season for Him. This Lenten season will carry us through the next five Sundays. We will walk in the shadow of the Cross. We will taste the dryness of the desert and feel the loneliness of the wilderness. If we truly step into the spirituality of the Lenten season, we will feel like we have walked through the valley ar shadow of death itself. Then we will come to Holy Week. We will see the triumph and tension of Palm Sunday, when Jesus rode into Jerusalem and set the stage ...

3099. The Significance Of An Insignificant Man

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Erskine White

... The kind of eyes that see below the surface right to the soul. The Man's eyes are filled with pain and sorrow, but He seems to feel pity for the people who are putting Him to death. The Man opens his mouth to speak. "Thank you," He says softly as Simon is pulled ... execution. Maybe he felt pity for Jesus and was glad to relieve Him of His burden. Maybe Simon was simply too exhausted to feel anything as he dragged that heavy cross through the streets of Jerusalem and outside the city wall and up the hill to the ...

3100. The Ten Commandments For Today

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Erskine White

... by things that rust and rot away, but live for things eternal. "Blessed are those who [covet] rightousness," Jesus said, "for they shall be satisfied" (Matthew 5:6). "You shall not covet ... anything that is your neighbor's." Those are "the Ten Commandments For Today." If you feel guilty or convicted by one or more of these commandments, I have just one thing to say to you: welcome to the human race! I myself felt guilty as I wrote some of these words. Welcome to the human race, and welcome to the good ...

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