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3076. Jesus, Who Are You?

John 6:42

Children's Sermon

... . They wanted to know who he really was. People saw Jesus as a man. People saw Jesus as the son of Joseph and Mary. People also saw Jesus doing many great things to help people. Because of this, they wanted to know who he really was. They didn't understand that he was God's son. Because they wanted to know who he was, Jesus told them some things about himself. Here is what Jesus told people about himself. He told them that he was the bread of life that came from heaven. He told them that everyone who ...

3077. What Do You Mean, "Repent"?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Thomas Long

... Thomas Jefferson, waving a copy of the Declaration of Independence, in today's Senate chamber. So, now we know that John is not out of this world, he is simply out of sync ... but so what? Simply put, if we do not understand that John represents the past, we also cannot understand what he has to say about the future. John, like Jesus who follows him, preaches a message of repentance, but "repentance" is a slippery word, a "weasel word," as someone else has phrased it. We cannot fill it with meaning for our ...

3078. Easter 4

Psalm 23:1-6, Acts 4:1-22, 1 John 3:11-24, John 10:1-21

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... Shepherd. A. How Jesus Related to His Disciples Inviting to follow Teaching and supporting B. How Jesus Related to Those Outside the Flock Healing the Syro-Phoenician woman Forgiving the tax collectors Healing the Roman nobleman's child C. How Jesus Related to God Perfect understanding of God's will Obedience even unto death on the cross 2. I Know the Father. (v. 15) Examine the issue of how we know the Father. A. Through the Life of Jesus B. Through Others who Know God C. By Cultivating the Presence of ...

3079. The Fruitful Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... and other devices that allow us to communicate with others or they to communicate with us. If we turn off the switch or a fuse is blown, we lose the power. For most of us all this happens in some mysterious way that we do not fully understand. We take it for granted until something causes the electricity to fail. Then we are left in the dark, are cold, cannot cook, worry about things defrosting and spoiling, and have a kind of silence as telephone, television, radio and computer go dead. Still, something is ...

3080. Eating Living Bread

John 6:25-59

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... nature and character we manifest what it means to be truly human. 3. True Food. (v. 55) A. Malnourished. Living according to false desires. B. Undernourished. Neglecting the activities which feed the life of the spirit in Christ. C. Fully Nourished. The life that fully understands and is committed to following Christ in all of life. 4. Where Do You Abide? (v. 56) A. Abiding in Christ. B. Christ Abiding in Us. C. Abiding Forever. 5. Living Forever. (v. 58) A. Shedding the Past. Giving up the sin and guilt ...

3081. Mary: After The Angel

Drama

Arlys M. Winkler

... afraid. The angel told me not to be, but I can't help it. ELIZABETH: I'm a little frightened, too, Mary. To have a child at my age won't be easy. MARY: I hope you don't mind my coming for a visit. You have always been so understanding and I really need someone to talk to now. ELIZABETH: How is everyone taking the news? MARY: Mother and Father were quite upset at first. ELIZABETH: (Nods) Can you blame them? And Joseph? MARY: He was going to divorce me quietly, but then an angel visited him, too. Now he ...

3082. Ascension Day

Acts 1:1-11, Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53, Mark 16:1-20, Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... ascension story lacking in his account in Acts 1; he states that Jesus was blessing his disciples as he was ascending into heaven. It was his final blessing. How important that was. Most of them had failed their Lord miserably. They had failed to understand his teachings. When the heat was turned up, they melted down. The blessing by Christ told them that they were loved and forgiven. That blessing they would carry with them through life; that blessing would empower them. Like those first disciples, we need ...

3083. The Baptism Of Our Lord

Mk 1:4-11 · Act 19:1-7 · Acts 10:34-38 · Isa 42:1-9 · Gen 1:1-5 · Ps 29

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... to him in faith and strive to do his will. Outline: Humans tend to make God in our image. God created us all and is Lord of all (v. 36). Peter came to see that God had spoken to Cornelius, a non-Jew and enemy of his people. Peter's understanding of God ballooned from a tribal deity to the universal God. Is your faith narrow and tribal or global and catholic? Gospel: Mark 1:4-11 Sermon Title: The ABC's Of Our Lord's Baptism. Sermon Angle: We can summarize the fundamentals of our Lord's baptism as follows ...

3084. Easter 6

John 15:18--16:4, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 John 5:1-12

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... : 1. The Scriptures tell the story of God's jailbreak. We attempt to imprison God's Spirit in our limited perceptions, ideas or rituals. 2. The command against graven images was to prevent man from limiting God to one form. 3. God broke out of the Jewish understanding of being exclusively chosen as God's people. At first the gospel was preached only to Jews. 4. In our text the Spirit had broken loose of the notion that Gentiles could not be baptized or receive the Spirit (v. 45). 5. Let God break you loose ...

3085. The Epiphany Season

Mt 2:1-12 · Jn 1:43-51 · Mk 1:9-28; 35-45 · Mk 2:1-12; 18-22 · Mk 9:2-13

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... who we are and what we can become in Christ. Green paraments hold forth for the remainder of the season. It is the color of growth. Just as Jesus grew in wisdom and understanding, so too must we grow in our knowledge of the truth of God and in our ability to reflect the light of Christ. Epiphany Today Not very many Christians understand the significance of Epiphany. Is it any wonder that they don't get excited about something that doesn't seem to touch them where they live? The biblical stories of the Magi ...

3086. Proper 19

James 3:1-12, Proverbs 1:20-33, Mark 8:31--9:1, Mark 8:27-30

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... the hearts and minds of our elders through time and experience. We foolishly discard wisdom in favor of new knowledge but in so doing, we also cut ourselves off from the mind of God. Outline: 1. We live in a world of exploding knowledge. 2. Wisdom (understanding the purpose of life) cries out to be heard in the marketplace (v. 20) but is spurned. 3. The world seeks knowledge and facts, so as to control the world. God considers such people fools. 4. Those who heed wisdom will live securely and confidently (v ...

3087. Proper 23

Job 23:1-9, 16-17, Mark 10:17-31, Hebrews 4:12-16

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... SERMON POSSIBILITIES Old Testament: Job 23:1-9, 16-17 1. Sermon Title: Where To Find God. Sermon Angle: Job wants to find God but doesn't know where he is (vv. 2, 8-9). Suffering sometimes has a way of making us feel God-forsaken when we don't understand that God stands with us in the midst of our suffering. Job, of course, didn't have the benefit of learning that at the foot of Christ's cross. Job thought, together with most others in the Old Testament, that prosperity was the sign of God's favor and that ...

3088. Proper 24

Job 38:1–41:34, Isaiah 52:13--53:12, Mark 10:35-45, Hebrews 5:1-10

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... Job's troubles, it seemed that he was calling the plays in the game of life and every play went for big yards. Then the tide suddenly turned and the opposite side ran all over him. He blamed God for his losing ways. The problem was that he didn't understand the game plan and had lost confidence in his coach. In today's lesson, God responds to Job's complaints by challenging Job to explain how the game of life should be played. "I will question you and you shall declare to me" (v. 3). In other words, when he ...

3089. Proper 4

Mark 2:23-3:6, 1 Samuel 3:1--4:1, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... that the people could focus on eternal things. Jesus' accusers, not Jesus, had sabotaged the sabbath with their narrow, judgmental viewpoints. Christians do not observe the sabbath but we do observe the Lord's day. Some Christian groups have been narrow in their understanding of our Sunday observance. However, the opposite danger seems to be prevalent in our day. Sunday is no longer the Lord's Day, it is just another day for business, sports or selfish pleasures. We have permitted the world to sabotage our ...

3090. The Good, The Bad, And The Justified

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... they did it. The contrast in the parable is not between the real, but hidden, goodness of the tax collector and the real, but hidden, hypocrisy of the Pharisee. Such a construction misses the point. If that were the case, it would not be at all hard to understand why it is the tax collector and not the Pharisee who is declared to be righteous and who goes home justified. No, this parable is much more radical than that, and it is so because the gospel is radical. It goes to the root of the problem of human ...

3091. The Stone The Builders Rejected

Acts 4:1-22

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... not be deterred from building Your Kingdom on the very Stone we rejected. O God, You are wonderful. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O God, so often we seem to live our lives as if Jesus had not died for our sins, and we do not understand the wonderful promise of eternal life we have received in the resurrection. We fret and fuss over things that do not truly matter and we turn against each other for no good reason. Forgive us, O Lord, and help us again to have Your Spirit in our lives. In ...

3092. If I Live To Be A Hundred

Psalm 30:4-5

Illustration

John E. Sumwalt

... !" One hundred and three. As he swallowed his pills, Sam's mind drifted back to the lighthearted days of his youth, when he and his friends used to say things like, "I'll never understand that if I live to be a hundred." Things don't really change, Sam thought. I've lived to be more than a hundred, and there are so many things I still don't understand. "Do not cast me off in the time of old age." "Weeping may linger with the night, but joy comes in the morning." Sam sighed and laid back to watch and wait.

3093. The Righteousness Of God

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Mark J. Molldrem

... the beginning of time. "I have sinned," Adam said originally. And we can say that also. As Soren Kierkegaard (nineteenth century Danish theologian) has stated, "How sin came into the world every man understands by himself alone; if he would learn it from another, he eo ipso misunderstands it." With this affirmation, we can understand why "I" is in the middle of "sin." "Mea culpa," Augustine would cry. My fault! We have rebelled against our Commander in Chief on the battlefield of life; we have become the ...

3094. Made New By Getting Lost

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... to our congregation, Michael Podesta followed the wilderness path to our doorstep. Michael came here just two weeks after his teenage daughter was killed in a tragic car accident. When we heard this news, we told him we would understand if he needed to cancel his visit. He said we might not understand his need to come. He came here fresh from the wilderness of intense pain. He left us, blessed. There were moments when he told others what had happened. He was greeted by parents who shared the same tears ...

3095. Connected To God

Sermon

Lee Griess

... to "buck up" and stand with Jesus in his hour of need, the betrayal of one of them, and the outright denial of Jesus by another had shown them where they all stood each a weak, sinful human being. But more than that, Jesus' forgiveness of them, his understanding and acceptance of them and his willingness to receive them in spite of their sinfulness and his promise to use them as his witnesses had welded them together into a great unity. A unity that is a symbol of what the Church of Jesus Christ is to be ...

3096. Second Sunday In Advent

Sermon

David M. Oliver

... became resisters of God and deniers of Jesus the Messiah, God's Son. So certain were they of their own ability to discern truth from falsehood, good from evil, they stopped trusting in God and, instead, trusted in their own understanding and righteousness. They refused to accept the new understandings of the faith that God was trying to show them in the life and ministry of Jesus. Claiming to be children of the light they, in fact, dwelled in darkness, while those who recognized they were living in sin and ...

3097. The Pageant

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... beaten, we will have our sin forgiven. For we are like sheep, each of us going in our own ways. The punishment we deserve will fall upon him." No, say the people, we want a King David! But the prophets say otherwise. The prophets are not the only ones who understand a new king is to be born for these people. In the East, the scholars who study the stars and look for signs of what is to be, known as Magi, or wisemen, discover a great wonder. We need some wisemen. We need some who are very intelligent, who ...

3098. Twelfth Night

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... from the East, the wisemen. Maybe I can talk with one of them. They are stopping and dismounting. Excuse me, sir. May I speak with you? (A Wiseman comes forward.) Wiseman: The peace of the Lord be with you. What can I do for you? Field Announcer 1: I understand you are looking for a baby born here twelve days ago. Wiseman: How would you know that? Ah yes, King Herod could have told you we were coming here. Of course. Yes, we seek a newborn king. Field Announcer 1: How is it that you have come here? Wiseman ...

3099. Sermon In A Word

John 20:10-18, John 20:1-9

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... . The stone! What about the stone? The women couldn't have moved it. And they didn't give it another thought. Another bonehead failure on their part. How did Mary know he was gone if the stone was still there? So they probed and probed in hopes of understanding what she was talking about. Second Person: She said the stone had already been moved by the time she and the other women got there. She said his body was gone. She said someone that seemed like an angel told them he was raised from the dead. First ...

3100. The Son Makes Us Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... then that a mother's hurt and pain at losing a child knows no social or racial boundaries. And from that point on, they began to relate to one another as equals. For both of them, there was a kind of liberation, and the young white woman began to understand fully, for the first time, perhaps, the evils of a system that could buy and sell human beings like cattle. The system of slavery was evil for many reasons, but perhaps the most important was that it was based on a refusal to acknowledge the image of God ...

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