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Matthew 6:33

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... , glued together. A pencil. Drill a hole, the diameter of the pencil, through the center of the disk; and drill another hole about one inch off the center. Lesson: By just looking at this toy car, you cannot tell what kind it is; but when I spin the wheels, the sound tells you that this is a special kind of car. Once you have the wheels turning fast, they will continue to run for quite a while. The reason for this is that within the car are several other wheels. Some of these wheels have what we call teeth ...

3127. What Shall You Give?

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... then follow up with words of thank you each day after that. Another wonderful gift for your mother and father is that of being kind to your brothers and sisters, or to your friends when they are in your home. This is a wonderful gift, for it brings peace ... place where people like to come. Again, in a birthday card, you can tell your parents that your gift to them will be to show more kindness to others. There are many such gifts that you can give to your parents and to others in the home. All you have to do is ...

3128. New Year's Resolution

Gal 5:22-23 · Mt 5:13

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... speak; for we use life in the right way for the right purpose. The beginning of a new year is a good time for you to look at yourself, and to think about the kind of qualities you want in your life. Let me suggest a few of these qualities that the Bible says are important for us to have: Patience, kindness, love and self-control are some of the inner characteristics that everyone needs to live as God intended us to live. Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home: At the breakfast table (especially ...

3129. Seed Time

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... given to us in the symbol of the seed. Hundreds of years ago, Paul wrote, "But someone will ask, 'How are the dead raised up? With what kind of body do they come?' You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body ... to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body." (1 Corinthians 15:35-38) In other words, what Paul is saying is that we take a seed and bury it in ...

3130. Christ the King

John 18:28-40

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

... day, all nations and all people will stand before the King. The last chapter of history will have been recorded. Earth will have passed away. All will stand to await the final judgment to be rendered by the Risen King. Simple acts of justice and mercy, love and kindness are what will matter in the end. A cup of water. A visit at a bedside or a prison cell. Shared clothing or food. Lord, prepare us for that day. Give us the ability to remain alert and sensitive to the needs around us, and give us the heart ...

3131. Lent 4

John 3:1-21, Psalm 107:1-43

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... of the LORD say so, those he redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities endured affliction; they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death. Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress; he sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from destruction. Let them thank the LORD for his ...

3132. You Got To Bring The Bread

John 6:25-59

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... with everything in it except the bread. Place a jar of peanut butter, jelly jar, baggie, apple, cookies, and a drink of some kind. If the baggie is big enough put the sandwich items inside. If you want a reaction from the children spoon out the peanut ... graders? (Response) Tell me what you take to school every morning? (Response) What else? (Response) What do I have here? (Response) Guess what kind of lunch I have? (Response) Well, let’s see. I have a take out the apple and let the kids answer (apple). And ...

3133. A Continuing Presence

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... , Herb," I would tell him. "Well, you're a doctor to me," he insisted. It was always "Doctor Powell." I loved that. I would go to meetings just hoping he would be there. He was a good man. A Christian man, exceedingly kind, and spoke only good of all whom he would meet. We wish that kind would live forever, but they don't. Herb suffered a heart attack and died five years later. Recently, I preached a sermon to the congregation I serve in Little Rock and referred to Herb in much the same way I have here ...

3134. Jesus the Healer

Luke 6:19

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... all of us to use the heating pad is when we do not feel too well. If we have an earache or a backache, or any kind of an ache, it is always good to use the heating pad. There is that nice warm feeling that seems to make us feel better. I ... like that. It wasn't even electricity. The power that Jesus had to cure people came from God, and I guess you could call it a kind of healing love. God gave Jesus a special power to make people who were sick well again. But people could feel the power coming through Jesus ...

3135. Happy Meal or Holy Meal

John 6:25-59

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... meal? (McDonalds) And how much do we have to pay for it? (response) Holy Meal: And who serves this meal? (response) And how much do we have to pay for it? (nothing) Happy Meal: How many times do we have to eat this kind of food? (everyday) Holy Meal: How many times do we have to eat this kind of food? (once a week, month, etc) Actually, we only have to eat this food once. And when we do, we will live forever. Here at the church we eat this meal once a month to remind us of the Bread and Wine ...

3136. The Politics Of Love

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... the earnestness of our praise. It is, rather, gauged by our restoration to wholeness those who have been oppressed. In our society that kind of love is inescapably political. Most people are of the opinion that politics and religion do not mix, or at least ought not ... talked together! Never a dull moment! The trouble with most churches today is that there is no evidence of that kind of diversity. Many church leaders, not to mention their constituents, find any difference of opinion, and certainly conflict, to ...

3137. The Wisdom In Waiting

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... active or reasonable, replaces God by its own creation of an image of God. Our religious life is characaterized more by that kind of creation than anything else. I think of the theologian who does not wait for God, because he possesses Him, enclosed within ... good I want, but he evil I do not want is what I do (Romans 7:15, 18, 19)." When we have been overwhelmed by that kind of frustration we know that the power to change ourselves does not lie at our disposal. We can only long for the day of deliverance and ...

3138. The Sponge

Colossians 3:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... like you and me. We get all mixed up in the world. People, trees, buildings, cars, and all of those things are in the world. It looks kind of neat in this glass, doesn't it? (Let them answer.) But what happens when we die? It is like being spilled out of the glass when ... fun, does it? But God has a plan. God is this big sponge that I have in my hand. God comes to us when we die and kind of hides us in him. He takes us up from being dead and makes us come alive again. (Take the sponge and squeeze it out into ...

3139. How God's World Got Bugged

Romans 5:12

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... in it, and do you know what came through that small hole? (Let them answer.) Right! Bugs! Flies, mosquitos, and lots of other kinds of bugs. They all came through that one hole in my screen. One night I am sitting at the kitchen table and there are no bugs. The next ... night there is a small hole in the screen and the house is filled with all kinds of bugs. One little hole and we have a whole house full of bugs. I guess you know that the first thing I must do is ...

3140. God Is Like A One-A-Day

Philippians 4:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... things to do that many of us are busy from morning to night. That means that we must be strong. Of course there are different kinds of strength. For instance, when we want to make our boys and girls strong so that they can grow, we make sure that they take ... Let them answer.) That's wonderful, and don't you feel good? What do your vitamins taste like? (Let them answer.) I like the kind that taste like oranges. God is like a vitamin. Sometimes I have problems that need more than muscles. I need to know how to ...

3141. The Light Of Life

Ephesians 5:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... of show where people show their pictures on a screen about places where they have traveled, or pictures that help to tell a story. How many of you have ever seen that kind of a show? (Let them answer.) A lot of you. Some of the pictures are beautiful and they help us remember things so much better than if we are just told about them. If I want you to know about the beautiful places that I have been, it helps to ...

3142. Christ the King

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... grace that he did. And, as I do, miracle of miracles, it turns out to be there and real, as he said it would be. I will put my feet on that path of responsible love and pursue it. Even though, from time to time, under the pressure of all kinds of fears and angers, I have to rein in, talk to, and remind myself, confess and pray and be restored. Again, miracle of miracles, as he said it would, it works far better than anything else. So my Shepherd provides my need, leading "me in his paths of righteousness ...

3143. Right When the World is Wrong

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... ruins, every building, public and private, every foot of wall. This happened at the end of summer. Those who were left in the city still would have to survive a winter with no time left to plant a crop, with little body strength even to pile together some kind of lean-to. Even though it was all over, the dying would continue. "I told you so!" Well, there really are times when the consequences are so dire and disastrous, you really don't want to say, "I told you so." And Jeremiah, prophet of doom, crazy old ...

3144. Reformation Sunday

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... , "I'm better than all those hypocrites in there." That arrogance can be seen in those inside the church who will say, "I have had that spiritual experience which enables me to know that I am going to heaven. And until you become as I am and have my kind of experience, you are not going to heaven." Because at root there is that arrogance, that is why Jeremiah's words about the new covenant speak of the need for forgiveness. If we are to know God and what God wants from this world and from us, first, somehow ...

3145. Beware! Caution! Danger!

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... seems that there was a legendary history of Lyconia that told of Zeus and Hermes coming to earth incognito and in disguise. There was none in all the land who would grant hospitality to them, except for on old peasant couple who took them in and treated them kindly. The result was that the whole population of Lystra was wiped out by the gods, except for the old man and woman who took them in. Now the people of Lystra are so carried away with the miracle of healing that they suspect that Barnabas, with his ...

3146. Healing For The Past

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... the bag off the rail and onto the infant's face. She came in later to find him dead. Now, six years later, every time she hears a child cry, or passes a dry-cleaners, she is devastated by her memories of the past. Where is healing for that kind of torture and self-blame? How were these Israelites to be healed of the sharp pain in their past: the past that reminded them that they had lived as slaves? They had had no homeland. They had no independence. They made bricks without straw and bowed to every whim ...

3147. Not

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... his Master, and no messenger is greater than the one who sent him." And John warned us again (15:20), "Remember what I told you: 'No slave is greater than his Master. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too.' " Jesus endured all kinds of physical suffering when he lived among us, even to his death on a cross. Along with the agonizing physical torment, there was also the shame, disgrace, humiliation, rejection, loneliness, abandonment, the broken heart. So, how can we even begin to think we will ...

3148. God Is Fair

Acts 10:34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... to treat everyone the same. How many of you think that God is fair? (Let them answer.) All of you think that God is fair. I have a shirt and a whistle this morning that I hope you know something about. (Show them the shirt.) What do we call this kind of a shirt? Who wears it? (Let them answer.) That's right, a referee. What does a referee do? (Let them answer.) He makes sure that the game is played fair. Does he have a favorite team? (Let them answer.) Does he root for one team against another? (Let them ...

3149. Practice Makes Perfect

1 John 4:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... afraid to love anyone else. But every day you practice loving and want to love someone new. It is like going up higher and higher on the beam. Now you want to love your friend next door. Loving means caring about them and sharing your life with them. That is kind of dangerous if you don't know how they feel about you. You are taking a chance. But if you practice sharing and caring, then you get better at it, and you are less afraid. Pretty soon you can love the people at school like your teachers and your ...

3150. Safe With the Spirit

Ephesians 1:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... parts and all of the parts are important. A Christian learns from other Christians and from the Bible. A Christian believes many things about God and the way God loves him. A Christian shares many of the things that he has, such as money, food, clothes, and all kinds of things. But the Holy Spirit brings all of those things together and keeps them together so that none of them are lost. That's why we say the Holy Spirit is like an envelope. The Holy Spirit not only keeps them together for you but also keeps ...

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