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Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

READINGS Psalter - Psalms 86:1-10, 16-17 First Lesson - That human rejection does not mean divine rejection is illustrated by the story of Hagar and her son. Genesis 21:8-21 Second Lesson - Paul writes of our baptism into the death and resurrection of Christ Jesus. Romans 6:1-11 Gospel - Jesus instructs the disciples of their place in the scheme of things, the limits of their dignity but also its ...

302. Dead to Sin

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Let all who would take up their Cross come this day and worship! People: For if we would walk with Christ in the resurrection, Leader: We must walk with Christ toward the Cross. People: We each must let Christ into our hearts and turn away from sin. Leader: In Christ we are dead to sin and washed clean before Almighty God. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O Go...

303. Playing the Game

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Should we continue in sin in order that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it? Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in n...

304. Servants of Christ

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Let all who would obey the risen Christ, gather this day to worship People: For no person can seek to obey the Lord yet serve the ways of sin. Leader: One can not obey two masters; we give our witness by which we serve. People: We seek to serve only one master, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Leader: Then let all the world hear our message of God's redeeming love. All: Bl...

305. Proper 8

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Lesson 1: Genesis 22:1-14 (C) God orders Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. Yahweh puts Abraham to the toughest test of his life. His son, Isaac, was to be sacrificed as proof of Abraham's love and loyalty to God. At the moment Abraham is about to plunge the knife into Isaac, God stops him and provides a substitute sacrifice of a ram. Lesson 1: 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16 (RC) Opening our lives to...

306. Proper 8

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

COMMENTARY Old Testament: Genesis 22:1-14 God tests Abraham's faith and loyalty by ordering him to sacrifice his son. Just as he is ready to plunge the knife into the child, God stops Abraham, commenting that now he has proven his obedience to the Lord. A ram caught in a thicket substitutes for Isaac as a sacrifice. Old Testament: 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16 A woman from Shunem extends hospitality to ...

307. Proper 8

Bulletin Aid

Theme: Death behind, life ahead Exegetical note In this passage Paul suggests a new perspective on death for the Christian on two grounds: (1) first, it is not a future prospect but a thing of the past, since Christians have died with Christ Jesus; and (2) it is not a grim reality, but a positive experience, for it has freed the believers from sin and opened them up to new life. The verb tenses t...

308. Free from Sin

Children's Sermon

Object: a slide and a slide projector. Good morning, boys and girls. I want to talk to you this morning about something which we don't often like to talk about. The subject is death. Now, most people are afraid of death. They don't know what it is about, so they are afraid of it. It only comes to you once, and after it happens, there is nothing else that we know like it. I suppose if you only got...

309. Blue!

Children's Sermon

Object: blue ribbons Good morning, boys and girls. What color ribbons do we have this morning? Blue. Yes, we have blue ribbons today. Blue is our color of Christmas for this morning. But, before we pass out the blue ribbons and talk about them, let’s review the first three we already have. First, we have green. The green ribbon stands for what? Correct, life and growth. Next, we have the purple r...

310. When Someone Dies

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A bottle of baby shampoo. Lesson: Crying is important when a loved one dies. This is a bottle of shampoo. Why do you use shampoo? That’s right. So your hair will be clean. Do you know what’s special about this shampoo? This shampoo doesn’t hurt if it goes into your eyes. Here on the label it says, "no more tears." If you’ve ever had some other kind of shampoo go into your eyes, you know ...

311. Freedom!

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A flag Boys and girls: In nineteenth-century Norway a well-to-do governess fell in love with a poor farmer. Such a marriage was frowned on, but the governess was determined. In a burst of rebellious exuberance and a blue wedding dress, she married the farmer and sailed for America the same day, May 17, 1843. Their ship, the Tricolors, arrived in New York harbor on July 4, America's Indepe...

312. Bringing Back the Shine

Children's Sermon

Object: Rust on any object and some sandpaper (better have a large towel or some newspaper to collect the rust). I have something with me this morning that all of us have seen before and I want you to take a good look at it. It’s something that happens to your favorite toys, your dad’s automobile, and other things that mean a lot to us. When it happens, we feel bad about it. Have you ever left a ...

313. The Only Day

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A calendar. It is preferable to have the kind which shows only one day at a time, such as a desk calendar. Good morning, boys and girls. What day is it today? Sunday, that's right! But what other day is it? What's the date? [Let them answer.] Very good! Sometimes it is hard to remember what day it is in the summer time when we don't have to go to school and we can do whatever we want to d...

314. The Key Ring That Unites Us

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A round key ring with a lot of keys and one large key. Good morning, boys and girls. Today is a wonderful day to share with one another and to thank God for being so good to us. I have been thinking about a lot of things recently and one of them is the idea that we are sharing a promise that was given to Jesus. Do you remember when Jesus died? (Let them answer.) I remember that also. You ...

315. Members Of Jesus' Special Club

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A sweatshirt or T-shirt that has the name of a club on it Lesson: Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Good morning, boys and girls. Today I have with me a special shirt which you can wear if you are a member of this club. (Show them the shirt.) Did you ever belong to a special club? (Let them answer.) How do you get to be ...

316. Living without Fear

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: Some swimmer's gear (flippers, underwater mask], a ball, and some suntan lotion. Good morning, boys and girls. Has anybody been to the beach this year or to a swimming pool? Everyone who has been somewhere where there is water to swim in should hold up his hand. Almost everybody. Now this is the big question. How many of you know how to swim? How many of you can go through the water with...

317. Slaves of a Different Master

Sermon

William G. Carter

Earlier this week somebody asked what the sermon was about. I said, "I'm preaching about slavery." That was a good way to stop a conversation. Slavery. In Romans 6, Paul talks about slavery. It was an established institution of his time. There is no evidence that he tried to reform it. One of his letters was written to a slave owner named Philemon. During one of his vacations in jail, Paul met a ...

318. Thank God, We're Already Dead

Sermon

William G. Carter

If you ever find yourself on the corner of 56th Street and Lexington Avenue in New York City, stop in to see the baptismal font at St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Not long ago, a small group of tourists went for a visit. We were astonished by what we saw. The font is off to the left, by the main entrance into the sanctuary. That in itself is appropriate, for baptism is the entry into the Christian l...

319. Hemlock and Hyssop

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Of all the things Christians do, baptism might be the weirdest –– at least from an outsider perspective. For those born into the Christian tradition, baptism is a wonderful, beautiful moment, a joyful celebration. For those outside the Christian faith, it can seem completely strange, even macabre. Baptism is a “ritual drowning,” a symbolic death that ushers the baptized into a spiritually reborn,...

320. A Lack of Feeding in the American Dream

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

I would like us to consider a subject which becomes important to us all from time to time, but which is generally confusing and threatening so that we normally try to pass on from it as quickly as possible. The subject is suicide. There are a number of reasons why I am concerned with talking about it. I am continually involved as a minister in suicide cases, both accomplished and contemplated. Th...

321. Proper 7, Pentecost 5, Ordinary Time 12

Bulletin Aid

Amy C. Schifrin

Prayer Of The Day Leader: God of our Redemption, nothing is beyond your care. As you open wide your embrace for even the tiniest of sparrows, open wide our arms that we may give one another the courage to live out your goodness in this day and in the days to come. In the name of Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, through all ages of ages. All: ...

322. A Story of Conversion

Illustration

Philip Schaff

John Chrysostom, known as the "the golden-mouthed" preacher of the 4th century, told the story of a remarkable conversion. The coastal city of Phoenice was well known for its lawlessness. In particular in the city was an actress who mesmerized many with her beauty but brought them low with her harlotry and the use of sorcery and drugs. Chrysostom wrote, "And indeed nothing was more vile than she ...

323. The Gravity of Sin

Illustration

Michael P. Green

How can sin be rendered powerless, as Paul says in Romans 6:6? Consider the effect of gravity on a book. Gravity would cause an unsupported book to fall, but gravity can be rendered “powerless” against the book by simply placing a table under it. As long as the table is under the book, gravity cannot cause it to fall. Of course gravity has not really lost its power nor is it no longer present. It ...

324. Standing Up To Death

Sermon

Robert Noblett

If it has not happened to you yet, you can be sure that sooner or later life is going to acquaint you with death. We can decide whether or not we want to go to Australia; we have the option of eating horsemeat or not eating horsemeat; but we do not have the option of meeting death or not meeting death. We will meet it, perhaps have already met it, of this we can be sure. But meeting it does not m...

325. Marked By The Cross

Sermon

George Bass

When Jennifer asked her grandmother, “Is it (the cross) still there?” I didn’t hear her reply to the four-year-old girl. But since she is a Christian, active in her parish and informed about the Christian faith, I believe that she gave a positive answer, “Yes, Jennifer, the cross is still there” or something like that. She could have said, “You can’t see it, but it is still there and it will alway...

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