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3251. Proper 5

Mark 3:31-35, Mark 3:20-30

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

CALL TO WORSHIP Let us call upon God most high to fulfill the divine purpose for us, sending us truth and love that never fails. PRAYER OF CONFESSION King Eternal, Prince of Peace, Royal Spirit, teach us to make the distinction between obedience to your will and the laws of human government. We confess that we are too often content to live by human law and not the higher commands of our Lord Jesus Christ. While we seek to be good citizens of the United States of America, enable us to abide by the even ...

3252. But God Can

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

Larry Powell

She was all alone now, this widow of Nain. The Scriptures make no mention that she had brothers or sisters or other family members. They surely would have been with her, consoling her, moving slowly along in the sad procession. A "large crowd from the city was with her." We are grateful for that. Sometime before, we don't know how long, she had stood by the grave of her husband and now the lifeless body of her only son was being carried out of the city. Only a widowed parent can know the grief that poor ...

3253. The Conversion of Saul

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

Saul's conversion is important to us because we are always wanting detailed accounts of the journey of those people who have become great or famous. They always fascinate us. We avidly consume all the minute specifics we can find about them, sometimes even stooping to seek out tidbits of gossip. We are titillated by the trivial. Why was Sir Winston Churchill buried in a small country cemetery rather than in Westminster Abbey? Why was Churchill born in the servant's quarters of Blenheim Palace rather than ...

3254. How To Deal With Suffering

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Erskine White

Although He was a Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered. (Hebrews 5:8) Note: This sermon was preached in the midst of a long summer heat wave which afflicted much of the nation. In the early 1960s in the deep South, when the backlash against the civil rights movement got especially severe and the violence of white racists got especially brutal, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to a packed church one night and said, "We have entered into a season of suffering." Scripture says that "To everything ...

3255. Forgiveness Freely Given

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Erskine White

As a minister, I am continually reminded of the many burdens people bear in this life - the emotional scars, the painful memories, the gut-wrenching guilt and feelings of regret. Sometimes the stories I hear are staggering. Really, there are three kinds of people in this world: those who need to be forgiven, those who need to be forgiving of someone else, and the largest group is those who need to be both forgiven and forgiving. Forgiveness must come before healing. That's why, in our New Testament story ...

3256. James, God's Hero

Acts 12:2

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A sword. Good morning, boys and girls. I suppose that all of you know that not everything that happens in the world is good. Sometimes people do some very bad things to themselves and to others. Today I am going to tell you about one of those things so that you will learn how strong some men and women believe in Jesus. Jesus is so important to many people that they are willing to die at earlier ages, so that people will not forget that Jesus is a loving God. James was one of the disciples of Jesus ...

3257. God's Real Family

Mark 3:33-35

Children's Sermon

Text: "Whoever does what God wants him to do is my brother, my sister, my mother." Object: a family portrait. Good morning, boys and girls. Let's look at this picture together this morning. This is a picture of a family. Here's Mom. Here's Dad. And here are the kids. Everybody's smiling in this picture. Do you suppose they always smile, even when they're not posing for a picture? (Let them answer.) No. They probably don't. Sometimes they might even argue and shout at each other. Members of families do that ...

3258. Advent 3

Zephaniah 3:1-20, Philippians 4:2-9, Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 12:1-6

Sermon Aid

George Bass

THEOLOGICAL CLUE It should be remembered by the preacher that the church year is not simply a framework which surrounds the liturgy of the church, but it is also a skeleton which needs to be fleshed out with readings from the Old and New Testaments. This becomes manifestly clear by the Third Sunday in Advent, because the world is pulling in one direction while the Christian year orients and points us to the past, the present, and the future. When filled out by the various sets of propers, including the ...

3259. Proper 7

1 Kings 19:9-18, Psalm 63:1-11, Zechariah 12:1-9, Luke 8:26-39, Galatians 3:23-29

Sermon Aid

George Bass

THEOLOGICAL CLUE The preacher, who hopes to make the most of the lectionary and the church year during the long season of Pentecost, has to be cognizant of the kerygmatic accent marks that are built into the church year. Sunday is always the "little Easter," a celebration - if muted, at that - of the death and resurrection of our Lord; it is also the Ogdoad, the eighth day, or the day of new creation. Thus, the church is reminded that it and the people of God have been made new by Jesus Christ, and that a ...

3260. Proper 24

Luke 18:1-8, Psalm 121:1-8, Exodus 17:8-16, Genesis 32:22-32, Habakkuk 1:1-4, Habakkuk 2:2-20, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon Aid

George Bass

THEOLOGICAL CLUE The last three Sundays of the church year in the Lutheran lectionary focus on the "last things" - eschatology - as well as the end of the church year. In 1992, for example, this is the first of those three Sundays, but on two of those Sundays, the eschatological note will not be heard clearly in the readings for the day in churches using these lectionaries. In other Cycle C years, this will change depending on the calendar. The lectionary of the worship book of the Lutheran Church-Missouri ...

3261. Who’s Keeping Score?

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

William J. Carl

What we have in our passage is the contrast between a theology of grace and a theology of keeping score. The first is the one Jesus espouses in this text. The second is the one Peter is pushing and, by the way, the one our world has bought into for centuries. Anne Herbert once suggested that the whole thing started in Eden when Adam and Eve began keeping score. Certainly it was carried on in their children when Cain’s anger over Abel’s higher giving score finally led to murder. Anyway, God got so angry ...

3262. Is It Too Late?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

George Johnson

To get his point across, a pastor once announced to his congregation: "Friends, I have some discouraging news. The building we have just completed is no longer ours to occupy. The bank is foreclosing our loan. We are being sued. It looks like we will lose everything. Beginning next month, we will not be allowed to worship in this building." The ears of the congregation perked up. "The problem," the pastor said, "is that someone acted irresponsibly. The wrong figures were given to the lending agency. On the ...

3263. The Proof Is In The Fruit

Luke 6:39-49

Sermon

James Garrett

Oswald Chambers in the daily devotion book titled, My Utmost For His Highest, wrote: God expects my personal life to be a “Bethlehem.” Am I allowing my natural life to be slowly transfigured by the indwelling life of the Son of God? God’s ultimate purpose is that his Son might be manifested in my mortal flesh. A Christian is a person who is in Christ and in whom Christ dwells. This indwelling experience results in a new lifestyle. In the sixth chapter of Luke, verses 39 through 49, Jesus underscores the ...

3264. Ouch! Those Thistles!

Matthew 13:1-23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: Weeds, some with thorns and thistles. Good morning, boys and girls. Guess what I had to do this week that almost no one likes to do? (Let them guess.) I don't like to do many of those things either, but this week I did one of my most unfavorite things. I pulled weeds. How many of you like to pull weeds? (Let them answer.) It is an awful job because if you do not get the roots of the weed, you have to do it again in a very short time. But these weeds were really awful because they had thorns. Let ...

3265. Who'll Do the Dishes?

Matthew 21:28-32

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some dirty dishes. Good morning, boys and girls. Did all of you know that Jesus was a super storyteller? (Let them answer.) Of course you did, and I have one of those stories to tell this morning, only I am going to change the objects so that you will understand it better. How many of you have ever done the dishes at home? (Let them answer.) This is the story about a brother and sister who lived at home with their mother and father. The mother had worked very hard one day and was so tired when she ...

3266. Vision For Mission

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Ron Lavin

There are many wonderful passages in the book of Isaiah, but none lovelier than this gem - the call of Isaiah in the temple of God. This text is lovely and bright in spite of dark elements of sin and unworthiness, because the light of God calling is not overcome by the darkness into which it comes. The light overcomes the darkness. The mission of Isaiah is to represent God. The mission of the Church of Jesus Christ is the same. That mission begins with vision. Vision Isaiah's vision includes self insight ...

3267. When God’s “No” Means “Yes”

Habakkuk 1:1-4, Habakkuk 2:2-20

Sermon

Richard Hasler

Augustine in his autobiographical work Confessions tells the story of his mother Monica’s constant prayers for him. She wished that one day her vagabond son would become a committed Christian. When Augustine decided to leave North Africa and sail for Rome she was horrified. She believed that in Rome’s cosmopolitan environment he would go further astray. She pleaded with him not to sail and prayed with tears that God would intervene, but to no avail. Later, Augustine inscribed these words in the Confessions ...

3268. The Road To Nazareth

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

Not long ago I was driving down the interstate. I saw standing by the road a young man, not very impressive in appearance, who seemed to have all he owned in two bags. As I went by he held up a sign with one word on it: "Home." I wanted to stop and help him get home and yet because of the way things are today I did not even slow down. But I have often wondered where home was - and if he got there and what happened when he arrived. Immediately after his baptism and his time in the wilderness the first thing ...

3269. Peter · A Leader

Matthew 16:15-19

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Symbol of Peter Well, boys and girls, this morning we shall talk to you about one more friend of Jesus. Jesus had many friends, so many that the Bible doesn't even mention all of their names. Many of his friends we don't know but the one we are going to talk about this morning we know best of all. His name is Peter. How many of you have ever heard of this friend called Peter? Peter was a lot of things in his lifetime. Let's see if we can think of some of them. First of all he was a good fisherman. ...

3270. Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

Reader 1: He was called “the world’s greatest living human being.” By the age of 30 he was recognized as a brilliant theologian and acclaimed as an organ virtuoso and interpreter of Bach. But the real greatness of Albert Schweitzer did not lie in any of those accomplishments but rather in his decision to give up those promising careers and become a medical doctor in the jungles of Africa. In 1875, Albert Schweitzer was born in a Lutheran parsonage in Alsace, the territory that bounced back and forth ...

3271. Christ for All the Ages

Hebrews 10:1-18

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Let our songs fill the air as we sing praises to Almighty God! People: For in Christ we have been saved and made members of God's family. Leader: We are sisters and brothers of Christ, now and forevermore. People: We celebrate God's wonderful love that redeemed us once for all time. Leader: Then let us lift our voices in loud praise for the love God has shown us. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O merciful and loving God, You did not hold back even the sinless Christ ...

3272. Bold Talk Of Faith

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

John P. Rossing

One of Gary Larson's The Far Side cartoons is called "God at his computer." It shows God with long white hair and beard watching a computer screen where an unlucky-looking fellow is walking down a sidewalk with a piano suspended by a cable over his head. God's hand is on the computer keyboard, and his finger is hovering over a key labeled "SMITE."3 The cartoon suggests two things about God's way of determining a person's fate: first, that God is impersonal and inaccessible. God with his finger on the smite ...

3273. The Flame, The Wind, And The Walk

Acts 2:1-13

Drama

Marion Fairman

A Trialogue For Pentecost (The man and the woman are seated in the audience near the front, one to the right, one to the left of the leader, who is standing, facing the audience. Leader reads Acts 2:1-13. When finished, he or she makes preparatory small actions as if about to teach or speak.) Man: (Stands in place looking a bit awkward but determined) Uh, say, is it all right to ask a question? Leader: (Shocked) On Pentecost? (Incredulous) Just when I'm about to begin? (Trying to recover) Well, well, let's ...

3274. A Night of Farewell - Peter

Sermon

Ron Lavin

"Tonight we will forget all of this ungodly talk about death. Tonight is a happy time of remembering our heritage. Tonight we shall eat lamb, bitter herbs, wine and bread. It will be good to remember Moses and the journey tonight." "Tonight we are at John Mark's house. No one will find us here. No crowds. No Pharisees. No sick people." "Tonight we will celebrate the Passover." These were my thoughts as we began that Thursday evening meal. Jesus began with prayer: "Blessed art Thou, O Lord God of the ...

3275. Erasers are for Mistakes

John 20:19-23

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: Forgiveness is the first responsibility (in John) that Jesus gives his Disciples and it is important to God that we forgive one another. Props: Board, marker, and Eraser. This could be a small chalk board or the dry eraser kind (extra props: A box of school erasers would be a nice touch). Lesson: What is the first thing you did before you ate your diner last night? (washed hands, gave thanks) What is the first thing you did last night before you went to bed? (brushed teeth, said prayers) ...

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