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Matthew 22:1-14

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... on our best. We can’t wear our doctor’s clothes and pretend like we are some big important person; we can’t wear our tennis outfit and pretend like we are greater than everybody else; and we can’t wear our flippers and be disrespectful. So what kind of clothes are we going to wear? (response) Let me give you a hint. Jesus wasn’t talking about clothes. We are going to God’s great wedding party. What do you think we are supposed to wear? (response) Help the children now if they need it. Yes those ...

3302. Like Caring Gently for a Baby

1 Thessalonians 2:7

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... should treat a baby. Application: In the same way, we should treat one another very gently. Especially when we want to share the good news about Jesus with someone. Tell me. Is someone more likely to want to listen to you if you are very rough or if you are kind and gentle? (response) Yes, gentle. The Apostle Paul reminded the church that he treated them as gently as a mother treats her baby. God wants us to act in the same way. Remember that even as people get older, it is still much better to treat them ...

3303. Trick or Treat

Matthew 23:1-39

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... get? You don’t look very excited. (response) These are great! If you use a microphone bite into a piece of pasta chewing slowly with your mouth open so that the hard pasta makes a large crunching sound. Maybe these aren’t so great after all. They’re kind of hard. Keep chewing. Jesus said that there are some people who make life hard on others. Crunch. Like giving them dried noodles to eat. He said that we as Christians are not to act that way. He said that from the greatest to the least we are ...

3304. Encounters With Christ IV: Jesus and the Woman at the Well

Sermon

James W. Moore

... after another with her. She was constantly in trouble, but Roy never wavered. He kept on praying that she would some day soon “get her act together” and he kept on loving her and forgiving her. When she was sixteen, she ran away from home. All kinds of hurtful reports came back about the lifestyle she was living, but nobody could pinpoint exactly where she was. Finally, Roy got word that somebody had seen her in Memphis Tennessee. Roy went to look for her. The person that reported this story said, “I ...

3305. Encounters With Christ V: Jesus and James and John

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the woman wanted her husband to be named by the President to this key cabinet position… the Secretary of Commerce. Now, of course, President Taft knew that he could not do that. He could not accommodate the woman’s request. That was obvious. So, President Taft (kind man that he was), tried to cushion his refusal by explaining to the woman that so important a post required a person who had been prepared by long training to meet the demands of that significant job. It required, he said a Big Person! That ...

3306. Encounters With Christ VI: Jesus and Caiaphas

Matthew 26:57-68

Sermon

James W. Moore

... s the way it’s supposed to be.” He came loving people, helping people, celebrating people, and saying, “Look! Here’s the way it’s supposed to be.” We are supposed to love and honor and respect each other. We are supposed to treat each other with kindness and thoughtfulness and tenderness and compassion. That’s precisely what Jesus came to teach us… to love God and to love each other. And yet, even as He brought this message… that love is the way it’s supposed to be… He was seen by the ...

3307. Listen Up!

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... and I just blurt it out. I didn't take the time to listen to what they are really telling me or asking me. So, I say, "Milk!" when the answer is really what? (water). When we don't listen it can cause all kinds of problems. Application: The disciples didn't listen and it caused all kinds of problems. Jesus told them that he was going to die and that he would come back to life in three days but they couldn't believe it. Jesus told them over and over and over that this would happen but they didn't ...

3308. Mary Remembers

Luke 1:26-38

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... voice: "Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you." I was terrified. He stood in front of me in blazing white! His voice was so kind, his countenance so wondrous. He said to me, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And now you will conceive ... the stable and make your wife as comfortable as possible." "I am in your eternal debt, sir. I will never forget your kindness," Joseph replied. I knew that I would give birth that night. The journey was almost more than I could bear. Through the ...

3309. Monologue: Moses' Mother

Exodus 2:1-10

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... Our people originally came here with our ancestor Jacob because they were starving in the land of Canaan. At that time, Pharaoh had been kind and generous to the Israelite people. Now, we are starving again and Pharaoh is cruel and heartless. We have to do every type of ... in his little boat. I could not visit him after I stopped nursing. Have you ever heard of him? Do you have any idea what kind of life he had or what became of him? I always wanted to know. I wondered if he would become an Egyptian instead of ...

3310. What's A Savior Worth?

Matthew 6:19-24, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:1-4

Drama

Joe Barone

... over. Think about the regrets you'll have. I wish I'd done that. I couldn't know who Jesus was. I couldn't. I wanted a different kind of kingdom than he seemed to want, and maybe I wanted a bigger part in it. I'm not going to apologize for that. I think most of ... I wish I'd done was to think about my life when it was over. I might not have been able to know who Jesus was or what kind of kingdom it was he had come to bring, but if I'd just thought about it, I could have understood how terrible it would be to be ...

3311. What Reasons to Betray the Savior?

Matthew 26:17-30

Drama

Joe Barone

... portion of the story that we have today? Here's what I think it might have been.] Dramatic Monologue: Simon Peter I don't know why I couldn't have seen it at the time, but there wasn't anything in Jesus' life that didn't matter. Everything had some kind of kingdom meaning. Take that little scripture you heard today. I knew Matthew, and it amazes me that he could see the meaning in our preparation for Jesus' last passover, and I couldn't. We just did as Jesus told us. It was nothing really. We didn't see ...

3312. Empty Prisons Without Walls

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Carl Jech

... or justice above the law leads to a crumbling of the moral order from which everyone ultimately suffers. If I think my "cause" is above the law, then the government can think its cause or concern is above the law and then we have the kind of breakdown that leads to Watergate. The equally famous reference in 1 Peter to the fact that Christians should "be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution" (1 Peter 2:13), including the government, stands beside the apostles' statement about obeying God ...

3313. Quantum Leap

Acts 13:13-52

Sermon

Carl Jech

... so serious you can only joke about them." Sharing our experience of the grace of God is a serious matter. Yet at the same time this grace is the most profound basis for a sense of humor. God's grace makes it possible for us to be the kind of adults who never forget what it means to be like children (sons and daughters of God) who don't take themselves too seriously. God's grace makes it possible for us to make quantum leaps back and forth between opposites like seriousness and humor, struggle and relaxation ...

3314. Some Illusions (Symbols) Are Better Than Others

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Carl Jech

... idols of our culture today, is success. Much television evangelism, falls into the trap of equating faith in God with all kinds of success. The Bible and its advice becomes something like a religious version of How To Win Friends and Influence ... ll be amazed at how successful you will be in life! The ordained preachers who constantly trot out spiritual, business or other kinds of "athletes" are also creating this "Success Image," this "Success Symbol" of God, and even though they may try to "spiritualize" the ...

3315. A Seed Must Die Before It Can Live

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... , Acorn, Apple, and a carton of regular chicken eggs. Lesson Good morning. (response) I have some seeds and I don't know what kind of seeds these are but I think they grow up to be these. Show the photos. Can you tell which seed goes with ... work? If you plant one seed do you get just one apple? (no, you get a bunch) That's amazing. Ok, here are our last bunch of seeds. What kind of seeds are these? (those aren't seeds they're eggs) Well, this might surprise you but this is a seed. You don't plant it in the ...

3316. Making Money on God

Acts 19:25-26

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... It was a very frightening experience and one that no one would soon forget. Paul spoke to his friends that night and then left for Greece. It is strange what happens to people when they are afraid that they are going to lose money. It changes them into a different kind of people. It still happens today. People try to make money on God and the things that they think people will buy as a god. We have to be careful today as Christians that we do not make something else our god instead of the real God whom Paul ...

3317. Love Is Down to Earth

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Carl Jech

... of materialism - selfish materialism. Earthly goods are not to be ignored or destroyed. They are to be shared! Pete Seeger, the folk-singer, has said that "share" is a better word than "love." He has a point. We also fall prey to the wrong kind of materialism if we adopt "success" as a model for the New Testament Gospel. Too often the oversimplified message goes out that "spiritual success" will lead to material success, when in fact the Gospel of Jesus promises neither forms of "success." We can agree with ...

3318. Comfort the Disturbed/ Disturb the Comfortable

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Carl Jech

... one aspect to being "biblical." One facet of a Bible-based faith is a matter simply of becoming biblically literate. That is, we need to regularly retell the old, old stories. But another aspect of what it means to be biblical is that we should continue to do the kinds of things that the great pioneers of faith did in their day. Just because Abraham left his native land and went west, trusting that God was leading him, does not mean that we must all do exactly the same thing and act as if "go west young man ...

3319. Throw Your Heart at the Sky

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Carl Jech

... Living Truth is a symbol for absolute, simple trust in God's grace. As John Koenig, who teaches New Testament at General Episcopal Seminary in New York, wrote in a 1987 article, "Christ must be named so people can trust God through him." And this is not the kind of trust that makes Jesus into a lucky charm. It is simply childlike trust in the grace of God. One of the most touching expressions of this trust is the wonderful gospel song, "His eye is on the sparrow, and I know he watches me." More than once ...

3320. Counterfeit Faith

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... accepted and welcomed Zeus and Hermes into their home. Because of this, the old couple were made guardians of a magnificent temple on the out-skirts of Lystra. When the old couple died, they were turned into giant trees as living memorials for their kind reception of the gods. Perhaps it was under these very trees that Paul and Barnabas first preached. There is little doubt that, when the people saw the miracle Paul performed, they remembered the legend, and they were certain that their visitors were gods ...

3321. Sandy Bread or Fertile Harvest

Joshua 5:12

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... , or hold up the fruit bowl good farmland with all sorts of wonderful food? (response) The people of Israel liked the wonderful fruit and farmland too. Application: Set the two bowls before the children. What made the difference between this kind of life point to the sand bowl and this kind of life point to the fruit bowl? (response) What made the difference was obedience. They finally did what God wanted them to do and they were allowed to go into the Promised Land. Remember throughout your lives it is ...

3322. Abner: The Clumsy Ox Who Is Our Friend

Luke 14:5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... problem with Abner was that he was a pretty clumsy ox. You know what it means to be clumsy, don't you? That's right, you kind of trip over your own feet or drop your fork when you're eating or spill a glass of milk at least three times a day ... rain and some of the holes were big enough for even an ox to fall into. You see the other animals knew Abner pretty well. Abner kind of agreed, but for a different reason. He knew that since this was the Sabbath day the men were not only staying away from the regular ...

3323. ASAPH: The Fish Who Taught Courage

Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... by the fish who knew him, for he was the biggest fish in all the seas. One day while Asaph was out swimming around and kind of relaxing he felt what he thought was an undersea wave. Now undersea waves were rather unusual and when something like that happened it ... them. "What a place for a man sent by God to be," thought the man in Asaph's belly. Just then Asaph noticed something else kind of funny. The sea was alright and the storm was over but his belly sure did feel funny with that man moving around in it ...

3324. Benjamin: The Little Peoples Friend

Luke 19:28-38

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... be? Would you like to be ten or sixteen or twenty-one? What could you do if you were older that you can't do now? (Get some answers and try to lead them to the kind of jobs that they would have if they were older.) I see. If you were older you could have a job, go to work, stay up late, eat the kind of food you like and wash your hands and brush your teeth whenever you wanted to. Well, I can certainly see why you want to be older than you are today. But did you ever ...

3325. Evangelism and the How Book

Matthew 10:1-42

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... ways to learn and you might be a good cook if you did any one of them. I have another way. (Hold up cook book.) Who knows what kind of a book I have with me this morning? That's right, a cook book! Have you ever read a cook book? I didn't think so. But ... I told you about this cook book, is because it tells you how to do something. It tells you how to make good food. I wish I had that kind of a book for a special program that we are doing at the church this week. I wish I had a book that told you how to be ...

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