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2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

... him in such terms as that of king? How many Americans are there who are willing to submit to the rule of a king of any kind? And how fitting was it ever to speak of the humble Jesus as a king? We who are inclined to celebrate the fact that there are ... and abuses of physical power under human control constitute a challenge of unprecedented magnitude. But physical power is not the only kind that flows in the universe. God the Creator, the all-powerful energizer, is a spirit, and his energy flows in spiritual ...

3352. Working and Praying Go Together

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

... drag for most people, though. Physical labor was accepted and bearable. Mental effort, too, was something most could stand, if that's the kind of work their jobs called for. Even a busy-busy schedule could easily be endured by most of the people. It was rather ... the ladder by this time, they feel. They can't be worth much or they would be more successful at this point than they are. That kind of surmising can nag at all of us, isn't it true? Frankly, too often we're already living at the next highest step in ...

3353. The Way He Taught

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

... 's the way I was taught!" To me that was a sad answer. Apparently he regarded his mind in earlier years like some kind of computer. It was fed particular religious data, which happened to be Christian data. Now the material is sort of locked in, like ... call you father? Why do they do what you say? Is it only because they have a blood relationship with you? Is it only a kind of biological authority we have with our own children? Pray God that it is the authority of your love that has overtaken them and holds ...

3354. Life is Like a Seed

Titus 3:4-7

Children's Sermon

... make us live again? How many of you remember God saying something like that? Last summer I had some tomatoes that I grew in my back yard. How many of you know what a tomato plant looks like? It has a long stem, kind of looks like a fuzzy piece of celery and has leaves that are rough and kind of pointed in places but the best part is the round red ball that we call a tomato. Well, inside of that red ball called a tomato are seeds. Now my plants got brown and finally gray after they died and they ...

3355. Heaven Will Be Like a Magnifying Glass

I Corinthians 13:12

Children's Sermon

... still can’t? Well, let’s try this and see how it works. (Hold up magnifying glass and let as many as possible read what it says). A magnifying glass lets us read clearly what we can only see as a blur. Well, that’s kind of the way our life today is compared with what kind of life God promises for us after we go with Jesus to heaven. We really don’t understand all of the things that God promises us now, but someday we will know all that he has told us and understand it. Then we will know ...

3356. Separating the Good and the Bad

Galatians 5:17

Children's Sermon

... You know what I think I’m going to do? I’m going to ask two people to help me with our experiment. John, will you pour some hate, selfishness, stealing and drunkenness into this large glass? That’s fine. Now, Susan, will you pour some love, joy, peace and kindness in the same glass so that we can mix them up? That way nothing will be all good or all bad, right? This glass will be a mixture of the two. Oh, for heaven’s sake, look at what’s happening. The oil and the water are separating. They’re ...

3357. God is Like a Clock

2 Peter 3:13

Children's Sermon

... sun every morning and the moon and stars every night. He makes the wind blow, the snow fall, and he causes things to grow. He’s kind of like the clock, doing the same thing every day. It doesn’t sound very exciting, does it? Did you know that people had these same ... move. It certainly doesn’t look like what we see all the time when we look at the face of the clock, does it? Well, this is kind of the way God is at work. We don’t always know what he’s doing or why he’s doing it, but we can always be ...

3358. Blueprint for Action

Romans 13:14

Children's Sermon

... of making a plan! How many of you like to make plans? I have a very special plan here this morning. (Take out blueprint - hold it up and let them tell you what it is.) Do you know what this is? A blueprint - that’s right. Do you know what kind of men use blueprints? (Again let them guess - carpenters, plumbers, etc.) Right. Do any of your daddies work with blueprints? They do? Now when you have a blueprint you have a plan and that plan tells you exactly what to do. It tells you how long to cut a board ...

3359. Fixing The Fox!

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... you spend watching a televised game or look at a movie. Through these media, secularism is having an impact on our lives. Think also of the popularity of these media. Is there a home that does not receive at least one daily newspaper? There is some kind of a radio for almost every person in the country. On a given night in America, ten million TV sets are turned on. During the World Series, it was stated that 200 million people in North and South America were watching. This means that the enemy, secularism ...

3360. Killing A King

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

... shall be with me in paradise." It is not only a fact that Jesus is a king, but he is more than a king. In words of praise we sing and shout, "King of kings and Lord of lords!" That is the kind of king we honor today as we remember his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. That is the kind of king we follow this Holy Week as we plod toward the cross. How to Treat a King But, is this the way to treat a king? Usually kings get the best treatment. There are exceptions, as in recent years. This is ...

3361. Don't Be a Snob

Romans 12:9-21

Children's Sermon

... this by holding your hands up to your face and moving them out to show this big face.] Sometimes we also say that these kind of people have lots of hot air. But, my favorite thought about the haughty, which means being a snob, or the conceited, is to tell ... be with people who don't think too much of themselves, but instead think a lot about God and God's people. That's the kind of boys and girls that belong in our church. We want you to be thinking and helping others and not standing around blowing a horn. ...

3362. A Crippling Spirit

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Brett Blair

... burning up with fever and in imminent danger of dying, it would have made perfect sense even to the synagogue ruler. But that kind of healing would have undermined the point he was making. You see this was a test. Jesus was purposely and flagrantly breaking ... man from Plano, Texas who nearly lost his life to cancer. A feat I cannot come close to grasping. How do you come back from those kinds of odds and do that well? I'll tell you how. It is because you are surrounded by people who take joy in the well doing ...

3363. If Only We Would Be Disciplined ...

2 Kings 13:10-25

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... to treat yourself to the table top," I thought to myself as I pulled the second bench into my workshop. "That would be nice and easy compared to what you’ve been doing. At least put off these bench legs until later." I knew I had to develop some kind of discipline if I were to finish that job before the vacation ended. So I went ahead with the legs of that second bench, and worked off and on for days before getting to the top. I never allowed myself the excitement of refinishing until I had removed all ...

3364. If Only We Would Confess ...

Ezekiel 18:1-32

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... he took out his irritation on the family, speaking sharply to Mrs. Miller and the children. That night, as he was tucking the same five-year-old into bed, he began the prayer. "Dear God, forgive me for being so fussy at dinner tonight." There was a kind of awed silence. Then very quickly, his little girl went through the familiar "Now I lay me" and the usual God blesses. The next night it happened that Mr. Miller was again irritable when he came home and showed his irritation at dinner. As he was having ...

3365. If Only We Could Remember ...

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

On the back page of our capitol city’s daily newspaper there are two columns headed "Divorces Filed" and "Divorces Granted." Sometimes when I glance at that back page and see the lists, I read through the names, and I wonder what kind of stories lie behind them. What happened to John and Cathy, to Bill and Sue, to Joe and Betty? I can almost picture the high moments in their lives as they made plans for their weddings, almost sense all the expectations that they carried into their marriages. Now, because ...

3366. Jesus Gave Himself

Philippians 2:5-11

Children's Sermon

... of candles to begin with). Good morning, boys and girls, and how are you on this great Christian day called Palm Sunday? How many of you remember the story of Palm Sunday? What kind of picture comes to your mind when you think of Palm Sunday? [Let them answer.] What a wonderful picture Jesus must have been riding down the streets of Jerusalem with the people shouting and singing loud Hosannas and covering the streets with palm branches and coats. Jesus is someone you ...

3367. Dandelions and Roses

1 Peter 5:5-7

Children's Sermon

... understand the meaning of humility. This is the story of two flowers, Ruby Rose and Doria Dandelion. Ruby Rose was hard to live with. She was always reminding everyone of her unbelievable beauty and the special kind of care that she needed. Ruby needed her branches trimmed regularly, some spray to keep away the bugs, and special kinds of food put into the flower bed in which she lived. Ruby was quite a flower and, on occasions when she thought that no one like you and me were listening, she would tell all ...

3368. You Can Trust God

Galatians 5:16-26

Children's Sermon

... us that we need to depend on the Spirit when things get rough and we do not think that we can do it all alone. We like to brag that we can do the job or overcome the pain or problem without anyone's help. But God says that that kind of bragging, or being conceited, is foolish. We should depend on God's Spirit to help us just like my friend, who had the broken leg, leaned and depended on Kerry. There are other times when we can't see what is going to happen if we try something that ...

3369. GOD'S MARK ON YOU

Revelation 7:1-8

Children's Sermon

... 't anyone here who thought he was going to a ball game or a movie or another church, is there? Good, everyone is where he should be. It is important that we are where we belong, isn't it? Let me show you what I mean. [Bring out the different kinds of soft drinks with all of them mixed up in different cartons.] Now, one look at this and you can tell we are in a mess. Is there anyone here who can help me out and get my soda pop straightened out? [Choose a volunteer.] How can you tell where ...

3370. God's Suggestion Box

Philippians 4:4-7

Children's Sermon

... with either a "yes" or a "no." The Bible teaches us that we can make requests of God. Instead of worrying and fretting over some problem, the Bible teaches us to request the answer from God. Let's look in our request box or suggestion box and see what kind of requests there are. [Reach into the box and pull out some slips with some requests written out.] Here is one that says, "God help me quit smoking." Is there anyone at your house who wants to quit smoking and may have asked God for help? Here's another ...

3371. Proper 4

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

... turn his back on all of his affluence and influence, and to plunge into what was, essentially, an unexplored, unknown wilderness land. The modern person reads this and shakes his head. It is hard for us to identify with this kind of faith, with this kind of devotion. Of course, we need to recognize we are approaching this Scripture from a twentieth century viewpoint, with the values and perspective of a twentieth century culture. The biblical writer was using the values, concepts, and experiences normal to ...

3372. Proper 7

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

... his seed; There was a man who had two sons and the younger of them said to him: "Father, give me that portion of my inheritance which falls to me." "Once upon a time, which is to say at a time beyond time, or at a different kind of time altogether from the kind the clock measures, or at a time that is no time at all because it's without beginning and without end." (Telling the Truth, Fredrick Buechner, page 73) "Once upon a time," of course, is the beginning of a story and the Bible uses stories quite often ...

3373. Prayer: Our Crosses into Victories

Mark 8:31--9:1

Bulletin Aid

... it may mean living with a drunken spouse; for others it may mean living with a broken marriage; for others it may mean living with some kind of handicap; for still others it may mean personal problems, or money problems, or vocational problems. The truth is that none of us wants a ... then somehow psychiatry should be able to help us. If we have a physical problem, then medicine should make some kind of breakthrough. If we have economic problems, then somehow the government should be able to help us. If we have ...

3374. Parable of the Value of an Apple Pie

Psalm 34:1-22

Illustration

... over. It's wonderful to me." "Well, I can't see anything so wonderful about a little pie." "That's it," said Jim, "you just don't get it." One of the tragedies of life is that many folks just don't get it. That is, the kindness of neighborly consideration and the appreciation of the efforts of others for all the little things that make life worthwhile. As we ride our beautiful cars, we often fail to see the inventor, the laborer, the mechanic, the distributor, the road builder, the traffic policeman and the ...

3375. A Good Picture of Bad People

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

... "No." My "No" was neither mean nor bitter nor antagonistic. It was simply "No." It was all over then ... when the vote was tallied, as the whole room well knew, the result was 49-1 in favor ...2 Where does a man find the courage to take this kind of stand? Where did this man find the strength to stand alone for what he thought was right, knowing that it could have meant political disaster and demise? The source of this man’s strength and courage is the Son of Light, Jesus Christ. A former Senator from ...

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