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3351. The World's Best Kept Secret

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... for many people that is still a revelation. The young person looks at you with disbelieving eyes when you assert that you can get paid more in life for goodness than for anything else. The notion that if you do not do drugs you wind up, in the long run, with more friends than if you do, seems strange. And many a young woman cannot comprehend the notion that if you enter marriage as a pure person, as one who is not well-experienced in casual sex, that you are more attractive and interesting to members of ...

3352. Don't Give Up Too Soon!

Acts 15:36-41

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... and falls at some point along the road. All we know about the early life of Jesus, from the time he was born until the time he began his ministry at age 30, is that he ran away from home when he was 12 years old. For three long, anxious days Mary and Joseph looked for him in vain. Imagine your child disappearing for three days. The talk among the neighbors must have been quite lively. Mary and Joseph must have faced no small amount of public embarrassment in the experience. What kind of father loses his ...

3353. Wheels Instead Of Walls

Ezekiel 1:1-28

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... office found out I was a preacher instead of a pediatrician. I understand it. We live in that kind of world. I benefit from it as well as sometimes become the victim of it. It's nice to occasionally be given partiality. Our world invented the wall long before it in vented the wheel. Imagine believing that God plays favorites, too. Israel did. She believed that God was the God of Jews who lived in Jerusalem, worshiped at the temple in Jerusalem and visited all the holy places. God was tied to the land, the ...

3354. It's Official

Mark 1:40-45

Children's Sermon

... , Jesus knew all about things that were official. Jesus was sure that other people also knew about things that were official. One day Jesus healed a man who had been sick for a long time. It was really a good thing for him to do, and the man was really happy that Jesus had taken care of him. Everyone knew that the man had been sick for a long time and, because of his sickness, he was not able to work or live with his family, for fear that they would also get the same sickness. Once in a great while, someone ...

3355. Where the Power Is

Mark 5:21-43

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... give that kind of power, but I know someone who did know whenever he gave away some of his power to another person. That's right. Jesus was the person who was kind of like my toaster. I remember a story about a woman who had been sick for a long time and was getting weaker and weaker. One day, when she heard that Jesus was coming near to where she lived, she made herself walk to where there was already a crowd. Then when she saw Jesus, she said a quick prayer and touched his clothes. Just like that, Jesus ...

3356. You Can't Hold it Back

Mark 7:36

Children's Sermon

... that today. One day, Jesus healed a man who had never been able to hear or speak before. The people had known this man for a long time, and they were used to him, but they felt kind of sorry for him. Here he was unable to work or talk to the people ... s right, it will go all over as soon as you take your thumb or finger away. That's what happened to the people around Jesus. As long as he was there, it was all right, but as soon as Jesus left, the people went everywhere. They ran as fast as their legs would ...

3357. "Your Attention, Please!"

Mark 9:7

Children's Sermon

... that we don't see but only hear is introducing me to you. Something like that, only a lot better, happened to three of Jesus' disciples a long time ago. They were on top of a mountain with Jesus when all of a sudden a brilliant cloud passed over the top of them, and a ... the Father introduced Jesus with a voice that came through the cloud, and the disciples never forgot what they heard for as long as they lived. The next time you hear someone introduced over a microphone as being someone special. I want you to ...

3358. Room for Differences

Mark 9:39

Children's Sermon

... not. Everyone has a little bit different idea of what Jesus looked like and what he did, That is why we have so many different churches. But Jesus said that the important thing is that everyone follow him, and that they do not speak bad about him. As long as people are doing good because they believe in Jesus, then Jesus said that they should not be stopped. Maybe you wish that everyone thought the way that you think about Jesus. Maybe I wish that everyone would think my way, but Jesus said that we should ...

3359. Share It or Lose It

John 12:25

Children's Sermon

... he can't stand it when it is all eaten. That's the way he feels. Of course, sometimes he is sorry. Sometimes he waits too long and then you know what happens. (Show them the melted ice cream.) He loved his ice cream too much. We can love some things too ... and give them to others, then they will spoil and get rotten, just like the food will spoil and become rotten. Jesus told people a long time ago that the way we use our lives is really important to God and to us. People who are afraid to live will lose ...

3360. The Nearest Hand

Luke 10:25-37

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... our Christian faith that God reveals himself to us in three ways: as Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier. To sanctify means to "make holy" - to lead us to become instruments of God, through whom he does his work, to be his willing hands. Antonio Stradivari lived a long time ago. (1644-1737) Even now people both inside and outside the music world are familiar with the name and the. fame (and the enormous cost!) of Stradivari’s violins. He is reported to have said, When any master holds twixt chin and hand a ...

3361. The Master Has Come - To Proclaim God’s Kingdom

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

... be ambassadors of the Kingdom. But it is easy for us to let our citizenship in this kingdom get pushed down toward the bottom of a long list of priorities. We lose sight of it. We turn away from it. One writer, who grew up in England, tells how as a boy he ... we do not really want it. We say we believe in it, but we vote against it. We say we are for it, but only as long as it does not interfere with some special interest close to our hearts, or our pocketbooks. We say we want it, but we mostly reject it. ...

3362. The Master Has Come - And Is Moved With Compassion

Matthew 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45

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... not worth a plug nickle. It was pity that caused one man praying in the temple to say, self-righteously, "I am thankful I’m not like that man over there." No, we do not need any more pity. We have had enough of that. What the world longs for is compassion. George Buttrick, in The Interpreter’s Bible, wrote that the word we translate as "compassion" is a much stronger word, meaning "the pain of love." That’s it. Compassion is the pain of love. The Master has come - and is moved with compassion. After ...

3363. The Master Has Come - To Build His Church

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

... that the architect had left out one thing. There was no place to mail a letter. A post office is for letters. Not long ago I rode by a church which had something on its bulletin board out front which greatly bothered me. There was no sermon ... . Truly, Jesus is the world’s only hope. If you do not believe that, then you are living in a dream world, a world which will not long endure. That is why the church has a mission. That is the mission. That is why it is vital that we make some choices about who will ...

3364. The Miracle Comes at the Breaking

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Various Authors

... in the pain of his compassion and in the untiring way he gave of himself to their needs; and broken at last on Calvary, in the ultimate sacrifice. I am intrigued by the way the breaking of the bread has for so long caught up believers. In the Roman Catholic Church, through the long centuries when the mass was celebrated in Latin, there was that sacred moment when the priest would lift the Host and speak the momentous words of our Lord: in the Latin, Hoc est corpus meus - "This is my Body ..." Generations of ...

3365. God Loves Us All

Acts 10:34

Children's Sermon

... after Jesus came to earth. Jesus taught his disciples that there was just one God, and that was his Father in heaven. There were not a lot of gods, but only one God and all the different people simply had different ways of knowing God. It took a long time to learn what Jesus taught. The Bible tells us about the time that Peter finally understood what Jesus meant when he said there is only one God. It happened after Jesus had died, was alive again, and returned to heaven. Peter learned one day that God doesn ...

3366. Learn To Be Patient

1 Timothy 1:16

Children's Sermon

... are like problems that we have in living. We don't like big problems because when we do not have easy answers, we become nervous and unhappy. A hard puzzle teaches us patience because we have to work at it for a long time. Some of us are very hard "puzzles" for God. He works with us for as long as we live and maybe even longer. God is very patient with us. He will work with us every day to help us find the answers to the big problems in our lives. We know that he does this because we know ...

3367. Shaped by the Future

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... is difficult if we do not know when the event will occur. If we did not know when Christmas would come, then it would be difficult to shape our lives around that expectation. If we did not know when our daughter would be returning home from a long journey, then it would be hard to prepare for her homecoming. This was precisely the problem of the early church. First-century Christians believed that the Christ who had come before would come again, but they did not know when. They lived in tension between the ...

3368. Repentance

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

... much your gentle letter about the Central Shelter. For me, it was the location for an occasion of grace which I wish to share with you. In December 1981 I became a Catholic. Prior to that, I had been a theistic liberal. But my progress to this point is too long to tell. In my general confession, which I had to make prior to my entrance into the church, I left out one serious sin involving a relationship I was in at the time. Although I had tried very hard to justify this relationship, I wasn't ready to let ...

3369. Love Transcending Law and Custom

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

... that it is unusual when the loss of innocent life causes people to stop and actually wonder whether the long, coarse weave of vendettas and grievances might be altered. People in Belfast, Dublin, and London started trying to answer ... soon fade into just another line in this list of troubles. However, Mr. Wilson was not interested in trying to fit his daughter into the long list of political atrocities. "Marie's last words were about life," he said, slowly lilting her name, "MAH-re," in Irish "It would be ...

3370. The Called Ones

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... woman came to him after hearing his sermon on today's text. She had decided to leave medical school and go to work among migrant workers in the Rio Grande Valley. Dr. Craddock did not manipulate her unexpected response. Instead, they talked for a long time about the meaning of her decision. Her parents were, understandably, furious with the new direction her life had taken. Like those fishermen, however, she heard the call and she stayed with it. And there have been others. People in the western tradition ...

3371. The Poor in Spirit

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

... times, was still living at Gethsemane. Like the other monks who had chosen to live there, Thomas Merton had long since taken the Cistercian vows of celibacy, poverty, silence, and stability. He had given himself to a life of ... proud of it. On the last day, he brought the impression with my name penciled in and said, "I'm going to keep this on my shelf for as long as I practice dentistry." Until I accepted the poverty of my dental condition, I was not really ready to get my teeth fixed. I had to accept the ...

3372. Salt and Light

Matthew 5:13-16

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... important than people. Be progressive because progress is nothing but good. And now, believe it or not, we have Jesus' words adding one more description and definition to our list of what and who we ought to be. His words only add to the long list of expectations already carefully recorded in our memory banks. These expectations come from our childhood, our youth, our culture, and now Jesus. "My followers," said Jesus, "are to be like salt and light." Now that should be clear enough. Everyone knows what the ...

3373. The Nativity of Our Lord

Isaiah 9:1-7, Psalm 96:1-13, Titus 2:1-15, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Sermon Aid

... was called in those days, and in our first parish, my wife, Doris, was cutting stencils for that service and the services of Holy Week. She went into labor for the birth of our first child, but finished the task before I took her to the hospital. It was a long and arduous delivery, which finally occurred at 2:20 a.m. on Palm Sunday morning. I didn't get to see her and the baby for a couple of more hours, and then I drove the forty miles from Philadelphia to our home in Chester County. There was barely time ...

3374. Christmas 1

Psalm 111:1-10, Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Galatians 3:26--4:7, Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23

Sermon Aid

... Live the King of the Jews." 1. The star was real; "The Gleam of a Star Was There" a poem by an unknown poet: What of the night, was the moon adrift, Was the galaxy unveiled or fair? Only this man knew of that sky long ago, The gleam of a star was there. And it did its work, leading the Magi to Jerusalem - and Herod - and then to Bethlehem, where the baby Jesus was located. 2. Herod, the insecure king, decides that Jesus must die. That was when Jesus was actually condemned to death, although ...

3375. Epiphany 5

Psalm 112:1-10, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Isaiah 58:1-14, Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon Aid

... sentence speaks to the sinner's response to the word Jesus spoke as supreme teacher: "Help us to believe with joy what the Scriptures proclaim...." It is a prayer that places us on the "mountain" where Jesus teaches us as he taught the people long ago. The Psalm for the Day Psalm 112 - This psalm was obviously selected because it announces the "light" theme of Epiphany, "Light shines in the darkness for the upright." Actually, it is a psalm that has had a variety of interpretations - as a glorification of ...

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