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3376. Epiphany 2

John 1:29-34

Sermon Aid

... them. Perhaps they would talk about how their thinking about the call changed, when they were outside of the kingdom and church. Give the congregation an opportunity to clarify their understanding to the call. For the assurance of pardon, offer the people the opportunity to reaffirm their call, to begin again with their new insights and understanding. Message with the Children of All Ages Suggestion: Perhaps you will want to focus on the fact that Andrew told Peter about Jesus. How do people tell us about ...

3377. Passion Sunday

Matthew 26:14–27:66

Bulletin Aid

... . We would like to forget, but you will not let us. You seek to challenge our thinking, and yet we long to find some neat phrase or pattern and escape being thoughtful Christians. Awake us to the exciting adventure of being guided by you in our understanding. There is much more to learn of you, your plan for us and our times. We have hardly begun. Help us to break out of uncreative patterns of preconception and prejudice. Release us from the unexamined life which no longer seeks to learn and love. Motivated ...

3378. Palm Sunday

Matthew 21:1-11

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... , but I will say this: anything that happened to him, he had coming. I think he was a fake; he got himself into that spot. He tried to buck the system without the guts to carry it off. He sure led me down the primrose path. Question: So, as I understand it, you admit you told the officials where he was and accepted money for that, but you did that in the belief that he had the power to avoid death, that he never would let that happen to him, and that your intent was only to get the revolution started ...

3379. Proper 8

Matthew 10:1-42

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... Let us live with courage and with a deep concern for people. Pastor: Let us give thanks and embrace our lives. Ministers: Let's do! Amen! Let it be.! Message with the Children of All Ages Try this: This is a difficult saying of Jesus. The children may not understand it, even as many adults may not. Select a story from your life, or the life of a child, which reveals the truth that "those who lose their lives for Christ's sake and the gospels will find their lives." (Mattew 10:39) Apply the truth that those ...

3380. All Saints' Day

Matthew 5:1-12

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... ? Charge to the Congregation Try this: The natives of Nigeria say, "To be happy is to be sweet inside." When our lives go sour on the outside, they still can remain sweet on the inside; because in Christ Jesus, we have received our peace, that peace that passes all understanding, the peace with which the world cannot give and which the world cannot take away. Planning for Your Congregation I. Other Scriptures Psalm 34:1-10 Revelation 7:9-17 Isaiah 26:1-4, 8-9, 12-13, 19-21 1 John 3:1-3 Revelation 21:9-11 ...

3381. The Precepts of the Lord

Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:7-14

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... and passion. Ignorance about God’s law needs no comment. I will comment on passion because I see that a few heads are beginning to nod. Passion refers to the overriding of morality by emotion. Somehow, passion is supposed to make a violation of God’s law a little more understandable. For example, it is to the advantage of someone on trial for the defense counsel to convince the jury that while the crime was indeed committed, it was a crime of passion, and not premeditated. That is supposed to make it ...

3382. THE FINAL TRIUMPH

Drama

... .) CAIAPHAS: What is the truth? Do you know? (Annas turns) ANNAS: No, but it may have been truth himself that we crucified and buried Friday, but truth, as usual, rose again. (He continues down the aisle.) CAIAPHAS: Wait! What are you talking about? I don’t understand! ANNAS: Nor do I, Caiaphas. (Annas turns to face Caiaphas who is standing in front of the chair, center.) But I’m afraid those women were right. The Nazarene said it himself as he hung on that cross we nailed him to Friday. "It is finished ...

3383. "The Return"

Drama

... years she has been quite an insufferable busybody. Always sticking her nose in my affairs, giving me her unasked-for advice, trying to get me to adopt these totally unrealistic measures - a good-for-nothing, meddling busybody, that’s all she ever was. Woman I tried to understand; I wanted to help. Liberal Lady If you ever did have an association with her, which I still can’t believe, it is about time it ended. She was never faithful to you; why should you be so foolish as to be faithful to her, nothing ...

3384. Serpent-Wise

John 8:48-59

Drama

... is all that can touch me now. I have been completely purified from Death. Group: [They get closer to the Person and raise rocks over their heads, in the position of stoning] Person: Listen to me! If you can hear me and understand me, you, too, can live. You will never die! Freedom can be yours. Don’t you understand; the only glory I seek is in being me; that’s all that makes sense! Group: [Very close to the Person] Person: I am alive. I must be allowed to live! I am a person. I am me! [The Person ducks ...

3385. The Coming of the Lord

Luke 21:5-38

Drama

... people will be allowed to live - in peace! 1: Say, are you proud and arrogant? 3: Not particularly! 1: No? Well, your philosophy sounds like you’re trying desperately to keep from getting crushed. 3: But, you don’t understand, that’s not the way it’s going to work at all! 2: I always thought ... 1: I don’t understand! I’ll have you know that I happen to be the one who got this information in the first place! 2: That’s right, you know. 3: Oh, really. And where, if I may ask, did you get this ...

3386. TWO CAN BECOME ONE

Drama

... . 1: But when we can come together, 2: By whatever forces compel us, 1: When we can add our wisdom, each to each, 2: Filling the other’s empty spaces, 1: Our words may become wisdom many can hear, [Flowing motion ceases for the next two lines] 2: And understand, 1: And use. 2: Apart, we are alone with our limited vision - 1: Joined, we join our limits, 2: Expand our boundaries, 1: And the wisdom of both can become 2: Wiser than the wisdom of one! 3 now separates them again, and they move to the sides of ...

3387. Is Jesus Still in the Healing Business?

Luke 4:38-44, Luke 4:31-37

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Bill Bouknight

... James 2:19 we are told that the demons believe in God and "shudder" because of him. Why did Jesus hush up the demon that recognized him as the Christ? Because Jesus did not want that kind of publicity. Furthermore, at that point the people were not ready to understand what his mission as Messiah really was. Verses 38 and 39 tell us how Jesus healed Simon Peter’s mother in law of some kind of illness. Luke, with the keen eye of a physician, is the only gospel writer to note that she had a high fever. Some ...

3388. The Touch of the Master's Hand

Luke 5:12-16

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Bill Bouknight

... cheap to the thoughtless crowd, much like the old violin. A mess of pottage, a glass of wine, a game—and he travels on. He is going once, and going twice, he’s going and almost gone. But the Master comes, and the foolish crowd never can quite understand…the worth of a soul and the change that’s wrought by the touch of the Master’s hand." Read any of the four gospels and you can’t help but notice how frequently Jesus touched people physically. I wonder what his hands looked like. As a former ...

3389. The Yestermorrow Eclipse

John 10:1-21

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... that’s left to do is to sit back and snicker a little bit at the Medes, Lydians, Greeks, and all the other peoples who sensed fear in midday. We know what’s going on, and no eclipse is going to frighten us. It’s helpful to have a scientific understanding of an eclipse. It saves us needless fear and allows us to walk confidently through any midday shadow, secure in the fact that we know what it is and that it’s not going to hurt us. But at the very moment when we focus our attention on the sky ...

3390. Oaks in the Shadows

Job 12:1--14:22

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... comfortable for Christ not to bother mixing with us. There would have been much less risk and he could still have enjoyed the status of a kingly son. Why bother with the likes of us? A father cared and a son reflected his father’s caring. Now I begin to understand the second generation in this sequence. Dilly’s care for me was a reflection of a Son he had come to know, and through his reflection and caring, I had come to know that Son, too. It was a quiet caring in which the Son’s name was never ...

3391. "I appeal to Caesar!"

Acts 24:1-27, Acts 25:1-12

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CSS

... procurator in A.D. 60. Although he died after holding this office for only two years, he established during that brief period a reputation as a strict but fair and honest governor. He sought no bribes and offered no favors, but made an effort to understand the unruly Jews, who were notoriously hard to govern, and he almost won their confidence. Festus found a privileged prisoner holding court in the Praetorium, but with no formal charge on file against him. A few days after his arrival, Festus went up to ...

3392. Which Jesus? This Jesus!

Acts 17:1-9

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... What would it do for the ulcer-causing, nerve-frazzling exhaustion of our time if we could learn to "rest" in "this Jesus"? "This Jesus" Is All the Good Things You Know Personally "This Jesus" is all the good you can know about: peace, hope, love, pardon, understanding, faith, and kindness. I read of a little, old, grey-haired man who stood over the bedside of his dying wife. She seemed to be trying to tell him something, so he tenderly bent beside her bed, bending near to hear her response to his question ...

3393. The Sin of Judging

Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... this sin from becoming part and parcel of their lives. First, we should not judge because things are not always as they appear. Not only are we so often lacking in data and background information for what we see in others; we actually do not always understand what we see them doing. A pastor, in a teetotaling denomination in a small Illinois town, was seen leaving a tavern at 12:45 a.m. "He was with another man, and both were drunk," swore the informant. When confronted with the accusation, the minister ...

3394. Do you know exactly how I feel?

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

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Frank Luchsinger

... : Do you know I'm alone, Jesus? Do you know exactly how I feel? Jesus taught that God cares for the lilies of the field and the birds of the air and that the hairs on our head are numbered in God's eyes. But how can we know God understands? That Christ understands? Because he became like us in every respect.

3395. Count Me In!

Isaiah 56:1-8

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... , what are we going to do with our text, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples"? In each of the four Gospels, Jesus is reported to have repeated this text when he cleansed the temple. It must have been an important point in his understanding of true religion. You’re Out! "You’re out!" is a phrase we often hear during the baseball season when a player strikes out or the ball gets to a base before the player. Does God ever say to some people, "You’re out" - out of my Kingdom, out ...

3396. Forgive To Be Forgiven

Genesis 50:15-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... became pregnant. When the church heard about it, the first reaction was to remove her from office. A motion to do that was made at the monthly Board meeting, but after discussion, it was tabled. Then the Spirit led the church to forgive and to be understanding. As a result, the couple decided to marry and the church continued to give them moral support. After a few years, the father of the child was elected the lay leader of the church. Forgiveness from compassion saved a family for God! Why should we show ...

3397. Free and Faithful

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... . Freedom can be a fearful burden, and so there will always be people looking to follow some Grand Inquisitor. As Paul writes to Galatia, though, we have been called to freedom, and in freedom we must stand fast. If we understand this, then we can begin to understand the position our church takes on some controversial social issues. Our commitment to liberty is the reason, for example, why many clergy of mainline denominations favor freedom of choice in the matter of abortion. We are not indifferent to the ...

3398. Claim Your Ministry

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... all are grounded in the ministry of Christ who took the form of a servant. Paul wrote to Philippi: "Have this mind among yourselves which you have in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, emptied himself, and took the form of a servant." To understand this is to have a ministry no matter how small one’s apparent gifts may be. To misunderstand this is to have no ministry. It matters not how great one’s gifts are if they are not offered as Christ offered himself. We have said a word about ...

3399. The Grace of Disillusionment

Matthew 26:69-75

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Robert Bachelder

... in declaring: "I thank thee, God, that I am not like other men" - it would have been this same Jesus whom the Gospels say was without sin. But he said such a prayer was the word of a soul cut off from God, the mind of one who does not understand that he depends for life upon God. Can we not see how Isaac Watts could consider Jesus’ life and write: "I survey the wondrous cross and pour contempt on all my pride." This morning we come to our Lord’s house as publicans, with a sense of our unworthiness ...

3400. Loving Unconditionally

John 13:31-38

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Robert Bachelder

... only of the Lord. Buddhists, on the other hand, believe that religion is people reaching toward God and working their own way up the ladder of salvation, seeking Nirvana. These are not mere academic differences! Our understanding of God shapes our perception of who we are. How we understand human nature has implications for our styles of morality and politics. Christians are called to be tolerant of other religions and of Christians who hold to different doctrines - not because they are all the same anyway ...

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