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Sermon

Rolf E. Aaseng

... gratitude in your hearts sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs to God" (Colossians 3:16). Jesus promised to return. Again and again he told his disciples to watch so they would be ready. "Beware, keep alert; for you do not know when the time will come" (Mark 13:33). He wants us to be ready. He has given us a task to carry out and has provided adequate resources through his Word, his Spirit, and the fellowship of his followers. The message of the Second Coming is primarily one of encouragement to Christians ...

3402. The Shouting of the Crowd

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... in the stoc_esermonsk exchange, and even at home. The sound of people shouting is not unusual to any of us. Have you ever thought of the sound of people shouting as one of those sounds of the passion? Have you ever associated shouting with the events marking the last week of Jesus' earthly life? When we use our ears instead of our eyes, we can hear some very distinctive sounds that resonated during those familiar days, sounds that are still echoing. So far we have heard some subdued sounds like weeping and ...

3403. The Clop, Clop, Clop of a Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... to the company and her personality conflict with the rest of the staff. He praised her ability to do her work well, but pointed out how that had changed over the past year. Then he listened to her. He said that within two weeks there was a marked difference in her attitude, her work, and her relationship within the office. "You could have fired her, but you sought to reconcile her, to discover the source of her difficulties, to make her honest with herself," I remarked. "Isn't that what a follower of Christ ...

3404. The Outsider

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... cured, offer the sacrifice that Moses ordered." But the man went away and began to spread the news everywhere. Indeed, he talked so much that Jesus could not go into a town publicly. Instead, he stayed out in lonely places, and people came to him from everywhere. (Mark 1:40-45, TEV) "He touched me." That's what the leper, somewhere in Galilee, said one day, almost 2,000 years ago. That was an unpredictable thing. One day this man noticed some blotches on his skin. Then some sores. Then the sores got worse ...

3405. It Dawned on Me

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... that we would deny him. "Not me," said Peter. "Even if all the rest deny you, I never will," the big fisherman said evenly. "Before the cock crows," Jesus replied, "you will deny me three times." "Never," said Peter defiantly, "Never." We had moved from John Mark's house through the Kidron Valley and arrived at the Garden of Gethsemane, exhausted by the night's activities, with apprehension of what was to come. Jesus took Peter, James and John with him further into the Garden to pray. "I had never seen him ...

3406. 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 Universe ...

3407. Tears on Easter?

John 20:10-18

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... , for every child entering first grade is given a Social Security card with a number and this continues throughout the child's life. With Christ we are more than a number; we are a person. You can say, "God knows me. He even calls me by my first name." In Mark's account of the Easter story, the angel told the women at the empty tomb, "Go, tell his disciples and Peter ..." What a joy it is to know that you are known intimately and personally by the risen Lord. What a joy! What an honor! The joy of Easter is ...

3408. Loving

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Larry Powell

... self-inflicted insolence. Neither have regard for the other person and, instead of hastening understanding, proceed to stifle love's possibilities. Love knows how to wait. Where would we be had not some good teacher patiently presided over the first illegible markings of our stubby, little, undisciplined hands and notoriously short attention spans, while teaching us to write out the letters of our first awkward words? Oh, I suppose it is possible to teach another to write on the strength of sheer teaching ...

3409. A Rainbow Church

1 Corinthians 12:12

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

Exegetical Aim: To demonstrate how the Spirit makes us one body in Christ. Key verse: 12 Props: A poster board with an outline of a rainbow. Prepare beforehand 7 areas for top to bottom: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo dark blue, and violet. Mark each area in the appropriate color, so that the children will be able to know where to fill in their particular color. Plenty of crayons in those seven colors for the children to color the outline. Lesson: How many of you like it when it rains? (response ...

3410. Peace as Shalom

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... eastward, where we could see our first view of Jerusalem. The tour guide invited me to offer prayer. It is only from the vantage point of a year later, that I can now place a little round-headed pin on the map of my life-journey, to mark that spot as a particularly significant point in life. There, with a group of Phoenix civic and religious leaders, I was granted the rare privilege and emotionally moving opportunity to lead Christians and Jews in prayer to a common God. The words of Psalm 122 came to ...

3411. The Gift of Peace

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... , consider some of the words of Psalm 37 with which our service opened: Vs. 1 "Fret not yourself because of the wicked, be not envious of wrongdoers."Vs. 3 "Trust in the Lord, and do good so you will dwell in the land and enjoy security."Vs. 37 "Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright, there is posterity for the man of peace." If we are going to receive Christ's peace, then we are necessarily going to have to stop worrying, start trusting, start doing good, and make note of the people who make peace ...

3412. Proclaim Peace

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... of one of the Christian shrines commemorating the Stations of the Cross, archeologists have laid bare paving stones, roughly four feet square, which may be the actual street on which Jesus walked. On some of those stones along the roadway are chiseled game boards with the markings of a basilica. The name referred not to a form of church building known as the basilica, but rather to its root word from the Greek which means "king." The idea of the game was that, at the end of a full week of playing with ...

3413. "Crown Him Lord of all!"

Sermon

William Luoma

... at his courage. He didn't have to do it. He could have called down twelve legions of angels and dazzled his enemies with his power, but he didn't. (Matthew 26:53) He fulfilled his mission. He became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, there is an incident in which Tom and Becky Thatcher are both in the school room under the stern schoolmaster, Mr. Dobbins. While the teacher was out of the room, Becky accidentally tore a page in one of his personal books ...

3414. A Day of a Thousand Years

2 Peter 3:8

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpnter

Exegetical Aim: To demonstrate that time is not a factor to God or His plan. Props: A watch with a second hand and minute marks. Lesson: Today I want us to learn how to count time. I have a watch here, and it has some numbers. Each number is an hour. One hour is worth sixty minutes, this is represented by the little lines in between the numbers. Each minute is worth sixty seconds, which ...

3415. Sealed by God

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... in our hearts as a guarantee." Repeat that with me. "God has put His seal upon us, and given us His Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee." That means that God has taken responsibility for your life if you let Him. By His Holy Spirit in our hearts, he marks us with His seal. If a seal is on a warranty hold up the warranty, can the company break its promise? (Response) No. How much more, then, will God keep His promise after He has sealed it in our hearts? God has already given His Son, Jesus Christ, to fix ...

3416. Holy Mathematics

John 3:1-21

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: The meaning of the church’s doctrine of the Trinity. Props: Flip cards with math problems and a marker to mark the answers. Two of the flip cards should have the following: 1+1+1= and Father+Son+HolySpirit= Lesson: Good Morning! (response) We are going to do a little math this morning. I am going to show you a math problem and you tell me the answer. Are you ready? ...

3417. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Bulletin Aid

Robert G. McCreight

... light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. Narrator: Time began as God brought light into a vast sea of darkness. In measured increments of time God marked the day and the night by an alteration of light and darkness. The coming of light into the darkness was the original manifestation of the activity of God, and represents for all time thereafter the divine operation of God. The alternation of light and ...

3418. The Innkeeper Speaks

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... it was to be preserved as a memorial to him. He - Nicodemus was his name - used to come here every year at this time, until he died a few years ago. He had a low stone wall built around the front of the cave ... he said he wanted to mark the spot, for many would want to see it. He was right. There are more, many more, each year. Nicodemus argued that Jesus of Nazareth really was God's Messiah, but not the kingly, conquering Messiah we all expected. Rather he was the suffering Messiah spoken of by Isaiah ...

3419. The Entrance Into Jerusalem

Mark 11:1-11

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... him around and hear what he has to say? RIBLAH: Not me! I'm not going to get my name on some blacklist. I have a family to support. This Jesus guy's in way over his head. They'll have him up on Golgotha before the week's out, mark my words. HAMATH: Well, I think I'm going to try to talk to him, if I can. I've been hearing about the coming of the Messiah all my life. If he really is the Messiah, he could change the whole world. He could change my life. RIBLAH: How ...

3420. Six Nails of the Cross I: The Nail of Pride

Mark 12:35-40

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... love is unaware of his soul's trouble. The book of Proverbs declares to us that "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. It is better to be a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud." This day marks the beginning of Lent, the time when we concentrate upon our shortcomings, and the grace of God showed to us through the sacrificial death of the Christ. The key to Lent is penitence, a change of heart that allows God to work beneath the skin surface and rid ...

3421. Six Nails of the Cross III: The Nail of Envy

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

When the grand hall was being built in Florence, the committee in charge of decorations asked the most important artist in all of Italy, Leonardo da Vinci, to submit some drawings. There seemed to be little question that such an important hall should bear the mark of anyone but da Vinci, but other artists also were asked to submit drawings. One of the committee members had heard of a new and very young artist by the name of Michelangelo, and asked him to enter the competition. The sketches by Leonardo were ...

3422. Six Nails of the Cross VI: The Nail of Cruelty

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... us here tonight is of the type who would actually crucify a person in the flesh. Few of us would take to the dagger or pistol to bring revenge upon the object of our hatred. But there were others besides the soldiers around the cross that day. Mark tells of those who mocked him, saluting with derision: "Hail, King of the Jews." And there were those who "passed by deriding him, wagging their heads saying, 'Aha! You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself, and come down from the ...

3423. What Reasons to Betray the Savior?

Matthew 26:17-30

Drama

Joe Barone

... . God's kingdom is a place of life, not death, but don't fool yourselves about how tame the battle for God's kingdom is. It's like the Exodus, friends. Finally, the Angel of Death killed the firstborn of every person, every creature, whose post had not been marked with the blood of an unblemished lamb. Because the Pharaoh turned away from God, all Egypt tasted death that dreadful night. I know now that the death of Jesus is God's most perfect passover, that he died for all, that he was not just the lamb but ...

3424. Compelled to Carry

Matthew 27:11-26

Drama

Joe Barone

... . Help him carry his cross. Help him carry his cross, and then just wait and see what happens. We know very little about Simon of Cyrene, but evidently those in the early church knew him and two of his children, perhaps as faithful Christians. In his telling of the story, Mark says, "And they compelled a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to carry his cross."

3425. Encounter with a Stranger

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Robert Allen

... for the meal. There was something in the way he gave thanks. There was something in the way he took the bread and broke it. There was something about his gestures that were recognizable. Perhaps, the folds of his robe fell back and they saw the livid red marks of the nails in his hands. But, whatever it was, in that instant they knew him. In that moment they recognized him. In that fraction of a second they knew that their encounter with a stranger had been an encounter with the risen Lord. And he was gone ...

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