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3426. The S & L That Didn't Fail!

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... failing S & L has done: Our Sovereign Lord Becomes A Servant God the Father introduces God the Son as his "servant." It is almost incomprehensible that the Sovereign Lord, Creator of heaven and earth, would condescend to take up his abode with us. He will leave the high habitation of heaven to descend to the low living of earth. In heaven he is seated in honor, glory, majesty, power and might; adored and worshiped by angels and archangels. On earth, which is but his footstool, he will be a homeless wanderer ...

3427. A Guarantee From Jesus

2 Corinthians 1:22

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... St. Paul asked himself, and he got an answer. The answer is that Jesus also gave us a guarantee. Did you hear what the guarantee is when I read the lesson this morning? (Let them answer.) The guarantee is the Holy Spirit that lives in our hearts. Jesus would not leave us with just a promise. He put his own spirit in our hearts so that we would know that the promise is true. A promise is something that we have to wait for to have it happen but the warm feeling that we have when we hear the name of ...

3428. For Thine Is The Kingdom, And The Power, And The Glory For E

Matthew 6:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... better than their best friends do. That is the reason we feel so great when we finish talking to God. We say, "Thine is the kingdom, power and glory." That is especially why we say, "Amen," because we mean that as far as we are concerned we are willing to leave it all up to God to see that everything turns out okay. Can you imagine what it might be like to stand in front of God someday and wave a banner and tell Him how much you love Him and what a great job He did for you? Well, that ...

3429. Fresh Starts

Titus 3:5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... is a very special gift because my daughter gave it to me. This is a gift of love. This is the way that God cares for us. This is the way he makes us a part of his world. While we live on earth, he loves us, and after we leave the earth, he loves us, and he gives us the gift of life with love. We don't earn our life with him. He doesn't pay us off with life, but rather he gives it to us with love. It is a free gift just like this gift of ...

3430. The Clock and the Church

Romans 12:1-8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... old one preferably that doesn't work and that you can take apart piece by piece [Hands and face]. God bless you, and welcome to God's House of great joy. It is wonderful to be with you this morning, because when you are not here it is just like leaving home without one of my hands or arms or without an ear or nose. Did you know that you were as important to God as an ear or an eye or a leg is important to you? You are. Let me show you something about what God wants me to ...

3431. What Hate Does

1 John 3:15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... gun if you hated her? [After she pretends to shoot, have her friend lie down and play dead.] I see. Now, Mike, I am going to give you the knife and you can choose a friend. Suppose you hate your friend and you had a knife, what would you do? [Leave Mike's friend lying on the floor. Do the same with the rope and the bottle of poison.] Hate causes a lot of things to happen and they are all bad. As a matter of fact, hate has caused a lot of murder. God says it is hate that murders ...

3432. Jesus and Transfers

Colossians 1:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Transfers (pictures that are bought at stores and when moistened leave an image on the skin of a child). Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever been on a bus ride? I mean a city bus. If you have ever ridden in a bus in the city and you had to change busses, you will remember getting ...

3433. Welcome!

Romans 15:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... I hope that you will always remember how welcome you are in Christ's Church. Jesus came to earth to make sure that everyone understood the promise of God was true and that everyone who believed was welcomed into God's world. Jesus did not want to leave anyone out of the promise that God made, and he showed people how much God loved them by working with them and teaching them about the great promises of God. When you knew Jesus you also knew that you were welcome with others who called themselves Christians ...

3434. Preaching The Miracles

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... to be dressed in their best for their experience with God. But Peter may have had something else in mind. He was ashamed to face Jesus because of his triple denial. Instinctively we want to hide, to cover up. Adam and Eve covered up with fig leaves because they sinned. Peter probably did not want to appear naked or exposed. In a hymn we sing, "Naked, come to thee for dress." Christ covers our sins with the clothes of his righteousness. 4. Reality of the Resurrection. It may be that your congregation needs ...

3435. Star Miracle

Matthew 2:1-12, Isaiah 60:1-22, Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... of the sky-watchers was their willing obedience in following the nativity star, the direction of Micah and God's guidance in a dream. Not all obedience is similarly cheerful. One time a teenager and his dad were arguing at the dinner table. The son stood up to leave. The father told him to sit down. The son remained standing. "Sit down!" screamed his dad. "I'll sit down," the son answered calmly, "but on the inside I'm still standing up!" 7.) A New Star. During October, 1989, a new star was added to the ...

3436. Baptism of the Lord

Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 61:1-11, Luke 3:21-38, Acts 8:9-25

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... out the symbolism before the bills were paid. I could find only one mistake. In the baptismal font cover, there were symbols of the Father, Son and Spirit. However, the dove for the Spirit was ascending rather than descending. The truth is that the Spirit can leave us as well as come to us. Unbaptized Babies. It is reported that before Haiti's ousted president and his wife left for France, they arranged for a voodoo blood sacrifice in the palace. The voodoo priest paid $400 to a hospital nursery for babies ...

3437. Fish Miracle

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13, Luke 5:1-11

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... of God to serve. In Paul's, his call came with the miracle on the Damascus road: the voice of Christ, the blinding sun, Paul's being struck blind. With Peter, there was the miraculous catch of fish which amazed Peter to the point of confessing his sin and leaving all to follow Jesus. Psalm of the Day (Psalm 138) The psalm reminds us that "great is the glory of the Lord (v. 5)." It harmonizes with the glory of God seen by Isaiah, with the resurrected Christ, and with the glory of Christ seen by Peter. Prayer ...

3438. Our Own Mountaintop Walk

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... most important, "Tell me about his words." The 11 would recount it all, ending with Jesus' direction to "Go to all peoples." That was exactly what Matthias planned to do! He would do what Jesus had said, even though he had not heard the Lord's voice speak. He would leave the Galilee, he would travel across Judea down to the Sea and he would take a ship to some far place. There he would speak about Jesus the Messiah. He would do what Jesus had asked for he was now one of the 12. Although it is not known with ...

3439. It's A Small World After All

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... . Some folks in this congregation work with them in Christ's name. But for many, many others the prison is poverty - which can be just as binding - or a prison of ignorance, or a prison of fear. Hold in your thought and prayer those who fear to leave their homes at night, or who view any person different from themselves as someone of suspicion. Such fears are prison bars. In this spiritual moment let us remember persons of other religious faiths. So much of the killing these days seems to be in the name of ...

3440. Turning the Corner on the Very End

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

James Weekley

... : "Insufficient Data." Simply, "You gotta believe." I know, that's kindergarten theology; but until we are given a crystal ball, that's all we have to work with. Of course, a few have died temporarily and returned to tell of their brief odyssey. Still, that doesn't leave us much to go on. If we, as Christians, are going to deal adequately with death, we must go with faith. Faith, then, banks on the assumption that the cross not only unlocks. As a hand it points to the light of the future - both to the ...

3441. Friendship Arms or Cold Shoulders

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

James Weekley

... shoveling snow. He gives him a cup of tea. Later he gives a street lady some soup, a coat, and money. He still waits. Later he intercedes to settle a problem over an apple a boy stole from a proprietor. Evening comes. God still has not come. He leaves his cobbler shop and settles down to read the Scriptures. "Why has God not come?" he thought. He opens the Bible to Matthew 25 which reads, "I was hungry and you gave me food." Now he understands. His dream did not deceive him ... the Savior really called upon ...

3442. The Song in Search of a Voice

John 20:19-23

Sermon

James Weekley

... be frustrated, too." Are not our enemies God's neglected children whom we have failed to recognize? His peace seeks out friendships which stick. In our aloneness and occasional thumbs-down rejections, Jesus always hangs around, true to his promise, "I will never leave you." An ancient tribe of Indians had a custom for its young men who reached age seven. To demonstrate their courage, they had to spend to night in the forest alone, They could take only their bow and arrows for protection. As expected, the ...

3443. The Big Hand

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

James Weekley

... his Son. This Sacrament is not a reminder of that Gift. It is the Gift who reminds us that he is real. He is here as a Friend who does not let go. In one of Richard Hook's drawings, he pictures Jesus with his two disciples. They are leaving their boat after a long day of fishing. They are wading ashore. What is stunning, even irregular about the picture is that each has his arms on the shoulders of the other. They are laughing. Can you imagine that? They are laughing with God. "Take, eat ..." His friendship ...

3444. Even God Called Time Out

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

James Weekley

... church; no work, no play, even the stores must be closed." Those were the blue laws of the fifties. Now, the green laws - the monetary law of the greenback - has taken its place. Today, following church service we go out to eat and pay the cashier before leaving. And if mom needs a quart of milk from the Seven-Eleven, we pick that up, too. Many of us are required by our employers to work on Sundays. Changing shifts and out-of-town trips have become common features for today's work force. Even this minister ...

3445. Are Half-Painted Rainbows Enough?

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

James Weekley

"What is God up to now?" he wondered. "Are you serious, Lord? Did I hear you correctly? You say you want me to withdraw my money from the bank, stop my newspaper, pull up stakes, leave the friends I have grown up with, and move to a somewhere land which has no name?" God did not even give Abraham an Exxon road atlas and a U-Haul trailer. All that he had to go with was faith. "Now I want to see those inner potentials flex ...

3446. A Whale Of A Tale

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Erskine White

... 's life and turns it upside down. It's a crisis because faithful people have always found that God's call upsets their prior attitudes and their best-laid plans. The apostle Paul wanted to be a Jewish scholar and leader, but he was called to leave Israel and preach to the Gentiles. St. Francis Xavier wanted to spend his life in a monastery, but he was called to be a missionary in the Indies, never to return to Europe again. Martin Luther King, Jr. wanted to be an unassuming pastor and seminary professor ...

3447. Jesus, The Mad Man

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

Erskine White

... , a Scottish regiment appears on the horizon, marching in their kilts with bagpipes blowing; you'd think they were marching off to a parade instead of a war! Death and destruction are everywhere. The beautiful little village is bombed into rubble and then the armies leave to do the same thing to some other beautiful little village. So, who is mad - the soldiers or the inmates? You watch the harmless play of the patients and then you watch "normal" or "healthy" people kill each other in a brutal war, and it ...

3448. Who Is Your King?

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... I have tried to show you today. Of course, this same Jesus rides into our town and into our lives on this Palm Sunday morning and He is forcing some questions on us, as He did in Israel so long ago. As we cheer Him riding by, with palm leaves in our hands and hosannas on our lips, are the Caesars and Pilates of this world worried? Do they worry about a church whose "kingdom is not of this world," or is the church a comfortable partner with secular authority, fitting its worldly purposes like a hand fits a ...

3449. Is It I, Lord?

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Erskine White

... do in His name. "One of you will betray me." Is it I, Lord; is it I? Mind you, I'm not worried about Jesus tonight. He is strong and true. His will endures forever and His love will never die. Even tonight, Jesus is singing a hymn as He leaves the Upper Room, and tomorrow, He will forgive those who put Him to death. No, I'm more worried about you and me tonight. I'm more concerned that we live with the question the disciples asked so long ago. We have come to the time of shadows, the night ...

3450. Ashamed Of The Gospel

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Erskine White

... a better life because their discouragement has lasted just a little too long ... hear our prayers this morning, O Lord. Eternal God who is strong to save, we pray today that we may always find strength in what the world calls weakness and wisdom in what the world calls folly. Leave us never ashamed to live as citizens of His church. Make all of us glory in our foolish faith, that we may be like Paul ... humble yet unashamed. We ask today for the Spirit of our Living Savior, and in His name we pray. Amen

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