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Acts 17:16-34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... put the statue on a shelf and everybody thought that their house was protected from any kind of evil spirits. This statue is made of marble. Other people liked to think their god was made in the form of a painting and they had a great artist paint them a copy so that everyone would picture god in the same way. A real long time ago, boys and girls, there were people who believed that their god lived in a rock like this or in a tree or in a very fast running river. That’s what people used to think ...

327. Does God Really Know Me?

Matthew 10:1-42

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... everyone else. Maybe you can guess what that is when I show you this pad. Every one of you has a fingerprint that only belongs to you and no one else has one like it. When the service is over I am going to fingerprint you and give you a copy so that you can take it home and put it on your desk. Just think, there are three billion people in the world and God has never made another one exactly like you. There never has been one like you and there never will be another one like you. So ...

328. I Affirm

Acts 27:13-26

Sermon

... that couldn’t be sent through the mail. The professor said not a word of condemnation. He stood silently and looked about, then turned and walked out of the room. On Wednesday or Thursday, the student received a package. When he opened it, he found a copy of one of the great masterpieces of the ages by Leonardo da Vinci - a beautiful picture that combined a message of the importance of life with the beauty of the painter’s art. A card said, "Affectionately," signed by the professor. The young man took ...

329. Facing the Glory Road

Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

Tell me, how would you like to have life served up to you? The newest neophyte among the Madison Avenue ad men will tell you. Every word of copy that they write promises to fulfill what they consider your deepest yearnings. You want it soft, just as soft as Puff facial tissues. You want it comfortable. You want it secure. You want to live in a kind of bovine, cud-chewing complacency, comfort, and contentment. You want to be ...

330. Report of a Secret Meeting

John 3:1-21

Sermon

George Bass

... the sending of food to my family, the phone calls, visits, cards, gifts, flowers, and prayers were overwhelming." Five short paragraphs followed, naming specific people and their thoughtfulness and care; then came three columns of names - over 110 in all! - below the written copy. She concluded, "Although I have tried my best to include everyone who was so kind to me, I’m sure I have inadvertently overlooked a few people. Please forgive me."21 Her name, "Rose Bertola Funke," appeared at the very bottom of ...

331. An Old Plan For New People

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Larry Powell

... . God can use us where we are. Elbert Hubbard wrote thousands of essays, illuminating almost every subject conceivable to the human mind. Perhaps his most famous work, "Message to Garcia," was written in 1889, sold in excess of eighty million copies in twenty languages, and extolled the virtues of yielding oneself to an unseasonable undertaking. Hubbard relates that when war erupted between Spain and the United States, it became necessary to communicate quickly with the leader of the insurgents. Garcia was ...

332. On His Way

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... to tell me which one?" The guard did not know but hatefully allowed him to phone his wife. Following the conversation, Mrs. Niemoeller returned to her room to find that their son had placed a photograph of his dead sister on the desk. Beneath it he had copied a verse from the Book of Job; "Hitherto shalt thou come and no further." If we have turned back in the presence of difficult questions, many of which will never be answered this side of eternity, then we have learned nothing from the Christ who dared ...

333. Whom Do You Sit East Of?

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... the ship back to land - pulled mightily on their oars: pulled and pulled and pulled. (Interesting, isn’t it, how godly these pagan sailors are ...) And where’s Jonah while all this life-or-death effort is going on? Sitting on a deck chair, reading a soggy old copy of Yachting Times. But it doesn’t work! It is to no avail! All is for naught! So the sailors open the Book of Common Prayer to the collect for such an occasion, quickly pray the prayer, and throw Jonah into the sea. The sea then ceases from ...

334. A Christian's Duty in Time of War

Nehemiah 4:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Dr. Pauline Hord, that 95-year-old saint of our church. She has been in the hospital recently because her heart is just wearing down. We must pray for Pauline. She has written a most appropriate book for these days. It is entitled, “Praying for the President.” Copies are on sale today at our front desk near Seabrook Hall. I urge you to get one and use it as a prayer guide. Pray for the President and our armed forces personnel. Pray also for the Iraqi people. What we Americans suffered in the Eighteenth ...

335. Life After Life

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... : "Persons are trying to live the Christian life in the light and teaching of my three years’ mission alone. That was never my purpose. "I came to reveal my Father, to show the God-Spirit working in man. I taught not that man was only to attempt to copy Jesus of Nazareth, but that man was also to be possessed by my Spirit, the Spirit actuating all that I did, that man would be inspired (indwelt) as I was." "Help me, God! It’s hard to cope!" "I know it’s difficult sometimes. But you can cope, for ...

336. The Heart of The Gospel

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

[While the following sermon may be adapted to the usual solo style of the parish parson, it could also be used in the more dramatic form. The copy indicates a role for seven resonant voices, strategically placed at various locations in the church, not visible to the congregation. The lines should be carefully rehearsed so that they are spoken with effective accent, and in a manner that flows with the body of the sermon.] If Jesus Christ had ...

337. Counting the Cost

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... coach the Little Leaguer, the boy would still have to admit, "It’s no use. I can see how it is done but I am not up to doing it." Just so, if our Lord is only an example, he is an impossible example, for we cannot come anywhere near copying him. And if our Lord is merely a teacher, we would soon become drop-outs from the school of discipleship. How can we become real Christians? The true answer lies in one word with which Luke introduces our Lord’s speech on discipleship. "He turned and said to them ...

338. The Fulfilled Promise

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... -giving Spirit, makes felt his transforming power. Here he gives rich new life in God, new insight, new courage, new strength. Here he is known, not "according to the flesh" as only an historical figure to be remembered, a teacher to be followed, a model to be copied. He is known "according to the Spirit" as a living reality, a saving presence to whom a man may entrust himself completely in life and in death. For here he fulfills "to you and to your children" his promise "Lo, I am with you always." "And to ...

339. When Jesus Speaks Your Name

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... at one’s feet. revealing totally new possibilities; new horizons. providing one with a new sense of who he is, and what the meaning of his existence is. An encounter is not to be confused with the process of identification - a gradual copying and assimilation of another’s style of life. Nor is it a mere transference of past experiences on to the present. Rather in such an encounter with the Christ, something novel occurs - something that has never happened before - one is awakened to potentialities ...

340. Anything Better Than the Golden Rule?

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

William G. Carter

... human about them. It has always been a good idea to follow the Golden Rule. Many human problems could be solved if we would “do unto others as we would have them do unto us.” During a recent visit to some family members, I picked up a copy of the local newspaper. It has everything you want in a small town paper: school news, restaurant specials, police reports, and garage sale announcements. On page three, there was a new column; actually it is not a column as much as a transcript. The editors have set ...

341. Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Brett Blair

I am holding in my hands a copy of one of the world’s most revolutionary documents. In it are found these immortal words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. . .” Of course, that document, the Declaration of Independence, is the charter of the American Revolution. Though we have not yet ...

342. Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen! - Sermon Starter

Luke 2:39-56

Illustration

Brett Blair

343. His Teachings

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . Someone has figured that if we put all of the materials in the Gospels that tell us about the life of Jesus together that it would equal about 80 pages. Yet, most of that would represent duplication, for we know that some of the Gospel writers copied from others. If, therefore you eliminate the duplication, you would have only 20 pages that tell us about Jesus life and teachings. Of those 20 pages, 13 of them deal specifically with the last week of his life. And if you separate it still further, you ...

344. A Powerful Prayer

Matt 22:15-22; John 17:20-26

Illustration

Brett Blair

... moment as a confessional and prophetic opportunity. As he prayed there were some senators who got up and walked out. When Paul Harvey (a national known radio news and editorialist) got a hold of the prayer and read it on his program he got more requests for copies of it than any other thing he had ever done. Here's what Rev. Wright the prayed: "Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask Your forgiveness and to seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good ...

345. The Political Controversies Of Jesus

Luke 20:27-47

Sermon

Brett Blair

Someone has figured that if we put all of the materials in the Gospels that tell us about the life of Jesus together that it would equal about 80 pages. Yet, most of that would represent duplication, for we know that some of the Gospel writers copied from others. If, therefore you eliminate the duplication, you would have only 20 pages that tell us about Jesus life and teachings. Of those 20 pages, 13 of them deal specifically with the last week of his life. And if you separate it still further, you will ...

346. Jesus and Andrew

John 1:35-42

Sermon

James W. Moore

... hands with palms together and thin fingers stretched skyward. He called his powerful drawing simply “Hands”, but the entire world almost immediately opened their hearts to this great masterpiece and renamed his tribute of love, “The Praying Hands.” The next time you see a copy of this touching creation, take a second look; let it be a reminder that no one… no one ever makes it alone! Take Simon Peter, for example. He was one of the great leaders of the original disciples of Jesus. He was one of ...

347. Under the Rainbow

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of time so they might read it in preparation for worship. A couple of youngsters noticed something interesting about the page layout of the story in the church's Bibles so they slipped into the sanctuary during the week and glued two pages of the pulpit copy together. Sunday came. The preacher began to read his text. "Noah took himself a wife," he began, "and she was..." He turned the page to continue, "...300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high." The preacher paused for a moment with a quizzical ...

348. Remembering 9/11

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

"This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD--a lasting ordinance." or as the King James has it, "You shall observe it as an ordinance forever." The establishment of the Passover, one of the most important of all Jewish festivals. And they HAVE observed it forever. Every year since, and down to our own day, Jewish families have gathered at the traditional Seder meal. The patriarch of the household asks the children, "What makes this ...

349. A Disaster of Biblical Proportions

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

David E. Leininger

This place is still beautiful. Just a week ago we gathered here to sing and celebrate. We told stories about a baby - a baby whose birth was greeted by angels, a baby whose birth meant tidings of joy for all people everywhere, a baby who would save the world. We sang familiar songs, we enjoyed familiar company. We went home, drank egg nog, ate Christmas treats. God was in heaven and all was right with the world. Or so it seemed. But all was not right with the world. A pressure was building up deep beneath ...

350. Life Between Verses 4 and 5

Psalm 13:1-6

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Noting her prodigious talent, he encouraged her to put her feelings to paper. The result is a remarkable compilation that not only helped her healing process, it has helped thousands of others as well. The book is called simply Psalms of Lament. My copy says, "To David, Through Tears - With Hope. Ann Weems." Her poetic preface, composed after her work was done, describes "life between verses 4 and 5": In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those ...

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