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Harold G. Skinner
... to worship and to receive the assurance from God Almighty of support and comfort. We hear the good news of the resurrection to eternal life. "I am the way and the truth and the life." "Death is swallowed up in victory." But we come here also with a variety of emotions because of the nature of this death. Relief that a long ordeal is over for ____________, her family and friends. Anger that this death was such a waste of life. Fear that forces are loose among us that can cause such havoc and pain. Remorse ...
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Tom O. Miller
... to preside over is the funeral for one who is of questionable character. And yet, in these situations, we have a unique opportunity to proclaim the pure message of the hope that a Christian has in the Risen Lord. This sermon has proven to be well received in a variety of situations. No matter how much we prepare and think about death, when it comes we are never prepared. We are never ready. The death of one we love draws us up short, and catches us off guard. It stops us in mid-stride because we have again ...
Drama
Dallas A. Brauninger
Suggestions: Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading. Characters: 9 readers - a variety of folk (Speakers read from a sitting position in their usual places in the pews.) Key: 1-9 = speakers 1: "Do not think I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish but to fulfill. 2: For truly I tell you, until heaven ...
Drama
Dallas A. Brauninger
Suggestions: Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading. Speakers read in a thoughtful manner from a sitting position in their usual places in the pews. Readers: 9 people - a variety of folk Key: 1-9 = speakers 1: I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 2: Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. 3: But in ...
Drama
Dallas A. Brauninger
Suggestions: Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading. Readers: a variety of folk (Speakers read in a frank manner from a sitting position in their usual places in the pews.) Key: 1-8 = speakers 1: Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 2: The commandments, "You shall not commit ...
Drama
Dallas A. Brauninger
Suggestions: Use as an anthem. 6 readers - 3 women and 3 men of a variety of voice tones Key: 1 = storyteller, 2 = older woman, 3 = younger woman, 4 = older man, 5 = younger man, 6 = Moses 1: Then God spoke all these words: All: I am the Lord your God, 2: who brought you out of the land of Egypt, 3: out of the house of ...
Sermon
Robert Allen
... thing that we must learn in life is that we are going to encounter frustration. Let’s face it -- if we are going to live in this world, we are going to experience frustration. It is simply a fact of life. Frustration comes to us in a variety of ways. Frustration comes when our hopes or plans are blocked. Frustration comes when some cherished project is hindered. Frustration comes when you set out toward some goal or dream and life cruelly slams that door shut in your face. The biography of any one of our ...
Sermon
Robert Allen
... thing God ever had to do is to get us to understand who he is and that he loves us.” And so it is! God is moving in mysterious ways. God is moving through events. He is moving through history. He is moving through people. He is moving through a variety of ways to make himself known to you. Have you experienced God moving in your life through Jesus Christ? Prayer: O God, we give thanks for the way you have made yourself known in our lives through Jesus Christ. In his name we pray. Amen.
Sermon
Robert Allen
... no longer control them, we can no longer restrain them, we can no longer be master of our desires. This is the whole human problem in a nutshell -- giving in and allowing our desires to run uncontrolled through our lives. The desires which rampage through our lives come in a variety of packages. For some of us it may be sexual lust. For some it may be a craving for power. For some it may be a greed for money. For some it may be an addiction to drugs or alcohol. I saw a cartoon in a magazine once with two ...
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Larry Goodpaster
... term used frequently to describe God’s love for the chosen people, and the expected response of those people for God. The images began to fill my thoughts: loyalty, devotion, neverending, faithfulness and holding on. All the dictionaries I consulted used a variety of terms in defining “mercy,” although there was one which was consistently present: compassion. Now I was able to begin to put together what it was that God expected or desired or wanted from us: a steadfast, unswerving devotion; a loyalty ...
336. Mourning Turned To Joy
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
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Ron Lavin
... last day, according to Alan Richardson's Theological Word Study of the Bible. Nearly one-third of the New Testament references denote deliverance from specific ills such as captivity, disease and devil possession. Like Israel, we need to be saved from a wide variety of ills, including many which we have brought upon ourselves. We are not far from the truth when we characterize our time in terms of spiritual captivity, the disease of loneliness and demonic separation from self, other people and God. We are ...
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Ron Lavin
... of ministry, a ministry he expects all who follow him to use as a pattern. In other words, all the baptized are anointed and called to minister by: proclaiming good news to the afflicted, freeing people who are captives to a variety of addictions; bindingup the brokenhearted by solidarity with them; helping people see reality instead of living in illusions; and celebrating the jubilee of God's generous ministry by ministering generously. Jubilee means ministry. The baptism of Jesus and the inaugural address ...
338. Robert Paul, You Were Right!
Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28
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Richard Hasler
... . He explains: “We go back into the past by means of the stepping stones in order to reconnect ourselves with the movement of our personal lifetime, and so that we can move more adequately into our future.”3 We can recover the stepping stones in a variety of ways, but one of the most advantageous ways is to recall specific persons who have influenced our lives at various junctures along the way. Who are the persons who have intersected your life at a given moment and shifted you in a new direction? A ...
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Richard Hasler
... life, not just in monastic orders, who devote themselves to praying for others. These intercessors are not usually in the limelight, but their influence for good upon others must be of inestimable value in God’s sight. We engage in intercessions for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, we pray for others because we believe God loves them and wants us to pray on their behalf. Although intercession is a mystery in the ultimate sense, the Scriptures are consistent in stating that God works through human ...
340. Wedding: 1 Corinthians 13
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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Joseph R. Foster
... an integral relationship. It will have all elements of living woven within it. There will be joy and sorrow; there will be happiness and frustration; there will be times of ecstacy as well as times of embarrassment and disappointment. In fact with all the varieties of experiences within the relationship we call marriage, I am surprised that it has survived as long as it has. Most people are unwilling to work at making this journey. They would rather bow out of the relationship just when the challenges seem ...
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Robert Beringer
... of the Peanuts characters made the statement, "I love humanity. It's people I can't stand!" A lot of us have that problem when it comes to loving, but the Christ of Christmas reveals a God whose love is personal, unconditional and endless. Think of the variety of human beings who came to the Bethlehem manger that night so long ago - lowly shepherds from out of a Bethlehem field, wise men who were among the most respected persons of their day, and a couple of peasants named Mary and Joseph. Christ came to ...
Eulogy
Alan Bacon Bond
... the counsel of your truth, the strength of your presence, and the guidance of your wisdom. We especially present ourselves in this place to give honor to the memory of Bill Hartmann. We have traveled to this place from many locations, via many routes, and from a variety of experiences as numerous as our individual journeys. We are not used to being together under these circumstances, and most of us are not used to being in this place. It is all the more our prayer that you, O God, will unite us in heart and ...
Drama
Thomas A. Renquist
... God. For example, Schweitzer pointed out that the Eucharist was more than just a remembering meal; it was an anticipation of the kingdom, “a foretaste of the feast to come.” Schweitzer’s theology, it must be admitted, was definitely of the liberal variety. His most famous work, The Quest for the Historical Jesus, concluded that it was impossible to discover the Jesus of history; centuries of dogma and doctrine about Jesus had wiped out any trace of the historical Jesus. When the book was published in ...
Drama
J. B. Quisenberry
... of the Holy Spirit we pray. Amen Music (choir) "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" Seventh Reader: According to the Gospel, the shepherds, after they had worshiped their infant Savior, "made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child." What a wide variety of responses they must have received to the angel's story! There were many, undoubtedly, who believed and flocked to the stable to worship the King, and to share the joy that the shepherds had received. But there were others who, like so ...
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John P. Rossing
... a banquet. One thing that makes feasts enjoyable is the fellowship that banqueters share over their meal. After all, it's the gathering of family and friends around the table that makes Thanksgiving dinner a highlight of the year, more than it is the quantity or variety of food on the table. That's true of the feast Isaiah is hoping for, too. At God's feast all people will be united with one another and with God. Today we are celebrating the "communion of saints," the community of God's people, the family ...
346. Step Three - Faith
Mt 8:5-13 · Heb 11:1-7 · Is 55:6-9
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John A. Terry
... . We act. God acts. God is greater than us, but related. God lets us experience the power, the forgiveness, the love of God in human experience. Earlier this year a group from the church gathered to discuss losses we have experienced. There were a variety of losses we shared with one another, losses by death, loss of health, loss of employment, losses that come through moving. We found there were common threads in how those various losses were experienced and a common thread in how that loss was managed ...
Sermon
Johnny Dean
... that folks who call themselves Christians are NOT all the same, that, in fact, they may do things very differently. Christians are divided up into Catholics and Protestants. The Catholics are separated into Eastern Orthodox or your standard garden variety Catholic. The Protestants are further separated into Lutherans, Episcopalians, Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Disciples of Christ, Church of Christ – the list goes on and on. Some of these denominations are well known and some are known only to God ...
348. Holy Arithmetic!
Matthew 28:16-20
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Johnny Dean
... it could. We humans have been trying to figure out God since Adam or one of his offspring woke up one morning wondering why the sun rose in the East and set in the West every day. In our struggles, we’ve come up with a variety of concepts about God, some of which border on the ridiculous, while some may come fairly close to being accurate. Ralph Milton offers the following popular conceptions of God. Some will make more sense to you than others, depending upon your life experiences. Some, I hope, will ...
Sermon
Johnny Dean
... a hammer or skin their knuckles on an engine block find other creative uses for God’s name, none of which are particularly religious. And teenagers – I’m not picking on you, just making an observation here – use the expression "Omigod!" to mean a variety of things, including: "WOW!" "No Kidding!" "Oh, no!" "All Right!" Or "What in the world?" "God" must be just about the most often-used word in the English language, second only to the word "I". But the word is thrown around carelessly. People don ...
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Johnny Dean
... is just a fancy word for "type" or "style") of music appeared on the American cultural scene. It was called "protest music," because that’s exactly what it was about. The songwriters and performing artists wanted to express their displeasure or discontent with a variety of social or political issues of the day: the war in Viet Nam; the rules and regulations parents place upon children; the style of clothing or length of hair you had to have in order to be considered "respectable." Most of the songs had ...
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