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3476. Watch!

Mark 13:37

Children's Sermon

... really close that are really far away. (If you have Advent candles in your church you might want to let a few children look at them through the binoculars.) Our lesson today from the book of Mark is about Jesus telling his friends a story of a person leaving on a journey. While the person is gone, everyone has work to do. One person is standing at the door to watch for the person who is coming home. No one knows when the person will come, so someone watches all the time. If it were today, the watchperson ...

3477. Ups and Downs

Mark 9:2-13

Children's Sermon

... experiences. Help the children print a few words describing the experiences at the top and bottom of the mountains and valleys. If children are too young to write, drawing small pictures at the top and bottom will also be fine. Some may want to do both. You may want to leave the paper up for a while to allow children to add happy and sad experiences to the mural as the weeks pass. Don't forget to discuss how God is there in all the happy and sad times of life. Parents: Share some of your own highs and lows ...

3478. God's Glory

2 Corinthians 3:18, 2 Corinthians 4:4b

Children's Sermon

... that's what the word "glory" means in these verses. Glory can also mean something very bright like this flashlight would be if it were very dark out. It would be a bright shining light. So this flashlight reminds me of glory, too. What happens when you leave a flashlight on and you fall asleep? (Let them respond.) The batteries run out and the flashlight goes off. (Turn out the flashlight.) But the nice thing about God's glory or brightness is that it doesn't go out like the flashlight does. God's glory ...

3479. God's Friends

Romans 5:11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... my wrist this morning. Do you know what it is? (Show them and let them try to guess.) It's called a friendship bracelet. Some children make them for their friends, and then the friend ties it on his or her wrist so it won't fall off. Then they leave it on all the time to remind them that they are friends with this boy or girl. Sometimes boys or girls have several bracelets on at a time, each one given to them by a different friend. Now, boys and girls, we all have another friend who gave us something ...

3480. Remember

Luke 22:7-38

Children's Sermon

... to remember him the way we like our friends to remember us when we go away on a trip. Ask your children to try to imagine themselves at Jesus' table when he spoke the words in today's Gospel. How would they have felt if they thought Jesus might leave them? Would they have been sad? Would they have felt a little better each time they shared a meal and remembered Jesus and the good times they had had together? Tell your children that from now on, whenever they eat a meal, they can stop a moment before their ...

3481. Hurray for Jesus!

Mark 11:1-11

Children's Sermon

Sharing This Week's Gospel Theme at Sunday Church School Teachers: Remind your students that today is Palm Sunday. Ask their opinions on what they think the palm leaves symbolize. Why did the crowd wave them at Jesus as he came down the road? What might people wave today if Jesus were riding down the street? (If they do not think of ball games and team pendants, lead them in that direction with a question about a popular team ...

3482. The Good Shepherd

John 10:11

Children's Sermon

... without protection. But this shepherd didn't stop there. Jesus died for us, to show us God's great love, but then he came back to life again. He has shown us how far he will go to protect us, but he also has shown us that he will never leave us alone.

3483. Here Comes God's Helper

John 16:5-16, John 7:25-44

Children's Sermon

... about it.) I think the disciples must have been very sad to know their best friend in the world was going away. But Jesus didn't just say to his followers, "Well, that's too bad. You've had your chance to be with me. Now I'm going to leave you on yur own." Instead, Jesus made the disciples a special promise. He told them that there would be a new friend coming to be with them. When the disciples asked Jesus what the new friend would be like, Jesus said "I will send the Helper [the Comforter] to you ...

3484. God is Our Friend

Romans 8:15

Children's Sermon

... angry with you. How would you feel about having a God like that? I think I would not like a God like that. Other people think that God is so far away - or so invisible - that we can never really find out anything about God. These people believe that God leaves us all alone in the world and never talks to us and never lets us talk to him. How would you feel if God was really like that? (Let them answer.) We are fortunate that God is not like any of those ideas. Instead, God is our friend. The Bible ...

3485. Do It Anyway

Hebrews 5:8

Children's Sermon

... , holding onto both sides, and said in a stern voice, "I want everyone in the class to listen carefully to what I am saying and do exactly what I say. Do not talk. Do not ask questions. Just do what I am telling you to do. I want you to leave your books on your desk. Lay down your pencils. Now crawl underneath your desks and sit down. Tuck your knees up against your chin and make sure your head is completely underneath the desk." Why do you suppose the teacher told everybody to do that? (Let them try some ...

3486. Let's Get to Work!

Philippians 2:8

Children's Sermon

... " too. God could have said, "The world is full of people who are in a lot of trouble. They need somebody to come and help and love and rescue them. But it's not my fault. I didn't make them sinful. I'll just stay home in heaven and leave them alone." Instead God put on his work gloves and he came right into the world to help us. He sent Jesus to live with us. Jeus had work gloves on the whole time he was here. He was healing people, forgiving people, teaching people, loving people. It was hard ...

3487. Passover

Mark 14:16b

Children's Sermon

... than regular bread. Can you tell me about it? (Let them tell you.) Some of you say it's flat. It's crunchy. It's chewy. Some of you may remember the story of Moses leading the Hebrew children out of Egypt. When they left, they had to leave quickly and the bread didn't rise so every year after that first year, to help them remember how God helped them, they ate this kind of bread. They made a holiday of it called Passover. So Jesus and his friends were having this special holiday meal called Passover ...

3488. Bargains galore

John 2:16

Children's Sermon

... (v. 16, TEV)!" You mean, this isn't a store? (Let them respond.) I made a mistake. I thought I could buy all the things on my list. But our verse says this isn't a store. It's God's house. When we come to God's house, we leave our jobs and our schoolwork home. We don't come to God's house to work like we do all week. And we can't buy those things on my list. Those things don't cost money, do they? (Let them respond.) How much would I pay for four boxes ...

3489. Act Like It!

James 2:19

Children's Sermon

... to tell.) I want to show you a couple of the bean plants which grew this year in my garden. I brought them along to church today because I am especially proud of them. As you can see, they look just the same. Both have the same kind of green leaves and nice looking branches and stalks. They both have good roots, but you can't see the roots because they're down underneath the soil. And both of them have these cute little runners that look like green wires. That's how the garden plants stretch and grow. What ...

3490. Gifts for God

Mark 12:41-44

Children's Sermon

... help them understand how a few cents saved each week now can add up to a lot of money later. Help them set their own priorities, set goals, and plan ways to achieve them. Discuss with each child how much should be offered at church each Sunday. Again, leave this decision to each child. Explain the tithe and help each child determine what ten percent of his or her income would be, but let each child decide whether to give that amount or to give more or less. Send the budgets home with your children and ask ...

3491. Epiphany 2

John 2:1-11, Isaiah 62:1-12, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11, Psalm 96:1-13, Psalm 36:1-12

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George Bass

... experiences there, he returned to Galilee where his new spiritual power manifested itself in exorcism, in types of cures familiar in magic, in teaching, with magical parallels and authority, and in the call of disciples, who, like persons enchanted, were constrained to leave their families and belongings and follow him alone." That's really the combination of the Luke 3 and John 2 gospels for (these) days. Smith contends that "he lived (from then on) the predictable life of a travelling magician and holy ...

3492. Lent 1

Romans 9:30--10:21, Deuteronomy 26:1-15, Luke 4:1-13, Psalm 91:1-16

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George Bass

... in Egypt, became so numerous and so strong that the Egyptians felt threatened. The result, then as now, was persecution that threatened to obliterate the people of God. 3. So God took a hand in the proceedings and the result was that they were allowed to leave Egypt and proceed to the Promised Land. It was exodus, and it happened because of the plagues God sent upon the Egyptians. The Passover was the climax of the plagues. 4. And so the Festival of Weeks, too, was born, and pilgrims had to present the ...

3493. Easter 3

John 21:1-14, Acts 5:17-42, Acts 9:1-19a, Jeremiah 32:1-44, Revelation 5:1-14, Psalm 33:1-22, Psalm 30:1-12

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George Bass

... their cars; a couple of the neighbors, who have to go to work early in the morning have complained about this "indiscriminate parking." Often, however, they have finished breakfast and departed before the people on our dead-end street have begun to stir and leave home for their jobs. The interesting thing is that this is not a phenomenon peculiar to my neighbors; most of their friends also have these breakfast gatherings. Curious about the practice, I asked the man next door how they got started with these ...

3494. Easter 4

John 10:22-42, Acts 13:13-52, Numbers 27:12-23, Revelation 7:9-17

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George Bass

... walls in which relics of the past have been imbedded. When the church was built, it was level with the city around it, but the debris has piled up about it, almost making it disappear from view. One gets to Santa Costanza by entering St. Agnes Church, leaving it by a side door and walking a short distance to a squat, round building - Santa Costanza - and what is left of its interior. The oldest Christian mosaics in the environs of Rome are there, and among them is the "Christ in Glory," as Graham Sutherland ...

3495. Easter 7

John 17:20-26, Psalm 47:1-9, Acts 7:54--8:1a, Acts 16:6-10, Acts 16:16-40, 1 Samuel 12:1-25, Revelation 22:7-21

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George Bass

... . (The rest of the story follows: When the magistrate ordered them released the next day, Paul demanded a public apology, citing their Roman citizenship as the basis for his demand, and that's what he got from the magistrate and the others. Asked to leave the city, they visited with Lydia (from Thyatira) and "the brethren ... exhorted them and departed.") 1 Samuel 12:19-34 (alternate - E) After Samuel had been asked, "Shall Samuel reign over us?" by the people of Israel and Saul had been made king at ...

3496. Pentecost Sunday

Acts 2:1-13, Psalm 104:1-35, Joel 2:28-32, Genesis 11:1-9, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11, John 16:5-16, John 20:19-23, John 15:18--16:4

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George Bass

... them that he is "going away" and that they will not see him again, but it also includes the promise of the Comforter, and they should rejoice in that. It is a bit extravagant, on Jesus' part, to tell the disciples that they should be glad that he is leaving them for good, that this is to their benefit. But from the standpoint of the gift they will receive, the gift of the Holy Spirit, they have a reason to rejoice, because it confirms their faith in the risen Lord and gives them direction and power to be ...

3497. Proper 8

Luke 9:57-62, Galatians 5:16-26, 1 Kings 19:9-18, Psalm 16:1-11, Luke 9:51-56

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George Bass

... the call to follow Elijah. Elijah called Elisha because God had directed him to do so, not because he believed that Elisha had the talent and ability to become a prophet. Elisha was God's choice, not Elijah's, for a successor. 2. Elisha made an immediate decision, leaving the 12 yoke of oxen in the field where he was plowing but he delayed his response, "Let me kiss my father and mother, and then I will follow you." That seemed like a reasonable request to Elijah, and he granted it. 3. His "kiss" was an ...

3498. Advent 4

Psalm 80:1-19, Micah 5:1-4, Hebrews 10:1-18, Luke 1:39-45

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George Bass

... of events during Advent and allow the Fourth Sunday in Advent really to speak of the future coming of the crucified, risen, and reigning Savior. The first part of the lection tells the story of Mary's visit and her three-month sojourn (why did she leave after three months, shortly before John was born?), to Elizabeth, whose baby "leaped in her womb" when she heard Mary's voice. She spoke the familiar "Hail, Mary" with its "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb." Mary's response ...

3499. Proper 19

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7, Psalm 51:1-19, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Hosea 4:1-19, Hosea 6:1--7:16, 1 Timothy 1:12-20

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George Bass

... world of its sin and make it - us - pure again. 1 Timothy 1:12-17 (RC, E, L, C) - "The Transformation." 1. People who knew Paul must have thought he had lost his mind when he gave up the persecution of the Christians and became one himself. That leaves us out, doesn't it? We never persecuted the church of Christ, have we? 2. Actually, Paul lost his heart and soul, not his mind, to Christ, who came to him in a vision and claimed him for himself. That's why there was the transformation from the "foremost ...

3500. Proper 20

Luke 16:1-15, Psalm 113:1-9, Psalm 130:1-8, Amos 8:1-14, Hosea 11:1-11, 1 Timothy 2:1-15

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George Bass

... the rising of the sun to its going down, for you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, now and forever." Psalm 130 (LBW) - "God of might and compassion, you sent your Word into the world as a watchman to announce the dawn of salvation. Do not leave us in the depths of our sins, but listen to your church pleading for the fullness of your redeeming grace; through Jesus Christ our Lord." THE READINGS Amos 8:4-7 (RC, L); 8:4-7 (8-12) (E) In this reading, the "prophet of the poor," who calls for ...

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