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3626. Proper 11

2 Samuel 11:1-27, Ephesians 2:11-22, Mark 6:30-44

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... NOW TO LABOR DILIGENTLY AND RESTLESSLY IN THE EXTENSION OF GOD’S KINGDOM IN OUR NEEDY WORLD. Collect God almighty, who have called us to a great mission in extending Christ’s work, remind us of the urgency of our discipleship; that, in a world longing for reconciliation, we may not waste any time or energy as we work to build your Kingdom. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Most merciful God, we regretfully admit how much we fritter away our time on religious and secular activities that ...

3627. Confronting Hypocrisy With Humility (I)

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Brett Blair

... religious clothing to bring attention to themselves, they sought out the seats of honor in the synagogue, and walked in the market places just to be seen by the people. The Pharisees and Scribes and become arrogant and self-righteous. What is Jesus’ solution to the long standing history of religious abuses? Here it is. He turns to his disciples and he says, “They love to be honored and in the streets and to have people call them rabbi, but you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and ...

3628. Getting Together

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... to ten beats.) Wasn’t that fun? Being together is pretty important because it not only makes us feel good, but it also helps get things done. Castanets are not the only things that bring us together. Jesus came into this world to bring us together with God. For a long time people were out of rhythm with God. They did not always do what He told them to do. Losing our rhythm is another way of saying that we were filled with sin. Being sinful is bad enough, and the people had no way to get rid of sin. God ...

3629. People Are Different, People Are The Same

Drama

Marge Passamaneck

... : David put it on, pushing his fist into the pocket. DAVID: It’s perfect. I’ll be the best second baseman on the team with this. NARRATOR: David gave his mom and dad a kiss. With his glove still on, he gave his parents a box. DAVID: I looked a long time for this, and saved all the money myself from my allowance. NARRATOR: They opened David’s gift. Inside was a tray with his parents names on it. DAVID: It’s for cookies and cakes. MRS. STEIN: Oh, I love it. I’ll put our Hanukkah cookies on it right ...

3630. How Old is God?

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the answer. For instance here is Carl Clock. Carl likes to talk about time and the passing of it and I wonder if we asked Carl how long God has been alive if he could tell us. (Pick up the clock and look at it as if you really expected the clock to answer you.) " ... time. I have one other friend that I want to ask before we quit trying. Here he is, Clyde Cane. Good old Clyde has been around a long time and he has helped a lot of old people. Let’s see if he can tell us when God was born or how old he is. " ...

3631. What Is God Made Of?

Acts 17:16-34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... if I could tell you that God felt like steel or fur or mud you would know what kind of material God is made of. A long time ago, boys and girls, people thought that their God’s were made of things like this statue I have here. Do you know what I mean ... 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 ...

3632. Why Do People Have to Die?

John 12:20-36

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... in heaven and that’s right. But how did they get to heaven? Well, let me show you how Jesus used to explain to people a long time ago what death was all about. People die in a lot of ways. Some die in accidents, while other die of old age. Some people ... put it on your shelf, nothing will happen to it. It will just stay a plain old seed and eventually if you let it stay there long enough it will turn into dust and when the first good wind comes along it will blow away. The shell of that seed kind of reminds ...

3633. Christmas Carols · What Child Is This?

Luke 2:1-20

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... it? Being sick had a lot to do with one of our favorite Christmas carols and a man by the name of William Dix. Mr. Dix became very sick when he was just a young man, and he stayed sick for a long time. There was not a lot that a person could do when he became ill a long time ago, except to rest and take the few medicines that they had in those days. For the most part Mr. Dix just sat in a chair with a blanket over him and watched the clouds pass through the sky or the ...

3634. It Might Have Been ...

Luke 22:1-6, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 27:1-10, Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

... will gradually eliminate that cliche "judas goat" from the language - the judas goat being the goat that leads sheep up the long chute to their death in the stockyards. "Judas" ... the very name seems chilling now. Certainly it represents the one disciple ... great causes - are portents of disaster to us. The returns on Vietnam aren’t in yet - perhaps they’ll never be all in. Maybe a long look at history will show no way we could have avoided that conflict - given the world in which we live. And it’s easy ...

3635. As It Was Told

Drama

Ed Irsch

... : Not when it interferes with their responsibility to ... (indicates himself, but catches himself before he says "me.") Martha: Is that so terrible that they would rather obey God? Johnathan: But how can I tell if they made up the story? We’ve been waiting so long for the Messiah. I almost wish it were true. But what proof is there that it is true? Martha: (quietly) Tell me something. Did you lose any sheep over it? Johnathan: (again disgusted) Did I lost any sheep over it? I’ve been up half the ...

3636. LORD, I BELIEVE

John 9:35-41

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... about as well equipped to do battle on fundamentals against a Marxian atheist or an agnostic as a boy with a peashooter facing a fanfare of machine guns." I would like to add another class, the dead church members. In a small Kentucky church not long ago, the pastor on Sunday morning made a rather unusual announcement. He was just about to leave for another parish, perhaps because he was in the habit of making rather unusual announcements. He said, "On Monday, we will hold the Funeral Services here at the ...

3637. Facing the Glory Road

Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... , it can’t be done! Maybe in a hundred years it will be done, but not in our lifetime." And Madam Curie confronts him with a resolute face: "If it takes a hundred years, that will be a pity, but I dare not do less than work for it as long as I live." Some such determination must be ours, if we are to walk the road to glory. Boulder Dam is a notable engineering feat, but like all worth-while achievements, it cost sacrifice. Eighty-nine men lost their lives building it. They at least knew that they died for ...

3638. The Good News of the Cross

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... secrets of the skies And your hopes for him. And then, one day, you came to realize That you’d lost your son!" The deep sorrow of God is the sorrow of loneliness. Parents know about that loneliness, as they see their children grow up and away from them. Not long ago a father, whose son was in deep trouble, came to me. I asked, "Have you talked to him?" "Talk to him?" he said. "I don’t even know him!" And that is the heartrending cry of many a father. You see them go to joys and interests outside the ...

3639. BECAUSE HE LOVES ME

Drama

Gary C. Bratz

... : Everything happened just as God planned it. Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem - the city in which the prophet had said long before that Jesus would be born. Child: "But you, O Bethlehem, Ephratah, who are little among the clans of Judah, from ... God loves me dearly, God loves me dearly, loves even me. Now will I praise Thee, O Love Eternal; Now will I praise Thee, All my life long. Therefore I'll say again: God loves me dearly, God loves me dearly, love even me. Pastor: God's love for us makes us feel good ...

3640. What’s Going On in Your Orchard?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... fruits of the spirit spell life, the very life of God in us. How about the ability, your ability, to love? Without Christ, love is a word without depth and integrity. Beyond our grasp. Selfish. An old Persian legend tells of the father who went on a long journey and left his son with a mirror. When he returned, he discovered that the boy had starved to death looking at himself. That was the ancient’s way of saying self-centeredness ends in self-destruction. Love is self-giving. We learn it in our human ...

3641. Joseph

Drama

Charles L. Koester

... , I lay upon my bed. Sleep came restlessly as I tossed and turned, and subconsciously wrestled with the problem in a dream-like state. Put her away, give her up, have her stoned to death! At that moment a voice began to call my name as through a long, dark tunnel, getting closer and closer. "Joseph ... Joseph, Son of David ... it is all right Joseph ... be calm." And then suddenly, out of the darkness, he emerged ... an angel! And the voice said to me, "I am a messenger sent from God. I am sent to tell you ...

3642. Feed My Sheep

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... is the new form of Christianity which is emerging in our century. It takes "Jesus saves" and "Ye must be born again" as starting points in the Christian life. They are motivations to obedience. They offer the life-long dynamics to face the starving of the world with immediate relief and long-term solutions. The Oriental mystic ignored the starving family next door and the neighbor with the boils across the street. Why? Because he was basking in the vision of God, he was warmed by the luminous experience of ...

3643. Peter

Luke 22:54-62

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... that all of us would like a lot. The man behind the mask is Peter. [Raise the mask to your face.] I knew Jesus almost as long as any of the disciples. Only my brother, Andrew, has known him longer. My name used to be Simon, but Jesus changed it to Peter, which ... . I couldn’t believe it then. He knew I was not very brave. That night, I told everyone that I did not know Jesus when not long before I had told him that I loved him more than anyone else who ever lived, and Jesus heard me. I didn’t feel like a ...

3644. THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH

Drama

Norman D. Dow

... The darkness of night is as the deep bluish purple of the calm sea. All nature seems to be hushed, waiting on tiptoe with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. The streets are strangely silent and empty. No lights can be seen in the doorways. How then ... God has come to us here and now? To bowl us over with the glory and majesty of his presence? Moses, the friend of God, longed to see the face of God; but knowing that his servant could not look upon his face and live, God hid Moses in a cleft ...

3645. Palm Sunday - The Crowd That Loved Him

Matthew 21:1-11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... and love, they rode a donkey. Remember also that you are a people who have waited for your own king since the Romans overpowered you a long time ago. Remember also all of the things that you have heard people say about Jesus and how he healed the sick and cured the blind ... right around the bend in the road, and when he comes, we are going to let him know how much we care for him and how long we have waited for him. If you have a sweater or a coat lay it down on the street and make it soft for the donkey ...

3646. THE SURPRISED

Luke 1:5-25

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... too old for child bearing, a child was conceived. Can’t you imagine some of the thoughts that must have gone through their minds? They must have fell as some of us do: "We’ve done our share. Let some of the younger ones do their part. We’ve served long and faithfully. Don’t ask us to do any more." But God had a very special work in mind for this husband and wife and for their son, John. And though they were surprised, they were open to that responsibility and they were obedient to the vision. It is ...

3647. Broken Bread, Shared Cup

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... the thoughts. We betray? We had walked the roads of Palestine with him. We would not betray. "No Master!" But Jesus was not deterred. In his hands he took the hard-crusted bread. As he broke a piece from the loaf, he looked at it in an ever-so-long silence. I did not know what was upon his mind, and so questioned: "Master?" "It is our life, bread. Yet for it to give that life, it must be broken. The bread can be beautifully formed and baked - but it cannot give life without being broken and devoured!" Again ...

3648. The Very Nearness Of Holy Week

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... myself. He said, "Beware of the doctors of the law, who love to walk up and down in long robes, receiving respectful greetings in the streets; and to have the chief seats in synagogue and places of honor at feasts. These are the men who eat up ... the property of widows, while they say long prayers for appearance’ sake, and they will receive the severest sentence." That was strong language to speak right within the shadow of the ...

3649. OUR LORD DENIED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... The readiness to forgive. To think of it now made Peter’s heart feel like a stone in his breast. There was that day, so long ago now, as though in another life. Peter had come to the end of his patience with his brother. Andrew. He had become so ... of Israel? A violent insurrectionist? A terrorist? He saw that his idle wanderings had brought him near the upper city. Though long past midnight, there still were a few people about. Peter stopped in the street, looked back toward the temple, gleaming softly ...

3650. OUR LORD FORSAKEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... . Then, with a few last touches, they went outside and John helped the men roll the heavy stone across the narrow entrance. For some while they all stood in silence. Dark as the afternoon had been, it was darker now and John was aware that it was long after sunset. He turned to the women, looked sadly into the eyes of Mary, his Lord’s mother. Without any exchange of conversation she nodded, and he took her arm and they left the tomb and made their slow way toward the city, a sad, hopeless little company ...

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