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3676. A Secret Hard To Keep

Mark 5:42-43

Children's Sermon

... tells us a secret and we know that to tell the secret could hurt somebody. That would be a good time to keep quiet about the secret, wouldn't it! But today's Gospel story tells about a time when keeping a secret didn't seem to make very much sense. Jesus did something wonderful. The people who saw the miracle Jesus did got all excited. They wanted to tell everybody. Jesus said to them, "Don't tell anybody about it." How do you think you would have felt if you had been there the day Jesus did that? Would you ...

3677. There's A Man Going Around Taking Names

John 1:19-28

Sermon

Thomas Long

... for your name in return. This is name-seeking. Name-taking, however, does not want to know another person; it wants to put the other person on trial. "Let me see your license," says the motorcycle cop, and we respond, "Yes, officer, have I done something wrong?" We sense we are already on trial. "I'm sorry," says the clerk, "I can't take your check without proper I.D." And so we pull out the credit cards and the photo identification as if to say, "See, these will testify in the court of respectability to my ...

3678. Where's The Treasure?

Luke 1:5-25, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Thomas Long

... deadlocks, to fill the bowls with food, and to send the greedy away empty. That every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill made low -- and that's not real estate; that's politics! And since it is politics, it would have made a certain kind of sense for God to have entrusted the treasure to the movers and the shakers -- the Herods of the world. But God did not leave the treasure with Herod, because the gospel is the good news that, if there is to be justice in the world, there can only be one ...

3679. The Fruitful Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... the person who said it. Jesus spoke with the authority of his person and thus carried with it the cleansing of forgiveness. 8. "Abide in me." (vv. 4, 5, 7) Persons who are in harmony with each other receive mutual strength. John has a mystical sense of life force flowing between persons. Where the disciples were in unity of thought and purpose with Jesus, they partook of the same energy for life that he received from the Father. 9. "Glorified." (v. 8) The Father is honored when additional disciples are won ...

3680. The Healing Of Simon Peter's Mother-In-Law

Mark 1:29-34

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

WHAT'S HAPPENING The Gospel called Mark wants to set a tone of direct action and quick response in this story. Mark shows an absence of dragging feet and suggests a sense of urgency. Jesus gets things done. From Mark's perspective, whatever happens around Jesus, the response is always immediate. "Immediately" is a favorite action word in the first chapter of Mark. After the baptism of Jesus, the Spirit immediately drives him out into the wilderness (Mark 1:12). When Jesus ...

3681. Let's Have A Fruitful Christmas Season

Drama

May Dembowski

... , it's best to give them your undivided attention. Supervising, making suggestions, teaching, guiding ... AND THAT INCLUDES CLEANUP TOO ... really saves time AND your nerves in the end. CAROL: I'll agree with that. It's so tempting to do it myself. But my mother-in-law made sense when she advised me a long time ago, "If you don't let the children do things, they can't learn." MARCY: I guess the key is to pray, plan, schedule, and follow through ... and look for God's patience and joy. (ALL nod to each other ...

3682. Lent 2

Mk 8:31-38 · Rom 4:13-25; 8:31-39 · Gen 17:1-7, 15-16; 22:1-18 · Ps 22

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... faith and hope were "credited to him as righteousness" (v. 22). The word translated "credited" has also been translated as "reckoned," "accounted" or "accepted." This is the language of financial accounting. Though Abraham was not necessarily righteous in a moral sense he was still a sinner. The Lord credited his faith as righteousness. Abraham trusted the Lord and it was credited to his account as righteousness. The gospel offers Christian believers the promise of eternal life through Christ. When we truly ...

3683. Proper 10

Mark 6:14-29, 2 Samuel 6:1-23, Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... regulations or else he disregarded them. Thus, the sin consists of handling the ark in a common or unholy manner. Some have suggested that it shows a lack of faith on Uzzah's part. He didn't think that the Lord could take care of his own ark. This makes sense but we will never know for sure the true nature of Uzzah's transgression. Epistle: Ephesians 1:3-14 God chose us (v. 4). Paul marvels at the fact of God's election of us in Christ. Here he lifts up the excellency of God's grace in choosing us ...

3684. Proper 12

John 6:16-24, John 6:1-15, 2 Samuel 11:1-27, Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... . The infinity of love (vv. 18-19). Paul was so overwhelmed with the magnitude of God's love that he could hardly express it. In reality, he seems to be saying that the love of God in Christ is infinite (surpasses knowledge). He expresses his sense of the Infinite using the words breadth, length, height and depth. God's love is certainly beyond our measuring but not beyond our knowing (experiencing). When we love, we partake of the Infinite. A really large plate. The word translated width in verse 19 is ...

3685. Proper 13

Ephesians 4:1-16, 2 Samuel 12:1-31, John 6:25-59

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... that when we sin, there are more victims than meet the eye. Some executive commits a white-collar crime, stealing from a large company, and he thinks that there are no victims but the company. Wrong! We all pay in terms of higher prices and a deteriorating sense of morality. What the sinner doesn't realize until too late is that he himself is victim of his own sins. Note the consequences that Nathan spelled out for David's sin. But it goes even further, the ultimate victim is God. David confessed: "I have ...

3686. Advent 1

1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Mark 13:32-37, Mark 13:1-31

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... . We can identify with that cry for divine intervention when we see the forces of evil arrogantly trample over the rights of the weak. In the seasons of our weakness and humiliation, we have cried out to God for aid, but sometimes the Lord seems far removed. This sense of being distant from God happens even to the choicest of God's saints. The problem is not that God removes himself from us but that our sin separates us from the Lord. We don't need the Lord to rend the heavens, we need to rend our hearts ...

3687. All Saints' Sunday

Jn 11:32-44 · Mt 5:1-12 · Isa 25:6-9 · Rev 7:9-17; 21:1-6 · Ps 24

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... and thirst no more (v. 16). Gospel: John 11:32-44 Jesus arrives at the home of Mary and Martha, four days after his friend Lazarus died. Mary greets Jesus with the words: "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." The words carry some sense of disappointment that Jesus' visit had not been more timely but they also convey her strong faith. Some of the crowd are also critical of Jesus. The Lord is moved to tears by the sorrow and weeping which he sees all around him. They go to the tomb and ...

3688. Easter 2

Acts 4:32-37, 1 John 1:5--2:14, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... indication of their new life through the power of Christ's resurrection. Epistle: 1 John 1:1--2:2 Word of Life (v. 1). For John, the Word of Life is the person of Jesus, the Christ. John claims to have experienced this Word personally, through his bodily senses. He makes this point in some length to counter the Gnostic heresies which claimed that Jesus had not come in the flesh. The same point is made in the prologue of John's gospel: "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us..." (John 1:14). Fellowship (v ...

3689. Easter 3

Luke 24:36-49, Acts 3:11-26, 1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... their bodies; their families had either lost touch with them or they had no family. In this mass grave, these poor souls lost their identity and their humanity. They were nobody's child and no one's mother or father. They had apparently lost their identity and sense of worth some time prior to their miserable death or they wouldn't have died alone and forsaken. Yet as Christians, we have the hope that the Lord knew them and claimed them as his children. On the same newscast they featured the mass wedding of ...

3690. Easter 5

John 15:1-17, Acts 8:26-40, Acts 9:19b-31, 1 John 4:7-21

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... church reminded them that they were the objects of God's love, that they were precious in God's sight. The circle of love. John states that if we love one another, "God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us" (v. 12). The word perfect connotes a sense of completion. If God is the source of love, and Jesus is the conveyor of that love and we are the recipients of that love, then to complete the circle of God's love we must share God's love with one another. As the old Bible school song says ...

3691. Easter 7

John 17:6-19, Acts 1:12-26, 1 John 5:1-12

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... signifies a process of unveiling and of making our deepest selves known. Marriage, as it was intended to be, presents us with an apt illustration of the believer's relationship with God. Outline: 1. Marriage is a relationship of intimacy beginning with our names. 2. In the biblical sense, to disclose one's name was more than sharing a label; it meant to reveal one's character and person. 3. Christ has given us God's name we come to know him personally. 4. Let us honor that name in all that we do. 2. Sermon ...

3692. Epiphany 2

1 Corinthians 6:12-20, 1 Samuel 3:1--4:1, John 1:35-42, John 1:43-51

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... and respect it as a holy place. In his case against prostitution he teaches that our bodies are members of Christ's body, the church. Christianity elevates bodily existence. Shun immorality (v. 18). Paul uses the word "immorality" in a narrow sense here, referring to sins committed with the body, sexual sins. He seems to regard them with special horror, probably because he witnessed the destructive hold that such sins could have on people. Shunning immorality in Corinth was a Herculean task. Temptations ...

3693. Epiphany

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

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... together in a process that leads to the birth of a new star or planet. Think of it! That band of gold around your finger is the stuff of stars. Indeed, the elements of which our bodies are made is also the stuff of stars. In some mysterious sense we are star children, both physically and spiritually. When the wise men laid before the Christ child their treasure of gold, they were giving him star dust, the substance of another world that had been reborn. It made a fitting gift for the One who had come from ...

3694. Proper 16

John 6:25-59, John 6:60-71, 1 Kings 8:22-61, Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... Angle: F. F. Bruce writes a helpful book called The Hard Sayings Of Jesus. The saying of Jesus about eating his body and drinking his blood comprises the first chapter. What do we mean by hard sayings? In some cases, the sayings are hard in the sense that they are difficult to comprehend. In more instances, however, they are not hard to comprehend but difficult to carry out, such as when Jesus told the rich young man to sell everything that he had and come follow him. Jesus uttered many hard sayings which ...

3695. Proper 21

Mark 9:38-41, Esther 7:1-10, Esther 9:18-32, James 5:13-20, Mark 9:42-50

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... Esther requested life and deliverance for her people. The Lord God grants his favor to those who seek life, not death. Doomed by his deceit (v. 8-10). The text mentions that they covered Haman's face. This was a custom performed on the doomed. The sense of this punishment is similar to the millstone around the neck that Jesus mentions in the Gospel Lesson. Both images convey utter hopelessness and doom. What really doomed Haman was not the king but his own deceit. Epistle: James 5:13-20 Reach out and touch ...

3696. Proper 22

Hebrews 1:1-14, Hebrews 2:5-18, Job 2:1-10, Mark 10:13-16, Mark 10:1-12

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... suffering, sin and death. We can call Christ brother because all those who are cleansed by the blood of Christ have one Father. Gospel: Mark 10:2-16 The Great Satan. The leaders of Iran still hold that the United States is the Great Satan. In a sense, we are their Satan because we are an adversary; we oppose their very narrow world view. Those Pharisees who came to Jesus with the intent of tripping him up were Satan for Jesus. They wanted to accuse, to prosecute and to slander. The intent, not the letter ...

3697. Proper 5

2 Corinthians 4:1-18, 1 Samuel 8:1-22, Mark 3:31-35, Mark 3:20-30

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... experienced the afflictions of age but knew the secret of growing old gracefully. He did not focus on the deterioration of his body but rather set his sights on the new nature that God was creating in him (v. 16) through his grace. Paul developed a sense of perspective, which is God's gift to us as we grow older. He viewed everything against the backdrop of eternity. The afflictions of the body were nothing when compared to the glory that awaits us. The secret of growing old gracefully is to become more ...

3698. Proper 9

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10, Mark 6:1-13, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... interpreted as a symbol of our Lord's authority. It could also symbolize protection, kingly authority, and caring. In light of this, the Lord's specific instructions to take only the clothes on their back, the sandals on their feet, and their staff makes perfect sense. Outline: 1. Jesus told his disciples to take only their staff on their mission. 2. Jesus was a shepherd of souls and most probably carried a staff. 3. The disciples apparently took staffs with them on their journeys. 4. The staff was a symbol ...

3699. The Transfiguration

2 Corinthians 4:1-18, 2 Kings 2:1-18, Mark 9:2-13

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... Angle: All three texts make reference to being transformed by an encounter with spiritual reality. Talk of an unseen world of spiritual reality leaves many people skeptical in our western world. We put credence only in that which we can experience through our senses. On the other hand, the new age movement, which readily embraces all sorts of spirituality, may be a response to our shallow materialism. The problem here is that spiritual reality is sought for its own sake and is often divorced from biblical ...

3700. The Bread Of Life

John 6:35

Illustration

John E. Sumwalt

... my feelings, because I knew I would be going home in an hour and I could have anything I wanted to eat out of our family's well-stocked pantry. I stood there looking on, envious of their fellowship as I wallowed in my suburban yuppie angst. Bill must have sensed my hunger, because just then he looked up and asked if I would like to have a piece of pie. I eagerly said yes, and quickly joined him and the others at the table. It felt very good to be included in their group. As I ate my pie and ...

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