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3676. The Right Side of the Bed

Ephesians 4:3, 17--5:21

Children's Sermon

Object: A bed pillow Lesson: Making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and to be renewed in the Spirit of your minds. Good morning, boys and girls. On which side of the bed did you get up this morning? (response) Was it the left side or the right side? (response) Or was it the right side or the wrong side of the bed? (response) Some people think that there is a right side and a wrong side to get out of bed, These people don't mean the right or the left side of the bed. ...

3677. Lessons for Lent 3

John 2:12-25

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

Theme For The Day: A call to spiritual renewal and cleansing. Since God has come to us as holy redeeming love, our response is to be cleansed of our sins and live holy lives. The Ten Commandments (First Lesson) are guidelines for such lives. Jesus' cleansing of the temple (Gospel) constitutes a call to moral and spiritual renewal, beginning with God's house and God's people. COMMENTARY Old Testament: Exodus 20:1-17 The decalogue, the Ten Commandments, is presented as Israel's response to God's act of ...

3678. I Am The Bread Of Life

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

There is a bit of Jewish humor that goes like this: An old man goes to a diner every day for lunch. He always orders the soup du jour. One day the manager asks him how he liked his meal. The old man replies, "It was good, but you could give a little more bread. Two slices of bread is not enough." So the next day the manager tells the waitress to give him four slices of bread. "How was your meal, sir?" the manager asks. "It was good, but you could give a little more bread," comes the reply. So the next day ...

3679. The Humble Teddy

Luke 14:11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A tire jack. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever been with your father or mother when they had a flat tire on their car? (Let them answer.) Did it seem like a good time to them? Did they enjoy changing the tire? (Let them answer.) It isn't much fun, is it? As a matter of fact, it is an awful experience, and I don't know anyone who likes to change a tire. But if you think that it is bad for your father or mother, wait until you must do it. As bad as it is, though, I want you to ...

3680. Reformation Sunday

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

A Book Misunderstood; Jerusalem the Great and Jerusalem the Golden; Away With the Sea and Tears and In With Love; and Faith in a God Who Can Do Anything. One of the best comedy routines I've ever seen on TV took place in the waiting room of a veterinarian. Among those gathered was a man with a huge box which shuddered and lurched about from the struggles of the creature inside. Strange growls, fur, feathers, and dust all came belching out. At one point the top flew open. The owner grabbed an umbrella, ...

3681. BEING LAUGHED AT

1 Peter 2:15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: A hat that is either too large or too small, a stumble (you will have to pretend to stumble over a step), and a slip (your head and arm slip off your leg which you were counting on as support.) The idea is that when you mess up a simple thing you may get a laugh, but they are not laughing with you but at your foolishness. Good morning, boys and girls. (Trip over a step and pretend to stumble.) Oops! Now how did I miss that step? I have walked over it a thousand times. (Repeat walking up the step a ...

3682. It Takes Time

Ephesians 5:15-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: An obstacle course [TV trays, waste baskets, hall trees, stools, piano bench.] Each of the items should have a tag attached that speaks of some sin such as hate, jealousy, stealing, greed, dishonoring parents, etc. The course can be set up in the center aisle. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever run a race that really counted? A lot of you have run races. Did you win? Sometimes you will when the other people are slower runners than you are. I think I enjoyed racing when I was a ...

3683. How To Share A Friend

1 Corinthians 9:22

Children's Sermon

Object: a record with loud rock-and-roll music. Boys and girls, do you like to tell people about Jesus? (Let them answer.) Some of you say yes and some of you say no. What are some good ways to do this? (Let them offer some answers if they care to.) Sometimes talking to other people about Jesus is not easy to do, is it? Why do you suppose that is? One of the reasons I have found that people do not like to have you talk to them about God is that it seems too embarrassing to them. Or they may think it is ...

3684. Work-glove People

Mark 9:35

Children's Sermon

Object: a pair of white gloves and a pair of heavy-duty work gloves. (As the children gather, put on the white gloves.) Boys and girls, I'm wearing white gloves today. Have you ever seen anybody wear white gloves? When do they do it? (Talk about it.) That's right. We wear white gloves when we want to get dressed up or look fancy. Sometimes we see pictures of people who are wearing white gloves and have a fancy tuxedo on, and are wearing a top hat and carrying a cane. These people are looking very elegant ...

3685. Advent's "Invisible" Man

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

The idea of-the invisibility in our culture is no new thing. The great H.G. Wells wrote a book called The Invisible Man. In it he imaginatively explores the development of a professor's ingenious use of science to effect his own invisibility. Invisibility becomes a metaphor for invincibility. His becoming invisible is by his own choosing. He literally disappears with the ingestion of a certain chemical solution, which eventually drives him insane. The point here is this man, Griffin, chooses to become ...

3686. The Heart Of The Gospel

Eulogy

Joe Barone

Psalm 161 Thessalonians 1:1-10 and 1 Corinthians 15:1-22 The Heart Of The Gospel A Scriptural Sermon For A Christian Minister It always humbles me to know that the earliest of Paul’s letters deals with the ministry. At one point in his letter to the Thessalonians, Paul tells the people, on behalf of himself, Silas and Timothy, “... you are our glory and our joy.” I think that’s an important thing to remember today as we come to bury one who was himself a minister. The power of Paul’s ministry came from two ...

3687. Coming Back Down

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

John Jamison

I have visited some places I really wish I could have stayed. If it were my choice I would still be there right now. As much as I like it here, I would rather be there. There is a tent, set on a hill at the top of a 1,500-foot cliff overlooking the Jordan Valley in southern Israel. When the sun comes up in the morning it breaks over the mountains a few miles to the east and literally shatters the darkness around you. The winds sail up the face of the cliff from the valley below and almost make you believe ...

3688. Step Six - Willingness

Jn 5:2-9a · Heb 4:14-16 · Is 1:12-20

Sermon

John A. Terry

Step six: Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. Here is Isaiah, whom we saw in last week's text being so awed by God's presence, so totally aware of his uncleanness before God. His was a majestic experience of worship. In this morning's text God speaks through Isaiah, questioning the validity of the people's worship. The local Chamber of Commerce recently came out with a listing of the best of Gwinnett. It listed the best pizza, the best athlete, the best country road. And ...

3689. Oh Me of Little Faith

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Johnny Dean

A couple of years ago, the scientific community announced yet another earth-shattering, history-making discovery. It seems that a group of scientists were studying a meteor that supposedly originated on the planet Mars and had crash-landed on Earth some 13,000 years ago. In a small fragment of the meteor, the scientists found organic compounds that appeared to be bacteriological life forms. Perhaps the most famous scientist of our era, Carl Sagan, said, "If the results are verified, this is a turning point ...

3690. Get Ready, Get Set...Wait!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Johnny Dean

Today marks the beginning of the season of Advent, a time of preparation, a time of going toward the coming again of the Messiah, a time of great expectation and great anticipation. But exactly what is it that we anticipate? What are we getting ready for? What do we expect to happen? Do we anticipate the end of the world, as some religious cults always do at this time of the year? Are we preparing our hearts and spirits to receive again the coming the coming of the Christ child into the world? Or are we ...

3691. Have You Talked to Jesus Lately?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Johnny Dean

One evening as I was getting out of my car to go into the office of the church I was serving in Memphis, I saw a young man approaching me, cutting across the church yard from Highland Street. The young man had a backpack on his back, and he was wearing faded blue jeans, a dirty tee shirt, and tennis shoes that had seen their better days several months ago. In other words, he looked like any one of the many college students who lived in that neighborhood, since the University of Memphis was not far from the ...

3692. Divorce-Proofing Your Marriage

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him." So he took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then he brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they all got their names. So the man named all the birds and all the animals; but not one of them was a suitable companion to help him. Then the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, he took out one ...

3693. God, The Enemy

Luke 12:1-12

Sermon

This week began with the execution of Timothy McVeigh, the man responsible for the worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. A USA Today poll taken in April of this year showed that 81 percent of Americans wanted McVeigh to be executed -- and 28 percent of that support was from people who are normally against the death penalty. No matter where you stand on the issue of capital punishment, this particular execution has forced itself on our consciousness. One thing that particularly caught my ...

3694. Learning to Walk on the Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

"Take heart ... it is I ..." It was not the custom of Jesus to go about walking on water. When he wanted to cross a lake or stream, he normally got into a boat, as you and I would. When he walked, he usually walked on earth, as you and I do. But in Matthew 14:22-33 we have an exception. Here the story is told of a night when Jesus walked on the storm-driven waves of Galilee. Some of his disciples were out there in a boat, fearing for their very lives, many furlongs from land, beaten by the waves, the wind ...

3695. To Be Somebody

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

A few years ago, Vance Packard wrote a book he called The Staus Seekers. From him and others like him we learn that having an office with a window and a carpet might be more important than getting a raise. So what encouragement is there for those who make sandwiches for a cafeteria? Or who fill mail orders at Wards? Or who make boxes at Hoerner Waldorf? Or who are retired - whose job history is in the past? Martin Luther King Jr. coined a word that says what we all hunger for: somebodiness. It seems to me ...

3696. The Doubting Sum

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

The Holy Trinity When the eleven disciples, minus Judas, came to the mountain previously chosen by Jesus to meet him, some doubted. We would like to speak concerning the sum of doubt. Doubt adds up to zero. It is not a negative number; it is nothing! When we think of the word doubt we associate words like: indecision, uncertainty, hopelessness and powerlessness. People with convictions act. The opposite of doubt is faith and only faith has power. Imagine the eleven, with the doubters included, hearing ...

3697. Our Three-Faced God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

In my home town, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, where I grew up as a boy, there is the county courthouse situated on one of the hills. Arising out of the center of the building was a high tower with a clock on it. The clock had four faces to enable townspeople to see the time from any direction. As a boy, I was always captivated by the clock because I wondered whether there were four clocks each with a face or whether there was one clock with four faces. If there was one clock with four faces, it was a mystery ...

3698. The Stepfather of God

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

When I meet with a couple in preparation for their baby's baptism, I always ask this question: Have you prepared a will and have you specified in it who would rear your child if you were removed from the picture? Young parents don't like to even think about such a possibility, but life's uncertainties make it necessary. It's a tough question. Whom do you trust enough to rear your precious child? God had to answer that question when he decided to send his son Jesus to planet earth. God had to select a ...

3699. A Mother Who Could Let Go

1 Samuel 9:1--10:8

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

In a labor room on the obstetrics wing of a hospital, a doctor found a crumpled paper on which an expectant father had done some scribbling. Obviously, during the pauses in the long labor process, he had been thinking about the child about to be born. This is what he wrote: John Peter Jones, John P. Jones, J.P. Jones, John Jones, Governor John Jones, President John P. Jones, All the Way with JPJ!" Maybe the baby turned out to be Juanita Paulene Jones! I can tell you one thing that father and mother ...

3700. Those Bothersome Do’s and Don’ts

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

This skit may easily be read instead of memorized. In that case, rehearse it well so the lines will sound natural and spontaneous instead of stilted and draggy. The subject is God’s commandments: those given to Moses on Sinai and the two Jesus left for us. Cast: four boys, four girls and a man with a good deep voice offstage unseen. In the beginning the eight are scattered around the playing area, using whatever levels and other physical things you wish. They may move freely as they speak. Props: statuette ...

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