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3701. Palm Sunday - The Crowd That Loved Him

Matthew 21:1-11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... shout. [Lead them in the "Hosanna, Save Us Now!" rythmic chant. Follow him down as though he were passing between the two lines.] What a day. Thanks a lot for being such a great crowd. Each Sunday you are going to have the chance of being part of a different kind of crowd. Today you were the crowd who loved Jesus and told him how much you cared for him. Next week we will see what other ...

3702. The Crowd That Mocked Him

Matthew 27:27-31

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... begin today to think like another crowd. I want you to be soldiers today and to act like soldiers. Soldiers are different kinds of people at different times. They are supposed to do what they are told and to follow the orders that are given to ... one that people call Jesus and some have even said that he is a king. You can’t help noticing him since your friends are kind of dragging him along. You don’t even remember another time when they have brought into your sleeping quarters a man who had been whipped ...

3703. Called into Friendship

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... evening he told the sordid story to his friend. To his astonishment, his friend replied, "I have known about it all along, but I have liked you in spite of it." True friendship is strong. It can stand the strain, and it can endure the pain. That is the kind of friendship Christ offers us. He is not easily shocked. He knows everything about us - our strengths as well as our weaknesses. When we take him at his word and come to him honestly and truthfully, we find he loves us not for what we have done, but for ...

3704. Waiting

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . John waited for one whose sandal he was not worthy to untie: A Messiah. We wait. We wait for that which we cannot see. What are you waiting for? II Secondly, there is the waiting of John the Baptist. The people of John’s day experienced a special kind of waiting. When Jesus was a young man in his late 20s, John the Baptist was a desert prophet warning everyone of the wrath of God and the judgment to come. His message was harsh. It was a sharp rebuke especially of the religious leadership. The people had ...

3705. Father -- Son

John 15:1-17

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... SCOTT: (SINGING) "Beloved, let us love one another ..." Well, Lonnie and I love each other. DAD: Of course you do. But it isn't the same kind of love. SCOTT: Sure it is. I love her. She loves me. Love is love. DAD: No. All love is not the same. You're a Christian ... to give to Lonnie. And you have a love in you that can forgive anything she will ever do. SCOTT: I do, and Lonnie has that kind of love for me. DAD: Not if she's not a Christian, she doesn't. SCOTT: She has forgiven me several Times. DAD: Now wait a ...

3706. The Personal Touch

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and he put them down to follow Christ. Peter was called away from the fishing trade and he too followed leaving the craft to other capable men. James and John were called from their family trade and they gave up the love of their family for the love of another kind. You may be an Andrew; you may be a Peter; you may be a James or John, called from the nets of this workaday world. But another Andrew today might be asked to pick up his nets and serve Christ in his boat. Another Peter today might be asked to ...

3707. A Dreadful Declaration

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

George Bass

... saying, ‘If God has been there, he would not have let them do it.’ " My friend says, "During the crucifixion scene, I sobbed so loudly an usher threatened to order us out of the theatre." He adds, "On the face of it, that is the kind of emotional reaction to this scene one would expect - pity, sobbing pity for Jesus, the innocent Victim, helplessly nailed to a cross, his body displayed in full view of every profane eye, a hideous burlesque ... and the cross on which he hung only the Supreme unveiling ...

3708. Report of a Secret Meeting

John 3:1-21

Sermon

George Bass

... prayers were overwhelming." Five short paragraphs followed, naming specific people and their thoughtfulness and care; then came three columns of names - over 110 in all! - below the written copy. She concluded, "Although I have tried my best to include everyone who was so kind to me, I’m sure I have inadvertently overlooked a few people. Please forgive me."21 Her name, "Rose Bertola Funke," appeared at the very bottom of the ad. Our task is much easier than hers, or than Nicodemus’. We know that "our ...

3709. The Stranger at the Tomb

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

George Bass

... and "when they speak, people listen!" Just suppose that the tomb was empty and the angel had simply sat there, radiating some kind of light like a candle in the dark but saying nothing. That might have made angel-watchers out of the women, reminiscent ... , "UFOs are here."34 If the angel had not spoken, or had simply vanished as they watched, they might have taken the same kind of action which Andrus did in helping to form a Mutual Unidentified Flying Object Network (MUFON) to help solve the mystery. But the ...

3710. Love - A Christian Imperative

John 15:1-17

Sermon

George Bass

... the parish and harmony was restored so that they could find, and call, a pastor suitable to both factions. When Christians have that kind of love for each other, nothing, not even life itself, is held back for the sake of another person’s well-being. ... tells the story of how, centuries ago, Taiwan (Formosa, then) was governed by a Chinese Governor named Goho. He was a kind and generous ruler, but he inherited an impossible situation; the then-savage tribes had an established custom of offering a human ...

3711. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... . He not only slandered but openly threatened anyone identified with the Church who happened to be in his presence. He was not the kind of "prospect" you would want your pastor to go see, much less approach him yourself. Would you believe in the sound of the ... -in-law who had given his wife to another man); he killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass (it was a kind of get-even stunt, which he attributed to the Spirit); he carried away the gates of Gaza; finally, he pulled down the pillars of ...

3712. House-Building Time

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... been retracted by Israel’s God. Persisting through all of the ill fortunes of the covenant people, the promise remained: "I will make you a house." Promised in Nathan’s words to David, it was fulfilled as the angel spoke in Mary’s ear. Now think about Mary’s kind of faith for a moment. We love to sing about the promises of God. Many of us know by heart the words to "Standing on the Promises." Yet it is extremely difficult really to live out of God’s promise when all the signs of the times point ...

3713. Whom Do You Sit East Of?

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... , and went on board, to go with them to Tarshish, away from the presence of the Lord. While Jonah is stowing his luggage below decks, it might be a good time to raise the question as to why he is trying to flee from the presence of the Lord. All kinds of answers have been proposed - a lack of courage; too much pride; a "let’s-not-get-involved" mentality. But the Bible doesn’t provide an answer. It simply says that he "rose to flee from the presence of the Lord." That’s all it says. To be honest, we ...

3714. "Job" Is Our Name Too

Job 6:1-7:21

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... God. So, here on this old ash heap, it looks like only we are left. Except, we don’t have to stay here either. You see, what Job did not know was that God planned to appear in another way to the rest of us. There would be a different kind of epiphany. The holiness would be present, but many would miss it. In the fullness of time, God would appear, in our Job-like flesh, as a Servant. And the Servant would suffer and disclose the very pain of God: the Redeemer Job prayed for would come, and suffer, and ...

3715. Feet Of Clay

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down and die. - 2 Samuel 11:15 As Sir Walter Scott said, "Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." (Marmion, 1808) This kind of activity by David rings a bell with all of us - if we look carefully at ourselves. Adultery and murder: some pretty heinous crimes. Yet we know from later accounts that David would recover, be forgiven and live to serve God in further ways. God’s grace ...

3716. In Everything We Do

Romans 5:1-11

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... of a car accident. A young woman is in the car holding a bandage on her forehead. The front of the car is really smashed. Was God caring about that young woman as she was driving her car? Some people say that whenever we’re hurt in accidents, of any kind, God must have stopped caring about us. They say, if he had really loved us, he wouldn’t have let that accident happen to us. God doesn’t want us to be hurt, but sometimes accidents happen. Have you ever been hurt in some ...

3717. Little Seeds, Big Seeds

Mark 4:26-29

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... , and many other foods we eat that come from seeds. Now is the time of year to plant seeds. Here I have a packet of seeds. Can you hear them rustling inside the packet when I shake it? From the picture on the packet you can tell what kind of seeds are inside. What kind of seeds are in this packet? Carrots. What color are carrots? Have you ever eaten carrots? How do you like the taste of them? Now I’ll show you the carrot seeds. I’ll pour some out into my hand, so you can all see them. Do ...

3718. The Mystery of His Presence

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Richard Patt

... service was terrible. We left this promised land of culinary excellence feeling let-down and taken. In contrast, this is one thing I like about Jesus: the bread he offers is predictable and nourishing, and it is satisfying for even the most demanding soul. It is that kind of quality bread of life that Jesus was talking about in this slightly involved Bible story. Here we read: I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever. The bread that I will give him is ...

3719. Return to Glory

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Richard Patt

... of our city’s evening newspaper recently. You must have noticed it. In a single, striking frame, the entire shoreline of Lake Michigan from Milwaukee to Sheboygan was pictured. The photograph encompassed an area of fifty miles from north to south. With some kind of X-ray-like film, the picture revealed a seepage of unnaturally over-heated water emanating from the nuclear power plant near Sheboygan into the normally cool, clean waters of the lake. The point of the photograph was to show how the beautiful ...

3720. Do Children Like You?

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Richard Patt

... teaching takes sheer time. Our loving and caring spirit, our understanding and calmness, and our devotion to Jesus Christ in word and action, need to seep in to a child’s mind and soul. Such sharing rarely comes through a quick torrent of kisses or a fleeting, kindly word. It takes time and patience. Indeed the very spending of time with our children is part of our communicating to them that they are valued and loved. In the second place, Jesus not only took time to be with the children, but he took the ...

3721. Scandal!

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

... been shown that he or she can be trusted. Jesus, however, will not authenticate himself beyond doubt; he will not give us the kind of certainty that will make our faith in him easy. The terrifying result is that we are left to trust him without proof, only ... . In terms of men’s wisdom, he was a Perfect Fool, and anybody who thinks he can follow him without making something like the same kind of a fool of himself is laboring under not a cross but a delusion. Make no mistake about it. If you want to be safe ...

3722. The Jamie Farr Connection

Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

... . Oh, we see other luminaries around us, too. And they also speak our names. From a billboard E. G. Marshall looks down above the words, "Toledo, you can bank on us." Through our own museum Hall Holbrook stolls on television and drawls, "Toledo’s my kind of town and Toledo Trust is my kind of bank." But it’s not the same. There’s money in their eyes, the memory of a contract signed in their minds. They have to say those things. With Jamie Farr it’s different. The local-boy-made-good is proud of his ...

3723. Cultural Revolution or Spiritual Problem?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... that we almost never stop to ask if something is right or wrong any more. We only ask if it "feels good," is convenient, expedient, or easy. Especially in our use of technology, we do this. Our technology has expanded so wondrously that we can do all kinds of near miracles now. Babies are conceived in test-tubes! We can do these things, hut we have often not stopped first to ask whether they are right or wrong. Paul wrote a catalog of sin to describe Roman society nearly 2,000 years ago. What was happening ...

3724. It’s not what you know, but who you know!

John 1:19-28

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... the Lord about the very greatest thing: a new and eternal life in him. Then she knew Jesus and suddenly everything in her life began to count much more, making sense and meaning more than ever before. That only happens when one knows Jesus. We want to know all kinds of things. We want to know what is happening in the world and what is going on in our neighbor’s house. But unless we also know Jesus, we might as well know nothing at all. The prophet Jeremiah wrote, "Let him who glories, glory in this: That ...

3725. Lessons From A Girl In Trouble

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... startling. Mary wondered what in the world was going on. But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son and you will call his name Jesus." It was the kind of news that can wake one up very fast. For Mary this news was confusing. "How can this be," she asked, "since I have no husband?" What she meant is that she had never had intercourse with anyone. "How can I have a baby without that?" she wondered. The angel ...

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