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3726. Father Knows Best?

Luke 6:17-26

Drama

Dave Marsh

... up…) Adam: Mornin’ Dad. Dad: (never looking up) Morning Adam. Adam: Whatcha doin’? Dad: Reading the Bible. Adam: Really? Don’t you normally read the paper? Dad: (self righteously) Yep. But I thought it was high time that I read the good book instead. Adam: Oh. (long pause) Paper boy never came, eh? Dad: Nope. This was the only thing I could find to read. Adam: Well, it’s good for you. Dad: (looks up) What? Adam: You know. It’s good for you. You’re always telling me to quit reading junk and ...

3727. Blah, Blah, Blah

1 Timothy 3:1-16

Drama

Dave Marsh

... blah, blah blah blah, the radio would say to him. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah, Rush Limbaugh sounded so grim. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah, advice for the drive back home, Blah blah blah, blah blah blah, more news wherever I roam! Narrator: Ah, Home after such a long day. Tonight to go out or to stay? First Matt would eat or soak his sore feet, then time to read, to nap or to play! Narrator: Then he sees it there on the stand, the greatest device in the land. He sits in his chair, with far too much ...

3728. A Going Away Gift

John 16:5-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A souvenir and a postcard. Good morning, boys and girls! Today we're going to talk about traveling. How many of you like to take a trip? (Let them answer.) I like to travel too. I like to take my whole family and go on long vacations, but sometimes I have to travel by myself, and I can't take my family. I remember when I was about your age, my father had to travel by himself once in a while. Sometimes his work would take him out of town for several days, and we were ...

3729. Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Brett Blair

... northern Israel. The angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and announced that she had been chosen to be the mother of the long-awaited Messiah. Gabriel told Mary that her aunt Elizabeth, well past the child-bearing age, had become pregnant. Immediately Mary went ... this is done. God does not mind a king being a king if that king is just. He does not mind a peasant being poor so long as the rich help those who are less fortunate. God is not after a social equality he is after hearts of charity whether kings or peasants ...

3730. Father Knows Best?

Matthew 5:1-12

Drama

Dave Marsh

... up…) Adam: Mornin’ Dad. Dave: (never looking up) Morning Adam. Adam: Whatcha doin’? Dave: Reading the Bible. Adam: Really? Don’t you normally read the paper? Dave: (self righteously) Yep. But I thought it was high time that I read the good book instead. Adam: Oh. (long pause) Paper boy never came, eh? Dave: Nope. This was the only thing I could find to read. Adam: Well, it’s good for you. Dave: (looks up) What? Adam: You know. It’s good for you. You’re always telling me to quit reading junk ...

3731. The Armor of What?!

Ephesians 6:10-20

Drama

Dave Marsh

... . What else? My feet will be fitted with readiness. (clueless) Ooookay, yeah, my feet need to be fitted with readiness. In fact, just the other day I think my wife said something about how I needed to have my feet fitted with this, um, readiness. Yeah. (long pause) Readiness….. right…. What else is there? Dave: "In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the ...

3732. The Healing Of Simon's Mother-in-Law

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

James W. Moore

... is even more remarkable when we realize that life has not been a “bed of roses” for Jackie. She has experienced a lot of tragedy and heartache in her lifetime. She lost her dad tragically when she was quite young. Her husband died in the war effort not long after they were married. She has known sickness and sadness and disappointment, but she has never wavered in her love for God, her love for people, her love for the church, and her love for life. She has just looked for the new place to serve. She ...

3733. Sight to the Blind

Luke 4:14-30

Illustration

Brett Blair

... Braille in 1818 opened up a whole new world for the blind. What is it that Jesus intends to do during his three years of ministry? It is this: To open up a whole new world for you and for me. To bring us out of our poverty that has long held us down and to recover sight that you and I have ...

3734. Would You Take The Crown Without The Cross?

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... must therefore go to God’s Word. It is easy to loose track of who we are and why we are here. It is a now very long time since we were in the Garden. Sin has wrecked humanity. It is difficult to imagine what man was like in the Garden of Eden by ... backed up with Scripture. Jesus cannot do a right thing for a wrong reason. Satan asks, wouldn’t you rather avoid the long way to accomplishing your goal? Wouldn’t you rather avoid the path that requires patience? Wouldn’t you rather circumvent suffering? ...

3735. Hypocrites

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Brett Blair

... three pious Jews who decided to travel to a distant city to spend the high holy days with a famous rabbi. They set out on their journey, without food or money, intending to walk the entire way. Several days into the journey, weak from hunger and still a long way from their destination, they knew they had made a mistake and they must do something. They came up with a plan. They decided that one of them would disguise himself as a rabbi. That way, when they came to the next village, the people would offer ...

3736. Why Do You Seek The Living Among The Dead?

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of the Lord forever. That certainly sounds as though it is a reference to eternal life. But not so. For the original Hebrew actually reads: And I will dwell in the hose of the Lord, for length of days” or to make it a little smoother “for as long as I live.” Now that says something quite different. I specifically mention this because in the Methodist hymnal on page 734, where the 23rd Psalm is found in the Psalter readings, you will see that they have retained the original wording: And I will dwell in ...

3737. The Peace Of Christ In A Chaotic World

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Brett Blair

... still a conquered people. There is a peace that the world gives and to the Jews it had not been given for a very long time. They understood how fleeting peace was. And to make this picture complete, Israel has not known national stability since that time. So for ... offers us political peace but it also tried to offer us personal peace, that very deep and personal peace that we all long for. The late advice columnist Ann Landers use to receive something like 10,000 letters a month. When asked what was the ...

3738. Shaping People's Lives Through Forgiveness

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Brett Blair

... redemption is mankind’s one great need. As many of you know the Olympic summer games will be held in their place of birth—Greece. There is an old story about the Greek Marathon. Muscular, conditioned runners paced nervously near the starting line for the long-distance race. The time was near. They "shook out" their muscles, inhaled deeply, and put on their game faces. In the midst of it all, a young stranger took his place at the starting line. His physique was awesome. Taking no notice of the other ...

3739. You Do Have A Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

James W. Moore

... that motor scooter. Each time, Roy would shout instructions, but I was out of earshot before he could communicate completely. Finally, I had to turn it over and slide it to a stop in a pile of gravel. I aged enough on that trip to last me a long time. As I got up, dusted myself off and limped home, I remember thinking, "Daddy’s right… I don’t really need one of those things after all!" Likewise, God, like a loving parent, knows what is best for His children. Our best prayer is a confident "Thy will ...

3740. What Can We Count On From God?

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

James W. Moore

... an e-mail message that was entitled “Things I Really Don’t Understand.” It had a list of questions for which there seems to be no clear-cut answer. Here are a few of them: Why do doctors and lawyers call what they do practice? Why is abbreviation such a long word? Why is it that when you’re driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on your radio? Why is a boxing ring square? What was the best thing before sliced bread? How do they get the deer to cross the highway at those yellow ...

3741. All I Want for Christmas is Hope

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

James W. Moore

... through Christmas. He says, “You just put your mind in neutral... and go where you are shoved!” Of course, he was just kidding around... but we know full well what he was talking about. The Christmas rush, the hectic pace, the heavy traffic, the long lines, the frayed nerves, the bills, the deadlines, the pressures... all combine to cause some people to give up and give in and just stonewall through the season. “They just put their minds in neutral and go where they are shoved...” But please don ...

3742. Struggling with God

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... this for the record: God WAS there that night. During that terrifying night, Jacob DID see the face of God, for God was with Jacob during the struggle, just as God is with you and me during ours. An interesting lesson, don't you think? While Jacob wrestled all that long night, he did not know with what he was struggling, he only knew that he would not let go until some good came of it. Do we miss great blessings because we give up too soon? I think of Thomas Edison and the remark someone once made on the ...

3743. Pay Back Time

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... they all become friends, a scenario that (after a few dream interpretations) would eventually lead to Joseph's release. To make a long story short, the Pharaoh had an eye for talent and made our Hebrew hero the Prime Minister of Egypt - from the ... son he had given up for dead so many years ago. Then he meets the Pharaoh who offers to let Joseph's family settle in for as long as they like. The family moves to Egypt and lives in peace there for many years. Finally Jacob dies at the ripe old age of 147. Now ...

3744. But God...

Genesis 50:15-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... cannot believe it, but eventually they convince him to come to Egypt with them. He makes the trip and is reunited with the son he had given up for dead so many years ago. Then he meets the Pharaoh who offers to let Joseph's family settle in for as long as they like. The family moves to Egypt and lives in peace there for many years. Finally Jacob dies at the ripe old age of 147. Now it is just Joseph and his brothers. Again they fear retribution - with Jacob gone, brother Joe will be free to take his revenge ...

3745. Remembering 9/11

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... with the brush of Al-Quaida would be the same as tarring all Christianity with the brush of the Ku Klux Klan. We reacted better than that, and I am glad. There was a wonderful outpouring of support for the victims and their families. Remember the long lines at the blood banks? The billions of dollars ungrudgingly given to charities who would provide assistance, in some cases more money than they knew what to do with? Americans are a generous people. We already knew that. And not only generous to our own; we ...

3746. The Ten Commandments #2: No Idols!

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... touchable there, something reassuring in the midst of difficulty, something more than Woody Allen's MAYBE, to represent what they were convinced was the larger reality. But as with so many things we human beings do that start out in perfect innocence, it did not take long for that kind of reverence to degenerate. Think of the idol-maker's little children. When times were rough and the crops needed help or the enemy was about to storm the gates, the youngsters saw Daddy go in and talk to that statue. Hmm! To ...

3747. The Ten Commandments #8: No Stealing

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... do not, whose fault is it? If they have been robbed of their future (and that does appear to be the best way to describe their predicament), who did the robbing? "Bad" people? No. They are robbed by power arrangements and structures that have long since relegated them to a permanent underclass. To those arrangements and structures, the command shouts out, "You shall not steal!"(10) In this, the richest nation on earth, we would wish such situations would never occur. But another part of the reason they do ...

3748. A Mother's Gift

1 Samuel 1:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... as if they would never let go. There was no conversation for a moment or two. Then Hannah told him she had brought a present. Over the past weeks, her fingers had flown as she weaved the cloth and cut and stitched to provide something for her boy - a long tunic to be worn over his liturgical garments, the kind worn by men of position. She had decided that she would make him a new one each year. Just as the pilgrimage was the nation's annual tradition, this would be their own. Mother and son had a wonderful ...

3749. David and Bathsheba

2 Samuel 11:1-27, 12:1-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , go spend some "quality time" with Bathsheba. The Hittite leaves the king's presence, but instead of going down to his house he spends the night with the palace guards. You see, as one commentator has it, "Uriah belonged to the John McCain school of war: as long as his fellow soldiers were out in the field, he himself would abstain from the pleasures of civilian life, including relations with the Missus"(6) (which, as we all know, is exactly what David was wanting him to do to make the cover-up work). For ...

3750. Dealing with Depression

1 Kings 19:9-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... he did. What causes such depression? If Elijah is instructive, a good part of the answer is sheer frustration. I have told you this before, but it bears repeating. Many years ago after a funeral for one of the most faithful leaders in my father's congregation and long before I ever went into the ministry, I asked Dad if that was the toughest thing about being a pastor...having to bury one of the most dedicated saints of the church. He said, "No, not at all. After all, a Christian funeral is a celebration of ...

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