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Drama
William Grimbol
... . READER 3 We defeat Death, whenever we defiantly celebrate the dignity and integrity of Life. We conquer Death, whenever we embrace our own Grace-created capacity to be forever new. We vanquish Death, whenever we choose to live as the serving and sacrificing disciples we were created to be. We watch Death shrivel up and collapse in futility, whenever we have the courage and the conviction to become peacemakers ... to forgive and be forgiven ... to make a commitment and keep it ... to speak out for an end ...
Sermon
Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... Jesus teach and they had become hungry. Many had carried a little food with them for their meal but were afraid to pull it out because they might have to share it. Philip, one of the disciples, found a young lad who had a couple loaves of bread and some fish. The young lad offered the loaves and fish to the disciples for sharing. It was such a magnificent gesture that all those Jews seated on that hillside pulled out what they had brought along and began to share it! The miracle that day was not so much ...
Sermon
Leonard H. Budd
... unlatching the ties. The door opened very slowly and the runner pushed his way in - shouting the news even before fully in the room. "We broke bread with Christ. He lives!" THE STORY OF THE RUNNER is, of course, imagined. It grows from the Easter account of the two disciples who met their Risen Lord on the road to Emmaus. It is an account found in the 24th chapter of Luke’s Gospel. In this imagining no names were used because I want the runner’s name to be your name. Indeed, you are the runner - you who ...
Sermon
Leonard H. Budd
... their Master, their teacher. He was being ushered into the Great City even as would be a king! The journey that Jesus took that first Palm Sunday illustrates the biblical call to move from slavery to being sons and daughters of God. Earlier, the disciples had urged Jesus’ retreat to the safety of Galilee. There the leaders were fewer and less hostile. But in Jerusalem he faced increased tension, trouble, torture - and even death. Yet, Jesus did not retreat. His response to the proposal was, "Get behind me ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... too. Jesus is the Son of God. And now we watch with amazement as the story unfolds, because almost no one else seems to be able to discover the secret. The authorities mistake him for a troublemaker; the people confuse him with the prophet Elijah among others; even his disciples are blind to the full truth of who he is. Ironically, in the middle of the story only the demons he has come to destroy recognize the secret that Jesus is the Son of God. The thing is, he doesn’t look like the Son of God. Like the ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... , Key, as Jesus, suddenly turned from the group on the stage toward the audience, pointed to the blank auditorium side wall, and said, "Look at the lilies in that field ..." He stopped, almost as if he had forgotten the next line, peered around at the disciples, focused again on the audience and repeated, "Look at the lilies in that field ..." Once more he stopped and seemed to be searching for the next words. The audience began to shift uncomfortably. His hand extended yet again to the blank wall, and this ...
Sermon
Richard A. Jensen
... search of the truth. In their wanderings these Greeks from a far off land had evidently heard of this person called Jesus. They wanted to meet him. They wanted to hear his teaching. They wanted to hear his insights on the truth. So they came to Philip, a disciple with a Greek name, and they said: "Sir, we wish to see Jesus." In John’s account of the story of Jesus, these Greeks really represent all the peoples of the world. They represent you and they represent me. God became flesh and dwelt among us in ...
3883. Epiphany 2
1 Samuel 3:1--4:1, John 1:35-42, 1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Bulletin Aid
Paul A. Laughlin
... of the wilderness prophet’s own testimony to Jesus. Call to Worship Leader: John the Baptizer knew authority when he saw it: People: AND HE SAW IT IN JESUS, CALLING HIM "THE LAMB OF GOD." Leader: John the Baptizer directed others to Jesus, even his own disciples, who in turn brought still others. People: SO LET US, SEEKING GOD’S MESSIAH, FIND CHRIST; AND FINDING HIM, RETURN TO POINT OTHERS TO HIM. Collect God of wisdom and truth, who sent a light in the wilderness to bear testimony to a Lamb, help us ...
3884. Easter 5
Acts 8:26-40, 1 John 4:7-21, John 15:1-17
Bulletin Aid
Paul A. Laughlin
... the community of believers is depicted as the branches of the vine (Christ), pruned (to remove the half-hearted? Gnostics?) by the vinedresser (the Father) to bear more fruit (presumably good works). Christology and ecclesiology are closely "entwined" here: the community of disciples is fruitful only insofar as the love of Christ flows through them. Call to Worship Leader: In the vineyard of God, we are all branches. People: THE VINE IS CHRIST, WHOSE LOVE FLOWS THROUGH US. Leader: Each branch abides in the ...
Drama
Esther Lense
... in the Savior whom he sent, that this is the good news - that we have eternal life in him, lead us to joy and praise of him. JOHN: Yes, to those who believe, there is joy. I am John, the disciple whom Jesus loved. And I loved him. Oh, I had a rough time after he left us, as the other disciples did too of course, but it was all worth it and we were glad to suffer for his sake, because he had given joy and meaning to our lives, just as he does for all who believe and follow him ...
3886. The Crisis of Commitment
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... a distance, beloved - any one of us - we have no right to come to this Table. We have no right here. If we assume that attitude, then we are not obeying our Lord’s admonition - that we remember. Remember what our Lord asked those who wanted to be His disciples? "Do you dare drink this cup that I drink?" Do we? To receive this Sacrament is a pledge of total commitment. It’s a sacrifice of thanksgiving for all that He has given us by His grace. When we accept His Body and His Blood, when we commune with ...
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Charles L. Koester
... reaction was the same. Jesus alive? But he was dead! He had been crucified, struck with a sword, and sealed in a tomb. He couldn’t be alive again. Or could he? It was overwhelming, unbelievable, and yes, even frightening. Then, when Christ appeared to those disciples in Galilee, and stood before them saying, "Peace be with you," they all fell to the ground and worshiped him. Even in that moment, in the presence of the holy and mysterious, they could not absorb or fully understand. Had you and I been there ...
Sermon
Charles L. Koester
... that overcomes the world? It must be more than a yearly celebration of an Easter Day! Victory of faith is for each day of our life, or Easter is a victor turned into only another human defeat. Even Easter began as a defeat for the disciples. Following the resurrection, they retreated behind the locked doors of an upper room. We are told they did so because of fear. Thomas doubted. Faith only came as Christ came commanding him "Be not faithless but believing." Fear and doubt are terrible twins. They kept ...
Sermon
Charles L. Koester
... of sin’s forgiveness. Forty days later at Bethany, on the Mount of Olives, he lifted his hands blessing the disciples. While doing so, he parted from them. In boyhood I had trouble understanding and comprehending the Ascension. As a kid, ... on the clouds. Who’s to say it isn’t so? She took quite literally the word of the two in white robes who said to the disciples, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will come in the same way as ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... him when he hurt so much. But the words that I will never forget were the ones that he said to me and to his good friend and disciple John. He was suffering and dying and he looked at me and at John and he told us to take care of each other. He knew I ... I did. Jesus died that day, but he came back to life two days later. I am Mary, the mother of Jesus, but I am also a disciple who believes that Jesus is the Son of God and the Savior for all. [Take away the mask.) That was Mary, she watched her son die and ...
3891. The Crowd That Followed Him
Matthew 27:32-44, Matthew 27:45-56
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... to open the gates and bring Jesus to us. If you look around you may see some of the people that you know. I see Mary, his mother, and some of the other women who have cooked for the disciples and cared for them while they were teaching others and learning from Jesus. I see John, one of his disciples. There are others standing around, but most of the people are like you and me. We are just waiting. We are not too sure why we are standing here but the soldiers always want a crowd when they take someone ...
3892. Believable Light
2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4
Sermon
William F. Dunkle
... the waves in the first instance. He was confident that they could have weathered the storm. But Jesus always adjusted himself to the sufferer’s level of understanding. He always knew the exact remedy for any person’s situation. He knew that the panic-stricken disciples would have been convinced by nothing less than the stilling of the waves, for their trust was not great enough to be satisfied by anything else. This story is actually stressing the power of Jesus to do all that is necessary. He does not ...
Sermon
E. Jerry Walker
... thought. Someone cursed and the mob sprang upon him and ... the memory of it was so bitter that a tear broke from Peter’s tightly closed eyes and he pulled his robe about him as though chilled by the night ... and they had fled. All his friends, his disciples, had fled ... And now, Peter walked alone. Alone, alien to the world. A group of men passed, and he waited in the shadows until they were well down the street before he left the shelter of the archway. What was it they said about a drowning man? That ...
Sermon Aid
John W. Rilling
... we expected." They expected a corpse and encountered a live angel who asked, "Why seek ye the living among the dead?" The disciples returning home to Emmaus were chided by their Companion with "Oh foolish men and slow of heart to believe." The twelve, huddling behind closed ... doors in the Upper Room were in no better case. The common refrain of the disciples was not, "I told you so," but "This is the Lord’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes." 2. WHEN MORNING ...
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Brett Blair
... Lazarus was raised from the grave they saw the heavens open and bring life to dead man’s bones. When Jesus died the heavens closed and grew silent. But the stone…the stone…the heavens opened and the stone was rolled away. When Jesus stood before the disciples behind that locked door they saw the heavens open and the Lord redeemed that day. Redeemed you and redeemed me. And he will redeem all those we invite to come and see. Now, let me close with the story of the man with two umbrellas. Dr. Gordon ...
3896. UR Fair IC
Mark 2:18-22
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... example, too. I fast two Times a week, as the law demands. SCRIBE: What law are you referring to? FAIRISEE: The excellent Pharisaic law, of course. That's fair. SCRIBE: I see. FAIRISEE: Yes, of course. And how many Times do you, Jesus, and your disciples fast? JESUS: Once a year. FAIRISEE: Once a year? SCRIBE: Only once a year! FAIRISEE: Of all the unrighteous nonsense. It can hardly compare with what I do, can it? SCRIBE: Hardly. Once a year. Ha! FAIRISEE: That comparison is fair. SCRIBE: I see. FAIRISEE ...
Sermon
George Bass
... learn the lesson about the importance of love, but that we can attain it through faith in the risen Christ. Jesus told the disciples - and us, too - not only to "abide in me," but also to "abide in my love." And how? By obeying his commandments, ... of the robe."53 Christians are to be known as people born and made of love, the love of Christ, and if we count ourselves true disciples of Christ, the world, as the hymn goes, "will know us by our love, by our love," because we "abide in love" - his love - and he, ...
Sermon
Larry Powell
... him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. (Acts 9:1-2) Now, consider Saul following his conversion. Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus. At once he began to preach in the synagogues that Jesus is the Son of God. (Acts 9:19) Along the road leading to his personal destination, he was turned about in the midst of his journey under the conviction of a word which came ...
3899. Paul of Tarsus
2 Corinthians 12:1-10
Drama
Michael L. Sherer
... power on earth, it won’t be scary trusting yourself to it. But you have to know it and believe it. ANTAGONIST: Sounds like asking quite a bit, believing something chancy like that. What if it doesn’t work? PROTAGONIST: I’d imagine that was what the eleven disciples wondered the Friday right after Jesus had been taken off the cross. "What if it didn’t work?" They had to wait almost three days to find out that it did. We’re lucky. We know how it ended. ANTAGONIST: Hmmm. That’s right. And that’s ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... first realize that in the world of Jesus health and theology were viewed as inseparable. If you were sick it was because God was angry with you because of some sin. This was demonstrated in that scene in which Jesus confronted a blind man. The disciples asked (the disciples now, not the Pharisees): Master, who sinned that this man was born blind? Was it he or his parents? They thought that this man was cripple because he had done something to invoke the wrath of God. And after hearing that for years the man ...
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