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4026. Home And Temple

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

James Garrett

Columnist Erma Bombeck tells of a Supermom who is perfection itself. She did everything right: kept a perfect home; kept her husband happy. Always had a copy of Bishop Fulton Sheen’s latest book on the coffee table, and answered the door pregnant when the priest came by. One day, I asked her how she did it, and she said, “I emulate the Blessed Virgin Mary,” and I said, “Marge, it’s a little bit late for that.” She said, “Very well, I’ll tell you. Every evening, when the children are bathed and tucked into ...

4027. Thanksgiving Day

Matthew 6:25-34

Illustration

Andrew Daughters

It’s a very nice thing to be thank-full.When you’re full, thanks is easy to say. But what if you hadn’t a turkey to eat on this Thanksgiving day? What if there were no yams or potatoes, no fixings, cranberries and such. What if there were just barely a little, instead of so all-fired much? Would you then say your thanks to the Father who provided this bountiful earth,and gave us so great a share of it by accident only of birth? There are those in the African deserts and in Asia with little to eat. And in ...

4028. Marked For Ministry

Sermon

George Bass

“We do nothing that people might object to, so as not to bring discredit on our function as God’s servants. Instead, we prove we are servants of God….”2 Corinthians 6:3-4a “He said, therefore, to the crowds who came to be baptised by him, ‘Brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the retribution that is coming? But if you are repentant, produce the appropriate fruits….”Luke 3:7-8a The congregation of which I am a member encourages its members to celebrate their baptismal anniversaries every year by ...

4029. Shake It Off!

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

Adrenaline pulsed through our bodies as we nervously took our positions in the field. It was an important playoff game, and everyone was feeling the pressure. The second baseman dropped a routine fly in the bottom of the seventh, allowing three runs to score which tied the game. In the third inning the right fielder had uncharacteristically overrun a pop-up after losing it in the sun, permitting the first run. Now it was the bottom of the eight inning, the score tied, runners on first and third with two ...

4030. A Name To Be Remembered

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

Everyone born into the world has a name. Some names are easy to pronounce while others represent varying degrees of difficulty. On some occasions we find the need to change our names due to marriage or religion. Then, there are those who do not particularly like their name, but the fact remains that everybody has a name. A name to be remembered. Some years ago, the students at the University of California began to protest, insisting that “nobody knows my name.” Classes with 500 to 1,000 students tend to ...

4031. Transformed For The Great Awakening

Sermon

Ron Lavin

Moses experienced the presence of the living God. Therein he was transformed. His face shone. He smiled broadly. Light shone round about him. Everyone noticed the difference. There was a radiance about Moses after he had talked with God. In Hebrew this radiance is called she kinah or Divine Presence. The question raised by our text is the question of radiance. Are we going to let our lights so shine before others that they will be led to faith? The question is not, "How much light do you have?" but "Will ...

4032. Robert Paul, You Were Right!

Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28

Sermon

Richard Hasler

Professor Robert Paul and his family had just returned to Hartford Seminary from a trip to the Rocky Mountains. As a doctoral student in church history studying with him I had always been stimulated by his lectures and seminars. Now, I was anxious to talk with him and with his gracious and perceptive wife, Eunice, to get their impressions of the trip. Paul, a native of England, was ecstatic about the natural beauty of America, but he also was appalled by the lack of appreciation for what he called “a sense ...

4033. The Road To Samaria

John 4:5-42

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

When I was growing up we had a joke in our family about my father's shortcuts. Whenever we were off on a trip somewhere he always knew a quicker way to get there, or back home. I remember one time when I was about 10 years old we were on the way home one night. My father decided to take one of his shortcuts. He made a turn to the left, went around a curve, took the first right, then back to the left, and we wound up in the middle of a cornfield. At one point in his ministry Jesus was in the area of Judea. ...

4034. A Good Thing To Know

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

This is one of those times when our gospel lesson tells us too little! To understand today's parable we must first understand the reference to "these things." Events previously reported are the important antecedents to today's reading. "As they heard these things, he [Jesus] proceeded to tell a parable." Luke assumes that his readers know what "things" they (and Jesus' original audience) have been hearing. As we hear the lesson read, we have little chance of knowing. Few are likely to remember that "these ...

4035. The Signs Of Salvation

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

Would that we could know what Zacchaeus was thinking as he ran ahead of the crowd that day in Jericho! What would he have known or believed about the Galilean preacher? What did he think of the crowds that thronged the streets of Jericho, straining to glimpse the teacher as he journeyed toward Jerusalem? Could he have remembered that more than 500 years earlier Isaiah had promised there would be a day like this? Probably not. Zacchaeus had other problems. To begin with, he was a short man. He had spent ...

4036. Serving With Water: The Washing

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Steve Swanson

You have heard it said, "Clothes make the man." Or perhaps it was put this way: "You are what you wear." We may laugh off these old truisms but you and I are more deeply influenced by clothing than we think. Flashy, expensive clothes impress us. So do uniforms. So do specialized occupational and professional clothes. Why do we quickly reduce our driving speed when we see a uniformed patrolman or immediately feel guilty when a policeman comes to our door? Why will a crowd of otherwise profane men quit ...

4037. Know the Lord

Exodus 5:22--6:12

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

Death of a member's parent Job 19:25-27 The meditation texts is from Exodus and Job: "I will take you for my people, and I will be your God; and you shall know that I am the Lord your God," and "I know that my Redeemer lives." Conducting a funeral for a friend's parent is a very high honor. Thank you for placeing such trust in me to speak words of comfort and Christian hope. Though I did not knowpersonally, I know her son, and I know you don't get good fruit off a bad vine.It's not peculiar, is it, to " ...

4038. Take Care Of Your Wagon

Luke 16:1-15

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: If you take care of your toys today you will be entrusted with greater things tomorrow. Stewardship is a sign of character. Key verses: 10-11. Props: A child's red wagon or a tricycle or a small bike. Lesson: [The children should gather around the wagon.] Good morning! (response) How many of you would like to drive your mom's or dad's car? (response) Where would you go if you could drive the car? (response) When you get a little older, you might be able to do that, but first you have do ...

4039. Do What Is Right

2 Thessalonians 3:13

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

Exegetical Aim: To demonstrate that we should not be weary in doing what is right. Props: Three stuffed animals that you will use as puppets (two alike and one a dog, e.g., two toy birds and a toy dog), a wallet, and a piece of candy. Lesson: [Introduce the two puppets as John and Joe. All through the story have them talk and walk as needed.] I want to tell you a story about John and Joe. They were brothers who wanted to go for a walk. Their mother told them that if they were good, they could have a piece ...

4040. Sowing Seed Is Never A Waste of Time

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Johnny Dean

I shared something with the Senior Citizens group on Wednesday of this past week that I would like to share with you this morning. Ministry can be and often is a difficult task. Oh, I know most of you only see me working for a couple of hours on Sunday mornings, and I’ve heard that old joke about us ministers only working one day a week more times than I care to remember. But it is hard work sometimes. Now, I’m not talking about hard work in the same sense that farming or making furniture or clothing is ...

4041. New (Testament) Math

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Johnny Dean

A couple of years ago, The Mattel Corporation marketed a new version of their immensely popular (and now somewhat controversial) Barbie Doll. This particular model could "talk." And one of the phrases in her vocabulary was, "Math is hard." I can’t argue with that. Anything beyond simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division has always given me difficulty. I can balance my checkbook, but don’t ask me to figure out algebraic equations (as my daughter can tell you). But several national women’s ...

4042. Humility

Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 40:1-31

Drama

Martha L. Leach

Characters: Moses John the Baptist Narrator Theme: Humility Narrator: At one point in their career, the disciples asked Jesus, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" We suppose they were hoping Jesus' answer would be, "Why, you, of course. You who gave up everything to follow me." Instead Jesus called to him a child and told the disciples, "Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the ...

4043. God With Us

Matthew 1:18-25

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: How it is that God is "with us" Prop: An empty manger (optional). Place it in front of you. Lesson: Are you excited? (response) Why are you so excited? (response) What happens on Christmas? (response) It is a very exciting time isn't it? I have a question for you this morning. Where is god? (response) Give them time to respond. Don't be afraid of some silence. Hopefully the talk about Christmas will prime them enough to deal with these questions. Where is God? (their initial answer might be ...

4044. The Dynamics of Doubt

Sermon

Ron Lavin

On the evening of the great first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord. Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you ...

4045. You Can't Start a Car With a Cross

Sermon

Ron Lavin

"We beseech you in behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God." (2 Corinthians 5:20) Recently, I reached into my pants' pocket for a loose car key I had put there earlier. "Quarters. Dimes. Pennies. Ah, there it is." I was in a hurry. I tried to put the key into the ignition lock of the car. Then I saw that it wasn't a key at all. It was the tiny aluminum cross that we distributed recently at church. "You can't start a car with a cross," I said out loud. As I dug back into my pocket for the car key, found it, ...

4046. Our Roots

Luke 9:28-36

Illustration

John M. Braaten

Ever since Alex Haley’s novel, Roots, hit the bookstands in the mid-70s, there has been an increasing number of people interested in their heritage. Many people buy computers and get on the internet primarily to keep track of their family tree. Parish secretaries are often called upon to do research for people investigating their family heritage. It is clear that many persons have been motivated to search through history in an attempt to find their roots. As one newspaper columnist wrote, "The once fabled ...

4047. Religion in the Valley - Religion That Works

Luke 9:28-36

Illustration

James W. Moore

Bishop Arthur Moore loved to tell the story of a man who had been away from his home church for some years, involved in all kinds of shady practices and criminal activities. But when he came back to his home church and testimony-time came, he was ready. He stood and said, “I’m so glad to be back in my own church, and I want to tell you that while it’s true that I have beaten my wife, that I have deserted my children, that I have stolen and lied and done all manner of evil and served several terms in jail— ...

4048. We are God's Children through Faith in Christ

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

Call to Worship Pastor: Faith is a marvelous gift of God! Through faith, we are children of God in union with Christ. People: As children of God, we are recipients of all that he has promised to his children. Pastor: Yes, and our union with Christ makes us brothers and sisters with all who have been baptized in him. People: May God our Father help us to be like Christ our Savior, in whom we have found our true being. Collect O God our Father, who has made us to be your children through faith in your Son: ...

4049. Joy over One Penitent Sinner

Luke 15:1-10

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

Call to Worship Pastor: God's greatest joy is in finding persons lost in sin who will accept his love and forgiveness. People: We have all experienced the thrill of finding things we have lost, so we know the joy that God feels. Pastor: God is happy for each one who repents, because that is one more who is saved from sin. People: We pray for God to give us that same concern for those lost in sin, that we may rejoice with him when they are found. Collect Most merciful Father, who celebrates with joy the ...

4050. The Rich Man and Lazarus

Luke 16:19-31

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

Call to Worship Pastor: Important as it is to be a church member, it is also a potential hindrance to being a Christian. People: If we are careless with our faith, church membership can become a poor substitute for Christian discipleship. Pastor: Being a Christian is a new life in which we live in the awareness that God is our Father, and all persons are our brothers and sisters. People: We want our faith to be strong enough to lead us into a new life, without letting our church membership excuse us from ...

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