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4076. The Witness Of A Member Of The Crowd Who Shouted, "Crucify"

Drama

Dann J. Ettner

... crowd. (16) At thattime they had a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas. So when thecrowd had gathered, Pilate asked them, PILATE: "Which one do you want me to release to you:Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?" NARRATOR: For he knew it was out of envy that they ... and the elderspersuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and to have Jesusexecuted. PILATE: "Which of the two do you want me to release to you?" CROWD: "Barabbas." PILATE: "What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is calledChrist?" CROWD: "Crucify ...

4077. Keep Your Eyes On Heaven

Colossians 3:2

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... can kites do, boys and girls? (Let them answer.) Kites can fly high above the ground, can't they? When we fly a kite, where do we keep our eyes? (Let them answer.) That's right. We keep our eyes on the kite, up in the sky, because kites usually want to keep going up and up. (Pick up the balloon.) Here is a balloon. Balloons have something in common with kites, don't they, boys and girls? What do they have in common? (Let them respond.) Balloons like to fly above the ground, too. They help us to keep our ...

4078. Empowered By A Vision

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... on the edge of trouble, his behavior mandates that he keep looking over his shoulder lest someone catch up with his shenanigans. On this particular occasion, we find him trying to stay clear of Esau. He has been such a rogue, he fears his brother wants revenge. To avoid that, Jacob leaves Beersheba, where he has been living, and flees North to Bethel. It is an unsettled area, a place of desolation dominated by distant, craggy hills. Alone, Jacob arrives after sunset, carrying the few things he could grab as ...

4079. The Risky Business of Faith

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... the human community another chance. God decided to use the problem, that is people, to solve the problem. We usually don't look at these things from the perspective of the Almighty. Our view is limited by our humanness. We think the option is whether or not we want to trust and believe in God. Actually, the issue is that God decided to trust and believe in us. In Genesis 12, God took a risk by giving people another chance. God, however, knew that to straighten out this problem, he was going to have to take ...

4080. Life's Loose Threads and The Tie That Binds

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... again toward God. Maybe somewhere up there on Pisgah, with the lengthening shadows and sunset dancing in his whiskers, those same words once addressed to Pharaoh -- "Let my people go!" -- were finally whispered to Moses as well. No doubt, even he wouldn't have wanted it any other way. After all, these are Yahweh's children, not his. And their future lies in Yahweh's hands -- just as it has all along. Ultimately, I suppose, that's the point of unfinished business: to make us realize anew how truly dependent ...

4081. Expecting the Unexpected

Judges 4:1-24

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... poses the real problem. Mark Twain once quipped that what troubled him about the Bible was not what he failed to understand, but rather what he understood quite clearly and yet failed to accomplish. "If anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well; and if anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile" (Matthew 5:49b-41). Have you ever attempted to live out the meaning of these words? It's tough to do! And ...

4082. To All Those Who Have, More Will Be Given

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Phyllis Faaborg Wolk

... When you entrusted me with the gifts of compassion and empathy, I was a little shocked. As I was growing up, people would always tell me that it wasn't manly to hug, or share feelings, or cry. But after you gave me the gift of compassion, I found myself wanting to reach out to my son, at times, with a hug rather than a handshake. I began noticing what other people were feeling and sometimes I had to hold back tears when someone was crying in my presence. I resisted those instincts for quite a while. Then I ...

4083. Prepared Or Not?

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... it is important to watch and be prepared. The signs of the kingdom's coming into our personal lives or into larger social movements cannot always be perceived in advance to those who are attentive and receptive to them. 5. No Borrowed Oil. The five unprepared maidens wanted the other five to give them some of their oil. They could not do so without running short themselves. One must be careful in pushing details of a parable too hard to fit some notion. If we assume that the oil for the lamps in the parable ...

4084. The Intersection Of The Cross

Matthew 5:31-32

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... criticized as always and in all cases wrong (or at least morally irresponsible) and maybe even beyond the redeeming grace of God. These "give 'em hell" types he fears the most and pities the most as being yet a long, long way from the kingdom. The pastor wants and needs and is called to speak a clear word, a resounding word in support of lifelong trust, commitment and faithfulness on the part of those who choose to marry. He is called to announce God's will that marriages be permanent, riding out the storms ...

4085. Getting Down To The Local Issues

Sermon

Thomas Long

... tried in vain to speak to these people he loved so dearly. On his last day alive, the attending physician had issued the signal, the family had gathered in his room -- the daughter and her two brothers. With strength fading, the father motioned to his son that he wanted a glass of water. The son hastened to the sink and returned with a full water glass, which he held toward his father's lips. But the old man pushed the glass away and moved his finger from the glass toward his son, as if to say, "You drink ...

4086. Behold The Man Who Taught By The Sea

Mark 4:1-20

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... thorns which choke the sprouts. But some seeds fall into good soil and they produce a fine crop. A man from the city decided he wanted to change his way of living and become a chicken farmer. So he bought an old run-down farm, moved out there, cleaned it up ... saying thank you. She was disappointed about that, but suddenly he was back. He said, "Lady, I forgot to thank you for my shoes, and I want to ask you a question. Are you God's wife?" She was surprised by that, but managed to say, "No, I'm just one of ...

4087. Stop Being Afraid

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... ? Teach them how to diffuse conflict? Hardly. Instead he says, "Don't ever be afraid of your enemies and critics. Even though it's not obvious now, the truth will come out finally. So, speak up; shout it out; stand and deliver" (10:26-27). Oh, my. We don't want to be heroes, especially not religious ones. It's all we can do to get to church on Sundays and we're supposed to be shouting the word of God from the housetops? No way. We're afraid. But Jesus doesn't quit. "Stop being afraid" (that's the force ...

4088. Demon-Possessed Child

Matthew 15:1-20, Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... at animals, so that you may know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel" (Exodus 11:7). A dog had little stature, being called "a mere dog," beneath a servant in rank. (See 2 Kings 8:13.) Dogs also consumed the waste that no one else wanted or could use, that is, "the crumbs that fall from their masters' table" (Matthew 15:27). (See also Mark 7:28, Matthew 15:26, and Matthew 15:27.) Children also had little status; however, they were to be fed before the dogs: "He said to her, 'Let the ...

4089. Seeing The Whole Person

John 4:1-26

Sermon

David Belgum

... goes another one; you know how they are." "I know the type; you can't count on 'em." "A Samaritan asked me if he could work on our fishing crew here on the Sea of Galilee. I said, 'No way, man!' I didn't want to start a fight; but I sure didn't want him hanging around." Did you catch me saying "redneck"? Isn't that stereotyping? We must remember that, according to John's account, the disciples had only been in training a short while. There was the dramatic lesson at the wedding at Cana, when they really ...

4090. Brainstorms

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... 28). They had no problem believing in the Christ/Messiah. They just could not believe that Jesus of Nazareth, an obscure rabbi crucified as a rebel, could be he. Our problem is likely to be the opposite. We admire Jesus but are not sure that we need, or want, a Savior. The late Karl Menninger's book homes in on our problem with a question: What Has Happened To Sin? Whose Church? As Christians, we are supposed to be transparent so that people looking at us should see through us and see only Christ. This does ...

4091. Hailing The King Of Chaos

Job 12:13-22· Matthew 27:32-44

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... disorder and confusion can a person endure? There's a song we used to sing about "building a sweet little nest somewhere out in the west, and letting the rest of the world go by." Have you ever wanted to do that? Have you ever wanted to stop reading the newspaper or listening to the news? Have you ever wanted to blot out everything that is happening because the chaos and the contrast are too overwhelming? The temptation to play ostrich is strong in all of us. Just stick your head in the sand and pretend it ...

4092. "Do This In Remembrance Of Me"

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... the memory of a loved one alive. Or endow colleges, hospitals, libraries, parks, scholarships, or memorials in churches in a loved one's name. Remembrance seems to be one of the things that's truly unique to human beings. We don't want to forget our loved ones. And we ourselves don't want to be forgotten. In a cemetery in Hiawatha, Kansas, there is a strange tribute to one man's desire to be remembered. John M. Davis was a wealthy but eccentric local farmer. His wife died decades before him, in 1930. Soon ...

4093. Pentecost: From Confusion To Communion In Christ

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... , to be a common unity, a community with God at the center. That was God's vision for what God made, represented by the Garden of Eden, a place where man, woman, and nature lived together in perfect cooperation and peace. But Satan, God's adversary, wants to destroy all unity, to send everything back to its original confusion and chaos. Sin was introduced into the Garden of Eden, the original unity of creation. The shattered world we have today is the result. We can hear the effects of sin all around us ...

4094. Holing Out

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon

Robert R. Kopp

... common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. So when I die, I want people to say: "Bob Kopp loved Jesus. He loved his life and wife and boys and anybody who let him. And he loved people enough to point them to Jesus." If that's true when I hole out, then I'll have done my best in the time allotted to ...

4095. Life Beside The Falls

Ezekiel 47:1-12

Sermon

David O. Bales

... mind she pushed meaning into carefully crafted sentences, not for her column of the week, but for the column of her life. Saturday, off and on, she typed in her bedroom; and Sunday morning at breakfast she gave me this piece. "A good morning gift," she said. "I want you to have this before my final deadline." "What does it mean to be here -- an old lady swaddled like a seated mummy, at a frozen football game, in this city beside the falls? What conclusions can be drawn by a person who has lived 86 years in ...

4096. Balaam, The Donkey And The Angel

Numbers 22:1-20, Numbers 22:21-41

Drama

Peter C. Garrison

... to tell me not to go to Balak? I admit, "I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the road to oppose me. Now, therefore, if it is displeasing to you, I will return home." From now on, I just want some plain explicit instructions about what God is going to want from me. Angel: What's your point, exactly? Balaam: (Exasperated) Oooh. The point is that it's unfair that God seems to change his mind and doesn't let me know about it. I don't understand his plans and then I look like a ...

4097. All Things Hidden Will Be Revealed

Drama

Karren Boehr

... very vital points. 1ST SAINT: Not true! GATEKEEPER: (Calmly continues) You both were more interested in the mechanics, in your way of doing things, than you were in the Spirit of God. Shame on you both! You were not concerned about humbleness and being servants. You wanted power, your own way. God said let there be no division among you, but be made complete, in the same mind, in the same judgment. Did you wait eagerly for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ? For no one can lay a foundation other than ...

4098. Is Christ In The Manger?

Drama

Karren Boehr

... the birth of Christ, not for driving everyone crazy. It's one of the most important times in the life of a Christian, and I refuse to let us get caught up in all the hassle we've had other years. MOTHER: But, Dear, you are the one who always wants to do all these things. You insist on the fruitcakes, and the neighbors' gifts ... FATHER: I know. Except in my devotions this week, I've been convicted that Christmas is a time for Christ. This year, we're going to do the meaningful things. I'll be a wise man ...

4099. Mr. Roberts And The Christmas Tree

Matthew 1:18-25

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... time we do something that is good or tell the truth or obey our parents it is a light in a dark world. MR. ROBERTS: Oh, I want to be a light shining in a dark world. I'll bet you do too. And look what we have now. An angel. I know what ... now. Would you like that? Let's all sing "Silent Night" and the Christmas Tree will lead us. (ALL SING) That was just wonderful. And now, I want to show you the picture. Remember what is says? That's right. It says "XMAS." Do you know why the X is there? It stands for Christ ...

4100. Walk With Him

Luke 24:13-35

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... know? Jesus was with us and then He just vanished. CLEOPAS: Jesus is alive! COMPANION: I know. I know. But where is He now? CLEOPAS: We've got to tell the others. COMPANION: Are you crazy? We just came from Jerusalem. That's a long walk -- seven miles -- and you want to go back? CLEOPAS: How do you feel? COMPANION: Great. CLEOPAS: I haven't felt like this in a long time. I feel great too. COMPANION: My heart is like it's on fire and it won't stop burning. CLEOPAS: Mine too. I felt that way when He used ...

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