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Sermon
William McKee Aber
... subjects for sermons, one letter (which I feel summarizes the thoughts of a great many people) said this: "when you live in a neighborhood such as ours, we would like to know, - how to tell your kids they won’t go to hell if they don’t share their toys, as they have been told by others - how to get along with your neighbors when one inch of ground can cause difficulty - how many times to turn the other cheek and then ... get mad and stand up for your beliefs - how to get along with the guy who cuts ...
Sermon
E. Jerry Walker
... . The Lord’s voice was soft, yet the words were edged to cut as sharply as the blade of the sword which hung now so awkwardly from Peter’s hand. "Put your sword back into its place," Jesus said, as if talking to a child about a misused toy. "All those who take the sword will perish with the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?" Remembering, living ...
Sermon Aid
John W. Rilling
... felt that man is a creature of unfulfilled desires. He never is satisfied. "Man never is, but always to be blest." And so life is a series of rungs - infancy succeeded by youth and maturity or perhaps we should say adulthood: yesterday an infant dropping the toy in hand for the pretty bauble beyond his reach; today the adolescent wanting this and that; tomorrow the man reaching for the unattainable moon - or since it has been attained by a few, something beyond that. A man does not cease to have wants when ...
404. What’s Your Hurry?
Exodus 13:17--14:31
Children's Sermon
Shirley Jennings
... comb my hair. Some days we don’t have to hurry very much. Other days we have to hurry a lot. Tell me about some times when you’ve been told to hurry - when it’s time to get ready for bed, when it’s time to put away the toys, when it’s time to eat breakfast, when it’s time to get dressed, when it’s time to take a bath. We may not like to hurry, but whenever we have lots of things to do and not much time to do them, we need to hurry.
405. Quiet, Please
Lamentations 3:25-27
Children's Sermon
Shirley Jennings
... doing or are going to do. If you’re talking, too, it’s hard for them to think about what they want to say, so they may ask you to stop talking for awhile. What can you do if someone wants you to be quiet? Take a nap? Play with toys? Look at books? Play outside? When you play quietly in the house or go outside to play, then your mom and dad can talk to each other. They need to do that sometimes and you can help them by being quiet when they ask you to be.
406. Candy Bars
Hebrews 13:16
Children's Sermon
Shirley Jennings
... their purses? Now I’ll show you what things are in this purse. Here’s a pen, some paper, a comb, a brush, keys, a billfold, and money. This piece of money is a five-dollar bill. What could you buy with five dollars? (Let them answer.) We could buy toys, candy, a comb, a brush, a T-shirt, colored pens to draw with. If you bought a lot of candy bars with this $5 and a friend wanted some of them, would you give some of the candy bars to a friend of yours? Why wouldn’t you want to ...
Children's Sermon
Shirley Jennings
... ago we started a new year. We stopped using our [20_] calendars and began using our [20_] calendars. Without calendars we can hardly tell when an old year ends and a new year begins. Do you like new things? What new things do you like? (Let them answer.) Toys, clothes. What new things don’t you like? Food, baby-sitters. Some grown-up people like a new year because then they think they’ll start doing their work better and they’ll show more love to their families and friends. They like to have a new ...
Children's Sermon
Shirley Jennings
... are wearing their uniforms. Would you boys like to wear Scout uniforms someday? If you’d become a Scout, would you help people? That’s what Scouts do. They help people. What are some ways both boys and girls can help people? (Discuss.) We can put away toys here at church and at home, pick up something somebody drops, hold the door open for some people when they’re coming into the church. I hope you’ll keep thinking about helping people. If you do, you’ll probably think of ways to help that we ...
409. Cheerful, Not Grumbling
2 Corinthians 9:6-15
Children's Sermon
Shirley Jennings
... as sewing clothes or building something with a hammer and saw, baking cookies, wrapping presents, going to parties. To give them more time to do special Christmas projects, what could you do to keep your home looking clean and neat? (Let them answer.) We could pick up toys and put them away at night, wash and wipe dishes, use the vacuum cleaner to clean the carpet, make our beds, take the trash out to the garbage can. Helping with housekeeping jobs is giving your mom or dad a present. It’s just as good a ...
410. No Huggies
Mark 10:13-16
Sermon
... and in the church; the child is sacrificed for by the parents so that he or she will have everything needed. Television advertising has the child as a primary target, and it is the rare person who doesn’t melt when seeing the clothes and toys belonging to the little child. Now, we all know that many children, including some in this immediate neighborhood and in the neighborhoods where all of us live, are grossly mistreated and abused, but on the surface, at least, we are a society of persons devoted ...
Sermon
Daniel G. Mueller
... housemother happened to walk by. She noticed his loneliness and tried to show him some kindness. She sat down with him on his bed and spoke to him about general things. Then she asked him what he wanted for Christmas. She expected to hear the usual list of things like toys and clothes and money. But the boy surprised her. He stepped over to his dresser, took a picture of his Mom and Dad into his hands and softly said, "I wish My Mom and Dad could step out of this picture and be here with me right now; that ...
Sermon
Daniel G. Mueller
As I was working on my sermon this past week I toyed with the idea of bringing a live butterfly along with me to church this morning so I could let it go right about now, as an attention getter. I decided against doing that, however, because I was afraid it would get your attention so well that I might never get ...
Sermon
Robert G. Tuttle
... the fourth century knew the meaning of guilt and wrote a hymn to it: O Felix Culpa (O Happy Guilt) Praise to thee, dear brother Guilt! Strong Son of God’s law and love Who dost not cease thy pricks When we would stop to play with dangerous toys Who goads us from the quicksands of anger and (unconcern,) Who makes our hearts to hunger Beyond new clothes, new chariots, new kitchens, New houses, new spouses, or even a new Nation. I have quarreled with thee, O tenacious Shadow that I cannot help but cast as I ...
Sermon
Gregory J. Johanson
... editorial friend, "If you have any light, shine some of it in my direction. God knows I’ve run out of light." In the Psalm we read a vivid description, drawn from life, of seamen caught in a violent storm which tossed their frail vessel like a toy. With all their skill and experience, here was something before which they were helpless. "They ... were at their wits end" (Psalm 107:27). They didn’t know what to do next. Is there anyone here who doesn’t know the feeling? If there is, this sermon is not ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... all. So, the Grinch hatched an evil plan. He would show them. He would steal their Christmas. That would stop all their laughing and singing and Christmas noise. He disguised himself as Santa Claus, and he went from house to house, and stole all the toys and presents and sweets of Christmas. He was so proud of himself and his evil deed, and on Christmas morning, he waited with baited breath to hear the sound of sadness when the people of Whoville discovered that their Christmas had been stolen. But to his ...
Sermon
William G. Carter
... to all He brings.”[1] See the freckled face of a child, re-created at 5 a.m. on Christmas morning. Or see it in the mischievous smirk of my grandmother. Last year she extracted her gleeful revenge on her once-loud grandson by giving a very noisy toy to his little girls. For those who can see it, there is light and life given on Christmas. Ask the recovering alcoholic who finally gets through the holidays without needing a drink. Pay attention to the table where a stranger has been invited to fill an empty ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... Titus, let me make you happy.” Rabbi Beryl Cohon has been one of the most expressive thinkers in Judaism. Rabbi Cohon used to love to walk down the bank of the Charles River in the Cambridge-Boston area. One day he saw a number of boys sailing toy sailboats. They had seven little boats in the lagoon. Some were moving faster than others; one or two capsized and had to be pulled out and righted; one struck the embankment and had to be pushed off. Some barely had enough wind in their sails to drift along ...
418. Old Favorite
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... , a preacher, a manager, a nurse, a lawyer, an accountant, and so on. Money? We’ve thrown money at knowledge workers. And that does motivate and provide a source of evaluation, for a while. Yet, those people get bored with their toys and houses and parties, and we all wonder if today’s schoolteachers, preachers, engineers, managers, accountants, and lawyers are really more productive than their counterparts of 1900 who had even less. Psychologist Harry Stack Sullivan maintains that “love begins when a ...
419. Yeah, Merry Christmas
Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20
Drama
Dave Marsh
... all about Jesus Dad. Dad: Oh, yeah, Him too. Mom: It’s your turn. How about that one? Dad: That one it is! (Kids start running out) Dad: Whoa, whoa, whoa. Where do you think you two are going? Justin: Oh, we’re going to play with those happy meal toys from McDonalds. (they run off) Dad: (Stares at Mom and then at the gifts) These are your kids you know. My kids would never do this. Mom: Whatever you say dear. Now open your present. Dad: Okay. Let’s see. I wonder what you got me. Not too heavy. Let ...
Drama
Dave Marsh
... and taking care of his reindeer and then in about 10 months he’ll hop in his sleigh and.. .(Katie cuts her off) Katie: No, Mom, this is a list to Jesus. Dad: Jesus doesn’t have a sleigh, Katie. Katie: No, you don’t understand. I don’t want toys from Jesus. This is my prayer list. Dad: A prayer list? Katie: Yeah, I decided to make a list of everything that I want to pray about. Mom: Honey, that’s a great idea. Dad: (under his breath) Yeah, but not at 5:30 am… Mom: (Gives Dad a dirty ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... rougher than most. She was an orphan. Then suddenly at the age of 2 she was adopted, sight unseen, by Laurie Collis a single mother in Scottsdale, Arizona. When she was in the third grade, she entered an essay contest, and out of 10,000 applicants, she won! Toy maker Lego and The Planetary Society sponsored the event. As a result of winning her family received an all expense paid trip to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to watch the lift off of the Mars Rover. While there she was asked to read an excerpt ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... in a remote village. One day, on the road, I found the broken pieces of a mirror. A German motorcycle had been wrecked in that place.... I kept one, the largest piece.... By scratching it on a stone, I made it round. I began to play with it as a toy and became fascinated by the fact that I could reflect light into dark places where the sun would never shine - in deep holes and crevices and dark closets. It became a game for me to get light into the most inaccessible places I could find. I kept the little ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... with those potentially deadly possessions. Until the voice of God interrupts, all we hear about is STUFF - his "land...crops...barns...grain... ample goods." He sounds as if he comes from the school of thought that is convinced that the one who dies with the most toys wins. Is he right? I do not think so. Do you remembering seeing (or hearing about) that wonderful program on Public Television last year called AFFLUENZA?(5) As it opened we saw a patient in a doctor's office. She whined, "I feel so awful, so ...
424. Head's Up!
Luke 21:5-38
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... the remaining rubble of that community with the pastor of St. Matthew's and the congregation's president and several others. It was an unbelievable sight - a grain elevator twisted and fallen, a water tower toppled, vehicles and other heavy items strewn around like toys, whole buildings gone from their foundations. She said, One of our purposes was to walk to the church site. Even those who knew the lay of the town well had to get their bearings when all the trees and buildings and landmarks are gone ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... his unique divinity and became as we are ” subject to all of the temptations, heartaches and hurts you and I are capable of. We need to understand: Jesus was a real 12-year-old boy. There is a story about little Bobby who was picking up the toys which he had scattered about the room. The visiting pastor commended him for it. The pastor pleasantly inquired, "Did your mother promise you something for picking them up?" Bobby replied, "No, sir, but she promised me something if I didn't." Did Mary ever have to ...
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