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401. To Be Continued

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... complain and said, "All that God does is done well." He found a tree under which to sleep, lit his lamp, and prepared to study the Torah before retiring. But a fierce wind blew out the light, forcing him to go to sleep early. Later that night, wild animals came through and chased away his rooster. Still later, thieves stole his donkey. But, in each case, Rabbi Akiba said, "All that God does is done well!" The next morning he went back to the village. There he discovered that soldiers had killed everyone in ...

402. The Fruitful Vine

John 15:1-17, 1 John 4:7-21, Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... who will experience his deliverance. Context of Related Scriptures Psalm 80:8-19 -- God transplants a vine from Egypt to plant it and tend it elsewhere. Isaiah 5:1-7 -- A love song concerning the vineyard. Jeremiah 2:21 -- A lament that the good transplanted vine became a wild one. Ezekiel 15:1-6 -- A judgment on the dead vine in the midst of the woods. Ezekiel 19:10-14 -- The image of a vine that has been subjected to fire. Hosea 10:1 -- Israel is compared to a luxuriant vine. Matthew 21:28-41 -- Two ...

403. The Star - Conversations

Matthew 2:1-12

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... , the star still led me as if its presence were by design, not by chance. The star strengthened my courage. Interviewer: In the fourth mention of the star, the wise ones, seeing that it had stopped, were "overwhelmed with joy." Wise Person: We were not on a wild camel chase. Our journey was as great a reality as the journey of your life. We had listened to our hearts. We had to lift up ourselves from our very roots to make such a star-following journey. Interviewer: Did you feel you were on the right path ...

404. Whose Work Is It?

Luke 21:5-38

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... . EUODIA: (Desperately) Sometimes I feel that I just can't go on like this. SYNTYCHE: Oh, that's too bad. Because you're so good at these things. Nobody can preach the gospel like you do. So many people have come to believe in Jesus because of you. EUODIA: (Wildly) But there are so many more. So very many! SYNTYCHE: Yes, but you're not expected to do it all. EUODIA: Sometimes it seems that way. SYNTYCHE: I know. But it's just like what Paul said in his letter, the one Clement just read to us. EUODIA: What ...

405. Whose Work Is It?

Philemon 1:1-7

Drama

Pamela Urfer

406. The New Life

2 Corinthians 5:17-19

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... something that no human being has ever seen before! Can you believe that? I have something in my hand that no one in this place has ever laid eyes on, and yet it is a very simple thing. Any guesses this morning? (Responses will be wild, maybe funny. Go on with it as long as you feel comfortable. Respond positively to reasonable suggestions.) Well, if you're ready, here it is! (Produce a nice plump peanut. Surprise and maybe a little disappointment will be registered.) Oh, you thought I really had something ...

407. Cultivating Our Garden

Isaiah 58:1-14

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

I remember a news program which showed the release of a number of wild turkeys into the wilderness of southwestern United States. They were seeking to reestablish a strain of turkeys in that area. In order to track them and understand how they were doing, a little radio was affixed to the back of each of the turkeys. Can you imagine being able to ...

408. The Easter Parade

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Charles M. Mills

... wrote, "Bliss it was to be alive in that dawn." Dawn when the dew was damp and the day was wrapped in the swaddling clothes of hope. Dawn when: "... down the long and silent street The dawn with silver-sandalled feet crept like a frightened girl." (Oscar Wilde) Dawn. Sabbath day has passed and now the first day of the week has arrived. Dawn when Mary Magdalene came to the tomb of Jesus. She had come to mourn the death of hope, the loss of the Lord, the weeping wailing wounds of her heartbreak pour forth ...

409. One Good Man

Romans 5:17

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... more surely have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for many. Good morning, boys and girls. Today I have with me some cowboy hats and some other things that men might have worn in the days of the wild west. People still wear cowboy hats today, don't they, boys and girls? But a long time ago, when the western part of our country was being settled, that's all that the men ever wore. They rode horses and sometimes they carried a holster and gun like this ...

410. Members Of A New Family

Acts 10:23b-48

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... were a real man. If you passed all the tests, you became a full-fledged member of the Indian tribe. What do you suppose Indian boys had to do to prove themselves, boys and girls? (Let them answer.) Yes, they had to go into the woods alone and hunt down wild animals and do a lot of other things too to prove they were not afraid. Once they were initiated, the young Indians were ready to take on all of the harder jobs of the rest of the Indian tribe. We have to go through a kind of testing, too, in ...

411. The Potter Almighty

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... Newsfold recently, in remembrance of Independence Day, we printed some facts and figures about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Men who changed the whole world as they put their lives on the line. The article notes that "They were not wild-eyed radicals." Thank goodness, because a lot of them were Presbyterians! Of those 56 men who pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to the cause of freedom, 12 were Presbyterians. They did what they did "with a firm reliance on ...

412. Raised Voices

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... -- he's capable of that, isn't he? -- and make him love us. Then we could stay here in Egypt and enjoy ourselves. There are wonderful things to be had here, good food, fine clothes, beautiful homes -- for those that are free persons. And have the money. REBECCA: (Wildly) And you think Pharaoh would give us the money? HANNAH: Why not? If the Lord God made him, he would. REBECCA: Yes, but ... HANNAH: Now what's the problem? REBECCA: Don't you want to go back to the land of our ancestors? Don't you want to be ...

413. The Risky Business of Faith

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... , we always go by stages toward the Negeb. We don't know what comes next. We only know that our security is in our relationship to this God who will not abandon us. This is the God who is in Christ Jesus calling us over the tumult of life's wild restless sea saying, "Christian, follow me." 1. Gibson, Volume 2, p. 6.2. Brueggemann, p. 116.3. From The Man In The Black Coat Turns, (New York: Doubleday, 1981).

414. Country Songs and Easter Hymns

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Thomas Long

... is planted is, in its own way, a "city." There is no village so small, no place so isolated, that there is not at least some taste of the richness, the challenge, and, quite frankly, the grating difficulty, of human differences. It is there in the wild diversity of the "city" -- wherever it may be found -- that the church gains true power, the power that is like Jesus' power, the power that does not protect itself from the stranger, does not seize things from the neighbor, but which lives for the neighbor ...

415. The Seven Last Words Of Pilate

Sermon

Thomas Long

... shepherd goes to find it, and that's that. But to the eye it releases its outrageous truth. To watch in astonishment as a seemingly sane shepherd walks away from 99 perfectly good sheep, leaving them to the perils of the wilderness, while he searches with wild and passionate abandon for one scraggly runaway is to be confronted with some extravagant and unruly grace at the heart of the gospel. The story in the Gospel of John of the trial of Jesus before Pontius Pilate is another example of a biblical story ...

416. Forgiven!

Sermon

Lee Griess

... that this young woman practically gushed with joy as she spoke. "I can't express," she said, "the sense of gratitude that I feel that God has changed my life." The talk show hostess knew where she was coming from -- for she, too, had walked on life's wild side before coming to Jesus. She said, "I know what you mean. Every day I thank God for saving me!" And then she added a very profound statement: "You know what I've noticed though? People who have always been in the church, people who always do what ...

417. Demon-Possessed Child

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

Sermon Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... blood (1 Kings 14:11, 1 Kings 21:19, and 1 Kings 21:23). Dogs had a place as destroyers: "And I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, says the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to drag away, and the birds of the air and the wild animals of the earth to devour and destroy" (Jeremiah 15:3). Dogs were used as threats. Dogs cleaned up "anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city" (1 Kings 21:24). They drank the blood of King Jehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:38). They ate the body of Jezreel so ...

418. Seeing The Unseeing

John 9:35-41, John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12

Sermon

David Belgum

... there about us that so often doubts that good things could or would happen? Even in our daily evening news, there are nine bad things announced for every one good thing that is reported. This house burned down. Two children were eaten by a wild dog. Clerk injured in Quik Trip as thief escapes with unknown amount of money. Two more clergy charged with sex abuse of women parishioners. Four senators and three representatives found guilty of graft, bribery, and assorted malfeasance of office are sentenced to a ...

419. The Lord Has Need Of It

Mark 14:1--15:47

Sermon

Elaine M. Ward

... well, I am a great and sublime fool ... but then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect." On Palm Sunday a foolish people followed a foolish messiah. From where does our "wise foolishness" come today? It comes from the wild and wonderful preachers and teachers, poets and spiritual guides. To live in their world of joy, imagination, and sacred story is to sense the Spirit and have the power of the mind over the possibility of things. Wonder is the parent of that possibility and ...

420. Yearning For A Loyal Friend

Job 6:14-30 · Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... the southeast would have helped Job far more by just sitting there with him, not moralizing. Job's second friend, Bildad, was the traditionalist. He was rough on Job the first time he spoke. "Your children got exactly what was coming to them because of their wild-and-worldly ways. If they had been upright and pure, they would have been rewarded, not killed. That's what all the lessons of bygone days teach us." His second speech was just as painful as the first. "Job, who are you trying to fool? You know ...

421. Come As You Are

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... time of year. One thing that is especially characteristic of the days of summer is a more laid-back, informal attitude towards dining. People come to picnics and cookouts, backyard barbecues in a various state of dress -- or undress: golf shirts; wild, loud, plaid Bermuda shorts; T-shirts with all manner of strange pictures or sayings on the front; sandals; flip-flops; bathing suits; hair tangled from salt water, legs covered with sand from the beach, sweaty from softball games, whatever. Summertime is ...

422. Watchman, Tell Us Of The Night

Isaiah 21:11-12

Sermon

David O. Bales

... here on Sunday and work on Monday, and wait. Wait for Lawrence to come back. "They sing of Advent. 'Watchman, Tell Us of the Night.' They sing it for me. It's dark and it's autumn, and the nights come earlier and the snow has already made a couple wild passes at the plains. You don't have to tell me of the night, God. Nothing you must say to me. But I am glad you listen. "Thank you for your people inside. Their way was mine for half a century, but I can't join them now no matter ...

423. Where The Halls Cross

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

David O. Bales

... to see it all through Christ's eyes. I believe that what I have just seen is like Apollo 13 docking the Command Module to the Lunar Module, or the signing of a peace treaty where no one has lost a war, or maybe what I've seen is two wild human males tamed into friendship by their Lord Jesus Christ.

424. Graduation Is Not For Angels

Drama

Karren Boehr

... to their knees if they want to. 1ST ANGEL: And you'll be right there, as usual. 2ND ANGEL: (With exasperation) Don't think so, friend. It's graduation time! I'm history! 1ST ANGEL: Sorry, friend, but you're NEVER history. That wonderful creation of The Almighty, as wild and woolly or as sweet as she may be, is your responsibility -- FOREVER! 2ND ANGEL: (Shocked) You're kidding! 1ST ANGEL: Not at all. You started this project, and you get to see it to the final end. You'll weep a lot, you'll rejoice a lot ...

425. Creation

Psalm 148:1-14

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... fill the waters and the earth. SECOND: Evening came and morning came. BOTH: The fifth day. (PAUSE) God said, FIRST: Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth. SECOND: God made all sorts of wild animals and cattle and creeping things. BOTH: And God saw that it was good. Then God said, FIRST: Let us make man in Our image, after Our own likeness to have dominion over all things and over all the earth. SECOND: So God created man in ...

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