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4251. Walking The Familiar

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... two by two. You and I are part of that company that speaks of God's love for us and for all his children. The warning: We can miss God at work in our midst when we cling so unthinkingly to old and hard routines. The wonderment: God does continue to work his way in our midst through those ordinary routines. Where is the Lord God speaking to you through the routines of your living, through the ordinary? Samuel and Eli, and that synagogue in Nazareth, did not understand. Let us not walk in their shoes! Instead ...

4252. Living Water

John 7:25-44

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... money, possessions! To drink of that Living Water says, "What would Jesus do?" How does his example shape my behavior? Do you have faith questions? Is there a thirsting for specific belief; a thirst to know with a certainty that cannot be picked away with continual doubt, or cynicism? In our scientific culture we like to have everything tied up in careful packages. But some things just do not package so carefully! To drink of that Living Water says, "Jesus' trust of his Heavenly Father did not depend on all ...

4253. Turning the Corner on the Very End

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

James Weekley

... two countries. One hand of Christ holds a cross while the other is raised in a blessing. Hence Christ is that agent of transforming power who changes hostilities into peace, injustices into brotherhood, and sufferings into a life with purpose. We can look forward to the continuation of that power in his world beyond our boundary, as well. To those of us who are aligned to the Christ, the hope for existence in that coming age burns radiantly. That has to be a refreshing hope in our world in which the wrong ...

4254. Who Short-Circuited the Good News?

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

James Weekley

... 'll be $2.25, ma'm." "Good," she said, "I'll take both." Like the butcher, we play the court joker when we present a diluted gospel. Many of us want the church with all its social conveniences, but few of us are willing to pay the price for its continual growth. Doesn't it all come down to our relectance to monitor that gospel on a personal basis? Okay, Jesus tells us to go into all the world with his gospel. But the world, for the most part, is saying "No" to us, isn't it? Do we bombard the ...

4255. On Polishing Up the 24 Karat Jesus

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

James Weekley

... shared. A minister was talking with a man preparing to join the church. He suggested he think about serving on the church's council on ministries. "Oh, I'm not interested in anything like that. I just want to join the church," the man said. The minister continued by saying that it was customary to have all members divided into service groups. The man again replied, "I'm sorry but I didn't know this was that kind of church. I believe I'll visit other churches before making a decision to join." Finally, the ...

4256. Are Half-Painted Rainbows Enough?

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

James Weekley

... with God, was directed to liberate his nation from a two-thousand-year-old dynasty. The word "impossible" is not in God's dictionary. He doesn't expect to find it in his people's mentality and faith, either. In the movie, Splash, a produce broker continued to resurrect these words, "Think big, be big." Wasn't Jesus suggesting the same about us? If we are God's highest biological creatures, then why should he expect anything less than our near best? Jesus went so far as to say that we could accomplish ...

4257. A Whale Of A Tale

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Erskine White

... Jonah wanted was for Nineveh to go up in flames. So, Jonah does what many of us do when God's call to us is inconvenient - he runs the other way! God calls us to forgive someone who has wronged us and we run the other way by wanting to continue the grudge. God calls us to stand in the minority for a righteous cause and we run away from God's call because it's easier to go along with the crowd. God calls us to get involved in a situation and make a real sacrifice for the good of ...

4258. No Need For Weeping Anymore

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Erskine White

... can never consume us, because now we are "more than conquerors" (Romans 8:37) through faith in our Lord who is risen today. Perhaps I can explain what I mean by comparing the way we live to the way we read a novel. Most people start on page one and continue on to the end, without having a clue as to where they are headed. But in living with an Easter faith, it's as if we have read the final chapter first and then gone back to read the rest of the book. Thus, as we read the story, we ...

4259. The Prodigal Nation

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Erskine White

... we can bail out corrupt savings and loan executives with multi-billion dollar subsidies, but we can't give the working poor a living wage! The nation's image makers tell us "the pride is back," and they speak of "kinder, gentler" times ... but we continue to systematically abandon entire inner cities and all the people in them to the unrelieved miseries of poverty and neglect. We are number one in the world in military spending. We are number one in the world in military bases, naval fleets, nuclear bombs ...

4260. Blind Beggars All

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Erskine White

... the Baptist walked its streets. Think of it! Here in America, we were all excited a few years ago about our nation's bicentennial, our two hundredth birthday. Jericho was already 8,000 years old by the time of Jesus Christ. It remains today the oldest continually-inhabited city in the world. Jericho was built by the Canaanites as a fortified city, but in 1250 B.C., Joshua came and captured it for Israel. If you remember the story (and the words of the old Negro spiritual), Joshus's men blew their trumpets ...

4261. God's Gift Of Life

Psalm 139:1-24

Sermon

Erskine White

... Yet the very earliest church documents confirm that the New Testament church opposed abortion as murder and early Christian women went around after dark, gathering up abandoned Roman infants to find them nurse-maids and homes. The Protestant Reformation continued in this tradition, with leading Protestant theologians and teachers almost unanimously opposing abortion through the centuries until the last twenty years, that is.1 Our deeper roots and surest foundation, of course, lie in the Scriptures, which is ...

4262. The President's Religion

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Erskine White

... Maybe you have heard him misuse the words of our Savior; he quoted from the Sermon on the Mount and called America "a shining city on the hill." Maybe you heard how the president's campaign recently urged that he be re-elected so he might continue doing God's work. And when the president spoke of Armageddon during this campaign, he did not speak in Biblical terms of the struggle between Christ and the anti-Christ. He spoke instead of the struggle between our nation and the communists - the struggle between ...

4263. Wedding: An Offer from God

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... . If our marriages are offered to God, it increases the chance that our relationship will become a blessing rather than an endurance contest. There are some good reasons for this. First, forgiveness is more apt to be practiced. In worship we are continually reminded of God's grace, his undeserved love. He is always ready to fogive us, so we are urged to pardon each other. Grace always seeks reconciliation. always. Beyond that, the Christian view of marriage stresses oure oneness. We (husband and wife ...

4264. Wedding: The Bondage of Marriage

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... pain and hurt. Fortunately, God comes to offer you his personal help. If you submit yourselves to Christ, he can provide the healing power to bring you back together again. That's why I encourage you to worship together and to pray together. When you are continually warmed by God's love, it will become easier for you to ask him into your relationships to fill you with his amazing grace. Then submission to each other, for Jesus' sake, becomes not a law but a privilege. And by his grace your marriage can ...

4265. Wedding: The Beauty of Marriage

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... restore, and forgive, can make your marriage beautiful - exquisitely beautiful - not only for yourselves, but for all who are in your company. Love is an event first demonstrated for us by our Lord who gave himself for us. Now he invites you, _________ and ________ to continue that self-giving love in your married life. It will not always be easy. The love which is in the shape of forgiveness will need to be practiced often; there is no other way for you to be truly happy. And remember, the God who created ...

4266. Wedding: Old Enough to Know

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... glory and honor for home and work, for family and food. It is important that we do not recieve these gifts thoughtlessly. Therefore I encourage you to be wise stewards of any and all blessings which God showers upon you. Frequent attendance at worship can be a continual reminder that Jesus is Lord and you are dependent upon him, not only for your daily material needs, but for your spiritual well-being and emotional stability as well. I don't say these things to you because that's what a pastor should say to ...

4267. Wedding: The Goal of Marriage

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... covering her head, talked with men in the streets, or talked back to her in-laws. It was against this background that Jesus spoke his immortal words, saying the only reason the Law permitted divorce was because men were, literally, slow learners. Matthew 19:8 He continues: "Haven't you read the scripture that says that in the beginning the Creator made people male and female? [His design was that] the two will become one. So they are no longer two, but one. Man must not separate, then, what God has joined ...

4268. Wedding: The Joy of New Beginnings

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... and ________, you are taking a risk as you face the beginning of marriage with all its possibilities "for better, for worse." As ominous as that may sound, I have some good news for you: Jesus says, "Behold, I make all things new." Revelation 21:5 Because our Lord continually brings newness, it means that life, even with all its question marks, can be something to look forward to. He can take people and re-create them. He can take a life and remake it. He can take a hurt and heal it. He can take a severed ...

4269. Doing What God Wants

1 John 5:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . Today we are going to talk a little bit about belonging to the family of God. This is really something important but we don't talk very much about it. We talk a lot about the things that God does for us, and we should because he has done and continues to do everything for us. But we want to talk about what it is like to belong to the family of God, and about some of the things that we should do. Let me explain. If you live in a family, you do certain things. Your father works, maybe you ...

4270. In the Stillness

Mark 4:35-41

Children's Sermon

... cannot always sit and listen and "be still." Get an inexpensive sketch book and let them draw what you are reading about. Two excellent "chapter books" are C. S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe series and any of Madeleine L'Engle's stories that continue about two different families. Teachers: Help children make lists of quiet things to do when the storms of life "get" to them. Let them all contribute to the list and copy it on a copier for them all to take home. If a copier is not available ...

4271. Let Your Light Shine

2 Corinthians 4:6

Children's Sermon

... their hike. It wasn't a very long hike. It was just on the edge of town in a woods, so they weren't concerned that they would get lost. They walked and walked. They came to the woods. They entered the woods. They stopped for a snack. Then they continued to walk. Before they realized what time it was, the sun set. It started to get dark. Soon it was so dark that they could barely see. They never thought to take a flashlight. Soon it was night and the friends could not see. They did not know how to ...

4272. The Bread Of Life

John 6:25-59

Children's Sermon

... play dough! Edible Peanut Butter Based Play Dough1/2 cup peanut butter1/4 cup honey1 cup dry milk solids Need a mixing bowl, rolling pin, cookie cutters First - In a bowl, mix peanut butter, honey and one-half cup of the dry milk. Mix these ingredients with your hands. Second - Continue to add the remainder of the dry milk. Add it until the dough feels soft and usable. Third - Take the dough. Shape it into whatever form you wish, or roll it out and cut it into shapes with the cookie cutters.

4273. From the Father

John 6:25-59

Children's Sermon

SHARING THIS WEEK'S GOSPEL THEME AT SUNDAY CHURCH SCHOOL AND AT HOME Teachers or Parents: Last week's activity used edible play dough and centered on Jesus as the bread of life. This week take mixing things one step further. Today's lesson continues on the bread of life theme. Here is an easy and quick-to-bake corn bread recipe to make with children. Corn Bread Recipe1 cup flour1 cup cornmeal4 tablespoons baking powder3/4 teaspoons salt2 eggs (egg whites only)1 cup milk2 tablespoons shortening Spray a 9 by ...

4274. "Dear Jesus,"

Mark 1:21-28

Children's Sermon

... its significance. To whom would they go for help or advice? Teachers? Parents? Friends? God? Why would they seek out these and not others? Has anyone ever come to them for advice? How did they respond? Now you are ready to discuss a continuing project for your class - an advice column for your monthly bulletin. First you will want to advertise the project. Let the members of your congregation know what you are planning (you will, of course, need to make arrangements with your pastor and church secretary ...

4275. How to Get Rich

Mark 10:21

Children's Sermon

... cut several strips of dollar bill sized paper, then write or draw an item of spiritual value which is present in their lives on each strip. The strips can then be "deposited" in the banks. Send several strips of blank paper home with each child, and ask your students to continue to make "deposits" as new riches enter their lives. Parents: You can encourage your children to be thankful for spiritual riches and to fill their "spiritual banks" at home.

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