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Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some reeds Jesus has been found guilty by Pilate because of the crowd of hate. If was an awful scene and one that a lot of us will want to forget. It will be a little hard to get over the words that we shouted, "Crucify Him, Crucify Him." But we must begin today to think like another crowd. I want you to be soldiers today and to act like soldiers. Soldiers are different kinds of people at...

4302. The Crown Of Thorns

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A crown of thorns Good morning, boys and girls. Perhaps you will remember where we left off last week with our story, but let me tell you a little bit about what has happened to Jesus since we left Him being taken out of Annas' house and over to the house of Caiaphas, another Jewish leader. Jesus had been shoved and pushed around from one place to another. He even spent a little time in t...

4303. Trailblazers

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Source Unknown

Throughout history, trailblazers have been met with ridicule and rejection because their ideas challenged the conventional wisdom. Socrates, who sought to teach his fellow-Athenians the difference between opinion and knowledge, was tried for “corrupting the youth” and condemned to death. Galileo, who demonstrated that the earth revolved around the sun, was convicted of heresy and forced to recant....

4304. The Crucifixion

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

27:32–34 After the prisoner had been condemned and scourged, it was common practice to make him carry the cross beam (patibulum) to the place of execution. The upright post remained in place like a mediaeval gallows. As the procession moved through the city (taking the longest route in order to serve as a warning to as many as possible), the prisoner carried around his neck a placard indicating hi...

4305. A Reflection of God's Love

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: Teach the children how God views them. Props: A cross that can be held and a hand mirror--the mirror will be viewed one child at a time. It is best if the cross can fit comfortably in the height and width of the mirror. Lesson: I have something with me this morning open your coat or robe and take a look in the mirror--don't let anyone else see the mirror--as you say and it is rat...

4306. The Suffering Servant

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call to Worship Leader: Come, let us celebrate God's love for us in Christ! People: Jesus knew our rejection and scourging. Leader: Yet He bore our sorrows and griefs to the cross. People: Jesus felt the pain of the nails and the hammer. Leader: Yet for us Christ would die that we might have eternal life. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You gave us such a blessing to bear our...

4307. The Servant Suffers

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

Call to Worship Pastor: Christ is despised, rejected, and ignored. People: Like a lamb led to be slaughtered, our Lord was crucified. Pastor: But we are the sheep who have gone astray. And God let our punishment fall on him. People: God forbid that we should glory in anything but the cross. For in death, our Lord's self-sacrifice brings us forgiveness! Collect Almighty God, whose justice requires...

4308. The Crowd That Followed Him

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A sign or banner that reads "This is the King of the Jews" Today we are going to look for Jesus in another crowd. It has been hard being a part of the crowd that hunted Jesus to hurt him. It was kind of fun that first day when we loved him for being a king, but it has been a lot harder since then. You remember running from him when he made you afraid in the temple and how bad you felt whe...

4309. Golgotha

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: None or picture of a skull. Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever seen a picture of a skull? How does it make you feel? Not very good. A skull is just the bone of the head, but when there are no eyes, ears, lips, nose, skin or hair, a skull is pretty frightening. I have a picture of a hill that looks like a skull. If you look closely you can see the place for the eyes, nose and mout...

4310. I Died on the Battlefield

Illustration

Adrian Dieleman

Dwight L. Moody told of the young man who did not want to serve in Napoleon Bonaparte's army. When he was drafted, a friend volunteered to go in his place. The substitution was made, and some time later the surrogate was killed in battle. However, the same young man was, through a clerical error, drafted again. "You can't take me" he told the startled officers. "I'm dead. I died on the battlefiel...

4311. Where Is God Now?

Illustration

Staff

Elie Wiesel was a fifteen-year old prisoner in the Nazi death camp at Buna. A cache of arms belonging to a Dutchman had been discovered at the camp. The Dutchman was promptly shipped to Auschwitz. But he had a young servant boy, a pipel as they were called, a child with a refined and beautiful face, unheard of in the camps. He had the face of a sad angel. The little servant, like his Dutch master,...

4312. Prelude Or Finale?

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: a lightbulb Lesson: Good morning, boys and girls. What is this I'm holding? That's right, it's a lightbulb. We have these things all over the church. They light the house up so we can see better, and everything is brighter and prettier. Did you know electric lights were invented by a man named Thomas Edison? He lived over 100 years ago. When Thomas Edison set out to invent the electric li...

4313. A Patriot · Dysmas

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

To the Evangelists who wrote the first three gospels he is a nameless person, this young patriot sharing the agony of Jesus' last earthly hours. (Matthew 27:38; Mark 15:27; Luke 23:32) Tradition treats him more kindly. It dignifies him with a name. "Dysmas," it whispers. Nor does tradition stop there. Instead, it presses on to portray Dysmas as a man of great compassion, deeply concerned for the ...

4314. Hailing The King Of Chaos

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

It was one of those gorgeous spring days. There were daffodils blooming, tulip trees bursting out in color, a warm sun, and a clear blue sky. One felt like singing that descriptive song from the musical Oklahoma, "Oh, what a beautiful morning! Oh, what a beautiful day." Then I picked up the morning newspaper and the first sentence in the article cautioned me not to read it unless I had a strong s...

4315. The Death of Jesus

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

27:45–53 Mark (15:25, 34–37) indicates that Jesus was placed on the cross about the third hour (nine a.m.) and died shortly after the ninth hour (three p.m.). His period of physical suffering was shorter than most: some hung for days before death claimed them. From the sixth hour until the ninth hour a supernatural darkness covered the entire land. It could not have been an eclipse of the sun, bec...

4316. A Sermon for Passion Sunday

Sermon

Dean Lueking

On this Passion Sunday, we stand again at the threshold of the Great Seven Days, this week of time that takes us to the inmost heart of the work that God has done for us through Christ his Son. As we prepare to hear the passion story of Jesus’ suffering as proclaimed by St. Matthew, I invite you to hear one sentence in particular. It is that word of our Lord from the Cross that is at once the most...

4317. Good Friday

Sermon Aid

THEOLOGICAL CLUE The evolution of the church year - and the important place that Good Friday has in it - began with the weekly celebration of the death and resurrection of the Lord; every Sunday was the occasion for celebrating the raising of Christ from the dead. When an annual celebration - Easter - of Christ's triumph over the grave came to be observed, it included Saturday and Friday; thus, G...

4318. A Soldier Gives His Wine

Children's Sermon

Donald Neidigk

Object: a bottle of red wine vinegar, clean sponge cut into small pieces, bowl Hi, boys and girls. You've been very faithful in coming to these special Lenten services. In the Bible lesson for tonight, we learned that a soldier put wine vinegar on a sponge for Jesus to drink just before he died. I brought some. Would you like to try it? (Pour wine vinegar into bowl, and dip sponge pieces into it,...

4319. Gifts of Lent V: A Soldier Gives His Wine

Drama

Donald Neidigk

Dramatic Monologue My name is Saint Longinus. The ancient traditions of the church say I was martyred in the service of Jesus. I was just Longinus then. You'll remember me for a number of things I did on that Friday of Holy Week: commanding the execution squad, giving Jesus a drink of cheap wine as he hung on the cross dying, confessing that he was the Son of God, and finally piercing him with my...

4320. The Ladder And The Sponge

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A ladder and a sponge We left our story last week with Jesus hanging on the cross and the Roman soldiers playing games with dice for His clothes. It was a horrible afternoon in Jerusalem. The Bible tells us that at noon, when the sun is usually at its brightest, there was nothing but darkness. It looked like it was night time, and there was a big storm coming. The people who stood around ...

4321. The Passion of the Christ – The Rest of the Story

Sermon

James Merritt

The number one question asked in this country for the last six weeks is - "Have you seen ‘The Passion'?" If the answer is "No" the next question is "Are you going to see it?" If the answer is "Yes" the next question is - "What did you think about it?" There is no question that Mel Gibson's movie, The Passion of the Christ, is as the Spanish put it, en fuego – it is on fire! In Hollywood parlance ...

4322. God Really Cares

Sermon

James Merritt

Thomas Wolfe, the author best known for the novel, You Can't Go Home Again, once said this about loneliness: Loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon...is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. When we examine the moments, acts, and statements of all kinds of people not only the grief and ecstasy of the greatest poets, but also the huge unhappiness of the average soul...

4323. Anguish

Sermon

Burton F. Blair

From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" That is, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, "This man is calling for Elijah." Matthew 27:45-47 A strange uneasiness settled over those who were lingering around the cross. Around...

4324. The Day Jesus Asked the Question: The Fourth Word

Sermon

Eric Ritz

For the past three Sundays we have been looking at the words that our Lord shared on that day known on the church''s liturgical calendar as Black Friday or Good Friday. Both of these adjectives express a deep truth about the meaning of this day. Today we will be looking at what is called the Fourth Word from the Cross. This word is found in Matthew 27:45-46 where our Lord hurls a question of suff...

4325. What Is Your Holy Week Address?

Sermon

Robert Noblett

One of the earliest accomplishments of a child that brings plaudits from Mom and Dad is the ability to recite one’s address and telephone number. Should the child become lost, there is at least a small measure of comfort in the prospect that the child just might spew forth what has been committed to memory. This address is a geographical one. Later on, another address becomes evident, an address t...

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