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4451. Coming Down The Mountain

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

There is a story that a university in Scotland once wished to honor a scholar who had done some significant inquiry into the life and work of one of its own most illustrious former scholars, the 16th century Scottish reformer, John Knox. The tradition in that and several other universities was that, if possible, a cap belonging to the subject of the study - in this case John Knox - would be given to the person being honored, if such a cap could be found. In that way the honoree would have something ...

4452. Great Grace Was Upon Them!

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

Let us pray: Lord, help us to be faithful in our devotion and worship during these tempting days of spring and summer. Light within our hearts the flame of gratitude that in this complaining and selfish world our light may shine. In the power of your love, enable us to tell the difference between desires and necessities; between enough and too much; between making a living and making a life. Help us to follow your Son in the freedom from the idolatry of things. In Christ’s name. Amen. I am glad you are ...

4453. Why Do People Have to Die?

John 12:20-36

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some seeds that can be gotten at any seed store. There should definitely be enough for each child to take home Good morning (evening) boys and girls. How are you this fine day? Isn’t it amazing the way the days go by so fast? Here we are in the fourth week talking about the kind of questions that you always have wondered about and it seems like we have only gotten started. Today I have a question that used to worry me a lot when I was a little boy and I hope that by talking it over with you tonight ...

4454. Palm Sunday - The Crowd That Loved Him

Matthew 21:1-11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Palm branches Today is Palm Sunday, and it is a great day for everyone. It is filled with joy and enthusiasm. It is a great religious holiday in the Christian Church. We are going to talk about the first Palm Sunday today and pretend that we were part of the great crowd of people who were there. As a matter of fact, I want you to pretend that you are part of a crowd of over two and one-half million people. Can you imagine how big a crowd of two and one-half million people would be? [Let them answer ...

4455. OUR LORD RISEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

For those who grieve, time is a burden. It moves through emptiness with excruciating slowness, its spiritual malaise aggravated by fleeting memories of joys that never again will be. From sundown Friday when she watched as they placed her Lord in the stone vault until sundown Saturday, the world had stood still for Mary of Magdala. These were the holy hours of the Sabbath when the faithful praised God for the goodness of life, but for Mary they were an eternity of sorrow. The widow Mary of Jerusalem and ...

4456. Making A Christian

Mark 1:9-13, Mark 1:1-8

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

Theme: Depending on the leading of the Holy Spirit is better than some pattern. Summary: Sam is telling Bill how to evangelize and forces him to do some unnatural things. Amazingly there is some fruit. Playing Time: 4 minutes Setting: Anywhere Props: None Costumes: Contemporary, casual Time: The present Cast: Sam Bill Will SAM: (SAM AND BILL ENTER) Are you a Christian? BILL: Yes. I am. SAM: Get anybody born again yet? BILL: Well, no. I haven't. I'm not so good ... SAM: Not so good at that, are you? BILL: ...

4457. By Thunder

Mark 1:14-20

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

Theme: What is it that makes people follow Jesus? Summary: Zebedee wonders why his sons are following Jesus. Playing Time: 3 1/2 minutes Setting: The home of Zebedee Props: None Costumes: Peasants of Jesus' Time Time: The Time of Jesus Cast: Zebedee -- a businessman who owns a fishing business Miriamne -- his wife ZEBEDEE: (ENTERS) Miriamne, It's me. MIRIAMNE: (ENTERS, DRYING HER HANDS ON A TOWEL) You're a little late. ZEBEDEE: Late! It's a wonder I made it home at all. MIRIAMNE: Why? What happened? ...

4458. Memories

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

Hidden away in just about every family’s photo album is a cute little picture of a baby’s buns. Along with all the other photos of baby’s first haircut, first birthday, first bike ride, and the like, there’s also that one picture, that infamous photo showing off baby’s buns. Parents love to have at least one such photo; but the individual whose anatomy is so displayed grows up living in fearful dread that one day his girlfriend or her boyfriend will actually see that awful picture. It’s fun to look through ...

4459. Spiritual Blindness

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

"Go your way; your faith has made you well." (v. 52) Blind Bartimaeus! What a haunting theme; what a never-to-be-forgotten scene. It is the concluding narrative in Mark. The setting is Jericho, some fifteen miles from Jerusalem. The point of this dramatic occurrence is simple: Only a blind man saw Jesus. The Sermon At one time, every minister has preached on this text. How could any clergyperson be so unimaginative as to miss it? How vividly I recall a sermon I preached. My parishioners congratulated me on ...

4460. The Reality Of The Resurrection

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Brett Blair

Here we are in the year 2003. It still fills me with a bit of awe that I witnessed the turn of the millennium. We are looking back this year and celebrating some amazing things that happened, things that seemed impossible in their day. There are three major celebrations. Perhaps you are aware of them: We are celebrating a centennial: 100 years ago few people thought it possible that man could fly. No one except the two sons of Rev. Milton Wright who at 10:35 on the morning of Dec. 17, 1903 made their first ...

4461. Forward

Ephesians 1:1-14

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

Call to Worship Leader: We go forward People: Because God has blessed us in Christ. Leader: We go forward People: Because God has chosen us to love. Leader: We go forward People: In the strength of the name of Christ. Leader: We go forward People: Freed for fullness of life. All: All praise to God. Collect We come before you, O God of blessings, knowing we hold the responsibility for our actions and for living out our lives as fully and honorably as possible. We can triumph over that which would seduce and ...

4462. Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Brett Blair

Lance Armstrong. Going for his eighth Tour de France. His heart is nearly one-third larger than that of the average man. At resting, it beats an average of 32 times per minute, during peak performance, 200. He burns up about 6,500 calories every day for three weeks while in the race. One of the stages of the race is 120 miles long-that day he will burn 10,000 calories. You and I burn 3,500 and that’s on a good day. His lungs can take in twice the oxygen. His body fat level is 4 percent. Yours is 16. He has ...

4463. Life's Not Always Fair, But God Will Straighten It Out

Habakkuk 2:2-20, Habakkuk 1:12--2:1, Habakkuk 1:1-4

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

Those of us who are old enough and socially concerned enough recall the 1960s with fondness. Troubled as the times were, it was a hopeful decade, a period when many of us dreamed that better days were on the horizon. We sang and dreamed of love and peace. We thought that the Civil Rights movement would put an end to racism, that the war on poverty might be won. Today, nearly half a century later, those battles have not been won. The rich are getting richer; the poor are getting poorer; money from special ...

4464. True or False?

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

John W. Wurster

“Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom. Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah” (1:10; cf. Genesis 19). Sodom. Gomorrah. Remember? Places of wickedness, of violence, of perversity. Do you know any place like that? Places where sexuality is twisted and relationships are corrupted and social order is breaking down? Places where people seek to gratify personal desires at the expense of others, where individual pursuits take precedence over common well-being, where anything goes as ...

4465. Not Your Leftovers But Your First Fruits

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

In the text, Moses exhorts the people to offer unto God their first fruits in remembrance and thanksgiving for their inheritance of the new land. They have toiled and struggled in the wilderness for many years and have come at long last to the place of divine promise. God has been good to them. God has kept his promises and has brought them to a place of great wealth and prosperity. The soil is ripe for planting and harvesting. The hills and valleys are rich with minerals. The water flows like milk and ...

4466. Lift Up Your Heads!

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

A.J. Gordon was the great Baptist pastor of the Clarendon Church in Boston, Massachusetts. One day he met a young boy in front of the sanctuary carrying a rusty cage in which several birds fluttered nervously. Gordon inquired, "Son, where did you get those birds?" The boy replied, "I trapped them out in the field." "What are you going to do with them?" "I'm going to play with them, and then I guess I'll just feed them to an old cat we have at home." When Gordon offered to buy them, the lad exclaimed, " ...

4467. Family Night Live

Drama

Dave Marsh

Director's Notes: I wrote this drama in hopes of showing the myths that some people have about God. They think that: A) He is either not interested in us any longer B) He is a taskmaster that cares more about do’s and don’t's C) He is a kindly old man who merely wants us to believe in Him Of course, God wants to be friends with us. And as we develop that friendship with Him we desire to do things that please Him and refrain from that which hurts our relationship... Cast: John: Dad. Angela: Mom. Isabelle: ...

4468. Getting Into Practice

Luke 10:1-24

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: None Good morning, boys and girls! Today I am going to ask you to do something a little bit different. Since it's really hard for me to say hello to everyone in this congregation, I am going to ask you to help me. I want each of you to take a partner and go down into the congregation and just say hello and introduce yourself to the people who are sitting there. (Give them time to choose a partner, then encourage them to go out with you and say hello. After about three minutes, call them together ...

4469. This Could Have Been Your Life! (A Drama about Coveting)

Drama

Dave Marsh

Director's Notes: A wacky gameshow drama about how coveting other people's lives is sin. Be sure to have a long enough gap between each line after a slide so the person running Powerpoint can keep up. Cast: Bob Braggart: A gameshow host Jean Cranston: A woman from the audience. Jason: Announcer Props: Microphone Powerpoint slides (found here) Setting: A game show (LIGHTS UP ON CENTER STAGE with game show music playing...) Bob: Welcome back folks to another exciting, fun-filled addition of This Could Have ...

4470. His Teachings

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

This morning we are continuing our Lenten series on the Passion of the Christ, the last week of the life of Jesus. Previously we looked at the events of Sunday when he enters Jerusalem on the donkey fulfilling the Messianic prophecy of Zechariah. It was a day of celebration. On Monday Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, curses the fig tree, and clears the Temple of the moneychangers. It is a day of emotions. Today we focus on Tuesday, the day of teachings. It is a day questions. Someone has figured that if we put ...

4471. The Political Controversies Of Jesus

Luke 20:27-47

Sermon

Brett Blair

Someone has figured that if we put all of the materials in the Gospels that tell us about the life of Jesus together that it would equal about 80 pages. Yet, most of that would represent duplication, for we know that some of the Gospel writers copied from others. If, therefore you eliminate the duplication, you would have only 20 pages that tell us about Jesus life and teachings. Of those 20 pages, 13 of them deal specifically with the last week of his life. And if you separate it still further, you will ...

4472. Beyond Despair

Psalm 43:1-5, Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

"Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me?" I'll tell you why. It is a depressing world out there. You pick up a paper or turn on the evening news and encounter death, disaster, pain, misery, despair. Whether the stories are of the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, outsourcing of jobs overseas, daily obituary notices or those private, personal stories that never come to public attention, life can be a burden. Fathers' Day today? How about the challenges of raising children in this day and age ...

4473. Who's The Boss?

Psalm 50:1-23

Sermon

David E. Leininger

Money. Money. Money. Since today is Pledge Sunday, I am going to preach about money. No surprise. But what MAY surprise you is that I am not going to BASH money. No railing about money being the root of all evil (which is an incorrect quote, by the way); not even "the LOVE of money is a root of all kinds of evil" (which is the correct one - I Tim. 6:10). No. I think money is wonderful. I think everyone ought to have as much of it as they can make good use of. Money is a marvelous tool. Money allows us to ...

4474. I'm On a Mission from God!

Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

Did you happen to see the tribute to John Belushi on television this past week? (Or TRY until the cable went out?) John was an incredible comic talent who created fascinating characters. What brings him to mind this morning is the delightfully wacky pair that he and Saturday Night Live partner Dan Ackroyd teamed up to create - Jake and Elwood, the Blues Brothers. These two genial bozos are sent out on an ill-fated fund-raising mission for their old parochial school by a fierce old nun. As they blunder ...

4475. The Jump to Judgment

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

David E. Leininger

I heard a story once. A Mr. Jones picked up the wrong umbrella in a hotel, and the umbrella's rightful owner called his attention to it. Embarrassed, Mr. Jones offered his apologies, picked up the right one, and went on his way. But the incident served to remind Mr. Jones that he had promised to buy umbrellas for his wife and daughter, so he went across the street to a store and purchased one for each of them. As he came out from the store and began to get in his car - THREE umbrellas on his arm now - the ...

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