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426. Pass It On

John 1:43-51

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... drama about the trauma called Moving Toward the Light. As Benny lies dying in his mother's arms, he asks, "What will it be like?" His mother whispers softly in his ear, "You will see a light, Benny, far away -- a beautiful, shining light at the end of a long tunnel. And your spirit will lift you out of your body and start to travel toward the light. And as you go, a veil will be lifted from your eyes, and suddenly, you will see everything ... but most of all, you will feel a tremendous sense of love." "Will ...

427. Leading as Loving

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... . I was just in the right place at the wrong time. Lots of folks could do a better job, but it became mine to do, and as long as you put me here, you’ll get the best I’ve got. I’ve always thought of myself as an ordinary man. I don’t have ... assistance in breeding the cattle. Soon he had a huge herd. Others of the ten offered advice on investments. And it was not long before the youngest son had greater wealth than his nine siblings. Above his desk the young man wrote these words: “Friendship is of ...

428. Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room

Drama

Suzanne Fisher

... creatures grew quiet, not knowing how to act. Then Moose puffed up his big gray chest and started to react. Narrator: Moe pulled him back by the tail and told him to behave. Moe: These are very special people sent here to be safe. Narrator: Moose yanked his long tail free and glared at his good friend. Moose: Whatever do you mean? I do not want to lend my home and hay to strangers whatever you believe. Why are they so special? I'm gonna make them leave! Marie: No, please! Narrator: Pleaded Marie. Rudy/Ruby ...

429. Made New By Getting Lost

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... ; if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must fill every moment of our lives with action; when will we have time to make the long slow journey across the desert wilderness as did the Magi? Or sit and watch the stars as did the shepherds? Or brood over the coming ... As I write this, there is a kid under a pile of leaves in the yard just under my window. He has been there for a long time and everybody else is found and they are about to give up on him at the base. I consider finking on him or setting the ...

430. Let The Children Come To Me

Psalm 42:1-11

Eulogy

Mary Venema Swierenga

... followed people around with his eyes and gave them lots of joy. Many people were praying that ____________ would make it. But after three months and four days his valiant heart gave out, and he died. Part of our pain is that, while his life was too short, it was long enough for us to come to love him and so we grieve, missing him. But we do not grieve as those who have no hope. For ____________ is now with God. He now has a body that works. He has no need to struggle for breath any more. He lives ...

431. A Daze of Days

2 Peter 3:1-18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... everyone know about Jesus and love him as their Savior? (Let them answer.) The reason that God doesn't send Jesus is that he wants everyone to have a chance to receive Jesus as their God. That's what the Bible says. But you may think it is taking too long for Jesus to come. I brought with me some salt this morning to help us learn something about our waiting for Jesus. There is a lot of salt in this one box, but we are going to pretend that every one of these pieces of salt is a day. Now ...

432. Death Of A Dream - Birth Of A Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... your own way, and then you don't like your way. You express yourself, and you don't like the self you express." God will not long let us harbor our distorted values. Humans, left to go unchecked by the God to whom we are all accountable, will never, on their own, ... human body for its existence, so is the mighty Breath of God (the Holy Spirit) to the spirit of a person. We simply cannot live long without him. We are more right than we knew when we pray as we sing, "Breathe on me Breath of God, Fill Me with ...

433. No Need For Weeping Anymore

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Erskine White

... nor trouble can erode. No, you're not perfect, and yes, you still have your share of difficulties and disappointments in the world, but when you believe in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, you have a serenity and inner strength which gives you the long view of things - a long view which stretches all the way to eternity. It puts the pressure and problems of the moment in their proper perspective. After all, what is there to really defeat us, now that Christ is alive again? Surely life can hurt us, but now ...

434. Breaking Down Walls

Ephesians 2:14

Children's Sermon

... is it? (Let them respond.) You're right, it's a brick. What can we build with bricks? (Let them respond. They may name some of the following things.) You can build houses, basements, towers, patios, garages, churches, forts and schools with bricks. Did you know that a long time ago, people used to build fences of bricks or stones to separate their land? One person's land went up to the fence and no farther and the other person's land was on the other side of the fence. (Show the picture of the Great Wall ...

435. Advent 1

Luke 21:5-38, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Zechariah 14:1-21, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... the Lord God to supply "what is lacking in (their) faith." He wants, as his letter continues, to see them mature in love for all people as they await the "coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints." He expected that they wouldn't have a long wait, as we have, but Paul was positive that the Lord would return, thereby keeping his promise and initiating the fullness of the kingdom of God. That continues to be the hope of Christians in this modern age. The lection employed by the Episcopal Book Of Common ...

436. Easter 6

John 14:15-31, Psalm 67:1-7, Acts 15:22-35, Joel 2:18-27, Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... to walk through its cleft of darkness unharmed into the light of day." When the two men met, Eiseley says that he "strove to utter his name, (and) I was aware that he was passing me by as a stranger. I beheld the image but not the reality of a long dead man. Phantom or genetic twin, he passed on, and the crowds of New York closed inscrutably about him." Dr. Eiseley remarks that the incident shook him up so much that he had to hold on to the railing as he descended the steps. He knew that he was confronted ...

437. Proper 10

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14, 2 Kings 2:1-18, Deuteronomy 30:11-20, Psalm 69:1-36, Psalm 25:1-22, Luke 10:25-37

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... his way. Next, a woman walked by the entrance to the alley; she looked at the unconscious man and quickly walked past him. Five more people who had been in church saw the man and did nothing about helping him. It was the eighth person, a young man with long hair and a beard, who had not been in church, that stopped, took the man's pulse, saw he was alive and then went to a nearby telephone booth and called 911; he stayed there until the paramedics arrived and, only then, went his way. 1. There is probably ...

438. Take Off The Grave Clothes!

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... , unbound, resurrected, emancipated from being spiritually dead to being fully alive, but they still have on their grave clothes. So long as they have them on they can never be truly set free. Our resurrection must be succeeded by a final ... to remove all alcohol from the home. The entire family must engage in behavior that will allow the individual to sustain over the long haul a wholesome and healthy life. Everyone in this case must remove the grave clothes, those reminders and catalysts which compel people ...

439. The Interview

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

... ’s pay scale. Take your example from Jesus. Go and serve without expecting anything in return, and without demanding payment in kind. You will be provided for over and above what you might expect. The rewards will be measured in terms of meaning and purpose and long-term investments that pay eternal dividends. May I sign you up?” With pen in hand, she stood to write her name on the bottom line. The book handed to her for her signature is filled with other names, some with ink obviously written that very ...

440. Give Me A Break!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

... us busy, but little else. We spin our wheels at work because we have to put in the hours, and then we spin our tires running from one meeting to another in the evening. When we finally arrive at home, we wonder why we even bothered. The meetings ran long, the practices were tedious, the people were bores and the rooms crowded. The burdens we carry are no longer the physical loads, but rather are the mental anguish and the fear that somehow we will not measure up to what we are supposed to be and do. We load ...

441. When God’s “No” Means “Yes”

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

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... disillusionment with the American dream when he returns home. It is an emotional, “gut-wrenching” movie. One scene early in the movie stands out in my mind. The young man is in high school. He had grown up in a loving middle class family in a small town on Long Island. The family is as American as apple pie. They love the Fourth of July parades. His mother has told him repeatedly he can do anything he sets his mind to. He is a winner. In high school he goes out for the wrestling team and undergoes the ...

442. Rejoice In The Lord

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... didn't know how he could go on. A murmuring panic began to descend over the auditorium until an old black woman in the balcony stood up, and called down to the stage, saying, "Frederick Douglass, God is not dead!" No one can understand the real meaning of joy so long as we think of the universe as simply an accident, and our lives as sound and fury signifying nothing. But a person in Christ can rejoice even in the fiercest storm that our God lives, and that God will send the light we need in our darkness. 2 ...

443. God's Christmas Greeting

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... time when God sends a message to the world as well, and these words from Isaiah bring us a message from the Lord that we long to hear. This ancient prophet was called upon to be God's message-bearer to a people who had lived in despair and misery as ... I do?" It was a humbling moment, but one in which I learned more about the peace that Christ promises than I have in a very long time. Isaiah's vision of a world where peace and justice are possible is based on that same conviction that it is God who brings us ...

444. Light For Our Darkness

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... personal decision to receive Christ into our hearts as Lord. No one else can do that for you. Faith is not inherited like the family jewels, and yet hundreds of people have never made a personal faith commitment like that of the ancient wise men. I had an experience not long ago that I suspect is not unlike one many of us have. I was cleaning out a file of old college term papers. The one which struck a chord in me was a 16-page wonder on the "Contributions Of Pope Leo The Great" which I had written in one ...

445. For One Who Came to Faith While Dying

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Palmer L. Gedde

... study;your opinion. For example, there are some folk, and some of you here today might be counted among this group, who believe that God created the world but then went off into some far corner of the universe to let the world run by itself. God is, therefore, a long ways away and quite unconcerned for us, or the events of the world, as we trudge along life's road. There may be others among you who think of God as a kindly old doting grandfather, just waiting in the wings to be asked so that he can share ...

446. Oh Me of Little Faith

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... about it. But at the same time, I’m going to need more concrete proof than a few fossilized remnants of what MIGHT have been long-dead alien germs to change my mind, to convince me once and for all that Fox Mulder is right, that we are not alone ... mean that the storm will stop if we keep our focus on Jesus? Maybe not. The storm may continue, sometimes for what might seem like a long time. But through the spray and the splash of the waves, Jesus will be there, calling out to us, "Take heart, it is I; do not ...

447. The Dripping of Water

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... Carolina. I only know that because her mother recently died and I read the obituary. I mention Marion because I think we all have a tendency to connect particular incidents with people we've known. The one thing I remember so distinctly about Marion Long is studying Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in our senior English class. Our teacher was anxious for us to be literate and acquainted with some of the world's good literature. After studying "Macbeth" in detail, we dramatized it in class. That's where Marion comes ...

448. The Dynamics of Doubt

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... of the greatest creeds of Christendom was uttered by a father who wanted his demon-possessed son healed. (Mark 9:20-29) "How long has he been this way?" Jesus asked, watching the boy go into convulsions, rolling on the ground. "From childhood," said the father ... obedience will you hear your name called. "Thomas." It is almost as if Jesus says what he said to the blind man long ago: "Ephphatha." ("Be open.") It is important that someone who knows everything about you calls you by name. This strange Eternal ...

449. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... breath underwater for thirteen minutes, forty-two and five-tenths seconds? Then for all my friends who think I preach too long, there is this consolation. The Guiness Book of World Records reports that the longest sermon on record was delivered by Clinton ... able to strengthen us to overcome, failures which we wonder whether or not God can use. Such things, having been settled long ago, are needless battles, apparently due to faulty communication - between ourselves and the Almighty. HE MAKES ME TO LIE DOWN ...

450. Loving

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Larry Powell

... the full truth. With Paul, we are obliged to confess, "Now I know in part." An old gospel hymn, which we seldom sing anymore, paraphrases Paul's statement in everyday language: Tempted and tried, we're oft made to wonder,why it should be thus all the day long,while there are others living about us,never molested, though in the wrong.Farther along, we'll know all about it,Farther along, we'll understand why.Cheer up my brother, live in the sunshine,we'll understand it all by and by*(* Farther Along, Rev. W ...

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