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426. Mirror, Mirror

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... Now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face." Say that with me, "Now we see ... in a mirror dimly ... but then ... face to face." What do you suppose that means? (responses, if any) It means that even though there are things that we don't fully understand about God and heaven right now, one day we will know more fully. In our lives right now, we can only understand things just like looking in a mirror, because there are things that God can see that we can't see. When we are finally with God, we will ...

427. The Pop Quiz

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... realize that we don’t have all the answers, and how would that look? Who do you say that Jesus is? The gift of faith places the confession on our lips, "Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the Living God." But every day we must struggle to understand exactly what that means when we’re faced with the difficult questions of life and faith. When these questions arise in your life – and they will – God doesn’t expect you to have all the answers. We CAN confess our faith, and I certainly encourage you to ...

428. When You Least Expect It...

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... is. Why is that? Is it a stranger who turns out to be Jesus, or Jesus who turns out to be a stranger? Maybe Luke is telling us that their failure to recognize Jesus NOW was consistent with their failure to recognize him before the crucifixion, to really understand who he was and why he had come. And maybe Luke wants us to remember that recognition comes as a function not just of memory, but of commonality. It was only when they broke bread together, when they did something that they had done so often before ...

429. "Oh Yeah, Thanks a Lot" -The Grateful Leper

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... . Many others did not. That's why they did not think of God first when they were healed. They thought of themselves first. That's why they are still sick. If we don't learn to praise God in hardship, we will never learn to praise him at all. I understand that now, although I must admit that there were times when I was damnably close to giving up all hope. I shudder to think of how close I was to being like the other nine. There are times when it seems that the silence of God is almost unbearable. You ...

430. Joseph Ponders

Matthew 1:18-25

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... with him what we have. We can only teach him what we have been taught. Then you, Oh Lord, must supply the rest! "Dawn! The first golden rays of light over the hillside! Surely this day will never be forgotten among men. As he grows, as he matures, we will understand more fully who he is and what his mission in life is to be. The shepherd said he was to be the Savior of the world! God grant that it may be so. Grant that the world may truly believe and be saved by him! "Oh Lord, we humbly submit ...

431. As We Take Our Rest

Matthew 26:17-30

Drama

Joe Barone

... was. I really didn't. I was the older brother of two who were among the first to be called, and yet I didn't really understand. You know, our lives are kind of like a tapestry. When we come before the Savior, we'll present a sort of woven blanket with ... later we had asked him if we wanted us to call down fire on his enemies, and he had told us that we just didn't understand. And finally we had asked for special places next to the throne when he came in glory. You remember that. We sent our mother. She knelt ...

432. Encounter with a Stranger

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Robert Allen

... realize that many homeless people are simply normal people who have been hit with serious financial problems. These people helped her, gave her advice on how to survive without money and even shared what little food they had. There was no other way for this successful television anchorwoman to understand the homeless than to walk where they walked. This was the message that was made clear to these two men on the Emmaus Road. Their encounter with the stranger shed light on their confusion and helped them to ...

433. The Butterfly Rock

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Carl Jech

... life in this world, because now he understood that heaven and eternal life were all that mattered? On the surface it might seem that this is what it was all about, but not if one looks more deeply. The change, I believe, had to do with Peter's new understanding of the nature of life itself! Like Peter, we all tend to want to live in the safe cocoon where everything is nice and neat, where there are no unsettling surprises, where we have all the answers. We want a Messiah, a Christ, with all the answers as ...

434. Influence of Mothers

2 Kings 4:8-37

Illustration

... John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, unless you understand his mother Susanna Wesley. She was so instrumental in his life that she inevitably affected the movement and ... a thousand different ways has not been forever influenced by their mother. I firmly believe that you cannot understand who a person is and what motivates them until you understand their past. And you cannot understand a person’s past without understanding the source that co-created that person along with God—their parents.

435. Cross Purposes

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... with his substitute. The same happens to a believer in Christ. He becomes identified with Christ and dies in and with him. While the sinner lives, Christ died in his place. There is the power of the cross to change a man from death to life! When we realize and understand what God has done for us in the cross, we are so grateful that we change our lives by the grace of God. When we fully know how good and loving God has been to us, we instinctively respond by saying, "God, you have been so good to me; what ...

436. Easter 5

Jn 13:31-35 · Acts 13:44-52; 14:8-18; 21-27 · Rev 21:1-5

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... you promise, that, amid all the changes of this world, our hearts may be fixed where true joy is found." Hymn of the Day: "Lord of all nations, Grant me Grace" Theme of the Day: What's New in Religion? Gospel - A new commandment. Lesson 1 - A new understanding of God. Lesson 2 - A new heaven and earth. Instead of looking back to the Resurrection, we now are looking forward to new realities resulting from the Resurrection. In his death, the Disciples will see a new kind of love which is the kind they are to ...

437. When God's Mind is Spoken

Judges 1:1-36

Sermon

... words inscribed on a stone? Or with music? Or with law? Or with a volume containing sixty-six books? If God had something that he really wanted to say to us, how would he choose to say it? And, how could God communicate in a way that we could really understand? Has God ever said what is on his mind? Will God ever say what is on his mind? The prologue to the Gospel of John tells us about a time when God spoke his mind. These introductory verses tell us that God spoke his mind by becoming flesh and by ...

438. Salt and Light

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

... , and people who are different. It's easy to say that one should be like salt and light in a general sense. No one minds adding that to the list of what one should be and what one should do. But, how do we as individuals really live if we understand ourselves to be salt and light, not in a general sense, but in the everyday life? What does it mean to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world when we are trying to decide between public education or private education for our children? What does ...

439. The One Who Made His Cross

Drama

... don’t know. I don’t know. I have tried and tried to figure it out. But I can’t come up with an answer. Nothing about it makes any sense. Silas And the worst part is that he had to die the death of a common criminal. Justus Now, understand that crucifixions usually don’t disturb me. But this one, this one was different from the others I have witnessed. Silas Unnatural is the word. Justus That’s it exactly. You know I believe that the two thieves deserved what they got. It was the man in the middle ...

440. We Know Exactly How You Feel, Jesus

Matthew 8:3, Luke 7:14, Luke 8:44

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... I'm alone, Jesus? Do you know exactly how I feel? Jesus taught that God cares for the lilies of the field and the birds of the air and that the hairs on our head are numbered in God's eyes. But how can we know God understands? That Christ understands? Because he became like us in every respect. He became like us in every respect ... that he might become merciful and faithful in the service of God. And ... he knows how we feel because he reaches out with a healing touch. The Sunday school hymn "He Touched ...

441. The Three Faces of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... : hunger, loneliness, sin, sickness, death had no power over him. In him, God was let loose in the world, triumphantly, so that Hans Kung declares: "I believe, first of all, to put it simply, in God as he addresses me in this Jesus." Christianity is our understanding of God and the meaning of life through Jesus Christ, Son of God, Son of man. God the Holy Spirit: There is a contemporary moving of the Holy Spirit all over the world. This is the contemporary action of the Spirit of God - still changing people ...

442. A SERMON DRAMA FOR CHRISTMASTIDE

Drama

Tom Eberle

... to like angels. All the time I thought Luke was the dumb one for talking about them. But it’s me. I didn’t understand that there are times when words just can’t say what you want to say, and you need an image - a symbol - like an angel, to ... really get at the truth. I guess that is what he meant when he said I have no imagination. I didn’t understand that more was being said than just words. Female: But don’t forget that it takes insight too. I always thought it was enough just to ...

443. A SUNDAY OF THE PASSION [PALM SUNDAY] SERMON-DRAMA

Drama

Tom Eberle

... for us to respond for him. Zebedee: You are saying, then, that he has not given his approval for your appearance on this show, and possibly does not even know you are here? Judas: I am confident that he would approve of what is being done. You can surely understand that with the pressures of this time of year, he simply cannot be called upon to make every decision. Zebedee: But he does not know you are here? Judas: I am not aware that he does. Commentator: Let us move on to Miss Scroll. Scroll: I don’t ...

444. Lazarus Rising

John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44

Sermon

... faith picks up where sight leaves off. The Book of Hebrews reads: “Faith is the evidence of things not seen.” In my mind I understand that but I still cannot get out of my mind the thought of Martha looking down the road that first night waiting for Jesus to ... us do not: God is there in our suffering. Oh f rends, you have a heavenly father who cries with you when you cry. He understands eternally what it means to hurt, but because he has taken on our hurt in the person of Jesus. Jesus now went over to the ...

445. The Bible, Your Mirror? by Dr. Lawrence L. Lacour

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... of a pencil. Pausing, he looks at Sybil and inquires, "What’s his name?" "Man," she replies. To which the officer responds, "How do you spell it?" How do you spell it? What do Jesus and the Christian faith have to say about you? How do you understand the way you act and feel? How do you interpret the actions of others? In our Scripture lesson we see Jesus, the model of faith, distrusting a group of institutional custodians. Why? "Because he knew all men and needed no one to bear witness of man; for he ...

446. The Riddles of Jesus

Luke 8:1-15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... know what a parable is? [Let them answer.] A parable is a story about someone or something that could happen but hasn’t happened. It is a pretend story. Jesus used to make up stories or parables and tell them to the people so that they would better understand God and people. Here is another way of explaining what a parable is all about. Do you know what I have in my hand? [Show them the prescription.] This is a prescription that your doctor writes for the pharmacist at the drug store for medicine when you ...

447. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... , finds Paul’s true interpretation of his experience in Philippians 3, where the apostle rejects all his former values as rubbish in order to be found in Christ. In Bultmann’s words, "This is what his conversion meant. In it he surrendered his previous understanding of himself, that is, he surrendered what had till then been the norm and meaning of his life, he sacrificed what had hitherto been his pride and joy ... It was obedient submission to the judgment of God, made known in the cross of Christ ...

448. Jesus, the Suffering Messiah

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... manage to follow Jesus to the place of the trial by the council of Jewish elders. One of the maids of the high priest spotted him there. "You were also with the Nazarene, Jesus," she said to him. "But Peter denied it, saying, ‘I neither know nor understand what you mean’ " (Mark 14:68a). But the maid would not be stilled. Again she identified him. Again Peter denied her claim. By now many of the bystanders had caught on. " ‘Certainly you are one of them; for you are a Galilean.’ But (Peter) began to ...

449. Proper 20

Job 26:1--31:40, James 3:13-18, Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:33-37

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... : Job 28:20-28 Theme: Wisdom as a divine prerogative Exegetical Note Typical of all the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament, this passage portrays wisdom as a kind of hidden treasure completely under the control of God, whose role as Creator is emphasized. From the human standpoint, wisdom and understanding are identified with religious awe (fear of the Lord) and righteousness (departing from evil). Call to Worship Leader: Brothers and sisters, wisdom is of God, and to be wise is to be godly. People ...

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Drama

David E. Ullery

... owe to Caesar, we must pay. He urges us to love, not hate. He wants all men to live only for God! Pilate: Caesar is God! Mary M.: No! God is not of this earth! God has created it! Even man is God’s creation! Pilate: That is difficult to understand, indeed. But I am not concerned with what you believe. You must know that Caiaphas will leave me little choice. Mary M.: But you must not forget that it is the custom to release a prisoner on the day of the Passover. I beg of you - release Jesus! Claudia: That ...

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