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4626. Get Out of the Seed Box

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50

Sermon

Mary Austin

Years ago, when my daughter was a tiny baby, just a couple weeks old, I could already feel the time zipping by. The five-pound newborn had turned into an eight-pound baby, and she already felt different when I held her. I looked into the future and could see the time zipping by. I lamented the speed of life to my dad, and he said, “Well, time only goes one way, honey.” It does only go one way. And it goes quickly. You know that experience from your own lives, or from the kids you know. From Christmas to ...

4627. What About Me?

John 1:29-42

Sermon

John Jamison

The scripture today is another one of those interesting passages from John, this time giving us John’s version of the story about Jesus being baptized. The other gospel writers tell the story in fairly clear ways, describing what Jesus and John said and did. After reading their stories, we can close our eyes and see what it must have been like. And then John writes his version and instead of telling us about the river, he says things like, “This is the man I told you about who comes after me and would end ...

4628. The Unfettered Word

2 Timothy 2:8-15

Sermon

Will Willimon

''But the word of God is not fettered. He owned a hardware store and he was a member of my church. Someone had warned me about him when I moved there. ''He's usually quiet," they said, ''but be careful." People still recalled the Sunday in 1968 when, during the middle of the sermon (the preacher's weekly diatribe against Nixon and the Vietnam war), he had stood up from where he was sitting, shook his head, and walked right out. So I always preached with one eye on my notes and the other on him. He hadn't ...

4629. Ashes at Starbucks

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Mary Austin

This passage from Matthew is an odd choice from the lectionary, for the day we have the most public display of our Christian faith. “Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them,” Jesus says. Good advice. Then we go ahead and mark our foreheads with ashes for everyone to see. If we stop for bread and milk on the way home or go to an early service and wear our ashes to work, if we stop by for some drive-thru ashes, we can’t help but advertise our faith. Most days of the year, no ...

4630. His Own Knew Him Not

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Will Willimon

“And he began to say to them, 'Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”' Luke 4:21 I would wager that this text, Luke 4:14-30, has been preached more than any other here in Duke Chapel. If you're a regular worshipper here, you have heard it used as a text for sermons at least three times in the past two years. Its proper place is here, on the third Sunday after Epiphany. But it's always in season in the Chapel--with young and fearless prophet Jesus in the pulpit, giving the establishment ...

4631.

Psalm 122:1-9

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

Peace for Jerusalem, the City of Pilgrims Like other psalms of ascent, this one contains hints of pilgrimage. The call, “Let us go to the house of the LORD,” signals their journey’s departure, and the declaration, “our feet are standing in your gates, O Jerusalem,” signals their arrival in the holy city. The description of the tribes “going up” (Hb. ʿlh, v. 4) uses a key term for the worshipers’ ascent to Yahweh’s mountain (cf. 24:3). The voice of a representative liturgist is evident. The speaking “I” in ...

4632. Extreme Measures

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

The tragedy of Naboth is a lesson in the lengths some leaders will go to have their way and maintain power. Theft of property, conspiracy, and assassination are a few of the diabolical machinations employed by some leaders to maintain control over their subjects. In our text today we find that Jezebel has plotted the death of a man named Naboth because he refused to give up his land to King Ahab so that the king might have a vegetable garden. The crimes of grand theft and murder over such a paltry thing as ...

4633. Week Four Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

Monday Week FourIsaiah 65:17-21John 4:43-54 God Restores Hope In 1935 Bill W. and Dr. Bob lived on the fringes of society. They were drunks spending their nights and many days drinking away the cares of life. Both men needed someone who could help them to regain their dignity and self-worth. They found that special person in each other. The story of the sobriety and recovery to productivity of these two men is the story of the beginnings of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), an international organization which ...

4634. How Much Protection Do You Have?

Psalm 119:9-11

Children's Sermon

Teresa L. Major

Concept: The more we "cover" ourselves with God's word, the more protection we have against temptation to do wrong. Preparation: At least one bottle of sunscreen or suntan lotion with the SPF plainly visible. Several bottles with differing SPF's would be helpful. Do you know what this stuff is? (Children respond.) It's sunscreen. We used to call this suntan lotion, but now we don't care so much about getting a tan as we do about protecting ourselves from the sun. What does sunscreen do? (Children respond. ...

4635. But You Can't Get Water Out Of A Rock!

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Steve Burt

"You can't get blood out of a turnip!" we've all heard (usually in response to a bill collector or a higher church budget). Or we've heard a variation, "You can't squeeze water out of a stone." We nod our heads in agreement with the speaker. After all, how can we argue with something so plain? The rational, analytical side of our brain says, "True, true, sad but true. You can't get water out of a rock." Oh, we of little faith. All we see is the rock. Every week when I need to come up with a sermon, I read ...

4636. More Than Sex

Sermon

John N. Brittain

Song of Solomon 2:8-16a, 8:6-7; 1 John 3:11-23; John 15:12-17 My beloved speaks and says to me: "Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away; for now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. ... Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. O my dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely." My beloved is mine and I am his -- Song of Solomon 2:10-16a Every summer, like many university chaplains ...

4637. Is There Any Seed Left In The Barn?

Haggai 2:19

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

About eight years ago I first considered moving from Los Angeles to northern Indiana, from the city to the country. I'm a city boy, born and bred, and I still love the city, but I thought to be fair to my children they should experience both ways of living. So we loaded up the truck and we moved to a mildly rural place called Dunlap, located halfway between Elkhart and Goshen, Indiana. I say mildly rural because the Concord Mall is only a mile and a half north of us, but we're surrounded by cornfields and ...

4638. Lent 5

John 12:20-36

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

Liturgical Color: Purple Theme: Jesus Predicts His Death: The Kernel Must Die Before the Wheat is Born. COMMUNITY GATHERS Pastoral Invitation In the name of the one who soon will die, welcome, as we approach the conclusion of Lent. How goes your Lenten observance? What are you learning? What new decisions are you making? Where do you see your life changing? Have you begun to see the reason for Jesus' death, and indeed, death to your old ways? We will experience no Easter without first experiencing Good ...

4639. Runaway Lives

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Robert Noblett

For cowboy lovers, the 1950s were golden. There were more cowboys than you can count on your fingers and toes: Hopalong Cassidy, and Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, Lash LaRue and the list goes on. There were probably only a dozen or so basic scenarios played out in all their shows, and one of the classics was the runaway stagecoach. The driver became incapacitated, the horses went mad, the coach was full of terrified passengers, and along came Roy riding Trigger at what seemed like seventy-five ...

4640. We All Sin So What?

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

One day a young skeptic knocked on the door of a rectory. A priest opened the door. The visitor said, “Come out. I want to talk to you about a problem.” “No,” the priest replied, “You come in. I want to talk to you about your sins.” After Adam and Eve sinned by eating the forbidden fruit, God came one evening and called to them, “Where are you?” Because they were afraid of what God might do to them for disobeying him, they hid themselves. At the end of the day God knocks on the garden door and says, “I ...

4641. The Dream For Wisdom

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

In three swift verses, the succession is accomplished, finally. And David sleeps with his fathers and is buried in the city of David. Our prayer for David, companion in these past weeks, is that David sleeps, at last, in peace. For in those last years, David is so advanced in years, so old, that he cannot get warm. They cover him with clothes, but he does not get warm. They bring him a young maiden to lie beside him, but he does not get warm. I imagine David shivers in the knowledge of all that his life ...

4642. Always Rising

John 6:25-59

Children's Sermon

SHARING THIS WEEK'S GOSPEL THEME AT HOME Parents: Begin this week with a discussion of the Gospel lesson. Explain to your child that just as bread spoils, we "spoil" too when we get old or die without God. Reassure him that with God, who constantly renews us, we will never spoil. You can reinforce this lesson for years to come with a little patience and a good sour dough recipe. (There are any number of variations, but the basic recipe calls for flour, water, yeast, and a warm place for the yeast to ...

4643. All Saints' Sunday

Jn 11:32-44 · Mt 5:1-12 · Isa 25:6-9 · Rev 7:9-17; 21:1-6 · Ps 24

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

COMMENTARY Old Testament: Isaiah 25:6-9 Through his prophet, the Lord promises to make a joyous feast for his people on Mt. Zion, replete with rich food and wine. God will remove the pall of gloom and sorrow by destroying death and personally wiping away the tears from the eyes of his people. Epistle: Revelation 21:1-6a John's vision of the new heaven and new earth, predicted by Isaiah (65:17; 66:22). The sea, symbolic of unrest and turbulence, is no more. The new Jerusalem descends from heaven, with all ...

4644. Proper 28

Mk 13:1-32 · Heb 10:11-25 · 1 Sam 1:4-20 · Ps 16

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

COMMENTARY Old Testament: 1 Samuel 1:4-20 Elkanah and his wives went up to Shiloh annually to offer sacrifice to the Lord. He would give each one a portion of the offering based on the number of children each had. Hannah was barren and the other wife would rub this fact into her face, particularly at the time of their pilgrimage. Being barren was considered a great curse. Hannah became depressed, refusing even to eat. Elkanah was an understanding husband who gently consoled his wife. She decided to take ...

4645. Friday -- The Good One

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

Mark J. Molldrem

A youngster in Sunday School asked the pastor, "If Jesus died on Friday, why do we call it good?" It seems contrary to reason to call this day Good Friday, when congregations around the world remember Jesus' death with black and an empty chancel. Images like these recount the day: forsaken, scorn, thorns, despised, grief, sorrow, wounded, tears, darkness, and death. How can we use a word like good in the same breath? What good can come from Jesus' death on the cross on a day long ago on a hill called "the ...

4646. What Do You Expect Your Religion To Do?

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Clement E. Lewis

Instrumental Meditation (The people reverently quiet) Words Of Preparation: The English clergyman and novelist, Charles Kingsley, is reported to have said, "What I want is not to possess religion but to have a religion that shall possess me." Samuel M. Shoemaker said, "Religion which is merely ritual and ceremonial can never satisfy. Neither can we be satisfied by a religion which is merely humanitarian or serviceable to mankind. Man's craving is for the spiritual." Hymn: "Mid All The Traffic Of The Ways" ...

4647. Sandwiches

Matthew 25:18

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

Object: Two slices of bread and a variety of sandwich bags and wrap. This morning we are going to discuss sandwiches. I would guess a lot of you eat sandwiches for lunch most days of the week. What are your favorite kinds of sandwiches? (Allow time for answers.) How many of you like the crust on or off your sandwiches? What about the heel on the loaf of bread? Do you like that or not? And how many like white bread or dark bread? There are a lot of decisions to be made about sandwiches, aren't there? Once ...

4648. Let's Brag About Jesus

1 Corinthians 1:29

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A hat that is much too small for your head. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever heard the saying, "You have a big head?" (Let them answer.) Do you know what that means? (Let them answer.) I brought along my hat today to show you that it can mean a couple of things. (Put on your hat that is much too small.) How do you like this hat? If someone told me that my head was too big I could tell them that my hat was too small. Do you think that would take care of it? You can see that I ...

4649. And Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Matthew 6:13a

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: box of chocolates, potato chips, popcorn, etc. Do you ever think that someday you will be on a diet? You know what a diet is, don't you? (Let them answer.) That's right, a diet is when you can't eat the things that you like the most, and you can eat as much as you want of things that you don't like. How many of you like hamburgers with lots of things on them, potatoes with gravy, chocolate candy, potato chips, ice cream, soda pop, and things like that? You can't have any of that on your diet but ...

4650. A Woman's Place

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Erskine White

It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him. (Genesis 2:18) Ask a chauvinist where a woman's place is and he or she will say, "A woman's place is in the home," or, "A woman's place is subordinate to the man's." Ask a feminist where a woman's place is and she or he will say, "A woman's place is wherever she chooses to be," or, "A woman's place is anywhere a man's place is." Ask a chauvinist and a feminist what the Bible says about a woman's place and chances are that ...

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