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4676. I Hate To Rain On Your Parade, But

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... remember how the event is depicted in one of my favorite movies, "Jesus Christ, Superstar." Have you seen it? In the movie, the Palm Sunday crowd sings, "Christ, you know I love you. Did you see, I waved?" But, you see, as your pastor, I take my responsibility to nurture your spiritual growth seriously. And you cannot grow being fed a steady diet of baby food. So I cannot and will not skip from Palm Sunday to Easter morning and avoid talking about what happened in between. You cannot get from Palm Sunday to ...

4677. Another Tricky Question

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... anything vaguely resembling happiness. To the contrary, ignorance is constantly frustrating, often embarrassing, sometimes costly, and always regrettable. So it surprises me to see how often we, like the mother in the movie, choose ignorance in order to avoid guilt or responsibility for our failures. When we choose to be ignorant, for example, about the possible consequences of making a mad dash across a busy city street in rush hour traffic, sometimes we pay a price for our ignorance. (But at least I ...

4678. Get Ready, Get Set...Wait!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... us that God often breaks in to our lives unexpectedly. We cannot know the time or the day of our next encounter with the holy. Neither can we predict whether that meeting will be a joyful experience of forgiveness and peace, a call to repentance and responsibility, or some combination of the two (as I suspect it will be). But we can realize that it will come and attempt to be ready and actively waiting. So now, the greens have been hung, the candles have been placed in the windows, the poinsettias are ...

4679. Been Fishin' Lately?

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... everything they had worked for and follow a stranger on the basis of a simple invitation and a mysterious promise. We’re not uncomplicated fishermen like Simon, Andrew, James, and John. We are complex, educated, technically knowledgeable people, people who have responsibilities and complicated lives. We’re not about to drop everything and go running after some traveling evangelist who announces that the time has come and the kingdom of God is here. We want to thoroughly discuss the matter, look at it ...

4680. Don't That Just Beat All?

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... know what he’s going to say before he says it. You want to say, “Wait a minute, Jesus! Are you sure you want to confront these men? You don’t really want to make enemies in high places, do you?” But before you can speak up, Jesus offers his response. “So you think that forgiveness has nothing to do with healing? It would have been so easy to just tell this man that he was healed. But would he really be healed, not just in his body but in his heart and in his mind? No! So, to demonstrate to ...

4681. The Lantern

John 18:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... lantern or two and cross a valley to a certain spot in an olive grove and there arrest a certain man. The soldiers were told that this man was dangerous to the whole city of Jerusalem and an enemy of Rome. Soldiers know that it is their responsibility to protect their country from dangerous people and these soldiers were no different than any others who have a job to do. There was one other thing about the mission that was different than other missions. The man they were looking for might not be alone. They ...

4682. That All-Pervasive Snake

Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Joann Hary

... and gag yourself. It's no big deal." 3. "I'm so glad I got this new job. It is really wonderful to have some money to do the things that I want to do. Besides that, I like meeting all these people. It feels so good to finally have responsibility for myself. I am surely glad that I spent all that time in college getting ready for this. It truly is wonderful." ENTER THE SNAKE: "Aw, come on, you don't have to get up so early this morning. The boss said that you need to be on time every ...

4683. When Drudgery Becomes Joy

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Joann Hary

... that we could just quit doing the wash, or cooking the meals, or shoveling the sidewalk, or feeding the cattle, just for a day or so, or maybe a week. Somehow, at times things become a drudgery rather than a privilege, and we grudgingly accept our responsibility, rather than remembering our call. Perhaps that is the way it was for Saul. God had chosen him to be the first king and he really had accomplished much. He had defeated the Amalekites. He had engaged the fearsome Philistines in at least three major ...

4684. Commitment

John 19:17-27

Drama

Martha L. Leach

... he asked me to care for his mother. How awful if no one had been there to look after her. Ruth: You truly are a man of commitment. I'm sure you have enough family of your own to care for. Good friend or no, that's a lot of responsibility. John: It's the least I could do for my Master. His commitment is what we should be speaking of. Even with all his pain, his last thoughts were of his mother. He was the most selfless man I ever met. Ruth: How did you meet him? John: It was ...

4685. The Women

John 20:1-9

Drama

William Grimbol

... you, to anyone? Don't you believe that his kind of message needs desparately to be heard these days? SHIRLEE: Well, yes, I guess it does. I guess ... I mean certainly we always need to be reminded of our priorities being focused on love, our responsibility to the poor, etc. But, they will crucify him if he keeps claiming to be the Messiah, and if he keeps saying that the rich - the learned - the religious leaders will fall. He is asking to be killed. KAREN: Prophets always do. SHIRLEE: Prophets yes. Messiah ...

4686. When the Tie That Binds is a Slipknot

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... for the church, are not going to be happy and won’t let anyone else be happy until the pastor leaves. A congregation gets a reputation of being contentious and inflexible. A church splits over whether or not women should be allowed to hold positions of responsibility and authority in the church. Stuff happens. We in the church, like in every other human institution, have conflicts and disagreements. It pains me to say this, but sometimes it seems as if no other group of people in the world could be more ...

4687. Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock

Psalm 30:1-12

Sermon

... My doctor tells be I shouldn’t lift anything heavy, but he doesn’t offer a definition of "heavy." I have also been advised by clergy colleagues of the necessity of avoiding a malady that is common to many ministers. "Stop thinking that you are somehow responsible for everything and everybody. You didn’t create all the problems in the world (regardless to what some of your church members may think). Why do you think you can solve them? You’re not Jesus, you’re Johnny. Do the things you can do about ...

4688. The Inaugural Address

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of the speech but have been inverted here for effect. ********** Here is the fourth: In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it—and the glow ...

4689. Getting Access

Ephesians 3:12

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... only way to open it is to know the numbers in order that will open it. Would you like to try and open it? Allow one of the children to try and open the lock without knowing the combination. Okay. That didn't work, did it? Why not? (response) Right. Because you didn't know the combination. Now who else wants to try with the combination? Allow another to try with the combination. Guide him/her through the process until it is opened. Great job! Now you have access to this box because you know the combination ...

4690. Get Ready

Sermon

Rolf E. Aaseng

... , what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9). We live in joyful anticipation of the greater blessings to come when Christ takes us to live with him forever. By carrying out God's work. There is work to be done. Jesus gave us responsibilities to carry out during his absence - to proclaim the gospel and to show love to others. His earthly ministry was urgent because the "night is coming when no one can work" (John 9:4). The same urgency applies to us. The time is short; we must do what ...

4691. The Clanking of Coins

Matthew 27:1-10

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... express her feeling by giving all she had, even though it was such a small amount. Her action and her attitude surely gladdened Jesus, and helped to lift his depression, to restore his faith in human nature. The sounds of those coins were sounds of care and response, for they had found their proper place. It was the sound of what money can do. There was another sound of clanking coins that week also in the Temple. It was the sound made by coins that had gotten out of their proper place. Pilgrims came to ...

4692. The Shouting of the Crowd

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... the class and her teaching, and how much he anticipated getting to know her. She accepted his praise graciously. Just before he hung up, he expressed the disgust he felt for the boy on the front row who didn't participate. "Oh, you mean Billy," was her immediate response. "He participated as best he could. Billy had polio two years ago and is paralyzed. His parents bring him each Sunday and he sits in that chair in the front row until they come back for him. He cannot move his arms or his legs. You should ...

4693. I Came Back -The Risen Young Man

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... of human tragedy. My father had died, leaving my mother and me alone. I was young when he died. I loved the freedom of running through the hills at top speed with the wind rushing through my hair, but my mother was a widow, so I took on responsibilities to help feed our family of two, and forgot how to play. Then I grew sick. The doctors were mostly quacks. The healers were mostly fakes. People asked Mother about me, "Is there any word yet?" Then they stopped asking because I was dead. My funeral was the ...

4694. Vacillation - Pontius Pilate

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... into believing that he is their king. "Don't you remember the 'Hosannas' last Sunday morning?" said the priest. "They cried out, 'Hail to the king, the son of David.' They waved palms. I tell you that there will be a riot and you will be responsible unless you approve the death penalty." "Caiaphas, you squirming snake," I thought. "You are trying to use me. And I won't play your game." "Bring Jesus to my private chambers," I said. There were all kinds of shouts of disapproval from the priests and from ...

4695. The Christian's Tears of Failure

Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... take us back. When sin abounds, grace abounds still more - the greater the sin, even greater is the grace. But we must avoid what Bonhoeffer called "cheap grace." This is the idea that it is God's business to forgive us, and therefore forgiveness comes without any response on our part. In a letter to the editor of an Atlanta newspaper, a Baptist Sunday School class told of the theft of an air conditioner bought by the hard work of the children. In this letter, they sent a message to the thieves: "We forgive ...

4696. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Larry Powell

... will of God." Although he did not state it in these terms, thinking people must make allowances for accidents, human choice, and the chain reaction of circumstances. To casually mutter that whatever happens is the will of God is cheap theology; it removes any responsibility from humanity and erases orderly design from the universe. Now, those are my words and not Weatherhead's, but he did imply that to piously dismiss everything with the phrase, "it is God's will," is the intellectually lazy man's way of ...

4697. WHAT IS MAN?

Sermon

Larry Powell

... Senator; he is consistent. Whatever else, he is consistent. Consistency has its merits. At least, it enables us to know what to expect. Inconsistency is what drives one up the wall - the personality that is one way one time, another way another time; responses and situations which we become foolish enough to assume, change for no apparent reason. It is frequently disconcerting to discover that what we thought would happen, didn't, and what we least expected, did. Inconsistency is what drives one up the wall ...

4698. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... if it really is just a "game" anymore. Not all our children are going to play on winning teams, nor is each of them going to emerge from the multitudes as a "star." It doesn't matter. All we wish for them is to be healthy, happy, responsible, and live meaningful, fulfilling lives. True, sports can be an important part of that chemistry, but they are not the be-all, end-all of conditioning for life. The lesson of how we win, lose, agree, disagree, negotiate, find meaning, values, and objectives, involves the ...

4699. The Fruits of Good Soilir

Ephesians 5:8-9

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... . Lesson: "Good morning. You know what? Sometimes in the middle of church I get hungry. Do you ever get hungry while you're in church? What do you do about it?" Let the children answer and converse for a moment about this. It probably will lead to some funny responses. "Well, today I came prepared." Hold up the bag "The first thing I did this morning was go to my garden, I dug down in the ground underneath the dirt and I pulled up this banana." Some child will either challenge you or have a strange look on ...

4700. Treasure of Heaven

1 Peter 1:9

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

Exegetical Aim: To demonstrate the eternal nature of our reward in Jesus Christ. Props: A box, a real Easter egg, something with rust, an article of clothing with a tear. Lesson: Today I want to show you some of my treasures. Do you know what treasures are? (response) Yes, treasures are things that we think are important to us, and we want them to last for a long, long time. I want you to tell me if you think these are good treasures. First, pull the egg from the box. Just last week was Easter, and my ...

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