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4701. The Gift of Peace

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... and accuses because it knows not how to bear the pain to seek solace. Forgive me, Lord, for the misguided results of my anger, fear, and grief. Almighty God, by whose authority and permission alone, the rulers of the earth maintain their offices of responsibility, we implore you to inspire them to tear down the worldly temples of worship to the false god, Security, and all the decorations of those temples, replacing them with the symbols of creativity, love, and justice. Spirit of the living God, who dwells ...

4702. Peace Through Sacrifice

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... he would have received the enthusiastic greetings from the crowd shouting, Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord!Peace in heaven and glory in the highest. But remember, there is no evidence that Jesus gave anything, but the most sober response, to hopes he raised among the people. He continued up the road which runs from south to north from the valley, traversing the hill to the Golden Gate. Ancient tradition holds that it is through the gate which the King of Israel entered to assume ...

4703. "Crown Him Lord of all!"

Sermon

William Luoma

... Second Lesson: 1 Timothy 1:12-17Paul writes to Timothy, comparing his former life with his Christian faith. He sees Christ as a glorious king. Gospel: Luke 19:28-40Luke tells of the arrangements that were made for Jesus to enter Jerusalem, and describes the response of the crowd. Children's Message: "The Two Crowns"Good morning, boys and girls, and thank you for taking part in the Palm Sunday procession today.On this one Sunday of the year, we use Palm branches to remind us of something special about Jesus ...

4704. T.G.I.F

John 1:43-51

Sermon

William Luoma

... with great things. Someone counted how many jars of water were changed into wine; (John 2:6) Someone estimated that two thousand swine with unclean spirits dashed headlong into the sea; (Mark 5:13) Someone figured there were three thousand baptisms in response to Peter's sermon in Acts 2; Someone counted five thousand at the feeding of the multitude; (Mark 6:44) And the Book of Revelation is full of descriptions of impressive numbers, even the multitude which no man could number, depicting glory ...

4705. Easter Sunrise

Sermon

William Luoma

... the sanctuary after the Psalm. The procession may include an Easter banner, a crucifer, lay readers, and minister. Some may want to use balloons or colorful streamers. Make it joyful! It is the celebration of a victory! Lay participation is encouraged for responsive readings and the lessons. Easter Sunrise Invocation Leader:Christ is risen! Congregation:HE IS RISEN INDEED! Leader:Christ is alive! Christ is among us! Congregation:HE LIVES, ALL GLORY TO HIS NAME! Leader:He said, I am the resurrection and the ...

4706. Faith, Hope, and Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and started back. Ken Davis said he never saw a man move so fast in my life. He literally dived from the table. Deftly stepping around the still-swinging pendulum, Ken asked the class, "Does he believe in the law of the pendulum?" The students resounding response was, "NO!" Faith is Simon Peter stepping out on turbulent water. Faith is the centurion proclaiming: Lord, merely say the word and I know that he will be healed. Faith is Matthew turning his back on security and tossing his future to the wind to ...

4707. Encounters With Christ I: Jesus & the Man Born Blind

John 9:1-12

Sermon

James W. Moore

... t have that! So, they come out with the fervor of Barney Fife to investigate. They interrogate the healed man’s parents… and scare them out of their wits… and then they interrogate the man who has been healed… and he gives them a classic and powerful response that has resounded across the centuries. He says: “This one thing I know. Once I was blind, but now I see.” You see, this man (like most people) is a Pragmatist. Look at what he is saying to their “hard-line” questioning! “I don’t ...

4708. Encounters With Christ III: Jesus and Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

James W. Moore

... and regulations and restrictions. For example, if a man fell into a hole on the Sabbath Day and was screaming for help,… the Pharisee would say: What does the law say about this? Well, the law says “You can’t work on the Sabbath Day”,… so their response would be “Sorry, can’t help you today. Maybe somebody will come along tomorrow. Sorry, can’t break the Scribal law.” On the other hand, Jesus would start with the heart and He would say to the man in the hole, “Give me your hand, I’ll ...

4709. Listen Up!

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: Teaching the importance of listening carefully. Props: Anything that is white. Lesson: Good morning. (response) I have a question for you and the congregation this morning. Hold up the white object and point at it. I am going to ask you first. What color is this? (white) What color is this? (white) What color is this? (white) Louder, what color is this? (white) Louder, what ...

4710. A Sealed Promise

Ephesians 1:13

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... the queen. Write "I love you"" on the paper. The king would write his note, that says, "I love you, and then he would rollup the paper. Roll the paper tightly. How do you suppose that the king kept the paper closed so that only the queen could read it? (response) Here is what he would do. He would take the candle and pour wax on the outside of the paper. Pour or drip wax on the paper so that it makes a seal. Before it completely dried, he would take his ring and make a mark in the wax. Make ...

4711. Tumbling Walls

Ephesians 2:19-22

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... lived in the time of Jesus, would we have been allowed to go inside the wall and come near to God? (no) So there was a problem. How could the gentiles who wanted to worship God ever come close to God while there was a wall to keep them out? (response) Application: The Bible says this: "Jesus is our peace, who has made us one, and has broken down the wall of separation between us." When Jesus died upon the cross, he took away the sins of anyone who would believe in him, Jew or gentile. So he made it possible ...

4712. Jesus Reflects -- A Dramatic Monologue

Isaiah 9:1-7, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... ! Furthermore, it would reduce man to nothing more than a puppet with God as the manipulator. It would not cause man to give his heart to God in loving obedience and service. Man is by deliberate design a creature of choice! He is granted the awesome responsibility of choice! He must willingly give his love and obedience to God, or it is worthless. I was given the opportunity to prove my unique powers a number of times in my ministry. When my disciples and I fed the multitudes upon the hillside - some 5 ...

4713. The Last Days

Luke 21:5-38

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... And why will there not be many more such days? Because the day of the Lord is nigh! CONGREGATION: Amen! PREACHER: The day is coming that is revealed in the scriptures, the day of our Lord's second coming! CONGREGATION: Amen! PREACHER: And what should be our response to such a glorious day? We should be alert, alert at all times, praying that we may have the strength to escape all the horrors that are about to take place, and to stand up and raise our heads before the Son of Man! CONGREGATION: Amen! PREACHER ...

4714. He Has Done Great Things

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... there even now. And it's not pleasant for them. MARY: I know. ELIZABETH: And when you grow old, who will care for you? If they kill your son, who will you have? MARY: I don't know, Elizabeth. ELIZABETH: Perhaps before you take on this ... responsibility, you might consider making some sort of an ... arrangement with God. MARY: An arrangement? What sort of an arrangement? ELIZABETH: You know. Some sort of a bargain, where you would be assured that everything will turn out all right. MARY: A bargain? With God ...

4715. A Poisonous Tongue

James 3:1-12

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... poisonous snake, and a bottle of chemicals (such as weed killer) that has a "poison" warning on it. Lesson: This morning I want to show you three things that are poisonous. But before I show you these things, does anyone here know what the word "poisonous" means? (response) Something that is poisonous can hurt you or kill you if it gets inside of you. So we should not be around things that are poisonous, should we? (no) Okay. Here is the first thing that is poisonous. Hold up the picture of the snake. This ...

4716. Drawing Nearer

James 4:8

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

Exegetical Aim: To show how God draws near when we draw near. Props: A pitcher of water, a large bowl, and a comb. Lesson: Would you like to see a neat trick? (yes!) Who believes that I can make pouring water move without even touching it? (response) This is something that's really neat. And it's so neat that you can even do it at home in your sink. Bring out your pitcher of water and the large bowl. What I'm going to do is pour a steady stream of water into the bowl, Begin ...

4717. Six Nails of the Cross I: The Nail of Pride

Mark 12:35-40

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... worship, read and learn our Bibles, serve in positions of trust, give generously and befriend all without sinning with pride? We must always know the extent of our personal stature when it is compared with God Almighty. We must understand, too, that we do this all in response to God's love and his generosity to us. When we are serving, we know the true meaning of humility. Tonight we see the placement of the first nail which hanged Christ on a cross. Its name is Pride, and it is deadly. Jesus died with one ...

4718. The Impossibility of Neutrality

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Robert Allen

This last week I spent the better part of three days involved in interviews with the Board of Ministry. It was our responsibility to interview men and women in the United Methodist Church. Those being interviewed ranged from their mid-twenties up to a woman who was 68 years old and will be ordained as a deacon at annual conference. During the interviews, we examined the theological beliefs of the candidates. We listened ...

4719. Do You Love Me?

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Robert Allen

... responds by saying: "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." And three times Jesus commissioned Peter: "Feed my sheep!" Many preachers and scholars, when they get to this point in the biblical story, want to focus on the three questions that Jesus asked, or the three responses of Peter or the challenge of Jesus to "feed my sheep." Instead of going in that direction, I want to look at the loving way in which Jesus dealt with Peter. Love is something we talk about. Love is something we romanticize about. Love is ...

4720. Love Is Down to Earth

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Carl Jech

... the self-agrandizing form of so-called evangelism. When Oral Roberts was saying that the Lord would "call him home" if he didn't raise eight million dollars, a black minister appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show provided perhaps the best and most insightful response. He said that it seemed somewhat presumptious to reduce God's purview to concern over a mere eight million dollars! God does have ways of calling us back to simple piety, of calling us back down to earth! In the upcoming series of Easter ...

4721. Jesus, Mary, Gustav Mahler, Brother Martin, and the Magi

Luke 20:9-19

Sermon

Carl Jech

... much in God's hands that I can in a sense forget about such matters and concentrate my attention on the here-and-now. I can, so to speak, thank God that I am freed from "religious worries" to relax and concentrate on taking responsibility for this world that we have been given! Paradoxically, Nietzsche's doctrine of self-reliance and the Christian doctrine of reliance upon the grace of God converge to produce what might quite appropriately be called "religious secular humanism!" I realize that upon hearing ...

4722. Some Women's Stories

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Carl Jech

... which she discusses the reactions of parents when they discover or are told that their child has an unorthodox life-style or perhaps has not chosen the career that the parents had hoped for. More often than not, she concludes, the appropriate response for the parents is to expand their horizons, to continue to give unconditional love and to try to understand their child. We can create a lot uf unnecessary stress for ourselves by harboring overly-restrictive notions of what constitutes a fulfilling lifestyle ...

4723. Comfort the Disturbed/ Disturb the Comfortable

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Carl Jech

... Jesus did and leave the ultimate outcome and judgments to God. The New York pastor, Richard John Neuhaus, has written: "As Christians ... we have no illusions that we are going to establish a social order of absolute truth and justice here on earth. Our responsibility is to strive for as much truth and as much justice as is possible in a democratic and pluralistic society. And, at the same time, we Christians always should be stretching our society's understanding of what may be possible." It is extremely ...

4724. Will the Real Jesus Christ Arise?

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Carl Jech

... Jesus Christ, emphasizing above all that "the Jesus of history must remain united with the Christ of faith." Clearly it is an important but difficult task to understand what it means to say that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, but it is an ongoing responsibility for those of us who claim the name of Christian! In telling the story of the resurrection of Jesus, John's Gospel consistently emphasizes the point that Jesus is gone! In our text for today Mary Magdalene discovers at the tomb that Jesus is gone ...

4725. Divine Liturgy, Divine Play, Divine Comedy

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Carl Jech

... on Latin, the word grace and the word gratitude are virtually synonymous. (In many languages the word for "thanks" sounds like the english word for grace - gratia, gracias, etc.) To be gracious is to show favor and unconditional love, and the only appropriate response to such grace is a spontaneous gratitude that spills over and becomes a channel of that grace to others. We love one another just as Jesus loves us. Sadly, however, when many people say "thank you," they actually demonstrate their inability to ...

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