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451. Love Is Action

Illustration

Cloverleaf Mall

... the enclosure enraptured with the squirmy little critters while their moms and dads shop. A few minutes later, I turned around and saw Helen walking along behind me. I was shocked to see she preferred the hardware department to the petting zoo. Recognizing my error, I bent down and asked her what was wrong. She looked up at me with those giant limpid brown eyes and said sadly, "Well, Daddy, it cost fifty cents. So, I gave Brandon my quarter." Then she said the most beautiful thing I ever heard. She repeated ...

452. Wrecked By a Dollar Sign

I Timothy 6:9

Illustration

Chuck Rasmussen

... , they were happy. Pop was a steamfitter. Johnny, twenty-six, loaded crates on docks. Tim was going to night school. Pop split the million with his sons. They all said the money wouldn't change their plans. A year later, the million wasn't gone; it was bent. The boys weren't speaking to Pop, or each other. Johnny was chasing expensive race horses; Tim was catching up with expensive girls. Mom accused Pop of hiding his poke from her. Within two years, all of them were in court for nonpayment of income taxes ...

453. The Old Man and the Gulls

Illustration

Paul Harvey

... from land, offered itself as a sacrifice. You know that Captain Eddie made it. And now you also know...that he never forgot. Because every Friday evening, about sunset...on a lonely stretch along the eastern Florida seacoast...you could see an old man walking...white-haired, bushy-eyebrowed, slightly bent. His bucket filled with shrimp was to feed the gulls...to remember that one which, on a day long past, gave itself without a struggle...like manna in the wilderness.

454. Give Yourself Some Slack

Genesis 2:3

Illustration

... the ground. Then he said to the critical Athenian, "Now, answer the riddle, if you can. Tell us what the unstrung bows implies." The man looked at it for several moments but had no idea what point Aesop was trying to make. Aesop explained, "If you keep a bow always bent, it will break eventually; but if you let it go slack, it will be more fit for use when you want it." People are also like that. That's why we all need to take time to rest. Jesus prescribed time off for His wearied disciples after they had ...

455. Christmas Is a God-Thing

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... news for today. Michael Hendrix tells about a dinner party he once attended during the Christmas season. The house was properly decorated, including an electric train set up around the base of the tree. One of the children was running the train too fast and it derailed. She was bent over the train trying to put it back on the track. The host noticed what she was doing and went over to help. He said to her, “You can’t do that from above; you have to get down beside it.” Then he lay down on the floor ...

456. Kiss the Frog

Humor Illustration

Even the most lucrative of businesses have their ups and downs: Two ladies were taking a stroll in the park. Near a little pond they saw a big frog that was making the most unusual noises. Its croaking sounded like talking. One of the ladies bent down closer to listen, and the frog said, "I am really a wealthy Texas oil man. If you will kiss me, I will be forever grateful to you." The woman quickly scooped the frog up and tucked it into her purse. The other lady asked, "Why, aren't you going ...

457. Humor: A Day of Judgment

Matthew 25:31-46

Illustration

King Duncan

... re gonna get caught!" You're gonna get caught!" At last the burglar finished stealing the jewelry and cash he found in the master bedroom closet. Every move by every muscle was scrutinized by the Doberman. The parrot said, "You're gonna get caught!" Exasperated, the burglar finally bent down and picked up a shoe. He threw it at the bird and screamed, "You dumb parrot! Can't you say anything else?" The parrot fluttered away to avoid the shoe, then said, "Sic him." That burglar's day of judgment was at hand.

458. Put Back on Track

Lk 1:26-38

Illustration

King Duncan

Michael Hendrix tells about a dinner party he once attended during the Christmas season. The house was properly decorated, including an electric train set up around the base of the tree. One of the children was running the train too fast and it derailed. She was bent over the train trying to put it back on the track. The host noticed what she was doing and went over to help. He said to her, "You can't do that from above; you have to get down beside it." Then he lay down on the floor beside the ...

459. Christmas Turns Everything Upside Down

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Illustration

Ian Chapman

A preacher tells of the time when a woman, her arms filled with Christmas presents, came out of a department store and bumped right into him. It was a good, solid bump, and all of her parcels dropped on the sidewalk. As he bent down to help her pick them up, she said, more to herself than anyone else, "Oh, I hate Christmas. It turns everything upside down." And so it does. Christmas turns the world topsy-turvy because it is centered in a baby, and babies change everything! Just watch a doting grandmother ...

460. Do You Know How to Listen?

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... so hard to perform that all important, kid-pleasing task. Five minutes passed. Steven continued to chatter and then she felt those tugs on her skirt again. This time the tugs seemed harder and more persistent. She finally put her potatoes down in the sink and bent down to her son. Steven took her face in his two little chubby hands, turning her directly to his line of vision and said, “Mommy, will you listen to me with your eyes?” “Fourteen years later,” says Star Paterson, “I am still learning to ...

461. The Details Raise Questions

Mark 4:30-34

Illustration

Paul Rader

Have you ever seen the Salvador Dali painting where clock is sliding off the table and another one is bent backwards on a tree branch? It is called "the persistence of memory." Now, you know that clocks do not bend and melt and do not assume the positions they do in this painting. But what might it be saying about time? What happens to time? Time flies, time melts away, ...

462. Mark 5:21-43

Mark 5:21-43

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... While this man is identified as Jairus, “one of the leaders of the synagogue,” his posture before Jesus is one of beseeching and pleading. His leading status in the community is of no concern to him. Instead, his whole being is literally “bent” upon doing whatever it takes to find deliverance for his daughter from death. Jairus reports his daughter’s status as critical. She is “eschatos echei,” or at “death’s door.” Jairus’ whole demeanor denies any of the authority his position might ...

463. Be Healed, Be Held

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

464. Beneath the Three Trees

Mark 5:21-43

Illustration

Kristin Borsgard Wee

... the place. The three tall trees are there, shedding their cotton, but there is no house and no family. The two priests sink down on their knees and kiss the earth, for they know it was the Holy Family that had entertained them there. Father Junipero recalled how he had bent to bless the child after evening prayers. The little boy had lifted his hand and with a tiny finger had made the sign of the cross on Father Junipero's forehead. Beneath the three trees, there is rest for the weary.

465. Holy Smokes! God Is Here

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... sit there in stunned silence. Then somebody whispers, “Holy smokes. Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” Someone else murmurs, “This is our long awaited king.” And you begin to sense that the crowd is turning into a mob. Not a mob bent on destruction, but a mob intent on making Jesus their king. And you’re one of them. But then you look around and the Teacher is gone. Just when you were going to volunteer to help lead the insurrection, he’s gone. And you pause for a moment ...

466. Enough Foolishness!

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... most “watching the older men dance to the front, chuck their money in the box, and then dance back to their places. They’re dressed to the nines,” he notes, “and do a kind of understated two-step while holding their arms outward and bent at the elbows . . . Somehow their hips,” he says, “take on a life apart . . . .” He challenges us to imagine one of our church officers or the chairperson of the finance committee dancing toward the altar with his or her offering like this. “It’s great ...

467. Joy in Giving

Illustration

Rick Dietrich

... place. I most enjoy," Gerald said, "watching the older men dance to the front, chuck their money in the box, and then dance back to their places. They're dressed to the nines and do a kind of understated two-step while holding their arms outward and bent at the elbows think of rendering one's head, shoulders, and arms into a kind of "W." Somehow their hips take on a life apart, swiveling, and swaying. Can you imagine in one of our churches in the United States, where the clerk of session or the chair ...

468. Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... nearby coached him and gave him a "crash course" (pardon the pun) in flying a two-seat Cessna and most importantly in landing. He circled the airport three times and came in, bounced a few times, and landed in a soggy field. Incredibly there was no damage except a bent propeller. If this happened to you or to me today, our number one priority would be determined very, very quickly! It would not be the time to call out for a pizza, or to scan Field and Stream magazine, nor to casually call a friend on one's ...

469. Getting Back into Shape

John 8:31-36

Sermon

Scott Bryte

... constantly whipping Israel back into shape, using prophets and foreign armies and whatever it takes. In the New Testament, our risen Lord promises that he will be with us always, until the very end, and that the Holy Spirit will guide us, to keep us from getting bent out of shape, twisted, and perverted. The church of Christ has people in it, and they're sinful people because that's the only kind there is. For God to choose to make his holy church out of sinful people, who wear their holiness like a bad ...

470. The Speed Bump On the Road to Bethlehem

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... King of all kings who is the embodiment of God's salvation,God's healing, God's wholeness, God's shalom. Can you see it? Yes, vision is hampered. The mountains are so high and the valleys so low, the crooked places are still horribly bent and the rough places resist every attempt to smooth them. Look beyond all that. Look to God's salvation ... Jeshua ... Jesus ... Jesus. See Jesus in the lives of your fellow worshipers ... see Jesus present in the sacraments ... see Jesus in the faces of those whose needs ...

471. It's All In the Perspective

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the world, it was another brutal murder in a brutal existence; through the eyes of faith, it was God so loving the world that he gave his only Son to pay the penalty for our sin. Through the eyes of the world, he was another religious fanatic bent on terrorism; through the eyes of faith, Saul of Tarsus could become the greatest missionary the church has ever known. Through the eyes of the world, those poor and hungry and sick and imprisoned are a nuisance; through the eyes of faith, they are an opportunity ...

472. Repressive Religion

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , comments, and offerings for the poor. Any man in attendance could read from scripture and then teach or preach if he were so inclined, and on this day apparently, Jesus was. He noticed a woman, identified in scripture as only "crippled" and "bent over" — some disease that deteriorated the spine, maybe osteoporosis or scoliosis — a condition she had suffered for eighteen years. Jesus called to her to come forward. "Woman, you are set free from your infirmity" (Luke 13:12). Jesus touched her and, voil ...

473. Centuries of Christian Rebukes

Mark 10:2-16

Illustration

Donald B. Strobe

... for bringing so much joy into the world." To which Groucho, always quick on the uptake replied, rather ungraciously, I think, "I want to thank you for taking so much out." He was ungracious, but he had a point. A lot of religious folk seem bent on bringing their wet blankets to every party. Finley Peter Dunne (1867-1936), the American humorist who wrote thick dialect humor under the pseudonym of "Mr. Dooley" once said of Thanksgiving: "'Twas founded by th' Puritans to give thanks f'r being presarved from th ...

474. Guarding the Treasure

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... we set our budgets, but we don't appreciate how valuable our work, our very presence in the world is. God has entrusted us with the message of the gospel. God has placed a treasure into our hands and called us to guard it. We guard hope in a world bent on self-destruction. We guard love in a world seething with hate. We guard God's affirmation of life in a world fascinated with death. We may do our ministry in an increasingly secular and even pagan culture. We may feel as though we are losing ground or that ...

475. God All Along

Acts 9:1-6 (7-20)

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... . He is looking for authoritative letters that will permit him to scour the synagogues of Damascus for any of these enemies of God. Make no mistake: that was Paul's estimate of the Christians. We mustn't misunderstand Paul as a wicked and violent man, bent on opposing the things of God. Quite the contrary: Saul of Tarsus is an earnest and godly man. He is sincere in his devotion to God and zealous in his service. His opposition to the Christian movement, therefore, is born entirely out of the seriousness ...

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451. Love Is Action

Illustration

Cloverleaf Mall

452. Wrecked By a Dollar Sign

I Timothy 6:9

Illustration

Chuck Rasmussen

453. The Old Man and the Gulls

Illustration

Paul Harvey

454. Give Yourself Some Slack

Genesis 2:3

Illustration

455. Christmas Is a God-Thing

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

456. Kiss the Frog

Humor Illustration

457. Humor: A Day of Judgment

Matthew 25:31-46

Illustration

King Duncan

458. Put Back on Track

Lk 1:26-38

Illustration

King Duncan

459. Christmas Turns Everything Upside Down

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Illustration

Ian Chapman

460. Do You Know How to Listen?

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

461. The Details Raise Questions

Mark 4:30-34

Illustration

Paul Rader

462. Mark 5:21-43

Mark 5:21-43

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

463. Be Healed, Be Held

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

464. Beneath the Three Trees

Mark 5:21-43

Illustration

Kristin Borsgard Wee

465. Holy Smokes! God Is Here

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

466. Enough Foolishness!

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

467. Joy in Giving

Illustration

Rick Dietrich

468. Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

469. Getting Back into Shape

John 8:31-36

Sermon

Scott Bryte

470. The Speed Bump On the Road to Bethlehem

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

David E. Leininger

471. It's All In the Perspective

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

472. Repressive Religion

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

473. Centuries of Christian Rebukes

Mark 10:2-16

Illustration

Donald B. Strobe

474. Guarding the Treasure

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

475. God All Along

Acts 9:1-6 (7-20)

Sermon

David J. Kalas

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