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4751. “Unto Us A Child Is Born... Next, On Omar”

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... 2: We couldn’t explain it. Wise Man 3: I remembered reading in the ancient prophecies that a star would appear in the East. And that it would lead us to a new king. Omar: A new king, huh? What did Herod think about that? Wise Man 1: Well, we stopped by to see him, of course. We wanted to know if he knew where this king was, but he hadn’t heard anything. He seemed as curious as all of us were. Wise Man 2: More than curious, as we later found out. Wise Man 1: He practically ordered us ...

4752. Christmas Eve at Angel School

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... little Angels) Shepherd 2: You see. I told you God would take care of them tonight. Lead Shepherd: So, what are we waiting for? (Shepherds, Mary, and Joseph exit stage left. 3rd, 4th, and 5th Angels, along with Teacher Angel, go back to “classroom,” the 4th Angel stopping first to pick up the sheep.) 1st Angel: Wow! That was something. Do you suppose I’ll ever get a chance to tell God’s story like that? Teacher Angel: If you listen very carefully to what God has to say, and follow him, then God will ...

4753. Room at the Inn

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... . Innkeeper’s Wife: At least it means we’ll be able to pay the bills this month. Innkeeper: Yes, the census has been good for business. I can’t believe how many people are in town. (Mary and Joseph enter up center aisle. At the front, they stop just short of where the Innkeeper and his wife stand. Joseph pantomimes a knock at the door.) Innkeeper: Who could that be now? (pantomimes opening the door) Joseph: Brother Innkeeper, do you have a room for the night? Innkeeper: No, we’re full up. Go away ...

4754. Good News about Christ

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... had to walk right in front of this little man who was still shouting at the top of his lungs. The little man was so consumed by the moment that he actually spit on Jesus. Suddenly everything came to a shocked standstill. The big, burly oil‑field worker stopped, wiped his face dry, looked at the little man, and uttered the most memorable line in the entire play: “I’ll be back to take care of you after the Resurrection!” (5) Well, that is a very human response to being spit upon, but it was not Jesus ...

4755. Jesus wins, Pilate loses.

John 18:33-37

Illustration

William R. Boyer

... the loss of the colonies. It was said, in fact, that for the rest of his life, he could not say the word "independence" without tripping over it. He was an odd duck in many ways, but he had good insights. When the fighting in America stopped, King George and all his royal cronies in Europe were sure that George Washington would have himself crowned "Emperor of the New World." That's what they would have done. When he was told, on the contrary, that Washington planned to surrender his military commission and ...

4756. Preparation for Christ's Coming

Luke 21:25-36

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... God was all knowing and all seeing and he decided that he couldn't lie to God. So, he crumpled up that letter and started over. This time he wrote: "Dear God, I know I haven't done everything I should have, but I really tried to be good." He stopped and crumpled up that letter, too. It was obvious that he was struggling with what to write to God. As he sat there thinking he looked up and saw his mother's favorite piece of sculpture on the mantel. It was a beautiful rendition of the Madonna, the mother of ...

4757. Advent 3

Lk 3:7-18 · Phil 4:4-7 · Zeph 3:14-20 · Isa 12:2-6

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... think clearly, accurately, and nobly. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Zephaniah 3:14-20; Philippians 4:4-7; Luke 3:7-18 Joy In Pianissimo. Need: Today's theme is "Rejoice." Advent is a time for rejoicing in the Lord. It is not the Christmas joy when all the stops on the organ are pulled out, but a pianissimo joy, a joy of quiet expectation and anticipation. In two Sundays we will celebrate Christmas with the fullness of joy. Now the time of Christ's arrival is fast approaching and we are happy that he is coming ...

4758. I Am the Alpha and the Omega

Revelation 1:1-3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... be, I believe that one of the reasons that our witness is not as dynamic as it might be, I believe that the reason our lives are not filled with the power that Jesus promises those who would be followers of him, is precisely because of this – we don’t stop often enough and reflect deeply enough upon who Christ is. Jesus is not just another good man, not even the best of all men. Jesus is not just another prophet, not even the greatest of all prophets. Jesus is not just a God in a lineup of gods from ...

4759. A House for Our Home and a Home for Our Faith

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to the Lord. And then in verse 25 he says, husbands love your wife as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her. And then in the 1st verse of chapter 6 he says, children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. But he doesn’t stop there. In verse 4 he says, fathers do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and in the instruction of the Lord. Now when you put these specific instructions together, in the context of that overall call of Paul, be subject to one ...

4760. The Intimate Gospel: The Word became Flesh

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... bush. God had said to Moses, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Now obviously Moses couldn’t grasp that – a god who names himself as a God of human beings, claiming his identity in relationship to persons. Moses can’t grasp that, nor can we. So he stops dead in his tracks, starts to look around, but remembers that no one can look upon God and live, so he cast the question, sorta sideways over his shoulder, he said, who will I tell them that you are? And the voice came back, tell them I am. Now ...

4761. Change in One’s Life

Luke 3:7-18

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... called organic architecture. He believed that buildings should be blended into the surrounding natural environment. If you stare at the buildings that he designed on the campus of Florida Southern College in Lakeland, it is very difficult to tell where the edifice stops and the environment begins. It merges and blends. Perhaps we should start talking of organic Christianity. If you look at the life of Jesus you see no sharp line of demarcation between his religious life and his everyday life. They blended ...

4762. What the Lord Does Best

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to be confined to hospitals and funeral homes. In Morrisonville, death was a common part of life. It came for the young, as relentlessly as it came for the old. To die antiseptically in a hospital was almost unknown. In Morrisonville, death still made house calls. It stopped by the bedside, sat down on the couch right by the parlor window, walked up to people in the fields in broad daylight, surprised them at a bend in the stairway when they were on their way to bed.’ I don’t want to be morbid about ...

4763. Pick Up the Baby

Luke 1:39-45

Illustration

King Duncan

Sam Levenson tells a wonderful story about the birth of his first child. The first night home the baby would not stop crying. His wife frantically flipped through the pages of Dr. Spock to find out why babies cry and what to do about it. Since Spock's book is rather long, the baby cried a long time. Grandma was in the house, but since she had not read the books on ...

4764. Don't Let That Be All That There Is

Luke 1:39-56; Mark 1:1-8

Illustration

... at Dachau is a large and moving photograph of a mother and her little girl standing in line of a gas chamber. The child, who is walking in front of her mother, does not know where she is going. The mother, who walks behind, does know, but is helpless to stop the tragedy. In her helplessness she performs the only act of love left to her. She places her hands over he child's eyes so she will at least not see the horror to come. When people come into the museum they do not whisk by this photo hurriedly. They ...

4765. “Yes” to Faith

Luke 1:39-56

Illustration

Keith Wagner

... , and moved in. There they cared for children of working mothers and held sewing and cooking classes. Older boys and girls had clubs at the mansion. An art gallery and public music, reading, and craft rooms were created in the mansion. Jane didn't stop there. She spoke up for people who couldn't speak for themselves. She was eventually awarded an honorary degree from Yale. President Theodore Roosevelt dubbed her "American's most useful citizen," and she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace. No matter how ...

4766. Joyous All the Time

Luke 2:41-52

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King Duncan

... the towels were taken down, their clothes supply was exhausted. Everything went in the triple-load washer at the Perky Clean Laundromat. This wife and mother didn't feel very perky at 11:00 p.m., but she knew the job had to be done. Suddenly the washing machine stopped. The attendant called the manager. When he arrived, he said she'd have to come back in the morning. They were sending her home with no sheets to sleep on, no towels to dry on, and no clean clothes to put on! She confesses that she was steamed ...

4767. Leap Of Faith

John 8:12

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... IN the world but not to be OF the world. He said we would be tempted to walk in the darkness. So, let's look at some of the consequences of living OF the world and in the darkness. I remember somebody saying, "If you see devil hitchhiking don't stop to pick him up because pretty soon he'll be driving." I think the Dwayne Williams, Charles Barker T-Mobile ad illustrates that point and the effect of giving into temptation perfectly. (CLIP) In James 1:14-16 we read, "One is tempted by one's own desire, being ...

4768. The Thing With Two Heads

Matthew 16:13-24

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... his health deteriorates so rapidly, the doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from death row. It starred Ray Miland and Rosie Greer. I remember watching it on TV. It was so bizarre that I couldn't stop watching. It was like a cheesy sci-fi version of the 1958 classic film by Stanley Kramer starring Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis, "The Defiant Ones" about two escaped convicts chained together who hate each other but have to depend on each other. The reason ...

4769. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Luke 23:32-46

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... , the Ugly, has subjected Clint Eastwood, the Good, to a grueling journey through the desert without water or rest. It's at the end of this journey, when Eastwood is near death that they encounter a run away coach from the Confederate Army. Tuco leaves Eastwood for dead, stops the coach and begins rifling through the pockets of the dead. That's when he encounters one of the men, Bill Carson, a man with a patch over one eye, who is barely alive. But he's the one who tells Tuco the cemetery where the gold is ...

4770. A Crib, A Cross, And A Cave

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... , like death warmed over. As they headed back home, the funeral director suggested the pastor stretch out in the back of the coach. It had curtains and nobody would see him. The pastor thought it was a good idea and promptly fell asleep. He awoke when the vehicle stopped. Taking a few minutes to fully awaken, he slowly sat up and drew the side curtain to see where he was. He was face to face with a gas station attendant, who was surprised and shocked to see a body in the back of the hearse staring back ...

4771. Living By The Spirit

Galatians 5:16-25

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... a chance to share Jesus with a police officer." 3. "No, that's not garbage coming out of their windows, it's probably gospel tracts for the road workers." 2. "Oh, boy, we're in trouble now! We just rear-ended one of God's cars." 1. "Look! Let's stop that car and ask those folks how we can become Christians." (2) I hope you don't think I'm belittling bumper stickers and such. The point I'm trying to make and the point Wesley made was that because we are professing Christians, what we do has an impact ...

4772. Living In The Spirit Of Love

Galatians 5:22-25

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... mouth." "Love is when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don't yell at them because you know it would hurt their feelings." "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." And my favorite one of all: "God could have said magic words to make the nails fall off the cross, but He didn't. That's love." (1) If you haven't guessed, today we're going to be looking at "Living In The Spirit Of ...

4773. Living In The Spirit Of Peace

Galatians 5:22-25, Colossians 3:14-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . But suddenly and unhappily he lost the ring. He searched for days but never found it. It so broke his heart that he was almost inconsolable. He told his sister and they both cried bitterly. After a few days of grief, this devout young man suddenly stopped crying and stepped aside to pray. His sister, who didn't have the same depth of faith, laughingly said to him, "What's the good of praying about a ring? Will praying bring back your ring?" The Young Man said, "No, sister, probably not, but praying ...

4774. Living in The Spirit of Generosity

2 Corinthians 9:6-12, Galatians 5:22-25

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... twister, who has spared many car owners in Santa Cruz, California the misery of that twelve dollar parking ticket by putting quarters in their expired parking meters. After several warnings, Mr. Twister was ticketed for his random acts of illegal kindness. However, he refused to stop doing what he considers "doing to others as he would have them do to him." But there is justice. In a strange twist, the news media got hold of the story and pretty soon Mr. Twister was being interviewed by CNN and nearly every ...

4775. Seeing God In The Ordinary: Family

Luke 4:16-30

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... car and was very quiet. Dad, sensing something was troubling him asked him three times what was wrong. Finally, the little boy replied, "That preacher said he wanted us brought up in a Christian home, and I want to stay with you guys!" (3) That will make you stop and think about your lifestyle won't it? Family keeps us humble. We can see God in the ordinary when family helps us "keep it real". II. Family Helps Us Hold It Together We can see God in the ordinary when family helps us hold it together. Gracie ...

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