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4826. Jesus Prays for His Disciples

John 17:6-19

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... perspective in our lives. Forgive us, Lord, for our reluctance to think. (Ask the people to reread the prayer in silence.) Response A contemporary version of "Lord, Have Mercy." Introduction to the Act of Confession (Pastor and People) E. Stanley Jones once said, "Be careful how you pray; you may be the answer." Someone else reminds us, "Pray as if everything depended on God; work as if everything depended on you." In the light of Jesus' prayer, if we are one of his disciples, we do not ask for everything ...

4827. The Calling of the First Disciples

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... the Children of All Ages: Have your parents, whatever age, ever said to you, "Repent!"? Of course they have. How? (Wait a few moments.) Remember when they said, "Pick up your clothes. Brush your teeth. Don't waste your money on the slot machines. Take care of your animal." Make your own list. The word "repent" means to change your thinking and behaving; and when Jesus said that, he promised his presence with us to help us change. Reading from the Scripture Stimulate the calling of the disciples. Have Jesus ...

4828. The Season Of Renewal

John 3:1-21

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... , one of a kind, human, Jesus of Nazareth, welcome to the fourth Sunday in Lent. We're here! Now what? No matter what our reason for coming, now that we're here, with what kind of expectations of the pastor, of yourself, of God, did we come? Any care to respond? (Wait.) As your pastor, I want to share one expectation with you. Here it is. (Give your response.) Hymn of Praise "Be Thou My Vision" Prayer of Praise Include this idea: We thank you for getting here long before we arrived, and for waiting for us ...

4829. Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

John 6:16-24, John 6:1-15

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... from obeying. Thanksgiving And Intercession Include the ideas of our fear and God's promise of Presence and Power. DEDICATION Stewardship Challenge "We all mortgage ourselves, but we can't let foreclosure happen" (Bernice Johnson Reagon). Before you present your offering, consider carefully: What are the memories which rob you of your present freedom and joy?" Response "Our God, to Whom We Turn" Charge to the Congregation Jesus bids us to come and walk on the water with him. What keeps us from experiencing ...

4830. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

John 6:25-59

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... percent that is not going well. Silently, confess your grumblings. Pastor, verbally, will ask for forgiveness for our grumblings. Response "Lord, Have Mercy" Introduction to the Act of Forgiveness What do we hope will happen when we grumble? (Thirty seconds of silence.) Anyone care to respond? If no one responds, offer some possibilities; as, for example, we hope that someone will try to soothe us, rescue us, comfort us. Instead, I invite us to hear the words of Jesus the next time we begin to grumble. Read ...

4831. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

John 6:25-59

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... the tragedy of human separations. (One minute of silence.) (4) Add your own. (One minute of silence.) Unison Prayer from Germany This is our poverty -- that we do not belong to each other or serve one another. We go each our own way and do not care for our neighbor. We pray, Lord, deliver us from this estrangement; deliver us from our sin which divides us. Join us closely in true love. Have mercy upon all of your people. Lord, we believe; help us in our unbelief. Response Musical version of "Hear Our ...

4832. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 7:24-30

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... have the power to bring healing or hurt wherever we go, with whomever we speak. What an awesome privilege and responsibility. God gives us courage to be what God calls us to be" (WHK). Response "Let the Beauty of Jesus" Meditation "We take almost more care to conceal our love than our hate" (Borne). "It is time for us to reveal our love and to give up our hate" (WHK). MUSIC POSSIBILITIES Music for Preparation "Two Chorales" Hymn of Adoration "When Morning Guilds the Skies" Response to the Pardon "The Touch ...

4833. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 13:1-31

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... passages to scare people into the church. That happened to me between the ages of sixteen and twenty. People were predicting the end of the world. And I knew that I had better accept Jesus as my Savior before it was too late. We need to read the Bible carefully. We also need to hear the words of Jesus about the end. He did not know; only God knows. None of us knows when our end will come. Maybe some of your friends and relatives have died, long before you thought they would. The Boy Scouts have a motto ...

4834. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 4:35-41

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... to the Congregation The storms will continue to rage. Some of those storms you and I initiate every day of our lives, by what we say or fail to say, by what we do or fail to do. In the midst of our next storm, stop and listen carefully, intensely, obediently to Jesus' words, "Peace, be still!" Meditation Former Sister Corita, in her book, To Believe in God, wrote, "To believe in God is to lay down together our minds to rest a while, while we mind one another's thinking." MUSIC POSSIBILITIES (In Addition To ...

4835. Gifts of Lent V: A Soldier Gives His Wine

Matthew 27:45-56

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... through the skill and leadership of men like me that the whole Mediterranean world came under Rome's control and peace was maintained for two hundred years, the Pax Romana, it was called. After spending half my life in the army, I had killed more men than I care to recall. That Friday I was called upon by the governor, Pontius Pilate, to kill again, three men this time. But please don't think I enjoyed killing other human beings. I killed only in the line of duty -- on the battlefield, or to keep the peace ...

4836. Gifts of Lent VII: Joseph Gives His Tomb

John 19:38-42

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... Jesus is dead," he replied matter-of-factly. "Dead? Already?" I asked incredulously. "How can that be? The cross can take days. Surely you are wrong." "Jesus is dead," Nicodemus repeated. "I saw him die. Why would you be concerned now? Never before have you seemed to care about Jesus." "Nicodemus, I was so wrong," I told him. "I know I should have spoken out for him, but I was afraid. Surely he was the Messiah, the Son of God. Nicodemus, I failed him. Is there any hope for me?" My eyes spoke the sincerity ...

4837. On Getting Out Of The Way

Luke 3:1-20, Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... into a sound stage. Eliminate, or at least do as quickly as you can, things like the eucharist. It is dull. After all, what is exciting about a bit of bread and a sip of wine? So it defines the presence of Jesus -- is his memorial. People don't care about that. What they want is something loud, snappy, upbeat. Keep people focused on how they feel. Be entertaining. Give them a holy buzz, and you can be guaranteed that you will be popular and they will never see Jesus. 3 -- If the arms of the church extend to ...

4838. Welcoming Christ

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

For his sixth grade year his family moved to the new community. They made careful preparations for the husky, freckle-faced redhead to fit in smoothly. They had meetings with teachers and principal, and practiced the route to the very school doors he would enter on the first day. "Right here will be lists of the classes with the teachers' names and students. Come to ...

4839. Be Patient

James 5:7-12

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... , but getting all worked up into a lather won't make it come any quicker. So, just be patient!" It's Hard To Be Patient But it's hard to be patient. Recently, a call came to the church. A woman choked with emotion reported, "Ray walked away from Day Care this morning." Immediately I knew she meant her husband, who is sinking into Alzheimer's and is in a wonderful day program in a community center. "It's a very busy street. He's headed west; he knows we live that way. They spotted him at the bank and the ...

4840. Designated Son Of God

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... to snow, a woman in a red cape and very pregnant, with long golden braids, came to take my arm; to a little log cabin she led me. Tired, we wrapped ourselves in quilts and sat near a blazing fire, drank spiced cider, and laughed like children. I felt cared for and warm like scarcely I could remember. The woman smiled at me radiantly and began to undo her yellow braids. I threw another log on the fire. At last I asked, "Is your baby due soon?" And she, with a calm, expectant smile answered, "Oh yes, very ...

4841. Mary Ponders

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

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... Mary pondered. Her pondering must have been like the inner conversations of every new mother. Would her child be healthy? Would he grow to be strong? Would he be safe from the terrible plagues which took so many children in those days? Could she care for him, provide enough nourishment from her body, keep him safe? We should not be surprised if Mary had experienced the post-birth depression other mothers feel. After all, she was alone in a strange city, without her own mother, without the familiar things ...

4842. Moving At The Speed Of Light

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... suffered a stroke four years later, at which time his teenage daughter Ida assumed responsibility for the light. Each day included cleaning the reflectors, trimming the wick, and filling the oil reservoir at sunset and midnight, along with providing for her father's care. With long and demanding tasks, Ida was unable to continue her schooling, but daily delivered her siblings to class, whatever the weather, by rowing the 500 yards to the mainland. In the mid-1800s, it was unusual to see a woman maneuvering ...

4843. Moving At The Speed Of Light: Nazareth: Family Ties

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... 5:29). William Hanby was a vigorous critic of the Fugitive Slave Law and well he should have been. William was the child of an indentured servant, and his mother had William bound over for service after her husband died and she could no longer take care of her five young children. He received brutal treatment, and his master required him to lie and cheat in business, so William escaped. He later described his flight: ... on the night of Wednesday the 24th of March, 1828, about 12 o'clock at night I bade ...

4844. Moving At The Speed Of Light: Jerusalem: What Word Would You

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... it was running fast, I sneaked away to play with my trucks near the torrent's edge. A great erosion had occurred, revealing a sloping mud bank. To retrieve a truck which had fallen to the edge of the water, I got out my black rubber snow boots. Stepping carefully into the mud, I quickly sank several inches. Frightened and stuck in the mud, I pulled my feet out of the boots sliding back up onto the top of the bank. Back to the house I went returning with my brother's snow boots -- same result. Stuck in the ...

4845. Living In The Nonsense Of The Resurrection

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... women's story who ran from the tomb that first Easter morn, then I'm stuck with believing something so new, so different, so radical, that my life will have to change, to be new, different, radical as a result of the belief! I don't care what anybody says. It isn't logical, rational; it doesn't make sense to believe in Jesus, the Christ. It is nonsense, this story of resurrection. And it is precisely because it is nonsense, precisely because it defies explanation, precisely because it is radical, that my ...

4846. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 15:18--16:4

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... exercise no judgment, their children rightly perceive they are indifferent and have no guiding values. If God exercises no judgment, we might rightly perceive him to be indifferent or even non-existent. But this is a text of hopefulness. There is judgment because God cares. He uncovers the cover-ups, not to destroy us, but to bring us to the light so that we might be healthy and flourish. The sin and evil of the world attempt to squelch truth and justice and purpose. But take heart says Jesus, because ...

4847. Desires Bring Hope

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

John G. Lynch

... sea. Life in the banquet hall is no life at all from God's perspective; life on the high seas is. Some years ago a man's youngest son died at the age of 18. The boy had been retarded and his father had devoted his entire life to the care of his son. After he died, the father grew morose and dejected. "I have nothing to live for," he said. He died himself, very young, a few years later. A man without desires is already dead. That's why God will bring him to the place of torment, where the ...

4848. The Politics Of The Saints

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... , the weak perish." It's the law of nature, and we make it the law of society. Christian politics says, "The strong have an obligation to defend and protect the interests of the weak, so that the weak become strong." We don't practice survival of the fittest, but care for the neediest. The world's politics says, "Grab all you can and hang on to it." The politics of Jesus says, "From anyone who wishes to take away your coat, do not withhold even your shirt." The politics of the world says, "An eye for an eye ...

4849. Priest Without Peer

Genesis 14:1-24

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... matchless, incomparable, and unique Priest of ours. Of whom else could it ever be said, "He is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them" (Hebrews 7:25)? So, Christians, why be anxious? Why be full of worry and care? Your High Priest comes to meet you with wounded hands, to refresh and help and bless!

4850. A Homecoming To Remember

1 Kings 8:22-61

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... detailed dedication found in the Bible. The elders were assembled as were all the heads of the tribes as the famed ark of the covenant was brought into the Temple which would be its new, permanent home. There was much fanfare as the ark was brought forth and carefully placed in the Temple. After the ark was in place and the priests began to leave, "a cloud filled the house of the Lord, so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the ...

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