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26. In the Beginning, God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Johnny Dean

... eye, Anna’s orderly little world became a dark, formless void. The veil that separated creation from chaos was drawn back, and the floodwaters came down, rising steadily. Formless void. Chaos, confusion, something that is nothing. Even the sound of it is dark, foreboding. Formless void. That’s all there was, says the writer of Genesis, until God decided to change it. And God breathed over this dismal, swirling nothingness. God spoke, and there was light, and it was good. God separated the earth from the ...

27. The Last Days

Luke 21:5-38

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... I do? PREACHER: You must change your wicked ways. And quickly! We may not have much time left! The day of the Lord is coming soon! 1ST MAN: Yes! I will! 1ST MAN jumps up and rushes out. PREACHER: In that day people will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. CONGREGATION: (Moaning) Oh, no! PREACHER: Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. CONGREGATION: What shall we do? Preacher, tell us! PREACHER ...

28. Monologue: Mary Magdalene - Liberated Woman

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... the good news of Jesus. Those months were a time of growth. It was hard work but good work, walking from town to town, rejoicing with new disciples, praising God when people were healed, always learning when Jesus taught. Then came that strange foreboding on the road from Galilee to Jerusalem, when Jesus said those odd words we could not understand, words about betrayal and death and rising again. All that was forgotten in the glorious march into Jerusalem, shouts acclaiming him as Son of David, Messiah ...

29. The Cracked Crystal Ball

Jeremiah 28:1-17

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... already know that he was a man of God. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be a book named after him in the Bible. Christians have no reason to question Jeremiah’s authenticity. His prophecy was not popularly accepted, and because he said some things that sounded foreboding, some called him the weeping prophet. Hananiah, on the other hand, looked into the future and announced that God’s people would be back from exile in two years. The yoke of the king of Babylon would be broken, and the holy vessels which had ...

30. Proper 23

Lk 17:11-19 · 2 Tim 2:8-15 · 2 Ki 5:14-17 · Mic 1:2, 2:1-10 · Ru 1:1-19a

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John R. Brokhoff

... out of context in order to support one's own ideas. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Three Lessons: Micah 1:2, 2:1-10; 2 Timothy 2:8-15; Luke 17:11-19 The Way to Life. Need: Either individually or nationally we may be in a mess. The future looks foreboding: decline, destruction, death. What can save us and bring us to life and provide hope for the future? Today's Lessons have the solution for troubled days. Outline: Take the way that leads to life - A. Repent of sin - Lesson 1 B. Remember Jesus your Savior - Lesson ...

31. Promise or Threat?

Matthew 24:1-35

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... in a cell. You ask about the charges against you and are told bluntly that the only charge is treason - treason by virtue of illegal religious expression. So there you are, separated from your loved ones and friends, your life in disorder, your future highly foreboding. You long for the way things used to be, and the memories of lost laughter and happiness play across your mind like a cinema. Can you bear up under the hopelessness of your situation? Will you be strong enough in faith? What will become of ...

32. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 1

Matthew 28:1-10

Drama

Esther R. Russ

... Slowly starts to pick up the robe. He draws back, then reaches for it again, grabs it, and quickly runs from the room.) 12. THE PROCESSIONAL AND CRUCIFIXION - Choir and Drama a. Lighted cross and all spots off. TOTAL DARKNESS. b. (Loud music, very foreboding) Five soldiers march down the center aisle carrying torches; the Centurion carries a sword. They march down in the following formation: three then two then the Centurion. The first three proceed to the top of the platform and turn around. The next two ...

33. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 2

Matthew 28:1-10

Drama

Esther R. Russ

... ..." The background music for the processional and crucifixion scene was not difficult to select. The stereo record that I found most useful for these scenes was The Exodus (RCA, New York: 1960). Sixty seconds from "The Prison Break" was perfect for the loud foreboding music of the soldiers marching down the aisle preceding Christ’s appearance. I used "Fight for Peace" for the two Marys as they ministered to Jesus after he had fallen with his cross, "Prison Break" again for the duel between Simon and the ...

34. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

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Leonard Mann

... them alike. Well, my friend, each of us is on an airplane flying west. Tomorrow will overtake us; we cannot outrace it. If our image of tomorrow is inviting, if it offers fulfillment of dream, then we can move toward it with eagerness and hope. If the image is foreboding, we are likely to move toward it with dread and fear. For most of us the tomorrows hold some of both - and our fears and our hopes are all intertwined and intermixed. Permit me now to point out two problems common to most of us as we form ...

35. Tearing the Roof Off

Mark 2:1-12

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Larry Powell

... ? Out of curiosity? To heckle? To find fault? Were they acquaintances of Jesus that they could come into his home and find a place to sit while so many others were standing? I don’t know ... but it seems the Scriptures always bear the same foreboding comment, "the scribes were sitting there," or "nearby." At any rate, on this particular occasion, they got their eyes full. First, there was a commotion. Four men were literally dismantling the roof of the house. When a large enough opening had been torn away ...

36. Nazareth: The Hidden Years

Luke 2:41-52

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... tourists crowd the streets and signs of modernity distract one from the biblical days - still, even today, it is easy for the mind to go back nineteen centuries. There is a rugged hillside, from which the villagers one day threatened to cast Jesus; it is a foreboding spot even yet. There are donkeys in the streets, just as there were then, carrying articles to or from market. Many of the people are dressed just as they were in Jesus’ day. The cypress trees and the flat-roofed houses are probably just as ...

37. Unwavering Light

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... which couldn’t be transported. Of course those fires spread and great destruction resulted. Suffering was widespread. People must surely have felt terribly forsaken and defeated. Their world was ending in disaster! Their cause had collapsed! With what dread and foreboding they awaited the arrival of conquering Federal troops! Most of my ministry has been in large Northern cities, but in all the years of my Southern upbringing I have never once heard anybody in Dixie express the slightest wish that ...

38. OUR LORD DELIVERED UP

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... of the temple compound. Nicodemus’ mind was thoughtless, yet filled with many thoughts. He had no plan, no course of action, but he hastened his pace as if just getting there were of utmost importance. He was driven not alone by concern and foreboding, but by anger as well. Caiaphas, the high priest, had called the Sanhedrin into special session, but he, Nicodemus, had not been informed. An oversight perhaps? Hardly. It had all the indications of omission by intent, and if one of his servants had ...

39. Behold the Blood of the Covenant

Exodus 24:1-18

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Larry Powell

... would enter into a New Covenant, of love not Law, instituted by the sacrifice of his own son. It would be forever binding and blood need never be shed again. It is as if Jesus was lifting the cup in full view of his disciples to say, with a foreboding sense of finality; "Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you." The prophets had said, "Behold the days will come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah." The disciples were ...

40. The Struggle of Faith

Matthew 11:1-19

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Gregory J. Johanson

... are in blossom. The trees are filled with leaves, and all looks serene. Nevertheless, I am convinced that if we had some kind of magical power to lift the roof and peer into the homes by which we pass, we would encounter some burden, some tragedy, some foreboding loss which would simply overwhelm us." We mused on that, and he continued, "Most of us are able to conceal these matters, and many of us live lives of quiet desperation. In any event, it is most certain that trying times are part and parcel of all ...

41. Praying for a Whole New World

Luke 21:5-38

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William G. Carter

... raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near” (Luke 21:28). He is speaking, I think, about the final arrival of God’s kingdom. The day is coming when this old world will pass away and a new creation will be given to us. Fear, fainting, and foreboding will give way to the power and glory of the Son of Man. Confusion and distress among the people of God will turn to trust and security. Every tear will be dried. Every heart will be mended. And no fourth grader will ever again have a terrible ...

42. Of Rubble and Trouble

Luke 21:5-38

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David E. Leininger

Hmmm. "Wars and insurrections, nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom, earthquakes, famines and plagues...arrests, persecution, some put to death...days of vengeance...great distress on the earth...People will faint from fear and foreboding..." Whoa! What season are we in? What about "Peace on earth and mercy mild?" Actually, BOTH images are at play this morning. Yes, Christmas is coming - a beautiful time. But juxtaposed against that is a life of great uncertainty for all of us, a time when our ...

43. Head's Up!

Luke 21:5-38

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David E. Leininger

... gun battles with Israeli soldiers... Indeed, "peace on earth and mercy mild..." Ho, ho, ho. What a world! Children's visions of sugar plums are washed away with the hot tears of grown-up disappointment and despair. Disease and death are constant companions. The fear and foreboding of which Jesus spoke greet us at every turn. Somehow we need to be reminded that this misery is not the end of the story. For me that reminder is right in the middle of this text. Jesus has said that terrible things are in store ...

44. The Rock

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... As the movie opens, The Rock is more of a harmless pebble than a large stone. The prison, shut down in 1963, remained open now only as a tourist attraction for the curious. Children visit there on school outings. Tourists are lead up and down the once foreboding cellblocks, as they hear guides make the claim that there was never a successful escape from The Rock. Untrue. One man, the hero of the movie, played by Sean Connery, had in fact been the only one to escape, many years earlier. The Rock is about to ...

45. The Difference Between God And Santa

Mark 13:32-37

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King Duncan

... . So he crept from their house to the large and imposing Administration Building on the campus of the college. The place reeked with power and authority. And so did the hallways that led to his father's office. The door itself was huge. And dark. And foreboding. And when he entered, his father was seated importantly behind a giant's desk. "Well?" said his father, "Y-e-s . . ." he said slowly, as he inched forward toward the desk. "Uh . . . I , I . . . Well, you know those 6000-watt light bulbs at the rink ...

46. Life: From the Inside Out

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... with how difficult life would become for him; it was to be short on joy and long on pain. Peter took exception to this, and having just completed a Dale Carnegie course on winning friends and influencing people, began to take Jesus to task for his foreboding anticipation. Jesus had to be more upbeat, Peter implied. Jesus would have none of it though, and in effect said to Peter that if the latter were to persist in those sentiments, he would be clearly aligning himself with the forces of Satan, not the ...

47. A Star, A Stable, and A Song

Luke 2:1-7

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Maxie Dunnam

... circumstances came the most beautiful fairy tales the world has ever known. John Keats was the son of a livery stable keeper. By the age of 20, he was incurably infected with tuberculosis and died at the age of 26. Imagine that. Yet out of those foreboding circumstances, a poet matured, and from him came the music of Ode to a Grecian Urn. Who is not moved by the beauty of Keats’ lines, heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That’s all ye know on earth ...

48. Our Father's Love Begotten

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Maxie Dunnam

... why I selected the Gospel passage for our reading today? This passage from Mark is called "The little Apocalypse" because it contains so many of the predictions of the end, the apocalyptic forecast that was current in Jesus' time. In these brief verses are all the forebodings about history that you have the Apocalypse of John, what is known as the Book of Revelation. It's all there in kind of a summary in the 13th chapter of Mark the signs in the heavens and the tribulations on earth. In the Lectionary of ...

49. The Messiah

Matthew 3:1-12

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Mark Trotter

... , Shakespeare, the King James version of the Bible, and the Book of Common Prayer. Elegant, simple, beautiful prose. The libretto reflects that "classical" English. Handel's own native tradition would have been the German chorale, which tends to be more foreboding and sometimes even ponderous. But he combined the English of the text with Italian opera music. The result is a masterful vehicle for expressing the feelings that we have at Christmas time. Others explain the genius of the work by recounting ...

50. Deep Water!

Matthew 14:22-33

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Stephen M. Crotts

... at how easy it would be for them to look good and cheat God. The list goes on ... it's a matter of perspective and faith. Is it not true for us? Jesus said there would come a day when "men's hearts would be weighed down with fear and foreboding of what is coming down upon the world." We read of crime statistics in the papers. We see the ugly snarl of humanity on the evening news. Friends disappoint us. Suddenly, we comprehend the world as a desperate sinking place. I know there are times when I must abstain ...

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