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26. Poem: Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Eulogy

Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For His civility. We passed the school, where children strove At recess, in the ring; We passed the fields of gazing grain, ...

27. Stopping the Spread of Hell

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Kristin Borsgard Wee

... do this, to do everything possible to win back a relationship that is in danger of being lost. So go ahead and make that phone call or set up the lunch date or write the letter. If you do, you will help stop the spread of hell. If the thought of making that call scares you, don't let that stop you. There is not a word in today's reading about wanting to reach out. Just go, it says, and do everything you can to win back the relationship. In a lot of ways it is a real bother to be ...

28. The Train Stops Just in Time

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... in the middle of the tracks and waving its arms. The engineer grabbed for the brakes and brought the train to a grinding halt. He and his fellow trainsmen climbed out to see what had stopped them. They could find no trace of the strange figure. On a hunch, the engineer walked a few yards farther up the tracks. Suddenly he stopped and stared into the fog in horror. A bridge had been washed out and had fallen into a swollen stream. If he had not heeded the ghostly figure, the train would have plunged into the ...

29. The Stopped Up Dam

Luke 16:19-31

Illustration

Richard Patt

... formerly had been clear. It was alluring to animals and people alike. But it became covered with a green scum. The farm animals became ill from drinking the water. Finally someone came by the lake who understood the problem. Debris collecting from the hard spring rains had stopped up the dam and prevented the free flow of water, not into the lake, but out of the lake. The spillway was cleared, and soon the lake was fresh and clean again. The flow in and out was necessary to keep the water pure! Doesn't the ...

30. Stop Following Your Shadow

Mark 8:27-38

Illustration

Robert Salzgeber

... in a large oval. At sundown he ended up where he had started. This continued for years. The man walked in circles day after day, following his shadow. One night the man heard the voice of God in a dream while he slept. The voice told him to stop following his shadow. Instead, "Follow the sun," the voice challenged, "And you will experience life as you have never dreamed it could be." The man thought for many days about his vision of God while he continued to walk around in circles in the desert. But one day ...

31. Stop Those Two Dear Women From Fighting

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... s love? Young person, don’t settle for a cheap substitute. Mom, Dad, you can’t make enough money or win enough applause to fill the emptiness in your heart. You think it’s too late for you. It’s not. It’s never too late for God. Please, stop where you are today, and let God love you. Paul writes to the church at Philippi, “And now I want to plead with those two dear women, Euodias and Syntyche. Please, please, with the Lord’s help, quarrel no more--be friends again.” Here’s what they need ...

32. Try And Stop Us

Acts 8:26-40

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship God lives in us! All of us! Together we are given the gift of scripture, and together we may interpret that living word! What can stop us from taking hold of new life, transformed life, real life? Nothing. Nothing at all. Collect Lord, with the help of your Spirit we will run alongside chariots. Within the pages of scripture we will recognize you and the part you have played in our lives! We know that this ...

33. Stopping Pettiness

Mark 9:38-41

Illustration

Jerry Goebel

... gossip, silence, and exclusion serve just these purposes, cutting off the prophetic from the congregation. This is what the Apostles were doing to this one man "caught healing." They were demanding that Jesus hobble his powerful works because he wasn't one of them. We can stop our pettiness by taking four actions: 1. Get out in the harvest. Recognize the crisis in harvesters and the ripeness of the harvest. If you don't bring the harvest in during its due season, it will not just sit out there and stay ripe ...

34. You Can’t Stop God

Luke 1:39-56

Illustration

Thomas Long

... was the jailers who were guilty. It was the prisoners who were suffering, but the jailers who were defeated. It was the prisoners who were in a position of weakness, but it was the broken and bigoted world of the jailers . . . that was perishing." Friends, you can't stop God. Once God begins moving, the best you can do is get out of the way. God was at work at the manger of Bethlehem. God was at work redeeming the world to Himself. No wonder the baby leaped. Christmas is an exciting time. God has come into ...

35. This Tithing Business Has to Stop!

Luke 19:1-10

Illustration

Bob Younts

... for six-hundred thousand dollars to the Church. He telephoned the minister, long since having moved to another church, and asked to see him. Walking into the pastor's office the man begged to be let out of the covenant, saying, "This tithing business has to stop. It was fine when my tithe was one thousand dollars, but I just cannot afford six-hundred thousand dollars. You've got to do something, Reverend!" The pastor knelt on the floor and prayed silently for a long time. Eventually the man said, "What are ...

36. Stop Speculating!

Luke 21:5-19; 1 Thess 3:11

Illustration

Gary L. Carver

... is made of? What sort of birds, do you suppose, the feathers come from? I wonder what type of man shot this arrow — tall or short, dark or light." His comrades, who saw his plight, could bear it no longer, but cried out in frustration: "For God's sake, man! Stop speculating and pull out the arrow!" Need I say more?

37. Stop the Itching

Illustration

... the cave the student took the bag of itching powder and tossed it into the fire. "Congratulations!" said the wise man. "You've graduated. You've learned you don't have to know everything to do something positive. And you've learned how to take control over your life and stop the itching."

38. Poem: If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

Eulogy

Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

39. Stamp Stopped Sticking

Humor

Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz said, I've been on the top and I've been on the bottom. At Arkansas my first year, we won the Orange Bowl. Then everybody loved me. They put me into the Arkansas Hall of Fame and issued a commemorative stamp in my honor. The next year we lost to Texas, and they they took away the stamp. The stamp stopped working. It wouldn't stick any longer to the envelops. The post office investigated the situation and found the problem. People kept spitting on the wrong side.

40. Stop The Spending

Humor

Men are not the only ones who can use humor to make a point. I just read about a thrifty young woman who became concerned over the lavish amount of money her boyfriend was spending on her. After an expensive dinner date, she asked her mother, "What can I do to stop Tom from spending so much money on me?" Her mother replied simply, "Marry him."

41. Happiness Full Stop

John 15:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’ve had plenty of time to examine their lives, their successes and failures and joys and heartbreaks. So, what did they discover about the secret to happiness? The director of the Harvard study summed it up in two sentences: “Happiness is love. Full stop.” The quality of the men’s close relationships with others was the greatest predictor of happiness in later life. Let me say that again: The quality of the men’s close relationships with others was the greatest predictor of happiness in later life ...

42. Non-Stop Praying

1 Thessalonians 5:16

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

Exegetical Aim: To remind the children of the importance of constant prayer. Props: None needed. Lesson: Good morning. I want to teach you a game. It's called the prayer game. Here is how to play. I will say that it is time for something, and you will try to be the first to put your hands together like you are praying. Demonstrate by placing your hands together and hold them up in front of your face.) Okay, here goes. Get ready. What do we do when it's time for . . . supper! (All the children hold up their ...

43. Never Stop Praying

Ephesians 1:16

Children's Sermon

Objects: A prayer list (an index card with names written on it.) Some blank index cards for the children. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you like your friends and family to remember you? (Let them answer.) Do you think that when you are not with your friends or some of your family they remember your name and think about the good times that you have had together? (Let them answer.) I want people to remember me. I want them to remember the gifts that I gave them or the places that we visited ...

44. Stop The Presses! New Story!

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Got it? Get it! Grand what God has planned, that by his hand so each and every one of us will stand, as covenants demand, as numerous as stars or grains of sand, all known by God and knowing they are known, to own the law as shown upon the heart, our God, your God, their God, my God. Got it? Get it! Good! Collect Your law, just God, is written on our hearts, and we your people know the right from wrong. Guide us, guard us, grant us your peace as we witness through our lives and our words to ...

45. Sometimes You Have to Stop

Philippians 3:13-14

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

In the British Museum in London there is displayed the final draft of Thomas Gray’s masterpiece of a poem, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.” Lovers of English literature marvel at how every word seems to be carefully chosen. The amazing thing is that Thomas Gray never considered that poem complete. In the museum display you can see the process through which he went, each successive draft carefully penned by hand. Seventy-five of them! And the author was still unsatisfied. Two lessons are there. One ...

46. Sole Brother

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

... to underdeveloped nonChristian countries. The only conference he knew anything about was the Atlantic Coast Conference, and he tried to catch some of that action on the bar room TV when he wasn’t too busy. It wasn’t agape or ethics that had made him stop. She was in need and he thought he could help ... it was that simple. At this moment a scene from another highway in a far century crept stealthily into our minds. A young lawyer in pursuit of an intellectual discussion had asked Christ, "Who is my ...

47. The Future Of The Church!

Matthew 11:25-30

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... the time. Now I don't know. I suppose I should get to my speech. It's not very interesting. Oh, well, here goes: (HE STOPS STRUMMING) "The Future of the Church!" (LONG PAUSE. HE STRUMS AGAIN) You know, I wasn't even supposed to make this speech, but Dr. ... something? I know a lot of preachers that act like they're five years old. Well, never mind. Let's get on with it. (HE STOPS STRUMMING) "The Future of the Church!" (LONG PAUSE. HE STRUMS AGAIN) It is important, isn't it? The Church, I mean. Well, isn't it ...

48. Begging Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... . He wouldn’t go away, and they couldn’t turn the page. Their only hope was to keep moving, keep on going, don’t stop, not here, not now. And like a fog horn from the dark sea he sounded again: "Son of David, have mercy on me." And ... charge. He needed a final word of assurance. One more time he would ask, "Father, if it be your will, let this cup pass." And Jesus stopped. Before any of that could happen, before any of that should happen, the people had to see. It wasn’t Bartimaeus who was blind. It ...

49. Cut It Out!

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is what Jesus calls the church to do as a community of faith dedicated to living an internalized righteousness. You can have a new marriage ... a new body ... a new attitude ... a new spirit ... a new career ... a new community ... a new world - but only by stopping the old destructive, hurtful behaviors you've doggedly recycled for so many years. The changes we want to come about in our lives will not happen just by wishing them to be so. We must cut ourselves off from our old attitudes and throw them away ...

50. "When E. F. Hutton Talks"

Jeremiah 26:1-24

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... hours do you spend at work? How many hours do you spend telling spouse, friends, parents what you are feeling and doing? How many hours do you spend in devotion and Bible reading? How many hours are spent at church, Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, at the P.T.A.? Stop for a moment and look. How does the way that you invest your time (all 168 hours a week) relate to the things that you proclaim are important? If the way you spend your time does not match up with what you say is important, use the third column to ...

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26. Poem: Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Eulogy

Emily Dickinson

27. Stopping the Spread of Hell

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Kristin Borsgard Wee

28. The Train Stops Just in Time

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

29. The Stopped Up Dam

Luke 16:19-31

Illustration

Richard Patt

30. Stop Following Your Shadow

Mark 8:27-38

Illustration

Robert Salzgeber

31. Stop Those Two Dear Women From Fighting

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

32. Try And Stop Us

Acts 8:26-40

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

33. Stopping Pettiness

Mark 9:38-41

Illustration

Jerry Goebel

34. You Can’t Stop God

Luke 1:39-56

Illustration

Thomas Long

35. This Tithing Business Has to Stop!

Luke 19:1-10

Illustration

Bob Younts

36. Stop Speculating!

Luke 21:5-19; 1 Thess 3:11

Illustration

Gary L. Carver

37. Stop the Itching

Illustration

38. Poem: If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking

Eulogy

Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.

39. Stamp Stopped Sticking

Humor

40. Stop The Spending

Humor

41. Happiness Full Stop

John 15:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

42. Non-Stop Praying

1 Thessalonians 5:16

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter