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526. Look Ahead!

Romans 8:19

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

... : hats, sweaters, coats, etc.) I'm not as confused as you might think. Have you noticed that every year during the winter the television commercials start showing us people who are at the beach? We see people swimming, playing games on the beach, and really enjoying the warm weather. In fact, when I went to the store the other day, they were already selling their bathing suits for next summer, and here we are in the middle of winter! Do you know why they do that? They want us to look and plan ahead ... not ...

527. Do The Right Thing

James 1:22-24

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

... we have been sick. Now I have a question for you. What if I were sick and I came to you and asked, "What should I do to begin getting better?" You might give me all the right answers. I should go to bed, drink a lot of liquids, dress warmly, and all the other things that are important for getting well. But when you were finished I might say in response, "I don't want to do that!" So instead I go outside, don't take care of myself, and do just the opposite of what you suggested. What do ...

528. You Are A Part Of A House

1 Peter 2:5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... hurt you. You take care of the sick and the people who cannot take care of themselves. You visit people who cannot leave their homes or who are in prisons. You share your food with the hungry and your clothing with those who do not have clothes to keep them warm. You do all of those things and more when you live in a spiritual house. We can't finish our house this morning, but we have made a good start. Maybe you will want to start another spiritual house at home. If you do, then put the names of your ...

529. Gifts for God

Romans 11:33-36

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A box of candy, some flowers, a piece of jewelry. Good morning, boys and girls. I thought that since this is Sunday morning and it is such a nice warm day, we should do something for our God who made it this way. I have thought a lot about what we might do for God, and I cannot decide what would be the best kind of gift. Do any of you have some ideas of what we could give God ...

530. Really Living!

Romans 14:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... places, but he tells us that we belong to him alive or dead. That is wonderful news because God also promises us that even when we die he will make us alive again to enjoy a new world that is even more fun than the one that has beaches and warm water. So be glad that you belong to God and enjoy him now wherever you are, and also be glad that God will be with you when you die. Only after we die will we find out about the new life that he has made for us to live with ...

531. A Word Of Encouragement!

Acts 13:13-52

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... Jews. So, Paul is invited to speak, but notice that they also told him what the subject matter would be. I wonder what people would ask us preachers to preach about if they were given the opportunity to choose? The leaders addressed Paul and Barnabas warmly, "Brothers, if you have a word of encouragement, please speak." Note the "if," the invitation implies that it is contingent upon the content of the message. We Need A Word Of Encouragement All of us need and want encouragement. No matter how educated we ...

532. A Fireside Chat

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... a personal message on an important mater. By radio Roosevelt had his fireside chats. Jimmy Carter did the same thing, only by television. Billy Graham used ot do them during his Christmas specials. But the fireside chat of our text is not an easy, comfortable, warm conversation. It is a mighty confrontation of God with Moses that will forever change the destiny of the man and the Hebrew nation! Moses, in the training school of God, has come a long way already. He was set afloat, by his mother, on a waterbed ...

533. God is Love

1 John 4:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... where you use a bat and glove or a basket. What do we call these things? (Let them answer.) Yes, we call them balls. What do we know about balls that bounce? (Let them answer.) Very good, they are round. Ice is cold and balls are round. Ice is not warm and balls are not square. Now where does love come from? That was our question. I know that I can always find love if I look to God. God is love just like balls are round and ice is cold. The words go together. Love comes from God just like ...

534. Try for a Good Life

James 3:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Bricks and raisins. Good morning, boys and girls. Isn't this beautiful weather we are having at this time of the year? How many of you like fall? (Let them answer.) What do you like most about this time of year? (Let them answer.) I think I like the warm days and the cool nights and the changing colors in the trees. Even though it is the same thing every year I never grow tired of the beautiful fall days. Lots of things don't change. I brought along with me some things that I found to help me tell ...

535. A Guarantee From Jesus

2 Corinthians 1:22

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... Holy Spirit that lives in our hearts. Jesus would not leave us with just a promise. He put his own spirit in our hearts so that we would know that the promise is true. A promise is something that we have to wait for to have it happen but the warm feeling that we have when we hear the name of Jesus comes from the Spirit that is in our hearts. How many of you can feel the Spirit of Jesus inside of you? (Let them answer.) It isn't something that you can touch but you just know that it ...

536. Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

Matthew 6:11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... bread could stand for everything else, even the things that you don't eat every day, but that you do need. Ask God for green beans or cheese or the roof on the house to be fixed or shoes to wear on your feet or a coat to keep you warm if you want to, but Jesus just asked God for daily bread and He knew that God would give to us whatever we needed. It is wonderful that God knows what we need and still lets us ask for it. He could just put them on, in, or over us ...

537. Transfiguration

Luke 9:28-36 · Matthew 17:1-8 · Mark 9:2-8

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for my salvation; and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death." Radiant Christians. During the period of the great Christian ...

538. God's Descending Spirit

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... is that God's Holy Spirit, coming down upon a receptive humanity, works miracles! John Wesley changed a nation's understanding of the work of God's spirit as he moved across England 250 years ago. He was the little man who found "my heart strangely warmed" by God's Holy Spirit. The Wesleyan openness to the leading of God gave birth to many a human transformation. Two hundred fifty years ago John Wesley, touched by God's Spirit, worked miracles! And, I believe that about Mother Teresa today. We remember her ...

539. Friendship Arms or Cold Shoulders

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

James Weekley

... They remembered his boyhood pranks. Perhaps they didn't want to forget. Then he comes on with this open arms I'm-here-to-be-your-friend policy. "Life's just not that way," they were thinking. "The Romans and the Pharisees have seen to that." Still Jesus, in his warm and personable style, would not let up. Time was always too short. Jesus would continue to come across as a caring human being in spite of sister sour and brother gloom's I-told-you-it-won't-work mentality. For most of us it comes across a shade ...

540. On Polishing Up the 24 Karat Jesus

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

James Weekley

... , a "feelin' fine, prime-time prosperity gospel" a la tube? Wilbur Rees illustrates in his $3.00 Worth of God, "I would like to buy $3.00 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk ... I want ecstacy, not transformation; I want warmth of the womb, not a new birth." Is it possible to reclaim the soul and mind from technolological humanism and video promised lands? Our Lord's commission is as urgent as ever. "Go for it now!" In the New ...

541. Jesus, The Mad Man

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

Erskine White

... and called Him mad. "He is beside Himself," they said. "He is possessed by demons. He has lost His mind!" It doesn't really fit our image of Jesus - the picture we have of a gentle, genial Jesus patting little children on the head and smiling warmly on the crowd - but why might the villagers have said this? Why might they have called Him mad? Remember that Jesus stood in the tradition of the prophets, and prophets did things that made people wonder about them. Ezekiel took the scroll Scripture was written ...

542. Hope Against Hope

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Erskine White

... If you have little children, you are just trying to hang on until the spring. By now, your kids are practically bouncing off the walls because they have been kept inside for four months and you wonder if your house will still be standing when it is finally warm enough to send the kids outside to play again. Winter can be a very trying and depressing season, for young and old alike. But even in the very depths of winter, amid the snow and ice and blustery cold, you never lose hope completely. You always know ...

543. When God Is Silent

Psalm 35:1-28

Sermon

Erskine White

... through the ages testified from their own experience that God is sometimes silent and absent from them when they pray. John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, had a famous conversion experience at a place called Aldersgate. He said that he felt his heart "strangely warmed," and that his sins were forgiven. He had a deep and personal experience of God. But less than one year later, this same John Wesley wrote in his Journal, "I know that I am not a Christian, because I do not feel that I love God ...

544. When Christians Disappoint

Acts 5:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... the church a bad name. It might comfort us to know that even the early church had problems with disappointing Christians. We might have thought otherwise - we might have thought that with the memory of Jesus still fresh and the glow of Pentecost still warm, the early church would have been a perfect model of spiritual purity and inspiration, far surpassing what the world had ever seen before or since. We might have thought that, but the Bible says it wasn't so. They had disputes within the early Christian ...

545. Wedding: An Offer from God

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... meaningful life, you would be wise to follow it. But there is something more I hold before you today, and that is the offer God makes to you on this your wedding day. An offer. You can take it or leave it. But if you are sincere about wanting a warm, growing, and wonderful marriage, it is an offer too good to pass up. God's offer is simply this: he will give you all you really need if you give yourselves to him. St. Paul put it this way, "... but [Christ] said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you ...

546. Wedding: The Bondage of Marriage

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... pain and hurt. Fortunately, God comes to offer you his personal help. If you submit yourselves to Christ, he can provide the healing power to bring you back together again. That's why I encourage you to worship together and to pray together. When you are continually warmed by God's love, it will become easier for you to ask him into your relationships to fill you with his amazing grace. Then submission to each other, for Jesus' sake, becomes not a law but a privilege. And by his grace your marriage can be ...

547. Wedding: The Beauty of Marriage

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... responsibility of bearing that sacrificial kind of love into your relationship. In other words, God's love and grace take human form as you care for and share with each other. That means the love you are to foster in your marriage is not simply a feeling, no matter how warm and affectionate, but an action. God's kind of love is always at work. It is not so much a noun as it is a verb. It is a love which works toward harmony and fulfillment. It is a love which grows out of the emotions of courtship to create ...

548. Wedding: Christian Love

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... remember how patient God is with us - how he stands ready to forgive and pour out his love, in spite of the fact that we're often rebellious and not very lovable. So pray for patience. It is the embryo of compassion, and it will give to your home the warm glow of kindness. Love does not insist on its own way. This is a hard saying, because we are all inclined to want to get our own way. But marriage requires that we recognize our mate is accustomed to getting his or her way, too. So we recall our God ...

549. Wedding: Love as Grace

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... as you become, more and more, instruments through which God can bless and strengthen and love you both. So, ________ and ________, you are joined together by God on this day that you might love each other because he first loved you. May the radiance of your love so warm the world around you that your marriage brings a glory, not only to you but to all the lives you touch. And in all your days, may you find and enjoy God's grace, a love which is deeper and warmer and more wonderful than any you can now ...

550. Wedding: A Need for Newness

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

(Name) and (name), in the soft, romantic glow of this candlelight wedding, everything seems so warm and wonderful that it's hard to imagine that you will experience anything in your life except joy and happiness. Everything about your marriage has a newness and a freshness to it. It is so enchanting that you might think you're dreaming. Of course you're not, although I ...

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