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576. The Scope of Love

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

The Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) is the only non Italian sculptor commissioned to have one of his statues erected in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. He was not allowed to sign his “Monument to Pope Pius VII” because he was a Protestant; not Catholic. What Thorvaldsen is most known for, however, is his Christus carving known popularly as “The Resurrected Christ.” You can ...

577. God’s HS Smart App is Always Watching

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and every day in every time and place, but God is paying attention to the way we are handling God’s prime investment, the manner in which we are treating God’s favored children and staff. Enter the Holy Spirit –God’s ever-present vineyard monitor. Ever have one of those baby monitors for your kids, so that you can hear what they are doing and saying, even though you’re not in the room? Zoom in on our current culture –what about an Alexa? A Google Nest? A Point system? A Smart Home? Welcome to ...

578. The Body

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... to run. REV. RALPH: You convinced me. I'd better get it fixed. EARL: That goes for your church, too. You'd better get that fixed. REV. RALPH: That's not so easy. We're dealing with people, not auto parts. EARL: But the Bible says we all have one manufacturer -- the Holy Spirit -- but we all have a different mission. We can all work together to make a smooth running car -- or church. We need the little parts as well as the more impressive ones. The oil pumps and the transmissions are as important as the ...

579. Big Changes

Luke 20:27-40

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... to get married ... I know some of you are very happy about that ... and no one will ever die again.) You will no longer have just one or two brothers and sisters; you'll have millions of brothers and sisters. We will all be one big family. We will all have one Father and we shall all be God's children. That will be the biggest change of all! Let's Pray: Father, we look forward to growing up and the changes to come, but more than all that we look forward to the biggest change to come: being in heaven with ...

580. Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Mark 8:27-30

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... . If you get this right you win a million dollars. Are you ready? (response) Let’s play: Who Wants to be a Millionaire! Who was the inventor of the Internet? National Aeronautics & Space Administration, US Department of Defense, the FBI, or Al Gore? (response) You have one lifeline left. You can phone a mom. (response) You’re going to phone a mom. Ok, we are going to call upon mom. Mom would you please stand up. Mom you have thirty seconds and we need the answer to the following question: Who was ...

581. AWAKE, MY SOUL, AND SING!

Drama

Marcia Miller

... Angels, this number is not absolute. Use what is available. WISEMAN 1 WISEMAN 2 WISEMAN 3 It would be nice to be traditional and have three Wisemen. A pageant about the very first Christmas with implications for today A suggested staging of this play is to have one READER on each side of the playing area with the actors in the center area portraying the events as described. READER 1: Awake, my soul, and sing Of Christ, the newborn king. Awake, and hear the songs that ring: For Jesus’ birth we sing. READER ...

582. Can You Jump for Joy?

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

So What? All of us have one annual event, or one family tradition, that definitively makes Christmas official. What is yours? What ritual do you perform that inaugurates the Christmas season? For some of us it's the hanging of the greens the act of putting up the tree, decorating it and the house with all those ...

583. Against the Grain

Mark 3:13-19, Isaiah 28:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in Jesus that secures us, our faith that binds us to Him and keeps us always unafraid of the road ahead. We are the seeds. We are those who have gone against the grain, who live going against the grain, who test ourselves in the wind, who always have one foot on the ground and another in the air. Those who “go against the grain” who are willing to dare to enter into that chaff ridden world are the pearls of Jesus’ kingdom. May your faith always be your guide. May Jesus always be at your side. [You ...

584. What Is Our City?

Acts 4:32-35

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... on saving souls, and rightly so. But the decision of the penitent to accept Jesus as one's Lord and Savior is a decision to accept his call to discipleship. Step one: Accept Jesus as Savior. Step two: Go forth to serve in his name. You can't have one without the other. The many sales of Rick Warren's book, The Purpose-Driven Life, prove that many people are searching for purpose and meaning in their lives. For Christians, the purpose-driven life is the life that is given to Jesus who said, "Take up your ...

585. Matthew 22:15-22

Matthew 22:15-22

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... ideology that might best be described as "going along to get along" and the Herodians a secular party dedicated to supporting Herod's continued reign in Palestine was an odd-couple arrangement, to say the least. Yet both parties apparently did have one common interest: keeping in check the growing popularity of Jesus and his message among the common people. Besides their social and political concerns, the Pharisees may also have resented Jesus' growing popularity as a teacher, a "rabbi," for another reason ...

586. Cheating Spouse Statistics

Illustration

... to 4% of spouses have cheated on their significant other in any given year. 99% of Americans state that they expect their spouse to stay faithful to them. More Americans today [80%] say that infidelity is wrong than they did in 1970 [70%]. The overall chances that a marriage will have one spouse cheat over the life of the marriage: 1 in 4.

587. A Funeral for “I Can’ts”

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... ," told his family and friends that God had promised that he would be the father of a great nation. He must have felt, "I can't" and yet by faith he accepted the promise. His family and friends must have replied, "You can't. You don't even have one son yet." The mockery must have increased when the years passed and Sarai, now called "Sarah" was barren. But by faith, Abraham clung to God's promise. Third, when the years passed and no baby came, Sarah came up with an idea. She told her servant girl Hagar ...

588. Our Souls Will Never Be Hungry Again

John 6:25-59

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... words like "Jesus answered them (verse 26)," "Then they said to him (verse 28)" and so on. Responses to the Word After preaching on the gospel lesson, lead the worshipers in the affirmation of faith printed above. If the congregation is to celebrate holy communion, have one or two people arrive early to bake bread in the church kitchen. The delicious scent will add much to the service of worship, and the taste of fresh-baked bread will add much to the worshipers' delight in Jesus Christ, the bread of life ...

589. God's Book Of Life

John 6:68

Children's Sermon

... say to us, we can have eternal life right now. Where do we find words like that? (Let them answer.) I brought the answer along with me. Here it is. (Hold up the Bible.) How many of you already have a Bible of your own? If you don't have one already, your parents have one at home. They can read to you from it. In fact, maybe they do already. The Bible has words in it from God to us. It's like God's love letter to everybody. When we read what God says to us in his Word, the Bible, we ...

590. A Stone’s Throw From: Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the Hebrews, specifically Hebrews 2:18 "Because [Jesus] himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested." And Hebrews 4:15-16 "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." Those verses are a call to remember, not forget. We ...

591. More Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 28:1-28

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

... its purpose?). 28:18 Antithetic. The NIV silently reads the plural for the dual (v. 18b in the MT: “two ways”; cf. v. 6). 28:19 Antithetic. This is identical with 12:11 except for the last two words; here there is a play on the word, “have one’s fill,” which occurs in both lines (cf. the REB). The saying calls for purposeful work. 28:20 Antithetic. By faithful is meant one who is a person of integrity, in contrast to one who hastens (NIV, eager) to get rich. Haste is always suspect, often implying ...

592. It's Not Over When The Fat Lady Sings

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Consider this list: a local restaurant under construction, a high school dropout, the cross-stitch I've been working on for six years, a young person killed in an accident. All of these have one thing in common: they describe something that has gone unfinished. A building, an education, a craft, a life. There are thousands of things and thousands of people around us that go unfinished. Some people start something and stop because they can't take criticism. Others stop because they're content ...

593. Attitudes

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... , then ask for other ideas. "A clock," Brad says. I pull an alarm clock out of the big shopping bag I've brought and set it on the floor in front of the children. "What else?" I question. "One of those sand things," Carol answers. "Yes," I agree, "and I have one of those in here too." I take out an hourglass egg-timer and set it on the floor by the clock. "Do you have a sundial in there?" Keith asks with a grin. "No, I don't," I answer. "But that is a good suggestion. I might have found a ...

594. Partners with the Pastor

Philippians 1:5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... partner? [Let them answer.] A partner is someone with whom you share your work or your fun. Some people play tennis with partners which means that they are a team and share the points that win or lose the game. That is a partnership. How about this one? I have one bottle of pop that I will be willing to give to someone who can find a partner. This person must not only be willing to share the drink but everything else I say. For instance, you can have the pop, if you will share washing the dishes, sweeping ...

595. God's Book of Life

John 6:68

Children's Sermon

596. Ordering Up A Set Of False Gods On Amazon

1 Thessalonians 3:9-13

Sermon

Mary Austin

... and toward this new, uncertain, chaotic faith in Jesus. In those early days, there weren’t organized churches, books, and systems of belief. Many communities met to worship in people’s homes. Every area had its own practices and habits. There was no Bible, as we have one, with an agreed-upon list of books. Each area probably had their own gospel, and maybe a letter or two from Paul. They had to find their way into faith without the support of the community all around them. It’s a lot like being a ...

597. Our Inclusive Christ

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to "every man" or "every person" as the object of Christ's love. Paul gloried in the inclusive Gospel and the church of the open door. On this Missions Weekend, I will try to apply those insights to Christ Church and to Memphis. We Christians must have one foot firmly planted in Memphis and the other in the Kingdom of God, and we must make the two connect. In chapter three of Colossians, verse 11, Paul refers to four different kinds of barriers that Christ overcomes. Let's look briefly at each one. First ...

598. Going The Wrong Way On A One Way Street

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... getting through. Whenever you dial your own number, you don’t get through. The purpose of sabbath worship is to get our minds off ourselves and onto God and the neighbor. Service to the neighbor in need is the necessary extension of faith in the Lord. You can’t have one without the other. "You can’t love God whom you do not see unless you love your neighbor whom you do see" (1 John 4:20). "The sabbath was made for man," Jesus said. The Pharisee had tried to trap him by pointing out that he was working ...

599. Feed My Sheep

John 21:1-19

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... the neck and it was scratched and well-used. Again, I liked it. I liked it a lot. Then one day, against my better judgment, I lent it to a friend who had a gig at a neighboring college. As I handed him the guitar case that day, I remember having one of those uneasy feelings in the pit of my stomach. Perhaps you have had such a feeling yourself at one time or another? It’s one of those feelings that I frequently ignore, which says, “Don’t do this. You’ll be sorry if you do.” So I ignore my ...

600. Pieces Of Paper

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... of different colors, cut to the size of a dollar bill. A one dollar bill. Lesson: After you have had a chance to look at these pieces of paper, I want you to tell me which one you would like to have. Let's take a vote. If you could have one of these pieces of paper, how many would take this one? (Hold up the dollar bill.) I wonder why all (or most) of you chose the dollar bill? It's just a piece of paper like the others. It may look nicer than the others, since it has some printing ...

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