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Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A house key Good morning, boys and girls. I have this house key with me this morning to remind me of a story I was reading recently about a famous man who said that when he was young he had a recurring dream. He used to dream that one day he came home from school and found that his family had moved away and left him behind. He used to wake up crying because he felt so lonely and unloved. ...

577. All Things Work Together For Good

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

Object: Card stock printed with scripture reference and verse; Goldfish crackers or whale crackers (optional) Do you know the story of Jonah? It’s the story of a man who swallowed a whale. (Pause — if the children agree, continue with the following.) I’m kidding! Jonah didn’t swallow a whale! The whale swallowed Jonah, but actually, the Bible doesn’t say it was a whale. It says that Jonah was swa...

578. On God's Team

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: The symbol for God the Father - the hand reaching through the heavens toward earth. Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to talk about being on the same team. How many of you have ever been on a team? [Let them answer.] Good, almost everyone has been on a team. Do you like to be on the same team as your friends are on? [Let them answer.] I do, too. It is a lot more fun when yo...

579. Hard Hats and God

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Hard hats. Good morning, boys and girls. Today we want to talk about how God knows best and always does what is good for us even though we may not think so at the time. That is a long sentence but I think I can show you what I mean with this object. A couple of years ago people who work in factories or outside, where they do a lot of building, were told that they had to start wearing hat...

580. The Kite And The Sailboat

Children's Sermon

Teresa L. Major

Object: None or sailboat Lesson: If we try hard enough, we can find something good, even in bad situations. Has anything bad ever happened to you? Bad things happen to all of us; there is nothing we can do about that. But there is something we can do about our attitudes when bad things happen. Let me tell you a story. Jerry spent all day working on his sailboat. He had built it piece by piece, ...

581. Better Than A Shadow

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A life-size cut-out of a person Lesson: For I am convinced that neither death, nor life. nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Good morning, boys and girls. I'll bet you can't guess who this is! (Hold up cut-out of person. Let them guess.) Those are good guesses but they are wrong. I'll just have to tell you. This is...

582. Stuck with Super Glue

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some super glue and two pieces of wood to be glued together. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever played with glue? (Let them answer.) It is kind of fun when you have the right kind of glue to play with. Now they make a special kind of glue and while it is the best glue, it is also very dangerous. I brought this glue with me this morning because I wanted to show you som...

583. Out of Our Control

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: Some metal objects, a plastic bowl or dishpan containing water, and, if possible, a toy boat Boys and girls, the Bible tells us that in everything God works for the good for those who love Him. That seems really strange, because some yucky things happen to us sometimes, don't they? How could the Bible mean that in everything God works to the good? I once heard somebody explain it like thi...

584. A Special Kind Of Friend

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A wedding ring Lesson: We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. Good morning, boys and girls. Do you know what this is? (Hold up wedding ring.) That's right. This is a ring -- a very special kind of ring. What kind of ring do you think this is? (Let them guess.) This is a wedding ring. Why is a wedding ring so special...

585. We'll Pay For It

Children's Sermon

CSS

Object: a telephone credit card Boys and girls, do you know what a credit card is? (Let them answer.) A credit card looks like this. (Show them the one you have.) You can use it to buy something but you don't have to pay for it until later, when the bill is mailed from the company that gave you the credit card. This card is from the telephone company. It allows me to make a long-distance telephon...

586. On the Wrong Plane

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: None Say: I have an old Chinese proverb to tell you. I need you to help me. When I say something happy, say "Ahhh h." And smile when I say something bad or sad, say "Ohhh" and frown. Once upon a time in far away China lived a boy. "Ahhhh." The boy wanted a horse but they could not afford to buy one. "Ohhh" After many months of saving his money, the boy's father bought a horse for the b...

587. Right? delete

Children's Sermon

Object: a right tennis shoe Good morning, boys and girls. Look at your feet. Are your shoes on the right feet? (Let them respond.) One of your shoes is on the right foot. But the other one is on your left foot! Today I want to talk about the word right. This is not the word WRITE which tells what we do with a pencil. But this is the other word right that could mean a direction. I brought a shoe. ...

588. How Do We Make Sense of This?

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

Good Friday is a hard day. It's depressing and it's confusing. Why did Jesus have to die on the cross? How do we make sense of this? Christians have struggled with understanding the meaning of the cross ever since the very beginning and the struggle has continued through the centuries. We can see that from reading today's passage from Hebrews if we stop to consider the passage in its larger contex...

589. I Wonder Why Bad Things Happen to Good People

Sermon

Charley Reeb

As we remember the terror of 9/11, we long for an answer to it. As we see lives blown apart by natural disasters, our hearts cry out with it. As the economy worsens and banks fail and businesses fold and more and more people lose their jobs, our souls seek satisfaction to this enigma. It is the age-old question that haunts us: “I wonder why bad things happen to good people?” This is a burning ...

590. A Platform For Life

Sermon

King Duncan

Mark Albion, in his book MAKING A LIFE, MAKING A LIVING tells a fascinating story about a practice on the South Pacific island of Pentecost that is very similar to our sport of bungee jumping--except with religious significance. On this island men practice land diving, an ancient ritual designed to please the gods and ensure a good yam harvest. Each man builds his own diving platform. The diver c...

591. Hello!?

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

When we find ourselves shrinking, shirking, shivering and sniveling in fear and doubt, God breaks through to say: "Hello!?" A Harris survey commissioned by United Airlines found that 38 percent of passengers never use the lavatory during a flight, 60 percent do, and another 2 percent aren't sure. "Hello!?" I'm fascinated by that 2 percent. But I sure hope I never sit next to one of them on a fl...

592. God’s Most Troubling Promise

Sermon

King Duncan

Have you ever noticed that life is full of challenges? Have you noticed that, sooner or later, all of us are going to have some pretty steep mountains to climb? I heard about a woman named Jill whose car was unreliable. She called her friend John for a ride every time her car broke down. One day John got yet another one of those calls. “What happened this time?” he asked. “My brakes went out,” ...

593. The Surprise of Absolute Victory

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

In this day of overwhelming defeatism, we look longingly for the absolute victory. Paul declares it in today's Scripture: "Nay, (even) in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us." Do you believe that? If you do, you are more steady in the midst of the collapse all around you. A great pessimism has to be conquered by a great faith. Edith Lovejoy Pierce uncovers a cha...

594. What to Remember When You're Having a Bad Hair Day

Sermon

James Merritt

I read a story once about a man that was walking along a mountain road, and he saw an Indian lying in the middle of the road with his ear pressed to the ground. As he got close to the Indian, he heard this Indian talking in broken English. He leaned over to hear what he was saying, and the Indian was mumbling these words: "Truck, Chevy truck, Chevy pick-up truck, large tires, man driving, German ...

595. Why Is Life So Unfair?

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

Sunday a week ago, the newspaper headline was just sickening. We saw the picture of State Trooper Calvin Jenks, age 24, whose body had been found beside his cruiser in rural Tipton County. Two suspected drug dealers have been arrested and charged with his murder. Calvin moved to the Memphis area last July to be near his fiancé, a student at the UT Medical School. They married in September and abso...

596. Proper 11

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

READINGS Psalter - Psalms 105:1-11, 45b First Lesson - Jacob works for Laban to obtain two wives, Leah and Rachel. Genesis 29:15-28 Second Lesson - The Holy Spirit inspires our prayers in the bosom of God's family. Romans 8:26-39 Gospel - We hear more of the shorter parables of Jesus. Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 CALL TO WORSHIP Leader: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. People: And a...

597. Proper 12, Pentecost 10, Ordinary Time 17

Bulletin Aid

Amy C. Schifrin

Litany Of Confession Leader: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, + and of the Holy Spirit. All: Amen. Leader: We come to you in our weakness, O Lord, not knowing how to pray as we ought. All: We hold on to the things around us, expecting them to bring us happiness, expecting them to give us life. Leader: We pray that your mighty Spirit would breathe in us, that we might let go of all that k...

598. Like Their Heroic Commander

Illustration

Christopher Oldstone-Moore

The revolution that ended the reign of beards occurred on September 30, 331 b.c., As Alexander the Great prepared for a decisive showdown with the Persian emperor for control of Asia, he ordered his men to shave. From time immemorial in Greek culture, a smooth chin on a grown man had been taken as a sign of effeminacy or degeneracy. What can explain this unprecedented command? When the commander ...

599. Laws of the Lighthouse

Illustration

Staff

In U.S. Navel Institute Proceedings, the magazine of the Naval Institute, Frank Koch illustrates the importance of obeying the Laws of the Lighthouse. Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvers in heavy weather for several days. I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge as night fell. The visibility was poor with patchy fog, so the capt...

600. A Personal Calling

Illustration

R.C. Sproul

Some have argued from Romans 8:29 that predestination is based on God's foreknowledge in the sense that God looked down the corridors of time and saw who would freely choose to believe, and then predestinated them. This position assumes that foreknowledge here only means "knows in advance." In the Bible, however, knowledge is often used in a sense of personal intimacy, as when Adam "knew" Eve and ...

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