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Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his faithful, to those who turn to him in their hearts. All: Surely his salvation is at hand for those who fear him, that his glory may dwell in our land. Women: Steadfast love and faithfulness will meet; righteousness and peace will kiss each other. Men: Faithfulness will spring up from the gr...

652. Lent 1

Sermon Aid

George Bass

THEOLOGICAL CLUE The church year combines the two seasons of Lent and Easter within a cycle, the Easter Cycle, which puts the observation of Lent, as well as Easter, in proper perspective. The church keeps the Lenten pilgrimage as a journey to the to and beyond the cross to the tomb of the risen Christ, and the annual celebration of the Feast of Feasts, Easter. When Lent began as the quadrigesima...

653. Offer Them Christ

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: a map of your town and a highlighter Good morning, boys and girls. I want you to pretend with me. Let's say you had a friend, and that friend wanted to go from his/her house to McDonald's. Now, here's your friend's house (make a dot on the map), and here's McDonald's (make another dot). And to get to McDonald's, your friend wanted to take this road, then get off on this road, and then go ...

654. Beauty That’s All In The Family

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

Object: Family pictures — two or three pairs of pictures that show family members who look alike (These may be the family of the speaker or from different families in the congregation.); Card stock printed with the scripture reference and verse; Feet cut out from card stock (optional) It’s fun to look at family photographs. Part of the fun is noticing how much family members look alike. Maybe you...

655. Where is God?

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A walnut or any nut that has an outer shell that comes off easily Good morning (evening), boys and girls, and how are you on this first day of our special talks? How many of you think that you know a lot about that which we call our Christian faith? In the next couple of weeks we hope to discover some of the really important things that we should know about God. These are things that He h...

656. Calling On Jesus

Children's Sermon

Object: A play telephone or one that is borrowed from the telephone company. Good morning, boys and girls. The Bible keeps telling us to call on Jesus and I wonder if you know why you should be calling him? Why do you call Jesus? (Let them answer.) I have a telephone with me. I know that we can't phone Jesus, but I thought maybe we could find out why we are calling him by trying to call some othe...

657. God Will Save Us

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Fireman's hat, policeman's badge, doctor's stethoscope. Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to learn something about names. All of us have names, and they are important, but I mean other names. I am talking about the names that we give to people. Names like "printer," "teacher," or "engineer." Those are the names that I am talking about. It is important to know the right name...

658. The Apostles

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A blackboard and chalk with the names of the apostles written on it in alphabetical order. Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to learn something and we are going to learn it faster than you ever thought possible. I am going to teach you the names of the twelve apostles and in a moment you are going to repeat all of their names to me. First of all I will tell you their names....

659. Did God Really Say...?

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

Today is "Temptation Sunday." Every year on the first Sunday in Lent we focus our attention on the story of the temptation of Jesus. It is a story that has captured the imagination of Christians for centuries. They have sought to portray in art what it must have been like for Jesus to have been tempted by the devil. The picture on your sermon outline this morning portraying this ugly, grotesque, d...

660. The Runner

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Your most beloved things are not always your most perfect things. And your most beloved relationships are not always your most perfect relationships. Remember your “blankie?” Come on now, you all had one. And it was in perfect shape, right? It was the rattiest, most stained, most beat up thing anyone has ever seen. But the condition it was in mattered not a wit at nap time, or bedtime, or cry ti...

661. Do You Have Beautiful Feet?

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

A teenage boy kept begging his father to let him drive the car to school which was only three blocks away. Exasperated his father replied, "Drive to school? Why do you think God gave you two feet?" The boy answered, "One foot is to put on the brake. The other is to put on the accelerator." (1) One day a grandmother noticed something wrong her five year old granddaughter's feet and said: "Honey, y...

662. Give It Up

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Sometimes it seems like there are only two types of films being made today in Hollywood. There are “chick flicks” and there are “man movies.” Coming off Valentine’s date weekend, the cinema hormone level is heavy with estrogen. But don’t worry, gentlemen. With the approach of “March Madness” and the full court press of basketball, the testosterone level will climb steadily over the next month. Th...

663. Proper 14

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

READINGS Psalter - Psalms 105:1-6, 16-22, 45b First Lesson - Joseph's dreams are dangerous to his health. Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 Second Lesson - Heartfelt faith in Christ confessed openly is the means of our salvation. Romans 10:5-15 Gospel - Jesus comes to his disciples in an unexpected way. Matthew 14:22-33 CALL TO WORSHIP Leader: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. People: And a...

664. Proper 14, Pentecost 12, Ordinary Time 19

Bulletin Aid

Amy C. Schifrin

Gathering Prayer/Prayer Of Preparation Begin this Sunday’s liturgy with a time of silence. Our lives are far noisier than wind, fire, or earthquake. In a great paradox, God speaks to us in sheer silence. Give the assembly a chance to listen. Leader: Wind, fire, earthquake, and storm: each event reminds us of how little we are. Arguments at work, grumbling at home: each event reminds us of how lit...

665. Lent 1

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

READINGS Psalter—Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16 First Lesson—After the years of slavery in Egypt and the hardships of the wilderness, the people of Israel are called to celebrate the land of plenty in thanksgiving before God. Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Second Lesson—Paul assures his listeners that, whether they be Jew or Greek, there is one Lord of all. Romans 10:8b-13 Gospel—Jesus, fasting in the wilderness, overco...

666. Lent 1

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

Call To Worship Leader: You’re here! Winter is upon us and things seem very still. But we know that dormancy hides the workings of life soon to erupt into spring! Six weeks of Epiphany and transfiguration are finished, and we find ourselves with ash smudges on our heads and hands. (Candles can be lighted to count the Sundays until Easter.) People: It surely does slow us down when we consider how o...

667. Beyond the Routine

Illustration

John R. Steward

In a Danish village there was a Lutheran Church where each Sunday the people would walk into the church by way of the center aisle. At the front of the church, there was a break between the pews and a blank white wall. Every Sunday, the people of that church would walk down the center aisle to the front of the church and genuflect at the blank wall. A man visiting the church did not understand wha...

668. Lent 1

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Old Testament: Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Upon entering the Promised Land the people are to present the first fruits and to rejoice in Yahweh's goodness. Deuteronomy deals with the time of King Josiah's reforms in 621 B.C. One of the reforms was the centralization of worship in Jerusalem's temple. One of the three compulsory pilgrimages to Jerusalem was the Feast of Weeks when a basket of fir...

669. Lent 1

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Upon entering the Promised Land the people are to present the first fruits and to rejoice in Yahweh's goodness. Deuteronomy deals with the time of King Josiah's reforms in 621 B.C. One of the reforms was the centralization of worship in Jerusalem's temple. One of the three compulsory pilgrimages to Jerusalem was the Feast of Weeks when a basket of first fruits was p...

670. Christ Comes Into Our Hearts

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

Object: Heart stickers Good morning, boys and girls. (Show heart symbol.) What is this symbol? (Response -- heart.) Why do you suppose we have made such a symbol of one of the inner organs of the body? What does it represent? (Responses -- Love, sweethearts, romance, and so forth.) When we talk about love, we are really talking about a feeling, aren't we? Part of that is intellectual, that is, w...

671. A Protestant (And Catholic) Way To Confess

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

Confession: Most Protestants are inclined to say that confession is Catholic and stop there. Or we hear it said, “Confession is good for the soul.” Even then, we are likely to hear it like Roman Catholics[1], to suppose it means that we are to recount our sins. We don’t need confession in our church! Or do we? Paul gives us a model for confession of the faith in the Book of Romans. Recall that th...

672. Inward, Upward, Outward

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Stuck in an endless traffic snarl the other day I punched on the radio just to hear another voice. The news channel was just finishing up a long in-depth report on the nasty mad-cow threat. Mad cow meat. Cancer causing farm fish. Avian flu chicken. What's left to eat any more? Pretty soon they'll find deadly bacteria on broccoli. The radio news channel, staying on the theme of American eatin...

673. Proper 14

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

OLD TESTAMENT TEXTS The Old Testament texts explore the power of God in history. Genesis 37 introduces the story of Joseph and Psalm 105 reviews Israel's entire history of salvation. Genesis 37:1-4, 12-36 - "The Power of Oppression" Setting. The Old Testament lessons for the next two Sundays come from the story of Joseph. The story of Joseph in Genesis 37-50 provides a hinge between the prece...

674. Salvation as Personal Experience

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

Thus far we have studied Paul’s doctrine of salvation in objective terms. Salvation is the work of divine grace, centering in the atoning death of Christ on the cross and bringing about a change in the relation of mankind to God, a change described as redemption, justification, and reconciliation. We turn now to the subjective and personal aspect of salvation, to Paul’s answer to the question, "Wh...

675. Faithfulness In These Days

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

As we enter the Lenten season, we reflect on the life of Jesus, his ministry, his sacrifice, and his love for us. Paul contrasted, in this letter, the concepts of righteousness to the law and to faith, accenting that righteousness that comes from faith is the more important. The word, God’s word, is not distant from us, rather it is near us, near our lips and our heart. Knowing Jesus and proclaimi...

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