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701. The Tinsel Time Machine

Drama

Edward Long

... needs to look interesting (the youth could build one). For light and sound when the time machine operates, simply flick lights off and on rapidly (a strobe light could be used). For sound, record a vacuum cleaner and amplify it over the PA system. Cast of Characters TOM: Twelve-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Randall. He is unhappy about Christmas because his father is laid off and presents will be few. TINA: Tom's fourteen-year-old sister. She shares some of Tom's mood, but appears a little more philosophical ...

702. Step Nine - Discipline

Mt 5:21-26 · Eph 4:25-32 · Num 5:5-10

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John A. Terry

... became the place where the garbage of Jerusalem was thrown, the public incinerator. In the peoples' minds this place became associated with all that was evil and filthy, a place where useless and evil things were destroyed by fire. If we try to destroy another's character, we are liable to ourselves be thrown on the refuse heap. Most of us are not worried about serving time in jail or burning in the fires of hell. I remember my mother having written in a devotional booklet some reference to us "medium-size ...

703. Reality Check

Matthew 17:1-13

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Johnny Dean

... classic children’s book – I hope you’ve read it – entitled "The Velveteen Rabbit." The book is mixture of fable and insight, as many children’s classics are. The chief character is a small, stuffed rabbit who comes into a little boy’s life at Christmas, and not long afterward finds himself cast aside and forgotten. The other primary character is the Skin Horse, who has been around the nursery for a long, long time. Here is my favorite portion of that book: For a long time the velveteen rabbit ...

704. Humility

Luke 3:1-20, Isaiah 40:1-31

Drama

Martha L. Leach

... become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." Humility is one of the most misunderstood qualities. Our best example is the Master himself. But tonight our character studies are of Moses and John the Baptist. We find Moses along the Jordan River, where he has been observing John the Baptist teaching and baptizing believers. Moses: Hello! I believe John is your name? I've been watching for a while. Your ...

705. The Men

Drama

William Grimbol

... too ... HYPOCRITES. BILL: See? He wants the fight. He wants a revolt. A poor people's revolt. JOHN: A sinner's revolt. ARNOLD: Now none of us are experts in the Law, but at least we respect it. We certainly respect our leaders, our teachers. This Jesus character shows total lack of respect for everything we hold dear. BILL: He is a revolutionary. He could care less about the Law. He could care less about our faith. He could care less about families as a whole ... just look at how many homes he has broken ...

706. The Stranger in the Manger

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28

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Johnny Dean

... that here is the greatest treasure of them all: the baby Jesus! As you look through the remainder of your Xmas box, you find a curious mixture of sacred and secular angels and reindeer, Santa and church bells, and only you know what else! But there is one character you won't find in that box, even though he is a central figure in the early weeks of Advent. I'm talking, of course, about our old friend, John the Baptist. Although John appears on the scene at this time of the year every year, faithful as ...

707. Dancing with the Wind

Acts 2:1-13

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Johnny Dean

... girl twisted and twirled and swirled in dizzying circles. She swung her arms and twisted around and around as she laughed joyously, dancing with the wind, rejoicing in the gift of life. Isn’t that the way the church is supposed to be? A character in John Updike’s novel, A Month of Sundays, reflecting on his youthful experience of the church, says, "Churches bore for me the relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst but did nothing to quench it." The Holy Spirit empowers ...

708. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Larry Powell

... in the mind of God. Some people say Christianity is an ideal, and not a practical, workable way of life - but then, I suppose it is all in how you look at it. PEANUTS AND PAUL I have forgotten now which of Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" characters it was, but one of them was humorously portrayed jogging in a recent cartoon. In the process, various parts of his body remarked among themselves of the stress which the exercise was applying to them. The legs complained about having to transport the entire body; the ...

709. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... of such a mystic potential becomes achievable only when applied to one other person? Where most pain and the gain involves lonely struggle or individual ecstasy? Where meditation risks getting separated from the prayers of the people, and the sacramental character of the commonplace is forfeited in the pursuit of the discipline for discipline's sake? That sounds hostile. And shouldn't be - after my own spirit-shaping experiences of reading (in addition to Seven-Story Mountain), Thomas Kelly's Testament ...

710. Is It Well With Your Family? (Mother's Day)

2 Kings 4:8-26

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Brett Blair

... by ignoring them. We can lose them due to broken relationships. And, we can lose them by failing to develop the strength of character in them that they will need to resist evil. In our Scripture reading, Elisha did not know what had happened but he ... So go the mothers in a society so goes the society. If the women of a land give in to temptation and let their morals and character slip then it will not be long after that the rest of the land goes with her. William Ross Wallace echoed this truth when he said ...

711. Independence Day - The Mission of the Mighty

John 8:31-41

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... was a guard tower about every 100 yards. But the wall failed. The nation fell. The wall was crossed again and again and again. Why? It was very simple. The guards could be bribed. No nation is stronger that the character of the people, and defenses do not produce character. What about the United States? General Omar Bradley once said: “America today is running on the momentum of a Godly ancestry, and when that momentum runs down, God help America.” That from one of the great military leaders of our ...

712. Full Barns and Empty Hearts

Luke 12:13-21

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Wallace H. Kirby

... full heart is something that is given as we reach out for it. There is a very clear statement of this in Paul’s letter to the Roman Christians. He talks about the experience of Christ turning life’s sufferings into endurance, and endurance into character, and character into hope - the full heart. But Paul has long since given up his intense efforts to chase down this spiritual peace on his own. Instead, he says that it comes through the love of God which "... has been poured into our hearts through the ...

713. The Gospel of the Little Man

Luke 19:1-10

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... folk. He had sold out, not only in his compromise with Romans, but to avarice and greed, and his wealth had been accumulated as a traitor to his people. He collected taxes for the hated Romans, adding his own charges to the tax bill. Only when these facets of his character are in perspective does his story slip from the branches of the sycamore and land on us. The Nub of the Account The nub of the account is in the stated mission of our Lord: "The Son of man has come to seek and to save the lost," and that ...

714. The Sermon on the Level

Luke 6:17-26

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... bodies and distended stomachs into "Share with us this day your daily bread." Some of us have tender places at the level of the waistline. Jesus does not require that the faces of the saints wear furrowed frowns or on their arms a mourning band. Joy is their character. One Sunday after worship, a man came out of church and said to me, "Father, I enjoyed your homily." Whereupon he took a sudden elbow in his ribs, delivered by his wife, who said "You’re not supposed to enjoy it." But what else are we to do ...

715. Believing is Seeing

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... defend it, pass it off to others. The mood today is one that scarcely understands the terms. Even this good word "malefactor," for example, is a pulpit word that no one understands. Troublemaker, thug, thief, rapist, mugger might probably be better. But for whatever ill may be our character, are we responsible? Hardly! Society is the culprit for doing it to us. We were born that way. Peer pressures laid it on us. Or we did what our hearts told us to do, and we were told that if it feels good, we could do it ...

716. Wellspring for the Soul

John 4:1-26

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Dean Lueking

... most of the other women of the town would not be present at the well. Perhaps she was alone because her reputation was jaded - going through five husbands and taking to her bed now a man not her husband does not suggest a woman of strong moral character. Jesus asked her for a drink of water; she was surprised that he would speak to her at all - relations between Jews and Samaritans being as hostile as they were. Jesus replied in a cryptic way, telling her of a "living water which does not give out" that ...

717. Who Has Believed?

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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... been and can never be overcome by the world. His power and love will always overcome it. "Who has believed what we have heard?" Have you? Our purpose is not simply to represent the drama of Good Friday. It is to be able to find ourselves in the pageant of characters. Do you see yourself? Are you angry that he will not save himself and you from some agony? Are you one of the beloved who can only stand now and weep? Are you with the centurion who said, "Surely this was a Son of God?" In the great hymn of ...

718. Proper 9

Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 · Gal 6:7-18 · 1 Ki 21:1-3, 17-21 · Isa 66:1-14

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... sure to come: "The wages of sin is death." c. Known by Your Enemies - 21:20 It is commonly said that you are known by your friends and associates. It is also true that you are known by those who hate and oppose you. Evil-doers hate people of good character. Criminals hate the police. It is what and whom you stand against that show the quality of a person. Lesson 1: Isaiah 66:1-14 1. The Feminine Factor of our Faith (66:10-14). Need: Some interested in today's woman's liberation movement cry out against the ...

719. Proper 10

Lk 10:25-37 · Col 1:1-20 · 2 Ki 2:1, 6-14 · Deut 30:9-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... the Samaritan - helping people in need? 4. Are You Asking the Right Question? (10:25-29) Need: To get the right answers we must ask the right questions. In the parable the lawyer did not ask the right questions. The question we ask reveals our faith and character. Outline: Are we asking the right questions? a. The question of eternal life - v. 25. Eternal life is the result of obedience to God's laws. "Do this and you will live." But, who is able to "do" all the commands? It would require a perfect person ...

720. Proper 23

Lk 17:11-19 · 2 Tim 2:8-15 · 2 Ki 5:14-17 · Mic 1:2, 2:1-10 · Ru 1:1-19a

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John R. Brokhoff

... monopoly on kindness, goodness, love and courtesy. People of other religions or of no religion can have splendid characters with sparkling personalities. Pagans are not necessarily animals, brutes, and savages. The grace of God can work in ... nature. Often we quote the words, "With God all things are possible." Our text says there is one thing God cannot do. He cannot violate his own character. Outline: What can God not do? A. He can make you live with him - v. 11 B. He can make you reign with him - v. 12a C ...

721. Lent 4

Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 · 1 Cor 1:18-31 · 2 Cor 5:17-21 · Isa 12:1-6 · Jos 5:9-12

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John R. Brokhoff

... Father who yearns, longs, waits for the sinner to come home to him. There is a warm welcome waiting, no questions asked, no scolding - only the joy of reconciliation. 2. With Whom Do You Identify? (Luke 15:11-32). In the parable there are three characters: the father and two sons. Ask the congregation with which of the three they identify themselves. Consider the three possible positions: A. Are you the Prodigal? You, too, have been rebellious. You have gone out to live your own life and do your own thing ...

722. Sunday of the Passion

Lk 22:14--23:56 · Isa 50:4-7 · Php 2:6-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... went to the depth of humiliation and showed his matchless love by dying on a cross. 3. The Name (v. 9). As a result of this horrible death, God honors Jesus with not a name but with "the name." In Biblical thinking a name denoted the nature and character of the person. The name given to Jesus was "Lord" which every tongue is to confess and before which every knee is to bow. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Two Sundays in One. Palm and Passion Sundays are combined on Lent 6. It proves to be a busy day, probably the ...

723. Reflection Time

John 1:1-18

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... on a cross like a common criminal. Couldn’t God create, after this one failure, a more perfect race "in his image," beings who would choose God and good instead of Satan and sin? It might have been worth a try. But that was not in God’s character; he knew that what he had done at the beginning was good and he planned to set things right between his people and himself through Jesus. Surely, God was "in Christ reconciling the world to himself." Jesus must have wondered about the meaning of all the stories ...

724. No Telltale Clues

Matthew 9:9-13

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... thought it did us a great service by claiming that God can choose anyone to be his spokesperson. But John Denver was not exactly a startling choice. He was too clean. To be sure, the film depicted his character as slightly agnostic and as a man who stayed away from church. But that's nothing! The Denver character was a hard working, friendly, patriotic American. He was a good family man, a person who did not cheat and who was about as straightforward as a person can be. He was full of Rocky Mountain air and ...

725. Possession is Nine Tenths of the Fall

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

D. Wayne Burkette

... ; powerful nations which repeatedly impose their visions of the world and its resources upon poorer and less powerful peoples. Unrestrained desire is at the heart of more problems than most of us want to admit. In Joseph Conrad’s classic story Heart of Darkness, the character of Mr. Kurtz stands out as the epitome of unbridled desire to possess life. Kurtz is the manager of a jungle trading post, in the employ of a late nineteenth-century English company. He ships more ivory to the Company than do all the ...

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