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726. A Tale Of Two Trees

1 Corinthians 13:13

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... , the dogwood dropped its flowers and put on green leaves. 'This is better,' the evergreen thought to itself. 'Now I don't feel so out of place. We're both wearing green.' "But summer, of course, did not last. The days grew shorter, the air grew cooler, and what do you suppose happened to the dogwood tree?" "Its leaves turned red/orange!" come the almost simultaneous replies. "Yes," I agree, "its leaves turned red and orange. What about the evergreen tree?" "It stayed green!" nearly all the children assure ...

727. Only The Messiah

Mark 8:27-30

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... disciples had been traveling with Jesus for several years. "They saw him do miracles ..." John says. "Yes, they did," I agree, "and that certainly revealed the power of God. Do you think that's how Peter knew?" "His heart told him!" David's statement hangs in the air for a moment like a brilliant star. Then I ask, "What do you mean by that, David?" "I mean Peter knew in his heart that Jesus was the Messiah." "That's right, David. And Peter knew that because Jesus was his dearest friend and because Peter had ...

728. Don't Run Away!

Jonah 1:1-17

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... , and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.' But Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD." "How many of you have ever been asked to do something you didn't want to do?" Hands immediately fly into the air as bright voices begin to tell me of those things that torment their young existence: "Make my bed!" "Take a bath!" "Fold washcloths!" "Put on my shoes when I'm in the house and I don't think I need them!" Surprised at the absence of one particular answer ...

729. God And Groundhogs

Psalm 56:1-13

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... is." Again, the children watch closely. Finally, I ask the question they have been waiting for. "What do you suppose I want to talk about today that is between twenty and 27 inches long?" Andrew, seated on the back row, begins to wave his hand in the air. I nod to him and he answers, "A groundhog!" "That's very good!" Already knowing what he would answer, I then ask, "How did you know that?" "I know because I was here at the first service when you did this." Gentle laughter from the congregation greets ...

730. Your Eyes Are Bigger Than Your Stomach!

Exodus 16:1-36

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... foul. And Moses was angry with them." "What are some of the things we need to help our bodies grow?" "Milk," one of the shyer boys softly announces from his seat at the edge of the gathered children. "Vegetables!" a little girl says with an air of authority. The other children grimace at the thought. "Sunshine!" says another, obviously beaming with joy that she came up with something important. "Yes, we need all of those things, and more. Do all of you like to eat?" Most of the children nod affirmation ...

731. The Adventure Of The Empty Tomb

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... were created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. One would expect a day in late March to be dreary in London, but this was a gem. We could see the top of the Cathedral fully four miles away from our digs at 221B Baker Street. Rarely is the air so clear, and on this particular day, so warm in the early spring. It was Good Friday. My friend, Sherlock Holmes, was not religious in the traditional sense, and, though I attended services of a Sunday as a rule, I seldom attended the extra services surrounding holidays ...

732. Epiphany Day

Matthew 2:1-12

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... So Lovely") "O Chief of Cities, Bethlehem" * "O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright" * "O One with God the Father" "On This Day Earth Shall Ring" "Sing We Now of Christmas" "The First Noel" "The People Who in Darkness Walked" "There's a Song in the Air" "'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime" "We Three Kings" * "We Worship and Adore You" "We Would See Jesus" "What Star Is This, With Beams So Bright" "When Christ's Appearing Was Made Known" * "When I Look into Your Holiness" * "Worthy, You Are Worthy" Reading the ...

733. Holy Thursday / Maundy Thursday

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

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RobertT D. Ingram

... Through Humble Service" "Love Consecrates the Humblest Act" *"Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" "Of the Glorious Body Telling" "Sent Forth by God's Blessing" *"Strengthen for Service, Lord" "The Church of Christ, in Every Age" "There's a Spirit in the Air" *"When the Church of Jesus" "Where Charity and Love Prevail" Reading the Scripture Intersperse one person's reading of the gospel lesson with the congregation's singing of the hymn, "Jesu, Jesu." The reading and singing should alternate as follows: Verses ...

734. The Angry Jar

Ephesians 4:31

Children's Sermon

... the water in the canner, put in the jars, boil them, take them out and then you wait. What do you wait for? (Response) You wait for each lid to pop! What does that pop mean? (Response) It means the canning jar is sealed and closed tight so no air can get in to spoil the food. The reason I brought a canning jar today is because our verse says to put away bitterness, anger, wrangling, slander and malice. Do you know what those words mean? (Response) I know you've heard of anger before. Wrangling is a funny ...

735. Echolocation or Walking by Faith

2 Corinthians 5:7

Children's Sermon

... means a place. A location is a place. So the bat makes these high squeaking sounds, the sounds of squeaking echoes, and the bat can tell what place the bat is. This all happens so fast that the bat can keep flying the whole time and eating insects in the air. Bats need echolocation to fly because they can't see very well at all in the dark. Our lesson today says that "we walk by faith, not by sight." This means that we don't know where we're going all the time, but we trust God to lead us ...

736. Plan Your Leisure - Jesus Did His!

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... a relaxed voice. Instead, I heard a tense and anxious voice. I said, “How was your little trip?” “Oh, it was fine. The weather was good. [Weather is a primary concern to a pilot.] We saw the people we wanted to see. I took Dave and Jim on an air tour over the mountains with an occasional swoop into the valley. We took pictures of the farm and granddad’s old home from the plane.” I said, “I’m glad your trip was safe and fulfilling. Now you’re back and ready to go again.” “Oh, Dad,” he ...

737. What’s Inside Comes Out!

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... forget about it. The fact is, they are bringing the “greenhouse” effect sooner than we think. We are still infants in our ability to be trustees of this wonderful planet earth. At present we are producing more chaos than order, more pollutants than clean air. And, with the vast knowledge we have about human personality, we are still infants in character building. Nature can adjust to some chaos, but it can’t stand a vacuum. When are we going to take some responsibility in restoring harmony in nature ...

738. Celebrating the Marvel of Growth

Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... a blue two-door, all the bits and pieces fell into place, and I was grown up.”3 You cannot force growth. You can cooperate with growth. You can trust growth. And you can celebrate growth. Every parent remembers throwing the five-year-old child in the air, catching her, bouncing her off the knee. No sooner than she hits the floor she exclaims, “Do it again!” I believe it was Lord Chesterton who suggested that God gets that kind of excitement out of his work. Imagine God creating the first daisy and ...

739. Jesus: The Ultimate Ordinary

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... he did these things ordinarily. To be ordinary like Jesus means that we do not spread chaos around us. People look at us and know they can lean on the order we radiate until they find order of their own. It is usual for us to live life without airs or devious manipulation of others, and to be solid, reliable and dependable. In effect, we do the good as we know it as an ordinary expression of the person we are. 5. “Of common quality, rank, ability.” All people who belong to a certain rank or ability are ...

740. Winners Losers

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... himself so that he had no real need or challenge to inconvenience, much less to know, himself. He accomplished many things without changing himself a bit. Words of self-deception were his daily practice. Perhaps he teaches us what it means to be “a bag of hot air.” Disciple? He was a disciple. Like those who lie to others, he kept faith with his own ego and self-will. As for truth, he never confronted or contrasted himself with a better way. In every instance he saw, over and over, how grand and noble ...

741. When Matters Hang in the Balance

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... David, we will reject food, pray to God, maintain our nocturnal vigils and cope as best we can. What will we want from others at times like that? David’s court officials wanted him to get up, perhaps go out and get something to eat, get some fresh air, and clean up a bit. He resisted. While different people will require different treatment, if there is any principle that can be operative here, it is the principle that folks have a right to grapple with matters in a style that is theirs. Maybe it’s not ...

742. Swansong as Themesong

2 Samuel 23:1-7

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... the trumpet. In fact I owned two of them. I had a sentimental attachment to them, but some years ago I sold one to an antique dealer. It really didn”t make any sense to keep it; I had not seriously played it since 1965. Since that time, no air had been blown into its mouthpiece, and no music had come forth from its bell. Human lives can often be thought of in those terms. Nothing is being blown into them and nothing is emerging from them. They are just there. Day follows day with breakfast, lunch, dinner ...

743. Wisdom for the Living of These Days

Proverbs 2:1-22

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... a word, Buddha plunged the man under the water of a nearby river and held him there for a long time. When he pulled him up, the man was coughing and choking, trying to get water out of his lungs. Buddha said to him, “Just as you now wanted air more than anything else, you must want wisdom to get it.” Why do we today need wisdom? It is because we are so utterly foolish! We are foolish to think that life consists of things possessed. To get material possessions, we work, work, work. In doing so, we miss ...

744. Adam’s Prime Rib

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... of loneliness was gone. God didn’t wait for a bottle to appear in a lake for Adam. God resolved to do something about human loneliness himself. We read, “So out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.” Sometimes a dog is called “man’s best friend,” but there is a severe limit to mutual communication. How could a human ...

745. Can We Love Too Much?

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... applies to an individual as well to a group. Often we may wonder why our Protestant churches are declining in membership or why our congregation is not growing. The answer is in not loving God with all our strength. Many church members are more interested in air-conditioned churches with cushions on the pews. They want comfort and ease and to be entertained. We consider it a sacrifice to go to church and we want it over within an hour. To be a good Christian, you have to work at it through prayer, worship ...

746. Solomon's Song Of Love

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... and struggles and concerns and guidelines and ethics and models for behavior as individuals and in community are an essential part of our lives as Christians, as faithful Christians and responsible Christians. But on this Sunday, when the sweetness of summer is still in the air, and the second growth of raspberries ripen to their full flavor on the bushes, on this Sunday, when the summer roses cast an aroma that catches us up in the subtlety of their smell, on this Sunday we are called by this text to claim ...

747. Walking Through A Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?" (Matthew 6:25) It is a conscious shift of mental emphasis. The ultimate teaching of Jesus - which Jesus was living out in that storm-tossed boat - was of God's good care! The birds of the air are in God's care. The little children are in God's good care. The ill, the aged, the lonely - all are in God's good care. And when the storm is heavy, even when a cross is lifted to the dark sky, it is Jesus' faith that God's ...

748. When Something Is About To Happen

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Thomas Long

"I'll tell you what keeps me coming to this church." The man who spoke was punching the air with his finger, pronouncing every word with force, and the dozen or so other people in the room turned to listen. The group called themselves the "Searchers Class," and had done so since the time, more than ten years before, when, as young adults, they had formed an alternative church ...

749. We Interrupt This Service

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Thomas Long

... Supper, the pros and cons of children's sermons, the development of the lectionary, the meanings of baptism, and other assorted topics about worship. Now, the lecturing done, he gulped down a little coffee and asked if there were any questions. A hand shot into the air. It belonged to a fiftyish man with plump cheeks and rimless glasses who was, judging by the way his hand waved and bobbed, eager to speak. "There's one thing about our worship service here which really gripes me," he complained. "To me it's ...

750. Easter 4

Psalm 23:1-6, Acts 4:1-22, 1 John 3:11-24, John 10:1-21

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... the enemy CONTACT Points of Contact Vulnerability. People are very vulnerable. A television ad points out the fragility of life. It points out that persons can only live two or three months without food, a few days without water and only a few minutes without air. It then asks how long a person can live without love. The image of the shepherd is of one who cares for the sheep, a particularly vulnerable animal. Contrary to other animals which have sharp teeth or fangs, claws with talons, or other means for ...

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