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726. A Couple Who Do Feet

Sermon

Jim Heinemeier

... seeks diligently what is best for the other. Where each is unable to do enough for the other. Something very strong and basic deep inside you is going to rebel against all this, unless ... unless you stay very, very close to the One whose foot- washing ways you will need to imitate. If you stay very close to Jesus Christ and his loving, serving, self-sacrificing, foot-washing life for you and for all humankind, then you, __________, will become a husband who does feet, and you, __________, will become a ...

727. In Stride

Isaiah 65:17-25

Eulogy

Ruth L. Boling

... days be, but like the days of a tree!) I know that this is an excruciating loss for many of you. Do reach out to each other in your grief. Strengthen and support each other. Go to your pastor, or a counselor, or a trusted friend. Cry. And carry on. Stay in stride with the rest of your lives. In thanksgiving to God for the life of ____________ ...

728. "The Scandal Of Disloyalty"

Psalm 62:1-12, Mark 14:66-72

Sermon

R. Sheldon MacKenzie

... happens throughout the gospel of Mark Peter is the representative disciple. He represents the other 10, maybe the whole 12.Until this time the other disciples were as much to blame as he was in their betrayals of Jesus. He had taken an oath, voluntarily, to stay with Jesus until death, if necessary. The others had said the same thing. The betrayal, when it came in the orchard, involved all of the disciples."They all forsook him and fled."As the story is told in this passage there is hope that the senior ...

729. Easter Sunday

Luke 24:33-41 · Psalm 23 · Acts 4:33-36

Bulletin Aid

Jack Brownlee

... , somehow fulfilled, somehow made new and made sense of the law that Moses had given the people. His hesitancy was not doubt. It was that final struggle from within resolving on impulse, what had been (in a profound way) his plan. Joseph had only intended to stay in Israel a short time when he arrived from Cyprus nine months ago. He had traveled to Israel for the Passover one occasion before, but this time he came to clear up some family business in the estate of his uncle and namesake, Joseph of Bethany ...

730. Uncle Hilbert

1 Corinthians 12:12-31, Psalm 19:1-14

Illustration

John E. Sumwalt

... Hilbert's mother died and he came to live with us on the farm. We put him up in the spare room, where the hired man stayed when we had one. We kids thought it was great fun to have him around all of the time. He went berry picking with us, and ... done with him he yelled at us for allowing it to happen. That was the last straw. Dad said it was too dangerous for Hilbert to stay on the farm. He said he was going to make arrangements for him to live somewhere else. They had a big community meeting at the church ...

731. It Costs to Follow Jesus

Luke 14:25-35

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... others, too. You cannot be a disciple of Jesus and be selfish. Jesus makes you promise him that you will be ready to share what you have with others. And you must be forgiving. That means when someone does something wrong to you and it makes you angry, you cannot stay angry. You must be ready to forgive the person who hurt you, and show him how much you love him. These are some of the things that you must do if you want to be a disciple of'Jesus and follow him. We call these things "counting the cost." It ...

732. Two Doors; One Choice

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... handed over his son's share of the inheritance in the first place - knowing that he was headstrong and would most likely lose it - was because he knew there was no short cut to his son's finding himself. If he had insisted on the boy's staying at home and toeing the mark as the elder brother did, the lad would have remained undefiled but hopelessly lost. In the parable it is clear that defilement and sin are useless categories for understanding what Jesus means by salvation. To be saved is to discover who ...

733. Old And New

Matthew 25:6-7

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

... home and convince our parents to get us the stuff that everyone else had! Now let me ask you a question, and I want you to be very honest with me. When you receive all this great looking stuff for school at the beginning of the year, does it always stay that great looking for very long? No, it doesn't. The pencils get sharpened down to almost nothing. The pens sometimes get their tops chewed up, and the erasers lose that nice pink color and end up looking kind of black and ugly after a while. They do not ...

734. Dolly!

Romans 4:19

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... wife Sarah. They lived a long time ago, even before Jesus lived on earth, and they believed in God. Abraham was the kind of man who listened quietly and believed that he could hear God speak to him. If God said go, he would go, and if God said stay, he would stay. Even when he was an old man, about 100 years old, and his wife was almost as old as he was, he thought that God told him that he and Sarah were going to have a baby. Abraham heard it and he believed it. No one else believed it ...

735. The Problem With A Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... your life. So, when we deal with the promises of God we are equally impatient and are prone to conclude if the answer is not given now, it never will be. But a promise is a gift, a grace from God, and gifts cannot be forced nor hurried. Our futures stay in the hand of the God who gives them. God's move toward Abraham was free and unconditional. Abraham needed only to trust, and he did. "He believed God, and God credited it to him as righteousness (v. 6)." It is only an unsure faith that wonders about delay ...

736. God Sees Right Through

Hebrews 4:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... was any place to hide, you would like to hide. I guess that is the way we should feel when we commit any sin. Some people stay away from coming to worship services when they have done some sin that they think is really awful. They try to hide from God. Let's ... that no one here today will see you. I brought along a big covering that I will put over the top of all of you. You stay under it and be pretty quiet and no one wil! know that you are here. (Take out the plastic covering.) Now think about the stupid ...

737. Proper 13

Mt 14:13-21 · Rom 8:31-39 · Ex 12:1-14 · Ps 143

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... hungry for the bread of the Word which he taught and preached. On foot a crowd went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee and found him in a lonely place. They were hungry for good preaching that they might know God's truth. And they stayed and stayed. They could not get enough of his teaching. They were aware that night was approaching and there was no place to get dinner. Apparently, physical food was not that important to them. It is not so today. Usually people will come for a good meal but are not ...

738. On Polishing Up the 24 Karat Jesus

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

James Weekley

... is, by teaching his truth and baptizing others with his love, his dove of peace descends our way. "I am with you always, even to the close of the age." His peace come to us, touches our anxieties, and stays with us longer than the weekend. Just like his love, his peace must overflow to others. We cannot stay at peace with our peace alone. It is to be broken like bread and shared. A minister was talking with a man preparing to join the church. He suggested he think about serving on the church's council on ...

739. No Need For Weeping Anymore

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Erskine White

... and watered the roots of her grief. "Woman, why are you weeping?" Maybe she was crying tears of regret and self-recrimination, chastising herself for not doing more than she did. "If only I had stayed by the tomb," she might have thought to herself, "they wouldn't have been able to steal His body. If only I had asked my brothers to stay here with me and guard the tomb ... if only I hadn't let my friends talk me into going home and getting some sleep. Jesus did so much for me - He saved my life, He saved ...

740. Pie in The Sky

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... takes over the nation's politics and tries to turn back the clock, back to the days when businesses had no regulations and workers had no unions, when we could throw our weight around in the world and everyone respected our power, when women stayed in the kitchen and minorities stayed in their place. Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't everything be so much simpler? If only we could get back to the "good old days!" Then, all the problems in this world would be over. No, our problems wouldn't be over! The ...

741. How A Young Man Fell

Judges 16:1-22

Sermon

Erskine White

... "just a little bit" of wrong; it will grow and grow until it ruins you. Remember how people can wake up one day to find that the Lord has left them. We pray that you will stay on the right path and enjoy the fullness of life which God has given you. Amen Pastoral Prayer Heavenly God, who watches over us with faithfulness and love, we give thanks today for the blessings of children, in our homes, our families and in the church. Thank You for each ...

742. Our God Delivers!

Daniel 3:1-30

Sermon

Erskine White

... of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great pastor and theologian of the German Confessing Church. When war broke out with Nazi Germany, Bonhoeffer was in the United States and his friends were begging him to stay here until the war was over. They wanted to protect him, for surely he was a gifted Christian. But he could not stay. He knew, as he had written in an earlier book, that "When Christ calls a man (sic), He bids him come and die." Bonhoeffer returned to Germany and joined the Christian underground against ...

743. When Christians Disappoint

Acts 5:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... parents got divorced and nobody in the church would talk to my mother after she was on her own." There are as many different reasons as there are people, but it all ends up the same. I can't tell you how many people I've met who claim to stay away from the church because certain Christians were disappointing to them in one way or another. If that is tragic for the church, think how tragic it is in the eyes of God. I always plead with people who are disillusioned with the church: "Don't put your faith in ...

744. Wedding: How God Blesses a Marriage

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... he wrote: "Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for ... song is not a song until you sing it. A bell is not a bell until you ring it. And love was not put in your heart to stay. For love isn't love until you give it away." ________ and ________, our prayers go with you as you leave this service to begin your labor ...

745. Alive Again!

1 Corinthians 15:24

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... God, but to the Devil. How would you like that? Sounds awful and it is awful. We are sinners, and without Jesus we would die and stay with the biggest sinner of all, the Devil. But God had a plan. He sent his Son Jesus to win us away from the Devil ... came back to life after he died. He won over death and the Devil. He was not like other men. When others died they stayed dead. But Jesus was alive and walking around. He talked, he ate, he visited people and helped them again. Jesus won the greatest battle ...

746. We Have Come To Believe

John 6:60

Children's Sermon

... two other children agreed with him and left also. The child who was trying to teach the others how to play the game asked the remaining friends, "Do you also wish to go away?" The remaining friends answered, "No. This is the game we came to play. We are staying. You are the one we want to follow. You know the rules." So the friends that remained played the game together. This story reminds me of this morning's lesson. In the lesson Jesus was trying to explain to people who he was. He was sent from God. Some ...

747. Coming Home

Luke 2:41-52

Children's Sermon

... . This will give each child a chance to share their own excitement with their classmates. Discuss feelings of coming home. Some may not have really wanted to come home. The change in routine is harder on some children than others. Some may have wanted to stay in their homes instead of traveling. Feelings are the key issue for this lesson. If time allows, they may want to draw pictures of what they liked best about coming home. While they are drawing, ask them to consider what Mary and Joseph might have ...

748. Changes

1 Corinthians 7:31

Children's Sermon

... The world certainly is different and keeps changing every day just like this kaleidoscope does and just like you and I do. We change all the time. Sometimes it's hard to change; we'd like things to stay the same forever. And sometimes we can't wait to get older and we want things to change. The Bible says the world doesn't stay the same, it keeps on changing just the tiniest bit every time we move. (Turn the kaleidoscope. If there's time you may want to let them take turns looking, or have more than one.)

749. We Can't Pay For It

Ephesians 2:9

Children's Sermon

... got saved that night actually received something like this: (show them the wrapped package). That's right. It was a gift. They could not have saved themselves. And if other people had not done things to save them, they would all have drowned, just like the people who stayed on the Titanic. If you had been saved from the sinking Titanic, how much would you be ready to pay somebody for saving you, after you got back to dry land? (Talk about it.) I would be ready to pay a lot. But nothing we could pay would ...

750. Rise Up

1 Corinthians 15:20a

Children's Sermon

... Moses and the people fixed every year at Passover. They left the yeast out because they didn't have time to let it rise. So it stayed flat instead of puffing up like regular bread does. Let's check our yeast. What's it doing? (Let them see and describe what is ... after an hour or so, it rises. What happens if we forget the yeast? (Let them respond.) The bread won't rise and it stays flat. Bread needs that special ingredient yeast if we want it to rise. People are sort of like bread. Can you guess why? (Let ...

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