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776. Feeling Loved and Special

Ephesians 1:5

Children's Sermon

VSS

... get love? (Let them respond.) We get love from other people. Sometimes it's from a mom or dad or grandma or grandpa and sometimes it can be from a friend. What happens to a baby who is born and for some reason the mommy and daddy can't take care of the baby? (Let them respond.) Sometimes the baby is adopted by another mommy and daddy. When the baby gets older the mommy and daddy tell the baby how special that baby was and that the mommy and daddy picked that baby to be theirs. Our verse today says that ...

777. Keeping the Temple Clean

1 Corinthians 6:19

Children's Sermon

... potato to other side of the scale.) But if you only ate good food, but you didn't get any exercise, (take shoe off the scale) you still wouldn't stay very healthy. In the big church we have to do lots of things to keep it beautiful. To take care of our bodies so they are like beautiful temples for God's Spirit, we need to eat good food and get plenty of exercise (put tennis shoe back on scale). Then our bodies will be healthy for God's Spirit to live in us.

778. How Does Your Garden Grow?

Mark 4:26-29

Children's Sermon

... can try a small window box with your child's favorite variety of flowers. Discuss today's Gospel with your child, and help her to understand that the seeds of God's love in our hearts can be like the seeds planted in the garden - once planted, they must be cared for if they are to grow and flourish; and when the fruits of the seed are mature, they must be shared and enjoyed if they are to have any real meaning. Next take your child to a garden shop, and help her decide upon some seeds which are appropriate ...

779. Special Gifts

Mark 8:31--9:1

Children's Sermon

... who have few or no visitors and who seem especially lonely or unhappy. You should also provide some paper, crayons, markers, etc. for the making of greeting cards. Explain to your students that sometimes older people, and occasionally even younger people, cannot take care of themselves and must have others perform for them the daily tasks of bathing, eating, etc. that the rest of us perform routinely for ourselves. Some of your students may have only recently learned to perform some of these tasks. Ask them ...

780. Proper 14

Hebrews 11:1-40, Jeremiah 18:1--19:15, Genesis 15:1-18, Luke 12:35-48

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... them, as he has demonstrated by delivering them from Pharaoh and seeing them through the wilderness to the Promised Land. 3. He always frustrates the enemies of his people, punishing them and destroying them so that his people might be safe and strong. God takes care of his own people in every situation. 4. And so, the people of Israel sing their songs of thanksgiving as they keep the (Passover) feast and now the Christians join in with their own song, because there is new evidence of God's love and concern ...

781. When Will The Pain Go Away?

Matthew 24:1-35

Sermon

George Johnson

... Look at the birds of the air and consider the lilies of the field." Don't worry about tomorrow. God will be there to care for you. Instead, seek the kingdom and justice.... Hope can be found in taking time to experience God in and through nature. Darkness ... story of my grandfather who came to this country from Norway by himself at the age of 12. Both parents had died. Relatives were too poor to care for him. He spoke no English. There was no one at the boat to meet him in New York City and no one at the train ...

782. The Kingdom of God Is Like… a Joke!

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Steven Burt

... vision of the present reality of the Kingdom of God? Maybe to see that the nourishment, the true bread of life isn’t always provided by the minister or the church-going lay assistant. Maybe we need to have Communion served by a lesbian, or to be cared for in our illnesses by a house of prostitutes, or to receive lifesaving CPR from a person with AIDS. In our need, in our life together on this planet, we need to discover ourselves suddenly ministered to by an unexpected neighbor, a neighbor we either hate ...

783. The Still Small Voice

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

Steven Burt

... mind. He had drawn the shutters of his heart. When doors are slammed against us, we are prone to draw into ourselves and lock our hearts against others. Distrust begets distrust. 1 Then comes the voice of God. In Elijah’s case he is told to get back to taking care of business. Get out of the cave mood and the self-pity mode. His strength is refreshed, his faith is strengthened, he renews his commitment, and he regains his vision. He knows what he has to do next, and he goes and does it. If we look at what ...

784. Small Church Communion

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Steven Burt

... she had those wafers that were chocolate on one side and vanilla on the flip side. Everything went smoothly. I started the bread to the left and people took a polite little piece each. Then the chalice got started on its way around, being passed very carefully, because the grape juice was more than three-quarters of the way to the rim. People dipped their bread and ate. We were quiet and solemn -- almost somber -- as if we were meeting clandestinely in the catacombs or doing something of great import to the ...

785. Two R-Rated Stories

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... and cry. Once in a while they would have a guest evangelist and he would come with the pastor and the pastor would say, ‘Here is the toughie, see him!’ My father would always say something like, ‘You don’t care about me. You want another member, another pledge. That is how the churches operate. You don’t care about me.’ He said it, I guess, a thousand times. One time he didn’t say it. It was in a veterans’ hospital. I rushed across the country to see him. He was down to 74 pounds. They had ...

786. Portrait Of A Powerful Servant

John 13:1-17

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... they would betray and desert him that very night, and that he would be brought to trial and finally die by crucifixion. While the disciples were thinking only of themselves, Jesus, in whom the power of God resided, emptied himself and gave himself to those for whom he cared. He didn’t worry about himself, how he felt, whom he could impress; the hands of the servant do not ask, "What will others think?" He saw the need, he rolled up his sleeves, he grabbed the basin and the towel and he went to work. In ...

787. Advent's "Invisible" Man

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... . He's not kicking behinds and taking names on the gridiron. He's not a member of Herod's imperial guard. He's not a prelate or a priest. Not a prince or a magistrate. Not a gladiator or a Roman terminator. Just a minimum wage worker, trying to take care of his family, trying to keep his baby boy from being murdered by a bloodthirsty, political wanna-be. You don't have to have a high profile or great visibility to be a man of substance. What made Joseph a man of substance? The fact that he made the right ...

788. “Lucky” Is The Saddest Word

Jeremiah 20:7-18

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... on the value of your net worth. The life I have for you is a life to be shared in a community where people forgive, care for, and love one another. It has much deeper rewards than winning any prize will ever have.” It’s time to ask: Where are you ... seriously masking the good news of our Lord Jesus? I am convinced that we who follow Jesus need to lift up the whole sense of the care of creation and our own personal resources which we have come to know in the biblical way of faith. It is time to show that ...

789. Enter God

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... leads us to see things in a new way. Certainly we have to be on our toes. Though we know we have nothing to fear (after all, he loves us and will forgive us seventy times seven) still, we have much to learn. So, with Jesus in mind, we are careful to be gentler and kinder, knowing that no matter what, he is as gentle and kind to us -- and more so. In a subtle way, however, are we not still condescending to the children? But, Jesus goes on: “Whoever receives me receives not me but him who sent me.” Enter ...

790. The Rich Young Ruler

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Brett Blair

... is one thing that you lack. Go and seal all you have and give it to the poor. Wow, that's pretty heavy! That's what one theologian calls the "radicalness of the divine command." Do you really think that Jesus wanted this man's money? He didn't care about that. What he wanted was the boy's heart. The problem was that his money was standing in the way. It was a question of priorities. Now this was a particular prescription for a particular person. Jesus was the good physician and he didn't prescribe the same ...

791. "Simon Says"

Matthew 24:4-5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... their church because these people sound so good. Jesus knew it would happen. He warned us that there would be a lot of people who would promise us new things and say that Jesus sent them, but Jesus said they are false leaders. We must be careful who we follow just like we must be careful what we do when we play the game "Simon Says." If they teach us something different than we find in the Bible then the teacher is a false teacher. If the teacher tells us to hate or not to forgive, or to despise our parents ...

792. Counting Fish, Birds, and Hair

Matthew 10:1-42

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... you. It is hard for us to believe that every bird and every fish is important, but that is what the Bible says about all of God's creatures. If birds and fish are important, then what about us? Do you think that God is concerned about us? Does he care as much for us as he does the birds and fish? (Let them answer.) He sure does! Jesus tells us that we are so important that God counts the hairs on our head. That's right. He knows how many hairs you have on your head. How many do you ...

793. The Resurrection Is Freedom

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... all of the time. It is well for us to be on our guard every moment, for at any time the new life and the freedom that goes with it could be entering your life. Ever feel like you had a new lease on life? Ever feel like all the cares, anxieties, and temptations you were facing had been lifted, that you were free? Ever feel like the loved ones you had lost really had not finally been taken from you? Ever feel like you had a chance for a fresh start? In those cases, you were experiencing a resurrection no ...

794. The Baby Who Changes Everything

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... beads in the window?" Pete brought them out. She looked at them and said, "They're perfect! Will you wrap them up pretty for me, please?" Pete studied her with a somewhat stony air. "Are you buying these for someone?" "They're for my big sister. She takes care of me. This will be the first Christmas since my mom died and I want to do something special for my sister." "How much money do you have?" asked Pete warily. Little Jean opened a handkerchief and poured out a pile of pennies on the counter. "I emptied ...

795. Watching The Eyes

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

John Jamison

... on Sunday night. There have been worship services, classes to teach, a potluck meal, three visits, and two youth meetings. I am tired, but there she sits. She has had another fight with her parents and has run away. "But I'm okay" she says through tears, "I can take care of myself." Teenagers! I want to tell her to go home, or at least somewhere other than my living room. But then it hits me. And as we sit and talk for three hours, and finally climb into my car for the trip back home, and then sit and talk ...

796. The Shepherd King

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

Sims Robert

... is our nature, our biological nature, to need human relationships that matter. He suggested that if our need for relationships is not met, our health is literally in peril. He concludes that either we love one another or we die. Jesus understood our need for someone to care and he said, “Love one another as I have loved you (John 13:34).” In Matthew 25 we find a marvelous passage where the Shepherd King says to the sheep at his right hand, “Come, O blessed of my father, enter into the kingdom that has ...

797. At The Name Of Jesus

John 12:12-19

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... be given to cover the nakedness of one who had no cloak, where enemies would be prayed for, not hated, where persecutors would feel the pressure of the Golden Rule, where sharing would be more prevalent than shoving, where hate would give way to love, where caring would overcome indifference, and where truth would be stronger than falsehood.3 We have a king. He has a kingdom, and that kingdom is already in our midst. He is the king over all history and over all creation. He is our Lord. Paul, most probably ...

798. Our Living Hope

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... we are "raised again" from the dead. Death is real, not imagined. If we were still living, we would not expect to be "raised." 2. While the Bible is replete in assurances that relationships continue to be functional and faithful in our loving and caring, it is a different body and a different life, as the resurrection narratives clearly suggest and Paul describes. Our human mortality makes marriage an "order of God's creation" tending to the necessity for the production of the family and of human life. But ...

799. Death of a Newborn Infant

Luke 18:15-17

Eulogy

Walter A. Schmidt

... is concerned about each and every one of us whether we live to be ninety or whether we live for only three days. God loves and cares for each and every one of us, whether we are young or old. Jesus Christ suffered, died and arose again for us whether we are young ... them not: for of such is the kingdom of God." Jason is a part of God's kingdom and we place him in God's gracious care. And we ask God's special outpouring of his grace, his love, his comfort and his peace to you his family and all of us, that ...

800. For a Man in His Sixties

Philippians 4:2-9

Eulogy

Louis M. Pratt

... to God with ties not even death can sever. We are not isolated individuals, who only happen to live in proximity to one another. In Christ we become a supportive community, so that even death loses some of its sting. When we have fellowship with one another, when we care what happens to those around us, we will find that neither death nor life nor anything else will be able to separate us from the love of God. We will find the strength to face any situation, even so tragic a loss as this one that we find so ...

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