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Antonyms: deficient, imperfect
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Children's Sermon
King Duncan
Object: A battery Good morning, boys and girls. All of you know what this is, don't you? That's right, it is a battery. The battery gives a toy the energy it needs to perform. That's also true of flashlights and a lot of other things. But what happens after you have used a battery for a while? That's right, it starts to run down. Pretty soon it's not good any more and we throw it ...
Sermon
Molly F. James
... egalitarian democracy of American society to rule in our house, we would probably be eating macaroni and cheese on an almost daily basis and Thomas the Train would be running on repeat on our DVD player. Not to mention that the entire contents of the toy cupboard would take up permanent residence on our living room floor. There is something to be said for the fact parents know better than kids what is good for them. It would be risky and downright dangerous to allow children to literally govern themselves ...
Sermon
Molly F. James
... not two people were present. This is a reminder I need often. In my personal life, I can easily get too focused on the material world. I too am swayed by advertisers to think that my life will be vastly improved if I just buy this gadget or that new toy. But the substance of life is not in the things I have. The substance of life is in the relationships I build. The substance of life is in the community gathered in prayer and in participation in God’s mission. That is where the beauty and the meaning are ...
779. Trust in Me
Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 2:1-7
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... translation: to trust is good, not to trust is better. Yet what would Christmas be without trust? As we approach the Christmas season, children around the world await the legendary “Santa Claus,” whom they trust to appear with treats and toys. Meanwhile adults secretly smile knowing “Santa” is an innocent concoction designed to thrill and delight our young, innocent (and gullible) offspring. At some point, each child will come of age. When that happens, they become “adults” and know “how the ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... They simply hear the music, and then they bob, they sway, they bounce, they sing along, “la,la,la,la,la!” Even in the womb and in the crib, we love music. As parents, we encourage this as we provide musical “soothers,” wind-up music boxes, musical toys, nursery rhyme songs. From the time before we are born, we know down deep, we are “musical” people. What happens between the ages of five and twelve that our kids lose their song? Ask a room full of five year olds, “How many of you sing?” and ...
781. The Catch
John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25, Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... ’s purse, because you never know what you may find there, right? Right? And I’ll bet ladies, if you looked right now, you’d find not only things that belong to you, but some things in your purses that belong to others as well. Right? Maybe you have a toy that belongs to your child in there. Or maybe you are carrying your husband’s wallet for him. Or maybe you threw the baby’s bottle in there. Or maybe that’s where this church bulletin will go when you leave today. You carry with you at any given ...
782. Raison d’Etre
Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... darkness, but we are equally capable of bending it toward light. While Russian President Vladimir Putin postured, strutted, and threatened, many of the Russian people were not so proud of Russia’s role in the downing of flight MH17. Flowers and stuffed toys were left outside the gate of the Dutch embassy in Moscow with notes attached. As often as not, the notes said, simply, “Please forgive us.” When Hurricane Katrina smashed into the southern United States, the largest natural disaster in the history ...
Sermon
David & Marian Plant
... life equals mutual dependence, co-existence, and mutual help. This is life lived to its fullest. This is life abundant. The prosperity gospel has it all wrong. Life abundant is not about wealth and things. It’s not about the one with the most toys at the end winning. It’s definitely not measured by material accumulation we’re told will make us happy, like those sheep with lots of pasture. The chapter immediately before today’s text narrates Jesus’ encounter with and healing of a man born blind ...
I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Bernard Manning
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
Christopher Lasch
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe
I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
Joan Rivers
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... our lives, so that our spirits can bear no fruit. The glitter of gold and more trendy or attractive “fixes” to our life’s problems and pain draw us and compete for our loyalties. And if they win, our faith is left behind, relegated to a corner like a toy without a battery. We begin to believe that quick fixes can solve all of our problems, and that God doesn’t after all have the power to give us what we need. This is a failure too of faith. In a relationship this is an adultery, an attraction to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... train station. Claire grew up in a Russian orphanage. At the age of 13, Claire received her first Christmas gift. It was given to her by American missionaries with an organization called Operation Christmas Child. Claire cried over the simple shoebox crammed with toys and hair clips and candy. But the greatest gift she received that Christmas was when the American missionaries told Claire the story of Jesus. She believed in the words they shared with her and began praying to know God more. Claire hid in ...
Humor
... little girl sits her baby brother on her lap and tells him the story of Christmas. According to her version, Jesus was born just in time for Christmas up at the North Pole surrounded by eight tiny reindeer and the Virgin Mary...Then Santa Claus showed up with lots of toys and stuff and some swaddling clothes...The three wise men and the elves all sang carols while the Little Drummer Boy and Scrooge helped Joseph trim the tree...In the meantime, Frosty the Snowman saw this star...
794. Gratitude
Ephesians 5:15-20
Sermon
Will Willimon
... And I, in my toddler way, mumbled "Thank you," in order to get the shiny piece of silver. From them on, he was always there, pushing in at dinner time when she said, "I don't think I heard anyone say they enjoyed supper tonight." Then, before bedtime, after toys were put away and the blanket was pulled up around me snugly, when the light was turned out, there he was. "Thank you God for Mamma, and Daddy, and Bud, and Harry, and for the nice day, and for everyone. Amen." You couldn't have a party without him ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... for any of our women who have been mothers. Do you remember your favorite gift that you ever got at a baby shower? A woman named Louise Cramer tells the story of opening gifts at the shower for her first child. Among all the necessities and toys, Louise found one very special gift. It was a baby quilt hand-sewn by her grandmother, who had passed away years before. As Louise marveled over the beauty of the quilt, it hit her that her grandmother had planned this quilt, and spent weeks stitching it together ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... the ups and downs in life. I hope that you feel honored and loved today for all your hard work. Comedian Jim Gaffigan posted on Twitter, “My 4-yr.-old gave me a handmade card for Father’s Day. Maybe for Christmas I’ll draw him a picture of some toys.” A man named Mike Primavera tweeted, “Get your dad what he really wants this Father’s Day by turning off the lights when you leave a room.” And a tweet from username Dad and Buried reads, “Called my dad to wish him a happy Father’s Day and we ...
797. Mary's Witness
Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)
Sermon
King Duncan
... to the children at the local hospital. Two years later, when Ray was six, he and his family founded the Little Saint Nick Foundation. Since its founding in 2004, the Little Saint Nick Foundation has collected and donated over 500,000 toys and electronics to hospitalized kids across the nation. They also create kid-friendly gift bags for emergency departments, family care packages for the families of hospitalized children, and anxiety relief programs for kids. And the Foundation actively works to recruit and ...
798. Not Guessing
Mark 10:46-52
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... Star Wars was shown was sold out for every single performance. Theaters began showing the film almost twenty-four hours every day and the lines still went around the block. Then instead of withering away after the first weekend, the Star Wars mania, including sequels, books, toys, and re-issues of reworked movies, has never stopped. Now everyone knows what only a few people knew prior to its opening. George Lucas and Stars Wars are a real hit. George Lucas is not Jesus and Star Wars is not the gospel, but ...
799. Big Boys Do Cry
Joel 2:1-2,12-17
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Like most parents, he could distinguish his own child’s crying, and so he flew out the door to the scene of the accident. There was his three-year-old son, Christopher, upside down and bawling, the victim of a hit-and-run collision with a Big Wheel 16 inch toy Tricycle. In one fell swoop, Laurent scooped his son up and had him in the house and up in his bedroom before the neighbors suspected that his little man was a crybaby. He held his son in his arms and said, “C’mon, son, let’s dry those old ...
Sermon
Derl G. Keefer
... the day of (one) of her surgeries. Evidence of Phil and Katie’s sacrifice for Alice was everywhere. Having given up their spacious two-story home, six people were jammed into a small fixer-upper. No privacy, no individual space, and no place to put coats or toys. They didn’t seem to notice.” On that visit her grandson, Jamie, age seven, led her to where Alice lay on her mattress, leg splinted and waiting to travel to the hospital for surgery. The little girl gave a pain-laced smile to Brenda and Jamie ...
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