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801. Christ Is the Head

Colossians 1:18

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... . Now place the ear where the mouth goes, etc., until it looks silly. Again, let the children guide you. What does he look like now? (response) Even though it looks different, there is still one thing that is the same as the last one we made. Who can guess what is the same? Guide the children into saying that the head is the same. You are right. The head is the same. Tell me, could we make faces without the head? (response) No, we couldn't. Because without the head, there isn't a Mr. Potato Head. Without ...

802. Magic Prayers

Luke 11:1-13

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... the wallet and check to see if the money has magically appeared. Continue to look through the wallet and say to yourself: What happened? (response) There's no money in here. Now address the children. What happened? Why didn't I get any money? (response) Your guess is as good as mine as to what the children will answer -- be on your toes. And I don't feel any stronger. Feel your arm. Why didn't God give me bigger muscles? (response) Does my hair look any better? (response) Why is that? (response) Application ...

803. Kingdom Order

Luke 14:1-14

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... them all at one time. The symbolism needs to be given time to work. But Jesus said to them, when you get invited to a party don't try to be number one. Try to be number 13! Try to be the last or least of all the people. Because ... guess what? If you try to get the first place ribbon, it will be taken from you and given to another. And if you try to get the second place ribbon, it will taken from you and given to another, and your third place ribbon will be taken from you and ...

804. A Little Forgiveness Goes a Long Way

Luke 17:1-10

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... for each child. Lesson: Good morning! (response) I have something in this bowl and it's really, really big. Does any one know what it is? (response) No, that's not it. I'll give you another hint. It's bigger than a car. (response) No, you still haven't guessed what's in the bowl. I'll give you one more hint. It's bigger than a house. (response: it can't be bigger than a house) I promise. I'm not lying to you. It really is bigger than a house. Do you know what it is? (response) Uncover ...

805. No Room In The Inn

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Jesus stayed around the local economy would be disrupted. What they wanted was business as usual and not some itinerant miracle worker. So the local delegation asks Jesus to kindly leave. Exactly how they worded this to him we don't know, but I would like to venture a guess. I suspect that the conversation went something like this: Jesus, our lives were doing quite well before you came into town. We don't think that we need you, and we know that we don't want you. So Jesus, do us a favor and go try to save ...

806. Sowing Seed Is Never A Waste of Time

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... could preach at a funeral, especially if you knew the person who had died. I just couldn’t do that! It’s too emotionally demanding." And others have said, "How do you come up with a new sermon every week? I never knew you had that much imagination." I guess that’s a polite way of saying, "I didn’t know you had it in you to do that." I have to admit that sometimes I surprise myself, until I remember that my imagination and inspiration as a minister of the gospel comes not from within myself but from ...

807. Oh Me of Little Faith

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... the universe. Maybe if I understood more of the methodology and technology involved in the research I would be more likely to believe, more able to conquer the skeptic that lives within me. I just don’t have a lot of faith in modern science, I guess. Oh me of little faith! But is faith really such a complicated matter? From Genesis to Revelation, faith is described as a simple act that shows trust. Jesus even suggested that children are our best teachers in the search to understand what it means to have ...

808. Gentiles 'R Us

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... The family scheduled her funeral for Saturday afternoon. Several months ago, my wife’s father was diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas and told that he had only a few months to live. On Thursday of last week, he also died, and his funeral was scheduled for – you guessed it – Saturday afternoon, leaving my wife and I in the position of either having to try to be in two places at the same time, or have her go to be with her family at her father’s funeral while I remained behind to conduct the funeral ...

809. Exasperating Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... only hope, no matter what time we arrived to work in the vineyard, is that Jesus will continue to party with the riffraff and drink with the sinners and love the losers. Nobody gets more of God’s love than anyone else. Each one of us gets it all. I guess it comes down to this: you can demand to get what you deserve, or you can place yourself totally at the mercy of a loving, gracious, extravagant God. I don’t know about you, but I’m taking the grace and singing the doxology. AMEN

810. Nothing Difficult Is Ever Easy

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... came to you after the worship service and said something like this: "You know, I used to go to church a lot when I was a kid, but I’ve been out of the church for a long time now. It just didn’t seem that important to me, I guess. I couldn’t fit it in to my busy schedule. But now I want to come back. I feel like something is missing in my life, and I think I know what it is. So I’ve been visiting around at some of the local churches, trying to find out ...

811. The Scariest Sound in the World

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... of God in years past? If these outraged citizens are so devoted to traditionalism, where were they when Memorial Day and Labor Day and Abraham Lincoln’s birthday got shuffled around in order to create more three-day weekends (whatever those are)? Oh, well. I guess you just can’t please everyone. No matter what you do, someone will find fault with it and raise a ruckus. Don’t get me wrong - I LIKE Halloween. I have lots of fond memories of Halloween, the fondest, of course, being Halloween, 1984, when ...

812. Some Assembly Required

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... that don’t seem to fit anywhere, or at least one of the 4,175 parts that were supposed to be in that box didn’t make it into the box, regardless of the assurance given by quality control inspector number 12. It’s just part of the ritual, I guess. I don’t know why, it just IS! It’s a test of your temper, your resourcefulness, and sometimes even your religion, when you discover that you have too many of part number 47 and not enough of part number 56. To make a long story short, four hours later ...

813. Oh, Lord, It's Hard To Be Humble

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... tomorrow and find the following items there, which would you open first: a bill from J. C. Penney’s; an advertisement for life insurance; a catalog from Victoria’s Secret; or a brown envelope from the Internal Revenue Service? I’m going to take a wild guess here and say that you would probably open the brown envelope from the IRS first. And I imagine that your hands might be a little shaky, your mind would be going ninety-to-nothing, and you would practically destroy that envelope to get to the ...

814. Where is the Nearest Sycamore Tree?

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... and going home with a short, hated tax collector! Who would have thought it would happen? Zaccheus was thrilled. The townspeople were not. "There he goes again, off to have lunch with another sinner! He’s never going to get anywhere doing things like that. I guess he’ll never learn!" Zaccheus came down from the tree, took Jesus home with him, and then confessed his sins to Jesus. He didn’t hold anything back; he told it all. And then he makes a promise to Jesus, purely voluntary, with no prompting ...

815. The Seven Last Words of the Church

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... her why she always cut off both ends of the ham before she cooked it. "Well, sweetheart, " her grandmother said, "the first oven we owned wasn’t big enough to put a whole ham in, so I had to cut the ends off to make it fit. After that, I guess it just became a habit!" You see? That’s traditionalism – when we do whatever we do without knowing why we do it, but continue to do it anyway because that’s what we’ve always done! Does that make sense? Some of the people who were most vocal in their ...

816. The Family of Judas

Drama

William Grimbol

... got older, he was always such a good friend ... a good listener ... he had love for everyone, even me - his mother. (Pause) I knew immediately that his involvement with Jesus would lead to tragedy ... I knew it. The times were not right for another prophet. I guess they never are. Jesus wasn't a bad man, just so misguided, so unaware of the political and religious realities. He was just so terribly naive. I knew Judas would someday be part of this kind of group, you could see it coming. He wanted to change ...

817. There's Blindness, and There's Blindness

John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... because God does not want puppets or playthings. God wants willing followers. Unfortunately, many Christians have been deluded into believing that being a Christian should automatically make us immune to the slings and arrows or the world’s evils. So when something bad happens, guess who’s fault it is? It’s YOURS! You messed up, and you know you did, or God wouldn’t have done that to you. God never promised us a carefree, painless existence. The problems and puzzles of life, the unfairness, the pain ...

818. The Benefit of the Doubt

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Johnny Dean

Well, I guess Easter is over for another year. The lilies are gone, attendance is down from last week, the new has worn off the Easter dresses and suits, and the candy has long since been devoured. Things are pretty much back to whatever passes for normal these days, back to the old, ...

819. Episode 1: The Holy Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . The Swiss had dominated time keeping. They controlled 90% of all revenues made in their industry. They made the most precise gears and springs in the world. Their watches and clocks were perfect. Then something new happened called the Quartz movement—LCD readout. Guess who invented it. A Swiss man. But because it had no gears or knobs or springs it was rejected. They failed to recognize that they were in the business of helping people tell time not making precision gears. They lost their dominance in ...

820. The Rights of an Apostle

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... Let them get out in the open all the things they don't understand or find hard to believe. That does two things. 1. Let's them know that you are not shocked or offended. 2.. gives you an idea of the basis of their beliefs and non-beliefs. Guess what? That's a starting point. With Paul, witnessing became a life style not just something we do occasionally or something we pull out on Sunday. Christianity isn't just prayer and worship - it is life. Let your life speak for your beliefs. You don't need to preach ...

821. The Invisible God?

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... , an humble king? That sounds wonderful, Paul, but there’s just one question we’d like to ask: What in the world are you talking about? What do you mean when you say that Jesus is the "image of the invisible God?" Is God invisible? Well, I guess, technically, you’re right about that. I mean, we see evidence of the existence of God all around us, but I suppose, in the strictest definition of the word, God IS invisible. But that brings up another question. How can someone or something be an image of ...

822. Psalm 121

Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

... . Betty shared with me that her illness had a very meaningful time spiritually. She said everyone had been so kind and helpful. She was very appreciative. She said that when she first got home from the hospital she was having a very difficult time getting out of bed. I guess her bed is too low to the ground or something. Anyway, she said one morning when she was all alone she couldn’t get up out of bed. She tried and she tried. Finally as she layed there in her bed, unable to get up, she said she leaned ...

823. The Inaugural Address

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... from George Washington to George Bush has been preserved. In these speeches presidents have laid out for the country their dreams, goals, and aspirations. I would like you to listen to some excerpts from a few and as I read them I would like you to guess the president that delivered it [When you finish each excerpt read the President as well. Also, you may wish to preach only two or three of the excerpts or shorten all five]. There are five. Here is the first: . . . it would be . . .improper to omit in ...

824. The Flame, The Wind, And The Walk

Acts 2:1-13

Drama

Marion Fairman

... can make it. (Shrugging) We are dealing with a divine mystery here. (Pause) Think about it for a minute. What's fire like? Woman: Well, it warms you if you're cold. Man: In some metals it burns out the dross. Woman: (Grudgingly) Well, I guess that is a little bit plainer. Leader: (To the man) What's a mighty wind like - what happens? Man: Strong - unbound - something that sweeps everything before it. Woman: Makes everything smell good - clean - fresh. You can breathe it in! Leader: So, fire and wind are ...

825. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... : "The Queen of Sheba visited him in Jerusalem; who was he?" She couldn't miss! Or could she? Hummmmmmmmm, she pondered. "Come on, say Solomon," I said out loud. Finally, she parted her lips to answer the $12,000 question. "Julius Caesar," she guessed. That reply cost her $12,000. Just as surely as the disciplined religious life costs something, the undisciplined study of God's book costs us something, too. Frequently, it is something of greater value than prize money - reputation, friendship, peace of mind ...

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