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Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Old Testament: Exodus 12:1-14 The Passover feast is inaugurated. In preparation for leaving Egypt, Yahweh instituted the Passover. Each family was to roast a sheep or goat and eat unleavened bread. The blood of the animal was to be placed on the doorposts to keep the angel of death from entering their homes. This is to be an annual feast to remind the people of God's deliverance. Old ...

852. Advent 1

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

COMMENTARY Old Testament: Isaiah 2:1-5 Though this passage may have been written by Isaiah, it appears to be out of context. It seems to better reflect the theology and mood of second or third Isaiah. Isaiah 1 is an indictment concerning the sinfulness of the people. The verses following our pericope pick up the theme of judgment. However, our text is a triumphant vision of the distant future whe...

853. Advent 1

Sermon Aid

THEOLOGICAL CLUE The risen, ascended Lord, Jesus Christ, whose reign has begun, will return at the end of this age, to bring in the fullness of God's Kingdom and reign over all of the affairs of the earth. Be prepared! Wait! Watch! Wonder! Work! Walk! The First Sunday in Advent is the theological/thematic key to the entire year's preaching from the lectionary; it sets the stage, as it were, by d...

854. Advent 1

Bulletin Aid

Theme: The Christian's place on "the edge of night" Exegetical note Notwithstanding the non-occurrence (or "delay") of the second coming of Christ, which Paul and his followers saw as imminent, references in these hortatory verses to an "hour" and "full time" provide a new slant on the effect of the "first" coming, namely, that, with the "dawning" of this "new light," the Christian stands "on the...

855. Duties Toward Others

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

Suggestions: Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading. Readers: a variety of folk (Speakers read in a frank manner from a sitting position in their usual places in the pews.) Key: 1-8 = speakers 1: Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 2: The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall ...

856. The Armor of Light

Drama

Larry Lange

Characters Harry Christian Margaret Christian (Harry's wife) Fed-Up Express Man Accompanist (nonspeaking) Props Stuffed chair Newspaper Table Lamp Bible Dressing mirror Large box (containing the following items) Silver shirt Silver gloves Silver sunglasses Silver light saber Silver-wrapped instruction book Small box (containing the following item) Huge, foil-covered binoculars (Harry Christian i...

857. Ready for Jesus?

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A cereal box, some school clothes, tooth brush, wash cloth, lunch box, books, comb, and any other items that might apply to getting ready for school. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have ever had to rush to get ready for school? Some of you have. It’s very interesting to watch young people get ready for school. First of all, if is really hard to get up isn’t it? [Let them an...

858. Measuring Love

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: Three one-cup glass measuring cups, flour, and sugar. Lesson: We can measure flour and sugar, but we can’t measure love. Here I have a cup of flour and a cup of sugar. What can you make with flour and sugar? What I like to make is a chocolate cake. What if I gave you this empty measuring cup and said, "I want you to put as much love in this cup as you think your dad needs today"? Could ...

859. An Appointment With God

Children's Sermon

Object: A clock - one on which you can move the hands. Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to talk a little bit about time and how we use it. How many of you know what time it is right now? (Let them answer.) That's pretty close. Time is very important. We must know time so that we can be at church at 10:30 in the morning, or at school at 8:00 in the morning, or to a game at 2:30 in ...

860. Fighting and Loving

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: A valentine. Lesson: It’s important to love brothers, sisters, and best friends. Today [this week] is Valentine’s Day. On Valentine’s Day we give valentine cards, such as this one, to tell our friends and family that we love them. Is it sometimes hard for you to love your brother or sister or your best friend? Do you ever fight with your brother or sister or your best friend? Do you li...

861. Love Is Not Easy

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A telephone Good morning, boys and girls. The great storyteller, Aesop, once told a story about four bulls who were great friends. They went everywhere together, fed together, and lay down to rest together. Always they stayed close to each other so that if any danger were near they could all face it together. Now there was a lion which had been stalking them for some time, but he could ne...

862. Blueprint for Action

Children's Sermon

Object: Blueprint Good morning, boys and girls; or maybe I should say Happy New Year. Happy New Year? Did you know that according to the church calendar this is the first day of the church year? That’s right. We call it Advent and it means to prepare or get ready for the Savior’s coming. Do you know what I like best about preparing? I like the idea of making a plan! How many of you like to make p...

863. Hpw Many Circles 'Til Jesus Comes?

Children's Sermon

Object: a tree log. Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever thought of the many ways there are to tell time? There are watches and clocks, as well as sundials, to tell the hour of the day. We have calendars to tell us the day and the year. Today I have brought with me a very special kind of time teller. [Hold up the log.] Did you know that you can tell time with a log? Sure you can. Who knows...

864. An Exciting Month

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: A bunch of junk (paper, rags, and metal). Good morning, boys and girls. This begins one of the most exciting months of your life. Every day from now until the end of the month you will be getting more and more excited. Do you know what I am talking about? (Let them answer.) That's right, on the 25th of December there is a special day we call Christmas, and it means a lot of different thi...

865. Waiting for Jesus

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A driver's license. Good morning, boys and girls. A very happy day to you. This is the first Sunday in Advent, which means that we are now preparing for the coming of Jesus Christ into the world again. That's right, we are here this morning to pray and hope that Jesus will come again, and that when he does we will know that the perfect world that God has planned has happened. The Bible sa...

866. The Empty Pillow Case

Children's Sermon

Object: an empty pillowcase and a pillow. Good morning, boys and girls. Do you ever get a chance to say good morning to one another? Why don't you just say, "Good morning, my friend" right now to one another? That was fine. Sometimes we forget to say nice things to each other, don't we? This morning I have brought with me a wonderful friend called Patty. Patty is quite a girl. As a matter of fac...

867. Brotherly Love

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A nice-looking man's jacket Lesson: Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. Good morning, boys and girls. How do you like this jacket I have with me today? (Let them answer.) It really is nice, isn't it? The colors are so bright and pretty. Today I want to tell you a story about a young boy who once had a jacket that looked a ...

868. Full Body Scans or Re-spect Spectacles

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

How many of you have had the experience of being stripped naked before a room full of strangers? Anyone here this morning ever been strip-searched? You have if you’re a frequent flier. You have if you’ve recently flown through any of the sixty-plus airports that now use “full body scans” as part of their security procedures. Just as the “shoe bomber” made it a requirement for all of us to pad aro...

869. Who Do You Put On?

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

A little young girl walked into the bathroom one day while Mom was putting on make-up and announced, "I'm going to look just like you mommy!" "Maybe, when you grow up," Mom told her. "No mommy, tomorrow. I just put on that 'Oil of Old Lady' you always use." (1) It's pretty obvious that we all get up in the morning, get cleaned up and put on clothes. On Sundays, out of reverence for God, we try ...

870. Wake Up Call

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

Advent always seems out of place with everything else that is going on around us. While people are rushing toward Christmas in a shopping frenzy our observance is markedly different. Sometimes we get so lost in the sentiment and traditions of Christmas that we have difficulty connecting with the themes of Advent. Advent is about waiting expectantly while longing for God to act. However, we must ad...

871. Are You Living the Three Advents?

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Theme: The Christian tradition invites us to celebrate 3 advents the 4 weeks of advent. It would help your sermon if you wore some kind of “garment” that signified your ordination or calling. The Word-Made-Flesh . . . Exegesis of Romans 13:11-14 It seems strange that as the church’s calendar enters into its most hopeful, anticipatory season, the first of our four Advent readings turns once agai...

872. Wake Up!

Sermon

King Duncan

Someone has said, “You know it’s going to be a bad day when your horoscope starts with . . . ‘Are you sitting down?’” You know it’s going to be a bad day when you turn on the news and they are displaying emergency routes out of the city. You know it’s going to be a bad day when you wake up in a hospital in traction and your insurance agent tells you that your accident policy covers falling off t...

873. Doing Well and Doing Good

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

There is a cliché thrown around the business world that states that people should do well by doing good. This translates into a rationale for doing works of charity and for being generous to employees, customers, and communities. The reason for these good deeds is to engender good feeling and, in the long run, to make more money, in other words, to do well. By being good to employees, costs...

874. The Long Lonliness

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

The Beatles surprised the world in the 1960s and took the United States by storm, introducing a new era in popular music. And many of us were pleasantly surprised by the deep insights expressed in rather direct and poignant lyrics. In "Eleanor Rigby," for example, they sing of a woman picking up rice at a church where a wedding has been. Holding the rice, peering through a window, living in a drea...

875. In Debt Forever!

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

It seemed as though the bishop was looking straight at me "Are you in debt so much as to embarrass you in your work?" What an incongruous question to ask of a candidate for ordination. It seemed so mundane, so inappropriate for such a hallowed occasion, even if it was one of the questions asked of ordinands ever since the day when John Wesley first posed it. "Are you in debt so much as to embarras...

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