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876. Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock

Psalm 30:1-12

Sermon

... going to happen overnight, like magic, with no effort, no sacrifice required on our part? Time seems to be such a precious commodity to us. We raise cane, rattle our car keys, flip through the pages of the hymnal to find the closing song if the preacher doesn’t keep one eye on the clock to make sure we don’t have to spend one minute more in worship than we absolutely have to. We want to streamline the worship service and micro-manage every minute we spend in God’s house. There are 168 hours in the ...

877. God's Valuables

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... anyone ever had a birthday card like that? (response) When you got your money and you didn't want to lose it, how did you keep it safe? Did you put it in a drawer where no one could see it? Or did you put it under your mattress where it ... At this point, explain what your valuable is and why it is valuable to you. Reiterate that because it is important to you, you keep it locked away for safekeeping. Application: The Bible tells us something similar about God. The Bible says that God's Spirit searches the ...

878. God's Training Wheels

Mark 1:1-8, Mark 1:9-13

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... Another thing that's important is baptism. Even Jesus himself was baptized. He received baptism because he wanted to be obedient to God. Some of you have already been baptized. We need to be baptized because that is another way in which God works in our life and helps us keep from falling. Sometimes I don't feel very close to God but then I remember: I was baptized into the family of God! I am his child. Hold up one of the training wheels: So I read the Bible and it helps support me on one side. Hold up the ...

879. Monologue: A Slave, A Jailer, A Child Of God

Acts 16:16-40

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... master called for me to bring a light, and he rushed in. Trembling with fear, he fell down before Paul and Silas. Roman jailers don't bow down before prisoners, but he did. These men had saved his life. He’d treated them like dogs, yet they cared enough to keep him from suicide, and then they told him of the love of God. What kind of men were these? My master had heard the reports around town, that they spoke of salvation, of a new life through the living God. Now he knew that they had something real, and ...

880. Innocent of the Blood of Jesus

Matthew 27:1-10

Drama

Joe Barone

... during Passover, but this Jesus was no threat to the Roman Empire. I had complete authority in the province. My only job was to keep Judea for the Roman empire. I didn't care about the Jewish faith. I didn't care about their little meetings and their little ... "the Father, Son and Holy Spirit," whatever that means, and whatever it means, some of them are trying to do it. This Jesus just keeps coming back. Oh, I don't believe in him any more than many so-called Christians do, but I have to think it would ...

881. Is It Well With Your Family? (Mother's Day)

2 Kings 4:8-26

Sermon

Brett Blair

... mother. What in God’s name is this man doing? I can hear so many boys crying out and so many girls calling out for their dads. “Dad, my head! my head! Father, my heart! my heart! Dad, my soul! my soul! And what do the father’s do? They keep right on working. There is a true story about a young man who was to be sentenced to the penitentiary. The judge had known him from childhood. He was well acquainted with his father a famous legal scholar and the author of an exhaustive study entitled, "The Law of ...

882. Learning to Walk on the Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

... made up his mind to do everything possible to avoid thorns, then under no circumstances would he ever try to gather roses. We find beauty at the risk of feeling pain. And if we are not to go down simply because a storm has come up, then we must keep our vision in focus on something beyond it. As Jesus approached them that night, that boat-load of disciples believed they were seeing a ghost. But Jesus reassured them: "It is I; do not be afraid." Once in preparation for a program in which he was to take part ...

883. A Change of Direction

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

... changed into a glorious "yes." And if we have refused the Father's entreaty, saying, "I won't," then we can think again, and in this afterthought we can say, "I will." Thought and afterthought - thank God for a chance to think again! We are not destined to keep on thinking forever the way we always have or to go on forever in directions we have always gone. Now this parable - Jesus begins it this way: "What do you think? A man had two sons ..." Well, my dear friend, how will you answer Jesus on this? What ...

884. Overcoming Life's Obstacles

Matthew 14:22-36

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... . This venturing out, this taking action. Peter is to be admired for taking action here, for going out toward Christ (who, by the way, never once discouraged Peter from his goal!). In the process of our venturing, let us keep our eyes on Jesus. Go forth! Keep your eyes on Christ. You know very well it is worth keeping your eyes on Christ. You and I know who this Christ is. He is the one who is for you and me a hundred per cent. He is genuinely seeking our good. Our goals and dreams, God-pleasing as they ...

885. Fixing The Fox!

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... we face opposition to what we are doing, are we inclined to stop? This is not what a Christian does in face of the enemy. He keeps going on. Do you remember when you were a child and had a wrestling match with a friend? You got into a seemingly impossible clench ... agree with us. We have been given a work to do, a work for God. A steward is to be found faithful; he is to keep working until the end, at all cost. Ignatius of Loyola was once playing a game with fellow students when one of them asked what each ...

886. Is Free Just Loose?

Galatians 5:1-15

Children's Sermon

... ? To be free is more than being loose. Let me show you a little experiment. Here is my good old faithful friend, Willie Watch. Now, Willie may not feel free because I keep him tied to my wrist. That's right, Willie goes no farther than around my wrist and I keep him right there most of the time. Now, Willie is a good watch and he keeps excellent time, but he keeps telling me that he is a slave and that I never let him be free. He doesn't mind his job. He does it well and likes to say tick tock ...

887. Is Free Just Loose?

Galatians 4:21-31

Children's Sermon

888. Prayer

John 17:1-5

Bulletin Aid

... - To grow in wisdom To learn about the church To go to Sunday School To be faithful in attendance - Promises I make for myself - To follow Christ To live a good life To be faithful to God and his Church (Attendance, support, all that stuff) Is it OK if I keep my fingers crossed? That's a tall order! What if I can't do it? Can't live up to those promises? Does God - Or the congregation - Or the minister Expect me to be perfect? Will they still love me Value me Accept me If I'm not? Do I ...

889. The Holy Trinity

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

Sermon

... to his Father. Ultimately, he was sustained by knowing who God is, what God had done, and by his belief in what God would do. The writer of Deuteronomy echoes the cry of Isaiah by proclaiming God is the One and Only - there is no Other. Therefore, keep his statutes and his commandments. Those words are wise, but the secret to faithful living may be in remembering the love God has for us, and recalling that, in another passage in Deuteronomy, we are told to love the Lord our God. Of course, the instruction ...

890. A Wandering Aramean

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

... be sure, but also a bit crude. The Bible says one day some city boys followed along behind the aging Prophet, calling him "Baldy." Elijah promptly summoned two she-bears who tore forty-two of the city boys limb from limb. He then continued on his way to keep an appointment at Mount Carmel. Our great-grandfather in faith, Elijah - are you sure you want to boast about him? Then there's Jacob. With Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph, he is a Patriarch and at the very base of our family roots. What we often forget is ...

891. Let God Be God

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... God is traceable in his creation. He spoke of iron in a blacksmith's shop that would glow, burn, and place its stamp on wood. All these efforts to help us in our understanding of God do not explain him in completeness, of course. Nor are they meant to. They keep us mindful of a mystery - that one essence comes through to us in a tri-fold fashion. That is what the ancients meant when they spoke of the persons of the Godhead - person means a way of existence, a way of showing forth the main thing. God is Love ...

892. Jesus Fulfills God's Plans

Matthew 21:28-32

Children's Sermon

... , the arm that goes up and down and the table that goes around and around do nothing unless we have a record. The record player is like all the people who made promises for God to the people, but who could not keep them. They were not supposed to keep the promises, just make them for someone else to keep. Jesus is like the record. When we put the record on and turn the knobs like the promises that were made we have this. [Play a little of the record.] That's right, that is the way God planned it. He wanted ...

893. Proper 9

Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 · Gal 6:7-18 · 1 Ki 21:1-3, 17-21 · Isa 66:1-14

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... Paul's mark on his person was his relationship with Jesus. The sermon describes what that relationship is. Outline: Our relationship with Jesus is one when - a. Jesus is above us as Lord b. Jesus is in us as Savior c. Jesus is ahead of us as Leader 2. Keep Up the Good Work (6:7-14). Need: In this section of the Lesson, we can see a connection with the Gospel for the Day. In the Gospel, Christ sends out laborers into the harvest to visit and witness. Evangelism is a year-round project which never ends until ...

894. Proper 17

Lk 14:1, 7-14 · Heb 12:18-19, 22-24; 13:1-8 · Eze 18:1-9, 25-29 · Prov 25:6-22

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... problem with Adam and Eve: out of pride they wanted to be like God, knowing good and evil. Humility is knowing our place, accepting it, and keeping it. Be what you are! Do what you can - no more, no less. In this Lesson a subject is not to stand in the king's ... character b. By giving a good example to others Lesson 2: Hebrews 13:1-8 1. Love is More than Words. 13:1-5. Need: We keep saying, "Tell your spouse or kid that you love him/her." Or we ask, "When was the last time you said, 'I love you'?" To love ...

895. Proper 22

Lk 17:5-10 · 2 Tim 1:1-14 · Am 5:6-7, 10-15

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... 22 - 2 Timothy 3:14--14:5 - What Good is the Bible? Pentecost 23 - 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 - Will You Wear a Crown? 1. Keep the Faith! 1:3-4. Need: We may not be able to fall from grace but surely we can lose the faith. It happens every day. ... as a force for good in church and world. As we go through life and as the years pass, we need to be exhorted to keep the faith vibrant. Outline: Keep the faith - A. Continue the faith of your forefathers - v. 5 B. Hold fast to your faith in times of suffering - v. 8/ C. ...

896. Christ the King

Lk 23:35-43 · Jn 12:9-19 · Col 1:11-20 · Jer 23:2-6 · 2 Sam 5:1-5

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John R. Brokhoff

... universe - v. 16 B. Eternal king - v. 17 C. Head of the church - v. 18 D. Reconciler and redeemer of the whole world - vv. 14, 20 2. Facts about the Kingdom. 1:13-20. Need: Because we live in a democracy, we know little about a kingdom. Yet we Christians keep talking about God's Kingdom and daily we pray, "Thy Kingdom come." Do we know what we mean when we use the word, "kingdom"? In our text we have the facts about the Kingdom. Having the facts, we can understand what it is, why it is important, and why we ...

897. Christmas 1

Lk 2:41-52 · Col 3:12-17 · 1 Sam 2:18-20, 26

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... to visit her son, Hannah brought him a handmade little robe. It was a token of mother love and concern. It would keep him warm and attractive. It reminds us, according to tradition, of another mother who gave her Son a seamless robe. Some day ... habits may make us do things without knowing why we are doing them. But there are holy habits that need to be cultivated. They can keep us from falling away from God. Outline: Some holy habits for us A. The habit of Sunday worship. B. The habit of personal daily ...

898. Lent 4

Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 · 1 Cor 1:18-31 · 2 Cor 5:17-21 · Isa 12:1-6 · Jos 5:9-12

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... and it was the place for a wholesale circumcision. It was a rolling over from the past to the future, from wilderness to a settled land, from slavery to freedom. 2. Ceased (v. 12). After the renewal of the Abrahamic covenant, the Israelites celebrated by keeping the Passover for the first time since entering the Promised Land. God's promise of deliverance from Egypt and of taking them to the Promised Land was fulfilled. While in the wilderness, God fed them with manna, but now it ceased because the people ...

899. Tears in Raniah

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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... cross in a red heart, set in a white rose. That white rose blossoms in a blue sky, circled by a golden ring. Luther wrote that although God’s cross hurts us, it never destroys. The black of the cross was to represent mortification. The rose symbolizes faith, keeping our hearts alive in joy. The blue stands for the joy of heaven as we walk through Christ’s cross to the golden ring of blessedness without end. Luther’s seal has helped me when I have felt exile, loss, or exclusion. It is a prophet’s ...

900. A Faith To Live By John D. Mauney, Jr.

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

Sermon

... be her very own. God has done it all! It is ours, therefore, to accept his gift and to believe. For, "The Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other." The latter part of our text admonishes us, "Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you this day, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you." Surely Moses was speaking here of faithfulness and commitment to the Law of God. He had been God’s ambassador in bringing the Law ...

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