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John 6:60-71, John 6:25-59, Psalm 84:1-12

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B. David Hostetter

... OF GOD'S FORGIVENESS Hear the Good News! Christ loved the church and gave himself for it, to consecrate it, cleansing it by water and word so that he might present the church to himself all glorious, with no stain or wrinkle or anything of the sort, but holy and without blemish. Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. EXHORTATION As member of the church, be subject to Christ and husbands and wives be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. PRAYER OF THE DAY Faithful God ...

877. Proper 22

Mark 10:13-16, Mark 10:1-12

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B. David Hostetter

... the sounds of all living things. Hear us wherever we gather to praise your name. Amen. Prayer of Dedication God of the Gospel, we share the responsibility of spreading the Good News, with pastors and elders, evangelists and teachers, healers and nurses, identifying with all sorts and conditions of people in order to communicate the word of your grace in Jesus Christ. Amen. Psalm 26:1-12 Vindicate me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering. Prove me, O LORD ...

878. Are You Convinced?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... the carpenter. What is so hauntingly conspicuous is the fact that nowhere do we read that any of those to whom Jesus spoke in our text, understood, tried to understand, nor even remembered anything he had said. Had they understood at the time, or even sorted the meaning later, there would have been no betrayals, denials, or plans to go back to old professions. Being A Witness So much for terminations. Sometimes we don't handle beginnings very well either. The disciples didn't. Jesus had spoke to them about ...

879. Just Speak The Word

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Larry Powell

... detachment. We could fine-tune the distinction, but we know the difference. More than that, we know the difference between detatchment and involvement. We know the difference between a playground filled with happy children and a nursing home filled with persons sorting through old photographs. We know the difference in home-bound shut-ins and the dedicated person or persons in your church committed to call on them. We know the difference in "waving a handkerchief" or giving a polite tip of the ...

880. Living The Alternatives

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... - stewardship, if you will - for our planet and our individual lives rests on our capacity for envisioning alternative possibilities to existing realities. That is why it is crucial to be intentional about what we visualize. We are always imagining a future of some sort and letting our lives be shaped by the vision. Faith seeks to fulfill its own prophecy. If we believe that we can be well, our bodies begin to shape themselves around the new vision of health. If we believe that nuclear suicide is ...

881. Confusion Over a Questioned Book

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... before us contains all three of these emphases. Pessimism about the present world order. The empires, the governments, kings and rulers of the world are described as beasts, beasts which wreak havoc upon and destroy God's people, and as enemies of God must be slain. That sort of goes against the American grain, doesn't it? We do not think of our government in those terms. We live secure lives. We do not feel we need to be afraid of the police breaking in at night and hauling us off to some basement room ...

882. A Word Of Encouragement!

Acts 13:13-52

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... Sunday. God blessed the services, the people filled the church each night, many came to confess Christ as Savior, and there was a high enthusiasm in the town for the revival. (No thanks to me, there just wasn't anything else going on in the town, and it was sort of a "curiosity" to see and hear a 19-year-old-girl-type-preacher.) At the end of the week, the pastor suggested that since I was not scheduled to be anywhere else the following week, we just continue the services and have a two-week revival. That ...

883. Healing For The Past

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... effects in nearly every area of our lives. Maybe some have been abused emotionally or physically as children, or maybe you lived in poverty, or ignorance, or with parents who fought all the time. Maybe you came from a broken home, or were raped, or someone died; all sorts of things that run the gamut of human experience may have occurred in our past, and we carry the baggage of all of it with us still. We can't fully live today because half of our power is being used to deal with something that happened in ...

884. Liking the New and Improving the Old

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... saying to Charlie Brown, "I hate everything! I hate everybody! I hate the whole world!" Charlie Brown responds, "But I thought you had inner peace." "I do have inner peace," retorted Lucy, "but I still have outer obnoxiousness!" So do most of us still find ourselves sort of obnoxious at times. We loudly sing the old gospel song, "What a wonderful change in my life has been wrought, Since Jesus came into my heart." But where is the change? Why are we so little different from what we've always been? Honestly ...

885. Fresh Bread And New Wine

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... real bread. It is true that Lutherans use real wine and United Methodists seem to feel that Jesus turned the water at Cana into Welch's grape juice; that Lutherans use the small, round pressed wafer and the United Methodists often use a loaf of bread. But, whatever sort of bread and wine is used, it is still a momentous occasion. On a visit to Jerusalem, I stood in an upper room much like the one that Jesus and his disciples used. Could it have been the same place, I wondered, where on that Thursday evening ...

886. A Great Big Bunch of Love

2 Corinthians 4:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... , this is the best gift of all. Let me tell you about it, then maybe you will be able to see what it is. This gift could make all of the troubles in the world go away! Wouldn't that be wonderful, boys and girls? You see, this gift is sort of catching. You know how you can catch a cold or the measles from someone else? Well, when you give this gift away, it spreads, and other people catch it, too. Can you guess how big this gift is? (Let them guess.) Well, this gift can be as big as ...

887. Time Is Running Out

1 Cor 7:29a

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... it and therefore it will be good. You and I are not going to live forever. Someday we will die according to the plan. Everyone else will die also. They will be used up just like us. The world that we live in will be used up and it will sort of die. But God has a bigger plan and a better plan for all of us and for all of his world. The time is always closer to the end but none of us knows when the end will come. We must trust that God will take good care of ...

888. A New Look

Ephesians 4:23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... he teaches us to live. When people like you and me love Jesus and love each other, we are more wonderful inside than we even look on the outside. Having Jesus be a part of our lives is like a fresh coat of paint, new boards, shiny windows, and all sorts of good things like that. St. Paul calls this "putting on the new nature" because he says that people who take Jesus into their lives begin to act and feel like God. The next time you are walking by an old house and you see people working on it to ...

889. Jesus Our Brother

Hebrews 2:11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... all write, and they are all pens, aren't they? (Let them answer.) Some are blue and they have black ink, and some are red and they have blue ink, and some are yellow and they have red ink, but they are all pens. There is one pen that is sort of special. Can you see the one that I mean? It looks a little different from the rest but it has ink and it writes. I call this my Jesus pen. All the other pens are people pens like you and me. But we all write and we all have ...

890. Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

Matthew 6:11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... times. No one ever prays every day for a swimming pool or an airplane or even a ball and bat but they do pray for bread, daily bread. Do you know why? (Let them answer.) First, bread is important. We need bread to live and everybody eats bread of one sort or another. But that is not the reason. When Jesus asked for bread He did so because He meant that bread stood for everything that we need to live. Bread is like a symbol. Bread stands for clothes and houses and all other kinds of food. When you ask God ...

891. Uncovering Jesus

1 Corinthians 1:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... me in a place where a very famous artist was showing his finished painting for the first time. Just think how long it took him to make this painting. He had to use the right colors, draw his shapes so that they were recognizable, put in the shadows, and all sorts of other things so that it would be a masterpiece everyone would enjoy. Now remember, we are at the studio of a famous artist and he is going to reveal his work for the first time. As you can see it is covered, because he does not want to reveal ...

892. God's Descending Spirit

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... of recruits. He set about to deliberately humiliate the young Christian. He sought to make the young man's life over into the image of hostility and brute force that he (the sergeant) lived. That sergeant abused the man verbally. He issued him all sorts of unfair treatment. He used every opportunity to harass the soldier. Yet, at no point did the young Georgian resort to "returning evil for evil." He endured all the abuse without a word of complaint. Again and again he found occasion to do kind things ...

893. Our Own Mountaintop Walk

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... into our living, doesn't it? The discovery is affirmed in the acts of forgiveness expressed within families that now allow for the joy of family love to be regained. It is affirmed in the acts of charity and caring that are offered across all sorts of worldly boundaries, and the "walls come tumbling down." As illustration, it is in Bread for the World, a Christian organization seeking to feed the hungry. They report that one of every five children in the world are "at risk of hunger." The affirmation of ...

894. It's A Small World After All

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... - never to be forgotten! For days and weeks afterward I sang to myself, It's a small world after all.It's a small world after all.It's a small world after all.It's a small, small world! There! Now you are tattooed! We do live in that sort of world: a small, small world. That is not a new idea for any of us. And we really do not need Disney's catchy song to remind us of the fact. Yet, in this small, small world we often do not know much about those who live across town ...

895. Liquid Hope

John 7:25-44

Sermon

James Weekley

... at his Word. His surging Word for us is faith. Faith is remembering him who has not forgotten us. It doesn't end there with him. It must flow forward with us. Knowing that he believes in us helps us to believe in "us." Faith of this sort requires tough patience. "Please be patient," says Snoopy, "God isn't finished with me yet." Faith, then, pipes us into God. Faith taps the reservoirs of his Spirit, releasing the floodgates of his Life Source. There, we are overwhelmed by his surging surf. We meet him, as ...

896. A Wonderful Treasure

Ephesians 1:18

Children's Sermon

... s special family, and we will inherit everything that God can give to his family. We all know what it is like when a rich man dies. The children inherit a lot of money, and big houses and big cars, and sometimes stores and factories and expensive paintings and all sorts of other rare and expensive things. That's the way it is with God and his children. Except, God does not give us things that we will have to leave behind when we die. God gives us the promise that we will live with him forever in heaven. And ...

897. The Most Important Person

John 1:35, 43-51

Children's Sermon

... about a man named John. A lot of people thought John was the most important person because he was a great preacher. But John told the truth. He said, "Don't follow me. Follow Jesus." So the people who had been following John began following Jesus instead. It was sort of like taking a picture of one friend out of your purse or billfold and putting in a new picture, of an even better friend. One of the people who did this was named Philip. Jesus told him to follow him, and Philip did. That's what Jesus says ...

898. What's In The Cards?

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Children's Sermon

Object: some flash cards which say things like "Hard Worker"; "Wastes Times"; "Works Well With Others"; "Is a Troublemaker"; etc. Boys and girls, if I asked your friends what sort of worker you are, what do you think they would say? Would they say you are a good worker, or somebody who is lazy and goofs off a lot? (Let some of them answer if they wish.) I brought some cards with me to church today. They have some words ...

899. Just Put It Away

1 Corinthians 8:12

Children's Sermon

... pop). Now some moms won't let us take pop in our lunch because they think it is bad for our teeth (and they are probably right about that). But some moms will say, "Well, if you don't do it too often, I won't complain, because it's sort of fun to have pop once in a while." Now suppose you take your lunch to school and you have this can of soda pop in your lunch box or sack. And when you are getting ready to go to lunch you bump into one of your friends who is ...

900. Greater Than Everybody

John 1:26-27

Children's Sermon

... to do, and very handy too. But now let me ask you a question about tying shoes. Suppose I said to you, "I want you to tie the shoes that I am wearing this morning. How would you feel about that?" (Talk about it.) Right. You might think it was sort of fun to do it if it gave you a chance to show other people how well you tie shoes. But how does it make you feel, kneeling down to tie somebody else's shoes? You're right again. Tying somebody else's shoes makes you feel a little bit ...

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