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876. MIRIAM’S BABY BROTHER

Drama

Marcia Miller

... , find the place where the reeds grow high in the water. MIRIAM: Close to the place where the Egyptian boat races were held? MOTHER: That’s the place. Your father made this basket out of papyrus, and then he put a coating of tar on the inside. It will float. Stay out of sight, but watch your brother. Don’t take your eyes off of him. This way he will get some fresh air and sunshine. And he might be safe for a while. MIRIAM: Relax, Mother, I can handle it. MOTHER: I know you can. God be with you. [MIRIAM ...

877. God Doesn't Change

James 1:17

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... much you've changed? How about a seed? Does it change? I'll say it does. But how about God? Does He change or does He stay the same? The Bible says God is unchanging, that He is the same today as He was yesterday and He will be the same tomorrow. Now ... sounds so much the same that I can't tell the difference between ticks. And here is a flashlight. When I turn it on the light stays the same. I can't tell whether it gets lighter or darker. These things seem the same. We might say that God is like the tick- ...

878. Herod and Jesus

Drama

Jon Joyce

... . JESUS: You have nothing, Herod. It is what is in your heart, it is what motivates your life, what is in the way you live toward God and toward others that gives an abundant life. HEROD: I go to the Temple ... JESUS: And you may as well stay home. You follow the rituals, you perform for the eyes of men to see how religious you supposedly are, but your heart, ah, Herod, your heart needs to repent and accept the kingdom of God. HEROD: [Again unconsciously wrapping his arms around his chest] Enough of that ...

879. God Made Me Do It!

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... : "Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves" (we manage to be harmless enough, but not always very wise). We could use a little wisdom in the work of the Kingdom today. With some of the reporting we do for God and the church, it is no wonder the people stay away in droves. When will we learn to sort out what to say to the non-Christian, to the non-churched? Do you have to tell every weakness, every mistake, every problem that we have? Some of our "reporting" could be of a little wiser caliber, and still be ...

880. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... historical continuity in the land. I was taught to reverence the traditions of the grand old school. The most convincing way to evidence your respect for an institution is by the duration of your stay. Many irreverent young men went skipping through old B.L.S. in a scanty four years. I stayed six. Why? The two studies, the Scylla and Charybdis which so seductively delayed my personal passage through my high school whirlpool, were Latin and geometry. I’ve heard the wise academicians gravely put forth ...

881. EPISODE 2: THE SECOND WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... them before they strike at you. JESUS: Mary Magdalene, what do you say? MARY MAGDALENE: Lord, who am I to tell you what to do? But stay strong and alive, because so many of us depend on you. JESUS: Thomas? THOMAS: I’d like to think we had a chance to make a ... JESUS: It’s time that we go to Mary and Martha. [JESUS, MARY MAGDALENE, PETER and JOHN exit.] JUDAS: Thomas ... you’re going to stay with him? THOMAS: Why not? JUDAS: He’s lied to us about the kingdom. THOMAS: Has he? Or have we been lying to ...

882. Trumpets in Church on Easter, The Very Idea!

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... a small place. We’re like the woman whose brother during World War II was sent to the continent down under. He decided to stay there and live. One day she was going to the zoo, and she was standing in front of the kangaroo cage. She read the ... was night when they got us to the tunnel mouth. Even before we reached it, we smelled God’s good sweet air. They wanted us to stay on the stretchers, but we'd been waiting ten days to stand up straight. In the glare of floodlights I saw my father and brother ...

883. No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... is forward. Let's look at each point. First, The Cost Are High. In verse 58 of Luke, chapter 9, Jesus says, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head." Jesus and his disciples could not even stay at a Motel 6 or Econolodge. Often they slept out under the stars. Discipleship is not for the soft or pampered; it involves sacrifice and self- denial. I'm almost ashamed to say that out loud. Look around and tell me where you see sacrifice. Most of us ride ...

884. The Beauty of a Childlike Faith

Matthew 18:1-9

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... adoption. I'm going to do that by inviting you to pray a child's prayer with me. This prayer, offered sincerely, in the only requirement for adoption and eternal salvation. "Into my heart, into my heart, come into my heart, Lord Jesus. Come in today, come in to stay. Come into my heart, Lord Jesus." After a few moments of silence, I will pray that prayer again. If it expresses what is in your heart, I invite you to pray it aloud with me in unison. "Into my heart, into my heart, come into my heart, Lord ...

885. When God Is Your Guide

Acts 20:13-38

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... : "Many things about tomorrow I don't seem to understand; but I know what holds tomorrow, and I know He holds my hand." When Charleton Heston was training to drive the chariot in the classic movie Ben Hur, he said to the director Cecil B. DeMille, "I can barely stay on this thing. I can't win the race." DeMille replied, "Your job is to stay on it. It's my job to make sure you win." Our task is to be faithful; it's God's business to make us winners. Remember: When God is your guide, any road is good.

886. Is Someone Knocking?

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... named Amos who missed the birth of Christ. He remained with the flock to tend a frightened sheep giving birth to a lamb. When the other shepherds returned from Bethlehem, one of them asked Amos sarcastically, "Did some great voice from heaven tell you to stay here instead of going to see the Savior?" "No," replied Amos, "but to my heart, there came a whisper." The ancient innkeeper of Bethlehem knew how to respond to a whisper at midnight, the plea from the powerless, the needs of a peasant couple in ...

887. Night Fighters

Sermon

James Bjorge

... blackest night a shaft of light will appear, and it can shift your attention from despair to hope. Robert Frost wrote the lines, So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds on and be stayed. We all need it ... some kind of guidepost or hitching post, some kind of assurance that the world and ourselves aren’t falling to pieces. And in the vague and groping darkness of our world the Star of Bethlehem is always there. Yet in the ...

888. Naaman, the Leper

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Don Yocom

... she ought to put out of His view. After some talking, the Master said, "Perhaps you didn’t understand me. I have come to stay." She answered, "I am delighted!" Then, producing some keys, she gave one to Jesus and took Him to a room. "This room can be ... of valuable things that no one but I can see." "Then, if that is true, I must go," was the Master’s reply. "If I stay in your home, you must trust Me. Every room, every drawer, every box must be open to my inspection." The lady awakened from her dream and ...

889. Last Ditch Stand

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... Tom - Tom died. HELEN: Oh, John, I’m so sorry! JOHN: Right ... under my hands ... Tom and I - we were kids together. HELEN: I know. JOHN: We played football together in high school. Then college. He - he was best man at our wedding. Remember how he stayed with me the night Nancy was born? We walked and walked ... [he breaks off] HELEN: [stands, hand on his shoulder comfortingly] I know ... You did all you could. JOHN: [rises abruptly] Did I? Really? [paces as he talks] I was his DOCTOR. I knew his smoking ...

890. Plan for Heaven

Hebrews 11:9

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... not where we are going to live forever. The longest time is going to be spent with God in heaven. A long time ago God had a very loyal tot lower by the name of Abraham, and wherever God told him to go Abraham went, and he stayed as long as God told him to stay. He lived in a tent because he knew that God was going to use him in a lot of ways and in a lot of places. He could move his tent wherever God wanted him to go, but he couldn’t move a house. Abraham wanted ...

891. Is Jesus Like A Stapler?

1 Timothy 2:5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... we can get together. I could try to put the God paper and the people paper together, but I don’t think they will stay. [Hold the two pieces of paper together and then let them fall.] They just will not work together. Then of course we have the ... course, what will happen when I use the stapler on the two pieces of paper. That’s right, they become tied together and they will stay together forever. That is exactly what Jesus did for God and for people. Jesus came from God and he was perfect and holy. Here ...

892. Just Common People?

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... of the herd, for a purpose. The Master’s query of His disciples: "What do ye more than they - these common people?" What makes you a living member of His Church? Being a good, harmless citizen? Who has no flagrant vices? Who never gets into trouble? Who stays out of the police courts? Pays his taxes? Come off it! This Kingdom is not a little company of respectable people. What effect do you think it would have had on the world if this is what it was? Instinctively, we know that this world is in desperate ...

893. Are You a Gold-Painted Rock?

Matthew 7:15

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... sound so good at first to all of you who go to school, but it’s almost terrible for the brothers and sisters who have to stay at home because they’re not old enough. Did you know that the children who aren’t old enough only want to go to school so that ... they can be with you and the other boys and girls? And you that get to go wish that you could stay home. Things never seem to be what they look like, do they? I want to show you something that I found out in my backyard when I ...

894. TANNER

Acts 9:43

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... water, so we find that they lived outside of the cities. The Simon in our text lived by the seaside and, as a note to consider, it was an example of Peter’s changing attitude toward what he considered to be clean and unclean, that he would consent to stay with a person of such an occupation. In fact, it was in the house of Simon that Peter had his vision of a sheet of things which God had declared to be clean! In practicing his trade, the tanner first removed the hairs from the hides by soaking them ...

895. TENTMAKER

Acts 18:3

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

Acts 18:3 - "And because he was of the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers." Because of the general use of tents by the Hebrews ... course, is the most famous tentmaker that we know. But, as our text reminds us, there were many of them, including Aquila and Priscilla, with whom he stayed while in Corinth. Today he would have been right at home working with our modern tentmakers (for those of us who enjoy camping and the great outdoors), those who work ...

896. The Prodigal Daughter

Drama

Maxine Dudley

... this what you really want to do with your life? Sarah: Yes, it is. All my friends are going to New York to find a job in theater, modeling or art. I want to go with them. I don’t want to stay here by myself. Mother: I would rather you get a traditional education, but I cannot make you stay. (Mother walks to the safe and removes several thousand dollars and gives it to Sarah.) Mother: Here, I give you this with love. I will miss you dearly. And I hope that some day you will return home. (Mother hugs Sarah ...

897. A Season Of Joy

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Robert Allen

... clerk - was smiling. In that moment, there was joy in our hearts and lives as we watched that little boy cuddle the puppy. As we move through each Christmas season, we are aware that joy came into this world for more than a moment. Joy came into this world to stay in the birth of the child of Bethlehem. There is no other religion in the world that presents its God as a helpless baby. You want your God to be king ... You want your God to be large ... You want your God to be in control of everything. That is ...

898. The Gospel In Miniature

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Robert Allen

... Well," the young Marine said, "When I walked into the room, I knew there had been a mistake and the wrong Marine had been dispatched. But, I also knew that he was dying and needed his son, so I stayed." We all need someone. Everybody needs someone and God’s gift to this world is his presence in Jesus Christ. Elizabeth Barrett Browning once wrote a love sonnet to her husband, Robert. One morning at breakfast she slipped it into his pocket and ran upstairs. He opened it and read: ...

899. I Love A Parade

Matthew 21:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Robert Allen

... a display of boldness as Jesus’ parade through the streets of Jerusalem. Sometimes we forget that Jesus was an outlaw to the religious authorities of his day. They had already tried to stone him once before. Common sense should have warned Jesus to stay away from Jerusalem - to stay in Galilee or in the desert. If he absolutely felt that he must go to Jerusalem for the Passover, caution demanded that he enter the city secretly. But Jesus entered the city in such a way that every eye focused upon him. The ...

900. Jesus Brings People Together

Ephesians 2:14-18

Children's Sermon

Erskine White

... a different country, speak a different language or have a different point of view about important questions. In Jesus’ day, the grown-ups built an actual dividing wall inside the temple in Jerusalem. One group of people were told to stay on one side of the wall, and the other group of people had to stay on the other side of the wall. Imagine what that was like! Imagine us having a high wall running right down the middle of our church, with blue-eyed people worshiping God on one side and brown-eyed people ...

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