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76. Forever and Ever

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... significant how God fulfills our needs. The food came out of the very little that the widow had just a handful of flour and a few drops of oil. Moreover, Elijah told the woman to first make a cake for him and then for herself and her son. It was not a matter ... is in our text. When the widow told Elijah she had no food to spare because she had only a handful of flour and few drops of oil, Elijah assured her that God promised: “For thus says the Lord the God of Israel, ÔThe jar of meal shall not be spent, ...

77. Delivery

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... whose speaking skills rival those of the multi-million-dollar-salaried network stars. Stiff competition! In addition there is probably a church not too far away which is imitating the "worship-as-entertainment" television style, and some people in your congregation are dropping hints that they like that style. Effective Speaking Thus far I have discussed how a sermon might be written with this new audience in mind. In the past, when the sermon manuscript lay completed on the desk, the pastor could sit back ...

78. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... to its lowest number since 1970. And while it sometimes seems fashionable to bash the young, consider this: according to the U.S. Department of Education, while in 1960 39 percent of our youth dropped out of high school, by 1990 the high school dropout rate had declined to only twelve percent. Indeed, by 1991 ninety percent of young Americans sixteen to 24 years old had completed high school. In its effort to provide every child with a high school education, the United States has ...

79. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... of an animal floating down the Niagara River. The eagle swooped down from his high perch and dug his talons into the body. He began to gorge himself on this newly discovered feast. As he ate, the alert eagle realized he was nearing the point where the water dropped over the falls. But he thought he was free to fly away whenever he wanted. He continued to eat. Finally, when the carcass reached the edge of the falls, the great eagle spread his wings to fly away. He could not budge. His feet were frozen to the ...

80. Serving With Water: The Washing

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... and what would continue to happen to those followers who remained faithful. There was no coming back for Judas; there would be no turning back for Peter and the others, once Jesus had washed them into slavery and service to his cause. The same is true of those few drops of water that once washed you and me into this great enterprise. And it's true of those tiny sips of wine and those tiny wisps of bread: they remind us again and again that, as Jesus served, we must serve; as he was obedient unto death, we ...

81. Lent

Sermon

Betty Lynn Schwab

... him but for themselves. The wood - he said - was green that day. But one day it would be dry and it would need their tears then. Reader 2: Later Jesus hung on the cross. A soldier pierced Jesus' side. Out of Jesus' side poured blood and water in drops upon the ground. Reader 1: Blessed and sprinkled, the gardens and fields of ancient Israel yielded abundant fruit. Reader 2: Having prayed as Jesus did, Jesus was able to be faithful to God - even though that meant death upon a cross. Reader 1: For you and me ...

82. The Passion of Our Lord

2 Corinthians 5:21

Sermon

... the ground." On different occasions Our Lord has predicted His death, for He has come to share His life for the life of the world, but now in the Garden, having seen a vision of the suffering that lay ahead of Him, His sweat became drops of blood. A condition known as Hematidrosis, or bloody sweat, where under great emotional stress, capillaries in the sweat glands can break mixing blood with sweat.1 This alone could have produced much weakness and possible shock; from this we can only imagine the inward ...

83. The Christian Life Consider Jesus

Hebrews 12:1-13

Bulletin Aid

... and run with perseverance the course marked out for us. Congregation: May we run straight for you, Lord. Let us drop the petty jealousies, unfounded prejudices and sin, which so easily discourages, as we behold your majesty. Leader: Let us fix our ... endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of God. Congregation: May we behold you steadfastly. Let us drop our fears as we consider the heavenly joys you have set before us. Leader: Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful ...

84. Listening or Hearing?

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... . They are people heavily traveled, people who are busy streets where there is nothing but hurry-hurry. To be more specific, path-like people are people who never allow themselves to be "plowed up" or "opened up." They are people who never wait for what God drops into that furrow. People who are paths may receive just as much "seed" as the open field that yields one hundred-fold, but this is of no avail to them. They watch religious telecasts, listen to table prayers spoken by others, listen to the Word of ...

85. Two Bodies for Two Worlds

Isaiah 26:1-21

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... you to heaven. Through all eternity, you will always be you. In other words, when a person dies, he/she does not get lost in the allness of God. It is like putting a drop of water into a bucket of water. After you put it in, where is the drop? It is lost in the body of water, and you cannot find the drop. For the Christian, a soul at death is united with God through Christ but not in terms of absorption but rather in terms of fellowship based upon individual identification. Consequently, with our new bodies ...

86. An Almost Anonymous Apostle

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

George Bass

... miserable condition ... Some people of course were killed immediately. Some of them who were strong enough to walk ... were walking in the streets in thousands but their hats were all burned, their faces burned, skin hanging down, their shirts and pants all burnt and dropped off. Some of the boys had only belts around; some of the girls maybe a pair of shoes, that’s all ... They walked in silence ... The shock was so great that they lost words - nobody spoke. They were hurrying in silence just like ghosts ...

87. Defended By the Divine

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... meal. This vial was nard, a very precious ointment from a rare plant that grew in India. But it was not just a few drops that this woman poured on the head of Jesus - she broke the flask and anointed him with the whole contents. Then the criticisms began ... ’t?) - and Mary just poured the whole bottle on Jesus! It didn’t seem to occur to her to think: "I’ll give him a few extra drops, or a fourth of it, or half of it, and save some of it" - she just, with a kind of wild abandon, tipped it up, and gave him ...

88. Measure of Success

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... all my expenses and have a nice fat bank balance? HENRY: [angrily] From lending money to your fellow students! PHILLIP: At interest, cousin! At good interest. HENRY: Phil, you don’t want to learn. All you want to do is make money. Why don’t you drop out and go to work? [Picture off. Spot on interview.] REPORTER: Our research shows you didn’t finish college. MAGNATE: No. My cousin Henry gave me some good advice. "Phillip," he said, "You are wasting your time and your talents here. Outside are all sorts ...

89. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... minds of many of the people who hear those words. The "sin" mentioned, many think, refers to the sexual act that produced the child now at the font, as a similar "sin" produced the parents. If they thought about it a little, most of these persons might drop the "sin" label, but the fact remains, that for a lot of people the conceptual act still seems somewhat "carnal," or "fleshly." That kind of appraisal of sex isn’t tied up with this Commandment. This guide for living does not see sex as sinful. Sex is ...

90. Chapter VIII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... main entrance." From the place where we stood all 250 of us were herded out to the designated area. The photo was snapped, and we were free to go. But you should have seen that lawn when we did! It was littered with tools and material that had been dropped by some of the fellows who had been standing there. They had thought they were being called out for a search, and had disposed of the loot that had been ticketed for home. At least one of the reasons that such thefts are becoming commonplace is because of ...

91. The Might of the Mite

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , hoping to have an audience. Then they would sort of "slam dunk" those coins into those brass receptacles, creating all kinds of racket. People noticed and were impressed. But Jesus was not. But then a poor widow slipped up to one of the receptacles and dropped in two tiny mites. These coins were called "leptons" which meant literally "thin ones." These two mites combined were worth 1/40th of a penny. They could purchase nothing more than a small crust of bread. Only Jesus had ears sharp enough to hear the ...

92. Resurrection: From Burn-Out to New Vision

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... from Elijah, a cloud no bigger than a man’s hand appeared in the western sky. The wind began to blow and the cloud grew and darkened and Elijah commanded the king and his people to hurry home before the storm struck. Finally, as the first drops of blessed rain began to fall on the parched earth, Elijah ran up the road toward the royal city of Jezreel. Ahab, had left Mount Carmel before Elijah, but with the miraculous strength from the Lord Elijah outran the king’s chariot. Elijah would be standing ...

93. Take a Close Look (At the Widow)!

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... or two. His skill is nowhere more evident than in his account of the widow with the two coins at the temple treasury. It is a gem of a short story. He makes it so easy for us to visualize the woman as she waits patiently in line to drop her offering into the chest with the trumpet-shaped tube. Without going into a detailed character study, he makes us feel that she is worthy of our profound admiration and respect. I. He shows us - without saying as much - a woman who is to be admired for holding fast ...

94. Finding the Truth That Makes Us Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... waited to hear my name. My face reddened. I perspired freely. I fidgeted nervously. I felt like crawling under my seat when my name was not called. I did not deserve my varsity letter. It was denied me because I failed to give my best on the track, and worse, dropped out of the race in the season’s most important meet. B. Many years later, I watched a lad go to bat in a Little League game. It was a close contest. Joe had struck out and grounded out in two previous turns at the plate. "Let me have your ...

95. The Parable of the Talents

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... would not be missed amid so much music, stopped playing. Suddenly, the great leader stopped and cried out, “Where is the piccolo?” The sound of that one small instrument was necessary to the harmony, and the Master Conductor missed it when it dropped out. The point? To the Conductor there are no insignificant instruments in an orchestra. Sometimes the smallest and seemingly least important one can make the greatest contribution and even if it doesn’t seem to make that big a difference to the audience ...

96. Clean Light

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... the light. It is a light that cauterizes and cleans. Indeed, the apostle writes, there is glory in God’s light, and he can assure us that even our bodies, our feeble, fickle, faltering bodies, can glorify God. Frances Ridley Havergal wrote: "Look at a poor, little, colorless drop of water, hanging weakly on a blade of grass. It is not beautiful at all; why should you stop to look at it? Stay till the sun has risen, and now look. It is sparkling like a diamond; and if you look at it from another side, it ...

97. The Reality Of The Resurrection

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Brett Blair

... I'm not sure how clouds are formed, but clouds know how to do it, and that's the important thing." OK. One was asked to describe how rain happens, the 6th grader said, "Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does." Uh huh. One defined a monsoon as a French gentleman. A couple more: One youngster said, "When planets run around and around in circles, we say they are orbiting. When people do it, we say they are crazy." True. One defined the spinal column as "a long ...

98. On A Picnic

Mark 7:1-23

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... everyday life. Our love will last forever, my darling, and this is the perfect spot for our love tryst. MANDI: (ENTERS STRUGGLING WITH A PICNIC BASKET AND OTHER THINGS AND CROSSES TO TODD) Oh, Toddy, my darling, love, why ever did you choose this place for our picnic? (DROPPING SOME OF THE MANY THINGS SHE IS CARRYING) Toddy, love dumpling, may I be so bold as to remind you that we have been walking for an hour now in God's paradise? TODD: Certainly, heart of my heart, you may so remind me. MANDI: Then, I do ...

99. The Powerful Moments that Change Your Life Forever

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

James W. Moore

... into this? I can’t do this. I don’t have what it takes to be a minister.” I drove back to the seminary campus. I went to see Dr. Fred Gayley who was my advisor, and Dr. Gayley was a real smart man. I told him I needed to drop out of the ministry and he said, “Jim, I’m real busy. Can you come back and see me next week?” He was buying some time. The next Thursday I went back to the hospital, went to the 8th floor of the neurosurgery ward, and I slipped in early because ...

100. Fish Bait

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... you fishers of men, fishers of men..." And the conclusion is simple: "So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him." Which is more the miracle here? The incredible catch of fish? Or the incredible catch of these men? They drop it all, give it all up - their business, their home, their way of life, and, if tradition is correct, their very lives themselves - all to follow Jesus. To "catch people." And down through two millennia of Christian history, that is how every generation of ...

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