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1001. Mold Me and Make Me

Isaiah 64:8

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... it on a wheel, add a little water, and mold this clay into anything he or she wants it to be. In this case, the potter made a bowl. Application: The Bible says that God is the potter and that we are the clay. What do you suppose that means? (response) Yes God made us. Just exactly who we are, God made us. And God made us for a purpose. Just like a bowl should be a bowl, a person should do what God made that person to do. If God is the potter and we are the clay, then we ...

1002. A New Walk in Life

Romans 6:4b

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... ) How would you walk? With a limp? Ask one or two of the children to limp Why would you limp? Act as though you are limping Would you need to limp once you were healed? (response) No! You would have a new walk wouldn't you? Walk normally Application: The Bible says that because of Jesus' love that he showed by dying for us on the cross, we can walk in newness of life. What that means is that when we do not love God, we ...

1003. Be Nice!

Matthew 10:1-42

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... I need to take and ....I need some water to wash it down." Yes, that medicine sure can help a body when one is sick. Hope you feel better. Glad you're here. Pour a little more water and drink. That sure goes down easy! (response) What's wrong? (response) Give them some water? Why? (response) Ok, here's some extra cups. Give two children a cup and pour the water. Here you go. You can take the water to them. As the children are doing this: I guess that wasn't very polite of me was it? Not very courteous. You ...

1004. When a Member of the Family Dies

John 11:17-37

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... will do the job, but it might help a bit. So I want us to think for a few minutes about, "What you should do when a loved one dies." Cry The first thing you should do is cry. Crying is our natural response to pain. When a small child falls down and scrapes a knee, the first response is to cry. It's as natural as laughing when we're happy. But the sad thing is that too many children are taught not to cry. They are taught that tears are a sign of weakness. Parents will say, "Be a big ...

1005. Parable of the Crabgrass

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... and dad can tell you how terrible this grass is. They have probably spent hours down on their hands and knees trying to pull it up. But it never goes away; it just keeps popping back up. So, how do you think we can get rid of the crabgrass? (response) Application: There is another problem as well. Sometimes it is hard to tell the difference between the Bermuda grass and the crabgrass and if you try and pull up all the crabgrass you might pull up some of the good grass. It would also take too long. Sometime ...

1006. Cookie Cutter Christian

Romans 8:29

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... to the cutter. Whatever the cutter looks like, the cookie will look like it. Application: In the Bible, it says that God wants us to be conformed to the image of Jesus. What do you think that means? (response) If conform means to be cut-out like a cookie what does the Bible mean when it says to conform to the image of Jesus? (response) Yes, it means that we should try to be like Him. He was simple. We should be simple. He loved. We should love. He served God, we should love God. So the next time you eat a ...

1007. Many Parts, One Rose

Romans 12:1-8

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... apart rose in a box so that they cannot be seen. Lesson: Good morning friends. How many of you like flowers? (response) O good, I like flowers, too. Well guess what I brought with me today? Let’s look in the box and find out. (Pull out the stem, with ... a rose, isn’t it? It has petals, it has leaves, and it has a stem. That’s all of a rose, isn’t it? (response) Oh, it still needs something else, doesn’t it? (Now brings out the thorns.) Now it’s complete. It needed to have everything in order to ...

1008. Stumbling On

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... make walls around our toy army men. Make a small wall quickly around a toy soldier. Sometimes we would build a shelter for our toy animals. Now build a small enclosure for the toy animal But the favorite thing we always tried to do was what? Can you guess? (Responses) We would stack building blocks until they would get really high. Stack a few as you are talking But I had a little brother that would always come and knock them down. Sometimes we would play that game, and looking back on it, I know we had a ...

1009. A Created Purpose

Ephesians 2:10

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... is what we were created to do. So if we act unkindly to someone, are we doing what we we're created to do? (response) No, of course not. And if we take things that don't belong to us, or speak rudely to our parents or teachers, or if we see someone ... that needs help and we don't help them, are we doing what we were created to do? (response) Again, the answer is no. And so today and tomorrow and next week and every day after that, God wants us to find ways to do ...

1010. All Filled Up

Ephesians 5:18

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... to add life and not material things. Props: Some balloons not blown up, a piece of pizza (or any food item), some coins, and a shoe. Lesson: This morning I have brought something that I think all of you will like. Hold up the package of balloons. Who likes balloons? (Response) I do, too! Let's do something fun. Let's make them big so that we can play with them. Pull one balloon from the package Here goes, I'm going to fill this balloon to make it bigger. Pull a pizza slice out of the bag, and try to ...

1011. Don't Just Stand There! - Get Involved!

Luke 3:1-20, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Dr. John Thompson Peters

... air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." In other words, "Be sure to count the costs, young man." (Luke 9:57, 58) The second applicant is likewise enamored with the excitement of the situation, but is constrained to complete full parental responsibility. "Let me first go and bury my father." (It must be understood that this meant to live and care for his father until the latter's death.) Jesus' reply is sharp and terse, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and ...

1012. Why I Believe In The Resurrection

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

... she meets the gardener and then the gardener calls her by name. “Mary,” he says. Can you imagine the look in her eyes and she turns and looks into his. Do you remember what she said? The joy of that first Easter can be found in her one word response, “Rabboni!” She yells. “Teacher!” And from what John tells us she must have leaped into his arms. Jesus tells her not to hold onto him just yet. Now I want you to listen to this next thing Jesus tells Mary. It is the job description for the church ...

1013. The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... who fell among robbers. Well, of course, you could not possibly miss the point. The lawyer responds: The one who showed mercy. Now a very interesting thing has happened. A lawyer has asked a question which in effect says: “What is the outer perimeter of my responsibility? At what point am I no longer liable? Where does it cut off.” In effect he is asking: where can I quit loving? The answer that he probably wanted was: All faithful members of the Jewish faith or all members of the Jerusalem Bar. That ...

1014. Religion - One Way to Get in God’s Way

Zechariah 7:1-14

Sermon

... wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than eight thousand people. This is not a way of life at all. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. Has anything changed in response to this gut-wrenching plea from a man who has experienced the terrors of war firsthand? Thirty-two years after the Eisenhower statement and forty years to the day of the first atomic device at Los Alamos, New Mexico, five of the major scientists engaged in ...

1015. Authority Through Servanthood

Matthew 20:20-28, Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... her boys in the front seats ahead of anyone else. With a little effort and imagination, you can see the same thing in your own life. Still to Be Seen in Our Time and Life Jesus was talking about the rancid fruit of misplaced authority in his response to the Zebedee family, mother and sons alike. ... if you know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and their great ones exercise authority ... it shall not be so among you. (vv. 24-26) Every day in our world, people are frustrated and brutalized ...

1016. Your Calling from God

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

... that God was "not ashamed to be called his God." Is there something in this ancient story of Abram and his faithful response, which might instruct us in our own faith journey with God? Has the human situation really changed? Does God still call persons ... God has been faithful in his blessings of my life in ways I could not imagine; nothing would I rather have done than follow the response that I made to his call. Many of you understand that. Some of you believe you are where you are, doing what you are doing ...

1017. Is Repentance Necessary?

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

... , hoping it will not rot and smell, and that others will not see it. Are we ready to be honest, to see ourselves as we are and to consider our plight? Shall we ask the question the people asked Peter? "Brethren, what shall we do?" Listen again to his response. "Repent, and be baptized, every one of you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and be forgiven for your sins and you will be given the Holy Spirit." That is the honest way. That is the alternative to trying to create schemes, games, escapes and other ...

1018. Proper 23

Lk 17:11-19 · 2 Tim 2:8-15 · 2 Ki 5:14-17 · Mic 1:2, 2:1-10 · Ru 1:1-19a

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... faith. 3. Handling (v. 15). Paul is concerned that Timothy has the true gospel and that he is teaching the true gospel. The Gospel is the Word of God personified in Christ. While he is confined in prison, the Word is not chained. As a minister Timothy has the responsibility to preach the Word and to handle properly the Word of truth. This calls for hard work to determine what the truth is in the Word and to interpret it properly. The Word is not properly handled when it is used as a pretext for a sermon, or ...

1019. Lent 4

1 Samuel 16:1-13, Ephesians 4:17--5:21, John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41

Bulletin Aid

... God in his heart. And God chose him to be king of Israel. People: May our hearts be in tune with our Lord, that he may use us in his service. Collect Almighty God, who looks on the heart of those you call to serve you: Make our hearts responsive to your needs, that we may serve you faithfully in the work you would have us do. We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen. Prayer of Confession We have not considered ourselves to be your anointed servants, Father; and so we have not been too faithful in our service ...

1020. A Faith-Life To Emulate John W. Cobb

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

... words ‘counted to him’ have not been written for him alone but for us as well; faith will be counted to us as we believe in him who raised our Lord from the dead." (Romans 4:23-24) It is only a short step from obedience-in-trust to the response of God’s people in Christ. "If you are Christ’s then you are Abraham’s seed." (Galatians 3:29) One can recite his creed a thousand times, but if it does not become trust and obedience then one has not found faith. With such trust there is always the ...

1021. Don't Go Near The Water

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

... hearer's safety. Or it is essential to the completion of a common task. Or it is based upon mutual agreement. There are times, however, when we are not so sure that the words we speak ought to be obeyed. At least we shy away from taking full responsibility for them. I remember preaching on the Sunday several years ago when people were gathering in Alabama for the civil rights march on Selma. I said, among other things, that we sometimes wonder if and where the Spirit of God is at work in our times. Then I ...

1022. R.S.V.P.

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

... a crippling, disabling effect on the body. At the same time, I’ve found I need to treat people as mature, rational folks who are capable of making their own choices and decisions. I can then accept the "no" - but only as a penultimate and not an ultimate response. That is, a temporary and not a final answer. I am not God, only God’s servant; my mission is to issue the call, not stand in judgment. To accept their "no" as a final answer would be to take myself off the hook, perhaps to become selfrighteous ...

1023. In Defense of the One-Talent Servant

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

... . What you have is a gift, entrusted to you by your master. Yes, it is true that your resources are limited, but whatever you have, be it great or small, is important and needed, and therefore must be used and nurtured. One-Talent, people of our faith are responsible for the potential we have been given. Our God calls us for what we can become as well as for what we are. Others do have more talent than do you, One-Talent. But don’t you see, you cannot excuse your own lack of faith and poor stewardship ...

1024. Proper 16 & Pentecost 14

Isaiah 22:1-25, Psalm 95:1-11, Psalm 138:1-8, Isaiah 51:1-16, Exodus 5:22--6:12, Exodus 17:1-7, Romans 11:33-36, Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon Aid

... of Common Prayer appoints the entire psalm for Proper 20 of Series C. The psalm has only nine verses.) While this is clearly a song of thanksgiving for something God has done, the scholars can't agree on the occasion and reason for this thanksgiving; some see it as a response to Isaiah's vision of God in the Temple, others would go so far as to call it a psalm of David linked to the beginning of the royal line that God has established in him. Clearly, it is a song of thanksgiving and praise for the God who ...

1025. The Resurrection of Our Lord

John 20:1-9

Sermon Aid

... : CELEBRATION OF THE GOOD NEWS from the A.D. side of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the A.D. side of the birth of the Christian Church THE COMMUNITY GATHERS TO CELEBRATE THE COMMUNITY TAKES RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITSELF THE COMMUNITY RESPONDS TO GOD'S TRUTH The Ancient Word The Contemporary Word THE COMMUNITY ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY IN THE WORLD Concern of Christ's Parish for the World Commitment of Christ's People to the World Meditation at end of order of worship "Easter is not so much a date on the ...

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