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1026. Childs of Center Point

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... is happening. I’m not anxious to see them lose their jobs. But why can’t they be honest and admit that the company is killing people? I thought we were a community of love. Is love just something that works when times aren’t tough? BILL CHILDS: (drops an envelope on the table with disgust) Hate mail. That’s all it is. Pure hate mail. And what bothers me the most is, I suspect it’s from a member of our congregation. EVIE CHILDS: Janice Roberts said something to me the other day that bothered me ...

1027. What’s Your Name?

Genesis 2:4-25

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... I? So that’s what I’ll tell you now. Do you see my hand that I’m holding up in the air? Now keep watching it and when I bring it down, I want you all to say your names in a normal tone of voice. Are you ready? (Drop your hand.) Now, I’m going to write your name on these name tags. After you put it on, everybody will be sure to know who you are. (Give each one their tag.) And I’d guess you all like being called your name by other people. I think you ...

1028. Feeling Good

Philippians 4:2-9

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... under "Not-so-good." Would it feel good if your mom sat down and watched a television show with you? Yes. Then I’ll put the word "Mom" under the word "good." How would you feel if you were carrying a plate full of spaghetti and tomato sauce and you dropped it? Not-so-good. I give that a check under "Not-so-good." I’ve put only check marks under the words "Not-so-good" because I don’t want you to remember the not-so-good things that sometimes happen to you. I want you to think about the ...

1029. A Scout is ... Helpful

Philemon 1:11

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... Scout uniforms someday? If you’d become a Scout, would you help people? That’s what Scouts do. They help people. What are some ways both boys and girls can help people? (Discuss.) We can put away toys here at church and at home, pick up something somebody drops, hold the door open for some people when they’re coming into the church. I hope you’ll keep thinking about helping people. If you do, you’ll probably think of ways to help that we haven’t even thought of today. When you help people, they ...

1030. Partners in the Impossible

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Richard Patt

... books, and a coveted Saturday night date. With the way I know she helps her family at home, and with a typically rushed high school schedule, this seventeen-year-old nevertheless is doing something I consider unusual. Every day, I mean every day, she drops by at a nursing care home near her school. There she visits with an elderly member of our parish - an old lady far removed in years and vitality. This beautiful young girl excites the memory and imagination of this forgotten senior Christian by sharing ...

1031. Give Me Jesus!

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Richard Patt

... And in a way it is simple, isn’t it? It’s all very simple - this man of Nazareth who came among us as the innocent babe of Bethlehem, who grew to sterling manhood and walked along the shore, just calling out to Andrew, "Follow me!" and Andrew dropped his nets and found a new Master to follow and serve; the kind actions of his hands as he reached out and healed a poor soul, or in simple language pronounced a word of forgiveness to a troubled heart. The parables of Jesus are unforgettable because of their ...

1032. Divine Alka-Seltzer

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

... one family or one individual can bear so much; but then you realize that their suffering is true, and you cry. People of faith seem to respond in one of two ways to the suffering of the world. The first way can be symbolized by a well-known commercial. [Drop two Alka-Seltzer tablets into a glass of water.] "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is." I call this response the divine Alka-Seltzer response. We pray to God for relief to help us escape our human ills and troubles. We beseech God to keep us ...

1033. Just Follow The Signs

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... have been a Star that will never again be seen. The Star was not the only sign given in our text, however. The Star was the sign God gave to the Wise Men. The Wise Men were the sign God gave to King Herod. Think about it: When these strangers dropped in from nowhere asking Herod about the new King of the Jews, that must have gotten Herod’s attention much as the Star got the Wise Men’s attention. When the Wise Men came to Herod asking about Jesus, that was God’s action in Herod’s life calling him ...

1034. Where’s the Power?

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... our desire cannot change that. In the book of 1 Kings we read about a widow and her son who were powerless to do anything about their fate. They had run out of food. Everybody had run out of food. There was a famine in the land and people were dropping like flies. The widow had enough left for one meal and after she and her son ate that, they were going to lie down and die. She did not want to die; she wanted to live. She wanted to eat and to feed her son. But she couldn’t make ...

1035. "I Don’t Hate Any More!"

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

A. E. Housman, in a brief verse, uncovers the awfulness of hate: I see In many an eye that measures me The mortal sickness of a mind Too unhappy to be kind. Undone with misery, all they can Is to hate their fellow man; And till they drop need must still they Look at you and wish you ill. That is a plague I would hope to escape. E. Stanley Jones shares his keen insight into the self-destruction of hate. He reminds us that "a rattlesnake, if cornered, will sometimes become so angry it will bite itself. ...

1036. Coping When It Seems Impossible

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... impoverishment but for their enrichment."[2] Leslie D. Weatherhead, the great English preacher of the last generation, describes a difficult incident in the life of a pastor and his secret of coping: He had come home from a difficult meeting, tired and disappointed. He dropped into his chair with deep bitterness in his blood. He wanted to write a letter to crush his opponent. Destructive and mean phrases began to form in his mind. He tried to pray, but didn’t really want to. He then tried an experiment ...

1037. Spiritual Blindness

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... the other. "Of course not." The first man paused; there by the downspout of an old brownstone house was the cricket. Said the first man, (a biologist), "Do you want to know what most people are listening for?" With that he drew a silver dollar from his pocket, dropped it with a resounding ring on the sidewalk. A dozen people immediately stopped and started looking around. We hear, as a rule, what we want to hear. We see, usually, what we want to see. We go, in most cases, exactly where we want to go. Again ...

1038. Counting The Cost?

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... , but it is all part of ministry. At this particular time the hours and miles were catching up with me. I was overfatigued! I sat visiting with one of my members in Piedmont Hospital. As we talked, I felt my own pulse, and thought, "If I must drop, this hospital is as good a spot as any." After prayer with that member I got in my car and wearily drove to make another call. As I was walking down the corridor of Georgia Baptist Hospital, I passed the nurses’ station. Some angel of mercy had posted ...

1039. Science is Amazing

Luke 24:36-49

Illustration

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 ...

1040. Power

Mark 10:35-45

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... ? How am I supposed to be their servant? CARL: Listen to them. TIM: We have a suggestion box. CARL: How many suggestions do you get? TIM: A few. CARL: I know. Remember, I used to have your job. I know that it takes Time to write out a suggestion and drop it in the box. How many do you answer? TIM: We use a few. CARL: You use a few of the few. There's a better way. By listening to your workers. In that way they get the chance to explain it and you can watch their gestures and facial ...

1041. Counting the Cost

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... use. I can see how it is done but I am not up to doing it." Just so, if our Lord is only an example, he is an impossible example, for we cannot come anywhere near copying him. And if our Lord is merely a teacher, we would soon become drop-outs from the school of discipleship. How can we become real Christians? The true answer lies in one word with which Luke introduces our Lord’s speech on discipleship. "He turned and said to them." The disciples did not have to look at Jesus’ back when he was speaking ...

1042. Easter People

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... had not risen from the dead, our final destiny would be complete extinction. During the many centuries when men held the earth to be flat they did not dare to venture too far out on the ocean. They feared that they would reach the edge of the world and drop off into nothingness. This fear lurked in the minds of the men of Columbus and prompted them to mutiny against the commander who ordered them to sail on and on and on. The voyage did not end in the abyss, however, but in the discovery of a new continent ...

1043. The Priesthood of All Believers

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... supposed to have seen and heard but they themselves have never experienced. We must ask: What is there in my life that requires Christ to explain it? Too often in reciting our sublime creeds and singing our lofty hymns it is as if we had been dropped to these mountain heights from an airplane in a parachute. We have never climbed to these heights. The first rule of the spiritual life, said Jeremy Taylor, is to be honest with God. It was for this lack of spiritual honesty that Kierkegaard sourged the state ...

1044. As We Remember - Memorial Day

1 Chronicles 11:10-25

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... up to your brow the crown of our people’s suffering. And standing at your altar we vow as a nation: only over our bodies does the oppressor come near you, only when the last arm has stiffened, still grasping the hilt, only when the last drop of blood has been spilled before you." It was this spirit which girded the Finnish patriots when two decades later they stood up bravely in defense of their freedom against an overwhelming oppressor. Today we honor the Americans who have defended our freedom in the ...

1045. God’s Wounded Healers

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... once in a while, of the transience of things, my tininess in this universe, and how fleeting it all is. Bobby, at one point, looked up at my face, which must have been pensive, and said, "Daddy, are you lonely?" I looked down at him and nodded. He dropped his rock and came over and hugged my leg, and the two of us stood there for a moment, looking out over the water. Henri Nouwen gives us some language and concepts to help us understand our loneliness. He says: When we are impatient, when we want to ...

1046. JESUS: Liar, Lunatic, Legend, or Lord

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Nazareth north of here. How is it then that you say you are the bread which came down from heaven?” It’s a rather easy question to pose. Jesus is the 29-year-old boy of Joseph. Born of flesh and blood, as the rest of us. God did not drop him down from heaven like some Prophet of old sent back to judge God’s people. The only conclusion you can come to, armed with this information, is that Jesus is lying! You cannot come from the womb of Mary and also come down from heaven. It’s either one ...

1047. Backsliding

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Brett Blair

... periods in our lives when we are more susceptible to doing what these disciples did, turning back and no longer following him. The college years, for example: Out of earshot and eye range of mom and dad, the college student is often tempted to drop church. When a couple first gets married. So often love is blind concerning the spiritual relationship of marriage and faith is ignored. The promotions years, when we are climbing the corporate ladder: God so often gets crowded out of the picture. Perhaps most of ...

1048. Creeds or Deeds

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Brett Blair

... The guest of honor had never seen a British finger bowl, and no one had thought to brief him before hand about its purpose. So he took the finger bowl in his two hands, lifted it to his mouth, and drank its contents--down to the very last drop! For an instant there was breathless silence among the British upper crust and then they began to whisper to one another. All that stopped in the next instant as the Queen, Victoria, silently took her finger bowl in her two hands, lifted it, and drank its contents! A ...

1049. Lip Service

Mark 7:1-23

Illustration

Brett Blair

... . The guest of honor had never seen a British finger bowl, and no one had thought to brief him beforehand about its purpose. So he took the finger bowl in his two hands, lifted it to his mouth, and drank its contents--down to the very last drop! For an instant there was breathless silence among the British upper crust and then they began to whisper to one another. All that stopped in the next instant as the Queen, Victoria, silently took her finger bowl in her two hands, lifted it, and drank its contents ...

1050. The Man Who Couldn't Hear

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . Returning from a trip, the Father did something that was very unusual for him. As he entered into the room he presented his daughter with a necklace that he had bought her. Completely overcome with joy by this unexpected act of giving, the young girl inadvertently dropped the necklace and went running from the room with tears in her eyes. She returned shortly only to find as she walked into the room that her new necklace was now around the neck of her infant baby sister. "Oh," said the father. "I went on ...

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