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1101. What a Party!

John 2:1-11

Children's Sermon

Object: Some party napkins and some Pepsi or Coke Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you like a party? (Let them answer.) How do you feel when you go to a party? (Let them answer.) Do you feel happy? Do you feel good? Are you almost always sorry when it is over? That is the way I feel when I go to a party. Many years ago, Jesus was invited to a party after one of his friends was married. It must have been a big party, be cause he took some of his disciples with him. His mother was there and also ...

1102. Ready or Not

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

... up honor and even life for the sake of Jesus? Such talk can be like a sword itself, unsettling and threatening to all of us. Congregations probably do not want to hear about it. Some of us do not want to preach about it either. Many of us may also feel that there is not much that we can say about Jesus' words. It is a little like one of the first sermons I preached after my ordination. As part of a midweek Lenten series I spoke about suffering. One elderly gentleman thanked me for the sermon as he left the ...

1103. The Things That Are God’s

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

... other. The result was predictable. The puppet was pulled and thrown this way and that across the stage, as first one puppeteer and then the other pulled the string to an arm or leg, hand or foot. Our many loyalties and commitments can do the same to us. We may feel that the strings of power and persuasion tied to us need only be tugged a bit, and then we have to move as they direct. The company we work for, the government we live under, the family we belong to, the possessions we own (moreso, the one’s we ...

1104. When the Poor Become Rich

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

... ." They were blessed, not because they enjoyed an easy, undemanding life, but because they possessed an inner conviction of God’s presence despite stormy conditions and treacherous times. The year was 1735 when a young Englishman, fresh from study at Oxford, and feeling a divine call to do missionary work in the colony of Georgia, boarded a ship for Savannah. There he would take up the challenge of ministry to immigrants and Indians. But within days he found himself face to face with death. A ferocious ...

1105. Filled Up!

Acts 2:4

Children's Sermon

... drop of water. (Begin to pour out the water.) Of course the Holy Spirit is not water, and it is a different kind of filling up than what is happening here today. Being filled with the Holy Spirit means being filled with joy and love and other good feelings until you think that you are going to burst with happiness. Our volunteer is not being filled with those things, but instead he (or she) is just getting filled up with water. A lot of people are filled with things like food and drinks, but the Christian ...

1106. Changing Bad to Good

Romans 12:21

Children's Sermon

... keep that cough. I got rid of it, and do you know how I got rid of it? (Let them answer.) That's right, I took some cough syrup. The old cough gave up when I took this good medicine that was so smooth and made my chest and throat feel good. I wouldn't want to take cough medicine all of the time, but I sure do like it when I have a bad cough. The cough medicine overcame the bad cough. It won, and I am glad. Cough medicine is a little like doing good. Jesus taught us that ...

1107. Are You a Scraggly Balloon?

Colossians 1:21-22

Children's Sermon

... had never lived before. We were free, and we all felt free. This is what Jesus did for us. He made us holy with his life and death, and we are grateful to him. The next time you see a balloon, see if it reminds you of yourself. If you feel happy and free of sin, then the balloon should be filled and riding high. If you are feeling full of sin, then the balloon should be all shriveled up and scraggly. I hope you find yourself ...

1108. Some Assembly Required

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

... us as our Creator intends us to be. And which one of us doesn’t need to be re-assembled today? Who among us is already completely put together in all of our parts, as the fully-constructed Christians God intends us to be? Well, some Christians feel they are completely assembled. They call themselves "saved" and "sanctified" and removed from the stain of sin, as if God has already made them into everything He wants them to be. Whatever God did to change them has already been done, and now they are "blessed ...

1109. Lent 6

Mt 26:14--27:66 · Php 2:5-11 · Isa 50:4-9 · Ps 31

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... : that, fortified from within, we may do every sacred task and make any terrible sacrifice that service to you requires. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Everloving God, we confess with dismay that we often take the moments of Godforsakenness that we all feel from time to time as an excuse to abandon our ministry and mission in service to you, and to do instead works and deeds of self-service and self-enrichment. Forgive us our inconstancy, we pray, and set our sights so firmly on the image ...

1110. Easter 6

John 14:15-31

Sermon Aid

... to "O Come, All Ye Faithful." Message with the Children of All Ages Consider this: ask the children if they've ever felt alone, or if they've ever been lost in the woods. My son wandered away for twenty to thirty minutes, and we panicked. Describe the feelings. The disciples probably felt the same way when Jesus was crucified; they were so lost, their leader, Peter said, "Let's go home and go fishing; it's all over." Somehow, in some way, Jesus convinced them that he would come to them in a new way, through ...

1111. Trinity Sunday

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon Aid

... Sunday, emphasizes both our receiving and sharing the Good News. Pastoral Invitation to the Celebration One pastor began this way: "How did we come to worship today? Did we come feeling sad because we lost a relationship recently, feeling angry because someone dragged us here, feeling frightened because of what's happening around us and to us, feeling joy and wanting to share it with our friends? Did we come out of habit, to learn something, to restore our sense of values? For whatever reason we came, we ...

1112. Sole Brother

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

... despite their late departure. Another man left town that morning about two hours behind the ministers. He had just gotten off his night shift at the bakery. After seven hours on his feet moving to and from those miserably hot ovens, it felt good to sit down. It would feel even better to get some sleep, but his mother was expecting him in time for lunch and he didn’t want to disappoint her. She hadn’t been very well lately, his visits seemed to mean a lot, and he wanted to be there to do what he could ...

1113. Surprise! Surprise!

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... circulated among all of you all night. I’ve heard the things you’ve said, and if you can’t identify with these newcomers, please feel free to leave. I won’t make you uncomfortable by making you sit down with them. But if you want to get to know them ... for such open-handedness from the beginning. But it can catch us by surprise when we get comfortable in the narrowly-defined groups which feel the best to us. It can shock us and completely fool us when the architect puts on a mask and dirty clothes and ...

1114. Repent Your Way To A Merry Christmas

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... any information about her identity. The couple entrusted that letter to a lawyer and one day the young man will read the message which his mother wrote on the day when with breaking heart, she parted with him. I wonder what she wrote? If I had to condense all I feel about life and love into a few precious words what would I say? I would have no time for trivia. I would not be concerned about economics, politics, the weather, the size of house or the type of car. At such a time I would want to dwell on the ...

1115. Bitter-Sweet Recollections

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... he carried for us all. He had never known sin, and now he bears the sin of the world! We have trouble understanding how heavy this staggering weight was to Jesus. We sin, often easily and casually, but we don’t always feel it. As an Indian evangelist was preaching, a flippant youth interrupted him. "You talk about the burden of sin," he sneered. "I feel none. How heavy is the burden? Eighty pounds? Ten pounds?" The preacher answered, "Tell me, if you laid a four-hundred-pound weight on a corpse, would it ...

1116. Stuffed Bodies and Skinny Souls!

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... same position as Marge whose life is "Blah"! Life has lost its zip, its excitement. We want true life, something worthwhile to do and live for. Many of us are like the Easter chocolate bunnies - hollow inside. What can fill us with good things, good thoughts, and good feelings? Our text says, "Hear that your soul may live." Hear the Word of God that tells us good things. You are loved. You are precious enough for God to die for you. You are a child of God destined for eternal life. Hear the good news and ...

1117. Count Me In!

Isaiah 56:1-8

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples." Foreigners (non-Jews) were allowed to "join themselves to the Lord." The universality of God was a problem also in New Testament times. At the time of Jesus, there continued the feeling that God was for Jews only. This feeling was expressed in today’s Gospel lesson (Matthew 15:21-28) when a Canaanite woman begged Jesus to heal her daughter. This Canaanite woman was a Gentile, a pagan. What right did she have to call upon a Jewish rabbi to help ...

1118. Victim or Visionary

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... our family life, all cast us at times in the role of victim. However, here is a question for you. It is a question for everyone who feels helpless. Are you only a victim? Is that all you can say about yourself? That you are a victim of your world? Or can you say something ... is happy, one is unhappy, one wins, one loses, finally one dies. That is all. Joy and suffering are simply what one feels at the moment; they have no meaning beyond that; they pass away as they came; they point in no direction; they ...

1119. Gentle Touch

Isaiah 42:1-9

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... is a bruised stick, hold up the partially broken stick, he will not break it off. Jesus is gentle. Jesus is not going to hurt us with the things that are already broken. So if we know someone that has something wrong with them, we must be gentle with their feelings. If someone acts badly, we shouldn’t make fun of him or her. That would be like breaking off part of them. Rather, we should be like Jesus is with us; and that is very gentle with other people. Let’s Pray: Dear God, just as Jesus was so ...

1120. The Disciples’ Dumb Dream

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... on children! We are greater than that, good enough to be an advisor to the boss, or a disciple of the master. And the Master asked them that embarrassing question. It grew very quiet when he asked, "What were you talking about?" You can almost feel the flush in their faces. Jesus had been talking with them about his coming death. He even told them about the resurrection, but they didn’t understand. They were too busy. This Jesus was something else! Something big was happening around them. That much they ...

1121. Stephen’s Stones

Acts 7:54--8:1a

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... like Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, and Bobby Kennedy are familiar to all of us. We’ve seen real shootings on television news reports that seem less real than the actors in popular police serials. In living color, we can watch a war half a globe away and feel little more empathy or pity than in a John Wayne western. We have, in short, been super-saturated in blood. We are used to it. We accept it. We see blood flow in the streets of the cities of the world minutes before we eat our suppers at home ...

1122. A Tale of Two Cemeteries

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

George Bass

... make their way to what might be called "the church over in the corner." People - Roman Catholics - visit that shrine every day of the year, simply because it is one of the seven pilgrimage churches that remains in the city of Rome. Somehow, the feeling persists that the people who enter that church - St. Lawrence Outside the Walls - to pray are not, for the most part, seeking to gain indulgences that will benefit them after death. The church seems to have deeper significance to many than that; the people ...

1123. The Spiritual Fitness Demands of the New Age

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... to be overweight spiritually: groggy, sluggish. Perhaps we need to work out on the weights or to start jogging. The story goes that when a man was asked how he was feeling, he answered: "I just feel medium." "What do you mean by medium?" "Well, I feel worse than I felt yesterday; but not nearly as bad as I’m going to feel tomorrow." Or it’s like an old song I heard last night: "I’m down in the depths on the ninetieth floor." These people need some spiritual calisthenics. Even Paul admitted that ...

1124. THE AGE OF ANXIETY

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John H. Krahn

... sufficient for the day." We need not rehearse all the problems with the economy, crime, terrorists, and assassination attempts. The evening news plays the same familiar tune night in and night out. Sometimes we feel that these days we have to take the bad with the worst. Much of the time we feel apprehensive about the future. Feeling uneasy, we sometimes wonder what impending ill will befall us next. In the light of many troubles, the Sermon on the Mount seems to be a tough saying from Jesus. It states that ...

1125. What Are You Going to Do About Death?

Mt 10:28 · Lk 12:4

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... cells, molecules and atoms that make up my brain. My consciousness is more deeply related to God than to material structures - I feel this, I know this deeply! Dean Albert Russell had a very deep influence on me when I was a theological student at ... s house are many dwelling places." - I believe it. I am not afraid. Perhaps now we can grasp more fully the depth of Emerson’s feeling when he wrote: And now my chains are to be broken; I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live - Life will ...

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