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1151. A SUNDAY OF THE PASSION [PALM SUNDAY] SERMON-DRAMA

Drama

Tom Eberle

... and was not designed to be offensive. Scroll: May I quote your boss: On January 15th he stated, directly referring to the religious leaders, "You shut the door of the kingdom of Heaven in men’s faces; you do not enter yourselves, and when others are entering, you stop them." On February 2nd he also said of our religious leaders: "You travel over sea and land to win one convert; and when you have won him you make him twice as fit for hell as you are yourselves." Mr. Iscariot, can you sit here and tell me ...

1152. Are You Under Arrest?

Heb 5:11-13; 10:39

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... have never been arrested. Then again, I wonder whether that assumption is accurate. Most of us have never been arrested in the criminal sense of that term. Yet that term has another sense, and it is related by Random House in this fashion - "the act of stopping or slowing." There are some who have never enjoyed the hospitality of a local police department and who are nevertheless arrested in the most profound of senses! That is to say that they have ceased growing on one or more fronts. So far have they ...

1153. What Is Your Holy Week Address?

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... marketable. For one thing, they contained visible air bubbles, and for another, I had waited too long between pourings with a resultant and unwelcome variation in the shade of color. For a number of years I roomed with Friday’s defeat, and were that still my address I would have stopped right there. I had failed, period. Instead I persisted. I learned something about timing, and I became acquainted with steric acid, an ingredient that gives the candle more body and sheen. Failure is not a red sign marked ...

1154. Are You Still Frightened of the Dark?

Genesis 1:1-5 · John 1:4-5 · Psalm 139:11-12

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... , "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." Let’s be honest. There are times when we are exceedingly intolerant of other people. There are times when we are selfish, know it, but can’t stop it. There are times when we are self-indulgent, know it, but can’t stop it. There are times when we gloat over another’s failure, scorn another’s success, assassinate another’s character, attack another’s weakness, or boost ourselves up by pushing another down. Jesus knew this and that is ...

1155. THE WITCH OF ENDOR

Drama

Marcia Miller

... ’t! These dumb dances. What good does all this exercising do? It’s exercising, not dancing. It’s senseless and irrelevant. I won’t do another step. [She sits down on the floor - plop!] MUIDEM: Come on, Darcy. Endora will get mad at all of us if you stop. And, I, for one, do not care to dance one minute longer than necessary. DARCY: She won’t know. MUIDEM: She knows everything. She’s everywhere. And the sooner you learn that the better all of us will get along. DARCY: I don’t like this dancing ...

1156. WE ARE THE BELIEVERS: TESTIMONIES

Drama

Marcia Miller

... we ran out of wine at the reception. We hadn’t really planned on the extra people. Mary quietly came to our table and said she would take care of the problem. I thought she meant she would have the waiters go to buy more wine. But before anyone could stop her, Mary went to Jesus and told him to take care of the situation. I didn’t hear the conversation, but I do know what I saw. Jesus had the waiters fill six water pots with water. They were told to serve that. Nobody could understand why he would say ...

1157. Living Water for a Thirsty Soul

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Jews all agree that this is the place where the story took place. It was noonday at Sychar. The disciples went on into the village—we are told—to buy food. Someone has suggested that they were seeking out the stores that gave the clergy discount. Jesus stopped at the well on the outskirts for a brief respite from the sun’s blistering rays. When a woman of the village walked up Jesus addressed her: “Woman, give me a drink.” She was taken back that Jesus spoke to her for two reasons. First, men did ...

1158. A New Life

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the egg that died, and then after the service if your parents agree, I will give everyone a baby chick. Do you see what happened? The egg had to first die inside so that it could become a chicken. It had to stop being an egg if it wanted to be a chicken. Someday you and I have to stop living the way that we are and die. When we die God promises us that we will become something brand new. We will become a new person as God wants us to be. We will not become a baby chick, but we ...

1159. God Doesn't Change

James 1:17

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... are almost like God. But you and I know that sometimes a watch runs fast and sometimes a watch runs slow and sometimes if it isn't wound at the right time it will stop running. We also know that when I put new batteries in my flashlight the light is brighter than after I have used it for awhile and I know that in time it will stop burning altogether. But maybe it helps you to understand that there are some things we don't want to change and the most important of these is God. We would like to have ...

1160. Not For Sale at Any Price

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... best. It is like a young man who has many girl friends. One day he meets the girl of his dreams. For him she gathers up all the qualities of the other girls. This is the pearl of great price to him. Nobody needs to suggest to him that he stop seeing the other girls. Now he is not interested in being with anyone but the girl. It gets down to a matter of relative values. The merchant sells his other pearls to buy the best pearl. These other pearls are not bad, nor worthless. They have a certain value. Because ...

1161. The Deeper Meanings of The Christian Faith by Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... nice, large room, but it was like a barracks, for we each had a desk, a bed, and a clothes rack. We lived, studied, and fought up there. One night in the course of a friendly battle, our very dignified father with his pince-nez glasses came upstairs to stop us. For some reason I can’t explain, the three of us teenage boys walked up to him, as Bonanza characters, picked him up bodily off his feet, and laid him like a log on our shoulders and carried him downstairs to his floor. We gently and respectfully ...

1162. Miracle On Main Street by Dr. George A. Buttrick

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... Our life is beset fore and aft by mystery. Jean Paul Sartre tells us that at death we walk into nothingness. How does he know? He may be very surprised ten seconds after death. Nobody knows, if by "knows" we mean by scientific measurement. But people hope. The train stopped on the Utah desert in a little town. The only green spot on the landscape was the cemetery. How else do we know God? By judgment. Whatever the mystery of evil, we can’t wash our hands of the wrong we do. Here’s an instance. I found a ...

1163. Shoestrings and God

Matthew 5:21-26

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... is the only way that God will accept your offering. We know that this works, because the same thing is true with our shoestring. If we walk in the shoe with the broken shoestring, we will have a sore that will make our whole body ache. But if we stop and first fix the shoestring by tying it back together, we will not have a problem. People are like shoestrings. They need to be put back together again before they are much good. When they are broken or separated, they are very unhappy and cause big sores. But ...

1164. Virtue Won’t Hurt You

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... us to live with virtue. Life is sacred. It is a trust from God. No one should go through life marching to someone else’s cadence. We have to march to our own beat and tap those resources of character and strength which lie within us. We must stop this game of meeting other people’s expectations. We must live as virtuous people and quit justifying our shabby performances with excuses about how tough life is. Remember the man Jesus spoke of who took his talent and for fear of losing it buried it in the ...

1165. How To Be A Saint In A Storm

Acts 27:13-26

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... ? This is your captain. This pilot and co-pilot will be flying you overseas in a 747 jet - we will be flying non-stop to Frankfurt, Germany - we will be flying at a speed of about 650 miles per hour - we will be flying at an altitude ... look so great always, but it may well be at times the "saintliest" thing you can do in that moment. And Paul encourages them to NEVER STOP DOING WHAT YOU CAN! They are still working with the ship in the storm and decide to "lighten the ship" by throwing the wheat overboard. It ...

1166. Defended By the Divine

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... telling a group about a new unit that was being added to his church. It was an expensive project, and was not going well at all, funds were very slow in coming in. Late that afternoon of the same week one of the elderly widow women in his parish stopped by his study. "I have a gift," she said, and rather timidly extended to her surprised pastor her wedding ring. "Sell it, and give the money to the church building fund," she said. Gaining control of himself, he said to her, "My dear lady, it’s true we are ...

1167. The Little Miracle Before The Big One

Luke 22:47-53

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... he felt, what he thinks, what his troubles are - and now this one, he hears them call his name - Jesus - he cares, he notices his need and stops to fix it for him! Malchus stands afar off on Good Friday and can hardly stand it, for his new Friend of only a few hours ... of them all, set in contrast against the largest miracle of all time - the miracle of Redemption. Such a little miracle: He can stop to fix the ear of a slave, on the one hand - on the other, such a wondrous miracle that it affords salvation for ...

1168. Fingertip Embalming

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... stupid chapter in history than the Crusades, and when he returns, he finds the land under the scourge of the plague. And suddenly, he discovers that he has the plague, and so he bargains for some time that he might do something worthwhile before he dies. He stops at a wayside chapel along the way to make his confession to the priest. Here is part of what he says: "Is it so cruelly inconceivable to grasp God with the senses? Why should he hide himself in the mist of half-spoken promises and unseen miracles ...

1169. The Return to Catholicity

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... showed a middle-aged lady lying on the psychiatrist’s couch. There was a look of great agitation on her face. The doctor was saying to her: "Mrs. Murgetroyd, you just have to stop worrying about the changes that are going on in the church." Well, I hope that by this time, not only Mrs. Murgetroyd, but all of us, have stopped worrying about the changes, because we have come to realize that those changes have been instituted by Almighty God, through the power of his Holy Spirit. I also hope that we realize ...

1170. Cheering Stones

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... not at all likely that Jesus was guilty of this. He was not a manipulator of persons. He respected their dignity and freedom too much for that. But on this occasion he did receive and welcome their applause, and when some tried to get him to stop them, he replied, in effect, "Someone must cheer!" In Recognition Cheering was in order then, because it indicated recognition of the importance of his person: "Blessed be the King who comes in the name of the Lord!" This had not been recognized everywhere he had ...

1171. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... , sooner or later we get war - not possibly, but inevitably. Conversely, the only way to get peace is to fulfill the conditions of peace; that is, to strive, not superficially, but sacrificially, to eliminate the causes of war. This means that we should stop pouring out billions for armaments and all sorts of war preparations, for thus we increasingly create fear and suspicion and hate in the hearts of the people of other lands. The pacifist believes that the end never justifies the means, but rather that ...

1172. EPISODE 4: THE FOURTH WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... to Jesus days ago. JOHN: I know. It’s very strange. He didn’t seem ... MARTHA: He didn’t seem to care? JOHN: No. Not that at all. I can’t explain it. MARTHA: Where is he now? JOHN: Just up the street. MARTHA: Isn’t he...? JOHN: A man stopped him ... with a sick boy. MARTHA: What difference does it make? Lazarus is gone. JOHN: Where’s your sister? MARTHA: Mary’s in the church. The service is almost over. I couldn’t watch it to the end. Oh, John, why did it happen? Lazarus was a good brother ...

1173. EPISODE 7: MAUNDY THURSDAY

Drama

Robert Clausen

... always argue. BISHOP: Then, in your opinion...? MAN: He’s a nuisance. He needs to be put in his place. GOVERNOR: But I find nothing wrong with him. MAN: He’s a troublemaker. BISHOP: Deserving execution, am I right? MAN: Yeah, get rid of him. It’ll stop the arguments. GOVERNOR: He’s done nothing to deserve death. I’ll punish him and let him go. MAN: We don’t want him to run our lives. Put him out of the way. BISHOP: The voice of the people is insistent. GOVERNOR: Captain! CAPTAIN: [Entering] Yes ...

1174. In The Nick of Time

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... now eccentric for a family to sit down together and consult the will of God before making their decisions. I think that we have also mislaid not only the sense of belonging and intimacy, but the awareness of personal indebtedness to God. Every Christian knows, when he stops to think about it, that he owes his life and breath and his measure of happiness to his Maker. But it remains for him an academic assent; it is not a stimulating awareness. It does not strike home to him as tangibly as the bills in his ...

1175. The Wonderful "T" Word

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... over sixty years, ever since he became a Christian. He recalled Depression days when he and his wife had very little. But they always gave 10 percent off the top to the Lord. They had a small insurance policy which they valued very highly. Each month the insurance agent would stop by and collect the premium. One day when the agent came by, Bob and his wife did not have the money to pay him. They said to him, "We're sorry, sir, but we just don't have it this month." He smiled and replied, "Folks, I have good ...

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