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1176. Wedding: Leaving, Uniting, Becoming One

Genesis 2:4-25

Bulletin Aid

Derl G. Keefer

Hear these words from the first book in the Bible, Genesis, chapter 2, verses 18-24 (TEV): Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him." So [God] took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then [God] brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they all got their names. So the man named all the birds and all the animals; but not one of them was a suitable companion to help him. ...

1177. A Sheep Of Your Own Flock

Psalm 23:1-6

Eulogy

Barbara G. Schmitz

No two ways about it, it has been a difficult few days, and we are in a difficult time. N., who has been part of our lives for so long, whom we have come to know and love and care for deeply, has died. We wish it weren't so. We wonder how we can go on without him [her]. We have unanswered questions. We know fear, and grief, and sorrow all rolled into one. Many years ago, there was another person who had some of these same feelings. Not sure where to turn. Scared to death. Heartbroken. A shepherd by ...

1178. Sharing What We Have

James 5:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some very tarnished silver. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have some silver things around your house? Do you know of a silver tray or a silver bowl that is not used very often? [Let them answer.] Maybe you will remember if you have something silver, when I show you something that I have brought with me. [Show them the tarnished piece of silver.] Do you have anything that looks like this? [Let them answer.] This is tarnished silver. It doesn't look very pretty does it? It isn't pretty ...

1179. No One is Exempt From Doubt

John 20:19-23

Illustration

Brett Blair

Some of you may remember Dave Dravecky, former pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. At the peak of his career in 1991 he lost his pitching arm to cancer. Those who watched his 1989 comeback will never forget the Montreal game. Dave's left arm snapped with a deafening crack that could be heard in the stands. The comeback quickly ended. It was a devastating experience. It is bad enough to have cancer, let alone face the amputation of an arm, but then on top of that, to lose a promising career as a major ...

1180. Old Favorite

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

Most of us play favorites, whether we admit it or not. All parents try to love their children with equal devotion. That’s hard to do. My own parents had a favorite: it was my sister, I’m convinced. Yet from her incorrect perspective, I was the favorite. Favoritism seems to be a part of our biblical perspective. Abraham and Sarah favored Isaac over Ishmael. Then old Isaac favored Esau the country boy, but his wife Rebekah favored pompous little Jacob. There’s no doubt old Jacob himself later favored and ...

1181. Economics: You Have Two Cows

Illustration

Staff

Definitions of Political/Economic Systems: Communism: You have two cows. The government takes both of them and gives you part of the milk. Socialism: You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. Fascism: You have two cows. The government takes both cows and sells you the milk. Nazism: You have two cows. The government takes both cows, then shoots you. Bureaucracy: You have two cows. The government takes both of them, shoots one, milks the other, then pours the milk down the ...

1182. Let Us Love One Another!

1 John 4:7-21

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

Organizing a community effectively can happen in many ways. Rules may be laid down, with the rewarding of the compliant and the punishing of those committing infractions; incentives may be posed as an approach to reinforcing some behaviors and discouraging others; distant goals may be identified with means of attaining them being explored; values may be clarified and extolled as a means of motivating adherence; and leaders may be delegated authority, serving as determiners of standards and arbiters of ...

1183. Sleepers, Wake!

Matthew 25:1-13

Eulogy

Barbara G. Schmitz

Part 2 Homilies Canticle: Benedictus Dominus DeusMusic: Sleepers, Wake! One of the most powerful hymns I have ever experienced is the Advent hymn, "Sleepers, Wake!" It was written and composed by a pastor in Westphalia during an epidemic rage in which over 1,300 of his parishioners took ill and died. As he stood by his flock, watching them collapse to the epidemic one after the other, he wrote "Sleepers, Wake!" It is nothing short of a wake-up call in the face of death: a summons to prepare for our death, ...

1184. Jesus: An Extension Cord

John 20:19-23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: An extension cord. Good morning, boys and girls. Today is one of the great days in the Christian Church. All over the world people who call themselves Christian are celebrating the Day of Pentecost. This is the day that the Holy Spirit was first known to all of Jesus' disciples. The Holy Spirit visited the disciples while they were staying in a room outside the city of Jerusalem. It was quite an experience, but one that Jesus promised them would happen after he left earth and went back to live with ...

1185. Friday -- The Good One

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

Mark J. Molldrem

A youngster in Sunday School asked the pastor, "If Jesus died on Friday, why do we call it good?" It seems contrary to reason to call this day Good Friday, when congregations around the world remember Jesus' death with black and an empty chancel. Images like these recount the day: forsaken, scorn, thorns, despised, grief, sorrow, wounded, tears, darkness, and death. How can we use a word like good in the same breath? What good can come from Jesus' death on the cross on a day long ago on a hill called "the ...

1186. A Very Special Name

Luke 2:21

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: A bottle, a whistle, a book, and a plant. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you stayed up until midnight last night? (Let them answer.) Isn't a new year an exciting time? (Let them answer.) There are a lot of exciting things that happen in a year's time, but one of the most exciting days of the year is starting. You know when December is over, and when January is starting, New Year's Day is happening. The first day of January is New Year's Day. It has a name, a special name that belongs ...

1187. The One Chosen

Matthew 16:21-28

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

Theme: There are those who would stop us from doing God's best and want us to do what is only good. They are stumbling blocks to us. Jesus is always our model for life and death. Summary: In a time in the future, when the government is exterminating children who are inferior and sterilizing parents who bear them, two people struggle whether to put their lives in danger to save others. Playing Time: 4 minutes Setting: The home of Itzak and Morah Props: A knapsack Costumes: Peasant Time: The future Cast: ...

1188. An Invitation

Matthew 22:1-14

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: An impressive invitation. Try to plan at least part of your service, if not the whole thing, for the children that day to make this point. Good morning, boys and girls. I have a great surprise for you today. How many of you think that church is just for big people? (Let them answer.) Don't you think that Sunday School is for kids, and church is for mom and dad and all of the other big people? (Let them answer.) How many of you listen to the sermon when I preach in the pulpit? How many of you go to ...

1189. A Recipe for You

John 17:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A recipe from your mother or grandmother. Good morning, boys and girls. I have something with me that is very precious. It is on this little card, but it means a lot to me and I would not trade it or do without it for almost anything. Can you guess what I have written on this card? (Let them answer.) I don't think you will ever guess it so I am going to read it. (Read the recipe until someone tells you what you are doing or mentions the word recipe.) That's right, this is a recipe and it is a good ...

1190. The Doctor for Sin

Matthew 9:12-13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A thermometer, a heating pad, and a bad cough. Good morning, boys and girls. I brought a few things that I have been using this week to share with you. (Bring out the heating pad and thermometer.) I have had all of the aches and pains that a person can have and still be living. In addition to this I have been coughing. (Give them an example of your very best cough.) When I cough it hurts right down to my toes. I don't know which are worse, the days or the nights. Have any of you been sick this week ...

1191. Only One Top Priority

Matthew 22:15-22

Illustration

Johnny Dean

I have heard it argued from both pulpit and pew that Jesus' words "Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's" mean that a Christian is duty-bound to love America, right or wrong. I'm sorry, but I cannot agree with that. One Christian writer has said, "The greatest service Christians can render to their country is to become actively concerned about the destiny of the church." I have also heard it argued that "Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's, and to God the things that are ...

1192. Ouch! Those Thistles!

Matthew 13:1-23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: Weeds, some with thorns and thistles. Good morning, boys and girls. Guess what I had to do this week that almost no one likes to do? (Let them guess.) I don't like to do many of those things either, but this week I did one of my most unfavorite things. I pulled weeds. How many of you like to pull weeds? (Let them answer.) It is an awful job because if you do not get the roots of the weed, you have to do it again in a very short time. But these weeds were really awful because they had thorns. Let ...

1193. Jars of Bad Candy

Matthew 22:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A jar full of candy. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have heard the word "hypocrite" spoken by someone? (Let them answer.) It is one of the favorite words for big people. They use it a lot. It is usually someone else they are talking about, but sometimes they use it when they are talking about themselves. It is a big word. Say it with me, hypocrite. One more time, hypocrite. Do you think that a hypocrite is someone good or bad? (Let them answer.) I have an example of a hypocrite with ...

1194. A Special Room

John 14:2

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A large doll house. Good morning, boys and girls. I have a special surprise for you today and one that I am sure the girls are going to just love. (Bring out the doll house.) How many of you have ever had a doll house? (Let them answer.) Doll houses are really something special to girls and I know a lot of boys who love to play with them also when they are little. I am always amazed at the number of rooms there are in a doll house. Sometimes there are more rooms in a doll house than there are in ...

1195. From Crumbs to Half a Loaf

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

On a Boy Scout camping trip, the little group of scouts hiked up a mountainside and made camp for supper. They discovered that they were low on water. They had barely enough water to make a little stew. Two boys were sent to find water and fill the canteens while the others stayed and cooked supper. Unfortunately the two seekers were over three miles from camp when they finally located some water. The other boys gave up on them and ate all the stew. When the two returned to camp they were extremely hungry ...

1196. When Your Lips Are One Place . . .

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: a stop sign (make one with posterboard, a red magic marker, and a popsicle stick) Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever been riding around in the car with your mommy or daddy and seen one of these signs? What does it say? So what happens when your mommy or daddy sees this sign? That's right, he or she stops the car right away. Then, they look both ways to make sure it's safe to keep going. Then they start driving again. But whenever you come to one of these red signs that look like this, you ...

1197. Choose One

Joshua 24:1-27, Psalm 70:1-5

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: Be pleased, O God, to deliver me. O Lord, make haste to help me! All: Let those be put to shame and confusion who seek my life. Let those be turned back and brought to dishonor who desire to hurt me. One: Let those who say, "Aha, Aha!" turn back because of their shame. All: Let all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation say evermore, "God is great!" One and All: But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, ...

1198. Be at Peace with One Another - Sermon Starter

Mark 9:49-50

Illustration

Brett Blair

One person armed with the Gospel of peace can change the world. Telemachus did. He was a monk who lived in the 5th century. He felt God saying to him, "Go to Rome." He was in a cloistered monastery but he put his possessions in a sack and set out for Rome. When he arrived in the city, people were thronging in the streets. He asked why all the excitement and was told that this was the day that the gladiators would be fighting in the coliseum, the day of the games, the circus. He thought to himself, "Four ...

1199. Rich Is What You Have Beside You

Luke 3:7-18

Illustration

James W. Moore

Back during World War II, four young American soldiers who had been on the front lines of battle for some time, were sent back away from the fighting to a small French village for a little R & R. When they arrived safely in the village, they suddenly realized that it was Christmas Eve. They began to discuss how they would like to spend Christmas. One of the soldiers said, "You know, as we were coming into town earlier today, I noticed an orphanage on the outskirts of the village. Why don't we go there in ...

1200. Be of One Mind

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

Exegetical Aim: To demonstrate the necessity of Christians being of one mind in their mission. Props: None. Lesson: Good morning. I would like to play a game with you today. Would you like to play? (response) The way we play is that we all stand up. Allow time for the children to do as you say Now take one another's hands so that everyone is holding hands with someone. Okay on the count of three, I want the group to all walk someplace together. Okay one, two, three, go! Of course, the children will either ...

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