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1201. Merry Kurtzman

Sermon

Erskine White

... delight only for a moment to become the entire reason for the season. You need to learn about spiritual gifts which come from above, because once you possess those gifts, your joy will be complete and will never leave you." The hotel clerk asked the visitors to stop for a moment, while she gathered more people to listen to them. Then the two visitors began to tell the people of Cornucopia the story of Jesus Christ: how He was promised by prophets of old, how He was born, the way He lived, the things He ...

1202. Call Waiting

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... him and followed Jesus. It was an intentional act on John’s part. He pointed them beyond himself to Jesus. And when they inquired of Jesus he invited them, saying, "Come and see." So they spent the rest of the afternoon with Jesus. But the story didn’t stop there. Andrew, one of the two to whom John had pointed out Jesus, went home and found his brother, Simon, and took him to Jesus. Then the next day as he was leaving for Galilee, Jesus invited Philip to go with him, and Philip in turn told Nathaniel ...

1203. Wade In The Water

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... imagine those people are somehow immune to the feelings of frustration and the trials and problems and griefs that you and I experience. Stop and think for a moment of a few in the public eye. Marilyn Monroe spent her life with the gnawing pain of ... Do the simple things. Do the thing that helps you when you are in a similar situation. Share a bit of time. Bring a bit of cheer. Stop by to visit for a few minutes, but listen more than talk. And, if you can, say a prayer before you leave. The words are not so ...

1204. Simon Peter: Strong Stone or Crumbling Clay?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... out." Recalling his precious promise, I then remembered something else, something I myself had said when some of the other people had stopped following Jesus. He had asked us, "Will you also go away?" I had answered, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have ... to learn the real truth about him. If you deny Jesus by your words or actions, or by your failure to witness, you could be stopping others from coming to know him as their Savior. Think of that and be glad that you are where you are. Remember the words I ...

1205. The Centurion - Arranging Death, Announcing Life

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... then, the one fellow began to see what I had seen. Jesus was innocent. He shouted across to his comrade in crime to stop the mockery. He told him, "We’re getting what we deserve. But this man, Jesus, has done nothing wrong." And then, twisting his ... Jesus, but I didn’t expect to hear what I heard next. With a loud voice, in a groan of agony that almost made my heart stop beating, Jesus cried out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" I had seen men suffer, but never like that. Again I wondered, "How ...

1206. Mary - Weeping Woman or Bold Believer

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... gardener, I asked if he had carried Jesus away. That’s when I heard him speak my name. I knew that voice. My tears stopped. My heart leaped for joy. It was Jesus, alive, speaking to me! From a weeping woman, I became a bold believer. My friends, has ... was hard for the disciples to believe what I told them, and what the other women said, later in the day. But that didn’t stop me from sharing with them the good news, that Jesus was alive. Their lack of faith then did not prevent me from becoming what Jesus ...

1207. Egypt: Unlikely Refuge

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... and the Sphinx, but we don’t instinctively think of it as part of our Master’s story. But it belongs to his story, in a strange and wonderful way. You’ll find it in the Gospel of Matthew. When the wise men came looking for Jesus, they stopped in Jerusalem to seek further directions. They explained that they were looking for the newborn king of the Jews. This word quickly reached King Herod. He had ruled the area for many years and was insanely jealous of his power. When he heard there was a baby in ...

1208. The Jericho Road: Where the Action Is

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... modern Bartimaeus and Zacchaeus? Believe me, yes. I see the proof every week, and some weeks, every day. I see our Lord at work with those who are now on the road where life’s action is so demanding and sometimes so distressing. Still he redeems; still he stops for the faltering; still he transforms and brings new life. The song I sang, as a bass in the boyhood male quartet, said something to that effect in the last verse: O brother to you, this message I bring Though hope may be gone, He’ll cause you ...

1209. What God Requires of Us

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... s favor. It is a great honor and privilege to keep the Law. Am I not right, Nicodemus? Nicodemus: (thoughtfully) Perhaps there are some misguided leaders who have turned the Law into a burden. But I am not sure. Obed: Listen, that man is dangerous! He has to be stopped! He told all the people that our style of dress and the keeping of the Law of Moses was done purely for show. He said we were going to hell because we have misled the Gentiles by converting them to Judaism. Aaron: He said that the altar was ...

1210. Jesus the Hope of the World

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... then we can give it to you and then you can let us in. Thomas: (He goes to the door, reaches out to open it, and stops suddenly.) Pretty tricky. Thought you would get me. I know; you have to answer the following questions. First, which one of the apostles was so ... Mary: Don’t "Now, Mary" me. I hate it when you act like that. Look, just because the workman is dead doesn’t mean the work stops. Jesus gave me hope. He showed me what I could be. He gave me something that I didn’t think I could ever have. He ...

1211. Resurrection: Temporal to Eternal

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... is dead. You yourself laid his body on the stone." In just such fashion the two men had spoken to the women and then made their way out of Damascus Gate, walking with slowed feet north along the ridge road and then westward to Emmaus. Once more the runner stopped to catch his breath. It was getting darker now, with only a distant line of the city wall visible. He knew now that he would be late. The gate would be closed and locked. He was too late for sure. Breathing hard and fast, he began the running again ...

1212. Resurrection: From Sin to a Second Chance

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... , once inflicted, can never be healed. If you have ever said one of those words, broken one of those confidences, or inflicted one of those injuries, you know exactly how David felt. You wish to God you could go back in time just one minute or just one day to stop whatever was about to happen; but you can’t. What do you do when you are hit by the rod of despair? You do what David did. You leave it to God to sort out. You accept the consequences. You hope for the resurrection. David and Bathsheba’s first ...

1213. Resurrection: From Slave to Child

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... in simple black and white terms. "Either the Christians are liquidated, or the religion of Abraham will be doomed." The fire in Saul’s eye was matched by the fire in the sun’s hot rays as he marched the road from Jerusalem to Damascus. Upon that road he was stopped dead in his tracks, blinded by the sun in the sky and by a spirit that rested upon his soul. "Saul, why do you persecute me?" (Acts 21:6-11). The voice of Jesus echoed, if not from the distant hills, at least from the inner recesses of Saul ...

1214. What Do You See?

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Thomas Long

... , almost as if he had forgotten the next line, peered around at the disciples, focused again on the audience and repeated, "Look at the lilies in that field ..." Once more he stopped and seemed to be searching for the next words. The audience began to shift uncomfortably. His hand extended yet again to the blank wall, and this time he spoke the words slowly and deliberately, "Look ... at ... the ... lilies ... in ... that ... field ..." Now he turned to the disciples, shrugging his shoulders, ...

1215. I Am The Good Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... find a brain tumor. But his fears are unfounded. The doctor announces to him that all is well. In the next scene we see Woody coming out of the hospital, kicking up his heels, and running joyfully down the street. He is celebrating. But suddenly he stops. We know instinctively why he stops. He tells us in the next scene. "All this means," he says, "is that I am all right this time. Next time it will probably be serious. What is the meaning of life anyway?" The whole scene is funny in the movie the way Woody ...

1216. You Can Depend on It

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... parts in other cars that pass by. We know why we depend on them. Sit back and reflect. All the things we depend on without any thought given them make our lives models of trust. To keep our country running we all keep faith in the dollar. We do not stop to think, but we depend on a few important people not to push the panic button and start a nuclear war. Scientists depend on nature to act in an orderly fashion, and we depend on scientists to tell us the way things really are. My mother-in-law depends on ...

1217. You Don’t Really Feel That Way

Job 6:1-7:21

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... in the loss of something that formerly seemed, not only our right, but absolutely essential to our well-being. Then it is we become moody, depressed, sullen, pained in our relationships with self and others. People who love us cannot bear it. People who believe that nothing can stop them do not like it either, for it shows up human weakness. This they cannot accept. So they counsel us: "Don’t worry about it, and it will go away. Remember how you used to tell me to buck up. Well, I did; why can’t you ...

1218. ATTENTION!

Zechariah 10:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... what the priests did? You guessed it. They played the cymbals, like this, CRASH! When the people heard that, they stopped whatever they were doing and listened very quietly. The priests also used cymbals at other times. They had signals that ... I wanted to gain your attention I might play the cymbal like the priests did in the Temple. If you heard that kind of signal you would stop whatever you were doing and listen to the message. God’s signal for His message comes to you with all of the noise that a tiny ...

1219. People Are Different, People Are The Same

Drama

Marge Passamaneck

... kind of excitement in the house. Even Tony and Susan felt it. As it grew darker, Mr. Stein gathered everyone together and lit the Shamus on his menorah. MR. STEIN: We light these candles in rememberance of a great victory many centuries ago. A wicked king tried to stop the Jews from worshiping in their own way. His army destroyed the Temple. When the battle was won by the Jews, the people went to clean up the Temple and to light the holy lamp. But there was only a little bottle of oil left. They put the ...

1220. It Might Have Been ...

Luke 22:1-6, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 27:1-10, Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

... into the night to betray Jesus, did he hope Jesus would call him back? Haven’t we done that? On impulse, we begin to make some gesture - one perhaps we didn’t even really want to carry through - but having committed ourselves, we move on. And nobody stops us. So our pride sends us on almost against our will. To his credit, Judas confessed. "I have betrayed innocent blood." It was a bonafide confession but it was in the wrong place. We’ve done that, haven’t we? "I really shouldn’t have done that ...

1221. As It Was Told

Drama

Ed Irsch

... . Did you lose any sheep over it? Johnathan: (again disgusted) Did I lost any sheep over it? I’ve been up half the night trying to track down our shepherds, running all over Bethlehem, and you ask me if I’ve lost any sheep o ... (stops) Did you say "sheep"? (relaxes) Oh. Sheep. (then, thankfully) Martha. Martha. You know just what to say to get me out of an ugly mood. (pauses, thinking) How did you know? Martha: (all innocence) I have ways of finding out. Johnathan: Phoebe? (knows the answer, even ...

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Drama

David E. Ullery

... fault in him. I offered to whip him, thinking that might appease them. Then I tried to release him according to the custom of the Passover but they would have none of it. Herod: They wanted him to die. Not even Rome could have stopped that today. Pilate: Somehow I wish that I could have stopped it. What was there about him? Did you feel it? Herod: I wanted him to perform a miracle, as I had been told he had done marvelous things. But he said nothing. I sensed that he had nothing but contempt for me. Pilate ...

1223. The Thief

Luke 23:26-43

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... He looked at the other thief and gave him a sign of love and hope. But the thief screamed more curses, so many that I had to stop him. I told the thief to be quiet. I told Jesus that we were different and I hoped he would remember me not as a thief, ... felt forgiven and loved for one of the few times in my life. Jesus was the Lord. He did forgive, and he understood me. I didn’t stop hurting. I even died on the cross that day. Jesus died first, but I will never forget how much I loved him. I gave my life to ...

1224. The Crowd That Betrayed Him

Matthew 26:47-56

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... that if all happens and that Jesus will be captured and taken prisoner tonight. Now you are at the garden entrance and the soldiers are going in right after Judas. Judas is walking towards a person who is hard to see in the dark, but it looks like Jesus. You stop and hide behind a rock because you are not really ready to fight. Look at Judas, he is going up to Jesus and is kissing him on the side of the cheek. It almost makes you sick, but the soldiers are now running at the disciples and the disciples are ...

1225. The Seekers

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... had the gifts. They would be things from "our treasures." So gathering them together we made ready for our journey. (After all, the wisemen had to make a journey to present their gifts, so why shouldn’t we?) Once in the family car we headed for our first stop. It was at the modest home of a family who seemed to have had more than their share of misfortune. Sickness, unemployment, and a new child in the home had been almost more than the family could manage. To this family our gifts of some food, a little ...

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