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Children's Sermon

Object: A wooden box, a long choir robe, a tall hat, and a tape measure. Good morning to all of you. How are you on this first Sunday in September? Good. Is everybody happy about the idea of school starting? I knew that you were, but I thought that I would just check for the teacher and tell her how much you like it. Do any of you ever worry about school? Do you worry if you are going to pass or...

1277. Serendipity!

Children's Sermon

Teresa L. Major

Object: None or a baseball card. Lesson: There are many great treasures to be uncovered along the way, if we only open our eyes and our hearts to recognize them. There are some words in the English language that are just plain fun to say and hear. These words roll off our tongues and tickle our ears. Our lesson this morning concerns one of these words. The word is "serendipity." Isn't that a ne...

1278. Large Or Small

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

Object: Five sheets of paper, 8 1/2 x 11, each with a word printed on it - moving from very large print which can be seen at a distance to very small print; a magnifying glass. Lesson: Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them Have you seen those charts used at the eye doctor's office? The doctor has a long chart on the ...

1279. A Squirrely Holiday

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Leonard Sweet

It is a sign that we theologians have run out of ways to ponder the existence and being of God when we start naming our theologies after animals but here goes: "Dog Theology" goes like this: "You feed me. You pet me. You shelter me. You love me. You must be God!" "Cat Theology" goes like this: "You feed me. You pet me. You shelter me. You love me. I must be God." I would like to put forth a Squ...

1280. Good News about Thanksgiving

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King Duncan

A few years ago, an American and a British journalist were discussing Thanksgiving on a British radio program. The American asked if Thanksgiving was celebrated in the United Kingdom. “Yes,” the British journalist replied, “but we celebrate it on the 6th of September.” “Why then?” asked the American. “That’s when you chaps left,” the Brit answered good-naturedly. Well, it is true that Thanksgi...

1281. Gratitude Not Platitudes

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Billy D. Strayhorn

A certain preacher was known for his uplifting prayers. He always found something for which to be grateful. One Sunday morning the weather was so cold, dark and gloomy that one the church members thought to himself, "I'll bet the preacher won't be able to think of anything for which to be thankful to God about today." But to his surprise, however, the preacher began by praying, "Gracious God, we t...

1282. Oh, The Things We Worry About!

Sermon

I extend to you and your families a joyous and blessed Thanksgiving. Some of you will gather at tables later today, and most everyone you love will be there. Bless you! Others will gather at tables, and there will be an empty chair where a loved one should be ... but is not. Bless you! Still others will not gather at a table at all. Your life may be filled with heartache or loneliness or hardship,...

1283. First Thing

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James Merritt

Have you ever been so worried about anything at any time in your life that you couldn’t sleep? I don’t mean just for a day or two, but I mean weeks or maybe even months. If you have, listen to this true story. A man I know was dealing with a problem related to his ministry that so obsessed him and so worried him that for over a month, he was going on about 3 ½ - 4 hours of sleep a night. Different...

1284. No Reason to Worry

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April Yamasaki

One year, a friend decided to give up worry for Lent. Other years she had tried giving up chocolate or coffee, but instead of focusing on a physical habit, she decided to tackle her habit of being anxious. Instead of worrying about her family, she would pray. Instead of taking her work problems home with her, she would shut them up in her office and refuse to worry about them. Instead of being anx...

1285. Winning Over Worry

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David E. Leininger

Of all the living things that God created, human beings are the only ones that worry. And we worry about everything - gas prices, the stock market, taxes, jobs, marriages, parents worry about children, children worry about parents. You name it, somebody is worrying about it. In our text, Jesus says we ought not to worry. As usual, what he says makes sense. We do worry too much, especially those o...

1286. Life’s Three Guides on the Pilgrim Way

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Leonard Sweet

Do you bring along a sandwich in your coat pocket when you are invited to dinner at a friend’s house? Of course not! Can you imagine inviting twenty people to a party, but only buying enough food to serve ten? Never! Would you send your child out into a snowstorm in a swimsuit? No way! As rude and self-centered and uncaring as we all can be, we still abide by some basics of good behavior. So wh...

1287. Coping with Fear, Worry, and Anxiety

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Robert G. Tuttle

If you do not worry, if you have never worried, if you do not plan to worry, do not read this chapter; it will be a waste of time. But if a dark cloud of worry overshadows your life, read this chapter carefully; the shadow can be dispelled. We live in an age of anxiety. The image is the image of fear - not the image of faith. We respond to the old Scotch litany: "From ghoulies and ghosties and lo...

1288. Molehills and Mountains

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Louis H. Valbracht

The story is told of George Bernard Shaw that he was once seated beside a Duchess at a dinner party. In the course of their conversation, he asked: "Tell me, Duchess, would you live with a man for a million pounds?" "Well," replied the Duchess, "I suppose I would" Then Shaw asked her: "Would you live with a man for five pounds?" The Duchess was insuited: "What do you think I am?" "We’ve already es...

1289. Hungry for Anything?

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Louis H. Valbracht

One time I was having lunch with a man in a Chicago Loop restaurant. The waitress came to our table, offered him the menu and asked: "Well, what would you like for lunch;" "I don’t quite know," replied my companion, "but whatever it is, I’m sure that you won’t have it." We never quite get over that kind of childishness, do we? How many people know what they want in life? Try asking them some time,...

1290. 'Thanking" About Thanksgiving

Sermon

King Duncan

A teacher, Lisa Trewhitt Earby of Cleveland, Tennessee, tells about reading one-on-one with a first grade student who encountered the words "thank you" for the first time in print. Hoping the student would use some of her newly learned reading strategies, Lisa gave the girl plenty of time to work out the words herself. After a few moments, though, Lisa decided to tell her the word "thank." When sh...

1291. Winning over Worry

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David E. Leininger

Winning over worry. Nice thought, eh? Of all the living things that God created, we human beings are the only ones that worry. And we worry about everything - gas prices, the stock market, taxes, jobs, marriages, parents worry about children, children worry about parents. You name it, somebody is worrying about it. As of yesterday, four of the top five best selling non-fiction hardback books on Am...

1292. Who? Me Worry?

Sermon

King Duncan

Very few families are more thankful, or have more to be thankful for, than the Chandler family of Mississippi. The late Charles Kuralt profiled the family a few Thanksgivings ago, when they all gathered from the corners of the U.S. to celebrate their parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary. Kuralt begins the story with the parents, Alex and Mary Chandler, an African-American couple, that raised thei...

1293. The World's Best Kept Secret

Sermon

Harold Warlick

Our society often paints a very dull picture of being good. It's almost as if wickedness is more interesting than righteousness. We continue to be interested in the Hitler era. Hardly a night passes that two or three cable stations don't have a documentary or a movie about the Adolph Hitler era. Many a theater owner and video store manager have found that the movies rated G and PG certainly do not...

1294. You Can Be Less Worried

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Michael B. Brown

It occurred to me to title this segment of the series "You Can Be Worry Free," but I realized no one would believe it. The truth is, I don't believe it, either. To desire a life that is "worry free" is in all likelihood to dream the impossible dream. Between 20 and 30 percent of all Americans will live today under significant stress. Thirteen million will worry intensely for at least 90 minutes. I...

1295. Don't Sweat The Numbers

Sermon

Mark Radecke

Once upon a time in a land not far from here, there lived a nation of people. By and large, they were good people, decent people, industrious and hardworking people. They lived commendable and often praiseworthy lives, dedicating themselves to such endeavors as caring for home and family, building better communities and schools, and helping one another in a variety of ways. These were people you ...

1296. Greed - Putting Things In Their Proper Perspective

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R. Curtis Fussell

Mr. Jones had a job that gave him a comfortable income. He enjoyed fishing and motorhome camping. Every year or so he would buy a new combination fish and ski boat, not some little dinghy, but a really nice, fancy boat. Every couple of years Mr. Jones would buy a new motorhome camper. It was obvious that several other men in the neighborhood envied Mr. Jones and tried to keep up with his new toys....

1297. Christians Trust in God

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Joe Pennel

One of the most fascinating chapters in Loren Eisele’s autobiography, All the Strange Hours (The Excavation of a Life), is called "The Ghost World." It is the story of a near tragedy in Eisele’s life when he was beginning his career as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He awakened one night and discovered he was "running a fever and babbling a lecture to some unseen audience." "Slowly...

1298. Speak From Personal Experience

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Robert V. Dodd

They can't refute it! Fatigue is one of the products of modern society: We tend to either get excited about the wrong things, or we don't get excited about anything. Perhaps an appropriate contemporary paraphrase of Matthew 6:25-34 would be, "Don't get excited about food and drink to keep you alive or clothes to cover your body. Surely there is more to life than this. Those who are without God ge...

1299. Anxiety Alert – The Fear of the Future

Sermon

James Merritt

Ever since 9/11 we have instituted in this country the Homeland Security Advisory System. Though you haven't memorized it, I am sure you are familiar with it. It looks like this. [Put on Screen]. These levels are assigned based on information gathered by our intelligence agencies to help us be prepared for potential terror attacks in the future. Whether you know it or not, you use this same system...

1300. Don't Worry, The Light Is Still Burning

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

“Don’t worry, the light is still burning.” Is there any more reassuring line than that one: “Don’t worry, the light is still burning.” But the light that is still burning is not beckoning you back from the window of your home, sweet home. The light that is still burning is in a fire station in Livermore, California. “Don’t worry, the light is still burning” is the headline that greets visitors ...

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