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1301. The Constitution of Our Faith

Matthew 5:1-12

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... you where you can find them in the Bible, and I hope your mother and father will sit down with you today and go over them. Each of the words that Jesus used was carefully chosen, and it teaches us the importance of love and how we are to use the love that God gives to us. It tells us how to care for each other and how God cares for us. These verses are called the Beatitudes, but they could be called the Constitution of our Faith. I hope that you will spend some time today reading the Bible with your parents ...

1302. The Day Jesus Cooked

John 21:9

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... disciples were lonely without him, and some of them had decided that they would go fishing rather than just sit around and think about the good times they used to have with Jesus. They fished all night and did not catch anything, but I guess they really did not care about catching fish. Then, as it became morning, they saw a man on the beach waving to them and asking them how they had done with their fishing. Some of them thought right away that it might be Jesus, but they were not sure. He told them to put ...

1303. The Politics Of Love

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... to suggest that a biblical faith requires of us a mixture of religion and politics because it sees God's creation as a work of Divine love. Law is the political means by which we, in groups, respond to God's creative initiative to love our neighbors and care for our planet. To love in the way that God has loved us is to work toward a time when the law of the land reflects the Divine intention for the world. The political groups of which we are unavoidably a part make decisions about those whom Jesus calls ...

1304. We Belong To God

1 John 3:1

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

... that you were so proud of. Or perhaps it was a new doll house, with lots of rooms that you could decorate. Things that belong to us, especially if they are something we have wanted or worked for for a long time, are very important. They are things we take care of and protect. This morning I brought along things from our house and I want to show you each of these items. Then I would like you to tell me which person in the family you think these belong to. (Show each item and have the children guess ownership ...

1305. Christ the King

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... the King on the cross, the King ascended and glorified beyond space, beyond time. Jeremiah sees that king first as a shepherd, then as the bringer of justice and finally as the direct hand of God. A beloved analogy of the Hebrews is that of the shepherd caring for his sheep. Abel was a shepherd, Abel whose sacrifice was blessed and accepted, while that of Cain, the farmer, was not. Abraham was a shepherd and Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. Moses was a member of the Egyptian court; but it was when he was a shepherd ...

1306. Elijah and the Widow of Zarapheth

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... her eyes, hands still folded, and with firm tones, the lady responded, "Shut up when I'm talking to you, mama." Subjected to careful theological critique, such faith we'd probably judge naive, perhaps even superstitious. But it is real. There is no way you'd ever ... , but all I tried to do is get them to act like Christians, and they have. I think I'm doing God's work. I gotta be careful who I tell that to, but I think that's what I'm doing." God in the ordinary events of life, in the normal ongoing push and ...

1307. Practice Makes Perfect

1 John 4:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... at it, and you are less afraid. Pretty soon you can love the people at school like your teachers and your classmates. Someday you are going to love one person who will be your husband or wife. That is kind of scary now but if you practice your sharing and caring it will work. Going up higher and higher on the beam may seem scary if you don't practice, just like loving your friends. But if you do practice loving every day it can be the most wonderful feeling in the whole world. Will you all practice? I hope ...

1308. Our Father Who Art In Heaven

Matthew 6:9

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... His Son, and told us that everyone who listened and believed in Jesus could be a brother or a sister to Jesus. Our Father God is not only someone to love us, but He also cares for us, makes sure that there is plenty of rain and sunshine, food to eat, places to stay, and other people to care about us. Our Father belongs to us all and cares for us all. Some people wonder how Our Father God can do all of these things, and they ask questions about Him. We don't know all the answers to these questions, and we ...

1309. Squirrels and Nuts

1 Corinthians 4:1

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... even if he is a mystery, we are still asked to teach what we know about him and help others enjoy him as we do. God is a mystery, and many of the things that he does are mysteries, but because we are Christians we have big responsibilities to take care of, because of what we know and feel about God. I don't think that the squirrel knows when it is going to snow or rain or how the trees are going to make nuts and leaves. The squirrel just eats the nuts and lives in the branches of the ...

1310. Living Water

John 7:25-44

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... a fear of the future? Is there a thirst to have a claim to an eternal home? For some persons this becomes an all-consuming thirst. To drink of that Living Water says, "Jesus saw all of life - earthly and eternally - in God's good care." Jesus shared his own belief in that "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Dr. George Buttrick, in his printed sermons while chaplain at Harvard University, wrote: "Whoever lives with Christ has in his heart a spring of water, perennial and inexhaustible; a ...

1311. What's a Good God Doing In a World Like This?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

James Weekley

... drama of God's goodness must be acted out in our limbs. His goodness in that lubricant which gets us moving toward human need. Jesus specialized in those difficult, radical needs no one else would touch ... street people ... lepers ... rip-off artists. He cared. He cared because his Good News became more then an antiseptic editorial. On our scene he cuts into our pain and aloneness. That is all the encouragement we need to deal with unexpected pain. Once the Soviet KGB raided a home conducting a service of ...

1312. When You Can't See The Rainbow for the Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

James Weekley

... of inner power. It was that light that followed him all the way. No tragedy or disappointment can be too overwhelming that God cannot beam his power into our midst. The promise of the rainbow cannot be too far away, either. "How can I be sure that God really cares? After all, I'm just one in six hundred million." God was so high on our kind that he didn't send angels with armloads of joy powder and hallelujah juice. He did the next best thing. He sent himself. He descended into the foxholes of our racial ...

1313. Keeping God First in the Polls

John 3:1-21

Sermon

James Weekley

... work and found that over two hundred bars had to be discarded. They were not copied precisely from the original. The baton had not been passed. Through the life of Jesus, God gave us the example for living. Jesus was the unbroken mirror of God's compassion and caring. "In him was life, and the life was the light of men." (John 1:4) His Spirit absorbs us into his Life Source; his Spirit zaps us from our midnight zone of doubt; his Spirit ferments our battered soul in the ascending star of hope. He brings us ...

1314. When God Is Silent

Psalm 35:1-28

Sermon

Erskine White

... . The larger message of this sermon is that we ought not be discouraged or dismayed by the silences of God. When God is silent, it is no cause for alarm or despair! It doesn't mean that God doesn't exist, or that God has abandoned you and does not care about you, or that you don't really have faith. Silence is part of the nature of God and part of the rhythm of His communication with us. Silence can be the opening God needs to bring you into His fellowship and redemption. Do not be afraid of the silence ...

1315. How A Young Man Fell

Judges 16:1-22

Sermon

Erskine White

... the person even realizing it. That's certainly how it happened with Samson. The strongest man in the world didn't even know he was weak! When his enemies came to get him that last time, after his hair was cut off, Samson jumped up and said, "I'll take care of these people like I always do." But Samson didn't realize it was over. He didn't know his strength was gone. As the Bible tells it, Samson "didn't know that the Lord had left him." Children and young people (and whoever else is listening): that is ...

1316. Your Spiritual Check up

2 Corinthians 13:1-10

Sermon

Erskine White

... beyond the latest titilations in the supermarket tabloids, beyond the drivel of this week's sitcom? Are you taking care to feed your soul with something more substantial, something eternal, something more important for your spiritual health and well ... to stop conceptualizing and analyzing her faith - and start doing it! Get out there and get busy! Feed the hungry and clothe the naked! Care for the sick, pray for the widow and visit the lonely! Bring light to someone's darkness and hope to someone's despair! ...

1317. Doing What God Wants

1 John 5:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some chore lists like doing the dishes, caring for the pets, cleaning a room, cutting the grass, going to the store, etc. Good morning, boys and girls. Today we ... you do them, the family is happy. I suppose you know how it is when you forget to do them. My list has things like doing the dishes, and taking care of the pets. I also think that a lot of children take care of their rooms, help cut the grass, go to the store, take out the trash and a lot of other things. Do any of you do things like this? [ ...

1318. It's Really Me!

John 20:25

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... too, isn't it. Every one of us is special and unlike anybody else. So when I look at one of you, if I look carefully - or listen carefully - I know it's really you and not somebody else. But sometimes we are not sure who somebody is. Today we have a story ... they looked and listened for? (Let them help you answer.) Right. They listened to his voice. It sounded like Jesus. They looked carefully at his face and the way he moved and acted. They looked at his clothes. They probably blinked their eyes a few ...

1319. Love Is The Message

1 Corinthians 1:24

Children's Sermon

... . 24, TEV) Who is Christ? (Let them respond.) That's right, Christ is another name for Jesus. Instead of sending a message with a prophet or in a bottle, God sent a special message. The message was Jesus. What was God's message? (Let them respond.) To love and take care of the world and the people in it. Jesus lived God's message. That's just what Jesus did. Jesus loved and showed us how to love others. Did everyone like God's special message? (Let them respond.) No, they didn't all want to love and take ...

1320. The Good Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Children's Sermon

... , sort of steering them to where they are supposed to go. The shepherd can lean on the staff to rest. When the sheep see the shepherd resting they know it is safe to graze or eat grass. In our lesson today we read about shepherds and sheep. Shepherds take care of their sheep. They treat their sheep like they were their children. They see that the sheep find enough water. It can't, be a fast river because the sheep would fall in and drown. They lead their sheep. That means to go out ahead of them and show ...

1321. Proper 4

Luke 7:1-10, Psalm 117:1-2, 1 Kings 8:22-61, Galatians 1:1-10

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... that, made it a better world." Kiobuchar concludes, "I don't know anything a human being can do that is more important." Could it be that there was something of that type of relationship between the slave and the centurion? Could it be that as he cared for the dying man, he recognized his own helplessness and unworthiness, and that his love and his knowledge of his very unworthiness made him worthy of Jesus' response and blessing? This much we know: Jesus came to save all people, but he can only save those ...

1322. Proper 11

Colossians 1:15-23, Luke 10:38-42, Genesis 18:16-33, Colossians 1:24--2:5, Psalm 15:1-5

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... .) Luke 10:38-42 (RC, E, L, C) Lazarus is not in the story told in the Luke 10 gospel; only the brief exchange between Jesus and Martha is reported. The very tone of Jesus' words, "Martha, Martha," seems to indicate that his rebuke of Martha, "Lord, don't you care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me," was a kindly, but necessary one for her. Mary's priority was to listen to Jesus and learn what he had to say; Martha wanted to serve him and have things the best as they ...

1323. Proper 21

Luke 16:19-31, Psalm 146:1-10, Amos 6:1-7, Joel 2:18-27, 1 Timothy 6:11-21

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... God, "who made heaven and earth, the seas, and all that is in them," and keeps his promise forever. He is a God who gives justice to the hungry and oppressed, sets the prisoners free, opens the eyes of the blind, lifts up those who are bowed down, cares for the stranger, sustains the orphan and widow, but frustrates the way of the wicked. Praise the Lord, O my soul! Psalm Prayer (146 - LBW) - "God of glory and power, happy indeed are those who have put their trust in you. Shine the brightness of your light ...

1324. Refuse To Be A Victim

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

James Garrett

... a victim! You can always take the initiative. You can take control of your life. Do not reciprocate; do not let those who would victimize you determine your behavior, said Jesus. You take charge of your life and its situation by taking the initiative in loving, caring and giving. When someone does you wrong, it’s his problem. When you return wrong for wrong, then you have a problem. When we are hurt, how do we respond? For most of us, the answer is quick and easy. We fight back. Negative forces generate ...

1325. You Must Become As A Child

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the thoughts of parents and peirs, But very young children have an openness to all. I suppose most of us older folks remember Rogers and Hamersteins movie South Pacific. There is a song, sung by Mitzi Gainer, entitled: "You've got To Be Carefully Taught." If you are not careful, you will get so caught up with the catchy tune and the pretty face and you will miss the biting sarcasm that is in this song. It reminds us that hates and prejudices are taught behavior. For children the natural order is openness ...

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