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1351. There Is No Law Against Such Things

Galatians 5:23

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... the Apostle Paul said to one of the early churches. He said there's not a sign or a rule that says you can't be nice. And since we are disciples of Jesus, we have to live a life of love and care, because it doesn't break any rules. So let us do two things this week: every day love and care for everyone. There's not a single rule or a sign that says you can't do that! And it is what Jesus would want us to do. Let's Pray: Dear Father, give us the strength to ...

1352. Washed By Water: The Jordan

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... out mine eyes.Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this bloodClean from my hand?" (II, I, 58-61) Lady Macbeth pooh-poohs all his worries. "A little water clears us of this deed," she says. But much later, as the play ends, we see her under a nurse's care, gone mad. The doctor whispers: "What is it she does now? Look, how she rubs her hands." Her nurse answers: "It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands: I have known her to continue in this a quarter of an hour." It is apparent that ...

1353. Wine from Water: The Wedding

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... can be sure, by such words from his mother. He knew she felt this way; he knew she loved him even though she didn't say a single, solitary word. It was important to have his mother's love as Jesus faced his gigantic mission, but hanging around home to care for her wasn't part of the plan. Jesus was laying a foundation for a new religion, a new way, and he had to break, and break decisively, his ties with his family. "Woman, what have you to do with me?" Jesus made that break. The rift, the division, lasted ...

1354. The Nativity The Time

Luke 1:1-4

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... as we reflect upon ___________'s death.The time has come for ____________ to be delivered from her body of death. God delivers; ___________ is delivered. Both are set free from earthly matters with one another. So are each of us gathered here today. We are set free, delivered, from caring for this person who is now totally in the care of God. We are set free from worrying about her suffering. It's over. We are set free from worrying about her future. God, through the resurrection of his Son, Jesus, took ...

1355. Where the Scary Things Live

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... are safely tucked into bed to wrestle with THEIR fears, our own monsters come to life and torment us yet again. Am I am caring husband? Am I a loving wife? Do I really try to understand my spouse’s point of view? Are we raising our children the ... dies, our spouse says, "I don’t love you any more," a child says "Sure I smoke pot. Everybody else is doing it. I don’t care what you think." And we become afraid all over again, just like when we were children. Only now it’s not the monster under the ...

1356. Just Who Do You Think You Are?

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... put a spin on it, to use a political term. That is, we try to interpret the encounter in such a way as to soften the harshness that’s obviously there. I have read and heard several such interpretations of passages like this one. One said that Jesus really cared about the woman, but he was testing her faith and perseverance. Another said that Jesus was just teasing the woman to try to get her mind off her problem for a few minutes. Please! "It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the ...

1357. Reality Check

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... ," asked the rabbit, "or does it happen bit by bit?" "It doesn’t happen all at once," replied the Skin Horse. "You BECOME. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and you eyes don’t work so well, and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are real you cannot be ...

1358. Have You Talked to Jesus Lately?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... annoying, or was it psychotic? What if he had seen me alone here, no other cars in the parking lot but mine, and decided I was a good target for a robbery? Could he have a weapon in that backpack? In a place like Memphis, you can’t be too careful, you know? "You have the advantage of me," I said, putting a little more distance between us as subtly as I could. "You got my name off the sign. I don’t believe you told me yours." "I thought you might have recognized me," he said. "I’m Jesus. Jesus ...

1359. There's Blindness, and There's Blindness

John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... that God didn’t like, and this is what you get for it! You should have known better! Shame on you!" Job didn’t care much for that answer, and neither do I. Although the Old Testament writers did speak often of God in terms of anger and ... we need spiritual sight, or insight. Let us pray for God’s insight as we live out our relationships, as we do our daily work, as we care for those entrusted to us. Let us pray for God’s insight to show us the world beyond our own immediate needs. Let us pray that God ...

1360. The Dynamics of Doubt

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... Twin and with good reason. There are two persons, not one within each of us - one that believes, one that doubts. When we are wounded, sometimes the doubts grab a foothold, at least for a season, and we say, "See, I told you so. God doesn't care." Not so. Jesus was wounded. This is a story about wounds and about faith. Faith A poet has written: "Doubt is pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother." Paul Tillich has expressed the relationship between faith and doubt this way: "Faith is courage ...

1361. WHAT IS MAN?

Sermon

Larry Powell

... live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put a foundation under them," Let us be careful not to neglect the foundations, especially since the future, whatever its form, will be built upon a certain foundation for sure - the little children, who somehow never outgrow the urge to ask "why?" AS A MAN THINKETH Chief Joseph is most remembered for leading the Nez ...

1362. Children All Are We

John 3:1-21

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... steak with onions and a bake potato... and then they can sit up at the table with a knife and fork and eat their dinner. (response) What? That's not right? (response) Babies don't eat at the table? (they have to be fed) Oh, so they can't take care of themselves. Can they eat hamburgers? (No!) Demonstrate burping: After they eat what does mom need to do to the baby? (she needs to be burped) That's right she needs to burp her. After a big hamburger we all could probably use a little burping. What about when ...

1363. A House Or A Home?

Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... System, the most crucial time was when one rider was passing the mail bag to another. If the bag was dropped and destroyed by the pounding hoofs, or lost by the rider, the messages would never get through. It was most important that the mail be carefully passed from one to another. It's similar in the home! One of the primary responsibilities and opportunities of the Christian home is to pass values from one generation to the next, smoothly and successfully. It must be done early. Children are much like wet ...

1364. Monologue: Moses' Mother

Exodus 2:1-10

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... cheap and he might easily have died young while on a dangerous construction project or from some other injury. But during all this time of difficulty, I continued to wonder about our God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the universe and the God who supposedly cares about us. Where is he? Why has he not taken us out of bondage? I did not have the chance to know my son, Moses. I always hoped that his life would be much better than mine and that I did not make a mistake sending him out in his ...

1365. Monologue: The Other Shepherd Speaks

Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... we told the story, the city folk looked down at us as poor beasts of the field, with no more sense then the sheep we take care of. No one listened, and we stopped talking about that night. That was forty years ago. I was a young man then, just married. And what ... anything -no army, no sword, no strong fist to take you by the Armand drag you along; a baby just loves -and lets you love him, care for him, nurture him, gives the good side of you a chance to use that goodness. Is that why God came as a baby? I don ...

1366. The Paradox of the Cross

Mark 15:33-41, Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Robert Allen

... I do or say. It is also a daily reminder Of the peace and comfort I share With all who know my Master, and give themselves to his care. So I carry a cross in my pocket Reminding me, no one but me, That Jesus Christ is Lord of my life If only I'll let him ... boy and said, "I imagine your father feels pretty much like I do. He can't take back the things he said in the past, but he still cares about you. What I'm trying to say to you is, Why don't you go back home? I'm sure he loves you enough to try again." ...

1367. Some Women's Stories

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Carl Jech

... to her invalid husband, but she develops an intimate relationship with another man whose wife is also in permanent nursing home care. I think Jesus would tell us not to judge or condemn either of these women on the basis of some general ... my time and energy; I'm not going to waste any more of my life by focusing on him." At the Cross, Jesus tells John to take care of his mother. Life goes on. Past losses do not preclude new opportunities to live and love. As the ancient Stabat Mater hymn says, Mary stood by ...

1368. Throw Your Heart at the Sky

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Carl Jech

... we are going to affirm the personal and physical nature of the real, risen Jesus Christ, let us do it in a way that takes our own physical and personal experience seriously. One way to do that is to care more about understanding each others' personalities than we do about winning theological arguments. If we really care about the down-to-earth personal nature of the Gospel of Jesus, we will take the time to read a book like Please Understand Me by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates, in which we can learn how ...

1369. Abner: The Clumsy Ox Who Is Our Friend

Luke 14:5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... would be no where around to help him out of a hole if he got into one. Anyway Abner went out for his walk, being very careful where he took each step. He did very well too, for there had only been a couple of times that he could have had any trouble ... back to the farm, got some other men, some ropes and straps and came back to rescue him. Oh, how glad Abner was for men who cared for a poor old clumsy ox like himself. In fact, he vowed quietly to work twice as hard tomorrow as he ever worked before. Slowly but ...

1370. Speak From Personal Experience

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... another. But the entire group grew strangely quiet when one man said, "Well, this is what worked for me ..." The whole world will sit up and pay attention if only we will share with others our experience of the One who has straightened out our tangled lives. Be careful not to fall into the trap of trying to argue a person into the Kingdom of God. A lot of so-called atheists know more about the technical contents of the Bible than you or I. And no one could hope to answer all of the questions that theology ...

1371. Waiting for Jesus

Romans 13:11b

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... if we are not happy with each other, then we will not be happy with ourselves. And if we are not happy with ourselves we will not love Him and worship Him. It really is important, then, that we work together, doing things for one another, helping and caring not only for our own problems but also the problems of other people. When we are loving each other then our hearts will be like one loud voice praising God in harmony. IN THE DARK 1 Corinthians 4:1-5, verse 5: Therefore do not pronounce judgment before ...

1372. Filled With God's Spirit

Acts 2:4

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... in the clay.] Well, you know, boys and girls, we are like that clay in the sight of God. If God just left us alone and never cared for us or loved us, we would not be very pretty or strong or happy. If God just left us alone we would look like that lump ... ? So remember who it is who makes you what you are. It's God! God loves you and can fill you full of love. God cares for you and you care about others. It's nice to know that God thinks so much about us that we never have to worry about being old lumps of ...

1373. Real Evangelism

Luke 10:1-20; Matt 9:35-10:8-23; Mark 6:1-13

Illustration

Staff

... . Evangelism and missions must be relational in nature. There is no record of Jesus walking up to someone out of the clear blue sky and saying: I am the Messiah and then him beginning to show his care for them. No, he showed his care for them first and then he revealed himself to them. A story is told about a man who was on a luxury liner and suddenly he falls overboard. He can't swim and in desperation he begins calling for help. Now it just so happens that there were several would ...

1374. Life's Third Dimension

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

... times as long as others for the wages they got. The whole issue turns upon length of time. We need to note very carefully that those disappointed workers thought only in terms of time, the amount of time they had spent, a length of time, if you ... left something of herself. So much remains of her, but not in this room. It lives in the lives of the people she loved, for whom she cared, with whom she shared, to whom she gave so unselfishly of herself. So much of her is there. And all the rest of her, what she ...

1375. Faith Bridges the Gap

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

... a believer? We’ll never know, but what we do know is that he placed the life of his slave in the hands of almighty God. That is an act of faith worthy of any believer, isn’t it? He really believed that there is a God who loves and cares for his creatures. In his book about James Jones and the Jonestown massacre, James Reston insists that Jones didn’t believe in God - nor did many of his closest followers.1 One of his assistants was Charles Beckman, an ex-Marine, who couldn’t read nor write and of ...

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