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1376. THE WITCH OF ENDOR

Drama

Marcia Miller

... , isn’t it? He seems like such a nice man. MUIDEM: It he had been a nice man, maybe he wouldn’t be in this mess now. ENDORA: [Entering.] Girls, you did well. Calling up Samuel was quite a task for novices. I was proud of you. And King Saul thought the food was delicious, too. MUIDEM: Why did you feed him a feast fit for a king? RECOS: He is the king. MUIDEM: But you know that he is destined to die tomorrow. RECOS: Today he is king. ENDORA: This experience should help you learn an important lesson: Do ...

1377. An Unidentified King

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... forlorn figure, riding on no stallion or chariot, but mounted on a little donkey, with his feet practically dragging the ground. What a sorry sight!" Jesus' mood did not seem victorious. He was reported to be weeping at the beginning of the parade as he thought of Jerusalem's many lost opportunities. Perhaps he sensed that many of the folks cheering for him that day would be shouting "Crucify him" before the end of the week. He was deliberately presenting himself as a king, but not the kind the world knew ...

1378. Jesus ... Who?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... with awe, too. This greatness can be seen in his power. When Jesus and the Disciples were on the Sea of Galilee, a storm came up but Jesus was asleep. The winds howled and the waves banged against the boat, and water was getting inside the boat. They thought they would drown. They awakened Jesus who stood up and addressed the winds and waves, "Peace, be still." Then the winds became calm and the sea was like a mountain lake. What was their reaction? They said to each other, "What manner of man is this that ...

1379. Caiaphas and Pilate

Drama

Jon Joyce

... only one who can see that the death sentence is carried out, you come to me now to try to prejudice my judgment. Right, priest? [In disgust, PILATE waves his hand, a gesture of dismissal which CAIAPHAS ignores, then walks to his chair and sits. CAIAPHAS looks thoughtfully at PILATE, then walks to his chair, as he speaks, and sits] CAIAPHAS: I did not come to try to prejudice your judgment, Excellency. When I tell you what we know of him, I am sure that your judgment will be the same as mine. PILATE: [Wary ...

1380. Annas, Caiaphas, and Judas

Drama

Jon Joyce

... For you always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me. In pouring this ointment on my body she has done it to prepare me for burial." JUDAS: [Screams in agony and throws the money bag violently away from himself] How was I to know? I thought maybe ... maybe if I scared you just a little bit, maybe you’d rise up and take over the kingdom the way you always promised. [Sobs] Why didn’t you? You said you would, you said you would. VOICE: My kingdom is not of this world. JUDAS: You promised ...

1381. On Being Able to Be Sorry

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... was not the whole answer. The far country looked glamorous and he threw off all the restraints, only to find that what he had left, he wanted and needed most. "He came to his senses," the story says, and decided to return to his father and his home. As he thought about it, he knew what he wanted to say: "Father, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight: I am no longer worthy to be called your son: make me as one of your hired servants." Now that was saying he was sorry. His best thinking and highest ...

1382. A Good Deep Breath

Matthew 8:23-27

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... something but it begins to hurt after a while, doesn’t it? Sometimes I have done that until I think I am going to perish. have you ever done that so long that you thought that you were going to perish? The word "perish" means dying. Did you ever think that you were going to die if you did not get a good deep breath? The disciples thought that they were going to perish one day when they were out on the sea with Jesus. A terrible storm came up and the waves were so high taht they just swamped every person ...

1383. God’s Hand on You

Luke 1:57-66

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... you might think that the last way showed a closeness that the other two ways did not. The reason I talked to you about this was that people thought that God had placed a special calling upon a man named John. We know him as John the Baptizer. The people thought that John was special to God. They talked about God’s putting his hand on John in a special way. Do you know what they meant when they said that? [Let them answer.] They meant that God had asked John to be a special person in this world. John ...

1384. When Love Runs Out of Breath

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... t trust the press. The newspapers exaggerate. True, we’ve had some people driving through red lights. Some people double parking, a few arguments in pubs, but nothing very bad." The interviewer said: "Well, I’m awfully glad and relieved to hear you say that. We Americans thought it was pretty bad over there. By the way, what is your job in Northern Ireland just now?" And the man answered; "Well, for the last two years I’ve been the tail gunner on a milk wagon!" Not so different from us, is it? We just ...

1385. The Little Miracle Before The Big One

Luke 22:47-53

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... time in his life he is important to someone. Someone who looks for his ear in the grass in the darkness - no one has ever thought he even mattered before. All he’s been good for is to wait on someone else, to carry out an order, to do a job - ... hardly stand it, for his new Friend of only a few hours is dying - and finally breathes his last breath. With sinking heart, Malchus thought it was all over - and went home with a feeling inside him like he’d swallowed a heavy rock. He does his work numbly, his ...

1386. Love of God, Self, and Neighbor

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... to love God. "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind" (Matthew 22:37). This means we give our full commitment to God. It calls for us to have a total love which dominates and directs our thoughts and actions. We are created for love and worship. We are made to pour ourselves into a cause. We are created to give out - to love with whole self. Jesus says, "... with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind" (Matthew 22:37b). A columnist ...

1387. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... day. Our point of view has been to regard Paul as the foremost theologian of the early church, the supreme interpreter of Jesus and his gospel to the world of his day. He was not, as liberals at the beginning of the present century thought, the second founder of Christianity who introduced dogma and mysticism to transform Jesus’ simple message of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man into a cosmic drama of redemption. Paul’s theology is rooted in Jesus’ proclamation of the coming of God ...

1388. EPISODE 3: THE THIRD WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... about his death. JUDAS: You’d sacrifice him for your own good? BISHOP: It is better that one man should die than that the people, of whom we are a part, should suffer. JUDAS: If he wanted to, he could be on top of everything. That’s what we thought he was aiming at. BISHOP: And he has overthrown your hopes. He is not worth your allegiance. JUDAS: At first he was. BISHOP: But he lacks the spark of greatness. What is his future? JUDAS: I don’t know. BISHOP: I have told you. He is doomed to extinction ...

1389. EPISODE 7: MAUNDY THURSDAY

Drama

Robert Clausen

... a moment! MAN: [Coming forward] What do you want? BISHOP: You know the man Jesus? MAN: Yes, I know him. BISHOP: How did you meet him? MAN: I was in a wheelchair. I got up and walked away. GOVERNOR: He helped you? MAN: Well ... BISHOP: Be careful. MAN: I thought he did ... GOVERNOR: But now? MAN: But now I know I did it by myself. GOVERNOR: Without him? MAN: By myself. I just got up and walked. BISHOP: What do you think of Jesus? MAN: He’s got his nerve. BISHOP: Explain. MAN: While I was in the wheelchair ...

1390. Our Unmanageable God (The Second Commandment)

Exodus 20:1-21, Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... could touch for whatever they needed. Something in us wants to objectify, localize and control God, to make him fit our patterns and preconceived notions. But God cannot be managed. As the Bible reminds us, "His ways are not our ways, neither are his thoughts our thoughts." Our task is not to regulate God but to serve him. The" Second Commandment warns against any attempt to circumscribe God. I find in the Second Commandment two admonitions which I pass on to us this morning. The first is this: DON'T LET ...

1391. Because He Lives

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... s a hoax." We United Methodists are not other-worldly folks. Our agenda is to make God's kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. But nobody is any earthly good until he or she is sure of eternity. Listen to what our founder John Wesley thought about eternity: "I have thought I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God: Just hovering over the great gulf; till, a few moments hence I am no more seen; I drop into an unchangeable ...

1392. The Road To Emmaus

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... it never heard Walter Elias walking toward it. Finally, standing under the owl, he reached up and grabbed the owl by the legs. Now, the events that followed are difficult to explain. Suddenly everything was utter chaos. The owl came to life. Walter’s thoughts about keeping the bird as a pet were quickly forgotten. The air filled with wings, and feathers, and screaming. In the excitement Walter held the legs tighter. And in his panic, Walter Elias, still holding on to the owl, threw it to the ground ...

1393. This Adulterous Generation

Matthew 5:27-30, Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... for an hour or two. He has a few drinks. Seeing someone attractive, he asks her to dance. Each of these steps is just a minor deviation, a short excursion from fidelity. But here, according to Jesus, is where adultery begins. It is to deliberately encourage illicit sexual thoughts and plans. The next step is even more serious. Whether one is aware or not, one decides that if a chance comes along with him or her, I'm going to do it. That moment may come one year or one month or one minute before an affair ...

1394. A Gospel that Fills the Glove

Sermon

James Bjorge

... desk caught my glance. They were limp and lifeless. I reached over and picked one of them up and slipped my right hand into it. The gloved filled out. I flexed my hand - the glove moved. It was filled with life. My mind began to dance with the thought of God coming to earth to slip into the gloves of human lives. He came to fill them out so they would pulsate with life ... so they could be and do things which by themselves they were powerless to accomplish. Scripture says, "The Word became flesh and dwelt ...

1395. Naaman, the Leper

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Don Yocom

... supremacy of Almighty God. Syria had nothing to match this. Naaman then went to Elisha’s house, only to be told that if he wanted his health restored, he must go wash himself in the Jordan River seven times. Now, Naaman was a proud man and he balked. He had thought that Elisha at least would come out of his house and make a big fuss over him, then call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike the place on the leper’s body where there was disease. Not so! Naaman had a lesson coming about preconceived ...

1396. The Young Man

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... Narrator may be male or female. Total cast: eight. Arrange the staging as you like. NARRATOR: This is a short story about the short life of a young man. He lived in a small town where everybody knew everybody else. Everyone did the same things, said the same things, thought the same things. BOY 1: Except him. I’m his younger brother. He made my life miserable! Oh, I know all brothers and sisters say that about each other, but it’s true in my case. He was always so RIGHT. If he found out my cousin John ...

1397. Play It Safe

Galatians 2:21b

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... do to help themselves because everyone is different, but let me tell you about some things that St. Paul found out when he was living. Jesus is enough, Paul thought, and he told everyone whom he met that truth. But some people thought that the old laws that Moses gave were pretty important and that they should follow them also. Other people thought that sacrificing animals was a good thing, and not eating certain foods might help. Paul said that all of this was not true. Jesus is all we need. Everything ...

1398. THE MARK

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... a rose. CAIN What were you going to tell me? EVE It was about your father. Were you looking for him this morning? CAIN I couldn’t find him. I looked everywhere. EVE You don’t know where he was? You don’t have the slightest idea? CAIN No. I thought he was out. You know, just OUT. EVE He was in the cemetery. Visiting your brother. CAIN I ... suppose. Well, that’s ... that’s all right. I don’t mind it a bit. I really don’t. It’s perfectly natural. EVE To murder your brother? You’d better not ...

1399. THE JOURNEY

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... awfully sorry. GRACE Anyway, there’s no point in carrying that junk any further. Why don’t you just throw it away? CAIN (Dropping the broken parts) Did I tell you my father is dying? GRACE Yes, you said that. And there’ll be only Seth and you. CAIN I thought I heard the train. GRACE So did I. CAIN It’s all quiet now. No whistle. No music either, is there? I’m really sorry about that. GRACE You ought to be. You ought to know better than to smash people’s things. CAIN Yes, I know that. GRACE I ...

1400. Worn Out? Tired? Weary?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... says: "Good Lord, morning!" Which is which? Which one has had the refreshment and the renewal? Sometimes the best rest that we can have is to attempt to forget ourselves, to make life as pleasant as possible for someone else. A doctor told a lady that he thought she and her husband ought to take separate vacations. "But, Doctor," she said, "he just won’t LISTEN to me." "That’s what I had in mind," said the doctor. We need to learn of Christ that meekness and lowliness of spirit, and we somehow get our ...

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