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1401. Recollections of Mary -- Dramatic Monologue

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Robert A. Morgan

... end of the stable. The animals were remarkably calm about this interruption of their routine. Even the animals seemed to realize how urgent the need was to give some shelter to Mary and Joseph. Well, Mother came out soon with some supper, and Father said, "Joseph, I'm going to leave this lantern out here for you; you can put it out when you are ready to go to sleep for the night." Mother said to me, "Come along, Mary," and as I glanced back once at that other Mary, there was a look of pain in her eyes, but ...

1402. Abounding Love

Philippians 1:9

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... love. He said, "It is my prayer that your love will abound more and more." How can we be filled with love? (response) By letting Jesus fill our hearts. So the next time you see a glass of water, remember that just as water that overflows from a glass still leaves the glass full, love flowing out of us leaves us full of love. Let's Pray: Lord, fill us up with your love. Amen.

1403. Life From Water: The Ark

Genesis 6:11-22

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... membranes and glands in our bodies - and climb up through dirt and even sand to evaporate and feed the clouds, to water the roots of plants, and then to flow up through the thinnest tubes in the stalks of plants and the trunks of trees to feed the leaves and the seeds - the parts we eat, and that the animals eat; the parts that reseed and grow new plants year after year. Water does many thrilling and exciting things for us; it is so amazing, so useful, so wonderful, no wonder we say "Ah" and smack our ...

1404. A Faith, A Farm And A Family

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

John P. Rossing

... all about the quiet, constant, gentle providence of God - about things like a faith, a farm and a family. First a farm. The book of Ruth is about farming folks trying to get a living from the land. In the first verse Naomi and her husband and sons leave Bethlehem because of a crop failure, hoping to do better in Moab. When Naomi decides to go back home, it's because God has "considered his people and given them food." Naomi and Ruth, the two widows, arrive back in Bethlehem at the time of the barley harvest ...

1405. Step Nine - Discipline

Mt 5:21-26 · Eph 4:25-32 · Num 5:5-10

Sermon

John A. Terry

... living relative. Sometimes, even back then, litigation could go on for decades and the original plaintiff might be dead, along with all of the plaintiff's family. The advice is: give it to the temple. It is just like church trustees today who urge folks to leave it to the church. There is nothing mentioned here about going to court. This is too for the person who was detected in dishonesty which he tried to conceal, got caught, went to court and was convicted. If the matter went to court, the consequences ...

1406. Scene 3 The Roman Decree

Drama

Nancy Steltz

... , Joseph? Joseph: The Roman government wishes to be sure that everyone is taxed. We must go to my ancestors' homeland to be counted. Mary: To the city of David in Judea which is Bethlehem. It is a long journey. Joseph: We must go. (Both leave) (Rearrange the houses and add more for the Bethlehem background. The Stage Manager helps to move props and scenery. Isaiah, looking preoccupied, follows her.) Stage Manager (To Isaiah): You look as if you are trying to figure something out. What? (Both help to arrange ...

1407. Scene 6 - The Shepherds

Drama

Nancy Steltz

... the Savior, at last! Shepherd 3: Let's go over to Bethlehem. Shepherd 4: I want to see this thing that has happened. Shepherd 5: When God has told us in this spectacular way, we must go. (General discussion about who is going, who is staying) Shepherd 7: (Leaving with Shepherds 8-12): Let us see what "the Lord has made known to us." (Shepherds 5- 12 proceed to the stable; Shepherds 1 - 6 stay in place.) Shepherd 8 (Excitedly running ahead of the others): Here is a baby in a manger. (Shepherds 7, 9 - 12 join ...

1408. Scene 7 - The Wise Men

Drama

Nancy Steltz

... to know about the star. Herod (Looking at scroll, then speaking to Magi): Go and make a careful search for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me; so that I too, may go and worship him. (The Magi bow and leave. Herod and his court leave. Mary and Joseph take their places at the manger, center stage.) Meichior: The star is still guiding us. (Magi walk slowly toward center stage.) Balthazah: It seems to have stopped! (Magi bow down at manger. Melchior hands gold to Mary.) Mary: Gold, a gift meant ...

1409. New (Testament) Math

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... . Better buy some pencils, too – lots of pencils. Then, I want you to write down the name of everyone you know in that big spiral notebook. Leave lots of space between the names, now. You’ll need it! And be sure you have room at the end to write down the names of ... today. Some of it – if not all of it – just wasn’t that good. But if you carry nothing else with you as you leave here today, let me plant one small seed in your mind. The next time someone has shafted you for the umpteenth time, and you ...

1410. But I Don't Wanna!

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Joann Hary

... now? Let's look at our Old Testament lesson for this morning. The Lord says to Abram, "Leave your country, your people, and your father's household and go to the land that I will show you." Now just exactly how excited do you suppose Abram was to hear a ... message like this: "Leave your country, your people, your family and go someplace you have never been ..."? I can't exactly imagine that he was jumping up ...

1411. Hard Times May Drop In For A Visit

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Joann Hary

... Swindoll tells us in his book, Come Before Winter. "If it can not, Christianity has little to offer and Jesus is reduced to nothing more than an apologetic beggar at the back door with his hat in his hands and a hard-luck story you can either take or leave." Don't believe that for even a moment. Because it is on the platform of pressure that our Lord does his best work, those times when tragedy joins hands with calamity, when Satan and a host of demons surround us and prompt us to doubt God's goodness. It ...

1412. The Seven Last Words of the Church

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... either by word of mouth or by our letters" (2 Thessalonians 2:15). Tradition is important. But tradition has to leave room for revelation, because the Spirit blows where it wills, right? That has always been a problem in the church, from day one to this day. We ... don’t seem to want to leave any room for revelation when we’re talking about tradition. A well-known theologian has commented, "Any church that is alive lives on the ...

1413. There's Blindness, and There's Blindness

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

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... , or you’re going to be in serious trouble." And the man replies, "Look, I really don’t know how to answer you. All I know for sure is that I was blind until Jesus came along, and now I see. Can’t you just accept that and leave me alone?" "Oh, we’ll leave you alone, all right. Get out of here, and don’t come back! Find someplace else to go to church!" Why would they do that, you ask? You really don’t know a lot about church, do you? There is much irony in the story of the ...

1414. Which Jesus Do You See?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Brett Blair

... greatest prophet Muhammad had to be purified by angels before he received prophethood. Muhammad is not even presented as a miracle worker but Jesus performs miracles. He heals the blind, cures the lepers and, to quote the Qur'an "brings forth the dead by [Allah's] leave." It is in this way that Jesus is understood to be the Messiah, or "the anointed one." And, he never dies. Muhammad himself dies but not Jesus. That is the picture that the Qur'an gives of Jesus. Muslims do not read the New Testament, and ...

1415. Easter is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Acts 1:1-11, Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... a helpless feeling must have descended upon His disciples as they watched Jesus being lifted up to heaven! They stood there, staring until he was out of sight, perhaps hoping he would change his mind and come back down. "Wait, Jesus! You weren’t supposed to leave us again! Come back!" And then, to further add to their emotional turmoil, two men in white clothing appear out of nowhere, saying, "Why are you standing there looking up at the sky? Jesus might be gone for now, but he’s coming back someday! Y ...

1416. We Don't Know How To Pray

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... to say, I said nothing. I just held her and we cried together. And maybe that was all right, as far as it went. But because I had known her all my life, I knew that crying with her wasn’t enough, that she wouldn’t feel right about leaving him until a prayer had been offered. And she expected me to pray. But even though I am a seminary-educated, ordained preacher, a professional prayer, a designated prayer at every community function, in the face of the death of my stepfather, I didn’t have any idea ...

1417. A Visit With An Old Friend

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... a friend, the old man didn’t know how to act. She would reach out to him in friendship, and he would respond, "Go away! Leave me alone!" And the young student nurse would smile, and try to coax him into eating just one more bite of Jell-O. At night she ... would tuck him into bed, and he would growl at her, "I don’t need nobody to help me get into bed! Leave me alone!" Soon the old man grew too weak to resist the young woman’s kindness. Late at night, when she had finished her duties for ...

1418. Is He Really Coming?

Sermon

Rolf E. Aaseng

... true not only of the early believers but of Jesus himself. He spoke often of his return. When he was trying to prepare his disciples for the shock of his crucifixion, he assured them that although it was necessary for him to leave them, he would come back. Clearly, Jesus was referring to more than his leaving them in death, for he explained that he was going away in order to prepare a place for them and that he would send his Spirit to take his place in the interim. One of the most direct statements on the ...

1419. The Crowing of a Rooster

Matthew 26:31-35, Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... " be branded on their foreheads so they would be known forevermore as sheep thieves. One of the brothers, unable to stand the stigma, tried to lose himself in a foreign land. Whenever he was asked about the letters on his forehead, his only answer was to leave the area immediately. Thus he wandered for the rest of his life from one country to another. He died full of bitterness and hatred and resentment. The other brother repented of his thievery. He said to himself, "I cannot run away from the fact that I ...

1420. "Oh Yeah, Thanks a Lot" -The Grateful Leper

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... of time before it will happen to you. There's no cure. Even those who want to help cannot come near us. Some bring us food and leave it at a distance. They'd like to help, but they are afraid ... and they can't stand the smell. You get used to it after a ... a while you've got to try to get away from the pack ... It's no use, of course. You must come back. You must ... You must leave the others in their own world. They just throw words and stones at you. They are afraid. You get used to it. You become hard. I am ...

1421. No Tears for Me, Please

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... the cross of violence and crime. Violence is seen in our movies and TV and transferred to city streets. By the time a child reaches age fourteen, he sees 18,000 acts of violence on TV. Guests in the hotels of the national capitol are warned not to leave the hotel after dark. Ushers in Washington's downtown churches must have armed guards to protect them when they take the Sunday offering to the bank. We need to weep for ourselves that we live in a society of crime and corruption on every level of society. A ...

1422. Time and Stewardship

Sermon

Larry Powell

... enough honey to anoint a wound; enough water as could be used as an eye salve. A broken bone could not be set. No one could leave home carrying a needle or pin. It was unlawful to go out with wooden sandals or shoes which had nails in the soles. A person could ... , go on a diet, clean out a bird cage, or trim the shrubbery? Those tomorrows never show. The children grow up and leave the nest, the book gets put away, the person never gets visited, the air conditioner chokes, mama never got the letter we wish ...

1423. Mother's Day Gifts

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... says in Ephesians 6:11 (and Colossians 3:20), "Children, it is your Christian duty to obey your parents, for that is the right thing to do." This principle applies to unmarried children only, because the Bible says in Genesis 1:27, that at marriage, "a man leaves his father and mother and cleaves to his wife," (KJV) and a woman at marriage comes under the authority of her husband. So, let me speak just a moment to you unmarried children who are still living at home. The Bible says that you should give your ...

1424. Peacemaking - Active, Not Passive

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... Prokofiev was making something more than a story for children. Perhaps it is a lightly veiled prophecy of international intrigue. A six-year-old boy, listening to the story, snuggled up to his grandmother's side and, reflecting on Peter's carelessness at leaving the gate open, and his heroism in capturing the wolf, looking up said, "Grandma, can a person be bad and good at the same time?" The name for that possibility is "paradox." A paradox is a seemingly contradictory statement which may, nonetheless, be ...

1425. "Crown Him Lord of all!"

Sermon

William Luoma

... Ohio. He can take a palm leaf, and weave it into an intricate, curled "designer cross," in a way he learned as a child. I think of Ray, a maintenance man in Illinois, who keeps some palm leaves in his car, "to ward off anything bad." I think of Ethel, in whose Bible there is a small cross made of palm leaves, pressed flat as a bookmark. And I think of Catholic friends, who always seem to have a dried palm leaf sticking out from behind some picture on the wall, all year long. SuggestionsPrior to the worship ...

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