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1426. T.G.I.F

John 1:43-51

Sermon

William Luoma

... earnest on Monday. Today, we can thank God it's Friday - not just because we're looking to the weekend; not just because we can leave our place of work and forget about it for a while; but we can thank God for all that this Friday stands for. This particular ... RSV) (An invitation to God's people to confess their sins.) Friends in Christ: From the time we are born, until the day when we leave this earth, we live in the midst of trouble and sin. We live with the effects of other people's sins, and we live with ...

1427. Wake Up!

Romans 13:11-14

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... off and went back to bed. When I woke up later, I remembered that my grandparents were supposed to leave that morning. I loved them very much, and I wanted to be sure and tell them goodbye. So I rushed into the kitchen, but only my mom was there. She told me that ... they had to leave earlier. They said to tell me goodbye, but they didn’t want to wake me. I was sad. And I still remember that today, because I ...

1428. Encounters With Christ II: Jesus and Mary and Martha

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Mary? Why isn’t she in here helping me? Who does she think she is… sitting in there with our guests… and leaving all the dirty work to me? Surely, Jesus can see the injustice of this situation,” Martha reasons. Finally, unable to contain ... is. He can’t act like her, can’t respond that way. If he did, it would be fake, artificial, embarrassing. You want to say: “Betty, Betty, leave him alone. Don’t force your way on him. Let him do it his way. Let him be Bill!”Now, I have to tell you hugs and ...

1429. Joseph Ponders

Matthew 1:18-25

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... . This child, his child, is indeed the Promised One of Israel! Do not ask me how I know. I just know. It has been revealed to both my wife and me." The shepherds gaze upon the child, and say nothing more. They kneel for a few moments, then leave, as silently as they came. "Oh, my Lord! You have confirmed to us what we had dared not believe! You have sent the shepherds, to whom you also appeared! They have confirmed his birth, his identity, his divinity! How many others know of his birth, Lord? "Mary does ...

1430. Foreshadowing

John 12:1-11

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... shelter for the homeless. JUDAS: You made a grave error in judgment, Mary. You should have remembered what the Master said. JESUS: Leave her alone. She has done a good deed here today. JUDAS: But, Lord! I don't understand. Should we help the poor ... helpful, managing the money. Now I see that I'm not needed. Very well, if that's the way you want it. He stands indignantly and leaves in a huff. MARY: Did I do something wrong, Master? JESUS: (Drawing her up to the empty stool beside him) No, Mary. You've done what ...

1431. The Darkest Hour

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the wine, he said: JESUS: (Aloud) "It is finished." NARRATOR: Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. The stage is darkened and JESUS, the WOMEN and the MAN leave the stage. NARRATOR: The darkest hour has arrived. Jesus is dead. There was only one among the twelve present at his death, he and the women. The others were in hiding, fearful for their lives. The one person they had counted on to keep them safe, to fulfill ...

1432. Mary Of Nazareth

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ephesians 1:15-23

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... do not want to be distracted in our beliefs. Soon after the wise men left us, Joseph was warned in a dream about King Herod. He woke me in the night and told me that we must leave Bethlehem immediately. He said that an angel told him Herod wanted to kill the baby so we fled to Egypt. I did not have time to think about what we were doing. I could not believe that ... to call. Listen to him! Come to him! Christ is alive, now and forever! (uses outstretched arm motions) Alleluia and amen! (bows and leaves)

1433. Monologue: Hagar

Genesis 16:1-16

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... with the rest of his personal property. My master Abraham is a famous man of God. You know about Abraham and how God commanded him to leave his home and all he had ever known and go to the land of Canaan. He spoke with God and received special blessings from him. ... . Suddenly, Sarah did not want me or my son around. She only wanted to delight in her son, Isaac. Sarah demanded that we leave her and the estate itself. Although Abraham had great affection for Ishmael he did not stand up to Sarah or stop us from ...

1434. Monologue: Naomi And Ruth

Ruth 1:1-22

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... we had gone to find food. I am Naomi. (Bows) In our home in Bethlehem, there was a famine and my good husband Elimelech decided we should move to Moab where there was no famine. It was a difficult decision for him to make because we had to leave our home behind us and go into an unknown country which had a different culture, totally different values and pagan gods. I loved my husband and I would go with him anywhere he decided, but unfortunately after our journey to Moab, my husband died. It was awful for ...

1435. True Life

John 12:20-36

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... happen before the seed can grow. Does anybody know what that is? (response) When it goes into the ground it is a living seed but when it is buried in the ground...it does what? (response) It dies. Did you know that? Before a seed can grow it has to leave the stalk where it is alive, fall into the ground, and then die. Look at what you are holding in your hands. When it dies then something strange happens. The rain, the sun, the dirt all start giving it nourishment and then it comes back to life. Then that ...

1436. Six Nails of the Cross IV: The Nail of Indecision

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... evil. As it is written in Revelation: "I know your works; you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot. So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth." Or listen to the prophet whose words leave no room for moral ambiguity. "Choose the good that you might live. Hate the evil and love the good." On the words of Joshua, "And if you be unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve ..." Our Lord's own command issues forth the same ...

1437. Forgiveness Heals a Thief

Luke 6:27-36

Illustration

Richard A. Wing

... discipline of meditation. The boys had been taken into seclusion. Among the boys there was one who kept stealing. So the boys finally put together a petition and brought the thief to the headmaster and stood there and said, "We are threatening right now to leave because we can't stand this kid any longer." With wisdom the Zen master approached them, looked at them, and said, "You are wise brothers. You are very wise. You are wise because you know the difference between right and wrong. You may go somewhere ...

1438. Save Us From the World-Savers

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Carl Jech

... come back to this question. Most of us have probably asked or been asked at one time or another: "What about people who have never heard the Gospel?" The answer usually given to this question has two sides. One part of the answer is that we can only leave them in the hands of a gracious and just God. But the other part of the answer is troubling. It emphasizes how vital it is that we get busy spreading the Gospel. I say this is troubling because it tends to make us compulsive in our witnessing, and such ...

1439. Comfort the Disturbed/ Disturb the Comfortable

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Carl Jech

... ." It is extremely difficult to become meaningfully engaged in the struggle for a more just society without self-righteously identifying our partisan understandings and commitments as "the gospel" and any other point of view as "evil." But we must learn from Jesus to leave things somewhat open-ended - as when he said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." (Luke 20:25) The church should never be totally for or totally against a particular society or culture ...

1440. A Covenant Sealed By a Sacrifice

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... All the stories we read from the beginning of the Bible - the Garden of Eden, the slaying of Abel by Cain, Noah and the flood, the Tower of Babel - all of these stories are but a prologue to the profound moment when God confronted Abraham and called him to leave his native country for a new homeland: and, with the call came the promise: "I will make you a great nation and I will bless you ... and by you all the families of the earth will be blessed." This divine promise of blessing runs like a golden thread ...

1441. An Easter-Life

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... a sea captain. Again and again, when he asked her to marry him, she would have to refuse because of the responsibility she had looking after her father. Then, one day the captain told her that he was about to change his home port. Therefore, he would be leaving, and that this was the last chance for them to be married. If she wanted to marry him, she had to let him know before his ship sailed the next day. All afternoon and early into the evening she struggled with this proposal. Her father was a wealthy ...

1442. Peace that is Not of This World

John 14:15-31

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

Call to Worship Pastor: Jesus told his disciples he would leave them, but he also promised to leave his peace with them. People: He promised a peace that was not like the peace the world gives. Pastor: The peace the world gives affects outward circumstances only. The peace Jesus gives is from within, where the real battle begins. People: We long for world peace, but we know it ...

1443. Who Lives In You?

Luke 13:31-35

Illustration

Lee Griess

... asleep in bed with Paul, the two of them breathing into each other's faces. And sure enough, Sammy caught the disease. The fever raged through him, and only four days later, Sammy died. Dr. Cronin remembered hearing about the tragedy while away on an extended study leave. He wrote his neighbors, expressing his sympathy for them, telling them that he, for one, would understand should they feel the need to send Paul back, after all the heartache he had caused them. A few months later, upon returning from his ...

1444. A New Thing

Isaiah 43:14-28

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... . The greens did a great job on the grass. What do you want to draw with your brown? (response) Go ahead. If they need help direct them to draw a house or farm and some tree trunks. Now we have our tree trunks but we need some. . . What? (leaves) Ok, draw some leaves on the trees. The kids draw. I think the house needs some bricks. What color is brick? (red) Reds get up there and color the house. The kids draw. Some of you have orange. What is orange? (sun) That’s a great idea go draw the sun. The kids ...

1445. After A Lost Election, Field Of Dreams

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

James Angell

... upstairs bedroom. I had left word at the church where I might be located in case I was needed. In the middle of talking with Bruce, the telephone rang. It was the hospital, asking me to come as soon as possible because of an emergency. I rose to leave, but he ordered me to "sit down." "There's an emergency here, too," he said. We talked and prayed some more. In a short while, he died. Then, California - a name no longer as golden as it was in 1945, but where desert, ocean, and mountains are still fertilized ...

1446. The Bridge

John 1:1-18, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 1:26-38, Genesis 3:1-24

Drama

H. J. Hizer

... care of? Five: Yes. Two: How can we be sure, Lord, if you're gone? Five: I give you my promise. One: When will you be leaving, Lord? Five: Very soon. Michael, let's take care of this one last thing. I want you to get the new star and put it in ... with Mary, Joseph and Christ child sitting center stage. Devil's council and God's council stand on each side. Devil and council leave stage on "That's realll-yy baaaddd". God's council moves behind nativity scene. Scripture is read, then lights go out and curtain is ...

1447. Don't Just Stand There! - Get Involved!

Luke 3:1-20, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Dr. John Thompson Peters

... enamored with the excitement of the situation, but is constrained to complete full parental responsibility. "Let me first go and bury my father." (It must be understood that this meant to live and care for his father until the latter's death.) Jesus' reply is sharp and terse, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God." This may seem harsh but it is not an isolated statement for in Matthew 10:37 Jesus says, "He who loves father or mother more than me is not ...

1448. What Makes Us Human?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... in a gondola along the lagoon of the river of the City of God. The language is often that of the streets. God is addressed as "you." The whole performance exudes a cozy, palsy-walsy kind of atmosphere. I always shudder a bit when someone says as they leave the church, "That was an impressive Service." If they meant it was impressive to them, then it was a failure, an abomination, and a sacrilege! It wasn't meant to impress them! I hope it was impressive - if we can use that word - to Almighty God. Other ...

1449. A Father Looks at His Son - Joseph and Jesus

Luke 2:21-40

Drama

Thomas Blowers

... I was doing. No more twilight work in the shop for old Joseph. And in the morning my hands were stiff and I had to leave all detail work for the afternoon. But these are small matters when you consider I really didn't do much of the work myself anymore ... time, ever since Jesus was twelve, ever since as a family we had gone to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover. When time came for us to leave with the rest of the caravan heading north, Jesus went off with one of the other boys to play. He said the other boy's ...

1450. A Special Gift

Titus 3:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... be older than you are now. Older people like your moms and dads joke a lot about getting older. Someday when we get so old, we will leave this world and go to live with God in a very special way. I want to talk to you about that special way in a little ... when Jesus came he cleared things up pretty well. So well, in fact, that before Jesus went to the cross and died he wanted to leave something with all of his friends. It was something that only he could give. Jesus didn't have money or jewels or books or ...

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