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1451. Waiting for Jesus

Romans 13:11b

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then every man will receive his commendation from God. Object: Cup your hands with thumbs together leaving only a small dark hole to look into. Take any small object that will remain unseen in the dark. Try to get the ... and I will also choose this boy who wears glasses that allow him to see extra well. I am going to cup my hands like this and leave a very little hole into which you can look and see. Now the idea is to look into the hole and tell me what you think you ...

1452. Finishing What We Start

2 Timothy 4:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... is bright in the very blue sky. It surely is great the way God does things. Whatever He starts He finishes. That's the way He is. Do you always finish everything you start? Do you ever just get something started when you think of something else to do and leave what you started on the floor or outside? [Hold up the knitting.] Here is my sweater. That's right, my wife started to knit me a sweater a couple of years ago and here it is today. How do you like that sweater? Do you think that sweater will keep ...

1453. What Jesus Saw In 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 ...

1454. Finding Life!

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

... of the mundane in the total process of our living. "Naked we come into the world and naked we go" - I know this. A man is born without teeth, not much hair, and eyes that won't focus, and if he remains very long in this world, he will probably leave it without teeth, not much hair, and eyes that won't focus! This sounds like an unpromising start and an unfruitful end, but between the two a tremendous amount of living can be done. A good book is not all title and "finis" - the book is what's between. There ...

1455. A Mission and a Message

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

... , "Are you a priest or something?" He explained to her that he was completing part of his third-year internship in a hospital setting, and that another portion was to be done in a parish. She was silent until she reached her floor, but as she was about to leave the elevator, she stopped, held the door open, and said to him, "I didn’t know that people your age did that sort of thing anymore." And she went her way. But people of all ages and both sexes still follow Jesus today - as they always have; when he ...

1456. Booby Trap

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

... him, "You have answered right; do this, and you will live." But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half-dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he ...

1457. Dodging the Thrust

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... a flock of one hundred was a one percent loss. That’s not too bad, but it’s no use telling that to the shepherd. He leaves the ninety and nine - a risky act in itself - and seeks the one until he finds it, as though it were the only sheep that mattered. ... a lot. Their children are often left alone. If they go to church, I’ve never noticed it. Who are they? Did they leave their landmarks back home with their roots and their friends? In the strange geography of a new town, in the unaccustomed isolation ...

1458. Life in the Sunbelt

Malachi 4:1-6

Sermon

... and begin gnawing their way round and round the base of the little thorn bush to which he was clinging. In total despair, the poor man closed his eyes at this point and began licking with his tongue at the tiny drops of nectar he had seen on the leaves of the thornbush. This is the predicament in which Tolstoy left him. The story was the author’s way of saying that life is a dreadfully painful ordeal that can only end in the waiting jaws of death. The best one can do, therefore, is to resign oneself to ...

1459. Love is like Soap Suds

Philippians 1:9

Children's Sermon

... it wonderful the way God has a plan for his whole world and all that lives in it? Our God certainly knows what to do and when to do it. When it begins to get warm, he puts the leaves on the trees so that we can have shade, and when it gets cold and the trees need to rest, he lets the leaves fall so that the sunshine can get through. Isn’t it wonderful to have not only a smart God but a God who does things on time? How many of you knew that God was so smart? All ...

1460. Fasting: Foolish or Fruitful?

Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

... can produce pride! Suppose one says that he is fasting from cigars. His friend says, "But I am fasting from my lunch every day." What is a cigar to a lunch? The one fasting from lunches feels he is doing so much better, is a better Christian, and leaves the Impression that he is holier than the other man. It is possible, also, to use fasting in terms of works righteousness. If we are hard on ourselves and really sacrifice through fasting, we may get the idea that this ought to count with God on our behalf ...

1461. Keep The Devil Out!

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

... girl was possessed by the Devil, how unsuccessful every attempt was to cure her, and how two priests were brought in for the exorcism by the power of Jesus' name. So horrible is it to be possessed of the Devil that the movie was considered a horror movie leaving viewers with psychological trauma. Our real concern today should not be how to get the Devil out of you, but how to keep the Devil out. Even if you get the Devil out of you, you may not be permanently free of the Devil. Recently, someone asked me ...

1462. The Devil is a Mosquito Bite

Romans 8:1-17

Children's Sermon

... what happens? That's right, you scratch it so much that it begins to hurt. The only way to make a mosquito bite go away is to leave it alone or it will soon become very sore. Mosquito bites just beg you to scratch them, but you know that you must not do it. The ... we see something that we know does not belong to us, but we are sure that we would never be caught if we took it. Should we leave it alone or should we listen to that voice that begs us to take it and use it the way we want to use it? St. Paul ...

1463. Dried Paint and Hard Bread

Ephesians 4:26

Children's Sermon

... of this bread? You can't because it is too hard. How do the paint and bread get so hard that you can't use them? By leaving the lid off the paint and the bread out of the bread sack. That's right. St. Paul teaches us that we should never go to bed ... at night angry. By the time the sun goes down, we must get over our anger. Do you know why? For the same reason that you can't leave the lid off the paint and the bread out of its wrapper. Your anger will get hard and you will get hard with it. Your anger will ...

1464. The Golden Gift

Drama

... now. BISHOP: Give me a proper kiss, and say good night to our guest. ARLETTE: Bonne nuit, Uncle. (She kisses him.) Bonne nuit, Monsieur. I will leave you gentlemen to your conversation. (She exits and slams a door.) JEAN: I don't think she likes me. BISHOP: Oh. It's not that she ... the candlesticks a while, and, after a certain amount of soul-searching, decides to steal them. After he leaves, the door slams, and that brings Arlette on stage.) ARLETTE: The candlesticks! Oh, mon dieu! The candlesticks! Uncle! ...

1465. Proper 5

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

... the wood for the fire, telling his son they have a sacrifice to make. They start off on the journey. Three days they travel, and Abraham must have been nearly overcome with the terror of what he had been commanded to do. The father and son finally leave the servants behind and start the last phase of this journey alone. As they go, Isaac asks an innocent question: "We have the wood and the fire, father, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" At this point, Abraham makes an evasive answer, "God will ...

1466. Parable of the Bank and the Library

Proverbs 16:1-33

Illustration

"Mother, isn't it wonderful? Last week there were no leaves on the tree, but now the leaves and a nest and eggs in the nest." said Mary as she looked out the upstairs window. "How soon will there be little birds there? How long before the eggs hatch?" "I don't know," said the mother. "Why don't you go to the library? They will have a ...

1467. Good News for the Multitudes

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Thomas C. Short

... for the members of the multitude who cannot hate their loved ones, accept a cross and renounce all to be a disciple of this intinerant preacher? Was there any place in the great army of Christ for the man who could not leave his wife, the carpenter who could not leave his work, and the old man who could not bear the thought of bodily pain? Are there any possibilities between the extremes of having to give everything and not being able to give anything? There are some other possibilities. Otherwise, many of ...

1468. The Confessions of a Younger Brother

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

... ! He wants to warn me by making a special appearance in my life. The rich man is afraid to trust God’s natural process and to leave me on my own. He wants to make a special appearance to me because he is convinced that if someone comes to me from the dead, ... me a Christ-like love. The rich man is right. That’s what I want - a revelation from God that stops me in my tracks and leaves no doubt whatsoever in my mind. Why shouldn’t I want it? I live in a world where it takes big events to win the attention ...

1469. The Preposterous Prescription

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

... . I have other patients to see. Goodbye." Earl continued by saying, "The doctor actually walked out on her, and she had no choice but to leave. What do you think of that? It taught me a lesson, I know. If you ask for advice from someone who knows what they’re ... flesh shall be restored, and you shall be clean." (2 Kings 5:10) Naaman was fit to be tied. He was angry and started to leave. This was preposterous! He had expected the prophet to come out and call on the name of his God, and wave his hands with a ...

1470. Let God Be God

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... first privilege of life. At times we are tempted to try to explain God. But if God were so easily comprehended in our human explanation, he would not be God. At the other end of the spectrum, God is not so remote as to leave us speechless. He does come to us and will always leave his witness among us. The third chapter of John's Gospel is where we find our textual bearings for the proclamation today: Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night ...

1471. Wellspring for the Soul

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... at any point with what Jesus wanted her to understand and to receive from him. His words and her responses kept going back and forth at different levels altogether. Where can we begin to find ourselves in this text? Surely the evangelist does not mean to simply leave us as observers of a strange conversation a very long time ago. How can the word come forth to us from the words of this narrative in the fourth chapter of St. John? When Our Souls Run Dry All of us experience times of spiritual dryness, when ...

1472. Not Blind but Seeing

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... who can see. That is the point of the narrative the Gospel writer gives us in detail. Who is blind? Who can see? Blindness is not only a matter of sightless eyes. It is the problem of a heart and soul darkened by sin. God would not leave us in that blindness of soul that leaves us unable to see him or follow his life. Christ Jesus is God’s gift of light to our world, and to all within us that obscures the brightness of the Father’s image and the fullness of his life. In this light of grace, Jesus ...

1473. The Resurrection of the Body

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... you can pay to the risen Lord is to entrust your loved ones to his unfailing care? To whom else would we want to entrust them? To whom else would we ourselves go in our last hour? We can honor our Lord in no finer way than by leaving our loved ones with him. He brings healing for our heartaches with the assurance he expresses in this text: "he that believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live ..." The blessed dead enjoy the peaceful rest that Jesus Christ provides. They await his call to resurrection ...

1474. Doing God's Work

John 2:1-11

Children's Sermon

... you will enjoy hearing again. The story is about an artist who was asked to make a special painting of Jesus for a brand new church. This painting was supposed to be put on the wall of the nave. When the artist began his work he asked everyone to leave and went right to work. After several weeks he told the Pastor that he was finished and invited the congregation to come and look at what he had done. The people came and when they saw what he had done, they gasped with great surprise. [Take out the drawing ...

1475. A Game for Followers

Luke 18:35-43

Children's Sermon

... to do it? Well, let's try once more. [Repeat the same process a few times until you catch a couple more children. Don't leave it with only one or two being caught.] Listening to directions is very important if we are to be good followers. Did you know that ... do you want to know the wonderful thing about being a follower of Jesus? You can make a mistake and he doesn't make you leave his band of followers. No, not Jesus! He forgives your mistakes and invites you to keep right on trying to play the game right. ...

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