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1501. Wedding: Deciding To Love (for a marriage after divorce)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Bulletin Aid

Derl G. Keefer

... to the Corinthians, chapter 13 (NRSV): Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends... When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now ...

1502. Wedding: To Join Your Paths (for a widowed/divorced, older couple)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Derl G. Keefer

... from 1 Corinthians 13 (RSV): Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends... ... So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (Bride) and (Groom), I hope you can tell the joy that it gives all of us here to see ...

1503. Wedding: Miracles Of Marriage

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Derl G. Keefer

... and nurtured. From 1 Corinthians 13 (NRSV): Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends... When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now ...

1504. A Positive Addiction

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Robert R. Kopp

... you in the way you love best by shining on those around us. Let us preach you without preaching not by words, but by our example by the catching force the sympathetic influence of what we do the evident fullness of the love our hearts bear to you. Amen. That's the enfleshment of saying, "Our vocation is to belong to Jesus." Paul Azinger, the great golf champion who was diagnosed with cancer shortly after winning the 1993 PGA Championship, put it bluntly (Zinger, 1995): People often ask me now, "Zinger ...

1505. The Downside Of The Practice -- Performance Equation

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert R. Kopp

... them now. Then the woman turned to her husband and said, "Is that all it costs to start a university? Why don't we just start our own?" Her husband nodded. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveled to Palo Alto, California, and built a university which bears their name as a memorial to a son that Harvard didn't care about. I also think of Jodie Harrison. Jodie was dying of cancer. I prayed healing for Jodie. Following the prescription of James 5:13-16, I anointed her with oil and laid hands on her ...

1506. Life Beside The Falls

Ezekiel 47:1-12

Sermon

David O. Bales

... says other boys get to play football, he's right. He's a strong boy. I think he should get to play." "No, I can't allow our children to risk an injury that could disable them. I know it's hard for Hank and everybody, but I can't bear to have my child in a game that could ruin his health for life." It was difficult for Harold, as well as for Henry, but knowing how Mildred loved the children, Harold agreed and held out against Henry. The more difficult problem followed next year with Marshall. Henry was an ...

1507. Why Do People Suffer?

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

David O. Bales

... usual route from home to work. But this week she passed the church as she drove from the hospital to the police station and there in white letters behind glass was the sermon title: "Why People Suffer." The sermon title followed her all week like a wounded bear trying to take vengeance upon its hunter. She was so upset she considered that for the sake of others she should not attend worship. Early Sunday morning she paced around her apartment; then at almost 11 a.m., with one lunge, she was out the door and ...

1508. Judas, The Obscure

Drama

Peter C. Garrison

... to the dark. Judas is desolate, no one any longer lives in Judas. I no longer live in Judas. I long to die away from my God for I am so ashamed. Yet still could I flee to him; but I will not, for I confess that I cannot bear to see him or myself again. Questions About The Story Questions For You (The soliloquy is fictional, based on the scripture quotations found in it. However, the basic conflict between God's will and the will of humanity is not fictional. The following questions based on this conflict ...

1509.

Drama

Betty Lynn Schwab

... herbs to child) Child: What would the bitter herbs mean for Jesus' disciples? Reader 2: The bitter herbs symbolize the bitterness of the life of God's people when they were slaves in Egypt: the bitterness of their forced hard labor, and the bitterness of their bearing children in secret. Child: What would the bitter herbs mean for Jesus? Reader 1: As Jesus ate his last supper with his disciples, he knew he would soon be betrayed by one of them and thus begin the bitter end of his earthly life: his trial ...

1510. U-Turns Permitted

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

Let's just see where this road will take us. These words often spoken when we make a wrong turn, give a false sense of comfort. Our hope is that if we drive long enough we will come to a familiar place and once again regain our bearings. Sometimes our confidence in our own abilities and unwillingness to admit that we're lost, causes us to drive several miles out of the way before we stop and ask for directions. Although the signs along our journey confirm that we are headed in the wrong direction, we ...

1511. Truth And Its Consequences

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... the apostles were careful to point persons to the truth of Jesus Christ's relationship to the Father and not their own. They never lost sight of the fact that they were simply messengers of the truth. They never forgot that they too would bear consequences for failing to tell the truth of the mission and ministry of Christ Jesus. The sin of losing our spiritual balance is a consequence of our abandonment of the foundational principles and disciplines of our faith in Jesus Christ. Among other things Easter ...

1512. The Suffering Servant

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... if it meant suffering. While the identity of the servant varies, sometimes as in our text referring to a whole nation, sometimes referring to individual service as in the case of the prophets, the mission remains essentially the same. The Suffering Servant comes to bear the cares of others. The servant then comes to accomplish God's mission and thus becomes the incarnation of God's redemptive covenant. What does Good Friday mean for us? Yes, Good Friday is the day that we remember the crucifixion of our ...

1513. A Widow's Plight

Luke 18:1-8

Drama

Karren Boehr

... me! 1ST JUDGE: (Obviously embarrassed, takes Woman's hand from his arm) Woman, excuse me, we are in a very great hurry. I assure you, as I have done many times before, if I have any extra time, I shall consider your case. However, you must bear in mind I am a very busy man. (TWO JUDGES continue walking, exiting far right. WOMAN, dejected, slowly walks off left) Scene II (TWO JUDGES enter from right. Again, they are in a hurry, in active conversation. As JUDGES reach center front, WOMAN enters from right ...

1514. The One Chosen

Matthew 16:21-28

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... and want us to do what is only good. They are stumbling blocks to us. Jesus is always our model for life and death. Summary: In a time in the future, when the government is exterminating children who are inferior and sterilizing parents who bear them, two people struggle whether to put their lives in danger to save others. Playing Time: 4 minutes Setting: The home of Itzak and Morah Props: A knapsack Costumes: Peasant Time: The future Cast: Itzak Morah -- his wife MORAH: (ENTERS WITH ITZAK. THEY EMBRACE ...

1515. The Word Of The Lord Came To The Prophet Haggai

Haggai 1:1-15

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... , "The LORD has done great things for them." The LORD has done great things for us, and we rejoiced. Restore our fortunes, O LORD, like the watercourses in the Negeb. May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy. Those who go out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, carrying their sheaves. There were big plans for the new Israel. It wasn't going to be quite the same, but after waiting three generations to return, the survivors could hardly wait to get started ...

1516. The Crucifixion

Isaiah 50:1-11, Matthew 21:1-11

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... other matters on our minds to even recognize our crosses before us. Forgive us, O God, and give us wisdom to recognize and courage to be Your servants, and to take up our crosses today. Through Jesus Christ our Lord we pray. Amen. Hymns "Lift High The Cross" "Must Jesus Bear The Cross Alone" "Were You There?"

1517. For The Transfiguration

Matthew 17:1-13

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James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Let us come together all who seek and would serve the Lord! People: Let us open our hearts in prayer that God might direct our paths. Leader: And let others see in our paths the power and glory of God. People: And let our paths bear witness to the mercy and love of our Lord. Leader: Then let us open our hearts in prayer and sing praises to God! All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, at times, as with the Transfiguration, You allow us to witness even a glimpse of Your ...

1518. The Season Of Renewal

Mark 1:1-8

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Wayne H. Keller

... receiving others, and ourselves, we experience your forgiveness. S: Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. M: May the tests and trials of life be empowered by your spirit. Remind us that we will not be tempted above that which we are able to bear.All sing: For yours is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. THE EKKLESIA RESPONDS TO GOD'S TRUTH Message with the Children of All Ages Explain the meaning of baptism in your tradition. You may want to use this story: The sister of the ...

1519. Getting Ready for The Coming Messiah

Mark 1:1-8

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Wayne H. Keller

... New Life: "Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God"; or, "Comfort, Comfort You My People" Response to the Proclamation: "Awake the Trumpet's Lofty Sound" Response to the Stewardship Challenge: "Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus" Hymn of Commitment: "Eternal Ruler of the Ceaseless Round"; or, "Heralds of Christ, Who Bear the King's Command" Music for Dismissal: Medley of Advent hymns.

1520. Advent 3

John 1:19-28, John 1:1-18

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... light, he has brought that light of healing to broken bodies, of education to the ignorant, of insight to the confused, of purpose to the purposeless, of joy to the joyless, of faith to the frightened, of truth to the skeptic, of sight to the blind. (2) We, as witnesses, bear witness to the light, from whom we receive our light. That's all we can do with the light. We did not create it, bring it into the world, turn it on, start it burning. We cannot even give the light to another; we can only allow it to ...

1521. Jesus Heals the Leper

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... reads: "Touch me. Wrinkles are not contagious." Meditation "If you try to annihilate their gods, they'll kill you" MUSIC POSSIBILITIES Music for Preparation: Medley of Epiphany hymns. Response to the Act of Receiving New Life: "Immortal Love, Forever Full" Response to the Stewardship Challenge: "Elevation" Hymn of Commitment: "We Bear the Strain of Earthly Care" Music for Dismissal: Medley of Epiphany hymns.

1522. The Season Of The Nativity

Matthew 25:31-46

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... of us may tolerate anything and everything (it doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere) because we do not love, even though we may say we do. When love steps in (see the scripture once more), toleration ceases. The love that bears all things will not allow harm to rest on the beloved, if we know that person or do not know him/her. The Cross speaks most profoundly of that love" (Author unknown; revised). MUSIC POSSIBILITIES (In Addition To Those Already Suggested) Music for Preparation and ...

1523. Advent 3

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28, Isaiah 61:1-11, Isaiah 65:17-25, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon Aid

E. Carver McGriff

... how you feel, but it is also something you have to choose to do. It means looking at the good things in our lives and celebrating them, rather than bemoaning what we don't have. If there's one thing I learned early in my ministry, it's that everyone bears scars of one kind or another. It's easy to look around and get the feeling that other people have it better in life than I do. You and I know that behind many a smiling face is a breaking heart. 2. Pray at all times. Paul surely didn't ...

1524. Gifts of Lent II: Mary Gives Her Perfume

Matthew 26:6-13

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... that costly, that precious, was far too valuable to expend upon myself. Only Jesus should have it -- Jesus, the one who had taught me the way to eternal life, the one who had given me back my brother, the one who would soon be nailed to a cross, bearing upon himself the weight of all my sins, and yours. If anyone should have it, it must be Jesus! With that oil I would anoint Jesus king of my life. Heedless of the noisy gaiety, I pushed my way through the crowd of guests at Simon's house, approached ...

1525. Moving At The Speed Of Light: At The Jordan

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... Jesus was setting out on his journey and a man came running and knelt before him. "Good Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?" "You know the commandments," Jesus responded." 'Do not kill; Do not commit adultery; Do not steal; Do not bear false witness; Do not defraud; Honor your father and mother.' " And the man, still kneeling, said to him, "Teacher, all of these I have kept from my youth." And Jesus, looking upon him, loved him, saying, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you have ...

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