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151. Twelfth Night

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

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... Eve, 1993, we went to a simple format. The liturgist and I alternated as we did prayers, carols, and scripture texts about Mary, Joseph, and Jesus, and concluded with a candlelight ceremony. Planning for 1994 again made us search our imaginations. Maybe these moods go in cycles. We felt we wanted something more for this new year. I suggested the "You Are There" format (from CBS's radio and television programs of that name) and that got several excited. It involved people from the congregation but required ...

152. Sermon In A Word

John 20:10-18, John 20:1-9

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... in what he'd learned. First Person: "What about the stone?" I can imagine Philip asking. And I can just see James very upset with himself. The women could not have handled it and the disciples could not risk going out for fear of arrest. The mood of the disciples was terrible. When they heard footsteps outside the door, they must have either been on the verge of panic or on the verge of despair. Whichever, the one who came was Simon the Zealot (10). Second Person: Simon, being a guerrilla soldier, could ...

153. A Big Fisherman · Peter

Mt 16:13-20 · Jn 1:35-42

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... and equally quick to make mistakes. Yet he never let either stop him. Instead, he plunged straight on, rushing from one concern to another, always in the thick of things, acting first and thinking about them afterward. So, too, he was a man of moods, one moment courageously casting caution to the winds; the next cringing before circumstance. His name was Simon. Jesus took one look at him and called him "Rock." (Matthew 16:18) The nickname stuck, and Simon entered history as "Petros" -- or, more familiarly ...

154. Inner Experience (Wedding Sermon)

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Mary Lu Warstler

... of love will allow you to respond to one another as the apostle Paul speaks of love in his letter to the Corinthians. He reminds us that love teaches us to be patient with one another -- even when we disagree, even as we are learning all the moods and unexpected reactions and changes in each other. He teaches us that love instructs us to be kind to one another and not envy the other's talents and abilities. It is not selfish, seeking only to gratify our own needs and desires, but is self-giving, seeking ...

155. Good News At A Bad Time!

Luke 2:8-20

Eulogy

Richard E. Merrick

... unsearchable wisdom of God. When the mind is troubled, normal thought processes and sound judgment are suspended. All sense of responsibility is lost. The only explanation for this tragedy is to be found in an illness that confuses the thinking process and brings on depressive moods. In all love and concern we want to believe today that because of such an illness, all sense of values was lost and there was no longer a responsibility for those actions taken on the part of our departed sister in the faith. We ...

156. Easter Sunday

Luke 24:33-41 · Psalm 23 · Acts 4:33-36

Bulletin Aid

Jack Brownlee

... the community of the faithful. I do not know what I will do with my life, but it begins here and now, and I give my all to you." Peter dropped the money bag on the floor and took Joseph by the hand. "Joseph, you are a man of many moods," Peter said. "We have seen you wondering, sad, excited, depressed. You know better than most how hard it is to come to this decision; the many trials we go through. So I want you to help us by helping others when they get depressed. Since I see in you the ...

157. Lent 2

Luke 13:31-35

Bulletin Aid

Jack Brownlee

... the new life granted to us by Christ. P: Let us rejoice in God, our creator. L: May the Spirit of God lead us in joy. P: Amen. Sermon Idea Levi hummed his favorite song as he walked toward home from the marketplace. The tune to the psalm matched his mood on this wonderful sunny day. The breeze was warm, but not too warm. The sun was bright, but not so that you needed to squint. The air was scented with the aromas of the marketplace, each step bringing a whiff of date, or bread, or pomegranate, or fish. Each ...

158. Palm Sunday

Bulletin Aid

Jack Brownlee

... . "I'll get my dad." Arrangements for the Seder were made. It was like Mother knew these guys, but John did not know how. "You sent a very good signal," said one of the men. "I didn't really need the water," Mother replied almost laughing. John's mood soured. "So she really didn't need the water!" he thought to himself. "It was bad enough to be sent out when it was necessary. Now I'm a messenger boy, a signal." John brooded about this turn of events all afternoon. He did his chores, but not enthusiastically ...

159. The Arrow Of Friendship

1 Samuel 20:1-42

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... that it would be safe. So, his friend, Jonathan, said that he would let him know what things were like in his father's camp. This is how he would do it. David was to hide behind a certain rock near the camp. After Jonathan had discovered what kind of mood his father was in, he would let David know by shooting an arrow out into the field near the rock. Then he would send his servant after it. If it was safe for David to visit the camp, Jonathan would call to the servant, "You have gone too far, come ...

160. Ninth Sunday After Epiphany

Psalm 80:1-19, Mark 2:23-3:6, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18, Deuteronomy 5:1-33

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... and weeks and years. What suspense spices our days in the uncertainties of climate that provoke adaptability in us and all your creatures! What delight we may take in good weather after what we call bad weather. Give us wisdom to enjoy also the changing moods of our spirits, always giving thanks to you in good times and in bad; through Jesus Christ your Son, who shared our human condition in all its variation except sin. Amen. PRAYER OF DEDICATION God of Eternity, of time, of history, receive our offerings ...

161. The Set Face And The Turned Head

Luke 9:51-56, Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Larry Powell

... to be hurdled in order to get on with the business at hand. Very much, I suppose, like some meetings we attend and someone asks someone else to "open with a prayer." The prayer signals the formal "opening" of the meeting and it has been my experience that the mood and content of such meetings are usually what they would have been whether the prayer was prayed or not. It does appear from time to time that God receives a tip of the hat and then we move on to deal with the business at hand. Committing oneself ...

162. Tears And Ointment

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Larry Powell

... faith means we areconfident of what we hope for and convinced of what we do not see. John Dewey, seeking to be helpful, said, "Faith is the tendency toward action, the matrix of all formulated creed and the inspiration of endeavor." Walter Rathenau said, "Faith creates the mood in which events are determined." Do you begin to see why we do not wish to pursue a definition of faith. To do so would only tangle us up in our own feet. And clearly, the question is not, "Are there degrees of faith?" We yield our ...

163. Let Us Pray!

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... pray, say, 'Father!' " As such, it is an attention getter. "Father, are you listening? I have some things I want to say." One of the amazing things in the model of prayer given to us by Jesus is that he teaches us to pray in the imperative mood! Sometimes we have trouble actually believing that Jesus teaches us to put demands before God rather than polite requests. But there they are in the Bible. Jesus offers a series of staccato, imperative commands; and says this is the way to pray! "Hallowed be Thy name ...

164. Fasting In A Fast-food World

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... comes from an old Anglo-Saxon word "to lengthen." It is nearing springtime and the days are getting longer as spring appears. But, for the Christian, for the church, Lent signals that party time is over, Mardi Gras is past, and now a whole new mood prevails. Once more we begin our annual, six-week pilgrimage to Good Friday's cross. We instinctively draw back, for words like repentance, fasting, discipline, and denial are hard words. But if we try to take shortcuts on the journey, or avoid responding to the ...

165. Death Of A Dream - Birth Of A Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... of the old tree." He looked at his boy and said, "Bob, don't forget this important lesson. Never cut down a tree in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in a low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst mood. Wait. Be patient. The spring will come." And so, the disciples waited 24 hours, then another day, then a week, and now it has been 10 days, but still they waited - waited and prayed! I love the account of the old, dedicated preacher who got carried away ...

166. Not

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... . Because of the time difference, when he placed a call on Friday at 7 a.m. Guam time, it was still 4 p.m. on Thursday in Maryland. He said that once he was just beginning what promised to be a very trying day at work, when his mood instantly changed for the better when he heard a cheerful voice from Maryland exclaim, "Thanks for calling. I always like talking to someone on Guam. It lets me know that there will be a tomorrow." That's what the Christian can realize during the suffering times - there will ...

167. Easter 7

John 17:20-26, Psalm 47:1-9, Acts 7:54--8:1a, Acts 16:6-10, Acts 16:16-40, 1 Samuel 12:1-25, Revelation 22:7-21

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... hands, all you peoples; shout to God with a cry of joy"), the Ascension of the Lord ("God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of the ram's horn.... God reigns over the nations; God sits upon his holy throne"), and the mood of the early church ("Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our king, sing praises") as it waited for the coming of the Holy Spirit. Although it was composed for another and radically different occasion (the defeat of the Assyrians in the time of Hezekiah?), it ...

168. Living Sacrifices

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

William J. Carl

... sent to the Middle East, not knowing whether they would return. Someone asked one of the chaplains at Fort Hood in Texas, “How do your troops feel about it? Are they ready to fight?” The person wanted to know because that seemed to be the prevailing mood in the country. “No,” the chaplain replied, “they’re very anxious and unsure.” They knew that they may have to sacrifice their lives for their country or was it for our way of life? Whatever the case, perhaps they, too, felt the sense of ...

169. Christ Is Coming…

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

James Garrett

... olive leaf pointing toward a day when all tragedy shall be overcome and all pain destroyed. A new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. A new kingdom will emerge. This is our faith. This is the mood of Advent. Time began anew with the birth of Jesus Christ. The Incarnation establishes a new situation for humanity in the cosmos. God’s action at Christmas was to be decisive, ultimate, and final. With the birth, death and resurrection of Christ a whole new world ...

170. Good News From A Graveyard

John 20:1-9

Sermon

John M. Braaten

If wild applause was ever in order in the church, Easter is the time. It is a day for Christians to cheerfully celebrate Christ's victory over death. Clearly the dominant mood in our worship this morning is joy. It is a day for breaking out the band, clapping hands and singing, "Hallelujah!" But if you ever read the gospel accounts of the resurrection, you discover an unusual thing; the first reaction of the men and women who came to the tomb ...

171. Act III, Scene 2

John 21:1-14

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... the cross and laid in a tomb. The long and powerful Act II ended with our Lord dead, the disciples guilt-ridden and grief-stricken, and all of Jerusalem in an uproar over the events which had taken place. Act III, Scene 1 created a totally different mood. Its brief first scene took us to an empty tomb where we learned the surprise announcement, "He is not here ... He has risen!" We listened to the shouts of joy which exploded from the mouths of Jesus' followers and echoed down the streets of Jerusalem and ...

172. Two R-Rated Stories

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... I love to hear the words of forgiveness and freedom over and over. I am saddened when I go to worship conferences and hear workshop leaders say that the "Order for Confession and Absolution" should be omitted from our worship on festival Sundays because of its mood-dampening effect. I wonder if those leaders have ever really experienced or understood the magnificence of forgiveness as Paul, or the woman in our text, or as I have. If they had, they could never see it as anything but life-restoring, uplifting ...

173. It's Performance That Counts

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

... to do the will of God, but to love God and to reveal that love by loving others. From beginning to end, the scriptures remind us to love God, and always as a response to God’s love for us. We are nudged toward our loving God, not when the mood strikes us, nor when it is convenient, such as when we are in a group of others who are also loving God. But from the depths of our beings, from the innermost recesses of our minds and hearts, our love for God is to flow in visible expressions and concrete ...

174. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... advice: learn now to deal with self-pity. Those who have heavy responsibilities laid on them, and all leaders do, are more prone to self-pity and anger than are others. Believe it or not, those who are mad because of self-pity form a familiar mood in the Bible. We find a lack of appreciation firing the flames of anger everywhere. Namaan is angry and resentful because Mordecai has snubbed him. Elijah is sitting under a juniper tree feeling angry and sorry for himself. The Psalmist is writing about how mad he ...

175. Anointed Ministry

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... young preacher read Isaiah 61:1-2 as the beginning of his inaugural address. "The spirit of the Lord is upon me," Jesus began, apparently recalling his baptism by John and the Word of the Lord God: "... Thou art my beloved Son... (Luke 3:22)." The mood of the assembly began to change as Jesus sat down and said with authority: "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." The fact that he sat down meant that he saw himself as the chairperson. The fact that he spoke with authority meant that he ...

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