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Sermon

King Duncan

During Hollywood‘s golden years there were many people in the film industry who were known for their practical jokes. One of the best known and most creative of these was a fellow by the name of Jack McDermott. He was a writer and director of movies. McDermott‘s favorite gag was to take his guests for a ride in his Model-T Ford. Taking them into the mountains, he would careen around curves at per...

1727. The Love of a Father (Father's Day)

Sermon

King Duncan

It is not easy being a father. One cynic, speaking from his own experience, noted that children go through four fascinating stages. First they call you DaDa. Then they call you Daddy. As they mature they call you Dad. Finally they call you collect. Today we salute fathers. Dads, we love you. The role of a Christian father is more important in today's world than ever before. It is a different roll...

1728. Heal the Sick; Cast Out the Demons

Sermon

Ron Lavin

In his sermon to the graduates of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, Paul Tillich, the theologian, preached on the theme of healing and casting out demons. He told the graduating seminarians that they would experience two difficulties as they went to their new parishes with this message of healing and casting out demons: (1) Many people will say that they do not need to be healed and (2)...

1729. What Do You Think You’re Worth?

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John R. Brokhoff

"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s will. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered." [Matthew 10:29, 30] What do you think you’re worth? It is not likely you are worth the billions of a Paul Getty or a Howard Hughes. Do you go to the other extreme when you would sell yourself for a nickel and give three cents change? Ar...

1730. Converting the Converted

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John R. Brokhoff

These twelve Jesus sent out, charging them, "Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter no town of the Samaritans, but go rather to the lest sheep of the house of Israel. And preach as you go, saying, ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ " [Matthew 10:5-7] Have you ever wondered why, with a church on almost every corner in America, so much evil abounds? In a country with approximately 120 million ch...

1731. The Cross Way of Life

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John R. Brokhoff

"He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me ... and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will find it." [Matthew 10:37-39] During the presidential campaign of 1976, Jimmy Carter became famous for his teeth. Cartoonists had a holiday exaggerating the size of his teeth. His tee...

1732. Numbered Hairs

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

The Plague is personalized in Albert Camus’ play State of Siege. It comes into a town in the form of a man who is accompanied by his secretary. The Secretary carries a notebook in which she often makes entries. She is always smiling, but at a stroke of her pencil, a person can be struck with plague and die. Few have the courage to challenge this threatening team. But a young medical student by the...

1733. The Idiot's Guide To Christianity

Sermon

King Duncan

A substitute Sunday School teacher couldn't open the combination lock on the supply cabinet. So she went to the pastor for help. The pastor started turning the dial of the combination lock, stopped after the first two numbers, looked up serenely toward heaven, began moving his lips silently, turned to the final number, and opened the lock. The teacher gasped, "I'm in awe of your faith, pastor." ...

1734. Dusted

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Dust is one of those things in life that confounds us a bit, doesn’t it? Think about it. You clean. You dust. A day later, you look, and lo and behold, dust! Where did it come from? You cleaned everything! It’s as though the world “sheds.” And in fact, it does! All the time. Even you shed. Every two to four weeks, you shed the entire outer layer of your skin. That’s 8 lbs per year!* But in fact, ...

1735. Reveille

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Prop: video of the introduction to “Star Trek” (you may want to put a space / stars backdrop up during the sermon) We recently saw the return to theatres yet another “Star Trek” movie. Trekkies are everywhere. There are trekkie conferences, and trekkie clubs. And still millions flock to the movies to see the new generation of “Jim” and “Spock,” “Bones,” and “Scotty” venture into unknown space. St...

1736. Where Are the Laborers?

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A letter Good morning, boys and girls. Suppose you wrote someone a very special letter. Suppose it was a love letter--have any of you ever sent someone a love letter? Not yet, anyway. Let's suppose you sent someone a very special letter, and it never got delivered. That would be disappointing, wouldn't it? I read about some firemen in Newington, Connecticut who were fighting a house fire ...

1737. Proper 8

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

READINGS Psalter--Psalms 13 First Lesson--The near sacrifice of Isaac is a test of Abraham's faith in the face of the death of his only heir. Genesis 22:1-14 Second Lesson--The dominion of sin is to be overturned by our willingness to be tools in God's hands to do what is right. Romans 6:12-23 Gospel--Jesus promises rewards for the smallest service to one of his prophets. Matthew 10:40-42 CALL TO...

1738. Proper 7, Pentecost 5, Ordinary Time 12

Bulletin Aid

Amy C. Schifrin

Prayer Of The Day Leader: God of our Redemption, nothing is beyond your care. As you open wide your embrace for even the tiniest of sparrows, open wide our arms that we may give one another the courage to live out your goodness in this day and in the days to come. In the name of Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, through all ages of ages. All: ...

1739. Proper 8/ Pentecost 6/ Ordinary Time 13

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Amy C. Schifrin

Greeting Of Peace Leader: From every land and nation, every city and home, All: whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Leader: From every family, rich and poor, small and large, All: whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. Leader: From the barrios and the colonias, from the neighborhoods of affluence, ...

1740. Daddy's Love

Sermon

King Duncan

Some first graders were asked to draw a picture of God in their Sunday school class. Their finished products contained some interesting theology. One child depicted God in the form of a brightly colored rainbow. Another presented him as an old man coming out of the clouds. An intense little boy drew God with a remarkable resemblance to Superman. The best entry, however, came from a little girl. S...

1741. Cross Choices

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

A man once told his friends of a system he had invented to preserve domestic peace. “The day we married ten years ago,” he said, “we decided that all important decisions should be made by me. Small decisions were left to my wife.” When his friends asked him how it had worked out, he replied, “Perfectly, there hasn’t been a single hitch in the entire ten years. Of course,” he added, “no important d...

1742. Who's Your Daddy?

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A set of scales and a calculator. Good morning, boys and girls: (Father's Day) Have you ever heard someone say, "He's worth his weight in gold." That is one way of measuring value. Suppose I ask you to stand on a scale to find out how much you weigh. If you multiply that number by 16, you can find out how many ounces you weigh (multiply it). You weigh ( ) ounces. Gold recently sold for $1...

1743. Never Underestimate The Power of a Cup of Cold Water

Sermon

Brett Blair

Now I would like to stop the world for just one minute and ask you to think back. Think back with me to the first century. Think about those 50 years after Jesus’ death and what it must been like for Jesus’ disciples. Before the last one died their efforts had brought 500,000 men women, and children into the ranks of the church. But what they had to suffer in order to accomplish this task is seldo...

1744. Welcome, Inc.

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

The lady of the house was giving last minute instructions to her butler before the start of a huge dinner being held at the estate: “Bentley,” she said, “I want you to stand at the front door and call the guests’ names as they arrive.” “Very well, madam,” replied the butler, “I’ve been wanting to do that for years.”1 One of the occupational hazards of being a butler is that you have to be welcomi...

1745. Parable of the Lapel Pin

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Billy said, "Mother, what is wrong with me?" Mother said, "Why nothing is wrong with you dear, why do you ask?" "I haven't got any pin," said Billy, "and all the other kids have one. Jimmy has a scout pin, Dick has a class ring, Mary has a locket and I don't have anything." "Well, those things just say that they belong to something. You'll have one some day." "But I want a lapel pin. Any thing...

1746. Mr. Eternity

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Dennis Kastens

Perhaps you have heard of the man known as Mr. Eternity who lived in Australia a few years ago. Early in life he was an alcoholic derelict who before reaching middle age was converted through a rescue mission and later himself became a street-corner evangelist, Shortly after his conversion, he heard a sermon entitled "Echoes of Eternity." He was so captivated by the importance of the word "eternit...

1747. Chrysostom's Commitment

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Larry Goodpaster

Chrysostom was the patriarch of Constantinople in the fourth century. One of the stories surrounding this faithful witness concerns the occasion when the Roman emperor had him arrested and charged with being a Christian. If Chrysostom did not renounce Christ, then the emperor would have this Christian leader banished from the kingdom. Chrysostom responded to the threat by saying that the emperor c...

1748. Living With the Pain

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

Suffering and pain are integral to life's experience but they need not humiliate, defeat, and destroy us! A Detroit News article some years ago carried the story of Kirk Gibson during his glory days with the Tigers. Few really knew the price of pain and agony paid by Gibson for that glory. According to the article, Kirk Gibson is a baseball player who knows how to live with pain. In 1980, he tore...

1749. The Importance of Rooftops in Jesus' Day

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Rooftops were places of great activity in Bible times. The high, open, flat surfaces were perfect for winnowing chaff from grain, drying fruit, storing grain, nuts, and fruit, and sun-bleaching laundry. Rooftops were also household gathering places because so much work was done there, and they were sleeping places on the hot nights of summer. But rooftops, because of their height, their openness, ...

1750. St. Ignatius Prayer

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St. Ignatius of Loyola

Lord Jesus, teach me to be generous, teach me to serve you as you deserve, to give and not to count the cost, to fight and not heed the wounds, to toil and not to seek for rest, to labor and not to seek reward, except that of knowing that I do your will.

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