Sermon and Worship Resources

Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on

Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 1776 to 1800 of 3108 results

1776. Look to the Lord

2 Corinthians 12:9

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Two different kinds of medicine and a heavy pan. Good morning, boys and girls. How are you feeling today? (Let them respond.) That's good, because if you weren't, you could probably take some of this medicine here! (Hold up the medicine.) Did you ever see that commercial on television about the woman who has a very sore arm? In that commercial, she tells us that she has arthritis and it is very hard for her to pick up something like this pan. (Show them the pan.) Would one of you like to lift this ...

1777. Time Is Running Out

1 Cor 7:29a

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A new bar of soap and a very used bar of soap. Good morning, boys and girls. I brought along with me a couple of friends that most of you probably know but you don't talk to very often. How many of you have ever met Billy Big Bar and his older brother Larry Little Bar? Billy and Larry are good friends but Billy worries a lot about Larry. Every day when they wake up, Billy looks at Larry and becomes very sad. Do you know why Billy is sad about Larry? (Let them answer.) That's right, Larry is smaller ...

1778. Fresh Starts

Titus 3:5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Objects: A check with your name written on it and some gifts that the children will accept as gifts you received in love. Happy New Year! Today we start all over with a brand new year! It is really good to know that we have fresh starts. For most people, a new year is almost the same as when God forgives your sins. You don't want to make the same mistakes again, but you begin without any of the bad problems that you collected the year before. This morning I want to tell you a little bit about the way God ...

1779. Proper 13

Mt 14:13-21 · Rom 8:31-39 · Ex 12:1-14 · Ps 143

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

The Miracle Of Feeding 5,000 A little lad was asked which was his favorite parable. He replied, "I like the one about the loafs and fishing." The kid may be confused whether the story of Jesus' feeding the 5,000 is a parable or a miracle. However, the miracle of multiplying is also a favorite of the gospel writers. This miracle of Jesus is the only one recorded by the four evangelists. In addition, there are two accounts of feeding the 4,000 which New Testament scholars consider to be different versions of ...

1780. Redemption Near And Dear

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Erskine White

Look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. (Luke 21:28) A few years ago, a rather well-known preacher wrote a book called Shaping a Successful Life, and as is customary in the book business, his publisher arranged a series of interviews on radio and television as a way of promoting sales of the book. Now, amid everything he had written on being successful, he also included one chapter on coping with troubles and tragedies in life, and to this man’s surprise, everyone who ...

1781. No Need For Weeping Anymore

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Erskine White

Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?" (John 20:15) Sometimes we forget. We focus so much on the joy and celebration of this day, on the bright flowers and festive music, that sometimes we forget; the first sound heard on that first Easter Sunday was the sound of weeping. It was Mary Magdalene's weeping. Tears of hopelessness poured out of her in loud wailing and moaning; her body convulsed in grief and her sobbing pierced the quiet of the early morning stillness. We often overlook the fact that ...

1782. A Chosen Race?

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Sermon

Erskine White

I spent some time recently with a number of clergymen and clergywomen from various churches, the scribes and Pharisees of our day. It was a Bible study session and we happened to be discussing the very same passage from John which is the text for this sermon. Do not misunderstand me. I do not consider myself superior in any way to the ministers I will tell you about. For all I know, they may have gifts and skills far beyond my own - I am utterly sincere in saying that. But I will let stand what I have ...

1783. Wedding: Love as Grace

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

(Name) and (name) , you have come to this day and to this place to receive the benediction of Christ upon your union as husband and wife. It's a wonderful place to start. Today, when everything is so lovely, it seems as if you could be like the prince and the princess who ride off together on a white charger to a honeymoon that lasts forever. Of course, that is only a romantic dream. But then, romantic dreams are the stuff that weddings are made of. Your marriage, however, must be lived out in down-to- ...

1784. Wedding: Grounds for Marriage

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

(Name) and (name), this ceremony marks the culmination of your courtship. If you are like most lovers, the road of romance was filled with doubts and hopes, with problems and disappointments, with moments of heart swelling joy and the wonder of blossoming love. Now you have come boldly to declare that love before God and your invited guests. We are thrilled to share these moments with you. It would be nice to be unreservedly optimistic about your future. But I can't, because marriage isn't a one-way ride ...

1785. What's In The Cards?

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Children's Sermon

Object: some flash cards which say things like "Hard Worker"; "Wastes Times"; "Works Well With Others"; "Is a Troublemaker"; etc. Boys and girls, if I asked your friends what sort of worker you are, what do you think they would say? Would they say you are a good worker, or somebody who is lazy and goofs off a lot? (Let some of them answer if they wish.) I brought some cards with me to church today. They have some words on them about how people work together with others. Let's look at some of them together ...

1786. Searchlights

John 3:1-21

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Sharing this week's Gospel theme at Sunday school. Object: Flashlights Teachers: Begin this week's lesson with a discussion of some of your students' "dark" secrets. What are some of the bad things they have "gotten away with" in the past? (If you are going to get honest answers, you will probably have to concentrate on the remote past. It will help if you are willing to share an incident from your own childhood, or even your recent past.) What led your students to the conclusion that they "got away with" ...

1787. Who's the Boss?

1 John 4:18

Children's Sermon

Object: a badge that reads "The Boss." Boys and girls, if you're like me there are probably some things that frighten you sometimes. Can we think of some of these things? Let me tell you some things that sometimes frighten me. (Tell them a few things on your list. Then invite them to share some they can think of.) It's only natural to be afraid sometimes. God gave us the ability to be afraid sometimes so that we can protect ourselves. If we were not afraid of things we learn can hurt us, we would keep ...

1788. Everything is Fixed

Romans 3:22

Children's Sermon

Object: a badge that reads "Jesus loves me." Boys and girls, have you ever had a time when somebody you wanted to have as your friend got really angry at you? (Talk about this.) How does it feel when that happens? (Let them answer.) It can really be hard on us when somebody we want to like us is angry at us instead. What could we do to fix things? That's right. We could talk to them and ask them to stop being angry. But they might not do it, especially if they thought they had a good reason. We could beg ...

1789. The Pitfalls Of Practicing Piety

Matthew 6:19-24, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

John M. Braaten

I have never liked the word "beware." It always seems to be written in intimidating block letters which suggest life-threatening consequences. The word brings to mind an experience I had as a 12-year-old paperboy. Entering a customer's yard I encountered a collie which, without provocation, charged me with fangs bared, knocking off my glasses and hurling me to the ground. I still remember its moist, rancid breath in my face. Hearing my screams, neighbors came and rescued me. That event not only changed my ...

1790. Selling One’s Soul

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Robert Allen

Universities in the Northeast take great delight in staging Elizabethan dramas. This is one of the cultural aspects which universities in the Northeast emphasize. It is a way of giving aspiring young actors and actresses some practical experience on the stage and it is a way of taking classical literature out of the boredom of the classroom and making it come alive in the minds of students as they watch it performed on the stage. Perhaps, one of the greatest of the Elizabethan dramas is Christopher Marlowe ...

1791. Hang Time: A Good Friday Sermon

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

Lent is a season for recalling the suffering and triumph of our Lord, Savior and Liberator, Jesus Christ. It is a time where all Christians should take spiritual inventory in their lives; a time of discarding those things which hurt us and holding on to those things which help us. Lent is a time of remembering the passion, suffering, and resurrection of Christ. As heirs of his kingdom, we become co-participants in the struggle for love, justice, and truth as we are crucified and resurrected in the daily ...

1792. Our Dwelling Place In All Generations

Psalm 90:1-17

Eulogy

Joe Barone

A Scriptural Sermon For A Person With Little Discernible Religious Belief One thing I always try to do is make my funeral sermon fit the person whom I’ve come to bury. I’ve had people say to me, “I want you to do my funeral, but I’m not a religious person. I don’t want you to put me in heaven or make me into some kind of saint.” I think that’s the way * would feel today. To me, it’s a comfort to say, as the psalmist does, that God has been “our dwelling place in all generations.” “The years of our life are ...

1793. God Can Change The Past

Eulogy

Joe Barone

Psalm 22:1-8, 14-31, Isaiah 42:1-4Luke 24:1-9 and Revelation 7:13-17 It always amazes me to think that God can change the past. I know, of course, God can change the future, but the past? “My God, my God, why has thou forsaken me?” the psalmist shouts, the very words Jesus cries from the cross in the gospel according to Mark. And in crying them, Jesus changes forever, and in fact adds to, our understanding of the psalm. Think about it. “O my God, I cry by day, but thou dost not answer,” the psalmist says. ...

1794. The Meeting Of Marriage Partners At The Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

Jesus and his weather-beaten band of wandering disciples were still heading north and had been for some days. To some extent Jesus had decided to get out of Judea, where he had been working, in order to avoid competition with John the Baptist in that region. (John's gospel claims that the rumor was spreading all over that Jesus was baptizing more disciples than John the Baptist was.) Jesus also might have decided to head north towards familiar territory in Galilee, because the Pharisees had heard what was ...

1795. Everything Except God

Amos 5:1-17

Sermon

Richard Hasler

Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist who taught at Harvard University, decided to travel to the South in the early days of the civil rights struggle to see for himself what effect the tension was having upon little children. He soon developed a special interest in Ruby Bridges, a six-year-old black girl in New Orleans. She walked bravely to class each morning accompanied by federal marshals who protected her from the ever-present abuse of an angry mob. How was she able to stand such tension? Where did a ...

1796. Matthias · A Second Choice

Acts 1:21-26

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Symbol of Matthias How many of you know what it is like to be second choice? I mean, how many of you know what it is like to never be the first one chosen. There is always someone else who comes ahead of you, and it doesn't make any difference if it is a game, a friend, or getting something to eat, you always end up with your second choice. It probably is not that bad, but it seems like it sometimes. I have a story to tell you today about a man who was a second choice and it turned out pretty well ...

1797. The Spontaneous Routine

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

The Duty Of A Nation History records that the Pilgrims celebrated a good harvest as early as 1621, and that Massachusetts celebrated a thanksgiving day now and again until the 18th century. But our first President, George Washington, is credited with establishing our first national day of prayer and thanksgiving. By proclamation President George Washington set aside November 26, 1790, as a day of official thanksgiving "for the many single favors of Almighty God." In that first proclamation, President ...

1798. The Significance Of An Insignificant Man

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Erskine White

They seized one Simon of Cyrene ... and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus. (Luke 23:26) We might call Simon of Cyrene a rather insignificant man in the larger sweep and sway of scripture. He's not a major figure; in fact, the Bible mentions him just once, almost in passing: "They seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus." It is worth noting that Simon was an African, from the city of Cyrene in what is now northern ...

1799. Blessed To Be A Blessing

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Justin Tull

Abram was a remarkable man. Forget the fact that he was still able at age 99 to father children! The first remarkable thing about Abram was that he was willing to believe God and so set out on a journey to an unknown land, without the security of country and kindred but only the promise that God would take care of him. How many of you at age 75 or even 35 would make that kind of journey, that kind of commitment? At first it seems like a rosy future: a great nation, a new land, blessings promised to those ...

1800. Wine from Water: The Wedding

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Steve Swanson

Wouldn't you think that when early man and woman learned to make wine they thought it a miracle - or at least a mystery? Picture some prehistoric person putting a bunch of grapes in a stone jar, then getting so busy hunting pterodactyls for a week or so that they forgot all about those grapes. Imagine their surprise when they finally came back to find the whole business bubbling and gurgling away with great vigor. That amazing process is called fermentation. Fermentation is an important process in this ...

Showing results