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1776. The Prodigal Son or The Merciful Father

Luke 15:1-7

Drama

Robert A. Lehmann

Theme: A parable of mercy and forgiveness Characters: Narrator Jesus The youngest son The Father, Four solo voices (Solo 2 doubles as the older son) Narrator: Dishonest tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus. Solo 1: Because Jesus was their friend? Solo 2: Well, they didn't have many friends; especially like Jesus. ...

1777. The Rich Man and Lazarus

Luke 16:19-31

Drama

Robert A. Lehmann

Theme: A parable of final separation Characters: Jesus Four solo voices (Solo 4 doubles as the Narrator, Solo 3 doubles as Abraham, and Solo 1 doubles as the Rich Man.) Narrator (Solo 4): Jesus, in talking to his disciples, told them an interesting incident, he said, Jesus: There was a certain rich man, Solo 1: A very ...

1778. The Ten Virgins

Matthew 25:1-13

Drama

Robert A. Lehmann

Theme: A parable of the Kingdom of heaven Characters: Narrator Jesus Four solo voices Narrator: There are always people who are unprepared; not ready for work, for meals, for events they just seem to "put things off" naturally. That may be acceptable when dealing with earthly matters but when it concerns heavenly matters, if is tragic. Jesus said: Jesus: ...

1779. The Talents - A Parable of Stewardship

Matthew 25:14-30

Drama

Robert A. Lehmann

Theme: A parable of stewardship Characters: Narrator Four solo voices (Solo 4 doubles as Servant 1, Solo 2 doubles as Servant 2, and Solo 1 doubles as Servant 3) Narrator: The Kingdom of heaven can be illustrated by the story of a man going into another country, who called his servants together and loaned them money ...

1780. Jesus and the Women in His Life

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Thomas Blowers

... prominent man who followed Jesus secretly for fear of ramifications which could ruin him.(Strange then that after Jesus died his body was placed in Joseph's own tomb at Joseph's own request.) And of course Jesus was often seen talking with all sorts of questionable characters. It was no baseless rumor that Jesus hung out with all sorts of people. He did. And some of the people whose company he sought soon began seeking his, Mary Magdalene being one of them. And as I started to say a few moments ago who she ...

1781. Peter. Rock. Follower of Jesus.

Matthew 16:13-20

Drama

Thomas Blowers

... we followed Jesus about wherever he went. Students we were. Hand-picked. I still don't believe it. I mean if I were going to be a teacher and I had the opportunity to select my own students, I certainly wouldn't have come up with the odd assortment of characters he managed to come up with. But Jesus seemed pleased with his choices and we were glad to be chosen, too, although it took me an awfully long time before I could ever begin to say why. He certainly was a patient man - Jesus, I mean. I know we tried ...

1782. V.I.P.s

Philippians 2:1-11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... President of the United States. Would you say that he is a very important person? I should say so. Who has ever heard of this one? [Joe Namath.] Right, a champion football player. How about this one? [Fred Flintstone.] Oh, everyone knows our favorite cartoon character, Mr. Flintstone. [Continue holding up the rest of the name cards and discussing the importance of each person in his field.] Say, everyone knew the last two names, my name and Janie's name. We must be getting more famous as we go along. You ...

1783. When The Cheering Stopped

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Brett Blair

... That was something new. Earlier they had been afraid to speak out for fear of the masses, but they began to perceive that the fickle public was turning on him. Soon the opposition began to snowball. When they discovered that they could not discredit his moral character, they began to take more desperate measures. Before it was all over a tidal wave welled up that brought Jesus to his knees under the weight of a cross. Why did the masses so radically turn against him? How did the shouts of Hosanna on Sunday ...

1784. Is It Well With Your Family? - Sermon Starter

2 Kings 4:8-37

Illustration

Brett Blair

... that can break the heart like the loss of a child. To be sure there are many ways to lose children. We can lose them by a tragic death. We can lose them due to broken relationships. And, we can lose them by failing to develop the strength of character in them that they will need to resist evil. Elisha did not know what had happened but he guessed something was not right; otherwise, she would not be traveling to find him. Elisha sent his servant out to greet this well-to-do-woman with three questions: Is it ...

1785. God, The Enemy

Luke 12:1-12

Sermon

... poem says, "bloody, but unbowed." For Henley, "Invictus" was an expression of courage in the face of life's difficulties, not a license to kill. Henley had a long, close friendship with the great author, Robert Louis Stevenson, who in fact, based part of the character of Long John Silver in Treasure Island on his one-footed, hearty friend. Stevenson wrote of Henley's poem that, "[Henley] wanted me to understand that 'I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.' not my teachers, family, friends ...

1786. Learning to Walk on the Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

... something beyond. On the seas where you and I must sail, there are many contrary winds that blow, many storms that rage, many perils that threaten. Life is like this. It comes equipped with a built-in element of struggle, and not to accept this is to reject the very character of life itself. We must not give up on living just because the storm is around us and the wind is in our face. We must go on living even when the going is not easy. If one has made up his mind to do everything possible to avoid thorns ...

1787. Finding Life!

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

... born not from the womb, but from above. (John 3:1-10) To be sure, when we human persons are physically born, we do possess more than mere physical life - there is a spiritual quality within us. From our very birth, or perhaps before, we have a spiritual character; from the very start, we are more than mere animals are. The spiritual quality we have is, as it were, a wick unlighted and awaiting a touch of flame to set it aglow. We human persons are spirit-creatures, having the high potential of coming alive ...

1788. The Lord's People Together

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

... said. It is this: The people of our Lord, together with him, constitute a unique kind of gathering together of individual persons. Whatever else this passage of Scripture may be, it is a word for the Christian community, it is an insight into the character and dynamics of Christian fellowship. It is saying that the being together of the Lord's people is a matter of the very highest significance. Please note now a couple of rather striking implications in what Jesus is here saying. First: again and again ...

1789. The Quality of Mercy

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

... me. As I have opened up myself to this offender, I have also made an opening for God. Thus has an occasion of deep trauma been transformed into one of glorious blessing for me. To be merciful is one of the more noble assets of our life, a component of character with immense benefit not only for the one to whom mercy is shown, but also to the one who shows it. In The Merchant of Venice Shakespeare has these lines: The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place ...

1790. On Having "The Right Stuff"

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

"The right stuff" describes the qualities of character, competence, and temperament possessed by the early astronauts. They had "the right stuff" for the job and all of us admired them for this. In terms of American history, they are kin to those sturdy folk who first settled this nation, as well as those who later broke out of ...

1791. Grateful For The Giver

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

... be starving, their uniforms ragged, their shoes bottomless. When the ordeal is over, he’ll issue a proclamation of thanksgiving. A fairy-tale? Not if you’re describing Washington, "the father of our country." For gratitude does not depend upon the circumstances. Create a character who’ll have no family and no home. He’ll he afflicted with a loathsome disease, perhaps one that causes matter to ooze from the eyes, making people hate to look his way. Decorate his body with scars all over from rods and ...

1792. No Little Bit

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

... . It would be easy to go on like this, putting before you one picture after another, how our life is being squeezed dry of its personhood, how insignificant we’re made to feel. Just holes in a card. This is like the feeling that must have overwhelmed a certain character in one of Jesus’ parables. This fellow was one who’d been given a pound by his master. In Today’s English Version, instead of a pound it says the nobleman gave each of his servants a gold coin to invest while he himself would be away ...

1793. The Beginning of the End

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

... follow me" has another dimension to it; we are to follow him to Jerusalem every time our congregation gathers for Sunday worship and, to some degree, every day of our lives. Sunday is celebrated as a "little Easter," but it also needs to have the character of a "small Good Friday." We remember and celebrate his death as well as his resurrection - what he suffered on our behalf in the Holy City. Only when our worship has both of these dimensions - death and resurrection - will we begin to understand what it ...

1794. Heaven Can’t Wait

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

... humanitarian intentions. The letter of the law is in force. We find glee and gloat when someone fails and falls and when their scandals burst across the headlines, especially if the fallen one has been the object of our hatred or our envy. The character of Kingdom life is in spontaneous expression of the loving heart - giving, serving, reaching for the wounded, compassion for the hurt and bleeding. Blessed are the pure in spirit, for they shall see God. Our lifestyle seeks pure air,pure water, and pure food ...

1795. The Man Who Came to Dinner

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... ? He would, and he did. This was no happy social occasion. They watched him, and he gave them plenty to see and to hear. Jesus had the moral courage not to be intimidated by their opposition; not to bend his principles and camouflage his character because the host and guests did not agree with him. The implication for us is obvious. How often do our Christian convictions and our moral standards bow down to social politeness, economic advantage or manifest disagreement? Do people know where we stand? II "For ...

1796. The Man Who Didn’t Care

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... fixed - an unbridgeable chasm, he puts it in our worldly language. Who digs this chasm? Dives himself had driven a wedge of selfishness between himself and his needy fellows, therefore between himself and God. First there is an act, then a habit, then a character trait - until there is a gap so wide that Jesus says even heaven itself could not bridge it. The clearest evidence of what we believe about God is the way we treat other people. Godly acts of goodness, generosity and compassion - or their opposites ...

1797. The Now-ness of Eternity

Zechariah 7:1-14

Sermon

... Is eternity out yonder, beyond this life, or does it embrace the here and now? Is eternal life quantitative or qualitative? The point I wish to make, one that seems of paramount importance to me, is that we consider the now-ness of eternity and the qualitative character of eternal life. In the lesson read this morning from the Gospel according to Luke, Jesus is quoted as saying to the Sadducees, who did not believe in the resurrection, that God is "not God of the dead, but of the living; for all live to him ...

1798. Fixing The Fox!

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... is, how strong he is, and what his movements are. Then we plan our attack accordingly. A battle can be lost because of the lack of information about the enemy. Jesus knew his enemy, Herod. In our text he calls Herod "that fox." The name described the character of the enemy. Herod was like a fox: tricky, deceptive, crafty, and unworthy of trust. Jesus knew Herod was an adulterer, living with his brother's wife. He was a murderer because, to please Herodias, he had John the Baptizer's head cut off Herod was a ...

1799. Cross Purposes

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... made up of weapons used in crime: guns, clubs, whips, and other instruments of death. The principle of the cross is utter foolishness to the world. The cross holds to the principle that strength is in weakness, in sorrow comes joy, in suffering we get character, in defeat comes victory, in humility comes exaltation, and out of death comes life. The world cries, "No, No, No!" to this. This is not the way of the world. The world repudiates and hates the cross for such nonsense. Another reason for the world ...

1800. If Only We Would Be Disciplined ...

2 Kings 13:10-25

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... will defeat them only three times." (13:19, TEV) The king must have known that striking the floor with the arrows was symbolic of the defeats of Syria. His failure to persist indicated to Elisha that Jehoash had neither the will nor the character to be Judah’s leader. The Scriptures tell about people who were willing to discipline themselves and thus become God’s instruments. It also realistically relates accounts of those who were undisciplined and failed. That’s true of the patriarchs and prophets ...

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