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176. Had-To
James 1:17-27
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... as much as they are intrigued by them. People love to "play." Is there anything quite so enchanting as a new electronic "toy"? Ever wonder why "science fiction" stories and movies are so wildly popular? It's not because the alien worlds our imaginations envision ... with all the culturally familiar values and notions we can identify with. The difference is they get to have lots more elaborate toys to play with than we do. Adaptive human beings can easily deal with gadget changes. It's only when we begin to ...
177. What In The World Did You Do Today?
John 3:1-17
Illustration
... . In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door. He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she may be ill, or that something serious had happened. He found her lounging in the bedroom, still curled in the bed in her pajamas, reading a novel. She looked up at him, smiled, and ...
178. Why Me?
Proverbs 16:4, Colossians 1:16
Sermon
James Merritt
... is just one big party. Enjoy it while you are here. Some take the approach of the materialist that says, "Life is about getting, buying, acquiring." It is just like the bumper sticker that said, "He who dies with the most toys wins." The only problem with that is, the person who dies with the most toys still dies! Basically, they all say the same thing. Go after your goals, dream big, aim high, believe you can achieve, have faith, or never give up. Let me be fair here. These books have a lot of good advice ...
179. When Christ Is King
Colossians 1:11-20
Sermon
Donna Schaper
... had the homemade tortillas and tamales which Larry liked and we shared with him. When you went back to grade school after the holidays, the class would have to participate in a show and tell, where students would talk about their Christmas ... and show off some of their toys ... one year it came to be my turn and I had nothing to offer ... It had been a difficult year and my parents were not able to buy us much that Christmas ... and so I told them that I had Christ, pure and simple, for Christmas. And they ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... obstacles are the little things in life. For instance, Erik and Ellie have a baby daughter named Emma. Emma has made life a little more complicated for Erik, because she leaves her toys all over the floor. For the man who climbed Mt. Everest, it is a challenge to walk through his living room without tripping on a toy. (2) Some of you young parents can relate to that, sighted or not. To me, stories of extraordinary accomplishment are almost always stories of faith. To accomplish anything worthwhile in life ...
181. Rich Is What You Have Beside You
Luke 3:7-18
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James W. Moore
... Both of her parents were killed in a car wreck. There was no one to take her in, so we brought her here." The soldier went over to the little girl and gently he said to her, "It is Christmas morning and we have wonderful Christmas presents here: toys, clothes, candy, food, books, puzzles. Which would you like? What do you want most for Christmas?" And the little girl said, "I want somebody to hold me." Maybe that is the best Christmas gift of all… someone to hold us. As somebody once put it, "Rich is not ...
182. Poor Saint Nicholas
Luke 2:1-20
Illustration
Edward F. Markquart
... bishop of Smyrna in Turkey in the year 350 A.D. St. Nicholas, as you recall, was not some fat bellied, red suited, white bearded old man. St. Nicholas did not have eight rein deer, one with a red nose. St. Nicolas did not have a toy factory located near the North Pole and subsidized by Toys R Us. Nor did St. Nicholas sing his favorite song, "I know when you've been sleeping; I know when you're awake; I know when you've bad or good, so be good for goodness sake. O, you better watch out…" St.Nicolas's ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... Cross and The Cave all have in common. They are empty so that the promises of the Savior would be fulfilled and fill us with faith and hope and new life. III. New Life A. Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium is a great G rated movie about a magical toy store and the magical man who has owned and run it for over 200 years. Mr. Magorium has a manager and assistant, Molly Mahoney, who was a young piano prodigy with great promise. Only, somehow along the way to writing her great concerto, she got stuck. And in the ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... Christmas story and loved it dearly. He was out shopping with his mother and stopped at the local toy store. There he wandered through the store, looking at everything in every department. Finally, he caught up with Mom and with a frustrated look on his face said. "I ... 've looked everywhere. There's lots of toys but where's Jesus?" That's the question that's on a lot of people's hearts. "Where's Jesus?" That's the question ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... resistance was Bart Simpson in a shopping cart as the Baby Jesus. Surrounding this entire scene were California Raisins, Disney, McDonalds, Toy Story and other characters as well as all the rest of his action figures. They were either spectators or they ... laughing. It was obvious by the look on the young boy's face, that he had spent hours designing and picking just the right toy for each of the characters. Everything about the nativity was wrong or out of place. Who would have thought of Bart Simpson as the ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... they'd give the baby Jesus in the pageant. Some wanted to give him stuffed animals. Others wanted to give him toys. One little girl named Sally had several conversations with the Director before she admitted what she wanted to give the ... is it?" "A kiss," she said. And the night of the pageant, that is what she gave him. All the other angels brought their gifts of toys and animals. But Sally bent over the manger and gave the little baby a kiss. A loving sigh went up from the congregation as they watched. ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... year, that hope gets lost in the pile of dirty diapers and wad of paper towels used to clean up the spit up. Somehow, during the living out of our daily lives through out the rest of the year, the Hope of the that birth gets buried beneath the toys and clothes and the accumulation of stuff and the accumulation of years. But this season of the baby lets that Hope be reborn. We hear the baby cry from the plain brown wrapper of the manger and our hearts find their place and their peace once again. Conclusion ...
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J. Howard Olds
... tend to do. They tried to ignore what was going on. They hid behind magazines and newspapers and pretended not to notice so as not to embarrass her. However, there was a little kid sitting in a chair playing with toys he had found in his mother's purse and nobody had told him how to be polite. So, he put his toys down and toddled out of his chair and over to the elderly lady. When he got to her he reached up with his hand and touched her on the cheek to dry her tears and said, “It's alright ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... do? I’ll tear down my barns and build bigger barns and there I will store all my grain and goods.” He had a lot of stuff. So do we. There is a bumper sticker around which says, “The one who dies with the most toys wins.” The truth is the one who dies with the most toys, dies. That is the reality of life. George Carlin said, “The essence of life is trying to find a place to put all your stuff.” In a real way he is probably right though he was telling a joke. A close friend of mine ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... and boats and the latest technological devices that you’re sure you don’t need anything spiritual. There’s no use wasting my breath on you. However, there are others of you who are hurting. You know you do need God’s grace. You have come to realize that toys cannot fill the deep hole in your life. Like Zacchaeus, you know you haven’t lived up to the best of which you are able. You feel unworthy and inadequate. You need to know that God really does love you and accepts you just as you are and that ...
191. What to Give Jesus
Matthew 1:18-25
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... they'd give the baby Jesus in the pageant. Some wanted to give him stuffed animals. Others wanted to give him toys. One little girl named Sally had several conversations with the Director before she admitted what she wanted to give the baby ... is it?" "A kiss," she said. And the night of the pageant, that is what she gave him. All the other angels brought their gifts of toys and animals. But Sally bent over the manger and gave the little baby a kiss. A loving sigh went up from the congregation as they watched ...
Sermon
Robert Leslie Holmes
... has ended and they are gone for good. Materialism is the very antithesis of faith, even more so than atheism, because it says that if something cannot be seen or measured, it does not exist. The clarion call of materialism is, "The one who dies with the most toys wins." The problem with that way of looking at life, which has captured the hearts of many people in our generation, is that it does not define its understanding of "winning." If death is the end of existence, and the one who dies with the most ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... to the ground one week before Christmas. The envelope became the highlight of our Christmas. It was always the last thing opened on Christmas morning and our children, ignoring their new toys, would stand with wide-eyed anticipation as their dad lifted the envelope in the tree to reveal its contents. As the children grew, the toys gave way to more practical presents, but the envelope never lost its allure. The story doesn't end here, however. You see, Mike died last year, a victim of cancer. When Christmas ...
Sermon
Ken Lentz
... neighborhood, steals a car, and later realizes that there is a baby in the backseat. He decides to keep the baby and takes it to a young widow for feeding. He returns to the baby's house to fetch toys. He does not allow a fellow thief to harm the baby's father who is in the house at the time of the toy raid. His love for the baby initiates a transformation. He apologizes to the teacher. At the moment of confrontation with a helpless cripple in an alley, he decides not to take the cripple's take for the day ...
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William J. Carl, III
... I lay me down to sleepNow I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep,I pray the Lord my soul to keep, And if I die before I wake,And if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my toys to break,I pray the Lord my toys to break, So none of the other kids can use 'em ... Amen.1So none of the other kids can use 'em ... Amen.1 Here is a mother who can't understand what went wrong with her teenage child. She feels guilt deep down never able to ...
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Cynthia Cowen
... good things, and sent the rich away emp­ty" (Luke 1:53). Amid a playroom filled with toys, a child twisted a figure until it broke. Then he tossed it away. His playmate complained, "Look what you did now! You took off Spiderman's head. I liked ... him best." Picking up another toy, the boy simply replied without any guilt, "Don't worry; my mom will buy me another one." In a world obsessed with accumulating ...
197. The Total Gift
Romans 1:1-17
Sermon
Timothy J. Smith
... Her parents decided to stop exchanging Christmas gifts and instead give donations to charities, “using the money they would have spent on each other,” she explains her parents gave, “dog food for the Humane Society, canned goods to a homeless shelter, toys to Toys for Tots.” The family welcomed this new gift strategy. Karen says her mother would buy dolls on sale throughout the year. “Then a few weeks before Christmas she’d assemble kits with a doll, at least five new outfits, accessories… and ...
Sermon
Timothy J. Smith
... told her he knew how hard it was to lose a father, however, “the best way to work through grief is to reach out to others,” he told her. He invited her to join what he called; the “Subs for Santa” drive that collected food and toys for needy families within the school district. Kay joined six other students in mid-December to deliver presents and foods to area families. This was a wonderful experience for her and the other students. “Even though there were still plenty of presents and food in the ...
Sermon
Craig MacCreary
... liberty to the captives, release to prisoners and the year of the Lord’s favor.” The message seems quite problematic at the holiday season when we wait for the news that the latest fad plaything is in the local toy store; when our children are evermore captivated by the toys our society has to offer; and when in many settings the oppressed must settle for a Christmas basket from the local charity. Even more than this maddening announcement is the statement that the exiles shall be called a plant­ing ...
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David J. Kalas
... with Luke and Paul, use the word to signal something that is complete, even at capacity (see, for example, John 16:24; Acts 2:2; Philippians 4:18-19). Children associate the familiar tune of “Pop Goes The Weasel” with a jack-in-the-box toy. As they crank the handle and the music plays, they come to recognize the approaching moment — an expectation that is at capacity in the instant before the music reaches “Pop!” According to Jesus’ declaration, the music of history and time had come to that ...
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