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2051. Which Way To Jesus?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... to say that these were people from Greece who were proselytes. That means they were Gentiles who had espoused the Hebrew faith and had come to observe the Feast of the Passover. They were not Hebrews who spoke Greek. However, they did have the good sense to seek out a disciple of Jesus, who had a Greek name and who came from a region where the Hebrews did speak Greek. We all know how that works. Quite commonly we say, "It's not what you know. It's who you know." That is true whether you are looking for a ...

2052. The Little Boat

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... obeyed Jesus, seeing in him the very fury of God. Jesus then turned toward his friends, with the questions, "Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?" Notice, Jesus is now asking the questions. As in the case of Job, this is the turning point, the reversal. When the disciples asked the question, "Don't you care?" they had lost sight of who was in control. That's how it is in the storms of life. We too lose sight of who is in control. In Hebrew tradition, the one who asks the questions is the one in control ...

2053. The Sending Plan (Alternate title: Our Human Predicament)

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... then through you. I'll do it through the Christian community. You are called to work together, not alone." That is why Jesus sent the disciples out in twos, so that they could do together what they could not do alone. I try to play racquetball twice a week. It gives ... . Why go together? Couldn't more territory be covered if they went out alone? Yes, but Jesus did not send the disciples alone. They needed one another for support. They were sent two by two because the plan of salvation includes community. We ...

2054. Last But Yet First

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... crucified -- "a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles," but surely not to us, "those who are the called." To us the crucified One is "Christ, the power of God and the wisdom of God" (1 Corinthians 1:23-25). The wisdom of God -- even though the disciples "did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him," surely we understand what he was talking about. "Odd of God" indeed, himself so to humble himself in Jesus, the Son, so as to be last and the servant of all, in order that he ...

2055. Children, Just Forever

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... little ones should be lost" (Matthew 18:14). None of us little ones wants that either. But the mystery of "why some, not others" remains. Think of Judas and be very sober about this. Think of Peter and be saved. Judas thought he could betray and still be Christ's disciple. Jesus knew and Jesus let Judas know that he knew: "One of you will betray me." Judas was warned. Jesus said, "It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it into the dish." He gave it to Judas. "He immediately ...

2056. Can You See Where We're Going

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Those around the fringes of each healing were inclined to superficial hero-worship or fear.4 Yet Bartimaeus followed Jesus "on the way," that is, down the road to Jerusalem. Jesus' healing ministry was completed in a man who was a beggar but now became his disciple. What's more, this is the second occasion in the Gospel of Mark where Jesus healed someone who could not see. In chapter eight, a man at Bethsaida needed extra help in having his sight restored. Jesus touched him once and asked what he could see ...

2057. Proper 6

Luke 7:36-50, Galatians 2:11-21, 1 Kings 21:1-29, Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... such an act. Jesus responds by offering Simon a story. 2. Luke 7:41-50 -- Jesus tells the parable of the two debtors and applies it as a counter rebuke to Simon. 3. Luke 8:1-3 -- Luke reports the further itineration of Jesus with the twelve disciples and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities. The implication probably is that these women also showed devotion and love to Jesus. Precis of the Parable A man had two men who owed him money. One owed him $1000 and the other owed $100 ...

2058. Proper 25

Psalm 65:1-13, Luke 18:9-14, Joel 2:28-32, 2 Timothy 4:9-18, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... persons who don't fit the image we have of them. CONTEXT Context of Luke 18 Just prior to the parable of the two men praying, Jesus had told the parable of the persistent widow and the bad judge. It is placed in the context of the need of the disciples to pray constantly. While the parable of the two men praying is more concerned with who trusts in God's grace rather than their own merit for their righteousness, it is the prayers of the two men that show their attitudes and God's response. So the theme of ...

2059. No Shortcut To Glory

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

William L. Self

... them, they heard a voice saying, "This is my beloved Son ... Listen to him!" (Mark 9:7). This is similar to the baptism of Jesus in that a voice from heaven identified Jesus as God's son. However, here the voice speaks to the disciples. This transfiguration also anticipates the resurrection, although there is no actual resurrection in Mark's Gospel. There is the appearance of Moses and Elijah, who had come to be associated with the Messianic Age in Judaism and Christianity. Being here with Jesus says that ...

2060. Ya Can't Make Me

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

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... The problem with learning to "just say no" is that you might just miss saying yes to a life-changing visitor. The people in that Samaritan village never knew what they missed when Jesus passed by. In some ways, it might have been better if the disciples had called fire down from heaven. Then, there would have been real evidence that something incredible had been missed. The way it happened, no one in the village could really be sure that they had missed something important. Jesus came to offer them life and ...

2061. Sometimes Goodbye Is Hello

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... . To gain by losing. To hold fast by letting go. To become something new by ceasing to be what we were before. These are truths at the heart of the gospel. And nowhere is this clearer than in the story of Christ's ascension. Our Lord spoke to the disciples often about his certain leaving of them. But, as it is for all of us when we are happy, they treasured his presence so much they couldn't imagine his departure. It was one of the last and most difficult lessons they learned. "Where I am going you cannot ...

2062. I Ain't Afraid Of No Ghost

Luke 24:36-49

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... ) Why are you afraid of ghosts? (response) Tell me some things that a ghost can do? (response) What else can a ghost do? (response) How does a ghost get around? (response) Do they have to open doors and walk through them? (response) What do they do? (response) One time the disciples were afraid. Jesus had died on the cross and the disciples were all together in a room with the doors locked. Suddenly Jesus was in the room with them. He didn't even knock on the door or open the door. He just appeared. The ...

2063. Worship Aid, Drama

Drama

Dann J. Ettner

... task was I knew that Ihad to take it seriously because of the Governor Pilate's order. We went out to the site of the tomb and checked inside to makesure there was a body to guard. The chief priest had explainedthat the Jewish leaders feared Jesus' disciples would come andsteal the body away and claim that He had come back to life. After having checked and made sure that the body of Jesus wasinside, we rolled the stone back in place and put a seal betweenthe stone door and stone entrance of the tomb. This ...

2064. The Darkest Hour

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... from the high priest's stronghold into the presence of the Governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate, the only person with the authority to put any person in Judea to death. And so he did, after asking the crowd to make that decision for him. Jesus' disciples were thrown into confusion. They knew that if the priests had their way, they would also be hunted down and sent to Golgotha. One Jewish troublemaker was about to be disposed of, any others who showed their faces in town would be asking for similar treatment ...

2065. Stop Being Afraid

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... light of the death and resurrection of the one who said these words. We can wrongly understand these words to be telling us that if we acknowledge or confess Christ, then he will bless us by acknowledging us to God. But Jesus is talking to his disciples, who already have been confessing their faith in him; he is saying to them and to all who follow him that they will never be let down because he himself will acknowledge them before God. That's a promise. One commentator translates this verse: "Every person ...

2066. Seeing The Unseeing

John 9:35-41, John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12

Sermon

David Belgum

... to be healed. Most of us could use some therapy to be able to see with a clearer vision what is the holy, the good, the loving, the right path for our pilgrim's progress through life. That's the issue of today's text. What Did Jesus And The Disciples See? Jesus saw "a man blind from his birth." No sooner had he seen this than he asked himself, "How can I help this fellow?" It was so typical of Jesus to see a need, to be sensitive to the person before him. Here was an opportunity for service, "... that ...

2067. Jesus, The Servant

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Elaine M. Ward

... of these is love." Failure to love is to live a lie, to be out of harmony with our true self, pursuing the wrong goals for the wrong reasons and caring more about other people's opinions than serving God. Jesus washed the feet of his disciples out of the harmony of his true self. Out of that harmony we serve: raising and teaching children, cooking meals, tending flower or vegetable gardens, recycling cans and paper, saving water and energy, being there for the other, participating in rituals of worship and ...

2068. I Saw The Risen Christ Last Week -- And It Wasn't Even Easter

John 20:10-31

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... of us must see and experience the living Christ in his or her own way. In the Gospel accounts of the resurrection, Jesus appeared at different times, at different places, in different forms, to different people. He does the same today. Mary Magdalene saw him in the garden. The disciples saw him in the upper room. Some of them saw him in the breaking of bread on the Emmaus Road. Some saw him at breakfast by a Galilean seashore. Saint Francis of Assisi saw him as a beggar on the road. John Wesley saw him at a ...

2069. Ancient Christian References To Feetwashing

1 Corinthians 11:17-34, John 13:1-17

Sermon Aid

Brett Blair

... imitate the Lord, who at the very time of His passion was not more proud, but more humble. For then he washed His disciples' feet, saying, "If I, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye ought also to wash one another's feet. For I ... , Ante-Nicene Fathers V, p. 283 Jerome For example, Our Lord in the Gospel is girt with a towel, He prepares a basin to wash the disciples' feet, He performs the service of a slave. Granted, it is to teach humility, that we may minister to each other in turn. I do not deny ...

2070. Something New, Something Old

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... came as the Suffering Servant of whom the prophet Isaiah had spoken, an idea of messiahship which had not caught the popular imagination. One day after giving a whole series of parables, and explaining only one (the Parable of the Sower), Jesus asked his disciples if they understood all this. "Yes," they answered (I have a feeling somewhat haltingly and feebly) and then Jesus told them, "Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of ...

2071.

Drama

Betty Lynn Schwab

... to wait for the dough of their bread to rise. So they took unleavened bread into the wilderness; matzah was the bread of affliction and the bread of freedom. Child: What would the unleavened bread mean for Jesus? Reader 1: As Jesus ate his last supper with his disciples, he knew he would suffer and die and in three days be free. He also knew that he was the Bread of Life come down from heaven, bringing true freedom for all. Child: What does the unleavened bread mean for us today? Reader 2: As Christians we ...

2072. Palm/Passion Sunday

Drama

Betty Lynn Schwab

... is the Sixth Sunday of Lent, Palm/Passion Sunday. It is the Sunday in which we reflect on the sixth Passover symbol, remembering Jesus during his final Passover meal, his last supper, with the disciples. The sixth symbol is the Hagigah, or roasted egg. (Gives egg to child) Child: What would the roasted egg mean for Jesus' disciples? Reader 2: The roasted egg is a symbol of the sacrifices offered by each Jewish pilgrim going to the temple at Jerusalem. Thus, the egg is never eaten. The egg is roasted or hard ...

2073. Palm/Passion Sunday

Drama

Betty Lynn Schwab

2074. A Living Witness

Acts 9:32-43

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... that many miracles take place in the ordinary events of our daily lives. Our text today would make a perfect made-for-television movie. There's a story line that involves the larger community; there is a hidden sub-plot of the ministry of the disciple named Tabitha; there is an additional but related drama involving her death; the mystery of her miraculous rescue by Peter; and, yes, a happy ending. Beneath the surface of this text lies several hidden treasures. Among these are service and witness, faith and ...

2075. The Season Of The Resurrection

Luke 24:36-49

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... forgiven. The question is: "Are we willing to accept God's forgiveness?" (Two minutes of silence.) Response "Good News Is Ours to Tell" Message with the Children of All Ages What is your favorite truth about Jesus? That is, what do you most appreciate about him? Tell them about the disciples' experience with him in this passage for today. Give thanks for his presence and his love for each of us, and for all of us. Reading the Scripture This is easy to dramatize with Jesus and the ...

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