Sermon and Worship Resources

Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on

Showing 2076 to 2100 of 4963 results

2076. Sticking Together

1 Corinthians 1:10

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... think that the tall one is stronger, but just the slightest touch barely touch the top and let it crash, making sure that it doesn't crash into the smaller one will bring it down. But you can touch the smaller one now touch it softly and it will remain. Do you know why? It's because the smaller house has all of its parts close together. When they're closer together they are stronger. The tall building had a lot of parts, but they were not all close together, so it was weaker. Application: You know, St. Paul ...

2077. The Dynamics of Doubt

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... vote on whether or not God is important, as if our opinions were the most important issue of all. Doubt is a legitimate exercise, a meaningful experience for a limited human being, but if in doubting, man sees himself as the measure of all things, he will remain in what John Bunyan in Pilgrim's Progress calls the "Sloth of Despond." If when doubts assail you, you bring them to God and act on what you believe, you will discover that tomorrow your belief is richer and deeper than today. Only in the atmosphere ...

2078. "Oh Yeah, Thanks a Lot" -The Grateful Leper

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... my son is grown.' "Don't you think ..." I started to say. "I can return to my business.' 'I can go to my friends.' 'Don't you think that we should ...' " I started again. My voice trailed off in an unanswered question as my friends scattered. Only two of us remained. "Let's go back and thank the one who did this," I said. "Yes, we really should," said my companion. "But there is so much to do ..." "I must be going with the rest ..." "I have no time to spare ..." "Don't you think we should go back?" I said ...

2079. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Larry Powell

... . Here the spirits of Cromwell and Frederick hovered; here that pitiful and pitiable long line of ghostly phantoms in the Revolution answered to his roll call.* (* Hubbard, Elbert. Little Journeys. The Roycrofters, East Aurora, New York; 1928, page 81.) The longer he remained, the more Hubbard began to experience some mystical presence of the long departed Carlyle. It seemed to him that Carlyle's presence lay lightly within the house as, I suppose, one's perfume lingers in a room after she has gone. I am ...

2080. Maundy Thursday Service

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Bulletin Aid

Howard Eshbaugh

... his disciples, (14:32a) Jesus: "Sit here, while I pray." (14:32b) Narrator: And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. And he said to them, (14:33-34a) Jesus: My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch." (14:34b) Narrator: And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said, (14:35-36a) Jesus: "Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee: remove this cup ...

2081. Desire Peace

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... you wait for these, be zealous to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace. (2 Peter 3:14) God engages us in the work of justice, because, when all else is said and done, then the new order is established. The only thing which will remain, when the dust is settled, will be righteousness. God wants, very much, for you and me to be participants in that new order, that new peace. It is possible only if we start our participation now. Desire peace with deeds of justice and we all might take the ...

2082. Priorities

Matthew 16:21-28

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... : Now what is this? (response) Is it a toy phone or a real phone? (response) How much is this worth? (response) The Person: I have one more to show you. Your spouse should come from the pews and climb over the children and sit down in the middle. They should remain quiet. What is this? (response) Is it made of silver? (no) Is it made of Gold? (no) Is it made of money? (no) Is it round like a marble, can you play marbles with it? (response) Can you answer phone calls with it? (response) Well, if you can’t ...

2083. It isn't Fair

Matthew 20:1-16

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... the children that they can eat in the sanctuary and that will keep them occupied; e.g., m&m’s. Children will be called down according to hair color or gender. You will have to decide which works best with your congregation. Lesson: I want the children to remain in their seats because we are going to do things differently. I want to ask all the children with blond hair to come down and sit on my right. The rest stay in your seats. Once the blond children have gathered hand out the candy to them. Go ahead ...

2084. Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Bulletin Aid

Robert G. McCreight

... yet simple: "Accept the forgiveness of your sin in the name of the One who sent me." (Light the seventh candle.) Jesus' Ministry And The Implications For Our Life Today: John 12:46 I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness. John 8:12 Again Jesus spoke to them saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life." John 9:5 "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of ...

2085. A Pilgrim Recounts

Psalm 107:1-43

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... in American soil. We stayed on board the Mayflower for another month, scouting out other habitations, but found none suitable. On December 16 we anchored at what would become known later as Plymouth Bay, and on December 21 disembarked on the land where we have remained for some ten years now. In thespring, as I mentioned, we planted our seed from England and it did not harvest. Someone mentioned the Indian corn we had found at Cape Cod Bay, so we planted it the next spring. It harvested to a bumper ...

2086. The Last Days

Luke 21:5-38

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... : 7 minutes Seven stools are arranged in a "V" shape leading away from the audience with the PREACHER's stool at the apex. The PREACHER takes his stool first and settles himself self-importantly. The members of the CONGREGATION file in slowly and take the remaining stools. The CONGREGATION will keep their eyes on the PREA CHER throughout their time on stage but their stools should be arranged so that they will not have to turn their faces too far away from the audience. PREACHER: (In a loud and impressive ...

2087. Raised Voices

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... reasonable idea I've heard yet. REBECCA: Then you're not going to pack? You're not coming with us? HANNAH: Not if I can help it. We're staying right here, me and my sons. After the rest of you are gone, Pharaoh will treat those who remain with more courtesy, I'm sure. They are talented boys. They could be of great use to him in his future dealings with travellers and traders from the north. REBECCA: But God's plan! What about that? HANNAH: Rebecca! Nothing will convince me that this harebrained scheme is ...

2088. Monologue: The Other Shepherd Speaks

Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... who play one brief scene and then vanish. Luke tells us they returned, "glorifying and praising God for all they had seen and heard, as it had been told them." Beyond that, we know nothing of their later lives. Yet does any person meet the living Christ and remain unchanged? Aye, they said we missed it. "Vie missed it," they said, and they were right. We were out in the fields, five of us, with the sheep, and it was a chilly night. I had the early watch; the sheep were all settled down. About midnight I ...

2089. Monologue: A Slave, A Jailer, A Child Of God

Acts 16:16-40

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... , another Jew, and two others, Timothy and Luke, Greeks or part-Greeks, came here. Here's the way Luke told me the start of it." We set sail from Troas and took a straight course to Samothrace, the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi. We remained in this city for some days. On the Sabbath day we went outside the gate by the river, where we supposed there was a place of prayer."- that is, a Jewish place of prayer: there weren't enough Jews in Philippi to have a synagogue." A certain woman ...

2090. Give Him Your All

Mark 12:28-34

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... like when you love God with all your strength? (response) Last Child: You've got he hardest. Show us what it looks like to love God with all your soul. (response) You might suggest to bow down to show love of God with the soul. Have them remain standing. Application: What does Jesus mean when he say, "Love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength? (response) How much are suppose to give to God? (response) Can we hold some of our heart back? (response) Can we use only a little bit of our strength ...

2091. Six Nails of the Cross III: The Nail of Envy

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... of Michelangelo, they were so enthused that they gave him the job. When the news of the committee's choice and the comments concerning Michelangelo's work reached Leonardo, the old artist went into a decline from which he never recovered. Leonardo da Vinci spent the remaining years of his life in sorrow and deep envy of his young competitor. The path of destruction left by the sin of envy is almost beyond belief. When we count the nails driven into the flesh of Christ, the nail of envy is found piercing the ...

2092. What's A Savior Worth?

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

Drama

Joe Barone

... she have to stand at the foot of the cross and watch her son suffer? Why did she have to walk with him to his grave? All the men were gone from that lonely crucifixion hill, except maybe the beloved disciple, and aside from him, it was the women who remained. It was the women who stood there and watched the one they had loved -- no, more than loved -- they hoped in him, and yet they watched him die. I like to think that, as his father, I would have been there, but I was dead long before all that, and ...

2093. In A Newly Hewn Tomb

Matthew 27:1-10

Drama

Joe Barone

... if they went against our sacred Jewish laws, were we allowed to take him down. "And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree," it says in Deuteronomy (21:22-23), "his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God; you shall not defile the land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance." I had so hoped for Jesus, and yet he was accursed by God ...

2094. An Empty Tomb

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Robert Allen

... on that cross drained all of his strength and he quietly said, "It is finished ... Father, into thy hands I commit my Spirit," and he was dead. But, just to make sure, one soldier took his lance and pierced the side of Jesus, and the last remaining drops of blood poured out. They took him down from the cross and buried him in the borrowed tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. They hastily anointed his body with the burial ointments before the beginning of the Jewish Sabbath at sundown on Friday. They would wait ...

2095. Let Me See Your Hands

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Robert Allen

... of touching the wounds, Thomas fell to the ground and said, "My Lord and my God." Sometimes, you have to discard your doubts and act on faith. You may have some lingering doubts. You may have some unanswered questions. You may have some things which will remain a mystery. But, like Thomas, we sometimes reach that point where we need to translate our doubts into acts of faith. Several years ago, my wife made me a little banner. It was a short little phrase that I like. Whenever I am facing a difficult ...

2096. One More Thing

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Robert Allen

... the fuel to return to the planet earth. Everyone held their breath and said their prayers, as the NASA scientists and engineers tried to figure out a way to bring these astronauts home. In order to conserve oxygen, the astronauts were ordered to crawl into the lunar lander and remain in there for the three-day trip back toward home. These men were not sure if they would make it home. They didn't know if their oxygen would hold out. They didn't know if their thrusters would fire for re-entry into the earth's ...

2097. The Butterfly Rock

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Carl Jech

... our religious language, we also re-mythologize it, because both the symbol and the explaining of the symbol refer to dimensions of life that are beyond what meets the eye. Whether we use picturesque poetic images or more ordinary prose, what we describe or say remains equally symbolic. I just spoke of a cocoon as a good place to be from. What I am saying now is that a symbol is a good place to be from. Symbols like those which Tillich discusses at length - the Cross, the divine Logos, Justification ...

2098. Empty Prisons Without Walls

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Carl Jech

... ) the church in Poland has come to symbolize something even more important than the so-called necessities of life like food, clothing and shelter! The church has come to be the ultimate symbol for freedom and life itself. (We might do well to ask ourselves if it truly remains the symbol for that in our country!) 2. Prisons Without Walls It was the poet Richard Lovelace who penned the verse: "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage." He goes on: "If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am ...

2099. Some Illusions (Symbols) Are Better Than Others

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Carl Jech

... is success. Much television evangelism, falls into the trap of equating faith in God with all kinds of success. The Bible and its advice becomes something like a religious version of How To Win Friends and Influence People. A major college football coach (who will remain unnamed) has been known to give "spiritual pep-talks" on the lecture circuit. The gospel according to this "preacher" is: Do what is right. Do your best. Treat others as you would like to be treated - and you'll be amazed at how successful ...

2100. Monologues: Disciples Redeemed

John 20:10-18, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Drama

Raymond I. Keffer

... says, "We are redeemed!" as Paul raises his arms in praise to God while the refrain is being sung from backstage. Paul then takes a seat at the table with the disciples. Should you choose not to use Judas, have the disciples wear their white stoles and remain on stage the entire time. After John, then have James, son of Alphaeus, rise to greet Paul as he enters. Paul then moves to stage front right to give his speech. The scripture recommended as part of the devotional with "My Tribute," is Matthew 28:16-20 ...

Showing results