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2101. Share Your Life

James 4:10

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... also only in a different way. The Bible teaches us that when we give up our selfish ways, and share our lives with others, and become workers for God, we can become very powerful people who can do many good things. We are like the soap. When we try to stay to ourselves and be selfish, we are not worth very much. But when we give ourselves up to God and get mixed up with all his goodness, then we become very powerful people. The next time that you see your mother clean house, ask her if she is not using ...

2102. A Time for Giving

Hebrews 10:1-18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... clothes, food and perhaps even parents or relatives. Most of the time refugees are the result of war. There are millions of refugees in the world today, and while we are getting ready for one of the best Christmases we have ever had, the refugees will try to stay alive for another day. We are going to have all kinds of presents, food and new clothes given to us the day after tomorrow. Christmas day. I was wondering if any of us would be willing to make a sacrifice in the name of Jesus' birthday and give ...

2103. Our Father Who Art In Heaven

Matthew 6:9

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... told us that everyone who listened and believed in Jesus could be a brother or a sister to Jesus. Our Father God is not only someone to love us, but He also cares for us, makes sure that there is plenty of rain and sunshine, food to eat, places to stay, and other people to care about us. Our Father belongs to us all and cares for us all. Some people wonder how Our Father God can do all of these things, and they ask questions about Him. We don't know all the answers to these questions, and we will ...

2104. God's Adopted Family

Galatians 4:4-5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... we should feel as children of God. We have been chosen and adopted as his children. Let's see how that adoption is working. (Begin to pull aganst the wood.) The adoption is working pretty well because there is no separation. The two now belong together and they will always stay together. That is the way it is with God and all of us whom he has adopted. We are part of his family and part of the same family to which Jesus belongs. We are adopted and we are glad.

2105. Proper 15

Mt 15:21-28 · Ex 16:2-15 · Rom 11:13-16, 29-32 · Ps 78

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... Passage (Mark 7:24-30). Only Matthew and Mark give the story of the Canaanite mother. Since Mark is considered the older account, Matthew adds several details. Only Mark tells us Jesus went into a house to hide from the public, but was unable to stay hidden. While Matthew identifies her as a Canaanite, Mark tells us she was from Phoenicia in Syria, northwest of Galilee. Mark omits both the fact that Jesus refused to speak to her at first and the disciples' request to send her away. Mark reports that ...

2106. Proper 14

Mt 14:22-33 · Rom 9:1-5 · Ex 14:19-31 · Ps 106:4-12

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John R. Brokhoff

... failure or death is to sacrifice the comfort and convenience of the secure. It may mean leaving home for a distant land, or an ordinary job for self-employment, or a traditional belief or new ideas. One cannot have it both ways. One cannot walk on water and stay in the boat! 3. Fear without being Afraid. When Jesus came to the disciples who were scared to death at his appearance on the water, he said to them according to the RSV - "take heart, it is I; have no fear." However the New RSV translates it, "Do ...

2107. Transfiguration

Luke 9:28-36 · Matthew 17:1-8 · Mark 9:2-8

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... church had a coffee hour before service. A line of people was waiting to get a cup. In the line was a motherly type of woman and behind her was a small boy. She said to him, "Son, do you know that if you drink coffee, you will stay short?" He replied, "If I drink this coffee, it will keep me awake during the sermon." Found Alone. In a review of a book edited by Hick and Knitter, The Myth of Christian Uniqueness: Toward a Pluralistic Theology of Religions, the reviewer says: "Should Christians still claim a ...

2108. When You Can't See The Rainbow for the Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

James Weekley

... joy powder and hallelujah juice. He did the next best thing. He sent himself. He descended into the foxholes of our racial tears, of our sexual paranoia, of our marital mud-wrestling, of our trillion haunting doubts. His cup of water is never too far away. He stays around to pour good wine into our cups. My, even our innards rejoice! Today, God is with us on the upswing. His caring is found clearly in the caring of others. We are "others," too. On a cold February 4, 1943, the American ship, the Dorchester ...

2109. Who Short-Circuited the Good News?

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

James Weekley

... two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts; but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. And he said to them, "Where you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place. And if any place will not receive you and they refuse to hear you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet for a testimony against them." So they went out and preached that men should repent. And they ...

2110. The Big Hand

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

James Weekley

... , you Jew, you Samaritan, you Ethiopian, you Egyptian, you ... you ... you ...! Won't you believe me now?" "Take, eat ..." Come unto him, all of you ... angry "you," jealous "you," arrogant "you," gossiping "you," exploiting "you," disappointed "you," fearful "you." He knows you will not stay with him for the long night in Gethesemane, but he loves you no less. Just come and rest and join him for supper on the morrow. "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matthew 11:28 ...

2111. Even God Called Time Out

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

James Weekley

... how much quality time we allow for him the remainder of the week. We can't get away with Sunday-only worship anymore. Although grace before meals is commendable, he relishes more in-depth encounters. Although personal prayer before bedtime and upon awakening helps us to stay in touch, what he is after in our lives is arm-in-arm fellowship, those two-on-two encounters. Some of our more intimate moments with him come through sharing time with our families. Does that seem far-fetched? Do we really want to pay ...

2112. A Whale Of A Tale

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Erskine White

... as important to God as you are? Can we all be like Jonah, getting to know them better as people? The story is about saying "yes" to God's call. Where is the Nineveh God has called you to enter - the situation God calls you to which you would rather stay away from? Have we not run away from our own great cities and where do we think we can hide from the persistent call of the Lord God Almighty? The story is about spiritual humility. Jonah learned it, Jesus called it blessed (Matthew 5:3), and we would please ...

2113. A Woman's Place

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Erskine White

... great power. Deborah, Jael and Esther were military and political rulers. Judith saved Israel from the Assyrians. Huldah, the "prophetess," was an important advisor to King Josiah. Ruth has one of the loveliest books in the Bible named after her. Does the Bible tell women to stay in their place? It's not that simple. The truth is: there is no one place for women to be in the Bible because the Bible shows women in many different places. The truth is: God's Word is not merely so one-sided as many chauvinists ...

2114. What Have You Got To Lose?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Erskine White

... at the Olympic Games. If few of us are Olympians, many of us are parents and what is parenthood but a whole slew of sacrifices? You sacrifice all of your privacy and a piece of your sanity. You sacrifice a neat, orderly environment in which to live, where things stay just where you left them. You make a huge financial sacrifice - between children and taxes, you’re lucky to have a dollar in your pocket at the end of the day - but you do it all for the sake of something which money can’t buy. In these and ...

2115. Who Is Your King?

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

A little boy was sick on Palm Sunday and stayed home from church with his mother. His father returned from church holding a palm branch. The little boy was curious and asked, "Why do you have that palm branch, dad?" "You see, when Jesus came into town, everyone waved Palm Branches to honor him, so we got Palm Branches today." ...

2116. When God Is Silent

Psalm 35:1-28

Sermon

Erskine White

... prayer life when God seems silent or far away. Like the Canaanite woman before Jesus, sometimes we need to be patient and wait for the tide to come in.2 The third lesson is persistence. This woman was persistent! When the disciples tried to send her away, she stayed. When Jesus seemed to put her off, she hung in there and didn't give up. That kind of persistence is recommended everywhere in the Bible. You may remember how Jacob wrestled with an angel all through the night to the breaking of the day. "I will ...

2117. The Prodigal Nation

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Erskine White

... which we might hear in a brand new way today. Preachers have always found it easy to condemn the prodigal son. The word "prodigal" means wasteful, so it is easy to describe how he lived up to his name. We can call him foolish because he wasn't content to stay home and work, like his father and older brother. But actually, there is nothing in Jesus' story to say that this was a bad kid when he left home. For all we know, he may have been a good son who simply was ambitious. Maybe he was much like you ...

2118. How To Deal With Suffering

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Erskine White

... for all the other ways you have suffered in life. What are we supposed to learn from our suffering? Can any of us make it cooler by complaining about the heat? Why should we complain about something we cannot change? Everyone knows it's hot and it will stay hot until the temperature goes down! It's as simple as that. We should learn to accept the things we suffer that we cannot change, for this is the first step toward overcoming them in a Christian way. And even as we are suffering, why should we think ...

2119. Come The Judgment Day

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Erskine White

... , as Solomon Blatt approached Christ, his Judge, he saw that same sharecropper standing by Christ's side, and maybe Jesus sent Mr. Blatt away to the "outer darkness" (Matthew 22:13), just as the rich man in Jesus' story was sent away to hell while poor Lazarus stayed in heaven (Luke 16:l9ff). Or maybe Solomon Blatt met his Maker and experienced nothing but the overwhelming relief of Christ's great mercy and love. No one knows and no one can say. But I do know this about Mr. Blatt's judgment, and it applies ...

2120. Joseph's Story

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Erskine White

... , romantic view of the place and manner of Jesus' birth. Let me tell you how it really was. The first thing we noticed upon entering the cave was the smell. The stench was overwhelming, since the people who used these caves kept their animals with them in order to stay warm. Scattered on the rough, dirty floor of the cave were piles of hay, and in the center was a manger, a feeding trough for the cattle. Mary's labor had already begun. I lit a fire to ward off the cold, drew some water and tried to comfort ...

2121. For The Love Of What?

Psalm 137:1-9, John 2:12-25

Sermon

Erskine White

... store, you can take your kids to the movies. You can see what being a hero is all about by watching "Rambo," or "The Terminator" or dozens of similar movies which spew blood and mayhem, with everything from laser guns to chain saws. Or, you can stay home and watch more than 10,000 murders every year on television. And notice how we keep getting violent crime shows every television season! Violence sells, doesn't it, and almost anything is acceptable in our market society so long as it sells. From toys on ...

2122. The Unity Of The Church

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Erskine White

... African-American church nor the European-American churches in town would intentionally close their doors to persons of another race, but neither will they adapt themselves or go out of their way to make themselves more inviting to persons of another race and so they stay apart. It is one more division among Christians - to the divisions of class and creed is now added to the division of color. It has been said that eleven o'clock on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America and it saddens Jesus ...

2123. The President's Religion

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Erskine White

... this campaign, he did not speak in Biblical terms of the struggle between Christ and the anti-Christ. He spoke instead of the struggle between our nation and the communists - the struggle between God's people and the "evil empire." Mr. President, you are the man! Stay out of the pulpit! You have been elected president, not national preacher! Be careful when you speak in God's name, for God cannot be mocked. Not all who cry "Lord, Lord," are saying what God would have them say (cf. Matthew 7:21). If you ...

2124. A Thankful Heart

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Erskine White

... in their lives. Shortly after that, she received a letter which really shows the importance of saying "thank you." "Dear Abby," the letter said, "You can imagine how thrilled I was to receive a letter from a student I taught sixty-two years ago! He wanted to thank me for staying after school to teach him how to tell time when he was in the second grade. Abby, I am ninety-five years old and live in a nursing home. I don't expect to have many more surprises as happy as this one. Thank you!" You can even be ...

2125. Wedding: Creating a Happy Marriage

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... poorer. But you know, rarely does any of us think we have enough, and determining what you are going to spend those precious dollars on can put a strain on the best of relationships. You will need to set goals and plan together. You are pledging also to stay by each other "in sickness and in health." The words are easy to say, but caring for a mate who is seriously ill or who becomes handicapped can be an exhausting experience. We hope you are blessed with good health, but no one gets through life scotfree ...

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