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Mark 2:1-12

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... middle of the banner. Jesus and other figures can be sitting at the bottom of the banner, and can be looking at the approaching man. Use the banner itself to represent the house. Ask an artistic person to prepare a black-line sketch to be copied for a worship bulletin cover. The sketch should show a leaping figure holding a rolled mat over his head. The words "Your sins are forgiven" are added to finish the bulletin cover. Anthems and Special Music Blessed is He Whose Unrighteousness is Forgiven I Danced ...

202. Crossing Boundries

Mark 7:24-30

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... . Since geography plays such an important part of understanding this gospel lesson, have someone draw a map of the areas involved. Use it as a bulletin cover. (Many maps are copyrighted, so it is not wise to just take one out of a book and lay it on the copy machine.) Anthems and Special Music God Hath Done All Things Well He Hath Done All Things Well O Christ the Healer, We Have Come Organ and Other Keyboard Music The Church's One Foundation Christ is Made the Sure Foundation Come, Ye Disconsolate

203. Hearing the Difficult News

Mark 9:30-37

Bulletin Aid

Robert D. Ingram

... of Jesus with children (usually these can be found in children's Sunday school rooms) in conspicuous places in the sanctuary. This would be a good time to have the children color the worship bulletin covers. Run the bulletins on the church copying machine. Leave the front blank. Give the children crayons and let them decorate the covers as they choose. Let them draw children with Jesus, pictures of their church building, pictures of people worshiping at the church, or whatever they please. (Remember, though ...

204. Mission Ready!

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... public libraries. I am glad I did. It would have been a burden to try to keep those books. However, once in a while, I remember a favorite author and book, and oh! how I wish I had it! Now I either go to the library or purchase another copy or forget it. In a world-wide institution, like the church, with all its plurality, there is a wide range of differing opinions about what is essential and what is non-essential, from the style of architecture to the style of ministry. In the Middle Ages there were major ...

205. A Formula For Greatness

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... to auctions, refinishing antiques and working at my painting and rosemaling." A post script: That evening Marion, Victor's wife, had a surprise retirement party for Victor. He received one gift. Marion had sent letters to Victor's former students asking them to make a copy of their diploma and transfer it onto a piece of old white bed sheet or pillow case. During the months that she received the diploma squares she fashioned them into a wall hanging. The problem was that the wall hanging was so large that ...

206. When Something Is About To Happen

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Thomas Long

... of the poor, who are always with us. All there is left for the church to be is another well-meaning institution, and all there is left for the church to do is to whistle its liturgy in the dark, collect the pledge cards and keep the copy machines humming. Because nothing is about to happen. Even the second generation of Christians, the ones to whom the New Testament was originally addressed, were not immune to this loss of faith in the coming kingdom of God. In the beginning a passionate hope kept the line ...

207. What Do You Mean, "Repent"?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Thomas Long

... John is not "Stranger in Paradise"; he is "Auld Lang Syne." To be precise, John is dressed like the old prophet Elijah, no question about it, and the moment of his appearing is as sobering in its context as would be the arrival of Thomas Jefferson, waving a copy of the Declaration of Independence, in today's Senate chamber. So, now we know that John is not out of this world, he is simply out of sync ... but so what? Simply put, if we do not understand that John represents the past, we also cannot understand ...

208. They Also Serve Who Wait

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Thomas Long

... weary of waiting for God, who would turn instead to more immediate and tangible sources for action and hope. According to the account in the New York Times, it was just before Christmas several years ago that David Storch, a music teacher, borrowed a copy of the score of Handel's Messiah from the Brooklyn Public Library. Through a clerical error, however, the transaction was not recorded. There were several other requests for the score, and the library staff, unaware that it had been checked out, spent many ...

209. Advent 1

1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Mark 13:32-37, Mark 13:1-31

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... . Consequently they are turning to so-called outside experts. More neophyte moms and dads have looked to Dr. Benjamin Spock for advice than to anyone else. Since his book Baby And Child Care was first published in 1946, he has sold 40 million copies of the various editions of the book. Recently Dr. Spock has become alarmed about the kind of kids that are turning out these days, rude, aggressive, noisy and disrespectful. He feels that parents are neglecting their parenting task of shaping and molding the ...

210. Love And Friendship

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Mark J. Molldrem

A boy was asked about his family, when he enrolled for church school. The teacher responded with a quizzical, "Oh," after the boy revealed that he had no brothers or sisters. To which the youngster piped, "But I've got friends!" It is so good to have friends. But, what is a friend? Satirist Ambrose Bierce defines friendship as a ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul. This is a rather negative portrayal compared to an Arabian explanation that characterizes a friend as "one to ...

211. The TV Revolution

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... of mass-produced books, orality has virtually died out of education. The advance of educational technology has pushed oral communication even further into the background -- with plentiful paper, modern typewriters, computers which even correct your spelling and the ubiquitous copy machine. The picture of a typical student today is not the debating forum of ancient Greek academies, or even a student speaking with a teacher, but students sitting by themselves in front of a glowing screen typing more words ...

212. Delivery

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... the minister delivered what seemed at the time to be an interesting sermon, but I couldn't quite grasp the real thrust of the message, because it was delivered in a monotone, most of it read with little warmth or enthusiasm. [The church secretary] agreed to mail me a copy of the sermon I'd just heard. When the sermon arrived in the mail and I read it, I realized that the structure of the message was coherent and sound and the points well made. I could hardly believe I was reading the same sermon I'd heard ...

213. What Is That In Your Hand?

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon Aid

Clement E. Lewis

... your hand is holding nothing just now. For the sake of focusing on our theme, please open your hands, palm upward, and look at them. Each hand is distinctive in its markings, even to the individualization of each fingerprint, which may be copied and recorded for identity purposes. The hand is wonderfully made. No other moving part of the body has so many multiple capabilities or essential functions, such as greeting, holding, touching, and writing. Hymn: "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah" Scripture: Exodus 4 ...

214. Proper 27

Mark 12:41-44, Mark 12:35-40, Psalm 127:1-5

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... interdependence and working together to solve distribution problems in the use of the resources of your good earth, through your compassionate Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. Declaration of God's Forgiveness Hear the Good News! Christ has entered not into a sanctuary made with hands, a copy of the true one but into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Exhortation Just as it is appointed for us to die once and after that ...

215. The Constitution of Our Faith

Matthew 5:1-12

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... them answer.) That's good. How many of you know what a constitution is? (Let them answer.) You have some good ideas. A constitution is something that people write for their organization to tell how it should be run and what they believe in. I have a copy of the United States Constitution that tells how our government should be set up and what we believe in as Americans. This is a great constitution, and it is something that we pay a lot of attention to every day of our lives. There are other constitutions ...

216. Proper 23

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... as the Old Testament text today - that text generally considered to have been put down in writing in roughly its present form during the latter part of David's reign or at the beginning of Solomon's. I'm not suggesting that Pindar did any copying here, but there are a few rather striking parallels, are there not? There is a forbidden fruit, and there is a punishment. Yes - parallels, but also some highly significant differences. In the Greek story, Tantalus is attracted to and is taken in by the pleasures ...

217. Uncovering Jesus

1 Corinthians 1:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... 's studio or art school? Do you like to watch an artist work? [Let them respond.] I love to watch someone who has a lot of talent with his hands work with paints, clay, or stone. A lot of us have paintings in our homes, but most of them are copies of an artist's work that he did a long time ago. Imagine what it must have been like the day he finished his work and showed it the first time. Suppose you were with me in a place where a very famous artist was showing his finished painting for ...

218. For The Love Of What?

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

Sermon

Erskine White

... we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" And let's not forget what this culture teaches our children about sex and love. They use sex to sell everything from cars to toothpaste to blue jeans. Just the other day, I was shocked while thumbing through a copy of Seventeen magazine. This is supposed to be a wholesome magazine for young teenaged girls, but there in Seventeen was a full-page ad showing two young people, a boy and a girl lying in bed, dressed only in the scantiest underwear and they were selling ...

219. In the Stillness

Mark 4:35-41

Children's Sermon

... . S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe series and any of Madeleine L'Engle's stories that continue about two different families. Teachers: Help children make lists of quiet things to do when the storms of life "get" to them. Let them all contribute to the list and copy it on a copier for them all to take home. If a copier is not available, try using carbon paper.

220. Words Without Actions

1 John 3:18

Children's Sermon

... little talks. It's a special time in the worship service, because it's especially for people just like you. When we have a story each week, sitting here together on the steps of the chancel, it's always about something that we read in the Bible. I have a copy of the Bible here with me this morning. This is a special book for us, isn't it. Why is the Bible so importaant? (Let them tell you.) The Bible tells us many things we need to know about God and how God forgives our sins and loves us. The ...

221. Ash Wednesday

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:16-18, Joel 2:12-17, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... for repentant sinners. The Prayer Of The Day The liturgical churches have simply rewritten the traditional collect for Ash Wednesday, much as they have prescribed the traditional readings for the day. The Book Of Common Prayer version, however is almost an exact copy of the classic collect, varying primarily in the use of contemporary language in place of the King James English (mostly in the pronouns) in which the original prayer is cast: "Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made and ...

222. Proper 24

Luke 18:1-8, Psalm 121:1-8, Exodus 17:8-16, Genesis 32:22-32, Habakkuk 1:1-4, Habakkuk 2:2-20, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... , C) - "The Responsive Judge." As I read and study this pericope, I do so in the context of my grandfather's regular reading of the Bible and his persistence in prayer. I am finally able to say that my Bible is almost in the same shape as his (last) personal copy of the Scriptures; it is just about worn out. But before I can become proud of the sad condition that my Bible is in from study and work, I have to remind myself that my grandfather's was a leather-bound, gold-edged version of the Bible, while my ...

223. Prepare The Way Of The Lord

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

James Garrett

Jeannette Clift George, director of the Houston-based A. D. Players, sent me a copy of her book titled Travel Tips from a Reluctant Traveler. It’s a delightful book with many helpful tips for the journey of life. In the opening chapter she writes: “My cousins live in Asheville, North Carolina, where Jesse is a prominent surgeon. He is a fine man, a very ...

224. Home And Temple

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

James Garrett

Columnist Erma Bombeck tells of a Supermom who is perfection itself. She did everything right: kept a perfect home; kept her husband happy. Always had a copy of Bishop Fulton Sheen’s latest book on the coffee table, and answered the door pregnant when the priest came by. One day, I asked her how she did it, and she said, “I emulate the Blessed Virgin Mary,” and I said, “Marge, it’s a little bit late for ...

225. Redeeming Grief

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Eulogy

Charles L. Koester

... guilt over the accident and his being unable to be present at his wife's funeral. For him the whole tragedy was most unreal. And when he would return home, six months later, it would still be unreal. Immediately following the funeral we visited him with a copy of the sermon. We read and discussed. Visits in the hospital were frequent and he was able to be open with his feelings and able to communicate. His Christian faith and his battle not to withdraw held him in good stead. Today, he is back in church ...

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