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201. Paul, The Great Missionary

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... as rigid as we have it today. Paul's experience seemed more to be like house arrest. His friends could come and go or even stay with him. Most of his expenses were paid for by friends. Today, we will pretend that we have a radio hookup from Philippi, where Paul' ... thing; but it is much more important, for your sake, that I remain alive. I am sure of this, and so I know that I will stay. I will stay on with you all, to add to your progress and joy in the faith. So when I am with you again you will have even ...

202. I Want To Go South, Lord

Genesis 12:1-8

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... Abram: Do you realize how hot it is down here? It's terrible. There's no food. All you can see is sand everywhere. We can't stay here and going back north does not seem like a good idea to me. God: WHAT DO YOU EXPECT! THAT'S A DESERT. YOU WENT TOO FAR ... YOU? (No, nothing else is bothering me.) Abram: Yes, I'm still scared ... like Lot's wife and a lot of other folks I know. So stay with us, Lord. Commentator: God's patient grace is there in this story of Abram. But faith isn't any easier nor does it come any ...

203. Joseph's Pit

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... . I thought I was going crazy." "What are your plans now?" I asked. "I don't know. It would be good to just forget everything and stay away from them. I don't like that awful anger and fear that hit me when I was with them." "But you can't ignore them. ... him, I was glad to see him enter his work with the old gusto. He asked me to see to Simeon's well-being, but he stayed away and warned me not to say anything. Two days ago, the brothers came back. Again they didn't recognize Joseph. It had been so long ...

204. A Tale Of Two Trees

1 Corinthians 13:13

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... are putting on their fall colors, aren't they! Have ALL of them changed?" Several children indicate they have not with a shake of their heads. One little girl points to the tree I have brought and says, "That one won't change. It will stay green." "That's right," I agree. "It will stay green all year 'round. That's why it is called an EVERgreen tree." "Well, this morning I have a story for you about a tree just like this one. Once upon a time an evergreen tree was growing up in a big forest beneath the ...

205. Paul, The Great Missionary

Philippians 1:1-11

Drama

Jerry Eckert

206. Playboy Or Plowboy -- Let The Party Begin

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Lee Griess

... our right. We are much like the elder brother who preferred justice to mercy. We have worked for what we have (or so we think), and it's unfair that everyone else should not have to do the same. We have earned God's favor (or so we think) by "staying at home." We have merited his acceptance by the good life that we live. So how dare God receive and accept the playboy who returns with repentance? We forget that the reason Jesus told this story to begin with was to remind those for whom God's favor had become ...

207. The Set Face And The Turned Head

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

Sermon

Larry Powell

... and disappeared. I was reminded of a bumper sticker I saw once which read, "If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk." Except the attitude exhibited in this case seems to have been, "If you don't like the fact that you don ... the trail, much less him to whom the trail leads. The Scriptures depict him as showing up on the trail from time to time, but he cannot stay on it. There is another figure. He is walking away from us, but it looks like - yes, it is Demas. We remember Demas. He was on the ...

208. And Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Matthew 6:13a

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... them and asking fat people if they would like to have some of the things they are carrying. The fat person is doing his best to stay on the diet and keep away from things like that so that he will lose weight. When the tempter is around it is easy to give ... time for us to tell a lie or take something that doesn't belong to us. We pray to our Father in heaven that He will stay close to us and not allow the tricky devil to get close to us and tempt us. Temptation is a terrible thing because it is so confusing ...

209. Lent 5

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44, John 11:45-57

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... There is no request that he come and heal Lazarus. Love is enough, for love cares and helps. It is not that Lazarus and his sisters love Jesus, but that Jesus loves them. We love him because he first loves us. Grace comes first and we respond with love. Stayed (v. 6). When Jesus received the message of Lazarus' illness, Jesus waited two days before going to Bethany. By that time Lazarus was dead. Why didn't Jesus go immediately just as a good pastor goes at once to a person in a crisis? Jesus had a sense of ...

210. Keeping the Temple Clean

1 Corinthians 6:19

Children's Sermon

... It would take many, many hours to keep it looking beautiful. Suppose someone came every week and just polished the candlesticks and that's all the cleaning that was ever done. What would happen to the windows or the beautiful wood? (Let them respond.) It wouldn't stay beautiful very long. Just the candlesticks would be clean. Our lesson today says that our bodies are like temples for God's Spirit to live in. If our bodies are like temples we have to take care of our bodies just like someone would take care ...

211. Such a Good Time

Matthew 17:4

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... were. It was a wonderful moment and one that they would never forget. If you can imagine seeing something like this, you will also understand what Peter meant when he looked at Jesus and told him that he would be glad to build three tents so that they could stay awhile. Peter did not want to leave. He wanted to build a place for Jesus, one for Elijah, and one for Moses so that they could be comfortable. Peter did not want to leave. Does that sound familiar? It should. That is the way that all of us feel ...

212. Lessons From The Mountaintop

Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... Hemingway once wrote a book about his early days as a writer in Paris. He titled the book, A Moveable Feast. In 1950 he wrote, "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a move-able feast." I do not know about Paris, but the presence of God is a moveable feast. Even when we leave the mountaintop, we do not leave God behind. In fact, it is God who leads the way! 4. The Urgency Of Spiritual ...

213. Love Without Demand

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

Sims Robert

... will change. Every time you give you will grow closer to the you that you were meant to be. To our amazement, a young widow named Ruth, many centuries ago, reflected the grace of God by expressing love without demand. “Where you go I will go; and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die and there will I be buried. May the Lord deal with me severely if anything but death separates you and me (Ruth 1:16-17).” Love without demand; that’s how ...

214. Christmas Eve at the Candy Cane Inn

Drama

Edward Long

... day bent the fender on my new Jeep on that blamed thing ... Now, fine you'll be wantin' a room, maybe some hot chocolate - and supper in awhile. (Calls to the other room.) Mrs. Nick, we've got company ... HENRY: Do you have a place for us to stay? How much ... I mean, we've got only a little cash? NICK: $40 for the night (Laughs.) - best bargain this side of Milwaukee ... yes, sir ... HENRY: $40! Would you take a check? (Whispers to FREDA.) Sounds steep to me, but we're trapped. NICK: "Trapped" in a good ...

215. Scene 6 - The Shepherds

Drama

Nancy Steltz

... ." (As the returning shepherds meet the others, they rejoice together.)Narrator 9: "And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen." Shepherds' Song of Praise: "While By My Sheep" (All leave the stage. The manger stays in place. Preparations for Scene 7 begin while Isaiah speaks.)Isaiah (Standing, looking around excitedly): That was God's way of introducing his Son to the poor, uneducated people - as a baby in a stable, visited by shepherds. (Isaiah addresses the ...

216. Encounters With Christ III: Jesus and Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

James W. Moore

... what John 3 is all about. “There are other worlds to sing in”… in this life and, yes, even beyond this life. When Jesus said to Nicodemus that night: “You must be born again.” “You must be born from above.” That’s what he meant… you don’t have to stay the way you are. You can make a new start. You can have a new life. You can become a new person. There are other worlds to sing in. Remember the story with me…Nicodemus was a key leader among the Jews in the time of Jesus. He was probably ...

217. Natural Or Supernatural?

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... of the Fishermen's Association at Capernium. He didn't lease his boats. None of that shoddy business for him. He was a capitalist. He owned his own boats, and he got his own profit. And yet, this same, down-to-earth Peter said: "Let's stay here. Let's stay here on the mountain, far from the fish, the nets, the boats, and the business." Impractical? You bet your sweet life! A delve, perhaps, into the supernatural? Well, maybe. But Peter said it later, as he wrote in his epistle: "Do you think we were making ...

218. Learning to Walk on the Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

... water. And we can. Many have. I have known some of these people, and probably, so have you - people who have had more than enough trouble to undo them, but they haven't been undone - people who have come through enough of storm to take anyone down, but they have stayed on top. These have been able to see beyond the dark, and from beyond the storm to hear a voice that says, "Come." Look at the waves, and you're a goner; but look to the Lord, and salvation is there. The story is told of a small boy who ...

219. Of Preachers and Preaching

Micah 1:8-16

Sermon

... the word, not merely as it has been derived from past revelation but also as it has come to them directly from their experience with God. But there are many impediments in the way. Quite understandably, some preachers find it safer, therefore, to stay strictly with what the Bible says than to seek any fresh, updated insight into God’s continuing revelation of truth. People, they have found, seem more comfortable with the thought that God was alive and speaking in the past when the Bible was written ...

220. Compassion

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... we know is that he was in need. A priest came by and would not get near him. In those days one had to handle a dead body in a special way; otherwise you were defiled. A life was hanging in the balance, but the priest was worried about staying pure and not getting defiled by an improper involvement. Then a Levite came by also. Ah, a Levite. Upper-middle class. The best education money can buy. It was not his stature to get involved with people beneath his status or proper family. Since the man had no clothes ...

221. The Hidden Corn

Colossians 3:3

Children's Sermon

... how it seems to be growing. The hard part is that the ear is hidden by some green leaves and you must allow the leaves to stay wrapped around the ear of the corn or it will not grow the way it should. God has made the corn in such a way that ... that people live on earth until just the right time. We have not seen any of the people who have died. When someone dies, they stay hidden with God until a certain moment that has not happened yet. But when that moment comes (and it will come some day in the future ...

222. Fog-Clearing Moments

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

... experience with Christ which enabled them to keep on going, even when the road was fogged over. They might not have fully understood, but they kept on following because of that one moment when they had had an immediate experience with Christ which enabled them to stay on the road with him. They had to trust in that time when they could see clearly, in order to get through those times when their vision was blurred and uncertain. Consider the possibility that we are a lot like those first disciples. Like them ...

223. A Glory Revealed by Abiding

John 8:31-41

Sermon

... suspicious of God’s character, and to incite us to rebel against the true freedom experienced only under God’s Lordship. We do have real freedom now in Christ, but we are still under the constant pressure and attack of lies from the powers. How, then, do we stay free? How can we resist the powers and remain in the truth, and in God’s love? Jesus said, "If you abide in my word, ... you will know the truth, and the truth will keep you free." The word, translated here as "abide," can also be rendered as ...

224. Return to Jerusalem

Acts 20:7-12

Sermon Aid

CSS

... city was already 3,000 years old. Nine times it had been destroyed and rebuilt, most recently by Julius Caesar. Even today parts of mighty walls still stand, walls 20 feet high and 15 feet thick. The old city was a short distance inland. Paul stayed at the seaport town. His visit is remembered chiefly because of the account of a congregational service of worship. The faithful gathered for communion "on the first day of the week." They observed not only the Jewish sabbath, but also the following day, because ...

225. How To Be A Saint In A Storm

Acts 27:13-26

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... later when Queen Jezebel threatens his life, he runs a full day’s journey into the wilderness, falls down under a tree, feels very low and sorry for himself, and asks God to let him die! He didn’t really want to die - if he did he could have stayed where he was and Jezebel would have handled it for him easily. How can a man of such remarkable faith fall into such despair? How can such a threat bother him in the face of the larger battles he has already won? What great, staggering, profound solution will ...

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