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Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Let us gather together all who celebrate God's Grace! People: In Christ we know God and receive not condemnation but mercy. Leader: In the Cross God opened our eyes that we might see Divine Love. People: God walks with us daily giving us hope even in the darkest hours. Leader: Then let us walk with dignity and let our hearts shout God's praise! All: Blessed be the name of t...

202. Reconciled with God by Christ's Death

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

Call to Worship Pastor: We are reconciled with God, not because of any religious achievements of our own, but because of the righteousness of Christ. People: We depend on Christ, who died for us, for any righteousness we can claim. Pastor: Even while sinning, God's love is poured out for us. That was the kind of love Jesus expressed when he died for us on the cross. People: We rejoice in our Lord,...

203. Justification by Faith

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Come, all who have faith in the risen Christ, and let us worship. People: For life places before us many trials and tribulations. Leader: Yet for those who love the Lord even life's stresses lead to gain. People: As we witness for Christ each victory belongs to the Lord. Leader: Then let us come together as one as we sing and give praise to God! All: Blessed be the name of ...

204. Lent 3

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Old Testament: Exodus 17:1-7 Upon Yahweh's direction, Moses brings water out of a rock for the wilderness people. God's people are in the wilderness and are thirsty. This is one of a series of complaints of the Israelites during their forty-year stay in the wilderness. This episode follows the pattern of the others: The people complain to Moses, Moses takes the complaint to Yahweh, an...

205. Pentecost 4

Sermon Aid

THEOLOGICAL CLUE The eschatological stance of the church year continues to throw its theological aura around the assigned readings for the day. It insists that the call to the ministry of the church and the proclamation of the gospel began with the calling and naming of the disciples, and that the church must establish evangelism as its outward thrust and its reach into the world. The church is e...

206. Proper 6

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

Theme: God's people are commissioned for mission. God told Moses, as recorded in Exodus 19, that the Jews were to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. In the Gospel, the Lord empowers the apostles to go out and proclaim the gospel and minister in his name. That is our calling too. COMMENTARY Lesson 1: Genesis 18:1-15 (C) Three men appear to Abraham as he sits by the entrance of his tent in...

207. Lent 3

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

COMMENTARY Old Testament: Exodus 17:1-7 (C, E); Exodus 17:3-7 (RC) The people of Israel cry out against Moses and God for bringing them out into the wilderness, where there is no water. Moses, fearing for his life, takes the problem to the Lord. God commands Moses to take the staff with which he struck the Nile, when the sea parted before them, and strike a rock. Water would flow forth. This plac...

208. Proper 6

Bulletin Aid

Theme: From wretchedness to reconciliation Exegetical note Paul's three "while we were (yet)" assertions in this selection underscore the utterly hopeless predicament of humanity before the atoning death of the Christ: helpless, sinners, enemies of God - in other words, completely undeserving of the reconciliation that God effected through that dramatic event. The entire selection may be regarded...

209. Trinity Sunday

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Old Testament: Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31 Wisdom was with Yahweh when he created the earth. Before the earth was created, Wisdom, a female figure, was created and observed Yahweh's bringing the world into shape: the earth, heavens, the boundaries of the sea, and the foundations of the earth. According to this passage, Yahweh did not create out of nothing, but ordered creation. The climax of...

210. Lent 3

Bulletin Aid

Theme: Reconciliation to God Exegetical note After spelling out the effects of justification in the first few verses of this passage, Paul returns in vv. 6ff. to talk about justification itself in terms of the image of reconciliation, which presupposes that the state of sin is one of estrangement. Paul makes it clear in v. 10 that it is we who are reconciled to God by virtue of the Christ, rather...

211. God's Friends

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: friendship bracelet (three strands of embroidery floss longer than your wrist - braided together, knotted at each end, tie it around your wrist, tightly enough so you can't slip it off - worn by both boys and girls) Good morning, boys and girls. I have something special on my wrist this morning. Do you know what it is? (Show them and let them try to guess.) It's called a friendship bracel...

212. Running for Jesus

Children's Sermon

Object: Some strenuous exercise, such as pushups, or fast running in place. Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to do some hard work so that we can learn something about the teachings of Jesus. How many of you like hard work? (Let them answer.) Good, I knew our church was filled with hard workers. Now, the kind of work I am going to ask you to do is sometimes considered to be fun. Fo...

213. In Everything We Do

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: Pictures from newspapers of people having fun and of people in accidents or fires. I have some pictures that I cut out of the newspaper. Here’s a picture of a girl teaching her dog to climb up the steps of a slide at a park. Here’s the dog going down the slide. Do you think God cares about that girl playing with her dog? This is a picture of a car accident. A young woman is in the car ho...

214. Yarn and Patience

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some knitting, some yarn, and a finished piece of knitting. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you know what the word patient means? I don’t mean someone who is sick or in the hospital whom we call a patient, but I mean being patient. Now do you know what the word means? [Let them answer.] Patience is something that most of us must learn. It doesn’t come easy. I have something that...

215. You're Worth a Million

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A make believe check for $1,000,000.00 and an old rag. Good morning, boys and girls. Today I am going to show you something that you won't believe, but it's true. I have a check here for $1,000,000.00 and I am going to spend it in just a few minutes. Do you know how much money $1,000,000.00 is? (Let them answer.) What do you think $1,000,000.00 would buy? (Let them answer.) A million doll...

216. Flowers Follow Showers

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

Object: Put some beautiful flowers in a paper sack. Bring them out when you talk about flowers. Lesson: To think about using hard times for personal growth. Special Instructions: This illustration should be used in the spring when there have been a lot of rainy days. There is an old saying that reminds us of what has been happening this week. Let me see if any of you have heard it: "April showe...

217. What A Sweetheart

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A great, big, stuffed dog Lesson: But God proves his love for us in that while we still were sinners Christ died for us. Good morning, boys and girls. I would like you to meet my friend. Can you guess his name? (Let children try to guess dog's name.) Those are very good answers, boys and girls, but my dog's name is Sweetheart! Do you think that is a funny name for a dog? (Let them answer.)...

218. Used Food

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Some apple cores, a bone with some meat on it, and a cold piece of toast with a bite taken out of it. Lesson: But God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Good morning, boys and girls. Today I brought lunch along so that we could have a snack in the middle of the morning. Don't you just love snacks? (Let them answer.) I was in kind of a hurry this m...

219. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

Romans 5:1-11 (NRSV) [1] Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, [2] through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. [3] And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, [4] and endurance produces character, and char...

220. God's Dirty Job

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Do you ever have family TV night? How do you battle for control of the remote? Or are there any choices everyone can agree on? In a lot of households there is one that crosses all generations. It’s on the Discovery Channel. It’s called “Dirty Jobs.” This surprising hit has host Mike Rowe taking on a new, disgusting, you-never-even-thought-of-doing-that “dirty job” each week. He has cleaned dairy...

221. Still Sinners, Still Forgiven

Sermon

William G. Carter

I have an announcement to make. Today's sermon is not for everybody. It was not planned for a general audience. It was not written to whom it may concern. No, today's sermon is intended for people who have a hard time feeling forgiven. The rest of you can listen in. Once in a while, I run across somebody who has difficulty feeling that the good news of the gospel is for them. They don't have any ...

222. Getting It Right

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

Have you ever noticed that, no matter what, that some people just always get it wrong? Paul Harvey, in his book FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, tells about a county jail in south Florida where jail officials found a plastic trash bag hanging to the bars of a cell. Inside was Jimmy Jones, a prisoner who hoped he'd get taken out with the trash. And he might have, except for one thing, during roll call his ref...

223. Boast in Our Suffering

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

The phone rings in the middle of the night. There is only one reason why someone would call you at this time of the night, and it can't be good. The deadpan voice of the police officer tells you the horrible news rather matter-of-factly. Your imagination runs wild. You were not there, but you can hear the tires screeching, the metal smashing, the glass breaking, and the sirens whining. It was not ...

224. Have You Heard about Grace?

Sermon

Mark Trotter

On October 31, over 450 years ago, Martin Luther began what came to be known as the Protestant Reformation. If you are a United Methodist, then you stand in that Reformation tradition. Like anything that happened over 450 years ago, much of the Reformation is dated and is no longer interesting or helpful to us. It was concerned with questions raised in the 16th century, which are not our question...

225. Give Them Good News...

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

GIVE THEM GOOD NEWS ...It'll totally disarm them! I have always been fascinated by radio preachers: Some are profoundly helpful and extremely gifted in the art of communication. Others are delightfully entertaining. But there are others that I fear do more harm than good. Such was the case when I tuned in a certain radio preacher while driving through the mountains of Western North Carolina. He h...

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