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2301. New (Testament) Math

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... spiral notebooks they have on their back-to-school specials rack. Pick out a bright-colored one – red or yellow or orange – so you’ll be able to keep up with it and know where it is at all times. Better buy some pencils, too – lots of pencils. Then, I want you to write down the name of everyone you know in that big spiral notebook. Leave lots of space between the names, now. You’ll need it! And be sure you have room at the end to write down the names of new people that you meet. Every time someone ...

2302. Don't That Just Beat All?

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... your spouse had was a heart attack or something else. Suddenly, the door to the trauma unit opens and the doctor walks out. “I have good news,” he says. “Your spouse’s sins have been forgiven. God loves both of you very much.” Somehow that’s not quite what you wanted to hear. I mean, it’s nice to know that, but what does it have to do with curing the problem? Isn’t this typical of our attitude toward God’s forgiveness? If I’m sick, what do I care about forgiveness? I just ...

2303. Repentance - King David and Peter

Luke 22:54-62

Drama

Martha L. Leach

... David. I'm on my way to Jerusalem. Would you care to walk along? Peter: I am Peter. I would appreciate the company, but I want to stay away from the city today. Besides, the authorities may be looking for me. My Master has been arrested. I am so ashamed! ... herds, and another very poor with only one lamb, which was treated like part of the family. The rich man had a guest, and not wanting to take a lamb from his own flocks, he took the poor man's only lamb, slaughtered it, and prepared it for his guest. ...

2304. Where is the Nearest Sycamore Tree?

Luke 19:1-10

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Johnny Dean

... any other Bible story from your childhood, I expect that you remember this one, possibly because of the cute little song that came with it: "Zaccheus was a wee little man, and a wee little man was he/ He climbed up in a sycamore tree, for the Lord he wanted to see…." Zaccheus was a rich man. But in spite of his wealth, Zaccheus has two big problems. He had no friends. Everybody hated him, and he knew it. It probably hurt him very deeply when people called him a thief for taking their hard-earned money in ...

2305. Life is Messy

John 1:29-34

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Johnny Dean

... to watch this. Let’s go to McDonald’s and have a hamburger." As they walked down the aisle toward the exit, I wondered if the woman appreciated the irony of the situation. Yes, we know where the meat in a hamburger comes from; we just don’t want to think about it any more than we have to. We’ve grown comfortable with our sterile environment, our overly sanitized culture. We like it this way. We don’t like dealing with the messy stuff of life. At one time, slaughtering animals for food was a common ...

2306. Vacillation - Pontius Pilate

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... like a victory cry instead of the desperate cry of a dying man. Do you remember when it grew dark and the earth shook?" "The Jews want his legs broken," someone said. "See to it." What had come over my centurion? He had always been a good soldier. Was he going to ... , "It was extraordinary on my part even to conduct a second hearing." "Why did you do it then?" she asked. "Because I wanted to determine if the man was really guilty, also according to their law. This was a very rare situation, since they hardly ...

2307. I Cried All the Way Home

John 16:17-33

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... in him on earth is to be with him in heaven. This is our assurance that there will be a great and happy reunion in heaven - tears of joy, hugging, kissing, and rejoicing in seeing and having each other again. In order for this to be a future reality, we want to be sure that those we love here will be in heaven when we and they die. Is your friend in Christ? Is every member of your family a believer in Christ? Is this faith demonstrated by an active participation in the church? Wouldn't it be terrible to get ...

2308. The Innkeeper Speaks

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... a stable, a little way from the caravansary. It is the best I can offer." "We will take it!" the young man said without hesitation. He asked what it might cost, and I told him no one could charge for a stable. My wife took them to the cave; she wanted to make sure the young girl would be as comfortable as possible. She told me she volunteered to act as her midwife, and the couple gladly accepted. When the baby was born, that very evening, she stayed a couple of hours more, then came home. She said the young ...

2309. The Peoples' King

Mark 11:1-11

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... world. He could have had this gold in my hand and your mom's and dad's gold. He could have owned all the gold in all the jewelry stores--all the gold in all the world--but he gave it up. He didn't want it. Do you know what he wanted to do instead? (response) He wanted to wash peoples' feet! Can you believe that? (response) He gave up all the gold so that he could wash peoples' feet and so he could hold little children and eat with Uncle Matt and sit around with Aunt Mary and tell stories about ...

2310. Six Nails of the Cross III: The Nail of Envy

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... saint who came upon two companions while traveling between cities. As they talked he noticed that one of the men was filled with greed, while the other felt only envy for the other. The saint told the men as they came to a fork in the road that he wanted to give them a gift before leaving them. He told both that he would grant one wish between the two of them and that whoever asked first would have his wish granted completely and the other would receive a double portion of the same. The greedy man knew what ...

2311. Compelled to Carry

Matthew 27:11-26

Drama

Joe Barone

... of Simon of Cyrene. Dramatic Monologue: Simon Of Cyrene I've heard it said that what you do can change the way you feel. If you want to reconcile with an enemy, they say, you have to do something peaceful toward him before you have any chance of feeling peace. I wouldn't ... happen because of a look or a stirring in the heavens. I had carried his cross. That was a part of it. Though I didn't want to, and though I tried to turn away, I had carried his cross. As I looked at him there on the cross I had helped him ...

2312. When Life Closes In

Matthew 26:17-30, Matthew 26:36-46

Sermon

Robert Allen

... on us? When we look at Thursday (or the Passion) during the last week for Jesus, life was definitely closing in on him. Today, I want to suggest some steps you can take when life seems to be closing in on you. The ideas I suggest are really the steps Jesus ... church, but I did not know them very well. As we were eating lunch, they told me that they were going to get married and wanted to know if I would officiate at the wedding ceremony. I told them I would. They were a delightful couple and I asked them how ...

2313. The Ambiguity of Life, Deciding for Christ

John 10:22-42

Sermon

Carl Jech

... ," but even then, vigilanteeism and self-righteous crusades were frowned upon. The Lone Ranger always turned things over to the local sheriff at an appropriate point. There are people who won't even read a murder mystery novel or go to the movies because they want to avoid facing any of the harsh or ambiguous realities of life. To them it seems as if enjoying a TV show like "Murder, She Wrote" is tantamount to endorsing murder. The attitude is that we shouldn't even think about such things. Similarly, we ...

2314. The Prodigal Son or The Merciful Father

Luke 15:1-7

Drama

Robert A. Lehmann

... father, Solo 2 (Son 2): Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command; yet you never gave me a fatted calf that I might make merry with my friends. But when this son of yours ... Solo 3: He didn't want to call him brother. Solo 4: He didn't want him back. Solo 2 (Son 2): But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your living, you kill the fatted calf for him! Solo 3: The wasted money was bad enough, Solo 4: But the "welcome home" celebration was too much! Jesus: And ...

2315. The Drag Net

Matthew 13:47-52

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... is going to come and get us all. No one is going to be missed. Not even if you wanted to be missed would God miss you with His heaven. No sir, God is going to catch everyone in His heaven and scoop them up and hold them. Isn't that ... through. His net is for children as well as for Moms and Dads. God sure does have a good plan and I am glad. I wouldn't want to live here on earth and hear all of the wonderful things about God's world and then miss it because I was too small. There is a place for everyone. ...

2316. God, The Enemy

Luke 12:1-12

Sermon

... , not a license to kill. Henley had a long, close friendship with the great author, Robert Louis Stevenson, who in fact, based part of the character of Long John Silver in Treasure Island on his one-footed, hearty friend. Stevenson wrote of Henley's poem that, "[Henley] wanted me to understand that 'I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.' not my teachers, family, friends, money, or the 'powers,' that may be. To come 'out of the night that covers me,' I must be 'unafraid,' 'unbowed,' and ...

2317. Learning to Walk on the Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

... on the water - or tried to - Simon Peter. Peter saw Jesus coming toward their boat and he got all excited about that. In his excitement, he said: I want to walk on the water too. So he called out to Jesus, "Lord, if it is you, bid me come to you on the water." And Jesus ... ." These words frequently precede some sort of excuse for not doing some thing which we know we really ought to do: "I wanted to help you, but I was busy, and so, under the circumstances, I couldn't do it." The circumstances are there - all ...

2318. Life's Third Dimension

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

... Ours is quite commonly a rather quantitative interest - how much of this, how much of that - how much time, how much privilege; or perhaps how many, how many of these how many of those. We think in quantity. We think of living by addition, adding what we want to what we have, adding where we want to go to where we have already been. And all of this is life in its first dimension or its second. But there is that other dimension, the third. This is not so much a dimension of doing as it is of being. It is not ...

2319. Everybody Pray!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

... even the dogs eat the leftovers that fall from their master's table.' So Jesus answered her: 'You are a woman of great faith! What you want will be done for you.' And at that very moment her daughter was healed." (St. Matthew 15:21-28 TEV) Have you ever taken a ... earnestness and your faith - that will count for everything! Jesus tells this woman, "You are a woman of great faith! What you want will be done for you." The implication is that Jesus was amazed. He was amazed that in a foreign country, among such ...

2320. In God's Own Time

Galatians 1:12

Children's Sermon

... Now you are probably wondering what I have to reveal to you this morning that’s all covered up. Right? Well, the time is almost right - I mean I have to wait for fifteen more seconds before I can show you, so the time will be just right. You want to help me count? Fifteen, fourteen, thirteen (count it down to the point of zero and then pull off the covering and they will see the brightest, prettiest picture that they have ever seen). Isn’t that beautiful, boys and girls, and wasn’t it exciting to see ...

2321. Born Naked With A Cross

Sermon

... child who took honors at college. He became a worker for the State Department. One day the young man received a phone call from his father asking him if he could get off to come home for an operation, The doctor found a donor of ears and he wanted to make the transplant. The son asked who the donor was, but his father said the doctor considered it a confidential matter. The operation was a success and the son returned to his work. Later he was promoted as ambassador to a foreign nation. Then he received ...

2322. Patterned After Jesus

1 Peter 2:21

Children's Sermon

... living and he asked all of the people who trusted him to be a lot like him. [Punch a hole for each thing that you mention that he did.] I mean, Jesus prayed and he wanted us to pray; Jesus did kind things for people and he wanted us to do kind things for people; Jesus never returned a hurt for a hurt; Jesus kept his promises and wanted us to keep our promises. Now those are just a few of the things that Jesus did, but look what happens when we are the same way. [Take another piece of paper and begin ...

2323. Good News for the Multitudes

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Thomas C. Short

... him. Some of these people followed because it was in vogue. His was the most exciting act in town. Others followed because they were curious. They had heard about him and wanted to investigate personally to see if Jesus was everything that the people reported him to be. Others followed because they had seen what he had done, and they wanted to be a part of his ministry. Others followed him because they thought he was promising to set up a new kingdom in Israel and to push the imperialistic Romans into ...

2324. Dear Mrs. Day

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Thomas C. Short

... each one of us. In love, God reaches out to each of us who is lost. That’s the best news of all. I don’t want to sound preachy, Mrs. Day, but I’m concerned that many people don’t seem to understand that. I’ve seen some bumper stickers here in ... not only cast out fear; it also ushers in joy. Well, Mrs. Day, all of this has come from the heart of your lost sheep. I wanted to share this part of my story with you because I remember your love and patience toward me when I was in that Junior High Sunday ...

2325. The Third Sunday in Lent

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... by our own jealousies, discontent, and ill-will. We learn to love the wilderness and fear the fertile fields of the community. "I just want to be left alone!" I usually hear that as, "I wish someone would take the trouble to get to know me." Or, "I wish ... amazing about that testimony is she says it in wonder, not in shame. If I were to make that statement, I'm sure I wouldn't want people inquiring into the details of the matter! But, you see, Jesus came to her not as Judge, but as Savior. He came to give her ...

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