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2326. Miracle Ten: Healing A Blind Beggar

Mark 10:46-52

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Harold H. Lentz

... street in our age, mostly in large cities. We can only wonder at their story and their real need. Some are no doubt homeless. Some are badly crippled, while others could probably get a job and support themselves if they wanted to. As we pass them, various thoughts are apt to race through our minds. We question their sincerity, and we do not wish to be gullible. Are they really crippled? Do they seek money in order to buy alcohol or drugs rather than food? Sometimes they do not make health or bodily needs an ...

2327. Have I Got News For You!

Isaiah 9:1-7

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William L. Self

... the end of the branch was a bird's nest. On the edge of the nest was a mother bird, singing her heart out in the midst of the turbulence around her. The judges thought for a moment, then said, "That is peace, tranquility and celebration in the midst of turmoil." Christ also comes as a royal son (v. 6). "To us a son is given," sang Isaiah. They thought the coronation of the king meant that he would become in some special sense God's son as leader of a messianic people (Psalm 2:7). Christ comes in a far more ...

2328. Arc Of The Covenant

Genesis 9:1-17

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Paul W. Kummer

... life on the earth. First, the past faithfulness of God is demonstrated in how he dealt with righteous Noah. If I were God, (it's a good thing I'm not!), I would not have saved even one family when the earth was so wicked and "every inclination of the thoughts of (man's) heart were only evil all the time" (Genesis 6:5). I would have very cleanly dispatched a plague that destroyed all the people on the earth and then started over. No one would have ever known. In fact, I would not have let the world regress ...

2329. Open Grave, Open Hearts

Acts 4:32-37

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Paul W. Kummer

... I'd like to stop by for a visit." And it was signed, "Love always, Jesus." Her hands were shaking as she placed the letter on her kitchen table. "Why would the Lord want to visit me? I'm nobody special. I don't have anything to offer." With that thought, Ruth remembered her empty kitchen cabinets. "Oh my goodness, I really don't have anything to offer. I'll have to run down to the store and buy something for dinner." She reached for her purse and counted out its contents: $5.40. "Well, I can get some bread ...

2330. What Are You Looking At?

Acts 3:11-26

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Paul W. Kummer

... on the cross and when we are forgiven at Baptism or on our faith birthday, it's as if our sins, which were written in black on an erasable memo board, are forever erased with no shadows or residue remaining. It's a brand new board! What Peter's hearers thought of was the precursor to the modern kitchen's memo board. In those day's scribes wrote on papyrus and the ink used had no acid in it. Therefore it did not sink into the papyrus, like our modern ink does. One could simply take a sponge and wipe it ...

2331. Hear, Hear

Acts 8:26-40

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Paul W. Kummer

... to take the class because it was one of the required classes for his major. And he was afraid. But for three months that semester, he prayed every morning that he would have the courage to stand up no matter what the professor said or what the class thought. Finally the day came. The professor said, "If there is anyone here who still believes in God, stand up!" The professor and the class of 300 people looked at him, shocked, as he stood up at the back of the classroom. The professor shouted, "You fool! If ...

2332. God Is Down To Earth

John 1:1-18

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John A. Stroman

... bring him to Sunday School with her. On the way home she was anxious to hear what he had to say about his Sunday School experience, so she asked him, "How did things go this morning?" He thought for a moment and then he said to her, "Grandma, what's so great about Jesus?" Hearing this, I thought: that's what Christmas is all about -- telling our children and our grandchildren what is so great about Jesus. A mother told me after church one Sunday during Advent that she asked her son what Christmas was all ...

2333. The Burdens Of The Past

Haggai 2:1-9, Haggai 1:1-15

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Robert P. Hines

... do something for someone else. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed somewhere by someone. Begin by working on your attitude. Do something for someone else. And finally, trust that God will be with you. The Jews in the time of Haggai must have thought that God had deserted them. God had allowed their temple to be destroyed. God had allowed them to be taken away to Babylon as prisoners of war. God had allowed other people to come and live in the land that had been promised to the descendants of ...

2334. Simply Simon

Luke 7:36-50

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Alexander H. Wales

... sent one of my servants to visit with his disciples to see if I could get him to eat at our house while he was here. Thought it would be good to have someone like him in the house, get to know him personally, hear his perspective on things. And it wouldn't ... 'm open to all kinds of people being part of the temple community. But I didn't know he'd bring all twelve of them. I thought the caterer was going to blow a gasket. "We'd just gotten down to dinner when you would not believe who should walk in. There is ...

2335. Paring Down Our Pantheons

Acts 17:16-34

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Gerald Whetstone

... It's not an easy thing for a teen to diverge from the consensus of his friends. It's easiest to talk about peer pressures among youth, but at any age we are pulled toward certain patterns of thought and action which are more typical of a group of people with whom we associate. We like to fit in, to be well thought of, to meet people's approval. Sometimes even if it means we risk what we know, by faith, is right. It's easy, too, to frown disapprovingly at someone holding out on an appeal for the hungry. But ...

2336. Standing and Understanding with the Apostles

Acts 2:14-41

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Gerald Whetstone

... world. And yet what we need to understand most is that "God so loved" -- not just us -- but "the world, that he gave his Son." Such an awareness that the whole world is the object of God's affection will rescue us from self-centered and self-serving ways of thought and action. And how do we understand God? This is the field of theology and the quest of peoples since the beginnings of human history. The studies and writings of theologians all across the history of the church have enriched and challenged our ...

2337. Invest In The Future

Jeremiah 32:1-44

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Thomas G. Rogers

... , "Do you want me to light it for you?" Pamela said, "Oh, no. Just hand it to me." She took the candle in her hands gripping it tightly. She then clutched the candle against her and said, "During these last months I have often thought of myself as a candle about to go out. I thought that everything I am is tied up in being able to see. I expected that when blackness came then there would be nothingness." She then said, "Now I'm blind. It's dark." She held the candle tightly. "But the candle is still here ...

2338. Be A Wise Christian

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... it was too hard to do because he went away very sad. But there are many Christians who have given away all of their money and other good things just so they could follow Jesus. The Apostles and other disciples did that. Many people probably thought that they were pretty dumb for giving up their homes and other belongings, but sometimes that is what it means to be a Christian. Paul tells us today that Christians don't always seem too smart (wise) to other people because they do strange things like sharing ...

2339. God Works Wanders

Genesis 12:1-8

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Gerald Whetstone

... set out. Did their friends and family walk with them to a rise in the road and then wave and weep and watch until they disappeared from sight? Such a momentous decision and promise is told in so few words. There's nothing of what they felt, what they thought. That would be the fascination of a modern writer and reader. It's enough to tell of God's command and promise, and of Abram's and Sarai's obedient response. Still, we can easily imagine Abram and Sarai some weeks later wondering whether they were being ...

2340. Don't Be Stupid

Jeremiah 4:5-31

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Richard L. Sheffield

... it long and living it well; learning how to do good and not evil. God wants you and me to be like the Apostle Paul who wrote to the church in Corinth, which was beset by stupid, childish squabbles: "When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways" (1 Corinthians 13:11). I grew up. I took responsibility for myself and my life. Neither Paul nor Jeremiah, by the way, is saying that children are stupid, or that ...

2341. Where Are You?

Hosea 11:1-11

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Richard L. Sheffield

... " (Source unknown). Some of us try anyway! But the Bible calls us to learn from the mistakes of all those people you thought were perfect like Moses, and David, and Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and even the 12 disciples. To learn from their lives, and our ... wrong that God's people had done, says Hosea, God still said: "How can I give you up ...? My heart recoils within me (at the thought); my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my fierce anger; ... For I am God and no mortal, the holy one in your ...

2342. Mother's Day

Romans 16:1-27

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . "The mother of Jesus was there." The event that he was specifically referring to was the wedding in Cana of Galilee. Yet, in a real sense, Mary was always there for Jesus. Her love surrounded him, her values influenced him, her trust supported him. And the last thought that Jesus had on the cross, with the sin of the world upon his shoulder, was for his mother. He looked at John the disciple and said: Behold thy mother. And then he looked at Mary and said: Behold thy son. That same type of influence can ...

2343. A Salute to Mothers

Romans 16:1-27

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Brett Blair

2344. Happy New Year Noises

Romans 8:28-32

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... And very often people welcome in the new year with noisemakers like these. (Share whatever noisemakers you can find. Let them make noise together.) This is a very old custom. It goes back to the time when people thought that there were bad spirits about and these bad spirits could cause them all kinds of trouble. People also thought that by making a lot of noise, they could scare the bad spirits away and the bad spirits would not enter the new year with them. It was a way of asking for good things to happen ...

2345. Divine Naivet

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... people who had been on drugs and people who were recovering alcoholics to stand. The pastor went on and on listing a whole variety of sins till virtually everyone in thee sanctuary was standing. The man in the back told someone later that he thought to himself at that point, "Boy, these are my kind of people!" After all those members and friends in that congregation were standing, confessing these many and various sins, would their pastor have said to anyone, "... these are my people, children who will not ...

2346. Foreshadowing

John 12:1-11

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... do something rash. 88 JESUS: You're right. He will do something rash. But not just yet. LAZARUS: Did you know he's been pilfering the money from the group funds? JESUS: Yes, I know. I'm afraid Judas is not in control of the money. LAZARUS: (Confused) But I thought he was in control of the money. JESUS: No. The money's in control of him. Judas has one god too many in his life. LAZARUS: Then why did you trust him with it? Wouldn't it have been wiser to let someone else handle it? Someone who could better ...

2347. Prayer

Ps 19:14 · Mt 6:9

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... life, just as you let a friend be a part of your life when you talk to that person. Remember, God is everywhere so to talk to him all you need to do is to think the thoughts that you want to share with him and they shall be shared. I hope you boys and girls will take time, every day, to let your thoughts go to God in prayer. Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home: When on a picnic or camping and you are sitting around a campfire. When at home watching the fire in a fireplace. When ...

2348. Citizenship

Philippians 3:1-11

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." TERRY: That's about the United States, eh? I thought it was about Israel. CHRIS: All the prophecies that seem to be about Israel are really about America. TERRY: Is that so? CHRIS: (Aggressively) Yes, that's so! We are God's chosen people, not Israel! TERRY: Well, I can certainly understand about the sin part ...

2349. A Most Important Dawning

Isaiah 60:1-22

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Paul E. Robinson

... that of the wise men who came from the pagan East. There are three gifts, gold, frankincense and myrrh, so we have traditionally thought of three wise men, though the scriptures don't tell us how many there were. You can see how similar this epiphany ... the family was riding in the car and there was a dog, dead in the middle of the road. The little boy seemed to be deep in thought for a moment and finally said, "Oh, is that why you don't want me to go into the road?" Think for a moment. Have you recognized ...

2350. Love One Another

Romans 9:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... heart problem and the doctors didn't think that he would be able to live. How do you suppose Paul felt when he heard this news? (Let them answer.) Yes, Paul was very sad. He couldn't imagine not having Joe around to talk to and play with. So Paul thought and thought about what he could do for his brother. Then he got a very bright idea. He went to his parents one day and said that Joe could have his heart since it was healthy and strong! (Hold up heart again.) Would you give your heart to someone else, boys ...

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