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2451. Real Wisdom

Mark 6:2

Children's Sermon

... . Jesus knew that God had a plan for him. He learned all he could about himself and the people around him and he knew that it was time to tell God's message of love. When he began to tell it, people were amazed and scared. But Jesus didn't stop telling God's message of love. Some people believed it and told others and they told others and you are here today listening to God's message of love. Now the wise thing for you to do is listen to the message of love and then learn all you can ...

2452. At Home

Mark 6:1-6

Children's Sermon

... time constraints of an hour or less a week and low attendance possibilities in the summer. Try to ask each week one thing each child has learned that they could share with the others. Be sure to share also things you have learned. Children need to know that wisdom never stops; it only grows.

2453. Peace! Be still!

Mark 4:35-41

Children's Sermon

... a time when they felt frightened. They were all in a boat and Jesus was taking a nap. A bad storm came and Jesus' friends were very scared. They woke Jesus up to tell him about the storm and Jesus said to the storm, "Peace! Be still!" The storm stopped and Jesus' friends weren't frightened anymore. We need to remember that story when we are frightened by things. Just like babies sometimes get fussy when they don't have their pacifier or thumb, when it's back in their mouth they calm down like the storm did ...

2454. How Does Religious Conduct Work?

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... in upon him so much that he was not able to be alone for a moment with his disciples or himself. Mark comments, "He could not be hid." (v. 24) On this particular day, on an excursion on foot from Tyre and Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, he was stopped by a small unidentified group who brought to him a deaf-mute, a man who couldn't hear and who had an impediment in his speech. They begged Jesus to "lay his hand on him." Jesus took him aside, apart from the crowd, "put his fingers in the man's ...

2455. Bread of Another Kind (Bread of Life II)

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... to Calvary. No turning back. And what is it that wrestles you and me? I’ll put it on a first person basis. I have always had enough food and drink, adequate furnishings and material assets to make my existence comparable to my peers. But, I never stop dreaming and seeking for that “something else” Eve referred to in Shaw’s play. And the Gospel makes it clear what that “something else” is: the Bread of Life is not an idea, not an ideal, not a principle, not an abstraction. The Bread of Life is ...

2456. Bread For The Journey (Bread of Life III)

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... to go slower in the mountains and particularly around those “ess” curves and going down the other side. But you don’t have to be on a long trip to find danger. My wife was driving down a street in the town where she works. A car was stopped in the lane. Something was under the car no see-through space. As she got closer, she saw a white German Shepherd dog, very large, completely covered and immobilized under the car. His eyes were rolling nothing else moving. The city equipment came to lift the dog ...

2457. What’s Inside Comes Out!

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... the entire prayer, ending with, “If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.” As mother tucked him into bed, she asked him why he interrupted his prayer and went downstairs. He said, “Mommy, I thought about what I was praying. I had to stop and put all of Jim’s wooden soldiers up on their feet. I had turned them on their heads just to see how mad he would be in the morning. If I should die before I wake I wouldn’t want him to find them like that.” The person who ...

2458. You Can Never Go Home Again

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... men and women are taking leave of their hometowns. They are moving on to make bigger dreams come true. Many of you have just celebrated the graduation of your sons and daughters, some from high school, some from the university. Now they are taking a short rest-stop in the hometown. They are anxious to move on to the careers of their choice. Over barbeque in the backyard you share with them. As a parent you want to be brought up to date on what has really been making your children move, particularly if they ...

2459. What Can I Do for You?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... will be in a position to live a good life. As for being an outstanding artist, we probably have no knowledge of how to create a masterpiece, but we are sure that unless a person gives all to the task there is no chance of a masterpiece. If the person stops at the first rejection, there is no hope; and, if the top prize is their only motivation, they had best give it up. Joy must be in the doing which invests the whole self in the work. The outcome is something other. Then, whether they achieve renown or not ...

2460. We Haven’t Got To Them Yet

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... haul, for keeping the heart of the faith and walking through life with confidence. His teaching is simple: Keep the right relationship with God. Extend that relationship to those whom God also loves. Put your mind, heart, soul, and strength in him. Stop being preoccupied with your own petty purities and distillants. Keep the relationship first above all. Keep your heart and will on the primary concerns of life, God and the others whom he loves equally. Drop the desire for a self-graded performance, “How ...

2461. Winners Losers

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... bothered my friend. “Sir,” I said, “would you please not smoke; it is hard on your roommate.” The man, a dignified and elegant old gentleman, rose slowly on his elbows; and, with all the dignity at his command said, “Sir, I want you to know I can stop smoking any time I want to.” The reply was unexpected and bore no relevance to my request. I have thought a lot about what he said. This gentleman had lied to himself. Oh, yes, he had continued. No matter what presented itself to him, he had a ...

2462. David and the Devil

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... married, the wisemen noticed the prince seemed troubled, disorganized, unable to eat or sleep. They asked him what was wrong. He replied, “Three things torture me. First, whereas before I could not keep from thinking I must have her love or I cannot live, now I cannot stop thinking that if I lose her love, I cannot live. Second, the more I pursue her the more she wants to get away; she has created a separate territory in the castle for herself. Third, she has grown cold; the flame of my love cannot warm ...

2463. Speaking Truth to Power: The Ministry of Nathan

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... , “Rabbi, you have a wonderful ability to select just the right story for each question. What, may I ask, is your secret?” He smiled impishly and replied, “That reminds me of a story:” Once a young soldier was traveling through the countryside, when he stopped to rest his horse in a small hamlet. Walking about, he spied a wood fence, and on the wood fence were nearly forty small chalk circles, and right in the center of each was a bullet hole. What incredulous accuracy, the soldier thought as he ...

2464. Runaway Lives

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... went mad, the coach was full of terrified passengers, and along came Roy riding Trigger at what seemed like seventy-five miles an hour. He pulled up next to the runaway horses, leaped onto the back of a lead horse, and brought the stagecoach to a safe stop. Remember all that? This episode from the eighteenth chapter of 2 Samuel is about runaway lives. In fact, that’s true for much of 1 and 2 Samuel. Certain forces have been set into play, are gaining momentum, and might very possibly become the keepers of ...

2465. In Search of a Leader

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... of course they always rush to the scene with the precise act of virtue called for by every situation. They are always there kissing the leper’s sores at the very moment when the king and his noble attendants come around the corner and stop in their tracks, mute in admiration ... (Life and Holiness, pp. 18-19) We do not need ministers, ordained or lay, like that. They retard the beauty of an incarnational faith, God expressing himself through the humanness of life. Disciples who are themselves, warts and ...

2466. An Untouchable God?

1 Samuel 6:1-7:1

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... instead a blessing for Obed Edom’s family, and so determines to continue with his efforts to get it to Jerusalem. Initially, David is extremely guarded and cautious. Wouldn’t we be, too? “After the men carrying the Covenant Box had gone six steps, David had them stop while he offered the Lord a sacrifice of a bull and a fatted calf.” (2 Samuel 6:13 TEV) David wasn’t about to take any chances. If God had any feelings about the ark of his presence being moved any further, David wanted to know about ...

2467. God’s Kind of King

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... church, but he is not your King until you crown him King of your life. A pastor was teaching his little girl to sing, “Praise him, praise him, all ye little children, God is love, God is love.” Then “serve him,” then “love him.” When he stopped, his daughter said, “Daddy, you forgot to crown him.” So they continued, “Crown him, crown him ...” Have you, by any chance, forgotten to crown him the King of your life? This Christ the King Sunday is the time to do it! And if you crown him King ...

2468. Stooping Is a Divine Posture

Isaiah 23:1-18

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... such humility. The only thing Jesus ever boasted about was his heavenly Father’s wise and loving way. The carpenter of Nazareth, teaching, healing, serving, loving, helping, was God on his knees in the service of humanity. How can his redeemed world ever stop being astounded by the incredible stooping of almighty God in his Son on earth? The noblest humans are those who have learned to assume this same posture in genuine humility. Hayden, who has been called music history’s most modest man, had such ...

2469. Renewal of the New

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... have a passion for souls because they believe and know that abundant life here and eternal life hereafter come only in having Jesus as Lord and Savior. A Renewed Compassion A renewed passion is concerned about another’s spiritual status, but a true Christian does not stop there. There is also a concern for the material and social welfare of others. It was compassion that caused Jesus to raise the dead son of a widow and to feed a multitude of hungry people. It is time for the church on this Reformation ...

2470. Charlie Used To Do That

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... as he began to remove the scuff marks with lots of elbow grease, "but I love these marks made by the children. Oh my, what would the kingdom be like without the energy and aliveness of kids?" On other days it would be light bulbs that Charlie would stop and take time to replace. Consider, he would, the light of Christ as he moved throughout the church with his ladder. On another day he remembered that the previous Sunday he had noticed a leaky faucet that needed new washers. As he checked out the spigot he ...

2471. The Robe

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... stuck into thinking that God would never desire to be close to them. The tradition finally taught them to appease God through sacrifices, offerings and rituals. This was the only way that their physical natures could get close to God. But Jesus tells the people to stop grumbling. He says that they are of his Father already, that no one can come to him unless the Father draws them to Jesus. Jesus is telling the people that they have come from the realm of God's spiritual world and so they should live ...

2472. Gunda

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... his execution. In vain his family and friends, and the government in England waited for some news of him. Twenty-one years went by. "Then it so happened that one day a Russian officer was sauntering along a street in Buchara, a city in central Asia. He stopped in a second-hand shop. Among the odds and ends he discovered an English prayer book with all kinds of entries in the margins which he could not decipher. He saw a name and address on the flyleaf, however. 'Perhaps this little book is important to ...

2473. Changing The Rules

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... the neighborhood on foot that night. And then Jimmy just happens to bring his 22-caliber pistol with him. I didn't think anything of it at first. I mean, I didn't think he would actually take it out of the holster and start taking pot shots at stop signs and street lights. I just stood there with my stupid mouth swung wide open in disbelief. I couldn't believe what Jimmy was doing and I should have taken off home then running full speed ahead. But like a dummy I just stood there and gawked dumbfounded! And ...

2474. The Spiritual Organ Of Corti

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... in a few minutes. Who would it be? But just at that moment, Telemachus rose from his seat and ran into the arena. He held high the cross of Christ and threw himself between the two combatants. "In the name of our Master," he cried, "Stop fighting!" The two men hesitated. Nothing like this had ever happened before. They did not quite know what to do. But the spectators were furious. Telemachus had robbed them of their anticipated entertainment! They yelled wildly and stampeded toward the center of the arena ...

2475. God's Math:Lose Life = Save It

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... in a large oval. At sundown he ended up where he had started. This continued for years. The man walked in circles day after day, following his shadow. One night the man heard the voice of God in a dream while he slept. The voice told him to stop following his shadow. Instead, "Follow the sun," the voice challenged, "And you will experience life as you have never dreamed it could be." The man thought for many days about his vision of God while he continued to walk around in circles in the desert. But one day ...

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