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1. God Speaks and the Church Is Our Hearing Aid

Mark 4:1-9

Sermon

James W. Moore

... this. Are you ready? Here is Number One. I. FIRST OF ALL, GOD SPEAKS A WORD OF CALLING TO US… AND THE CHURCH IS OUR HEARING AID. God calls us to service, to mission, to ministry… and the church (when it is at its best) helps us to hear God’s call… and ... .” I would say: “My call is from God, but the church (along with a very unlikely character named Miss Marie) was my hearing aid!!” Two quick comments here: 1. To the young people who are here… let me just say that God is calling you to serve ...

2. Dealing with AIDS

Matthew 5:17-20, Matthew 5:21-26

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... test, too. Mary: We can't have children now. Why? Why? Eric: Mary, it will be all right. Mary: All right? What are you talking about? Our entire life is changed. Changed in an instant. Why? Eric: (trying to comfort her) Mary. Mary: Oh, leave me alone. AIDS! You've got AIDS! Eric: Mary, please. Mary: Leave me alone. Eric: I've been trying to tell you, Bill said the actual disease might never develop. If it does it might be five or ten years from now. We just have to hope for the best. Mary: The best? There ...

3. The World's Best Hearing Aid

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... listen to him." The message and mission of Jesus was to guide the disciples, informing all their actions, influencing all else they heard. God's proclamation to those three disciples is the same for all who follow Christ today: Let Jesus be your high-tech hearing aid, filtering and clarifying what you hear and how you respond. Listen to him. Or as Jesus put it elsewhere, "Learn from me." The disciples had already heard from Jesus a message they didn't want to hear. Not only did Jesus declare that as Messiah ...

4. Just a Band-Aid

1 John 1:8–9

Illustration

Max Lucado

... no favors in justifying our deeds or glossing over our sins. Max Lucado tells how, when his daughter Andrea was five or six, she got a splinter in her finger. He took her to the restroom and set out some tweezers, ointment, and a Band-Aid. She didn’t like what she saw. “I just want the Band-Aid, Daddy.” Sometimes we are just like Andrea. We come to Christ with our sin, but all we want is a covering. We want to skip the treatment. We want to hide our sin. And one wonders if God, even in his great mercy ...

5. The Beginning of the Band-Aid

Illustration

... needed, the two pieces of crinoline could easily be peeled off, producing a small, ready-to-use bandage. The firm's president, James Johnson, saw Dickson put one of his homemade bandages on his finger. Impressed by its convenience, he decided to start mass-producing them under the name Band-Aids. Dickson had been looking for a way to handle a small problem, and in the process he invented a useful new product.

6. Hearing Aids

Mark 7:31-37

Humor Illustration

King Duncan

An elderly man stopped at a hearing aid center and asked about prices. "We have them from $25,000 on down to $1.50," the salesman said. "What's the $25,000 one like?" asked the elderly man. "Well, it translates three languages and is the latest in electronics," the salesman replied. "And what about the one for $ ...

7. Hearing Aid

Humor

A near-deaf old man determined that a hearing aid was just too expensive for him to purchase. So, he took a small wire and bent it around his ear. "How is that wire improving your hearing?" asked a friend. "Well, it's not," said the old man, "but it seems to make everyone talk louder."

8. The Most Expensive Hearing Aid Ever Made

Mark 7:31-37

Humor Illustration

King Duncan

Two older men were talking. One of them was bragging just a little bit. "I just purchased the most expensive hearing aid ever made," he said. "It is imported and is guaranteed for life." The second man asked: "What kind is it?" The first man looked at his watch and said, "Five past two."

9. Worship Aid, Drama

Drama

Dann J. Ettner

Invocation Hymn Responsive Dialogue 1 Corinthians 2 P: When I came to you, brothers, I did not come witheloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimonyof God. C: We have not received the spirit of the world but thespirit who is from God, that we may understand what God hasfreely given us. P: For I resolved to know nothing while I was with youexcept Jesus Christ and Him crucified. C: This is what we speak, not in words taught us by humanwisdom but in words taught by the Holy Spirit, ...

10. Wounding Love

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and death is bound to make people nervous and fearful. Thus we must fall back on our historic ability to find God's compassion, and our salvation, on the other side of love's terribly wounding power. This is what is theologically "new" in the AIDS epidemic: that love has the potential not just to confuse heads, break hearts and twist relationships; it also has the power to kill. Love does not simply have the power to wound emotionally or mentally or spiritually. It can also wound physically. Ironically the ...

11. God's Call for All

Acts 9:35-43

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... -10). This is not an isolated verse. On several occasions, God's Word is directed toward the haves, with regard to the have nots. The message is clear. A way has to be found to take care of everyone. It's not a question of voluntary charity. It's mutual aid. The community of God is commanded to find a way for individuals to take care of each other. In the case of these laws, the door was opened even for an outsider, Ruth the Moabite, a member of a nation despised by Israelites, to take part in the bounty of ...

12. Where You Do Not Wish To Go

John 21:18

Illustration

John E. Sumwalt

... something about his manner told her that he sat beside her because he had heard. That was the beginning of their special friendship. From then on Kevin sat beside her every Sunday that she was able to go to church. Wilma lived just three years from the time her AIDS was diagnosed -- and much of the last few months of her life she was in bed at home or in the hospital, too weak to move around on her own. During that time her family members and several volunteers, organized by Kevin, took care of all of her ...

13. Embalmed Leaders

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... Program continue and even expand again? The major part of the answer is the bureaucracy which has been built up under it. There are thousands of people engaged in the distribution of Foreign Aid, and their jobs depend upon it. No program in the history of mankind has more paid lobbyists than the Foreign Aid Program. Again, leaders pretending to lead have built for themselves an empire. And so, we become frightened at the big government that surrounds us, and rightfully so. Our next impulse, then, is to turn ...

14. Show Me Your Passport

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... isn't about taking the most comfortable position, or doing the most important tasks, or achieving the most accomplishments. Being a citizen of the gospel means that the needs of others and the community itself determines our course of action. When it's time to give aid we must give aid. When it's time to give thanks for the gifts of others we must give thanks. As citizens of the gospel we find our strength in Christ--even as we become vulnerable to the whole world. Maybe the best way we can repair our image ...

15. Why?

Isaiah 55:1-9, Luke 13:1-9

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... scratched you while you were playing with it. What's the first thing you do when you get hurt? You run to mommy and daddy and show them where it hurts, don't you? And then mommy or daddy puts some medicine on your hurt place, maybe puts a Band-Aid on it to cover it up. Maybe they even kiss it to make it better. (Demonstrate this on yourself) You go to your mommy or daddy because you know they love you, and they don't want you to hurt. Maybe they can't take the hurt away, but they ...

16. Let Me Tell You about the Birds and the Bees

Proverbs 5:15-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... sand hoping this topic would just go away. But the subject cannot be avoided. George Gallup, the famous pollster, has stated: There's no question about it, the sex-related issues are going to be the most important issues facing all churches in the foreseeable future. Abortion, Aids, pre-marital sex, homo-sexuality; all those are going to be at the vortex.6 What is true of the church is also true of the home. Now I am going to make a statement that will startle you at first. So stay with me. I believe that ...

17. Proper 10

Luke 10:25-37, Colossians 1:1-14, Amos 7:10-17, Psalm 82:1-8

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... wilderness area where thieves attacked the man, beat him, robbed him, and left him nearly dead. Two Jewish officials, a priest and a Levite, happened to pass by, saw the man, but moved away from him and kept on going. A Samaritan also came along. He stopped, administered first aid, put the man on his own animal, probably a donkey, and took him to an inn. There he paid to have the victim cared for and when he left the next day gave a guarantee for any further costs in seeing that the man was brought back to ...

18. We All Need Help

Matthew 11:15

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... that magnifies the sound so that they can hear better. Isn't that wonderful? It's just like these glasses. Some people wear glasses so that they can see better. Now, what would you think of a person who needed a hearing aid or glasses and could afford to buy them, but did not? ... That's not very smart, is it? And what would you think about a boy or girl who wants to learn how to ride a bike, but will not let anyone help? ... That's not very smart, either. The ...

19. Storms of Life

Mark 5:21-43

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... healed. Jesus turned around and said, “who touched me?” The woman apologized and told him that she did. She thought she was in a lot of trouble but Jesus said, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. We took a big risk today and we got a band-aid. The woman took a big risk and was healed. What do you think we should do with all this money we have? (response) I bet there are more sick people in the world that are need of the church's healing touch. Where can we put the money so that ...

20. God Cares for Us

Luke 7:11-17

Children's Sermon

... people until they can be taken to a doctor if they are really hurt seriously. It is used to take care of the problem right away without having to go home or to the hospital or the doctor's office. Let's look at one other thing on this first aid kit that I think is really important. Do you see anything on the box that might remind you of Jesus? [Let them look until they spot the cross.] That's right, the cross! One of the things that the people knew about God when Jesus came to earth was that ...

21. Do You Have to Fight?

Galatians 5:15

Children's Sermon

... will both be hurt in the end. If you decide to start a fight because you think you can win the fight, then buy plenty of band-aids and iodine and maybe have a sling or two ready around the house so you can take care of yourself. You may not need it in ... to fight, they will soon come by your house or where you play to start a fight with you. That is when you will need the band-aids and the sling and the iodine. It always works that way. The Bible is a good teacher about fights. It tells you that if we fight ...

22. On Being Lifted Beyond Ourselves

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... , "We share with you what we have seen and heard." God has a psychic or spiritual channel open between himself and each one of his children. It is never closed except as we close our end of the channel. Through this channel the Spirit of God comes to the aid of our spirit. He gives expression to our prayers, the hungerings and yearnings of our souls. And God gets the message. It is at times in my yearnings that the awareness of reality rises up from the depths of my soul. It is my reality rising up to touch ...

23. THE WITCH OF ENDOR

Drama

Marcia Miller

... lying prostrate on the ground. LEUMAS and LUCAS do the same.] SAMUEL: Why have you found it necessary to bring me back? [SAUL and the two AIDES rise.] SAUL: I am at my wit’s end. I don’t know what to do. You, dear Samuel, my friend and advisor, are the ... I am tired. Food might help. ENDORA: Girls, girls, bring the food. [The GIRL WITCHES appear with platters of food. SAUL and his AIDES sit down and begin to eat. The GIRLS move to a single acting area; perhaps, the same one used for the opening segment.] ...

24. When The Word Became Flesh

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... on the wings of immoral behavior. Stop the immoral behavior and you stop the plague in its tracks. But these Christians do more than just tell the truth about AIDS. They tend to the victims of AIDS. When someone is sick, you don't ask first how he got sick. You simply try to help. Other Memphis Christians hammer nails on the weekend so that a family in Binghampton will for the first time know the privilege of home ownership. Others play basketball and share the gospel ...

25. A Tsunami Appeal

Sermon

Eric Hudson

... it with a spirit of generosity, a spirit of love, the Spirit of God. And if you haven’t done it yet, will you do it today, as soon as you get home? Lift the phone, turn on the Internet, or write a cheque. Remember to do it through Gift Aid if you pay tax, so making every £100 worth nearly £130. Do it today. Then, even from something like this, something good can emerge, and the Spirit of God – whether it is recognized as that or not – will rise to the surface in the love, and giving, and the ...

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