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1. True And False Prophecy

Mark 14:27-31

Drama

... but before his execution. Background: This drama was originally titled "The Lies That Served God’s Purpose." Here are two men of seemingly opposite perspectives about Jesus, but neither of them realizes the full truth of Jesus’ words, and both of them will bear false witness against him in order to protect themselves or their interests. At the same time, whether out of hatred or love, both men prove to be prophetic in much of what they say about Jesus, albeit unknowingly. This is especially true in the ...

2. The Women

John 20:1-9

Drama

William Grimbol

... am saying is that it is possible ... if one believes. SHIRLEE: Then why don't we all believe in him, if that is all it takes? NANCY: Sure, why not. That makes it nice and easy. Tidy. KAREN: What are you afraid of? SHIRLEE: I'm afraid of false hope. I'm afraid of false prophets. I'm afraid of people claiming this outcast as the Messah because a few people claim to be cured. What about the thousands of people who still die. Didn't he love them? Didn't he forgive them? Were they too evil? I want a Messiah ...

3. Who Is God?

Matthew 16:13-20

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... : Then who is that up there? GOD: I'm God. JESUS: No, you're not. Come down from there. (GOD DESCENDS) PLAYER 1: This is kinda confusing. JESUS: Get your stuff and get out of here. GOD: But, I'm God. JESUS: No, you're not. You're a false god. All the false gods they were talking about. GOD: But ... JESUS: Out! (GOD EXITS TAKING LADDER AND PROPS) PLAYER 1: Do you mean all those things we were saying about God were untrue? JESUS: You both have a pretty narrow view of me. PLAYER 2: How do we find out about ...

4. Monologues: Disciples Redeemed

John 20:10-18, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Drama

Raymond I. Keffer

... , I am a true believer in the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. I have a commission from the leaders of the one true church to eliminate a troublesome group known as Christians, the followers of Jesus of Nazareth; the same Jesus who was crucified for His false teachings. I intend to give these Christians the same punishment for blasphemy Stephen got: death by stoning. This threat to the one true religion and to the one true God, Jehovah, cannot be ignored any longer. I'm on my way to Damascus to begin this ...

5. The Compelling Call

Drama

Karren Boehr

... -- his name was Bar-Jesus -- had other plans. An attendant of the proconsul, he had no intentions of allowing such an important man to see the truth of God. You see, his influence as a sorcerer would be gone. The Holy Spirit finally got tired of this false prophet's attempts at turning the proconsul from the faith. By the Spirit's leading, I simply looked at Elymas -- that's what his name means and said (Dramatically), "You are a child of the devil and an enemy of everything that is right! You are full ...

6. The Last Wise Man

Matthew 2:1-12

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

Theme: Don't waste your time searching for a false king. Find and worship the real King -- Jesus. Summary: One of the wise men who visited and worshiped Jesus tells the story. (A monologue) Playing Time: 3 minutes Place: Your church Props: None ... do likewise. You see we worshiped Him. After all He was a king -- the king. Dear friends, do not pass through this life without searching for him diligently. Do not be fooled by a false king. Find the promised one. Find Him, bring Him your gifts, and worship Him.

7. Athanasius Faithful Teacher

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... of Toleration. Christians would no longer be persecuted for their faith. Conflict with the empire had ended, so Christians were now much freer to fight among themselves! There is both cynicism and truth in that statement. The truth is that a certain false belief, a heresy, had crept into the Christian faith, and the church spent the greater part of the fourth century contending against it. Its leader in this struggle was Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Egypt. Athanasius was born into a Christian family in ...

8. The Men

Drama

William Grimbol

... He preaches and teaches a very typical prophetic message ... to preach good news to the poor ... to proclaim release to captives ... to call people back to a strong, centered faith in God. What is wrong with that? BILL: What is wrong with that is that he is a false prophet. JOHN: Definitely, a phoney. BILL: He doesn't want faith in Yahweh. He doesn't want a centered faith in God's will. He wants faith in him. He wants faith centered in his will. ARNOLD: He does claim to be the Messiah. That sure goes beyond ...

9. The Family of Judas

Drama

William Grimbol

... message completely. Twelve decent young men. They thought they could do it. He knew they wouldn't. He wanted martyrdom. To be another great prophet. Betrayal! My son didn't betray him ... he betrayed my son ... he betrayed all of them. He put false hopes in their hearts. He put false dreams in their heads. He had so much charisma, so much talent, he had them all spell-bound ... in a stupor. He betrayed them! (Pause) My son is dead ... suicide ... you want to know why? Why? Because my son had more faith than ...

10. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR ALL SAINTS’

Drama

Tom Eberle

... took advantage of my position. Box: How did you get mixed up in the meekness bit? St. Francis: I was ill. Sickness has a way of exposing false ambitions. I also began visiting the poor. I didn’t enjoy it. The leprosy I saw made me want to vomit. Each time I left them I ... the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were ...

11. Alesander The Mediocre

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... of your mighty hand. \nALEXANDER: Is it possible that this is true? \nIACATA: May the eternal pledge we made, our right hands clasped, \nbe revoked if I am relating to you something that should prove \nfalse. \nALEXANDER: It is not a question of whether it is false or true, \nbut a matter of whether we will all perish or not. \nIACATA: Indeed, it is a more encompassing question. Oh, my \nhusband, I fear we shall all fall victim to that fate. \nALEXANDER: A fate, my wife, that no means of matter can change ...

12. Judas, The Obscure

Drama

Peter C. Garrison

... pupil will resent and hate the teacher. The student will seek a way to humiliate the teacher. Maybe Judas felt this way. Jesus called Judas "a devil," and knew from the beginning who was going to betray him. Maybe our Teacher saw the hatred of the false student who would purposely miss the teacher's point out of evil spite. Yet I know now our Creator Lord never gave up control of the situation -- of creation, even though he was betrayed and killed by this creature and his muddled motives. Jesus said, "For ...

13. Gabriel: I Was There

Luke 1:5-25

Drama

Dr. Raymond Bailey

... who transmitted the very laws of God to the people. We angels looked on the ingenuity and majesty of God with wonder and delight. But -- the Israelites did not always honor their Creator and His laws in their hearts.They often forsook Him and followed after false gods -- gods inspired by the Satan himself -- whose ways "led the people into destruction."They became weak and captive to other nations. Still the Almighty was working out a plan -- He would send His only son to make a way, and show that way to ...

14. The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-21

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you. (Speak the next five commandments with a foot-beat pause after each.) All: You shall not murder. All: You shall not commit adultery. All: You shall not steal. All: You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. All: You shall not covet your neighbor's house; 2: you shall not covet your neighbor's wife or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. 1: When all the people witnessed the thunder and ...

15. The Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... : "Blessed are the peacemakers, All: for they will be called children of God. 7: "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, All: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 8: "Blessed are you, when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. All: Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."

16. Monologue: Mary Magdalene - Liberated Woman

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... a whisper to connect her with the harlot of Luke 7. In recent decades there has been fanciful speculation that Mary was Jesus' wife or mistress. Again, there is not a single word in the whole Bible to support such wild imagination. After we liberate her from false identification, who was she? What might be her story? You ask who I am and why I constantly speak of Jesus, why I call him my savior and my deliverer? I am Mary from Magdala, and I am also a new person, liberated and redeemed. Jesus the Messiah ...

17. Monologue: A Slave, A Jailer, A Child Of God

Acts 16:16-40

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... men: proud of being Roman sand scornful of everyone else. They took the accusations at face value and didn't bother looking for the truth. If they'd asked, they would have found that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens and that the charges were false. The magistrates said Roman citizens shouldn’t be bothered by strolling peddlers of an outlandish religion: such people must be taught to keep their proper place. So, they tore the robes from Paul and Silas and ordered them beaten with rods. The lictors beat ...

18. What's A Savior Worth?

Matthew 6:19-24, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:1-4

Drama

Joe Barone

... enter life, keep the commandments," and my heart surged. I could have told him that I already do that. But I didn't want to appear too eager, so instead, I said, "Which ones?" and he listed several. "You shall not kill, or commit adultery, or steal or bear false witness." And there were more. "All these I have observed ... ," I said, and somehow my heart jumped within me. I was about to hear what I wanted to hear. I was about to be told I had earned eternal life. But that's not what happened. Instead, Jesus ...

19. The Box

Drama

Cynthia Mercati Prigge

Cast of Characters: First Person* Second Person(Female) Third Person* *These parts may be played by either a man or a woman Time: The Present Place: A street corner Setting: A large cardboard box with a false back stands in the center of the playing area. A sign reading MAIN STREET may be hung for effect. Neither costumes nor props are required. [The FIRST PERSON, alone and forlorn, stands inside the box. The SECOND PERSON enters L, and starts briskly across the stage.] FIRST PERSON: Ma'am! [ ...

20. The Bridge

John 1:1-18, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 1:26-38, Genesis 3:1-24

Drama

H. J. Hizer

... Why I remember my servant Jezebel -- she cooperated beautifully -- she was a bad and faithful servant. Three: But you gave her bad tools to work with, Lowliness. Four: You gave her Baal. One: That's good. Two: No -- Bad was bad. One: You gave her Ahab and 850 false prophets. Three: You gave her what she needed, Lowliness -- her tools were much worse than mine. Five: But to you, Slums -- to YOU I gave the best of the worst tools. Four: He gave you a crowded inn. One: He gave you a bitterly cold night. Two ...

21. Good Morning, Jerusalem!

Drama

... and holy Festival of Passover should not be alarmed by rumors about the Nazarene rabbi rising from the dead ... What has happened is that his fanatical and criminal followers have stolen his body out of a sympathizer’s tomb, and are spreading the malicious and false rumor that he is alive again. The faithful will remember that this fraud once said that he could tear down Herod’s great Temple and build it back again in three days ... The faithful will not be misled by such lying fantasies.... May the ...

22. Hail! Your King!

Mark 15:1-15

Drama

... who in those accounts tries three times to acquit or release Jesus. But in Mark, Pilate appears shrewd, calculating, perceptive and finally, uncaring about what happens to this man Jesus. Pilate acts out of expediency, even though he is sure the accusations are false. There’s a certain ruthlessness suggested as well as weakness in bowing to "popular demand." (Simon enters, looking up and around as if excited about the big city.) SIMON: Jerusalem! How I love this city! Like the Scripture says: "O Zion, the ...

23. THE FINAL TRIUMPH

Drama

... to the point woman! ANNAS: Patience, Lord Caiaphas. Go on my dear. Lord Caiaphas is a bit upset. He means you no harm. MARY MAGDALENE: (Challenging Caiaphas) He doesn’t scare me anymore. None of you scare me! My Lord lives! You have lost False Priest. CAIAPHAS: (Starting toward her in a rage) I’ll have your impertinent tongue torn from your head! You ... ANNAS: (Stopping Caiaphas with an out-stretched hand) Please son-in-law! Restrain yourself! Now Mary, continue your story, but with a bit more respect ...

24. THE JOURNEY

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... don’t necessarily LEARN anything. But you see. You see, for example, that the whole world is filled with crutches and hearing aids and artificial arms and artificial legsand glass eyes and plastic hearts and stainless steel kidneys and rubber-tubing stomachs and false teeth. Every day they pass through bus depots and train stations and department stores and public libraries and hotels and motels and down the public thoroughfare, thousands of them, and they can’t see and they can’t hear and they can ...

25. The Passover and the Passion

Drama

Denny C. Wise

... for thirty lousy pieces of silver? Certainly not. Oh no - it was merely a test. If he passed it, he would call down ten thousand angels and drive the enemy from our land. But if he failed, then the world would know him by his blasphemy - that he was a false prophet - one who deserved to die. At least, that’s what I thought. But then when he looked into my eyes and said, "Judas, is it with a kiss that you betray the Son of Man?" then I knew what an unspeakable thing I had done. So I tried to ...

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