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1. The Family of Judas

Drama

William Grimbol

... we talked about anything that didn't result in some conflict ... some clash ... some outrageous argument. He always worked so hard to be different. I think it was his lifetime ambition to be bizarre. I feel badly that he is dead, but I feel no real loss, no genuine grief ... I can't feel loss over something I never had. We were never close ... that is just the plain truth of it. (Pause) He never respected me either. I was everything he hated. He never admitted it, but I was. I made a good living. I have ...

2. THE OLD MAN IS WASTING

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... in a home for retired circus employees. The family that stays together prays together. Or is it the other way around? Also the Ten Commandments electroplated in solid silver - "Know the truth and the truth will set you free" - around the rim of this genuine brass-plated, plastic-coated thimble. (He takes a thimble from a pocket, tosses it to JAREL) Compliments of the house. Normally sells for $1.98, this week only at extra low price of 98 cents - tell your friends, or sell them yourself, ten dollars for ...

3. “Unto Us A Child Is Born... Next, On Omar”

Luke 2:1-7

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Lois Anne DeLong

... time I looked, this show wasn’t called “Jacob”! (turning back to Wise Men) But, myrrh is usually used to prepare bodies for burial, isn’t it? Kind of a morbid gift for a baby. Wise Man 1: Are you questioning the wisdom of a Wise Man? Omar: (genuinely humbled) No, of course not. Never. Wise Man 2: There’s more to the gift of myrrh than just a nice smell. It symbolizes the supreme sacrifice this boy will be called to make for us when he becomes a man. Omar: That sounds like another show. So, where ...

4. Judgment Day

Mark 13:1-31

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Steven E. Albertin

... all depends on us. We know where it is all headed. And Jesus has promised to give us his Holy Spirit so that we can be confident about it and be able to speak the truth about what is right and wrong and good and evil and where there is genuine hope and what can be trusted. There will be no confusion of heaven and hell. We know that our hope lies only in the promise of God. It is precisely our foolish trust in our own places, devices, and schemes which turns this world of God's into a living ...

5. Citizenship

Philippians 3:1-11

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Pamela Urfer

... and the home of the brave. A truly Christian nation. TERRY: Are you talking about the United States? CHRIS: Yes. God has a special relationship with this country. But you already knew that, I'm sure. TERRY: A special relationship? What kind of relationship? CHRIS: (Genuinely shocked) You don't know? You mean you haven't heard? Why, I thought everyone ... TERRY: I'm afraid not. But tell me about it. It sounds intriguing. CHRIS: Well, as I'm sure you already kn ... That is, you see, our founding fathers were ...

Drama

Betty Lynn Schwab

... days be free. He also knew that he was the Bread of Life come down from heaven, bringing true freedom for all. Child: What does the unleavened bread mean for us today? Reader 2: As Christians we are called by Christ to live out -- with a sense of genuine urgency -- Christ's freedom. We are called to love God above all other people and things -- to love God more than our spouse or child, more than our job, more than our achievements, or money. When we love God that way, with all our heart and strength and ...

7. The Living Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... heaven for you, who are being protected by the power of God through faith 2: for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 3: In this you rejoice, 4: even if now for a little while you have had to suffer various trials, 3: so that the genuineness of your faith 4: - being more precious than gold that, though perishable, is tested by fire - 3: may be found to result in praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1: Although you have not seen him, you love him; 2: and even though you do ...

8. Loving Deeply From The Heart

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... your sake. 3: Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God. 1: Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, 3: love one another deeply from the heart. 1: You have been born anew, 2: not of perishable but of imperishable seed, 1: through the living and enduring word of God.

9. The Women

John 20:1-9

Drama

William Grimbol

... KAREN: Thank you. I just feel that if a person believes, well, then that faith ... that trust ... it can cure. SHIRLEE: Anything? KAREN:I'm not saying I know. All I am saying is that I think people can be cured if they believe they can be. Sometimes I genuinely feel that it is the love, the attention, the caring that cures. DIANE: So do I. At times I've felt that my own mother's love was what cured half of my childhood illnesses. KAREN: Love is powerful. SHIRLEE: Is it powerful enough to remove death? Is it ...

10. The Youth

Drama

William Grimbol

... to believe him. JOLIE: His love for everyone was pretty amazing. SUE: How can he love everyone? JOLIE: I don't know. That is another miracle. He made all of us feel loved. Didn't you? SUE: I don't know ... about love ... but I sure felt genuinely cared about. JOLIE: Everything he said was remarkably simple, but it made such good sense. It somehow fit so much together for me. SUE: Loving, forgiving, praying, believing ... that all sounds simple, but it sure isn't easy to do. JOLIE: True. It isn't easy to ...

11. Jesus Reflects -- A Dramatic Monologue

Isaiah 9:1-7, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

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Edward G. Hunter

... much he loves him, and allow man to freely respond to such love or, should he so choose, reject it. It is as simple - and as profound - as that. And God has revealed to me the terrible price that must be paid for the proof of such love. All genuine love demands sacrifice, and the greater the love the greater the sacrifice. I know my destiny is the cross. I have known it for some time. Isaiah decreed it many years ago: "Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter." Humanly speaking, of course, I dread such an ...

12. Monologue: Naomi And Ruth

Ruth 1:1-22

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... I had been brought to Bethlehem for a purpose, but I could see none. Naomi kept telling me that God was faithful in supplying our needs and that God was good to us. After weeks of back-breaking gleaning, the owner of the field took a genuine interest in me as a person and in what had happened between Naomi and me. This was totally unexpected. He became more compassionate and understanding about our situation. He surprised me with being even more generous than before and, as you can imagine, I was extremely ...

13. Monologue: Hannah

1 Samuel 1:1-20

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Lynda Pujad

... pleading with God, begging him from the depth of my soul about this one desire for myself. As I was talking to God, Eli the priest suspected that I was intoxicated and he complained to me about it. I felt humiliated. Eli had to be convinced about the genuineness of my purpose in the temple. After he listened to me, he changed his opinion about me and hoped I would receive God's blessing. Shortly thereafter, I did conceive and bear a child and I named him Samuel. I never forgot my promise to give the child ...

14. At Table With The Lord

Drama

... 't shake my nagging doubts. Were those miracles real, or is he some kind of a magician? I saw ... or ... did I think I saw ... great and wonderful things happen. One thing is for sure, however: he is unlike anyone I have ever known. His love and his compassion seem genuine. There's no one he doesn't love: rich, poor, beggar, prostitute - it doesn't matter to him. Could a mere mortal love so many? And so deeply? Maybe he really is the Son of God. I'm still shaken by the sight of Lazarus fumbling his way out ...

15. Mary of Bethany and Jesus’ Mother

Drama

Jon Joyce

... Martha is so busy, busy, busy with housework and cooking and chores that she doesn’t notice much of anything. All she could say when I told her about the Master’s eyes was to chide me for having the nerve to look closely at his eyes. MJ: [Attempts a genuine smile and laugh, but both are weak] Martha’s a dear in her own right. You, Mary, would probably have an unkempt house if it all were up to you. MB: [Taking MJ’s remark in the good humor in which it was made] Indeed, I would. There are so ...

16. THE JOURNEY

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... apple tree. Because if you’re one of the outsiders, if you don’t already have a defect ... we’ll start a Limping School, and we’ll train people to fake stiff legs and amputations. We’ll provide jobs for thousands of genuine limpers around the world, teaching their less fortunate brethren how to become natural through an artificial defect. (Completely caught up in his vision, dancing around GRACE) And then we’ll open hospitals for prospective amputees, people who won’t settle for anything ...

17. The Path of Maturity

Drama

William Grimbol

... all that much to offer, except the good life, and that is so bankrupt ethically, because it has nothing whatsoever to do with goodness. We must start with our Selves, but there just seems to be so little there worth loving ... so little there for which we feel genuine pride ... so little there for which we feel You might be proud. Maturity? Loving? We fall so miserably short. READER 2 Next, You ask us to love our neighbor as our Self. Our neighbor ... who is that? There once was a time when we sat on front ...

18. The Path of Integrity

Drama

William Grimbol

... of the camouflage of worldly wisdom and societal standards of success ... our Selves finally free to pursue the simple decencies and acts of compassion and caring and sharing that give our lives the only satisfaction and integrity we can ever know or genuinely feel. As we partake, on this Maundy Thursday, of a simple stark meal ... a symbol of obedience and love indeed, let us be renewed and refreshed by this unleavened supper, a miracle meal that gives our spirits the needed nourishment of becoming ...

19. The Path of Creativity

Drama

William Grimbol

... ... our own capacity to believe even when the world proclaims our belief as that of a someone who is the perpetual fool. The Resurrection ... the creative spirit ... the generator of new life ... the igniter of new hope ... the author of all genuine creativity, is an eternal event with dramatic consequences for the moment ... for the NOW ... for TODAY. It is the Resurrection which creates the faithful spirit, a spirit which seizes the present with the revolutionary belief that anything is possible ... that ...

20. No Small Parts

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... safe? I’m not boasting, but if it hadn’t been for me, things might not have worked out. And, let’s not forget that it was through me that God allowed the prophecy to be fulfilled — that a Savior would come from the family of David. Joseph: (genuinely impressed) You really were kind of a Vin Diesel, weren’t you? RJ: I prefer Schwarzenegger myself. Better hairline. Joseph: So why don’t you ever get lines in the pageant? Why don’t we see you doing all this cool stuff? RJ: I’m afraid that what ...

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