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Joshua 22:1-34

Understanding Series

J. Gordon Harris

... between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the LORD at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings (22:26–27). Some key words underline their purpose and mission for building the altar: “No share in the LORD,” “replica,” and “witness.” First, the eastern tribes say they fear the tribes of Canaan will one day shut them out of the worship center in the west and a share in the Lord. Second, the eastern tribes think that building a ...

2. Only the Birth Pangs

Mark 13:1-31

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... them to make four banners depicting: (1) the Jerusalem temple broken into a heap of stones; (2) a war; (3) an earthquake; and (4) a famine. Ask the church's youth group to construct a cardboard replica of the temple for a visual aid. They can research how it looked in bible dictionaries, and flatten large cardboard boxes for painting a replica. The cardboard will need to be supported by a wood frame, and the whole thing can be placed along one of the side walls in the sanctuary. If they would like, a ...

3. Dealing with Potential Covenant Violation

Joshua 22:1-34

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... to take action against them if they have harbored any rebellious intention (22:21–23), the Transjordanian tribes explain that the altar they built was never meant for actual sacrifices (after all, the altar is located on the Canaanite side). Instead, it is a replica of the official altar, meant to serve as a witness to their determination to worship the Lord at his sanctuary in the west. But they feared that a future generation of westerners might one day cut them off from being part of the covenant ...

4. Remembering 9/11

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... security at airports - I read yesterday that the folks at Los Angeles International Airport confiscated a GI Joe doll because it had a two-inch plastic rifle. A spokesman for LAX said, "We have instructions to confiscate anything that looks like a weapon or a replica. If GI Joe was carrying a replica then it had to be taken from him."(2) A two-inch piece of plastic. Well, I don't know about you but I sure feel safer now. Duh. As many of you know, I serve on the Board of your Economic Opportunity Council and ...

5. The Stone is My Witness

Matthew 28:1-10, Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God’s ever powerful hands molding us and reforming us in mercy and grace. God the Creator sees the child within us that God the Father made with His own hands. Sculpture too …is made from stone. Given new life, new form, new grace. I have here a replica of a statue of David by Michelangelo. It’s not the real one of course. The real one is life sized and carved out of a single piece of stone marble. Let me tell you something that Michelangelo said about sculpting which changes perhaps the way we look ...

6. A Continuing Presence

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... , and afix a heavy sign at the very top. A gasoline station recently went out of business and removed its sky-sign. The two metal posts, however, were left intact. Somebody, I don't know who, has provided a new sign. It is a giant replica of an Arkansas automobile license plate with white background, red lettering. There are some changes. It is what amounts to a personalized tag. This one reads, "JESUS." The state slogan, "Land of Opportunity," has been changed to read, "Lord of Opportunity." Instead of a ...

7. What Can God Do?

Luke 1:39-45

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: God can do some awesome things. Props: A Bible and photographs (or replicas) of some big things: elephant, tree, world, stars, or universe. The bigger the photo the better. Lesson: Good morning. (response) How is everyone doing? (response) Here is a question for you this morning, and I think you know the answer to it. How big is God? (response) Tell me. Show ...

8. The Beginning of the End

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

... able to visit the shops and bazaars - never far from the guns of the soldiers - and buy whatever they wished to remind them of their visit to the place where the patriarchs of the Jewish and Christian faiths were buried. Some had shopped for replicas of the cenotaphs for Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, and Leah - since no pictures could be taken inside the large building that was erected over the cave of Macpelah where their graves were supposedly located, but they had no success. Hebron was rather ...

9. Which Way?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

... ’ Guthrie Theatre. When all the others had gone home, we awe-struck Protestants sat waiting in our solid oak pews, entranced by huge Italian marble pillars holding the stone altar canopy in place, in a cavernous chancel surveyed on three sides by stone apostles, replicas of those which stand in St. John Lateran in Rome. When the lay tour guide arrived, we learned that when the building had been raised in A.D. 1904, it had cost two million dollars. "Maybe it will stand here for five hundred years ...

10. "A" Lamb to "the" Lamb

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... The children had constructed a little tabernacle with a cut-away-top so you could peer down inside the entire structure (all made from a cardboard shoe box!) They even had made a little cardboard altar and colored it with crayons. It was very good, a fine replica which they had copied from pictures. As an added touch of realism, they had baked some little cookies which were cut out in the shape of lambs. Then they prepared to lay one of the little lamb cookies on the altar for a sacrifice. They were trying ...

11. Is God Still God?

Isaiah 44:6-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... victory. For many, football or any other sport is a religion that comes first and what comes first in life is a person’s god. Others make a god out of sex. Though dead for many years, Marilyn Monroe is still a sex idol for many. In 1983, a porcelain replica of Monroe, dressed in diamonds and mink and selling for $6,000, was placed on the market. Money is also a popular god in our time as always. Money comes first in many of our lives. Money was the reason a man in the Bible built bigger barns and then ...

12. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... clothed themselves in the mantle of secularism, they apparently are unable to see anything beyond it. A well-dressed modern young couple, apparently of some refinement and culture, stood at the window of a large big-city department store. Displayed in the window was a replica of the Bethlehem stable scene, with shepherds, wise men, Joseph, Mary, and the Child in the manger. The young woman was heard saying, "Why did they put that baby in that window, and why did they put it in a thing like that?" Just ...

13. His Lust to Be Number One

Illustration

Lloyd J. Ogilvie

... weaken the foundation that eventually it would topple. One night, as he was chiseling the sculpture in violent and envious anger, he went too far. The heavy marble statue teetered on its fragile base and crashed down on the disgruntled athlete. He died beneath the crushing weight of the marble replica of the one he had grown to hate.

14. Early on the First Day

Drama

G. Franklin Gray

Cast Mary Magdalene Mary, the Mother of James Salome Joanna Soldier 1 Soldier 2 Angel 1 Angel 2 Peter John Jesus Narrator Properties Needed Costumes Replica of Tomb If at all possible, it is strongly recommended that the congregation gather, and the pageant be offered, in a cemetery at dawn on Easter Day. The Service The Call to Worship Shout with joy to God, all the earth! Sing to the glory of his name; offer him ...

15. Where Can We Find Wisdom?

Proverbs 2:1-22

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... us wise is found in looking - looking behind, looking between, looking before, looking beyond. I First, we can find wisdom by looking behind. Sir Isaac Newton, the seventeenth-century English scientist and mathematician, once hired a skilled mechanic to build a small mechanical replica of the solar system. A gold ball represented the sun; dull gray balls stood for the planets. By turning a crank, Sir Iaaac could make the model move, so that the tiny balls traced the orbits of the heavenly bodies. One day an ...

16. Proper 27

1 Kings 17:7-24, Mark 12:35-40, Mark 12:41-44, Hebrews 9:11-28

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... Second Lesson: Hebrews 9:24-28 Theme: The ultimate sacrifice of Christ Exegetical Note This passage builds the author’s argument for the superiority of Christ’s high priesthood by adding that he (1) has entered the real heavenly sanctuary rather than an earthly replica, and (2) has made a once-for-all sacrifice with his own blood, rather than a yearly one with another’s blood, such as the high priest performed. This passage is capped rather abruptly with a reference to the parousia, the purpose of ...

17. The Vulnerable Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... dead Christ - too slender, too vulnerable - held in the arms of the large earth mother, Mary. Michelangelo made the two out of proportion; however, one does not notice it, so struck is one by the magnificent conception in Saint Peter’s or Saint Patrick’s replica in Manhattan. The one in Rome was ironically broken and defaced by vandals several years ago, but since, its wounds have been repaired by expert craftspeople and it is on display again. What I want to say can be put in a proposition: The healer ...

18. Cut Your Losses!

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... or even fingernails. He has only one goal: to make money out of his dubious accomplishment. "I haven't had a good night's sleep for 30 years," he complains. He had a vision of how his nails would look one day in a glass case attached to a plaster replica of his 56-year-old hand. The problem was that no one had offered him enough money. The highest bid was $100,000 from an American collector in 1991. Shridhar expected double that amount of money. At last report he and his wife lived in a grimy cubicle in the ...

19. Ready For The Game Warden

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... ! There he was on camera before tens of millions of television viewers wearing a ragtag outfit. It began when he forgotyes forgotto bring his uniform. Still desiring to play, he went to work putting together a makeshift arrangement. He bought a shirt from a replica shop. Wrote his number on the back with a felttip marker. Borrowed socks from a player on another team. And purchased his cap at the airport. What a sight!" (5) That player should have read Jesus' parable about the foolish virgins. Or the one ...

20. Flies On The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... Sistine Chapel had just been renovated. Dr. Pearsall and his wife waited for hours in line for a glimpse of this remarkable feat. At a distance the paintings did not look all that impressive. People chattered and joked about a paint-by-number replica of Michelangelo's work for their own ceilings. When they drew closer, however, they were overwhelmed. The paintings seemed to engulf them. Everyone became quiet. Necks ached with the effort to keep looking up. Now they were seeing the paintings as Michelangelo ...

21. The Appearance of Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... handwritten invitations and sent limousines to pick up their wives. The women were escorted into a banquet hall decorated in nautical themes. A corsage was at each wife's place setting. The men took training on how to serve their wives the meal, which was an exact replica of the six-course meal that was served in the first-class dining room on the Titanic the night it sank. A ship's bell signaled the end of each course. Then the men cleared the tables and sang love songs between each course. After the meal ...

22. Hungry For God

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... day. A woman's voice said, "Dr. English, I am calling from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The hand of God is here." Excuse me? thought Dr. English. The hand of God is at the museum? Then Dr. English recalled that several months before, he had ordered a replica of Rodin's sculpture, The Hand of God, from the museum gift shop. It had finally arrived. (1) The prophet Isaiah was eager to see the hand of God at work among his people. He implores the Almighty, "Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down ...

23. Love And Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... literally. He also had Jesus' example to go by. As he writes in Philippians 2: "He humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." We are told that over the entrance to the Upper Room in Jerusalem is a carving of a pelican. Replicas of pelicans were also found on the crusader's shields. In those days there was a tradition that when the mother pelican could find no food for her young, she would tear out her own heart as food for them. To the crusaders that was symbolic of what ...

24. Bloody Lintels — Broken Bread

Exodus 12:1-14

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... sufferers of oppression and slavery. Before them was the shank of a lamb. They tasted the sweet mutton and then they ate the bitter herbs. Bitter herbs according to the Mishnah consisted of lettuce, chicory, pepperwort, snakeroot, and dandelion. In this Seder replica, horseradish was substituted for the bitter herbs. Four questions were asked, a seat was left vacant for Elijah, and the door left open for his coming. The learning journey from the Seder to the Lord's supper continued that evening. Twenty feet ...

25. In the Darkness of Anxiety, There Is the Light of Peace

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... of drugs. They think, “I’ll try God now,” in the way they might try on a pair of shoes. That is not what I mean. I mean, would you put yourself in the place of God’s peace, by putting your life in God’s hands? We had a replica town of Bethlehem at a church I once served. One Christmas Eve, we were going to leave our service in the sanctuary and go out to the manger where the holy family and some unholy looking shepherds waited on us. The notice in our bulletin was supposed to say, “Recessional ...

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