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1. Mary Had the Little Lamb

John 1:1-18

Illustration

Marv & Marbeth Rosenthal

... His birth; Self-existent Son of God, from Heaven He came to Earth. Micah 5:2 Mary had the little Lamb; see Him in yonder stall Virgin-born Son of God, to save man from the Fall. Isaiah 7:14 Mary had the little Lamb, obedient Son of God; Everywhere the Father led, His feet were sure to trod. John 6:38 Mary had the little Lamb, crucified on the tree The rejected Son of God, He died to set men free. 1 Peter 1:18 Mary had the little Lamb men placed Him in the grave, Thinking they were done with Him; to death He ...

2. Son Shine Inn

John 6:25-59

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... 't remember ... JESUS: Well, would you like the Adonai special? BILL: I guess so, since it's the only thing on the menu. MARY BETH: What is it? JESUS: Lamb. MARY BETH: And how is it prepared? JESUS: I prepare it exactly to your taste. MARY BETH: I like lamb, if it's good. JESUS: This is perfect. The lamb of God. BILL: This wouldn't be, by any chance ... JESUS: It is. I am the lamb of God. MARY BETH: You are? But I thought you were the bread of life. JESUS: I am -- both. BILL: Look, Jesus, this is getting to ...

3. Victory

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Burton F. Blair

... was preparing to go to sleep. A great silence enfolded this moment, the silence of the Lamb of God. The prophet Isaiah, in the Old Testament, had spoken about the Messiah: "Like a lamb that is led to the slaughter ... so he did not open his mouth" (Isaiah 53:7 ... Everything was new. She had been born-again into the family of God. She was no longer "that woman"! No, now, she was "lady" Mary of Magdala. She was a child of the Father. She moved her lips as she repeated the words, "It is finished." She whispered a ...

4. The Passover and the Passion

Drama

Denny C. Wise

... : Amen. Mary: Now sleep my son. Shalom ... good night. Adult Voice: (cried as in pain) Abba, into thy hands I commend my spirit. Solo: "What Wonderous Love is This" (1st verse) Narrator: Even as he hung on the Cross, another event was simultaneously taking place in the temple. The priests had left Calvary to return in time to slaughter the Passover lambs, and to sprinkle the blood of expiation on the altar. The trumpets sounded, the Levites struck up their harps and shouted, "I shall not die ... but live ...

5. The Surrogate

Matthew 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , and Eleazar the father of Matthan, and Matthan the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called the Messiah. So all the generations from Abraham to David and fourteen generations; ... ’s only and beloved son. In some of the first words of the gospel, we hear that God is pleased with his beloved Son. But the Lamb of God would be slain, and we will have taken the beloved incarnation of God away in selfishness and lack of compassion. In this act, we ...

6. What Kind of Sheep Are You?

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... you? What kind of shepherd … are you? Sheep are in short supply. Why? Everyone wants to be a lion, no one wants to be a lamb. Shepherds are in short supply. Why? The choice to be a shepherd is to reject the crown for the cross. [In this sermon, you could ... to the city of David called Bethlehem, because he was descended from the house and family of David. He went to be registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her ...

7. At The Manger By Invitation

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... is our guide today into the Bethlehem event. Luke was the best writer among the New Testament authors. Whether Luke actually ever talked with Mary, the mother of Jesus, we don't know. By the time he wrote his gospel, she would have been about 75 years old; in ... , Christina Rossetti, penned these immortal words of Christmas: "What shall I give Him, poor as I am; If I were a shepherd, I'd give him a lamb; If I were a Wise Man, I would do my part; But such as I have I give Him, I give Him my heart." There is a ...

8. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the kind of love that longs and pines, aches and desires. God desires us as a root desires water, as a lily the sun, as a lamb its pasture, as the garden its soil. We were made to be in communion, in union, with God, our beloved, who longs for us as ... our lover’s coming. This is the Story of God. This is our Story. This is our Song. In Jesus’ resurrection in the garden in which Mary finds him, she is stunned and moved by His voice. Her heart recognizes Him with the call of her name and she is drawn back ...

9. Uncleanness Due to Childbirth

Leviticus 12:1-8

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... is obligated to offer a sacrifice, even if she is poor, but God mercifully lets her offer something more affordable. Use of this law is evidenced by a New Testament character: Mary the mother of Jesus. Mary undergoes the required purification ritual after the birth of Jesus (Luke 2:22–27). The fact that she offers a bird instead of a lamb indicates that she and Joseph are poor. And yet God accepts the small sacrifice of a poor person as much as the more expensive sacrifice of rich people (cf. Luke 21 ...

10. "A" Lamb to "the" Lamb

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... that somehow gives up its wool for making fine, warm, winter clothing. Still others are vaguely acquainted with a lamb only in the form of the chops they purchase at the butcher’s counter in the supermarket. And little children associate a lamb with the little verse that sounds good, but has no reality to them: "Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. It followed her to school one day, This was against the rule, It made the children ...

11. Redeemed

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . And most of those people have given the church a small gift for that wedding or baptism. A couple hundred dollars maybe. For some $50 or so. Now let’s look at the presentation in the Temple in Mary and Joseph’s time for a first-born son. Number one: you had to buy either a lamb or two doves for Mary’s purification ritual (the doves were 1 gold zuz or approximately half a shekel). Number two: you had to pay 5 shekels to the Temple in order to perform the “redemption of the first born son” ritual ...

12. Mary Christmas

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

John Jamison

... take their new son to the temple to present the offerings to God, thanking him for the birth? Leviticus states the sacrifice is to be a lamb, one year old. But, if you cannot afford a lamb, then two doves or pigeons will do. Luke reminds us that Mary and Joseph present the "poor" offering of birds in the place of the lamb. There was probably no donkey either. And don't dress Mary in that pretty blue robe she posed in for the Christmas card photo. The dye for the color blue came from the murex shell found ...

13. For a Cancer Victim

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Eulogy

James W. Robinson

... her songs of praise. She'll be busy - and happy - there in that land that is fairer than day, fairer because the Lamb of God is the light. Thank God for Mary. It was God who gave us Mary. It was God whose grace saved her and made her the angel that she was. Strive for perfection in love toward God and man, as Mary did, so that you may hope to gain the eternal prize. Keep the faith, like Mary, "for by grace you have been saved through faith." (Ephesians 2:8a) God was her "comfort by day and her song in ...

14. Is There Room For Shepherds?

Luke 2:8-14

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... children who weren't in the Christmas Pageant. The Committee on Education (which included three mothers of last year's rejected Marys, Josephs, shepherds and Wise Men) made a policy change: "All children who wish to be in the Christmas pageant may do ... head of the ewes. The ewes could feel the change in the weather, and head back to the barn. That solution saved many of the lambs. Sometimes our hearts get all warm and woolly. It's not wrong; we like that warm fuzzy feeling, and we get comfortable with it. But ...

15. Hope in a Plain Brown Wrapper

Luke 1:47-55

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... God chose to be the emissaries of this world changing event. Event he setting could have come in a plain brown wrapper. I. Mary Why, just look at Mary. She wasn't a beauty queen. She wasn't a star. She wasn't noted for anything. There's no footnote about how ... the head of the ewes. Then when the weather changed, they felt it and headed back to the barn, thus saving many of their lambs. Sometimes our hearts get all warm and woolly. It's not wrong; we like that warm fuzzy feeling, and we get comfortable with ...

16. Little Ones

Luke 18:15-17, Matthew 19:13-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... you like to pet her? [Allow the children to sit up front anywhere they like.] There’s a little song I learned growing up. I’ll bet you all know it too. It goes like this: [Allow them to sing with you.] Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go. Well, there’s a reason for this song. Cause, if there’s one thing sheep are really, really good at, it’s following. A sheep will follow you anywhere. But….only if you are its master! Let me ...

17. "Salt and Swaddle"

Luke 2:1-20 · 1 Samuel 16:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the line of David. Even hiding out in Bethlehem, the “underground” faithful would have known about the child conceived by Joseph and Mary, both inheritors in the Davidic line. This would be a special child, and he would be born to be a future king ... earliest spring, the end of March or the beginning of April, as shepherds watched their flocks by night, the Perfect Lamb was born: The Paschal Lamb. This Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world was bathed in salt and wrapped in swaddling cloths. And ...

18. Good Morning, Jerusalem!

Drama

... him away, sir, tell me where you have put him ... and I will go and get him." Ezra: What did this stranger say then? Mary: He called me by my name. "Mary!" he said ... When I heard him call my name, and I looked into his face, I recognized him! ... It was our teacher, the ... for our God! People: The LORD, our God, be praised, his Messiah, and their Holy Spirit! Leader: Worthy is the Christ, the Lamb who was slain, whose blood set us free to be the people of God. People: This is the feast of victory for ...

19. Luke 2:22-40

Luke 2:22-40

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... , a pigeon or turtledove to the temple as a sacrifice and a sign that she was once again ritually clean. Luke's details make it clear that Mary and Joseph are, at least at this point in their lives, quite poor for instead of a lamb, Mary exercises the Levitically provided option for those who cannot afford a lamb and brings instead two doves. But while the baby Jesus did not have to be present for this ceremony, he did need to be brought to the temple for another reason. Symbolic of the living link binding ...

20. Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room

Drama

Suzanne Fisher

... into one corner safely out of the way. Narrator: He had a mouse friend, Moe, who was smart as could be, and a small gray sister, whose first name was Marie. Narrator: They shared their hay-strewn home with donkeys, Fred and Dawn, a rooster they called Rudy and a speckled hen named Fawn. Narrator: The camels, Claude and Carrie, Leo and Lisa lamb, also found a home herewhen not roaming the land. Narrator: Now Moose called out to Moe: Moose: Hey, Smarty, can you see that brightly shining star pointing down at ...

21. Partners In the Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was named Mary. During her first week at school the teacher asked each of the students to introduce themselves and to tell something about their family. When it came “little Mary’s” turn she stood up and said, “ I am Mary Taft. My ... you know what he put on that sign? Just four words: “THE LAMB HAS WON! What a victory! What a sign of the Kingdom! The Lamb had won! Not the bear, but the Lamb! Not the tiger, but the Lamb! Not the lion, but the Lamb! He who had begun a good work in them -- because of ...

22. Do You Hear What I Hear?

Luke 1:46-56, Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Almighty: "I will make an everlasting covenant with them...they [shall be known as] a people whom the Lord has blessed." Said the little lamb to the shepherd boy, Do you hear what I hear? Ringing through the sky, shepherd boy, Do you hear what I hear? A ... . For such a young boy, who had only heard the Christmas story once, he related the happenings accurately, until he came to the part where Mary put the baby Jesus in the manger. Then Misha started to ad-lib. He made up his own ending to the story as he said ...

23. Finding The Real Thing

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... from the rafters, sending uneven rays of illumination over a variety of small farm animals. The warmth of the makeshift barn came from the bodies and breaths of the animals themselves. A strange feeling came over Wendy. Over in the corner was the newborn lamb and its mother. As she stood there she imagined what it must have been like for Mary when Jesus was born. Mothers today have access to the privacy and hygienic conditions of a birthing room in a modern hospital, along with a staff of trained personnel ...

24. Sermons

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... idleness or idle mysticism, a life of all words and no action. He did not suggest that no one should be cooking dinner or that Mary should never be expected to help Martha in the kitchen. He did suggest, I am certain, that Martha should not bother to put on five ... Lion of Judah roaring for justice. And the emblem of Christian faith is the lamb, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, the non-conforming Lamb of God most powerful in his willing, purposeful, redemptive death! Yes, death. For the ...

25. One Thing

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... could not have kept on for a year, or even a month, if I had thought of it as a year or a month I was able to endure it because I took the days one at a time, happy when Mary was happy, and seeking God’s help when she was disturbed." There you have it: Charles Lamb’s secret for loving a mad and murderous sister and yet living victoriously. There you have it: Paul’s formula for "forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead." There you have it: the power for dynamic discipleship ...

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