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Maxie Dunnam

Forty years ago, in 1948, two of our nation's outstanding educators entered into a debate which was printed. These outstanding educators were Robert Hutchins, then Chancellor of the University of Chicago, and James B. Connant, then President of Harvard. The discussion dealt with the structure of a university curriculum. The basis for the debate was the recognition that persons in leadership must d...

127. Genesis 2:18-24

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Leonard Sweet

It is ironic that this week's Old Testament text has often been cited as evidence for the pre-eminence of male over female. Feminist biblical scholars have even tended to shy away from this "second" creation story, preferring to concentrate on the more equitable-sounding simultaneous creation of male and female recorded by the priestly writer in Genesis 1:27. But the absorbing and quixotic tale to...

128. Being Alone

Sermon

King Duncan

I doubt that many of us would argue with that proposition. All the recent medical and psychological studies confirm the dangers of being alone. The rate for virtually every major cause of death in the United States is significantly higher for the single than for the divorced, for the widowed than for the married. And yet educators tell us that 50 percent of the children in our education system wi...

129. Genesis 2:18-24

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Leonard Sweet

130. The Knot: Bound

Sermon

James Merritt

Do you ever wonder how a pastor determines what he is going to preach on each week—or each year? Sometimes it’s difficult, but other times there is a clear, strong call from God on a specific area of teaching. In this case, the area of marriage has for me been a clear, strong call from God in terms of teaching for this time in the life of our church. The reason is very simple. Hardly a week goes ...

131. Will this Be on the Test?

Sermon

Tony Everett

What do you think might be the most common questions teachers in all grade levels hear from their students? You are correct if you were thinking of something to do with passing examinations. Will this be on the test? What do we have to know to pass the test? What happens if we fail? Do we get another chance? Beginning soon after birth (some folks might say soon after conception) children are meas...

132. Workaholics Anonymous

Sermon

James Merritt

Are you a workaholic? See how many of these questions you answered yes to: Do you get more excited about your work than about family or anything else? Are there times when you can charge through work and other times when you can't get anything done? Do you take with you to bed, on weekends, on vacation? Is work the activity you enjoy most and talk about most? Do you work more than 40 hours a week...

133. A Cure for the Workaholic

Sermon

James Merritt

If you are from the Deep South especially, you have to like Jeff Foxworthy. He made the word "redneck" universally famous. He was the one who said, "You might be a redneck if all of your salad bowls have "Cool Whip" stamped on them." Nobody knows how to identify a redneck, better than Jeff Foxworthy. I came across some ways you can also identify a workaholic. In case you are wondering whether or ...

134. A Woman's Place

Sermon

Erskine White

It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him. (Genesis 2:18) Ask a chauvinist where a woman's place is and he or she will say, "A woman's place is in the home," or, "A woman's place is subordinate to the man's." Ask a feminist where a woman's place is and she or he will say, "A woman's place is wherever she chooses to be," or, "A woman's place is anywhere a m...

135. Wedding Sermon: The First Marriage

Sermon

James McKarns

In the midst of a strange and beautiful world, the first man stood in awe, looking about at the new creation. Everything was most lovely but a feeling of loneliness lingered within him. He saw the heavens with their floating clouds and flying birds. He viewed the virgin earth, displaying its mountains, lakes, trees, flowers and many animals. He was fascinated and happy but still knew he was not to...

136. The Ladder of Success

Sermon

Paul Hegele

The window into my childhood sometimes opens for me. I can catch glimpses of scenes from the past. The image most vivid is of two small boys - my best friend and me - sitting on the steps of my back porch. Our conversation is always the same. It begins when one asks the other: "What are you going to be when you grow up?" The answers then are much like the answers children give today. "What do you...

137. A Woman's Place

Sermon

King Duncan

I like a story that James Dobson tells in one of his books about a little boy and a girl who had just been introduced and were trying to decide what game to play. The little boy said, "I have an idea! Let's play baseball." The little girl said, "Oh no! I wouldn't want to do that. Baseball is a boy's game. It's not feminine to run around on a dusty vacant lot. No, I wouldn't want to play baseball...

138. Which Self Are You?

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

You no doubt have heard the old story of the three inmates of a mental hospital who were having a discussion. The first insisted that he was Napoleon Bonaparte. The second asked how he knew he was Napoleon Bonaparte. The first replied, "God told me!" And the third chimed in, "I did not!" And then there was the patient who appeared unexpectedly at his psychiatrist’s office, and asked what was wron...

139. Why Can’t I Have It All?

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Today, we enter into the season of Lent. Lent is traditionally a time when people ask themselves how far they are willing to go in order to challenge their own desires. It’s a time to contemplate what it means to be in love and in relationship with God and others. The usual question is, “What will you give up for Lent?” While the usual replies have much to do with food like chocolate or carbs or ...

140. Passing The Test!

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: a few test papers, with the letter grade in bright red ink Good morning, boys and girls. Are any of you in kindergarten or preschool? It's fun, isn't it? You learn all sorts of new things. And once you get to kindergarten or preschool, you have to start taking tests to see if you're learning everything you should. If you do well on the test, if you answer all the questions right, you get ...

141. First Sunday in Lent

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

READINGS Psalter--Psalms 32 First Lesson--The freedom to know good and evil is also the opportunity for temptation and disobedience by our first parents. Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 Second Lesson--As we share in the disobedience of the first Adam, we may also share in the self-sacrificing obedience of the second Adam, Jesus Christ. Romans 5:12-19 Gospel--Human temptations for Jesus and for us include s...

142. Lent 1

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Amy C. Schifrin

Order For Confession Leader: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, + and of the Holy Spirit. All: Amen. Leader: The tempter comes with a seductive sweetness in his voice. The tempter comes promising us the world. The tempter comes, and without you, dear Jesus, we are defenseless. How has the tempter come to you in these days? Let us remember now, that his deadly spell might be broken and lif...

143. Give Yourself Some Slack

Illustration

According to a Greek legend, in ancient Athens, a man noticed the great storyteller Aesop playing childish games with some little boys. He laughed and jeered at Aesop, asking him why he wasted his time in such frivolous activity. Aesop responded by picking up a bow, loosening its string, and placing it on the ground. Then he said to the critical Athenian, "Now, answer the riddle, if you can. Tell ...

144. Essential To Our Nature

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Abraham Kuyper

“A beautiful geranium plant that adorned the window died during the winter. Leaves and flowers withered, leaving only a mass of mildew and decay. What was the cause? Merely the loss of the sun’s light and heat. But that was enough, for those belong to the nature of the plant, and are essential to its life and beauty. Deprived of them, it remains not what it is; its nature loses its soundness, and ...

145. The Forbidden Box

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Staff

This a story about a forester named Sam. Old Sam would be out chopping down the tree. You could hear him say one phrase: "Oh, Adam. Oh, Adam." Every time he hit that tree, he'd say, "Oh, Adam." One day the foreman came by and asked him, "How come every time you hit the tree, you say, 'Oh, Adam?'" Sam said, "Because Adam, my forefather, sinned against God. God cursed him and said that he would hav...

146. Lent 1

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

THIS WEEK'S TEXT Revised Common: Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 · Romans 5:12-19 · Matthew 4:1-11 Roman Catholic: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 · Romans 5:12-19 · Matthew 4:1-11 Episcopal: Genesis 2:4b-9, 15-17, 25 -- 3:1-7 · Romans 5:12-19 (20-21) · Matthew 4:1-11 Lutheran: Genesis 2:7-9, 15-17; 3:1-7 · Romans 5:12 (13-16) 17-19 · Matthew 4:1-11 Theme: Christ Confronts Satan. Suggested Text For Preaching: Matt...

147. Must We Have All the Answers?

Sermon

Robert Noblett

The young man and his father were headed into New York City for a Saturday outing. It had been some time since they had spent much time together, and the father reasoned that a day such as this was just what was needed. As they crossed The Tapanzee Bridge into Fun City, the son asked, "Dad, what is the name of this bridge?" The father answered, "Son, I don’t know." Later they were driving along Fi...

148. All In A Day’s Work

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

Materials Needed: Card stock printed with scripture references and verses, one on each side Crackers (optional) Telling The Story: Do you know the story of the little red hen? Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who loved to bake homemade bread. Mmmmm! To make homemade bread, she needed flour, and to make flour, she needed grain, so she decided to plant a field of wheat. Planting a fiel...

149. Good Sex

Sermon

Will Willimon

At the beginning I'll admit that this is cheap, sensationalized, misleading title for a sermon, "Good Sex." When you're preaching on a college campus these day s, a preacher must resort to unorthodox tactics to lure people to church! Yet there is more to my sermon than mere sensationalism. In spite of what Dr. Ruth, Playboy and Playgirl have told you, many of you are old enough to know that sex wh...

150. Wedding: Leaving, Uniting, Becoming One

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Derl G. Keefer

Hear these words from the first book in the Bible, Genesis, chapter 2, verses 18-24 (TEV): Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him." So [God] took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds. Then [God] brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and that is how they all got their names. ...

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