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Sermon

Bill Bouknight

There is a certain character on a British TV situation comedy who is always saying to someone else, “I have good news and bad news for you. Which do you want first?” Somehow the bad news always turns out to be worse than the good news is good. One day a hospital surgeon told his patient, “ I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want to hear first?” The patient said, “Give me th...

202. The Flood

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

6:1–22 · Few episodes in Scripture defy dogmatic interpretation as does Genesis 6:1–4. The sons of God marry the daughters of men; and Nephilim are said to be on the earth. Until this point Genesis has dealt only with the sins of individuals—Cain, Lamech, Eve, Adam. Now the emphasis is on the sin of a group, the sons of God. Who are these sons of God? The term “sons of God” elsewhere in the Old Te...

203. The Flood

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

The Increase of Wickedness on Earth: This passage explains why God had to judge the inhabited earth with a deluge (6:9–8:22). It has two distinct sections: a description of the rapid increase in population, when the sons of God married daughters of men (vv. 1–4), and God’s response to human violence (vv. 5–8). The first section reports the population explosion, presumably spurred by the extraordin...

204. When The World Goes Crazy!

Sermon

King Duncan

Someone has made a list of the TOP 10 THINGS YOU'LL NEVER HEAR A DAD SAY: 10. Well, how 'bout that? I'm lost! Looks like we'll have to stop and ask for directions. 9. You know Pumpkin, now that you're thirteen, you'll be ready for unchaperoned car dates. Won't that be fun? 8. I noticed that all your friends have a certain hostile attitude. I like that. 7. Here's a credit card and the keys to m...

205. Come Into The Ark

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Come into the ark, it's raining outside. You'll catch your death of cold and the water is wide. Let the world fall apart, let the trees take a bath. Come into the ark. Get out of the wrath. Salvation is free. Come into the ark. It's raining outside and it's getting dark. Collect Lord, we send out a dove and wait for your reply. We pray for a sign that the dry land of your salvatio...

206. The Flood

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call To Worship Leader: Come, all who would seek shelter in the arms of God. People: For the storms in life have been fierce and the pressures strong. Leader: Yet those who would serve the Lord need have no fear. People: But the trees bend and the walls tremble! Leader: Yet remember Noah: those faithful to the Lord will never be lost. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You are A...

207. Proper 4

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Old Testament: Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19 We begin today a series of twelve readings from Genesis. It is a story of the Patriarchs from Noah to Joseph. The series lends itself to narrative and biographical sermons. The disadvantage is the length of the series. It may be difficult to maintain interest over twelve weeks. Old Testament: Deuteronomy 11:18-21, 26-28 Life or death depend...

208. Believing What God Says

Children's Sermon

Teresa L. Major

Object: Be prepared to tell the story of Noah and God's command to build the ark. (Genesis 6:9 and following.) Lesson: Have you ever heard someone say, "You can't believe everything you read," or "You can't believe everything you hear"? Most of the time, that is good advice. You can't believe everything you read or hear because people do not always tell the truth. Sometimes they exaggerate and so...

209. The End of Growing

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

Object: Beet seeds, carrot seeds, and beets and carrots in a box. Lesson: In the spring we plant and in the fall we harvest. One day back in the month of May, I went out in my garden behind my house and I worked all day out there. The month of May is in the spring. Right now we’re in the month of [October], which is in the fall of the year. What part of the year comes after fall? (Let them answe...

210. Sharing Your Safety

Children's Sermon

Object: A snapshot of a home (A realtor’s picture.) Text: Genesis 6:18 - But I promise to keep you safe in the ship, with your wife and your sons and their wives. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have heard the story about Noah and the ark? (Let them answer.) What do you like best about the story? (Let them answer.) I like the part in the story where God tells Noah how to build the ...

211. The Three Dimensions of Life

Sermon

Stan Purdum

Today's reading starts in the ancient world before the great flood. It was an era when, according to the Bible, many people lived really long lives. Take Methuselah for example. Genesis 5:27 tells us that he lived to be 969 years old. As far as we know, he lived longer than anyone else anywhere. Yet for all his years, we know remarkably little about him. We know that his father's name was Enoch a...

212. Grampa Noah And When The Flood Came

Drama

Jerry Eckert

Comment: One of the difficulties of telling the Genesis stories is that they are a slushing together of variant religious traditions and stories of the Hebrew tribes. Some stories do not lend themselves to a singular telling. The story of Noah is an excellent example. To open it up to the variations within it, I imagined a family reunion many years after the flood and after Noah's grandchildren ha...

213. Living a Jesus Powered Life

Sermon

Lori Wagner

“Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands…” --Hebrews 4:1 The story of Noah is one of great depths, no pun intended. Actually, maybe it was intended! We all know it’s a covenant story, the story of yet another attempt God makes on establishing a lasting and binding relational covenant with God’s self and God’s people, those created in the image of God. But it’s also a story...

214. Proper 4

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

READINGS Psalter--Psalms 46 First Lesson--This is a story of judgment and salvation that will become a parable of the church. Genesis 6:11-22 Second Lesson--Paul makes clear to the Romans that the good news is not that God is tolerant of moral negligence but that there is provision for salvation through faith. Romans 1:16-17, 3:22b-28 (29-31) Gospel--Jesus warns against hypocrisy, which will be ex...

215. Proper 4

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

Theme: A contrast between the righteousness of obedience and the righteousness of faith. The First Lesson from Deuteronomy presents Moses' instruction to obey God's laws by making them an integral part of their daily lives. The First Lesson, from Genesis, shows how Noah obeyed God by building the Ark. In the Gospel, Jesus teaches that everyone who hears his words and does them is like the person w...

216. Building Boats That Float

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

According to an e-mail making the rounds these days, everything you need to know about life you can learn from Noah. Among his most important lessons are these: 1) Don’t miss the boat. 2) We are all in the same boat. 3) In troubled times, travel in pairs. 4) When you are stressed out, float awhile. 5) Remember, the ark was built by amateurs and the Titanic by professionals. No character in the Bi...

217. The Subject Is Salvation

Sermon

James L. Killen

A pastor was talking one day with some men whom he knew were not actively involved in any religion. He was surprised to learn that all of the men believed in God. But when they gave their reasons for believing, they all told stories of some narrow escape in which they assumed that God had miraculously interceded to save them or someone they knew from disaster. One told about a narrow escape in a t...

218. Climbing Rainbows Through The Rain

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

The scripture lesson for this morning trips its way through the sixth, seventh and eighth chapters of the book of Genesis. This includes most of the account of Noah and the Great Flood. For reasons you might or might not consider obvious, this part of the Bible generates considerable debate. From time to time, the controversy spills into the public arena. In February 1993, CBS had a two-hour prim...

219. Noah: The Bearer Of An Alternative Possibility

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

I read recently of a young man, recently married, who chanced to meet an old friend. The friend had already notched several anniversaries on his belt. After a bit of small talk, the veteran said to the rookie: "How's married life treating you?" "To tell the truth," said the young fellow, "things don't seem to be going all that well. My wife is always telling me what to do...bossing me around...ac...

220. A View From the Other Window

Illustration

When the whole world was threatened with destruction, Noah built an ark. His big boat had just one window. Where was it? Not in the bottom where he would have to look into the dark and muddy water. Not on the side where he would have to look out into the surrounding storm. But on top where he could look up. Up - to where, as the storm would abate, he could catch the first available glimpse of blue...

221. Metro Moments

Illustration

Charles Hoffacker

One of the great things about Washington, D.C. is the Metro system, a network of public transportation, much of it underground, that serves the District of Columbia and a growing area round it. One reaches a number of Metro stations by taking escalators deep down beneath the surface of the city. Some of these escalators, I am told, are among the tallest in the world. Once you reach the appropriat...

222. Life From Water: The Ark

Sermon

Steve Swanson

Water is the very stuff of life. When God created the heavens and the earth, he put water right at the very heart of his system. More than seventy percent of our amazing world is covered with water and that water is teeming with life. It's true that beef, pork, and poultry are important to our diets as well as to our economy, but whenever some farmer gets a"big" head and begins to think that these...

223. Christmastime

Humor

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224. A Defiant Response to a Dangerous Theology: Does God Desire to Wipe Us Out?

Sermon

Illinois. Michigan. New York. Massachusetts. The rest of New England and the northeastern seaboard. Buffeted by snow. Buried in snow. Blitzed with a blizzard of snow. It is clear that God is venting his wrath and visiting his payback upon the blue states. If, at the last minute, the storm were to miraculously bypass Ohio, there are some of you….or a few of you….well, maybe two or three of you….who...

225. Arc Of The Covenant

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

James Gilmour was a missionary to Mongolia and was asked to treat some wounded soldiers. He was not a doctor, but he did know how to give first aid. He dressed the wounds of two of the men, but the third had a badly broken thigh bone. Gilmour didn't know what to do, so he knelt by the man and prayed for help, knowing that God would answer. As he pondered what to do next, a crowd of beggars cam...

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