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Children's sermon, Illustration, Prayer, Preaching, Sermon
Mary Austin
Katy Stenta
Dean Feldmeyer
Christopher Keating
Nazish Naseem
George Reed
Thomas WilladsenFor March 22, 2026:- Can the Bones Live? Should the Bones Live? by Mary Austin based on Ezekiel 37:1-14.
- Second Thoughts: Weeping at Injustice by Katy Stenta based on John 11:1-45.
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Commentary
David Coffin
Usually we emphasize the spirit around the season of Pentecost. However, this same spirit is present for all believers even during times of trials, testing, and journey though life’s difficulties. All three of this week’s lessons serve to remind us that the outcome of the Lenten journey is intended to point toward new life. While Christians are reminded all year that we might see and experience... -
Children's Story
Janice B. Scott
Death is difficult for anyone to understand and accept, and particularly difficult for children who usually have little concept of time. In this story Anita is angry with God, because her beloved Grandma has died.
Anita felt very shaky. Her legs were kind of wobbly, and somewhere deep inside her was such a terrible pain that she wanted to do anything to shut it out.... -
Stories
John S. Smylie
Argile Smith
Keith HewittContents
What's Up This Week
"Bones" by John Smylie
"Waiting" by Argile Smith
"Do You Suppose Job Flew Coach?" by Keith Hewitt
What's Up This Week
Life from death -- that is the central message of our faith. Out of the death of Jesus on the cross springs eternal life for every believer. Just as Ezekiel saw the dry bones given new life... -
Sermon
David O. Bales
For the last few years our family has visited The Dalles, Oregon, for Memorial Day to be with my wife's relatives and to decorate graves in the cemetery. One thing I notice as we visit that cemetery: When you're in the western, older side of the cemetery, visitors are chattier, even happy, carrying on humorous conversations as they stand next to gravestones of people who died a hundred years ago... -
Sermon
Richard L. Sheffield
In the Orthodox Church, Easter worship includes the singing of a hymn that goes:
Christ is risen from the dead,
trampling down death by death,
and upon those in the tombs bestowing life.1
I thought of those words this week as I was driving north to Michigan to attend the funeral of a long-time friend -- something that seems to happen with increasing frequency as I... -
Sermon
Richard E. Gribble, CSC
He was chained, held bound in a life of torment and blasphemy. In the end, however, God would set him free. John Newton, a name probably not familiar to many people, was born in July 1725 to a pious English woman and her seafaring husband. From his earliest days, young Newton was attracted to his father's side of the family and to the life at sea. Thus, when he was only eleven years old he... -
Sermon
Mark Ellingsen
We have all lived through the death of a loved one. We have all ached when someone we dearly love has passed away. We have all wondered about what comes next, and fretted about our own death. In our gospel story for today we find Jesus dealing with those experiences. And together with Lazarus, Jesus (along with our other Bible lessons) shows us what comes next after sin and death. He does not... -
Sermon
Robert J. Elder
Several years ago a psychologist conducted a survey in which he asked 3,000 people the question, "What are you living for?" He was not at all ready for the results. He discovered that ninety percent of his respondents were - as he put it - "simply putting up with the present while they waited for the future." We are all familiar with the feeling. We spend today thinking about what will happen... -
Sermon
Richard W. Ferris
Some of us can remember the days before interstate highways and massive traffic slowdowns when a leisurely drive to a relative's house was as much about scenery as it was about getting places. Who cared if the highway weaved around curves and some hills were steeper than others? It was fun to see fields with cattle and sheep, and sometimes even a white hillside where turkeys and chickens roamed... -
Worship
Amy C. Schifrin
Martha ShonkwilerLitany: A Conversation With The Psalmist
L: The abyss, the unknown, the feared:
C: Out of the depths have I called to you, O Lord;
Lord, hear my voice;
let your ears consider well the voice of my supplication.
L: Shouting, running, searing pain:
C: If you, Lord, were to note what is done amiss,
O Lord, who could stand?
L: Sinking down, deeper... -
Commentary
From The Washington Post, November 25, 2001: "Scientists in Massachusetts said today they had succeeded in creating the first cloned human embryos, a controversial advance intended to speed the development of new medical therapies but which could also hasten the arrival of the world's first cloned baby."
The controversy that has been on-again and off-again is on again. Cloning: the... -
Commentary
David Kalas
Schuyler RhodesAs I look out on my congregation on any given Sunday, I recognize that a significant percentage of the folks gathered here are involved in matters of life and death.
For some, it comes with their profession. Doctors, fire fighters, police officers, members of the military -- these are folks in our flocks who deal with matters of life and death every week. They don't have to look... -
Children's sermon
Good morning. If I want to get a particular radio program, I have to use a radio. Setting a CB radio or computer won't help me get my radio program. It doesn't help to use the television. If I want the radio show, I have to set the dial at the right place on the radio. I can put the radio dial anywhere I want, but to get the show I want, I have to put it at just the right place.... -
Children's sermon
... after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was ... When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days ... Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead for four days." (vv. 6, 17, 39)
Good... -
Children's sermon
Anna Shirey
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