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    John Jamison
    Object: This week’s object is an activity for everyone to join in.

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    Hello, everyone! (Let them respond.) Are you ready for our story today? (Let them respond.) Great! But first, I have a question for you. Have you ever been afraid of something? (Let them respond.) Maybe you heard a sound at night and didn’t know what it was,...
  • The Immediate Word

    Mary Austin
    Dean Feldmeyer
    Christopher Keating
    Thomas Willadsen
    George Reed
    Katy Stenta
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  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Bonnie Bates
    Bill Thomas
    Mark Ellingsen
    Frank Ramirez
    1 Samuel 1:4-20
    Things are not what they seem to be. As I have written before, I am  a fan of  “The Twilight Zone” television show.  I have a lot of episodes that I enjoy. One, however, came to mind as I was thinking about how people sometimes misjudge a situation. The episode is called, “Eye of the Beholder” and it ran during “The Twilight Zone’s” second season. In this...
  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    David Coffin
    The sizzling, fresh aroma of bratwursts and fresh beef burgers is carried downwind to the parsonage living room of Pastor Jamie and family. For over 35 years Pastor Jamie would be rushing out to such events in this town of Gunkel. With local country and western music bands playing in the background, the community celebrates Founder’s Day of Joe and Emma Schwart-hogg. In times past, Pastor Jamie...
  • StoryShare

    Peter Andrew Smith
    “I wish I knew when all of this would be over,” Ben said.

    “Me too.” Jill squeezed his hand from her hospital bed. “Some things we just can’t know. Remember the sermon that Pastor Tim preached last Sunday?”

    “The one about the end times?” Ben rubbed his chin. “I have to admit it wasn’t the sermon I thought it would be.”

    “What did you expect he would say?”
    ...
  • The Village Shepherd

    Janice B. Scott
    Call to Worship:

    Life isn't always smooth. Jesus calls us to difficult and painful times as well as to times of joy and delight. In our worship today, let us explore something of his call.


    Invitation to Confession:

    Jesus, I don't understand how you could ever let me suffer.
    Lord, have mercy.

    ...
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    John E. Sumwalt
    Jo Perry-Sumwalt
    Christmas, 1979

    Dear Ones:

    From May 7 until June 11, 1979, it was my pleasure to spend 35 days travelling and visiting in the northwest United States, using a Greyhound Ameripass. So many events with inspirational implications happened that the desire to share some of them with you results in this letter.

    The bus moved effortlessly across the rolling hills of...
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    James Evans
    Hannah's song is probably best-known and most frequently associated in the liturgy as an accompanying reading for the celebration of the angelic visitation to Mary (Luke 1:39-57). When the text is used in this manner, Hannah serves as a type of Mary, with her song echoing themes and expressions to be found in Mary's song.

    In doing this, however, the meaning and beauty of Hannah's song...
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    Steven E. Albertin
    Introductory Drama

    Characters:
    Man
    Woman

    (Scene: The entrance to eternity. A man sits at a desk, papers before him. Woman enters. She goes to the man and stands quietly. The man looks up.)

    Man: Heaven on your right -- hell on your left.

    Woman: (Looking at the doors, in awe) You mean that door leads to...
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    Robert A. Hausman
    How to have law and order without tyranny? That is the question. Israel began as a rather loosely connected tribal confederacy. The Israelite tribes were led by charismatic leaders, or judges, under the divine direction of Yahweh. They were supposed to be knit together in one harmonious unit. They would avoid the tyranny, which was the result of being governed by a king. Instead, they would have...
  • SermonStudio

    Lee Ann Dunlap
    In the early years of the sixteenth century, a young adventurer named Nicolas Herman left his parents' home near Lorraine, France, to join the French army. Wounded in war, he returned home to recuperate and thus began a process of soul searching that led to Christian commitment.

    His quest for closeness to God first led him to life as a hermit. He found that unfulfilling, so he...

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