Maundy Thursday 1 Peter 1:18-20 "His Precious Blood" 18 You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable...
Maundy Thursday 1 Peter 1:18-20 "His Precious Blood" 18 You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable...
Easter Sunday Mark 16:1-8 Listen ! What do you Hear? 16:1 ¶ And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought...
Easter Mark 16:1-8 Illustrations The Conquering Christ They nailed Him to an ugly cross...That bleak and dreadful day; And thought forever from their...
2nd Sunday of Easter John 20:19-31 Illustrations Several years ago the steeple on our church was taken down to be rebuilt. The day after its removal one of the...
2nd Sunday of Easter John 20:19-31 "Does Easter make A Difference?" 19 ¶ On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the...
Third Sunday of Easter Luke 24: 36-49 Illustrations A young, ambitious pastor was called to serve in a certain church. He was warned by his predecessor that...
Third Sunday of Easter Luke 24: 36-49 "Are you ALIVE in CHRIST?" 36 ¶ As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them. 37 But they were startled and...
4th Sunday of Easter John 10:11-18 "What's Good About the Good Shepherd?" 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He...
4th Sunday of Easter John 10:11-18 Illustrations A certain butcher had sold all his poultry except one hen. A woman then came in and asked for a hen. The...
5th Sunday after Easter John. 15:1-8 "Are YOU Attached??? 15:1 ¶ "I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch of mine that bears no...
5th Sunday after Easter John. 15:1-8 Illustrations "A dusty traveler walked up the steps of a small, neatly kept farmhouse. "Hello, what do you want?" asked...
6th Sunday of Easter John 15: 9-17 Illustrations Love, Friendship, Accountability The question to ask at the end of life's race is not so much "What have I...
6th Sunday of Easter John 15: 9-17 "Friends" 9 ¶ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you; abide in my love. 10 If you keep my commandments, you will...
7th Sunday of Easter John 17: 6-19 "In between Time" 6 ¶ "I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world; thine they were, and...
7th Sunday of Easter John 17: 6-19 Illustrations Bob, a new convert to Jesus Christ, worked one summer as a bartender in New York City. He reports that he had...
Holy Trinity Sunday John 3:1-17 Illustrations Some travelers, journeying along the seashore, climbed to the summit of a tall cliff, and looking over the sea,...
Holy Trinity Sunday John 3:1-17 "The Wind" 3:1 ¶ Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night...
2nd Sunday after Pentecost Proper 6 Lectionary 11 Mark 4:26-34 Illustrations One summer, a drought threatened the crop in a small town. On a hot and dry...
2nd Sunday after Pentecost Proper 6 Lectionary 11 Mark 4:26-34 "The Kingdom of God.........." "or Umbrella Faith" 26* And he said, “The kingdom of God is as...
3rd Sunday after Pentecost Proper 7 Lectionary 12 Mark 4:35-41 Peace 35 ¶ On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, "Let us go across to the other...
3rd Sunday after Pentecost Proper 7 Lectionary 12 Mark 4:35-41 Illustrations "Why was my burden so heavy?" I slammed the bedroom door and leaned against it....
4th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 8 Lectionary 13 Mark 5: 21-43 "Hush child, God ain't dead!" 21 ¶ And when Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other...
4th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 8 Lectionary 13 Mark 5:21-43 Illustrations "One of the finest of the Buddha's parables given to us in Sir Edwin Arnold's...
5th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 9 Lectionary 14 Mark 6:1-13 2nd Corinthians 12:2-10 "A Paradox" 6:1 ¶ He went away from there and came to his own country;...
5th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 9 Lectionary 14 Mark. 6:1-13 2nd Corinthians 12:2-10 Illustrations A writer expressed this idea about weakness: "Let your...
6th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 10 Lectionary 15 Mark 6:14-29 "Giving in to Pressure" 14* King Herod heard of it; for Jesus’ name had become known. Some ...
6th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 10 Lectionary 15 Mark 6:14-29 Illustrations Brian Stoffregen tells a story about two men and how they handled pressure in...
7th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 11 Lectionary 16 Mark 6: 30-34, 52-56 "Compassion" 30* The apostles returned to Jesus, and told him all that they had done...
7th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 11 Lectionary 16 Mark 6: 30-34, 52-56 Illustrations "A two year old boy was tired and fretful, all out of sorts, and so was...
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