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    John Jamison
    Object: This is a role play activity.

    Note: You will need to select six children to play roles in this activity. If you have a smaller group, you might ask some older youth or even adults to play the parts of the two attackers and the man being attacked. I will give suggestions for how they can play their roles, but feel free to help your children make...
  • The Immediate Word

    Dean Feldmeyer
    Katy Stenta
    Thomas Willadsen
    Christopher Keating
    George Reed
    Mary Austin
    Nazish Naseem
    For July 13, 2025:
    • Samaritans Among Us by Dean Feldmeyer based on Acts 2:1-21. Samaritans were despised and dismissed by the original audience who first heard Jesus tell this parable. Who are the Samaritans in our lives and how does this parable apply today?
  • StoryShare

    Frank Ramirez
    I say, “You are gods,
        children of the Most High, all of you;
    nevertheless, you shall die like mortals
        and fall like any prince….”
    (vv. 6-7)

    There have been any number of brother-sister acts that achieved a measure of fame. Take the Carpenters, famed for their singing, musicianship, and songwriting skills. Also worthy of mention are John and Joan Cusack...
  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Wayne Brouwer
    An ancient legend tells of a remote mountain village where people used to send their senior citizens out into the woods to die. The villagers had an eye to the future; they felt that those beyond a certain age would only slow down progress or use up valuable resources to no economically profitable end. Those who reached a certain age weren’t “put out to pasture” or “put out of their misery”; they...
  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Mark Ellingsen
    Bill Thomas
    Frank Ramirez
    Amos 7:7-17 and Psalm 82
    The tallest building in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It is more than 2,700 feet high—over half a mile tall. It has 160 floors and is twice as tall as the Empire State Building in New York City. It is home to the world’s fastest elevator which reaches speeds of forty miles an hour. The Burj Khalifa also hosts the world’s highest outdoor...
  • The Village Shepherd

    Janice B. Scott
    Mabel hummed a familiar hymn tune as she made her way to church. She always enjoyed her Sunday morning walk. It was one of the few times she felt safe to walk alone through the inner city, for she knew nobody would be up at 7.45 in the morning. Today was a particularly beautiful morning, with blue sky, warm sunshine, and the song of a few intrepid blackbirds who still...
  • SermonStudio

    James Evans
    Often, a distinction is made between the pastoral or priestly work of the church and the prophetic work. Pastoral care has to do with the care of souls, the offering of comfort in times of loss. The priestly character of pastoral work seeks to mediate the presence of God to those who are hurting.

    The prophetic work of the church, however, involves challenging the faith community to...
  • SermonStudio

    Schuyler Rhodes
    Trusting is never easy. Even in the best of relationships, people step into trust slowly. There is wariness -- questioning -- worry. What happens if trust is betrayed? What if this doesn't work? Sometimes it's like a dance. We step in and out of trust, moving to the rhythms of fear. For many, the routine is achingly familiar. Indeed, it's not easy to trust.

    And when it comes to...
  • SermonStudio

    John Jamison
    It was back in the days when the railroad was the most common mode of transportation. There were automobiles, and some airplanes, but the steam locomotive was the way most folks traveled and the way that most of the goods were distributed around the country. After dinner, people sat in the drawing room and listened to the radio programs, fading in and out from some faraway location, over the...
  • SermonStudio

    Robert Leslie Holmes
    Not many tourists to Washington, D.C., look for the Federal Bureau of Standards offices. It's the Capitol and the White House, the Supreme Court Building or the Smithsonian most of us want to see when we go there. Yet, at the Bureau of Standards offices something very important is stored, something that impacts your life and mine every single day. Have you ever bought the materials for a new...
  • SermonStudio

    David O. Bales
    I have the two best jobs in the world. I teach social studies at Leon Griffith Junior High School (a fairly small junior high) and I am Sunday School Superintendent at Calvary Presbyterian Church (an enormous church school). Each job is my vocation. I tell people that at school they'll find my room where the halls cross. At church they can look but probably won't find me. I'll be in someone's...
  • SermonStudio

    Erskine White
    O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder,
    Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,
    I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
    Thy power throughout the universe displayed,
    Then sings my soul, my Savior God to Thee,
    How great Thou art, How great Thou art!
    (Stuart K. Hine)

    The man who wrote that gospel song stretched his mind and expanded his vision...

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