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  • The Immediate Word

    Thomas Willadsen
    Nazish Naseem
    Dean Feldmeyer
    Mary Austin
    Katy Stenta
    George Reed
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  • CSSPlus

    John Jamison
    Object: This is a role play activity for the children.

    Note: You will need an older volunteer to help with this activity. One option would be to find a teenager with some physical ability. If a teen is not available, an adult could be used instead. For simplicity here, I will refer to my older volunteer as “TOM”. You will also need to select three of...
  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Mark Ellingsen
    2 Kings 5:1-14
    The First Lesson is drawn from a book which was originally combined with 1 Kings, a book providing an account of Israel’s history from the death of David through Jehoiachim’s release from a Babylonian prison. There is some speculation that these texts are the product of the Deuteronomistic reform of Josiah in the 7th century BC, but later revised...
  • Emphasis Preaching Journal

    Bill Thomas
    Frank Ramirez
    Mark Ellingsen
    Bonnie Bates
    2 Kings 5:1-14, Psalm 30
    Naaman seeks healing. He travels hoping healing will come to him when he visits the king of Israel. Yet, healing does not come in that way. Rather healing comes through Elishah. Healing comes from believing and being cleansed in the River Jordan. Healing comes through Naaman’s faithfulness and through God’s grace. Psalm 30 also reminds us to seek...
  • StoryShare

    John E. Sumwalt
    But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.’ (vv. 10-11)

    When I visit your church for the first time, consider the possibility that I might be looking for a church home. I am a good-looking...
  • The Village Shepherd

    Janice B. Scott
    Damien and Ora grinned at each other in excitement. The time had come - at last! They'd been with the Leader for months and months, waiting for this moment. Not that it had felt much like training. They'd simply lived with the Leader, listening to his stories, hearing about the Kingdom, learning to get along really well with all the other people at Mission Headquarters. Now...
  • SermonStudio

    James Evans
    Stan Purdum
    Carlos Wilton
    (See Epiphany 6/Ordinary Time 6, Cycle B, and Easter 3, Cycle C, for alternative approaches.)

    Anyone who has ever had the experience of losing a friend because of some conflict or dispute, and then has had the friendship restored because of love and forgiveness, has a unique insight into the meaning of this psalm. Although the poem begins and ends with praise, there is in the...
  • SermonStudio

    April Yamasaki
    A word of encouragement came from an unlikely source the other day in a television interview with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. The former football player, wrestler, and now actor was asked about a low time in his life when he was very discouraged about his career and future.

    "How did you make your way back from that?" he was asked.

    The Rock replied, "You have to put yourself...
  • SermonStudio

    Larry D. Powell
    In the summer of 1983, I participated in a ministerial exchange program sponsored by my denomination. My assignment was to a circuit of churches on the Isle of Man, a tiny island located in the Irish Sea. The months preceding the exchange included considerable correspondence with the minister on the island with whom I would exchange pastoral duties for six weeks. Additionally, there were all...
  • SermonStudio

    Richard E. Gribble, CSC
    A wealthy businessman decided to take a walk and eat his lunch at the same time. He strolled by a park. There he purchased a hot dog and a soft drink. As he walked through the park two different "street people" approached him one by one. Each asked, "Can you help me? I am hungry." Each time the businessman looked straight ahead and kept walking. After finishing his lunch, he stopped and bought a...

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