Torah
(Genesis - Deuteronomy)

Writings
(Joshua - Song of Songs)

Prophets
(Isaiah - Malachi)

Genesis 2

Worship Drama

Genesis 2:15-17, 3:1-7

"Dealing with Temptation"

Genesis 6:9 - 8:22

"Don't Rock the Boat" (a drama)

Genesis 6:11-22

"Is this Home an Ark?"

Genesis 9:8-17

"Nailing the Gun to the Wall" (pulpit exchange)
"Nailing the Gun to the Wall" (earlier version)

Genesis 11:1-9

"Not just a bunch of babel"

Genesis 12:1-9

"Traveling with kids"
"A Journey of Faith"
"The Unfinished Journey"

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16

"Hoping against hope"
"By Another Name"
"Kissing Dirt"  (no notes)

Genesis 18:1-15

"And Sarah laughed"

Genesis 22:1-14

"On the edge of the knife"
"Launching them into the future"
"Life on the edge"

Genesis 28:10-22

"From ordinary to awesome"

Genesis 32:22-31

"Wrestling a Blessing"

Genesis 37

"a sibling's sorrow"

Genesis 45:3-15

"I am your brother"

Genesis 50:15-21

"Turning into good what was made for evil"

Exodus 1:6-14

"When the King Forgets Joseph"

Exodus 3

Camp Sunday (drama & sharing)

Exodus 12:1-14

"Ready to Roll?"

Exodus 17:1-7

"Remembering a Quarrel" (no ms)
Moses  (no notes)
(telling the story as a Biblical character)

Exodus 19:2-8

"Learning to Fly"

Exodus 20:1-7

"Only me"

Exodus 32

"Turning the Tables"

Exodus 34:29-35

"With unveiled faces"

Leviticus 25

"A Jubilee of Justice"

Numbers 11:24-30

"Fire and Focus"

Deuteronomy 26:1-11

"Wandering about Servanthood"
(Servanthood Series #1)

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

"Remembering Moses"

Joshua 3:7-17

"By this you shall know" (no ms)

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

"As for me and my house"

Judges 4:1-5:31

"Remember Deborah" (no ms)

Judges 6:1-8:35

“You’ve got to be kidding ” (no ms)

Ruth 1:1-22

"Amid Bitterness and Emptiness"

Ruth 2:1-23

"Where does kindness begin"

Ruth 3:1-18

"A Midnight Encounter"

Ruth 4:1-17

"A Happy Ending"

1 Samuel 1:1 - 2:11

"So now I give him to the Lord"

1 Samuel 3:1-10

"Can anything good come out of Nazareth"

1 Samuel 3

"Samuel, Samuel" - a drama

1 Samuel 14:43-44

"Launching them into the future"

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Samuel  (no notes)
(telling the story as a Biblical character)

1 Samuel 17

"The Big Bully and the Itty-Bitty Rock"

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27
(actually, whole David/Saul cycle)

"When Goliath is not our enemy"

2 Samuel 6:12-23

“The jig is up” (no ms)

2 Samuel 11:1 - 12:25

"A Sin Concealed, A Sin Revealed"
(part 1 of series - reused older pre-computer manuscript)

2 Samuel 12:24 - 16:14

"A Blessing in the Wilderness"
(part 2 of series)

1 Kings 17:8-16

"Widow Dressings"

1 Kings 21

"It was just a piece of ground..." - King Ahab

2 Kings 2:1-12

"Beyond what we can see"

2 Kings 5:1-19

"All pleasantries aside" (summary)

Psalm 3

"A Blessing in the Wilderness"
(part 2 of series)

Psalm 8

"In ... significance" (no ms)

Psalm 23

"Hear his voice ... Follow his steps"

Psalm 32

"Hold it tight and you won’t have any"

Psalm 46

"Between the lines"

Psalm 50:7-15

"No Bull"
"Not sacrifice, but mercy"

Psalm 51

"A Sin Concealed, A Sin Revealed"
(part 1 of series - reused older pre-computer manuscript)
"Wash Time"

Psalm 71

"And still I proclaim"

Psalm 85:8-13

"Speak peace" (no ms)

Psalm 90
Psalm 90:1-12

"To number our days"
"Teach us to Count our Days"

Psalm 95:1-7

"Coming into God’s presence" (no ms)

Psalm 95

"Joyful noise to the rock of our salvation"

Psalm 96:1

"What new song are we now to sing?"
(occasion: mortgage burning)

Psalm 98

"Worship as a Patchwork Quilt"

Psalm 103

"Bless the Lord!"

Psalm 104:24-35

"And they spring to life"

Psalm 118:19-29

"Pausing at the Gate"

Psalm 118:21-27

"the stone rejected"

Psalm 121

"I lift up my eyes"

Psalm 122

"Plowshare Prayer"

Psalm 126
(see my song: " Psalm 126")

"A dream of joy" (no ms)
"Sowing in tears, reaping in joy"

"Unless the Lord..."

Psalm 128

Untitled  (no notes)

Psalm 131

"Like a weaned child with its mother"

Psalm 133

"Like the dew"

Psalm 139

"A Real Valentine Verse"
"In the hands of the Potter"

Psalm 145:1-8

"One generation ... to another"

Proverbs 24:28-29

"Shifting proverbs to live by"

Proverbs 31:10-31

"Household Wisdom"
"Where does love begin?"

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

"Is there time"

Isaiah 1:10-18

"No Bull"

Isaiah 2:1-5

"Plowshare Prayer"

Isaiah 5:1-17

"A Vineyard Love Song"
(World Communion Sunday)

Isaiah 6:1-8

"The shaking of the foundations" (no ms)
"From Woe is me to Send me"

Isaiah 7:10-14

"God with us: a threat or a promise"

Isaiah 8:13-15

"the stone of sanctuary and stumbling"

Isaiah 9:1-7

"A Stable Ruler" (no notes)

Isaiah 11:1-11

"Not by what his eyes see"
"Dream, Dream, Dream"

Isaiah 12:1-6

Reclaiming "Salvation" & "Joy"

Isaiah 25:6-10a

"On this Mountain"

Isaiah 35:1-10

"Returning to Zion"

Isaiah 40:1-11

"Under Construction"

Isaiah 40:21-31

"Wide-eyed by starlight"

Isaiah 43:1-7

"When you’re in over your head"

Isaiah 50:4-9

"The tongue of a teacher"
"Singing the Song of the Suffering Servant"

Isaiah 52:7-10

"How Beautiful are the Feet"  (no notes)

  Isaiah 55:1-13

"Seek the Lord"
"Living by Creative Risk"
"Recognizing a higher way"
"Returning from Exile" (a short story)

Isaiah 58:6-14

"What really makes your bones strong"

Isaiah 61:1-11

"Joy for the Journey"

Isaiah 61:10 - 62:3

"Letters from Home"

Isaiah 63:15 - 64:11

"Waiting in Hope"

Isaiah 65:17-25

"Living in the middle of what we build"

Jeremiah 1:4-10

"Standing at the edge" (sketchy notes)

Jeremiah 15:15-21

"Turning Back"

Jeremiah 17:5-13

"How are your roots?"

Jeremiah 18:1-11

"In the hands of the Potter"

Jeremiah 28:5-11

"The Yoke of Peace"

Jeremiah 31:1-6

"Again"

Jeremiah 31:27-34

"Itching Ears or New Hearts"

Jeremiah 31:31-34

"The Heart of the Matter"

Lamentations 3:19-33

"Morning Mercy"

Ezekiel 11:18-20

"the heart of stone"

Ezekiel 18:1-4, 25-32

"Blame it on Dad"

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

"The True Shepherd"

Ezekiel 36:25-28

"the heart of stone"

Ezekiel 37:1-14

"When bones get dry"
"The Windy Season"

Hosea 5:15-6:6

"Not sacrifice, but mercy"

Joel 2:28

"Pour me"

Amos 7:7-17

"God's Plumb Line"

Jonah 2:1-10

"That is what I came to do, pt. 2" (no notes)

Jonah 3:1-5

"Where is Ninevah?"
Congregational Megatrends Series #4

Micah 6:1-8

"In one ear and out the other"

Zephaniah 3:14-20

"Raising the Rafters"

Malachi 3:1-4

"My deliverer is coming"