Sermon using a pack of cards?

Question

I need to write a sermon for a serivice next week, and i was thinking of using a pack of cards as an illustration. I'm unsure how to go about writing a logical sermon using them. Anyone got any ideas? (i.e. ace represents one God etc)

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deck_of_Cards

The Deck of Cards is a recitative that was popularized in both the country and popular music fields, first during the late 1940s.

Though legendary country musician T. Texas Tyler was credited with writing this story, The Deck Of Cards is actually based in part on an excerpt from a piece of 19th Century British Literature called "The Soldier's Almanack, Bible And Prayer Book" [1]

This religious, touching tale of a young soldier arrested and charged with playing cards during a church service first became a hit in the U.S. in 1948.

Through the years, other artists recored cover versions, including:

Tex Ritter (1948)
Phil Harris (1948)
Max Bygraves (1973)
Bill Anderson did a version in the early 90s. It became popular during the Persian Gulf War
By far the most popular version of the song was recorded in 1959 by future game show host Wink Martindale, and was performed on The Ed Sullivan Show. Martindale's rendition made the Top 10 in the Fall of 1959.


[edit] Story
"The Deck of Cards" is set during World War II, where a group of Army soldiers, on a long hike during a campaign in southern Italy, had arrived and camped near a town named Cassino. While Scripture is being read, one boy who has only a deck of playing cards, pulls them out and spreads them in front of him. He is immediately spotted by a sergeant, arrested and taken before the Provost Marshal to be punished.

The Provost Marshal demands an explanation, to which the soldier explains the significance of each card (e.g., the ace "reminds me there is but one God," the deuce telling him that the Bible is divided into two parts, etc.).

The soldier relates other facts about the cards, such as finding 365 spots in an entire deck, one for every day of the year. He ends his story by saying that "my deck of cards serves me as a Bible, an almanac and a prayer book." The narrator then closes the story by stating that "this story is true," either by claiming either he is the soldier in question or that he knows him.

The fate of the soldier — whether he is jailed or if the Provost Marshal accepts the explanation and lets the soldier go — is not revealed in this version, though the storyteller says at the end "..This story is true-- I know, because I was that soldier". The versions by Tyler, Martindale and Anderson ended just this way.


[edit] Flaws
The story, as told, contains flaws, including:

There are not 365 spots on a deck of cards. No construction of a card deck with four identical suits could contain an odd number of spots. On a standard deck there are 364.
Only in February are there exactly four weeks in a month (and then not in leap years), so the deck would provide a rather unreliable almanac.
Similarly there are not exactly 52 weeks in a year, or exactly 13 weeks in a quarter.

Answer 2

Pack Of Cards Song

Answer 3

I do not recognize how you can take one, 2 probably 3 principles out of the bible and take a look at to translate the entire which means of the bible. Contraditions aren't within the bible as while you are taking one passage and switch to yet another it comes in combination. The bible isn't written so as of parties. If in church, the pastor says now flip to Chapter...verse....you notice what the entire photo is. The authors of the bible did a exotic process within the translations. Also don't forget that the bible has been translated over and over again and once more to suit all the languages of the arena. There is so a lot more to the bible, Jesus and the parties thereof than such a lot folks desire to or care to make the effort to learn and recognize. I do not recognize a hill of beans approximately the bible, what I do recognize is the reality that there's a God, there's Salvation, there's Heaven and Helll, there's an afterlife that complete expertise will probably be to be had to all people who prefer to satisfy their Savior. I want I would aid you and others recognize plenty of your questions, however I am only a laymen. Sorry

Answer 4

You see, sir, when I look at the Ace, it reminds me that there is but one God.
And the deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts: the Old and the New Testaments.
When I see the trey, I think of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
And when I see the four, I think of the four evangelists who preached the Gospel: there was Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
And when I see the five, it reminds me of the five wise virgins who trimmed their lamps; there were ten of them: five were wise and were saved, five were foolish and were shut out.
When I see the six, it reminds me that in six days God made this heaven and earth.
And when I see the seven, it reminds me that on the seventh day, God rested from his great work.
And when I see the eight, I think of the eight righteous persons that God saved when he destroyed the earth: there was Noah, his wife, their sons and their wives.
And when I see the nine, I think of the lepers our saviour cleansed, and that nine of the ten didn't even thank him.
When I see the ten, I think of the ten commandments that God handed down to Moses on a tablet of stone.
When I see the King, it reminds me that there is but one King of Heaven, God Almighty.
And when I see the Queen, I think of the blessed Virgin Mary who is the Queen of Heaven.
And the Jack or Knave is the Devil.

When I count the number of spots in a deck of cards, I find 365, the number of days in a year.
There are 52 cards, the number of weeks in a year.
There are four suits, the number of weeks in a month.
There are twelve picture cards, the number of months in a year.
There are thirteen tricks, the number of weeks in a quarter.

So you see, Sir, my deck of cards serves me as a bible, an almanac and a prayer book."

Answer 5

search on the web for a song called "A deck of cards" it was released in the late 50's

here

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/tabs/anderson-bill/deck-of-cards-8317.html

Answer 6

Here you go

http://www.the-synergy.com/lyrics/thedeck.html.

Don't say we atheists never help you out.

Answer 7

there was a song on that bassis but I do not remember it.