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1. How Life’s Pressures Affect Good Judgment

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Brett Blair

... A king commits murder to save his honor over a stupid oath. What a waste all because a powerful man was not able to see his original error and makes a promise in haste. II This brings us to our third and final lesson: pressures in life can affect good judgment. Now let me tell you, it doesn’t matter your station in life. All of us experience pressures and they come at us every day. And these pressures will influence the decisions you make. Lloyd J. Ogilve, in his book Life Without Limits, tells the story ...

2. Affection or Protection?

Humor Illustration

Affection or Protection? Ray Helminiak said that with lousy spring weather, he switched from country lanes to shopping malls for his daily stroll ... Ray said, "but I just want you to know how happy it made me, and I'm sure many others, to see this display of affection among older married folks." The man looked Ray right in the eye. "Say, this ain't so much affection as it is protection," he said. "Huh?" Ray said. "If I let go of her one darn second, she'll start shopping," he said. (Alex Thien in ...

3. How Life's Pressures Affect Good Judgment - Sermon Starter

Mark 6:14-29

Illustration

Brett Blair

... death. The king feared the prophet and dared not harm him. But life has a funny way of pressuring us to do things we would not normally do. This is a story about a man who caved due to social pressures. Let me ask you: How do life's pressures affect your judgment? What can we learn form this deplorable moment in the life of this king, this moment when the king caved? We learn that... 1. Puzzling problems require conscientious decisions 2. Promises made in haste create great waste 3. Pressures in life can ...

4. Affecting Eternity

Romans 12:1-8

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... to make sure that music became a part of their life, and that singing and music flourished in this church. We began a youth choir, and we're struggling along with it. No one knows where ___________'s influence will end. Like Henry Adams said:"A teacher affects eternity; no one can tell where her influence stops." We have finished, for a moment, the first half of our duty. We have thought about ___________, and I suppose we've embarrased her a little. She would prefer, I'm sure, that we talk about her Lord ...

5. Little Things Affect Little Minds

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... thunder as it rents the air: "You are charged with making mountains out of molehills. You have spent your entire life making mountains out of molehills - that’s what you’re guilty of. When things were trivial, you made them tragic. When men and women were affected by small passions. you were pompous and lectured them. "Yes, you were on the earth for eighty years, yet you never got beyond your childhood images of what is significant in life and what is not. You did not even see the potential in what was ...

6. Child's Need of Affection

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Gary Collins

Salimbene, a thirteenth-century historian, wrote this about the attempt of King Frederick II to raise children without maternal affection: “He wanted to find out what kind of speech children would have when they grew up if they spoke to no one beforehand. So he bade foster mothers and nurses to suckle the children, to bathe and wash them but in no way to prattle with them, or to speak ...

7. Affecting the Curve

Illustration

Michael P. Green

You are driving down the highway when you encounter a sign that reads, “Dangerous Curve Ahead.” Immediately you are confronted with making a choice. One, you can observe the warning and slow down. Two, you can ignore the warning and maintain your rate of speed. Or, three, you can defy the warning and speed up. Whatever response you exercise, you will not change the truth of the sign. The curve remains dangerous, regardless of whether you acknowledge the fact or not.

8. For the Love of God Is . . .

1 John 5:3-4

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... 's very best, Philia is giving in nature. All of these loves are powerful. Storge, Eros and Philia have about them the willingness to give of themselves, that's when they are at their very best. We also know what they can be like at their worst. Family affection, love for your spouse and friendship are three of the most important aspects of love there are but there is one that is both like and yet very different from all three of these.It's the love that shapes us as Christians. It shapes our relationshhip ...

9. Through Others Too Far Away

Matthew 7:12

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... one and let it strike the group. The shock of the first hit passes through the other ones and the last one swings away. The same thing can happen in life. We do something to some one and what we do to them -- good or bad -- affects them; and they, in turn, affect the people who are around them. See how important it is to be careful about what you say and do. If kindness and gentle words go forth from your life, you will be an influence for good in far away places. Possible Times To Use This Illustration ...

10. How To Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... more spent less. (3) For some parents, it is easier to give children things, rather than wings. Toy makers watch the divorce rate for the same reason. When the divorce rate rises, so do toy sales. Divorced parents and grandparents tend to compete for children's affections, so they buy toys. (4) As if toys could ever substitute for genuine love. Jesus commanded us to love one another as he loved us. Some people do not know how to love. They pass on the love-deficiency that they learned as children to their ...

11. Can The Church Count On Me?

1 Chronicles 29:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... King David made about what was in his day, the House of God, the Temple, and he makes this simple statement, "I have set my affection on the House of my God." (I Chronicles 29:3, NKJV) David made no bones about it. He had directed his heart to love God' ... s house that he loved it and that raises three questions that I would like you to answer today. I. Can The Church Count On My Affection? This is a very fascinating story that we are reading. David had a desire in his heart to build a house for God. It was ...

12. Living In The Spirit Of Love

Galatians 5:22-25

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... from four different Greek words. Storge, Philia, Eros and Agape. Each of these words defines a different kind of Love. Briefly lets look at the first three and then we'll focus on the fourth. I. Storge (Affection) Storge or Affection. This is the word we use when we talk about something we like intensely or have an AFFECTION for. "I love cheese popcorn. Or I love chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven and just barely cool enough to eat. I love pizza." You'd probably never hear Eve say, "I just love ...

13. While This House Lies In Ruins

Haggai 1:1-15

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... this little song written by humorist Allan Sherman: Oh, the moon is shining bright upon the car wash, So I'm having my Volkwagon washed today. But the way things go with me, the way my luck runs, Just as soon as they finish it will rain. Our power to affect the world around us increases when we act as a community. As a people we can seek to feed the hungry and make a difference. Or as a people we can forget the temple and see what happens. Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the ...

14. Missing the Mark

1 Samuel 8:1-22

Sermon

Charles Allo

... ? Do we first realize that our lives are not robotic and regulated to automatic decisions. No we process every decision through what we feel and go through. So I want to ask you how you are perceiving God and His ways? How has your life's issues affected your view of God. Are you on the brink of decision because of what you sense and feel? As you know God, but also know your situations, which experiences come to the surface? We must recognize these emotions and not reject them. But realize that there is ...

15. Our Common Life in Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... glows with light and power today as we turn to verses 1 through 4 of the second chapter of this Philippian letter. “If then our common life in Christ yields any thing to stir the heart, any loving consolation, any sharing of the Spirit, any warmth of affection or compassion, fill up my cup of happiness by thinking and feeling alike with the same love for one another, the same turn of mind, and a common care must be no room for rivalry and personal vanity among you, but you must humbly reckon others better ...

16. Thanksgiving and Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... be his partners in his imprisonment and in his continued gospel witness. 1:8 In moments of intense emotion Paul was prone to invoke God as his witness (NIV, God can testify; cf. Rom. 1:9; 2 Cor. 11:11, 31; 1 Thess. 2:5). Here the emotion is deep affection. The calling of God to testify does not suggest that some of the Philippians needed to be assured of this; Paul is never reticent about his love for his converts (cf. 2 Cor. 12:15; Gal. 4:19; 1 Thess. 2:8). But the terms he uses in addressing the ...

17. God Is Not Dead

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... while he was angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead, before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the incense altar.” He got angry at everybody else, including God, even though he had committed this sin. But at this point his sin had only affected him. Here we see flawed worship. But that is not the end of the story. V. 21 goes on to record, Then Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.” Jotham was 25 years old when he became king. Now Jotham ...

18. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... but instead he exaggerates Job’s anguished words in passages such as 7:17–21 into a view of God as totally impervious to human actions. Following the lead of the three friends before him, Elihu so emphasizes God’s transcendence that he concludes that humans cannot affect God either by their sins or by their righteous deeds. God is so far above humans that he does not pay attention to what they say and do. Elihu declares that Job has no grounds for his legal case against God and that his words are just ...

19. Proper 7

Mk 4:35-41 (5:1-20) · 2 Cor 5:14-21; 6:1-13 · 1 Sam 1:32-49 · Job 38:1-11, 16-18 · Ps 9

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... Corinthians feel that Paul's teachings are too restrictive (vv. 11-12); Paul counters the charge with an appeal to open their hearts to him and to the gospel. He has not been restrictive in his dealing with them but they are restrictive in their affections (v. 12). He powerfully asserts that now (before Christ returns) is the time to accept Christ's reconciliation (v. 2) and share it. Epistle: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21 Paul does not let the weakness of the body and his earthly afflictions discourage him because ...

20. Who's Your Daddy?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... --children have a great need for holding and being held. This is helpful to them in feeling a sense of grace in their lives--that they are loved simply for being themselves. Many of us come from families where there is little tradition of showing physical affection, and that is sad. A man was waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon when he noticed a man coming toward him carrying two light bags. The man who was approaching stopped nearby to greet his family. First this man motioned ...

21. What Gets Into People?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... feel that they should be able to think their way out of their depression. Their family and friends also regard it simply as a case of “being down in the dumps.” They say, “Get over it.” But do you really think that you can will radically affect your thyroid by just willing it to happen? Maybe, but not likely. Even praying about it may not make much difference. At such times you need to see a physician. Make sure that there is not a physical cause when something troubling gets into you. In the ...

22. Heaping Coals and Virtues

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... challenge the easy assumptions and remind the congregation of some hard facts to be quite important to the on-going life of the congregation. But even a congregational catfish is still bound to try to fulfill this injunction to "love one another with mutual affection." The remaining items in the list continue to clarify the way that Christians are to live, particularly together. "Outdo one another in showing honor" sounds a little foreign to most people, but it seems that Paul is using a fancy way to remind ...

23. Said the Night Wind….

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... the right and left of me, wondering if they’re wondering what’s going on with me. Why was I crying so? I was affected by this story about two men, one black, the other white, one wealthy, the other poor, one college-educated, the other not able to ... know And I think t myself, what a wonderful world Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world It is a world in which we are affected by the cries of others. Do you hear what I hear? I hear a baby crying. On this night of nights, we dare to claim that it ...

24. Close Up Parents: Be Cheerleaders, Not Jeer leaders

Colossians 3:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... that is driven to succeed to the nth degree, because they are haunted by the ghost of unrealistic expectations that one or both parents placed on them. There are others in this room who live in perpetual sadness because of a parent that never showed them the affection and the attention that they deserved. My own father had a mother who lived to be ninety-nine years old and in ninety-nine years she never one time told him that she loved him. We are in the middle of a series entitled, Picture Perfect, and ...

25. What Do I Do When My Prayers Go Unanswered?

Deuteronomy 3:1-11, 23-26

Sermon

James Merritt

... them. All prayer has a ripple effect. Every time God answers "Yes" to a prayer, you can rest assured that always affects somebody else. When I pray for something, I can't see how my prayers are going to affect my life down the road. I can't see how my prayers are going to affect my family. I can't see how my prayers are going to affect my church or you. I can't even see how that prayer is going to affect me completely. Prayer is just like a nuclear bomb. For a nuclear bomb to explode there must be a change ...

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