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2476. When the Golden Rule Isn't Enough - Mother's Day

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s night and filling hot water bottles for sick children.” (2) That sounds like the voice of experience. But her editor was right. Love is sacrificial, even though we may not feel we are sacrificing anything at the time. None of us, if we are healthy emotionally, love our children as we love ourselves. We love them far more than we love ourselves. The Golden Rule is insufficient for the relationship of a parent and a child. We love our children as Jesus loves them. Our love can never measure up to agape ...

2477. Don't Give Up Now!

2 Corinthians 4:16 - 5:2

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... : “To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that’s a full day. That’s a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.” Valvano’s memorable ...

2478. Don't Forget the Bread

John 6:25-59

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... food or shelter. As part of an aid program to post-war Germany, many of these youths were placed in tent cities. Here doctors and psychologists worked with the boys in an attempt to restore their mental and physical health. These boys were suffering serious emotional problems. They found that many of the boys would awaken in the middle of the night, screaming in terror. One doctor suggested that the boys’ fears might relate to a lack of security. What could they do to make them feel more secure? Someone ...

2479. It Was a Dark and Stormy Evening! Father's Day

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... is in you” than any force trying to overwhelm you (1 John 4:4). He said to his disciples, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” We all know what it is to be afraid, don’t we? It’s the most common of all human emotions. Of course, some of us have a higher threshold for fear than others. One man, we’ll call him Bob, tells about a friend of his named George, an ex-Marine pilot, who wanted to show off his new twin-engine plane. George invited Bob to ride along as he ...

2480. Are You a Polar Bear?

Ephesians 1:1-14

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... , that is how God sees us. And that is how God hopes we will be--not for His benefit, but for ours. God only wants the best for us just as every loving parent wants only the best for his or her child. A life of health and wholeness--physical, emotional, relational and spiritual--is the path that leads to the very best life possible. Abundant life we might call it. What we need most to see is that there is one choice we need to make that makes all the other choices much easier. That is to choose Christ. Most ...

2481. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... like a session of Congress, doesn’t it? Do you have any problems with any of these six vices? If so, then you need to work on them. We all know that, don’t we? For our own good we need to get rid of these destructive emotions. Reader’s Digest had an article recently on what the author called the “Angry Heart.” According to this article, anger can lead to real heartbreak. A person’s risk of having a heart attack increases nearly fivefold within two hours of having an angry outburst. That is ...

2482. About Getting Drunk

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... in a good word for our choir. I ran across some research recently about singing in choirs. British researchers recently surveyed 375 people who sang in a choir, sang alone, or played on a sports team. All of these activities contributed to greater emotional well-being, but people in choirs reported feeling happier than those who belted out tunes solo or those who played on sports teams. Chorus members also rated their choirs as more meaningful social groups than athletes did their sports teams. (5) That’s ...

2483. How God Looks at Marriage

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... Bible belt of the South is second in the nation in divorces with 35%, just behind the West (38%), and leading the Midwest (32%) and Northeast (28%). Does that surprise you? Meanwhile, inside marriages, there is widespread infidelity and domestic abuse--physical, verbal, emotional and sexual. For many couples there is a lack of care and concern and an obvious lack of seriousness about the marriage vows. Actually this is nothing new. Some of the Pharisees of Jesus’ day were just as lax in their treatment of ...

2484. Be Careful What You Ask For

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... in his factory. He entered the war as a financially wealthy industrialist; by the end of the war, he was basically financially bankrupt. When the Germans surrendered, Schindler met with his workers and declared that at midnight they were all free to go. The most emotional scene of the film was when Schindler said good-bye to the financial manager of the plant, a Jew and his good and trusted friend. As he embraces his friend, Schindler sobs and says, “I could have done more.” He looked at his automobile ...

2485. A Man Named Many

Mark 5:1-20

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King Duncan

... be restored to himself. Only in death does his butler recognize his old master. One who descends to the animal level will find that the angel in his soul is crushed. We do not know if that was the case with Many. Maybe he had never been quite right emotionally. Maybe there were some incidents in his childhood that caused him to be the raving, insane person that he had become. We do not know the source of his condition. But we do know the radical change that took place when he met Jesus. Near the place where ...

2486. Peace Comes to Our Hearts

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... --afraid to trust life, to trust other people, to trust God. Dr. Raymond Moody put it this way in his book, Laugh after Laugh: “It is well to recognize that some persons are actually fearful of joy, elation, pleasure or other usually positive emotional states. In many of these people being joyful causes them to have feelings of guilt, shame or unworthiness.” (1) That’s sad, isn’t it--to be fearful of joy? To feel unworthy of experiencing happiness? Unfortunately, such feelings have crept into the ...

2487. A Small Town Is Blessed

Micah 5:1-4

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King Duncan

... Europe, and in December to the Holy Land. There he traced the footsteps of Jesus southward and visited the scenes of the Bible narrative. After two weeks spent in Jerusalem, Christmas Eve found him in Bethlehem at the birthplace of Jesus. Of his stirring emotions on that “Holy Night,” he later wrote to his Sunday school back in Philadelphia. He said, “I remember standing in the old church in Bethlehem, close to the spot where Jesus was born. The whole church was ringing hour after hour with splendid ...

2488. A Dance in the Desert

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... head of New College in Edinburgh, Scotland, used to say that "joy is the flag which is flown from the castle of the heart when the king is in residence there!" If joy starts in the heart, it is refined in the mind. It is more than an emotion that comes and goes. It is deeper than a reflexive response that needs the right kind of stimulation. It is an act of the will. "I will say it again: rejoice!" commands Paul in his letter to the Philippian Christians. Joy grows from heartfelt relationships. But it is ...

2489. When the New Comes, the Old Passes

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... species, to our society, and to our family. Tennyson writes, "Old men must die; or the world would grow moldy, would only breed the past again."[3] The poet and the physician agree that death is inevitable but insist this is a good thing. Our first reaction may well be emotional. "Oh, yeah? What do you guys know? Death is not a great idea. The pain is too great. Tennyson may think 'Old men must die,' but when the old man to whom he refers is my old man it feels like the full swing of a baseball bat landing ...

2490. Demons, Pigs, and the Economy

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... because he changes people like Bill Gates, who was raised in the Congregational United Church of Christ, as was Warren Buffet. In all economies, rich or poor, Jesus calls for humane, compassionate, and creative ways to care for the mentally ill, the developmentally challenged, the homeless and helpless, the emotionally distressed, and the poverty stricken. Yes, as in Jesus' time, we have our own demons and demonic problems. But Jesus has come to make us whole and to bring peace. May it be so with us. Amen.

2491. Two Kinds of People

Jeremiah 17:5-10

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King Duncan

... parched and desolate wilderness--if you want your life to be meaningless, empty without hope or promise--all you have to do is sit there. You do not have to join an organization, read a study manual, pay initiation fees, or exercise a single physical, mental or emotional muscle. You do not have to go on a diet, or make any well-intentioned resolutions, or care about anything or anybody in the whole world except yourself. It’s so easy to live in a desert. All you have to do is withdraw into yourself. What ...

2492. The Word According to Superman

Genesis 15:1-18

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King Duncan

... this series of messages is built on. Do not forget that the purpose of all of life’s tests is not to defeat us but to make us stronger. This is a truth we are emphasizing in our Lenten journey. God wants us each to grow strong in our mental, emotional and spiritual lives. And so God has placed us in a world that tests us--but the tests are not designed to defeat us but to make us stronger. God established a covenant with Abram. He had him look up at the stars and said, “Look up at the sky ...

2493. The Impact of Divorce

Illustration

Michael P. Green

Dissolving a marriage is not like dissolving a business partnership, or even like deserting from the army. Indeed, many psychologists have stated that it is second in emotional impact only to the death of a spouse.

2494. She Knows Her Eggs

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... belong to her. Yet studies show that she knows her own eggs so well that when even one is moved, she finds it and returns it to its original location. Scripture tells us that God is also intimately acquainted with each of his children. He knows our every thought and emotion, every decision we must make and problem we are going through. Therefore, an understanding of the full extent of God’s omniscience should both evoke praise and bring comfort to believers.

2495. Miracle of Jairus’ Daughter

Mark 5:21-43

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... to him for an examination. It all turned out all right, but Stedman never forgot that moment when it looked as though his daughter was going to die. Later he found out this farm family had the only bathtub and the only phone for miles around! This is the same emotion that drove Jairus, that agonized father, to Jesus—the fear that his little one, who had blessed their home and filled it with sunshine for twelve years, was to be taken from them.

2496. Where Nobody Knew

Illustration

Ruth Harms Calkin

You know Lord how I serve You, with great emotional fervor, in the limelight. You know how eagerly I speak for You, at a women’s club. You know how I effervesce when I promote a fellowship group. You know my genuine enthusiasm at a Bible study. But how would I react, I wonder, if You pointed to a basin of water, and asked me to wash the calloused feet of a bent and wrinkled old woman, day after day, month after month, in a room where nobody saw, and nobody knew?

2497. The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... 1 Cor. 12:6ff., 30; 14:5)—“tongues” are a means of “communication between the believer and God” (K. Stendahl, Paul Among Jews and Gentiles [London: S.C.M. Press, 1977], p. 113) and, especially, a means of giving praise, of responding emotionally to the mighty works of God. This was the case at Pentecost when, not the preaching (which was probably in Aramaic), but the praising beforehand, was expressed in “tongues.” At the same time, “tongues” have an evidential value. “The purpose of the ...

2498. Paul and Silas In Prison

Acts 16:16-40

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... playing on this. Their objective was to harass the Christians, and by presenting them as Jews who were a threat to their Roman traditions, they succeeded very well in their aim. 16:22–24 All semblance of legal procedure was lost as emotion took over. Normally the magistrates should have formally arrested the prisoners either for immediate trial or to be held over pending a later hearing. Instead, with the enraged crowd milling about them, the duumvirs themselves (so apparently the Greek) stripped them and ...

2499. Paul Arrested

Acts 21:27-36

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... Romans to execute the death sentence. See Josephus, War 6.124–128) Therefore, they apprehended Paul, shouting this charge to the crowd and adding another, that he was teaching all men everywhere against our people and our law and this place (v. 28; cf. 6:13). Emotions were running high. The Asian Jews were not inclined to make careful inquiry. In fact, as far as we know, Trophimus was not in the temple, much less in the inner courts. But Paul was their enemy. That was enough. And in any case the second ...

2500. Gift

2 Corinthians 8:16--9:5, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... , hoping to create a friendly rivalry between brothers (see above on vv. 1 and 3a). The Corinthians are thereby given an opportunity to prove the genuineness of their love for the apostle (cf. v. 7). Love, in this case, is not primarily an emotion, but rather solidarity that comes to expression in tangible deeds. 8:9 Paul supplies the christological reason (For, gar) the Corinthians should excel in the grace of giving to the collection for Jerusalem. The illustration turns on the word grace (charis), in the ...

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