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251. Living While You Wait

Philippians 4:2-9

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Maxie Dunnam

... who do not celebrate the joy that is a gift will not generate the joy that is strength overflowing into all other facets of our lives. Joy cannot be self-created. We might generate surface excitement and rile ourselves up to some height of emotional ecstasy. But joy is something else, and its primary source is obedience. Recall Jesus’ words when a woman in the crowd shouted out to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you sucked.” Jesus responded, “Blessed rather are those ...

252. There Is a Price for Everything

Matthew 13:44-46

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Maxie Dunnam

... can’t be a genuine friend to another person without some price being exacted. The cost includes time given in attention to others, energy spent for the other’s well being, sacrifice of our wants and desires for the health and wholeness of the other. Emotional involvement that often tears us to pieces. There is a price for relationship. Tagor, the poet of India, tells a memorable story from his own life which illustrates this. His servant did not come to work on time one morning. Like so professional men ...

253. Opening and Closing Doors

Matthew 6:25-34

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Maxie Dunnam

... them, and who does forgive. The one who promised that if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us of all unrighteousness. So, don’t worry about yesterday. And don’t worry about tomorrow. Worry is an emotion that can never empty tomorrow of the problem, but while you are worrying about tomorrow you are emptying today of it s strength. Tomorrow is not yet. Its promise and its potential problems are out of reach. You can do nothing about tomorrow until it has ...

254. A Parable in a Miracle

Mark 1:40-45

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Maxie Dunnam

... is the beginning of compassion.” (quoted by Bradley Kalajainen, “The Downward Pull of”, First Methodist Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan) That’s how Jesus responded to the leper looked at him, listened to him, touched him, felt the sob of that soul the red, raw crucible of emotional agony.” And that’s the way He responds to us. But let’s press for meaning as we see this act of Jesus as a parable — a parable which we as persons and as a church are to enact. Christ’s compassion will go lacking ...

255. God’s Weather Report

Matthew 5:38-48

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Charles L. Aaron

... man, but didn't threaten to physically hurt him. The progression of the scene in the movie, from the taunting to the ice cream in the face to Book punching out two of the bullies was designed to create in the viewers a sense of catharsis, a release of emotions. Watching the bullies pick on the Amish man creates a building anger inside of us. Something inside of us doesn't want them to get away with what they did. Something inside of us resists hearing and acting out what Jesus calls us to do in this passage ...

256. Political Pardon

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... landlord forgive him for wronging him in that way. Playing the Game I don't know the outcome of their conversations. All I know is that something inside of me changed when I heard what my father had done. It wasn't even about him or about the deeply emotional respect I had for him. It was more about what life is supposed to be like and how it had glimmered more brightly in that moment. To wrestle anger and bitterness and revenge to the ground and defuse it with grace and mercy and an all-encompassing desire ...

257. A Man of the Moment

Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... encounter fewer problems. David Laibson, a professor at Harvard University who was a researcher and collaborator on a brain study in 2004, sees the matter as a battle between emotions and reason: "Our emotional brain has a hard time imagining the future, even though our logical brain clearly sees the future consequences of our current actions. Our emotional brain wants to max out the credit card, order dessert, and smoke a cigarette. Our logical brain knows we should save for retirement, go for a jog, and ...

258. Disillusioned Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Sunday. (Really) As we noted three weeks ago, on the Sunday after Easter, we normally tell the story of Doubting Thomas and his response to the resurrected Christ. On this day many pastors will talk about the nature of doubt and how doubt is a healthy emotion. All of us doubt at some times in our lives. However, doubt is a somewhat intellectual exercise. Very cerebral. It’s possible to have doubts about some aspect of Christian faith and still continue serving Christ as if you have no doubt at all. We now ...

259. An Invitation to Tired Souls

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... and I replied, ‘Lord, I close the bargain right here.’” (6) Maybe you and I need to close a bargain with God. Do you have that sense of peace that Stanley Jones found in his encounter with God? So many of us are tired because of mental and emotional conflicts that are draining us of our energy. We need to turn our worries, our concerns, our doubts and fears over to God. Then we need to be yoked to Christ. The elderly lady who went to the passport office didn’t want to feel the weight of protecting ...

260. The Gamma Group

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... and either over- or under-demanding. Thirty years later, Betz and Thomas looked at the health records of the former students. They found that 77.3 percent of the gamma group suffered from major disorders, including cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease and emotional disturbances. The incidence of disorders was only 25 percent in the alpha group and 26.7 percent in the betas. The doctors repeated the study on another group of 127 male students from the classes of 1949 through 1964 with similar results ...

261. Meet in the Middle

2 Cor. 5:18-19

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Tim Kimmel

... Of all of their oppressors, Japan was the most ruthless. They overwhelmed the Koreans with a brutality that would sicken the strongest of stomachs. Their crimes against women and children were inhuman. Many Koreans live today with the physical and emotional scars from the Japanese occupation. One group singled out for concentrated oppression was the Christians. When the Japanese army overpowered Korea one of the first things they did was board up the evangelical churches and eject most foreign missionaries ...

262. The Four Sacred Chords of Home

Mark 13:24-37

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Leonard Sweet

... life? There is a test known to psychologists as the body-sway test. A person stands with eyes closed and is subjected to repeated suggestions that you are falling. If, in spite of this, you remain in a fairly upright position, it can be assumed that you are emotionally mature; but if you give way to the suggestion of falling, the chances are that you need some major maturation. Every day we face a world where people are telling us that we’re falling, that we’re going to fail, that we don’t have what ...

263. Why Are You So Afraid?

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... s always out there to get you. What’s that tell you about me? What’s that tell you about you? Sometimes the greatest danger to us is not what’s in the world but what’s in our hearts.” (2) At the heart of bigotry and every other negative emotion is fear, fear of people who are not the same as we are, fear about our own adequacy and self-worth, fear about our ability to cope with life, fear concerning the future and the areas of life over which we have no control. At the heart of worry, resentment ...

264. Amazing Faith

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... in Israel have I found such faith," Luke records in verse 10, "When those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health." One day a young newlywed came to my office at the church. She was ill physically, emotionally, and spiritually. She shared her dilemma and after a while I introduced her to our ritual of confession and forgiveness. She confessed, we prayed, and she went home. Her father asked me later what happened. His daughter is now well and functioning beautifully ...

265. The Great Divide

Luke 16:19-31

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... both sing — at each other. Neither is listening to the other. There is a great chasm between the two of them. A great emotional distance had developed between the father and the son in the song. This father and son had grown far apart and even ... we seem to say, even though there is physical distance between us that we might not be able to lessen, there is not going to be emotional distance — not on our watch. We will not stop caring even if we feel that the help we are able to give seems like too little ...

266. The Uniquely Christian Commandment

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... new commandment ... that you love one another ... hmm. One thing should be made clear here — the Lord's command is not that we like one another. That would certainly be nice, but to like or not to like is rooted in our emotions, and emotions do not respond to commands. The love Jesus speaks of is not an emotion. It is a way of acting toward one another that says, "No matter what, I want good for you, and I will do whatever I can to insure that you get it." Christian love is not something the Lord wants us ...

267. The Utmost Patience for the Foremost Sinner

1 Timothy 1:12-17

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... to know about parents who torture their children, sometimes in horrific ways, like cooking them in a microwave. We see such things and become too complacent about our own sins. As long as we are not as bad as some people, we must be doing okay. Our emotional needs keep us from thinking about our sins. Most of the time we need all of our emotional energy just to get by. Life seems to throw everything at us that it can. We don't have time or energy left to think about our sins. We come to church to gain the ...

268. Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Luke 15:11-32

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... lost forever. As he approaches with his rehearsed plea in his pocket, this tale takes on a surprising turn. While he is “still far off,” his father spots his youngest son approaching and is “filled with compassion (“splangnizomai” — a “gut-wrenching emotion”) and rushes out to embrace him. The son launches into his planned speech. Significantly, he is only able to express his admission of sinfulness and unworthiness, not his plea to live just as some kind of hired hand. His father interrupts ...

269. Are You Part of the Scandal?

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

270. Remember the Rooster

John 18:25-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... are reminded and a sob makes its way from our lips and a candle within our spirit is snuffed out. That unresolved guilt can eat at us all our lives and do psychological and even physical damage of which we are not even aware. Guilt is a powerful emotion. Dr. Steve Stephens, in his book The Wounded Warrior, tells about Brock who was only twenty one when his wife left him. It was only two months after a large, elegant church wedding. She gave no reason; she just left and filed for divorce. Brock believed he ...

271. Peace Be With You

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... cowering in fear. Obviously some questions still remained. So the tomb was empty, but what did that prove? Maybe somebody did steal his body. O.K., Mary had her mystical experience in the garden. But, after all she was a woman. You know how emotional they can be. Maybe she just imagined this experience. After all, she loved him so much. Everything she was she owed to him. So, there they were, these followers of Jesus, behind those locked doors, speaking in whispers, confused, frightened, like sheep without ...

272. Up Close & Personal: Open the Doors

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... and personal” with the God of this universe. We are in a series called “Up Close & Personal,” because we need to understand that God is not just a powerful God, but He is a personal God who wants to have a relationship with you that is spiritual, emotional, eternal, and yes, personal. Any time you enter into the presence of a King there are protocols to follow. There are certain keys that open doors into the presence of the King of this universe. We are going to find those today in one of the most ...

273. Joy Giver

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... is not just joy to the west. It is not a cultural joy. It is not just joy to the rich. It is not a financial joy. It is not just joy to the educated. It is not intellectual joy. It is not joy to the happy. It is not emotional joy. It is not just joy to the healthy. It is not physical joy. It is joy to the world. It is joy for all people. When that angel said, “I bring you good news” the word for “good news” gives us the word “evangelism.” All evangelism is is just ...

274. Shockproof

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... God. It was created by Satan! I am convinced that the only plant that will be in hell is Kudzu, because even fire can’t destroy it. It grows like wildfire and takes over everything that it can and I believe can survive a nuclear bomb. Bitterness is an emotional kudzu that will wrap its tentacles around your mind and your heart and take it completely over. It will literally suck the joy and happiness and peace and contentment right out of your life. How do you eliminate it? How do you get rid of it? How do ...

275. Mighty Morphin Power People

Luke 9:28-36

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King Duncan

... she exclaimed. He looked at her closely and then asked, “What did you teach?” (2) Aging changes our appearance. Here is something we need to think about: so do our emotions. We see someone who is obviously angry, or happy, or sad. We could be wrong, but usually we are right in discerning their emotion. Emotions change our appearance. “When we are spending time in the presence of God regularly, our face changes,” writes Pastor Gene Brooks. “It changes from angry, upset, irritated, and critical to ...

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