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276. Getting in S.H.A.P.E. for Ministry

Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... thing. She accidentally backed over and killed her child. I will never forget the day I wrapped that mother in my arms. In her grief I said to her, “I cannot begin to understand what you have experienced today, but I know someone who knows exactly what you feel and I want to bring her to you.” That’s exactly what I did. Have you taken your troubles and transformed them into tools of ministry for somebody else? That is what I believe Paul meant when he said, “In all things God is working for good for ...

277. Blast From The Past

John 17:1-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Mom needed our prayers. She didn't know what it was all about, but lifted Mom and me in prayer. It was kind of an incredible feeling. I told Mom about it and she felt the same way. People we didn't even know were praying for Mom. There is someone else ... prayer so long ago. And because of that prayer, whenever we need God's presence, we are GUARDED by the hand of God and we can feel that Blast From The Past. II. Guided A. Jesus prayed that we be GUARDED but He also prayed that we be GUIDED, too. HE PRAYED THAT ...

278. Hope Again!

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... brought that hope in the being of the Messiah, Jesus! Zephaniah has two themes in his prophecy ... one is negative and the other positive. First Is A Negative Theme (Zephaniah 1—3:13) As you browse through Zephaniah’s message to Judah you begin to feel a deep dark dread. It begins as he delivers God’s message, “I will sweep away everything from the face of the earth, declares the Lord” (1:2 NIV). These words have all the earmarks of catastrophe written! This negative theme includes: Fear. One ...

279. God’s Chain Reaction

Romans 5:1-5

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... in this divine chain reaction is that being justified by faith leads to peace with God (v. 2). This is a simple statement of fact: When we are justified through faith, we have peace with God. At times we may not feel very peaceful. On the global scene, we may feel helpless and overwhelmed by world events that are so much larger than ourselves and beyond our control. Closer to home in our own community and personal lives, we may also face situations of conflict or distress. There may be so much happening ...

280. Two Sinners

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... (3) Here’s the problem: what if you have no consciousness of sin? What if pride has blinded you to your need for God’s forgiveness and grace? That was the situation of Simon the Pharisee. He was blind to his need for God. And because he did not feel a need for God even though he was quite religious, he would never know the joy of being bathed in God’s love. To see this, notice what happens next in our story. Jesus says to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.” Then, Luke tells us, the other guests ...

281. Tarzan He Was Not

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... must be connected to Him. That time-honored story of the boy flying the kite so high that the clouds hid it from view is most telling. “How do you know that your kite is still there?” someone asked him. “I can still feel a tug on the string,” he answered. Who among us does not need to feel that tug from time to time? It is fine to say that God is out there somewhere in the cosmos, but most of us need to know that He is here closer within our heart. We have that only when we keep fresh ...

282. So, You Want to Get Well?

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... his home and heal his dying daughter. Jairus urgently requested that Jesus help his child. He didn't just ask; he begged the Lord to do something that no one else had been able to do -- to bring the young girl from the brink of death back to life. We feel the tragedy in the plea. The plea touches the soul. When a child is sick or hurting, we get worried. When he/she is very sick, we get very worried. And when a child is sick unto death, we get worried to death. As one father put it, "I'd ...

283. The Golden Hour

Exodus 19:1-25, Genesis 15:1-18, Ezekiel 24:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... our times of earnest prayer, our times when we contemplate where we are in life, the times when we are most unsure about our journey. For those who dwell in the half light or the shadow light, hiding from the vulnerability of revealedness, God’s soft, beaming light feels like a “welcome home.” In God’s soft light, we can come out from those places where we fear to show ourselves. We can emerge from our hurt and our pain. In God’s illuminating glow, we can dare to step forward, to see what we were ...

284. The Power of the Unseen

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... example of the yeast kneaded into bread or the mustard weed planted into the garden, it spreads. Boy does it spread! Love is the most contagious force out there. All you need to do is allow Jesus to plant it into your heart, and you can almost feel it spreading from you to everyone around you, and from everyone around you to many, many others. You can choose by what “spirit” you allow to take residence in your heart what kind of “spirit” you spread to others. And there are many kinds of spirits aren ...

285. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... -powerful God Almighty within you. Your soul is a mark of God’s abundant love for you. It marks you as incredibly valuable in God’s eyes. Which leads us to a question: are you experiencing life the way God meant you to experience it? Or do you feel weary and burdened because you are living in a way that is disconnected from your soul? Mike Jaffee was a young, successful businessman working for a Fortune 500 company. In his mid-thirties, he began to realize that he wasn’t fulfilled in his work. He was ...

286. Standing in the Forecastle

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Ron Love

... . And being a part of the Christmas celebration will make us a happy, praying, and thankful congregation. Let us first discuss what it means to be a happy church. In a happy church, there is an atmosphere of joy that makes the members of the congregation feel that they are bathed in the Christmas spirit. Parishioners find that being a part of the church is exhilarating, not depressing. A happy church knows that Jesus is the light of the world. Jesus taught, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me ...

287. Consuming Fire

Hebrews 12:18-29

Sermon

Will Willimon

... a good friend. While Moses was lost on the mountain, trying to listen to God without being blown away, there were others down in the valley, the flat, cool valley, making up gods more to their liking. "What good is religion if it doesn't make you feel better?" they asked. They devised gods in their image, gods cut down to their size, speaking in their voices. "See that you do not refuse the one who speaks," warns the writer to the Hebrews. "Our God is a consuming fire." "Friends, are you lonely? Is there ...

288. For The Love of God Is Empowering

Matthew 22:36 -40 · John 4:1-32

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... of God gives us the gift of ourselves reminding us that we are all born to win. Maybe you've looked at your life lately and it has looked empty. It doesn't make any difference how the gift of self was lost or how you came to that empty feeling. What matters is that you have come to the right place to have that emptiness filled. Through Christ, God says: "I give you ME!" And all you have to do is accept and let Christ empower your life. All you have to do is say: "I accept and I give ...

289. Seeing Is Believing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... eyes in particular are the source of our longing. What we see, we want. What we see, we believe. In the Jewish tradition, the eyes are the first source of sin. They can betray us and lead us in wrong directions. They can create in us feelings of covetousness and envy. These can lead to disastrous consequences if not recognized and our gaze averted. Think of the story of Cain, staring in anger and jealousy at his brother, or the story of Joseph’s brothers glaring at the beautiful coat bestowed upon their ...

290. Not As the World Gives

John 14:23-29 · John 5:1-9

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... should meet our own personal needs. No. The peace of Christ, the peace which Jesus leaves us is rooted in a selflessness which opens the heart to the experience of the other. This empathy, this engagement has to do with the ability to literally feel what people around you are feeling, to stand in someone else’s shoes and become part of their experience. This is our ideal. This is our clear and stated vision. This is the place where hope takes shape. However, the voice of the cynic is loud in the land and ...

291. The Best Seat in the House

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... stop to help someone stranded on the road. Some will even pay someone’s rent for the month. Sadly though, the practice seems to last only a few weeks in December. For many, paying it forward is simply a token done in the name of Christmas that makes us feel better about ourselves and helps some others in the process. But what would it be like if we took on that attitude of care and giving every day of the year. It wouldn’t necessarily mean that we need to shell out cash to everyone we meet. But perhaps ...

292. Stay the Course

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... affords us, that allows us to trust and walk forward with our eyes closed and our sight clear.Faith is not seeing the path in front of us. Faith is trusting that the path will be there when we dare to take our first steps.Faith is a feeling that lets us know that truth is not something we see, something we’ve built, something tangible, or something sure. Faith is knowing that Jesus is there and trusting in his presence, even when things get rough. When John and Julia asked their friends to join them on ...

293. After Everyone Had Gone Home

Matthew 2:13-23

Sermon

John Jamison

... or a god, but as an example of complete corruptness and failure as a human being. There is an attraction to being in control. A promise of power, of security, of being right. None of us are immune from it, even the church itself. We all know what it feels like to have no power, to have no security, to be accused of always being wrong. Control looks so good. Control looks like an answer. It looks like the solution to our problems. But based on the story of the Christmas baby, we were never called to be in ...

294. Beloved

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... live into our full potential, to be everything we can be, because God created us as good and unique with good and unique gifts. God prioritizes us, and we give time and effort to prioritizing God in our lives too. We enter into a covenant with God. We gain our feeling of support and respect for who we are from God, and this gives us stability and self-esteem even in the face of trouble. God shows us great love every single day. If we look around us, we will see the signs. We can show God our signs of love ...

295. The Flow

John 7:37-39 · 1 Corinthians 12:3-13 · Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... not only felt it in that moment, but it changed their lives completely. When the Spirit flows within us, we live a life free of the stressors that bombard us and instead glow with an internal kind of light that fires us up and propels us forward. We feel both energy and peace. Joy and purpose. On the day of Pentecost, a sound like the rush of a violent wind filled the house where all were sitting. Tongues of light that looked like fire rested on each of them. They were filled, infused with the Holy Spirit ...

296. Schadenfreude

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and laughing is one of the ways that we allow ourselves to recognize and own some of our less attractive human qualities. In our beloved cartoon, both the roadrunner and the coyote appear gleeful when the other runs into harm’s way. How often do we feel the same but hide these baser instincts under a facade of goodwill? We do learn though (hopefully), while laughing at them sheepishly, that our attempts to take joy in the destruction or maladies of others will always backfire upon us in one way or another ...

297. When Following Is Not Enough

Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a)

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... , and how even more wonderful it might be if we could just build houses up there and stay on those mountaintops. How wonderful it would be if we never had to come back down to where there might be darkness, sickness, loneliness, and fear. How wonderful it is to feel that warm fuzziness of God and not have to actually be God to someone in need. They believed in a warm and fuzzy, mountaintop, Jesus, but not the chosen Son of God Jesus who had been telling them what it really took to follow him. They were not ...

298. The Power of Story

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... stories evoke compassion in someone, when someone’s emotions begin to resonate in a powerful way, it’s as though the mind opens up a new path, makes new connections, and allows for new perspectives that hadn’t been seen before. For when we “feel with” others, when we begin to sense our shared humanity, we no longer exist alone, but in a new kind of community. When our perspective changes, our definition of community changes too. Why stories? Why didn’t Jesus just tell “real” stories? Why not ...

299. Justified

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , worship, and praise? The choice is up to us in the way we respond to God’s grace. We can live a grateful life, joyful in what we receive and with hearts full of the blessings of God’s presence. Or we can live in expectation and feel that what we have is never quite enough, because we are “after all” us. Hint: Living a “borderline faith” will never fully satisfy the longings of your soul or the wrenching of your heart. Only a heart fully committed to God and entirely humbled with gratitude will ...

300. The Other Ninety-nine

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

John G. Lynn

... the desert for a while. She will learn she is not sufficient unto herself or in control of my lambs. She will learn to cry." God does this to us all. When we are self-sufficiently safe in the sheepfold or fat in the pasture, he will take someone away. Feeling left behind in the desert we will go to God for light and seek the protection of his nourishing Word. Only when we are left in the desert will we run to the shepherd for the help we need. Martin Luther often felt driven to the desert. He called such ...

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