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276. Proper 19

Matthew 18:21-35

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Russell F. Anderson

... hoodlums who made off with $6.50. His son found the body and became obsessed with the notion of finding and killing his father's murderers. He got appointed to the New York Police Department and night after night he roamed the streets of the Bronx, driven by a blinding hatred. His wife wept as she saw the light of life extinguished in the man she loved. One night he caught one of the men he had vowed to kill. He pointed the gun at the man's head but his finger was paralyzed. He could hear the gentle voice ...

277. Proper 24

Exodus 33:12-23, Isaiah 45:1-7, Matthew 22:15-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

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Russell F. Anderson

... Angle: Moses did not envision the Hebrew nation blending into the surrounding cultures. He realized that his people needed to be unique, set apart, holy to the Lord (v. 16). The distinctness of the Jewish people made them the object of misunderstanding and hatred but it also assured their survival and gave them their identity. If Christianity is to remain a strong and vital force, we will need to recapture a sense of distinctiveness. We must not be blindly identified with the common culture. Outline: 1. The ...

278. Those Who Mourn

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John A. Terry

... about the pain and suffering of the world than we. This beatitude can be translated something like this: "Blessed are those who are particularly sensitive to the sin in themselves and in society, and who feel deeply all the distress caused by the ambition, greed, selfishness, hatred, and violence of the world." This is a beatitude about our own pain and the pain of the world Jesus died to save. Blessed are they that share their neighbor's pain and who mourn their pain as Jesus did, weeping over the sins of ...

279. When Imagination Replaces Memory

Isaiah 42:18-25

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Harold Warlick

... , they linger by their bedsides. They whisper into the ears of the children the names of all the people they must hate when they are older. This is the tribal way of keeping its feuds alive from generation to generation. The adults can keep their hatred and negativity alive in the minds of their children. Like an acid in the soul, the constant remembrance of evil can eat away at each generation. Such selected memory is a horrible thing. It creates a lack of emotional confidence in life for each succeeding ...

280. Death Shall Be No More

Isaiah 25:1-12

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E. Carver McGriff

... realized that for each of those thousands of white crosses so lovingly tended by our French friends, word went out to moms and dads, to wives and children, that a young man had courageously waded ashore on a beach he'd never heard of and there, to the sounds of hatred, had died. So grief swept across our land. And it was multiplied by so many other nations of the world. A young woman in a friend's church was found dead some time ago, a suicide. She was a nurse in the children's cancer ward of a large ...

281. A Blessing Behind Locked Doors

John 20:19-23

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William G. Carter

... in court, Reginald Denny shocked the judge, the jury, and the legal counsel when he came to the witness stand and embraced the mothers of his two assailants. He hugged the mothers of the men who had beaten him. "I had to do it," he said. "The violence and the hatred has to stop somewhere. So why not have it stop with me?" It was a curious, Christ-like thing to do. Call it, if you will, an act of "passing the peace." What does it mean to pass the peace? It is a sign of forgiveness, an indication that nothing ...

282. Pentecost 27

Matthew 24:1-35

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Dennis Koch

... the world. In the last days Christians will be severely persecuted by the corrupt world. This calls for endurance through the sufferings. The Christian will be saved if he endures to the end. According to this passage there is much to endure: hatred, betrayal, wickedness. It will be an endurance contest, and only those who last will have the victory of new life in the Kingdom. Liturgical Color Green Suggested Hymns The Day Is Surely Drawing Near Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers Lord Christ, When First You Came ...

283. Anger

John 2:12-25

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... we wanted it to or just because we were asked to clean up our room before we went to play, or something like that, then it's something we need to let go of. But if our anger is because someone is being treated unfairly, if it is anger against hatred, or mistreatment, or meanness, then our anger is a good thing. Then it is like the anger Jesus unleashed when he cleared the Temple."

284. Getting Ready

Luke 3:4-5

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... the life of everyone who invites him. And if we invite him into our lives, we need to prepare the way for him; we need to open our hearts to receive him. "You know, it's a funny thing about an open heart. It can't hang onto anger, or hatred, or jealousy, or any of that stuff. Those things just fall right on out of an open heart, and when they do, there is a whole lot more room for us to receive Jesus and his love. "Will you pray with me before you go?" As the children and I ...

285. Those Who Mourn

Isaiah 40:1-31

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John A. Terry

286. How Can We Restore the Christian Home?

Mark 10:1-12

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Donald Macleod

... , and one in the religion they practise." Both of these opinions are true. Only a vital religion can provide the power needed to cultivate and sustain this love that cements human relationships in depth and through time. You see: all love is of God, and all hatred and enmity are of the evil one. Since himself is love, then true affection in the home is more likely to deepen and endure where his presence is acknowledged, honored, and made central. Where love is, God is. And the home where such a reality is ...

287. Making the Mystery Work for You

John 3:1-21

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Charles R. Leary

... , friendly, committed to God and the church, stable in their lifestyle and marriage. They were a great couple. The little boy they adopted was Joe. During Joe’s first four years in this world, his life had been saturated with the destructive forces of hatred, rejection, fear, hostility. He had learned all of the games to survive in that abusive environment. I am not exaggerating when I say, Bill and Pat had a “devilish” child on their hands. The people in the parish admired them for their enthusiasm ...

288. Charlie Used To Do That

John 6:25-59

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Robert Salzgeber

... went on cleansing the wound. "I rolled him off the donkey onto the ground," the soldier continued. "With one jab of the bayonet I killed him. I have never been able to forget it. The whole business of killing has sickened me." Elizabeth felt a wave of hatred and sorrow sweep over her. Here was the murderer of her father. In some strange way, the enemy had fallen into her hands. She had the power to destroy him. At this moment Elizabeth thought of her mother. What would she have done? Her mother loved Christ ...

289. When Something Is About To Happen

Mark 13:32-37

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Thomas Long

... of God's tomorrow, when all will be clothed in garments of light and the banquet table of the kingdom will hold a feast. Come, Lord Jesus. Every time Christian people speak words of forgiveness in circumstances of bitterness, words of love in situations of hatred, they are speaking in the future present tense. That is, they are using in the present a language which the whole creation will learn to speak in God's tomorrow. Come, Lord Jesus. Every time worshippers struggle to their feet to sing, "Come Thou ...

290. Tying Up A Strong Man

Mark 3:20-30, 1 Samuel 8:1-22, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18, Mark 3:31-35, Psalm 138:1-8

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William E. Keeney

... cannot deny them. So, following the adage that if you can't beat them, join them, they worship these powers. The church offers an alternative. It sees the forces of good, it offers hope of conquest over the powers of evil, it has the resources to overcome hatred and fear. It needs both to offer these resources and to demonstrate their reality in overcoming the structure and forces of evil that are real. To do so, it must recognize the reality of the evil and not trivialize it with a false image of the devil ...

291. Passion Sunday

Mk 14:1 - 15:47 · Isa 50:4-9 · Phil 2:5-11 · Ps 31:9-16

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Russell F. Anderson

... with the prophet himself, did not attempt to strike down his enemy but neither did he back away from his God-given mission. Jesus faced down his enemies in precisely the same way, not by attacking them but by withstanding the fury of their misguided hatred. The best defense possible. Verses 8 and 9 imply legal language. The servant stands confident that Yahweh is his defense attorney and that he would ultimately win him an acquittal. With such an advocate, he stands ready to face his foes. "Who is my ...

292. Epiphany 4

1 Corinthians 8:1-13, Deuteronomy 18:14-22, Mark 1:21-28

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Russell F. Anderson

... up others in community. 2. Sermon Title: Christians Are In The Business of Raising, Not Razing. Sermon Angle: The apostle makes a key point concerning the nature of love. "It builds up" other people; it builds up the church; it builds up society. Prejudice and hatred, on the flip side of the coin, raze (demolish) everything in their sight. A sermon on this topic could encourage the members of your church to be constructive in all their words and actions. God gives us his love that we might build up both ...

293. Out On A Limb

Luke 19:1-10

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Larry R. Kalajainen

... citizens who know whom to despise and whom to approve. Jesus' attentions to Zacchaeus are not appreciated at all by the other onlookers. Why should he single out Zacchaeus to provide the honor of hospitality rather than some of them who remain steadfast in their hatred of the Romans and in their support of nationalistic aspirations? Why go stay in the home of a sinner? It's one thing to love sinners in the abstract; it's another to sleep in their houses. In the Middle East, even today, providing hospitality ...

294. The Importance Of Asking The Right Questions

Luke 20:27-40

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Larry R. Kalajainen

... does not arise out of a desire to know the truth, to gain knowledge of God's will, but out of a desire to get God's sanction on their own national pity-party. They want God to bless their long-nurtured resentments, to sanction their long-standing hatred of those who destroyed their temple and holy city. Every year, when they fast on the fifth and seventh months, they are, in effect, saying, "This is who we are: We're the people who were beaten up by the Babylonians. Now this new administration had come, and ...

295. Real Solutions To Real Problems

John 21:1-14

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Lee Griess

... nothing." In the end when all was said and done, it added up to nothing. Real solutions to real problems -- that's the message this morning. Real solutions for real people -- people like Saint Paul on the road to Damascus, his life consumed with hatred and directed at persecuting the new Christian church until he met Christ and his life was changed. People like Peter in the boat, his heart filled with hurt and weighed down by his own failure until he met Christ on the shore and experienced forgiveness ...

296. The Ultimate Mystery

John 18:28-40

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Lee Griess

... at his feet. They gathered there as do families around the bed of a dying loved one. They gathered there to share their pain and lean on one another, so their sorrow and anguish would not overcome them. There they stand. There in the midst of the anger and hatred of the crowd, the mocking of the onlookers, the scorn of the priests and the insult of the soldiers. There, in that place of shame outside the City of Kings, Jerusalem, there they stand waiting for it to be over. In the midst of those at the foot ...

297. "The Rejection Of Royalty"

Psalm 22:1-31

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R. Sheldon MacKenzie

The language in this passage is remarkably restrained.There is no attempt in it to create sympathy for Jesus.There is no attempt to incite hatred toward those responsible for the actual crucifixion itself.This is an event far too solemn for that sort of thing.The facts are stated and left to stand for themselves.There is no additional comment of any kind.In a passage where the language is so carefully chosen the reader ...

298. Words As Images

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... on the cross to atone for our sins and reconcile us to a merciful God, and so on. That is true, and it needs to be said. But it's abstract. What the sermon needs is an example of a person who had reason to hate somebody, but whose hatred was turned to love through the presence and example of Jesus. That image would illustrate for the listener what is meant with the text. In this television age the preacher should always ask, "This idea or truth which I want to communicate -- what image can I use to fix ...

299. Epiphany 7

Mark 2:1-12

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B. David Hostetter

... and not obeying the instruction of Jesus Christ. Amen. Declaration of God's Forgiveness Hear the Good News! To us as to others, Jesus says, "Your sins are forgiven." Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Exhortation Do not bear hatred for your brothers and sisters in your heart. Do not take revenge or cherish grudges. The Lord says to love your neighbor as yourself. Prayer of the Day Your goodness, O God, knows no bounds. Increase our goodness beyond its present limits to higher ...

300. Proper 4

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1, Psalm 139:1-24, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18, Mark 2:23-3:6

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B. David Hostetter

... and the Light of God. Come to the Light. Come to the light which shines out of darkness. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Holy God, devout Christ, sanctifying Spirit, cleanse our speech from any trivial use of your hallowed name. Save us from attributing to you the hatreds and curses that issue from our anger whether justified or not. May our restraint turn others from the blasphemous use of your name and the desecration of what is holy. Hallowed be your name, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. DECLARATION OF GOD'S ...

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