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3101. David's Mighty Men

2 Samuel 23:8-39

Teach the Text

... , an athlete, and more. Yet he has within him a darkness—an anger born of his father’s rigid handling of him—that he will not discuss with anyone. Those who see its shadows do not confront him about it. As a result his complex emotions fester, leading him to sexual sin, clearly done because of his self-loathing. Everyone around him is destroyed, as is so often the case today when sexual sin (pornography, adultery, homosexual behavior) invades a marriage or a family. This novel has powerful effects on ...

3102. Yada, Yada, Yada!

Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the fullest sense. In fact, it’s the same word used in the scriptures for the physical “knowing” that takes place with Adam when Eve begets her children for example. It’s the most intimate knowledge you can have about someone, whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, that is also blessed by God. It’s a “recognition” of exactly “who” someone is deep down. It’s about “being” and “identity.” This is the word used in our scripture for today when people, and mind you these are non ...

3103. Don't Worry, Be Peaceful

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

Scott Bryte & Kimberly Miller van Driel

... about anything”? Anything? What about really important things? What about matters of life and death? Are we not supposed to care? Are we not supposed to pay attention? History is full of religious and philosophical movements that have gone in that direction. They identify emotional attachment as the ultimate source of pain. If you don’t bond with anyone or with anything, then you won’t be hurt when those people leave, or when those things are taken away. If you don’t care when have them, you won ...

3104. Bold Faith

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... send someone else. Anyone else! He felt he couldn’t speak well. Did he stutter? Was he shy? Was he nervous? We don’t know. But he definitely didn’t want to do it. In the end, he relented, but he took his brother Aaron along with him for emotional support! And then look what happened! Jeremiah –he insisted he was too young and inexperienced. No one will listen to me! He thought. Boy was he wrong! Samuel –well, he thought God must be kidding when he told me to go behind the king’s back and anoint ...

3105. Terms Of Endearment

John 12:1-8

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... (drawing on parallels with other accounts and similar tales). We don’t know. But what we are told with unbroken earnestness by John is that Mary’s action in anointing Jesus startled all around her, including Jesus’ own disciples. The act was too bold, too lavish, too emotional, and too over-the-top. Even Judas, who would not go down in history as the most careful of all men, was ready to shove Mary away as outlandish. But Jesus would have none of it. He alone understood how close he was to his own ...

3106. Scandal

Luke 22:14-23:56

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... of atonement theory have been proposed over the centuries, to answer such questions. The first is linked to a story Jesus told shortly before this. In Luke 20, as Jesus was wrestling with the leaders, the crowds, and the challenges in Jerusalem during this emotionally charged week of Passover, he told the story we often call the Parable of the Tenants. Jesus said a man planted a vineyard and then turned it over to tenants while he traveled to distant places. The tenants were supposed to look after things ...

3107. Night and Light

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... at finding “the right one” had convinced them that it would never happen again. Some marriages go down in a blaze of adultery. So do some testimonies of Christian faith. Most, however, slip away through failed friendships. The bursts of passionate love and emotional testimony slide away as people forget to live together. George Santayana put it this way: “He liked to walk alone; she liked to walk alone. So they got married and walked alone together.” In the end, that is a recipe for disaster. Love ...

3108. Standing Firm

Philippians 3:17-4:1

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

... words sung by Sidewalk Prophets, but I was remembering the first words of the refrain as “stand firm in the Lord.” You should look up the beautiful lyrics online. As I had been thinking about the title I had given for this message, I wondered about the emotions Paul was feeling in this letter to the church at Philippi. Paul is calling the people to focus on what is promised, rather than what is ― the current trials and benefits of this human life. Paul is calling us to know that our home is not here ...

3109. Seeking the Presence of God

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

It is a well-known cliché that “God never gives us more than we can handle”, but I have sometimes found that not to be so. When my youngest brother died of brain cancer at age five, it was more than I could handle. When my first husband was emotionally and physically abusive, it was more than I could handle. When my second husband and I lost our twin sons at birth, it was more than I could handle. The COVID pandemic was more than we could handle. Wars and violence are often more than we can handle. ...

3110. We Live in Hope

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

Good morning! Christ is risen! Christ is risen indeed! Happy Easter! Several times this week I have revised this sermon message, wanting to incorporate the emotions of this Holy Week, to understand the last week as a journey with Jesus and the disciples. The joy and triumph of Palm Sunday quickly seems to move into the intimacy of Maundy Thursday with its meal shared among friends, the servant leader Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, ...

3111. Swimming Against the Tide

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is ok. Forgiving them does not mean you are agreeing with their vitriol or “letting them off the hook.” It does mean that you will no longer hold onto the fishing lure that keeps your mind and heart bound to them hook, line, and sinker. Most often, our emotional anger, hurt, and feelings of betrayal come from our need and desire to change the person who harmed us –to make them see our way, to make them love us back. Sometimes, you have to let them go. It’s the loving thing to do. Because true love ...

3112. The View from Cloud Nine

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of God have been the primary sources of spiritual sustenance, change, healing, and joy for as long as we’ve been on earth. Although we can learn about God through our minds and education, repentance and renewal erupt in us from a very emotional and spiritual place –and often from a state of overwhelming joy. Just as clouds remain our “go to” metaphor for the presence of God and a higher, intuitive experience that lies beyond our control and knowledge, the popular phrase, the“view from cloud ...

3113. You Can Talk the Game, but Can You Play the Game?

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... year, around here, the greatest competitor of the cross is a rubber sphere about the size of a…basketball. One Sunday a few years ago, just about this time of year, I was reaching a crescendo in my sermon, bringing everything together with great emotion, when (unknown to me) the local radio station carrying the service, broke in on the broadcast with, “Now we take you live to Cameron Stadium for the pregame show with Coach Mike Krzyzewski.” The next week I received a letter from an incensed listener ...

3114. Do You Think That I Have Come To Bring Peace?

Luke 12:49-56

Sermon

Will Willimon

... Nothing cuts against our liberal, modern, ethical and religious superficiality more than this. We have convinced ourselves that there is some means of holding convictions without requiring the suffering of our friends and our families. So we make “love” an individual emotion which does not ask someone else to suffer because we love them. But to marry someone, to bear a child into the world always involves requiring someone else to suffer because of our loves and commitments. Recently, when I was working ...

3115. God Encounter

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... warming and calming our veins. Every time that we feel all hope is gone and are gifted a second chance. Every time we doubt but then experience the presence of Jesus in our lives, our homes, our communities, our churches, our children, our own spiritual and emotional resurrections! “Why do we look for the living among the dead?” When life is all around us? When Jesus is all around us. When resurrection is more vivid and more real than anything else we know. In this golden hour today….as in every day ...

3116. The Unlocked Heart

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

“Love begins with emotional connection. If you want to love and be loved, you must release the lock on your heart.” How many of you have used a combination lock? These are little but mighty devices. They look so small and insignificant. And yet, these little locks can be powerful deterrents to everything from ...

3117. Stay Close

John 10:22-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... space for you! I think all of us could use that kind of “safe space” in our lives, amen? Especially when life feels particularly hard. In today’s culture in fact, it’s hard for all of us at times to find somewhere we can truly feel “safe” –emotionally, spiritually, and for many physically. Let’s face it. In much of our lives, we live in fear. Even for those who have a family, stability, loved ones, friends, we often still can feel that we are living in a fear-filled culture. And in a fear ...

3118. Keep On Moving

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Christ! We are called urgently to put first in our lives the message of Jesus for all people –no matter who they are—that they are beloved by God. We are called urgently to put first in our lives the priority to feed the hungry –literally, emotionally, and spiritually, for they are starving for God. We are called urgently to heal and care for those who are feeling downtrodden, alone, and afraid, and let them know that Jesus cares, and so do we. We are called urgently to invite those in our periphery ...

3119. You Are the Christ....Now What About Them?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... ” -- is actually the height of arrogance -- “Hey, your Hinduism is really unimportant and insignificant." No. When Peter confessed of Jesus, “You are the Messiah," he was saying something singular, different. Jesus is not the embodiment of a mess of vaguely religious emotions and pious platitudes, ala Leo Buscaglia. He is Jesus, someone who lived, spoke, and died in a very specific way. It was possible to get him wrong, as this episode demonstrates. Everything nice that folk said of Jesus (“He's a ...

3120. Motives Matter

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , the more our actions follow. As human beings, this is never a once and done experience. We don’t “magically” become super-human angels once we accept Jesus into our lives. We still remain fallible human beings, susceptible to all kinds of emotions, drives, desires, and needs. To truly change our hearts requires God’s intervention. Faith is not a philosophy but something we practice and submit to every single day. In prayer, in communion, in scripture, in meditation, in the awareness of God and ...

3121. Learning to Lean

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... her journey of self-discovery in 1995, she physically sets off on a 1,100-mile hike, following the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert to Washington state. As she moves forward through the challenges of the trail, she also processes the emotions, memories, and pain of her inner journey, arriving at a destination, in which she feels ready to embrace life once again from a new and hopeful perspective. The book offers a snapshot for how we wrestle with issues, such as death, grief, disillusionment ...

3122. The Mother of All Yard Sales

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... apiece. It was a brutal, painful, dismal affair, that mother-of-all-yard- sales. It was painful for all concerned except maybe the guy who bought the rubber chickens. He seemed to be having a great time. But for my family, it was a disaster, emotionally if not financially. In one, brief, Saturday morning and afternoon, we were confronted (frankly and painfully) with just how connected, how attached, how cemented we are to the stuff of this world. We are a Christian family and we desire and try daily to ...

3123. The Rhythm of Your Heart

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... your heart and increase your faith, we know that when our heart beats to the rhythm of God’s pulse, when our soul resonates with the frequency of God’s Spirit, we feel God’s presence, and our heart responds –with faith, emotion, empathy, and compassion for others around us. As scripture tells us, “Where your heart resonates, there is your treasure” (Matthew 6:21). Our inclinations, our tendencies toward either selfishness or empathy, our outlook on life, relationships, faith, and God, all issue ...

3124. Bare Stage

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... spoken by the angel in a dream to reassure Joseph that his fiancé Mary’s pregnancy was part of God’s plan for salvation. Christians believed words spoken through an angel in a dream had great power, and who wouldn’t want to share the emotional, spiritual, and/or physical healing that comes with the divine word? There are times when fear holds us back from witnessing to the truth about Jesus, and against the lies of racism, national-ism, and materialism that pervade our society. We are still called to ...

3125. Will You Sing With Me?

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

Heather Sugden

... Grace” and tears fall; I am filled with joy and want to shout “Go Tell it on the Mountain.” Songs my parents and grandparents sang to me come to my lips, even when I cannot exactly remember when or where I heard them. Musical notes often touches emotions so deep that words simply cannot reach. If these songs are woven so inseparably into my faith, then surely I cannot help but sing them to others and teach them to a new generation of believers. We must sing, and bring hope through our song to all who ...

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