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3201. Christ Has Set Us Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

... could take over and be worldly and mature and sophisticated - and free. But whenever we yield to the big lie and reach for the forbidden fruit, we gag on it, and we’re left with the same brown aftertaste that whoopee always brings. Just like Adam and Eve we feel a sense of being exposed and we also try to cover up. But alibis and passing the buck don’t work any better than fig leaves. To all who are slaves without realizing it, Jesus serves notice that "everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin." The ...

3202. Is The Gospel Only For Women?

Luke 6:17-26

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... s rights. I find another remark by Dr. Weatherhead to be insightful: An amazing thing that, although Christ was a man, and though most women think that no man can ever understand them, yet no woman has ever felt that Christ could not understand her womanly feelings. He goes on to observe, "It is one of the glorious facts of our religion that womanhood finds all its ideals realized in him." That leads me to dare to say that if these are "womanly" - these Beatitudes - then women have no better model than this ...

3203. Christ the King A King Worth Having

John 12:12-19

Sermon

... than Jesus, since he had to borrow from them. Again we’re amazed to find still another sign that there is not, and there has not been, any person in all the world nor in all history who can’t identify with our king. The most miserable wretch will never feel our king has put himself out of reach. The poorest of the poor can never say our king isn’t on their level. Our king doesn’t put himself above us, although he’d have had every right. With nearly every other king, I’d be out-of-place. This ...

3204. Christ the King The King On His Cross

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Alvin Rueter

... the project. You won’t achieve all you want. It could even turn out pretty well so that you could take a lot of satisfaction from it. But perfection? When you reach for it, it pops. That’s the thirst for paradise. It’s like the thirst for justice. We feel it in our bones that it must exist someplace. Would that we could find it! When I was a boy there was a series in the funny papers called "The Willetts." Just a cartoon with only one picture. From time to time the caption would read, "When you’d ...

3205. The Day You Were Healed

Luke 17:11-19

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... to someone just as mortal and as helpless and dependent as ourselves. The froth of pious praise to God does not befit our self-esteem. The Nauseous Horror Leprosy was a nauseous horror. There was little back in Bible days to equal it for that completely hopeless feeling. To describe it in detail might be a little more than we can handle at this hour of the morning. And to detail the leper’s situation as the human outcast, confined not in aseptic isolation wards or nursing homes, but in the dirty caves and ...

3206. Advancers Over Decliners

Luke 19:11-27

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... our hearts. We box it up in our devotions, or in Sunday liturgies, or we chain it to the altar of our churches. We are children of the heavenly Father when we "safely in his bosom gather," but beyond the doors of our stained-glass cathedrals that good feeling might evaporate. Out here in the world the pound could easily be lost. Therefore, let there be no risk. Walk the straight and narrow, do what is right, obey the rules, let piety parade in worship, but then stuff it all inside the pocket of the soul and ...

3207. Believing is Seeing

Luke 23:26-43

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Alton F. Wedel

... our terms, not on Christ’s, by power plays instead of meekness movements. The mission is contemporized to make folks feel good about themselves, to win friends and influence people at the expense of other people. Vaunted claims of inclusiveness result ... were born that way. Peer pressures laid it on us. Or we did what our hearts told us to do, and we were told that if it feels good, we could do it, so we did it. But the modern folks I know, and you know, too, are kissing cousins to those other modern men ...

3208. One Nation, Under Mercy

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... them, thank God with one heart and one voice. Not everyone agrees with that. But even if the day is nothing but an opportunity for family fun and feast and football, a break in the routine of daily work, yet I believe that only the most cold and heartless feel no swell of gratitude. Generally it can be said that we are well-mannered people who have learned to squeeze a thank-you from our teeth and lips occasionally, and who have to be polite enough to those who favor us with graces and to those who don’t ...

3209. The Man Who Came to Dinner

Luke 14:1-14

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Carveth Mitchell

... - cardboard figures who soon or late are humbly brought from the clouds of delusion back to earth by the hard facts of life. Status questions often arose in Jesus’ day, just as they do in our day. For example, how often have we heard nasty remarks and hurt feelings over who should sit in what pew at the wedding and who should sit near the bride and groom at the wedding dinner? Of course, there is a false humility that repels us because we recognize it as only another form of conceit. A man said, "I used ...

3210. Of Preachers and Preaching

Micah 1:8-16

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... to become sharply aware that I was considered somehow different from other people. This distressed me because I did not feel all that different, and I spent too much energy trying to shuck off the stereotypes people persisted in imposing upon ... community of faith. The church could not long survive if it gave equal and unqualified attention to all the eccentric individuals who get a feeling of being called. The point is illustrated in an old story about a country boy who claimed to have a vision that propelled ...

3211. Blueprint for Action

Romans 13:14

Children's Sermon

... to tell a lie or fight with your brother or sister? That’s an evil plan and God doesn’t like that. It makes us feel bad, and it hurts others as well. Now the Bible says there is another plan, and that plan is the way Jesus taught us to ... we plan to be like Jesus we always think of the kindest things to say, or do. lt’s like being nice to someone whose feelings were hurt or doing the dishes for mother without being asked or helping someone secretly without his ever guessing who it was who helped him. ...

3212. Killing A King

Luke 19:28-44

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... and Jesus be sent to the cross. They wanted a criminal rather than a Christ! Can you imagine how that hurt Jesus' feelings? Then there were the disciples who forsook him and fled when he was arrested and put on trial. One betrayed him. ... black person came into the church to worship, the piano would go out the next day. Obviously, Christ was not yet King in their racial feelings. Indeed, you may have accepted Jesus and you are a member of the church. Maybe you have not yet allowed Christ to hold full sway ...

3213. God's Thick Syrup

Titus 3:1-11

Children's Sermon

... need us. Amen. It sure is good to know that God cares for us and loves us so much, isn't it? I mean, it makes you feel good to know that he wants you to be happy and without worry or fear. God is Love. Isn't that great? The Scriptures say it ... God; he was God. Jesus didn't just get up from being dead and go away. He sent us the Holy Spirit so that we would never feel alone or separated from God. When God does something for us, he does it richly. When he made the world, he made it the most beautiful world ...

3214. A Clanging Cymbal

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Children's Sermon

... else, but with love he becomes something very special. For instance, when he talks he speaks to you about the things that you want to talk about and not just about what he did or wants to do. He wants to know how you really feel and what has happened that makes you feel so good. He never tries to hurt you with gossip or dirty talk. He speaks to you about the wonderful things that God has done and how much God loves you. When the Christian speaks, it is never like a clanging cymbal, but like beautiful ...

3215. If Only We could Be Loyal ...

Hosea 4:1-19, Hosea 6:1--7:16

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Wallace H. Kirby

... the land will dry up, and everything that lives on it will die." (4:1) Hosea pleaded with the people on God’s behalf: "God only wants your loyalty, not your sacrifices." (6:6) He wants your love. God wants you to know him so that you can feel the depth of his love, a love that is strong in spite of your disloyalty, that doesn’t disappear like mist and dew. If you persist in being disloyal, Hosea said, you will render God helpless and bring destruction on yourself. Hosea’s prophetic words were born out ...

3216. God's Thermometer

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Children's Sermon

... warnings, let me show you something I brought along that helps us know a warning. [Hold up the thermometer.] What do you call this? That's right, a thermometer. I suppose all of you have noticed that when you are not feeling well, your mom or dad comes over and touches your head. If you feel even a little bit warm, the next thing you know they are putting this thermometer in your mouth and waiting to see what your temperature is. Is there anyone here who knows what your temperature should be if you are all ...

3217. Dried Paint and Hard Bread

Ephesians 4:26

Children's Sermon

... and the dry piece of bread.] Do you know what is the same about both the paint and the bread? Take a good look. You may even feel them if you would like so that you will know how paint and bread can be alike. Now, do you know? [See if any of the ... hard with it. Your anger will hurt you, if you let it stay in you overnight. Anger is to be used to get rid of the awful feelings that are inside of you and then it is over with and put away. Never stay angry overnight or you will turn into something that you ...

3218. What Shall We Do With This Baby?

Drama

... or maybe aunt or uncle, grandma or grandpa, brother or sister. The title does not matter. They have the true heart of a mother or father and the ability to care for, protect and love any child placed in their care. Q1: I am beginning to feel better about this. But is a loving parent, or even two parents, all a baby needs in this world? Scene 3 Mary, Joseph and baby in the manger Two readers/questioners, narrator, scripture reader, angels and shepherds Congregation sings: "Joy To The World" (Angels enter and ...

3219. Prayer

Matthew 5:17-20

Bulletin Aid

... 'm attracted to them! But if I don't act on it, I'm OK ... Aren't I? I don't file for divorce every month, (Or even think about it ... very often) And even if I were driven to it By circumstances I can hardly even imagine, I'd feel badly, Because I believe in the sanctity of marriage ... Don't I? I don't swear indiscriminately Or especially, falsely, (I may say something now and then When no other words seem appropriate) But I sure don't swear to something I know is false ... Do I? I try to ...

3220. Proper 4

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

... was not easy, but he saw a purpose in his difficulties and in his conflicts, and he kept moving ahead, growing in response to the challenges he faced. We need to be reminded the purpose of our faith is not to keep us happy, make us wealthy, soothe our feelings, or smooth our ruffled feathers, though occasionally it may do all of those things. The purpose of our faith is to keep us steady in the storms and to help us make something of ourselves in the struggles of life, give us enough of a challenge, face us ...

3221. Estranged Hands

Matthew 6:5-15

Children's Sermon

... like that happen before? How sad it would have been if John and Mary would have stayed angry and not played with each other or spoken to each other. That would have been wrong. It is not good for us to hold bad feelings that separate us from each other. It is even worse when we have bad feelings in us that keep us away from Jesus and his love. Jesus forgives all the wrongs we do. He wants each of us to know that we can come to him and be sure that he will receive us as his friend. Tonight ...

3222. The Passion of Our Lord

2 Corinthians 5:21

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... , except for a loin cloth allowed for the Jews, and His crucifixion begins. His crucifixion and death He is offered a mild analgesic of wine mixed with myrrh, but He refuses to drink; His shoulders are then thrown backward against the cross-arm, and the soldier feels for the depression between the bones in His wrist. (Nails placed through the palms of the hands would not easily support the weight of the human body; in the Bible, the wrist was considered part of the hand.) The heavy wrought iron nail is now ...

3223. Prayer: Our Crosses into Victories

Mark 8:31--9:1

Bulletin Aid

... souls. And here, the voice of Our Lord calls to us: "Pick up your cross, and follow me. Offer me your cross, and follow me. And I will turn your cross into victory. You may not understand now. You may not know the way I am leading you. You may feel bitter, and disappointed, and unhappy. But trust me, and follow me. And your eyes will see, in this life and eternity." This invitation of the Savior of our souls: that as we give our cross to Him, He will turn it into victory; that through our life with Him, in ...

3224. Our Prayers, Not Questions

Sermon

... , "I'll ask God to help us both. I'll ask God to see me through." "Will you pray with me on the phone before we hang up?" I asked her. "Yes," she said, "I'd like to." We prayed. "How do you feel?" I asked her. "Do you still want to commit suicide?" "No," she said, "I feel peaceful inside. Everything is going to work out all right. "God bless you," she said. "God bless you," I said. "Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved." - in the prayers of our hearts. Like the dying thief, like ...

3225. Dear Mrs. Day

Luke 15:1-7

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Thomas C. Short

... and whole inside. I felt that God loved me and was reaching out to me to help me experience that divine love. It was the greatest feeling I’ve ever had in my life. I knew then that my life was going to be different. Well, it has been different. No, I ... s it. In our relationship with our creator God, there is a happiness and joy that is not experienced on any other level of life. I feel that joy in my heart. Don’t get me wrong. Every day is not a sunny day. I haven’t adopted a "Colgate smile" which ...

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