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326. Stilling Storms

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... only watch as his fury mounted. Within three months he was dead of severe hardening of the arteries and of high blood pressure. He was killed by his jealousy and rage. (5) A storm within one’s own soul can have tragic circumstances. Jealousy, anger, bitterness, guilt. The list of storms that can rock our individual souls is lengthy indeed. We need a Savior when such storms rage within. But there are other storms, storms that may rock our relationships. Those storms may be in our marriages or between us ...

327. Penguins in Mission

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... unable to eat during this whole period and lose almost half of their body weight. In order to preserve this egg, and maintain their own body heat, the male emperors don’t try to fend for themselves. They huddle together in tight bunches for warmth and protection against the bitter winds and sub‑zero temperatures. The entire flock moves as one, huddles as one, stays together as one unit in order to preserve these eggs. They strive together for one goal to stay warm in order to produce offspring; and the ...

328. Tear Down This Wall!

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He remembers it plainly. In his prayer he said this: “Dear Lord, you know the need that Tom has as he faces this surgery for this cancer. But, Lord, before we ask you to do anything for Tom physically, I pray you will deal with the cancer of bitterness that has destroyed this family for years.” By that time Locke was watching and praying, wanting to back toward the door. When he closed his prayer and looked up, everyone in the room was crying and those three daughters moved across the room and for the ...

329. Did You Know...You Can Be Forgiven For Anything?

1 John 1:8-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... the third condition. III. Accept The Forgiveness Of Your Sin If you do your part and you properly confess your sin God will do his part and forgive you but again you must come totally and fully clean. If it is lust, you call it lust. If it is bitterness, you call it bitterness. If it is looking at pornography, you call it looking at pornography. If it is stealing, you call it stealing. If it is lying, you call it lying. You not only call it what it is, you hate it for what it is. You despise it, because it ...

330. Got Milk?

1 Peter 2:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... deals with all types of relational problems has to do with reading God's word, but it has very much to do with it for this reason. You not only read the Bible with your eyes, you read the Bible with your heart. If your heart is dirty from bitterness, lying, hypocrisy, jealousy or slander, it will do you no good to read the Bible. Now these two verses are connected, not just because one comes right after the other one, but they actually are connected in a circular way. Let me explain. The word "lay aside" in ...

331. When I Grow Up

Ephesians 4:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... making him the Prime Minister of Egypt. That is the real mark of spiritual maturity. When you choose a possibility that may be very charming, but is also very sinful, you choose faithfulness over compromise. III. When People Cheat Me - I Will Choose Forgiveness over Bitterness God uses trouble to teach us to trust Him. God uses temptations to teach us to obey Him, but God uses trespasses to teach us to forgive others. Just as God designs trials to draw us closer to Him, Satan designs temptations to draw us ...

332. God Where Are You? - The Problem of Evil

Genesis 3:1-6, Judges 6:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... to the grieving families, he raised the "Why" question and said, "I don't know." Then he added these words, "Times like this will do one of two things: they will either make us hard and bitter and angry at God or they will make us tender and open and help us reach out in trust and faith. I pray….that you will not let bitterness and poison creep into your souls, but you will turn in faith and trust in God even if we cannot understand. It is better to face something like this with God than without Him." It ...

333. Jealousy: Cancer of the Heart

Proverbs 27:4

Sermon

James Merritt

... is "rottenness to the bones." Bones are on the inside of you. Jealousy is a corrosive that will rot you from the inside out and destroy you. Jealousy steals the satisfaction of enjoying what you already have. I read the story about two shopkeepers who were bitter rivals. Their stores were directly across the street from each other, and they would spend every day keeping track of each other's business. If one got a customer he would smile real big and wave at his rival across the street. One night an angel ...

334. Family Ties and Good-byes

Luke 12:49-56

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... him off the cliff" (Luke 4:29). Did Jesus' own brothers and sisters participate in this threat of death? We aren't told, but we are told that they were there. We don't read anywhere that they protested this treatment of their brother. Was there leftover bitterness and resentment because Jesus had left the family to become an itinerate preacher? Possibly so. Wasn't the oldest son supposed to take care of the family when the father died? Yes, he was. Why didn't Jesus fulfill his duty as the oldest son? Good ...

335. Faithquakes

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... can't make someone else repent. We can only control our own attitudes. When we are offended, the best thing we can do is to be willing to forgive, to offer forgiveness, instead of holding a grudge, living in bitterness, or clinging to resentment. When grudges are held, bitterness, and resentment are like seeds in a garden of discontent. Whether forgiveness ever takes place is dependent on a willingness to forgive by the offended person, and a willingness to repent by the offender. When we are unwilling to ...

336. Putting Ourselves into the Picture

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... if there’s a “dangerous class” at any level of society, the surest way to make them more dangerous is to treat them harshly. Why don’t we learn that in our prison system? It was a blunder of the pharaoh; to make lives bitter. For when he made lives bitter, hearts and wills were embittered and the people were ripened for revolt and Egypt became less attractive. Let’s put ourselves into the picture. The long years of ease, 350 or 400 years of ease, in Egypt had multiplied the nation Israel; now the ...

337. Thursday: Broken Bread And Broken Trust

Mark 14:10-26

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... piece of the bread, hidden in the pocket of a Matzah Tosh. This piece of bread was broken in half. One half was used for the bitter herbs. The other half was wrapped in a linen cloth and hidden away like a body in a tomb, a piece of bread which was so ... 's called Elijah's Cup. It sits next to the plate which holds all the symbols of the flight for freedom, the parsley, the bitter herbs, the haroseth, the boiled egg, the lamb shank and unleavened bread. This cup is called Elijah's Cup because it is reserved for ...

338. What Matters In the Light of Eternity: “Prayer Matters”

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... and be forgiven. The emotional burden of carrying a backpack full of unforgiven issues can get really heavy. It is a burden the soon departed are not usually willing to carry. Martha is an example. She is dying of lung cancer. She had good reason to be bitter, but she chose to be forgiving. You see, her husband was an alcoholic and often abusive. He had an affair with a member of their own family. When he had a stroke, Martha cared for him for thirteen years until his death. Martha could have taken revenge ...

339. Thanks for the Memories

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... with the second and third chew, I want to use this Memorial Sunday to remember. I Thank My God Every Time I Remember You. (Verse 3) Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, who could have been bitter with pain and twisted by abuse, writes from a dingy Roman prison words of great affirmation. I thank my God every time I remember you. Did you see the cartoon featuring a small cat being attacked by a big dog? The cat ran about a half block then stopped, turned, ...

340. Doing What Disciples Do

John 15:12-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... him more than two miles has heard it. The postman knows; the woman at the check-out counter knows. His rage has become his very being. Joe has become the bitterness that was done him one day. Forgiveness is never easy and it is not excusing, but it is absolutely essential if you are to keep from dying a bitter person. Disciples forgive because forgiveness fits faulty people. Jesus forgives us and so we forgive. Forgiveness sets us free. The person feeling free is the one doing the forgiving. C. DISCIPLES ...

341. Are You Able?

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... -graduate work." Perhaps the statement of Jesus in this story is as telling as the question. Jesus said to them “You will indeed drink from my cup." Tonight we remember he was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Yes, we have tasted that cup, all its bitter dregs. To live is to hurt. Sometimes it is to hurt a lot. There are times in our lives when we are not having the time of our lives. We bring to church the pain of disease, the loneliness of divorce, the sting of death, the stress of adolescence ...

342. The Joyful Provider

John 2:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... want to do something for 40 days that's going to make a difference in life, stop being critical for40 days and start being positive. If you want to do something constructive for40 days, reach down in your soul where there is bitterness and unforgiveness and ask the Lord to wash your bitterness away. If you want to do something vital for Lent, do something that is going to make a difference in your life. What if — Bible reading was no longer a religious chore but a spiritual feast, Worship was not a dull ...

343. Praising Our Savior

Philippians 3:7-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... a Christian, but I do know what it is to suffer. All of us have some pain to bear. I do know that trouble can make you bitter or trouble can make you better. I do know that its not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you that makes ... from a childhood illness. Fanny Crosby, who could see more in her blindness than most of us comprehend with our eyesight, never became bitter about her lot in life. She went on to write nearly nine thousand hymns, many of which we still sing today. Someone ...

344. Heart Religion

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... no matter what his heart. and his thoughts are like. To take the case of the legalistic Jew in the times of Jesus, he might in his heart of hearts hate his fellow man with all his heart, he might be full of en and jealousy and concealed bitterness, and pride; that did not matter so long as he carried out the correct hand washing, and observed the correct laws about cleanness and uncleanness. Legalism takes account of a man’s outward actions; but it takes account at all of his inward feelings. He may well ...

345. Personal Politics

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... , felt cheated on so many fronts. Even in her own church she had become an outsider. Her social life grew very small, and her children didn't know what to do with a single parent. Ralph and Sue were always great fun, but Jane was becoming a bitter tag-along nobody cared to have around. Ralph was truly a nice guy. Even as he slipped easily into his second marriage, he realized his responsibility before God to make things right with his former wife. So one day he called Jane and told her of his happiness ...

346. Aprons or Bibs

Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Sermon

Tony Everett

... from the Lord and worshiped other gods. They were often unjust and unfair in their treatment of the poor and vulnerable. They often ignored and even openly opposed the leadership of Moses. They often experienced bitter quarreling and dissention within their midst ... just like roots "sprouting poisonous and bitter growth" (Deuteronomy 29:18). Choosing life and blessing was not as easy as it looked for God's people then. It is at least as difficult for us today, especially during troubled and frightening ...

347. Eat and Run

Exodus 12:1-14

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... the cup with his blood, the old Jewish Passover meal took on new meaning for us as Christians. For us, it is not the symbolism of unleavened bread that is meaningful but rather the symbolism of broken bread. We do not partake of the lamb and the bitter herbs, but only the bread and the cup. The Lord specified to Moses and the people that "this day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance ...

348. Acquired Taste

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... m concerned the delicacy known as an “oyster shooter”—a raw oyster spiced with Tabasco and lemon and tossed down in a single gulp—looks like something that should be disposed of discretely in a tissue, not put into your mouth. Or remember your first cup of coffee? Bitter and biting, no matter how much milk and sugar you dumped into it. And why is it that the chunk of cheese that accidentally got lost in the bottom of the fridge for a month is stinky garbage, while you pay $20.00/lb. for an equally ...

349. Disillusioned Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... them to his side. “I think,” he says, smiling, “God overdid it.” (4) Well, in our estimation, God does overdo it sometimes. Not really, of course. But that’s how it seems. And some people with a weak faith can’t handle it. They become bitter. They blame God. And disillusionment sets in a disillusionment very much like that of Thomas. Some of you have been there. At least for a while. If you haven’t yet, give yourself time. Fortunately, this is not the end of the story. Thomas was dejected ...

350. Words That Wound, Words That Heal

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... a cleansing of the heart so that we can refill ourselves with love, compassion, and forgiveness. I have found that it helps immensely to pray for that person with whom I am most disgusted or who has hurt me the most. Praying for the individual softens the contempt and bitterness in my heart. I recently wondered to myself: If someone followed me around for a day with a tape recorder, how would I sound when it was played back at the end of the day? What would have been the tone of my voice? What kind of words ...

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