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351. Pray Constantly

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... not for God's benefit, but for our own. There is an old story about a tailor who visits his rabbi and says, "I have a problem with my prayers. If someone comes to me and says, `Mendel, you're a wonderful tailor,' that makes me feel good. I feel appreciated. I can go on feeling good for a whole week, even longer on the strength of one compliment like that. But if people came to me every day, one after another, hour after hour, and kept saying to me `Mendel, you're a wonderful tailor,' over and over again it ...

352. If You Really Want To Be Helpful

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... story: "Once upon a time I was a frog. I really wasn't a frog but I felt like a frog. Frogs feel slow, low, ugly, puffy, drooped, and stooped. I know how a frog feels. Sometimes, even now, when I know I am not a frog, I feel slow, low, ugly, puffy, drooped, and stooped. You see, even when I know I am not a frog I get frog feelings. The frog feelings come when I want to look intelligent but feel dumb; when I want to be generous, but live like Scrooge; when I want to live with an attitude of gratitude, but ...

353. Future Tense

Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... toys of every kind. The stock market has reached new heights. New millionaires are created every day. We personally may not feel very rich, but as a people, we are. We are so rich that it has become a spiritual problem. Money has ... he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways." (4) This is the proper antidote to the anxiety that many of us feel in this turbulent world in which we live. God is with us regardless of what the future may bring. What we need to do is to regain our ...

354. Wounded, In Pain. Serving Still

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... God, resurrection is a given. "I have blotted out as a thick cloud your transgressions, and as a cloud your sins. Return unto me, for I have redeemed you" (Isaiah 44:22). Return. Refreshing word. Invigorating word. Do you feel broken? Do you feel ashamed? Do you feel unworthy? Hear the word now, "Return!" Is your life beneath expectations? Are you entirely unsuitable? Listen close and hear your love's voice. "Return!" In A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story, William Martin observes that the majority ...

355. Building A Home

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... . (6) Those of us who are pet lovers might be sympathetic to these young people's ethical dilemma. The point that Prager is making, though, is that many people today have no fixed point of reference for their values except what they feel--and feelings can be fickle and unreliable, even a feeling as noble as that of love. Humor writer Dave Barry once wrote a piece that exposes in a humorous way the unreliable side of love. "Love can be wonderful," he writes, "but it also can be very destructive. It can cause ...

356. I Am Forsaken

Psalm 29:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... the grace of God, these folks do go on. And though things are never the same again, over time, healing does take place. A measure of happiness does return. The third faulty assumption we make, of course, is that we are alone. Nothing could be more normal than to feel that God has forsaken us. Even Jesus, hanging on the cross cried out, "My God, why have you forsaken me?" If you have never asked that question, just wait. Most of us do sooner or later. But Jesus knew God had not forsaken him. His was a cry of ...

357. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... to a person in need, and do something for them. Leave all your troubles. Try to get a smile on their faces." DeLuise even indulges in a little theology. He says, "What happens is, God says, "˜Because you cared about others, I will give you a good feeling.' And that good feeling is genuine. It doesn't come from a candy bar, It doesn't come from cocaine. It comes from helping other people!" (1) That's pretty good advice. As someone has said, there are 10 ways to get over the blues. The first way is to help ...

358. Making Compassion a Verb

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... the door, and in a few moments Rogers appeared back on the platform as jovial as ever. Christians are called to a ministry of compassion, and if we are faithful to it, it will cause us to weep with those who weep. But it is not enough simply to feel the pain of others, we also need to act to relieve it. In Albert Camus' novel, The Fall, an established, impeccable French lawyer has his world totally under control until one night when he hears the cry of a drowning woman and he turns away. Years later, ruined ...

359. Hanging the Law on Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... sinners. To love God means to say, "Yes!" to God's will with every fiber of our being. To love our neighbors means to pray for their good and to allow God to do, through us, even a small portion of his will for them. Even when we don't feel a particular way, we can still, with God's help, begin to pray that God's will be done, and work for it to happen in our neighbors' lives. We're already answering the question, "Why are these commandments linked so absolutely?" But there's more to why our Lord ...

360. Servants Without Portfolio

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that the radicalness of it will cause us to consider and wrestle with it anew. The first signal that may enable us to wrestle creatively and respond to the call to be a servant is this. Being a servant is neither a matter of our own will or our own feeling, yet it incorporates both. The old hymn is right, ‘my will is not my own till I have made it thine.’ So we are given the will to be a servant. When we think that living the downward servant way is within our reach, and that our task is simply ...

361. Confession And Supplication

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... s bounties, and you may find yourself asking Christian humility - who am I that I should be so blessed? Now I’m not altogether naïve, and I know that we go through some days when everything seems a curse rather than a blessing. Days when we feel that we would have been better off not to get out of bed. Now that fact makes thanksgiving even more important. If we’re earnest in our praying, we will not be daunted by those dreadful days when everything goes wrong. For we will have cultivated our perception ...

362. When Being Good Is Bad For You Or Breaking The Chains Of Co-dependency

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... people know about Mommy's drinking." "I can quit any time I choose." "Don't make too much noise; Daddy's 'not feeling good' today." "These are the lies by which alcoholism (or other addictions) are covered up. "The very first principle -- the very first ... it a pacemaker -- she calls it "that thing." That's how angry she is. She's angry because in her mind she's not living. She feels like nothing because she is not able to help anyone. Now that's extreme. But play it out in your life. Being good is bad for ...

363. From Empty Nets to Full Lives

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... means, and would thus be driven to look for deeper values. The truth is, a person can have full nets but still have an empty life. After you've sold the fish in the market and have put a share of the money in the bank, you may still feel an emptiness deeper than empty nets and a yearning more poignant than the desire for economic security. You and I know some people like that; and there are many others in this category. It is sometimes said that the miracles of Jesus are parables in action; they teach a ...

364. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... the words of the Thomas Merton most helpful: “Do not be too quick,” he wrote, “to assume that your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you were capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy. Do not be too quick to assume that your enemy is an enemy of God just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy precisely ...

365. You Are Somebody!

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

... his tears, "Mister, I ain't nobody's nothin'. I ain't nobody's nothin'." Leslie Weatherhead said that if he lived to be a hundred, he didn't think he would ever forget the poignancy of that sight‑‑a little boy sitting in the midst of chaos, feeling he was unconnected, unimportant to anybody else in the world. Commenting on this story, Dr. John Claypool writes, “That condition is a terrible denial of one of the constituent needs of our human nature. We need to be loved; we need to be cared for; we need ...

366. Discovering that It’s Not about You

Genesis 22:1-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... . But the relationships will be based, not on ownership, but on the kind of respect that is an aspect of real love. That can make a big difference in your relationships. It can put an end to jealousy and manipulation and a lot of the hurt feelings and bad feelings that often exist between us. It can let you claim your freedom from others while respecting their freedom from you. It can let you make commitments to others that are parts of your commitment to God. Can you visualize what that could mean in your ...

367. Writing the Law on Our Hearts

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... We do not even have to be in grief or a tragedy or any particular problem to experience distance from God. Even if our lives are okay, and no grief intrudes or arguments come up, we wonder about God. We are comfortable, not in crisis, but we just don't feel close to God. We believe in God, believe all the right things, but God still seems far off. Because we experience God as far off, we do what we can to bridge the gap. We read our Bibles, but sometimes that raises as many questions as it answers. We come ...

368. Look Who Is Standing at the Door

James 4:1-12; 5:1-12

Sermon

James L. Killen

... . As a matter of fact, some of the people at the table are not really able to put themselves completely into the celebration. One is a younger man who has scored some spectacular early successes in business. He is proud of himself, but he does not yet feel entirely comfortable in this winner's circle. He knows he still has to prove himself in the long haul. Another of the men has just made a risky investment to expand his business using lots of borrowed money. If the enterprise is successful, he will reap ...

369. Still Sinners, Still Forgiven

Romans 5:1-8

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Long tells about his first failure in ministry. All his seminary books were unpacked. All the pencils were sharpened at the desk. A church member knocked on his door and asked if he had a few minutes to talk. She started right in: "I know that I shouldn't feel this way, but I just don't think God can ever forgive me." The few minutes became an hour. Tom asked, "What is the burden that you're carrying?" She was a devoted mother, a loyal spouse, a committed church member. She had never robbed a bank, did not ...

370. Say What?

1 John 3:5-6

Sermon

Rick Brand

... why the Old Testament and the Jews are so concerned with the law. You have to know the rules so that you can keep them. And then sin is disobedience. Sin is when you break the rules, and yet all that rule keeping slowly makes you numb. You begin to feel like U2 in their Zooropa album: "Don't move, don't talk out of turn, don't think, don't worry everything's just fine. Don't grab, don't clutch, don't hope for too much, don't breathe, don't achieve, don't grieve without leave...." Don't ...

371. A Radical Faith

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... to show you our slides, so we have decided we are going to have a potluck supper on Wednesday, June 25. You are all invited. You may feel that making you watch our slides is a heck of a way to say thank you, but we are going to do it anyway. I promise ... He sought to love God with his whole heart, mind, soul and strength, expecting in doing that, that the result would be that he would feel close to God. But it didn't work that way. It had the opposite effect on him. The harder he tried, the more depressed he ...

372. Thanks for Nothing!

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... by military might, our World Wars fought on largely foreign shores, North Americans – and especially Americans – have grown used to high standards of domestic tranquility. Even if we only truly considered this blessing one day a year, we've been thankful for a peaceful homeland. So do you feel thankful THIS November? After America's military personal – our sons and daughters, husbands and wives, moms and dads – once again have been placed in harm's way, battling a shadowy, badger-like target, do you ...

373. Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

James McCormick

... is, when there are so many sets of preferences, we can’t do them all, all of the time. So, how can we feel comfortable and at home, when sometimes things are done in ways we don’t like? I like to sing Sinatra’s theme song ... attempt to do a variety of things and embrace a variety of styles. You don’t have to like everything we do. But can you feel good about trying to provide a welcoming atmosphere where others, with different tastes, can experience something of what they prefer? I think I am growing ...

374. The Only Way to Fly

2 Timothy 3:15-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... of sorrow, the haze of hurt, the thunder of temptation. If you try to navigate your way through those tough times in your life by feeling rather than by faith, based on the fact of God's word, your plane will crash. I want to share with you practical reasons why ... I want you to remember is this. Every single decision you make in life you will make on one of two bases: either what you think and feel, or what God's says. You can fly VFR or you can fly IFR. III. Only the Bible Is a Guide to God's Home Verse 15 ...

375. Guilt: How to Keep Your Conscience Clear

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... a good thing either. I want to get even, to be made even, whole, my debts paid (whatever it may take!), to have no blemish, no reason to feel guilt or fear….I’d like to stand in the sight of God to know that I’m just and right and clean. When you’re this way ... and parents, are simply “hyperactive.” People are no longer gluttons; they simply have an “eating disorder.” Why should people feel guilty? After all, they’re not sinful they’re just sick; they’re not wicked, they’re just weak; ...

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