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3951. Healing the Pain from the Past

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... in offering healing. As Ezekiel speaks to the people of Judah, we can hear words of grace for ourselves. To those who feel abandoned and neglected, God promises reconciliation. "For thus says the Lord God: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek ... up the pain of the past. God will work in us to bring us peace, courage, and even joy. Our wounds may run deep, and our feelings may threaten to overwhelm us, but God's grace is deeper than our hurt. God offers the exiles hope for a better future: "I will ...

3952. A Hope for Peace

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

James L. Killen

... in conflict over some significant issue whom you have allowed yourself to think of as enemies. That is the place where peacemaking can be most difficult because you will have to overcome bad feelings, not only in yourself, but in the other. And reaching out to try to be reconciled may result in your being hurt again. We really feel the things that go wrong in this area of our relatedness. We are tempted just to leave those relationships broken so that we won't risk being hurt again. But it is reconciliation ...

3953. The Incarnation: What and Why?

Hebrews 2:10-18

Sermon

James L. Killen

... with life and with ourselves and with others. But it is hard to do that. Many things in life and within ourselves work against us. We find ourselves living lives of which we are not proud and with which we cannot be happy. We feel like we are parts of that losing team. We can't win. We feel the condemnation that always seems to rest on the losers. But God acted to reach out to us, to make known to us the things that God is always doing for our salvation. It is important to remember that God is the primary ...

3954. The Eyes of Your Heart

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... the eyes of our heart. When we focus on the things that we can see with our eyes, we sometimes want to give up. When we feel only through our body, the pain is sometimes too great for us. When we think only with our minds, the thoughts can be defeating. But ... can see (unless it's the eye of your heart, that is), still cares about you. He cares about little ol' you. You may feel like one speck of dandruff on the shoulder of the universe, one unique snowflake in the midst of a snowstorm, or one little hair on ...

3955. Slaves of a Different Master

Romans 6:12-23

Sermon

William G. Carter

... before I read the text, I realized there were a number of African-Americans in the congregation. I didn't know how they would feel about slavery, so I changed it on my feet. I made it, "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ." You know, it can be translated ... to forgive him." But we've said those prayers, and we are bound to those words. There are some things we learn through the church that feel like burdens. We get to know somebody, and discover that they are hurting, and we don't know what to do. We don't know how ...

3956. Speaking of the Spirit

Romans 8:12-17

Sermon

William G. Carter

... an individual, getting free of the burden of being "your own person" while the rest of the world is ignored and left to rot. The gospel of Jesus Christ lifts the burden of thinking the world is mine to conquer, mine to plunder, and mine to do with whatever I feel like doing. There is nothing in the gospel to justify that kind of thinking. What we hear instead is the news that we belong to God, and through God, we belong to one another. Coming to terms with that central truth is what it means, I think, to be ...

3957. Complete Joy

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... any consolation from love, if there is any sharing in the Spirit, if there is any compassion and sympathy. If, in other words, those who receive this letter, if those who hear these words have any of these things, then Paul wants them to do something for him. If people feel any encouragement in Christ, any strengthening from the body of Christ in the church, any appeal to that part of us which is good and true, any calling of us by Christ to be a part of his work here, then Paul has a claim on them to do ...

3958. Bragging Rights

Philippians 3:4b-14

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... the truth is told, all of us are certainly capable of acting that way at times. In fact, even Paul is capable of bragging this way. Paul begins by reminding his readers that if anyone should ever feel that they are guaranteed salvation, at least according to everything a person can do, the person who should feel most secure is Paul. As he lists all his qualifications, all his reasons to brag, it sounds as if he had everything possible going for him. "Circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of ...

3959. Always?

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Rick Brand

... : the works of faith, the labors of love, and the endurance inspired by hope in Jesus Christ. George Barna, president of the Barna Research Group, reported recently that a survey of active believers said their faith is consistently growing, helping them to feel connected to other people, and helping them to feel good about life and to take care of themselves and others.1 That is part of the work of faith in our lives. When Paul talks about the work of faith, Paul is talking about the effects of faith in the ...

3960. A Place for You

Ruth 1:16-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... efforts that I make will do no good. They will never prevail to tip the hovering scale where justice hangs in the balance. I don't think I ever really thought they would. But I am prejudiced beyond debate, in favor of my right to choose which side shall feel the stubborn ounces of my weight. The Bible is wonderful, filled with surprises. Most of them can be found in these sonnets for "little people." The Book of Ruth is such a sonnet. So is the story of the widow in the Temple. Jesus sets the scene with a ...

3961. Are You Trying to Prove Something?

Genesis 12:1-9

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... their out of print list. They said they've got a few copies in the warehouse, wondered if I would like to buy them. I feel like writing them, and saying, "Why don't you try and sell them!" I got that, and I started thinking, my whole world is going ... is to believe that you are forgiven, right now, and that God loves you the way you are, right now, even if you don't feel loveable. Faith means that you trust that God loves you, so you can stop trying to be somebody, stop trying to prove something, stop trying ...

3962. He's Back

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , but not letting the one who brought that love into the world, who died for you because of that love, challenge the way you are now living. In the Bible repentance is not just remorse for the past, feeling sorry that you did something. In the Bible repentance is making a decision about the future, how you are going to live. It's the realization that God is giving you a new opportunity for life, and seizing that opportunity. The righteous were always telling Jesus, go tell the sinners ...

3963. Hope Is Medicinal

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the pious," or the "reasoning of the religious." But there are those who have another theory. If you measure their numbers by the number of books sold that advocate this position, you would say that their numbers are great, and growing. These are the people who feel that in large part the healing is up to you. As if they had said, "If you will, you can do it yourself." One of the better advocates of this position, Bernie Siegel, wrote that runaway best seller some years ago, Love, Medicine and Miracles. In ...

3964. Joy to the World

Mark 16:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... to say, to meet him in the daily activities of their normal lives. You will notice that Peter is singled out. "Go tell the disciples and Peter." Peter tried the hardest and failed the worst. If I know Peter, which is to say, if Peter is like me, Peter now feels the worst. So the angel tells the women, "Go tell the disciples and be sure you tell Peter. Especially tell Peter that I will not give up on him. I will come and be with him in Galilee." This scene has a name. It is called the "Rehabilitation of ...

3965. Poor Mary

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... day a priest walks into his room. He didn't invite him in, he just walked in. The priest asked him, "Do you want to be anointed?" That is the Catholic rite for the sick. The man said, "Yes." Then he wrote this. "Lying on my narrow, hospital bed, feeling the oil of gladness and healing, I knew I had little time. More importantly though, I felt by a wondrous grace that this was the first time in my memory that the Church was paying attention to me, individually, by name, naming me, praying for me to deal with ...

3966. The Day Life Increased

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... we mess up our lives, God is determined to redeem our lives. He pursues us until he does it. No matter how worthless we may feel that we are, or how insistent we are in acting out this self-assessment of who we are, God is determined that someday we ... had happened to her. At first I felt my parents love was unnecessary. It was smothering love. Then as things got worse, I began to feel unlovable. I think I resented my parents because if I was unlovable, then I could do what I wanted and it wouldn't matter. But ...

3967. The Paraclete Is Not a Bird

John 14:23-29

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... that employ special effects to blow up everything in sight. But the scenario is apocalypse. I think we ought to pay attention to that, because apocalypse is written for, and is interesting to, those people who feel that their world is collapsing, those people who fear the future and what it holds, those people who feel that they have been abandoned or betrayed in some way, or some way overwhelmed by the events of their life. They're the ones that apocalypse is written for. Sometimes I stay home in the ...

3968. They Grow Up Fast

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... tension between parents and son. The son obedient, attempting to fulfill his parents expectation of him, but all the while feeling he should be someplace else, doing something else. So the first thing this text reveals to us is something about families ... , and that's when it hit him. He discovered who it is that he should be. I wonder how many of us had that same feeling in adolescence? We would actually define it as a "call," because no matter what it was, it seemed to come from beyond us, something spoken ...

3969. This Is Not Rocket Science

Acts 2:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... 't think you were going to make it. You look back on that time and you realize that there was something, someone, some power that was guiding you through it. That is the meaning of the Holy Spirit. That power in our life that we cannot see, but we can feel it moving us through our lives. If you do not understand these doctrines now, if you do not understand what we mean by providence, or faith, or grace, or Spirit, it may not be because they are part of some ancient past that is no longer relevant to us. It ...

3970. What's The Use?

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... some churches they make the visitors stand and introduce themselves. Which I believe must have been a practice started in Puritan New England as an act of public humiliation. So I refuse to participate in that ritual. I believe if a church wants to make visitors feel welcome, hospitality and good manners dictate that the members stand up and introduce themselves to the visitors. All of this is to say that one Easter, some years ago, we had a visitor here who filled out an "I am Here" card, and wrote a note ...

3971. When Saying No Means Yes

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... we have power in our wealth. We are given all of these things in order to do something worthwhile in this life, in order to make this world a better place. Even those of us who feel that in comparison with others, we don't have very much, in comparison to the poor, especially the poor in Jesus' day, we are wealthy. Even if we feel we can't give very much, if we do our part along with everybody else, there would be a tremendous source of power to do good in this world. One of the earliest hymns I learned ...

3972. While You Are Waiting

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... better. That's a placebo. They have now come up, especially psychologists, with a new word called "nocebo." It is the opposite of placebo. What it means is, and the evidence is there, that what you believe not only will make you feel better, it can also make you sick. So some people who are overwhelmed with hopelessness and despair, people who don't expect that anything good could ever come into their lives, are more susceptible to sickness, and even to death. Which I have observed in my own unscientific ...

3973. Who Gives You Your Grade?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... am a Pharisee of the Pharisees." He was a moral man. He obeyed the Law in all of its detail. So he was not immoral, he was super-moral. But it didn't work. The object of obeying the Law was to be acceptable to God, which should result in feeling good about yourself. But it didn't work. It did just the opposite. Paul felt estranged, apart from God, and he didn't like himself. What revealed that to him was the realization that he had become mean, and ugly, and vengeful. Like those in our time who single out ...

3974. You Can't Win them All

Matthew 10:2-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , Joe Pignatano hit a triple play to end the game. It was a wonderful ending for an infamous season of the Mets. Casey Stengel was the manager of the Mets that year. After that last game, he called the team together in the locker room, and said, "Fellers, don't feel bad about this. It's been a team effort all the way." "You Can't Win Them All" sounds like baseball wisdom. But I would like to point out to you that it is also biblical. It was Jesus' advice to his disciples. It is our lesson for this morning ...

3975. You Will Never Walk Alone

Luke 24:13-20, 25-26, 28-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... Then he felt the sense of a presence. He described it in these words. "It was as though an unseen, oldest, longest-lost friend had come to walk the road beside me." That was it. That is all it was. It was not overpowering. It was empowering. The way you feel empowered when a friend comes to you in a time of trouble or despair, and says, "Let me walk with you." "Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road?" They rose that same hour and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven ...

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