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376. Time for a New Wardrobe

Isaiah 61:1—62:12

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... fed. For many of us, salvation has a distant, almost irrelevant ring. I have heard it before. "Saving? Me? Are you serious?" "Trust me. I don't need saving." "I'm just fine. I don't do guilt." The "garments of salvation," have little meaning to those who don't feel that they need saving, but in truth, we all need it. We all need to be saved. Perhaps not from the same thing, but in my experience I have never met anyone who would not have benefited from at least going into the fitting room and trying on the ...

377. Close Up: Husbands - Be a Dream Lover

Colossians 3:19

Sermon

James Merritt

... his family to protect it, to provide for it and to defend it from anything outside that could hurt or damage it. Even the verb that Paul used would have caught everyone's attention. The love that Paul talks about here is not just a matter of an affectionate feeling that can come and go. The verb that would have been used would have been the Greek verb "phileo." Nor, does it refer to sexual love in which case Paul would have used the verb, "erau" which gives us the word "erotic." The word that Paul uses is ...

378. Experiencing God

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... judgments. It "confirms the biblical message for our present." That's the purpose of religious experience. Not to sustain emotion, but to connect us to faith. Even the original Pentecost disciples had to find the faith for the long haul. What we are saying is that when the feelings fade, we still need to be glad for the experience, for it was that, which for many of us, first opened the door of faith and helped us to see that the Bible and its story is for us — for us personally. What can be learned of ...

379. Ready or Not, Here I Come

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... her pastor for counseling one day. After the preliminaries, Mary confessed that she had done many things in her past that made her feel ashamed. "My behavior has not been that of a Christian," she said. Then she went on to explain that she had had ... s what the forgiveness of sins is like," he said. A week later, Mary told the pastor, "For the first time in my adult life, I feel free to live my faith with faithfulness. It's like a new world." "It is a new world," the pastor responded. "It's called the kingdom ...

380. Discover the Promise of Christmas

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... in our families, we watch old movies like It's A Wonderful Life, Scrooged, A Christmas Carol, National Lampoon's Family Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story with Ralphie and the Red Ryder BB Gun. We even watch some the TV specials trying to recapture that elusive feeling. We come with longing. We come to the Advent season hoping that God will once again meet us face to face while we're bent over the manger cradle making goo goo eyes and silly noises to entertain the newborn infant who is the Son of God ...

381. The Real GPS: Gospel Positioning System

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , which was published in 1947 and immediately became a best-seller as it let us look into a world many of us can’t even begin to imagine. Miep Gies refused to consider herself a “hero.” “Imagine,” she said, “if young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was an ordinary housewife and secretary.” Miep Gies could never understand the “My Way,” GPS-take-me ...

382. Happy Marriage...It's All About Choices

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

James W. Moore

... this lady is going to be here by noon to tell my successor all about me and my faults.” Isn’t that tragic? Why do we feel like we have to spread gloom? It is so much more fun to lift people up… rather than to tear them down. In Laura Huxley’s book ... we need to punish people? Every time I see that bumper sticker that reads: “I don’t get mad: I get even!” – it makes me feel so sad. Some time ago, a man came by to see me. He was depressed and despondent. He and his wife were having problems. The ...

383. The Ministry of Unbinding

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... specific area of forgiveness. I believe this, friends, as deeply as I believe anything else. There are persons in relation to most of us who are bound up in guilt. In some cases, they are estranged from us, and our relationship is limited. There are family members who feel unloved and unaccepted. There are friends who can’t be all God wants them to be because we won’t let them be all they want to be in relation to us. We need to unbind them – to love, and accept, and forgive in order that they might ...

384. When Are We Most Like God?

Exodus 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... every Sunday. I hope I’m in dialogue with you, responding to your questions – questions I hear you asking each week, and your feelings that you share with me – your thoughts, your anxieties, your problems – as I sense them from our life together, day-in and day ... by their oppression? It’s easy to do that, isn’t it? Easy to pull the shade of our mind so that we will not feel with our heart the oppression and suffering that’s going on around us. It is even easy to be a part of the oppressive system ...

385. Clear to the Better End - Parent Burnout

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... lose perspective, and when we fail to recognize our limits. It begins when the energy we have does not match the demands that are made of us as parents. When we see that we can’t meet those demands that are being made of us as parents, we often feel angry or guilty. We sometimes go into depression. Self-doubt and irritability are common. We’ll come back in a moment to the nature and causes of burnout, but let me interject here a word about the title of the sermon. Our theme, of course, is parent burnout ...

386. The Unsuspected Trojan Horse

Psalm 139:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to name our resentment for what it is. It’s amazing how much power there is in naming specifically what it is that we are feeling. That’s the reason that the Psalmist cried out to the Lord for the Lord to search his heart and to know him, and to ... it becomes resentment. I’m glad Paul told the Ephesians to “be angry and sin not.” Go ahead, he said, acknowledge your feelings - bring them out into the open - but sin not. Then there was this great line in his instructions to the Ephesians: “Don’t ...

387. Not a Servant, but a Son

Galatians 4:6-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to cower in self-pity. God has sent the spirit of the Son into your hearts crying, “Abba, Father!” Therefore you are no longer a servant, but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ. Remembering that, you can’t slink back in the shadows feeling that you are not worthwhile. You know that you belong because the grace of God is yours. You’re accepted. II Look at the second area. See what this being not a servant but a son can do for our praying. As a son, we don’t come groveling to ...

388. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... other, to Christ, and to God. Our life is a shared life, we hear one another’s burdens. A second truth - Crucial to living this shared life is learning to listen As much as any thing else persons need to be listened to. Is there anything that enhances our feelings of worth more than being listened to? I think not. When you listen to me you say to me “I value you. You are important. I will hear and receive what you say.” When you really listen to a person, listen with ears and a heart that hears, it ...

389. Peter, Our Folk Hero

Mark 14:27-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... locate even recent times when we have resisted Christ’s will. But I don’t want to focus there. Let me tell you where I feel our denial is most blatant. We deny Jesus by settling for less than his best for us, and by closing Him out of our lives ... our emotions, however genuine and deep. I hope we will learn for security in our continual adherence to Christ – not our fluctuating feelings, but in His steadfast love. We keep close to Him, not because fingers grasp which nothing can loosen. If we trust in ...

390. Marketing or Disciplemaking?

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... because the message they present at the Loop really caters to those of us that are in our 20's, those of us that are really just beginning our careers and those of us trying to make it for the first time on our own. I feel like I really connect to that. I also feel like it has really increased my trust. When I came here, I really experienced a job search that was longer than I would have liked and really knowing that everybody else that I talked to that was my age was experiencing the same thing. It helped ...

391. Ruining the Christmas Spirit

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... need to hear right as we are coming into the Christmas season. Why do we need stories about flood-waters drowning people with no warning that the flood is coming, or people being shut out by God, or thieves intruding into the place where we most want to feel safe? Let's just be honest: Christmas is a difficult time. We've turned a blessing into a burden. Most of us find this time of year stressing us to the snapping point. We rush around trying to buy presents, cook food, make travel arrangements, or send ...

392. What We Do, We Do to Others, Too

Matthew 18:1-9

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

... stay close to God. But there’s another reason, too. Sin is a little like this fan. Even though I thought no one else could feel the breeze the fan made, someone else could, and sin is like that, too. Imagine that someone you love is bank robber. That person ... every month in a jail visitor center with guards watching you and maybe glass wall or iron bars between you. Wouldn’t that make you feel sad? What if that person was one of your parents? If one of your parents was in jail, he or she wouldn’t be ...

393. Step Into The Vision

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... this place is truly a place of refuge. A place of welcome and safety where no one, will ever hear a put down or feel out of place or feel like they don't belong. I see a place where gossip is never heard or spoken. I see a place where you can truly ... time communing with both God and nature. L. I see a place that is inviting to the community. A place where the community feels comfortable because of the love we have given, the friendship we have shared, and our genuine concern for the people and businesses of ...

394. Chosen

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... his. I know now that my perceptions about my Dad, weren't always correct and that he did the best that he could. But I grew up feeling like an outcast. My father didn't want me, and my stepfather didn't want me. Then I met Mary. And for the first time in my ... life I truly felt loved and wanted. I felt special because I fell in love with her and she chose to love me back. I still feel that today. I've spent the last 33 years trying to tell Mary in song, in poetry, in gifts and cards and in the things that I ...

395. Speaking Peace

John 20:19-31

Sermon

John Smylie

... . Yet, even behind those doors, they sensed the darkness over the land and then the rumors began trickling in, that it was over, that Jesus was dead. Perhaps they began to hear bits and pieces of what he had said from the cross. Feeling guilty, feeling overwhelmed, feeling disappointed in themselves, and barely able to look at one another, one can imagine that there was no joy in that sabbath for the disciples. There was no delighting in the goodness of God's gifts. Perhaps they even wondered if God was ...

396. Screaming at the Television

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you . . .” Paul is telling the people at Ephesus and he is telling us to get rid of all of our feelings of hostility to be kind, compassionate and forgiving. Most of us will agree that is easier said than done. But somehow Paul had managed to do it. If anybody had good reason to be angry it was Paul. After all he was writing from prison, a fate he ...

397. A New Kind of Authority

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

King Duncan

... maintain his position, finally being driven mad in his determination to destroy young David who, you’ll remember, was becoming more popular than he was. Maybe Saul’s name was part of the problem ”asked for,” “prayed for.” Such a name has to make you feel important. The New Testament Saul, like his namesake the former king of Israel, was a man who became haughty in his power and authority enforcing Jewish Law and had to be brought low. So, Saul either chose or was given a new name, Paul. Now here ...

398. The Bridge at Sychar

John 4:1-26

Sermon

David O. Bales

... was beautiful. Not all of Walker’s problems were settled there, but a whole bunch were. Jesus arrives across the bridge from heaven to meet the Samaritan woman at the well. He expresses to her God’s unconditional regard, God’s ultimate concern for her. Sure, she first feels the sting of her sin, but that passes when Jesus won’t give up on her. The woman, as do we all, needs to know about God and about herself. It’s as though Jesus says, “You’re so important that God sent me to you.” Not all ...

399. Down in the Dungeon

Psalm 130:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.” I wonder how many of you, when you are feeling down, listen to music. It helped King Saul. At least temporarily. Saul was a pathetic man. You will remember that, with time, he ... of the soul are due to sin, as we have noted. Physical problems and life crises can certainly be part of the mix. If you are feeling down today, we most certainly do not want to add the burden of guilt. However, if guilt is part of the problem, we want to ...

400. Getting to a Teachable Moment

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... consider that my own life experience may actually make these words come alive. “But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself....” So far so good, for in the face of this text I feel all too human. Perhaps that is the choice that I have not considered all along. Swept up in the culture I find it all too easy to pursue the super human rather than the fully human. I find it all too easy to evaluate myself in terms of my ...

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