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376. Importance Is Relative

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Editor James S. Hewett

... he knew Johnny Carson. The friend said, "Oh, yeah, prove it." In a few minutes they were in front of a large house near the beach. After knocking, out came Johnny Carson saying, "Come on in, George, and bring your friend." On the way home the friend grudgingly said, "OK, so you know Johnny Carson." Obviously, this was not enough, so George said offhandedly, "Yes, he and I and the president are well-acquainted." The friend looked in the air, at nothing, and cried out, "That's too much, I'll pay the costs ...

377. The Poor Man in the Mercedes

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... s one of the most radical laws in human history. We are not certain that it was obeyed, but that shows God’s heart for the poor. According to the tenth verse of that chapter, the people are to give generously to the poor and do so without a grudging heart; then because the people have obeyed God’s command in caring for the poor, God promises them that He will bless them in all their work and in everything they put their hand to. There is that recognition that while a few poor people are that way because ...

378. A Vision of Beauty and Hope

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... on the city water towers during the Christmas season. Then the town council received a threat. Someone was going to sue the city if the crosses were erected in the coming Christmas season, based on the separation of church and state. The town council grudgingly took them down. But that’s when the citizens of Wauconda took matters into their own hands. They didn’t counter-sue. Nor did they organize angry protests. Here’s what they did. They decided to honor the missing crosses by placing lighted ...

379. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... we best prepare ourselves for the advent of Jesus in our lives. First, by repentance. We give up our false gods, our idols, our reliance on ourselves, and our worship of things we can buy. We turn away from our separation and estrangement, our old hurts and our grudges. We walk away from the things that keep us from loving and forgiving others. We decide to do it and then we do it. We toss out those old attitudes that separate us from God’s other children according to the color of our skin or the sound ...

380. Lord of the Sabbath

Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God’s vast presence –in Sabbath time. The Sabbath is the time when your voice is freed to sing God’s praises in unbounded joy. We are all bound by our humanness. In our humanness, we are bound by work, by the limitations of our minds, by the grudges in our hearts, by the fears and sins and diseases that plague us. Jesus is our freedom from that bondage. We talked last week a bit about the trivial things we attach ourselves to. But it’s not just that we make the wrong things important. Sometimes, we ...

381. Vetted

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... seemed to listen when I called his name. Sure, he'd look in my direction after the fourth or fifth time I said it, but then he'd just go back to doing whatever he felt like. When I’d ask again, you could almost see him sigh and then grudgingly obey. This just wasn't going to work. He chewed a couple shoes and some unpacked boxes. I was a little too stern with him, and he resented it, I could tell. The friction got so bad that I couldn't wait for the two weeks to be up, and ...

382. Secret Savior

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in us. But forgiveness, for Jesus, is paramount to being in right relationship with God. For you cannot approach God begging for forgiveness when you have chosen to judge others instead. This is probably the strongest statement Jesus makes about the sin of judgment and grudge-holding. God wants His children to live in peace. And in fact, even from the cross, Jesus obeys His own prayer –asking God to forgive those who crucified Him. He expects no less from us. By having us request God to judge as according ...

383. The Plank

Matthew 5:38-48; 7:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

“When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her."” (John 8:7) “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.” (Leviticus 19:18) Props: Colored Vases / Plants (one withered and one healthy) / volunteers I need a volunteer today! [Choose someone.] Super! –Come on up! Now, you’ll see everyone that I have two very beautiful ...

384. Don't Stop Praying!

Luke 18:1-8, Luke 18:35-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... unemployment check? I think not. My friends…we don’t want ultimately to get what we deserve. We pray, because we trust that God will give to us what is truly undeserved –mercy despite our mistakes….love despite our hatred….forgiveness despite our grudges…..love despite our penchant to judge and worship rules and systems. Jesus asks his disciples…..will I find faith on earth in God? Or will you continue to be foolish, chasing after things and worshiping systems that do not care for you? God ...

385. Mercy Me!

Romans 14:1--15:13, Luke 6:27-36, Luke 6:37-42, Luke 6:43-45

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... it? Just ask anyone how insidious buried and seething anger is for the soul. Psychologists know it. Physicians know it. And you know it too. It’s much easier to let go of the little things. But those feelings of resentment and anger and envy and grudge-keeping –they can weigh you down and petrify your spirit like nothing else. Your anger by far hurts you more than the person you are angry with. Whenever you have unresolved anger within your body and your spirit, you are doing daily damage to your heart ...

386. The Politics of Love

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is the washing of hands. “Please God, accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, Lord, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent person.” In the case of Pilate and his judgment of Jesus, which he grudgingly makes against his best inner council, he turns the priests’ Levitical atonement plea upside down and backwards. In this case, Pilate is the one washing his hands in a plea to the God of the Jews (just in case). Pilate puts the blame squarely on the ...

Ne'er of the living can the living judge - too blind the affection, or too fresh the grudge.

Anonymous

We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

T. D. Jakes

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

William H. Walton

No matter how long you nurse a grudge, it won't get better.

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391. The Maidens In The Shadows

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Staff

... eye and challenged them. "Young men, would you rather be in the light with the ten wise maidens or out in the dark with the ten foolish maidens?" I am not certain the bishop was able to finish his message. For those who stand in the shadows there is the grudging obeisance to religion, but there is also that nagging suspicion that we would rather be out in the dark with the ten foolish maidens.

392. Be Reconciled with the Lord

2 Corinthians 5:20b--6:10

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... sinfulness and not allowing them to drag us down, hold us back, or impede us from the road that reconciliation requires. Next, we must learn to be reconciled with others. We have hurt others; others have hurt us. We all know deep down that holding a grudge against another is inconsistent with our Christian call. Moreover, it brings us no positive result. Jesus puts it very plainly when he tells us that before we offer our gift at the altar we must be reconciled with our brother (Matthew 5:24). The inability ...

393. R.S.V.P.

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... foretaste for the great, final, most fun party of all, the big Marriage Supper of the Lamb (Rev. 19). In Jesus, the world is invited to party. The Kingdom of Heaven, he says, is like a party. God, the King, isn't sore at anybody, doesn't bear a grudge, isn't in the business of striking anyone off the list because his Son is here. God wants everyone to party. Because God's happy, God wants everybody to be happy. "And he sent his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast." As things turned ...

394. Happiness Full Stop

John 15:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... : to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” Few of us will ever be asked to die for the people we love. But to love people in the same manner that God loves them, we’ve got to lay down our selfishness and our prejudices and our grudges and, sometimes, even our so-called rights. It can take a lifetime to recognize and lay down all the barriers that stand between us and loving like Jesus loved us. A few years ago, a young man was nearly arrested for climbing up the outside of a 19-story Philadelphia ...

395. Promises to Keep

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... protective custody. He was under arrest but probably treated pretty well, considering. This way Herod and John could continue to have their talks and play chess or whatever. But Herodias didn’t like her husband talking to John, at all, so she held a grudge and bid her time. A few weeks later, Herod threw himself a big birthday party. He invited all his courtiers, officers, the satraps, governors, and other high ranking officials of Galilee and, in the Roman tradition, it was a multi-day, drunken, blowout ...

396. One Life-Changing Word

Isaiah 9:2-7 · Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

Sermon

King Duncan

... Scrooge‘s business partner, Jacob Marley. Scrooge, an ageing miser, dislikes Christmas and refuses a dinner invitation from his nephew Fred. He also turns away two men who seek a donation from him to provide food and heating for the poor . . . and only grudgingly allows his overworked, underpaid clerk, Bob Cratchit, Christmas Day off with pay. That night Scrooge is visited at home by Marley’s ghost, who wanders the Earth weighted down by heavy chains and money boxes forged during a lifetime of greed and ...

397. To Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... as yourself” (19:18). The whole of the quote from Leviticus 19:17-18 goes like this: You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall reprove your kinsman, and not incur guilt because of him. You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor like yourself; I am YHWH. The Jewish prayer created from the shema is recited both morning and evening, as it stands at the central most important precept in Judaism. At first, one could take this ...

398. Dirty Feet

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... the Labor Day weekend. We were liberated in lots of ways. The family farm had over a hundred acres over which we could freely roam. We built forts and went swimming in the creek that ran through the property every day. We picked wild berries and even grudgingly submitted to weeding my Dad’s beloved vegetable garden. If the truth were told, though, the weeding seemed less onerous when we were gnawing on a butter drenched ear of fresh corn. But of all the bits and pieces of summer freedom there was one that ...

399. Spirit Powered Anointing

Luke 4:14-21 · Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in spirit. This is a reconstitution in which God’s peoplewere to leave their past behind and create a new era of promise and abundance. In this, God’s people were reminded that God is their source of strength. They are not to look back and hold grudges. But they have been called “blessed to be a blessing.” As is their heritage, in this, they are called to great joy! They have been freed. They have been liberated and returned to their homes. God is a God of second chances, of new beginnings, of ...

400. The Dishonest Manager

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... at Princeton we at Princeton feel it is our duty to reject a certain number of highly qualified people so that Harvard can have some good students too.”[1] In Rubin’s recent memoir, In An Uncertain World, he made it clear that he felt no grudge against Princeton and his note was “tongue in cheek.” I assume the Princeton reply was “tongue in cheek” too. Not a few biblical scholars feel certain that Jesus is telling this parable in the same light. He couldn’t possibly mean for us to take this ...

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