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401. Easter 6

Acts 10:23b-48, 1 John 4:1-6, John 15:1-17, 1 John 5:1-12

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John R. Brokhoff

... ." 4. Command (v. 17). Twice Jesus commands us to love one another as he loved us. Can love be commanded? Can love be placed on order? Can you make yourself love when you do not want to or feel like loving? If love is only an emotion or a sentiment, it cannot be manufactured at will. But, since Christian love is a matter of will, love can be given to others as commanded by God. Epistle: Acts 10:44-48 1. Heard (v. 44). While Peter preached, the Holy Spirit fell upon the listeners. Usually we associate the ...

402. Advent 4

Psalm 80:1-19, Micah 5:1-4, Luke 1:39-45 (46-55), Hebrews 10:1-18

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B. David Hostetter

... and loving words of forgiveness. Fortify the faith of the church by the witness that you are the first and the last, the living one, who was dead, but is alive again forever and has the keys of Death and of Hades. Save your people from the sentimental Christmas that misses the meaning and glory of the gospel. As we approach again the celebration of your first advent, may we give clear witness as to who stands knocking on our doors this season. May our love for the baby in the manger be multiplied by ...

403. Proper 21

Psalm 91:1-16, Jeremiah 32:1-44, Luke 16:19-31, 1 Timothy 6:6-19

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B. David Hostetter

... with many times what we have. We may live to eat and soothe our nerves with music. We spend more on cosmetics than some have to buy their daily bread. We escape from honest attempts at doing something to right the wrong with sentimental drama and contrived excitements. Forgive inaction so unlike the compassion and involvement of your Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Declaration of Pardon Pastor: Friends, hear the Good News! Happy is the person whose hopes are in God. People: God loves and restores ...

404. Second Sunday of Advent

Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19, Isaiah 11:1-10, Matthew 3:1-12, Romans 15:4-13

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B. David Hostetter

... way for your coming? We confess that there are many things to keep us busy in preparation for the celebration of Christmas. Have we allowed too much time for our own parties and too little for ministries to the sick and the poor? Are we content to be merely sentimental about the victims of injustice or do we need to be more strenuous in our advocacy for them? Have we done enough to find a common voice in which both to worship you and to speak out against evil? Turn us back from every evil way, through Jesus ...

405. A Certain Word in an Uncertain World

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

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James Merritt

I want to put two famous quotations side by side and see which one you think is closest to the truth. Here is the first one. "There is no such thing as a sure thing." Now that would probably capture the sentiment of most people around the world as in the year 2004. 9/11 and terrorism around the world has changed everything. Security on New Year's Eve this last year was unprecedented. International flights were cancelled for the first time in the history of airlines over terroristic threats. One train ...

406. Hell under Fire

Matthew 5:22; 28-30

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James Merritt

... not, that statement (as is) is absolutely true. However, there are three words in that statement that makes it absolutely false. The first word is "loving". God is a loving God, but He is not loving in the sense that most people use that word today, meaning a sentimental emotion, some warm fuzzy feeling that is tolerant of everything and everybody. God is a loving God, but His love is a holy love. His love is a righteous love. His love is a just love. God is so loving that He does not want Scott Peterson to ...

407. How to Make Heaven Happy

Luke 15:1-10

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James Merritt

... girl will lose her virginity and say, "I feel so dirty." That's because sin makes us dirty. But this coin was also lost in disgrace. Jesus speaks of this woman having "ten silver coins." Now these were not just any ten coins. They had a tremendous sentimental significance. In that day when a husband took a bride, she did not receive a diamond ring. She would receive a headband with ten coins of silver evenly spaced. When she would go out she would wear this ribbon of coins around her forehead to illustrate ...

408. Know Fear: The Fear of God

Proverbs 1:7

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James Merritt

... are afraid of the school boards. The boards are afraid of the parents and the parents are afraid of the children. But the children? They are not afraid of anybody." In many ways, the attitude of the late actress, Kathryn Hepburn, sums up the basic sentiment found in our society. Several years before she died, she made this statement: . "I look forward to oblivion. I am what is known as gradually disintegrating. I don't fear the next world or anything. I don't fear hell and I don't look forward ...

409. Kill Them with Kindness

Proverbs 3:3, 19:22

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James Merritt

... how to be kind with our words. I want to address an issue here that I believe has caused kindness to be very misunderstood in our culture. Today, we are not supposed to condemn anything or anyone, because if we do, we are "unkind". Some people think kindness is a sentimental softness of heart that tolerates wrong and never condemns anything. Suppose I go to the doctor and he examines me and discovers that I have a tumor. What if he says, "I don't want to cause this man any pain. I don't want to upset him. I ...

410. The God of War and Peace

1 Samuel 17:(1a, 4-11, 19-23) 32-49

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... in the lobby. Many of the denomination's annual conferences meeting that June could not even proceed with their stated agendas until comment had been allowed from the floor about the action of the hymnal committee. So overwhelming was the sentiment against the deletion of that hymn that by early July, the committee, meeting in special session, reversed itself and decided to include "Onward Christian Soldiers" in the new hymnbook after all. Afterward, when things finally settled down, the committee studied ...

411. Putting God to Work in Your Life through Peas, Squash, Lettuce, Thyme

Mark 8:31--9:1

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Leonard Sweet

... Lettuce really love one another.” As Debra Engle interviewed the teenagers using this poem to rehabilitate themselves and organize their greenhouse project, she realized that when she was a teen she would have thought of this recipe as sappy, syrupy, and sentimentalized. But Jessica, the recovering addict at the Juvenile Home who organized the greenhouse project and presented it in a national contest, had a different outlook on its message. As Engle noted, “That’s why Jessica is ahead of the game. She ...

412. Personal Understanding of Jesus' Identity

Mk 8:27-38; Mt 16:13-20

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Brett Blair

... Wherever we turn in life we are faced with the implications of this question. Throughout the ages various individuals have attempted to answer that question posed by Jesus. Ernest Renan, a French writer, answered it by saying that Jesus was a sentimental idealist. Bruce Barton, an American businessman, said that who Jesus was the greatest salesman who ever lived. William Hirsch, a Jewish writer, responded that Jesus conformed to the clinical picture of paranoia. A musical drama was performed some years ago ...

413. Building a Victorious Life

Luke 6:39-49

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Gary L. Carver

... that he won't make it through the next one. We live in the houses we build. You know the old saying: "If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself." All of us, to some extent, can share that sentiment, because it is true — we live in the houses we build. The frightening thing is not that we are going to die — that is a foregone conclusion. We all accept that. The most frightening thing is, we may live; and we may have to live for a long time in ...

414. Those Who Doubt

John 20:19-31

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Donald Charles Lacy

... specific about his requirements for believing. Don't try to tell me you have seen the Lord, unless you have some real proof. Show me the mark of the nails, so my finger can be placed there. Yes, and my hand must touch his side. There will be no sentimental guessing and wishful thinking. There will be no misleading attempts to prove a point and pass it along to the world at large. The Master was much loved by all of us but we cannot claim too much for him and be dishonest with others, including those who ...

415. Only the Lost and the Least

Luke 15:1-10

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Ron Lavin

... to the kingdom of God than the pastor. God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. One tradition says that Palestinian women received ten silver coins (drachmas) when they got married. Besides their monetary value to a poor family, these coins held sentimental value like that of a wedding ring. A man was playing on his church's baseball team when, suddenly, he looked and saw that his ring finger was bare. He had lost his wedding ring. The game stopped. An extensive search was made, but the ring ...

416. What Price Must We Pay?

Luke 6:20-31

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John Wayne Clarke

... . There is usually something deeper in what Jesus is teaching. In this case it is values. Jesus is teaching about values. He's talking about priorities. A plaque that hangs on the wall of the kitchen in a small church in Perry, Maine, has the following sentiment, "Only one life twill soon be past, only what's done for Christ will last." Do our lives indicate that we recognize the truth in these words? There is the story of vandals who broke into a hardware store and, for several hours in the early predawn ...

417. The Promise that Won’t Be Broken

2 Timothy 1:1-14

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Clayton A. Lord

... deep that faith was. As he shared his testimony, he was always quick to point out that he and Jesus were going through this together. He would say, "As long as Jesus holds my hand I knew everything, absolutely everything, will be all right." That is the same sentiment that Paul shares in Philippians 1:21 when he says, "For to me, living is Christ and dying is gain." It is that kind of inner peace that allows you to sing hymns and offer prayers when your world is turning upside down. This is what the world ...

418. Song of the Vineyard

Isaiah 5:1-7

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Lee Ann Dunlap

... level. Studies indicate that music stimulates a different part of the brain than the written or spoken word alone. That's why songs like "We Shall Overcome" have such power even today. It is also why church folk have such strong sentiments about our worship music — contemporary, traditional, chants and praise choruses, and everything in between. And, we are not the first. It is no coincidence that the most frequently quoted scripture within the Bible is Psalms, the hymnbook of ancient Israel. Some ...

419. Song Sung Blue

Lamentations 1:1-6

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Lee Ann Dunlap

... of suffering and destruction — destruction not only of lives and property but the loss of public trust and cultural institutions. The shock, the despair, the blaming, and the search for a reason — whether in ancient Hebrew or American English (or Cajun) — the sentiment is much the same. Yet, in some ways, the differences are equally striking — at least in the content of the laments. For days and even months after the hurricanes, the television news seemed to lay its lamentation at the feet of the ...

420. 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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Leonard Sweet

... out their faith. The epistle text for this first Sunday of Advent begins in 3:9 with an extremely complex sentence, one that concludes Paul’s long narrative section with an expression of thankfulness. Paul’s extreme thankfulness, his great joy, echoes the sentiments of Psalm 116:12: “How can I repay the Lord for all his goodness to me.” Timothy’s good news reminds the apostle of the human inability to adequately “repay” God for all God’s gracious gifts. The practice of correct reciprocity ...

421. Advent 2

Malachi 3:1-4, Luke 3:1-20, Philippians 1:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... works v. 11. 2. What love means (1:3-11). Need: This pericope is saturated with Paul's love for his people and with their love for him shown by their gifts to him who was in prison. Popularly, love is an emotion or a feeling. Love is identified with sentimentalism. In this passage we learn what love really is and does. Outline: What love means a. Being grateful for loved ones v. 5. b. Having confidence in you v. 6. c. Yearning to be together v. 8. d. Praying for you v. 9 WORSHIP RESOURCES Psalm Of The Day ...

422. Close Enough For Comfort

Psalm 23:4, John 14:15-18

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... Bible that "He who keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps" and all of a suddenly it dawned on him "If God's going to be awake there's no point in both of us not getting any sleep. And I've slept like a baby ever since. That's the sentiment of faith. Faith frees us to pursue what God has called us to do. There's a great scene in the movie Hoosiers. Based on the true story of a small-town Indiana team that made the state finals in 1954. Hoosiers tells the story Norman Dale, a volatile coach ...

423. Resurrected Obedience (Series: Living on the Resurrection Side of Life)

John 14:15-31

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J. Howard Olds

... me, you will obey what I command.” Verse 21: “Whoever has my command and obeys them, he is the one who loves me.” Verse 23: “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching.” Our love for God is demonstrated not by some soft, sentimental emotion, but by obedience to his will, expressed in loving cooperation with his commands. Our obedience is grounded in our love. The command to love is the essential demand of Christian existence. To love means to orient one’s whole being toward others. Love is an ...

424. Radical Love is Risky (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Luke 6:27-36

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J. Howard Olds

... What If Loving Our Enemy is Imperative? What if the survival of humanity is dependent upon it? By love I mean a disposition of the will that seeks to treat all persons as God would have them treated. By love I mean loving as God loves: not sentimental sweetness, but merciful righteousness. Not just anything goes, but seeking liberty and justice for all: for the saint and the sinner, for the pious and the prisoner, for our friends and for our enemies. So Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount as recorded both ...

425. Pursue the Life That Really Is Life

1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 1 Timothy 6:6-19

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... Old Ben replied, "My friend, the Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it for yourself!" (2) The Old Ben must have been related to the Apostle Paul or at least familiar with his letters to Timothy because there is similar sentiment expressed in today's passage. And we find out that this pursuit is NOT A Trivial Pursuit but a pursuit for the life that really is life. Let's look at it and you'll see what I mean. 1 Timothy 6:6-19 (NRSV) [6] Of course ...

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