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4276. Lost? Looking For Happiness

1 Peter 2:9-12

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Love Your Neighbor but we got curious and said, well what's that mean? So God expanded the two to 10. And then we got even more confused. Well, what do you mean by bearing false witness and lying? What about little white lies to protect someone's feelings. Is borrowing half a dozen paper clips and a half a ream of paper from the office really stealing? We make it more complicated than it is and become confused. Confusion seems to reign because We Always Seem To Make It Harder than it really is. According to ...

4277. Monday: The Way Of The Cross: Figs & Fig Trees

Matthew 21:18-22

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... did you do that?" Mom asked. "Well," he explained, "the teacher put all our names together in a box, and then picked one out. I feel kinda bad though. I cheated." he said. You cheated?" Mom said. "How did you cheat?" With a guilty look on his face he said, " ... to Luke, "Luminous beings are we." Yoda reaches over to pinch Luke's shoulder, "not this crude matter." Yoda tells Luke to feel the Force around him and to sense it between all things, including "between the land and the ship." Luke is discouraged by ...

4278. Easter: Seeing Is Believing

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... died in that accident, he was thrust immediately and painfully into the shocked numbness of deep grief. Strangely, one of his very first feelings were those of guilt. He had remembered how some months before at a family picnic he was showing off with a baseball. ... his dad. Not the joy or the laughs they shared. Finally, the young boy went to see his pastor and told him about the deep feelings of guilt and about breaking his dad's thumb. In the boy's own words, he said: "I'll never forget how my pastor handled ...

4279. A Soul Restored

Psalm 23:2-3a

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... or nourishment. We live is tough times. Some of us are being asked to put in more hours because of cut backs in our department or simply because your under the gun for a completion date. We come home exhausted, sometimes feeling like we've been in battle. Or worse, feeling like we've been mugged. The stress levels are astronomical. The world has shrunk, whether we like it our not a world economy is developing. What happens here effects the world and what happens in other parts of the world effect ...

4280. Your King Comes

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... the world. Some of you are familiar with a song that is often sung in churches on Palm Sunday. Its title is “The Holy City.” In the little book Quiet Moments With God there is a beautiful story about that song that expresses the feeling that Christians have about Palm Sunday. Thirty men, red‑eyed and disheveled, lined up before a judge in the police court of San Francisco many years ago. It was the regular morning company of “drunks and disorderlies.” Some were old and hardened; others hung ...

4281. Shadrach, Meschach, Abeddnego: Unexpected

Daniel 3:1-30

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... fire we find ourselves in, we are not alone, God is with us. The issue isn't whether we'll spared the flames and fires of life or whether God will keep us from suffering. That's not really suggested at all. Jesus even said that we can expect to feel the heat. "In this world you will have trouble....but have faith, for I have overcome the world." The biblical faith is this: God doesn't promise to take us out of the flames and the fires of life. God promises to be right there with us, smack dab in ...

4282. Changing Dysfunction Into Function: Isaac, Jacob and Esau

Genesis 27:15-24, 30-34

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... if Scott hadn't said, "I didn't hear you when you called the first two times." Communication. It's essential to life. It enables us to get our ideas across. Unfortunately, while sharing those ideas, communication CAN be a roadblock, a stumbling block and sometimes make us feel like a block head. A wife went to see a lawyer about getting a divorce. He asked, "Do you have grounds?" She said, "Well we have about two acres." He shook his head and said, "No, I mean does he have a grudge?" She said, "No, but we ...

4283. Here I Am, Send Me

Joel 2:28-32, Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . Without listing every one of them, new Men's, Women's and Children's ministries have been started or will be starting shortly. Lay ministries programs have increased. But now it's time for us to take another step into that Vision. That's the way I feel about what and where God has been guiding and directing my thoughts, my prayers, my study and even who God has brought into my life over the last three or four months. Last year during for our Stewardship Campaign we chose the theme "Ask, Seek, Knock." I ...

4284. The Dachshund Dilemma

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... a gift that Christ can use in the building of his kingdom. This is no dead shrine. This is the body of the living Christ. We are all parts of it. I am just one member of the body. My role is no greater than yours. When each of us feels that we have a calling to fulfill, we will see great things happen in this church. In the great hymn “The Church’s One Foundation,” we sing that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church of Jesus Christ. We can become that kind of church militant and ...

4285. Fulfilling Others?

Luke 4:14-30

Illustration

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... this: Jesus somehow fits the void in all the far flung instances of human longing. When medieval European artists painted the Holy Family, they usually painted them with typical German, Italian, or Flemish features. It was not imagination or prejudice which made them do so, but the instinctive feeling that Jesus belonged to them; he was one of their people. In our time, Christian artists in Africa and Asia paint the Holy Family with features and coloring appropriate to their world. Again, it is because they ...

4286. Luke 13:31-35

Luke 13:31-35

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... ? The Bible says “It is not good for man to be alone” (Gen.2:18) and yet our socialness needs relief in solitude: “I was left alone, and saw the great vision” (Dan.10:8). Or how did we used to hear it? “Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don’t.” Human behavior is not always consistent. Changing our minds, changing our behavior, changing our expectations is one of the hallmarks of humanity. What the various individuals want in this week’s gospel reading is what creates the tension ...

4287. The Fox and the Hen

Luke 13:31-35

Illustration

Mickey Anders

... of Aesop's fables with barnyard animals playing a starring role. In the short space of five verses, we find pictures of both a fox and a hen. Herod is called a fox. Jesus says he feels like a mother hen. And the people in Jerusalem are all the little chicks running around in great danger. There is an old proverb that warns, "The fox is in charge of the henhouse." We might use that expression when we put the oil companies in charge of making sure ...

4288. What Matters In the Light of Eternity: “Church Matters”

Acts 20:13-38

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... your way to church. This is a saving place, a healing place, a place for the wounded and the broken-hearted. I hope you feel welcomed. As for me, the Church has been my place to be. It took me in and held me close and gave me a ... was this. “Help me not to be O.K. just because everything is O.K. with me.” That’s why self-centered, self-righteous people often feel conflicted in church. Church is not all about them. They have yet to understand why. The Church calls us to do more than just talk a good ...

4289. Valley of Suffering (Series: Peace in the Valley)

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the fact that his son got a one way ticket to this war. Some suffering is private. A teenager does not feel secure. A husband and wife have watched their love for each other disintegrate over the years. A wealthy business woman realizes people are more interested in ... her money than they are in her. A gay man or woman feels isolated from family and friends. The news from the doctor is not good. To suffer or not to suffer, that is not the question ...

4290. When God Is Like a Mother

John 14:15-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... .” Which is exactly what she did. Mothers love like that. Henri Nouwen, upon the death of his mother, wrote a small book entitled In Memoriam. It is an intimate account of the power of a mother to influence a son. Nouwen writes: “From her I had come to feel an unqualified acceptance which had little to do with my being good or bad, successful or unsuccessful, close by or far away. In her I had come to sense a love that we free from demands and manipulations, a love that gave me a sense of belonging that ...

4291. The Gift of Gifts

John 1:1-14

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... most beautiful gift you've ever received. You don't know it yet, but it'll be one that you cherish all of your life. And the feeling you have now is one you'll want to pass on and share with everyone you know and love. That's what happened, that first Christmas ... Gift brought was the Gift of Hope. We know that not everyone in the world or even in our community or church feels that same sense of joy. Because of the circumstances of life, many people are having George Bailey moments of discouragement. But right ...

4292. The Gift of Preparation

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... , but because of this boy's love for God and Jesus and Christmas that went into building the scene out of materials at hand and wanting to share it with his parents. What could be more perfect than that? Even if it did feel like drinking a dill pickle milkshake. That's the way we feel when John the Baptist shows up in our Christmas celebration. And here he is again. Once more muddying the waters of Christmas. Listen to the Passage from John. John 1:6-8 (NRSV) [6] There was a man sent from God, whose name ...

4293. The Gift of Comfort

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... John was talking about. The clue is in the last verse, verse 8. John says, "I have baptized you with water; but he [Jesus] will baptize you with the Holy Spirit." No one had ever been offered that before. God was in the Temple or up in heaven. The general feeling was that while God was God, God didn't care enough about the everyday, ordinary sort of person or the things they were going through to be bothered. But John says, "You're wrong. And when Messiah comes, you'll see. Each and every one of you is as ...

4294. God's Whatever

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... love me, once a sinner, now a saint, forgiven and saved by grace. And because You love me, I love myself, unconditionally." You pray this prayer three times. Each time pausing to image it, or imagine what that would feel like in your mind and heart and very spirit. Linger on that thought. Linger on that feeling. Then you pray again and image it again. And then you do it a third time. With that image of yourself and your relationship with God, your heart and your mind and your spirit are focused. And you can ...

4295. Seen The Doctor Lately?

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... It Forward." In the movie Pay It Forward, Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) is an eleven-year-old who lives in Las Vegas with his working-class mother, Arlene (Helen Hunt), who is a recovering alcoholic. She works hard at two jobs to support her son but feels that it is a losing battle. Trevor is a latch-key kid who often has to take care of himself. This seventh-grader's spirits are lifted when on the first day of school Eugene Simonet (Kevin Spacey), his new social studies teacher, gives the class an ...

4296. We Are Weak, But He Is Strong...

Romans 8:26-39

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... but He is strong. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so. I can't help but feel that little song sums up everything you're about to hear as we look at the passage for the message this morning. "We Are Weak, But ... word of course is Predestined. It's not a word you hear much in Methodist circles. And to be honest with you, it doesn't even feel right being read in a passage of Scripture. But there it is and we have to deal with it. In doing a word study, and prep ...

4297. When We Get Where We’re Going, Where Will We Be? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... through, My treasures are laid up, somewhere beyond the blue, The angels beckon me from heaven’s open doors, And I can’t feel at home in this world anymore. III. When I Get to Where I’m Going, I Will Be Finally Home Henri Nouwen often ... . The disciples were comforted by the very fact that their Lord and Savior was going to prepare a place for them. Sometimes when I feel troubled by this war, weary with this disease, and pained by teenagers gone crazy with guns, I am reminded that my restlessness is a ...

4298. Radical Love is Truthful (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the garage where he turned on the engine of the family Chevy and sat down on the running board to wait for the exhaust to kill him. There was no funeral to mark his death. Since the family rules included don’t talk, don’t trust, and don’t feel, my father’s life was seldom mentioned again.” Now, some 40 to 50 years later, Buechner writes a book lamenting that he can’t go on living until he goes back and deals with this event in his life. What is unspoken is not forgotten. It is repressed only ...

4299. Radical Love in the Neighborhood (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... We do not need to imitate Mother Theresa. We just need eyes to see the needs around us. Wherever we go, whatever we do, there are people in pain. Some are left half-dead on the highways of life. Some are teenagers in our own home who feel insecure. Some are families next door who are existing, not loving. Some are executives whom you think have it made, but deep down are the loneliest people in the world. Compassion is a heart that cares. Compassion is not a political announcement; it’s a personal concern ...

4300. Radical Love at Home (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . You who are parents know how hard it is to say good-bye when the parting is a time of joy. Think of how it must feel when the parting is like a death or may even be a death. This father doesn’t love one son more than the other. He loves ... you try for a lifetime to earn the blessing of your family and a sibling gets it without even trying, you will most likely have some feelings about that. “A certain man had two sons” and how does this story end? Does the kid get restless again and run away a second ...

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