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426. Have This Mind

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Craig Erickson

... and to God (including racism, militarism, consumerism, sexism, bigotry, and wanton disregard for the environment). 3. "Do you renounce all sinful desires that draw you from the love Of God?” Evil corrupts the personal life as well, tempting us to give in to hatred, back-biting, jealousy, envy, strife, dissension, lust, self-pity. These are the forces of evil that threaten to undo us from within. Baptism is the church’s prayer that those who enter it will have the mind of Christ, will turn from sin, and ...

427. What’s God Going to Do With You?

Hosea 5:1-15, Hosea 6:1--7:16

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John R. Brokhoff

... will we return to God for forgiveness? When President Ford offered amnesty to 15,000 youth who refused to go to the Viet Nam war, only 3,000 responded. What this world needs is love, love, love. It needs love to bind up the wounds of broken relationships caused by hatred and greed. That love can be found only in God, for he is the source of love. If and when a people or an individual returns to God, there will be healing. That is one thing God is going to do with you! Revival What is God going to do ...

428. Is God Still God?

Isaiah 44:6-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... order to overcome it for us. Because of Christ’s sacrificial death, we are redeemed from our captivity. He has made things right with God on our behalf. For Jesus’ sake, we are now acceptable to God,and we have been redeemed from a bondage of hatred and selfishness to a life of love and peace. Jesus, therefore, is our blessed Redeemer whom we love and serve with gratitude. Do you ask, "Are all people thereby redeemed?" Christ indeed died for the sins of all humankind for all time. However, before this ...

429. As Good As God

Leviticus 19:1-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... the other end: love God first and then God makes it possible for us to love others as well as ourselves. To love our fellowmen is to forgive them. This is the final proof of love. When we are sinned against, our tendency is to hate. This hatred seeks revenge. In When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Harold Kushner tells of two shopkeepers who were bitter rivals. Their stores were across the street from each other. When a customer came in, the one smiled triumphantly at the other. One night an angel came ...

430. The Church’s Fear and Comfort

Acts 9:19b-31

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Richard F. Bansemer

... preaching of Jonah. Sin caused David more grief than all his other enemies. Sin kept Moses out of the promised land. How clear does God have to make it? He abhors sin. He is sinless. He cannot, and will not, tolerate it. How desperate God became to teach us his hatred of sin. All of us know the story, else we would not be here today. The cross is the final message from him that sin is dangerous and must be ended. The resurrection is his response. I don’t know what kind of life you live and what kinds of ...

431. Doctor Thomas Dooley

Matthew 9:1-8

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Carroll Gunkel

... . He said: We don’t have to tell them we love them. They know we love them ... because we (are) ministering to their pathetic needs.5 On another occasion, Dooley noted: We have seen simple, tender, loving care change a people’s fear and hatred into friendship and understanding.6 Thomas Dooley met the Master in the hordes of Vietnamese refugees, and the refugees met the Master in Thomas Dooley. Together they learned that the Master was - and is - love, and they shared love with one another. The wise ...

432. Lift High the Christ!

John 12:20-36

Sermon

George Bass

... save. Ray Bradbury wrote a story called "The Coffin." It is about a seventy-year-old man, Charles Braling, who is building his coffin in the belief that he would soon die. His brother, Richard, looked on, "bitter-eyed, for a long moment. There was a hatred between them," says Bradbury. "It had gone on for some years and now was neither any better nor any worse for the fact that Charlie was dying. Richard was delighted to know of the impending death ..." Charlie said, "I’ll be dead in another week and ...

433. Who Keeps Getting in My Way?

Matthew 5:1-12

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Wallace H. Kirby

... down to eight, and simply change the word ‘blessed’ into ‘healthy.’ Perhaps we could put it like this: healthy are the pure in heart, because sin is sand in the human machinery and it shakes a man to pieces; healthy are the peacemakers, because hatred brings schizophrenia, and a divided personality inside us will tear us to pieces, in disposition, in health, in power." One of the ten doctors on that committee was a Dr. Sladen of the Ford Hospital in Detroit. In addressing a group of surgeons at a ...

434. What Is Your Mercy Quotient?

Luke 6:17-26

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Wallace H. Kirby

... and yelled "Bless you," and back came the echo, "Bless you." What you give to life, life gives back to you. Curse it, you will be cursed. Bless it, and you will be blessed. That became a good principle for his life, he said. "If I put hatred, meanness, revenge into life, they are things will receive from life. But if I put kindness, forgiveness, and mercy into life, they are the things life returns to me." That experience made all the difference in Louis Mayer’s attitude toward life and others. When I ...

435. Pardon for Sin

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... hostility. He may say on the surface, I don’t wish him any bad luck, but underneath he may unconsciously wish his employer’s demise. By defense stratagem he may manage to conceal the death wish and to obscure the full magnitude of the hatred which gives rise to it. He feels extremely guilty, but the feeling of guilt is detached from the original idea - displaced - and it appears in his consciousness in the company of a different idea. Perhaps the patient cannot drive his automobile anymore, because he ...

436. Overcoming Self

Philippians 1:1-11

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Dennis Kastens

... . As you look at that man and you read the words, "He prayed thus with himself," you catch something of the haughtiness and the aloneness which surrounds him. He is a man who tries to keep all others at a distance if not with hatred, jealousy and violence, then at least with cutting remarks, slander, scorn, and belittling sarcasm, just to preserve his pride. He’s the man prone to advise his doctor on medical treatment, the teacher of his children on educational methods, the city council on municipal ...

437. Journey To The Cross IV: Jesus and Judas

Mark 14:43-52

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James W. Moore

... the biggest news stories in all of history… and it passed Dayton by that day because the editor had missed the message. How often that happens. We miss the message. Jesus came preaching love, not force; forgiveness, not vengeance; mercy, not cruelty; kindness, not hatred… and we, like Judas, are still missing His message. We still believe in power and force. We still have too much vengeance and hostility in our lives. And we excuse ourselves by saying… He didn’t really mean it.” Well, He showed us ...

438. Journey To The Cross VI: Jesus And Pontius Pilate

Matthew 27:11-26

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James W. Moore

... other side of the coin, look at Jesus!! He stands there poised, confident and unafraid. He is facing death, but His strength never wavers. Just think of it... an unfair trial for an innocent man, lies, plotting, conniving, bribed witnesses, political intrigue, jealousy, hostility, hatred, a mob scene... and in the face of it all, Jesus exhibits an amazing quality of inner peace and strength and calm. They betray Him, deny Him, taunt Him, beat Him, curse Him, spit upon Him and nail Him to a cross... and He ...

439. LOVING UNCONDITIONALLY

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John H. Krahn

Unlike Gibran’s The Prophet, and other lyrical works dealing with love, the Lord does not speak with his head in the clouds but rather with his feet firmly planted on an earth filled with conflict and hatred. In the holiness code of Leviticus, God says that those who consider themselves among his children are not to take revenge on one another and are not to bear any grudges. I am sure that some of us have felt vengeful in the last week. Perhaps we have even sought ...

440. In Debt Forever!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... shoulder, and looked down the sights, ready to fire at the first man he saw at the end of them. At that moment, the Argyll (a Scottish soldier) stepped forward, stood stiffly to attention, and said calmly, "I did it." The guard unleashed all his whipped-up hatred; he kicked the helpless prisoner and beat him with his fists. Still the Argyll stood rigidly at attention. The blood was streaming down his face, but he made no sound. His silence goaded the guard to an excess of rage. He seized his rifle by the ...

441. Can We Really Get Along?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... on this trip so they could avoid a region called Samaria. The people who lived there, the Samaritans, hated the Jews and the feeling was mutual. The antagonism was even worse than what prevails today between the Jews and the Palestinians. This hatred was all in the family. Both Jews and Samaritans claimed Abraham as their ancestor. But whereas the Jews had kept themselves racially pure by not marrying foreigners, the Samaritans were Jews who had intermarried with many other tribes and nations. The Jews ...

442. Can a Christian Go to Hell?

Matthew 7:15-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... there without any effort being made to put faith into practice, God cannot stand us. He is hurt and offended and grieved no end. He detests make-believe and artificiality. You will recall that Cain’s prayers were not heard because his heart at the time was full of hatred for his brother, Abel. In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said that only the pure in heart see God. When Jesus found a fig tree that was supposed to have fruit and did not have any, he cursed it for its fruitlessness. This is a parable of ...

443. Sinner to Saint

Matthew 9:9-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... took off his hat, scratched his head, and was heard to say to himself, "I wish I had brought Margie with me. She needs that treatment." It is not an external change that is necessarily made, but an internal one: a new spirit, a change of attitude, love instead of hatred. There is an about-face in values. The change that Christ makes in our lives is not superficial but radical. It is not a matter of filling up pot-holes in the road but rebuilding the road. It is not a matter of putting band-aids on a cut ...

444. Food for Faith

Matthew 14:13-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... each year. By the time a child reaches age eighteen, it is claimed that he has seen eighteen thousand murders. On children’s television cartoons, an act of violence is shown at the rate of one per minute. These scenes of violence are sowing the seeds of hatred, brutality, and revenge in the minds of people. The tragedy of our times is that we are content to feed our souls with crackers when we could be getting a spiritual banquet. We are living on chaff and husks rather than the good meat of a steak ...

445. In the Spirit's Tether

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... in his love. So our living becomes sacramental ... dedicated to his service through helping, caring, giving, and sharing. Faithfully we fulfill our role as Christians by becoming the leavening influence in our society; infiltrating the darkness with our light; those places of hatred with our love; those places of apathy with our zeal; those places of moral turpitude with our intrepid conviction and those places of futility with our eternal hope. Let us pray that as we commune together we may be drawn more ...

446. Little Things Affect Little Minds

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... over insignificant matters. The biblical writers treat anxiety as a denial of God’s providence and care. The biblical writers experienced at first hand the vicious cycle of panic. Anxiety over little problems and incidents leads to apathy, to increased hatred, to isolation of the person from his fellowmen. Suspicion toward the neighbor in such times becomes acceptable in quite horrifying ways. Jesus of Nazareth was quite concerned that his followers get beyond being upset over little things. He feared ...

447. Our Search for Intimacy - The "Father" God

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... Many of us have misunderstood the nature of intimacy. Frank A. Clark, author of The Country Person, once said, "To enjoy a friend, I need more in common with him than hating the same people." So much of what we call friendship or intimacy is based on common hatreds. Our logic tells us that if John Doe hates Bob Smith and I hate Bob Smith, it follows that John Doe is my intimate friend. This is not true in relationships between men and women, and it is not true in relationships between man and God. Some of ...

448. The Little Miracle Before The Big One

Luke 22:47-53

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Barbara Brokhoff

... about how to treat your enemies. He said: "love your enemies," once he said: "if your enemy hunger, feed him." Another time he said "forgive your enemies," and again: "if your enemy smite you on one cheek; turn the other cheek." He taught no retaliation in anger, or hatred, or violence. Now, on the way to the cross. He is remembering what he taught, practicing what he preached! Jesus seems to be the only one in the whole crowd who remembered how God expected him to act: The Jews were blind to God, Judas had ...

449. The Return to Catholicity

John 17:6-19

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Louis H. Valbracht

... - from St. John’s to St. Ambrose - because this Year of Our Lord 1979 is the 460th Anniversary of the greatest revolution that have ever shaken this globe. This marks the beginning of that Reformation and that Counter-Reformation, and when I think of the hatreds, the turmoil, and the bloodshed that resulted as Christian turned upon Christian, to kill and to maim, I can only look upon this moment with holy and unrestrained rejoicing. Little did I ever dream as I grew up as a Lutheran pastor’s son in ...

450. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

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T. A. Kantonen

... is always relevant but never a simple possibility." We may recall, for example, the jeering words of Clemenceau when Wilson tried to apply this approach at Versailles, "Wilson talks like Jesus Christ." When agape was laughed out of court, seeds of hatred were sown which soon blossomed into another world war. The truth remains: other approaches end in failure, but "love never faileth." "Make agape your aim," counsels Paul. Let the tactics required by each situation vary, but never lose sight of the basic ...

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