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4476. Contemporary Prophets Speak the Truth

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... , but placed one group above another. Contemporary prophets exist today and they challenge us in many ways. They ask difficult questions, but ones that require our response. When the prophets speak we are generally made to feel uncomfortable. Sometimes we respond by ignoring the message. People don't like to feel uncomfortable and thus it is easy to close our ears and eyes to the message that prophets speak today. But God tells us through the prophet Moses in today's lesson from Deuteronomy that he will ...

4477. You Are in Good Hands with God

Isaiah 40:21-31

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... do we have fewer responsibilities, only greater. We are so involved with other things that too often God gets lost in the mix. Sometimes we even become estranged from God. Possibly, in our confusion, we may think God is absent — that God has abandoned us. We can feel at times like the Hebrews in exile, as Isaiah describes them, or as the Jews during the time of the Holocaust. This situation might prompt us to go in search of God, perceiving that God is somewhere else, that he is not present with us at the ...

4478. Who Am I?

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... theologian, points out that there are those, however, "who are not content to spend a whole lifetime approaching the fundamental questions of human existence with mere feeling, personal prejudices, and apparently plausible explanations."1 Are we the flower children? Are we the punkers? Are we the staid, holier-than-thou Christians who feel soiled in the presence of unorthodox language? What identifies us? Is it our money — our status in the corporate world — our houses, our cars, our profit-sharing ...

4479. The Many Faces of God

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... won it last year; it's someone else's turn. After all, we ought to share, shouldn't we?" I wish you could have seen the look on her husband's face when she said that! We show different faces to the world depending on what we're thinking or feeling. God does, too, but not anthropomorphically. After all, God is God, and God does what God wants to do. God is never a pale projection of the human condition the way some people think. If you read the Bible carefully you will see that God shows more than one face ...

4480. God Never Gives Up on Us

1 Samuel 8:4-11 (12-15) 16-20, (11:14-15)

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... shape up just in time to take on the reins, in this case ruling the people as God's servants on earth. Oh, he knows what they're really like. He's watched them get in trouble all their lives, especially through the teenage years. You know that tear-filled feeling you have as a parent when you drop your firstborn off at some college or university halfway around the country, knowing all the time that this act signals the break up of the family as you've known it? If you're really honest, you have to admit it ...

4481. Getting Through the Grief

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... muster a few good words to say about him. It was no problem saying something nice about Jonathan. Jonathan was his beloved friend. Jonathan was precious to David, one whose love for David surpassed "the love of women" (v. 26). There was an amazing bond between them. You can feel the deep anguish and grief pouring from David's heart as he cries out in this famous lament. It's almost a dirge for the war dead, like a father who has lost his son in battle. Once, while we were in Angel Fire, New Mexico, my wife ...

4482. Finding Our Roots in God and Country

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... into Jerusalem just before his coronation, as he made his way into the great city of Zion, which some day would be named the city of David. In a way he was finally coming home to his true purpose and goal for life. I certainly had that feeling a few years ago as I preached and lectured in Cambridge and Oxford in England. The church in which I preached in Cambridge, St. Columba's United Reformed Church, had, I discovered only after arriving, the names of two women whose works I had studied for years written ...

4483. Dancing in Holy Places

2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... side of heaven. So dancing in holy places has to start first of all with this sad and mournful dance of death like those long, slow marches to the cemetery in New Orleans with the band playing the blues and the dance steps measured and slow because everyone feels the pain — a dull, dark ache that just won't go away. In a fascinating twist, some scholars see Michal at the window in this light. Oh, you can read your way through all the speculations about her and the reason she wasn't down there dancing with ...

4484. When Necks Break

2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... are able to imagine a world of peace. Simultaneously, tough doves get buried under and snowed over. Tough doves often fail. They also lose their way in the snow and fog of human interaction. They can feel like they are constantly digging out from a snowstorm. The desk that looked clear on Monday can be buried by Wednesday. I often feel that my life is a constant climbing out of a desk stress hole. The people to whom I should write, the people whom I should thank, join the people at whom I should yell, and ...

4485. Finding the Good Woman Part in Us All

Proverbs 31:10-31

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... be like the proverbial good woman. We often don't think we have the choices. We often work by a holy hidden thread or grail and feel like we are anything but valued or free in our communities. The time I knew the da Vinci dame the best was when Sigma Alpha ... today. It flows as strong as any river or any set of healthy veins. Sometimes if you lay still at night, you can just feel the blood flowing through your body. It is her, or so I think. You see, at Gettysburg, whenever the housemother locked the front ...

4486. The Pursuit of Happiness

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

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Leonard Sweet

... from our fiery ancestors. But life, liberty . . . and “the pursuit of happiness?" No matter how intellectually gifted, how democratically on fire, or how socially revolutionary, at some crucial point, at some heart of our humanity, all we want to do, all we want to feel, all we want is to be happy. No wonder Jesus started one of his most famous sermons with a litany of “Happy are those who . . ." (Matthew 5:1-12). Perhaps the greatest sadness of Martin Luther, the simple monk who brought the hurricane ...

4487. Remember the Lord

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... or powerful we become, we dare not forget the One who gave us all our bounty. “Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget lest we forget!” We are a prosperous people. That’s the first thing of which we need to be reminded. We may feel pinched because of an uncertain economy and falling home values, but it is all relative. We are still among the most prosperous people on earth. Many of us live in homes that are twice the size of the homes our parents lived in. We drive cars that cost as much ...

4488. Why We Drank

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Staff

... for strength and felt weak. We drank "medicinally" and acquired health problems. We drank for relaxation and got the shakes. We drank for bravery and became afraid. We drank for confidence and became doubtful. We drank to make conversation easier and slurred our speech. We drank to feel heavenly and ended up feeling like hell. We drank to forget and were forever haunted. We drank for freedom and became slaves. We drank to erase problems and saw them multiply. We drank to cope with life and invited death.

4489. Take a Bow

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Dr. Ernest Mellor

... and stop, people may forget to show their appreciation," the instructor said. "But when the children bow, the audience invariably applauds. And applause is the best motivator we've found to make children feel good about performing and want to do it well." Adults love applause too. Being affirmed makes us feel wonderful. If you want to rekindle or keep the flame of love glowing in your marriage through the years, try showing and expressing your appreciation for your mate. Put some applause in your marriage ...

4490. Saturate Your Heart

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James M. Gray

... finally lay it down until I had gone through it some 15 times." He then said, "When I arose to go into the house, I was in possession of Ephesians; or better yet, it was in possession of me. I had the feeling that I had been lifted up to sit together in heavenly places with Christ Jesus a feeling that was new to me." This testimony encouraged Gray to master the Scriptures for himself. He began to saturate his mind and heart with God's Word so that he could freely and effectively communicate it to others.

4491. An Overnight Success

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Staff

The next time you feel yourself feeling confident, challenge yourself to do the impossible. You just may. There are legions of people with unchallenged genius potential. In 1912, two Irish music hall players were spending an afternoon in a pub at Stalybridge in Cheshire, England. They were extolling the musical traditions of Ireland when it's said ...

4492. Take It Up with Management

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Staff

Some obstacles to upward communication: Many employees fear that expressing their true feelings about the company to their boss could be dangerous. The fairly wide-spread belief that disagreeing with the boss will block promotion still holds. There is a wide-spread conviction that management is not interested in employee problems. Some have the feeling that employees are not rewarded for good ideas. There is a lack of supervisory accessibility and responsiveness. The conviction is widespread that higher ...

4493. How To Criticize Constructively

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Staff

... . Ask them to think it over. Tell them you will too. Later, if you still believe in the changes you want to make, get together with them again. Explain that you've thought it over carefully and still believe the idea is worth a try. Tell them you feel an obligation to give it a fair chance, and you're counting on them to do the same. One other important point; when you have to criticize or question someone's actions or ideas, always do it to their face. Discuss it with the person involved, privately if ...

4494. The Marks of a Cult

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Staff

... the only group that possesses the "truth." Legalistic: Rules and regulations abound governing spiritual matters and the details of everyday living. Subjective: They emphasize the experiential, the feelings and the emotions. This is usually accompanied by an anti- intellectualism. Persecution-conscious: The groups feel they are being singled out by mainstream Christians, the press, parents, and the government. Sanction-oriented: They require conformity in practice and belief, and exercise sanctions against ...

4495. Reaching Many Through One

Illustration

... to the church in a whole year, and he's just a boy." The minister listened, his eyes moistening and his thin hand trembling. "I feel it all," he replied, "but God knows I've tried to do my duty." On that day the minister's heart was heavy as he ... an education, I could become a preacher perhaps a missionary?" Again tears welled up in the minister's eyes. "Ah, this heals the ache I feel," he said. "Robert, I see the Divine hand now. May God bless you, my boy. Yes, I think you will become a preacher." Many ...

4496. What Are Fathers Made Of?

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Paul Harvey

A father is a thing that is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic. A father is a thing that growls when it feels good and laughs very loud when it's scared half to death. A father never feels entirely worthy of the worship in a child's eyes. He's never quite the hero his daughter thinks, never quite the man his son believes him to be and this worries him, sometimes. So he works too hard to try and smooth the rough places in the road for ...

4497. Bear the Burden

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David Augsburger

... angered by the offender bears his own anger, and lets the other go free. Anger cannot be ignored, denied, or forgotten without doing treachery in hidden ways. It must be dealt with responsibly, honestly, in a decisive act of the will. Either the injured and justifiably angry person vents his feelings on the other in retaliation (That is an attempt at achieving justice as accuser, judge, and hangman all in one) or the injured person may choose to accept his angry ...

4498. What Is a Friend?

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C. Raymond Beran

... a friend? Friends are people with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with them. They ask you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. They do not want you to be better or worse. When you are with them, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, as long as it is genuinely you. Friends understand those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you. With them you breathe freely. You can avow ...

4499. Face It Head On

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Staff

Pastor Bill Hybels shared this story in one of his sermons... A friend of mine has a brain-damaged daughter. Sometimes the sadness she feels over her daughter's condition overwhelms her, as it did recently. She wrote me this letter and gave me permission to quote from it: ". . . I can hardly bear it ... do to conquer grief, and that is to embrace it. . . I cried and cried and cried, and faced the truth of my grief head on." People who face their feelings and express them freely begin the journey toward hope.

4500. Phantom Pain

I John 3:19-20

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Dr. Paul Brand

... I sit in my armchair, I will taunt that leg, 'Hah! You can't hurt me anymore!" Ultimately, he got his wish. But the despised leg had the last laugh. Barwick suffered phantom limb pain of the worst degree. The wound healed, but he could feel the torturous pressure of the swelling as the muscles cramped, and he had no prospect of relief. He had hated the leg with such intensity that the pain had unaccountably lodged permanently in his brain. Phantom limb pain provides wonderful insight into the phenomenon of ...

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4476. Contemporary Prophets Speak the Truth

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Richard Gribble

4477. You Are in Good Hands with God

Isaiah 40:21-31

Sermon

Richard Gribble

4478. Who Am I?

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Ken Lentz

4479. The Many Faces of God

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

4480. God Never Gives Up on Us

1 Samuel 8:4-11 (12-15) 16-20, (11:14-15)

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

4481. Getting Through the Grief

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

4482. Finding Our Roots in God and Country

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

4483. Dancing in Holy Places

2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

4484. When Necks Break

2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33

Sermon

Donna Schaper

4485. Finding the Good Woman Part in Us All

Proverbs 31:10-31

Sermon

Donna Schaper

4486. The Pursuit of Happiness

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Illustration

Leonard Sweet

4487. Remember the Lord

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

4488. Why We Drank

Illustration

Staff

4489. Take a Bow

Illustration

Dr. Ernest Mellor

4490. Saturate Your Heart

Illustration

James M. Gray

4491. An Overnight Success

Illustration

Staff

4492. Take It Up with Management

Illustration

Staff

4493. How To Criticize Constructively

Illustration

Staff

4494. The Marks of a Cult

Illustration

Staff

4495. Reaching Many Through One

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4496. What Are Fathers Made Of?

Illustration

Paul Harvey

4497. Bear the Burden

Illustration

David Augsburger

4498. What Is a Friend?

Illustration

C. Raymond Beran

4499. Face It Head On

Illustration

Staff

4500. Phantom Pain

I John 3:19-20

Illustration

Dr. Paul Brand

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