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4501. Pucker Up in the Morning

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Staff

... the cheek. The reason for this, says Dr. Sazbo, is that the kissers begin the day with a positive attitude. A kiss signifies a sort of seal of approval, offer Sazbo and his colleagues, and they believe, those who don't experience it, for whatever reason, go out the door feeling not quite right about themselves. Whether you give this study any credence or not, an au revoir kiss every morning can do you no harm. Maybe you can expand the study and write a book, Pucker Up to Grow Rich ...

4502. How to Really Love Your Child

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Dr. Ross Campbell

... parents and love them despite their childish behavior, they will be able to mature and give up childish ways. If we only love them when they please us (conditional love), and convey our love to them only during those times, they will not feel genuinely loved. This in turn will make them insecure, damage their self-image, and actually prevent them from moving on to better self-control and more mature behavior. Therefore, their behavior is our responsibility as much as theirs. If we love them unconditionally ...

4503. Living Half the Truth

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... good as I'm farmin' already." Most people are not living even half the truth they already know. They don't so much need to know more as they need to be motivated more. While the principal purpose of illustration is not to excite the emotions, illustrations do help listeners feel the truth. And people mostly do what they ...

4504. Diagnosis Old Age

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Staff

... and pains annoyed me And I couldn't get to sleep at night. He could find no real disorder But he couldn't let me rest What with Medicare and Blue Cross It wouldn't hurt to do some tests. To the hospital he sent me Though I didn't feel that bad He arranged for them to give me Every test that could be had. I was flouroscoped and cystoscoped My aging frame displayed, Stripped upon an ice cold table While my gizzards were X-rayed. I was checked for worms and parasites For fungus and the Crud While they ...

4505. As a Parent I Would...

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John Drescher

... it is easy to take each other for granted and let a dullness creep in that can dampen even the deepest love. So, I would love the mother/father of my children more and be freer in letting them see that love. I would develop feelings of belonging. If children do not feel that they belong in the family, they will soon find their primary group elsewhere. I would use meal times more to share happenings of the day instead of hurrying through them. I'd find more time for games or projects which all could join. I ...

4506. Preaching on Prayers

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Staff

... the Holy Spirit's power upon you. Two others have covenanted to join with me in prayer for you." Dr. Chapman said, "I didn't feel so bad when I learned he was going to pray for me. The 3 became 10, the 10 became 20, and 20 became 50, the 50 ... became 200 who met before every service to pray that the Holy Spirit might come upon me. I always went into my pulpit feeling that I would have the anointing in answer to the prayers of those who had faithfully prayed for me. It was a joy to preach! The ...

4507. Your Dog or a Stranger

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Dennis Prager

It is no wonder that in 15 years of asking high school students throughout America whether, in an emergency situation, they would save their dog or a stranger first, most students have answered that they would not save the stranger. "I love my dog, I don't love the stranger," they always say. The feeling of love has supplanted God or religious principle as the moral guide for young people. What is right has been redefined in terms of what an individual feels.

4508. Paralyzed by Pleasure

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Staff

... , a St. Bernard, one of a long line of dogs famous for their heroics in times of crisis. "If that dog hadn't been with me, I'd be dead today," John Elliott says. "When you're freezing to death you actually feel warm all over, and don't wake up because it feels too good." This moving story illustrates the spiritual condition of many people today. They are cold spiritually, and sadly are oblivious of their true condition. Thank God for all the ways in which He arouses such sleepers. He sends His messengers to ...

4509. Wait on the Lord

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James Packer

... our arm to help us, likely we would impatiently shake him off; but when we are caught in rough country in the dark, with a storm brewing and our strength spent, and someone takes our arm to help us, we would thankfully lean on him. And God wants us to feel that our way through life is rough and perplexing, so that we may learn to lean on him thankfully. Therefore he takes steps to drive us out of self-confidence to trust in himself, to in the classic scriptural phrase for the secret of the godly man's life ...

4510. God's Opposition

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Albert Barnes

... of the word "wrath" as applicable to God, it must be divested of everything that is like human passion, and especially the passion of revenge. It is one of the most obvious rules of interpretation that we are not to apply to God passions and feelings which, among us, have their origin in evil. [God's wrath] is the opposition of the divine character against sin; and the determination of the divine mind to express that opposition in a proper way, by excluding the offender from the favors which He bestows ...

4511. How Big of a Risk Would You Take?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you." Let me pause here. If you had never heard this parable before, how would you expect the master to feel? He had entrusted his wealth to his three servants. Two of them had not only protected that with which they had been entrusted, but they had doubled it. Now this third servant is asked to account for his stewardship. And he is forced to announce that he had ...

4512. The Four Sacred Chords of Home

Mark 13:24-37

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Leonard Sweet

... and holiness in others, with all their flaws and cracks. Home is where the people who know you the best, love you the most. Home is where forgiving is found in reversing the words—giving forth: giving forth blessing when you feel like cursing; giving forth blessing when you feel like revenge. The Chord of Love is the last chord, the “Major Lift.” Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Star and angels gave the sign. Love is the native language of the ...

4513. Bear the Light

John 1:19-28

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Leonard Sweet

... turn of the littlest of the little shepherds. Like an otter parting the waters with his furry head, Jared merged from the crowd, and with absolute confidence grabbed the mike and said, with a noticeable lisp, “It was like . . . . It was like . . .” You could feel the panic in his face. He looked to the prompter, who whispered the rest of his lines. He tried again. “It was like . . . It was like . . .” Once again, the prompter gave him his lines, this time a little louder. Jared looked about ready to ...

4514. I Am Baptized!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... the banner mean? “Christ’s Own Forever.” An hour later in the middle of the party; the phone rang. It was the voice of the neighbor who had driven by and seen the banner outside the house. “I’m so sorry to trouble you,” she said. “I feel awful asking you this, but has something terrible happened while we’ve been out of town? (This was followed by an awkward silence). Then the voice on the other end of the line asked, “Did your son die?” (3) Well, no, though we could understand how they ...

4515. Doing Your Own Thing

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... unit with tubes coming out all over the place and IVs in both arms. He told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. He went on to say that the food is nutritionally complete so he was going to try it again. He says that by this time practically everyone in the line was enthralled with his story, particularly a guy who was behind the lady who asked the question. Horrified ...

4516. Men in the Delivery Room

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

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Eric Ritz

... the elevator. Finally, the nurse yelled out the window as the man entered the nearby parking lot. The nurse cried out, "What's wrong? Where are you going?" He said, "I've got to resign real fast. I am Vice-President of Seven-up!" That poor father-to-be was feeling a might bit overwhelmed. I suppose many people feel that way especially during the Christmas season. They are ready to tender their resignation from it all; ready to "hang it up."

4517. Responsible Living

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... . is it easy to hand over the remote . . . any remote? How about the remote that controls your life? God created us to be responsible responsible parents, responsible members of our nation, of our community and of our church. We can do that without Christ, but many of us will feel we are living in a straitjacket. There will be no joy in our lives, only a sense of duty. If we will make a fresh commitment to God turn the remote of our lives over to God if our lives are lived in response to the love poured out ...

4518. Ponderisms

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... transmitted. Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they used to? Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. In the 60's, people took acid (LSD) to make ...

4519. Candidates for God’s Candid Camera

1 John 3:11-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... are told, “Your daughter was so great at listening to my grandmother.” Or after a special meal, “Your kids were the first ones up to help clear the table.” Knowing your kids are practicing what you’ve preached — even when you are not around — makes every parent feel like they’ve won a medal. The truth is we are all children. We all have a parent watching out for us and over us and encouraging us to behave in a certain way. All the time. Are you behaving as your Father taught — as the Son ...

4520. How Connected Are You?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... watched a woman being interviewed. She sat in a wheelchair because she was elderly and feeble. She said that she was dead for she had lost her heart. The psychiatrist asked her to place her hand over her breast to feel her heart beating: it must still be there if she could feel its beat. “That,” she said, “is not my real heart.” She and the psychiatrist looked at each other. “There was nothing more to say,” writes Hillman. “Like the primitive who has lost his soul, she had lost the loving ...

4521. Love Each Other (Mother's Day)

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... laying down one’s life for one’s friends . . .” For many of us love is a squishy emotion without any real content. “I love you for what you can do for me,” is the basic rule of such love. “You meet my needs and so I have a warm feeling for you.” We sing about such love, but in our hearts we know such love is horribly superficial. True love is sacrificial. There is a story about two tribes in the Andes that were at war. One tribe lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains. The ...

4522. The Whole World Is Looking for Our Light

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King Duncan

... if one of the lights went out. His response was an emphatic "Never!" He said that if he permitted that to happen, he would live in fear of being responsible for a ship crashing into some unseen rocks along the coast. And then he went on to say, "Sometimes I feel as if the whole world is looking at my light." That is how we ought to ...

4523. Laws of Probability

Humor Illustration

... Physical Appearance - If the clothes fit, they're ugly. Oliver's Law of Public Speaking - A closed mouth gathers no feet. Wilson's Law of Commercial Marketing Strategy - As soon as you find a product that you really like, they will stop making it. Doctors' Law - If you don't feel well, make an appointment to go to the doctor, by the time you get there you'll ...

4524. Toss Your Cap Over the Wall

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... the heroic whether we want to change jobs, start our own business, go back to school, or whatever. There come those times in life when we feel the need to make a change. I know of one young man in particular who decided to make such a change. He was thirty years old ... calling for three years, only to die an untimely death. As he hung on a tree between two thieves dying a cruel and unjust death, feeling forsaken by both God and man no one would have judged his life to be a success. But it was. It was the most ...

4525. Be Healed, Be Held

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... for a clothes change this morning? How willing are you to slip your hand into Jesus’ hand today? Are you ready to put your hold onto Jesus? Are you ready to reach out to him and hold on to him for dear life? It is the only way to feel the power of Jesus that holds onto us that holds onto us and heals us. Be healed by being held this morning. Be healed. Be held. COMMENTARY As Mark’s “miracles” section continues, he intensifies the drama and power of these events by once again “intercalating” or ...

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4501. Pucker Up in the Morning

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Staff

4502. How to Really Love Your Child

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Dr. Ross Campbell

4503. Living Half the Truth

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4504. Diagnosis Old Age

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Staff

4505. As a Parent I Would...

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John Drescher

4506. Preaching on Prayers

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Staff

4507. Your Dog or a Stranger

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Dennis Prager

4508. Paralyzed by Pleasure

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Staff

4509. Wait on the Lord

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James Packer

4510. God's Opposition

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Albert Barnes

4511. How Big of a Risk Would You Take?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

4512. The Four Sacred Chords of Home

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

4513. Bear the Light

John 1:19-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

4514. I Am Baptized!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

4515. Doing Your Own Thing

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

King Duncan

4516. Men in the Delivery Room

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Illustration

Eric Ritz

4517. Responsible Living

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

4518. Ponderisms

Humor Illustration

4519. Candidates for God’s Candid Camera

1 John 3:11-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

4520. How Connected Are You?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

4521. Love Each Other (Mother's Day)

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

4522. The Whole World Is Looking for Our Light

Illustration

King Duncan

4523. Laws of Probability

Humor Illustration

4524. Toss Your Cap Over the Wall

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

King Duncan

4525. Be Healed, Be Held

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

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