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451. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... , "Bishop, I like playing games, but only with boys of my own age! Do you take me for one of your sheep, holy pastor?" Then he says, "The One that little red lamp honors read into your innermost heart and mine a long time ago. Of your cupidity and my hatred. He knows all there is to know."10 When one realizes this, one realizes, too, how much he or she needs the grace of God, God’s unmerited good will. But if one looks too intently at others’ wrongs, one may forget about one’s own and so obstruct the ...

452. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... . In the third place, the pacifist believes that war is suicidal. Sooner or later it destroys those who resort to it. Hence, nothing could be worse than modern war, for it has within itself the essence of all other evils - hatred, vengeance, murder, atrocity, deception, lust, defense of falsehood, evil, loss of moral standards, disease, famine, poverty, despair, violence, revolution, lawlessness, crime, and death. To talk of curing any evil by compounding and intensifying all evils is, to the pacifist at ...

453. The Time of Our Visitation

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... knew him, and she ran - not weeping, but rejoicing - to tell the others that she had seen the Lord, alive. Two or three years afterward, Saul of Tarsus was on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus, carrying warrants for the arrest of the Christians there, hatred seething within him, but then came Jesus, accosting Saul on the road beneath the noonday sun; and the man Saul was never the same again. The voice that once had "breathed threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord" (Acts 9:1) became ...

454. Getting Under Your Neighbor's Skin

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... on patrol duty. The matter of racial sensitivity is a two-way street. It is deplorable when a local politician refers to an opposing group, mostly of a different race, as "devils." Yet, it has happened before, and by white politicians. To retaliate with more racist hatred only makes matters worse. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, "No man can pull me down so low as to make me hate him." That must be our philosophy because it was taught to us by Jesus. Only when we understand the history through which ...

455. Our Inclusive Christ

Colossians 3:1-17

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Bill Bouknight

... declared, In Christ There Is Neither Jew Nor Greek. This referred to the seething racial division that still exists in the Middle East. You will remember from biblical history that Jews were not even supposed to walk through Samaria because of the racial hatred between Jews and Samaritans. Jesus' noonday conversation with a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well was a frontal attack on the prevailing racism of his day. I am convinced that the Church is the only institution in America with a realistic chance to ...

456. Who Is This Jesus?

Colossians 1:15-23

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Bill Bouknight

... heartbreak and tragedy, point them to Jesus. If they ask why we do not despair in the face of poverty and racism and drugs, tell them that nothing is impossible with Jesus. If someone wants to know how we remain confident even when the world is mired in war and hatred, tell them the victory belongs to Jesus. And if they wonder why even death cannot intimidate us, tell them that we know someone who conquered death, and his name is Jesus.

457. A Favored One

Sermon

James Bjorge

... proud of her oldest Son. Scripture said, "And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature, and in favor with God and man" (Luke 2:52). Those were good days. Humble people loved him. But as he began his public ministry the powerful ones regarded him with increasing hatred. People were beginning to line up either for him or against him. Even in his hometown acceptance was hard to come by. Mary’s heart must have ached. And one day it happened ... what she feared came to pass. Her Son was led up to a hilltop ...

458. David

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... appropriate for worship services. ALL: Now there was David. A WHOLE MAN! LOW: Destined for greatness. HIGH: Dabbling in mire. ALL: A whole man in the image of God! SOLO 1: But not God. ALL: A man! SOLO 1: A man of sins, SOLO 2: Of error, SOLO 4: Of hatred. ALL: But a man of goodness. LOW: Of compassion, HIGH: Of courage, SOLO 1: Of decision, SOLO 2: Of love. ALL: A whole man. David! SOLO 3: Now there was David ALL: What did history think of him? His father? FATHER: David was a good boy. Brave, too. Took ...

459. Last Ditch Stand

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... Under certain conditions? JOHN: Under certain conditions. NANCY: [stands before him, weeping] Oh, Rod! ROD: [looking at her a moment] Goodbye, Nancy. [He continues looking at her a moment more, then exits. Nancy takes a step after him, then looks back at her father in hatred and runs off to her room. There’s a silence.] JOHN: Are you still here? HELEN: I think you are wrong, but I’m still here. JOHN: Thank you. HELEN: I’m afraid you’ve started something that - JOHN: [interrupting] I know. HELEN: Our ...

460. Chapter VI

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... Nor, as such, is this a stricture against a man’s killing to protect his family against an intruder, for instance. Its main thrust, at first reading, seems to be limited to forbidding killing with "malice aforethought" to gain advantage, or revenge, or to vent ones hatred of another. The fact is, however, that life itself, which is of necessity, taken in any act of killing, was understood by the Hebrews to be holy. Life was sacred because it was generated by both the hand and mouth of God himself. As the ...

461. BODYGUARD

2 Samuel 23:23; 2 Kings 25:8

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... us, we have mention of Babylonian bodyguards. In reading Jeremiah 32:2, we gather that Zedekiah had a special body- or palace-guard, in whose quarters Jeremiah was prisoned for a while. So you see, while it is necessary for men to fear men, while violence and hatred exist in the world, it will be necessary for men to be protected. It isn’t always possible - the action of the Secret Service man was too late - but the necessity exists. How wonderful it would be to live in a world where bodyguards would be ...

462. TAX COLLECTOR

Matt. 18:17; Luke 5:27

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... to eminence within a captive state, this was never the feeling that they had toward the Romans. It’s true that many Jews recognized the many benefits that they derived from the Roman system, but still their captors were harsh, cruel people, and were held in hatred and fear. So, any Jew who had sold out to the Romans was doubly hated, as an apostate and a traitor, taking away from his own people to give to the hated Romans! The rabbis regarded tax collectors as the same as robbers and refused to allow ...

463. Judgement Day Is Coming

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... on earth when God looks sorrowfully at the rebellious person and says, “I won't contend with you anymore. Your choice will be honored.” The doctrines of a final judgment and an eternal heaven and hell are hard doctrines. But without them, God's justice and hatred of sin are compromised, and our freedom of choice is denied. Real love forces choices between good and evil. Real love is a woman saying to an alcoholic husband, “I force you to choose between the bottle and me. I will not coddle that liquor ...

464. God of Wrath and Grace

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... and wickedness of men…” I have a fear that one day God may confront us preachers and declare, “You unfaithful servants, you changed my love into a sentiments, maudlin mess of mush; and you never warned my people about judgment, justice and my hatred of sin. Lots of people went to hell because you never sounded an alarm.” When prosperous people like us show callous disregard for the poverty stricken, violence-plagued children of the Memphis housing projects, God’s wrath will be experienced. When a ...

465. Judgment Day is Coming (Adapted)

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

466. Service Without Witness

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Donald Macleod

Most worshiping Christians are familiar with at least that part of a wonderful prayer by St. Francis of Assisi that goes this way: Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy.1 These words reach into the deepest meaning of service, but note this very significant feature: St. Francis combines serving with ...

467. Song of a Prophet

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... will be equal subjects of a merciful Monarch who seeks nothing but their good and asks nothing but their love. Be still, and know that I am God. I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth! (Psalm 46:10) "Drop your hatreds," the psalmist represents the Lord as saying to the antagonistic and rebellious. "Restrain yourself," the Almighty urges the covetous. "Put yourselves in my hands that you may share the best of life with one another and with me," he appeals. None, the poet-prophet declares ...

468. The Reality Of Sin

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Robert Allen

... fear in their own homes; crosses found burning in the yards of homes and churches are vivid testimonies that racism still lingers in the hearts of many; the swastikas and anti-semitic slogans painted on Jewish temples and synagogues give witness to the bigotry and hatred which dwells in our world. There are thousands of men and women who never read the Bible and don’t have the foggiest notion of what it teaches about sin. But, in their everyday relationships, they live and move and run their lives on the ...

469. I Believe In Judgment

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Robert Allen

... in this small county in Alabama means that Tom Robinson will be found guilty in spite of his innocence. However, one white attorney, a man named Atticus Finch, agrees to defend Tom. In spite of the personal threats against his life and the racial hatred expressed by many whites, Atticus Finch puts together a case which proves this white girl is lying about being raped by Tom Robinson. Throughout the long trial, the blacks of the community gather in the balcony of the courthouse to watch Atticus Finch plead ...

470. The More Excellent Way

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Robert Allen

... strive for excellence in living the Christian life. We cannot allow our Christian commitment to become a Sunday morning ceremony and ignore it throughout the week. We cannot permit people to think we have the spirit of Christ within our lives when jealousy, and hatred, and greed, and arrogance, and rudeness, and unkindness, seem to be the dominant influences in our lives. We cannot claim to be followers of the carpenter from Nazareth when we do not have an active concern for the good of another person. In ...

471. The Ultimate Christmas Gift

Psalm 85:1-13, Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Erskine White

... Bethlehem. Let rulers of nations everywhere join in sweet anthems of peace, and let the rough words of war pass from their lips no more. Make all of us instruments of Your peace, O God, sowing harmony and understanding where there is enmity and hatred, sowing justice and charity where there is deprivation and want, being peacemakers in the manner and spirit of our Savior, whose word is peace and who is our peace, even Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 1. One other significant approach to peace was the attempt ...

472. Just A Whisper

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... among us once again. Christmas Eve’s expectation becomes Christmas Day’s fulfillment, and the whisper of God’s love is spoken once again. Those perceptive enough, as shepherds on an ancient hillside, will hear it. A world sick to death with strife and hatred, disease and pollution, is reminded once more of love and hope. While some cling to their practiced pessimism, the world is indeed a different and better place after these 2,000 years because certain ones of whom Luke wrote long ago were tuned to ...

473. A Prophet Like Me

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... been dismissed from her position without due process, which is the right of every citizen under the Constitution of the United States of America, regardless of their views. They did it to be heard and to make a witness about the climate of fear and hatred that was loose in the land. It was to say that in God’s name this is not right! But people heard what they wanted to hear. People left Presbyterian churches in droves, and even whole congregations separated themselves from the denomination. The United ...

474. We Do Not Have To Stay The Way We Are!

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... vivid and persuasive examples of sin in our century is the Holocaust. Here sin was engaged in the unbelievable task of destroying the people of God. It is easy to focus on the demon Hitler, but the truth is that most of the world was involved. Hatred for the Jews has been around for a long, long time and we Christians are guilty of promoting and feeding these fears and suspicions. We read in Elie Wiesel’s novel, The Oath, these words, "With every approaching Easter, the Jews tremble." Robert McAfee Brown ...

475. Jesus Christ, the Truth

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... Messiah business? Ruth: My Lord, there is an age-old belief that one day God would restore the world to the condition it was just after creation. It would be a world where there was no more war, no more injustice, no more poverty, no more hatred. Men would lay down their weapons and live as brothers. The lion and the lamb would lie down together and graze in green pastures. There would be perfect shalom. Pilate: A wonderful thought. But just how was all this to be achieved? Ruth: Through God’s Messiah ...

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