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26. In Pisidian Antioch

Acts 13:13-52

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... disobedience was sin. But perfect obedience was not expected. The Jews had no conception of sinless perfection. They recognized that within the heart were two impulses, one good, the other evil. The righteous person was the one who nurtured the good impulse and restrained the evil so that in the end his or her good deeds outweighed the bad. But because of the impulse to evil, there was always the possibility that a person might “fall short of the glory of God,” and in this eventuality repentance and God ...

27. Cain and Abel

Genesis 4:1-26

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... urge” (teshuqah) means strong attraction or drive such as a woman feels for a man (3:16). Cain needed to master this sin that impelled him to express his bitter feelings by attacking another. In this warning Yahweh offered Cain the hope that he could control this impulse to commit sin, even though it was strong. Should Cain act wrongfully, it would be because he yielded to the desire of sin, not because God had rejected his offering. 4:8 Some time later Cain made an appointment with Abel to meet him in a ...

28. The Days Are Coming

Jeremiah 33:14-16

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King Duncan

... have enjoyed a peaceful life, a relatively comfortable life. He had the soul of a poet. He observed with joy the blossoming of the almond in early spring. He wrote of the migratory impulse of the turtledove, the swallow and the crane. Animals have to obey their impulses. Humans don’t. Why couldn’t he check those red-hot impulses that so often got him in trouble? Why couldn’t he just sit back and enjoy the beauty of nature? He could cultivate a garden—enjoy the blessings of marriage and family. Why ...

29. A New Kingdom Coming

Luke 9:57-62

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Maurice A. Fetty

... , like a phoenix bird, it arises out of the ashes of the old. As a young sapling is germinated by forest fire, so the new kingdom is sprouted in the desolation of despair. Like tundra flowers and crab grass the new kingdom has irresistible life impulses and grows anywhere. There is a new kingdom coming. You may wonder where it is -- this new kingdom. You may look for advance press releases, television bulletins, screaming headlines. Or you may listen for the voice of battle, the clamor of war, the sound of ...

30. Advent 1

Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22

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William E. Keeney

... God and Mammon in America (The Free Press). He is reported to say, "We live in a materialistic culture and we want money and possessions, and very few people have heard a powerful voice telling them to resist these impulses, or how to resist these impulses." Wuthnow reported that a survey revealed that 75 percent said their choice of jobs was not influenced by religion. Only ten percent said religious values definitely influenced their choice, while twelve percent said maybe religion did. The survey asked ...

31. Proper 10

Luke 10:25-37, Colossians 1:1-14, Amos 7:10-17, Psalm 82:1-8

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William E. Keeney

... white churches. The armed forces needed all the manpower they could get to fight the war. 2. The Anti-Samaritan. In recent years it has become dangerous to stop and aid apparent victims or persons in need along a lonely road. Too often people use the impulse of the Good Samaritans as a ruse to rob them and sometimes to steal their cars. Persons who stop for a person in apparent distress are sometimes ambushed, robbed, injured, or even killed. It used to be an act of mercy to pick up hitchhikers. Too often ...

32. Proper 4

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

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William E. Keeney

... Founded on Sand. (7:26, 27) Consider examples of false bases for finding the meaning and welfare of life. A. Mind-altering and addictive drugs B. Sexual gratification C. Fame and fortune 4. Forces that Destroy or Build (7:25-27) A. Internal Forces arising from impulses and desires B. External Forces arising from the environment C. Spiritual Forces, e.g. the temptation to play God 5. Good Building Materials (7:25-27) How do we gather the materials for a good life, so that we build with stone and not the clay ...

33. Epiphany 7

1 Corinthians 15:35-58, 1 Samuel 26:1-25, Genesis 45:1-28, Luke 6:27-36

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John R. Brokhoff

... . Sooner or later someone else's fate will be "in our hands." b. We can do our best 1. David didn't have to spare Saul. Guilt may have compelled him to avoid regicide (king-killing). But so did decency. 2. Neither must we do "the right." Yet, our best impulses cry out to us. 3. Revenge brings all to ashes; forgiveness heaps coals on the other. Epistle: 1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50. 1. You may not like heaven! (15:50). Need: Suppose you get to heaven and you don't like it because it is nothing like life ...

34. Easter 4

Psalm 23:1-6, Acts 4:1-22, 1 John 3:11-24, John 10:1-21

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William E. Keeney

... they still need to be brought to Christianity to know the fullness of life? Is it enough that they are adjusted and satisfied with their religious understandings? The mission work of many denominations is suffering today because church members no longer feel the same impulse for missions that they did a century ago. The same question can be raised about how you evangelize in a culture and society that wants to emphasize the value of diversity. The melting pot image is no longer the dominant one in American ...

35. Tying Up A Strong Man

Mark 3:20-30, 1 Samuel 8:1-22, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18, Mark 3:31-35, Psalm 138:1-8

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William E. Keeney

... worshipping Beelzebul. In practical terms, if he were doing the work of Beelzebul, then in actuality that was his god. Our god is revealed by where we vest our highest values. What determines what we do shows our real loyalty, our real god. If we only do what our impulses and desires prompt us to do, we worship our own nature. If we pursue the values of money and property over persons, Mammon is the god we worship. If we see violence and the force of arms as the highest power, then Mars is our god. If the ...

36. "Crown Him Lord of all!"

Sermon

William Luoma

... I'm sorry, we don't accept checks." That is undoubtedly the reason for the popularity of the best-known credit and charge cards. A nationally known credit card can easily get you a room, a meal, fill up your tank, or will be accepted for some of those impulse purchases. With nothing more than a small piece of plastic, and our signature, strangers will allow us to charge a variety of expenses. In that sense, the cards that we carry serve as our credentials. Think for a moment of a king. Today is the day we ...

37. Encounters With Christ V: Jesus and James and John

Matthew 20:20-28

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James W. Moore

... , to achieve distinction, to lead the parade. Or – as Carl Sandburg once put it – ‘We all want to play Hamlet.’ Alfred Adler, one of the founders of modern psychiatry, names it the dominant impulse in human nature; he thinks the desire for recognition, the wish to be significant is our strongest impulse... And while we may be provoked with James and John for asking Jesus to put them first – like soldiers holding up the battle until they get their promotion – we should in fairness admit that ...

38. What Makes Us Human?

Isaiah 6:1-13

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Louis H. Valbracht

... have found evidence that he worshiped. The thing that makes us human, then, is the fact that we are possessed of an inborn sense of responsibility to what Rudolph Otto has called "The Other." Thus, the impulse that sets us apart from all other living creatures upon earth is our inevitable and universal impulse to worship "The Other!" Bennett Cerf tells the story of the man who took his race track bookie to church with him one Sunday, when apparently the horses weren't running. And, after the Service, he ...

39. The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

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Brett Blair

... It was Jesus who said: “Look, its sharing love that makes a person a neighbor. You define it in terms of the center and not the circumference. In the February 1994 issue of Reader's Digest there is a story of how God's Spirit helped one man fight the impulse to pass by on the other side. On September 26, 1944, Ray Hamley, an RAF flying officer, and his crew, flying an American-built B-25, dropped bombs on the town of Kleve just inside Germany's border with Holland. Ray was 21 years old, and his bombs that ...

40. Epiphany 7

Lk 6:27-38 · 1 Cor 15:45-49 · 1 Sam 26:1-25 · Gen 45:3-11, 15

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John R. Brokhoff

... In Your Hands. Need: Psychologists report that revenge is the most destructive of all human emotions. We need desperately to get this impulse under control, and to see how and why Jesus, in the "Sermon on the Plain" (see today's gospel) stressed the opposite ... may have compelled him to avoid regicide (king-killing). But so did decency. 2. Neither must we do "the right." Yet, our best impulses cry out to us. 3. Revenge brings all to ashes; forgiveness heaps coals on the other. Lesson 2: 1 Corinthians 15:35-38 ...

41. A Noble Patriotism John D. Mauney, Jr.

Exodus 2:11-25

Sermon

... our text tells us that when "he looked on their burdens" and saw an Egyptian abusing a Hebrew, Moses smote the Egyptian and slew him. Here was the action of a patriotic Israelite who retaliated in haste. Like most acts of passion, this was both an impulse of the moment, and an outcome of long-gathering forces. The cruel abuse of one of his own countrymen was the proverbial "straw that broke the camel’s back," and Moses was willing, at this point, to risk everything to protect his enslaved "brother." The ...

42. Eating at the King’s Table

2 Samuel 9:1-13

Sermon

Various Authors

... But what surprises me even more was the Master taking the towel and the basin that Thursday evening and washing the feet of those "crippled disciples." His acceptance of Judas with his greed, of Peter with his impulsiveness, of Nathanael with his questioning, of Thomas with his doubts, of James and John with their impulsive behavior - all make me aware that he accepts me even though I am often crippled in spirit. I was standing in the emergency room of a hospital some years ago with an injured child when my ...

43. THE DISCIPLINE OF SUFFERING

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... forbids hundreds of inward promptings that would divert us from the task at hand. No significant act is done without discipline. Sporadic church attendance shows lack of discipline in many cases. To see the totally uninhibited life, where people obey their impulses without hindrance, look at some of the patients in a mental institution. This is the uninhibited life, par excellence. God who is even smarter than John Dewey, the father of progressive education, has always known we needed discipline. Because of ...

44. DEFUSE YOUR FUSE

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... unjustness to another. The Greek word behind the term for anger in the New Testament is the word orgay. Taken from the realm of nature it suggests a superabundant swelling of sap and vigor, thrusting and upsurging in nature. It connotes an impulsiveness found in all of us. As impulsive as anger might be, it can be controlled. Saint Paul says to the church at Ephesus, "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice." God does not command us to ...

45. Claudia Procula, Peter, and Centurion

Drama

Jon Joyce

... the Jews and take over the nation from Rome. That’s what we were told, anyway. CLAUDIA: Did he raise the sword against Rome? CENTURION: Not yet, my lady. They say he was going to ... PETER: [His control of his status gone, he blurts out all in his impulsive way.] No, he wasn’t going to lift a sword against anyone. He’s a kind and gentle man, the Master. He teaches love and patience. It doesn’t make any sense, what is happening. He never hurt anyone, ever. He did just the opposite. He healed people ...

46. Chapter VI

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... It is my breath that you have within you! Your life; all life, belongs to me!" To show that they understood that fact the Hebrews were forbidden to eat blood, even the blood of animals. Since the blood was thought to be one of the elements that carried the life impulse in it, it always had to be given back to the God who gave it initially. So when an animal was sacrified though part of its meat could be eaten in many instances by the offerer and the priest who killed it, its blood was caught in a basin and ...

47. The Inner Galaxy

Luke 2:1-7

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Maurice A. Fetty

... experienced mystery. Luke tells us they returned "glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen...." Writer Alan McGlashan says, "There is strong archeological evidence to show that with the birth of human consciousness there was born, like a twin, the impulse to transcend it." Indeed, that has been the experience of the prophets and poets and mystics of the centuries. When we come to behold both the outer and the inner galaxies we are startled by mystery. Whether it is Moses and the voice of ...

48. The Temptation To Pass By On The Other Side

Luke 10:25-37

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Brett Blair

... named Kleve were rebuilding the Church of St. Mary that had been bombed during the war. Something triggered in Ray's memory. He found his old logbook in the attic, and suddenly realized that it had been his bomb that had destroyed the church back in 1944. An impulse was born in his heart as he thought about that tiny town, and how the loss of the church must have touched those people. But then came the temptation to pass by on the other side. He thought to himself, "Come on, Ray, after all, the Nazis bombed ...

49. Caught Up In A Dream

Matthew 4:12-17

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King Duncan

... 't that seem rather abrupt to you? What, no discussion? No "we'll think about it and get back to you tomorrow?" No "don't call us; we'll call you?" Could we not say that these four fishermen acted rather impulsively? Evidently, they were caught up in Jesus' dream. Doesn't their impulsiveness suggest certain real truths? FIRST OF ALL, THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING VERY IMPRESSIVE ABOUT JESUS FOR THEM TO ACT SO RAPIDLY. We don't get swept up that quickly by just any ordinary run-of-the-mill person. There was ...

50. Who Am I Supposed To Hate?

Luke 14:25-35

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King Duncan

... ? Surely he would allow me to keep my membership at the Health Club? Relax. Jesus doesn't want you to sell all your possessions or to get rid of your family. Some of you may be in a mood to get rid of your family, but that impulse did not come from God. In the early eighties, a Michigan State University study reported that one third of four- and five-year-olds would give up their relationship with their dad for television. That's terrible. But when you consider that the average employed American watches ...

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