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501. Luther of Wittenberg

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... up his son’s self-esteem. ANTAGONIST: But that sounds pretty extreme - joining a monastery and throwing your life away, just because you don’t have any self-esteem. PROTAGONIST: Well, remember, there was more to it for Luther than simply a bad case of self-hatred. He really did have a controversy with God. He wasn’t all that sure he could love God - or possibly even believe in him. And, since you bring it up, who says joining a monastery means throwing your life away? ANTAGONIST: What kind of life is ...

502. King of Atlanta

Romans 8:28-39

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... join hands and sing ... Thank God, Almighty, we are free at last!" Following the speech, Dr. King met with President Kennedy at the White House. ANTAGONIST: The man really was a dreamer. It’s pure idealism to hope for that sort of cooperation. There’s too much hatred in the world for anything like that. PROTAGONIST: I once heard a church leader say that the Christian Church was designed to be a colony of heaven on the earth. If that’s true, then we can at least begin to make the dream come true. After ...

503. Why Must We Carry A Cross?

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

... forgiveness for a millenium of atrocities, from the Crusades, to the Inquisition, to the Holocaust. Though it may take time, if we keep carrying the cross, we may learn that others suffer as we do and that sometimes even we are ourselves are perpetrators of the hatred and violence which others are suffer. We carry a cross to remind us that others suffer. III And we must carry a cross to remind us that we are responsible in part for the cross that Jesus carried. When Rembrandt painted his famous work of the ...

504. What If It Is True?

Luke 1:26-38

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... , we have to feel forgiven too. That doesn’t seem right either, for we should have to make up for our sins. We want to do that. Set the record straight. And, of course, admitting our wrongs and feeling the need for forgiveness are difficult. To confess our hatreds, our infidelities, and our many acts of disregard is hard! Better to keep them hidden rather than admit them to ourselves or to others. No, if it is true that God has come to be with us in Christ, then we have to see life in totally different ...

505. Scandal!

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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... speaking and writing editorials that put the blame for the tragedy squarely on himself and his middle- and upper-class friends. Shea recognized that they were so wrapped up in business and that they had allowed Dallas to become the victim of poverty and hatred and fanatic minorities. For his honesty Shea was fired by his embarrassed company and ostracized by his angry friends. The scandal of living for Jack Shea was that he burned a hole into the Dallas conscience. And there is John S. Cram. A few years ...

506. Strong Faith For Tough Times

Mark 5:1-20

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James W. Moore

... , the cause must indeed be just, and the motive must be right. During World War II, William Temple expressed the Just War philosophy when he said this: “We Christians in wartime are called to the hardest of tasks: to fight without hatred, to resist without bitterness, and in the end… to triumph without vindictiveness.” A new element which has been currently brought into the Just War approach is what is called “Humane Fighting.” Humane Fighting… sounds like a contradiction, doesn’t it? But ...

507. Cultural Revolution or Spiritual Problem?

Mark 1:1-8

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Daniel G. Mueller

... . Paul wrote a catalog of sin to describe Roman society nearly 2,000 years ago. What was happening back then has not changed much. Listen: Homosexuality, wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice, envy, murder, strife, deceit, gossip, slander, hatred of God, insolence, haughtiness, boastfulness, invention of evil, disobedience to parents, foolishness, faithlessness, heartlessness, ruthlessness (Romans 1:26-31). These are not cultural dilemmas. They are sin. John preached repentance for the forgiveness of sins ...

508. Lifting the Burden of Guilt

Mark 2:1-12

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Robert G. Tuttle

"There is a cancerous strain eating away at the average American," writes C. Neil Strait.1 He continues, "It is a strain brought on by too much work and too little play; too much hatred and too little love; too much fear and too little faith. The overbalance has infected life with a strain that eats away at the energies of life like a dreadful disease. The strain that besets a lot of people is more a strain of conscience than any other single factor. ...

509. Christ and Healing

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... . I tried to resist, but it was useless, and so I surrendered myself, praying a humble prayer of confession of sin (for in this Person’s presence I knew what love was, and how far short of it I had fallen in all ways). "Immediately the darkness, hatred, and despair in which I had been living were lifted away, leaving the Presence in my mind with me, almost like a traveling companion. And so I became a new creation in Christ Jesus." After this she had some intellectual problems and some ups and downs of ...

510. Man, Where Are You?

Genesis 3:1-24

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Alton F. Wedel

... make life interesting and exciting. We associate temptation with the passionate desire to get involved with the forbidden, pluck the fruit, kick over traces and go out to do what we were not supposed to do. It certainly involves all that - the sins of greed and lust and hatred, with their promises of better things for us. But temptation means much more than this. It’s the constant crisis of our lives. It’s the yearning to be free of God and on our own. It’s being always on the point of going over to ...

511. Counting the Cost

Luke 14:25-35

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T. A. Kantonen

... sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple." He taught love in family relations, but being a disciple is something bigger than family relations. Life is a failure unless you have found a loyalty that makes everything else look like hatred in comparison with it. You must find that pearl of great price for which you are willing to give up everything. True discipleship begins with decisive choice. Christ is not satisfied with any half-way measures. With him it is everything or nothing. You ...

512. The Fulfilled Promise

Acts 2:14-41

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T. A. Kantonen

... ; Above all, it directs the church to its source of power, to the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life. More than anything else, the world today needs a new Pentecost. The world is tense with anxieties, suspicions, and hatreds. The nations are putting their trust in ever more diabolical weapons of destruction. Science is unveiling tremendous new possibilities for human progress but the spiritual controls needed to direct them to the right goals are lacking. Organized antichristian forces are rampant ...

513. Christian Thanksgiving

Philippians 1:1-7

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T. A. Kantonen

... racial differences were wiped out in this community of love. So it should be with the church of today. Our thanksgiving is Christian thanksgiving only when it is prompted by love and expresses itself in works of love. Amid the suspicions and the hatreds of the world the church is the community where burdens are lifted, where cares and sorrows are shared, where wounded hearts are healed, where distress is alleviated. And from this community of love, healing, and helping love radiates into the world. We do ...

514. Dealing With The Dividing Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

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James W. Moore

... down the walls; God coming warmly and wonderfully into our lives. Unfortunately, sometimes we forget that and sadly… we start building up again those dividing walls… those walls that exclude and belittle and separate… those walls that encourage hostility and hatred and bigotry… Walls that divide people Walls that divide nations Walls that divide races End of longer version]] What are these walls that divide us? Let me underscore three dangerous walls of hostility that plague and separate and divide ...

515. The Flow of Life

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

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Gregory J. Johanson

... a great deal to her, she said, especially the phrase, there is "a time to love, and a time to hate...." It had gotten her to thinking that maybe it wasn’t such a terrible and unforgivable thing to feel intense resentment, even to the point of hatred. There may have been something natural about those feelings, just as there was something natural about the tender and loving feelings that had always been acceptable to her. It now seemed that God may not have been as hard on her as she was for those things ...

516. Smart, Wise, and Foolish

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Gregory J. Johanson

... oneself is not only to be aware of one’s strengths and weaknesses, but is also to be at home with one’s emotions. Of course, it takes practice to identify accurately the subtle differences in the many feelings along the continuum from irritation to hatred. But it also takes courage to be in touch with one’s feelings of jealousy, bitterness, and envy - particularly when these feelings are contrary to our self-image or to prevailing social norms. The person who is not in touch with his own emotions is ...

517. A Voice to be Heard

John 1:19-28

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Maurice A. Fetty

... will be consumed in the refiner's fire, afraid our faith will snap like in the blast of the Baptist's voice. You bet we're afraid -- afraid to let go the grudges we've been nursing and hiding behind for years, afraid to confess the hatreds and hostilities we have for ministers and other church leaders, afraid to let go the defenses and excuses we've been erecting between God's church and ourselves. Yes, we're afraid of letting fresh, invigorating air into the stuffy, volatile, seething conceits of our souls ...

518. The Unexpected Universe

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... expected universe of one military power supplanting another, a universe of sometimes blatant military power, a world which easily descends into might makes right; a world of revenge upon revenge upon revenge, in rituals of ethnic cleansings which vent centuries of unforgiving hatreds. And in his own way, righteous though he was, John was looking for, hoping for, and anticipating an expected universe. So he told his disciples to ask Jesus, "Are you the one to come, or should we look for another?" II So now ...

519. The Inner Galaxy

Luke 2:1-7

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Maurice A. Fetty

... make our supplication for peace on earth, good will toward men. Remove the strife within our families. Cause us to bridge the generation gap and other gaps -- the gaps of race and language, culture and religion. Bring contentment to ravaged souls. Heal those torn by hatred and violence. Comfort those who mourn, and grant your healing power to all those who do battle with the powers of disease in body, mind, and soul. Thank you, God, for this night, for Jesus the Christ, your Word became flesh among us, full ...

520. Praying for a Whole New World

Luke 21:5-38

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William G. Carter

... it is so easy to say yes. Think how wonderful it would be to see the end of all the stuff in the world that makes us sick: petty jealousy among family members, mean-spirited backbiting among neighbors, poverty and over-consumption, violence and destruction, racism and hatred. Wouldn’t it be nice to get a huge garbage can and throw it all away? That’s what I pray for. Then I am reminded of my own complicity in maintaining the status quo and perpetuating the unbalance of power. I went out to dinner with ...

521. Today

Luke 4:14-30

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William G. Carter

... the word was not “tomorrow.” The word was “today.” Jesus said, “This is the day. The time has come. Today the scriptures are fulfilled.” I pause to remind us that “today” can be a dangerous word. It is the kind of word which creates hatred and opposition. A lot of people refuse to accept “today” as the day for anything. The chief reason? Because it reminds people of what they already know. That’s dangerous! When Martin Luther King, Jr., came preaching to the people in our country, he ...

522. True or False?

Isaiah 1:1-31

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John W. Wurster

... Do you know any place like Sodom and Gomorrah? A place where people are so busy looking out for themselves that their collective life suffers from neglect, where differences are heightened so that they become divisive, where conflict is stoked until it becomes hatred? A place where people are quickly judged and pigeon-holed, where righteousness is fine as long as it’s profitable, where justice is ignored because it might mean giving something up? Do you know that place? Have you been there? Have you been ...

523. Sustaining the Weary with a Word

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... image. I will not hide my face. Cowards hide their faces. The devil hides his face. Those who are less than honorable and righteous hide their faces to do evil. But I will not hide my face. It is the face of love, truth, and righteousness in the face of hatred, untruth, and unrighteousness. It is the face of triumph in the presence of defeat, the face of joy in the midst of terrible sorrow. I will not give my enemies the satisfaction that they have put fear in my heart by hiding my face. Let them spit in my ...

524. Deformed, Disfigured, and Despised: A Marred but Magnificent Messiah

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... ; a great enigma. The Messiah should be someone we should look up to. (So they thought.) Someone bold, fearless and attractive. Someone handsome, pretty, and wholesome. He would be violent. Someone who would destroy our enemies and make them his footstool. He would use hatred and divisiveness among the people as a weapon of conquest. Someone we would want to cuddle and embrace but who would put a permanent hurt on our enemies. The new Messiah would usher in the new age and all would bow at his feet and ...

525. Obeying God Rather Than Men

Acts 5:17-42

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... strict orders because we have been told to do so? Will we keep our mouths shut under strict orders in face of corruption, our own sin, discrimination, persecution, annihilation, destruction, famine, pestilence, iniquity, drought, hunger, disease, racism, poverty, hatred, psychological and sexual abuse, sexism, ageism, classism, genocide, homicide, fratricide, and suicide? Will we keep our mouths shut under strict orders about a risen Christ who lives in the present age? The same Christ who was raised from ...

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