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526. The Coming Of The Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... rate, tons of pressure are pushing against us at this very moment. What keeps us from being crushed to death? There is a corresponding pressure being exerted from within our own bodies that neutralizes the outside pressure. (2) That is a physical illustration of an emotional and spiritual reality. There are pressures on each of us from time to time that are greater than that exerted by the atmosphere. How many time in a life time will we say, "I don't believe I can stand the pressure any longer?" But you ...

527. Grieve Not The Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... should take up jogging or handball or some other means of letting off steam. You can choose. Infantile behavior is not acceptable or inevitable in anyone older than an infant. Even the youngster going through the terrible two's is able to limit his expressions of emotion to a degree. Even the two-year-old learns that he can manipulate and intimidate others with his expressions of anger and frustration. The point is that we can choose. The second point is that we can change. We can choose and we can change ...

528. Excited, Motivated, Changed!

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... so eager to share what they had received that new persons were added to the church daily. When Fanny Brice, the renowned comedienne, was first offered a job from the much-acclaimed Florenz Ziegfeld, she accepted the job very quietly without much show of emotion. She thanked his secretary and his doorman very politely. As soon as she was out of the building, though, she raced down to the theater where she would be performing. All afternoon, she stood in front of the Broadway theater and grabbed people off ...

529. When You Are Uncertain About Your Salvation

1 Kings 3:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... from his forehead. I knew that he was deeply perturbed. "'You should not say that, my son,' he said, and I noticed that his voice trembled with emotion. `Let us not be hasty in our judgments. You must not say of any man that he is a lost soul. We are not the judge of ... is not a license to continue in our sin. That is a lesson that even David learned. Can you imagine the intensity of emotions he must have felt when he realized that the depth of his sinfulness could not cancel the width and breath of God's love ...

530. Formula For A Glowing Face

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... we think positively like that, it helps us to keep all the negative things in our life in perspective. Life can't be all bad if there is still some good in it. And remembering the good things can also give us great strength: not just emotionally, but physically and spiritually as well. A soldier lay wounded on a battlefield. After the fighting had ended, he could see lanterns flickering in the twilight in the distance as stretcher-bearers made their way across the field to locate the wounded men and take ...

531. An Empty Cup

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

King Duncan

... anything anymore. The death of a child--I shrug it off . . . It's not as if I don't care. I'm sure I do care, or I wouldn't be here. But I'm not sure what caring really feels like . . . nothing exists for me as an emotion anymore . . . The only emotion that seems to have remained a friend is anger . . . I can no longer feel things, I think, because I couldn't survive if I did." (1) Is that where Job is now? Is that what broken-ness feels like? What is the prayer of a broken man or woman ...

532. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... not this man who sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God may be made manifest in him." All healing comes from God. God is a God of health and wholeness. Healing is God's will for our lives--whether our need is physical or emotional. God wants us well. God has planted healing in the very world He has created. A generation ago diseases ravaged this planet that we don't even think of any more. As the growth of medical technology and knowledge continues to accelerate, there will be even more progress ...

533. The Stewardship of Time

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... a year. After a month, the doctor discovered he was mistaken and told Art that his condition was not terminal after all. As Art reflected on the month he had spent under this mistaken death sentence, he acknowledged the negative, painful emotions he had experienced. But there were also some very positive emotions. "I began to see the beauty of God''s creation the way I hadn't seen it before," he said. "With the length of my life limited, I began to make the most of every moment." Making the most of every ...

534. Secretary to Saint Peter

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... said. Mark was so impressed with the humanity of Jesus that it became an embarrassment to the other Gospel writers. To Mark, Jesus is simply the carpenter.(6:3) Later on Matthew changes that to the carpenter’s son. No one tells us so much about the emotions of Jesus as does Mark. Jesus sighs, gets angry, gets weary, is moved with compassion, feels the pangs of hunger. In Mark’s Gospel we get the picture of a Jesus very much like us. One fellow Methodist preacher says of Mark: ...for Mark, the real Jesus ...

535. Holy Tuesday

Mark 11:27-33

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... 18) Now, Jesus’ commandment to love has always been a puzzlement to Christians. We think of love as an emotion, and wonder just how it can be commanded. Can we just clench our teeth, and make ourselves love someone...even if we don’t like them much? Probably ... not. But Christian love is not an emotion. It is a position. This is made clear by Jesus’ words that we are to “love our neighbors as we love ourselves.” ...

536. A Faith that Works with a Victorious Attitude

Philippians 2:12-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... trembling. I remember when I first started preaching in the summer of 1977, I would get so nervous and full of a wide-range of emotions that I would feel it in the pit of my stomach and bowels. It was not fear, but something happened to me. So I went ... expanding my mental and spiritual boundaries. I could choose to be a role model for my children or I could wither and die, emotionally as well as physically. There are many kinds of freedom, Waymon. When we lose one kind, we must look for another. You can ...

537. Secrets Shared for the Journey of Life

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... that we have to face life''s challenging circumstances, which is the peace and contentment that comes from knowing Jesus Christ as our personal Lord and Savior. Paul knew that to face life on a purely emotional level without spiritual maturity would be disastrous. Paul knew that we are not saved by our emotions and performances but by the power of Christ working inside of us. Paul did not wait for his human resources to empower him to be victorious in this time of trial. He brought everything before the ...

538. Still Waters

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... least it takes more humility." (2) It is amazing how many symptoms of sickness we can hide when we are immersed in the busyness of life until our bubble explodes because of pressure that we have allowed to build up. Men and women never plan to experience emotional breakdown, but that's what happens when we don't rest. Dr. Ted Loder wrote a prayer that is helpful here. He writes: "Now, O Lord, calm me into a quietness that heals and listens, and molds my longings and passions, my wounds and wonderings into a ...

539. God Help the Fish

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... two words about your own life: “It might have been”? Unfortunately, we are not given the privilege of reliving our lives. And that is probably good. We would probably make worse choices the second time around. But we can be set free from the emotional baggage that we carry around from those poor choices. We can be given a new heart and new mind so that we can find meaning and purpose in our circumstances as they are here and now. Theologically, baptism represents an identification with Christ’s death ...

540. If You Are Willing

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) And so it is. Philosopher Peter van Inwagen puts it this way: “I have never had the tendency to react to the evils of the world by saying, ‘How could there be a loving God who allows these things?’ My immediate emotional reaction has rather been: ‘There must be a God who will wipe away every tear; there must be a God who will repay.’” (4) This is faith. It is the belief that, though I may not have an answer to the “why?” of suffering, I know that my ...

541. Listen to Him

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Steroids. Drugs. Violence. Many of today’s best-known athletes reflect some of the worst values in our culture. There was a time, however, when sports stars were a steady source of positive inspiration. Take Lou Gehrig, for example. Even today, the name stirs positive emotions among baseball fans in spite of the fact that it has been 68 years since Gehrig last played the game, long before many of us were born. For those who don’t know his story, Gehrig was an outstanding first baseman for the New York ...

542. The World's Still Point

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... or the inevitability of social improvement. Rather the Elder writes that this faith is centered in the person of Jesus Christ. How strange it is that in the course of our lives we easily allow that which is not central to become in fact central in our time and emotions and expenditure of energy. Surely you have heard the story of the young sailor on board a small ship that was sailing the ocean. The captain asked him to take the helm while he took a brief nap. It was in the middle of the night and the stars ...

543. Grace in the Midst of Hopelessness

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... A nurse agreed to ride along with her. The trip unfolded as a nightmare. Because of damage to her nerve endings Judy didn't feel much physical pain. But as the reality of her situation began to sink in, Judy was overwhelmed with anxiety and sheer emotional anguish. She grasped that these were her last hours. She was separated from family and friends. She sobbed to the nurse beside her, "I'm not ever going to have children, am I?" What words of hope could possibly comfort this teenage girl? Nothing seemed to ...

544. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... live contrary to God's desires, the seismograph goes crazy. What registers in our minds and hearts is guilt. The Bible would say that one reason we are besieged with guilt-like feelings is that we frequently do things that are truly wrong. When it comes to this irregular emotion called guilt, Christians have a tough assignment. We need to walk in such a way that we don't veer to the left or to the right and fall off the cliff of one of two extreme positions. On the one hand, we need to avoid the idea that ...

545. Morning Has Broken

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... person or objects which cannot be seen in the dark. Light can also refer to knowledge or truth. If someone asks you "to shed some light on an issue," they are asking you to explain something to them. Light on the subject occurs on the mental or emotional level, but there is also a third and deeper level of meaning, the spiritual level. On this level we deal with the nature and character of God. The Apostle John helps us understand the nature and character of God as light when he writes in his prologue ...

546. The House of Hope

Hosea 2:2-23

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... social ills is the abuse suffered by teenagers. In a recent study released by the state where my friend resides, a survey revealed that one out of every three teenagers has been abused sexually. In order to help these teens who have suffered mentally, emotionally, and physically because of sexual abuse, the communities, with the help of the state, have opened a facility called "The House of Hope." This house offers counseling, as well as long-term housing, for those who are trying to find healing from the ...

547. Preparing for Our Homecoming

Joel 1:1-12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... , there is much preparation that is necessary. First, we have to find the time to leave our present routine in order to travel and physically go to another location. There is a need to calculate the cost of this event, not only monetarily, but more importantly emotionally. If it has been a long time since we have returned home, there may be some wounds, hurts, misunderstandings, and general pain from the past that must be negotiated in order to make the trip. Some people might be able simply to pick up the ...

548. Sowing Good Seed - Father's Day

Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... it is one of the few links connecting me to the stranger who was my father. Someone I have no memory of, no sensory knowledge of, spent all day, every day thinking of me, devoting himself to me, loving me . . . The emotions I felt when my mother showed me the crumpled photo were the very same emotions I felt that February night in a college dorm room when I first believed in a God of love. Someone is there, I realized. Someone is there who loves me. It was a startling feeling of wild hope, a feeling so new ...

549. An Affirming Presence

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , which is each person. I was moved to tears and sadness and joy at the last closing I attended of Emmaus, as a young woman six months pregnant with her second child, through stifled sobs, shared her experience. She had come to Emmaus an emotional wreck. Had I not known some of her same feelings, and had I not counseled with countless people who had the same ravaging dilemma I would have found it difficult believing her confession. She was a beautiful person, alive in personality, attractive in every ...

550. A Healing Presence

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to forgive and to heal, and leaving no doubt that Jesus connected forgiveness and healing. So there is a connection between spiritual health and our physical and mental well being. And the healing that most of desperately need, has to do with our minds, our emotions, our spirits. The indwelling Christ is a healing presence, and that healing is often connected between the spiritual and the physical. And that leads me to the last big thing I want to say. III. There’s a Lot More to Health than Not Being ...

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