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526. He Commanded Us to Preach

Acts 10:23b-48

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... the need for self-respect and respect for others. Everywhere we look we see the devastation and fallout of spiritual and physical warfare. The resurgence of hate groups and the erosion of certain individual rights creates a seething cauldron of violence, trepidation, and hatred in our society. The gospel of peace needs to be preached more than ever today. It is a gospel that respects all people and affirms all people regardless of sex, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, or race. It is a gospel that seeks ...

527. Blind Man's Bluff

Acts 9:1-19a

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... led to a safe house by strangers to be prayed for and have hands laid upon us to change our lives forever. The man who was once blind does now see. He was blinded by darkness but now sees the light of Christ. He was blinded by his own envy, hatred, and ignorance, and now he sees what the power of love, mercy, forgiveness, and grace can do. It is not blind man’s bluff where he tags those with sight with his blind fold still on. Nor is it blind man’s bluff where he is pretending to be blind ...

528. Twelve O'Clock Rock: When the Jailhouse is Rocked

Acts 16:16-40

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and untruth and will bring victory and joy to those imprisoned by iniquity. However great the injustice, however cruel and diabolical the enemy, God will rock the foundations of our imprisonments and abolish the pain of our solitary confinement. God will rock untruth with truth, hatred with love, evil with good. He is a Rock of Ages who can rock every fortress of sin and evil to bring release and freedom to those who trust him. Let us sing our songs and pray our prayers until the walls of imprisonment come ...

529. The Children of Promise

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Harry N. Huxhold

... side of the Babylonians. The princes opposed him, and the temple guard Pashur had Jeremiah arrested. However, no legal action or imprisonment could keep the prophet from preaching what needed to be said as a clear revelation from God. It was not out of hatred or revenge that Jeremiah was teaching what he did. However, the prophet could not deliver what was popular or what the people wanted to hear. The prophet was not called to entertain the crowd or fill them with optimism about their future. Faithful to ...

530. The Spirit Has Landed

Luke 3:1-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

... to find life there!” I feel that way about earth sometimes. As I look out the window of my office, or my home, or my car, I say to God, “You’re trying to find life here?” All I see is a barren people: War and hatred, greed and covetousness, pride and death all around me. Baptism reminds me that righteousness is present in this world in the form of a gift. Righteousness is baptism’s fruit. Repentance. Righteousness. The third is revelation. We all need spiritual direction. We all have a need for ...

531. The Healing of the Man with the Withered Hand

Mark 2:23-3:6

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James W. Moore

... so jealous… that they were prepared to enter into what was for them an unholy alliance. They plotted with the Herodians against Jesus… to destroy Him. That’s how the story ends. · Blinded by their hostility, they missed the holiness. · Blinded by their hatred, they missed the healing. · Blinded by their duty, they missed the divinity. · Blinded by the old way, they missed the new way. For you see, to the Pharisee, religion was ritual; it meant obeying certain rules and regulations. If you kept the ...

532. The Healing of the Gerasene Demoniac

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 ...

533. Choosing the Way to the Cross

Matthew 16:21-28

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James W. Moore

... presentation of the ambulance. At the ceremony, his mother said, “We serve the Christ who taught us to love unconditionally… So we come to present this ambulance as a symbol of our Christian love and forgiveness. We are able to do this because God has taken the hatred from our hearts.” Now, let me ask you something… could you have done that? Could you forgive like that? Could you love like that? That’s the way of the cross, the way of Christ-like love. To choose the way of the cross means to take ...

534. Under the Rainbow

Genesis 9:1-17

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David E. Leininger

... gray/ but look this morning they are blue." Noah! "The smiling sun tells everyone come/ Let's all sing, hallelujah/ for a new day is born/ The world is singing the song of the dawn." Sixty black guys in tuxedos in the 1920's, with lynching everywhere and hatred - "nigger" this and "nigger" that. But they had something we need to recover right now. I can't turn loose this story of Noah and the Flood because after all of the devastation...there's a rainbow...I'm not going to live without that kind of hope ...

535. An Excuse to Be Better

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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David E. Leininger

... overlook OUR shortcomings when we overlook THEIRS first. • GIVE UP speaking unkindly. Instead, let your speech be generous and understanding. It costs so little to say something kind and uplifting. Check that sharp tongue at the door. • GIVE UP your hatred of anyone or anything! Instead, learn the discipline of love. "Love covers a multitude of sins." • GIVE UP your worries and anxieties! Instead, trust God with them. Anxiety is spending emotional energy on something we can do nothing about...like ...

536. The Freedom in Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

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David E. Leininger

... he did not commit. Sentenced to life plus 54 years, the Gibsonville man was angry at police and prosecutors, his own lawyers and even the victims. But after three years in prison, Cotton began to change. "I learned I couldn't continue to live with the hatred and the bitterness," he says. Cotton spent nearly 11 years in prison before a new lawyer, using DNA evidence, won his release this past June. But from the moment he forgave, Cotton's spirit was free. There IS freedom in forgiveness. There was the story ...

537. The Judas Gene

Matthew 26:14-16

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David E. Leininger

... hurt those who depend on us and trust us; we betray him in the workplace when it costs too much to think and act like a Christian; we betray him before the world by our indifference to the poor, by our mismanagement of resources, by our hatred of enemies. We betray Jesus. The Judas gene. We all sputter. Fortunately that Judas gene carries with it, not only the capacity for betrayal, but the capacity for remorse as well. After the dastardly deed was done, Judas was nothing if not remorseful. He returned his ...

538. The Apostles' Creed: "Suffered, Dead, and Buried..."

Mark 15:1-15

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David E. Leininger

... We see what misery he went through on our behalf and we respond in a positive way. An incident in the life of Ghandi can illustrate. In 1922, the independence movement in India was beginning to pick up tremendous momentum and along with it, a deep-seated hatred for the British. Ghandi, of course, was a leading light in that movement and a strong believer in its eventual success but ONLY if the struggle were carried on by non-violent means. When word came to him that some of his own followers in the movement ...

539. The Good Samaritan: A New Look at an Old Story

Luke 10:25-37

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David E. Leininger

... place to worship God, not Jerusalem. They interpreted the Torah differently than the southern Jews. By the time of Jesus, the animosity toward Samaritans was so great that some Jews would go miles out of their way to avoid even walking on Samaritan soil. The hatred between Jew and Samaritan in Jesus' day was at least as deep as the feeling Jews and Arabs have toward each other today. Enough history. But necessary. After all, if Jesus were just trying to say we should help the helpless, supply the needs of ...

540. Carrying Worshipers out on Stretchers

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... can’t love and respect one another, what hope is there for the world outside these walls? I hope no one in this room is carrying a grudge against a brother or sister in Christ. I suspect that God not only grieves about the petty hatreds in individual churches, but also concerning the disunity among the various branches of the body of Christ. There is a deep divide among churches nowadays, a divide that reflects the great political divide that has captured our land. And it keeps us from mounting a united ...

541. True Excellence

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... burned, but have not love, I gain nothing." Now, let me make sure I understand this. St. Paul seems to be saying that I can be an eloquent preacher of the gospel, with my worship services broadcast by satellite around the world, but if I have a heart full of hatred and indulge in character assassination, I am a bunch of noise. I can have my Ph.D. in nuclear physics, be a Nobel prize winner with several books to my credit, but if I'm not able to relate to my family, I've accomplished nothing. I can be a ...

542. How Can You Tell A Christian?

John 13:31-38

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King Duncan

... witness to our faith in Jesus Christ. How sad it is that so many who bear Christ's name have never reconciled themselves to that one basic principle. Are we giving an accurate witness to the love of Jesus Christ? Or are we sowing seeds of anger, resentment, hatred? Love is not optional for the follower of Jesus. This is the way people know to whom we belong ” by how much we love. Nothing else we do matters nearly as much. Love is our primary witness to the world. And this brings us to the final thing ...

543. Hope For Those Whom Life Has Cheated

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... the game was in the same box that was built for Adolph Hitler to view the 1936 Olympics. Glickman, a broadcaster and one-time world-class sprinter, was not allowed to run on the American 400-meter relay team in 1936, primarily because of Hitler's hatred of Jews. But now Hitler is dead ” the victim of his own hand and of the evil, insane policies that he pursued. Now Hitler's former viewing stand was Marty Glickman's viewing stand. "It was weird sitting there," Glickman said. "It made me remember marching ...

544. Living With The Aches And Alleluias

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... change our lives from chaos to completion. Our lesson from Mark's Gospel deals with that event that shall herald the end of history, the Second Coming of Christ. The biblical description of that final victory of good over evil, light over darkness, love over hatred is both vivid and disturbing. And yet the second coming of Christ will be no more dramatic in its consequences for humankind than his first coming. The power of his first coming is still resonating in the world today. Jesus has already taught us ...

545. Good News For Tough Times

Luke 2:1-7

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Eric Ritz

... just seems to keep coming at us like a tidal wave. Before you can recover from one disaster, there's already another one headed in your direction. We have had a heavy diet of bad news in the past several months. We have seen cruelty and hatred in Bosnia, suffering and starvation in Rwanda. Drugs continue to hit our major urban areas like a plague, and this war is one we are losing not winning. We have seen continuing growth in the incidents of domestic violence and child abuse. The newspapers, magazines and ...

546. A Distant Light

Isaiah 2:1-5

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King Duncan

... against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." You see, the coming of light is not only the coming of judgment but IT IS ALSO THE COMING OF SALVATION. Wouldn't you like to live in a world where there was no more war, no more killing, no more hatred? Wouldn't you like to live in a city like that? Wouldn't you even love to live in a home where there was not anger, no words of spite; where people always loved and believed in and supported one another? Let's go one step farther. Wouldn't it ...

547. The Manger Is Empty

Mark 1:1-8

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... not just boredom. It's not just tedium that makes it seem like a wilderness. There is a scourge of drugs and alcoholism that is killing our nation. There is a plague of poverty in our cities. There are places around the world where hatred runs so deep that violence explodes as regularly as clockwork. The atmosphere is choking because of overpopulation and over consumption. And then there's just the downright stupid, selfish, sick behavior that takes place everyday in high places and in low places alike. Our ...

548. You Shall Call His Name Jesus

Matthew 1:18-25

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King Duncan

... God that takes away the sins of the world," and he thought to himself, "If only he COULD take away the sins of the world. What a tremendous and joyful thing that would be “no more wars, no more broken homes, no more abused children, no more hatred, envy, bitterness and strife. If only he COULD take away the sins of the world." Christmas has become more of a secular holiday than a sacred one. It has become an occasion for blatant materialism and superficial piety. Persons who never think of Jesus the rest ...

549. Surprises

Luke 1:46-56

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Timothy Smit

... little town in the middle of a dry and barren desert. To get to Bethlehem persons had to travel through the desert. The people of Bethlehem weren't the most friendly people on earth either. They looked on their neighbors with suspicion and on strangers with hatred. You might have thought that God would have chosen one of the more popular towns or cities to bring the Messiah into the world. By earthly standards Bethlehem wasn't much of a town. But the Messiah would be born in this unlikely little town. God ...

550. A House Divided

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... by conflicting desires. We need to unite our lives around one love, one Savior, one Lord. "A house divided against itself cannot stand...." That is true. No house is big enough for cohabitation by the spirit of Christ and by a spirit of malice, of envy, of hatred and of hostility. How can Satan cast out Satan? He can't. But Christ can. 1. Dr. James Dobson, LOVE MUST BE TOUGH, (Waco: Word, 1983) p.13. 2. Spencer Marsh, EDITH THE GOOD, (New York: Harper & Row, 1977). 3. LOS ANGELES TIMES, May 9, 1983, Orange ...

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