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526. Second Nature through Spirit Nurture

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... own trash bags and you clean up after yourself. Big party, no leftovers. The path of discipleship is the path of learning to live not by human nature but by Spirit nurture. It is human nature to litter … whether is littering your food or littering your mood. It is human nature to strike back. But our nature needs nurturing ... Our human nature needs divine nurture, and only by the nurturing of the Spirit does our nature learn to clean up after oneself, turn the other cheek, walk the second mile, give the ...

527. Pastor, Don't Talk About That!

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... of some of these addictions addictions that perhaps that could have been avoided? Am I never to say to young people, for example, beware the snare of alcohol and drugs? Many people today have an unhealthy preoccupation with chemicals that will alter their mood. Back in 2003 during the football season, former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath got some negative publicity because of an embarrassing interview at halftime of a game broadcast by ESPN. Namath’s speech was slurred, and he twice told the in ...

528. Treasure Hunt

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... statement about being cheerful, Dr. Brickey says that most people know how to be cheerful. However, few know how to be happy. Think about that for a moment. Most people know how to be cheerful, but few know how to be happy. Cheerful is a mood that is light, free, and open. Often the pitch of your voice is a little higher. And you feel good. Cheerful is something most people can obtain. However, notes Brickey, when people try to be happy, they usually are miserably disappointed. That’s because happiness ...

529. The Knot: Frayed (Part 2)

1 Peter 3:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... walking on the beach to begin with. He had had a disagreement with his wife. They had a big argument and he had walked out to collect his thoughts. So enthusiastically he said, “I know what I wish for. Help me to understand my wife - her feelings, her moods, her needs.” The genie thought for a moment and then said, “How many lanes do you want on that bridge?” Men, the good news is with God all things are possible. It is imperative that we ask God to help us understand our wives knowing that is a ...

530. Night of Light

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Timothy Cargal

... than likely that one reason that we so eagerly embrace all this use of artificially generated light for a celebration during this particular season of the year for us is in order to deal with the depression in energy and often in mood that accompanies the shortening of daylight hours. Yes, the association between light and Christmas is tremendously ironic when considered in the context of the calendar in the northern hemisphere. But both the Old Testament and the gospel lessons appointed for Christmas ...

531. A Call for Repentance - Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... opportunity to make a new start. Ron Lee Davis in his book Courage to Begin Again tells about a man who needed a new start. His name was Robert Robinson. He notes that it was a bright Sunday morning in 18th century London. However, Robert Robinson’s mood was anything but sunny. While others were hurrying off to church, the sound of church bells only reminded Robinson of a time long ago when his faith was vibrant. He had once loved God, but he had wandered far, far away. His heart, which had once burned ...

532. Get Out the Ticker Tape - Palm Sunday

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... worshipped here by the crowds, but in a few days these same people who are singing, “Hosanna” will be shouting for him to be crucified. Not everyone who sings praises to Christ can be counted on when the going gets rough. They were in a celebratory mood here but when tough decisions were being made, such as choosing Jesus or Barabbas, the crowd would forget that just a few days prior they were hailing Jesus as their King. Not even those who seemed to be close to Christ remained faithful when the crowd ...

533. Dust in the Wind

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Timothy Cargal

Sometimes a song gets so deep inside your head that it can never be uprooted. Maybe it is the melody or the mood evoked by its musical qualities. Maybe it is the themes and ideas that find expression in its lyrics. If it happens to be both the music and the lyrics perfectly matched to each other, then the effect is particularly strong. Such songs have the ability to become a recurring soundtrack ...

534. Table Manners

John 2:12-25

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... of Matthew 25:29: “For to all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.” The stakes are raised whenever we talk of coming to the table. The mood changes and either tension mounts or relaxation sets in. At the table, either folks open up, clam up, become terribly self-conscious, or wonderfully conscious of the love of God in their midst. Our dining room contains the table and buffet that have been in my ...

535. Getting to a Teachable Moment

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... any sense when connections are made, hearts open and minds light up, you know you are in the presence of the miraculous. There can be so much that goes wrong and gets in the way. Rather than following in Isaiah’s footsteps, the adversarial generational mood of the moment can hook people, causing the teacher to have a tongue that gives a lashing rather than the planned lesson. Crass cultural mindlessness can lead to folks being pretty far away from anything that looks like the mind of Christ. Context can ...

536. Show Me Your Baptismal Certificate

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of hard knocks; we give them away to college; We give them away to a boyfriend or girlfriend; We give them away to a husband or wife; we give them away to life . . to live their own life we give them away for love. Martin Luther had mood swings that went from euphoria to utter despair. While he holed himself up in his castle and translated the Greek Bible into German for the first time, he was beset by all sorts of wild beasts, of doubts and discouragement, of betrayals and theological fist-fights. You ...

537. About Getting Drunk

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... of a life dominated by the Holy Spirit is joy. The second characteristic of a life dominated by the Holy Spirit is gratitude. Gratitude is the handmaiden of joy, isn’t it? When you feel joyful, you are grateful. When you count your blessings, it lightens your mood. No one is as unhappy as a person who lacks gratitude--who believes that life somehow has cheated them. Happy people are inevitably filled with gratitude for all God has done in their lives. In one of his many books Chuck Swindoll tells a moving ...

538. Poem: Mutability

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly! – yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost forever: Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last. We rest. – A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise. – One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the same ...

539. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... people. One day during the hearings, one mobster testifying said, "Everybody's doing what we're doing. Why don't you just stop all this nonsense and call everything legal?" Why not indeed! The mobster was not too far off from the popular mood that denies any ultimate sense of right and wrong. For many people there are no moral absolutes, no divine commandments to be obeyed, no universal, timeless principles to which they feel obligated. Many people are governed by whatever gives them pleasure or satisfies ...

540. Discipleship: Backward or Forward to God

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... the sacred places with sacred memories. Times change and so do the people. When we go back, we discover the people we once knew in a certain way have changed. Life is process for them too. And we have changed. Our hope of relocating precisely the feeling, mood, and happiness of a past event is a disappointed hope. Things do not come together quite as we had planned. One time we were taking our children back to our home in Minneapolis in the suburb of Edina. We had moved away when they were relatively young ...

541. Change

Illustration

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... they speed, and gleam and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost forever: Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last. We rest—A dream has power to poison sleep; We rise—One wandering thought pollutes the day; We feel, conceive or reason, laugh or weep; Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away: It is the same!—For ...

542. The First Christmas

Illustration

Michael P. Green

Sherwood Wirt captured the mood of that first Christmas in this description: The people of that time were being heavily taxed, and faced every prospect of a sharp increase to cover expanding military expenses. The threat of world domination by a cruel, ungodly, power-intoxicated band of men was ever just below the threshold of ...

543. Peter Speaks to the Onlookers

Acts 3:11-26

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... object of saving faith. But the faith itself was awakened “through Jesus” (so the Greek; cf. 1 Pet. 1:21), that is, through his being preached by the apostles. From first to last, then, Jesus was truly the author of life for this man. 3:17 The mood of the speech changes in the second half from reproof to conciliation, marked by the change of address. Peter now spoke to the crowd as his brothers. What they had done to Jesus, he said, they had done in ignorance. This could even be said of their leaders ...

544. The Stoning of Stephen

Acts 7:54--8:1a

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... was at risk and he had to tread softly. The Sanhedrin would have known this and may have expected to be able to put matters right with the governor even though they were acting unlawfully. In any case, with the governor two days away in Caesarea, they were in no mood to await his approval. The situation that had made Stephen’s death possible may also have abetted the persecution that followed in which other Christians appear to have died (see 26:10).

545. In Athens

Acts 17:16-34

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... palpable assurance of God’s presence that is everywhere and always possible in a world that he has made (cf. Rom. 1:20). It is God’s purpose that we should seek him, but the verbs “to reach out” and “to find” are expressed in such a way (the optative mood) as to show that his intention has not been realized. This was due to sin, but Paul does not say so here. His aim here was to focus, not on the problem of sin, but on the possibility of knowing God. He asserts, therefore, that God is not far ...

546. The Trial Before Felix

Acts 24:1-27

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... 27 As with many Mediterranean communities in New Testament times, not least the cities and towns of the Palestinian coast, Caesarea had a mixed population, in which the Jews were an important minority (see disc. on 8:40 and 10:1). In their present mood of inflamed nationalism, clashes were bound to happen between them and the other elements of the population, and happen they did. Thus during Paul’s imprisonment a disturbance broke out that led to street fighting between the Jews and the Greeks. In the end ...

547. Paul’s Second Visit to the Jerusalem Church

Galatians 2:1-10

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... letters where Paul mentions John, who is usually understood to be the disciple John the son of Zebedee (Mark 3:17). 2:10 The only thing that the Jerusalem church required of Paul and Barnabas was that they should remember the poor. The tense and mood of the Greek verb mnēmoneuōmen, translated “remember,” conveys the sense of continuing action and could denote either that Paul was already remembering the poor and is encouraged to continue to do so or that he is directed now continually to remember the ...

548. Hagar and Sally

Galatians 4:21-31

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... Septuagint of Isaiah 54:1. Even though in Genesis it is Hagar, not Sarah, who is unmarried, Sarah is the referent for the barren woman. The “Jerusalem above” who is “our mother” is also a reference to Sarah (v. 26). The quotation uses the imperative mood, commanding the “barren woman” to break forth and cry aloud. As Paul has just stated that he and his converts share the Jerusalem above as their mother (4:26), he may be using this text to encourage his readers to recognize and participate in ...

549. Paul's Ministry in Thessalonica

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... ? Second, what is the significance of the tense? Strictly speaking, it means “to come before,” “to anticipate,” and it bears this sense in 4:15. But generally, by the time that Paul wrote, it meant simply “to come.” Its aorist tense (in the indicative mood) generally connotes past time, but in a prophetic context, it may depict something future but so certain that it can be spoken of as if past. The question is, Was Paul saying that God’s wrath had come—that it had already manifested itself ...

550. Paul’s Longing to See the Thessalonians

1 Thessalonians 2:17--3:5

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... possible, but there is no compelling reason to accept it. He was anxious about their faith on two grounds. I was afraid that in some way the tempter might have tempted you. In such a sentence (in the Greek), we might expect Paul to use the subjunctive mood, but he uses the indicative, showing his awareness that they had indeed been tempted (peirazō, “to test,” cf. dokimazō, 2:4, etc.) by Satan, the same malignant being who had thwarted his attempts to come to them (cf. 2:18; also Matt. 4:3; 1 Cor. 7 ...

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