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576. The Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... also became the seed of her best-selling book. (6) Does this make sense to you? Most of us have an upside down view of life. We think to ourselves, if something really terrific happens to me, then I will feel grateful. But such gratitude is a fleeting emotion, gone just as soon as life has one of its downturns, as life must inevitably have. No, the secret is to commit yourself to a sense of gratitude, regardless of what happens--then you will be able to find joy in even the most humdrum and sometimes even ...

577. Generations

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to sham and insincerity, if one is to grab the attention of busters one must "Get Real." "Please be Real:" The message is not what you give. The message is who you are. You are not what you say. You are what you do! Only those who establish an emotional connection with busters will reach them. Busters hate the archetypal boomer Martha Stewart, not because of what she does, but the way she does it – it's too perfect? Where the struggle? Where's the pain? Where's the messed-up hair in the kitchen? "Get Real ...

578. Your Cheatin' Heart

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... no unsought ones in God's Kingdom. A divine love that refuses to follow social dictates and boundaries resides at the heart of the Jesus faith. In Jewish thought the heart is not seen simply as the seat of emotion. That distinction is reserved for the bowels, the organ which most registers one's emotional state. (By the way, don't try sending bowels in a Valentine!). In Hebrew texts the heart includes the functions of thoughts and tasks, of belief and behavior, of all that is central to an individual's very ...

579. Wherever You Are, You Are Always at Home

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... coming to terms with how the passage of time affects those we love. Every parent here can testify how much of a difference one year makes on a child. In one year a child can shoot up with 4 or 5 inches of new growth, act up with new emotions and new energies, speak up with a new voice and sit up with new insights and knowledge. As kids enter adolescence, one short year can transform a child into a young man or a young woman in body, mind and spirit. There is something absolutely entrancing about this week ...

580. Patience

James 5:7-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... on self‑improvement explained that the exercise was partially for the sage’s own benefit. Each and every time he repeated an idea the sage was building up his own ability to be patient. (3) Wow! Most of us have not reached that kind of spiritual or emotional maturity. We’re more like the old saw, “I want patience and I want it right now!” We need to see that patience is a success tool. If you are too impatient in your professional life, you will make more than your share of mistakes. You could ...

581. Make Room for Mystery

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

James McCormick

... is the mysterious, the sense of wonder in the presence of something partly known and partly hidden. The one to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer stand wrapped in awe and wonder, is as good as dead, a snuffed out candle.” ... world. I want to do my intellectual homework. But I hope you will understand when I say that I also want to live in a spiritual and emotional world in which I can hear angelic choirs and see stars pointing me to Christ. I want to open my mind. But I also want to open ...

582. Epiphany 5

Psalm 112:1-10, Isaiah 58:1-14, 1 Corinthians 2:6-16, Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... hearing among those who evaluate Sunday morning only in terms of education ("I learned something new today"), entertainment ("I really enjoyed the choir today"), or self-actualization ("I don't get anything out of worship"). Our participation in the liturgy is more than a cognitive or emotional activity. Because liturgy is the "work of the people," we are called to church to do, and in doing we become. The mystery and grace of God are revealed because our needs for various types of fulfillment (educational ...

583. Changed Lives - Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... and acceptance and forgiveness. He is saying to Nicodemus what God said through Ezekiel: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you . . .” That way you will be able to see thins Kingdom. I see no evidence that Jesus is prescribing a certain emotional experience, or any timetable for this experience. It may happen at once, as it happened to St. Paul, or it may happen over three or so years, as it did with Simon Peter, or it may take a lifetime as it has with many saints over the centuries ...

584. Home Is with the Father

John 14:1-4

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Scott Grant

Homecomings can be wonderful, emotionally rewarding experiences. About one memorable homecoming, Rev. Scott Grant writes: "A few years back I spent two months overseas. Experiencing a different ... the same words hundreds of times already that day. But something about those words awakened me out of my comatose state. I experienced a strong emotional reaction that caught me by surprise. Home. I was home." In John 14:1-14, Jesus tells us about home. Home is not so much a place as it is a Person. Home is with ...

585. Someone Who Loves You

Eph 6:1-4

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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 ...

586. Anyone Feeling Tired?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... ourselves. That is the obvious teaching, and it is a beautiful teaching. But there are many ways in which being yoked to Christ gives us rest. Note, first of all, that there are other forms of fatigue more draining than physical fatigue. Mental fatigue and emotional fatigue can wear on us far more than physical fatigue. In 1863, the Civil War was raging and the end was far from sight. Abraham Lincoln was out for a ride with his friend and aide Noah Brooks. Brooks, noticing the president’s obvious fatigue ...

587. The Church: The Health of a Godly Family

Hebrews 10:22-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... twice as likely to reconcile marital problems rather than divorce. They are six times more likely to do community volunteer work. They are far more likely to vote than those who are religiously inactive. By the way, if you really want to get the most emotional charge you can out of church, you ought to go to a conservative Bible-believing church. That again is not an opinion. An article from U.S.A. Today entitled, "Strict Religious Faith Lifts Mind as Well as Spirit" gave the following analysis: Followers ...

588. Let Me Tell You about the Birds and the Bees

Proverbs 5:15-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... at home. Solomon wisely observed about the person who goes wrong in the area of sex. "He shall die for lack of instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray." (Prov. 5:23) Our children are dying physically from venereal disease, emotionally from guilt, and spiritually from sexual sin, because of the lack of proper instruction. For too long, both pastors and fathers have had their heads in the sand hoping this topic would just go away. But the subject cannot be avoided. George Gallup, the ...

589. The One Habit of Highly Effective Christians

John 4:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... . So they believe that if they laugh at a joke, or cry at a story, or say amen at some point during the sermon, that they, too, are worshiping God. Now once again, all of those things are well and good, and I believe that true worship should be emotional, but that is the expression of worship, it is not the essence of worship. Well, you see, God is a Spirit, and those who are going to worship Him must worship Him in their spirit. Worship is when your spirit connects with His Spirit through the Holy Spirit ...

590. Tastes Great, Less Filling - Sounds Good, Not True

Proverbs 23:29-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... , but because they had to leave homes that were broken by alcohol. I guarantee you there is not one father reading this book right now that cannot think of some marriage that has been destroyed, some wife that has been abused, some child that has been emotionally devastated because of the scourge of alcohol. There is no need to belabor the point. Your home may very well be the exception. Indeed, as far as we know from Scripture, Solomon never had any problem with alcohol. But he obviously had seen its great ...

591. Faithful Fathers Fortify Families

Deuteronomy 6:1-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... happy. We are to love the Lord faithfully—"with all of our soul." The soul is the seat of the mind, the will, and the emotions. In other words, we are to love God to the very core of our inner being, to the very depths of our mind, to the ... our feelings. We are to love the Lord firmly—"with all of our strength." In other words with all that we are physically, mentally, and emotionally we ought to love and it ought to be obvious to our children that we love God. I heard about a preacher that was talking ...

592. Bitterness: How to Overcome What You Undergo

Hebrews 12:14-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... wrath.2 Ralph Waldo Emerson, the famous poet, once quoted these lines from a seventh century eastern poet: He who has a thousand friends Has not a friend to spare, But he who has one enemy Shall meet him everywhere.3 Furthermore, bitterness will emotionally depress you. Bitterness is a depressant. If you will look closely you will find there are no happy bitter people. Criticism, cynicism, negativism, pessimism are all the marks of a bitter person. Bitterness will depress you and sadden you and even get you ...

593. Gospel Partners

Philippians 1:3-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... great grand-children are born, it will be as if we never even lived on this planet. If I were to ask most of you in this building who were your great grandparents, you couldn't tell us. You don't even know what they looked like. There is no emotional tie to them whatsoever. I have a great grandfather who was a Confederate soldier, buried in a Confederate cemetery in Lynchburg, Virginia. But I don't even know what he looked like, and the only reason I know his name is because I looked him up in the cemetery ...

594. No Fear

Psalm 23:4

Sermon

James Merritt

... by strangers. Fear number two: Having to speak before a crowd. Fear number three: Being asked a personal question in public.1 Fear is unbelievably powerful. It penetrates the heart, it poisons the spirit, and it paralyzes the soul. It can affect you not only emotionally, mentally, spiritually; it can even affect you physically. The late great Louis Armstrong, the trumpet player, recalled that when he was a boy in Louisiana, an old woman asked him to get her a bucket of water. He said, “I went down to the ...

595. Final Destination

Psalm 23:6

Sermon

James Merritt

... noted that these patients’ immune system became depressed and the antibody levels dropped 55%. Six hours later their immunity system was still depressed. On the other hand, patients were then told to re-experience an event that involved love, care, or appreciation. This emotional reaction caused the antibody level to rise 40% and it was still elevated six hours later. We all need “good vibrations.” David wrote a psalm, in fact, the most famous of all of the psalms. As you know, a psalm is a song ...

596. The Compassionate Christ

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... best name for God is compassion.” No one had more compassion than Jesus of Nazareth he who lay down his life for sinful humanity. Jesus is compassionate. And he is capable. That’s the second thing we need to see. He is capable. Our needs may be physical or emotional or spiritual, but Christ’s power is sufficient. This may be the point at which many of us are missing the joy of our faith. We believe that God cares about us and our need, but we don’t really believe that He is able to help us. And so ...

597. Unlikely Election

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... was a part of the ministry…how could it have ended like this? Can you hear the veiled resentment in Luke's graphic description of Judas's death and the curse upon the land he purchased with the blood money? Can you imagine the mix of emotions, of grief and disillusionment, anger and the desire for revenge, remorse that one so promising could have fallen so completely? Combine with that the lingering doubts about their own failure to stand faithful in the moments of Christ's suffering and death. All those ...

598. Looking to the Unseen

2 Corinthians 4:18

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... man says there is nothing new under the sun, it is a result, says Robertson, of his determination to live only for excitement and pleasure. "His heart becomes so jaded by excitement that the world contains nothing for him which can awaken fresh or new emotions." It seems many college young people today live just such a life. Many of their weekends are spent in heavy indulgence in alcohol. A typical party consists in heavy and excessive drinking coupled with the smoking of pot and the use of cocaine. Sexual ...

599. Like a Child

Hebrews 4:1—5:10

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... front yard!) with a diaper in hand, you know it's the truth. Little children have no concern about who sees their private parts, and a few downright enjoy the exhibition! But before long, we learn to cover up — not just our bodies, but also our emotions, and our hopes and dreams — and, more than that, our flaws and failures and misdeeds. Like Adam in the Garden of Eden, we weave garments to hide our shame. We hide our guilt beneath garments of rationalization and blame; we cover our fear and pain with ...

600. Integrity Deficit Disorder

Matthew 21:23-32

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Otis Young

... 're never quite sure if you can trust that person or not. A second symptom is also one of the causes: people who have integrity deficit disorder live from the outside in rather than from the inside out. They let their feelings and emotional responses of the moment govern their behavior more than doing what's right regardless of their feelings of the moment. To put it another way, people with integrity deficit disorder are reactive rather than proactive. Reactive individuals base their decisions and actions ...

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