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576. All My Children

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... 's accomplishments and good points. This love and encouragement from his dad more than made up for his father's alcoholism. (5) It makes a big difference in our lives when we know we are loved. In fact, people whose lives are twisted with hatred for others are usually people who have never received unconditional love. "We love," says the writer of I John, "because he first loved us." Acts of unconditional love have tremendous redeeming power. It was a Saturday morning in January in Michigan. A blizzard was ...

577. Time For A New Vision

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Angela Akers

... Southern accent. The command to take the message to Samaria was even more shocking. Samaria was settled by Jews who had intermarried with pagan peoples. They did not practice the orthodox Jewish faith. Samaritans were considered to be "halfbreeds." Generations of hatred and suspicion had grown up between orthodox Jews and the residents of Samaria. In John 4: 9, a Samaritan woman reminds Jesus, "Jews have no dealings with Samaritans." Why would Jesus offer his message of hope to the Samaritans? This is ...

578. The Benefits Of Trusting Christ

Romans 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... on the third day "God raised him from the dead . . ." Think how it would change our lives if that were as real to us as the air we breathe and the water we drink. We would have no more fear of death--no more uncertainty about life--no more hatred of people who have hurt us. Think what positive, dynamic human beings you and I could be if we truly believed that because Christ lives, we can live too! Handling our problems, our stress, our frustrations would be a breeze. We would have a sense of victory in all ...

579. Set Free Through Forgiveness!

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... morning. I wanted her to see this historic event." Then President Clinton zeroed in on his question: "As you marched from the cellblock across the yard to the gate of the prison, the camera focused in on your face. I have never seen such anger, and even hatred, in any man as was expressed on your face at that time. That's not the Nelson Mandela I know today," said Clinton. "What was that about?" Mandela answered, "I'm surprised that you saw that, and I regret that the cameras caught my anger. As I walked ...

580. Caught Between God And Caesar

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... life. The Kingdom of God is doing the right thing when the rest of the world is doing wrong. The Kingdom of God is standing up for the weak and the helpless when the rest of the world is turning its back. The Kingdom of God is returning love for hatred, peace for violence, words of encouragement for words of despair. In short, the Kingdom of God is living the Jesus life in the society where we are located. AND IF WE EVER HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE KINGDOM OF CAESAR, GOD MUST ...

581. Christ The King

Revelation 1:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... : someone who understands us. He is also someone who has set a standard for us. What would Jesus do? It is still a good question. How can we make this a better world? Show it Jesus. Let his love, mercy, and forgiveness stand against the cruelty, hatred, and violence of a dark world. Sometimes I think we make Jesus too soft and laid-back. Because we try to emphasize his grace, we sometimes ignore the demands he made of his followers. "For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and ...

582. Sacred Memories

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... gift to us--unless they cripple our ability to function as whole persons, as families, and as a community in the present world. There are tragedies being lived out in the world today because people refuse to forget ancient grievances, ancient resentments, ancient hatreds. Life magazine carried a story recently about a parade in Northern Ireland. If there is one place on earth besides the Middle East where people need short memories, it is this land that has been tortured by so much violence. Every summer ...

583. Danny Devito In A Tree

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... pay this added tax burden. The problem with this is that the extra cash was taxable, too. What finally happened? The winner skipped the free jet trip and took a cash settlement. (7) None of us likes to pay taxes. Still, we don't have the hatred for the tax collector that the people had in Jesus' time. Imagine, if the setting were Palestine today and a Palestinian in each village acted as an agent of the Israeli government--and skimmed off some extra besides, he would not last long. And yet Jesus called ...

584. Swords Into Plowshares

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... house. It stood out in contrast to all the Christmas decorations in the windows of their neighbors. One year, vandals broke out the front window of the Markovitz home, the window that held the menorah. The whole Markovitz family was shaken by the senseless hatred of this act. After the window had been repaired, they left to spend the day with their family. That evening, the Markovitzes returned home to find almost every house in the neighborhood had a lit menorah in its front window. As Vicky, the Markovitz ...

585. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... stopping to help a stranger beside the road. Love is the heart of faith--particularly for the follower of Jesus. And that brings us to the final thing to be said: Jesus' love is the hope of the world. It's amazing. We still live in a world of ancient hatreds. It is a world in which might continues to make right. It is still a world where an eye is exchanged for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. Can we not see that this is a formula for disaster? Only when we truly love God and truly love ...

586. If Your Eye Offends You

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... Amnon in the Old Testament. The prince in the court of David seduced a young girl and thought he had gotten away with it. There is nothing new about that. But the Bible tells the story of the morning after. It says very bluntly: "The hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which had loved her." That which we call sin is that which destroys human beings--human relationships--human love--human happiness. And, because of this destructiveness, one wonders if there are any little sins ...

587. It Does Matter What You Believe

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... in an attempt to convert Jews and Moslems to Christianity. When we are tempted to point a finger at the Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, the Muslims in Bosnia, or the Palestinians and Jews in the Middle East, we must remind ourselves of the tragic intolerance and hatred in our own history. I make this point to show you how easy it is to take today's reading and try to turn it into a horrible justification to kill and make war. Still, there are some things that Jesus stood for that cause Him to ...

588. Sleeping Through A Revolution

Ephesians 2:13-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It was a tragic story about a man in Mississippi who reportedly could not adjust to our new world of diversity. He went into a Lockheed Douglas facility and killed five of his co-workers, four of them African-American. He was reportedly a man with deep racial hatred. How sad, how very sad. Those of us [you] over fifty grew up in a nation when many of our schools were still segregated--black and white. We [You] remember all too well when African-Americans had to move to the back of the bus in some parts ...

589. A Date With Destiny

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the matter. As Phillipe Vermier once put it, "If you are a disciple of the Master, it is up to you to illumine the earth. You do not have to groan over everything the world lacks; you are there to bring it what it needs . . . There where reign hatred, malice and discord you will put love, pardon, and peace. For lying you will bring Truth; for despair, hope; for doubt, faith; there where is sadness you will give joy. If you are in the smallest degree the servant of God, all these virtues of light you will ...

590. A Victory For The Angels

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's what folks in the Washington, D. C. area have been doing this week--tasting the ending. And that's what you and I can do as we contemplate the direction God is taking our world--we can taste the ending. Pain and suffering will be no more, war and hatred will be no more, and the humble carpenter of Nazareth will bring his kingdom of love and compassion to rule over all the world. Can't you see it? Can't you taste it? A final victory for the angels. 1. Signs of the Times, Copyright Â© September 1971 ...

591. The Coat Of Many Colors

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... and whipped him almost to the point of death. They wanted to make the point, in the most humiliating way possible, that Jesus was nobody's king. If only they had known whom they were seeking to humiliate. If only they hadn't been blinded by their own hatred. In the same way, if Joseph's brothers had known what the future held for him, they never would have laid a hand on him. Next, they dragged their helpless younger brother over to an empty well and threw him down into the blackness. Put yourself in Joseph ...

592. God's Design and Our Destiny

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... had lived in a balanced community, each interdependent upon the other. The spraying of DDT, which was intended to affect only one part of that system, changed the entire community. (7) God confronted the same kind of dilemma. How to root out fear and jealousy and hatred and bigotry and all that’s evil from the heart of not just a few, but all of humanity without robbing that same humanity of its freedom? There was only one way. God did it with the babe of Bethlehem. No one could accuse God of overwhelming ...

593. Day People

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... will do. So it is with people of the day. We are soldiers of Christ in a war against the forces of darkness. Some of us may be uncomfortable with the imagery of war and forces of darkness. But how would you describe such scourges as racial hatred, child abuse, violent crime, terrorism, genocide, etc.? We might have different lists of the evils we ought to be fighting, but this is no Pollyanna world. Darkness abounds. Only one group of people is called by God to do battle with these forces--the church of ...

594. Great Reasons for Great Giving

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... world''s peoples are living and dying with no hope because they do not know Christ. We cannot see the death of a person''s spirit. For that reason we usually don''t get very concerned or upset, but the evidence of violence and crime and lust and greed and hatred in our world are legacies of spirits dying without Christ. On the day of judgment I believe we will give an account of whether we did all we could, not only to feed the hungry and clothe the naked and heal the sick, but we''ll also be asked about ...

595. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... up with it. She went on to tell the story behind it. She said that her husband had died a few months before she made this trip, a vacation trip, and she had grown to hate God and others and herself. Everybody around her could sense that bitterness and that hatred because it had spilled over into every area of her life. Then she made that vacation trip. She said to the man in the letter: "Oh how I thank God that you saved me from committing that horrible crime. When I arrived back at home and went to work ...

596. Jesus, Our Hope

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... in the manger is the hope of the world, and this is Christmas. The babe in the manger is exactly what we need. You see, we are foolish. We are disobedient. We are deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We live in malice and envy and hatred. That’s us! We are foreigners to the covenant of promise. We are far away, and without hope. We are hopeless! We are a hopeless cause. We can’t fix ourselves. We can’t make our day better by trying harder. We have no future. We have no promise ...

597. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Jesus Christ, Christians believe that God has spoken. The poet Laurence Housman gave us these lines: Light looked down and beheld darkness. “Thither will I go,” said Light. Peace looked down and beheld War. “thither will I go,” said Peace. Love looked down and beheld Hatred. “thither will I go,” said Love. So came Light and shone, So came Peace and gave rest. So came Love and brought Life. “And the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory as of a father’s ...

598. The Glorious Interpolation

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... seems to be a prelude to John 8:15 where Jesus is recorded as having said, “I judge no one.” Now, that is not strictly true. There is a judgment which springs not merely from what Jesus said, but from what he was. The love in Him judged the hatred in them; the purity in Him judged the lust in her. Writing of this Scriptural event, the poet Whittier penned these profound lines: Thou judgest us: Thy purity Dost all our lusts condemn; The Love that drawest us nearer Thee Is hot wrath to them. And so it was ...

599. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... bombs which kill hundreds of innocent people on buses and airplanes, or supposedly God-fearing people blithely assembling weapons of mass destruction which could put an end to life on this planet, or militant groups in our own nation who would foment the kind of hatred which resulted in the tragedy which occurred in Oklahoma City. We have a tendency to do things in groups which we would never think of doing alone. We often call ourselves children of God; but all too often we act like children of the devil ...

600. An Unpopular Profession

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... no social standing. Their word was not accepted in a Jewish court of law. Their money was considered tainted and would not be accepted by the synagogue. In fact, in Jesus’ day the title “tax collector” was a swear word. I. WHY ALL THIS HATRED OF TAX COLLECTORS? In those days the only people who had to pay taxes were conquered people, living under the heel of foreign domination. Taxes infuriated the Jews especially because it reminded them that they were under the domination of Caesar, and their money ...

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