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601. God’s Surprises

Acts 10:44-48

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... her pale blue eyes. "My husband passed away eight days ago," I told her. Glancing at the package in her hands, I fought to control the tremble in my voice. "Buy him the steaks. And cherish every moment you have together." She shook her head and I saw the emotion in her eyes as she placed the package in her basket and wheeled away. I turned and pushed my cart across the length of the store to the dairy products. There I stood, trying to decide which size milk I should buy. Then I looked down the aisle toward ...

602. With Friends Like These ...

Job 38:1-7 (34-41)

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... , when we are not God and we don't have the answers. There are also times when our helpfulness can cause others to become dependent upon us to "make them feel good." In this case, they are unable to develop fully their own coping skills and the emotional resources they will need to see them through this and other tragedies that inevitably will touch their lives. Our presence alone can often be our greatest gift and comfort. Job's friends might have been a great comfort to him, had they not tried to talk him ...

603. Baby Blues

1 Samuel 1:4-20

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... Unfortunately, that is not the case for all those who desperately want children. More than five million people of childbearing age in our country experience infertility. We may be totally unaware of their problem as they deal with one of the most emotionally and spiritually difficult journeys of their lives. Janet has chosen to share the heartache of her infertility, that others might understand more fully her anguish. She laments that grief is like a shadow permeating every facet of her life. She has come ...

604. Home Alone

Revelation 21:10, 22-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... spoon in your mouth that helps you cope with reality." The biggest problem with the affluent, however, is what Peter Edidin calls "money's isolation booth." Rich kids as well as poor experience isolation and lack of emotional bonding. One psychoanalyst says his affluent patients suffer from early emotional neglect and are "as parentally starved as a child in the worst ghetto, the only difference being that they can wrap their neglect in minks." Edidin tells the story of Terry Hunt, age 39, whose grandfather ...

605. Soulistic Health

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... "stay healthy," to "stay whole." But what does wholeness mean? To be healthy and whole means we must have body and mind and soul in sync. Wholeness means recognizing that our spiritual needs are just as critical as our physical needs. Wholeness means that our emotional needs are just as important as our intellectual needs. The woman healed of her hemorrhage "felt in her body that she was healed of her disease" (v.29). She may have registered her healing physically, but she also recognized it mentally, was ...

606. Wanted: A Lasting Marriage. Only Good Chemists, Bad mathematicians, Expert Soul-O-Flexors Need Apply

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... what he calls the "love secrets" of 100 couples with model marriages, says that his most significant finding is also the most surprising. Here's the most shocking thing you may read in this entire book. Chemistry between two people is responsive to mental and emotional processes over which we have tremendous control. That's right, you can make chemistry happen. If you don't feel the flutter in your heart for your spouse that you once did, if the magic is gone from your relationship, don't panic. You can ...

607. The Double Cross

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... experiences with friends. MountZion Meals are high moments with God specifically. Emmaus Suppers are surprise manifestations and revelations of what has already been going on in your life, but which you were unable to "see" until that moment. Mount of Olives Suppers are emotional lows even when others around you are high (e.g., Palm Sunday). Crying times? Times for tears of sadness and post-achievement depression? The Mount of Olives is the name given to a long ridge above the eastern side of Jerusalem. You ...

608. The Widow's Might

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... worker. OpSmile began in 1982; since then, it has performed surgery on 18,000 kids in 15 countries to correct without charge - such disfigurements as cleft palates and burn scars, while training local doctors in the procedures. Says William: "The world is changed by emotion." On June 20, 1996, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation awarded the group a $1 million prize to continue their work. William and Kathleen Magee's mite has might, and it's the might of love. Evie Rosen, 69, of Wausau, Wisconsin, is no doubt ...

609. Greed at Christmas

Lk 1:26-38

Illustration

King Duncan

... Christmas times when I was your age. My mind fills with memories of decorating the tree . . . singing carols . . . baking cookies . . . It's a big part of the holidays for me. I'm impressed that someone your age would recognize that nostalgia is such a strong emotion at Christmas time." Sally goes back to the tree, looks at the huge pile of wrapped gifts and thinks to herself: "Nostalgia? I was talking about GREED." Note: A little trivia - Sally Forth is a play on words. To "sally forth" means to go on an ...

610. Making Christmas Last - Sermon Starter

Luke 2:21-40

Illustration

Brett Blair

... Christmas dinner, and opened the presents, Christmas is the most boring day of the year." Is it possible to lose the spirit of Christmas that quickly? Let us be candid that as we take down the decorations for another year, there is a sinking emptiness and an emotional let down. My Mom long ago gave up live Christmas trees in favor of artificial. I remember trying as a child trying all the tricks to keep it alive. We put aspirin in the water, then we would try sugar, but regardless of the solutions the tree ...

611. Luke 2:41-52

Luke 2:41-52

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... Joseph and Mary's sudden realization that their son is not with his cousins or aunts and uncles, or among the animals or the tents. Immediately they leave the caravan and their kinfolk and begin the return journey to Jerusalem. These texts reveal a physical and emotional disjunction between Jesus and his parents. They don't know where Jesus is and they don't know why he is gone. The young Jesus has an agenda of his own, separate from that of his parents' customary family outing. The word used to describe ...

612. Galatians 3:23-29

Galatians 3:23-29

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... there was anyone well-acquainted with the promises extended to Israel through both these paths, it was the elite-educated, erstwhile-zealous Pharisee, Paul. Heightened by his obvious emotional attachment to the Galatian Christians, Paul's argument against these Judaizers is both theologically brilliant and emotionally barbed. Immediately prior to today's epistle reading, Paul highlights the issue of the Abrahamic promise. He disarms his opponents' argument by splitting grammatical hairs (heirs?), making the ...

613. Luke 7:36-8:3

Luke 7:36-8:3

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... behavior, certainly suggests she was a prostitute. She is not financially destitute. She brings with her a costly "alabaster jar of ointment." Her behavior suggests she has faced some emotional destitution, however, for at the sight of Jesus she begins to weep bathing his feet, in fact, with her tears. She follows this emotional display by then drying Jesus' feet with her hair, while continuing to apply tears and now the ointment in liberal quantities. By simply touching Jesus, this woman has ritually ...

614. Weakness into Strength

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

James McCormick

... without any resources to rely upon. Like Lincoln, I had nowhere to turn except to God. And it happened. I felt cut off from almost everyone else, but never have I been so aware of God. I was confused, but never have I grown so much. I was in severe emotional pain, but God took my hand and led me through. That was almost 50 years ago, but I remember it as if it were yesterday. And today, personally, I know the truth God spoke to Paul: “My grace is sufficient for you.” And I know the truth that Paul spoke ...

615. Refusing to Quit

2 Timothy 4:5-8

Sermon

James McCormick

... life were not the flashers, but the plodders, those people who kept on keeping on until their goal was reached. I heard recently about a corporate executive who was giving his employees a motivational speech. He gathered them all in one room and said, emotionally, “Did the Wright brothers give up?” “No!” replied the crowd of employees. “Did Charles Lindberg give up?” “No!” said the crowd. “Did Marie Curie give up?” “No!” shouted the crowd, now rising to the occasion with increasing ...

616. John 15:9-17

John 15:9-17

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... hardly the first time in this after-dinner "table talk" with his disciples that Jesus has spoken of keeping his commandments. The same phrase is found in 14:15, 21 and 23-24. "Loving Jesus" therefore is not simply a reference to an emotional response, but implies some sort of decisive, continued action on the part of the disciples. The disciples must demonstrate that they love Jesus by keeping his commandments in order to remain recipients of Jesus' love. There is both respect and freedom for the disciples ...

617. A Demon Speaks Out in Church

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... all, we need to make sure we are not contributing to the problem. Enablers. It’s a word that crept into our vocabulary a few years ago. An enabler is a person who, by their actions, makes it easier for someone with a serious emotional problem or dependency to continue their self-destructive behavior. Another familiar term is codependent. What are some of the behaviors that nice, decent people unconsciously enable in others? Here are some of those behaviors: (1) Drinking too much (2) Spending too much (3 ...

618. The World's Worst Bargain

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... leaves at death.” (6) Many have searched to find a spot in the body which they could identify as the soul. It is fruitless. You will find the soul in the same place you find love, hope, peace, joy and a host of other positive emotions. You can capture none of these emotions in a test tube, but we know they exist. Just because we cannot see love, for example, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. We know it exists. We’ve seen love in action. And just because you cannot find a physical location for the soul ...

619. Death Has Been Conquered

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... Sunday. That is the Word that you have filled this church to hear. Death has been defeated. Christ is alive. The final enemy has been conquered. Of course, you realize that the message of Christ’s victory over death probably does not have the same emotional impact on us that it did on our fathers and mothers. Death was a very near companion to persons in generations past. The average life span was very short. Fatal diseases were often epidemic. Many, if not most, families would lose at least one child ...

620. Jesus Radical Prescription

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... place violence. Verbal and physical abuse in the home. Cutting of oneself. Eating disorders. Suicide. What is anger? Anger is the emotional and physical reaction that moves us to address a situation that we find intolerable. Someone or some group has obstructed our will. They ... have hurt us or those we love. Now the feeling, the emotion, of anger is what it is. It’s the way we’re made. It’s part of the equipment that comes with ...

621. Facing the Wild Beasts Within

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... it. We learn to love by being with people who love us and each other. C. “Dependent faith” The second style or expansion of faith is “Dependent faith.” This is often the faith of the elementary and middle school child. It is characterized by feeling and emotion rather than the intellect and analysis. There’s a strong need to belong, to be known by name, to have a role to play in the group, and to be missed when absent. There’s identification with an authority figure, who is admired and trusted ...

622. It's Not a Snuggie Love

Mark 15:1-15, Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... we must learn to embody and embrace. Cross-love requires three things that Snuggie-love doesn’t: 1) Cross-training; 2) Cross-bearing; 3) Crossing-over. 1) Cross Training: Cross-love demands personal engagement at every level with every person. Cross-love is emotional. Cross-love is intellectual. Cross-love is physical. Cross-love is spiritual. Cross-love is summarized in the Schema: We are to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, strength and mind…and our neighbor as ourselves. The greatest ...

623. A Mother's Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , but friends, that’s the way the world works. Even secular culture has a phrase for it, “You play, you pay.” My guess is that God designed a world of consequences to help us grow up, to help us mature not only as physical beings, but as emotional and spiritual beings. Whatever the reason, you can be sure God’s motive was love, the same love that motivates the good parent. Now, please do not misunderstand what I am saying. If you have an accident, even if you were at fault, that is not a punishment ...

624. What a Difference a Day Makes

Exodus 20:8-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... . Because of our technologically advanced society most of us don't have to experience the physical stress of battered muscles, callused skin and physically tired bodies. But we do experience the mental and emotional stress that comes with a schedule filled with too many people, too many demands, too many phone calls, too many memos, too many print-outs, too many appointments, too many interviews, too many meetings, too many forms, and too many deadlines. With our mind, we need to remember the Lord ...

625. The Dark Side Revealed

Numbers 32:23

Sermon

James Merritt

... disease. I realize that not every person feels any remorse or guilt when they enter into the dark side, but there is a greater truth behind this verse than empirical truth; it is a spiritual truth. I mean that even if you did not see any physical, mental, emotional or financial consequences of the dark side, this verse would still be true. You say, "How do you know that your sin will find you out? How do you really know that a person never ever gets away with sin?" For this reason. Because there is a Holy ...

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