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651. Radical Love is Godly (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Luke 3:21-23 · 1 John 4:7-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... best for you.” Mothers are like that, aren’t they? That’s what mothers do. Both of them began to cry. God loves us like a mother loves a child. Sometimes we’re not nearly so serious about our loving nor unconditional about it. We tend to be sentimental and conditional. We love chocolate ice cream and apple pie. We love a woman because she is pretty. We love a man because he will take care of us. We love sports. We love houses. We love things that make us happy. The love of God is different. Loving ...

652. Life Between the Times

Revelation 22:7-21

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... times will rebel against all the meaninglessness and boredom of life, find joy and be filled with energy to take on the tasks of everyday life. In his play titled Landscape of the Body, playright John Guare offers a line which expresses these same sentiments: “It is amazing how a little tomorrow [he writes] can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.” With Jesus and his kingdom in your future a lot of yesterday (filled with all the disappointments, mistakes, and regrets) no longer matters. When you live ...

653. Bigger, Better, Basta!

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... this role and instead tells a story. The first thing Jesus says is “Guard yourself against all kinds of covetousness (the Greek word we translate as greed).” In the Jewish tradition, this translates basically to “watch out for idolatry” –the exact opposite sentiment from the shema Jesus adheres to and wants to see actualized in his vision of God’s kingdom on earth. Anytime one focuses attention on things and means and acquiring them for oneself, one is not focusing on God but self. The things ...

654. Missing!

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... small. Everyone’s greatest fear is to lose something or someone he or she loves dearly. You might lose your engagement ring and be devastated by the loss, looking everywhere for it, because you know, it cost a good amount of money and it holds relational and sentimental value for you. You may be overjoyed at finding a family heirloom that has been missing for years and has only just been recovered. Your child may cry rivers of tears on the loss of a cherished stuffed bear or rabbit. But all of these pale ...

655. The Way of a Saint

Revelation 7:9-17 · Luke 6:20-31

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... , France, hoping to bond with prominent French Catholic novelists in that heavily Catholic nation. Unfortunately, he was not accepted as he had hoped. This time He was spurned not on account of his religion, but on account of his race. This was 1949 and anti-Japanese sentiment was high. So, even though he was a Christian he was not accepted in a Christian land. This was enough to give Endo a grave crisis of faith. He was a man without a country, a man persecuted for his ethnicity and because of his religion ...

656. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

Sermon

King Duncan

... that Nineveh be destroyed. It was God's will that Nineveh recognize its need for repentance. Jonah would have done well to remember the second part of Johnny’s prayer: Forgive us our trash baskets, as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets.” This sentiment is the thread that is woven through the entire bible. Read Jonah’s story in light of John 3:17 about Jesus' purpose for coming into the world. "For the Son came into the world not to condemn the world, but that the world through him might ...

657. The View From The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... to the Savior’s statement of the substance of the law: `Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and thy neighbor as thyself’ — that church would I gladly unite with.” Many today would echo that sentiment. He went on, “Probably it is to be my lot to go on in a twilight, feeling... with him of old time, who, in his need, as I in mine, exclaimed, “Help Thou mine unbelief.”[14] Honest Abe was a man of honest faith... and honest doubt. Those ...

658. Vengeance: Human and Divine

Matthew 13:1-9 · Isaiah 44:6-8 · Psalm 1-12, 17-18, 23-24

Sermon

Will Willimon

... their noses at us, may then have to watch us prosper--that'll serve them right. What do you do with that? Well, we can ignore it. Just leave it out of our hymnal. Don't think about it. Tell ourselves, ''The Bible is all sweet thoughts and kind sentiments--smile, be nice, ignore it. But if we believe that the Bible, the whole Bible, is inspired by God and worthy of our study and belief.... Or we can explain it away. “The man who said that about the Babylonian babies was a non-believer, a primitive person ...

659. Risk and Reward

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

Did you ever read Ann Landers? Often she went beyond the issues she was addressing to speak with profound wisdom about life itself. In a piece she entitled, “The Dilemma," she wrote: "To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing has nothing and is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, and ...

660. Divine Things

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... " composed in 1967 by Claude François and Jacques Revaux? Did you know too that Sinatra, though he made the song a hit, grew to hate it the more he sang it?[1] Why? Rather humble as a musician despite his fame, Sinatra despised the “me, me, me” sentiment that the song represented. Yet America loved it, especially in the victorious aftermath of World War II. Self-assurance is not a bad thing in itself. We all need a healthy self-esteem in order to function well as human beings on our own and in our ...

661. “I Will Sing the Lord’s Praise, for He Has Been Good to Me”

Psalm 13:1-6

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... thought, has long broken loose from its moorings and soared far above the battlefield. The lament was not only part of the biblical psalms but part of the literary legacy of the ancient Near East,7 and not surprisingly, since sorrow is a universal sentiment. Interpretive Insights 13:1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? . . . will you hide your face from me? Most of the English translations, quite reasonably, break the single question of 13:1a into two (so pointed in the MT). The single question ...

662. Soul Hunger

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places,” as his character finally finds a relationship that can give him love, meaning, and fulfillment. And I’ll bet you can name at least 3 or 4 more songs right now that express that very same kind of sentiment. Because as human beings, we all have experienced the dissatisfied cry of our inner “hungry ghost.” What are you hungry for most, Jesus would ask us today, as we prepare to approach the table that he has prepared for us? Are you hungry for meaning? For ...

663. Whose Fault Is It?

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... a cold. For others it took half of families and left the original infectors unscathed. What kind of world is this? In pandemics and poverty, in pain and politics, we want to point fingers. We need to assess blame. Birthed By Hurt Probably no one has expressed these sentiments better than the novelist Peter De Vries. De Vries grew up in a Christian home but spent most of his life trying to sort out who God was to him. His most powerful novel, The Blood of the Lamb, was also his most tragic. It followed the ...

664. For Someone Who Filled Their World With Laughter

Zephaniah 3:14-18 · Job 8:20-22

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

... we’re making sure that Lee’s life doesn’t end here because people will see Lee living on through us. A great writer and churchman, C.S. Lewis, once wrote something that he claimed he could’ve never written before because he’d have considered it sentimental claptrap. He wrote that since his dear friend Charles Williams died, heaven was no longer a strange and far off place. It had been that once, but now it was a dear and familiar place because his friend was there. Our faith tells us that when we ...

665. God Is Like...Fire

Malachi 3:1-4 · Luke 3:1-6, 9,16-17

Sermon

Kenneth L. Gibble

... not the pleasant part, to be sure. It’s much easier and more pleasant to emphasize stories of creation, love, and grace. But if you strip away all references to judgment, you take the fire out of the gospel. It becomes a pale and anemic thing, a sentimental, romanticized religiosity that lacks the power to change human lives. “Our God is a consuming fire,” says the writer of Hebrews, and you can bet God’s judgment was what the writer had in mind. The fire of judgment is an inescapable element of our ...

666. When the Answers Don't Fit the Questions

Job 42:1-6, 10-17

Sermon

Will Willimon

... ; but no, no, says Job, forget it. Wisdom is a secret only God knows--the God who afflicted Job and wouldn't tell why. OK. OK. I can take it. The outlook is a bit bleak, a tad nihilistic, but the honesty is refreshing. None of this pietistic, sentimental religious gibberish for Job, no papering over doubt's great chasm with sweet clichés. “When I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness(30:26)," says Job. Honest: Real. And it’s in the Bible. “Why is light given to him that ...

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