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701. Restarting Joy - Rejoice

Isaiah 55:10-13

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... , and the stress, strain, and suffering as the human/divine sacrifice on the cross lay ahead of him. At the Passover table, Jesus reviewed the reason for his coming. He bared his concern with his followers in those closing hours. Two emotions can be detected in that event ... joy and celebration. Interwoven in the conversation between Jesus and his disciples is the assurance and confidence of the new kingdom of promise, hope, and life. Thanksgiving was offered through blessing and prayer. Throughout the ...

702. Making Ourselves At Home

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare. — Jeremiah 29:5-7 God, through Jeremiah, basically tells the people, "make yourselves at home" — even in exile in a foreign land! On an emotional level, the people of Judah in Babylon could have identified with Dorothy, from The Wizard of Oz, chanting over and over again in their minds, if not out loud, "There's no place like home! There's no place like home!" The whole identity of the Jews ...

703. Put Within Us

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... !" brand stamp. The covenant relationship will be so internalized that God's people will, in effect, bear the stamp, "God Inside!" on their hearts. Because that stamp is written on their hearts — in Hebrew thought, the seat of intellect, decision, and will, not emotions — it will be manifested in obedient faithfulness to the covenant relationship with God. The law, written on the heart, is not really a legal matter. All of the laws, in fact, have always been nothing other than a description of what it ...

704. The Joy of the Lord

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... listened in silence as one wife held herself erect and sang a gospel hymn that her husband could think of whenever he felt alone. “Joy is not just jumping up and down whenever your team makes a touchdown,” says Graham. “It’s that deep, abiding emotion that gives a lonely soldier’s wife the ability to reach out to an equally lonely man and touch him with God’s presence. The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity.” (1) G. K. Chesterton once said, “Joy . . . is ...

705. Two Sinners

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... .” Could that be why many of us are so tepid in our love for god? We have never really thought of ourselves as sinners. We have never hungered for forgiveness. “Whoever has been forgiven little loves little.” We may love the song but we have never felt the emotion: “Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me; I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.” When did we ever feel ourselves to be a wretch? When did we ever feel we were lost or blind? A Presbyterian ...

706. Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... by all Jerusalem-centered Jews. The response of this “unclean” Samaritan to the plight of the wounded man is extraordinary. First, after seeing the man in need he goes closer. Leaning over him he “felt compassion” or “pity.” His emotional response immediately results in action. First, he offers emergency medical care, giving the first-century version of disinfectant (oil and wine) and carefully dressing and binding up the injured man’s wounds. Second, he gives transport, giving up his own ...

707. The Two Ultimate Questions of Life

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... eye, a lightness to the step. No other force in this world can do that. Withhold love from a small baby and it will be sickly and perhaps die no matter how many vitamins and minerals he or she may be fed. Without love we cannot survive, not emotionally, not spiritually. We were made for community, for sharing, for belonging. There is no force in the world that moves us and motivates us as does love. Love tells us who we are. Love tells us we belong. Many years ago the psychologist Kinch described an amusing ...

708. Your Home Page

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... an attitude is now elaborated again, but with an emphasis not just on compassion, but outright empathy. Because they are indeed all members of one body, the Body of Christ, believers are not just to extend themselves to prisoners. They are spiritually and emotionally to experience the pain of imprisonment themselves. They are to feel with their hearts and spirits the agonies of those who are tortured. As members of one body those who are free and those who are imprisoned are “bound together” (“syndein ...

709. The Gift that Matters

Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.” It is an act of grace to be included in God’s family. Jesus blazed a path for us to follow that led to God. We follow Jesus down that path knowing that he experienced the wide range of emotions that we do. We identify closely with Jesus because he became one of us. That is the definition of incarnation. Another image to consider is that Jesus is our liberator who came to set us free, “and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the ...

710. The Right Reason

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

David O. Bales

... , and maybe you were younger. What would happen if Jesus just showed up with you now — say in worship, in prayer, or even a dream or vision — and spoke your name and added, “I really like you.” When you really like someone, you spend your time, energy, and emotion with them. If I really like my wife, I tell her. I don’t stand in the grocery store parking lot announcing it to every customer. If we aim our religious actions merely to be seen by others, Jesus says we’ve been paid in full. We submit ...

711. A Faith that Will Bring You Alive

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... be a day of deep grief. Eventually, however, the question may arise, “Should I take a new partner? Would that be a betrayal of the great love my spouse and I shared?” It is an emotional question. For some of you who have already dealt with this question, you may have discovered it was more emotional for other family members than it was for you. Sometimes children, particularly, can make their parents feel very guilty for all the wrong reasons. The biblical answer to this question would be, by all means ...

712. Looking Down on God

John 13:1-17

Sermon

David O. Bales

... the judge is summoned forward to wash the feet of Martha Fortuin. She’d been a black servant in his house for thirty years. He kneels at her feet and realizes how tired she is. He understands that her weariness comes from serving him. He’s overcome with emotion. He holds her feet in his hands and then — as she has held the feet of his children in her hands, washed them and then kissed them — he kisses her feet. People weep. The judge is motivated by his gratitude for Martha’s service to his family ...

713. Named, Claimed, and Framed

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

Tony Everett

... . Please! Well, okay, there is Jesus’ resurrection. Peter states, “God raised him up having freed him from death, because it was impossible for him to be held in its power” (Acts 2:24). However, that was many days ago. That really was a big celebration and emotional high; a real spiritual explosion. But now what? How do we really know God claims us for God’s own people? Where’s Jesus when you really need him? Look around folks. Look at the baptismal font where God names you and claims you as God ...

714. Where the Church Gets Its Power

John 17:6-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... today are turning to Christ. Nor do we need to go half way around the world to find people who need the good news that Christ brings. There are people right here in this community who are lonely and heartbroken. There are people with physical needs, emotional needs, and spiritual needs. We are the people whom God has called to meet those needs. And when we acknowledge that truth and live out our lives in service to our brothers and sisters in Christ, then the church really becomes the church, and the gates ...

715. Follow the Directions

Psalm 119:9, 18, 89

Sermon

James Merritt

... it comes to establishing a standard for the personal morality you are going to practice, what is your ruler? When you need an ethical compass to find your way out of an ethical jungle how do you determine where North is? When you are on a stormy, churning sea of emotion, which lighthouse do you use to show you where to find the shore? I have found in my own life the Bible really comes alive when I apply it in practical day-to-day situations. May I tell you one of the saddest things people have said to me in ...

716. The Knot: Bound

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... us together spiritually. The first thing that ought to be true of a couple thinking about getting married is that God is their first love. Then, after God brings us together spiritually, He builds us together emotionally. God brought Eve to Adam, gave him the opportunity to look her up and down and Adam felt something emotionally that he had never felt before. He could love the animals, but he could fall in love with Eve. Then, and only then does God bind us together physically. Do you know what our culture ...

717. The Knot: Tied

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... forever. There is another word used for love, which is “philos.” We get the word “Philadelphia” from that which means “brotherly love.” That love stands for the kind of warm affection that is shared between family or close friends. That word is not as emotionally charged as the word “eros.” It has more character to it. This was the word that would have been more commonly used in that day to refer to “loving family or people which whom you were close.” Again, your spouse ought to be your ...

718. She Had Great Faith

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... celebrity do we pay them much attention, and then only for a few days’ headline material. I mention this because the explanation given for this poor girl’s torment was demon possession. It would not be too great a stretch to imagine that her problems were emotional. Whatever the cause of her daughter’s suffering, this woman believed that there was someone who might be able to help her. His name was Jesus. She had heard that Jesus was a great teacher and healer. She knew he was Jewish, but if he could ...

719. Running over the Cat

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the pain was etched on her face. And, finally, after about three years, her heart gave out and she joined her husband in the cemetery. “See how she loved him,” some said. But wiser minds knew that was not it at all. She had bottled up her emotions for too long and then when she did express them full bore, she became stuck there. She had always been somewhat self-involved. Consequently, her hurt turned to anger and she would not allow others to help her move on. And her death was in its own way ...

720. An Announcement from Our Lord

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him off the cliff” (28-29). That’s quite a powerful reaction to just a few words. Jesus escaped, but his words generated some powerful emotions. Why? The same reason they still stir powerful emotions today. We want Jesus to stick to religion, not talk about the needs of the poor or people in prison or people with handicapping conditions. If he talked about prayer or reading the Bible, nobody would have cared. But here he was ...

721. Getting to a Teachable Moment

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... meeting the others where they are, speaking what they are able to hear, risking rejection, and patiently waiting creates a powerful, teachable moment that turns things around. The jurors are saved from mindlessly acting on their prejudices, from a disastrous disconnect from their emotions, and a cowardly shamefulness that causes them to ignore what is right in front of them. The saving moment comes from one who has the tongue of a teacher, the mind of one who puts himself in the place of others rather than ...

722. The Kingdom Is at Hand

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... will not perish, but have everlasting life.” Everlasting life doesn’t begin in the far off unknown. It begins the moment you give your heart over completely to God. It is then and only then that your guilt, fear, anger and a host of negative thoughts and emotions can be washed away. At that moment you begin living in the Kingdom of God. Then life offers possibilities that you cannot now imagine. Let me tell you a true story, but a story that can be a parable of the Kingdom. It’s about a young woman ...

723. Jesus Casts Out Impure Spirits

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... spirits. Is there an impure spirit troubling you? Not all impure spirits are supernatural powers that inhabit people’s minds and cause them to foam at the mouth and tear at their clothes. There are some perfectly normal people who have deep and deadly emotional issues. You may be sitting there placidly listening to this message and you’re having thoughts of suicide or even violence toward another person. Or you may be suffering from deep depression. Or you may know someone who is. There is no disgrace ...

724. Christians and Grits

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... what I do with mine.” (5) Friends, that janitor has the love of Jesus in his heart. We may have a better position in life than he, but we could learn from him. We have a responsibility to the needy in our midst whether that need be financial, emotional, social, or spiritual. Some of the neediest people are simply people who find themselves alone in the world. Loneliness is a need that we all can help meet. There are all kinds of needy people in the world. It’s not all about money, though there are times ...

725. Turn On the Light

John 8:12-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... life is impossible without physical light and meaningful life is impossible without spiritual light. If you are in a dark place in your life right now you need light. You need the kind of light that can dispel any kind of darkness you are in be it emotional, relational, or personal. Today, we are going to learn that Jesus is the One and only light that you need. We are in a series that we are calling “Seven” which is Jesus’ answer to this question, “Who do you think that I am?” Seven times, Jesus ...

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