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51. Time and Timing

Habakkuk 1:12--2:1, Habakkuk 1:1-4

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... in Vietnam prisons, the Laotians in Laotian prisons, the Cambodians in Cambodian prisons - political prisoners imprisoned for what they are thinking. Why, not so incidentally, do we find the chiefs of state so often professing a love of their country and a dislike, not to say hostility, for their countrymen? The ultimate poignancy is Christ's outcry from the cross, "My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me!" As difficult, as unsatisfactory as are any of the answers, the question is legitimized if our ...

52. Have You Talked to Jesus Lately?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... while. Sleep and I lost contact with one another during this period, or maybe I should say we became nodding acquaintances. And patience? What little bit I had was just about used up. I tell you this so that perhaps you can understand why I took an instant dislike for this young stranger. He really got off on the wrong foot with me, with his artificial-looking smile, his evasiveness, his failure to get right to the point. If he was looking for help, he was going about it in the wrong way. "Look, can we just ...

53. Becoming What You Are

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Carl Jech

... and the Sacraments, through the arts, through active involvement in social issues where the true meaning of love is acted out by those who love the world and its people as much as God does. If you have noticed that pastors often seem to dislike funeral chapels, you should know that the cause of the apparent anomosity is not professional jealousy. The mortuary funeral chapel is used for only one purpose and is associated with nothing but death. The church building, on the other hand, is associated with all ...

54. The Church Associated With Life

John 14:15-31

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Carl Jech

If you have noticed that pastors often seem to dislike funeral chapels, you should know that the cause of the apparent animosity is not professional jealousy. The mortuary funeral chapel is used for only one purpose and is associated with nothing but death. The church building, on the other hand, is associated with all aspects of life. All kinds of ...

55. The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . The point to the story has a bit more bite to it. Jesus is asking the expert in the Law to treat not just his friends, not just the people in his town, and folks stranded on the road as neighbors, but to treat the very people he despises, or dislikes, or makes fun of, or even hates as neighbors. In a word: Love your enemies. The story of the Good Samaritan is a lesson on how the Law of Moses is to be understood and lived out in the most difficult of relationships. I am convinced that apathy is just ...

56. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Jeremiah 20:7-18

Sermon

... judgments. We have no business claiming God’s inspiration for our childish outbursts of anger. What Jeremiah is talking about, is the compelling necessity to speak the word of God which may well produce enemies. People simply won’t like it, and they will vent their dislike on the speaker. But for God’s prophet, that’s the way it is. When I think of our usual reticence to speak an uncomfortable word, or to be in a place where we are not appreciated, I think of the following conversation: "No one at ...

57. Beyond the Ordinary

Matthew 5:38-42

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Joe Pennel

... opposite. Since the Pentateuch was regarded as inspired, it was clearly understood that love was limited to certain human boundaries. It is not surprising that devoted Jews inferred from Leviticus 19:18 that their duty was to love their fellow-Jews and to dislike their Roman enemies. But, Jewish literature does not yield any evidence that such a conclusion can be explicitly drawn. In my research, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy" cannot be found. This infers that the words "and hate thine ...

58. A Queen Bee’s Sting

2 Samuel 6:1-23

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... not hope for a divorce. She was simply one of David’s eight wives. She would be barren of children, and would have to put up with catty remarks for 1001 nights in the harem of a Middle Eastern sheik. Why then does the author of Samuel seem to dislike Michal so much? Human motivations for hate or love or indifference are as tangled as the skein woven by fate. Perhaps the reason Michal is hated so much by Jewish tradition is because her hatred was not directed at David but at God. God had made David king ...

59. A Zealot’s Greatest Battle

Drama

... like a new day for the Zealots. (Pleading) Come with me, Simon! Simon Barabbas ... (Puts his hands on Barabbas’ shoulders, causing Barabbas to have to look him square in the eyes) Barabbas, I respect you a great deal. I agree with you in many areas. I dislike the oppression and cruelty of Rome. I admire your courage ... your dedication to your cause. But I cannot go with you. (Turning away) I will not go with you. When I yielded myself to my new Commander, it was a lifetime vow. He taught me the truth ...

60. Striking Silversmiths Start Riot

Acts 19:23-41

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... . True, he had his usual run-ins with Jews who regarded him as an apostate and a danger to their traditional faith. He also had to battle with elements that wanted to distort the Gospel for superstitious or improper purposes. And he was disliked by the commercial establishment because of the danger he posed to their continued prosperity if the worship of Artemis was undermined. Paul describes this as "fighting with beasts," (1 Corinthians 15:32) but he always seemed to relish that kind of battle. Despite ...

61. Out of the Darkness

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... divine who preached the Election Sermon to the assembled magistrates in Boston in 1682, said on that occasion: "If the rulers of the Bay Colony can tolerate the dishonor of Christ, let me boldly say, I believe he will soon and signally testify his dislike of it." I would amend Willard’s words only a bit this morning. I believe Christ is already testifying, not in some mystical or abstract way, but in the decay and decline of a once great people now paralyzed by fear which issues from blindness ...

62. Gabriel Speaks to Mary

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

George Bass

... on it. Right in the middle, they are told, is Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers; it stands in front of the Church of St. Agnes in Agone. One of the four figures has a hand upraised - toward the church - as a kind of joke by Bernini, who disliked Borromini’s facade on the church that the figure had to shield his eyes or protect himself in case it should fall. But not many people go into that church, descend to the level beneath the church where there are parts of the arches of Domitian’s stadium ...

63. Why Are We So Split Apart?

Matthew 5:9

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... his patient that "until you resolve this conflict, you will never be completely well." Read the Gospels, and see how many times Jesus said or showed this to those who came to him, Sometimes the pathway to happiness lies in saying to a person whom we dislike, resent, or try to avoid, the same thing that Abraham said to Lot, "Let there be no strife between you and me." In talking about our relationships to others, we must be careful to note that Jesus said peacemakers, not peacelovers. It can happen that a ...

64. WASHED ANY FEET LATELY?

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John H. Krahn

... ? An act like shoveling the sidewalk of a neighbor who often lets his dog run all over your property. An act like continuing to speak well of someone who constantly knifes you in the back. Continuing to love your kids when they do things that make you dislike them. Coming to the church to help paint twice in one week when you notice that many of your fellow parishioners did not care enough to pitch in once. It means giving the extra needed ... be it forgiveness, monetary offerings, service, or what have you ...

65. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR LENT

Drama

Tom Eberle

... the congregation.] Son: I don’t like this place. Mother: [turns toward her son from where she is searching] This church? Son: No. I mean what I am sitting on. I don’t like this spot right here. Mother: You mean the communion railing. Why would you dislike that? Son: I guess it scares me. Mother: You accuse me of talking in circles, but you are making quite a few loops yourself. Son: It scares me that people come here to kneel: grown men and women. Mother: Why should that be so frightening? Son: You ...

66. Humility

Luke 14:1-14

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... must first be humble. You must always think that the honor is going to someone else. That way you will never be disappointed and you will be loved. But if you think that you are the best one, and that you should always be honored, people will soon learn to dislike you and to turn away. I thought that the story about the humble writer was so good that I have done something that maybe you will want to do when you go home. I took out an envelope and wrote my name on it and put on some stamps. Now ...

67. Forgiveness Unlimited

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... little grievances with other people. We get angry with that servant whose master forgave him so much while he refused to forgive so little. Yet we are often like him. We nurse along a grudge, and we refuse to overlook a mistake, we keep warm a dislike or resentment, while the whole time Christ is stretched out on that cross that we might be forgiven. Let’s do two things about this Gospel today. Let’s remember again all that our patient heavenly Father has done for us. Let’s remember again Bethlehem ...

68. The Narrowness Of The Christian Way - 1950 (date estimated)

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... sorely tempted to use it that they yield all too frequently. Certain newspaper publishers, for example, have virtually ruined their personal characters as well as their professional reputations by resorting so habitually to this vile method of misrepresenting causes or persons they dislike. They lie about their opponents, not by saying something that is untrue about them, but by stating just a piece of the truth, and thus so twist the truth it serves all the purpose of a lie. And for this vicious business ...

69. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... up production, and cause disunity? Granted war is evil. Whether we will or no, we are all involved. We might as well make the best of it. And what is to be gained by defying the will of the majority? We shall only get ourselves soundly disliked, and the result will be such loss of influence as will destroy our effectiveness altogether. I frankly confess that I feel the appeal of this argument. It is an altogether legitimate, normal, and valuable instinct to desire to be popular. In fact, I believe it is ...

70. Moving Fences

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

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Bill Bouknight

... always be moving fences for the glory of God. We are compelled to break down barriers. We are bridge builders between persons, groups, and nations. Always, we try to enlarge the circle of understanding and concern. I had a sixth grade teacher who had an intense dislike for people from north of the Mason-Dixon line. She was an elderly lady with a long, seething memory of 19th century injustices. Truly, she was an unreconstructed rebel. When she talked about "the war," you did not ask which war. If on a test ...

71. Who Is This Jesus?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... ranks of the major denominations, even within the united Methodist Church. That's nothing new. St. Paul wrote the letter we call "Colossians" because some false teachers called Gnostics were attacking the Gospel message about Jesus Christ. Gnostics were intellectuals who disliked what they regarded as the crude simplicity of Christianity. They wanted it to be more of a philosophy which they could align and co-mingle with other philosophies of the day. The Gnostics regarded Jesus as less than unique, just ...

72. The Temple

John 2:12-25

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... a special kind of money that was only good at the temple. Jesus knew about these things because he had seen them, but now it seemed to be getting worse. The time when Jesus came to the temple it was particularly bad and Jesus told the people how much God disliked what they were doing. They must have made fun of Jesus or told him to leave, for before they knew what happened Jesus went into action. He took off a cord that he wore around his waist when he prayed, and he swung it in the air like a whip ...

73. The Path of Maturity

Drama

William Grimbol

... measured by the extent and depth of our commitment to loving, well, then we are all hopelessly destined to lives of foolishness and childishness. Even at the beginning we are utter failures ... to love our Selves ... impossible! Lord, we have so much to dislike in our Selves, so much we find pathetic and phony and false. We are possessed by possessions. We are addicted to accumulation. We hide behind ridiculous images - masks - titles - brands. We have grown callous to what we feel. We have grown bored with ...

74. Christmas Carols · Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

Luke 2:1-20

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... ? The name of the carol is one that all of you know and love to sing. We call it "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." Let me tell you about the accidents. The writer of the carol was a very young minister by the name of Charles Wesley who was greatly disliked by the important people of the church. This was a long time ago in England when there were two kinds of churches. One kind was okay with the king and the other was not. Charles was a member with the kind that the king did not like. One day a ...

75. The Forgotten Virtue

Philippians 2:1-11

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Louis H. Valbracht

... ? When the parish family gets so large that we can no longer feel our own self-importance in it? When it can no longer be our own little private, ecclesiastical country club? When a person no longer feels that by his own individual whim, his like or his dislike, he can shake or disrupt the whole church? When does the Church of Jesus Christ get TOO LARGE? The Jews had a good system - they called it the stumbling block. It was a piece of stone that stood between the court of the Gentiles and the court of ...

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