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51. Liberty And Civility

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Brett Blair

... with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Thus begins the Declaration of Independence, which we celebrate today. And do not let anyone fool you. Freedom ought and need be celebrated. So many churches and ministers today loathe patriotism in the pulpit. I am not one of those. I celebrate today with you the freedoms which God has blessed this great nations of ours. Now I cannot tell you whether God has blessed us with liberty and therefore we are free ...

52. David and Bathsheba

2 Samuel 11:1-27, 12:1-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... it up, and it grew up with him and with his children; it used to eat of his meager fare, and drink from his cup, and lie in his bosom, and it was like a daughter to him. Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was loath to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man's lamb, and prepared that for the guest who had come to him. What? David could not believe such a thing. He says to Nathan ...

53. When God Is Gone

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... worse...and, sure enough, things got worse - Job is struck down by a hideous skin disease. In utter misery, Mrs. Job advises, "Curse God and die."(4) Not Job. He kept the faith. Miserable... but faithful. "I will complain in the bitterness of my soul...I loathe my life."(5) Meanwhile, our hero's friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, hear about the horror story Job is living through, and, just as you and I would probably do, they come to the house to offer assistance. "Is there anything I can do? Anything at ...

54. Leadership Styles For A New Millennium

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... not missing like Phillip Pillsbury's, but in the palms of his hands are the scars of nails. BUT HERE IS WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT: THE LIFE OF JESUS SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT THE NATURE OF GOD. God is not a God of whom we need to live in fear and loathing, as many people do. God is not an insecure dictator, an intolerant tyrant as many have portrayed God. God is pure, unlimited, unbounded love. We don't need to beat our chest and rend our garments and cry out, "Oh, God have mercy on me, have mercy on me." There ...

55. Have You Changed Your Clock?

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... be in a better mood. A character in T. S. Eliot's play, "The Elder Statesman," shares this insight on waiting: "If I had the energy to work myself to death how gladly would I face death! However, waiting, simple waiting with no desire to act, yet a loathing of inaction. It is like sitting in an empty waiting room in a railroad station on a branch line after the last train, after all the other passengers have left, and the booking office is closed and the porters have gone." I can remember a time in seminary ...

56. A Journey To A New Life

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... . She was never to publicly criticize the Communist system. She was never to tell anyone what her parents talked about at home. If her teacher said anything that contradicted what her parents taught her, she was to keep her mouth shut. Danne and Jorge loathed the fact that they had to teach their child to lie, but it was necessary for the survival of the family. Fortunately, Lizbet was an extremely bright child, and she learned her lesson well. Not only was Lizbet bright, she also had an astonishing talent ...

57. Living In The Kingdom Of God

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... matchmaker, or a meteorologist. But God is the best friend you will ever have. Relax and love God for who God is. And love your neighbor as you love yourself. It's assumed that you love yourself. Except we know now that this is not always the case. Some people loathe themselves and are, as a result, unable to love others. That's extremely sad, but it happens. No, it's far more than sad--it's tragic, especially if you're the one who is angry all the time, or depressed, or withdrawn, or if you have to live ...

58. When You Are Uncertain About Your Salvation

1 Kings 3:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... to love you without knowing you than if He knowed you like I do." Let me tell you something: Jake's friend was wrong. The One who knows us best loves us most. As E. Stanley Jones once put it, "When you surrender to Christ, all self-hate, all self- loathing, all self-rejection drop away. How can you hate what He loves? How can you reject what He accepts? How can you look down on what He died for? You are no longer a person, you are a person for whom Christ died." Now I think that if Christ died ...

59. One Commandment, Slightly Used

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to have had a peculiar penchant for hatred across the centuries and across all religious lines. Some years ago a man named Lewis Browne wrote a book titled, This Believing World. The prologue to his book gives us pause: The Arab in his robe looks with loathing on the Armenian in his sack suit; and both look with disdain on the Jew... The Carmelite monk looks with anger at the Anglican missionary; and both look with contempt on the Greek priest. Hatred seems to be all around one: almost a noxious vapor that ...

60. Radical Surgery

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... hampers our life or threatens our very existence we eliminate it. We recognize the principle involved. When a gall bladder or appendix is so badly diseased that it gives us no peace, we cut it out. When a hand or foot is diseased beyond help, we are not loathe to amputate in order to save everything else. When a tumor is malignant and threatens to take our entire life away, we are not hesitant to say to the surgeon, “Cut it out!” It is far better to leave behind the tumor than to threaten one’s whole ...

61. Hanging the Law on Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... that, there are times we doubt God's care or are angry with God. Luther himself was almost driven to despair by the command to love a God whose commands and demands were so high and absolute. "Love God?" he's reputed to have cried. "Why, I loathed him!" Other times we experience a spiritual dryness where we don't feel much of anything. Prayers seem mechanical; worship leaves us flat; reading scripture becomes a bore. Like Luther, we may be driven almost to despair by a command to love God with the totality ...

62. Don't Fence Me In!

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... confessed: "We took what we wanted until we didn't want what we took." Free? Oh, yes, they were frightfully free. Free to make a joke out of the moral law! But it was not long until that moral law turned on them and mastered them with self-loathing, frustration, and guilt. How eternally right was Jesus: "Verily, Verily, I tell you, everyone who continues to commit sin becomes the slave of sin" (John 8:34). So the Spirit of God is saying to each of us, through the pen of Saint Paul: be aware of the limits ...

63. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... diary: Although I lived a blameless life as a monk, I felt that I was a sinner with an uneasy conscience before God. I also could not believe that I had pleased him with my works. Far from loving that righteous God who pun-ished sinners, I actually loathed him ... I always doubted and said, "You didn't do that right. You weren't contrite enough. You left that out of your confession." True guilt demands action. Our actions will never be adequate to take guilt away. But God's grace, in the midst of our guilt ...

64. Christmas and the New Family

John 1:1-18

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... remember that my eternal roots are in the family of God, and that God wants so much for his family to be whole that he sent Jesus Christ to give us the power to become children of God. This is a word to throw in the teeth of despair, self-loathing, and unreasoning fear. It is a word to speak to hell itself. The key to this transformation, John tells us, is in our believing; specifically, the promise is to those who believe on his -- Christ's -- name. It is in accepting Jesus Christ for who he is that you ...

65. Life in the Living Stone Age

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... US. Not surprisingly, Bible still comes out #1. But then AOL went on to make some distinctions: which of the 10 do you like best? like the least? Incredibly, once again the Bible wins out. But in both places: the most liked book on the least; the most loathed book on the list. The Bible truly is a polarizing book . . . . Here are some of the exact statistics: Which of the top 10 most popular books do you like best? The Bible 34% 'Harry Potter' 18% 'To Kill a Mockingbird' 12% 'Lord of the Rings' 8% 'Catcher ...

66. The Taxman

Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26

Illustration

Pastor Nelson

... this is exactly the situation in Palestineas it existed in Jesus' time. Matthew is collecting taxes for Rome, the hated conqueror. As such, he is barred from the synagogue and, according to the Jewish Torah, is lumped together with robbers and murderers. So he is someone who is not only loathed, but hated just as much as the conquerors for whom he collects the taxes.

67. Liberty and Civility - Sermon Starter

Galatians 5:1-15

Illustration

Brett Blair

68. The Door Is Always Open

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... are plenty of kicks in sin, but the kicks always have a kickback. That's the difference between what the Devil will give you, and what God will give you. "The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, and He has no sorrow with it." (Pr. 10:22) c. He Loathed His Rebellion He went up like a rocket, and came down like a rock. We see in v.13 he "wasted his possessions with prodigal living." The word wasted literally means "to blow." In other words, he blew it. He hadn't just blown all of his money. He had ...

69. Snake Eyes

Numbers 21:4-9

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities endured affliction; All: they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death. One: Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress; All: he sent out his word and healed them, and delivered them from destruction. One: Let us thank the Lord ...

70. Waiting

Mark 13:24-37

Illustration

Eric Ritz

... Dad would be in a better mood. A character in T. S. Eliot's play, "The Elder Statesman," shares this insight on waiting: "If I had the energy to work myself to death how gladly would I face death! However, waiting, simple waiting with no desire to act, yet a loathing of inaction. It is like sitting in an empty waiting room in a railroad station on a branch line after the last train, after all the other passengers have left, and the booking office is closed and the porters have gone."

71. Terminator 3

Acts 9:1-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Christ on the road, spins 180 degrees in his life orientation. The bitter well of hatred from which he had been drawing his sustenance is sweetened by Christ's touch and changed into an eternal spring of love and dedication. Ananias' fear and loathing of his persecutor is also changed by Christ's words into openness and acceptance of a true "brother" in the faith. Simon Peter, filled with guilt and convinced of his failure, sees the face of the risen Christ and expects the worst - judgment, accusation ...

72. Cut It Out!

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to re-web or revarnish outdoor furniture, or do you just run down to the discount store for new, cheap lawn chairs? But for all those things we are happy to toss away, replace or renew, there is one familiar thing we are absolutely loathe to part with - our own old habits, behaviors and attitudes. We recycle and retool and return to the same old reactions, attitudes and practices throughout our lives as if each one were made of the most precious resources available. Unfortunately, if the truth be told ...

73. Luke 18:9-14

Luke 18:9-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... precipitated. In Matthew 6:1-6, Jesus outlines his own feelings about the private aspects of piety, prayer and charity. Just as the Pharisee's behavior demonstrates an extreme notion of self- worth, the tax collector's attitude offers the opposite hyperbole - complete self-loathing and shame. With his single message and his firm fixation on his own sinfulness, the tax collector's attitude is itself not wholly healthy. Such an attitude can lead to a lack of responsibility and an "I can't help what I do for ...

74. Luke 17:5-10

Luke 17:5-10

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... but, in any case, a sizable tree. Some sources indicate that such a tree was not to be planted within 25 cubits of a cistern, about 37 feet. Jesus' response to their imperative reveals that far from impressed with the faith they assume they already have he is loathe to congratulate them for their zeal to have more. He begins with the pointed observation that, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it would obey you" (v. 5 ...

75. The Heart of the Matter

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... get a new heart? Is it even possible to reprogram our emotions? Is it even possible to get rid of all those negative, hurtful feelings that sometimes well up within us and often overwhelm us? Is it possible to get rid of guilt and greed, lust and loathing, fear and unfaithfulness? In other words, is change really possible? It is not easy to change the heart. Some people would say it’s impossible. I don’t think it’s impossible, but I say it is very, very difficult. Have you ever tried to do something ...

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