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726. Why?

Job 3:11-12, 16, 20, 23

Sermon

James Merritt

... live in a "the public has the right to know" generation. We live in a society that demands an explanation for everything, and we want to be informed on everything from Jimmy Carter's hemorrhoids; to Ronald Reagan's colon; to George Bush's hatred for broccoli; to Bill Clinton's haircuts. We get frustrated because though journalists and fortune-tellers and lawmakers operate by that policy, God does not. He operates strictly on a "need to know" basis. It's interesting that every time tragedy strikes, we call ...

727. Murder in the First Degree

Matthew 5: 21-26

Sermon

James Merritt

... . But he drew a mental blank. He had what writers call "writer's block." He could not paint a thing. Finally, God convicted him and showed him the trouble was he had painted the face of his enemy as the face of Judas Iscariot. He realized that his hatred and bitterness was keeping him from being able to face the face of Christ. So he went back to the image of Judas and painted some nebulous face. He went to his painter enemy, asked forgiveness, and they were reconciled. Then he went back and could clearly ...

728. The Great Depression

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... exactly when, where, and how to attack you, and to get you down into the dumps of depression. There is an old fable that says the devil offered his tools for sale because he decided to go out of business. He displayed those various tools—malice, hatred, jealousy, deceit, bitterness, and had prices marked on them. But one of them was set apart marked with a higher price than the others. When the devil was asked why this particular tool was marked so high he said, “Because this is my most useful tool ...

729. Pulling Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... moving backward through time until only two people are left, two perfect people without sin living in a perfect garden Adam and Eve. (5) Can you see it? That is what God sees. The world as God created it to be. A world without pain or suffering or hatred or violence or envy or greed. A world where people love and are loved without being used, without having their hearts and their lives broken because of the actions of others or by their own weaknesses. This is the world God wants for all of us. To be ...

730. Pulling Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... the world. To make the world a beautiful place. And to find people who would help him make this a beautiful world by doing good deeds and helping others. I hope you’re doing your part so that one day we will get rid of the weeds of evil and hatred forever.

731. The Compassionate Christ

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... causes of the ailments that vex God’s children. These miraculous cures could have been ours hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years earlier, but humanity is so estranged from God that it has wandered in darkness. We have been preoccupied with our peculiar vices greed, lust, hatred war rather than focusing on those things that God has intended for us to make life better. Life may best be understood as a partnership between humanity and God. That is true in medicine and it is true in every part of life. St ...

732. The Blessing Of A Godly Mentality

Genesis 18:16-33

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... shielded from any expression of religion. But the American Constitution guarantees the free expression of religion, not just in the privacy of one’s home but also in the public sector. Friends, we must not respond to the militant enemies of Christianity with hatred or animosity. We must be firm but respectful in our stand for biblical truth. Our only chance of attracting some of our opponents to the faith is if Jesus’ spirit is transparent in us. Our mandate number four is to EVANGELIZE WINSOMELY. One ...

733. Stop Fuming, Start Forgiving!

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... terrorists but we must not hate them. Indeed, we must be willing to practice and model forgiveness if this world is ever going to experience reconciliation. Just consider what has happened in South Africa. After decades of apartheid and racial hatred, the structures of bigotry were dismantled. A Truth and Reconciliation Commission was set up, under the leadership of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. If any person came before that commission and confessed his sins, he was forgiven. Miraculously, the nation ...

734. Is There Hope For World Peace?

Matthew 24:1-35

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... your heart this morning, urging you to be more of a peacemaker. If so, I invite you to repeat silently after me, line by line, the first part of a great prayer of St. Francis. “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace; Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. Amen.” (1) Dobson, James, When God Doesn’t Make Sense, (Tyndale House: Wheaton, 1993), p. 64. (2 ...

735. I Believe That Jesus Suffered Under Pontius Pilate

John 1:29-34

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... was Caesar. Jesus’ enemies warned Pilate, “This man is a rival of Caesar. If you let him go, you are no friend of Caesar.” (John 19:12) In the final analysis, Jesus was not crucified because of the fearful ambition of Pilate or the jealousy and hatred of the Jewish leaders. The real reason was declared by St. Peter in his great Pentecost sermon. He told the Jews that “Jesus was handed over to you by God’s set purpose and foreknowledge.” (Acts 2:23) Why did Jesus have to die for us? Understand ...

736. I Am the Keeper of the Zoo

Isaiah 11:1-9

Sermon

... . A grandfather is talking to his grandson a few days after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Looking at his grandson, the grandfather says: "I feel like I have two wolves barking inside of me. The first wolf is filled with anger, hatred, bitterness….and mostly revenge. The second wolf is filled with love, kindness, happiness….and mostly forgiveness." At which point the grandson looks up at his grandfather and says: "Which wolf do you think will win, Grandpa?" And the grandfather responds: "Whichever one ...

737. Bugles in the Afternoon

Philippians 2:1-11, Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... wave hit? Wasn't God right there, bearing the brunt of it? Wasn't God there clinging to his beloved child, only to be overwhelmed by the waves and have the child ripped from his arms? Wasn't God there as he was when the surging flood of hatred battered and smashed his own son to death on a cross? Any theology that can't be preached in the presence of parents grieving over their slaughtered children isn't worth preaching anywhere else. [1] One of my favorite hymns says it well: Great is thy faithfulness, O ...

738. The Revelation Code III: The Mark on Harry's Forehead

Revelation 13:11-14:7

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... mark of your baptism and turn the witness of the church into something other than the witness to Jesus Christ… remember who you are. - When the identifying marks of the Christian life—love, patience, mercy, kindness, compassion, caring, hospitality—are traded for prejudice and hatred and vengeance and pride…remember who you are. "It's a scandal. It's an outrage," says Hagrid, "Harry Potter, not knowing his own story, not knowing who is really is." It's a scandal. It's an outrage...the People of God ...

739. Bart and Homer, Father and Sons

1 Samuel 20:24-42

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... tragic journey. It's a story of the deep love and abiding friendship between Jonathan and David. It's a story of seething jealousy and threatening rivalry between Saul and David, the one who would be king. It's a story of loyalty and devotion mixed with hatred and family violence. It's a story of the all-too-frequent struggle between Adam and Abel, Saul and David, Homer and Bart, father and son. 1. FIRST, KING SAUL, THE FATHER Let's be honest. If Homer is the classic dysfunctional American father, King Saul ...

740. Singing at the Table

Joel 2:21-29

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... how we are to interpret this tragedy, this destruction, this death to future generations. And is it too much to draw an analogy here? · The sudden events of 9/11 · The destruction of war and the lingering aftermath of conflict and anarchy · The locusts of hatred and prejudice which seem to swarm around us · International tensions and the potential for more of the same · And now a movie version of Flight 93—an attempt to tell the story, to pass it on, to tell our children · So perhaps Joel's question ...

741. Romans 13:9-21

Romans 13:8-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... against those who confess followership. Yet while it might not be possible to avoid the hostility and enmity that the world will dish out, Paul urges Christians to do their utmost to live “peaceably” and not dismiss those dishing out hatred, even as Jesus blessed the “peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9). That hard directive backdrops Paul’s final admonitions. Living in peace, according to the mandates of authentic love, leaves no room for personal “vengeance.” The dishing out of vengeance, of righteous ...

742. In Celebration of American Thanksgiving

Philippians 4:2-9, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Illustration

... causes which we serve has been made manifest.” But there is a greater thanksgiving day, which still shines ahead, which beckons the bold and loyal and warm-hearted. And that is when this union of action which has been forced upon us by our common hatred of tyranny, which we have maintained during those dark and fearful days, shall become a lasting union of sympathy and feeling and loyalty and hope between all the British and American peoples, wherever they may dwell. Then, indeed, there will be a Day of ...

743. True Freedom in Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Illustration

King Duncan

... morning. I wanted her to see this historic event." Then President Clinton zeroed in on his question: "As you marched from the cellblock across the yard to the gate of the prison, the camera focused in on your face. I have never seen such anger, and even hatred, in any man as was expressed on your face at that time. That's not the Nelson Mandela I know today," said Clinton. "What was that about?" Mandela answered, "I'm surprised that you saw that, and I regret that the cameras caught my anger. As I walked ...

744. Getting It Straight

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... on us. As he wove his life and ministry into his day and time the enemies were many. This was especially true among his Jewish brothers and sisters. Only by the grace of God was he able to fulfill what he had been called to do. The hatred could be intense and his very life was at stake. Nevertheless, as his letters say, he went about in a thankful mood. One wonders how the Christian movement could ever have gotten off the ground without him. Much of the New Testament reflects his power, personality, and ...

745. No-fault Religion

2 Corinthians 5:6-10 (11-13), 14-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... , "The history of human pretenses, self-deception, and failure to see our hostility and resentment of the other is a constant theme of the world's literature, and its consequences are strewn throughout history in politics, revolution, and all the tragedies of human hatred."2 Therefore, one of the painful works of love is that of disclosure — disclosure not so much of somebody else's wrongs, but of our own. And Paul's no-fault religion is one that assures us that "behind a frowning providence, [God ...

746. The Paradoxical Power of Weakness

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... heart. He allows himself to be pierced with spears of hate in order to send forth arrows of love and forgiveness. Overwhelmed and beaten down, derided and spit upon in bitter hostility, his blood and bruises became a balm for our wounds of strife, our gashes of hatred. Oh, the paradoxical power of weakness. When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died; my richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride. Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were a present far too ...

747. God Our Protector and Shield

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... but all citizens. If we conduct our lives as peacemakers and lovers of serenity we will live righteous lives. As the lyrics of a popular Christian hymn state, "Peace is flowing like a river, flowing out of you and me." In a world rampant with violence, hatred, and discontent, we need to be peacemakers in attitude, word, and action. Faith must be the shield that wards off the blows and insults of our world. As the Letter to the Hebrew suggests, our faith must provide us with assurance of things hoped for and ...

748. Engage Mind before Putting Mouth in Gear

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... His words gave inspiration to those associated with the American Civil Rights Movement. The positive and uplifting use of words has been equaled, unfortunately, with many examples of the destructive use of rhetoric and language. The Ku Klux Klan preached hatred, racism, and religious intolerance against all who were not white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant during its heyday in the 1920s. Adolf Hitler proclaimed death to Jews, leading to the great genocide of the Holocaust. Our contemporary scene continues to ...

749. Oh? You Really Meant What You Said?

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... All: All the days of the poor are hard, but a cheerful heart has a continual feast. Women: Better is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble with it. Men: Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than a fatted ox and hatred with it. Amen. (based on Proverbs 15:15-17) Prayer Of Confession Lord, we are not worthy that you should come under our roof. We give thanks that you do not stand on ceremony, but enter in whether we invite you or not. Bless us with your presence this ...

750. The Mighty Have Fallen. Are We Next?

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27, 2 Samuel 1:17-27, Psalm 117:1-2

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... our service become prophets of your peace. May it be so, in your name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Would that we knew the things that make for peace! How the mighty have fallen! Even now, God, you call to us, begging us to turn away from our hatred and suspicion. You take no joy in the fall of sinners, but desire earnestly that all should turn to you, and that all your children should be reconciled to each other. May we work for true peace, joyful reunion, ardent reconciliation. Let peace begin with each of ...

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