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801. The Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... that role. So I was not excited about being Officer Clemmons at all." Still, Clemmons came around to it eventually and agreed to take on the role. And, in the decades he spent as part of the show, there's one scene in particular that Clemmons remembers with great emotion. It was from an episode that aired in 1969, in which Rogers had been resting his feet in a plastic pool on a hot day. "He invited me to come over and to rest my feet in the water with him," Clemmons recalls. "The icon Fred Rogers not only ...

802. It's Okay to Cry

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... that involves loyalty, and trust, and sacrifice. A lament for one of God’s beloved that you cannot save means “not in this time or place.” It doesn’t mean “not ever.” But it means perhaps not “you.” Knowing this may not quell your turbulent sea of emotions. It doesn’t stop the flow of tears from coming. But a lament is for a season. And God always wins. Jesus knew that God would win in the end. Jesus knew that God always wins, that love always wins. But Jesus also knew that he couldn’t ...

803. Even in Our Hiding

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... your hiding places. God knows that sometimes, there are good reasons for us to hide from things that we are not ready or cannot face. Things that might hurt us, or things we’re not ready to deal with. Sometimes these may be physical threats, sometimes emotional ones like anger, grief, resentment, hurt. I know some of you come here today with pain in your heart. Perhaps you aren’t pursued by someone wanting to end your life. But depending upon what you’re going through, it might feel like it. Wherever ...

804. Who is That Crouching at Your Door?

Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to recognize the theology of “struggle” that goes on in humanity the moment they leave the garden. No longer is our relationship with God easy. We now have to deal with lots of conflicting emotions and it gets confusing. Adam and Eve struggle with their decisions….and the serpent. Cain struggles with his emotions and loses. Jacob later will struggle with his inner demons…and with God….and prevail, and his life will be better for it. Even Jesus will struggle for 40 days in the wilderness, before ...

805. The Promise of Dreams

Genesis 37:1-11, Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... are bills to be paid, Christmas gifts to afford, work to be done, jobs to be held, children to feed, daily life to endure in the midst of what feels like an unstable world. Or as Abraham Maslow might suggest in his pyramid of emotional values, “dreams” fall somewhere far beyond more urgent needs for food, shelter, stability, security, and a host of other practical matters. And yet, from out of the murkiest of depths, we’ve heard the voices of artists and visionaries, poets and prophets, hopers and ...

806. Faith is a River That Flows

Genesis 19:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... gardens into of moving on to plant new seeds in new places. And this all is very hard. Sometimes when we look at scripture, it feels too easy, theologizing it, reasoning why someone did what they did. But we forget, these were people, with feelings, emotions, fears, relationships. What were they feeling? Why did they do what they did? What was it like? I think asking these questions opens up a whole new way to see the scriptures and the people in them, and how their stories meet ours. Themes like identity ...

807. The Pardoning of Jezebel

Mark 7:24-30, 1 Kings 9:10-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... church or pastor. It’s usually based in a view of scripture that puts punishment and a lot of rules and regulations (often created by the church ordering council) before forgiveness and grace. If you know “shunning” from personal experience, you know the kind of emotional torture this kind of punitive action bestows. No one talks to you. No one eats with you. No one lets you into their home. No one will even acknowledge you on the street. It’s an exclusionary practice that elevates some to a false ...

808. The First Songs of Christmas

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is your Elizabeth? And what song is she placing in your heart? A beatitude is not a statement, but it’s an expression of great and exquisite joy! It’s a declaration of great blessing! Like our carols, the beatitudes of Elizabeth cut through confusion, mixed emotions, wonder, and wandering, and point to a direction that is our “way” of blessing! Did you ever have something happen in your life, and you are trying hard to make sense of it. And all you can see is your loss, or your predicament? Maybe it ...

809. The Pit of the Soul

Luke 9:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’s a bog that pulls us down into it, and out of which we cannot escape on our own. Like quicksand, it sucks us dry with unrelenting guilt and paralyzing fear. This is the place we are when we have fallen away from God. Our pit is a place of emotional despair, mental anguish, discouragement, loss of hope. It’s a deep, dark dead end where we are endlessly tortured by our own deeds.* And yet God lifts us out of that pit. Just as Joseph is lifted out of the pit where his brothers threw him and into a new ...

810. The Tempest

Jonah 4:1-11, Jonah 3:1-10, Jonah 2:1-10, Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... at the unfairness of it all. Jonah escaped into sleep. He escaped into dreams, into inner contemplation, into a long period of soul-searching and solace, in which the ever-present God watched over him, stood by him, protected him even in the midst of his raging emotions and angry spirit. And when the time came that Jonah could sort through some of his feelings, God brought him safely to a new place. The story of Jonah is even more realistic for us I think than the story of Oz or the story of Wild Things ...

811. It's Hard to Be an Atheist with Neighbors Like That

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... the nurses could do for this poor woman was to turn her every hour to prevent bedsores and to feed her twice a day through a stomach tube. “When it’s this bad,” an older student nurse told her, “you have to detach yourself emotionally from the whole situation . . .” But the young student nurse found she couldn’t treat this woman with detachment. She decided to talk to Eileen, sing to her, she even brought her little gifts. On difficult days she was particularly kind to Eileen. Thanksgiving Day ...

812. Rise Up

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... year epidemic. The great depression lasted a good 10 years through the 1930s.The changes and devastation of COVID-19 is still in its infancy. But these kinds of devastating events don’t just impact our wallets and our health. They severely impact our emotional, mental, and spiritual health. 1918 ended the bloodiest war (WWI) in history with huge losses of life but was followed by more loss with the Spanish Flu. Both devastated the young, killing primarily those from 18-40. In 1929, the suicide rate jumped ...

No emotional crisis is wholly the product of outward circumstances. These may precipitate it. But what turns an objective situation into a subjectively critical one is the interpretation the individual puts upon it - the meaning it has in his emotional economy; the way it affects his self-image.

Bonaro Overstreet

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Bryant H. McGill

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Constance Rourke

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Franz Kafka

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Remy de Gourmont

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Virginia Woolf

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James

823. Marinating in the Spirit

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... gain specific goals and contribute to happiness, they don’t get to the bottom of what drives the human spirit. Nor do they solve what haunts the human soul. While you may sculpt your body into top physical condition or foster your emotional wellness, most people today ignore spiritual wellness, the kind of confidence, stability, consistency, enrichment and quality of life that only comes from faith and a relationship with God. Hogwash you say? If that’s your response, you are one of many who believe ...

824. The Suffering Servant

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... with him. Luke says, they went near Bethsaida, and John tells us it happened just before the Passover. All of these details are important in their own way. But only Matthew, doctor and friend, mentions Jesus’ grief. Yet this important detail gives us emotional insight into not only Jesus’ motives, but Jesus’ humanity, his spirit, his understanding of customs, his devotion to God’s mission, and his servant’s heart. From out of his grief, Jesus had compassion on the living, the ailing, the sick, and ...

825. Stepping into Liminal Space

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Roy Howard

... are no longer in the familiar but not satisfying place, but neither are you in the new situation yet. Liminality is an unsettling, disorienting transitional space. Here’s the crucial point: Jung believed the experience of such disorientation and disturbance to be essential for emotional wholeness. Now back to Peter and his experience of liminal space. He was in that boat in a stormy sea, along with his friends. He was a fisherman who must have been familiar with stormy seas even at night. But he was not ...

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801. The Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

802. It's Okay to Cry

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

803. Even in Our Hiding

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

804. Who is That Crouching at Your Door?

Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

805. The Promise of Dreams

Genesis 37:1-11, Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

806. Faith is a River That Flows

Genesis 19:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

807. The Pardoning of Jezebel

Mark 7:24-30, 1 Kings 9:10-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

808. The First Songs of Christmas

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

809. The Pit of the Soul

Luke 9:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

810. The Tempest

Jonah 4:1-11, Jonah 3:1-10, Jonah 2:1-10, Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

811. It's Hard to Be an Atheist with Neighbors Like That

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

King Duncan

812. Rise Up

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Bonaro Overstreet

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

Bryant H. McGill

An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.

Constance Rourke

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Franz Kafka

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Remy de Gourmont

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.

T. S. Eliot

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy

Virginia Woolf

The emotions are not always subject to reason ... but they are always subject to action. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James

823. Marinating in the Spirit

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

824. The Suffering Servant

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

825. Stepping into Liminal Space

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Roy Howard

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