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826. Your Faith is Your Fuel

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... most glaring ways we sabotage ourselves is by ignoring our spiritual well-being. Some of us are pretty good at taking care of our physical needs. We eat well, sleep well, make sure we have proper exercise. In our culture today, taking care of our emotional health has become an important way to show we care about our relationships and our inner feelings which affect our behavior. But what about our spiritual wellness. We don’t often talk about spiritual wellness, do we? And yet, our spiritual well-being is ...

827. Now is the Day of Salvation

2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... her infant from crying. The crying ceases and the danger passes. Later, when Hawkeye discovers that the mother has actually smothered the child so that the group of refugees will not be betrayed, it has a devastating impact on his mind and emotions. Hawkeye becomes emotionally distraught and needs treatment. (4) A mother sacrifices her child that others might live. That is almost more than you and I can bear to think about. I wonder if the cross still has such an impact on the modern Christian? A Father ...

828. About That Anger

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... tells us there are times when a Christian ought to get angry. Our anger reveals our deepest values and priorities. The Bible warns us to avoid people who are quick-tempered, or who get angry about petty things. But anger and love are not mutually exclusive emotions. In fact, if we are complacent or apathetic about the things that matter to God, then we should question whether we love God at all. If we can look at suffering and injustice and evil in the world and not get angry, then we need to question ...

829. Profiles In Joy

John 20:1-18 · Mark 16:1-8

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... had lasted through the night and during her first trip to the tomb but at that moment, all sorrow, all grief, all pain, all fear, all depression was lifted instantaneously and joy came in the morning. We all know joy. We know it isn’t a constant state of emotion yet we have had wonderful periods of it. Maybe it came at your wedding. Maybe it was with the birth of your children or at the birth of niece or nephew. For a grandparent it is a special joy because you know the season of complete spoiling is ...

830. The Love Cloud

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and deeply human basis. But as Jesus showed us from his own ministry, love, true love comes from God. And if we want to be lovers of humanity, we must first be in love with God, allowing God to shine God’s love through us. That is the ultimate emotional and spiritual risk. For it involves letting go of our own control and even our own conceptions of who God is, and our ability to make our own way and create our own joy. We need to allow God in. As Valentinus exemplified in his healing, we need to ...

831. The Heartbeat of a Christian

1 John 3:16-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... had just worked a sixty-hour week. He was exhausted and wanted to ignore the phone. But he answered it anyway. The voice on the other end of the line was Jimmy, a client of Love & Action. Jimmy was very sick and very scared. Collins confesses that his first emotion when he answered the call wasn’t compassion, but anger. He really wanted to go home and rest. He wanted a couple of hours at the end of the week when no one needed him. Many of you know exactly what that’s like. But Collins knew that God ...

832. Chosen and Appointed

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... also would ask the right questions and seek answers before making decisions. Thomas needed to buy in in order to be convinced that something was worth doing. His steady, scientific-style mind would be needed in the midst of some of the more impulsive, emotional moments exhibited by his fellow disciples. Faith was a bit more challenging to him, but once committed, he was all in. James was quiet, a follower, so quiet, we hear little about him. Simon was a zealot and a revolutionary. Eclipsed by his fisherman ...

833. Mary's Song

Luke 1:46-47, 52

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , Warsaw, Harlem, or South Chicago. A couple of years ago, the government in Praetoria banned the lighting of candles or the singing of Christmas carols in Soweto. When asked why by the press, the South African Scrooge replied, "You know how emotional black women are. Christmas carols have an emotional effect upon them." (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 27, 1985). You let a poor Jewish woman like Mary sing, a black mother in Soweto sing, you don't know where it might lead. I'm a child of the Sixties. When ...

834. Will the “Real” Jesus Please Stand Up

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... want to do but do anyway, the things we want to fix about ourselves and our lives but struggle with, the things about ourselves that we grieve, mask, or make us feel badly and help us to realize that we are not alone in this feeling. We can embrace human emotions and know we all have them. Even if we mess up, even if we feel awful, it’s not who we are. We are still okay. Tiktok allows us to see people dare to do the outlandish, the funny, the authentic, to exercise their own brand of creativity and me ...

835. The Oath

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... you tell in the dark. Real ghosts are much more frightening, the ghosts that live in our hearts –the ghosts of deeds past. Our guilt, our shame, our fear, our self-loathing, our insecurities, our pain. Within our hearts, these negative thoughts and emotions take on lives of their own, causing us anxiety, worry, fear, and distress. In today’s scripture, we read about one of the most notorious and heinous crimes in the Bible: the beheading of John the Baptizer by the tetrarch Herod Antipater, 1st century ...

836. Holding On

Job 1:1; Job 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... at a time. That is the first key. The second key is this: Remember that you are loved. The feeling of being loved is the most critical factor in our ability to function as whole human beings. When we do not feel loved, we do not develop the emotional and psychological resources we need to cope with life’s various stresses. In October 2019 Staff Sgt. Philip Gray was deployed to Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Gray knew he would be gone from home for close to a year, and he was concerned for his 7-year-old daughter ...

837. The Blind See!

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... the pageant was the caption, “They said she would only be able to get a third-grade education. Fortunately, she wasn’t listening!” (5) Bartimaeus was disadvantaged. All of us are, to a certain extent. We all have our handicaps. They may not be physical; they may be emotional. They may be handicaps of attitude. Some people let their disadvantage define them. Others let it drive them. Perhaps one of the most dangerous handicaps is that of living a privileged life, because we never develop the mental and ...

838. Faith and Freedom

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... t a question born out of selfishness or out of an arrogant, "How dare you!" sort of attitude. It was a question born of Jesus' compassion for our needs and our hurts. The woman poured out her story; purged herself of 12 years of physical, spiritual and emotional pain and discomfort. Jesus listened patiently and then said, "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease." What Jesus was saying to the woman and to us is that, for whatever reason, we may feel like we have to ...

839. Not Guessing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... need Jesus, even if they haven’t heard his name yet. Will you be able to tell them if you’ve put Jesus into a safe box where no one gets disturbed, or asked to go the second mile? Our church must remain accessible to those with emotion, those who are broken, those who are suffering, those who are ready to call aloud to Jesus. Our church must remain accessible to the blind, those unable to hear, those with disabilities and inabilities and different abilities. In all of this remember the words of Jesus ...

840. Welcome, Joe!

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... me. Not as a project or a charity case. As a friend. “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” Paul Tournier was a Swiss physician, counselor and author who became famous for his books on patient care. Tournier believed that physical, emotional and spiritual health were interconnected, and he focused on addressing the whole patient in his medical practice. His methods were so effective that doctors came from all over the world to learn from him. Tournier once wrote, “It is a little embarrassing ...

841. Without the Mask

2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2

Sermon

Mary Austin

... 3:12-4:2) One of the greatest television shows ever was the series “Lie to Me,” which featured a scientist who can read micro-expressions. These are the tiny movements of the face — the “leakage,” as he calls it, of our true emotions. Most of the time, we present socially acceptable emotions, but our true feelings sneak out of us, in spite of ourselves. These expressions come and go in a fraction of a second. It may be that I’m the only person who ever loved this show because it wasn’t around ...

842. The Easy Peasy Guide to Success by S. De Vil

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... willing to sacrifice our own hearts and lives for the sake of Jesus, for the sake of the gospel, and in this, we are redeemed and saved. In doing so, we become authentic disciples and gain eternal life. Peter Scazzero, in his book, Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, challenges our “easy peasy” way of doing discipleship in our churches and lives today. Having gone through the perils and temptations of the “easy road” himself, he now spends his life helping others “go deep and real” into the true ...

843. The Unlocked Brain

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... notice, it has two distinct halves. I say distinct because they are in fact distinct in how they process information. The right side of your brain is your relational side. It sees the world holistically, in terms of relationality. It makes connections and processes our emotions. With this side of our brain, we see ourselves connected to the universe, to the energy around us, and to God. This is the side that is creative, sees beauty, and loves. The left side of our brain is more analytical. It sees you as ...

844. Stay Awake

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... country to provide a listening ear for survivors of natural disasters. At first, he traveled to disaster areas to provide generators and other supplies, but he quickly realized that he could do more good if he just listened to people who needed to process their emotions in a stressful time. He carries around signs that read “Wanna talk?” or “Need to talk?” and he looks for people who need a listening ear. He says that he generally keeps his mouth shut but will pray for anyone of any faith who asks ...

845. Paradise Promise

Luke 23:33-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... little sinning or quite a lot. We as human beings may be all about condemnation, but Jesus is all about restoration. Often, we can get the wrong idea about God. We are hard on ourselves and self-condemn ourselves to a life of loneliness and emotional grief and decide to ourselves that God must surely think the same. But our self-deception is one of the greatest lies of the Great Deceiver. God created us “good,” and God declared us “good.” God delights in our presence and mourns our self-flaggelation ...

846. On the Mountaintop

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... of your wedding day or a soaring time of worship. Perhaps it was the birth of a grandchild. You may have wanted to hold on to the excitement and emotional high of your experience - to stay on that mountaintop, so to speak, just like Peter. But listen to Jesus who said, “Get up and don’t be afraid.” Mountaintop experiences and emotions don’t last forever. A real world is waiting and clamoring for attention. Someone needs a touch of compassion. Someone needs a word of healing. That’s what Jesus ...

847. When the Way Is Hard

Matthew 26:14-27:66

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... Jesus has been there too, and is with you now. Hang on to hope. Be steadfast in your testimony. Even when the way is hard - especially when the way is hard - look for signs of resurrection to break out around you. If you’re suffering from physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual pain, if you’re facing death as we all must one day, if the humiliation and dread of the coming end looms over you, know that Jesus has been there too, and is with you now. God holds you in the palm of his hand. Good triumphs ...

848. What Fills Your Life Now?

Acts 7:55-60

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... to continue his work after his death. At present, among its many good works, Keaton’s Kindness Foundation has raised over $205,000 for the Children’s Health Foundation. In an interview with NPR, Luke Barrón said, “Through our day . . . we have a wide range of emotions, but just to step back and think about the attitude and outlook that Keaton had, and to know that, hey, if this little kid can do it in spite of everything that's been going on, there's absolutely no reason why we can't.” (4) One ...

849. Professional Angel

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

Ronald Love

... alone. Jesus needs an angelic chorus to sing with him hymns of mercy and solitude. Therefore, we as the church are to be angels of mercy. We are the nurse practitioners in the name of Jesus, ready to place a soothing salve on any wound, be it physical, emotional, or spiritual. As a battlefield is strewn with friend and foe alike, we are to make no distinctions to whom we offer assistance. We care for each, not just to the individual who wears our uniform, but in the name of Christ every uniform is a call ...

850. Overcoming Envy

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.” (Genesis 4:3-5). You know the result of Cain’s envy. He murdered Abel. This was his brother, but he killed him out of envy. Is there any emotion more basic to our nature than that of jealousy of another’s gain? Is there any emotion more deadly? Or there’s the story of one of the finest men in the Bible, Joseph. Joseph was thrown into a pit and then was sold into slavery by his brothers because, among other things, they were envious of what ...

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