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826. Unworthy or Not?

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... her. Life had dealt her a devastating blow, and she was bitter, angry, broken, and deeply hurt. The teenager who reaches this point of despair, says Dr. Dobson, can see no tomorrow. There is no hope. She can’t think of anything else. Such an adolescent feels repulsive and disgusting and would like to crawl into a hole, but there is no place to hide. Running away won’t help, nor will crying change anything. Too often suicide seems the best way out. Lily gave Dr. Dobson little time to work. The following ...

827. A Longer Stride and a Larger Embrace

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and in the direction of the seminary. I can identify with the confession Kathleen Norris made in her strange and beautiful book, The Cloister Walk. Norris talks about her experience of becoming a Benedictine oblate. She said she knew two things: one, she didn’t feel ready to do it, but she had to act, to take the plunge. Two, she had no idea where it would lead. Listen to a portion of Norris’ confession: The fact that I had been raised a thorough Protestant, with little knowledge of religious orders ...

828. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to be this way.... our souls are born distorted.... I am convinced that Moses was right, that his explanation was greater than Freud's or Maslow's or Pavlov's... none of us are happy in the way we were supposed to be. Nobody is...so confident that they feel the way Adam and Eve felt before they knew they were naked. We are in the wreckage of a war, a kind of Hiroshima, a kind of Mount Saint Helens, with souls distorted like the VII—Of Original or Birth Sin: “Original sin standeth not in the following of ...

829. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... station in the nation and hear her sing about her love for Jesus. "At the concert, Amy Grant told about songs she was working on, and how her tour was going. But then it became very quiet, and out of the silence she confessed to the pain she was feeling because of all the abuse and derision from her sisters and brothers in Christ. She then visibly straightened up and spoke of her resolve not to listen to it. And then came out these words (so powerful, Len said, that he wrote them down on the spot): "Some ...

830. Achieving Peak Performance

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... Church. It is greater than any dream this world has ever had. It is transforming this world to be the kind of place God intended it to be. That is our mission. And it is given to us, ordinary folk. In fact, ordinary, sinful folk. Once in a while somebody feels compelled to point that out to me. They say that they stay away from church because the Church is filled with hypocrites. I say, well that's just the half of it. You ought to see the other half. The Church has a checkered history. There is no point in ...

831. Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Last!

Genesis 45:1-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... bad. It's as though guilt is the enemy of a happy and carefree life. It is important to dismiss and dispense with guilt as quickly as possible. It is popular to hear comments like, "Don't lay a guilt trip on me," "Stop trying to make me feel guilty," or "Guilt is a poor motivation for change." It's time for a good word about good guilt -- yes, plain old-fashioned guilt -- not chronic guilt or pathological guilt, but good guilt. Good guilt is not shame. The difference between good guilt and shame is that ...

832. How to Be a Blessing

I Peter 3:8-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... of us that cries out, "I am a human being, a child of God! Treat me that way." And I ask you, are not we, as Christians, the ones who are called to treat everyone that way, the ones who are called to be tender-hearted, compassionate, to feel what other people feel, to get inside other people's lives so you know what they have to endure, what they put up with. To this, we are called. There is a term people use sometimes, "bleeding hearts." It is used pejoratively. To call somebody a bleeding heart is not to ...

833. The Offense of Grace

Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... She just didn't like us, and she wasn't about to accept us as her pastors. A few weeks after we moved and started our ministry, I was feeling particularly low. Though the congregation had been welcoming, I was still feeling like a stranger, still feeling like people were suspicious, still feeling like my husband was the more acceptable pastor. In fact, I was feeling like we had made a terrible mistake, when all of a sudden the doorbell rang. I went to open the door, and there stood Pearl, holding a broom, a ...

834. The Problem with Busybodies

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... are lost and lonely, who are hurting and need healing. That is what you THINK about the church, but is that what you FEEL? Many, many churches are filled with people who think all the right things about the church, but they are listless and apathetic, and ... friends think if she became a Christian? She turned to the wall and said, “I would rather die!” From that time on she had a feeling that God was following her, like a little cat. “It was as if God wanted me to reach down and pick it up, wanting me to ...

835. Being Christian in the Family

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

James McCormick

... believe that they will be loved no matter what! Yet, that is the basic emotional need of the human race. We all need to feel that there is somewhere we will be accepted just as we are, somewhere we will still be cared about if we mess up, somewhere ... . Don’t you see, the truth is in the opposite direction from where we think it is: unless the fences are there, our children will feel that we do not love them. Hear me loud and clear: strong, wise love is able to risk not being loved back. If Jesus had given ...

836. Can These Bones Live?

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... future of his beloved people. Well, can your bones live? In whatever desperate or insolvable situation you find yourself, do you feel that you are “clean cut off” from your God and that there is no hope for your future except that dreary ... of Ezekiel can give us life too. For he tells us that by the Word of the Lord, we can be transformed — that we who feel ourselves lost and dead can find ourselves alive again — alive and whole by the powerful Word of God who is Jesus Christ. Can your bones ...

837. His Name Shall Be Called Emmanuel

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

James W. Moore

... . I take it that I am expressing the case of most people. I cannot remember the time when a dread of one kind or another was not in the air. In childhood, it was the fear of going to bed. Later, it was the fear of school. Later still… a feeling of dismay at the amount of work to be done before night. And then, there’s... The mother afraid for her children, The executive afraid for the business, The clerk afraid for his job. And there’s... The fear of failure, The fear that someone will do us harm, And ...

838. What Christmas Gives to Us

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

James W. Moore

... people collect stamps or rocks or match-boxes… but she collected insults. She always had a story to tell about somebody hurting her feelings. She was an insult-collector. Other people are grudge-holders. Recently, on an airplane, I heard a man say that is anybody ... the brim With this and that to do. We’re not unfriendly to the King We mean well without a doubt We have no hostile feelings We merely crowd Him out.” There is a lady in our church(whose name many of you would recognize if I said it out loud ...

839. Don't Worry, The Light Is Still Burning

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... wealth, or power, or prestige, or just “things,” as possible, in order to validate their existence, in order to assure some kind of survival beyond the day. But hear this: all the “stuff” in the world can never fill that soul-sized crater that comes from feeling no one cares. At the new top of the active volcano Mount St. Helens, there is a huge new crater. It steams and belches toxic gases. The mountain is still growing, magma from the earth’s core is still pushing its way up towards the surface ...

840. The Little Wild Orchard

Illustration

John Killinger

... higgledy-piggledy long ago by someone on a hillside, was neglected and overgrown. One day John was driving through the large, carefully groomed orchards of central Ontario, and found himself vaguely depressed by the endless rows of well-ordered trees. He reflected on his feeling, and on the sense of being at home in his own little, poorly tended orchard. Why was that, he wondered. It had to do, he finally concluded, with the way a small orchard fits into the scheme of creation, with many people caring for ...

841. A Not So Simple Story of Demons and Pigs

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

... a marvelous preacher (turned retreat leader), writes: "Remember the medieval method of torture known as `quartering,' wherein a man's arms and legs were tied to four different horses, with each horse commanded to gallop in a different direction." There are times when I feel like that. My name is legion. "What is your name?" Jesus asks. And the answer comes back from the crazy man: "My name is legion, for we are many." A psychologist is talking with his counselee. "Does everybody in your house get along?" he ...

842. A World Without Easter

1 Corinthians 15:12-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... raised because of our justification." (Rom. 4:25) In other words, without an empty tomb the cross is meaningless. In an market oftentimes you will see people walk up to a counter; they'll see some merchandise they like and they will put down on the table what they feel the merchandise is worth. If the price is acceptable to the seller, the seller will raise his hand. May I tell you today that when God raised Jesus from the dead He was raising His hand saying to a lost world, "I accept the price that my Son ...

843. Why Every Christian Should Be an Optimist

Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... answer to these problems is not going to be found in the hills of humanistic living, nor in the halls of higher learning, but in the heaven of a holy Lord. We are all going to be shaken by the tremors of trials, troubles, and tribulations. When you feel the ground beneath your feet shaking and quaking, there are three things that God will always give you that will help you to overcome and be victorious. a. Security "My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth." (v.2) Can you think of anyone you ...

844. Me, Myself and God

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... of life’s journey, if the Lord is your Shepherd, you will look back and see that God met all of your needs. Yes, there are going to be times when it’s just going to be “Me, myself and God.” There are going to be times that you feel all alone, and you think that nobody really understands your problems or even worse, nobody cares. But if you will look closely and carefully at your cup, you will find that it overflows. Pastor Jack Hinton had the opportunity of leading music for a worship service in a ...

845. The Secret Of Our Confidence

2 Timothy 1:11-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... would not allow us to go into the water until he had first tied a rope around our waists. He held the other end of those ropes. A few times when I got into deep water, he had to gently pull me to safety. Somehow that rope always made me feel safe because I knew that my Dad was dependable.” As I listened to that story, I thought about the heavenly Father. Though he does not control us like puppets, there is a kind of invisible rope between him and us. He loves us so much. He has wonderful and mysterious ...

846. Stumbling in Darkness, Looking for Light

Isaiah 9:1-7, John 1:5

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... of hope for Isaiah's day, and it is a word of hope for our day. It's a word of hope for a nation which feels like it has been stumbling in the darkness of fear ever since 9/11—some justified, some manufactured—fear of the violence from without and now ... ; the darkness of fear which distorts our thinking and disables our decision-making. It's a word of hope for times when we feel like we are stumbling in the darkness of personal grief over a private loss or anxiety about an uncertain future. It's a word ...

847. Great Joy

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... in confidence through the challenges before us. It makes firm the feeble knee and strengthens the weak hand for the work ahead with a vision of what can be and what will be by the grace of God. Can you see it, smell it, taste it, hear it, feel it? Can you sense the underground river of joy welling up to eternal life? Joy like streams in the desert, bubbling up to eternal life. When Lucy and Peter and Susan and Edmund first make their way through the wardrobe and into Narnia, they find a world frozen under ...

848. Jesus Is the Recipe for Eternal Life

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... of eternal life. We might not think it is our job; we may be too preoccupied with ourselves and our immediate family, but Jesus' message of service to our brothers and sisters is crystal clear. While there are many paths in life, and at times we might feel we are in a maze, there is one and only one path that leads to eternal life. Throughout salvation history we have been shown the path. Paul, taking his lead from Jesus, knew the tradition. He experienced conversion on the road to Damascus and knew with ...

849. On Trusting the Work of God

Mark 4:1-20

Sermon

George Reed

... be able to hear the gospel. We plant the seed of God's reign in our welcoming others into our community of faith and making them feel that this is a place where they belong. We open up our lives and our hearts to others so that their hearts and lives may be ... or pressuring them to join up. If our welcome is to be the sowing of the gospel seed it must be done so that the stranger feels our respect for them. We continue to sow the seeds of God's reign in our caring for one another. While this is not limited to ...

850. Denial Ain’t a River in Egypt

Isaiah 64:1-9

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... for a God experience, for an advent of the Holy from a people who have long lived with a disturbing sense that God has abandoned them. "O that you would tear open the heavens and come down" (Isaiah 64:1), is a plea from a people who no longer feel that God is with them, from a people who "seek God and delight to know his ways" (Isaiah 58:2), but find him not. The prophet connects God's seeming absence with the lack of righteousness practiced in the community. "You meet those who gladly do right, those who ...

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