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851. No More Camping Out

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... more gray hairs to my father's thinning collection. While bugging my folks, it all seemed quite normal to me. After all, it was my life, and I was having a good time. But finally, I landed. And today with a wonderful family and a great ministry, I feel blessed beyond description. I guess it was time. In our scripture reading today we hear about another landing. In this case, it's the people of Israel. Talk about wandering around a bit! These people had been there and back again. I remember as a young boy in ...

852. Baby Blues

1 Samuel 1:4-20

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... that grief is like a shadow permeating every facet of her life. She has come to accept the fact that she will never feel the flutter of life within her. She is constantly bombarded with subtle and not-so-subtle messages from others that she is not ... , a whole woman, nor a whole Christian without children. After all, didn't God say to "be fruitful and multiply"? She feels pain and shame over her situation. Impertinent words of advice and quick solutions only inflict more pain. She would appreciate compassion ...

853. Looking for Love in the Classifieds and All the Wrong Places

Ephesians 2:4

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... their definition of love. Among the responses was this one: "Life is one thing after another. Love is two things after each other." Another student wrote "Love is the feeling in your stomach of butterflies wearing roller skates." The one that took the prize, however, was this one: "Love is that feeling you feel when you feel you are going to have a feeling you have never felt before." "Oh, we have such a piddling, infantile, such a shabby view of love to lead us into the 1990s," observes Dr. J. Barrie ...

854. The Ultimate Soul Food

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... thought they were seeking the Bread of Life. All they were really looking for was a free lunch. Jesus' words to them, his corrections and counsel, were intended to make the hungering crowd search their spirits for their true motives and desires. Likewise, when we feel filled-up with power or contentments we should search our own spirits to make certain we are feasting on what God provides, not on what our own egos or selfish desires have cooked up. "Trust." If we are filling up on the Bread of Life, we ...

855. Easter Dreams

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... gospel. So his church started some prayer meetings on Monday evenings, prayer meetings that began with the Easter Dream that "all things are possible." Within a short time, in his words, the people praying encountered "in our services and meetings ... the miraculous experience of feeling the effect of the Word." God's presence "was with us. It was with us, all of us," and soon the number of prayers swelled to over 200,000 people, 90 percent of whom were non-Christians but were drawn by this Easter energy ...

856. Freedom in Bondedness

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... that sometimes our greatest liberation can be found in our commitments; in our freedoms to. There is our freedom to gather together for the benefit of others, our freedom to love and serve each other and our freedom to express our feelings, concerns, hopes and aspirations for our community, neighbors and friends. Remember that the same philosophers and statesmen who boldly announced this country's "Declaration of Independence" were also the ones who worked long and hard to craft our Constitution a document ...

857. Home Improvement

Jeremiah 23:1-6

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a phrase that conveyed a whole range of emotions, of heartfelt longings, to everyone who watched the movie. Who among us hasn't felt the need to "phone home" at different points in our lives? Phoning home puts us in touch with that place where we feel the safest, the most loved, the most familiar. In the Old Testament text for today, Jeremiah addresses a nation that, like E.T., finds itself in alien territory. The prophet's words offer comfort by proclaiming Yahweh's promise to return them safely to their ...

858. The Darkness We Create

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... Son, the Loving Father. For the first three Sundays of Advent, I want to focus on each of the main characters. Each will be looked at through the lens of Advent, of our becoming aware of our human need in order to be prepared for God’s response. If we feel we have no need for God; if we have no darkness, no need for light….Then Christmas will be more about Santa Claus than about God’s becoming flesh and living among us full of grace and truth. II. Lost in the Darkness While I was in theology school, a ...

859. Hurts Can Heal

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to cry in agony. But those hurts, those pains, were a sign that my numbed existence was over, that I was returning to life again, and that my hands were becoming whole. As I look out over this congregation this morning, I know the hurts that some of you are feeling. I don’t know them all. Only God does. But I know some of them. And I know that every one of you, and I mean every single one of you, is hurting in some area of your life this morning. Life hurts. The promise of Transfiguration Sunday is that ...

860. Epiphany 2

John 1:43-51, 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, 1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... is v. 39. c. Witness to others v. 41. d. Become a new person v. 42. Old Testament: 1 Samuel 3:1-10 1. Sleeping in the sanctuary (3:1-10). Need: There is a hunger among people today for a personal experience with God. People want to know and feel that God is a meaningful part of their lives. Is God directing their lives? In Samuel's day, there was the same lack of God v. 1: "The word of the Lord was rare ... there was no frequent vision." This hunger for spiritual reality and direction is expressed in the ...

861. A Mother's Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... molester may be lurking in that restroom. However decisive she may be at the office, she will second‑guess herself constantly as a mother. “Looking at my attractive daughter, I want to assure her that eventually she will shed the pounds of pregnancy, but she will never feel the same about herself. That her life, now so important, will be of less value to her once she has a child. That she would give it up in a moment to save her offspring, but will also begin to hope for more years‑-not to accomplish ...

862. I’m At the End of My Rope

2 Kings 4:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... in it and keep climbing!" Do any of the following apply to you: You're constantly at war with one of your teenagers, and you feel like you're losing the war, and you are at the end of your rope? Your finances are absolutely a wreck. There's too much month ... rope. You have lost a loved one and nothing seems to take care of the loneliness. You live in a constant state of heartbreak, and you feel like you are at the end of your rope. You are in a situation right now and you have done everything you know to do to ...

863. Framing Values – Part Two

Daniel 1:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... learn today from the greatest teenager ever discussed in the Bible. His name was Daniel. In this chapter, though we do not read about his parents, we see in Daniel the results of his parents upbringing. I was talking to one of my sons this past week about how I feel like I had failed in some ways as a dad. He looked at me and said, "Dad, look at the product that you have turned out and if you are pleased with the product, you ought to be pleased with yourself." Here we see the influence of parents , who had ...

864. What Do I Do When I Can't Get Started?

Proverbs 6:6-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... many people do you think will get up at five o'clock in the morning fired up and ready to fight Atlanta traffic to go downtown to go to work? The truth is the vast majority of people who go to work tomorrow will not go to work because they feel like it, but in spite of the fact they don't That is what the ant does - the ant gets with it. Verse 8 says, "It stores its provisions in summer." (Proverbs 8:8, NIV) There are a lot of other things that ant might like to do in the ...

865. The View from Michal’s Window

2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... now looked out the window and saw her husband leaping around scantily clad, she was suddenly filled with loathing for him. The text words it as "she despised him in her heart." Well, has that ever happened to you? Have you ever had a sudden overwhelming feeling of displeasure or even disgust because of some behavior by someone you rely on or love? Or have you ever been on the receiving end of such scorn, where someone you've counted as a friend or coworker or perhaps even your spouse all at once erupted ...

866. April Love

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... versions call this book the Song of Songs, which simply means "the best song," and that's an excellent title for a book that celebrates one of God's good gifts to humankind. Love is worth singing about. While I said earlier that we should not feel that we have to force a spiritual message from this book, there is nonetheless an underlying spirituality in the form of love expressed this biblical Song of Songs. Love means committing one's self to another in the hope that that person will reciprocate. In that ...

867. A Samaritan Took Care of Him

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... , a wound that will not be healed until we have seen that it is bleeding."1 How many of us when faced with a situation that we feel might involve us deeper in matters than we want to be involved in at the moment, opt to pass by on the other side? We say to ... where his Adam's apple would be. Yes, let's give the young man credit. He got the right answer out. But he couldn't let himself feel it, not just yet. He wasn't quite ready to let himself be changed by what he had learned. He had learned it in his head, as ...

868. What's in a Name?

Isaiah 43:1-7

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... by the waters of Babylon. Isaiah preserved for God's people a vision of who they were as sons and daughters of God. This vision provides a challenge and hope for those who live in God. Isaiah opened the floodgates for a thirsty world so people could feel the splash of God's grace and forgiveness. God's people were again given hope in a world that had seemed ready to self-destruct. In her spiritual autobiography, Holy the Firm, Annie Dillard is surrounded by waters as she describes her vision of Christ being ...

869. Putting Ourselves into the Picture

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... set out to weaken them with hard bondage. Pharaoh did not see that what he was doing to the Israelites really drove them to do what he was seeking to prevent. You see, the only way to make persons glad to remain in a community is to make them feel at home there. You got that? Why haven’t we learned that? The only way to make persons glad to live in community is to make them at home there, and the sense of injustice is the strongest disintegrating force. That’s what happened in the civil rights movement ...

870. A Chance To Start Over

John 8:3-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Go Now, you've held onto that stone long enough. I wasn't going let you leave with all that guilt and pain wrapped around that stone. No! Now you need to let all that stuff go. You've wrapped the stone in all those memories and it's probably feeling pretty heavy right now. Some of them have become pretty hot from the grip of your hands holding on so tightly. Some of them have become slippery from the sweaty palms caused by the memory of your hurt and pain and even regret. Some of the rocks are just plain ...

871. Cleaning House

Mark 1:1-12

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . We have to clean out the spiritual clutter in our lives. But the thing is, we can't do that on our own. Let me share a poem with you. It's titled: Cleaning Out The Heart I tried cleaning out my own heart one day. So many memories and feelings piled in the way. I knew it was cluttered but oh, what a mess, Seeing all that garbage fueled my distress. Bitterness, fear, anger and strife, Lay in the dust of my tarnished life. Pettiness, jealousy, old words I regret, Hadn't been swept out since, well, I forget ...

872. Valley of Weakness (Series: Peace in the Valley)

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... it so hard to ask for help?” To be human is to be wounded. Nature and history so easily have their way with us, bruising our lives with tragedy, piercing our souls with pain, but far too often we choose to bear it alone. We feel lonely, but we do not seek support and comfort. We feel angry, but we know no safe person with whom to share it. We are scared to death, but admitting our fears to others leaves us even more frightened. We are needy, but who has time to hear our cry for help? So we bear our ...

873. Come and See

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . It's as if you've reached the unreachable, and you weren't ready for it.'" I think what Peter describes is the same phenomenon Andrew and John and we experience when we come to know Jesus. Looking into the eyes of Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God, we feel weak, but He makes us strong; we are terrified, and at the same time we're more exhilarated than we've ever been in our lives; and in Him we see the person we want to become. The person God created us to be. I think that's what happened ...

874. Where Love Comes From

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... into a wino’s face and see the face of God. Friends, that’s unconditional love. Are you capable of such love? Are you? If not, then let’s pray together that God will increase our capacity for love. Let’s pray that God will help us to feel so loved in spite of our unworthiness that we will be able to pass on that love to others. 1. Mikey’s Funnies. http://www.mikeysfunnies.com/sub/index.html. 2. Dr. Clayton A. Cobb, http://www.spbts.org/sermons/102324.htm. 3. http://clergyresources.net/Willimon ...

875. No Longer Strangers

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... do something about. But we must be forever trying. Now, the biggest question of all. Are you still a stranger? You don’t feel at home with Christ? A barrier still separates you? You may or may not know what the barrier is - some hidden sin, some ... some unresolved guilt, some broken relationship. You may or may not know what the barrier is, but you know it is there, because you still feel like a stranger - a barrier of some sort is there between you and Christ. I want you to know that no matter how strong ...

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