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876. Sometimes You've Got to Shout!

John 12:12-19

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... some more shut-eye. We may as well not have bothered. By this time, both of us were too wide awake. Despite Christie's lying back down, the twinges kept on at about the same pace. To be sure, my wife and I were not the only ones to be affected by this news. Our David (who at that moment was asleep between us) had been looking forward to this new baby as much as we had. For months, he had been praying for the new arrival by NAME before he went to sleep at night. We had long before told ...

877. The Apostles' Creed: Maker of Heaven and Earth

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , and whatever survived the incredibly hot days would freeze in the night when temperatures would plummet to something like 240 below zero. This 23-degree tilt is not absolute - it wobbles off by about 3 degrees with amazing regularity. Our seasons and our climates are affected by it. If the world strayed up or down MORE than the 3-degree tilt, life might perish. Without the tilt to deflect the light and heat, the earth would absorb too much heat. Moisture would be pulled to the north and south poles and ...

878. The Last Laugh

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... if a way can be devised for people to control the conversations that take place over those specialized circuits. They already know that "a cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries the bones." Can laughter, a cheerful heart, actually affect a cure? Norman Cousins would say absolutely. For over a quarter century Cousins was the editor of Saturday Review. He wrote a book called Anatomy of an Illness(7) which chronicled his own experience with a massive heart attack. The doctors told him ...

879. The Ten Commandments #3: God's Name

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... VAIN implies failure. If Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa did not hit home runs in the games last night, the sportscasts this morning could say their attempts were IN VAIN. No homers. Or if a young man sends flowers and candy and all sorts of indications of affection to the girl of his dreams, but she does not respond appropriately, we say his gifts were IN VAIN. A failure. But using the name of the Lord IN VAIN??? Failure? That makes no sense. What else could it mean? We can go back to the Elizabethan English ...

880. A Mother's Gift

1 Samuel 1:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... husband joy, but she knew even better how to give her rival pain. Any sisterly drops of the milk of human kindness toward Hannah had long ago curdled and gone sour. Peninnah knew she was not Elkanah's favorite, so she made up for the bluntness of his affection with the sharpness of her tongue. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and Peninnah was living proof. As the caravan moved to the edge of town, Hannah could not help but remember her misery in this place five years ago. For some reason her sense ...

881. God the Boggler

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... mallet and drive nails through the gristle and bone of men's hands and then hang them up on crosses along the roads of their empire and call it PAX...PEACE - strange kind of peace, that; and that almost 2,000 years later, in the year 2000, my life is affected profoundly by one of those crosses, the one with the young rabbi from Nazareth on it, the one who is called the PRINCE of peace, the one who, of all things, conquered death by dying. It is hard to imagine. I have told you before of Sam Shoemaker, one ...

882. "Wow!"

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... time and they had seen how history would be worked out, their own and the whole world's.(2) And they would never be the same again, having taken that ride. Wow! What do you think? When you have seen how everything turns out in the end, will it affect how you view the present? Of course, it will. One of my cyber-friends has recently moved from full-time hospice work to full-time parish ministry. Brice Hughes has been at the bedside of many persons who have had experiences of "seeing past the veil." He writes ...

883. Would You Take The Crown Without The Cross?

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... humanity into obedience. You see this not just about Jesus being hungry after fasting for 40 days. This is Satan tempting Jesus to met need of world hunger. Use your power, the devil says, to address the issue of human hunger. Jesus would have sought to buy our affection and devotion. But that is a false picture of mankind. We do not live for things but for intimacy. We do not live for the marketplace but for the family. Jesus put it this way, “man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that ...

884. Regis and Jesus

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... to someone who is "tight-fisted." Nothing to do with this five-fingered instrument attached to a wrist; we are talking about whether someone is generous or not. Jesus simply used the idiom of the day to point out how someone's generosity or lack of it could affect their entire life. Money, money, money. It fascinates us. Regis asks, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" and most of us would say ME. Then we hear Jesus say, "No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or ...

885. Winning over Worry

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . I tend to think that, had Jesus been speaking today, he might have pointed out that, indeed, excessive worry has precisely the opposite effect: not only will worry not ADD to your length of years, it will probably considerably SUBTRACT from them...not to mention affect their quality. As to that issue of quality of life, he addresses attention to plant life. "And why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all ...

886. Ask the Average Person...

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... a shirt. (2) I have had occasion to spend many hours with folks who are about to die. Not one of them has ever told me, "I wish I had spent more time on my business." Another question. Which means more, the approval of strangers or the affection of people closest to you? Ask the average person which means more, and she will not be able to understand why you would ask such a stupid question. Obviously, nothing means more to her than her family and her closest friends. Yet, how many of us have embarrassed ...

887. I Am Sombody!!!

Mark 1:9-13, Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , with love and prayer, encouraging these new disciples to know and follow Christ and to be faithful members of his church?" New disciples have work to do, and they will need all the help they can get. Both of the elements are important: the affirmation of affection and the proclamation of purpose. Lacking one or the other, we are incomplete. Among the millions of Jews imprisoned by the Nazis in the death camps of the 30's & 40's was Victor Frankl. In spite of the horrors and the odds, he survived. Around ...

888. The Healing Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . Year after year it had gone on. Not only were the hemorrhages dangerous to her health, they made her a social outcast. She was not even welcome in the Temple. UNCLEAN, they said. She had tried everything. Doctors, of course, but all they had affected were her finances. She tried the recommendations of the Talmud which offered no fewer than eleven remedies - some of them were tonics and astringents, some just superstition like carrying the ashes of an ostrich egg in a linen rag in summer and a cotton ...

889. Terms of Endearment

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... you I am well pleased." Interesting, is it not, that God praises Jesus before he does great things. We often reverse that order, reserving praise and approval until one has earned it...EXCEPT for our children. Loving parents start with those words of affirmation and affection right from the beginning. "My Son, whom I love." The fact that, in his baptism, Jesus heard God's "term of endearment," provides something important for us. Baptism can be seen as a first word of God's love and acceptance for you and ...

890. Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... one generation to the next, so also there may be "memes." The theory says memes are units of transmission of culture, and they are spread between us by being caught, by leaping from brain to brain. They are ideas. Memes are like cultural viruses which affect us all. They may be such things as catchy tunes which everybody finds themselves humming, or catchy phrases, or crazes in fashions, or ways of playing games, or following pop stars, or whatever. The trouble is, successful memes do not have to be nice ...

891. Doing Battle with Demons

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... governments to "express compassion and concern" for those addicted to nicotine, family tobacco farmers, and manufacturing workers in the tobacco industry. It also called on churches and governments "to provide emotional and financial support" for those whose livelihood will be affected by the declining use of tobacco. Debate on the measure was impassioned, but not lengthy. Some were concerned about the excise tax, others about the impact on farmers. Some said it should be up to parents and churches to use ...

892. About Kissing

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... back to the cab, and the foreign-born driver admonished him, "You forgot hug and kiss!" (4) Surely that was worth an extra slosh through the rain. In any successful marriage, there is a lot of kissing going on. After all, the most natural way for us to express our affection is with a hug, a pat, a kiss. There's a lovely poem written over a century ago by an English poet, Leigh Hunt: Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put ...

893. "Weird People" Everywhere

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... tired of the old hymns; they want to learn something new. For some, singing is the high point of the service; others wouldn't mind if we dispensed with the music altogether. We all have different tastes. We come from a wide variety of backgrounds and that affects our relationship to the church. Did you know that men and women may hear the Gospel through two different sets of ears? Here we can be guilty of over-generalizing, but think with me for a moment. If the experts are right and men think competitively ...

894. Love Your Enemies

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... not go away. Your enemy could be someone you simply disagree with strongly, but that disagreement has caused a barrier to be erected between the two of you. Who is your enemy? That is the first question for the morning. The second is this: HOW IS YOUR ENEMY AFFECTING YOU SPIRITUALLY? There are three ways you can respond to an enemy. First of all, you can retaliate. You may remember the old story about a man who was informed by his doctor that he had rabies. The man had waited so long to go the doctor that ...

895. Been There, Done That, No Thanks!

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... accepts us just as we are. Because we are loved, we seek to live up to God's expectations. We live a worthy life, not to earn God's love, but as a result of that love. Maybe it was the experience of unconditional love that so radically affected Paul's life. OR MAYBE IN HIS NEW FAITH PAUL SIMPLY FOUND SOMETHING WORTH LIVING FOR. Do you remember Arthur Miller's thought-provoking play Death of a Salesman? Willy Loman's wife cannot understand why Willy would commit suicide, particularly at this time in his life ...

896. The Triumphant Christ

Revelation 1:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... BE TRUE. If you were to assess the situation in Jesus' day, wouldn't you say that Caesar had all the glory and Jesus had all the pain? Caesar had power, prominence, palaces. Jesus had no place to lay his head. Caesar could pass laws that would drastically affect the lives of men and women throughout his empire. Jesus could but tell stories and hope his listeners understood. With a wave of his hand Caesar could have a person put to death. Jesus died at the hands of the state. Yes, Caesar had the glory, and ...

897. Sons And Daughters Of God

Galatians 3:23-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... Can you imagine a parent like that? Some of you had parents like that. So, you have a parent that you want desperately to satisfy but nothing you ever do is quite right. What a downer! And because your parent does not know how to adequately show affection, you have this feeling that you are not only stupid but unacceptable as well. So, no matter what the reality of your situation, you grow up thinking you are both ugly and unlovable. Let me use an example. Listen as Michael Reagan, the oldest son of former ...

898. Created For Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... suburban neighborhood where most of the residents sleep in on Sunday morning. Then the local church decides to erect a bell tower. Do you sense that a legal battle might be in the works? A number of recent zoning cases have even affected the right of worship in private homes. In Colorado Springs, minister Richard Blanche has been repeatedly cited for holding religious meetings in his home in violation of a city zoning ordinance. In Fairhaven, Massachusetts, local zoning officials ruled that Bible studies ...

899. Who Is Your Lazarus?

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

A judge in New York City was mugged. Later he called a press conference. He made the following statement to reporters, "This mugging will in no way affect my decisions in adjudicating matters of this kind." An elderly woman stood up in the back of the room and said, "Then mug him again!" She wanted to make sure the judge got the message about what is happening in the streets of our cities. An old man was trying ...

900. Overcoming "Work-avoidance Syndrome"

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... along with others, if you are unreliable, if you just don't care about the quality of your work, then no matter how competent you are, few employers will want to hire you. Attitude is critical! Research has been done on how mental attitudes affect physical strength. A scientist used a gripping device to measure grip strength. The average grip of the experimental group was 101 pounds. By means of hypnosis, participants were told that they were very weak, and their average grip strength dropped to 29 pounds ...

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