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876. The Family Album

1 John 3:1-7

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... one Sunday when a Gay Pride Parade was to pass in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, he warned the congregation, "Please do not believe for a moment that you would be defending the church or advancing church teachings by expressions of hatred." O'Conner campaigned against the death penalty. He was a prominent advocate for disabled people and those living in poverty. He personally intervened to help settle industrial disputes by pressing for workers' rights. He once told friend and biographer, Nat Hentoff ...

877. The Unsilenced Voice

Mark 6:14-29

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Kristin Borsgard Wee

... of El Salvador because the church hierarchy thought he was a safe and conservative scholar. He did a complete turnaround and became a champion for the poor and spoke out against the oppressive government forces. He won the love of the people and the hatred of those in power. He was gunned down on a Sunday, while elevating the host at the altar of the cathedral. Instantly, Romero became an unstoppable spiritual force in the hearts of the Salvadoran people and a symbol of freedom and justice around the ...

878. Right-Handed Sinners!

Mark 9:42-50

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... and pull it back down. That's what negative friendships do to us, too! Jesus says that is what we should fight against. Every friendship we have begins with a handshake. Be careful with whom you shake hands for the sake of Christ because "friendship with the world is hatred toward God" (James 4:4). Hand sins are not only relationship sins, they are also work sins. We use our hands to do our jobs. Hands are the medium through which almost all of us make our living. Our hands may do good work or they can be ...

879. How Do We Make Sense of This?

Romans 8:35-39, Hebrews 10:1-39

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Nancy Kraft

... that Jesus confronted the powerful people of his day was not through violence, but through love that manifested itself in just the opposite way — through non-violence — by not returning evil for evil, by turning the other cheek, praying for his enemies and responding to hatred with love. This doesn't mean that Jesus was a wimp. He confronted his enemies again and again. So much so, that they were angry enough with him to have him killed. That's where Jesus showed his love the most. Instead of fighting ...

880. The Tongue Is Mightier than the Sword

James 3:1-12

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Thomas Lentz

... can give hope to someone who is despairing, we can express love or fear or pain. Unfortunately, this wonderful gift can also be abused. We can use our faculty of speech for gossip, for slander, for complaining and negativity, or to express hatred and anger. When I conduct management meetings and seminars for supervisors, I encourage the people to carefully consider the words they are using when addressing a difficult situation. Shifting from the use of the word "problem" to "challenge" or even more boldly ...

881. God Enjoys AND Enjoins Us

Matthew 22:1-14

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Leonard Sweet

... expectations. We are all granted full admission to the kingdom of God through the gracious “free pass” offered by Christ. But there are requirements. We cannot remain unchanged. We cannot keep wearing the same world-weary “clothes” of indifference, prejudice, hatred, judgment, cruelty, coldness that we sported before walking into the wedding banquet. We are required, by the grace of the one who invited us, to “spruce up” for the party. For a seat in God’s kingdom, “sprucing up” doesn ...

882. Get the Monkey off Your Back

Matthew 22:15-22

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Leonard Sweet

... ” — which claims to be a remix of Dumond’s “Count of Monte Cristo,” but is played out among the rich and powerful in the Hamptons and with the new “Count” being a lovely young woman driven by nothing but hatred and lust for violence and vengeance. Remember: these are “family friendly” shows. Psychotherapist Robi Ludwig, after watching these zoo-fests of bad behavior, rightly worried that our children were being influenced to learn “relational aggression.” Perhaps not physical violence ...

883. Who Is Isaiah’s Servant?

Isaiah 50:4-9a

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Ken Lentz

... by festering sin wounds. Surely she was fit only for the eternal fire. It took almost a year of weekly meetings, but she finally was able to integrate the gospel good news into the fabric of her soul, heart, and mind. She slowly climbed upward from hatred of herself to acceptance. She learned that she was vindicated. She was pronounced "not guilty" by God because of her newly found trust in a loving God and his servant who transferred his vindication to those in exile, those in bondage to the law, those ...

884. Three O’Clock at the Temple

Acts 3:12-19

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Ken Lentz

... 's fate is not known but the viewer of the movie knows that Tsotsi has been redeemed. The plight of those weaker than he (the baby, the young widow, the teacher, the wheelchair-bound beggar) has moved him to compassion. He has left his life of crime and the hatred for his father behind. He goes to jail but he goes as a free man, a man who has been liberated by love. There are many accounts of Paul, Peter, and other apostles recorded in the book of Acts that demonstrate the power of the risen Christ in the ...

885. Waiting for a Savior

Mark 13:32-37

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King Duncan

... leader of the street gang, The Sharks. Like most recent immigrants to this country, the Puerto Ricans are not accepted by those who already live here; and that animosity is intensified in the conflict between The Jets and The Sharks. In the midst of that animosity and hatred, Tony and Maria meet and fall in love. Fairly soon after realizing they are in love, they also realize there is no place for their love in the world they live in. And they sing: “There’s a place for us, Somewhere a place for us ...

886. America: Fight For Your Country

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William J. Bennett

... . The surrendering of strong beliefs, in our private and public lives, has demoralized society. Today, much of society ridicules and mocks those who are serious about their faith. America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore. Today we must carry on a new struggle for the country we love. We must push hard against an age that is pushing hard against us. If we have ...

887. In the President's Pockets

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Charles Swindoll

... John Bright was right in his assessment of Lincoln, but in 1865 millions shared quite a contrary opinion. The President's critics were fierce and many. His was a lonely agony that reflected the suffering and turmoil of his country ripped to shreds by hatred and a cruel, costly war. There is something touchingly pathetic in the mental picture of this great leader seeking solace and self-assurance from a few old newspaper clippings as he reads them under the flickering flame of a candle all alone in the ...

888. Taking the Fall

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Staff

... had been willing to die to save the others! . . . The incident had a profound effect. . . The men began to treat each other like brothers. When the victorious Allies swept in, the survivors, human skeletons, lined up in front of their captors (and instead of attacking their captors) insisted: "No more hatred. No more killing. Now what we need is forgiveness." Sacrificial love has transforming power.

889. The Leftovers of Life

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Unknown

Leftovers are such humble things, We would not serve to a guest, And yet we serve them to our Lord Who deserve the very best. We give to Him leftover time, Stray minutes here and there. Leftover cash we give to Him, Such few coins as we can spare. We give our youth unto the world, To hatred, lust and strife; Then in declining years we give To him the remnant of our life.

890. A Father's Curse

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One of the worst cases of hatred you'll ever come across is found in a will written in 1935 by a Mr. Donohoe. It says, "Unto my two daughters, Frances Marie and Denise Victoria, by reason of their unfilial attitude toward a doting father, . . . I leave the sum of $1.00 to each and a father' ...

891. "As If" You Love

Luke 4:14-21

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J. Allan Petersen

Newspaper columnist and minister George Crane tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. "I do not only want to get rid of him, I want to get even. Before I divorce him, I want to hurt him as much as he has me." Dr. Crane suggested an ingenious plan "Go home and act as if you really love your husband. ...

892. A Spirit of Unity

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Staff

... the incident, asked a friend who was there, "What did you do then?" "We were just one," he replied. As they confessed their hostility and bitterness to God and yielded to His control, the Holy Spirit created a spirit of unity among them. Love filled their hearts and dissolved their hatred. When love prevails among believers, especially in times of strong disagreement, it presents to the world an indisputable mark of a true follower of Jesus Christ.

893. Relay for Life

Mt 16:24; 2 Tim 4:7

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Brett Blair

... Race, is run for prize money and prestige, It's running commemorates that original "race" to save lives. In Communion we commemorate another mission. The journey of Jesus from Pilate's prison to the hill on which he died to save our lives form the tyranny of death, sin, disease, hatred, loneliness, the list is endless and the race isn't over. That cross, our Lord's finish line, has become our mission. His cross has become our cross. Take up the cross and let us, his church, finish the race.

894. Hate the Sin - Love the Man

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C.S. Lewis

... In fact, the very reason why I hated the things was that I loved the man. Just because I loved myself, I was sorry to find that I was the sort of man who did those things. Consequently Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. . . But it does want us to hate them in the same way in which we hate things in ourselves: being sorry that the man should have done such things, and hoping, if it is in any way possible, that somehow, sometime, somewhere, he ...

895. A Weapon of Love

John 1:43-51

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Joel D. Kline

... new and more complicated ones." We live in a world thirsty for this gospel of peace. With Martin Luther King, and with Jesus before him, we need to announce with integrity, "The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than on love. It destroys community…Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."

896. A Cantankerous Prophet

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... want to drive this point into the ground. But this is what the book of Jonah is about. God loves everybody: Jews and gentiles, Arabs and Africans, the people of Nineveh and the people of Israel. There is no place in the kingdom of God for any kind of hatred racial, religious, or national. We all belong to one great family, and Christ died for everyone’s sins. Your sins, my sins, but also the sins of our worst enemies. Robert W. Youngs tells of having lunch at a small inn. Across the bottom of the menu was ...

897. How Odd of God

Acts 3:11-26

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King Duncan

... ; 2) But you acted out of ignorance; 3) God used what you did to fulfill the messianic prophecy; and 4) Repent and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord. Does that sound like a statement of hatred and condemnation from Peter toward the Jews? It sounds to me like the advice of one good friend to another. His words could be directed, not toward the Jews, but toward you and me. In fact, let’s use these thoughts and apply them to ourselves. You did ...

898. No Other Name

Acts 4:1-22

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King Duncan

... and submissive. In a revival, not long since, a helpless stammerer was suddenly cured of his impediment as he named the name of Christ in praise. I have seen men who had been bitterest enemies for years, suddenly fall weeping into each other’s arms, their spite and hatred buried forever, just by the power of the name of Jesus. Oh! It is a mighty Name! Jesus!” What does that name mean to you? There are some settings in which the only time you will hear Christ’s name used will be as a curse word. Heaven ...

899. John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15

John 16:5-16

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Leonard Sweet

... v.27) to the world, to present Jesus to a world that had hated and rejected him during his earthly life. Because of the Holy Spirit, our mission to continue Jesus’ mission is possible. In this final discourse to the disciples Jesus reveals the hardships and hatred his followers will encounter at the hands of the world after he has left them. While Jesus was physically present he acted as a lightning rod, as the magnet, for his opponents fervor and fury. His disciples seemed to slip by unscathed by either ...

900. God’s Two Hands

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

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