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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Herbert Hoover

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

Thomas Huxley

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington

937. When Someone Disagrees with You

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... language? Smoking? Criticizing the pastor? Well, maybe that last one . . . Just kidding, of course. According to Scripture, we are all sinners. If we start casting out people because of their sins, we’re going to have a very small church. No, the answer is not exclusion. The answer is to build a church that is so loving, so committed, that people grow in their commitment to Christ and to one another. We want a church where people are built up, not cast out. But the question I want to ask this morning ...

938. The Rabbi's Apprentice

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ways of doing things, your great church attendance –they don’t matter at all to God. What matters is the hate, bias, judgments that you harbor in your hearts toward others, especially when they manifest in your behaviors toward others. Or your exclusion of others. Jesus repeats again what he’s trying to say to Peter and the others: Eating without washing hands doesn’t contaminate in Gods’ sight. But what comes from the heart can. Your evil thoughts, false testimonies, insults. From there, Jesus ...

939. Stamped with God’s Own Image

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... , has royal blood running through his. If this is so, how can we be loyal to the royal that is within us? How can we render to God what is God’s? Certainly not by compartmentalizing, that’s for sure, which tends to minimize and even trivialize God’s exclusive claim on our lives. Remember what the scriptures teach us — that everything we have in life has been loaned to us by God: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we harvest from the land, the money we earn and spend. We don’t really ...

940. The Word Above All Earthly Powers

John 8:31-36

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... in Jesus Christ. He is the namesake of the Lutheran Church, the Protestant denomination that followed in his footsteps. Perhaps most important of all, Luther was an avid translator of the Bible. He believed that the scriptures did not belong exclusively to church professionals, so he translated the Bible from Latin into his local language, German, thereby making the scriptures accessible to anyone who could read. Thanks to Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing press with moveable type, copies of ...

941. About That Anger

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s example 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 ...

942. Get the Picture?

John 18:1; 19:42

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... Jesus cried out in pain again. Those who love him gasped loudly. The colorfully robed Sadducees and Pharisees looked away, not in horror, not in revulsion, but to hide the satisfying smiles that wanted to escape their lips. The soldiers raised the cross, an exclusively Roman method of torture and death, and dropped it into the hole. His flesh, muscles, and tendons tore as his full weight was now suspended by the large spikes driven into his body. Do you think the religious leaders recalled Isaiah 53:7 where ...

943. Wrong by Association, Right by Jesus

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and you realize your best friends and buddies are seen as “troublemakers,” as a gang of misfits and miscreants, a band of bad boys, a bunch of nerds or obnoxious brainiacs. For some, this realization sparks a collision of identity and doubt, fear of exclusion, fear of rejection. Even if we’ve done nothing wrong, we feel wrong by association. Or we feel, we may be forever labeled. It might affect our future. It might affect our career. Peer pressure is a powerful thing. Social pressure is even more ...

944. It's Worth the Wait

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... to measure how long a conversational gap has to last before it creates negative emotions in the people involved. They discovered that all it takes is four seconds of silence in a conversation to inspire feelings of anxiety, exclusion, incompatibility, and awkwardness. Just four seconds of silence makes us feel insecure and uncomfortable. A member of the research team summarized the study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: “Conversational flow is associated with positive emotions, and a heightened ...

945. Our Need and God's Provision

John 6:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... is a beautiful 19th century palace, the Palazzo Migliore that was recently available for sale. Its size and beauty and location right off St. Peter’s Square made it worth a small fortune. And someone could have made a lot of money turning it into an exclusive hotel. Instead, the family who owned it chose to donate this gorgeous palace to the Roman Catholic Church. And Pope Francis made a decision that must have made God smile. He turned it into a homeless shelter. The palace, which has 16 bedrooms, houses ...

946. Meeting Jesus

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... that, someday, someone may find an example that disproves the theory. None has been discovered, however, since 1957 when the theory was first identified.) If you will allow me an oversimplification, it works like this: when people discover that they are holding two mutually exclusive ideas or perceptions at the same time, they will tend to find a way to hold onto the one they’ve held the longest or into which they have placed the most personal investment and discard or devalue the other. If, for instance ...

947. Will the “Real” Jesus Please Stand Up

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . We demonize those who are different, and those who accept those who are different. And we call much of what and whom God has made wrong, sinful, evil, and unacceptable in the name of God. What does Jesus say is unacceptable to God? Unacceptance. Judgments. Division. Exclusion. Jesus calls out every dysfunction in his society, even his own family, in the name of celebrating humanness. After all, what did God do to teach us it’s okay to be human? Became one. And not one like you or I, but one that would ...

948. A Stand-in for Royalty

John 18:33-37; Revelation 1:4b-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... of planning and practice to ensure that every detail of the event is perfect. Queen Elizabeth is too busy to spend all day at dress rehearsals, so Ms. Slack serves as her stand-in for these practice runs. How did she get such an exclusive job? Ella Slack was working for the British Broadcasting Corporation when they were preparing to film a national memorial service. Queen Elizabeth was undergoing the dress rehearsal for that day’s ceremony and the sun kept getting in her eyes. The members of the stage ...

949. Briny Faith

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... And then he assures them that everyone who follows him, regardless of who they are or their affiliation, will be equally “salted with fire” by the power of the Holy Spirit. All who follow Jesus will be part of a new kind of community, not an exclusive community made up only of his current inner circle, but a huge, diverse community, made up of many kinds of people. So, Jesus teaches, no matter what you do, “maintain salt among yourselves and keep peace with each other.” Stick together, don’t argue ...

950. The Glow

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a holy “hug” and then glows with happiness like a proud Papa. Did John witness this? Or are we reading a narration of Jesus’ experience? Is this a kind of mystical or spiritual experience that Jesus himself undergoes that is not seen by others but known by Jesus exclusively? As the reader, we can’t tell. What we do know is that these curious events have got to be important. Otherwise, Luke would not have taken the time here to relay them and in exactly this way. What did it mean for God to “bodily ...

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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

George Eliot

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

George Henry Lewes

George Washington

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Herbert Hoover

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Rosa Luxemburg

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture - and very much to our credit.

Thomas Huxley

Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.

William James

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington

937. When Someone Disagrees with You

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

938. The Rabbi's Apprentice