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76. Suffering And Service

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... doors, open all the windows...." People can be so cruel to one another. Without the presence of a righteous and all-loving God in our lives, there is no motive to be compassionate and considerate of the needs of others. Jesus suffered at the hands of men who had hatred in their hearts and blood on their hands. We, too, may be called to suffer as a result of our faithfulness. If we are to persist as servants for God, we must place our trust absolutely in God. Only God can be relied on and counted on to be ...

77. The Collapsing Circle

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Illustration

Richard A. Jensen

... two white Americans. Here they were. Two white faces surrounded by a sea of black faces as isolated as an island in the ocean. A lump came to Allan's throat. His fears now drowned out his hopes. Perhaps it was too much to expect that the circle of hatred could collapse even in a Christian church. And then, before the service started, a woman got up and began to sing "Amazing Grace." Allan described her voice as one of the most beautiful he had ever heard. Allan was moved by her singing. It was beautiful. So ...

78. On The Road To The Cross

Luke 20:9-19

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... still loves us. In the center of our sin, even as we kill his son over and over again through our own acts of hatred, pride, jealousy and arrogance, God still loves us. Tell me, does that make any sense to you? And so, Jesus told us a story -- a ... , and gives us the freedom to work at it, and even gives us the freedom to harm his messengers and each other by acts of hatred and violence. And yet, God sent his son in love -- for you and me. What a perfectly illogical, irrational, profound thing to do! So, what ...

79. The Witness Of The Centurion

Drama

Dann J. Ettner

... wrong with their making acrown of thorns and pounding it on His head. After all, He was acondemned man who was about to die. The crown of thorns and thepulling out of His beard was done by my men as a way to releasesome of their stress and hatred for the criminals we dealt withevery day. The difference was that this One did not talk back. Maybe thatwas why my soldiers kept on. Maybe they were looking for somereason to hate this man they were taking to crucify. Maybe theywere just dumping all of their anger ...

80. Signs Of Christ's Return

Matthew 24:1-35

Sermon

Phyllis Faaborg Wolk

... are the birth pangs, Jesus says. And he assures us that even as the birth pangs are endured, the good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the world. God's kingdom is visible and active in the midst of earthquake cleanup, famine, war, persecution and hatred. As the world struggles, Christians are embodying and proclaiming the love of Jesus. Christian individuals and organizations are helping communities rebuild after devastating earthquakes, drought and famine, flood and homelessness, war and ...

81. Screaming For A Reason Why

Matthew 26:36-46; 27:45-46 · Job 3:1-26

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... from our willfulness, if the daily ministry of love could not overcome our cantankerousness, then maybe a cross could awaken our dull souls. God took the cross of Jesus, which was fashioned to destroy God's dream, and used it for his purpose. He took a thing of cruelty and hatred and made it symbolize the noblest things we can know. It is not the will of God that there be suffering. It was not the will of God that Job be thrown on the ash heap. It was not the will of God that Jesus be crucified. None of the ...

82. Prayers for Memorial Day, Election, Thanksgiving

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Rolland R. Reece

... and Israeli nations embroiled in hostilities and disputes that go back centuries? What resources can we share with former Communist states that now try to fit themselves into a democratic way of life? What is it we can do to reverse the ways of hatred, starvation, and fear that conspire to bring thousands and thousands of people to death? Our five or ten dollar checks sent here and there -- it is hoped in combination with many other similar contributions -- may bring some alleviation to the world's problems ...

83. Advent 2

Mark 1:1-8, 2 Peter 3:1-18, Isaiah 40:1-31

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E. Carver McGriff

... had a new faith, a new lifestyle. Her husband was still on a collision course with self-destruction. As Jesus predicted, they were now set against each other. We see here the change which takes place in a person when one genuinely begins to follow Christ. Hatred is replaced by love and understanding. Destructive habits beyond our control start to lose their power over us. Now we want to be a different person, and it's only natural that we want the same for those whom we love as well. That article continues ...

84. On The Cross-Road

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

85. Epiphany 4

Lk 4:21-30 · 1 Cor 13:1-13 · Jer 1:4-10 · Ps 71

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John R. Brokhoff

... 1. Reveals negative thoughts v. 23. 2. Criticizes their lack of acceptance v. 24. 3. Extends God's love to all people vv. 25-27. 2. Get rid of the preacher! (4:21-29). Need: Can you believe it? Praise for the local preacher at Nazareth turns into violent hatred. The people so hated Jesus' sermon that they took him to the edge of a cliff and intended to throw him head-first to his death. Jesus began his ministry with the threat of death, and ended his ministry by climbing a hill to Golgotha for actual death ...

86. Epiphany 7

1 Corinthians 15:35-58, 1 Samuel 26:1-25, Genesis 45:1-28, Luke 6:27-36

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John R. Brokhoff

... According to this, all non-Christians are enemies of Christians. An enemy is to be feared, hated, and, if possible, exterminated. If we followed this course of action, there would be no end to the conflict, hatred, and violence. In these verses Jesus is teaching a revolutionary ethic. We are not to return the hatred the enemy has for us, not to retaliate by seeking revenge. Jesus said that the hostility must end with the Christian, by loving, blessing, giving, and praying for the enemies. It is an ethic of ...

87. Proper 9

Galatians 6:1-10, 2 Kings 5:1-27, Luke 10:1-24

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John R. Brokhoff

... times in these three verses Paul uses the word "reap." In the analogy of sowing seed, it is natural for the sower to reap in due time what he has sown. There is a natural law that you reap what you sow. Sow weeds and you reap weeds. Sow hatred and you get hatred. If one sows to the Spirit, one will reap eternal life. 2. Except (v. 14). In what shall a person glory? We may boast of our children or our parents. We may have reason to boast of our scholastic degrees or our business success. For Paul, he will ...

88. There's A Man Going Around Taking Names

John 1:19-28

Sermon

Thomas Long

... of his own enraged reaction when he saw that episode. He admitted that, for a moment, he was consumed with hatred, not only for those who were beating Kunta Kinte, but for all white people, for all who, through the whip of racism, bring humiliation and shame to ... others. The only thing that kept this hatred from settling into his heart, he said, was the deep awareness of his faith in another man, a man who was also tied to ...

89. Easter 4

Psalm 23:1-6, Acts 4:1-22, 1 John 3:11-24, John 10:1-21

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William E. Keeney

... to him and why he suffered from the Soviets rather than from the Nazis is not clear. It is, however, clear that he was a good shepherd who gave his life for people who were different from him religiously and who were the object of hatred, fear, and destruction by others. 2. Hirelings, Robbers and Wolves. A number of television evangelists have been exposed recently as betraying their office as a shepherd or pastor. Jim Bakker engaged in a scheme which essentially defrauded many people who thought they were ...

90. God Forsaken

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Erskine White

... The soldiers sit here and gamble for the only possessions I own in this world." "Lord, see how My enemies have come to watch Me die. And see how they are not content to let Me die in peace! They must mock Me, cheer My pain and spit their venomous hatred upon Me. And even You, My heavenly Father, where are You? My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" "Eloi, Eloi, where are You, God?" Most of us suffer at least one moment in life where we want to ask that question ourselves. It comes in the darkest night ...

91. Peacemaker -- A Liturgy

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... life, that all might live!” O Spirit, come to fill our heartsThat war and hate shall cease;Renew the earth and make us one,A Pentecost of peace! The Prayer of the Day: (said in unison) C: Lord, make us instruments of your peace.Where there is hatred, let us sow love;Where there is injury, pardon;Where there is discord, union.Where there is doubt, faith;Where there is despair, hope;Where there is darkness, light;Where there is sadness, joy.Grant that we may not so much seekTo be consoled, as to console;To ...

92. Step Two - Hope

Mk 10:46-52 · 2 Cor 12:7-10 · Is 12:1-6

Sermon

John A. Terry

... you get behind the wheel you drive to endanger yourself, your family, and anyone else on the road. Bartimaeus did not ask Jesus for a general overhaul. He asked to have his eyes healed. We can turn over to God the specific things that trouble us, like hatred for a neighbor or the way we drive. In turning that one thing over to God, everything in his life changed. The first step has to come first, the step of being honest, of admitting where and how our lives have become unmanageable. Isaiah said this was ...

93. Step Four - Courage

Mt 26:69-75 · Acts 9:1-9 · Ps 139:1-6

Sermon

John A. Terry

... follow. They put on the robe and join the cross burning. But something happens. Maybe they see firsthand what happens when racial hatred runs out of control, as it did in Forsythe County. Maybe they have a child bring home a new friend of a different race or ... religion or culture. As they watch the children play together, something breaks through the hatred and they hear a voice saying, "Why are you so filled with hate when it is so much better to be filled with love ...

94. Step Eight - Love

Mt 7:7-14 · 2 Cor 5:16-21 · Ps 19:7-13

Sermon

John A. Terry

... , "Why do I forgive anyone?" Albert Schweitzer answered, "I must forgive the lies directed against myself because my own life has been so many times blotted by lies; I must forgive the lovelessness, the hatred, the slander, the fraud, the arrogance which I encounter since I myself have so often lacked love, hatred, slandered, defrauded and been arrogant (Civilization and Ethics, tr. John Naish, London: A&C Black, 1923, II, 260)." No one said it was easy. That is why there are seven serious steps before it ...

95. Step Nine - Discipline

Mt 5:21-26 · Eph 4:25-32 · Num 5:5-10

Sermon

John A. Terry

... most of us. Do you remember a couple of decades ago when people were arguing against proposed civil rights legislation? One of the arguments against it was, "You cannot legislate attitudes and morality." That is true. There are laws against murder, but not against hatred (unless you take for your rule of life what Jesus said). Jesus said that he did not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets. Jesus did not come to abolish the laws regarding murder. Rather, he taught that our righteousness must exceed what ...

96. Have You Talked to Jesus Lately?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... between these two ethnic groups, the writer of John has inserted a helpful comment: "Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans." Well, come on down and pick up your understatement of the year award, John! The Jews and the Samaritans hated each other, and it was a hatred that had been well fed for centuries! So the Samaritan woman sees Jesus not just as a strange man asking for water, but as a member of an ethnic, religious group totally at odds with her own people. He is a male, he is a Jew, he is ...

97. Monologue: Mary Magdalene - Liberated Woman

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... man. I was ridden by fear, fear that people hated me, fear my family would scorn me, fear of what would become of me. In time, I feared I was losing my mind, and I feared I was so evil that God must hate me. I was torn by hatred, nursed thoughts of vengeance for every little grievance -and - worst of all -I knew that was wrong, and I hated myself for it. What transformed me? The change began when my husband wanted to be in Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles. I went grudgingly, complaining of every ...

98. Six Nails of the Cross VI: The Nail of Cruelty

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... with the awesome patience of God, who traveled the road of suffering, persecution and death before revealing himself in the new life of the resurrection. These nails are beginning to hurt; I no longer wish to hear nor preach about the nail of pride, the nail of hatred, the nail of envy, the nail of indecision, the nail of infidelity, the nail of cruelty. I am ready ... ready ... ready for the comic relief from this tragic drama. I am tired of being told and of telling how guilty I am ... we are. I want to ...

99. Becoming What You Are

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Carl Jech

... us that an abstract notion of perfection is unattainable by one's own efforts, but at the same time to remind us that we should keep moving in the right direction! By expressing our sense of longing for the time when peace and love will reign, when hatred and wars shall cease, the hymn makes it crystal clear that life is a process of moving toward goals. Ethical standards and utopian visions help us to move in the right direction, but if we take them too seriously and too literally they can do more harm ...

100. Is Christianity Practical?

Jeremiah 17:19-27

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... the fact that adultery wasn't the matter of breaking some kind of legal law. Adultery began with the lustful glance or the lustful attitude. He cut to the root of false swearing by abolishing all swearing. He cut to the root of war by forbidding revenge or the hatred of our enemies. He cut to the root of hypocricy by cutting at publicized giving and praying. He cut to the root of anxiety by living in trust for today. Yes, our Lord was thoroughly real. He was the Word of God in action. He didn't discourse ...

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