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76. The Golden Gate

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... enemies, not even death. It is life willing to risk losing life, because the promise is that there’s always more where that came from. It is life in which every person is royalty, because God says it’s so. We are released from self-doubt and self-loathing. And when we’re freed from the bondage of self-absorption, we can treat one another as the royalty God has declared us to be. Love doesn’t have to be parceled out, because it is in limited supply. Its nature is to multiply, not divide. This leads ...

77. Faith that Goes from Head to Heart

Numbers 11:4-35

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David Gallimore

... eat in the desert. But they didn’t want manna; they wanted meat. So God said, “Okay, meat it is. In fact I’m going to give you so much meat that in a month’s time it’s going to come spewing out of your nostrils and you will loathe it!” Isn’t that a nice picture? And Moses was mad because God was going to give them what they wanted. He said, “God don’t you know that for these people it will never be enough?” Moses was ready just to wash his hands of the whole bunch. But ...

78. We Cannot Not Be Sinners

Mark 6:14-29

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Scott Hoezee

Most people are loathe to admit that they are just generally bent toward the bad, inclined to do it wrong. So when the Christian tradition declares to any and all, "You are a sinner," most people these days reply, "What did I do?" If sin exists at all, it is merely episodic, an occasional ( ...

79. The View from Michal’s Window

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

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... had come into the relationship loving David, but a lot of water had since gone under the bridge, and their relationship had soured. In any case, as Michal 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 ...

80. Cut It Out

Mark 9:38-41

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Donald B. Strobe

... organ hampers our life or threatens our very existence we eliminate it. We recognize the principle involved. When a gall bladder or appendix is so badly diseased that it gives us no peace, we cut it out. When a hand or foot is diseased beyond help, we are not loathe to amputate in order to save everything else. When a tumor is malignant and threatens to take our entire life away, we are not hesitant to say to the surgeon, "Cut it out!" It is far better to leave behind the tumor than to threaten one's whole ...

81. Repentance

Luke 3:1-6; 13:1-9

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Paul Lee Tan

... face-to-face with a dead body, and to bear it about until the horrible effluvia destroyed the life of the living victim. Virgil describes this cruel punishment: The living and the dead at his command Were coupled face to face, and hand to hand; Till choked with stench, in loathed embraces tied, The lingering wretches pined away and died. Without Christ, we are shackled to the dead corpse of our sinfulness. Only repentance frees us from certain death, for life and death cannot coexist indefinitely.

82. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... overnight smash hit and a cultural phenomenon. It was the "IN" thing to watch. It was a satire of the then popular comic book of the same name. Most Batman fans, especially the real aficionados of the comic book Batman, can't stand the TV show. Oh, they don't loathe it, or even hate it, at best they are embarrassed and annoyed by it because it was parody of their comic book hero and not the real deal. The Bat-Man was born in issue #27 of Detective Comics, in May 1939. Created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger ...

83. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

84. Isaiah 55:1-9

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... to drink and eat their fill. The price of admission to this food fest? Nothing. “Come, buy, eat” are the imperatives. But these goodies are to be obtained “without money” precisely because they are valued “without price.” Ancient Hebrew theology was loath to differentiate between body and spirit, physical and spiritual. But there is much more than physicality being described by this text. The link to Deuteronomy, which celebrated Israel’s joy in the Lord with the images of eating and drinking ...

85. Barriers to Grace

Exodus 6:28--7:7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Psalmist is talking about. “O that today you would hearken to his voice. Harden not your hearts, as at Meribah, As on the day at Massah in the wilderness, when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof though they had seen my work. For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who err in heart, and they do not regard my ways.” Therefore I swore in my anger that they should not enter my rest. (Psalm 9:7b-11 RSV) II That leads to our second big point. Today “0 that today ...

86. The Gospel of Marah

Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... place on the life map of all of us. It’s not geographical, but circumstantial. The Hebrew adjective, Mar, from which Marah comes, means bitter. In the Old Testament this adjective is seen clearly in two references from Proverbs. First, Proverbs 27:7: “He, who is sated, loathes honey, but to one who is hungry everything bitter is sweet. Clearer yet the picture in verses 3 and 4 of Proverbs 5: “For the lips of a loose woman (did you know the Bible talked about loose women?) drip honey, and her speech is ...

87. Holy Waste

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sometimes it is inappropriate to be sensible. Let me illustrate my point. Sometimes it’s inappropriate to be sensible. There are mixed messages that come from the great cathedrals of the world. Some of them were built at great cost to the poor, and we loathe that. But I will never forget when I experienced my first cathedral. My dearest friend, Buford Dickinson, and I took off the third quarter of my first year in Seminary. Now that was not reasonable or sensible. We borrowed some money, bought us a round ...

88. The Cross No One Wants To See

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

Lee Griess

... the scene is reversed. The "president of the universe" takes a bullet for us. The Son of God endures the suffering and shame for you and me. Such is God's love. For if we are able to look at the cross, there amid the repulsion, the loathing, and the disgust, there underneath its ugliness, is beauty divine. As Jesus hung there on the cross that fateful Friday, he experienced it all — the shame and humiliation, the suffering and pain, the weight of our sins and wrongdoings. And through it all, he also knew ...

89. No Room for Gloom

Isaiah 9:1-4

Sermon

Tony Everett

... : "The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?" (Psalm 27:1). God's glorious light in Christ shines for all the Emilys who sit in the darkness of self-loathing. God's glorious light breaks through every disguise of shame and humiliation. God's glorious light transforms our dirty, sinful, slush into pure, white glistening snow. Today God invites us to reflect that light of Christ to others. Let Christ's light shine through you to ...

90. Look Up and Live

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... set aside to assist. Not only that, meat was on the way — quail. God says, "You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days, but for a whole month — until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it ..." (Numbers 11:19-20a). So there! The wilderness wandering continues. They arrived at the border of Canaan and were instructed to send in a spy team for a forty-day reconnaissance run — twelve men, one representing each of the tribes of Israel. You remember the result ...

91. Speaking Peace

John 20:19-31

Sermon

John Smylie

... Even upon the arrival of their crucified friend who was able to appear in the room with them through locked doors, even then, one can imagine that there was no peace within them. These disciples, locked within themselves, locked in fear, in disappointment and self-loathing, in anger and helplessness were nowhere near to experiencing peace. They needed the strong words of the Lord to comfort them and they needed to see his hands and his side to affirm that, yes, he was the same rabbi they had loved and known ...

92. What Kind of Leader Are You?

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Jon Johnston

... . Type 3 - calloused. These people didn't know, or care, whether they could do anything for the company; they felt helpless and hopeless, so they kept quiet. Type 4 - conforming. These people also remained quiet, but only because they loathed confrontation and loved approval. The researchers discovered that the courageous managers accomplished the most, reported the highest job satisfaction, and eventually were commended by superiors. Their commitment had certainly improved the quality of their lives.

93. Meet in the Middle

2 Cor. 5:18-19

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Tim Kimmel

... . Clearing the incinerated remains was the easy part. Erasing the hate would take decades. For some of the relatives of the victims, this carnage was too much. Evil had stooped to a new low, and there seemed to be no way to curb their bitter loathing of the Japanese. In the decades that followed, that bitterness was passed on to a new generation. The Japanese, although conquered, remained a hated enemy. The monument the Koreans built at the location of the fire not only memorialized the people who died, but ...

94. Francis of Assissi and Jesus

Matt 25:31-46; Luke 17:11-19

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John Bedingfield

... has it that after one of his trips away from home, where he could party without having to hear from his parents about his antics, as Francis was riding his horse toward Assisi, he saw a leper next to the road. Although lepers were every bit as feared and as loath-some in the 12th Century as they were in Jesus' day, for some reason Francis dismounted and walked over to the leper. He gave the man all the money in his pocket – and then, extra-ordinarily, he took the man's hand and kissed it. As he put his ...

95. No Cleansing, No Refreshment

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... voluntarily choose to “rough up” and “slough off” some part of our ordinary lives in order to let something new be exposed. The only reason to “give up” something for Lent is if every time you crave a chocolate or long for a steak or loath going to the gym, that “roughed-up” moment reminds you of why you have sloughed off sweets or meat or sloth. Every craving should remind you of Christ. If you are “cleansing” your temple, your mind/body/spirit through some daily act, then there should ...

96. Breaking Loose

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... have had their hearts broken in relationships enough times that they have concluded that they are unworthy to be loved. It’s sad to see anyone who has been broken by life, who is enslaved by negative emotions, who has given in to a spirit of fear and self-loathing. That is one of the reasons Christ came into the world. He came to deliver us from desperate, meaningless lives. He came to give us hope and a sense of well-being. How does that happen? Paul tells us in this passage from Romans. First of all, he ...

97. When God Adds Insult to Injury

Colossians 2:6-15

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... us in our hearts, and trusting that he will take care of us. Faith is not smarmy and glowing with happiness. It is an action, not words. It is a very small space we go to within ourselves, among all the bad emotions and feelings and self-loathing — a place that we cling to, while listening to that small voice, the voice of a loving, forgiving power greater than ourselves, outside of ourselves, that will, eventually heal the bad, walk us through the emotions, help us feel better about who we are and what ...

98. The Good Works We Leave Behind

Acts 9:36-43

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... her corpse, could now hug her person. The friends who had whispered their affection and appreciation in her ear where she had layed could now say it to her face. And then, in the midst of it all, watch the apostle leave the scene. The grateful people are loathe to let him go. They hug and thank him repeatedly. They cling to him in their appreciation. We human beings are accustomed to saying thank you for routine things: a door held open, a compliment, a gift. But how do we adequately thank a person who ...

99. The Healing Fountain of Tears

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to be redeemed “from.” They were those who had gone through the torments, tortures, and tribulations that this world could dish out. Given the state of the human soul, undoubtedly many of those torments and tortures came from within — self-abuse, self-loathing, self-incrimination, self-hatred. Those too are the torments and tribulations of this world. That is why the Psalmist says “I water my couch with my tears . . . tears have been my food day and night.” That is why “tears are liquid prayers ...

100. The Story Worth Living

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... slimy and scary. Snakes are creatures we really do not want to engage or embrace. “Anaconda” was a great title for a movie about the Amazon, but “Snakes on a Plane” was there ever a better B-movie title! Combining our fear of snakes with our loathing of economy class air travel — what a genius movie idea. Snakes are creatures so different from us that they evoke revulsion and fear, even when we do not know if the snake we are looking at is dangerous, or a harmless natural insect repellant. So we ...

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