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976. Destructive Anger

Illustration

Adrian Dieleman

In the Spring of 1894, the Baltimore Orioles came to Boston to play a routine baseball game. But what happened that day was anything but routine. A bit of a legend has developed around the game which may not be entirely accurate. It goes like this: The Orioles' John McGraw got into a fight with the Boston third baseman. Within minutes all the players from both teams had joined in the brawl. The w...

977. He Couldn't Tell a Lie

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A dollar bill Good Morning, boys and girls, Sometimes we worry about how we look, don't we? Sometimes because of television we may get the idea that you have to look like a movie star to be a big success in the world. I want to tell you about a man who had scars all over his face. When he was young, he contracted smallpox-- a terrible disease that was very prevalent back then. And the sc...

978. The Hedge

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Those familiar with “hedge funds” know that the goal to creating this kind of fund is to use high risk methods to realize large capital gains. A pool of investors uses a wide array of “hedging” techniques to reduce portfolio volatility and protect investors from downturns in the market, usually by investing in fixed income assets.High risk tactics create low risk of failure due to low liquidity bu...

979. Ribbons of Forgiveness

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

A man was riding one day on a train. Seated next to him was a troubled young man, a convict returning from prison. His crime had brought shame to his family, but he wanted to come home again. To make it easy for his family, he had written them to put up a signal when the train passed their farm on the outskirts of town. If they wanted him to return home, they were to tie a white ribbon in the ...

980. Adultery

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

Sermon on the Mount: Kingdom Ethics and the Law: Matthew’s Gospel has a didactic purpose. Special emphasis is given to the message of Jesus. One of the distinct features of Matthew’s Gospel is that the teaching of Jesus is collected into five sections. The Sermon on the Mount (chaps. 5–7) is the first of these blocks. The others are Instructions to the Twelve (chap. 10), Parables of the Kingdom (c...

981. Prayer

Bulletin Aid

Love? I'm in favor of love Sure! Isn't it close to Valentine's Day? Cards • Candy Gifts • Flowers The whole schmeer! It's nice to celebrate love To say "I love you" Even if it is just one day a year! Love those who love me? That's easy (Most of the time). Parents • Spouse/Special friend Children • Good friends ... "Bosom buddies." I may not say it very often (Not right out loud), But I do love th...

982. Epiphany 7

Bulletin Aid

First Lesson: Isaiah 49:8-13 Theme: God does not forget his people Call to Worship Pastor: God has promised us that he will never leave us, or forget that he is our God. People: Even when we think God has deserted us, he is present to give us hope and encouragement. Pastor: God keeps his promises. It is up to us to believe and trust him. People: Our faith is strengthened as we put our trust in G...

983. Epiphany 7

Bulletin Aid

Theme: Jesus' "higher righteousness" Exegetical note These verses contain three of the so-called "antitheses" of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, in which he intensifies the demands of the Law. Here, lust is equated with adultery, divorce is forbidden (the exception being Matthew's, not Jesus'), and swearing (as opposed to merely false swearing) is prohibited. In each case, Jesus is calling for a "hig...

984. Epiphany 7

Sermon Aid

Liturgical Color: Green Gospel: Matthew 5:27-43 Theme: The dimensions of love. Pastoral Invitation to the Celebration "Welcome! Worship is a drama-celebration, no matter what form it takes - Sunday mornings, weddings, funerals and memorials. Therefore, it is not something which is basically heard and seen, but something done. Worship as drama is something we do, not something we watch somebody ...

985. Cross Work

Sermon

George Bass

Jesus might have been loving, kind, and good, but he wasn’t very practical. As he closes out this first section of the Sermon on the Mount, it is pure Gospel we hear today that supercedes the law of last week. And Jesus shows us just how impractical the Gospel actually is. He instructs the disciples and us, to... ...offer no resistance to wicked people who might hurt or offend you; ...turn the oth...

986. Lust - To Discipline The Eye And The Heart

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

Jesus and his disciples were in a foreign land, the land of Samaria. It had once been recognized as the birthplace and capital of the Jewish faith. It was in Samaria and at Shechem that God told Abraham that the land would belong to his descendants. But later the Israelites were defeated by the Assyrians, who then settled in the land and mixed with the population. So in Jesus' day the people of Is...

987. Standard Building Codes

Sermon

James Merritt

Our Extreme Home Makeover is moving right along, but there is one thing we have not yet mentioned and that is – building codes. As you know, before you can occupy a home, it has to meet standard building codes. Building codes are developed by people who are actively involved in the construction industry. Their purpose is, "To provide minimum standards for the protection of life, limb, property and...

988. Hell under Fire

Sermon

James Merritt

We are in a middle of a series that we have entitled "The War of the Worlds" and today the series is really going to heat up (no pun intended!) What we are talking about is the war of the world views. Remember, every person has a world view; a lens through which they see the world they live in, the life they live and it is the guide they use to make the crucial decisions about how they are going t...

989. Drastic Surgery

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

In February, 1966, a young surgeon from India, then a resident at a St. Louis Hospital, took a radical step in an attempted reconciliation with his estranged wife. She was a staff physician in Children’s Hospital in St. Louis, and was living in a dormitory there. The surgeon called a taxi driver to his apartment door and gave him a package which he asked him to deliver to his wife’s room. His wif...

990. Fatal Attraction

Sermon

James Merritt

A teacher was working with a grammar lesson and she said to one of her students, "Willie, what is it when I say ‘I love you, you love me, he loves me?'" Willie replied, "That's one of those triangles where somebody gets shot." Well, it used to be a situation where somebody would get shot—with a gun. Today it's a situation that gets shot with a television camera. Television refers to adultery, to ...

991. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

Convictions and opinions are not the same, are they? Someone has said, “Opinions are many, convictions are few; opinions change often, convictions rarely do.” Opinions live on the surface; convictions go deep. Opinions thrive around the gossipy edges; convictions live near the center of life. One way to tell the difference is to ask, What would you make a sacrifice for- of real money, of significa...

992. This Adulterous Generation

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

A cartoon in a national magazine showed Moses with two stone tablets under his arm coming down from Mount Sinai. He said to the Israelites, "I have good news and bad news for you. The good news is that I got Him down to ten. The bad news is that adultery is still in there." The seventh commandment is very simple: "You shall not commit adultery." The word adultery means the sexual involvement of a...

993. Cut It Out!

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

When Jesus said, "If your eye/hand offend you, cut it off," it was a vivid, metaphorical way of saying that we must STOP doing those things that harm us and others. Despite dwindling natural resources, massive pollution, overpopulation and overconsumption, we still love our "throwaway" culture. We toss away more and more styrofoam, paper and plastic with every passing day. Not only do we casuall...

994. A Second Look

Sermon

Will Willimon

"But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you....You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect." Matthew 5:27-48 Some of you remember the uproar when President Jimmy Carter admitted to Playboy that he had committed "adultery of the heart." Big deal. Show me a man who has never once "looked at a woman lustfully" and thereby committed, in Jesus' w...

995. Divorce and Swearing

Sermon

Mike Ripski

We’re still on the hillside. Jesus is still preaching, teaching. We’ve heard him say, “Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven, God’s new world, where God’s love rules human hearts and behavior. So what does this higher righteousness look like? In that day the scribes and Pharisees set the bar extremely high. Even the Apostle Pau...

996. Marriage is Forever

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

On this past Wednesday, an old-fashioned fairy tale ended. Princess Diana and Prince Charles were officially divorced. What a sad ending to what began so gloriously fifteen years ago. Charles, then a somewhat awkward 32-year-old bachelor, announced that he planned to marry the shy, beautiful 20-year-old Diana. Do you recall that glorious cathedral wedding seen by millions on television? Nothing so...

997. Divorce

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

998. The Intersection Of The Cross

Sermon

Mark Radecke

The pastor finishes reading the Gospel text and the people squirm more than usual. What will he say? What can he say? The passage he has just read proclaims a chain of hard sayings, some of them impossibly harsh, condemning sin and strengthening the commandments. Anger, insulting speech, adultery, lust and swearing oaths are all roundly condemned. But it is the stark prohibition against divorce t...

999. Marriage: Agony Or Ecstasy

Sermon

King Duncan

In a newspaper cartoon recently a woman with folded arms and a superior expression on her face says to her husband, "A good husband needs to be strong, caring and sensitive. You have all but three of those qualities." Then there is that classic story of the woman who hired a medium to bring back the spirit of her dead husband. When he appeared in a ghostly form, she asked, "Honey, is it really be...

1000. It Ain't Over Til It's Over

Sermon

James Merritt

If you have any reason to wonder why this message is important, maybe this letter will show you better than I could tell you. About four years ago I got a letter from a little girl in Macon, Georgia. Here's what she wrote me: Dear Dr. Merritt, Hello! I was just wondering can you help me? My Mother wants to move to Sweden. I am supposed to go, but I don't trust her. She says I'll come back. I don...

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