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1001. The Strange Tactics Of God

2 Samuel 6:1-23

Sermon

Arthur H. Kolsti

... s invisible God. Wherever the ark was, there God was fully present. When the ark was raised and carried, there God marched with his people. That is what they believed. The ark was the grand symbol of God's presence with his people. It was an event charged with emotion when David danced before the ark as he brought it into Jerusalem. But we are ahead of the story. Stay with this idea of the ark as a sign of a Divine guarantee and favor that can be held in human hands. The Israelites experienced a major shock ...

1002. It Is Blessed To Receive

Sermon

William G. Carter

... year's Thanksgiving service was spent chastising those who were not thankful, and how little energy was spent in generating genuine gratitude.1 The story of Jesus and the ten lepers recognizes gratitude as a theological problem. Thankfulness comes and goes like every other human emotion. There's no telling why the tenth leper turned back in gratitude while the others did not. He had every reason to press on to see the priests, for that would hasten his return to society and his reunion with loved ones.2 Why ...

1003. A Blessing Behind Locked Doors

John 20:19-23

Sermon

William G. Carter

... in your home, at work, or among your acquaintances. Maybe it's a neighbor hurt by gossip, or a teacher whose innocence has been shattered by public opinion, or a child wounded by harsh judgment, or a middle-aged executive who is tongue-tied about his own emotions, or the person who still waits to hear a merciful word from your lips. Today you could set somebody free. When the benediction is over, you could climb out of your pew, go to that person, and say, "Peace be with you." It is possible because Jesus ...

1004. A Breeze In The Dark

John 3:1-21

Sermon

William G. Carter

... . Other than that he saw merely a few glimpses of light in the midst of darkness. Then one day he went back to the church as a quiet believer, 41 years old and wet from the womb. Of that return, he writes: "There had been no emotional upheaval, no great insight, certainly no proper grasp of theological issues; just a sense of history and the fittingness of things. Something impossible to explain. Teilhard de Chardin says, 'The incommunicable part of us is the pasture of God.' I must leave it at that."3 ...

1005. Have You Heard The Good News?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... such a teaching about God. For the first century Greek mind, the idea of God was one of absolute serenity, which nothing in heaven or earth could affect. They saw life in terms of a God who was serene, isolated, untouchable and freed from all feeling and emotion. For the Stoics, God was by nature incapable of feeling. In the first century world, the idea of God was one of detachment and indifference to human need. The difference that good news in Jesus Christ made to the people of the first century was to ...

1006. A Voice Crying In The Wilderness

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... one ever comes to see them. The nursing home staff is their entire family. What an important role care givers provide in today's society. What about those partners in marriage who best describe their relationship as a "cold war"? Feeling, love, and emotion have evaporated, leaving merely a skeleton of an existence. What about that sobbing suicidal teenager who is making that last desperate call on a telephone hotline to a counseling center? The message of Advent is one of hope. Hope, because it reminds us ...

1007. A Hands-on Religion

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... were. For Jesus religion was a hands-on affair. This is where we as the church run into problems. We have a chronic problem of being able to get things done. We are afflicted in our outreach. Our minds approve the gospel, our hearts have emotionally sincere feelings for love and service, but our concern to help seems to have difficulty getting from our hearts through our minds to our hands. We have difficulty getting our hands and hearts to cooperate. We have been caught up in a "cult of verbal Christianity ...

1008. Moses's New Job

Exodus 4:18-31

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... ? It was so real to you that you screamed out to me to circumcise Gershom. You weren't able to settle down until I finally did it. That was such a bad night! I'll never forget it. What kind of religion is it that so distorts a man's emotions that even his dreams become so awful? How can you be confident you are doing right in trying to be the savior of your people? You're part of us now and you have had nothing to do with the Hebrews for years. Please do not go any further. We ...

1009. The Peacemakers

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

John A. Terry

... We want peace. We want peace in our hearts. We want peace in our homes. We want peace in our church, in our neighborhood and in our world. We want a world where nation does not lift up sword against nation. We want homes where people are not battered emotionally or physically. We want to have peace. Agreeing on the need for peace is easy. The trouble comes when we do what Jesus said and try to make peace. The principle of peace is easy. Making peace is the hard part. Over the years, there have been many who ...

1010. What Does Jesus Expect of Us?

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... focal point would be the Cross. Prior to this event, there had been tumultuous weeks and days. Wonderful works had been performed - the hungry were fed by the thousands, the blind had sight restored, the dumb were made to speak. As a result, an emotional wave was everywhere mounting among every group - the common people, the church hierarchy, even the disciples. The emerging question was, "Who is this man?" The sick are cured? The winds and waves obey him? Is he just the carpenter from Nazareth, or isn't ...

1011. What Triggers Your Panic Button?

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... you when the panic buttons are on and popping on all around you, do everything in your power to turn them off. Then pray. Make connection with Jesus, who has authority over the elements, not only the elements of the sea but the elements of your emotions and psyche. When the elements of nature and the elements of your psyche are out of control, in continuous conflict, they destroy whatever is around them. But the moment they are brought under control, you feel the rage begin to calm and harmony begin to heal ...

1012. What’s a Sunday For?

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... sharing with your colleagues, friends and peers in the club and on the golf course. Rest comes when we can be supportively present through the tragedies, the pains and the frustrations of those whom we love. And rest comes when our emotions are lifted above the routine boredom of every day through worship, meditation, singing, praising, learning and dedicating ourselves to bigger goals. What’s a Sunday for? Think on these three words: Reflect, Rejoice, Role Search. - Sunday is a day to Reflect. - Sunday ...

1013. What’s Going on at Your House?

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... and prime time on television. If you want to start gossip in the community, get in front of a group of reporters with a microphone. Tell them your pastor is doing strange things. You will get reactions. I knew of a parish that experienced explosive emotions upon learning that their priest of ten years had resigned due to AIDS. The Gospel is showing us an explosive situation. Mark tells us there were two reactions, one from his family, and one from the religious hierarchy in Jerusalem. His family sent a note ...

1014. Celebrating the Marvel of Growth

Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... plant seeds, garden seeds, love seeds, fun seeds, study seeds, health seeds, spirit seeds, all kinds of seeds. ‘Tis the season to celebrate the marvel of growth Ñ growth in our gardens, growth in our minds, growth in our bodies, growth in our emotions, growth in our spirits. We are celebrating the invisible system of growth that God has programmed into all creation.1 In this season gardens flourish, students graduate, couples take vows of matrimony, families enjoy vacations, and we marvel at the signs of ...

1015. Teach Fear To Say Its Prayers

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... danger might be nearby. If I hear strange noises, I check. If I am in a strange location, I keep a cautious eye. Fear is my natural defense mechanism. It tells me I care about what happens. But fear can be overpowering. When fear masters my emotions and my rational ability, it is immobilizing. When fear becomes my master, a lot of things happen to me: I lose my ability to function rationally; I get all up-tight; my blood pressure shoots up; my heart beats faster; an excess amount of adrenalin shoots into ...

1016. A Thanksgiving Checklist

Luke 12:48

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... these folks have been “taking in” for years and years and still are, even though by this time they should be “putting out.” Checklist item #2: Do I realize that Jam never out of debt? That’s not a financial statement, but it is a spiritual and an emotional one. It is the psalmist declaring, “Hear my cry, O Lord; listen to my call for help! If you kept a record of our sins, who could escape being condemned? But you forgive us, so that we should reverently obey you.” (Psalm 130:2-4 TEV) Think of ...

1017. David and the Devil

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... an inside trader. When we become the Devil’s person, others get hurt, too. The Lesson The lessons in all this? First, the Devil is close at hand. For all of us. That’s true whether it is a young child who grows comfortable with lying or an adult who emotionally and/or sexually abuses a child. James Hillman has written a word that must reach our ears: “The Devil’s power seems to grow not in our shadow but from our light. He gains when we lose touch with our own darkness, when we lose sight of our own ...

1018. Learning The Basics

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... no matter how we might feel about one another at the moment. There are those days when I don't like my wife, and there are many more days when she doesn't like me! Because of something one of us did. But regardless of how we feel emotionally toward each other, we are committed, through Christ's love, to love one another unconditionally. To act lovingly toward each other even when we do not like each other. There are times in the family when there is illness, when there has been death, or when spouses have ...

1019. Wisdom In A Proverb

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... in a soup kitchen distributing food. This is a small sign of her generosity which includes sweeps of generosity to godchildren, constant commitment to a Lutheran church on the lower East Side of New York, to Palestinian refugees who need financial as well as emotional help. As I consider those who are generous that I know, I recognize that generosity is a way of being, not an occasional gesture and the way of being means sacrifice and it means blessing. "Those who are generous are blessed," for they share ...

1020. The M And M Factor

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... again. "Tell me, Learned Ones," Jesus said, "is it allowed to do good on sabbath?" Jesus knew that the law said it was all right on the sabbath to rescue a cow that had fallen into a ditch. What about a human life? Mark's gospel shares some emotion in the recounting. He says the Pharisees didn't answer Jesus. Jesus "looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart." (This is one of the very few references to Jesus' anger.) And so in the presence of the Pharisees from Jerusalem, and in ...

1021. Pathway To God's Kingdom

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... was planted that allowed Jacob DeShazer to struggle with the mysterious growth of God's kingdom in his own life, a growth that took place in a prison cell! (How God's kingdom grows in times of difficulty, oppression, imprisonment - whether physical or emotional.) After his release DeShazer became a Christian missionary. For three decades he strove to bring the beliefs of God's kingdom to China and Japan. But that seed continued to grow. In a curious twist, Jacob DeShazer was instrumental in the conversion ...

1022. What Kind Of King Is This?

2 Samuel 6:1-23

Sermon

Charles Curley

... tumultuous day, David danced with God. What does it mean for us to dance before the Lord? When do we dance with God? Are we like David's wife, Michal, who was embarrassed when David showed such vulnerability and such an outpouring of emotion in public? Michal clearly believed this was neither the time nor the place for such a display. Is our spiritual life - our relationship with God - a personal, private matter, quite apart and separate from the crazy, crowded, hectic activity of everyday life? I suspect ...

1023. What Did You Draw?

Mark 6:1-6

Children's Sermon

... Teachers or Parents: This week's lesson is the story of Jesus going to his hometown and speaking in the synagogue. While Jesus was accepted across the countryside as a preacher and healer, he was not accepted at home. The story includes a number of emotions, questions and frowning faces. Tell your children the story. Using fingers for pencils, use this lesson to make a guessing game. One child will draw something with his finger on the back (or arm) of another child. The other child must guess what is drawn ...

1024. What Do You Mean, "Repent"?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Thomas Long

Bright Lights, Big City is Jay McInerney's searingly-witty, emotion-ripping novel of one man's perilous drift down an alcohol and white-powder-polluted stream of delayed adolescence. The young man is bright, creative, and desperately lonely. His language is marked by the kind of sarcasm which forms at the intersection of keen intelligence, comic conceit, and human desolation. ( ...

1025. There's A Man Going Around Taking Names

John 1:19-28

Sermon

Thomas Long

... . The scene in the movie is a courtroom, and a trial is underway. A somber judge is presiding; the jury is listening intently; the prosecuting attorney is laying out the case. Suddenly the rear doors of the courtroom swing open and a frantic, emotionally-distressed man enters. He looks wildly around, and then blurts out a tearful confession, admitting to the astonished court that he, and not the defendant, is the guilty party. A dramatic and startled silence fills the room. The only problem is that the ...

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