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1151. Praying With Tears in Your Eyes

Hebrews 1:1-14

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... ignored her. She continued to cry for help. The annoyed disciples urged the Master to send her away, "for she is crying after us." Because of her persistent and tearful appeals, she won healing for her daughter. Likewise, there are hurting people all around us - emotional, physical, and spiritual problems. They need and covet the kind of prayers that have tears of supplication. Are we concerned about the faith of others to the point of tears? Do we care that much that they belong to God? On the last day ...

1152. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... stir among religious-minded people when he boldly announced his much publicized "God is Dead" theory. Throughout the Church, particularly in the South, ministers braced their shoulders, thumped their Bibles, exhibited their best preacher voices, related their finest emotional stories, and frequently quoted the Psalm which says, "The fool has said in his heart there is no God." A flurry of forums, lectures, leaflets, debates, position papers, and bumper stickers appeared. So far as bumper stickers go ...

1153. Divorce-Proofing Your Marriage

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... instance, when I was a student at Newberry College, I had a friend who had been married only a few months when he learned that his parents were divorcing. The news was devastating to Sam. For several weeks, we spent lots of time together as he emotionally poured out his heart. In one of our conversations, Sam said, "I never imagined this would happen. I guess I thought my parents would always be together. As I was growing up, they had their disagreements but nothing major. Now their divorce makes me wonder ...

1154. What Children Owe Their Parents

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... parents. As long as we are unmarried, living in their home, we owe them obedience unless they ask us to act contrary to God's will. All our lives we owe them love, respect, and honor. If they suffer the tragic consequences of old age, we owe them financial and emotional support. "Honor your father and mother," for we are all indebted to our parents!

1155. The Cross And Our Shadows

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Carl Jech

... side, a "not-so-nice side" to his or her personality, no matter how wonderful, selfless, "Christian" or loving he or she might appear outwardly. (Jung also had much to say about dreams as important indicators of what is really going on beneath the surface in our emotional and spiritual lives.) As Joel calls his people to "rend their hearts" and face their not-so-nice side in the wake of the Lord's judgment, so too Lent, calls us all to face up to the shadows in our lives. We are called to confront the ...

1156. Peace as Shalom

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... later, that I can now place a little round-headed pin on the map of my life-journey, to mark that spot as a particularly significant point in life. There, with a group of Phoenix civic and religious leaders, I was granted the rare privilege and emotionally moving opportunity to lead Christians and Jews in prayer to a common God. The words of Psalm 122 came to mind, Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:May they prosper who love you!Peace be within your walls, andsecurity within your towers!For my brethren and ...

1157. The Gift of Peace

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... service, and attended the reception in the afternoon, and then gone back to write a funeral service, while thinking about getting out of town for thirty-two hours of rest. Life is sometimes like a pneumatic tube which pressures us along, divides our commitments and emotions, and forces us to find a way to make all the pieces fit, without being totally divided. If the lives of others sometimes feel like mine in the dream, is it any wonder that personal peace and world peace are so hard to come by? The ...

1158. T.G.I.F

John 1:43-51

Sermon

William Luoma

... Father willing to give up his son?Genesis 22:1-14 Second Lesson Reader: The writer to the Hebrews describes Jesus as a high priest who is able to identify with us in every way.Hebrews 4:14-16, 5:7-10 Gospel Reader: Luke describes the deep emotion Jesus experienced while in Gethsemane. Just before this, we hear Peter's vow of faithfulness.Luke 22:33-46 Hymn: "My Faith Looks Up to Thee" Sermon The Offering May be Received Calvary Credo Reader 1: I believe that almost two thousand years ago, there lived a man ...

1159. Encounters With Christ II: Jesus and Mary and Martha

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

James W. Moore

... person’s soul. Let me hurry to say: This is no criticism of detailed planner personalities. We need them. Every church, every business, every family needs Marthas. We need detailed planner personalities. But, when Jesus looked at Martha that day in that emotional scene, He saw some red flags, some warning signals, some danger signs, some destructive attitudes within her which were more harmful to Martha herself than to anyone else. Jesus loved Martha. They were good friends… and that day, He saw in her ...

1160. Mary Remembers

Luke 1:26-38

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... your kindness," Joseph replied. I knew that I would give birth that night. The journey was almost more than I could bear. Through the night I was in constant labor pain, mixed with feelings of apprehension, exhaustion, fear, but also trust. My mind went through every emotion. My one overwhelming desire was to give my child a healthy birth. If the angel was correct, if this indeed was to be the Son of God, he should not be born under these circumstances! I should at least be at home in Nazareth, in the ...

1161. Monologue: Hagar

Genesis 16:1-16

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... imagine how much adoration and affection I have for our God. He is a God who cares, who saves when there is no hope and gives respect and life to someone who has never had a chance. My son married and had a good life. I endured much physical and emotional hardship and I was a single mother but I know that with God you can do anything. Rely on it. Trust me. My story is thousands of years old. What God did for me, he can do for you.

1162. Monologue: Sarah

Genesis 20:1-18

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... Sarah, wife of Abraham. Now, I know differently. Now I know that God is very real and all-powerful. He knows me personally and where I am. He knows my thoughts and motivations. Inwardly, I begged for mercy knowing I deserved none. I wondered if I would survive emotionally. I had nothing to cling to. I wondered if I should commit suicide and eliminate the pain I was going through. I was deluged in grief and nothing, not my beauty, my wealth or anything I ever had could help me with my situation. I just faced ...

1163. When Life Closes In

Matthew 26:17-30, Matthew 26:36-46

Sermon

Robert Allen

... sat there in that hospital room and talked, David stared out the window and looked at the skyline of the city off in the distance. Occasionally, he would use a kleenex to wipe the tears as they trickled down his cheeks. Then, in a voice that was choked with emotion, he looked back toward me and said, "I've never felt this way before. It just seems that life is closing in on me." Jesus must have felt that life was closing in on him on that Thursday of his final week. The triumphant welcome he had received on ...

1164. The Impossibility of Neutrality

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Robert Allen

... if each candidate would be a credit to the ordained ministry of the church. Finally, after we had exhaustive interviews with the candidates, they would leave the room and we would discuss their strengths and their weaknesses. Often, the debate would be long and emotional. We would vacillate on certain candidates as we rode the fence trying to determine if we were for or against them. We were torn between accepting and rejecting them. However, the time of decision came. We could no longer ride the fence and ...

1165. Love Over Logic

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Carl Jech

... would also think: "Too many of these rewards and my just desserts will be obesity and poor health." The law of reward and punishment, of cause and effect, of action and consequences, is a pervasive part of our lives. Professionals who work with emotionally disturbed children often have to put a lot of effort into creating a structure of limits in which the child learns the connection between actions and consequences. Many people also think of religion in terms of reward and punishment. One humorous quip in ...

1166. Jesus, Mary, Gustav Mahler, Brother Martin, and the Magi

Luke 20:9-19

Sermon

Carl Jech

... , and the way of knowledge. In other words, we will understand one another better if we simply accept the fact that there are different "religious personality types." Some people are by nature devotional and pious - they express their faith in very warm, emotional terms, as if "the Lord" is always visible right at their elbow. Other folk express their faith primarily through forms and rituals. And still others tend to be intellectualizers; they might even say of themselves that they are "not religious" when ...

1167. The Ambiguity of Life, Deciding for Christ

John 10:22-42

Sermon

Carl Jech

... would no doubt prefer to live in a simple, unambiguous world in which everything rolled smoothly along like clockwork. The fact is, however, that even the best parents in the world cannot necessarily prevent their children from having emotional problems, and parents who are lucky enough to have relatively well-adjusted children cannot, and probably should not, totally insulate their children against disruptive influences in the environment. (You may have heard this, that children who are overprotected ...

1168. Jesus Meets Buddha and Confucius

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Carl Jech

... uncontrollable spasms of shouting obscenities and insults. How many folks will moralistically rush to judgment when they encounter Saul? I think also of the down-to-earth hard work done by skilled psychiatric social workers to rehabilitate emotionally disturbed children. They have remarkable success precisely because they avoid naive moralizing and instead help children to work through their feelings. Once the child begins to understand his or her feelings, then behavior usually improves. Another example ...

1169. Rejoice! It's Lent

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... purple of a dowager's dress. Hallelujahs are silenced within the service of the liturgy. Social celebrations are cancelled - or at least curtailed. Our attention is focused exclusively on the crucified body of a young man dying in agony on a criminal's cross. Our emotions are moved to tears by such words as suffering, sacrifice, passion, and death. All of this emphasis on the cross is intended to drive us to repentance and to acts of fasting. This Lenten emphasis on the death and suffering of our Lord is ...

1170. Names, Not Numbers

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... the people to remember the forty years spent in the wilderness. He urges the people to hold firm to their covenant with God, when they are confronted by the pagan religious practices, which he knows to be prevalent in the land of Canaan. This is an emotionally-charged sermon in that God has forbidden Moses to enter the Promised Land with his people. Like a pastor preaching his or her farewell sermon to a congregation, Moses appeals to his people to remember all that he has said to them in the past. The ...

1171. A Baptism of Blood

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

We cannot go back to Calvary. The cross was an event in history. It happened, never to be repeated. It was a deed of God determined, dared, and done. Our emotions may run high when we hear the words of the familiar spiritual, "Were you there when they crucified my Lord?" But, there is only one honest answer. No! We were not there. We are here, with two thousand years separating us from the cross on which our Lord died. The ...

1172. God is About to Strike

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... never converts into enthusiastic actions in our lives. Far too quickly, we short-circuit it into carefully worded, well-guarded, and conservative expressions of our faith. We never risk radical involvement or commitment. We avoid all overstatements and spontaneous expressions of emotion. We play it safe. This tragic short-circuiting of the power of the Word of God prohibits us from ever being converted into energetic believers, and it robs us, not only of knowing the full joy of a dynamic faith, but also ...

1173. The Mystery of God's Mercy

Acts 13:13-52

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... life. Ask any group of scientific scholars, "What is the most fascinating fact about life?" They will probably tell you the same thing, the more they know about their own field of expertise, the more they know that they do not know. Life is emotionally exciting and intellectually stimulating because the solving of one mystery only creates other mysteries yet to be solved. There is a secret pattern to all life. One thing is related to another, and everything is related to all other things. Everything has a ...

1174. Windows Of Wonder

Sermon

James Angell

... to have every sermon include what Dr. Ross Snyder called "one big scene." Remain with an illustration once you begin. And whether it is a major or minor one, sufficiently long enough to allow worshippers to see and feel the action involved, its latent emotional power - rather than settling for a two-sentence "passing reference." Honor the Bible's own treasury of illustrations. But don't be confined to them. Today's world is a different one from the Bible's typically pastoral backdrop. Yet there are biblical ...

1175. The Bridge

John 1:1-18, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 1:26-38, Genesis 3:1-24

Drama

H. J. Hizer

... that it was only money that made me fill their needs. I was about to turn them away -- yet something in the young girl's eyes held me -- and for a moment I believed I saw the future written in her gaze. Innkeeper: I can't run this place on emotions! So the woman's pregnant So is my cow! After all, I can't help all travelers who come to me -- can I? Why can't she see that? If I allow one I'll have to allow more -- who knows where it will end? Wife: You'd have thought ...

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