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101. The Crowing of a Rooster

Matthew 26:31-35, Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... to stand the stigma, tried to lose himself in a foreign land. Whenever he was asked about the letters on his forehead, his only answer was to leave the area immediately. Thus he wandered for the rest of his life from one country to another. He died full of bitterness and hatred and resentment. The other brother repented of his thievery. He said to himself, "I cannot run away from the fact that I stole sheep. I will stay here and try to make amends for what I have done. I will stay and win back the respect ...

102. The Christian's Tears of Failure

Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... Isn't that hell? You know what to do but you don't do it." Yes, failure is hell, enough to make a brave man cry. Upon his failure to be true to his Master, Peter broke down in tears. As our text says, Peter after his denial "wept bitterly." It happened during the night before the crucifixion. Jesus had just been betrayed by Judas, arrested by a band of soldiers, and was taken for trial to the palace of the high priest, Caiaphas. While Jesus was on trial, Peter remained in the courtyard with maids and other ...

103. An Easter-Life

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... dressed, packed, and waited. The hours passed slowly by. Still, she waited. She rushed up to the second floor and ran to the window. To her horror, she saw the captain's ship sailing out of the harbor. For the rest of her life she lived a lonely and a bitter existence. Her father and her brother died. She closed up the house, and she lived in it as if it were a tomb. Then, one day, when she was gathering her brother's clothes to store them in the attic, she came across the coat that her brother had worn ...

104. If Only We Would Do The Obvious ...

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... . She tried to be perfect and demanded that same perfection of everyone else: her parents, her students, her acquaintances, and even strangers she encountered. When they could not measure up to her standard of perfection, she turned her bitterness upon them, the same bitterness she heaped on herself for failing to be perfect. Ann was so afraid of being controlled, especially by her parents, that she read control into any overtures they made. She also interpreted inquiries and expressions of interest from ...

105. Prayer: Our Crosses into Victories

Mark 8:31--9:1

Bulletin Aid

... . And here, the voice of Our Lord calls to us: "Pick up your cross, and follow me. Offer me your cross, and follow me. And I will turn your cross into victory. You may not understand now. You may not know the way I am leading you. You may feel bitter, and disappointed, and unhappy. But trust me, and follow me. And your eyes will see, in this life and eternity." This invitation of the Savior of our souls: that as we give our cross to Him, He will turn it into victory; that through our life with Him, in our ...

106. Tears in Raniah

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

... , and I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble ... for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born." When we feel exile in our hearts, God has not abandoned us. When we feel lamentation and bitter weeping, as Rachel felt for her children, God is still with us. When we feel we do not even want to be comforted, God then sends his word: "There is hope for you ... He who scattered you will gather you and will keep you as a shepherd keeps his flock ...

107. No Weedless Garden

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

Richard L. Thulin

... . Remember that." I often wanted to tell my grandfather that church people were well aware of their weaknesses and their failures. He did not know anything about them that they did not know about themselves. But while he despaired over their weediness and withdrew in bitterness, the people of God lived in hope. Whatever decay, ugliness and impariment there are, they will not last. The day shall come when the field will be a single unbroken mass of wheat. It is in the coming of that day that God's people ...

108. The Grace of Disillusionment

Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... hand, runs toward the pit of destruction, or so the Pharisee supposes. Customs collectors had many ways to cheat the public and made a lot of money doing it. Respectable people despised them. No wonder the man does not dare to lift his eye to heaven. He is bitterly aware of his distance from God and can only beat his breast in contrition. He and his family are in a hopeless situation. To repent, he will need not only to quit his way of life, but also to restore his dishonest gains with an added fifth in ...

109. The New Covenant

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... to a climax in the Holy Supper. Let us recall the details! Israel had been instructed to join together in family units to eat a meal, the menu of which was to be a male lamb "without blemish," unleavened bread, and bitter herbs. The bitter herbs were to symbolize the bitterness of the suffering that the Israelites had endured during their many years of bondage in Egypt. The unleavened bread was for them an emblem of purity. Leaven (yeast) was a symbol of sin. Baking the bread without yeast symbolized the ...

110. Mary - Weeping Woman or Bold Believer

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... who lived at Bethany - Mary and Martha, and their brother Lazarus. My home was in Magdala, a little village on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. And for many years my life had been filled with bitterness. Did you know that the name Mary means "bitterness." Yes, there had been bitterness in my life; my inability to control my emotions and my unpredictable behavior made me the object of scorn by many people. But Jesus had changed that. As he traveled about from one town to another, he proclaimed ...

111. OUR LORD TORMENTED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... mythology. Standing on the parapet high atop the Antonia, the Roman Procurator, Pilate, let his gaze drift from the white temple buildings almost directly beneath him to the city beyond, but his mind was seeing the grandeur of Rome and his heart was filled with bitter nostalgia. He did not turn at the sound of steps behind him, nor did he speak when the centurion moved to his side. The officer was in full military regalia, his breastplate gleaming in the moonlight, the red plume of his helmet wafting in the ...

112. Behold the Blood of the Covenant

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... in Egypt whose doorposts had been marked with the blood of the lamb. Additionally, two symbolic articles were to be placed on the table: a bowl of salt water and a bowl of bitter herbs. The salt water would serve as a reminder of the tears shed in Egypt and the bitter herbs would call to mind the bitterness of slavery. Peter and John knew exactly what preparations to make. The question was, "Where?" The city was jammed with pilgrims; all available space had long since been let, and if there were facilities ...

113. The Children of Promise

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... felt deeply for these people, and he also sensed how God felt about them. God would never give up on them. God would save them. Jeremiah had all these feelings swelling within himself. He was angry with the people for not believing, yet he loved them. He was still bitter towards God for the judgment on Judah, and yet he sympathized with God’s predicament. He hated himself for what he had to do, but he knew he had to do it. It was the word, the word of God, that guaranteed it would all come out right. The ...

114. Mark Twain's Briefcase And A Great Mental Attitude

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... his book BEEN THERE. DONE THAT. NOW WHAT?, tells a terrific story about a professional golfer on the PGA tour years ago named Bobby Cole. No one wanted to play with Cole, the story goes, because he was angry all the time. He made cutting remarks. He was bitter. He made the other golfers around him mad too. Bobby Cole's partner at the Masters in Augusta one year was Sam Snead. Everybody loved Sam Snead. He was gracious and kind. He coached and encouraged others and rarely had a negative word to say to anyone ...

115. A Man Who Walked the Talk

Acts 7:55-60

Sermon

King Duncan

... within most of us that cherishes the idea of revenge. Forgiveness is for wimps. That is the attitude many of us have. An old Scottish story tells of a man who feared he was on his death bed. He sent for an acquaintance with whom he had had a bitter quarrel and asked that they put away their feelings of enmity. The acquaintance agreed and started to leave the room. The old man rose up on his elbow and spoke one final word, “But remember, if I get well our old quarrel still stands.” We can understand his ...

116. Living In Spite House

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... is saying, but the truth is that nurtured resentment hurts most the one who nurtures it. When the poet Edwin Markham reached the age of retirement, he discovered that his banker had defrauded him. Markham was ready to retire but was penniless. He was also bitter. He was so bitter that he could no longer write poetry. He was obsessed with the evil perpetrated against him by a man he had thought was a friend. One day he was sitting at his desk doodling, not writing poetry but only thinking of the man who had ...

117. Help Me Make It Through The Night

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... not the one she had been praying for. Instead God met her in her pain and gave her life new meaning and a new direction in spite of her suffering and disappointment. Joni's honesty set that dying young man free. He was able to let go of his bitterness and anger. He stopped seeing himself as one who did not have enough faith. Instead he came to see Christ in a new way. Not long after that crusade the young man died, "but his parents were able to rejoice," Dr. Graham says because, "he had not died angry ...

118. What It Means To Be A Family

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... around the farm. For, you see, Bill was disabled, having lost both legs to a booby trap mine in Vietnam. Aunt Rose couldn't have known what emotions her request would conjure up. The trauma of the war, combined with Bill's horrible injury, had left him bitter and angry. Over the years, he had developed a deep hatred for Vietnam and its people. So Bill's first instinct was to reject Aunt Rose's request. But then a deliciously evil thought seized him: he could make the Vietnamese family suffer, just as he had ...

119. Full Barns--empty Souls

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... she had it all, but now she had nothing but sorrow and hurt. How do you deal with such a sudden and complete change of fortune? The truth is that without strong spiritual resources to draw on, you will not cope very well. SOME PEOPLE DROWN THEMSELVES IN BITTERNESS. That is certainly an option. Gretchen could have done that. She could have turned all her hurt into anger--at life, at God, at the world. In Peter DeVries' novel The Blood of the Lamb, the title character, Don Wanderhope grows up in a religiously ...

120. People Who Inspire Us

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... of his extra burden. (5) As motivational speaker Jim Rohn puts it, “Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better." It is a cliche, but nevertheless it is true: Hardship serves either to make us bitter or to make us better. The choice is ours. But we need to know this: There is no future in bitterness. Bitterness never motivated anyone to a higher plane of life. We can move to a higher plane of life, but first of all, we are going to have to face some challenges, hardships, adversity. What's true in ...

121. Dwell in Our Hearts

Ephesians 2:17

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... we could sneeze out all of our bad habits? All of our bad thoughts? All of our anger? All of our hatred and all of our bitterness? Wouldn't it be great if somebody was acting in a way they shouldn't, all we would have to do would be to sprinkle a ... our bad thoughts and bad feelings. The Bible tells us that what we need to do when we're having feelings of anger, hatred, and bitterness, is to pray about them and to let Jesus take them from us, and ask instead that Christ dwell in our hearts and not all those ...

122. Formula For A Glowing Face

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... largest concerts. He handed it to his mother's elderly mistress. When she looked at the gift and realized its size, she immediately began to cry. Then in a split second the three were in each other's arms--three of God's children, with no dividing line of color, bitterness, or hate. If a black man, living in a white man's world, can live and work triumphantly and radiantly, so may you and I. (4) Roland Hayes had the glow. And you and I can have it, too. And remember, your face is a reflection of your inner ...

123. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Counselor." We could easily make a case that where there is no love, there is no comfort. Leslie Weatherhead once told of a woman who married late in life. She confessed to him that for many years she had been bitter, and sarcastic, and cynical about life. She had said many bitter things about her neighbors, often envying them their good fortune, being married, and having homes of their own, while she felt doomed to a life of loneliness. She had stopped praying years before, and even blamed God for the poor ...

124. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... took out a letter. He said, This is a letter of dismissal. I was going to fire you when you got back from your trip. Your bitterness had so destroyed the harmony and the peace in this workplace that we just couldn't have it any longer. We were going to get rid ... just these few hours you've been back I've seen the joy and the peace in your heart, the love now that's replaced that bitter, spiteful attitude, and I've seen how kind you've been to your co-workers. I know a change has come about in you. What has ...

125. Making Sense of the Ascension

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... gotten in life. Then, rather late, love came into her life. A rather youngish widower asked her to marry him. She became radiant, a radically different person altogether. She became filled with love and laughter. Then she regretted those years of despondency and bitterness. She told Dr. Weatherhead a most significant thing. She said, “If only I had known earlier how life was going to turn out. . .” Well, she would have lived differently. She would have lived in hope. I am not implying that people need ...

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