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101. Epiphany 4

Lk 4:21-30 · 1 Cor 13:1-13 · Jer 1:4-10

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John R. Brokhoff

... 1. Reveals negative thoughts - v. 23 2. Criticizes their lack of acceptance - v. 24 3. Extends God's love to all people - vv. 25-27 2. Get Rid of the Preacher! 4:21-29. Need: Can you believe it? Praise for the local preacher at Nazareth turns into violent hatred. The people so hated Jesus' sermon that they took him to the edge of a cliff and intended to throw him head-first to his death. Jesus began his ministry with the threat of death and ended his ministry by climbing a hill to Golgotha for actual death ...

102. Epiphany 7

Lk 6:27-38 · 1 Cor 15:45-49 · 1 Sam 26:1-25 · Gen 45:3-11, 15

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John R. Brokhoff

... verses Jesus is teaching a revolutionary ethic. An enemy is to be feared, hated, and, if possible, to be exterminated. In contrast, Jesus teaches us that we are not to return the hatred the enemy has for us, not to retaliate by seeking revenge. If we followed this course of action, there would be no end to the conflict, hatred, and violence. Jesus says that the hostility must end with the Christian, by loving, blessing, giving, and praying for the enemies. It is an ethic of non-retaliation. 2.Credit (vv. 32 ...

103. The Importance of Forgiving Others

Matthew 5:17-20

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... There they had to start all over again - and they did so gladly. Joe and Clarica Been are Jewish, but the sacrifices they have made for the downtrodden of South Africa are worthy of any Christian saint. Carrying the cross of Christ into a world of violence and hatred, so as to correct the wrongs and heal the wounds of those who have been victimized in various ways, can be a costly business. The human thing (which is really the inhuman thing) to do when we have been wronged by others is to get even with them ...

104. Healing And Forgiveness

Luke 5:17-26

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... an offering of love to Jesus Christ.1 The gift that Warrior Brown brought that day to the Harvest Festival was much more than a sack of potatoes. The real gift, the one that cost something, was the offering of a forgiving heart, completely absent of hatred and resentment. In our gospel lesson for the morning, we read the dramatic story which combines an account of Jesus as healer with a pronouncement that Jesus had the authority to forgive sins. The story is set in what was probably a one-story, one-roomed ...

105. The Master Has Come - To Face Jerusalem

Mark 11:1-11

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... deceit. Palm Sunday - and Jesus is going to the Cross, to die for a world we would give up on were it not for him, and what he did. No, the world has not changed much since that day when Jesus entered the city of Jerusalem. All our old hatreds, fears, and prejudices are still with us. We have simply dressed them up - and this world - in modern clothing. The old Jews had always welcomed their kings to Jerusalem with shouts of "Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" And, they would wave ...

106. Epiphany 6

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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... light to mere mortals. Jesus updates the commandments of God and some of the teachings of Holy Scripture by using a device: "You have heard that it was said (of old).... but I say to you...." He gives new interpretations to murder (anger and hatred are just as evil as the killing of people, because they are a type of bloodless destruction); to adultery (lust is an inward form of adultery); to marriage and divorce (divorce forces people into a type of adultery); and to lying and perjury ("swearing falsely ...

107. A Queen Bee’s Sting

2 Samuel 6:1-23

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... Middle Eastern sheik. Why then does the author of Samuel seem to dislike Michal so much? Human motivations for hate or love or indifference are as tangled as the skein woven by fate. Perhaps the reason Michal is hated so much by Jewish tradition is because her hatred was not directed at David but at God. God had made David king and Michal could not accept this fact. God had moved the church she attended from Gibeah to a new location, and Michal could not accept the change. God had altered the Book of Order ...

108. Opportunism? Or Opportunity?

Matthew 21:33-46

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... given on approval? There are, of course, some happy stories to be told. But on the whole, how do things really look? The incidences of inhuman treatment in the human family seem unending. Hatred thrives. We look out for ourselves. We batter and abuse one another. Part of this, admittedly, is due to our own self-hatred and feelings of low self-esteem. But nonetheless, our mistreatment of one another is a shocking fact and an affront to God, who dignified humanity by taking on our own condition in the person ...

109. A King Worth Having

Zechariah 9:9-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... do with this fabulous sum of money - food for the hungry, prosperity for the poor, education for the illiterate, and homes for the homeless! The basic cause of war is in the hearts of humanity. The spirit of the king does not possess our hearts. Pride, hatred, love of power, and greed for economic advantage cause tensions and hostility which lead to war. America, for instance, has let it be known that if the oil fields in the Middle East are endangered by a hostile power, we have a fast deployment force to ...

110. Is Your Sin My Business?

Ezekiel 33:1-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... but the death of the soul. The biblical understanding of death is that it is separation from God. A soul apart from him means death just as a branch dies when torn from the vine. God is love and to be separated from him means to live in hatred. God is hope and to be apart from him spells despair. In the biblical sense, death does not mean extinction. If that were so, death would be a blessing, the end of all our cares. Probably some who commit suicide are under this false impression. The soul apart from ...

111. Forgive To Be Forgiven

Genesis 50:15-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... father, gave Joseph a beautiful coat of many colors, but none of the other sons was so favored. To add insult to injury, Joseph was a dreamer. One time he dreamed that one day he would be ruler and his brothers would bow down to him. The hatred became so intense that while out in the fields tending their sheep, they planned to kill Joseph. But, upon further discussion, they decided to throw him into a pit until some Ishmaelites came along. They sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver, and he was carried as ...

112. Heart To Heart

Ezekiel 18:1-32

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John R. Brokhoff

... the heart’s rhythm when one gets a heart attack. If you do not have physical heart trouble, do you have spiritual heart trouble? Most of us will have to answer affirmatively. The heart of most of us is dirty and diseased with sin. Often the heart is filled with hatred and bitterness. As Ezekiel says in our text, we have a heart of stone. Obviously, we need a change of heart, from one heart to another, from a bad to a good heart, from a dirty to a clean heart. Through Ezekiel, God calls us to go from heart ...

113. THE GOOD SAMARITAN

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Marcia Miller

... immediately pretend that they belong to them, deriving their genealogy from the prosperity of Joseph, Ephraim, and Manasseh. THE GREETER: The hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews was so extreme that to go from Jerusalem in Judea to Nazareth in Galilee, the norm was to travel ... around Samaria, not through it. That’s a lot of hatred. THE JEW: [Entering.] I am a law-abiding citizen. I abide by the Roman law as well as the laws of my religion. ...

114. Moving Fences

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

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Bill Bouknight

... -winning novel, "Gandhi," a Hindu leader co the bedside of the great Indian leader, who is now near death. The Hindu pleads with him to end his long fast. Gandhi reaffirms that he will end his fast only when the Hindus and Muslims stop fighting. The Hindu, with hatred for the Muslims burning in his eyes, says he will continue fighting. To justify his resolve he tells how Muslims took his little boy and killed him by crushing his skull. He in turn captured a Muslim boy and killed him in the same way. Then he ...

115. Discipleship - Path to Fulfillment

Mark 10:35-45

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James W. Robinson

... that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?" Jesus asked James and John. "What he is saying is ‘Can you bear to go through the terrible experience which I have to go through? Can you face being submerged in hatred and pain and death, as I have been?’ "1 James and John answered bravely, "We are able." As it turned out, they were able. Except for a brief defection at Gethsemane and moments of weakness at the Crucifixion, they carried, unswervingly, the cross of sacrifice and ...

116. Overcoming Loneliness

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Robert G. Tuttle

... the possibilities of beautiful womanhood. I see the potential of a life committed to God." "But don’t you see," she insists, "the ugliness, the greed, and things even worse than that?" Jesus answers, "I see far below the surface a real desire for goodness, and a hatred of all that is ugly in life." But she continues, "I have broken my good resolutions; I have lost my chance; my ideals are gone; my faith is no longer meaningful." Jesus looks at her tenderly and whispers, "The Son of Man came to seek and to ...

117. With All Your Heart

Joel 2:12-17, Joel 2:1-11

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... love harden the heart. God loves us and we are a called to love others. God so loved the world that he sent his son to us out of love, and we as followers of Christ should spread the Good News of love in a world filled with resentment and hatred. God wants to redeem his people. God wants his people to have a heart and spirit of redemption for others. The people of Joel’s time were hurting from their past. Some of them had lost all hope of ever achieving the spiritual greatness of their forbears. But God ...

118. Reproached Rolled Away

Joshua 5:1-12

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and state of mind that makes one forever the victimized. Victims invariably view life in terms of what happened to them rather than what God can do in and for them. It is the pain and memory of being victimized unjustly by others that creates hatred, resentment, and even a desire to live without God. It is the experience of being victimized that can lead to a permanent condition of victimhood where the hope that redeems and heals is forever vanquished. Moving from victim to victor is knowing that the wounds ...

119. Out of the Box

Acts 11:1-18

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... Son in a box, and the Holy Ghost in a box! The Father sent the Son so we can get out of the box of sin, hatred, non-forgiveness, and other things that put us in the box in the first place. We are called to come out of the box of spiritual ... stay in their boxes? Christ was crucified and resurrected so that we could come out of the box. Jesus refused to allow hatred, prejudice, class, race, age, ethnicity, money, power, influence, sickness, affliction, trouble, sorrow, pain, or death to keep him in a box. Jesus ...

120. A Very Special Man

Luke 2:22-40

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King Duncan

... that Jesus was special simply because of his teachings. He writes, "We may note in passing that Jesus was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He didn't produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three effects Hatred Terror Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval." If it wasn't his appearance and it wasn't his teachings that cast a spell on people, what was it? WE HAVE TO CONCLUDE, I BELIEVE, THAT IT WAS HIS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. Love came ...

121. Light

Isaiah 2:1-5

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King Duncan

... darkness will one day expel the darkness. Advent is that season when we look both backward and forward. We look back to Christ's coming into the world in the manger of Bethlehem, but we also look forward to that final victory of light over darkness, love over hatred, peace over war, when Christ shall reign over all. They are part of the same package. If you believe that God has intervened in human history to reveal himself and his plan for creation, then you also believe that the world as we know it is not ...

122. Walk In Love

Ephesians 4:1-16

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King Duncan

... War II. After the second war a stone statue was erected on the Polish frontier. The statue was of a woman brooding in determination facing the Polish nation. Underneath that woman were these words inscribed: "Never forget, Germans, of what blind hatred has robbed you." Then below were listed the towns which once belonged to Germany but now belong to Poland. Negative emotions take their toll. Psychiatrists at Duke University have concluded that persons who have continuing feelings of hostility towards others ...

123. The Most Difficult Commandment

Mark 12:28-34

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King Duncan

... people hate themselves they are apt to be abusive toward others. Low self-esteem is certainly a factor in drug and alcohol abuse and all the problems that are engendered by these two vices. Low self-esteem is certainly a factor in bigotry and racial hatred. And thus, according to many psychologists, the key to getting people to love others is to first get them to love themselves. John Q. Baucom, in his book Baby Steps to Happiness, tells about a teacher training workshop he once conducted. He spoke to the ...

124. April Sky

John 20:1-9

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Frank Lyman

... a fragile entity. The forces of evil are still much alive in this world. We see those forces in the tragedy of ethnic hatred, in the exploitation of the drug trade, in the violence that still stalks our streets and even invades our schools. If we ... through the core of the Communist system." (7) God still breaks through the cores of systems which enslave. The stones of hatred and oppression, violence and genocide, despair and futility are still rolled away. And when they do, surely heaven itself breaks out ...

125. How Many Times?

Matthew 18:21-35

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King Duncan

... the heart and mind of one person." Returning for the first time in years to the spot near a lake in Central Park where he was first shot, he led onlookers in the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon." That's what it means to be a follower of Jesus. We forgive not only because it is to our benefit to forgive. We forgive because we have been ordered by our Lord to forgive. But there is one more reason ...

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