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101. No Green Without Red

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... like me, I love me, My self I do adore; And every day, in every way, I love me more and more. Today our kids learn the song Big Bird sings: I can do whatever I want to do I can be whatever I want to be I like me. Self-esteem and self-abuse are not the only alternatives for the believer in Jesus Christ. There is a God-centered selflove that comes from loving God. When we love God, we love what God loves. And God loves us. But the movement of faith is from a self-centered existence, to ...

102. Giving Away the Store

Luke 22:7-38, John 13:1-17

Sermon

Carl Jech

... too far, we need to recognize also that objections have even been raised to the entire theology of grace itself. Such critics maintain that to picture human beings as always helplessly begging for God's grace and mercy is demeaning to our dignity and self-esteem. In his famous classic, The Golden Bough, Sir James G. Frazer suggests that religion itself originated from some primitive notion that the gods must be appeased. Frazer's idea is that religion in most of its forms represents a failure of nerve on ...

103. Proper 23

Genesis 3:1-24, Mark 10:17-31, Hebrews 4:1-13

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... RATHER THAN ANYTHING WE CAN EARN OR ACQUIRE. Collect Almighty God, who have given us by grace the salvation that we could never earn, instill in us a sense of dependence upon you; that we may no longer rely upon our own merits and assets for self-esteem, but may learn finally to trust in you. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Merciful God, we confess that we tend to put our trust in the material rather than the spiritual, and that we long for worldly wealth more than we should. Forgive ...

104. A Lack of Feeding in the American Dream

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... part of the West, that a man in particular must in every way be self-sufficient, self-made, and in no way weak or dependent or inclined to seek help for any troublesome issues. When any of these assumptions or dreams or fairy tales are in operation, our self-esteem cuts us off from the feeding available from persons who are willing to give to us regardless of IQ, looks, sports ability, total acreage, or whatever. We get in the way of our own feeding. I mean, we as adults when I say it now. Our parents may ...

105. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... than any Jewish or Catholic guilt, more pervasive than any guilt your mother could ever heap upon your head is the guilt we carry from our sins. It haunts us. It distracts us. It continues to remind us that we're not good enough. It slowly eats at our self esteem and our self confidence. (5) For Batman, a lapsed Episcopalian, it's so pervasive that time after time he has to prove that he's better than the guilt will ever let him feel. B. From the moment of his decision to take on crime to avenge his parents ...

106. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

107. Engaging the Master Designer

Psalm 139: 1-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... I’ve learned the hard way is you want to get your plan on paper before you pour it in concrete. Architects are expensive, but they are essential. Life is not a do-it-yourself project. Life is not self-advancement, self-appointment, self-seeking, self-righteousness, self-sufficiency, self-esteem. Self-help is not where it’s at. Life is about surrender to the One who thought of you in the first place. What a relief! It’s not all up to you. You don’t have to think it all up or work it all out. A person ...

108. Meeting Jesus At The Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... gym and Nautilus-caliber training equipment; they want quality affordable day care and after school care for children; they want a variety of self-help and support groups; and they want sermons dealing with timely issues like money management and enhancing self-esteem. What they do not want are worship services where they are asked to participate or sing hymns; and they do not want sermons dealing with topics like sin, personal ethics, world hunger, or self-sacrifice. In response to such trends, within ...

109. Proper 17

Hebrews 13:1-25, Jeremiah 2:1-3:5, Luke 14:1-14

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... the table according to your self-evaluation v. 8. b. Give place if pride seated you too high v. 9 Old Testament: Jeremiah 2:4-13 1. How to become worth something (2:5). Need: We hear much these days about people's lack of self-esteem. This means that you think you are worthless. How did you get that way? Jeremiah gives the answer. People "went after worthless things and became worthless themselves." When we think unworthy thoughts, we tend to practice them. Continue to practice them and you become worthless ...

110. Proper 25

Lk 18:9-14 · 2 Tim 4:9-18 · Sirach 35:12-18 · Deut 10:12-22 · Zeph 3:1-9

Sermon Aid

... in God's presence 2. Confessed his sin 3. Begged for mercy 3. Is it OK to Feel Good About Yourself? 18:9-14. Need: We are living in a "me" or "we" generation when the emphasis is upon how good it is to be human. Books are written on self-esteem and how to look out for Number One. On the other hand, we have the worm theology - "I am a worm and no man." To be Christians, we think we should be nobodies and confess that in us there is no merit or worthiness. We want to be somebody and ...

111. Two Parables about Prayer

Luke 18:9-14, Luke 18:1-8

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... ritual code. 18:13 God, have mercy on me, a sinner. The description of the tax collector’s attitude conveys a sense of personal unworthiness, which, in view of Jesus’s comment in 18:14, we should probably take to include not merely low self-esteem but active repentance (as with the real-life tax collector in 19:1–10). “Have mercy on” is more literally “be propitiated toward”; he is seeking a new relationship with God. 18:14 justified before God. The Greek text has simply “having been ...

112. Pop Verses!: Philippians 4:13

Philippians 4:13

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... through money that will strengthen me, but I need more of it.” “I can do all things through the right relationship that will strengthen me, but all the good ones seem to be taken.” “I can do all things through position that will strengthen me and my self esteem, but I am not the boss yet.” Maybe that is the story of your life. If it is, have you found the strength you need? I am betting not. Perhaps all you have to show for your pursuit of content and strength is a depleted soul and discouraged ...

113. Army Divisions

1 Chronicles 27:1-15

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... in anticipation of a new present, and especially new future, under Persian dominion. Second, the way in which the Aaronites and Levites (cultic) are presented in these chapters could be an indication that there was a need to build self-esteem within the cultic sphere. By emphasizing their special position and function, and by indicating that their status within the cult was legitimated by Yahweh, these specific subgroupings would have bolstered their position over against other contenders, such as priests ...

114. Officers of the Tribes

1 Chronicles 27:16-24

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

115. The King's Overseers

1 Chronicles 27:25-34

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

116. Proper 25

Luke 18:9-14, Joel 2:18-27, Joel 2:28-32, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8, 2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... in God's presence. 2. Confessed his sin. 3. Begged for mercy. 3. Is it okay to feel good about yourself? (18:9-14). Need: We are living in a "me" or "we" generation when the emphasis is upon how good it is to be human. Books are written on self-esteem and how to look out for Number One. On the other hand, we have the worm theology "I am a worm and no man." To be Christian, we think we should be nobodies and confess that in us there is no merit or worthiness. We want to be somebody and ...

117. When Someone Else Gets The Honor

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Envy springs from a basic insecurity about our own self worth. As Elizabeth O'Conner has rightly noted, whenever a person is envious of another, you can be sure that individual has never fully recognized and accepted his or her own gifts. TRAGICALLY, OUR EFFORTS TO BOLSTER OUR SELF-ESTEEM AT THE EXPENSE OF THE ONE WE ENVY DOES MORE HARM TO US THAN IT DOES TO THEM. Dwight L. Moody once told a fable about an eagle who was envious of a fellow eagle who could fly better than he could. One day the first eagle ...

118. The Medicine Of A Cheerful Heart

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I can be happy with myself. I want us to think about that in two ways. First, the claiming of our unique identity. I may have told you the story that my friend, Bishop Emerson Colaw, shared with me. I know I told it at the Self-Esteem Conference recently. Bishop Colaw was the minister of Hyde Park Church in Cincinnati, Ohio, before he was elected a bishop. In that family, there was a little girl named __________________________. She was a second-grader, and one of her assignments in school was to write an ...

119. The Imperishable Dream

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... competitors is that, almost without exception, they emerge from the audition room vowing to continue their dream. They seem undaunted by this experience of complete failure and utter rejection. Having drunk too long and too deeply at the fountain of self-esteem, these contestants refuse to acknowledge their complete lack of talent. They stubbornly swear that no one will dissuade them from their self-appointed goal of greatness. What these American Idol rejects have forgotten is that there are very real ...

120. Guilt: How to Keep Your Conscience Clear

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... , obsolete, unproductive. People who trouble themselves with the feelings of personal guilt are usually referred to therapists, whose task it is to boost their self image. No one, after all, is supposed to feel guilty. Guilt is not conducive to dignity and self-esteem. Society encourages sin, but it will not tolerate the guilt sin produces.2 Ann Landers once wrote these words: One of the most painful, self-multilating, time-and-energy-consum-ing exercises in the human experience is guilt….it can ruin your ...

121. The Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

Luke 18:9-14

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... God, while the tax collector provides an example of the right way. The error of the Pharisee lies not in the fact the he has refrained from certain sins and has performed certain religious duties faithfully; his sin lies in his lofty self-esteem. Because he has remained legally and ritually pure, and because he has fasted regularly (a sign of religious seriousness) and has tithed faithfully (as required by the law of Moses), he assumes that he is acceptable before God. His estimation of his righteousness ...

122. Epiphany 5

Matthew 5:17-20, Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... to them. People want to be valued. They sometimes express the way they are used as being like a doormat. People walk over them and leave their dirt on them. The question arises as to whether such people have not demonstrated their worth. They do not have self-esteem and do not assert their own value. They are like salt that has lost its tastiness. They need to return to the source of saltiness. They need to realize their worth as children of God and manifest the saltiness that comes as they are empowered by ...

123. What’s Inside Comes Out!

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... you’ve guessed his name. One day it was November 22, 1963 he went out into the garage, took a rifle, drove into Dallas, and put two holes in the head of our former President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Yes, his name was Lee Harvey Oswald. One who lacks self-esteem and has a poor self image is likely to be negative, anti-social and often deplorably immoral. Also, what’s inside comes out in our health. John A. Redhead, in Getting to Know God, tells of a man who went to his doctor with symptoms of serious ...

124. We Haven’t Got To Them Yet

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... to get to in order to plunge the depths of right relationship with God. Since our forebears discovered the difficulty of devising perfectly pure religion how do you and I manage? How do we know that we are right with God so that we can move ahead with a working self-esteem and a goodly sense of being justified in the faith? how do we feel Jesus in our salvation so that we do not keep on in an endless regress of self-examination? We need appropriate answers to these questions if we are to move on with mature ...

125. OK, God You Win!

Job 42:1-6

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John R. Brokhoff

... to be ashamed of who you are and what you said to God may not sound like being a winner to you. In our time we are emphasizing how good we are. We want to be told we are somebody and that we are worth something. Our cry is for self-esteem. We are urged to love ourselves and to be good to ourselves because “we are worth it.” This emphasis is the result of our secular and humanistic society. When God goes out of our lives, we must find something that assures us of our value. So, we laud human nature ...

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