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1276. A Book Which Reads Us

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... and sexual chauvinism of his day, Jesus spoke to this woman, and he graced her. Remember, now, that this was a woman who was living with a man without benefit of clergy and who had been married five times. We may suppose she had led an emotionally rending life and that she bore the scars of marital rejection. Victor Hugo said the supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; by this standard, the Samaritan woman must have been a supremely unhappy person. Then, one day, a man came along ...

1277. Out of the Darkness

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... say that retribution implies vindictiveness. I think wrongdoers deserve to suffer and that punishment is a necessary step toward their reformation. If a crime has been a terrible one, the penalty should reflect that. But in this regard, let us try to set aside all the emotional arguments that encircle the issue, and let us try instead to set out some Christian principles. Of course this is no easy thing to do. The Bible is not a manual of applied ethics, and it is not always so easy to discern what biblical ...

1278. Jeopardy, by Jeremiah

Jeremiah 23:9-32

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... of us openly claim this as our way of dealing with God’s anger, though it is probably most common among us. What can we do with an angry God? Another whole new way of dealing with this anger becomes apparent to one who can get beyond the emotion of anger to the cause of anger. Instead of worrying what to do, or what not to do, the effort is expended to determine what makes God angry. We start with shallow answers, like "sin." Sin makes God angry: idolatry, adultery, killing, stealing, lying, et cetera, et ...

1279. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 1

Matthew 28:1-10

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Esther R. Russ

... that the Holy Spirit would come upon them and help them to preach the gospel to the entire world. Before he said anything further, he suddenly arose above their heads, and a cloud received him and took him out of their sight. They gazed with mixed emotions into the heavens. While they were straining their eyes to get one last glimpse of their loving Lord, an angel appeared in their midst. His message thrilled their hearts with great joy. Voice on Tape: Menu of Galilee, why do you stand here gazing at the ...

1280. A Glimpse of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

George Bass

... convinced me that death is not the enemy we generally make it out to be. I only wish all doctors could have the same experience. To most, the death of a patient seems to represent such a personal failure that they strive not to become emotionally involved. The fact is they are identifying themselves not with their patients but with their patients’ diseases. The trick, as Bizazzero knew, was to separate the two, and to regard death as something that can at times be not only welcome but even sacramental. As ...

1281. The Role of an Angel

John 20:10-18

Sermon

George Bass

... for our justification and deliverance. Mary knew him, at that point in her life, as her friend and teacher, so she addressed him, "Rabboni," and must have sought to embrace him. But Jesus would have no hugging or touching; it was not the time for displays of emotion regardless of how overjoyed she might have been that Jesus was really alive again. Nor did she dance with joy or sing the first Easter hymn. Those things have been left to us, haven’t they? An ancient Latin hymn (LBW, hymn - 154) puts a song ...

1282. Why Are We So Split Apart?

Matthew 5:9

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... must forget ourselves; we must forget ourselves, for as long as we are thinking only of ourselves and shielding ourselves, we cannot do things right. So the peacemaker is poor in spirit. To be a peacemaker we must have a new view of ourselves as the meek, whose wills and emotions are controlled by God. To be a peacemaker, our motives must be pure, we must be able to see life from the other person’s view, and we must know that there can be joy in sorrow. Only in Christ can we become what God meant us to be ...

1283. Will My Ship Sink or Float?

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... on certain magazines, books, or movies (that are obviously damaging to clean living). I am going to help my children choose a similar selectivity for their own committed reasons. Why? Because these things that are aimed at low life and thought pollute our emotions, erode our thinking, and change the course of our actions. The temptations of Rome were similar to the temptations our families have to face today. In his intense moral struggle the young St. Augustine cried out, "Will I never cease setting my ...

1284. Journey to the Cross I: Jesus And The Demon-Possessed Man

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... to eat. He worries and broods and agonizes about everything… his business, his investments, his decisions, his family, his health, even, his dogs. Then, on this day in this Canadian hotel, he craters… he hits bottom. Filled with anxiety, completely immobilized, paralyzed by his emotional despair, unable to leave his room, lying on his bed, he moans out loud: “Life isn’t worth living this way, I wish I were dead!” And then, he wonders, what God would think if he heard him talking this way. Speaking ...

1285. Journey To The Cross II: Jesus And The Hemorrhaging Woman

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

James W. Moore

... is given and when it is received. I. First Of All, Love Has The Power To Heal. Scientific research is now confirming what many of us have suspected all along – that love plays a big part in the healing of a hurting body. Love has the power to heal physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Have you heard the legend of the Fisher King? When the Fisher King was a boy, he was sent out to spend the night alone in the forest as a test of his courage to be king. During the night, he had a vision of the Holy ...

1286. LOVING UNCONDITIONALLY

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... even the score is what God is speaking against. Perhaps some of us are bearing a grudge as a result of some offense we suffered at the hands of someone else. Grudges are the result of an unforgiving spirit. In the Sermon of the Mount, Jesus speaks against the emotion of hate. Rather than hurting back those who hurt us, Jesus tells us to pray for them. Right about now we may be thinking, "But this is not the natural order of things." Correct! It is not normal to love an enemy. It is unnatural not to hit back ...

1287. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

To have courage without pugnacity, To have conviction without bigotry, To have charity without condescension, To have faith without credulity, To have meekness with power, and emotion with sanity, To have love for humanity without mere sentimentality - that is Christianity. (Charles Evans Hughes) Being a "beautiful Christian" is that second mile that a true experience of Christ produces in us. There are no "ugly Christians" not really. When I was a student at the Duke Divinity School ...

1288. When the Church Is the Church

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... and loved the Philippian church best. He knew all of its charter members described in Acts 16 as though they were his own family: Lydia, the business woman from Thyatira and her household; Stephanas, the jailer and his family; the little slave girl, whose emotional problems he had purged in the name of Christ; Euodia and Syntyche; and all of the others. He knew that the Philippian Christians, while not perfect, were loving and supportive of his ministry. He was aware that they were being tempted by teachers ...

1289. The Post Launch Slump

2 Cor 8:10-11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... what began as a gush ends as little more than a gurgle. It happens in business. A young man shows immense promise and seems destined for board rooms and executive offices, but at age thirty-eight or forty-two it ends in coronary unrest or emotional tumult. It happens in the church. One evening an official board warms to the promise of a tantalizing program or proposal and there is a contagion in the room that is uplifting, even exhilarating. But somehow two weeks or two months later what had so completely ...

1290. Must We Have All the Answers?

Gn 2:9 · Deut 30:19-20 · Job 52:5

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... stories, asking questions related to significance and not structure? Remember the first time you mustered up enough courage to kiss or allow yourself to be kissed? Remember the feelings that kiss set off, the way in which it summoned reactions both biological and emotional that galvanized your entire existence? I would be greatly surprised if any of us, after that first kiss, went home, and in an attempt to understand what had happened to us, pulled down our Random House dictionary from the shelf and read ...

1291. Are You Under Arrest?

Heb 5:11-13; 10:39

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... 11-13, JBP) Paul faced a congregation of people, many of whom were under religious arrest. The ways in which people are arrested are innumerable, and for me to mention a few of them might galvanize your thinking in that area. Some people are arrested emotionally and hold, for example, to a physical style of problem solving. If you are angry, throw a chair. If your wife enrages you, hit her. If your teenage son infuriates you, slap him across the face. If your neighbor is uncooperative, threaten to rearrange ...

1292. God and the Weather

Matthew 5:45; 16:2-3 · Psalm 18:7-11; 46:1-3, 11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... to keep the youngster always with her - molly-coddle the little one, going to extremes to pave the way and removing all potential obstacles - she will do the child a grave injustice and will one day see before her not a mature adult, but an emotionally crippled one, maybe even a psychological monstrosity. Thus it is with God and his creation. Any other arrangement of affairs other than what we have would jeopardize our freedom and ability to develop as people who have been allowed error and mistake, but are ...

1293. The Witch of Endor

1 Samuel 28:1-25

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... traditional covens - thirteen witches and warlocks - to devil worship with obscene rites, secret rendezvous, orgiastic ritual, and possible human sacrifice. What of the occult in all areas? Conversations with the dead and exorcism of demons are mild forms. What of the emotional cripple, the physical freak, the spiritually grotesque? Are they to be forever suppressed amid the smoke of a humid cave at Endor? If the Witch of Endor served Russian Tea to the League of Women Voters, raised African violets in the ...

1294. An Unidentified King

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... straight, without food, just to hear his riveting words. Today no one will wait that long, except maybe for tickets to the Super Bowl or some rock concert. Jesus was a fascinating, unpredictable character. He displayed a wide range of emotions: compassion for a dying leper, exuberance over his disciples' success, a warm hospitality that callously disregarded racial and cultural boundaries, and blasts of anger at cold-hearted legalists. Jesus had inexhaustible patience with individuals but no patience at all ...

1295. It Is Finished

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... carrying the heaviest burdens. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is striking for its simplicity. Etched in a black granite wall are the names of the 58,156 Americans who died in that war. Since its opening in 1982, the stark monument has stirred deep emotions. For three Vietnam veterans--Robert Bedker, Willard Craig, and Darrall Lausch--a visit to the memorial must be especially poignant, for they can walk up to the long ebony wall and find their own names carved in stone. Because of data-coding errors, each ...

1296. Easter Headlines

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... drove to the church and he went in. The pastor delivered a stirring resurrection sermon and then closed with prayer. Then there were a few moments of silence as the pastor prepared to announce the final hymn. Suddenly George stood up and with deep emotion declared loudly, "Rosie lives!" Then he began to sing with a deep, rich baritone voice that song that he had always associated with Rosie--"My Wild Irish Rose, the Sweetest Flower That Grows..." The congregation was stunned at first. But several people in ...

1297. A Matter of Life and Breath

John 20:19-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... on this occasion in a very normal and orderly fashion. Here again we need to be reminded that the Spirit does not come always as commonly believed. Many think the Spirit comes in a very dramatic and unusual way. We think of his coming as an intense emotional experience. We expect to hear bells ringing, to see angels, to hear voices, and to be touched with tongues of fire. As in the case of Saul, this may happen: a fall from his horse, blinded by intense light, and hearing the voice of Jesus. This is ...

1298. Defended By the Divine

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... her chaplains preach at Windsor Castle on the life and soon return of Christ, said to the dean; "Oh, how I wish the Lord would come during my lifetime." "Why does your Majesty feel this earnest desire?" asked the great preacher. Her countenance lit up with deep emotion as she replied, "Because I should so love to lay my crown at his feet." Remember that the two always go together - the heart that loves and cares, and the gift that costs. Sometime ago, a brother minister was telling a group about a new unit ...

1299. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... not chosen by an IBM selector system. Frankly, I didn’t fall in love with her mind. I think it was her pretty finger that pulled the trigger. And yet, this love is the most important single fact in my life here on earth. And love is not just an emotion. It is the most important method of cognition of knowing something. We never know a person until we love that person. Amelia Burr wrote to someone she loved: I’m not sure the earth is round Nor that the sky is really blue. The tale of why the apples fall ...

1300. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... by the fact that Acts gives us no less than three accounts of it (chapters 9, 22, and 26). Paul’s theology is not a mosaic in which the various elements of his background are intellectually pieced together. It grows out of a soul-shaking and deeply emotional personal experience which completely changed the man himself. It is the theology of a converted man who found a new way of salvation, who could now say, "By the grace of God I am what I am" (1 Corinthians 15:10). It is frequently supposed that in ...

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