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1301. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

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T. A. Kantonen

... but his whole life is in contradiction to God. Today we are recovering the awareness of the need for a radical change in basic life-attitude. Mass evangelism has returned to popularity, for it seeks to meet this need in its own simplistic emotional fashion. But it is also explored in depth by both theologians and psychologists. Niebuhr’s profound analysis of the nature of man as sinner finds its psychological counterpart in Menninger’s insistence that sin must be taken seriously. Kunkel has pointed out ...

1302. Cheering Stones

Luke 19:28-44

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Herchel H. Sheets

... thank me for a thing like that!" Bishop Lilje replied with an expression which he knew was dear to the heart of any good German official, "Well, you have only done your duty!" He wrote later that if the man had not lost the power of expressing emotion and tenderness, he would have done so then. But this was beyond him, and so he strode out of the room shaking his head and murmuring to himself.4 There is something within most of us which responds to expressions of genuine appreciation, and something happens ...

1303. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

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Leonard Mann

... of which I would speak. I speak of the world you are, not of the body you have, nor of the world in which you live, but of the world of what you are - a world of joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, the inner world where great emotions surge and ebb like ocean tides, a world of deep awarenesses where profound sensibilities are. The Old Testament psalmist declared, "I am fearfully and wonderfully made" (139:14). He was. And so are you. When the psalmist said that, he wasn’t thinking of body parts, of stomach ...

1304. Become an Ant

Isaiah 43:14-28

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Jon L. Joyce

... that separates us from sensing that life is meaningful and that we are meaningful. Because there is a similarity in this theme with other lessons of this season, it occurs to me that a sermon on this text could well be one which appeals primarily to emotions - a proclamation that would buoy up the spirit of the hearer and renew his confidence in the God who promises not to abandon his people but, because he once delivered them, to deliver them again. This might be another good time to call to the people ...

1305. Significance in Life

Isaiah 55:1-13

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Jon L. Joyce

... , civilization, our happiest moments are not those in which we ask ourselves to be happy, but rather those in which we lose ourselves in some creative task that seems important. We become so engrossed in that that we forget to take our own emotional pulse. People who have not found joy in productivity must constantly be striving for some pleasure in life, be it play or alcohol, sex or some other sensuous experience, and thus, ironically and paradoxically, the pleasure becomes the index of their unhappiness ...

1306. Signs Of A Vital Church

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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Bill Bouknight

... at this point: Is Christ with the Holy Spirit? Am I a conduit of the Holy Spirit into this church? The second sign of a vital church is this: Its Trademark Is Love. Love here does not mean liking someone. It is more a decision than an emotion. It means wanting what is best for every person because we have received the very best from Christ. St. Paul told the Corinthians that love is the greatest of all spiritual gifts. He wrote: "Faith, hope, and love abide, but the greatest of these is love." From ...

1307. Moving Fences

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

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Bill Bouknight

... catches them. Each one of us had some changing to do we met the Master. When any human being, no matter how different from us, looks into our eyes, he must see love, never rejection. In the past when we took a position on an emotional issue like abortion, we may have regarded opponents as people of questionable motives and inferior judgment. Frankly, they just made us angry. But when Christ lives within us, he teaches us to assume that our opponents are honorable people with respectable views until proven ...

1308. Needed: Fidelity Insurance

Ephesians 5:22-33

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Bill Bouknight

... a lifetime. 50 percent of all marriages fail. An additional 30 percent never actually break up but they are less than happy. Every year in America, two million children are told that their parents are getting divorced. Most of those children retain some emotional scars from that tragedy. Nancy Astor was a tart-tongued member of the British Parliament. One evening she was seated at a banquet table near Sir Winston Churchill. She took offense at some of his sarcastic remarks. "Winston," she said, "If you were ...

1309. Rosie Lives!

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

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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 ...

1310. Reverence For Life

Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 5:21-26

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Bill Bouknight

... forgive; he will teach you to forgive yourself. Then he will commission you as a kind helper of all other women who feel trapped by an unwanted pregnancy. The sixth Commandment is still relevant and critically important. It forbids murder and the destructive emotions that promote murder. But on the positive side, it trumpets a reverence for life. Loudly and clearly, the sixth Commandment declares that no one is expendable. Every person is unique, precious, created in God's image. During the 1840's in the ...

1311. This Adulterous Generation

Matthew 5:27-30, Exodus 20:1-21

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Bill Bouknight

... is not really home anymore after adultery. Sooner or later, the facts become known. Spouses are hurt at their deepest, most vulnerable level. Children suddenly find their parents' relationship, the floor of their security, shaking beneath them. Little innocent children get torn up emotionally. What follows in the wake of adultery is about the nearest thing to hell on earth. Proverbs 6 is quite correct: "The man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys his own soul." You don't break the seventh ...

1312. Glorious Surprises

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

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Bill Bouknight

... we can understand God's gifts. Most of the Holy Spirit's gifts to us fall into four categories: power, truth, comfort, and warning. Some Methodists are afraid of the Holy Spirit. They fear that if they are Spirit-filled, they might become emotionally unbalanced and do bizarre things they have seen on TV religion. They think the Holy Spirit ought to stay over in the Pentecostal churches and leave us sophisticated Methodists alone. But remember, the Holy Spirit makes people more stable rather than less. While ...

1313. Put the Cross on Top

1 John 4:7-21

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Bill Bouknight

... have AIDS. Our response to them must never be dictated by whether they contracted the disease innocently or through sinful behavior. All of us are sinners. The only passport to heaven for any of us sinners is the grace of God. We can and should provide medical, emotional, and financial assistance to AIDS victims. But we must do more. What kind of friend would we be if we considered only a person's next six months but disregarded his eternity? We must share with our friend who has AIDS the fact that all of ...

1314. Christmas Is Coming

Luke 2:21-40

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James Bjorge

... the canopy of evening stars ... and wonder about God stepping out of space to touch you with redeeming love. Albert Einstein once said, "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder, and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." Peter Marshall phrased it in this way: "When Christmas doesn’t make your heart swell up until it nearly bursts and fill ...

1315. God Is a Giver

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James Bjorge

... on each gift, following some mathematical scale of disobedience and obedience?" And husbands and wives do not count up the smiles and scowls of each other and then purchase a gift that reflects the mate’s merits. Instead we get caught up in the power of a great emotion, love. And love has got to express itself or it dies. A great example of spontaneous gift-giving happened in the life of our Lord when a woman anointed him with a box of precious perfume. Some of those standing by thought it was a waste for ...

1316. God Stood Up

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James Bjorge

... receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." In Jesus the Man I have seen God stand up and turn full face to the audience of man. All the warmth and human feeling which you miss from the back now comes into-full view. His face shows emotions and concern which add a new dimension to the concept of God. And perhaps one of the greatest revelations to man’s soul is that the God who sits on the throne of the universe is the Christ who proved himself a friend to man. As this stable-born Christ ...

1317. No Withdrawal

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James Bjorge

... has always been the path on which you meet God. The test of the Christmas season is whether or not we have a withdrawal from its impact. If we hang up the concept of good will in the hall closet after the festivities, we shall inevitably have an emotional let-down. However, if we continue to wear the garment of the Spirit of Christmas, the lights will continue to twinkle long after the tree has been taken out of the living room and burned in the backyard. John and Jane were two fine young people awaiting ...

1318. Samson, the Bully

Judges 16:1-22

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Don Yocom

"And he knew not the Lord had left him." The Old Testament story of Samson is a profile of a man who was a prankster, an arsonist and a bully, a strong man who did not know his strength, all rolled into one human being. He was emotionally immature and morally unsound. Yet his life indicates something to us worth noting. His name is legion today, if we count the multitudes who have never grown up spiritually, and who have little contact with God but may not even be aware of it. In addition to what we have ...

1319. Naaman, the Leper

2 Kings 5:1-27

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Don Yocom

... i-noor diamond? Wonderful woman that she was, Queen Victoria ordered that the jewel be brought and placed in his hands. He accepted it, turned to the nearest window and looked at the diamond in sparkling sunlight. Then, turning back, he knelt before Victoria and said, with emotion in his voice, "O Queen, I gave you this jewel when I was too young to know what I was doing. I want to give it to you again, now, in the fulness of my strength, with all my affection, fully realizing what I do." The Queen accepted ...

1320. Worn Out? Tired? Weary?

Matthew 11:25-30

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Louis H. Valbracht

... details that previously drove him frantic. He thinks less and does more. Try it. It takes discipline, but it can be done. The less you think about yourself, the better you really feel. When you think about yourself you are wastefully consuming your own emotional energies. To hate someone, for instance, to be uncontrollably angry, is to use as much energy as in a day’s work. Did you ever feel, after a terrific argument with someone, how physically drained you are? Since tiredness originates in the mind ...

1321. Well, What's for Sure?

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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Louis H. Valbracht

... questionnaires to see if we were compatible. Our basic characteristics were not run through any computer. She was not chosen for me by an I.B.M. selector system. And yet, this love is the most important, single factor in my life upon earth. Love is NOT just an emotion. It’s our most important form of cognition. Love is the way we KNOW things! We can never KNOW a person, unless we love him. You don’t know a person when you hate him or when you feel indifferent toward him or when he’s just an ...

1322. Our Father Who Art on Earth

Proverbs 1:8-19

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Louis H. Valbracht

... ’s Day at all. After all, Mom had her day, and, so old Pop won’t feel badly, we’ll have one for him. It’s never quite come off has it? It certainly isn’t on our hit parade of the best days of the year. Whatever sentiments or emotions we manage to muster always seem to be a bit forced if not down right counterfeit. It’s sometimes a question as to who is the more embarrassed, the fathers or the children, when the whole thing turns out to be a rather tawdry imitation. Why? Who’s to blame ...

1323. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... the Hebrews reserved the word yadah to describe sexual relations between husbands and wives. In its root sense yadah means "to know," "to experience," "to understand," and "to commit oneself to another." The term commonly is used to describe the whole range of emotions and commitments that husband and wife feel for, and make to, each other. So when Adam "knew" Eve and she conceived, there was more implied in that act than could happen in a casual sexual binge. They respected each other, they hammered out ...

1324. Chapter X

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... . The key for understanding this Commandment is to be found in the meaning of the Hebrew word that is central to it, chamad. Usually translated "covet," it is a term with a most interesting background. In its primary sense it describes a beautiful emotion, for it means "to love," "to praise," "to value highly." These attitudes are good, indeed desirable, in themselves. The problem with chamad, however, is that is usually describes a kind of love that is destructive in its working out. Chamad is a possessive ...

1325. DANCER

Judges 21:23; Psalm 87:7

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Stephen Stewart

... , with marriage, birth, and other occasions, since the recorded history of man. It grew out of three basic human reactions: 1. the desire to imitate the movements of beasts, birds, even the sun and moon; 2. the desire to express emotions by gestures; 3. gregarious impulses. Throughout past ages dancing has been associated with worship. Closely related to religious praises was the sacramental dance in which worshipers sought to express through bodily movements praise or penitence, worship or prayer. Out of ...

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