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1301. Gross Personality Disorder

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... prayer. Every morning when I get up - no matter how early or late I rise - I take a shower. Sometimes I don't WANT to take a shower. But I have to. Why? Because without that morning water ritual I feel grungy and grimy; I feel "wrong" all day long. Paul calls on Christians to persevere in prayer - that is, to pray persistently, continually. Any day that doesn't start with prayer should feel as out-of-whack and wrong to a Christian as a morning without a shower. Don't pray when you get up, and the whole day ...

1302. Crack Open Some Easter Eggs and Be Cracked Open

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . You're thirty-three years old, you're going to the Hall of Fame, and you're saying okay? You say, "Great, Tommy!" ' Murray, looking at Lasorda like he was a maniac, seemed at a loss for words. Lasorda tried again, `You say it: "I feel great!" ' So Eddie started saying, `I feel great!' " --Quoted in Michael G. Moriarty, [15]The Perfect 10 (Zondervan, 2000), 133. Christ Is Risen, church. All your sins are forgiven. You're on your way to heaven. Jesus is alive and living in you. Say it like you mean it: "I ...

1303. Generations

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... animals (at Oberlin College, a veggie dining hall serves over 20 percent of the college's 2,200 students). It will be this generation that will make a McDonald's fortune for the person who creates quality vegetarian fast food. Religion Busters don't feel excluded from church activities so much as they see no point to church activities. Part of this is because they have vacant spiritual memories, and have not been properly churched by their boomer parents. Ronan's motto that works for boomers lose religion ...

1304. Let Familiarity Breed Contentment

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... talking about an open-door policy to friends and strangers. What is your response to a knock on you door at 8:30 PM in the middle of February? Is it fear and condemnation? Or a willingness to risk opening the door? Do you feel with your soul – the pain, the humility, the fear of those in prison? Our culture puts plenty of people behind steel bars. But it puts even more people behind – · behind racial bars; · behind class bars; · behind educational bars; · behind isolation bars; · behind fear bars ...

1305. Let's Dance

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... – it seems there is always someone out on the dance floor who just can't find the beat and move to it. For those with well-tuned senses of rhythm and movement, watching such an out-of-step, out-of-sync struggle is agony. How can they not feel the downbeat? How can they not want to move at the right moment? How can they not vibrate internally with the external rhythms that surround them? It seems that the ability to dance, to move in harmony with life's surrounding sounds, is both an instinctual and a ...

1306. Someone to Watch over Me

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is no one your teenager would rather have present at their special and not-so-special events. We never outgrow our need to feel "watched over." Whenever we move to new places in our lives, where our freedom expands and our boundaries grow blurry, one of the ... piece of paper and you can do whatever you like with it. Look at that mystical eye atop the pyramid. Now see the love. Now feel the love. To remind yourself how much God loves you as his child jot down underneath the "Trust" motto: "I can't take my eyes ...

1307. Are You a GOT TO or a GET TO Christian?

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... up, oh I don't know — SIN? You know, at least one of the Big Seven - The Seven Deadly Sins: greed, avarice, lust, gluttony, anger, envy, sloth...what's your big one of the seven? Instead we give up hamburgers and then pat ourselves on the back and feel virtuous. And we rarely speak any more about taking on something for Lent. At the very least Lent is intended to be a time of prayer and introspection as one considers the sacrifice Christ will make on the cross for our salvation. As the old saying goes ...

1308. Loud and Clear

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... interpreter. We have to be willing to stop being control freaks about our lives. We have to learn to trust the Spirit. We don't like that, do we? Many of us are uncomfortable talking about the Holy Spirit. When it comes to the Trinity, we often feels, as Leonard Sweet puts it, "Two's company, three's a crowd!" This is the same Spirit in Romans that Paul tells us interprets our feeble prayers, through groans that words cannot express. To let the Holy Spirit take control of our lives means that we let ...

1309. If We Had Known It Was You

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

James McCormick

... that we are not to act toward people as we think they deserve. And we are not to act simply according to how we feel. Instead, we are to deal with everyone according to grace, that is, according to unconditional love. Another way of saying that is: we ... let me tell you about some of the things that can happen when we begin to see Christ in those we meet. Try to get the feel of it if you can. Mother Theresa of Calcutta is acknowledged to be a 20th century saint. She received the Nobel Peace Prize for her work ...

1310. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

John 16:17-33

Sermon

James McCormick

... a bore.” Both are getting at the same reality. None of us would ask for more difficulty, but without it, life as we know it would be greatly diminished. To add one more case in point: it is often said that no-one can develop the sensitivity and feeling that a great artist must have unless he has known suffering. I read recently that Beethoven once said of Rossini that he had in him the makings of a great musician, if only he had had some failures and difficulties with which to struggle, but that his great ...

1311. It Is Also Blessed to Receive

John 13:1-17

Sermon

James McCormick

... . I give as much as I have to give. But sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I become emotionally drained. Sometimes I become discouraged, and feel that I have nothing left to give. But, almost always, if I am open to it, God will find a way to give me ... difficult to ask someone to do something for me. I don’t know whether I just don’t want to impose on them, or whether I feel that I am not worthy of their time and effort, or whether I just don’t have enough humility to put myself in a receiving position ...

1312. A New Attitude

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He fixes her a sandwich. As he gives her the sandwich, he asks, “Now, is there anything else I can get you? Is there anything I haven’t thought of?” Lucy replies, “Yes, there’s one thing that you haven’t thought of. I DON’T WANNA FEEL BETTER!” Do you know someone like that? They’ve got a miserable attitude--and that is just the way they like it! A woman named Linda Neukrug was vacationing with a friend in Canada. She was not having a good time. She struggled with the language barrier ...

1313. Rise Above It

John 21:15-19

Sermon

James W. Moore

... team stepped onto the beach and handed the man a stack of newspapers. “Compliments of the captain,” he said. “He would like you to glance at the headlines to see if you’d still like to be rescued!!” Sometimes the headlines do scare us. Sometimes it feels like evil is winning. But, then along comes Easter to remind us that there is no grave deep enough, no seal imposing enough, no stone heavy enough, no evil strong enough to keep Christ in the grave. He will win! Goodness will win! Truth will win ...

1314. That's What Jesus Does for Me

Psalm 139:7-12

Sermon

James W. Moore

... -off place.” Remember back then that they thought the world was flat… and if you got to that totally remote place in the sea you would drop off the face of the earth. We all know about the “dropping off place,” don’t we? When we feel rejected or deserted or ridiculed, when our hearts are broken and our hopes are dashed, that’s when we know first-hand the pain of “the dropping off place.” Do you remember Father Lawrence Jenco? Father Jenco was the priest who spent many long horrible months ...

1315. What's So Great about Going to Church

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

James W. Moore

... thoughtful. My heart went out to him. I felt sorry for him. I found myself wishing that I could bring the comedian here to Houston and let him experience our church. I wish he could feel the excitement and the joy and the love of St. Luke’s… I wish he could feel what we feel when we walk into this church… what we feel when we come together as a church family into this Sanctuary. I wish he could walk these halls with me on Sunday morning and see what I see… - Little children rushing to Sunday School ...

1316. Parenting

2 Timothy 1:5

Illustration

Brett Blair

... In doing so, he realized that he could understand arithmetic. He felt a new confidence in his ability, and went on to become a good math student. We need to encourage our children. We need not only to surround them with love but we need to help them feel competent as persons. I wish every one of us had inscribed on the walls of our home the words of Dorothy Law Nolte's work, "Children Learn What They Live," and then kept this constantly before us in our daily activities. If a child lives with criticism, he ...

1317. Building a Successful Life

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... them into practice. “Everyone who hears these words of mine,” says Jesus, “and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock . . .” We all know it’s true, don’t we? We see celebrities who live by the “If it feels good, do it” credo, and their lives are a mess. Think Britney or Lindsay or a host of other troubled celebrities. Meanwhile I stare out into this congregation into the faces of some people who have lived by the teachings of Jesus most of their lives who ...

1318. Preach the World and Reach the World

2 Timothy 4:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... t heard you long enough, or they haven't been listening, or you haven't been preaching. This age of unbridled iniquity, unabated immorality, and unabashed indecency is no time for weak men, weak messengers, or weak ministries. Our calling is not to make a sick world feel better. Our calling is to make a sinful world straighten up. f. Preach Constructively We are to "exhort." The word means to build up. We are not only to be negative in our preaching, we are to be positive. We're not only to tell people what ...

1319. Try a Little Kindness (Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... day on a sharp metal screw or use a splintery hammer, or even scratch an infected spot on his eyeball. Each of those acts destroys tissue and may eventually even lead to the loss of limb or vision. But at no point does the leprosy patient actually feel any pain. Though they may not hurt, they definitely suffer. Their pain is not physical, but rather it is personal and social. Because they are rejected by the community. They are total outcasts. Dr. Brand told of one bright young man he was treating in India ...

1320. Bitterness: How to Overcome What You Undergo

Hebrews 12:14-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice." The word "put away" means to dispose of, discard, get rid of. If you're going to remove bitterness from your life, the first thing you've got to do is get that "get even" feeling out of your heart. You've got to bury that problem in an unmarked grave. It was Benjamin Franklin who said, "Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you even with him; forgetting it sets you above it." No one in the Bible, outside ...

1321. A Bridge over Troubled Waters

Psalm 23:2

Sermon

James Merritt

... -related crisis at least once in their ministry; 80% believe that pastoral ministry has a negative effect on their families; and 33% say that being in the ministry is downright hazardous to their families.2 I have to be honest and tell you that there has been a feeling of stress on me ever since I was in the seminary. In fact, when I read this little poem I thought about myself: A seminarian named Breeze Weighed down by MA’s and PhD’s, Collapsed from the strain; Said his doctor: “It’s plain You’re ...

1322. In Love with Howard

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... So it is with life in the kingdom. We look forward to that day when God reigns over this world and we look forward to God’s reign in heaven, and we set the clock of our hearts with those eternal clocks. This allows us to have a feeling of inner security and well-being that the world simply cannot give. Lyle Arakaki, who lives in Hawaii, explained kingdom living like this. Because of the time difference with the continental U.S., the NFL Monday Night Football game is played in mid‑afternoon in Hawaii. So ...

1323. Walking on the Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... white knuckles. His wife was even more afraid than he was. She doesn’t like heights in the first place. So she kept a death grip on the sides of the basket and would not look down for any reason. Some of you can probably imagine what she was feeling. About this time Ortberg decided he would like to get to know the kid who was flying the balloon. He asked the young man how he got started flying hot-air balloons. He knew they were in trouble when the young man started to speak, “Dude,” he said, “It ...

1324. How To Be An Easter Person

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... and be born. You will enter a different realm.’ The infant might protest and say, ‘I like it here. I am fed, warm, and I feel loved. I don’t want to leave this place and be born.’ But nature takes its course and the baby is born. After he endures ... up with crosses. I said a prayer of thanksgiving for a young man who is not content to appropriate the good news for himself; he also feels a need to share it with others. A man sat in my office a few days ago and shared a memory that thrills his heart. He ...

1325. Precious and Privileged Children

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... will, those professing Christ find great security, stability, and satisfaction in being the Father's boys and girls. Such dependency has been with us in the Judeo-Christian as long as anyone can recall. "The fullness of time had come" and humankind feels the full weight of God's omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. He gives us our worth and identity, specifically as we relate to his Son — our Savior and Lord. All spiritual successes — in a way — are directly related to this understanding of the ...

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