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1351. Facing Life’s Central Tests

Mark 14:32-42

Sermon

Robert Allen

... minister asked, "John, how do you feel now?" The man replied, "I just don’t know. I can’t see any way out of this terrible loss." Once more the minister asked, "John, tell me what you really feel like on the inside." In a voice that was breaking with emotion, John said, "I guess I feel a little like our Lord felt when he said, ‘My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me.’ " The minister smiled and said, "John, I’m not going to worry about you anymore. Any man who seeks to line up his life with God ...

1352. Five Minutes After Death

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Robert Allen

... lay dying. He was racked with pain and had difficulty breathing. As he looked up into my face, he held my hand tightly. He was so weak ... so frail ... that I was surprised at the stength with which he held on to my hands. In a voice that tembled with emotion, he said: "There are so many things we don’t understand. I don’t know why the Lord lets us suffer like this, but I know I won’t be suffering much longer. I know that everything will be all right because I’m going home ... I’m going home ...

1353. The Ultimate Christmas Gift

Psalm 85:1-13, Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Erskine White

... and buries the hatchet. A much-dreaded medical test comes back on the day before Christmas, and it is "negative." All of your children and grandchildren come home for Christmas, making it the first time everyone has been together in fifteen years. Surely, these emotional gifts mean more than all the material gifts piled up under the tree, and we might well think they are the highest category of gift we can receive at Christmas. But what about an even greater, more glorious gift than that? Imagine receiving ...

1354. The Flight From Light

Isaiah 60:1-22, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Erskine White

... expose ourselves or admit our need. We also want our wounds to be healed, an end to our pain. Sometimes our pain is physical, ranging in severity from the distracting to the debilitating, and we wish we were free of it. More often, our pain is emotional, psychological and spiritual. Each of us is wounded in more ways than we can count or understand. We are wounded by dramatic, specific events in our lives which leave lasting scars: a shattering loss here, a twist of fate there. We are also wounded in more ...

1355. One More Downhill Run

Illustration

Gordon MacDonald

... skier knows himself and he doesn’t trust the terrain. Many men and women trying to follow the Lord make their world-breaking choices in similar times of extreme fatigue. Again, not necessarily the physical fatigue after a long day’s work; but the fatigue of the spirit and the emotions that occurs after the lengthy period of time when frustration and difficulties have increased to an intense pitch.

1356. His Lust to Be Number One

Illustration

Lloyd J. Ogilvie

... . A certain athlete ran well, but he still placed second. The crowd applauded the winner noisily, and after a time a statue was erected in his honor. But second place finisher came to think of himself as a loser. Envy ate away at him physically and emotionally. He could think of nothing else but his defeat and his lust to be number one He decided he had to destroy the statue. A plan took shape in his mind, which he began cautiously to implement. Late each night, when everyone was sleeping, he went ...

1357. Send Me!

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... Jerusalem against attack from without. Under his leadership the nation prevailed against the Philistines and the Arabians. It was a good time for the country and for the people. But the king became ill with leprosy, and his death was charged with great emotion throughout the country. Imagine the sorrow and the sudden uncertainty about the future among the people, most of whom had never known another king. Now, imagine an aristocratic young man named Isaiah who admired that king, and may even have known him ...

1358. You Can Go Home Again!

Jeremiah 3:6-4:4

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... parties and help them to build skills for getting along and being sensitive to one another’s needs. When several of these reconciliations are ready to take place, they are celebrated with a brief service, ending with the Lord’s Prayer. It is a time of high emotion and anxiety, wondering if it is going to work and hoping and praying that it will. As the final prayer is prayed, standing in a circle, all are holding hands. By the time they pray "forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us ...

1359. Remember Who(se) You Are

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... water, but to no one in particular. "God, what an experience! I’ll never forget this as long as I live! I’ve never felt like this before. Oh, God! It’s so awesome!" His frequent mention of God seemed to be more an expression of emotion and exhilaration than anything religious, but there was clearly some theological implication to what had happened. He went on down the trail waving and smiling at the people who were coming toward him, looking rather surprised as he sloshed by them leaving a trail of ...

1360. Feeling Down And Looking Up

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... God loves me. I don’t feel that right now." "I believe you can," I assured her, "and I’ll do my best to help you." By the end of the day I was exhausted - not from the physical work I had been doing - that was easy - but from the emotional strain of trying to lift the spirits of this young woman and help her look up and see an abundant life awaiting her. Before she left she said, "This has been a good day. In fact this has been the happiest day I can remember." She was smiling. Her speech ...

1361. Mary - Weeping Woman or Bold Believer

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... in Magdala, a little village on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. And for many years my life had been filled with bitterness. Did you know that the name Mary means "bitterness." Yes, there had been bitterness in my life; my inability to control my emotions and my unpredictable behavior made me the object of scorn by many people. But Jesus had changed that. As he traveled about from one town to another, he proclaimed the good news of the Kingdom of God. And, to demonstrate that what he said was really ...

1362. We Do Not Have To Stay The Way We Are!

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... I am God." But one would hope that our quiet time with God would have some explosive results. Our journey to Easter should not be all peace and tranquility: Lent is a season for crash helmets. It is a season for deep self-examination, intense emotion, purging the soul and reorienting life by discovering anew not only what sort of power it is "we so blithely invoke," but also about the dark powers which are at work in human experience. Lent began as a time when candidates for baptism would like gladiators ...

1363. All We Like Sheep Have Gone Astray

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... called them. We heard this tragic history of evil and suffering described in these words: All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way. (v. 6) It is our history, too! It is the old refrain of our lives enunciated so dramatically and emotionally by the Apostle Paul, "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate ... Who will deliver me from this body of death?" (Romans 7:15-24). But against this scary history of sin and evil ...

1364. The Ten Commandments - Part 3

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... we cannot understand the actions and depressions of some people, God always understands. I think that we have come to a much better understand that those persons who commit suicide are not morally weak people, but people who are so confused, despondent, or emotionally ill that they do not realize what they are doing. VII The Seventh Commandment reads: Thou shalt not commit adultery. It is a violation of the vow of faithfulness. What so often people do not realize is that the sinfulness goes far beyond ...

1365. Authenticity vs. Showmanship

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Joseph M. Freeman

... completion, will often settle for the right deeds and tolerate or overlook the improper attitudes and motives behind them. We do so, in part, because we ourselves are a contradiction in motion, either desiring to do right while we do wrong or overriding contrary emotions and attitudes and doing right anyway. When one does what's right, but one's heart and mind are not fully in it, one is mastering showmanship. When one has matured enough to choose actions that are first of all very rooted in certain valued ...

1366. The Path of Quality

Drama

William Grimbol

... Life, or merely choosing to be "dead" inside to the realities of our times - our world - our lives. Maybe we can prepare ourselves for the new life of Easter, by facing the stale stagnant old life of avoiding or eliminating those very life emotions and experiences that might force us to grow ... to mature ... to deepen ... to sensitize ... to celebrate ... to rejoice ... to worship ... to adore ... to dream. to find in Life a quality ... a quality that sparks our energy and enthusiasm for Life ... a quality ...

1367. The Garden: All Things New

John 20:1-9

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... the day that it was still dark. A woman approached the tomb. You sense that she is a person who has often traveled alone, so she doesn’t seem fightened by being alone in this rather eerie place at such an hour. Besides, she is encompassed by an emotion much deeper than fear. Her name is Mary of Magdala - Mary Magdalene, we often call her - and not long ago, she was a despised creature. They said she had seven devils. This was a way of saying that she was as completely and hopelessly evil as anyone could ...

1368. Resurrection: Temporal to Eternal

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... coming back. As the two bid their last good-byes the woman had run in with the tale of meeting Jesus again, a story of an empty tomb. But such is meaningless talk - mere wishful dreaming from mistaken conversations with a gardener. "Do not play with our emotions, woman! Jesus is dead. You yourself laid his body on the stone." In just such fashion the two men had spoken to the women and then made their way out of Damascus Gate, walking with slowed feet north along the ridge road and then westward to Emmaus ...

1369. A Man Who Laughed at God

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... Moriah. The servants were left behind. Abraham and Isaac continued up the mountain. On the way, Isaac asked, "Where is the Iamb, father? We have the wood. We have the fire. But where is the lamb?" Abraham, with a breaking heart, choked with emotion, simply responded, "Never mind, son, Yahweh-jireh" - which literally means, "The Lord will provide." They kept climbing. They reached the top. A large altar was built. The wood was placed. Isaac was bound, then laid on the altar. Abraham drew his knife. Sunlight ...

1370. A Shepherd Who Became a Sovereign

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... talent by singing while with his sheep. His reputation was sufficient that he became harpist for the king. Much of the Hebrew poetry in the book of Psalms came from his mind and his pen. As a singer, he expressed then - and still does today - the deepest emotions of all people, of all times, of all places. Nothing more universal, for example, can be found than these well-known words of the shepherd boy: The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: He leadeth me ...

1371. A Man Who Wanted to Burn a City

Luke 9:46-50

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... enthusiasm, conviction and ambition, became a Son of Tenderness. In his life we can see what happens to these qualities when they are turned over to the control of Jesus. Beware of any person who shows no sign of tenderness ... no sympathy ... no emotion ... no feeling ... no tears. Humans were not intended to be harsh and heartless, cold and cruel, irritable and insensitive. And only under the transforming, redeeming influence of Jesus do we become the kind of persons we ought to be ... the kind of persons ...

1372. Party in Room 210 ... Everyone Invited

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Thomas Long

... reasons which prompts Muehl to complain is his own experience of call. He was trained as an attorney and discovered, in the law school’s moot court, that he was an exceptionally effective trial lawyer. He won his cases, for the most part, but the emotional stress of doing so caused him to develop a duodenal ulcer. After treating him for several gastric episodes, one of the health service physicians made a dire prediction. "Muehl," he said, "if you really undertake a career in the law, you will probably be ...

1373. Goodness Is Not Good Enough

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... to the Ghost of Christmas Present, who transports him to the home of his clerk, Bob Crachit. What a wonderful time they are having. Even little Tiny Tim, with his crutches and withered hand, bubbles over with Christmas joy. Scrooge, overpowered with unaccustomed emotion, hangs his head in penitence and grief. Last of all, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come guides him to a group of business associates discussing a colleague’s death - that of Scrooge - with little sympathy and much disdain. Bob Crachit’s ...

1374. A Cup Running Over

John 11:17-37

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... that had its source at the very core of a caring heart. John wants us to know that. "Now Jesus loved Martha and Mary," he writes. It is a simple statement, but it is not a casual observation. It grips us so strongly that we feel an emotional tightening of the throat and a moistening of the eyes. The sympathetic neighbors, seeing him weep at Lazarus’ tomb, remarked in awe-struck tones, "See how he loved him." We believe that Christ is "the image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:15). Therefore his love ...

1375. Happiness Is ... the Kingship of Jesus

John 18:28-40

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... a crime for which, if found guilty, Jesus could legally be put to death. Jesus stands now in the governor’s residence, the praetorium, waiting to be interrogated by Pilate. Any ordinary person in the same circumstances would have been physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted. His will would have been broken, and he would have been ready to make any confession or concession to escape further harm and humiliation. Jesus could easily have taken that route, for Pilate was the kingpin of the local Roman ...

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