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1376. A Way Back In

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... self-will and self-destructive behavior in order to provide me a way back in. Have you not known people who loved you unconditionally, again and again, and provided you a way back in? This is Good News, worked into the fabric of life and not just an emotion of acceptance and new-felt power. Preaching such a Gospel is a mighty act of God’s constant provision for us; and hearing it is the same. The Gospel continues to be good news for people who otherwise would disappear from the face of meaningful life and ...

1377. All Dressed Up and No Place To Go

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... to move through otherwise impossible obstacles. Here is a model that is worthy of all we have to give. All dressed up for Christmas, here is solid counsel for going places in the year ahead. As we put away the splendid decorations and mute the extraordinary emotions that radiate over the house and community, we need look seriously at the model scripture provides us We must go to the Temple. We must pick up the heritage of our faith, and by faithful attendance give ourselves a chance to absorb the wisdom and ...

1378. Proper 24

Isaiah 52:13--53:12, Hebrews 4:14-5:10, Mark 10:35-45

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... a natural part of living; that, far from regarding misfortune as your curse, we may learn to accept and to use it to the glory of your Kingdom. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of truth, we confess that we have done enormous emotional damage to ourselves and others because of our easy explanations of human suffering as your judgment or curse. Forgive us, we pray. Teach us to regard suffering as a part of life, and to seek to benefit from it rather than to blame. In the name of the ...

1379. The Miracle of Salvation

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

... of the individuals to such a degree that they couldn’t let him live? Wasn’t it the fact that in all that He said and all that He was, He pointed out the contradiction between the pious utterances of the religious ceremonies and the actual feelings, emotions, and daily actions of those who had always felt they were deeply religious? In a word, Jesus laid bare the rebellion in the soul of each man who faced him. The Sermon on the Mount, often misinterpreted as a set of ethics, was a denunciation of sin ...

1380. It Might Have Been ...

Luke 22:1-6, Matthew 26:14-16, Matthew 27:1-10, Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

... . Twice we get clues about Judas. Right after Christ refuses to accept a crown from a crowd who would make him a king, he says something about there being a betrayer in the midst of the disciples. Apparently something in that incident triggered Judas’ emotions and he must have revealed some of it to Jesus. The other time is right after the triumphant entry into Jerusalem. There we read that a demon entered into Judas and he began to make plans for the betrayal. Both of these events are significant ...

1381. Facing the Glory Road

Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... . And if a hand should be soiled or a blister raised, the union steward will see to it that the company supplies Corn Husker’s lotion to restore our hands to their original soft loveliness. Not only your temperature but also your emotions will be controlled. There will be pills - pills for happiness, pills for intelligence, pills for strength, pills for memory, pills for courage, and pills for love. And if, despite all of your factory-authorized replacement parts, including your rubber intestine, your ...

1382. The Crisis of Commitment

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... ’s frightening to think that, ironically, most of that crowd did not even know Jesus. They knew nothing of what He had done. They didn’t know why He was being crucified or whether He deserved death or not. They were there for the sheer emotional orgy of seeing another man butchered. They were there for the morbid, fiendish thrill of watching the death of someone by the most degrading and vicious and gruesome form in which a person could die. It was, perhaps, the psychiatrist and psychologist, Freud, who ...

1383. THE MARRIAGE GAP

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... all kinds of snappy answers such as "shortest book on record" and such. The fact of the matter is, however, that such a book would be perfectly legitimate - for a nun, and any other woman, who does have a sexual life in that her thinking, her emotions, her style of living, is that of a woman. There is a difference between the sexes, of which the physical difference is only a part, and with these differences one should be prepared for conflict! G. A. Stuttered-Kennedy, a great preacher of another generation ...

1384. The Racial Gap

Psalm 53:1-6

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... be rebuffed, and there aren’t many clues. "That which is good" is LOVE, and love is concern - honest concern. So perhaps we show love by trying to understand. Maybe we begin by subscribing to magazines like EBONY so that we can understand feelings and emotions in the black community that we don’t get by reading the newspaper accounts about trouble at Olive High School. Then, maybe, you do your thing - whatever it happens to be. As a result of a confrontation with some black families one family in this ...

1385. Sharing with Our Brothers

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

Paul wrote this appeal under great emotion. Word had come to him of the joyous sacrifices made by the impoverished churches of Macedonia when they learned that their beloved leader Paul was collecting money for the persecuted mother church in Jerusalem. With justifiable paternal pride, Paul overflows with joy at the free initiative of love exhibited by ...

1386. Gentle Light

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... s church? Of course, tolerance is no substitute for the convictions of Christian conscience. Yet however strongly any of us feels about standards of belief and behavior, Saint Paul advises against argumentative attitudes when we deal with potentially divisive or emotional issues. He says, "I try to please ... not seeking my own advantage." Not trying to make debating points. Not trying to manipulate concessions to my own viewpoint. Not trying to overcome, certainly not to overwhelm, my forensic opponents. A ...

1387. Believable Light

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... Christmas story ... the Adoration of the Shepherds ... the Visit of the Magi ... the Mystery of the Incarnation? If it is not real, we risk much more than being fooled about a favorite story; we risk being fooled about ourselves. If the images and emotions of Christmas are not real, then we ourselves are less real. Our possibilities are impoverished. Our potential for becoming fully human is radically limited." God makes it possible for us to believe in him. He gears his self-disclosures to the levels of ...

1388. OUR LORD BETRAYED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... to the door where he reached down for the towel beside the basin, and girt it about his waist. The tension became so tight in the room that one feared if it snapped it would crackle like thunder. For a moment, Judas’ stomach tightened with emotion. Without thought, he knew what was about to transpire, and he felt the anguish of the trapped animal, the flushed thief, the revealed sinner. He closed his eyes, forcing himself to breathe slowly, evenly, and when he had opened them, the teacher already was ...

1389. OUR LORD DENIED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... cock crows, you will deny me three times." In desperation Peter had cried, "Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!" Sickened, he tried to remember what had happened next on the hillside, but most of it was just a blur of emotion. The rabble had stood round, shadowed grotesquely by the torches in their hands, glints of light flickering from their weapons. He could see his Lord now. Standing there unafraid. The victim, yet somehow the master of what was transpiring. His voice had stilled the noise ...

1390. OUR LORD FORSAKEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... him. All of them. We are the only ones who are left." He could not bear to look longer into her eyes and he turned from her. Beyond the crosses, two men in the robes of the Sanhedrin were talking with the centurion, and John felt all his emotion twist into loathing and hatred. Then, as they came toward the central cross, he recognized them and he was ashamed of his own malevolence. It was Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus. The centurion had accepted the scroll which they had brought and he held it in his ...

1391. Blessed With Peace

John 14:15-31

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... . They, by their own choice, have closed the avenue to heavenly peace. Isn’t it strange that we are tempted to look for peace every place but where it is found? Some people seek the psychiatrist’s couch, others try medicine, John Barleycorn, lustful pursuits, or emotional flings. But we never will achieve peace within ourselves until we place our lives in God’s hands and live according to his will and laws. God’s peace comes to us as his gift when we seek to live in harmony with him. Martin Luther ...

1392. Advent 4: Let Us Go Over To Bethlehem And Find The Christ of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

James W. Moore

... For God's sake, let me love others!" Dr. Thomas Malone, a psychiatrist in Atlanta, puts it like this: "In my practice at the Atlanta Psychiatric Clinic, people sometimes ask me what psychiatry is all about. To me, the answer is increasingly clear. Almost every emotional problem can be summed up in one particular bit of behavior: It's a person walking around, screaming, 'For God's sake love me!' Love me, that's all. He goes through a million different manipulations to get somebody to love him. On the other ...

1393. Advent 1: Let Us Go Over To Bethlehem And Find The Faith of Christmas

Luke 2:15-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... and you know how special she is, but let me tell you about my father. My parents always took us 5 kids to church. Even when we were on a trip, they took us to church. Once while on vacation, we went to this church that was a little more emotional than we were used to. The minister was shouting and pounding the pulpit… and he began to look around the congregation for someone to single out… and he spotted my father. “Mom and Dad had marched us down to the front pew. Mom was on one end, Dad on the ...

1394. The Call of the Trumpet

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

George Bass

... Stewart included "suffering" in his well-known collection of sermons, The Strong Name, he had to preach four sermons to cover the subject of suffering and human trouble. He comments: There are so many forms of trouble in this world - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual; and the challenge which they severally and collectively present to faith is so radical, that one craves passionately to be able to let in some light upon the darkness. Certainly no one who takes life seriously can escape the necessity of ...

1395. A Dreadful Declaration

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

George Bass

... , ‘If God has been there, he would not have let them do it.’ " My friend says, "During the crucifixion scene, I sobbed so loudly an usher threatened to order us out of the theatre." He adds, "On the face of it, that is the kind of emotional reaction to this scene one would expect - pity, sobbing pity for Jesus, the innocent Victim, helplessly nailed to a cross, his body displayed in full view of every profane eye, a hideous burlesque ... and the cross on which he hung only the Supreme unveiling of human ...

1396. The Man Who Asked For Dinner

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

George Bass

... Jesus seems a bit impatient with the disciples. That’s understandable, too. No wonder he questions, "Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your hearts?" They should have been overjoyed instead of frightened, should they not? But Jesus understands the emotions that have overcome them; he knows it is too much to expect them to believe that he is really alive just because he is changed and different. Death and resurrection have altered his appearance and freed him from the limitations of time ...

1397. The Shepherd Who Loved His Sheep

John 10:1-21

Sermon

George Bass

... , rather hysterically, that she was going to "fetch her daughter Amy, return and camp in these offices until she got what she wanted or was arrested." Larry Batson, the columnist who tells her story, reports her explanation: "I went a little crazy. I’m not emotional. I’m an accountant, a businessperson. People don’t see me cry. But Amy is special. She’s my Achilles’ heel." You see, Amy is retarded and has an IQ of about forty; she’s also hyperactive and has autistic tendencies. The woman, Joyce ...

1398. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... by well-intentioned but misguided fanatics; and, the bearded man on the corner we have long since decided to be a person mentally short-changed and, therefore, to be pitied. We see the word, but if it evokes any response at all, it is, regrettably, an emotion probably somewhere between indifference and offensiveness. It does not reach out and pull us into itself, laying upon us the strong conviction that it is a matter of personal urgency. It is a word from which we have sapped the strength, regarded as an ...

1399. Good News, Release, and Comfort

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Richard L. Eslinger

... in a wheelchair. So the time of exile is behind, but there are some surprises - the time of affliction persists, for we are not healed. Now we are a "heart patient." Now we are faced with diet, medicine, exercises - all of it. But this affliction is more emotional than anything. We’re angry at being in this situation. Scared it will happen again. Anxious at every real and imagined symptom that our body gives us. So we have gas pains from the lunch, and we focus all our attention on each heart beat. Then ...

1400. Human Nature Revisited

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... times and a thousand, even to a thousand thousand. For out of this tribulation there comes a peace, deep in the soul and surer than any dream ... - Alan Paton* *"Meditations for a Young Boy Confirmed" The Christian Century, 13 Oct. 1954. Our children bring out mixed emotions in us all. For David, Absalom was a thorn in his flesh, but he was also the apple of his eye. 2. The "chances" of life David wasn’t the only one in the narrative struggling with a dilemma. Absalom, too, was left hanging - literally. I ...

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