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1426. The Hospitable Servant: A Woman Named Lydia

Acts 16:11-15

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... with interest to God’s word. They do not sit as diners at the table waiting to be served a full course meal of the gospel without gratitude or appreciation. Their faces are not stone, granite, and mortar devoid of life, expression, and emotion. Their hearts are opened. They sit, listen, hear, and come to Christ! What hallelujah joy and thanksgiving this brings! Of all those who truly listen, a radical minority responds positively because their hearts are opened. Lydia listened and responded with heart and ...

1427. Days of Promise

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

Without a doubt the most troubling time in the history of the United Sates was the Civil War era. Devastated by the ruins of war, the country was drained emotionally and spiritually. The hostility had developed not only between regions of the country, but it spilled over into families and institutions. At given moments of the war, people questioned whether they would ever be able to recover from the debacle that had been wrought upon the nation. The future was ...

1428. A Song of Promise

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... uncreative and lacking in originality. In the search for new expressions, the composers reflect the times in which we live. They portray for us the confusion and incongruities of our age by creating music that grates both on our ears and our emotions. It is no small secret that the conductors of great symphony orchestras of our land have considerable difficulty with their boards of directors when they include too many of the contemporary works in their scheduled concerts. The same observations can be made ...

1429. The Lightest Touch

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... that he is still a boy, a youth, a tender lad who could not handle such a high calling. The Context Jeremiah had good reason to think twice about answering the call of God to minister to the people of Judah. Jeremiah was a highly sensitive man. He was emotional and felt deeply for his people. It did not take a ton of bricks to fall on his head for him to take note of the fact that his people were highly vulnerable to attack from other world powers. As now, the Israelites were in a strategic location in ...

1430. Light to Serve

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... -conscious about this radically new experience as he performed his usual stint in the holy of holies. Rather, Isaiah was deeply aware how keenly we should feel the burden of our guilt and shame in the presence of our Creator. All of us should sense the same emotions as Isaiah as we approach our worship. As a place set apart where we can be confronted by the presence of the holy, our worship space suggests that. Our liturgy reminds us of our need to confess before God our unworthiness either to hear the word ...

1431. When Our Children Teach Us

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... it came time for the boy to leave the hospital, his surgeon came into the room. The doctor had grown so attached to the little boy that he had to busy himself with those insignificant gestures that we use when we are trying to surmount a great wall of emotion. They said their good-byes with tears of joy all around and then the doctor turned to leave. The little boy called him back. “Doctor,” the little boy said. “I want you to have this.” He was holding out the teddy bear! The doctor tried to refuse ...

1432. What's Not to Love (A Drama about Humility)

Matthew 23:1-39

Drama

Dave Marsh

... park that I bought ice cream for and helped them find their dog Fluffy. Next, there’s the large donation I made to the Foundation for vertically challenged little people of the South Pacific. (starts to get weepy) Excuse me, but this is all so emotional. (pulls out a hanky) Brett: Thank you. Next, there was the baby I delivered in a phone booth amidst a gang war. Next, there’s testifying against Jimmy “The Hitman” Malone. There was also the time where I (starts to weep) stopped that shoplifter from ...

1433. The Healing of Jairus' Daughter 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 ...

1434. His Triumphal Entry

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Brett Blair

... a locked room. His resurrection was established as a fact. Back then these seven days were called Passover, as it is still called today by the Jews. Christians around the world know these seven days as Holy Week, the Passion of the Christ. In our culture the emotion, pain, and passion of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ has been lost. Let me tell you what I mean: The next time you go into a Christian bookstore find some artwork of any kind that depicts the death of Jesus. They will not reflect the horror of ...

1435. His Teachings

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

... looked at the events of Sunday when he enters Jerusalem on the donkey fulfilling the Messianic prophecy of Zechariah. It was a day of celebration. On Monday Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, curses the fig tree, and clears the Temple of the moneychangers. It is a day of emotions. Today we focus on Tuesday, the day of teachings. It is a day questions. Someone has figured that if we put all of the materials in the Gospels that tell us about the life of Jesus together that it would equal about 80 pages. Yet, most of ...

1436. His Last Supper

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

... we refer to as Holy Week, was the most significant of his life. For the past three Sundays we have been examining in some detail the events that occurred during that period. We have looked at Sunday, the day of celebration, Monday, the day of emotion, and Tuesday, the day of questions. Continuing this morning I would like to examine Wednesday, the day of transition, and Thursday, the day of fellowship. Jesus’ final week can be divided into three phases. The first two days of the week find the masses in ...

1437. His Death

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the events of Sunday when he enters Jerusalem on the donkey fulfilling the Messianic prophecy of Zechariah. It was a day of celebration. On Monday Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, curses the fig tree, and clears the Temple of the moneychangers. It is a day of emotions. Tuesday was the day of teaching, a day of critics questions. Wednesday was the day nothing happened. Neither Matthew, Mark, Luke, nor John tell us anything about this day. We are left to assume, that for Jesus, it was a day of silence. On Thursday ...

1438. Hypocrites

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Brett Blair

... him down but the fact that his moral posturing, his wrenching, tear-stained appeals for understanding and forgiveness, did not ring true in our ears. In short, he committed the unpardonable sin, the sin against the human spirit, the sin of trying to pull an emotional fast one -- the sin of hypocrisy. When we see this kind of hypocrisy we say, "Father, do not forgive him, for he knows full well what he's doing." The specific problem with religious hypocrites is that they are not only "holier-than-thou"; they ...

1439. God Works From the Inside Out

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

James W. Moore

... -offs on television. After the game, the coach of the losing team was being interviewed. He was not happy with the way his team played and he said, “We deserved to get beat because we were absolutely listless out there tonight. We had no drive, no emotion. We were like zombies… just going through the motions. We had no life at all!” And then he said, “We had no spirit!” As he said that, it made me think that that’s how some people go through life spiritually… absolutely listless with no zest ...

1440. It Doesn't Have To Be This Way

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

James W. Moore

... 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 aloud ...

1441. Who You Gonna' Vote For?

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Zacchaeus. He didn’t give 10% he gave 50%. Oh, easy for him to do, you say, he was a wealthy man. Well, Jesus once told of a poor widow who entered the temple and didn’t give 50% but l00%. She gave all that she had. No tear jerking, emotional appeal here. Zacchaeus was a genuinely changed man. The Law said to give 10% but Zacchaeus wanted to go beyond that. It’s what Jesus called the second mile. The story of Zacchaeus is a story about what it means to be lost. Not simply a lost soul but truly ...

1442. The Bedrock of Faith

Mark 13:1-8 · Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Brett Blair

... I like the story told about Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) in his later years. On a special evening at the Vienna Music Hall his oratorio “The Creation” was being performed. As the majestic work moved along, the audience was caught up with tremendous emotion. When the passage "And there was light!" was reached, the chorus and orchestra burst forth in such power that the crowd could no longer restrain its enthusiasm. The vast assembly rose spontaneous applause in the middle of the peace. Haydn weakened by age ...

1443. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... months. It was a beautiful spring day. The phone rang in our home on a Sunday afternoon. I answered and a young man on the other end of the line said he needed to tell me something and then ask me a question. The words came in a rush of emotion. He told me that a month ago, he was in our church and he felt God touching his heart and urging him to come down front to be baptized and to join the church. “It was so powerful,” he said. “I knew God was there calling me to do this ...

1444. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

1445. The Last Laugh

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the germ."(4) Have you ever heard of the Wellness Community?(5) If you or someone close has been touched by cancer, you may very well have. The Wellness Community was founded in 1982 in Santa Monica, California, and has psychologically and emotionally supported over 30,000 participants since opening, many of whom were referred by their physicians. The Wellness Community is not a clinic, just a support facility for those trying to deal with their life-threatening conditions. The thrust of the community's ...

1446. Pay Back Time

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... about forgiveness should include some instruction as to how to go about it. Good idea. Here are some points from the literature of one of the Twelve-step programs: 1) Write down in black and white the reasons why we are angry with (someone)...Writing clarifies emotions which have been confused and buried in us, sometimes for years. Also by setting down our grievances in black and white, we place a boundary around them. Our grievances are only so big and no bigger. The hurt had a beginning and it can have an ...

1447. The Ten Commandments: One God, Only One

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... purposes of hoarding, but for what it can buy. Our standing in society is in many ways dependent upon the things we own. If you happen to own a big yacht or a Rolls Royce or a large estate, our society thinks you have "arrived." You might be emotionally, morally and spiritually bankrupt, but unless you go around attacking little children, America thinks you are OK. Of course, you are not OK if Mammon becomes pre-eminent over God. The Bible says, "the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil."(7) Lying ...

1448. The Ten Commandments #6: No Murder

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... in which a patient is near the end of life, but is lingering...and might linger in some sort of limbo between life and death for who knows how long. Existing, not living, no hope of recovery, and in the process draining everyone's emotional and financial resources. Should the process be "helped along?" Another toughie. After all, there would be reason to look askance at someone putting Grandpa peacefully to sleep who stands to inherit a million bucks once the old guy is gone. And we certainly would ...

1449. The Ten Commandments #10: No Covetousness

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... is do not set your heart on having something of someone else's that would unjustly upset the basic unit of society that insures the provision of the necessities of life, the family. There was good reason for such a rule. It had nothing to do with any emotional trauma that a family break-up might cause. It was economics. In Hebrew society, it was a man's right to have a family because children insured that the parents would be cared for in their old age. As we found when we studied the Fifth Commandment, the ...

1450. Beyond Despair

Psalm 43:1-5, Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... : wearing clothes, in his right mind, sitting at the feet of Jesus, returning to his home. As one commentator reflects: In our day, we have become far more accustomed to attributing calamities and disorders to the forces of nature or to internal mental or emotional problems. The remedy is not exorcism but counseling or medication. The story of the Gerasene demoniac should now be interpreted so that it speaks a word of assurance and hope to those for whom every day is a battle with depression, fear, anxiety ...

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