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1426. Proper 26

Psalm 119:137-144, Isaiah 1:10-18, Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4, Luke 19:1-10, 2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... are conscious moment by moment that happiness, like peace, begins and is sustained internally. Some of us experience happiness when we feel connected to the Holy One. I think that happiness shows up as contentment with life; happiness is a result of attitudes, ... our minds we ask for guidance on this journey we call life. With our souls, we yearn for freedom from fears; we long to feel secure in our relationships and in our homes. We want to be happy. Reveal to us the hindrances that lurk in us and inhibit ...

1427. The Assurance of Things Hoped For

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... on the sea, far from the island, Wilson falls off his post while Chuck is sleeping. When Chuck awakens, he notices that Wilson is missing. He looks out at Wilson on the horizon. We see the depth of his attachment to Wilson by the anguish he feels trying to recover the wayward volleyball. Despite his efforts, he cannot reach Wilson. Chuck cannot let go of his raft, because he might not be able to return to it. He watches helplessly as Wilson bobs off into the distance, gone forever. The author of Hebrews ...

1428. When We Are Tempted

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... of a spiritual high. He had just been baptized by John the Baptist. He was full of the Holy Spirit. And that’s when the Tempter came. That is so true to life. You go off to a church retreat. You have a spiritual mountaintop experience. You’re feeling closer to God and closer to others than you have ever felt before. Beware! That is the time when you may be the most vulnerable to temptation. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing ...

1429. Jailhouse Rock

Acts 16:16-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... -being. So, when you are in prison, when you’re depressed, when it seems everything you try is a failure, when you are about to lose hope, force yourself to break out in a song, especially a song of hope and joy. See if it doesn’t make you feel better. I doubt that this is why Paul and Silas were singing. They were such people of faith that their songs were probably a statement of their confidence in God. However, those songs were also a witness to the other prisoners. In fact the writer of Acts makes a ...

1430. Just-Say-The-Word Disciples

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... in the woods or a slum in the city, you were on the “wrong side of the tracks” at some time in your life. Whenever we wander out of our comfort zone; whenever we venture away from what feels familiar and safe to us, we are on the “wrong side of tracks.” Off our home turf, we feel vulnerable and threatened, unsure of where we stand, and knowing we “stand out.” Jesus was born into a very specific “side of the tracks.” He grew up as a first-century, Torah-observing, Jewish male in Israel. All ...

1431. Mary AND Martha, Heart AND Home

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... into the roadway. Predator and prey came racing through the lineup of parked cars, then disappeared into the trees on the other side of the road. Moments later one gazelle doubled back — again, running towards the road — with the cheetah pair in hot pursuit. Feeling the hot breath of death on its heels, the terrified gazelle made an incredible choice. It hurled itself INTO a Toyota minivan whose side door had been slid open. The confused cheetahs ran on past, looking around for the prey that had been so ...

1432. The Church Is the Place

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... her freshmen year she began hanging out with “the wrong crowd” and began drinking. During that period she did not think about God at all. When she realized the error of her way she returned to her home church. Unfortunately, she did not feel welcome because, “everyone knows how I used to be,” she explains. She is thinking about joining a new church where she could experience a fresh start. What advice would you offer? She received several helpful responses. One person compared her situation with a ...

1433. God Cares

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

Argile Smith

... . It really exists in your world. It’s not far-fetched. Rather, it is a fitting description of your situation right now. The ring of truth for you in the description is that God doesn’t seem to care about you where you are right now. You feel like you’ve been deported to a strange land, and God seems to have lost your forwarding address. If that’s the case for you, then you can identify with the Israelites after they were taken into Babylonian exile. The forced march from Jerusalem to Babylon took ...

1434. Let Them Eat Cake

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... : Why Insults Hurt — and Why They Shouldn’t (2013), writes that “There is no need to go to a psychologist to know that when we denigrate another person it is because we are unable to grow up, and we need to belittle others, to feel important. Shame comes not in being insulted but in behaving in an insulting manner.” Did you hear that? “Shame comes not in being insulted by in behaving in an insulting manner.” Christians are people who understand that the ultimate shame is “not being insulted ...

1435. Nicodemus: A Young Old Man

John 3:1-21

Sermon

David O. Bales

... continued, “The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit” (v. 9). Nicodemus’s mind sifted through fragments of thoughts and feelings. I know something’s dead that should come to life within me, but how? How could God breathe into my life? The roads to the past are closed as surely as the gate to Eden’s garden. What wind from God can blow me toward joy again, toward hope ...

1436. Where Is Jesus?

John 11:17-37

Sermon

David O. Bales

... side of the cemetery, visitors are chattier, even happy, carrying on humorous conversations as they stand next to gravestones of people who died a hundred years ago. But, as you enter the newer portion of the cemetery where people have recently been buried, you feel the emotion around. You see families you don’t know, but you can tell: the sighs, the hugs, and the tears. Bereavement hurts, even in the near vicinity of death. So some people never attend funerals and some never visit in hospitals or nursing ...

1437. The Path of Joy

Psalm 118:1-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... I will rejoice and be glad in it” (24)? Then we looked in a mirror and gave ourselves a big smile. It might change our lives. It might, at least, alter our attitudes. This is what experts in bio-feedback tell us. We don’t smile because we feel great, we feel great because we smile. Comedian Steve Martin says that he gets his laughter juices going each morning by looking at himself in the mirror when he first gets out of bed, which he says, is good for about three or four minutes of hilarity. For some of ...

1438. A Breath of Fresh Air

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Tony Everett

... most of your time thinking about what it was like in the past? Do you often grumble about the present and yearn for a future that will never be? Do your memories of a glorious and cherished past seem to be gone forever? Do you sometimes feel so used up and dried up that you have given up all hope? Some scholars claim that congregations belonging to mainline denominations are now on the decline, watching life from the sidelines, reacting with a ho-hum line, and rapidly descending to flat line. “They have ...

1439. Prelude to the Passion

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , as he did so often then, he had this vision, this image of Jesus on the cross. He said in that moment he suddenly realized, as he thought of Jesus on the cross, “that there was no pain I could feel that God didn’t feel, there was no grief I could feel that God didn’t feel.” In that moment he realized how intimately God shared this painful time in his life. He knew, in that moment, “Jesus walks with me.” Geddes concluded, “And because of that, in my ministry, I will always affirm the cross of ...

1440. Remember the Rooster

John 18:25-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... rooster began to crow. That’s the rooster. Can’t you imagine that, from that day forward, whenever Simon Peter started to feel good about himself like Sally reminding Johnny he had killed Grandma’s pet duck the Tempter whispered in Simon Peter’s ear ... of Satan’s most powerful tools. It is the reminder that once upon time we failed Christ. And deep down inside we still feel the guilt, still feel the shame, and we say to ourselves, “I’m no good. I don’t deserve to be in Christ’s family. I’m ...

1441. Five Mission Killers

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 't want to boil the ocean here, just want to set us up to move the needle. I'm out of pocket the next two weeks, but feel free to noodle on it while I'm gone. We'll punt it until I get back and I'll just ping you then so we can ... do crustaceans mature? The lobster sheds its shell at regular intervals, about 25 times in its first five years alone. When its body begins to feel cramped inside the shell, the lobster unzips itself from the tight carapace in order to grow a more spacious one. It looks for a ...

1442. For Those Who Are Auditing the Class

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... victim of the mistreatment my people suffered, not giving up my seat and whatever I had to face afterwards was not important. I did not feel any fear sitting there. I felt the Lord would give me the strength to endure whatever I had to face. It was time for someone ... began to pray for him, but the harsh prospect of a massive heart attack was hard for John to handle. He began to feel sorry for himself. He became somewhat angry with God. “How could God let this happen to me? How? At the beginning of my ...

1443. The Ice Bucket Challenge

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... player who publically admitted to having the disease in 1939. In Gehrig’s famous "retirement" speech at Yankee stadium, he declared that despite his ALS diagnosis that gave him only a couple more years of life, the life he had already lived made him feel like "the luckiest man on the face of the earth." Here is this famous speech in its entirety, perhaps the shortest famous speech in history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626Dt9JdjQs Seventy five years later a diagnosis of ALS still means an average ...

1444. No Excuse

Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... . The police officer came up to him, took his license and without saying a word, examined it, looked at the car and said, “Mister, tonight is my last night on the force. I am retiring after 25 years of service. I am exhausted. It is Christmas Eve. I don’t feel like filling out more paperwork so I’ll tell you what I am going to do. You give me an excuse for driving 130mph that I’ve never heard in 25 years on the force and I’ll let you go. The man thought fast and said, “Well, last week ...

1445. Start at the Epicenter

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... I never thought would ever happen and I hope never happens again. Many of you experienced the same thing. It was as if someone with giant hands took our house and began to shake it. I was asleep and Teresa woke me and said, “Did you feel that?” I said, “What?” She said, “I believe we just experienced an earthquake.” I said, “Seriously?” What really got my attention was when she said, “I hope it did not damage the foundation of our house. To which I then asked the most spiritual question I ...

1446. Living as Children of Light

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... of which Christ is the object (you … were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus). There does not appear to be any reason why the author switches from “Christ” (4:20) to Jesus (4:21). A number of commentators feel that this may be a deliberate reference to the historic personality of the Lord, because some false teachings at that time distinguished between Christ and Jesus. This, however, is speculative, and it could be that the apostle simply wishes to remind his readers that ...

1447. The Golden Calf

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... is the subject of the verb nakham it is best translated “had compassion” or “relented.” The basic meaning of the verb is “have compassion” or “feel sorrow.” When people feel sorrow, or are “sorry,” the context of sin often warrants the translation “repent.” Nakham means “repentance” in the sense of feeling sorrow. When God feels sorrow, however, the word cannot mean “repent” since God does not sin. Rather, it indicates God’s sorrow for the consequences people must face as ...

1448. The Lord’s Anger Against Nineveh

Nahum 1:1-15

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... back and do nothing (e.g., Isa. 9:7; 37:32; 42:13; cf. John 2:17). The further good news is that Yahweh is a God who takes redress (naqam). The NIV has avenging, which might be misleading. The context indicates that Yahweh indeed has the strong feelings associated with vengeance, but in the OT the notion of vengeance belongs in the context of law. It suggests exacting the appropriate redress from someone who has wronged a member of your family, so as to put things right between people. It is not merely the ...

1449. Woe to Nineveh

Nahum 3:1-19

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... . As far as we know, Nahum is not referring to the way a prostitute or a woman who was sexually immoral was actually treated in Israel; none of the Oz references to such women indicate that they were actually treated thus. The language again suggests the feelings of a man whose wife has been unfaithful; this is what he might wish to do. The picture of the sexual shaming of Ms Nineveh offends modern readers (see O’Brien, Nahum, pp. 87–103), and perhaps offended ancient ones. It was not designed to be ...

1450. A Room with Locked Doors

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... of our need. Nothing is too difficult for him. In the midst of their fear and confusion, Christ came to them. If you could hold on to that truth, you could handle most of life’s anxieties. Dennis Guernsey, in his book If I’m So Free??How Come I Feel Boxed In? tells about a psychologist who was watching a little girl come skipping out of a church office on her way back to her classroom. Evidently, she had been sent on an errand by her day school teacher, and she was reporting back to her class as ordered ...

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