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126. Run Away Bride

Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 22:1-14, Hosea 1:1-2:1

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Lori Wagner

... love with you! Today, look at the relationships around you, the ones you are in, the ones you are trying so hard to nourish and nurture. The ones you may not have noticed in your life. Whom do you love? Who loves you back? Solomon once said, “A sated man loathes honey, but to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet” (Prov 27:7). When you are in love with God, when you know God loves you more than anything in the world, you can let go of what is dead in your life and embrace the hope of the ...

127. Good for What Ails Us

Matthew 9:35-38

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R. Kevin Mohr

... we turn we are confronted with a society and lives full of physical, emotional, social, and spiritual sickness. How do we respond? What effect does the crowd have on us? Does its frenzied panic suck us in? Does its weary resignation fill us with fear or loathing? Or does the sight of the crowd, harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd, fill us with compassion, as it did Jesus? Let’s be clear about this: Jesus wasn’t just “sorry” for the crowd, as one translation has it. No, the Greek word ...

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell

1 loathe a friend . . . who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

Euripides

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Mary Renault

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

134. Never on Sunday

Mark 2:23-3:6

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Dean Feldmeyer

... it to have any meaning or power at all. Religious Language The second sacred cow is religious language. We do love our religious language, do we not? The words and phrases we learned as children and youth gave us comfort and understanding throughout our lives and we loathe to let go of them. But, there are cases where we must let them go if we are going to effectively carry out the great commandment that Jesus gave to us: “Go and make disciples.” It’s time to purge phrases like “Holy Ghost” and ...

135. Sheep and Shepherds

John 10:11-16 · Psalm 23

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , if they are frightened. And it doesn't take much to frighten them. Lambs are sometimes cuddly and cute. But sheep? Matthew 25 notwithstanding, I see no particular honor in being numbered among the sheep rather than among the goats. Something in me loathes being called a sheep, even to be called that by Jesus. This Sunday has traditionally been known as “Shepherd Sunday” in the church. All the lessons speak of sheep and shepherds. “I am the Good Shepherd,” Jesus says. “The Good Shepherd lays down ...

136. Bent Out of Shape

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a lifetime, the consequences of shame. For us our shame may have been put upon us by our experiences and relationships, our mishaps or misadventures. Or it may be the result of our own wrongdoing and the shame we have heaped upon ourselves as self-punishment and loathing. But whatever bends us and burdens us, the good news is that we do not have to carry any of it any longer on our own. This is the message of the cross, and the relief of resurrection. This is the healing that Jesus provides. Instead Jesus ...

137. When Time Stands Still

John 11:1-45

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Lori Wagner

... mourning and sadness? For most of us, it feels like death –the kind we don’t know how to recover from, the kind we don’t know how to bounce back from. While others may have left us, we remain in pain, while our grief subsumes us. We loathe grief. We hate grief. We fear grief more than we fear death. Grief provides us a unique kind of insight into what it’s like to “die” –emotionally, spiritually, and even physically. But what we often miss is that grief also affords us an insight into what it ...

138. The Reckoning

Matthew 14:13-21, Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... receives Leah as his wife. Finally, marrying both, he proceeds on, with the stage (obviously) set for a lot of rivalry between these two wives as well,…but that’s another story. As Jacob decides to go back to his own country, he is filled with self-loathing, worry, stress, and guilt over his former deceit. He doesn’t know how to face his brother Esau, and he has no idea if Esau will retaliate and kill him. So, before he crosses that “Rubicon” (actually, it’s the Jabbok River that he crosses), he ...

139. Vengeance: Human and Divine

Matthew 13:1-9 · Isaiah 44:6-8 · Psalm 1-12, 17-18, 23-24

Sermon

Will Willimon

... psalm, the part that isn't so nice. After speaking of the Spirit of God, the wings of the morning, the precious thoughts of God, there is a jolt: O that thou wouldst slay the wicked....Do I not hate them that hate thee,... do I not loathe them that rise up against thee? I hate them with a perfect hatred! As John Wesley said, perhaps after reading these verses of Psalm 139, “there are parts of the Psa1ms that are not fit for Christian ears.” Now those are not nice thoughts, particularly in church! Worse ...

140. David's Mighty Men

2 Samuel 23:8-39

Teach the Text

... born of his father’s rigid handling of him—that he will not discuss with anyone. Those who see its shadows do not confront him about it. As a result his complex emotions fester, leading him to sexual sin, clearly done because of his self-loathing. Everyone around him is destroyed, as is so often the case today when sexual sin (pornography, adultery, homosexual behavior) invades a marriage or a family. This novel has powerful effects on those who read it, especially on men. Pieter’s aunt, the novel’s ...

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126. Run Away Bride

Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 22:1-14, Hosea 1:1-2:1

Sermon

Lori Wagner

127. Good for What Ails Us

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.

Bertrand Russell

1 loathe a friend . . . who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

Euripides

It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.

Mary Renault

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

134. Never on Sunday

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

135. Sheep and Shepherds

John 10:11-16 · Psalm 23

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