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126. How Does Religious Conduct Work?

Mark 7:31-37

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Donald Macleod

... Maclaren again, "The surest way to petrify the heart is to stimulate the feelings and then give them nothing to do." This is the story of much of the emotional religion abroad in America today. Emotional religion divorced from action results in sentimentalism, insincerity, self-adulation, and hypocrisy. Equally perilous is the desire to be liked or popular, because it tends to compromise the Gospel, to make religion comfortable, and to cater to human wishes rather than people's needs. Jesus, on the other ...

127. Jesus: The Ultimate Ordinary

John 18:28-40

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Thomas Peterson

... the necessities of life: love, pardon, personal self-giving, judgment when in error, fellowship, and finally we too suffer as servants that others might be redeemed. Since we respect people’s abilities to do what is good for them, we are not sloppily sentimental but intelligently hardminded. We practice unconditional love which is often very demanding, and we expect it from others. We do not flatter but try to draw out in others the basic wonders every person has within the self and needs desperately to ...

128. Swansong as Themesong

2 Samuel 23:1-7

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Robert Noblett

... is on my lips.” (2 Samuel 23:2 TEV) My translation: Our lives, if they don”t stand for something, are less than they are intended to be. Often, tragically less. When I was growing up, I played the trumpet. In fact I owned two of them. I had a sentimental attachment to them, but some years ago I sold one to an antique dealer. It really didn”t make any sense to keep it; I had not seriously played it since 1965. Since that time, no air had been blown into its mouthpiece, and no music had come forth from ...

129. Living By Faith And Trust

Mark 5:21-43

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Leonard H. Budd

... the angler of those Middle Ages. And the Protestant Reformation was born, in part, in response to this simplistic thought that one's religiousness is structured only by an affirmation, a formula of words spoken. Unfortunately, there remains some of that simplistic sentiment today. Religious "code words" do not a Christian make. Whereas there are some people who think that only a repetition of words is necessary, so there are other folks who think that Jesus' ethical example is the sole key. All that is ...

130. Proper 11

Ephesians 2:11-22, 2 Samuel 7:1-17, Mark 6:45-56, Mark 6:30-44

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Russell F. Anderson

... God's true home is in the hearts of his faithful ones. God finds a place for us (v. 10). God doesn't need a place here on earth but God recognizes that we need our place, or space, where we can grow and flourish. We see something of this sentiment in the movie Gone With The Wind when Scarlett O'Hara's father passionately pleads with her to take care of the plantation, because a person is nothing without the land. God recognizes that his children of clay need their place in the sun, a piece of turf they can ...

131. Epiphany 5

Job 7:1-7, Isaiah 40:1-31, Mark 1:29-39, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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Russell F. Anderson

... Isaiah 40:21-31 Abandoned by God? The defeated and humiliated people of Israel felt abandoned by their God. Even the very symbol of their religion, the temple, had been decimated. The people had profound doubts about God's care for them or his strength. The first sentiment is found in the phrase "My way is hid from the Lord..." (v. 27). The sense that their God was powerless comes through Isaiah's comments as he responds to the duress of his people and is indicated by passages such as: "He does not faint or ...

132. Proper 7

Mk 4:35-41 (5:1-20) · 2 Cor 5:14-21; 6:1-13 · 1 Sam 1:32-49 · Job 38:1-11, 16-18 · Ps 9

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Russell F. Anderson

... , sweeps down upon them. The wind threatens to swamp the boat with water but Jesus is asleep. The disciples are possessed by panic and shake Jesus awake with the words: "Teacher, don't you care that we are about to perish?" This phrase captures the sentiment of millions down through the ages whose lives were also in peril. Note that they address Jesus as "teacher," not "Lord." Jesus rebukes the wind and the sea, as if they were demonic powers: "Peace, be still!" (v. 39) There is a great calm, not only ...

133. Happy Fear - A Wedding Homily

Psalm 128:1-6

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John V. Carrier

... . When it does not work together, it does not work at all. Part of the Godly nature of their life together is some basically religious activity, beginning with this wedding. This is a Christian ceremony, in a Christian setting, not just a romantic ceremony in a sentimental setting. We ask God to be present in this relationship. The scriptures we read tell us of the need for God to be a main ingredient in our life together. God is the source of true joy. A good portion of the Godliness of this relationship ...

134. Wedding Sermon - You Are What You Wear

SOS 8:6-7; Col 3:12-17

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Erskine White

... is that a young couple just getting married has a lot to learn about love. The truth is that every married couple always has a lot to learn about love, no matter how many wedding anniversaries they have celebrated together. When we speak of love, we speak not of sentiment or passion, but of the depths and mysteries of life. When we speak of marriage, we speak not of a product but a process. Marriage has been ordained by God for many purposes, and one of them is to provide us a place where we may learn to be ...

135. Lent 4

Luke 13:18-22 · Joel 2:12-19

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Jack Brownlee

... watch over us. L: May we find hope in the peace of God that transcends and understands all things. Meditation: The Ring It was not so much the value of the ring, although very likely it was the most precious possession the family had in both the monetary and sentimental senses of the word. It was that she had been told over and over again not to play with the precious things which mother kept in the small wooden box in the bottom of the dowry chest. Because of this loss the family felt none of the usual joy ...

136. The Beauty Of Holiness

Psalm 96:1-13, Psalm 29:1-11

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Clement E. Lewis

... satisfying of all? Nostalgia is important to many of us, and plays a tremendous role in our religious and personal life. It is the incentive that leads us to memorialize -- to provide new and beautiful things that relate to worship. Yet, we know that nostalgic sentiment can become a barrier to doing what is most important for the future. We can become so attached to what we have, and give our loyalty to what is familiar, that we may neglect to see what we ought to develop. "The beauty of holiness ...

137. Know What Time It Is!

Luke 16:1-15

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W. Robert McClelland

... we ought to conclude that he died "prematurely;" that his life began in "scandal" and ended in "failure." He was an "embarrassment" to his family and friends. To his disciples his ministry ended in "tragedy" and "disillusionment." When we are not caught up in a pious sentimentalism we ought to conclude that he was a misfit. The miracle of faith is that we call this misfit, "The Son of God." Look at how we as believers have come to regard his crucifixion. We call his cross a symbol of "life," not "death." We ...

138. Wedding: Christian Love

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John M. Braaten

... in 1 Corinthians 13. Now agape is not the kind of love you "fall in to." It does not come naturally like falling off a log. This love will not make one's knees a little weak when his beloved comes into view; it is not the sentimental love of popular songs. Agape, Christian love, affects more than our emotions. It involves our whole being, and is able to provide a basis for a long, hearty, and joyful marriage. Paul lists fifteen characteristics of agape: Christian love. Let's look at a few and relate them ...

139. When Is Justification By Faith A Heresy?

John 8:31-41

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George Johnson

... and there we have drunk of the poison that has killed the life of following Christ ... We have given away the Word and sacraments wholesale; we baptized, confirmed, and absolved a whole nation without asking awkward questions or insisting on strict conditions. Our humanitarian sentiment made us give that which was holy to the scornful and unbelieving. We poured forth unending streams of grace. But the call to follow Jesus was hardly ever heard. Jon Sabrino, a priest from El Salvador, calls for a new look at ...

140. Light for Uncertain Paths

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Thomas Slavens

... on anxiety in Matthew 6. When we have sinned and need forgiveness, we will be assured by Paul’s message on forgiveness in the letter to the Romans. We should read the Bible to give our lives direction. Without a standard, religion becomes largely sentimentality. The Bible provides standards which, if accepted, will make for a whole life. It is when people invent their own principles or live by what is accepted by their neighbors that they often fall into error. Many fall into the trap of believing that ...

141. Christ Is Coming…

Luke 21:5-38

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James Garrett

... matched only by the extraordinary moment before it happens. A strange text for the season of Advent; or is it? I think not. The birth of Christ encompasses much more than the Christmas story. Understanding this moves us into a realm which is far more than sentimentality. The Christmas happening affected the whole universe for all eternity. The eternal God was incarnated in a man named Jesus. Jesus is God’s story-word in the flesh. It is a story of the love of God and humanity. Like all stories it has a ...

142. Jesus Is Rejected

Luke 4:14-30

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James Garrett

... of escaping the world but of loving the world. We are to come to him even though the world calls us in a hundred different directions. A poem by an unknown author sums it up well. To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.To reach out for another is to risk involvement.To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.To love is to risk not being loved in return.To live is to risk dying.To ...

143. Black Preaching: A Four-Cornered Universe

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... experience could understand where the preacher was coming from in this sermon. The preacher used imagination to develop his title and sermon about the unspoken portions of the text. He dramatized the feelings of being truly prodigal and described in detail such sentiments. The sermon's success lay in its capacity to help hearers see those unwritten aspects of the text through imagination. Questions were consistently raised in relation to those unsaid dimensions of the text. What was it like to live in a ...

144. Wash Up First For The Meal Before You Eat!

John 13:1-17

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Mark Ellingsen

... we are merely going through the motions and not really getting out of it what we should. The problem is that we are not adequately prepared!" Oftentimes I run across Christians who think this way and even explain their feelings. I am not advocating these sentiments if they are taken as an argument against frequent celebration of the sacrament. We can never receive too much love (too much of God's love)! However, a church committed to more frequent celebration of the Lord's supper needs to be on guard "lest ...

145. The Resurrection Is Freedom

John 11:38-44

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Mark Ellingsen

... he had with the whole family. Thus the writer of this story, John (11:5), writes: "Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus." Jesus loved them. Jesus' love for that family was not just a matter of words, a kind of polite sentiment we sometimes express concerning acquaintances. This was a passionate love. Thus after learning that Lazarus was severely ill, Jesus concluded his business in the region of Perea (Jesus always conducts his business deliberately in John's gospel; also see John 2:4, 24; 12 ...

146. Anointed Ministry

Isaiah 61:1-11

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Ron Lavin

... is in charge. That's where we get our word 'chairperson'." It's one thing for a hometown boy to come home and the people to celebrate his new-found celebrity status; it's quite another for this young preacher to refuse to go along with sentimental celebration of his status and insist that the people pay attention to and follow the Word. With authority Jesus said, "Today this Word is fulfilled in your midst." The root of the word "authority" is "right, based on origin." It is the author who has authority ...

147. The Best Offense Is A Good Defense

Zephaniah 3:1-20

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Richard Hasler

... life. The world around us changes, and we must not be afraid to incorporate into our own world and life view changes that will enrich our own adventure of faith. In our day when the Christian life often is depicted in soft, sentimental and simplistic terms it is refreshing to reread John Bunyan’s remarkable allegory, Pilgrim’s Progress. In his imaginative story Christian meets friends, such as Faithful and Hopeful, but he also encounters Worldly Wiseman, Hypocrisy and Giant Despair. Christian is never ...

148. Are You Asking The Right Questions?

Zechariah 7:1-14

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Richard Hasler

... re-constructed? The Word of the Lord came to the prophet with a question for the people. During the past 70 years when you fasted, “was it for me that you fasted (7:5)?” In other words, what was your motivation in fasting? Was it merely a sentimental observance, an exercise in self-pity? Or, was it a genuine fast concentrated upon the Lord of hosts and the true purpose behind the fast? Did the people really know why the temple had been destroyed? Had they any idea how God had been offended by their ...

149. Wedding: They Became One Flesh

Genesis 3:1-24

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O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... .” They leave their parents* and cleave to each other (Matthew 19:5) to commit themselves to each other for life. This total commitment to each other is the changeless mark of Christian marriage. By renewing this commitment of love (not only in thought and sentiment, but in word and action) on a daily basis, and by following the principles of 1. recognizing the human-ness of each other, and 2. living in forgiveness, you can set out together in life to experience more and more what God intended for all ...

150. The Illusion Of Neutrality

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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Robert Beringer

... or is it simply nonsense? Is life a meaningless struggle, or is it nurtured in the purpose and goodness of Almighty God? Are the love, kindness and generosity we show in our finest moments indications of the true nature of life, or are they so much sentimental weakness? What is more important - people or things, individuals or institutions? Do governments exist to be served, or do they exist to serve? Is God real or not? Was Jesus a dreamer and a psychopathetic fool, or did he know how life at its best ...

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