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1576. The Open Hand

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... have nothing and be nothing. Nouwen says that this is also the great inhibiting factor in our worship and prayer lives today. Nouwen puts it this way: When you are asked to pray you are asked to open your tightly clenched fists and give up your last coin...You feel it safer to cling to a sorry past than to trust in a new future. So you fill your hands with small, clammy coins which you don't want to surrender.4 We cling to resentment or revenge so tightly that we make ourselves sick and cannot worship or ...

1577. It's OK To Stir Up God

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Richard Patt

... , "Go ask Mommy." The little tyke, unable to read, does just what his dad hopes he won't do: he tugs and tugs at his dad's shirt, asking the question, "What does that sign say, Daddy? Daddy?" Two points for us: number one, hurray for the little guy, who feels it proper to come and approach his father under any circumstance. Number two, God, thanks be, doesn't need the sleep the father seemed to need. We are not a bother to God -- ever! We never come to God alone as God's child. We come with Christ, and in ...

1578. Rich In God's Sight

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Richard Patt

... spine. In that verse God exclaims, "Fool! This night your soul is required of you ..." (v. 20). Hearing that dramatic warning, maybe you have surmised, "Will I ever get caught in a situation where those stern words are addressed to me?" Generally we tend to feel we have our lives on the right track. We try to keep a pleasing balance between material things and the things of the spirit. But when we look objectively, we are concerned about our own security -- both for the present and the future. Frankly, we ...

1579. Nobody Owes You Anything

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Richard Patt

... the supper table and tell your worker to prepare a meal and serve it to you. Afterwards, even though it was a delicious meal, you would feel under no compulsion to gush over your servant and tell him what a good job he did. You can just get up and go to bed ... work in the field all day long, all week long, for a lifetime, and there would still be no reason why God should feel indebted to save us. The comforting side -- the gospel side -- of what Jesus was saying in this parable would then be that God ...

1580. People With Power To Forgive

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... , then we try at least to contribute something negative: the pain of self-accusation and self-rejection."3 Many of us self-sufficient types do have difficulty accepting gifts. On the one hand we feel we do not deserve them, but on the other hand we feel we deserve more. But more than that, we rightly feel acceptance of the gift implies obligation, that we then "owe them one." Consequently, even our gift giving degenerates into a legalistic point system of who owes what to whom. Thus to receive a gift ...

1581. Called To Pull Down; Called To Rebuild

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... bitter division between races and genders, and an ongoing assault against the ecosystems which sustain us. In our nationalism we confuse God and country; in our moralism we confuse class and economic status with righteousness; in our faith we confuse feel-good religion with the coming of the kingdom of God; in our materialism we confuse conspicuous consumption with the good life. Against this monstrous falsehood the word of God moves relentlessly, tearing down and plucking up. We can continue to ...

1582. Love Your Enemies--It Will Drive Them Crazy

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... love of Christ "leaves us no choice." Jean Valjean knew that. In the mystery of being forgiven we have no choice but to find that incendiary moment in life that we might be called up to do the same even though in any given moment we don't feel like doing it. Another one who has shown us the love of Christ was Terry Anderson. Everyone was excited about his release from his captors in Lebanon. They were shocked when he came to the news conference. The first question from the news people: "What would you like ...

1583. Named And Claimed

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Tony Everett

... a backseat driver in the tunnel of love. Of course, being last chosen for a game of kickball in the third grade is not at the core of every negative feeling we have about ourselves. That's ridiculous. Nevertheless, we all have had similar experiences. Each of us can identify with those feelings of helplessness and powerlessness; feelings of having little control of our lives or of being at the mercy of the whims and choices of other people. Corporate downsizing has resulted in many skilled workers losing ...

1584. Looking Back; Moving Forward

Exodus 34:29-35

Sermon

Tony Everett

... and presence of Jesus Christ. If we are not careful, we limit our awareness of Christ's presence to spiritual mountaintop experiences in our past. Christ's presence becomes restricted to a "feeling" of spiritual joy. If we don't have that "feeling," then we think that Christ must not be with us anymore. We must do something to find the feeling again. We want to "find Christ" even though Christ is always walking with us wherever we might be. We desperately try to "find Christ" when it is we, not he, who are ...

1585. Fear and the Farmer

Colossians 3:1-17, Colossians 3:18-4:1

Illustration

John R. Steward

... I woke up, the highway patrol officer came over to me and said that Bessie was in awful shape. He then went back over to Bessie, pulled out his gun and shot her dead. Then he came over to me and asked me how I felt and I said, " 'I feel fine, just fine.' " Fear causes us to do things and say things that we might not do otherwise. Fear can be a powerful motivator in our lives. Too often fear is a destructive force with little redeeming value. In this scripture reading, the Apostle Paul encourages us to "let ...

1586. The Blind Guiding The Blind

Psalm 92:1-15, Luke 6:46-49, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58, Isaiah 55:1-13, Luke 6:37-42

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... a gnat and a camel, or in Mark 10:25 and Luke 18:25 in the contrast between a camel and the eye of a needle. 4. "Heart." (v. 45) The heart for the Hebrew people was the seat of the intellect and understanding. It was not the seat of feelings and emotions as is the view more recently. 5. "Lord, Lord." (v. 46) The word in Greek is Kurios, which can be translated as "master." It came to have meaning loaded with implications of deity. To repeat it twice moves to the comparative emphasis. 6. "House on the Ground ...

1587. Proper 6

Luke 7:36-50, Galatians 2:11-21, 1 Kings 21:1-29, Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... their debts. The wealthy man forgave both of them and wrote off the debts. Jesus then posed the question as to which of them would be the more grateful and love the wealthy man the more. Thesis: The greater the debt forgiven, the more grateful the debtor feels. Theme: The greater our sense of being forgiven, the more deeply we should be committed to following Christ. Key Words in the Passage 1. "A Woman in the City." (v. 37) The place is uncertain but the context suggests that it was in the neighborhood of ...

1588. God's Most Unmistakable Message

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... word. A cross is cruel enough, but a worse cruelty would be to forget the one whose crucifixion benefited us. How do you feel when no one remembers your birthday or anniversary, or when someone forgets your name? You see, three men died on crosses that ... unmistakable message to us. Here is what it proclaims: I. God Loves Us Even When We Try To Forget Him. Some of you might feel a little uncomfortable with this statement about our trying to forget God. But instead of our arguing about it, let us take a look ...

1589. When Your Nets Are Empty

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... spend listening to a catalogue of human miseries. I once knew a woman who called me if she happened to feel good, because she always felt bad the day after she felt good and wanted me to know how rotten things ... what he does. It is one thing to fish when they are not biting -- they might get hungry any minute. It is another thing to have the vague feeling there are no fish in the water. But heaven help anyone who tells us. An avid sport fisherman, who got to his favorite Canadian lake by seaplane, one day ...

1590. Hold Your Peace

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

John G. Lynn

... the blind to God's banquet. He invites us to the banquet as persons in need. Where we are poor he wants us to say so. Where we feel maimed he wants us to ask for help. Where we cannot walk in the paths God has set for us he wants us to pray, just as Luke ... . He wants us to come to his banquet, but not as one who holds his peace. Where we are poor he wants us to say so. Where we feel maimed inside he wants us to ask for help. Where we cannot walk in the paths he sets for us he wants us to speak out, just as ...

1591. Out Of The Whirlwind

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... when we say to a friend in pain, "It is just God's will. You will have to accept it." "God never puts on anyone more than he or she can bear." "If you had enough faith you could get out of this mess." "I know how you feel." "AIDS, after all, is their own fault." These statements are cruel and harsh. William Willimon has suggested that "most of us, realizing the inadequacy of our theology of chaos have learned to mutter the more sophisticated, 'Well, er, uh, we'll be thinking about you.' " In his book ...

1592. Mirror, Mirror ON The Wall . . .!

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... to God? "Dear God," the boy wrote, "did you mean for a giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?" A lot of people feel that way about themselves. "There really must be some mistake! My neck shouldn't be this long!" "Me and my big feet!" "Wow! Look at my ... the Lord, seeing how he wants us to fit in, designed us with all we need to achieve his goals. We are unique! Oh, we may feel like we're that small, grease-covered cog, but let us stop doing our job and things go amuck. Stop and think! You're the only ...

1593. Baptism And Self-Esteem

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... asks Jesus, "Which commandment is the first of all?" He is actually asking a question about what is most important in life. He could just as easily have asked, "What must I do more than anything else to be happy and satisfied? What must I do to feel like somebody, to have some self-esteem?" Jesus' answer is a quote from today's First Reading: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." When Jesus talks about this kind of complete love ...

1594. No Freudian Slip!

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... urges of which we are usually unaware. But the sub-conscious does affect our behavior. Occasionally these subconscious thoughts will reveal themselves through our behavior, perhaps through our "slips of the tongue." Such Freudian slips betray our true inner feelings, feelings which we may have wanted to avoid, feelings of which we may have been totally unaware. At the center of today's Gospel is such a Fredudian slip: worry. Most of us assume that it is just a natural part of life, part of being human. We ...

1595. The Agenda Factor

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

William L. Self

... too. Perhaps David felt guilty about the disparity between his house and God's tent. It could be that after all of this building for himself, he was beginning to have buyer's remorse or builder's remorse. Perhaps it was a rainy night in Jerusalem, and while he was feeling safe and dry in his great house, he had a pang of conscience as he thought of the ark of God in a very vulnerable shelter. Could he not hear the flapping of the tent as the wind blew and the rain descended? "I'll do something for God. I ...

1596. The Burdens Of The Past

Haggai 2:1-9, Haggai 1:1-15

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... the same time we work on our attitude, it's important that we do something for others. God told the people to be strong, but also to work (on the temple). Get your act in gear. Get it done. Don't be so focused on your own needs, problems, and feelings. Doing something for someone else has a way of changing our melancholy moods. There have been times in my life when I have found that a blue mood has been dispersed by visiting a shut-in or helping someone in some way. Just knowing that I have been helpful to ...

1597. You Can Be A Livesaver

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... . Parents do it. Coaches and good friends do it. Any time we exert any kind of influence that enhances life rather than diminishes it, we have become a lifesaver. How many frightened, abused children have almost given up hope until meeting that one teacher who made them feel loved, safe and worthy? How many lonely adults have been at the end of their rope, wondering if life were even worth the trouble any more, but someone took the time to love them, to phone or drop by, to listen and in so doing to remind ...

1598. God's A Catcher

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... The member of a family who has been used to being belittled, who asserts her new self-image as a precious child of God, will not automatically have the family's respect and appreciation. In fact, it's likely to be just the opposite. She'll feel she doesn't fit in. They may well ridicule her new self-image. And they may not compensate her with the kind of conditional acceptance they gave her before. A person who seeks to give up a compulsive or addictive behavior finds his determination constantly challenged ...

1599. The Heavens Declare

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Children's Sermon

Robert B. Lantz

... can see with your naked eye. Goal: God created the heavens and the earth. The heavens declare the glory of God. When I was young, I remember lying on the grass and looking up into the dark sky. I saw thousands of little sparkles in the sky. It made me feel very little indeed. I began to wonder about the stars. They are so far away. I wondered why there are so many of them and how far away they are and how big they are. And the more I wondered about those twinkling stars, the more I began to marvel ...

1600. A Ransom Paid

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Sandra Hefter Herrma

... our taxes, and voting them out if they seem to favor some other special interest group than ours. It is as though we have been mesmerized by some fairy tale witch and are now trapped in the land of sugar plums. Every once in a while we may feel some pang of conscience, some momentary desire for something that goes beyond our world bounded by glitz and the latest fashions in everything from earrings to $40,000 cars. Every once in a while we may look around us and wonder, is this all there is? Just a round ...

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