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1676. The Bible: The Book No Other Can Match!

2 Timothy 3:16

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of you have undoubtedly seen that marvelous television commercial about the yellow pages done by the outstanding actor, James Earl Jones, as he shares testimony why the Bell Telephone Yellow Pages is the book no other can match. The purpose of my message is not to give an emotional appeal to defend the Bible as the inspired, infallible word of God. I don’t have to do that. Charles H. Spurgeon once said, "There is no need to defend a lion when he is being attacked. All we have to do is open the gate and ...

1677. The Longest Table in the World

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... all of the preceding generations combined. This is the age of communication. No, not a lack of communication, but a lack of communion. "Communication is the transferral of ideas and facts, but communion is something much deeper. It is a mutual sharing of values and emotional feelings and the deepest purposes of our lives. And this we have too little of in our society. The lack of communion found in the home, in the school, in society, in the Church is what is causing many people to have such aberrant and ...

1678. What a Difference a Day Makes

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... flying the plane when the airport came into sight. Suddenly, the father noticed that his son''s hands had a kind of death grip on the controls, and he had a look of real worry and panic upon his face. "What''s the matter, Adam?" Adam replied emotionally, "I don''t know how to land the plane." His father said he had forgotten to tell Adam that he would land the plane. That''s the assurance of Easter. God promises absolutely to take over the final landing. God safely sees us home. That promise is guaranteed ...

1679. Thanks for the Memories

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... future. Annually in this country we celebrate and observe Memorial Day. We have public and private rituals that will help us to remember the values that we are trying to preserve and those who have preserved them. What does Memorial Day mean to you? What emotions are stirred in you as you are reminded of our national heritage? What is the memory of the past you believe worth keeping alive because it means so much to you that you become a "living reminder" of that which is being preserved? Bob Hope always ...

1680. Dealing with the Hard Moments of the Journey

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... from the old church site at the site of the new altar. Then in succession from young to old, they brought their shovels--some tied with ribbons in memory of the dead--and broke ground, burying the old dirt under the new. At the end of the emotional service, Mrs. Clem asked the children of the congregation to release balloons which were addressed to friends and loved ones who were not there to celebrate the new building. Standing in front of the future church and looking into the sky, Mrs. Clem said in a ...

1681. The Marvelous Message of Easter

Mark 16:1-20, Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... training but that is one of the greatest definitions of Easter that I have ever heard. You see, ever since that first Easter morning, Satan can make lots of awful noise, but only Jesus has the awesome power. Psychologists have discovered that the most immobilizing emotion is the fear of death. The great enemy that was spoken about in our Old Testament lesson this morning from Isaiah has been conquered and defeated by the Lord, Jesus Christ. That is why we sang the great Easter Hymn which declares: The day ...

1682. We Are Christ's - That Is Enough

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... of explanation. Ask anyone who has a family member suffering from depression, for example. Depression plagues many people, despite the various drugs that are tried. Some experts claim it is due to a chemical imbalance. Others claim it is rooted in the emotions. No one has a clear cut answer. I find it intriguing that despite our science and technology, our age still describes the unexplainable in the same way. Haven't you ever heard another person's irrational actions described by saying, "I wonder what ...

1683. The Ministry of Fading

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... gets out of the passenger's seat and signals her student that she can commence with her first solo flight. Fading instructor, flowering student. Good parents are about this maneuver in an age-appropriate manner all the time. At least those who don't want emotionally and spiritually crippled children are. The ministry of fading can also be seen as a form of intentional depletion in the service of others. We need to save, but we can reach a point where our saving means others are losing. If four people are ...

1684. Only Sex? (New)

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... to be used as God intended. It would be impossible to catalogue the harm that has been done to human beings by the misuse of this one gift. Sexual abuse comes immediately to mind. There are people in this room, especially women, who bear serious emotional scars from early episodes of sexual abuse. But beyond sexual abuse is the more widespread practice of using one another for sexual gratification with no real commitment to the other person’s best interest. I don’t need to tell you how God intended sex ...

1685. Chosen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... to express it. But even something as noble as love can be trivialized. A while back there was a popular commercial on television showing a group of fishing buddies sitting around a campfire, "bonding" over their experience. One of the guys becomes quite emotional, moves close to another fellow seated around the fire, throws his arms around his friend, and chokes out the words: "I love you, man!" Instead of being touched, however, the friend is cautious. "That's great, man," he says, "but you still aren ...

1686. The Dark Didn't Catch Me!

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... me like water. A few years ago the scriptures were like milk. But now the Word is like fine wine! Life in Christ with its joys and disappointments is like a beautiful love story in which God pursues me with his affections and gifts, and I learn to respond emotionally, willfully, and intellectually. To so love God and my neighbor as myself is the meaning of my life now. Life in Christ is also an adventure story. It's like a good book. Page after page, I simply can't put it down until it's finished. Why, with ...

1687. Maximum Marriage

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... it? So, you see, any couple who marries is setting the stage for conflict. Thus an ability to become one is very important. Marriage counselors say that the number one source of marital arguments is money. After that comes lack of communication, emotional immaturity, inability to resolve conflicts, and finally, infidelity. Did you hear about the couple in the small town who had a fight? The neighbors heard the shouting and the dishes breaking and called the police. An officer was dispatched, but by the ...

1688. The Source

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... one for us, but we know they just don't understand. Surely there are many of you here today who carry great burdens of worry or anxiety or fear. Just the words job or spouse or child or cancer or finances or death bring up such an overwhelming baggage of emotions. (And for some of you, you are already gone and will hear little of the rest of the sermon because of one of those words I just used.) We are a people who need one who knows and understands. I read recently of one who does not understand. In the ...

1689. Do You Hear What I Hear?

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... for among the Corinthians. It had changed his life and he couldn't stand the thought of the message of new life in Christ being taken casually. Our task and our joy today is to stand boldly in that faith when we walk out of these doors and into the emotional, complicated, and stress-filled days of our lives. By the grace of God and the support of the community of faith, we can do it. He is risen! He is risen indeed. Thanks be to God.

1690. Learning from the Spider

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... such uninformed folks, talk of forgiveness and loving your enemies just sounds naive and stupid. That's not to mention those who can't relate to a loving Father because of all that their own father did to them or because their father was absent for them, either emotionally or physically. There are many images of God. Just to say the name God doesn't mean that we're talking about the same entity. Jesus came to introduce us to who God is. And while many of the struggles in this world, such as with morality ...

1691. Spelling Doesn't Count

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... and was whisked away in a waiting car. "Now I know why none of my colleagues have tried this before."1 Timothy F. Merrill, author of Learning to Fall: A Guide for the Spiritually Clumsy, wrote this about falling: Unlike myself, many people enjoy the emotions of falling. They jump from airplanes, hot air balloons, bridges, skyscrapers, and high mountain cliffs. They dive off 30-meter platforms and oceanside bluffs ... But if you don't have enough altitude, grabbing a parachute isn't going to help much! It is ...

1692. Grace in the Midst of Judgment

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... to try to figure out how to make things right again. By God's grace, things already are right. Jesus made them right on the cross. A Christian is a new creation. The old grounds for being terrified of judgment are gone. A new emotional and spiritual freedom has arrived. Because God has received payment in full, he doesn't require additional sacrifices on our part to preserve our forgiven status. In 1811 the United States government established the so-called Conscience Fund. American citizens, as they feel ...

1693. Grace in the Midst of Unanswered Prayer

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... have never achieved consensus on the identity of Paul's thorn. It might have been a metaphorical reference to persecution by enemies (Gentiles or Jews); attacks of malarial fever; a recurrent affliction like migraine headaches or epileptic episodes; the overwhelming emotional burden of launching young churches (see 2 Corinthians 11:28-29); or compromised eyesight (the preferred choice of a number of sight-challenged preachers). What we know for sure is that Paul was sufficiently afflicted by this thorn to ...

1694. Don't Forget What You Look Like

James 1:19-27

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... at least once a year an obligation. Martin Luther, of course, dispensed with closed confession.1 Verbal acknowledgment of one's failures and short-comings, whether to God in prayer or to one's brother and sister in Christ, is vital to emotional stability. We in the church are coming to a realization of this fact. Through the centuries confession became frowned upon by psychiatrists and clergy because it went to a pathological extreme and became a symptom of disease. Yet confession, in its proper context ...

1695. Lift High the Tree

John 12:20-36

Sermon

George Bass

... from coast to coast are hunkering down for the Apocalypse. They aren’t preparing their souls to meet doom, they are preparing their bunkers to escape it." Goodman believes that what the hot tub was to the 70s, the bunker will be for the 80s - "the emotional escape hatch" to help people face the reality of the Bomb and the possibility of nuclear annihilation. She says, "Frankly, I’m spooked by the people who are sure The End is At Hand ... for everyone else ... While the rest of us try to solve problems ...

1696. Maundy Thursday: Seeing Ourselves in the Disciples

Matthew 26:17-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... be able to echo the words: Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief. There was Simon the Zealot. It embarrasses me to say that I see some of myself in this man, for he was one who hated with a passion. He reminds me that anger is an emotion that I am not beyond myself. The zealots were a political faction who wanted the Romans out and the Jews in, and they were more than willing to commit murder and mayhem to accomplish their goal. They were terrorists who said that the end justifies the means. Simon would ...

1697. Come On Down

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... ; We are all the work of your hand. It is almost as if the prophet has become a defense attorney making the final argument before a jury. As he proceeds with his argument, he acknowledges that God is the all-powerful, all-wise, all-loving one. In an emotional appeal, he begs God to look and see what has become of his people, the Holy City, and the Temple. His argument reaches its climax with the expression, "Yet, O Lord, you are our Father!" In other words, what God has started to fashion with his hands ...

1698. Joy to the World

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... Christ and how to keep those who come to Christ from being effective and productive. In one letter to Wormwood, Screwtape writes about joy. (In his letters, "the Enemy" always means God). He writes to Wormwood: Fun is closely related to joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play instinct. It is of little use to us. It can sometimes be used, of course, to deviate humans from something else which the enemy should like them to be feeling or doing; but in itself it has wholly undesirable tendencies ...

1699. How to Recognize a Prophet

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... the fact that he still owns a gold Nazi lapel pin. He tears it from his coat and cries painfully, "With this pin I could have ransomed two more Jewish lives." He stares at the pin in his hand and weeps! Itzhak Stern has observed this display of emotion. Stern touches Schindler and gives him a little piece of paper on which is written a Jewish proverb: "He who saves one life, saves the world in time!" The whole purpose of the message of the "ultimate prophet" was to save the world in time. The true prophet ...

1700. Death Leads to Life

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... know that which is not learned?" Meno immediately answers, "No, there is nothing that one knows that is not learned." Socrates, after some reflection, responds that there are many things that people know without learning them, such as how to breathe, the emotions of love and sadness, and the natural instinct to live. Thus, there are things known that are not learned; Socrates' question is a paradox. In this Suffering Servant passage we are told that the Servant will prosper but the path to this exaltation ...

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