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151. Our Magnificent, Mysterious, Mischievous God

2 Kings 5:1-27

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David E. Leininger

... this ancient version of a pilgrimage to Lourdes for healing, but he would risk his fortune loading up the caravan with an outrageous sum of money (health care was obviously overpriced back then too). He would risk his very life with this journey into the hostile territory of a conquered nation. But what choice did he have? This powerful man was powerless in the face of something as simple (but as potentially devastating) as bad skin. Ironic. Now we are introduced to the politics of the day. The Aramean king ...

152. The Freedom in Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

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David E. Leininger

... congregation before her. "Wait." She said, "We are not ready to celebrate this meal. It would be a travesty, a clear violation of scripture to come to this table when there is so much hostility between us." The congregation did not celebrate the sacrament for six months. Finally there came a Sunday when one person from one family rose and confessed his sin and forgave the other side. Then someone from the other family rose and did likewise. That day, when the congregation moved to ...

153. The Gift of Fire

Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13

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David E. Leininger

... of human history the HOLOCAUST, a word taken directly from the Greek which means to "burn completely." Fire fascinates because fire has such power. Peter knew that power. He was no speaker, just weeks before he had denied the Lord he was proclaiming, he faced a hostile and possibly murderous audience, STILL Peter stood up to preach. And that preaching had such power, the power of the FIRE, that the church grew from 120 to 3,000 in just one day. That is POWER! He probably did not understand it. I doubt that ...

154. There's A Better Way Than Shooting Somebody

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... pastor sitting with two obviously fuming parishioners around a table in his office. The caption reads, "With our current hard feelings, would anyone object to my praying with my eyes open?" Humor can release tension, but it does not dispel the underlying anger. Hostility does not miraculously vanish. A final destructive way of dealing with anger is to break off relationships. There was a picture in the newspapers sometime back of two sisters standing in a house that had a line painted down the middle of the ...

155. A Niche For Every Itch

Matthew 13:1-23

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King Duncan

... the Gospel. Rocky ground cannot help being rocky. Thorn-infested ground cannot resist the infestation. And thus, we might conclude that people cannot help being what they are. And there is some truth to that. A just God could not judge a person brought up in an environment hostile to the Christian faith in the same way God might judge some of us who have lived all our lives in the family of faith. My guess is that we are the most fortunate people in the world that God's grace covers everyone's sin equally ...

156. The Heart Of The Matter

Matthew 5:1-12

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Eric Ritz

... answer was, "To love [your] neighbor as yourself." Dr. Dean Ornish, a noted heart specialist, identifies cynicism, hostility and isolation as major components of heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and probably cancer. (3) Many of us have unhealthy ... spiritual hearts. We have hearts filled with cynicism, hostility, greed, lust and all those negative emotions that can kill our spiritual well-being. And we need not kid ...

157. Family Survival

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Stephen DeFur

... learns that he will never wear the robe, never light up his father or mother's eyes, something inside that child dies. When the robe is handed out to only one child and withheld from the others as an act of favoritism, that sets in motion forces of hostility and jealousy and envy that will destroy the family relationship that is so precious to God. This is the story of a family with several children and one big problem--and that problem is not unique to this family. How many of you either come from or are ...

158. Needed: Peacemakers

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... that Jesus' purpose was to "create in himself one new man out of the two,"--out of Jews and Gentiles--"thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility." (Vs. 15b-16) Jesus came to destroy the barriers that separated people. Jesus also demonstrated a lifestyle devoted to peace by his opposition to injustice and oppression. In John, chapter 2, Jesus drove the moneychangers from the temple because they were cheating people in ...

159. Immanuel

Isaiah 63:7-14

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King Duncan

... and would name him Immanuel, which means "God is with us." We, too, live in a time of great international tension. The events of 9/11 ushered in an era more difficult than any in all of history. We know how to deal with hostile nations, but how do we contain hostile terrorist cells? And we worry about suitcase-sized nuclear and biological weapons. The future is scary. But Isaiah speaks to us as surely as he spoke to King Ahaz. This, too, is our sign: A young woman has conceived and borne a son. That son ...

160. Sleeping Through A Revolution

Ephesians 2:13-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... St. Paul writes, "But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us . . ." (NRSV) Some of you remember when the Berlin Wall fell. It was an amazing event. Did you know that it took our government totally by surprise? Did you know that when the dismantling of the wall began some responsible people in our military thought it ...

161. Amazing Grace

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... . Now, God looks upon us as those who are forgiven, as those who are cleansed, and as those who stand in goodness before Him. His death changes our objective standing with God, but it also changes our personal relationship with Him. The penalty for sin is removed, the hostility and indifference that we hold in our hearts has now vanished away; His love has taken it away. We put our faith in Him and He changes our nature so that we leave behind more and more this desire and this sinning, and more and more we ...

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

2 Timothy 3:16

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the Tzeltals with Bill. Now, even without him she would go back. After spending six years there alone learning the language, Marianna was joined by Florence, a missionary nurse. For the first eight years their work met with suspicion, rejection, and hostility from the Tzeltals; the missionaries were unwanted and misunderstood. But they stuck it out. "By 1965, after more than twenty years, they had completed the translation of the New Testament into two dialects. Then a miracle took place. More than seventy ...

163. To Live Is To Grow

1 Timothy 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... healing. We simply become persons open to the possibility, and giving ourselves to the condition in which growth takes place. A primary condition is a change of focus. That's what Paul is talking to the Colossians about. He reminded them that they were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds. But now they were reconciled by the death of Christ they had been forgiven and they could begin to live a new life. The change of focus is a call to live in the fact of our having been forgiven by God ...

164. Baptized with Christ

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... . As the only African American in the room he is the last of a long list of speakers. All day he has felt the hostility of others toward him. He has felt by turns uneasy and terrified. At last his turn comes and he is called forward. He rises and ... slur. At this point, Carver is ready to turn around and go home. He is afraid of the powerful men in the room--of their hostility and hate--and he wants to flee to safety. But he doesn’t. Instead, he reminds himself of his baptism and of who he is. “Whatever ...

165. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... disciples will become apostolic in its passion and style. In his book, The Once and Future Church, Loren Mead describes three eras in church history. The Apostolic era of the Church began at Pentecost and was characterized by rapid growth amid hostility and persecution. It ended with the Edict of Milan in A.D.313 when Emperor Constantine “Christianized” the empire. This ushered in a period of seventeen centuries during which the Church existed within a culture generally friendly to Christianity. Mead ...

166. What Making a Difference Looks Like

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... -along mentality. Remember, this is the one they hung on a tree; it was easier to do away with him and get back to running the worlds than to deal with him. In Jesus God is putting this world on notice that management is changing and that a hostile takeover is ahead. Resurrection means that in the end Jesus wins and that only what is lined up with him will survive into the new age. All the desires God created in us will eventually be satisfied; Jesus promised as much: they shall be comforted, shall inherit ...

167. The Things That Make for Peace

Luke 19:28-44

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Mark Trotter

... . He came to convert the city to "Jerusalem," all the cities of this world, to be the cities of peace. But no one paid any attention. The peace that he came to bring is not the peace that is merely the cessation of hostility. Often when there is cessation of hostility the people are still estranged, still alienated from each other. There are just separated so they don't fight anymore. That is not the peace that Jesus came to bring. The peace that the Bible talks about, "shalom," is the peace brought about ...

168. The Time of Waiting Is Over

Mark 1:14-20

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Mark Trotter

... attractive young people, the kind you see at Disneyland as hosts and hostesses. It gave you a good feeling. It was like a homecoming. But then I began to recognize these people. I had seen them before. This was not some friendly place. This was a dangerous and hostile prison we had stumbled on. We had been deceived. The workers who were so helpful in getting our party settled were really agents of a power that was seeking to do us harm. I tried to warn the others, but as I went towards them, the aides would ...

169. The Offense of Grace

Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... right, to be safe, to be number one, always to be in control of the situation - this is the only way to preserve one's skin. And so we, the worldly people of the twenty-first century, live not in a world of grace, but instead in a world of hostility. We live in a world where if we get robbed or mugged, we press charges. We live in a world where, in order to maintain national superiority, we can never admit that the United States is wrong. We live in a world where eighty percent of Americans believe in ...

170. Choose Four

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... can start; start to care; start to feel; start to empathize; start to open up; start to see our unity; start to love again. In today's lesson from Acts, Peter called upon his audience to make changes. This wasn't a friendly crowd. This was a hostile crowd. Those listening to Peter were also those who had accused the Spirit-filled apostle of being drunk and out-of-control. The crowd had accused the apostles of being influenced by alcohol, not moved by the Holy Spirit. Yet in his new Pentecost power and his ...

171. Proper 7

Psalm 86:1-17, Romans 6:1-14, Matthew 10:1-42, Genesis 21:8-21

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... themes of these times. In preaching we may need to develop a temporal scheme similar to Paul's and, then, talk of the times by using metaphors and images appropriate to the particular theological theme of each time. Matthew 10:24-39 - "Secure Despite Hostility for Declaring Christ's Words" Setting. This passage occurs in the second major section of Matthew's presentation of the ministry of Jesus. It follows on the heels of the lesson for last Sunday, so for fuller information about the framing of this text ...

172. What Christmas Gives to Us

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

James W. Moore

... a gracious act of truly unselfish love. It was Love that came down at Christmas… not insults, not grudges, not pettiness, not hostility. Love came down at Christmas…what does that mean? Well, it means that God is love and He wants us to ... lives are crowded to the brim With this and that to do. We’re not unfriendly to the King We mean well without a doubt We have no hostile feelings We merely crowd Him out.” There is a lady in our church(whose name many of you would recognize if I said it out loud) who ...

173. Searching: MySpace

Hebrews 11:8-13

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... , Estonia. It is a reminder that you are being confirmed into the universal church of Jesus Christ, the people of God around the world; that you are now part of a global family. When Abraham went out, he went out into a hostile world. And let's be honest, so do you. He went out into a world which was hostile to his faith, a world which couldn't have cared less about the call of God which nudged him and the promises of God which drew him or the presence of God which held him. He went out with no clear ...

174. Disturbed by Our Opinions

Matthew 22:15-22

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Brett Blair

... the things that happen." This is the problem of the Pharisees. Their understanding of events tell more about who they are than it does about who Jesus is. And this is our problem as well. A person who loves will live in a loving world. But a person who is hostile will live in a world that is hostile. A person who is sincere will see most everyone else's actions as sincere while the person who is a hypocrite will see hypocrisy even in the most sincere of people.

175. The Five Habits of Highly Spiritual Leaders

1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... make it clear that it also demands spiritual leadership from every parishioner in the pew. The author of 1 Peter offered the Gentile Christians his own version of what was needed for them to successfully negotiate life in the midst of a hostile pagan culture. We might call these "The Five Habits of Highly Spiritual Leaders." The Christians 1 Peter addressed were faced with consequences more dire than a production slowdown or increased interest rates. Their very lives and future welfare were threatened by ...

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