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1826. Deep Faith

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the womb, however, things get more complicated. As long as hearts beat and brain-waves pulse, we can all claim to be alive. Even those of us with injured or ailing bodies can still move with our mind's eye, be rowdy and aroused by our emotions. But there are millions of seemingly sentient human beings walking around who fail miserably at having being. For these people, it's as if the quickening that once signaled they were genuinely alive, and filled with a God-created soul, had somehow left them. They may ...

1827. God for Dummies

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... with all your heart, ...with all your soul, With all your strength, ...and with all your mind. Can you repeat those four "with alls" with me? Let's look at each one in the briefest of ways: With All your...HEART: You can't just feel for God with your emotions. But to be obedient to God your being must tremble with a heart felt faith. The quest for eternal life isn't just a journey laid out according to some litany of laws. it's a dance and march whose step-by-step progression is kept steady by a heartbeat ...

1828. Let's Dance

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... trained, ears tuned, in order to get body and spirit back in synch with sound and soul. Some of us learn to move again. Some of us never get back that early gift of rhythm. A dance is made up of many different entities – motion, emotion, resonance, rhythm, beat – all of which must fully and flowingly entwine in order to create the whole. Because of the nature of the relationships within a dance, the church in the middle ages found it a useful description and an enlightening visual aid, to describe ...

1829. Someone to Watch over Me

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , no "conditions of return," no post-rupture agreements, no "trial periods." Could you do the same without hesitation, with such exuberance? Because he loves his younger son so much – he can't take his eyes off him – the father can think and feel only one emotion – joy! The son who was dead to his family is suddenly back and must be welcomed into its midst with celebrations and rejoicings. Could you dance and feast and party with such joy? Could you invite your friends and family to join in this kind ...

1830. The Real Dish Network

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and information. Our overwhelming desire for this kind of electronic-overload is played for laughs in the commercials aired by DISH Network and Direct TV. In one series of ads the satellite installer has the stuffing hugged out of him by an emotionally overcome client. Another shows satellite installers carefully trained in CPR so they can revive their stunned clientele. In still another a husband and wife happily abandon their bedroom to let the satellite TV guy get them hooked up right away. The couple ...

1831. True Disciples

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... /soulless belief into a state of active discipleship by declaring..."Come now, let us argue it out together" (verse 18). God has no use for empty-headed zombies who are content just to go through the motions. God wants spirited disciples charged with emotion, fired up with their faith and anxious to act it out. No snug sanctimonious smirks among us today after reading this text. No thinking how far we've come from such brutal, bloody baseless beliefs as ritual animal sacrifices. Truth told? There are ...

1832. The Spiritually Incorrect Spirit

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ? Our daughters were bad! But in the midst of all the formal, flowery falderal, they were at least real interesting, unscripted, unpredictable. Ever have your behavior be totally inappropriate to a perfectly choreographed event? Ever been behaviorally challenged? Ever been emotionally and socially incorrect? (You may want to make this section of your sermon interactive, as you hand over the mike to the congregation to tell socially incorrect stories.) It's been well over a decade since being correct became ...

1833. Go Meditate!

Revelation 19:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , cities and counties are calling on professionally trained mediators instead of high-priced attorneys to help them settle their differences and move beyond them. Mediators are third parties trained in identifying specific problems, negotiation techniques, listening skills, and defusing emotional outbursts. Their goal is to create an atmosphere in which the real issues can be identified and clearly examined. The skills of the mediator make it possible for the free flow of ideas and the expression of genuine ...

1834. Be Ready!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... season. But the Advent/Christmas season gives us the opportunity to do more than merely give gifts. This is an opportunity to restore relationships that have been broken, strengthen relationships that have been weakened and make stronger relationships that are vital to our emotional and spiritual well-being. Let me tell you about a family that went on a week of vacation. They left their dog in a Pet Hotel. When they returned, they picked up their pet and took her home. However, almost immediately they ...

1835. Salted with Fire

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... it. That may, of course, simply be some shinola added to the shine of their product. But no matter. Its physically therapeutic value as a gleaming, solid, comforting night-light in the dark the big rock-salt crystal offers plenty of emotional therapy. The warmth of its friendly, substantial glow makes any nighttime foray less frightening. This odd night-light combines two tremendous images of strength and steadfastness, of power and perpetuity. Salt in ancient times symbolized staying-power. Salt was the ...

1836. What's Left Is Right

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... more dismal can morale get in your work place? How much more strained can the relationship get between yourself and your teenager? How far down can you drop into depression? How much more stupid can you feel at school? How unprepared can you be emotionally, mentally, fiscally for retirement? We spend our whole lives, and huge amounts of energies, clawing our way UP. Especially in the USA we live to pride ourselves in our classlessness, our up-by-your-own-bootstraps culture. What parent doesn't hope that ...

1837. Are You Running?

John 12:12-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... was crucified by majority vote, by a crowd mentality. In fact, I can't find a single majority vote in Scripture in which the majority voted right. Can you? We live north of Seattle, and in the last few weeks the voices and emotions of two very different crowds have vied for public attention in the downtown streets. On one hand Seattle is known for being a very liberal, freethinking, and very antiwar community. (Remember the "Battle of Seattle" street demonstrations against globalization a few years ago ...

1838. Conviction with Compassion

John 8:1-11

Sermon

James McCormick

... ; the rape of the environment; a nation so undisciplined that we refuse to live within our income; the aids epidemic; abortions numbering in the millions; pre-marital and extra-marital sexual activity; half of marriages ending in divorce; physical, sexual, emotional abuse within the family; drug and alcohol abuse; crime so rampant that millions of people live in constant fear; the stubborn scourge of racism; the growing curse of terrorism; pervasive lying, calling the light darkness and the darkness light ...

1839. Be Kind

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James McCormick

... academic mastery as possible. We talk about hard work, accomplishing a great deal in our chosen field, and earning as much as possible while we are at it. We talk about personal growth and development, about becoming the best we can be, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. All of those are good things, worthy of aspiration. But we probably don’t emphasize enough the importance simply of being kind to one another. While we are doing all the other things we do, while we are reaching for all the ...

1840. Being Christian in the Family

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

James McCormick

... love you when…I will love you as long as…” Do you hear the conditions? So many people think of love as a reward to be earned, something to be deserved. They don’t really believe that they will be loved no matter what! Yet, that is the basic emotional need of the human race. We all need to feel that there is somewhere we will be accepted just as we are, somewhere we will still be cared about if we mess up, somewhere where we are special, where we are valued, not because of anything we have done to ...

1841. It Is Also Blessed to Receive

John 13:1-17

Sermon

James McCormick

... the truth of that in my experience. Every day I encounter people who are hurting, people with huge needs. I try to be loving and helpful in every way I know how. I give as much as I have to give. But sometimes I get tired. Sometimes I become emotionally drained. Sometimes I become discouraged, and feel that I have nothing left to give. But, almost always, if I am open to it, God will find a way to give me what I need. Sometimes God’s help comes through something I am reading. Sometimes God will refresh my ...

1842. 1 Corinthians 7:29-31

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... already established. Christians, those who have new lives in Christ, thus live in this world, yet live with the assurance that they aren't of this world. Christians are people at home in a foreign land. The familiar "present for me" of the world marked by marriage, up and down emotions, political and economic concerns don't affect the essence of those whose true identity is with Christ. The world in which Christians must live must not be their reason for living.

1843. Luke 2:1-14

Luke 2:1-7

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

No doubt, Luke's infancy narrative is everyone's favorite Christmas read. Luke knows how to weave a story, providing intimate details, describing emotions, juxtaposing dramatic characters and events. Can you imagine any Christmas pageant without Luke's narrative? Notice how Luke's text skillfully moves Mary and Joseph from their residence in Nazareth to the important, holy city of David, Bethlehem. In today's text vs. 8 introduces yet another Davidic component. David ...

1844. Pentecost

John 20:19-23, Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13, Psalm 104:1-35, Numbers 11:4-35

Sermon Aid

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

... brief text is heavy-laden with significant theological themes that are best held together both for deeper comprehension and to avoid misunderstanding. John begins by noting the fear of the disciples. We should start thinking about this passage by recognizing that emotion. Yet, this is not just any fear; this is fear related to religious persecution. Analogies should be to historical examples of persecution for religious reasons. In the midst of that fear, the Lord appears. His real presence brings peace and ...

1845. Proper 16

Exodus 1:1-22, Matthew 16:13-20, Romans 12:1-8, Psalm 124:1-8

Sermon Aid

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

... ." Indeed, Paul is telling us something here, though he is not primarily giving us a lesson; Paul fro assumption that Christian faith is a reasonable and real life of practical service to God. Our faith is not essentially the pursuit of mystical dreams and sensational emotions. Believers in a Christ who himself died on a cross in faithful obedience to God's will cannot expect anything other than a kind of worship that calls for the very real giving of their physical selves to the doing of God's work. The ...

1846. Proper 18

Psalm 149:1-9, Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 18:15-20, Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon Aid

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

... no meaning (except on a tennis court!). We love everything from green beans to baseball to jogging to holding hands. But what does it mean "to love"? We may attempt to define love, offering definitions that are appropriately active and necessarily more than emotional—for example, to will the well-being of others, even at a cost to ourselves accurate, such definitions remain flatly abstract. For a genuinely Christian definition of love, we have to look to the person of our Lord Jesus Christ. A look at ...

1847. Take On Something for Lent

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ? What if we were to “take on” the mission of blessing certain people ignored by others? What if we were to become a blesser to embolden others to be what God created them to be? Or a blesser that empowers others not just to feel an emotion, but to “own” it and take responsibility for it? Or maybe you need to spend this Lent “taking on” your true identity? Rich Mullins has been called “the poet laureate of the contemporary Christian music world.” (You can find this story in Kenda Creasy Dean ...

1848. What Is Eternal Life?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... east or west. Living in the time zone of “now” is different. It is the opposite of parsing and piecing time into days or hours or minutes. When your “life flashes before your eyes” and you experience a lifetime of memories, feelings, impressions, emotions--all in a focused flash of clarity--it is a “gestalt” moment, a moment that embraces and embodies the wholeness of life, not tiny counted out fragments of existence. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone ...

1849. Getting a Handle on Our Faith

John 11:1-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... “gut,” spread by contaminated water. With the high number of deaths in this neighborhood, he studied the cases and was convinced that a pump at the intersection of Broad and Cambridge Streets was the sole source of contaminated water. In an emotional public meeting, he suggested removing the pump handle so no more water could be drawn from that location. The rest is history. The handle was removed, cholera abated, and huge engineering projects were launched for sanitation systems and clean water across ...

1850. John 11:1-45

John 11:1-16

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... who have accompanied her out to meet Jesus. This sight of Mary and her friends weeping causes Jesus to be “greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved” (v.33). But the term “embrimathai,” translated here as “deeply disturbed in spirit,” is an emotional state associated with anger, not sympathy or sadness. As the flicker of true faith is swept away in her tears, Jesus experiences his own momentary cloudburst. He is washed over by the realization that despite all he has said and done, and even ...

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