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2201. The Gospel According to Winnie the Pooh

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... t say “Did not our hearts burn within us when he broke the bread and ate with us.” Rather they said, “Did we not feel our heats on fire as he talked with us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?” Fourth Step of Truth: Liberation. Jesus ... 46. Bono’s “Walk On” from All That You Can’t Leave Behind “And if the darkness is to keep us apart And if the daylight feels like it’s a long way off . . . And if your glass heart should crack And for a second you turn back Oh no, be strong Walk ...

2202. To Be a Christian

Acts 11:19-30

Sermon

James McCormick

... than any of us could do separately. What a privilege! Together to work with God in all the loving, life-giving things He is doing in His world. In all the world, there is no feeling quite so good as the feeling that we are loved, that we are known by name, that others are with us, pulling for us – there is nothing quite so good as the feeling that we belong! So, that’s the second thing: to be a Christian is to belong to Christ’s family. III. One final thing. We have said that to be a Christian is to ...

2203. What More Can He Give?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

James McCormick

... human beings, and each is ever seeking the other. So much of what we do every day is our search for meaning – our search for connectedness with one another and with God. Are there days when you feel homesick? Homesick for what, you don’t know, but you know the feeling. There is a restlessness, an anxiety. You have a feeling of incompleteness. There is a “God shaped empty place” at the center of life. So much of what we do every day is our attempt to fill the void. It’s the search of our hearts for ...

2204. The Gift of Newness

2 Corinthians 5:17-20

Sermon

James McCormick

... a Christian is to be a part of the church, the Body of Christ. The thing that impressed and impacted the first century world was the way in which Christians loved one another and supported one another. I’ve experienced it. Whenever I’m with my church family, I feel at home. I belong. And, whenever that family gets together, it’s like having a “come as you are” party. We know that we can bring whatever is the reality of our lives and it will be o.k. We will still be loved. We will still belong. The ...

2205. The First Fruits of the Spirit

2 Peter 1:1-11

Illustration

Jane Shepherd

... someone tell by being with us, that we have a peaceful soul, based upon God as the source of all that we have? Faithfulness: Is our steadfastness to Christ's church based upon an enduring loyalty that is true to God, no matter how we feel about the pastor, the district, the conference, the women's group, the organist, or any other facet of our organization? Gentleness: Do we exhibit care and protection for all of God's creation? Are we gentle with the environment, with each other, and with ourselves ...

2206. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments

1 Peter 3:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... ? James Patterson and Peter Kim, in their groundbreaking book, The Day America Told the Truth, discovered that Americans feel more strongly about abortion than any other issue, whether it be alcohol abuse, the death penalty, pornography, flag- ... the woman said she could not afford the baby. 12% of abortions are because of a relationship problem. 11% of abortions are because the woman feels she is not mature enough to raise a baby. 8% of abortions are because the woman says she has all the children she wanted. ...

2207. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments

Proverbs 24:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

2208. I Love My Church

1 Chronicles 29:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... some numbers that I'd never heard before. It seems like the games are always scheduled when I want to do something else. When I was growing up my mom and dad used to force me to go to ballgames. I recently read a book on sports, and now I feel that I know more than the coaches do anyhow. Yes, I know there are hypocrites in the church, and yes, I know that there are people who don't go to church who live better lives than some people who do go to church. But don't judge the barrel ...

2209. The Attitude of Gratitude

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Sermon

James Merritt

... in "most things" we could live with it. If we were told to thank God in "good things" we could accept it. But Paul says "in everything give thanks." Now that tells me that thanksgiving is more than a feeling. Nowhere in word of God are we commanded to "feel thankful." Thanksgiving has nothing to do with feelings. Whether things are good or things are bad, whether it's dry or rainy, whether you've got money in the bank or flat broke, you are to be thankful. There are always at least three reasons why every ...

2210. The Way Over Is Under

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... sense of the term. This was his demand: He said he wanted a moral covenant with ownership to steadfastly support the Commissioner, by which they say, "We will stand behind you come thick or thin, regardless of what you do, regardless of what our individual personal feelings might be about its rightness or wrongness. We have given you a tough job, and we will stand behind you and we will support you. There will be no knives in your back".[1] What Judge Landis demanded in one word was - authority. One of the ...

2211. Don't Forget to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... literally means "to let go" or "to send away." Forgiveness is when you release to the Lord any bitterness that you might feel you have a right to have toward someone else. It is the willingness to send the offender and the offense away ... suggestion, He is giving a command. Listen carefully. Forgiveness is not a prisoner of your emotions, it is a servant of your will. Whether you feel like forgiving or not is irrelevant as to whether or not you can forgive. Through Jesus Christ, as you will see in a moment, ...

2212. The Sin of Silence

1 John 1:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... is an act of base ingratitude to God to brood over sins that He in His infinite love has canceled." You see when you confess a sin to God, and God forgives it, then you come back and confess that very same sin later to God because you didn't feel forgiven, you just insulted God. One man was counseling with his pastor, and he was being haunted by the ghost of guilt. There was some sin that he had committed many many years ago that was tearing him to pieces. The pastor said, "Let me ask you something. Have ...

2213. The Battle of New Orleans

2 Timothy 3:1-4:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... just how blessed I am to be a Southern Baptist. Southern Baptists are not a perfect people, but they are a precious people. I don't believe there is a group of Bible believers anywhere in the world that love Jesus more than Southern Baptists. I sometimes feel like a lady who lived up in the mountains of North Carolina. She was a Baptist through and through. She even believed the original manuscripts of the Bible were published in Nashville. Her nephew was talking to her one day and he said, "Aunt Jane, if ...

2214. How to Handle the Mess of Stress

Exodus 18:23-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... I want to work out. The problem is, we crowd the calendar and clutter our lives with so many things that our hard drive just shuts down and we can't function. There was a housewife who went to her doctor and he said, "What's wrong?" She said, "I feel rundown." After he examined her he said, "Lady, you're not rundown, you're too wound up." That's exactly what happens when we try to do too much; we get all "wound up." Years ago we bought a grandfather clock. We hired a professional who works specifically with ...

2215. Fatal Attraction

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... we don't mean it as a cop-out, we just don't think we did anything wrong."1 When mistresses were interviewed about feeling guilt about an affair, 32% said they had very little guilt about their affair, and 30% said they had no guilt. Prov. 30:20 ... was, and I did not know his spouse. But my thoughts have definitely changed. I used to support the No-Fault-Divorce Movement, but now I feel it is a big mistake. If you care so little about vows and promises then there should be a penalty. If you choose to cheat ...

2216. It's Time to Go to Work

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... that I have said to this point leads me to ask you this question. Did Jesus make a good investment when He saved you? How would you feel if you went to a bank, opened up a savings account and put a $1000 a year in that account for ten years, and at the end ... an interest-bearing account; they just simply went out back and buried it. Well, you would be livid. Well, how do you think God feels when He invests in you gifts and abilities straight from His hand and you fail to use them for His glory? Elmer Bendiner ...

2217. The Grasshopper Mentality

Numbers 13:26-33

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... legend across the Christian world. I knew I did not have the resources within myself to meet this challenge. But I came out here anyway because God made clear the call. And I believe that if God calls you to something, He will equip and supply. Sometimes I feel terribly deficient in certain areas, but that’s okay. If you want to see God’s muscles really flex, take on a task that is bigger than you are, a task in which you cannot possibly succeed unless God helps you. God will dazzle you! God wants every ...

2218. Is Jesus The Only Way?

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . St. Peter made that claim of Jesus even more blatant when he said, “Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) Lots of Americans almost wallow in tolerance. They feel that as long as a person is sincere about his religious beliefs, it doesn’t matter what he believes. But isn’t it strange that they apply this logic to faith but not to any other area of their lives? They want the pilot flying their next commercial ...

2219. The Revelation Code IV: The Fight at Frodo's Tower

Revelation 19:1-21

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... at John's fledgling churches, made up of the outcast, the poor, the foreigners, the slaves. Seven little churches taking on the whole Roman Empire with the mission of saving the world. They look so helpless against the armies of Armageddon. Do you ever feel like that? Just look at this week's news reports: · resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan and the fear of civil war in Iraq · destruction and death in Lebanon and Israel and the Gaza Strip · tense and tenuous elections in Congo and uncertainty in ...

2220. A Matter Of The Heart

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... right now. And in some ways, I can understand it. I get to the point that I don't even want to watch the news anymore. I feel like there are times when I need to "harden my heart" just to get by. I can't handle all the violence and brutality of the ... Brother Charles Wesley would put it to song: O for a heart to praise my God, a heart from sin set free. A heart that always feels thy blood so freely shed for me. A heart in every thought renewed and full of love divine. Perfect and right and pure and good, a ...

2221. Worship Like A Wesley

Philippians 4:4-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... And in our day, when it seems that the growing churches are the churches with nondescript buildings and shallow music, where it sometimes feels like we are making it up as we go, I celebrate a church which holds on to a love of tradition, the beauty ... and know our prayer is heard. Help us to help each other, Lord, each other's cross to bear; let all their friendly aid afford, and feel each other's care. [2] Well, that's what it means to worship like a Wesley. And that brings me to the text of the morning, ...

2222. Tiny Bad Habits

Matthew 16:21-28

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... that can mess up our lives like the beetles messed up the life of the mighty tree. One of these habits is pride. That’s the feeling that we are better than other people. Maybe we’re more athletic. Maybe our family has more money. Maybe we feel we are prettier. And we start to think we are better than other people, and we begin to treat them in a way that makes them feel bad. Jesus said that anyone who follows him must humble himself and take up a cross and follow him. One of the things this means is ...

2223. Apostolic Instruction

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... required for our well-being. Like rifle shots, the Pauline teaching comes to us hitting its mark again and again. Do we feel like we are at a remarkable shooting gallery, being hit by blessed requirements? Well, that might be a bit of a stretch ... by a teaching much bigger and better than we are. We have tapped into a stream of living water and it really and truly feels good! In reality it is doubtful we do anything completely free from self-interest. Otherwise, we would be sacrificing our personhood, given to ...

2224. From Father Failure to Divine Father

Romans 8:12-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... we did a few years ago. Bonhoeffer suggested that humankind, in our time, had come of age, and that it must be weaned from dependency upon the divine Father and take responsibility for itself. And, just as an infant feels rejected in being weaned, or just as an adolescent feels rejected in coming of age, so too humankind, in our time, has felt rejected by God. God is silent. God is indifferent. God is dead. The other side of abnormal dependency is abnormal independency. This is the characteristic behavior ...

2225. When Life Isn't Fair

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... had agreed on? If I want to be more generous with these others is it not my right? Is it not my money to do with as I please?” Boy, that’s a hard teaching particularly when applied to the subject of salvation. Since most of us in the church feel that we are those who have labored since six o’clock in the morning, this may be one of Jesus’ most difficult teachings to accept. Is it true? Can a person be an absolute scoundrel right up until the moment of his or her death and then repent, confess Christ ...

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