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201. True Love

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... intellectual acknowledgement of God. Faith is a response to God's love. That is why the cross is such an important part of Christian faith. It is on the cross of Calvary that we see the love of God most clearly. Could it be that part of the spiritual, emotional and moral malaise of our time can be explained by the fact that secular humanity has lost sight of the cross? Could it be that in this secular society we really do not feel loved? Could it be that we feel that our lives lack significance? Could it be ...

202. A Remedy For Anger

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Through this terrible ordeal she can honestly say, "I haven't spent one night hating those people." (2) Allowing feelings of bitterness and hatred to fester in our lives will eventually destroy us. Jesus wants us to conquer not only the outer act, but also the inner emotion. We also need to note that unresolved anger is a spiritual issue. There is a sense of urgency in Jesus' words. When relationships are strained, whether it's our fault or not, we are to go at once and try our best to reconcile. The sooner ...

203. Passage To New Life

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... our story. That first Easter morning, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene made her way to Christ~s tomb. She went there out of respect for the man who changed her life. Maybe in the stone cold silence of the cemetery she could sort through her emotions. But when she arrived she noticed that the stone covering his tomb had been rolled way. This was distressing for Mary. But even more distressing was that someone had stolen Christ~s body. Who would do such a cruel thing? Mary ran from that place of death ...

204. Will This Be On The Test?

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and might. But what is crucial to realize is the importance that, first and foremost, God is the Lord alone. There is no other. God is the one and only. We are to love the Lord our God with all our hearts, which we define the place of all our emotions ” the very depth of them being love. We are to love the Lord with our souls ” which we view as our very being, the existence that makes us tick, our life's breath. We are to love the Lord with all our might, and that means with force and strength ...

205. Making Relationships Work

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... at spotting the signs of anger because so often they become the unsuspecting target of adult anger. Martin Luther King admonished his people "to avoid not only violence of deed but violence of spirit." That's sound advice. If we will take charge of our inner emotions, our outer actions will take care of themselves. THE SECOND HALF OF THE FORMULA JESUS GIVES US FOR INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS IS "NIP PROBLEMS IN THE BUD." Do not let them get out of hand. Do not let them fester. Deal with them at once. Here ...

206. Right Choices

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... a gargantuan largemouth bass. His sons were ecstatic. And all the excitement and good memories never would have happened if Eric Fellman hadn't consciously decided to change his attitude and start all over. (5) We are not mere puppets forever jerked around by our emotions. We can take control. That's the first thing we need to see. Here's the second: HOW WE FEEL ABOUT OURSELVES OFTEN DETERMINES THE CHOICES WE MAKE. This is no mere twentieth-century psychobabble. If we feel that our life does not ultimately ...

207. Set Free Through Forgiveness!

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... had endured. Finally, she asked the woman, "When did this happen?" And the woman replied, "Twenty years ago." Twenty years ago! I don't want to seem insensitive, but friends, it is time for that woman to let go and move on. Because she had never healed emotionally from the abusive relationship, the pain was still just as intense in her mind as on the day he first hit her. Until she could work through her pain and forgive her ex-husband, this woman would continue to relive her pain and fear. (5) Dr. Michael ...

208. Please, I'd Rather Do It Myself

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... what happens in any parent-child relationship. At first there is dependence--the child is totally dependent on his or her parents. Then there comes a time of independence. Sometimes this is a painful season in the parent-child relationship. Later, with emotional as well as physical maturity, a healthy interdependence between parent and child develops. Of course, in many families, as parents move into old age, there comes a time when the roles become reversed. The cruelest price to be paid for some persons ...

209. Being Alone

Genesis 2:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... too. "If only I hadn't let him work so hard . . . If I had only realized that she was that sick . . . If I had only let him know how much I really loved him while there was time . . ." So the first emotion that we have to deal with when we are alone is that of guilt. And the second emotion we have to deal with is that of anger--anger at others--anger at ourselves--anger at God. A typical scene is that of a new widow sitting in the study of her pastor. She cries for a moment, and then bursts ...

210. A Man Of Character And Generosity

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... did. Maybe Joseph wanted revenge when he was first sold into slavery. Maybe he thought of ways to get even with his brothers. But as years passed he saw God's hand at work in his life and his anger began to subside. All his buried thoughts and emotions surfaced the day his brothers stood before him. They came in desperate need of his help. Some suggest that in Joseph's long conversations with his brothers, he was trying to decide what to do with them. Should he get even or should he forgive them? He was ...

211. Forgiveness: Human and Divine

Matthew 6:12-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... says, "I confess that the hospital and the clinic have furnished me the most revealing setting for understanding sin and the operation of the moral order." He says, "The abuse of one''s body or one''s sense of values results in physical and emotional illness. When one challenges or violates the principles of his own value system or the laws of the universe, he does not succeed in breaking these, he only breaks himself against them." And then Dr. Knight offers some examples of patients whose lives exemplify ...

212. The Dangers of Being Religious

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... in worship others weep, raise adoring hands, or leap for joy? Do I recoil in critical judgment, saying, "I don't like it!"? Or do I ask instead, "What does Jesus think of it?" Is it okay if God blesses someone else in worship? 11. Do you use emotion as a substitute for the Holy Spirit? Paul wrote in Romans 10:2, "I bear them witness, they have a zeal for God." My! My! How the Pharisees could turn it on! Tears at funerals, anger at Christ's Sabbath healings, dancing at festivals. But it was canned religion ...

213. Hanging the Law on Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... will to be accomplished on earth as in heaven. Loving neighbor as self means this: through the power of God's Spirit, to pray deliberately and work for God's will to be done in the neighbor's life as it is done in your own. Whatever feelings and emotions crop up when we love, at its core, love is about faithful obedience to God and gracious extension of God's justice and mercy to neighbor. We know a fair portion of God's will: that everyone comes to believe in his fierce and holy love for them, shown ...

214. Training the Heart

1 John 1:1-4

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... abundant life to which Jesus specifically calls us (John 10:10) or keeps us from knowing when guilt should be listened to, as a word from God. One can be so caught up in little compulsive guilt trips that, like the boy who hollered, "Wolf!" too often, we are emotionally unable to respond to those times when guilt is real and appropriate and should be listened to. I think I have told you before about the preacher who caught a fly ball at a baseball game and felt so guilty that he hadn't paid for it that he ...

215. Dynamics Of Prayer

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... at something we are doing of which he doesn’t approve, so we begin to get an uneasy conscience. Or we begin to raise questions about the rightness or the wrongness of the things that are going in our lives, certain he will comfort us. He will find our emotional pain and he will give that balm which we need and we’ll find our sorrows diminishing. So God speaks to us. We need to wait in his presence to be named by him. Go back to Martin Luther King. I didn’t finish his testimony earlier, deliberately ...

216. Getting It All Together Inside

Psalm 51:1-19, 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... seeking to live out a true discipleship and they can’t understand why they’re compelled to hobble through life as though they were crippled. Sometimes we discover that they are crippled – crippled by experiences that were so painful, so guilt producing, so emotionally ravaging that they repress them, buried them deep in their subconscious, because they simply could not deal with them. The only way they knew how to handle them was to try desperately to forget them. I remember a young couple with whom I ...

217. Put My Tears In Thy Bottle

Psalm 56:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sermon: "Put My Tears in Thy Bottle." It's a part of verse 8. Listen to the entire verse: "Thou hast kept count of my tossing; put thou my tears in thy bottle! Are they not in thy book?" How rich -- how very rich the expression of emotion -- the description of the experiences of the Psalmist. In this particular Psalm, it's not the "tears" of the Psalmist that is new. The psalmist is always talking about tears. But it's the image connected with the tears in this particular petition that grabs our attention ...

218. If I Have Not Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the world. But it didn't work. No matter what she tried, it did not work. Within six months, Gladys was dead. Hers was the most painful death this young pastor had ever witnessed. There was no malignancy, and there was no physical torture. But the emotional pain was literally unbelievable. Gladys learned first-hand that even more painful than loving is the pain of not loving at all. If we have not love, we die. III. Now we look at this haunting phrase from the perspective of which Paul is speaking. Nothing ...

219. Noah: The Bearer Of An Alternative Possibility

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... off to some far country." (He can do nothing about it. He rages in anger, but later, in his midnight hour of sleeplessness, he will cry. Most parents know the pain and sorrow of children gone astray.) All of this is just a finite expression of the infinite emotion of God in the story of the flood. The Creator described in the Old Testament is not the "unmoved mover" of the universe. This is a passionate God who feels the pain of alienation, who is offended by the evil of the world, and who will ultimately ...

220. If Only... Next Time

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God who is always doing a new thing--it's against that background that I want us to look at these two approaches to life--if only/next time. I. Look first at the "if only" approach to life. It's a life dominated by regrets. Regret is a paralyzing emotion and many of us are its victims. Our lives are dominated by regret. "If only I hadn't done this," or "If only I had done that" -- those are useless words. They keep us preoccupied with the past and drain us of the energy needed for present living. "If only ...

221. The Sufficiency of Christ

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , all feeling, until he had come to a stage when he did not care what happened either to himself or to anyone else. His aim was to abolish every feeling and emotion of the human heart. So, in order to achieve contentment, the stoic abolished all desires and eliminated all emotions. Love was rooted out of life and caring was forbidden. As T.R. Glover said, the stoics made of the heart of desert and called it a peace. So, we see at once the difference between the Stoics and Paul – the Stoics said, I will ...

222. If I Have Not Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.” (I Corinthians 13: 1-3 - NIV) Let me interject this word – particularly to Win and Stephanie – but to all of us. Love is decision, and marriage is commitment. To be sure, love is emotion – feeling, deep feeling, and we don’t want to forget that. But married love is decision. We make a decision to love and marriage itself is a commitment. It is a commitment to make the decision to love every day. Love is more than a matter of ...

223. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... misery. My concern is that medications alone without counseling and a plan of spiritual growth is just not as effective as the two together. Some may be more prone to these afflictions than others, but it is the legacy of every Christian, whatever the level of emotional strength, to grow in our ability to trust God in the midst of stress and to increase in the love that casts out fear. That Jesus devoted such repetitive teaching to the issue of what to do with anxiety means that he knows how deep and ...

224. Families in Christ

Romans 9:1-5

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... a black sheep in the family. The church has often been referred to as the family of Christ. And the church seems to come with the same problems and difficulties we find in our biological families. Joy, anger, frustration, disappointment, care, concern, and many other emotions are all part of our experience with families, and they are also part of our experience with the church family. As much as we would like to believe that only the best parts of families are present in church, when we approach the point ...

225. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired?

Matthew 9:35-10:8

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... the clay of the ground. Then God blew his Divine Spirit into the man, and Adam became a living soul. That means he had an emotion, a will, and an intellect. In 1 Thessalonians 5:23, the Apostle Paul writes to the Greek church, and he prays for their health saying, " ... at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." So, you see, good health is not just physical. It is also spiritual, emotional, intellectual, willful, and even relational. Such is the health the Lord wants us to enjoy. In our text today, Jesus gives ...

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