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201. Even Our Business Belongs to God!

Jeremiah 32:1-44

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... evil....”3 God works in this hidden way to humble us by confounding our wisdom. Then we will see how foolish and sinful we are and become totally dependent on him (1 Corinthians 1:20-29). Commenting on Psalm 30, Luther claimed: We must not judge by what we feel or by what we see before us. The Word must be followed, and we must firmly hold that these truths are to be believed, not experienced; for to believe is not to experience. Not indeed that what we believe is never to be experienced but that faith is ...

202. True Love

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... out their neck for anyone. Fortunately God is not like that. Jesus was not like that. God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son. Pity the poor person who never is willing to stick out his or her neck for another human being. The best feeling you will ever have in your life is when you give of yourself for someone else. Dr. Roy Angell tells about Carey Barker who used to play football for the Washington Redskins. One night after a game Carey Barker was walking in the snow to relax. He came ...

203. Even Marriages Made In Heaven Require Earthly Care

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Married Love Looks Like Intention. What I believe is at the heart of Christian marriage. Marriages that may be made in heaven, but require a lot of earthly care. First, married love looks like decision. Married love looks like decision. Marriage is more than feeling. It’s intention. Someone described a wife as the person who sticks around through all the trouble you wouldn’t have had had you not married her. Now that’s unfair, of course. But nail this down. Married love looks like decision. What about ...

204. If Only -- In Spite Of

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... them cause pain, the real pain that is associated with loss: Loss of health; loss of faith and hope, as when we somehow feel "unblessed"; loss of joy; loss of love; and certainly loss of power." (William Sloan Coffin, _The Courage to Love_, page 24.) Some of ... you (think you can't just tell it like it is, and dump it all -- just lay it out -- all the things that you are feeling -- lay it out before the Lord.) William Sloan Coffin calls this "dumping the mud", and we should not be so proud as to think we ...

205. Ten Commandments of Trust

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... That's who we are to trust? A phone company? A phone company that recently laid off 40,000 employees? We all know what it is to feel as if "there isn't much you can count on these days." To combat this trust deficit, we need to develop a new set of Ten Commandments ... Sermon Idea "Why Jesus Shouldn't Have Fed the 5,000" "Apparently, biblical scholars funded exclusively by the Christian Coalition now feel that, for their own good, the 5,000 should have worked for that food instead of depending on an overly ...

206. The Perfect Gift

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... d ever seen. He had occasion on the next two or three days to return to that section of the city, drawn by the eyes of that hauntingly beautiful girl. And more than that, he had the good fortune of meeting her on two occasions, and soon he began to feel that he was in love with that young woman. Now a problem – how could he procure her hand in marriage? Of course he could order her to the palace and propose marriage, but even a prince would like to think that the girl he married was not forced, but loved ...

207. The Third Kind of Love

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James W. Moore

... panic were in his eyes. I invited him in. We introduced ourselves. He sat down and started talking. He said: “I need your prayers. I feel so terribly alone, so confused and mixed-up. I can’t seem to pray to God for myself and I have no friends anymore to ... us up; they let us down. They don’t make us stronger; they make us weaker. Now, let me conclude. - Do you want to feel good about yourself? - Do you want to like yourself more? Then… Remember this… You are special to God! You are valuable to Him! ...

208. The King on a Donkey

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , each digging their heels in to preserve the position they had vehemently taken. Emotions ran high. Both were nursing their hurt feelings in defensive silence. As they were driving to attend a family wedding in a distant city — it was an uneasy and quiet ... 7,200. Add to the other, then, Jerry and I are pledging $31,200 to the “Because We Care” program. And you know - we feel good about it. We feel good because we believe the Lord has need of it, and what He requires, He can have. He gives it all to us ...

209. No More Tears

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... front, near the crying woman, and gravitating toward the back near the man telling the funny stories. Out of this experience, Ella Wilcox wrote these well-known words: “Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, and you weep alone.” (7) When you are weeping, you may feel alone, terribly alone, but you are not. There is One who weeps with you. There is One who will one day wipe away every tear from your eyes. This One has power over life and death. This One is Jesus Christ and he has the power to call ...

210. Seismic Shift

2 Corinthians 7:2-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... struggle with the fact that you keep doing the same thing over and over. You keep confessing to God and yet you continue to feel guilty. You are living a totally defeated life and the reason for that is because you’ve never taken the second step. You have ... mind, but repentance is not just a change of mind, but a change of heart. As we have just seen there is an emotional change. You feel sorry for your sin, but you don’t just regret what you have done, but to whom you have done it. It is not a worldly ...

211. Trials and Temptations

James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... or earthly origin): John 3; Shepherd of Hermas Mandate 9.11; 11.5. The phrase Father of the heavenly lights is literally “Father of lights.” On the one hand this is a circumlocution. James, like a good Jew, avoids using the name of God where he does not feel it is necessary (as the rabbinic “The Holy One, blessed be he” rather than “God”). On the other hand, though this reflects James’ belief that God created the stars (Gen. 1:14–18; Ps. 135:7; Jer. 4:23; 21:35), it may also reflect a belief ...

212. No Longer Orphans

John 14:15-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... people like Steve Jobs, Nelson Mandela, musician John Lennon, President Andrew Jackson, and many others. Many great people have found themselves orphaned. What I want to say to you, however, is that there are times when all of us feel like orphans. That is, there are times when we all feel helpless, alone, forsaken. Someone close to us is taken from us. Or we are confronted with the reality of our own mortality. Or for some reason we experience intense physical or psychological pain. At such times we may ...

213. Listening and Doing

James 1:19-27, James 1:1-18

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

214. In Need of a "Rally Monkey"

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... last quote: “It would be easy to go out and do whatever I want, but those things only satisfy the flesh for a moment.” Albert Pujols has the resources to live anyway he wants. He could live by the standard so popular in our society today, “If it feels good, do it.” He could live only to satisfy his own appetites. So why doesn’t he? The answer is in his faith in Christ: “Jesus satisfies my soul forever.” Do not be a stumbling block to others, Jesus says to his disciples. Then there is a second ...

215. Lady of the House / The Practice of Joy

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , and laugh a lot are healthier people. But what if you’re not one of those smiley, happy-go-lucky people? Scientists now realize, it’s not just that if you’re happy, you’ll smile a lot. It’s also that if you smile a lot, you’ll feel happy! In fact, we now know that your body can “trick” your mind into being happy or joyful –by smiling, laughing, singing, or dancing. Remember that song, “Put On a Happy Face?” The song by Tony Bennett? It didn’t just mean fake it! But when you start ...

216. Stop the PANIC!

Luke 15:1-32 · Exodux 15:1-27--16:36 · Psalm 23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... out? How long is the denominational Church in the west willing to wait until it declines to the point of no return? Before it decides to change? Before it is willing to give up its comfort zone in order to embrace a new kind of future that may feel scary, uncomfortable, risky, or unknown? 40 years? Yes indeed! The Exodus story is our story! Discomfort is a powerful force in our lives, isn’t it? Especially the kind of discomfort that is driven by fear. Cause out of that comes what I can only call PANIC (P ...

217. The First Songs of Christmas

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ” in our lives from God. But sometimes it takes someone else who can look at us with different eyes to see what God may be telling us. It’s hard for us to see in ourselves sometimes the extent to which we have been blessed, especially when things feel like they are crumbling and falling apart. Who is your Elizabeth? And what song is she placing in your heart? A beatitude is not a statement, but it’s an expression of great and exquisite joy! It’s a declaration of great blessing! Like our carols, the ...

218. Worship is Your Rest Stop

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Psalm 92:1-15, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Galatians 3:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... bottle of water, or a snack, or a brief nap. Or maybe you need to stretch your legs, because you’ve been cramped up in a bucket seat for a really long time. Or worse, maybe you’re almost out of gas! How many have experienced that one before? That feeling of exasperation and panic, worry and anxiety when that gas gauge is all the way down to the bottom, and you’re scraping along just “knowing” you could end up by the side of the road out of gas in a strange place in the middle of nowhere with no ...

219. The Secret to Happiness

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... unhappy and we don’t know why. We don’t know what we’re missing. We can’t find the answer. And it feels like we are the only one who feels this way. And that brings us to our Bible passage today from John 14. The Book of John chapters 13-19 all take ... a Swiss philosopher and author who followed this line of thinking. In his influential book Émile, he wrote that a man’s own feelings are the source of all truth and values. A quote from his book reads, “. . . in the depths of my heart, traced by ...

220. The Lighted Path

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , day would come and their job would be made easier with the light. This season of coronavirus has in a sense put everyone into a dark kind of wilderness place the like of which we haven’t experienced before in our lifetimes. We feel alone. We feel isolated. We feel sad. And we feel afraid. A few months ago, we felt that nothing would ever change, that life would go on “endlessly”in this sad state of despair. We felt that the darkness had become long, and that a “light” at the end of the tunnel ...

221. Unsanctified

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... loves company.” And Jesus was about to purge misery and bring restoration to this man, who was plagued by an “unsanctified spirit.” We are all familiar with sin. We all do things we shouldn’t and have days when we feel less than our best. And we welcome the power of Jesus to restore us to a feeling of joy, peace, calm, and hope. But someone in the grip not just of sin but evil does not welcome the power of God, but fears the power of God. Because evil opposes the power of God. If the people in ...

222. Fool's Gold

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... .” Many times the masks we wear are ones we construct ourselves in order to either keep others away or help others feel we are worthy, even if we don’t believe it ourselves. But our true nature, our true righteousness, remains after the glitter ... tell them that they are valuable in God’s sight and that God sees who they are inside. No matter how down and out they may feel right now,that God celebrates each and every one of them and calls them worthy inheritors of the kingdom of God. There’s a story, an ...

223. Don't Be Afraid

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , to the world around us, even to ourselves. Human beings prefer to live in a world of half-light and shadows. We want to see the light. We don’t want to remain fully exposed within it. We want to project ourselves into the light bit by bit, as we feel safe to do so. The minds of humans depend largely on images. We create images of how we see ourselves and our world, and we project images of ourselves to those around us. The greater the light, the more authentic the image. The more willing we are to be ...

224. Gracious

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’s power, felt a sudden infusion of desire for service and mission, all those who gives their hearts and lives to God also feel that same impulse to give and serve. God’s love and grace is a powerful force, a combustible motivator. Jesus spent his ministry ... , polarization, and criticism, it’s all the more important that Christians cultivate a close and intimate relationship with God, that they feel a sense of gratitude and love in their hearts as a result of that relationship. For only in this way can ...

225. The One Thing That Would Make The Biggest Difference

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... be happy when someone else is happy and to weep when someone else weeps. When we don't know where our boundaries are, we think the other person is making us happy or unhappy, angry or peaceful. The third thing that happens is we lose touch with our own feelings. People who aren't in touch say that they are happy when, in fact, they are deeply depressed. They say that they love other people when, in fact, they have become angry and bitter. Frequently, when we become angry with other people, it is because we ...

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