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201. Standing Tall

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... with no name, and given his circumstance, no prospects of success. An anonymous beggar on the side of the road. People passed him by without even seeing him. Or they passed by on the other side of the road so they could ignore him. Or they grudgingly tipped him a few coins. And some despised him because he reminded them of how miserly they were with their charity. Nobody likes beggars, do they? Especially if they are aggressive--if they forget to stay in their place? Bartimaeus was somewhat like that. He ...

202. Set Free Through Forgiveness!

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It seems that more than a century before, General William T. Sherman's troops burned every building on this man's property and Mr. Ingram vowed never to let his plantation fall into Yankee hands again. (1) Now there's a man who knows how to hold a grudge. Unfortunately, he's not alone. According to people who have been there, the country of Albania is one of the more challenged countries in the world. It is on the fringe of Europe, but it has none of the advantages enjoyed by Western nations. One of the ...

203. Aging Is Mandatory; Maturity Is Optional

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... even among the most sophisticated people. When Albert Einstein settled at Princeton University in the 1940s, he was given the best office on campus. It had a study, a parlor, and even a small private garden. The other faculty members accepted this arrangement grudgingly. They were forced to admit that if someone else had to have the best office on campus, it might as well be Professor Einstein. Everything went along just fine until Einstein died in his sleep in 1955. The Princeton faculty was assembled and ...

204. Something To Die For

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... in another denomination crossed the Atlantic from America to England to enlist in the Salvation Army instead. His name was Samuel Brengle. Brengle left a fine pastorate to join William Booth's Army. At first General Booth accepted his services reluctantly and grudgingly. Booth said to Brengle, "You've been your own boss too long." So in order to instill humility in Brengle, he made him work by cleaning the boots of other trainees. Discouraged, Brengle said to himself, "Have I followed my own fancy across ...

205. A Word For Christian Fathers

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

You are familiar with the great Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy's marriage was a saga of bitterness. His wife carped and complained and clung to her grudges until he could not bear the sight of her. When they had been married almost a half a century, sometimes she would implore him to read to her the exquisite, poignant love passages that he had written about her in his diary forty-eight years previously, when they were both ...

206. Forgiveness: Human and Divine

Matthew 6:12-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... the power of the cross in your life, my friends, will bring the reality of forgiveness, glorious forgiveness to you, and the power of the risen Christ in your life will help you to forgive others even as Christ has forgiven you. You may be holding on to a grudge against another person right now. His cruelty seems beyond forgiveness, but let me show you today that you need to seek to forgive him from your heart, for until you do, it will be a burden to you. You will not know the freedom God wants you to have ...

207. A Terrorist among the Twelve

Luke 6:12-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Communion, these words are found: “Christ our Lord invites to his table all who love him, who earnestly repent of their sin, and seek to live in peace with one another.” In other words: “Leave your old life behind; leave your old animosities behind, leave your angers, hurts, grudges, grievances, and jealousies behind, and make a new start here and now, a new start in love with God and with your neighbor.” For if we are not in communion with one another, how on earth can we be in communion with God?

208. GIVE ME YOUR SINS: The First Word

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... . Instead of buying a gun and taking his revenge, he joined God''s team and continued the missionary witness that his father had given his life for. You can only forgive like that when you have stood at the foot of the cross. Yes, we often do hold onto grudges and desires for vengeance like they were valued treasure--but it is a type of treasure that will bury us without hope or love. Perhaps some of you have heard about a woman who was rushed to the emergency room because she was quite ill. After a battery ...

209. Don't Let Your Tongue Bite You

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... swallow. How helpful! Equally significant, it is the major organ of communication that enables us to articulate distinct sounds so we can understand each other. How essential! (2) A certain woman told a judge she wanted a divorce. The judge asked, "Do you have a grudge?" The woman answered, "No, I get up before he does." "Then why do you want a divorce?" the judge erupted. The woman said, "Because we don''t seem to ever properly communicate." We have opened God''s word today and read those revealing words ...

210. A Rod And A Staff

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... story told about the businesswoman who wrote a letter to the Internal Revenue Service. It was concise and much to the point because this is what it said: Unfortunately, the way we handle and treat our taxes is much the same way we deal with the reality of death. We grudgingly give in to both of these realities in life. For me, I believe the key word is the shadow of death. I think we all know that the power of a shadow is that it frightens us because it looms so large, but in reality it is not something to ...

211. The Noteworthy Witness of a Widow

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... learned from the temple. To have withheld her gift--it would have really been a way of leaving out herself. For the widow, her giving at the temple was not a chore, but a cherished opportunity to express her faith in God. She did not throw it in the box grudgingly and walk away in a huff. She knew that being a part of God's work was not a burden but a blessing. This church will never die from a lack of resources, but from a reason why we have the resources to begin with. When you give, you light ...

212. Hanging the Law on Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... we possibly be meant to display? There is an additional point to be made here. Jesus' love for his Father -- and for us -- is never a mere sterile, logical "Act of Will and Duty." There's never anything grim, calculating, guilt-inducing, or grudging in his love. Instead, words like joyous, compassionate, humble, shepherd, even mother hen are used to describe him. He's completely immersed in his Father's love; how else could he respond? Everything was grounded in his active, obedient praying and working of ...

213. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to have lost. Best of all they have the capacity of what I call living lightly. They’re not burdened down by preconception. They’re lives are not predetermined by force of habit. They’re not closed to others because of sour experiences. They don’t keep grudges. They live lightly because they don’t have all the excess baggage that we adults carry around. And that’s what I want to talk about today in this fifth sermon of our series on, Self Help and More. Living lightly. The problem seems clear to ...

214. Put To Death The Old; Put On The New

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... or talking to that person today? Paul says as Christians we are to put on forbearance and forgiveness. "Forbearing and forgiving each other," he said, in verse 13. Is that what you need to put on today. When we put on the new man, all the rules change. Grudges have to go. Revenge is out of the question. We leave judgment to God. We are forbearing and forgiving. Will you need humility today? The world doesn't value that garment of the new person in Christ because they don't really know what true humility is ...

215. A Christian Style Of Being And Doing

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... she is motivated by prayer. The bottom line is this, friends. You can't pray for another person, and continue to hate that person. You can't pray for another person, and remain unconcerned and aloof from that person. You can't pray for another person and carry a grudge. You can't pray for another person, and continue to make snide remarks about them, or share half-truths, or ugly gossip. You can't pray for another person, and not want for that person the very best God has to offer. That's why Paul began his ...

216. The Day Is Not For Sleeping

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... going to sleep. In the book, Chuck told of a friend sending him a video entitled "Sex, Drugs, and Aids." "It was shown in her son's high school to give health information about how Aids is transmitted and how it can be avoided. It even grudgingly mentioned abstinence as a way to protect oneself. "But as the tape continues, it becomes obvious that the film-makers had a second agenda: To teach that there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. A boy relates how he had been intolerant of gays, but after ...

217. Epiphany: The Tragedy of Rejection

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... yourself!' And you will say, 'Do here also in your hometown the things that we have heard you did at Capernaum' " (v. 23). Then Jesus reminded them that a prophet is never welcome in his hometown. Perhaps if he had stopped there, the people would have admitted, grudgingly, that it was difficult for them to look at Jesus as outsiders might. But he pressed the issue in way that offended them. Jesus reminded them there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's day, but, for some reason, God chose to use a widow ...

218. The Waster

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... beginning Jesus says that this is a story about two brothers. Which one is the authentic prodigal? Which one has yet to come home to the Father's extravagant love? We can waste our lives keeping score and complaining about unfairness. We can harbor grudges to the grave. We can completely misunderstand what Jesus is all about even as we worship every Sunday. We can waste life waiting for apologies, waiting for people to act decently and fairly, waiting for others to earn our forgiveness and acceptance. Jesus ...

219. God Outwits Us

Psalm 31:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... If this was God’s call, God was asking too much. Finally it came clear. How that clarity came is another story. It is enough to say I felt the job to be God’s will, and I was not pleased at all. I responded reluctantly, even grudgingly. I yielded, but without excitement, anticipation, or joy. My attitude was, “This is what I have to do.” But you know—God outwitted me. The richness of my life in this community of learning, worship, and prayer is indescribable. Almost every week I have the privilege ...

220. How May We Come to God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of the Lord? Who shall stand in His holy place? “He who has clean hands and a pure heart.” Let’s look at our hearts. Can our hearts be called pure when they are full of fear and hostility-- when they are harboring a grudge -- when unforgiveness is there -- when resentment is seething. when bitterness flavors our thinking and feeling -- when our need for security overshadows our willingness to trust? The big question that enables us to discover whether our hearts are pure is this: Do we love God with ...

221. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget." Jessica - age 8. Perhaps a bit closer "Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day." Mary Ann - age 4. Dogs are great teachers; they rarely hold grudges or withhold love. These are all good so far as they go, but it was Nikka, aged 6, who came the closest to the heart of the matter, “If you want to learn to love better,” she said, “you should start with a friend who you hate.” Nikka understood ...

222. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... first show me where I’m wrong.” God would tell you, and then what would you do? It’s precisely what Jesus advised for all his followers, and it is a revolutionary way to live. What would this do to struggling marriages? To conflicted neighbors? To old grudges? a’) v.6 The Continuing Necessity Of Discernment. You and I live in a world of either/or thinking. Either this or that, which is it? Tell me! Make it clear and easy. We are leery of paradox, allergic to mystery, and resistant to ambiguity. But ...

223. Comfortable Christianity Is a Big, Fat Lie

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... fasting and praying with integrity? Are we quick to criticize and judge? Do we shun immorality? Are we kind and wise? Is our speech simple and honest? Are we peacemakers. Are we quick to apologize and make restitution, and do we prize unity? Do we hold grudges? Are we laying up treasures in heaven? Here is the test of a prophet for Matthew. Lay their life alongside the Sermon on the Mount, and if you cannot find increasing points of contact, don’t listen to them, even if they work miracles. Comfortable ...

224. The Seven Delightful Blessings of the Word of God in the Believer's Life

Psalm 119:169-176

Sermon

Michael Milton

... recently that they did not like David because his sins were so many. And it is true. But God shows us David and Peter and others that we may see ourselves in the Word and see that we need deliverance—from ourselves, our unbelief, our fears, our grudges. The Word made flesh brings that deliverance. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the ...

225. Shalom Shattered

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... ingredients that make for shalom: On This Day Mend a quarrel. Search out a forgotten friend. Dismiss a suspicion and replace it with trust. Write a letter to someone who misses you. Encourage a youth who has lost faith. Keep a promise. Forget an old grudge. Examine your demands on others and vow to reduce them. Fight for a principle. Express your gratitude. Overcome an old fear. Take two minutes to appreciate the beauty of nature. Tell someone you love them. Tell them again, And again, And again. 1. Betsy ...

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