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201. In Praise of Feeling Guilty

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... encounter with God," a "judging and transforming communion." This issues in newness of life. Neurotic guilt, however, has its roots deeper in the personality, in previous traumatic experience repressed from awareness. It also involves internal conflict over thoughts, impulses and feelings that threaten to break through to awareness. It is involved in severe depression and some psychoses, those which include a sense of having committed the unpardonable sin. Neurotic guilt, then, needs the healing of depth ...

202. The Long Lonliness

Romans 13:8-14

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Maurice A. Fetty

... laws of biological evolution ... Man, by contrast, is alone with the knowledge of his history until the day of his death" (The Star Thrower, p. 37). So it is, Eiseley would suggest, that we have been thrust out of the self-contained and self-imprisoning worlds of impulse and instinct into the worlds of thought and self-transcendence. We are of the world -- out of the dust and minerals of the earth -- earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. And yet we are not of the world -- we are a mind reflective ...

203. A Voice to be Heard

John 1:19-28

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Maurice A. Fetty

... and fasting, he sensed he was not alone, that the New Age of God's Messiah was at hand. History's long-awaited day was coming. The Christ was approaching. The time of God's anointed was near. The wilderness silence could contain John no longer. He felt the impulses of the ages in his soul. His veins throbbed with the zeal of God. Blowing through his hair and beard and very soul was the wind of the hills, God's Wind, God's Spirit. The fire of judgment belched from his nostrils. His eyes were aflame with ...

204. Anything Better Than the Golden Rule?

Luke 6:27-36

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William G. Carter

... . “I could have killed Katis,” he confessed. “It would have given me relief from the pain that had filled me for so many years. But as much as I want that satisfaction, I have learned that I can’t do it. My mother’s love, the primary impulse of her life, still binds us together, often surrounding me like a tangible presence. Summoning the hate to kill my enemy would have severed that bridge connecting us. It would have destroyed the part of me that is most like my mother.”2 Gage prowled all over ...

205. The Future Shapes the Present

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... midst of their anxiety and answer some questions about the promise of the day of the Lord. Sometimes we hear the adage, “the present shapes the future.” Indeed it does. We live in a world of cause and effect, rewards and punishments, and impulses and impressions. Paul points to another reality. It is just as true for humankind that the future shapes the present. Over the entrance to Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity school is an inscription in Latin which translates into English, “The end is determined ...

206. There Could Be, Couldn't There?

Jeremiah 2:1-3:5

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John W. Wurster

... ’t they have been wise enough to do the right thing? Shouldn’t they have been counted on to follow God’s law? It’s not too hard to imagine a time and a place where leaders have made questionable judgments, taken misguided steps, and acted on foolish impulses, is it? So it’s not too hard to believe that it might have happened in the time and a place that Jeremiah is talking about. What about the prophets (2:8)? Those preachers of zeal and dedication who so often appear to be the only ones with ...

207. Choosing the Way to the Cross

Matthew 16:21-28

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James W. Moore

... ’s what it means to choose the way of the cross. The hymn writer put it like this: “Take my life and let it be consecrated Lord, to thee. Take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of Thy love. Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for Thee. Take my voice and let it sing always, only for my King. Take my lips and let them be filled with messages from Thee. Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I ...

208. Do You Love Me?

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Brett Blair

... don’t recognize him at this point. He tells them to cast their nets on the right side of the boat. They do, and they bring in a huge catch of fish: 153 large fish. John turns and says to Peter, “It is the Lord.” Simon Peter excitable and impulsive dives in and swims to shore urgently. The others come in on the boat. As they come ashore they see the Risen Christ cooking breakfast for them over a charcoal fire. After he serves them breakfast, he takes Simon Peter off to the side and three times he asks ...

209. Who's The Boss?

Psalm 50:1-23

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David E. Leininger

... developed monetary system with banks and credit, as did ancient Greece and Rome. (1) (Aren't you thrilled at learning all this?) And these days, of course, money comes in any number of forms - from enduring precious metals in coins to ephemeral electronic impulses between computers. All of those are money. We might well ask why people are willing to exchange valuable goods and services for pieces of paper called $10 bills. The answer is that these pieces of paper are valuable because we know that other ...

210. Integrity

Song of Songs 2:1-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... reminds me of the time when, as a teenager, I discovered ardent letters written by my grandparents when they were in the throes of young love. The discovery completed my picture of them. They were real people after all, animated by the kind of impulses and yearnings I knew quite well. These dignified and upright people - who, before my discovery, I could only imagine going to bed fully clothed - also had a love for one another that was as hungry and tumultuous as the sea. And as their lives demonstrated ...

211. Surprised By Christmas

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... coat. But the little girl kept begging. She promised she wouldn't even let herself feel the cold if she could only have the doll house. The mother's eyes welled with tears, but she hastily paid for the stained, rag tag coat and left. Rick, totally on impulse, hopped into his car and discreetly followed them to a run-down house. He noted their address and quickly drove back to the thrift shop to buy the doll house. He gathered paint and fabric and tools and proceeded to "renovate" the beat- up doll house. He ...

212. The Triumphant Christ

Revelation 1:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... husbands returned from Moscow, they drove to Versailles to pick the women up. They were to begin driving to Zurich, Switzerland, that afternoon. Wilma and Ruth were packing when Grady came in to hurry them up. "I like this picture so much," Ruth said on an impulse, "I just think I'll take it with me." And taking her painting from the mantel, she packed it in her suitcase. Catching on, Wilma exclaimed, "And I like this inkwell so much I think I'll just take it." Whereupon she picked up her cupiddecorated ...

213. A Fishing Trip To Remember

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." And they did, and this time their net was teeming with fish. And the disciple John turned to Simon Peter and said, "It is the Lord." Who else could it be? Who else has dominion over both land and sea? Of course, it is the Lord. Always impulsive, Simon Peter jumped into the water and headed toward shore, while the more reserved disciples steered the boat on in. I. It Was Time for Jesus to Confront His Disciples about What Lay Ahead. That is why he was interrupting their fishing excursion. It was time for ...

214. Ready Or Not

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... because he could give no suitable gift to the Lady. He happened to think of the cloth and juggling equipment which he had hidden under the cot in his cell. He had not used them, nor mentioned this ability since he had come to the monastery. Impulsively, he went to his cell, got his equipment and stole into the chapel. There he spread out the cloth before the altar and proceeded to do his tricks before the Statue of Our Lady. The abbot happened by, and looking in, was horrified at this apparent sacrilege ...

215. A Society Out Of Control

Exodus 20:1-21

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King Duncan

... behavior indicating intense feelings of insecurity. As soon as the fences were replaced, their feelings of security and freedom were renewed.(3) Rollo May, in his outstanding book, Love and Will, observed at one point that the gospel of free expression of every impulse disperses experience like a river with no banks. Its water is spilled and wasted as it flows without direction. Years ago Thomas Hobbes used the metaphor of a highway lined with hedges. "The king," he said, "has placed hedges along the road ...

216. The Path To Real Success

Mark 8:31--9:1

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King Duncan

... for any of us. It is the test of our manhood and womanhood that we are able to deny ourselves. The world says that to be a real man or a real woman we must give in to pleasure, but that's absurd. Any creature can give in to natural impulses. William James, the great psychologist, was adamant on this point. In fact he felt that this was the key to eliminating war. He wrote an essay in the early part of this century, entitled THE MORAL EQUIVALENT OF WAR. In it he suggested that the reason men go to war ...

217. Waiting On God

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... in her usual place inside a small archway was the old flower lady. At her feet corsages and boutonnieres were spread out on a newspaper. The flower lady was smiling, her wrinkled face alive with joy. The pastor started down the stairs, then on an impulse turned and picked out a flower. As he put it in his lapel, he said, "You look happy this morning." "Why not? Everything is good." she answered. She was dressed so shabbily and seemed so very old that her reply startled him. "No troubles?" he responded ...

218. We Haven't Seen Anything Yet!

1 Corinthians 2:9

Sermon

King Duncan

... she noticed the old lady sitting in her usual place inside a small archway. At her feet corsages and boutonnieres were displayed on top of a spread-open newspaper. The flower lady was smiling, her wrinkled old face alive with some inner joy and on impulse Patt said to her, “My, you look happy this morning!” “Why not?” the flower lady answered. “Everything is good.” The flower lady was dressed so shabbily and seemed so very old that Patt couldn’t help asking, “Don’t you have any troubles ...

219. What Gets Into People?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... , "Honey, I think the devil made you do that." The little girl answered, "The devil might have made me push him down and call him names, but I thought of spittin' on him all by myself!" Some would say with regard to our destructive impulses, "Satan made me do it." There are others who would trace aberrations in human behavior to a chemical imbalance in the brain. For example, depression is often treated nowadays with chemicals. Some forms of aggression can be controlled chemically. It is easy to demonstrate ...

220. He Can Change Water To Wine

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... many of the most popular Walt Disney movies. This is the testimony Dean Jones gives: "I was performing in summer stock at a New Jersey lodge and had gone to my room to be alone. Nothing was satisfying me. I looked out of the window and felt fear and confusion. Impulsively, I knelt by the bed and spelled out my doubts to God; I don't know why I was moved to do this. I said to God, ˜If you bring meaning to my life, I will serve you.'" God did bring meaning into Dean Jones' life. Suddenly he knew who ...

221. Staying Close

Isaiah 6:1-13

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King Duncan

... then comes DECISIONthe act of saying yes to God. For Duke McCall the discovery and the decision came at one time. The same could be said for St. Paul. For Simon Peter it took a much more profound process. His initial acceptance of Christ was impulsive and somewhat immature. It took the crucifixion and the resurrection and Pentecost before Simon Peter really understood what it means to say yes to Jesus Christ. I like the way Dr. Clovis Chappel once put it. He used the analogy of breaking horses. He noted ...

222. A Real Solution For Real Problems

Acts 9:1-19a

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King Duncan

... finally to accomodate one another, one wonders if the last remaining threat to world peace may be misguided religious zeal. There is something within the sick and sinful heart of humanity that will take even that which is the purest, holiest and most loving impulse of allthe response of the human heart to Godand turn it into an excuse for anger, hatred, and even violence. It is important that we see that Saul the persecutor became Paul the preacher of love. HERE IS THE FIRST SIGN OF AUTHENTIC CONVERSION ...

223. Teach Us To Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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King Duncan

... fact remains that prayer is one of the most puzzling experiences in the Christian life. No wonder the disciples came to Jesus one day and asked, "Teach us to pray." Teach us to pray. Does that not say to you and to me that prayer is more than the impulsive babbling of a soul in need? "Teach us to pray." There is a right way and a wrong way to pray. There have been persons who have forsaken the faith because they prayed and did not receive what they expected. Others have prayed and it has drawn them closer ...

224. Way Down In Egypt's Land

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . At the hospital the doctors said she would be all right. The next day, Christmas Day, Ron and his son kicked through the rubble of their house. In Alison’s room he noticed that the bulk of the tree landed right where her bed had been before she had impulsively moved it. He noticed a scar on the tree and realized that it was from the dead branch he had felt such an urgency to remove. That branch might have killed her. Amid the rubble Ron wondered, "Had God been trying to warn me all along about the tree ...

225. United We Stand, Divided We Fall

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

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King Duncan

... the difference between Paul and another of the powerful leaders of the early church, Peter: "Peter, the simple, uneducated fisherman who had hardly any knowledge of the theological debates of his time and who responded to Jesus in a direct impulsive way without much distance or criticism; and Paul, the well-educated disciple of Gamaliel, a Pharisee, sharp, intelligent, deeply concerned about the truth and willing to persecute those whom he considered in grave error. The church is built on the foundations ...

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