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201. Doctor Thomas Dooley

Matthew 9:1-8

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... , Dr. Dooley’s books about the events in Viet Nam colored my thinking to the point that personally I became a staunch advocate of American efforts to stem the advance of Communism in that part of the world. Perhaps, along with many others, my sentiments were foolish or misdirected, but I saw no other alternatives. Tom Dooley’s books led me in that direction. But this was a political judgment, one which need not be dealt with here, and furthermore, one which was only of secondary importance. The most ...

202. A Tale of Two Cemeteries

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

George Bass

... motif of the catacombs in the new, high-rise mausoleums. But all seem to affirm the reality of Jesus’ resurrection simply by going to the cemetery, the graves of their loved ones, and, perhaps to St. Lawrence’s Church to pray. What could be a sentimental action on the part of believers, or, even worse, an exercise in wishful thinking - that there really is life after death through Christ as well as a real church triumphant and church militant - is actually an affirmation of their faith in Christ and his ...

203. Gabriel Speaks to Mary

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

George Bass

... no husband?" Isn’t that a loaded question? Nevertheless, she could say, "I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." Countless young girls - virgins as was Mary - went to their deaths as martyrs with Mary’s words and sentiments on their lips. That they would allow themselves to be killed for Christ is a miracle of grace in the mind of the church. Their faithfulness and submissiveness to what they believed was God’s will for their lives is really awe-inspiring. It poses the ...

204. AMAZING GRACE

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John H. Krahn

... us even when we spurn it again and again. A love that accepts us in spite of our faults. One that flowed from the lips of a crucified rabbi when he said, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." God’s grace is tough love - no slushy sentimentality - love that flows out of the cross where all demands of justice were met. God’s grace through Jesus Christ provides us a place to stand where we do not need to try to do what we can’t do anyway, that is, make things right with God by our ...

205. THE BEAUTY OF SELF-LOVE

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John H. Krahn

... direction he wants it to go? When God is loved first and foremost and when we enjoy the beauty of a loving God, we can then enjoy the beauty of loving our neighbor. The word love in the Bible does not necessarily mean a personal liking, a sentimental affection, but rather it suggests our active good will in behalf of our neighbor. In other words, God says we are to love everyone even when we might not be able to like everyone. Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan is a great model of neighborly love. The ...

206. LOVE TAKES SWEAT

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John H. Krahn

... ." It is hard to keep a straight face as I wonder how such a response will hold up in six months. In general, much of our contemporary concept of love is unbiblical and unhelpful. Too much of what passes itself off for love today is sentimental, abstract, romantic, drivel. A lot of it is Madison-Avenue hype. It is too often connected to things, as if love is something that can be purchased. Don’t get me wrong, there is a place for candlelight, secluded beaches, special warm feelings, carefully chosen ...

207. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

To have courage without pugnacity, To have conviction without bigotry, To have charity without condescension, To have faith without credulity, To have meekness with power, and emotion with sanity, To have love for humanity without mere sentimentality - that is Christianity. (Charles Evans Hughes) Being a "beautiful Christian" is that second mile that a true experience of Christ produces in us. There are no "ugly Christians" not really. When I was a student at the Duke Divinity School the bells were just ...

208. A Thinking Person’s Thankful Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... that Paul was a thinking man as well as a thankful man. Paul wanted the hearts and minds of his people to grow together. Paul knew something we modern Christians often forget: the thankful love of thinkful people is warm and genuine but never sentimental and naive. The King James Version tells us that Christian love "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things" (1 Corinthians 13:7), but J. B Phillips helps us understand Paul better when he translates him to say: "Love ...

209. How Fares Your Christian Sight?

Is 6:8-10

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with some sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.1 Isaiah expressed that same sentiment centuries before. "Then I heard the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send? Who will go for me?’ And I answered, ‘Here am I; send me.’ He said, ‘Go and tell this people’ ": You may listen and listen, but you will not understand. You may look ...

210. Mary of Nazareth

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... her honor. In reaction, Protestants have ostracized her, deprived her of personality and identity - almost afraid to mention her. Some writers have - unsuccessfully - attempted to make her of questionable morals, a camp follower. Others have drenched her in pious sentimentality, swathing her in a nun’s habit. In reality, Mary is a remarkable individual. Scripture provides a brief, yet fascinating portrayal of her spiritual pilgrimage, an unfolding, a maturing in faith. THE MAIDEN FROM NAZARETH There is an ...

211. IN THE BEGINNING ... THERE WAS LOVE ...

Drama

Marcia Millerf

... jealous. BOY: Me? Jealous? Not on your life! I can make it all right on my own. GIRL: You’re jealous because I still have my music and you don’t have your book. BOY: My book outlived its usefulness. I can see that now. Music is nothing but sentimental garbage. GIRL: Garbage! You don’t like it because I still have a link with the past and you don’t. BOY: You’re just the type who gets all involved emotionally. That is what’s wrong with you. GIRL: All right, I get involved emotionally. Is that so ...

212. Don't Be Afraid of the Future

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

Occasionally I fly back to South Carolina for a trustee meeting at a wonderful Methodist institution called Wofford College. On a recent trip I had an extra hour or two, so I decided to take a sentimental journey back to the little town of Greer. My father was pastor there when I was a little boy. Right away I noticed so many things that had changed. Our old house has been torn down and replaced. The yard has shrunk. I saw the tree from which my little ...

213. Mary Magdalene, Stephanus, and Lucia

Drama

Jon Joyce

... consider you and Lucia my enemies. I think you are ... STEPHANUS: We’re late, that’s what we are. Come on, Lucia. LUCIA: [Ignoring STEPHANUS] I think that’s a nice idea to love everybody. STEPHANUS: You would, cause you’re already a silly sentimental old woman. [He laughs uproariously, loving his own stabbing joke] LUCIA: Don’t you call me that. I’ll tell. STEPHANUS: Tell it to that woman’s friend. Maybe he can change you into something a lot better! [Again he laughs uproariously] MARY: Now ...

214. When Love Runs Out of Breath

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... almost completely beyond us. Think of what love is not: Hugs and kisses and squeezes, Little gifts to the United Fund, Red Cross, and Easter Seal Drive, Songs about love, Banners and buttons, Posters and cute little cartoon figures with impish, childish faces, Easy sentimentality, Doing what is convenient (because it is "expected of us," or someone will remark how "good" we are), Something nice you do till you get tired of it, or think it’s "someone else’s turn" for awhile, A pat on the back and "have ...

215. Christ the King

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

The king of an African tribe, after many years, faced the fact that his throne was wearing out. It was repaired a couple of times, but eventually collapsed and was replaced with a new one. The king, for sentimental reasons, hated to part with his old throne. So it was hoisted on ropes to the ceiling of his grass hut and stored there. Then one night during a storm, the throne fell down and hit the king on the head. The moral of the story is that people who ...

216. The Unemployed Embalmers

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... in the Gospel narrative. Again and again, we have said: "There they were, those stalwart women, loving to the end, compassionate and sacrificial to the end, faithful to the ..." Wait a minute! Wait a minute! Let’s not get carried away with our sentimental superlatives. Yes, make them loving, if you want to. Make them compassionate. Make them sacrificially devoted. But faithful? No, I’m afraid not. Not by the broadest and most charitable stretching of the facts can you make them faithful. Here were women ...

217. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

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T. A. Kantonen

... kind of linguistic erosion. For Paul faith meant the restoration of a confident personal relationship to God and the ensuing life of commitment and obedience. For the popular mind today it means either believing what cannot be verified or optimistic self-confidence or sentimental religiosity, "when I hear a newborn baby cry, I believe." Sin has come to mean this or that act of moral failure, not the total life-attitude of rebellion against God. Grace is now a winsome geniality in the nature of God which ...

218. Strained Gnats

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... be in school, they said. They were going to see that children did not work - and that was that! But they seemed not to care that at the moment she was the only support of two members of her family. Miss Wilson says, "They were very sentimental about a child’s playing the piano two hours a day, but they weren’t even sympathetic about shelter and food and medicine for three people."1 Those people had counterparts in Jesus’ days. They were religious people. In fact, they were tithers! Those are hard ...

219. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... at all. It is a contradiction of terms. To be Christian we must be positive. A second significant emphasis of the Master’s was upon appreciation rather than upon criticism. Not that he ever indulged in any Pollyanna panegyrics, or sentimental encomiums. He was always ruggedly, almost ruthlessly, realistic. He never glossed over evil, nor in any way did he condone sin. He was terrifically condemnatory of smug self-righteousness. "Woe unto you, hypocrites!" he cried, "for ye make clean the outside ...

220. EPISODE 5: THE FIFTH WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... true of any thinking man ... yourself included, Governor. GOVERNOR: In this case my interests are not involved. BISHOP: But they are, more importantly than you think. Yes, this Jesus is a threat to our authority ... but he is also a threat to yours. Whatever sentiments he may pretend, he has a hold upon the people. GOVERNOR: So do we, and we are not alarmed. BISHOP: An outbreak ... a disturbance ... may undermine your own position. GOVERNOR: I refuse to be drawn into it. BISHOP: If this man is not stopped ...

221. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... would not if I might; I would rather walk in the dark with God Than to walk alone in the light; I would rather walk with him by faith Than to walk alone by sight. It is undoubtedly this aspect of faith which inspired the writing of this oft-quoted sentiment for the New Year: "I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, ‘Give me a sight that I might tread safely into the unknown.’ And he said to me, ‘Go out and put your hand into the hand of God, and that shall be unto ...

222. Signs Of A Vital Church

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... ." Back during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, a postal clerk named George Wilson robbed a train and in the process killed a guard. He was apprehended, tried, convicted, and sentenced to die by hanging. But in those days the public sentiment against capital punishment was great. A movement began to secure a presidential pardon for Wilson. President Jackson responded by granting the pardon. But then came an astounding development. George Wilson refused to accept the pardon. That had never happened before ...

223. Please Pass The Salt

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... learns that her teenage daughter is sexually active she's sad because 'she doesn't need me anymore.' Her sister says otherwise: 'Of course she needs you! She needs you to pay for the pills."' Then Suzanne Fields concluded: " A lot of us prefer Harriet Nelson, sentiment and all, to Roseanne, vulgarity and all." When Jesus called us the salt of the earth, he meant that we would preserve what is decent and oppose what is corrupt. A Second Function of Salt Is To Add Pizzazz! You know, a home-grown tomato is ...

224. God Got Personal

Sermon

James Bjorge

... gave me a lift. And when someone says it, we can all respond - "Thanks, I needed that." In CHRIST IN OUR HOME, a daily devotional, there was a prayer that shed some light on the affirming of love. "I love you, Lord." That’s hard to say. It sounds so sentimental. It is difficult enough for a man and wife or son and daughter to say it, let alone saying it to you. How about, "We love you." That gives us the support of the group and we do not feel as if we are saying it all alone. Yet, how ...

225. God Is a Giver

Sermon

James Bjorge

... often we have used gifts selfishly. There have been strings attached to the gift and not only on the package. But during the Christmas season I think gifts have a better chance of just being true gifts as we are caught up in sudden impulses and splendid sentiments. Harold Kohn in his little book, TINSEL AND HAY, says, "We offer gifts to those near and dear to us with a holy kind of carelessness: we do not give according to the merits and worthiness of our families, nor do we receive according to our just ...

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