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2301. Maybe Today

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... a picture for us. Perhaps because it is less important to describe the indescribable and more important to teach about a constant state of readiness. Paul moves beyond the pictorial language and gets very practical with sound advice about marriage, wealth, and emotions. He urges all Christians to be in a constant state of expectation because Paul expected Jesus to return in his lifetime and he lived with that expectation. The gospel authors expected Jesus to return in his lifetime and they lived with that ...

2302. Words That Wound, Words That Heal

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man unclean." What comes out of our mouths reveals what is in our hearts. Do we tend to brood on personal hurts? Do we dwell on insults? Are we filled with bitterness, contempt, anger? If these emotions are devouring our minds we must prayerfully seek a cleansing of the heart so that we can refill ourselves with love, compassion, and forgiveness. I have found that it helps immensely to pray for that person with whom I am most disgusted or who has hurt me ...

2303. Heavenly Wisdom

James 3:13—4:8

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... with at least this one!" She paused in telling this story, and then went on. "This was all several years ago. Where do you think that boy is today?" Her listeners suggested that he might be a schoolteacher, a physician, or a social worker. With tears of emotion, Margaret Sangster responded, "No, he's in the penitentiary for one of the foulest crimes a human can commit. I was instrumental in teaching him how to walk again, but there was no one to teach him where to walk." This is what happens when we teach ...

2304. Living in The Present

Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... you. God made Jesus perfect by suffering. God refines you and me when we suffer. The inevitability of suffering is something most of us dread. Some individuals fill their medicine cabinets with drugs that will help them escape any physical or emotional pain. Books are written asking why we should have to suffer. But psychologist Nathaniel Branden has said that suffering is just about the easiest of human activities. Being happy is just about the hardest. The brilliant scientist, Stephen Hawking, said that ...

2305. A Difficult Day to Follow Jesus

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... them. But we who follow Jesus do not have that luxury. There is an epitaph in a cemetery in Atlanta that a woman had inscribed on the tomb of her adulterous husband. The epitaph said, “Gone, but not forgiven.” Some of you can relate to that emotion. C.S. Lewis made an important distinction between excusing and forgiving. If somebody jostles me accidentally and I drop my books, I excuse that it didn’t hurt me that much, and it was unintended. But if a person does something to injure me or my family ...

2306. God Enjoys AND Enjoins Us

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to be in relationship with the amazing creatures that God created in God’s own image. Perhaps the greatest miracle of creation is that despite everything we have done, God enjoys us. God truly wants our company. But God’s enjoyment of creation is not just an emotional reflex. It has a reactional requirement. God ENJOYS us. But God also ENJOINS us to act as missional members of the kingdom. We are welcomed with open arms. Yet we are enjoined to put our arms into “as-it-is-in-heaven” action. It is not ...

2307. Gummy Old Men

Matthew 3:1-12

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... that’s not all. And this has nothing to do with you — it’s my issue but I’ve been thinking about how I treated our school superintendant Milo Dariman. I was with that gang who got him ousted. I just got caught up in the emotion of it all — they wanted to raise taxes. Norb: They were too high already. Earl: — build a new addition — Norb: — didn’t need that — Earl: — raise the teachers’ salaries — Norb: — they were too high already — Earl: — add a music and drama coach — Norb ...

2308. Jesus Rescues Us

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... , in occupied Czechoslovakia. This plant manufactured anti-aircraft munitions for the German Wehrmacht. In May 1945, the Russians moved into Brunnitz. As a member of the Nazi Party, Schindler was a marked man and, thus, he gathered his employees together for an emotional leave-taking ceremony. He told the people, "My children, you are saved. Germany has lost the war." Oskar Schindler had saved over 1,000 Jews. He rescued them from the darkness and brought them into the light. Oskar Schindler used his money ...

2309. A Death on a Long Friday

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... man casually strolled down a busy city street. He stopped to take a closer look through a window displaying the scene of Good Friday, dominated by three stark crosses set against a grayish-black sky. The figure on the center cross, tragic and lifeless, brought an emotional tear to the viewer's eyes. A small seven-year-old boy, standing there as well, spoke to the gentleman, "Do you know what that is all about, mister?" "No," replied the gentleman. The boy, in his own words, told the story from the gospels ...

2310. Who Am I?

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... line from a forest. Luckily, his comrades finished off the Russians before Paul could fire. "What if you had refused to fire?" asked the son. Paul replied, "Then I would not be here with you today." The son, sitting beside his mother, could not conceal his emotions. The young visitors were then invited to ask questions. "How was it living during the war in Hanover?" Gertrude replied that she and her children sometimes had to run four or five times to the bunker to escape the rain of death from the sky. The ...

2311. Loving Ourselves

Matthew 22:34-40

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James McCormick

... hotel room, Dr. Trobisch led her to a mirror where he asked her to look carefully at her image. She turned away, unable to look at herself. He held her head gently but firmly and made her look into her own eyes. Obviously the experience was painful for her emotionally. Dr. Trobisch asked her to repeat after him: “I am a beautiful girl – I am a beautiful girl." But she couldn't do it. She just couldn't do it - because in her eyes that was sinful. Where did we ever get the idea that to affirm ourselves ...

2312. Facing the Consequences

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Tim Kimmel

... to your heart when you discover it's your daughter. Tom shared the humiliation he experienced when he realized that all of his teaching and example had been ignored. Years of spiritual training had been thrust aside. His stomach churned as he relived the emotional agony of knowing that the little girl he and his wife loved so much had made a choice that had permanently scarred her heart. I'm frequently confronted with these problems in my ministry and have found that dwelling on the promiscuous act only ...

2313. Two Kinds of Love

Illustration

... taught you to live in it. The first gave you a need for love and the second was there to give it. One gave you a nationality, the other gave you a name, One gave you the seed of a talent the other gave you an aim. One gave you emotions, the other calmed your fears. One saw your first sweet smile, the other dried your tears. One gave you up it was all that she could do, The other prayed for a child and God led her straight to you. And now you ask me through your tears, the age ...

2314. Leveling the Playing Field

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Staff

One of the golfers on the pro tour some years ago was a pompous egomaniac with the emotional maturity of a six-year-old. He could do nothing wrong and always had a quick excuse for any loss: it was a lousy course, the other golfers were cheating, the weather was terrible, etc. As if these faults were not enough, he was also not above hustling a few ...

2315. A Courageous Mr. Nobody

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Jon Johnston

... As a deathlike stillness fell over the Senate chamber, the vote began. By the time they reached Ross, twenty-four "guilties" had been announced. Eleven more were certain. Only Ross' vote was needed to impeach the President. Unable to conceal his emotion, the Chief Justice asked in a trembling voice, "Mr. Senator Ross, how vote you? Is the respondent Andrew Johnson guilty as charged?" Ross later explained, at that moment, "I looked into my open grave. Friendships, position, fortune, and everything that makes ...

2316. Inactive Bystanding

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Staff

... car. First one man, then another, finally came to help. Together they broke the safety glass and dragged the man out. They were just in time, a few minutes later it would have been too late. The woman thanked Rosina for saving her husband, and Rosina was elated, riding an emotional high that lasted for weeks. She had promised herself that she would never again fail to do anything she could to save a human live. She had made good on her promise.

2317. Healing with Laughter

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Staff

In "The Anatomy of an Illness," Norman Cousins tells of being hospitalized with a rare, crippling disease. When he was diagnosed as incurable, Cousins checked out of the hospital. Aware of the harmful effects that negative emotions can have on the body, Cousins reasoned the reverse was true. So he borrowed a movie projector and prescribed his own treatment, consisting of Marx Brothers films and old "Candid Camera" reruns. It didn't take long for him to discover that 10 minutes of laughter provided two ...

2318. Moved By Tears

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Staff

... in which professors who tried to restore order were attacked. The following day a meeting was held between the university's board, of which Jefferson was a member, and defiant students. Jefferson began by saying, "This is one of the most painful events of my life," was overcome by emotion, and burst into tears. Another board member asked the rioters to come forward and give their names. Nearly everyone did. Later, regrading their remorse, one of them said, "It was not Mr. Jefferson's words, but his tears."

2319. How To Counsel From Scripture

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Martin & Diedre Bobgan

People have wondered if it is possible to minister to mental-emotional-behavioral problems without resorting to psychological models and methods or to psychological gimmicks and devices. The evidence suggests that it is. Three researchers found in a national survey conducted for the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health that "of those persons who actively sought help for personal problems, the ...

2320. The Marks of a Cult

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Staff

... dominant culture. Exclusivistic: They are the only group that possesses the "truth." Legalistic: Rules and regulations abound governing spiritual matters and the details of everyday living. Subjective: They emphasize the experiential, the feelings and the emotions. This is usually accompanied by an anti- intellectualism. Persecution-conscious: The groups feel they are being singled out by mainstream Christians, the press, parents, and the government. Sanction-oriented: They require conformity in practice ...

2321. Saved From Silence

Illustration

Staff

... would not sell it. Keenly disappointed, Kreisler was about to leave when he had an idea. "Could I play the instrument once more before it is consigned to silence?" he asked. Permission was granted, and the great virtuoso filled the room with such heart-moving music that the collector's emotions were deeply stirred. "I have no right to keep that to myself," he exclaimed. "It's yours, Mr. Kreisler. Take it into the world, and let people hear it."

2322. The Final Dong

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Staff

... more midnight reverberations, a couple of dings when the subject came up in my conversations, but the force which was my willingness in the matter had gone out of them. They came less and less often and at the last stopped altogether: we can trust God not only above our emotions, but also above our thoughts."

2323. A Healthy Outlook

Illustration

Martin & Diedre Bobgan

... the reason. He believes that the more social ties, the better the health and the lower the death rate. Conversely, he indicates that the more isolated the person, the poorer the health and the higher the death rate. Social ties are good preventative medicine for physical problems and for mental-emotional-behavior problems.

2324. It's Tough To Be a Christian

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Paul Borthwick

... identifies tough issues facing every Christian leader. Ponder these slowly. You must be willing to stand alone. You must be willing to go against public opinion in order to promote what you believe. You must be willing to risk failure. You must become master of your emotions. You must strive to remain above reproach. You must be willing to make decisions others don't want to make. You must be willing to say no at times, even when you'd like to say yes. You must sometimes be willing to sacrifice personal ...

2325. "As If" You Love

Luke 4:14-21

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J. Allan Petersen

... "as if." For two months she showed love, kindness, listening, giving, reinforcing, sharing. When she didn't return, Crane called. "Are you ready now to go through with the divorce?" "Divorce?" she exclaimed. "Never! I discovered I really do love him." Her actions had changed her feelings. Motion resulted in emotion. The ability to love is established not so much by fervent promise as often repeated deeds.

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2301. Maybe Today

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

2302. Words That Wound, Words That Heal

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

2303. Heavenly Wisdom

James 3:13—4:8

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

2304. Living in The Present

Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

2305. A Difficult Day to Follow Jesus

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

2306. God Enjoys AND Enjoins Us

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

2307. Gummy Old Men

Matthew 3:1-12

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

2308. Jesus Rescues Us

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

2309. A Death on a Long Friday

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Ken Lentz

2310. Who Am I?

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Ken Lentz

2311. Loving Ourselves

Matthew 22:34-40

Illustration

James McCormick

2312. Facing the Consequences

Illustration

Tim Kimmel

2313. Two Kinds of Love

Illustration

2314. Leveling the Playing Field

Illustration

Staff

2315. A Courageous Mr. Nobody

Illustration

Jon Johnston

2316. Inactive Bystanding

Illustration

Staff

2317. Healing with Laughter

Illustration

Staff

2318. Moved By Tears

Illustration

Staff

2319. How To Counsel From Scripture

Illustration

Martin & Diedre Bobgan

2320. The Marks of a Cult

Illustration

Staff

2321. Saved From Silence

Illustration

Staff

2322. The Final Dong

Illustration

Staff

2323. A Healthy Outlook

Illustration

Martin & Diedre Bobgan

2324. It's Tough To Be a Christian

Illustration

Paul Borthwick

2325. "As If" You Love

Luke 4:14-21

Illustration

J. Allan Petersen

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