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2301. Blessed Are Those Who Hand Over Their Controllers

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... are a control freak? Here are seven signs, seven tip-offs, or you might even call them the “Seven Beatitudes” of a control junkie: 1. You are “large and in charge.” Always and at all times give the impression you are in control. Never evidence any feelings of inadequacy. 2. Be always right; try to look better and more right than others. Work harder than anyone else around you. 3. Take the credit whenever things do go according to plan. If something goes wrong or awry, it’s not your fault. Find a ...

2302. Fully Awake

Luke 9:28-36

Illustration

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... martyr, and others in the martyrology. Vigil of St. Chrysogonus, martyr, and others. From about half past ten at night until about half past midnight, FIRE. GOD of Abraham, GOD of Isaac, GOD of Jacob not of the philosophers and of the learned. Certitude. Certitude. Feeling. Joy. Peace. GOD of Jesus Christ. My God and your God. Your GOD will be my God. Forgetfulness of the world and of everything, except GOD. He is only found by the ways taught in the Gospel. Grandeur of the human soul. Righteous Father, the ...

2303. Conflict Resolution (Series: Fundamentals of Family)

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... future unshackled from a painful past that we cannot undo. Forgiveness begins with a “desire in the heart.” We want something better for ourselves than we presently feel. Forgiveness is not a matter of ought; it is a matter of opportunity. My preaching can make you feel guilty or bitter but it won’t make you any better. We forgive when we feel God’s Spirit nudging us with an impulse to pull ourselves out of the sludge of our disabling resentment. Forgiveness is AN EXPERIENCE OF GRACE. “Forgive as ...

2304. Discover the Surprise of Christmas

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... we remember from younger days and simpler days. Like that Santa Ornament, determined to get those cookies, we go through all sorts of gyrations and antics trying to resurrect Christmases Past because in our memories they feel perfect and unencumbered. But the past is the past, and we're called to live in the present. But Christmas isn't really about the present (or the presents under the tree. Christmas is about the future. Our future. One filled with hope. One in which we know we are ...

2305. The Gift of Purpose

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... for life. And the sad truth is that we can't live without purpose and meaning. How many people do you know, especially the elderly, who reach a certain age and then just give up? They're no longer working, they're no longer active and involved because they feel they've just gotten too old to do anything. Nobody cares, that can't do the things they used to be able to do. They've lost their purpose. Proverbs says it best, "Where there is no vision, the people perish." B. George Mason's life centered on his ...

2306. Follow Your Questions (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 20:24-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... live by the Christian values?” How does one answer that? Why is God so silent? C.S. Lewis wrote in his classic book A Grief Observed, “Why is it that when you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing God, you will be - or so it feels - welcomed with open arms. But go to God when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in you face, a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside, after that, silence!” Some of you know exactly what Lewis ...

2307. Follow Your Calling (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , I am a chance meeting between millions of male sperm and millions of female eggs. If they happen to connect at the right time, in the right way, they form an embryo, which becomes a fetus, which evolves into a Bobbie or Susie, Howard or Sandy. It all makes you feel kind of accidental, does it not? No wonder we have trouble treating the unborn with the same dignity and reverence we attach to human life. In the beginning we are not even a good lottery bet. We are not on this earth very long until we come to ...

2308. Follow Me (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... from disease the question posed by the religious authorities of Jesus’ day. They wanted to know of the blind man, who sinned, this man or his parents? Assumptions like that don’t help. Instead, I go on not knowing the answers. But every day I feel more comfortable with the questions. Stoop down and look. Live the questions. III. Peter Went Back and Followed Peter was the one who went back and preached the first sermon of the Resurrection. He followed. Do you know about the word “follow”? The book ...

2309. Does Love Really Make the World Go ’Round? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... God able to make and mold us into more loving people if he could just get our permission? Being made perfect in love, casts out fear. We have created a culture of fear in America. Terrorists, predators, drug dealers, war and even the weather are playing havoc with our feelings of security and our lives of peace. God can help us change that! I choose to live by faith, not fear. I know the uncertainty of the unknown as well as anyone here, but I choose not to be possessed by it. I choose to live each day by ...

2310. Radical Love is Forgiving (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Paul says again and again in his letters, “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.” St. Francis said, “There is nowhere a more wretched and more miserable sinner than I.” People close to God have a sensibility to sin, a pain to feel it near. They have an awareness of how far they have to go to truly live a godly life. So they are grateful and humble. Who needs to be forgiven? Sinners need to be forgiven. Of course we do. We always do. The point of this story is this ...

2311. Winning the War Over Fear (Series: Winning the Wars of Daily Life)

Luke 12:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of sadness, resentment, or rage that won’t go away because someone said, “Let’s keep this little secret between us,” stop hiding. End the shame, find someone who cares, speak the truth, feel the feelings. Do what you have to do to find health. If you are here today, trespassing on somebody’s personhood, stop it! Healing is possible. There is mercy with the Lord, but you cannot do it on your own. It’s time to put an end to family secrets. III. Know ...

2312. Jesus’ Trail of Tears (Series: Questioning Our Values)

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of the sins and the pain and brokenness of the world, for at least that brief moment, he cries out to God and says, “It’s too much!” Tears of surrender? I do not know what Jesus felt. I know I could never feel that because it is too much. I do know how heavy my sins feel at times. I know how hard it is to break the bad habits I have. I know sometimes I have to turn off the television because I cannot stand to watch one more child suffering, or one more soldier killed. I know that the ...

2313. What Difference Does It Make?

John 14:15-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... you. We may not see or hear the presence of God all the time. But the power and presence of God is always available for us. No matter how frightened or alone we feel, no matter how much we feel abandoned or how weak or powerless we believe we are, that doesn't mean the Spirit isn't here. That doesn't mean we are not loved. We may feel separated from God, but God doesn't go anywhere. God is always with us, even when all we can see ahead of us is that hungry mountain lion. God protects and provides for ...

2314. Easter Heart Burn

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... up. But you can be sure of this, He will show up. If you believe, He will show up. And the attitude you need to meet him is the attitude of Piglet, "I wonder what exciting thing is going to happen today?" Or better yet, "I wonder where I'll feel the Easter Heart Burn and I wonder where I'll meet Jesus today?" We never know when or where or how Jesus will show up. But we do know this: He is alive, and He wants to live in the hearts of His disciples. He wants you to ...

2315. Hope in a Plain Brown Wrapper

Luke 1:47-55

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... to snow. The temperature would drop, and the ewes would continue to graze. The lambs would lie down on the ground and before long would freeze to death. The shepherds got together to discuss the problem. They determined that the ewes, covered with wool didn't feel the temperature change. The shepherds came up with a rather unique solution. They took shears and sheared just the top of the head of the ewes. Then when the weather changed, they felt it and headed back to the barn, thus saving many of their ...

2316. Hope In The Midst of Uncertainty

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... a homeless man holding a sign, and he's had a fight with his girlfriend whose name just happens to be Grace. He's driving along feeling sorry for himself, talking to and yelling at God. "OK, God. You want me to talk to you? Then talk back. Tell me what's going ... with a telephone number. Bruce says: "Sorry, don't know you. Wouldn't call you if I did" B.I think Jim Carrey nailed how we feel in the middle of a crisis, in the middle of despair. And he also captured exactly what happens. We ask for a sign and we're ...

2317. A Lie

John 13:34-35

Illustration

Philip Gulley

... people believe. They believe this lie in order to excuse their hatred. After all, if we can't help but hate, if hate is a feeling we simply cannot help, then hatred is never our fault, is it? But we can help it. Hatred is a choice. We choose to ... choose to love. Oh, I know, there are people out there who believe love isn't a choice, that love is primarily an emotion, a feeling, a stirring in the loins. These are the same people who stay married for six months, then divorce. These are the people who love the ...

2318. Where In the World Is God?

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... And some of us wondered what on earth God was doing during those 444 days. That officer knew what God was doing. “I didn’t have my Bible, but I had my God.” And there is our cue. Even in the desolation of our souls when God is on our feeling level absent. We remember that God is wherever any person is obedient to God takes the rich loving; whatever the cost and we try not to forget that the presence of God is not determined by or measured by the whole of movement of our life and victory. Then, our ...

2319. Where Do We Grow from Here?

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not an isolated event. It is a process. To be fully born is the aim of life. That is that Paul was talking about in our scripture lesson. In another of his letters, Galatians 4:19, he put it in the form of a plea. “0, my dear children, I feel the pangs of child birth all over again til Christ be formed within you,... (Phillips). I’m talking about growth - growth in the Christian life, prodding us by asking, “Where do we grow from here?” Not where do we go, but where do we grow from here? And there ...

2320. No Instant Maturity

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to persons and ideas that may not fit into your neat well—defined comfortable world. Let me ask you, how do you feel in the presence of a person whom you know has ideas radically different from yours? Or you threatened by them? What about ... stay with it – with the narrow way Jesus called us – we will find life. And deep within we will know the satisfying joy, and feel the resonance of joining our hearts with the hearts of those who continue to pray with their lips and their lives, “thy Kingdom come ...

2321. Dealing with Stress Creatively

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

James W. Moore

... that new believers in India call Christ “My Soma Tonga”… the one who gives me rest, the one who takes on my burdens, the one who renews my strength. Sadly, too often in this world too many of us forget that Christ is our strength… and sometimes when we feel stressed-out, we rush out in panic and desperation to chase after every new wind that blows, every new fad that comes along, and every new guru who promises a quick fix for our problems. Let me show you what I mean. Over the years, I have noticed ...

2322. Bearing the Marks of Christ

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... religious, button-wearing and religious bumper-stickers. I don’t know about you, but I have never much wanted to wear a sign that says, “I am a Christian.” Some people do and that’s O.K. for them, but somehow, I just don’t feel comfortable wearing religious signs… probably for several reasons. For one thing it’s just not “me”… and then, too, I remember those hard sayings of Jesus toward the Pharisees for making a public show of religion. Also, I had an experience in college that affected ...

2323. On the Road with the Rich Young Ruler

Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

James W. Moore

... out to the needy. He could not find it in his heart to love… and that’s why he was going through life with this feeling of emptiness. As World War II was winding down and the outcome was certain, one Prisoner of War Camp decided to release half of their ... man and he is told: ‘You have to die to this world.’ He protests: ‘I don’t want to die. I love this world. I like the feel of the sun on my face and the cool rain. I love the faces of my wife and children. I’ve lived here a long time and I ...

2324. Give Yourself

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... there are, Moses. You’ve got to get this thing organized. You’ve got to set up an every-member canvass. You’ve got to put some pressure on the people. You’ve got to twist a few arms. You’ve got to make people feel that they’re responsible and even make them feel a little bit guilty. Moses, you just don’t know how few generous people there are out there.” But Moses obviously knew what he was talking about. It was as though he was saying to those people who didn’t want to give, “Forget it ...

2325. Being and Doing as the People of God

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... : “Well, I must close. Once again I have burdened you with my innermost thoughts. But this morning I write in joy! I’ve begun again, this time with a clearer picture of the struggle ahead than ever before. Yet, now once again, I can welcome it. I have the feeling that I am waking slowly after a long sort of unreal dream. As I now look back, I realize I never felt deserted - and I know God was simply waiting patiently for me to let go.” There is a significant lesson in this witness. One of the greatest ...

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