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2351. After the Parade

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... courtyard of the Temple and surveyed the scene. We cannot know what was going through his mind. In fact, we know only a few things for certain about his final week on earth. We know, first of all, about his courage. Jesus knew what lay ahead the physical and emotional pain, a cruel and unjust death. He dreaded it with all his being, but he did not cut and run as many of us might have. With great bravery he moved toward his destiny. He was a man of great courage. His courage evidently had an effect on his ...

2352. When the Service was Interrupted

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... I remember so few instances from my childhood. But this one stands out. I couldn’t have been more than five. We were members of a tiny rural church. Our hymns came from a small paperback hymnal of Gospel songs [the Upper Room hymnal]. “Worship was a bit emotional; the preacher a little loud. There was no formal liturgy. The pews were hard. There was no air conditioning. The windows were open. It was a hot summer morning. A couple of dogs lazed out on the front porch of the church. From time to time a ...

2353. Texas Psychology

Humor Illustration

Psychiatry students were in their Emotional Extremes class. "Let's set some parameters," the professor said. "What's the opposite of joy?" he asked one student. "Sadness," he replied. "The opposite of depression?" he asked another student. "Elation," he replied. "The opposite of woe?" the prof asked a young woman from Texas . The Texan replied, "Sir, I believe that would be giddyup."

2354. Do You Know How to Listen?

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... calls, “hearing aids”: 1. Listen with your eyes. Approximately 80% of communication is non-verbal. Facial expressions and body language usually tell the real story. Look at people when you listen to them! 2. Listen with your heart. Be sympathetic. Tune in to the emotions behind the words. 3. Make [it a habit to take] time to listen to the people around you. (6) This is to say that listening is hard work. It has to be something you are committed to. Listening to your family, listening to your coworkers ...

2355. We Are Dying All the Time

John 12:20-33

Illustration

Todd Weir

... to me. Apparently, cells that don't die off in the normal cycle are a real problem. These cells are related to diseases like cancer and become problematic because they get in the way and block healthy development of the body. This is true in the spiritual and emotional life as well. "Those who love their life will lose it, but those who love their lives for my sake will save it." (Luke's words are better here because there is so much more at stake than heaven in these words.) Our failure to let go and ...

2356. Singing with Lutherans

Humor Illustration

... rib cage. It's natural for Lutherans to sing in harmony. We're too modest to be soloists, too worldly to sing in unison. When you're singing in the key of C and you slide into the A7th and D7th chords, all two hundred of you, it's an emotionally fulfilling moment. I once sang the bass line of Children Of The Heavenly Father in a room with about three thousand Lutherans in it. And when we finished, we all had tears in our eyes, partly from the promise that God will not forsake us, partly from the proximity ...

2357. Victorious, but Not Unscarred

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... upon which Gordon sat, he happened to look up at his former commander. The once handsome face was now disfigured by battle scars. He recalled the actions in which Gordon had led the troops, actions which had left him permanently disfigured. Overcome with emotion, Gordon’s opponent had tears falling down his cheeks. He declared to the assembly that he could not vote against John Gordon. Then turning to Gordon, he asked the general’s forgiveness. “Forgive me, General. I had forgotten the scars.” (6 ...

2358. We Know Where We Are Going

John 20:19-23

Illustration

Steven Molin

... have been told by the Savior that his life and death has promised us life eternal. And Low Sundays don’t change that promise. And unemployment doesn’t change that promise. Neither does divorce, or bankruptcy, or cancer, or depression, or felony, or failure. Through elation and deflation and every emotion in between, this truth remains; we know whose we are and we know where we are going, because the Son of God has promised. And this, my friends, is faith.

2359. No Other Name

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... volleyball has a name, he is able to relate to it as if it were human. Names are important. Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam War Memorial was explaining to a TV interviewer why her remarkable work has come to have such a strong grip upon the emotions of the American people. “It’s the names,” she said, “the names are the memorial. No edifice or structure can bring people to mind as powerfully as their names.” (5) There is a popular children’s book by Yangsook Choi called The Name Jar. A young ...

2360. The Pastoral Search Report

John 10:11-18

Illustration

James Kegel

... wife. SOLOMON: Great preacher but our parsonage wouldn't hold all his wives and children. Has grandiose tastes. ELIJAH: Prone to depression; collapses under pressure. HOSEA: A tender, loving pastor but his wife is a floosy or worse. DEBORAH: Pushy female. JEREMIAH: Emotionally unstable, alarmist, negative, always lamenting things. ISAIAH: Claims to have seen angels. Has trouble with his language. JONAH: Refused God's call until he was forced to obey when he was swallowed by a fish. He said the fish spit him ...

2361. Love Each Other (Mother's Day)

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s what Christian love is. That’s the kind of love Christ gave us when we were undeserving. Love is a command. Note, secondly, that love is sacrificial. Christ speaks of “laying down one’s life for one’s friends . . .” For many of us love is a squishy emotion without any real content. “I love you for what you can do for me,” is the basic rule of such love. “You meet my needs and so I have a warm feeling for you.” We sing about such love, but in our hearts we know such love is horribly ...

2362. How Can I Know God's Will?

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... how Jesus said, “Whenever two or three of you agree, then it will be done” (Matthew 18:19). Sometimes we have too much invested in a decision personally to see clearly what God’s will may be. We need someone else’s viewpoint who is not as emotionally involved. If it is a matter of a relationship to a person of the opposite sex, do not ignore possible warnings of Christian friends or of parents or whomever. They can be wrong, but again I emphasize that feelings when you are head over heels in love ...

2363. Breaking Loose

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... payment or providing for your family’s basic needs. Other people have had their hearts broken in relationships enough times that they have concluded that they are unworthy to be loved. It’s sad to see anyone who has been broken by life, who is enslaved by negative emotions, who has given in to a spirit of fear and self-loathing. That is one of the reasons Christ came into the world. He came to deliver us from desperate, meaningless lives. He came to give us hope and a sense of well-being. How does that ...

2364. God Delights in What He Does

Mark 4:30-34

Illustration

King Duncan

... example of the kind of attitude that accompanies mustard seed faith. He tells of Lord Chesterton who suggested that God got a childlike excitement out of His work. "As a matter of fact, he contended that God may be the only one left in the universe who has childlike emotions about work, while all the rest of us have grown old and cynical because of sin. God never tires of what He does. He enjoys it. If you take a five-year-old child, throw her into the air, catch her, bounce her off your knee, and then set ...

2365. Watch Your Step

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... this prayer. When we live our lives so that we become the Lord’s prayer when everything we do, our eating, our sleeping, our playing, our walking becomes a prayer-offering to God, then our walk and our talk, our motion and our emotion, have become one. And we become “The Lord’s Prayer.” Let’s all stand, bow our heads, and say together this prayer with a re-dedication to doing more than saying “The Lord’s Prayer,” but becoming “The Lord’s Prayer.” ____________________________________ ...

2366. When the Going Gets Tough

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... than he who had died with liver cancer. Talk about a thorn in the flesh. This man’s cancer certainly was more like a sharp wooden shaft. Swindoll compares it to an arrow piercing his friend’s flesh. However his friend did not let the disease defeat him emotionally or spiritually. He didn’t curl up in a corner with a calendar and put Xs on days, says Swindoll. On the contrary, the news of his malignancy only spurred him on to drain every ounce out of every day. His physician had told him he would ...

2367. Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... an eschatological “new Jerusalem” but an incarnational body of Christ. As such their relationships are characterized by the abiding presence of truth. While the Ephesians’ author seems to recognize the occasional legitimacy of anger (“be angry”), he also pairs that emotion with another imperative: “Do not sin.” He further curtails that anger by placing a time limit on its existence with the proverbial “Do not let the sun go down on your anger.” Carefully nursed anger, anger that stays the ...

2368. Tradition Can Be Changed

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Cynthia Cowen

... he had become so absorbed in temple discussions that he hadn't given a thought about his parents or the return to Nazareth. When Joseph and Mary found Jesus three days later, something profound had occurred. Upset but also relieved, Mary said with emotion, "Look, your father and I have been searching for you in great anxiety" (Luke 2:48b). I emphasize here the word "father." Jesus had always recognized Joseph as his father. He was a good father, providing for him and teaching him God's ways. A pivotal ...

2369. Forgive as You Have Been Forgiven

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

Cynthia Cowen

... all fall short and need forgiveness. Precisely because God forgives our sin, we need to forgive others. Our prayer should be, "Lord, enable me to be more loving and forgiving of those who have hurt me." Those who work with young people see the emotion behind this process. Jacob B. and Jacob C. were proud of their friendship. They were best buds outside the church and inside. They belonged to God Club, a weekly gathering of grade school children who spend time together eating, creating, exploring the Bible ...

2370. Sit Up and Speak!

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... and awesome thing when the dead sit up and begin to speak. I have known people who have been dead, if not physically, in some manner all their lives. They go through the motions of living, yet, are dead spiritually, or socially, or intellectually, or emotionally. Then one day by the grace of God, their lives are interrupted, and they experience a Damascus Road conversion like the apostle Paul, and they sit up and began to live and to speak. For others, the weight of deadness is lifted through clues and ...

2371. Not Just Being Polite

John 6:25-35

Sermon

Scott Bryte

... the will to care for each neighbor. Whether we have much or little, we always have Jesus. When our hearts are joyful and when our hearts are breaking, God always loves us. Give thanks with your words. Give thanks with your time. Give thanks with your thoughts and your emotions. Always, every year and every day and every minute, we have reason to give thanks. Amen.

2372. Quitters

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... in times of trouble . . . you can entrust your life to him . . . He is Emmanuel, God with us, God with us all, whether we are together or apart. That’s what it’s all about. That’s all I know.” One woman, he said, was so overcome with emotion after this sermon that she had to wait until everyone else had left before speaking. Her words haunted him, “Why,” she asked, “didn’t you tell us this before?” (4) Perhaps he took it for granted that everyone already knew that he felt that way. Perhaps ...

2373. Hoping For a Hug

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... off saying, "You're both crazy! Go ahead and knock yourselves out! I couldn't care less!" Then Snoopy, with his head still sore and spinning things, says, "Rats, I was hoping for a hug!" Sigh. Ever felt that way? We hurt ourselves — perhaps physically or emotionally. Someone near and dear — a parent, a friend, a pastor — gives usa lecture about how stupid we were. "Rats," we may say to ourselves, "I was hoping for a hug!" There are times when what we need most is to know that somebody still cares and ...

2374. Is It True?

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... -embracing sort of sound that seems to well up from a deep, deep joy. There is a radiance about him that makes him look younger than when he died. He has a peace and serenity about him that is palpable. As soon as Lazarus gets home and emotions have calmed down a bit, his sisters, Mary and Martha, ask him the inevitable question: "What is it like beyond the grave? Tell us. What sort of existence lies beyond our physical dying?" Once again Lazarus begins to laugh. He responds, "There is only life. There is ...

2375. Advent 3

Isaiah 12:2-6, Zephaniah 3:14-20, Luke 3:1-20, Philippians 4:4-7

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... , “What are we to do?” (3:10). In our culture, if we desire to “rejoice and think about worthwhile things” (Philippians 4), then we must find activities that caress our souls — meditation, varying kinds of prayer, dancing our emotions (joy, anger, sadness, fear), inspiring conversations, resisting addictions to media interpretations of the world…. Contemporary Affirmation We experience God among us as creative Spirit stimulating our thoughts, working through our hands and our feet to make a bit ...

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