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2426. Refresh Your Heart

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... COMMENTARY Historians love digging through boxes in the attic or diving into the bottom of old trunks. Why? Such excavation often results in finding a cache of old letters. Unlike “official” historical documents, personal correspondence reveals the actual thought and emotions of an individual, what they believed and felt and what they actually did rather than say they did. With the advent of e-mail and the accompanying demise of paper correspondence, one wonders how future historians will connect with ...

2427. A One Sentence Legacy

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... When you get to the end of your life, will you do so with a lot of regrets? What will your friends say about you? Your family? Will you have the resources to meet the challenges of your final years, not only financial resources, but emotional resources, relational resources, spiritual resources? Those are big questions. But they must be answered if we are going to have anything close to a successful life. Author and business guru Peter Drucker says his life was shaped by a teacher who once asked, “What do ...

2428. God Cares

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

Argile Smith

... , they would eventually starve to death. Using the setting of Ezekiel as the backdrop, comparing weary Christians to hungry sheep is easy. We understand the analogy at first glance. Like scattered sheep, we sometimes find ourselves lost and alone, spiritually and emotionally impoverished, wondering what to do next. For some of us, our spiritual poverty has turned into a serious form of malnourishment. One of the character traits of such a chronic problem is that we don’t even know we are hungry anymore ...

2429. Let Them Eat Cake

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... on their Facebook page and liking something they said, or saying something nice on their Timeline. Paul rightly reminds his beloved Timothy to “remember” that despite all he will encounter in life, all the attacks, all the rejection, all the physical and emotional pain he will encounter, there is the overwhelming reward of Christ’s presence and power. As long as a disciple’s faith in Christ stands firm, and our relationship with him stays strong, all the bad stuff, all the truly evil encounters ...

2430. The Door of the Cross

John 10:1-21

Sermon

David O. Bales

... began four years in a military prison. She endured incredible hardship and brutality, as did her other missionary associates, half of them dying. When the war ended, she was evacuated by ship to Seattle and was finally able to telephone her parents. We can understand how emotional that phone call was. She later wrote about her faith in Christ and that first phone call in the US to her parents: “Many have asked me how I know it is the Lord speaking to me. What had just happened was the best illustration I ...

2431. The Faith of a Saint

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... For that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.” In other words Christ is saying to those who most sincerely seek to follow him, “Don’t despair if things haven’t worked out for you like you had hoped financially, don’t give up if you are hurting emotionally, don’t let go of my promises if you are anxious about someone you love . . . I have not forgotten you and this is not the last word on your situation. You are mine and your hunger will one day be satisfied and your weeping will one day ...

2432. Praying In Jesus' Name

John 14:5-14

Sermon

David O. Bales

... Members of the congregation did. When Dorothy Proctor offered that prayer, she always prayed for “our pastor and his family.” Since pastors and pastors’ spouses are used to praying for others and listening to the problems of others, to this day my emotions are tender by the memory of someone praying for us. Pray specifically for your friends, relatives, neighbors, community, pastor, and congregation. Pray in the name of the Spirit and the character of Jesus because that’s what God wants to give you ...

2433. Dancing for Joy (Thanksgiving)

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... and psychological benefits of thankfulness to be equal to that of therapy. He writes, “My colleagues and I are finding that gratitude, which we define as a felt sense of wonder, thankfulness, and appreciation for life, is more than simply a pleasant emotion to experience or a polite sentiment to express. Gratitude promotes a basic disposition, one that seems to make lives happier, healthier, more fulfilling‑‑and even longer.” (3) Do yourself a favor, my friend, and learn to thank God daily for your ...

2434. Finding the Perfect Gift

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... but they did not want. And for those who don’t have receipts, there is the great tradition of “re-gifting” — re-wrapping and passing along a gift to another person because the gift was un-needed, un-wanted, or ill-fitting (either physically, mentally or emotionally). You cannot “return” the gift of a God relationship, a TGIF gift. But you can re-gift it and pass it on. And the passing on of God’s TGIF gift is the best gift we could give this Christmas and every Christmas. All God’s children ...

2435. A Topsy-Turvy Gospel

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... degrading form of state execution ever invented. Jesus was executed by the Roman government in the way only the lowest of the low criminals were dealt with. His death was not only brutal, it was intentionally belittling to every part of the human being body, mind, emotions, spirit. Jesus’ death turned the world upside down. His lifting up on a cross made weakness a strength. His love made the heat of hatred a cold shower. His death was not futile. His death was fertile giving life and a life to come to ...

2436. Stargazing, Naval Gazing, and Other Waiting Games

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Tony Everett

... of power from the Holy Spirit and a precise mission to witness for Jesus to the ends of the earth. Jesus gives us the same promise and the same mission. How does the Lord get your attention? How does the Lord move you from feeling religious emotions to doing faithful deeds? What do you do when you find yourselves waiting around for specific directions and they never seem to come? Celebrating the Ascension of Our Lord is really celebrating who really is in charge of a new reality and acknowledging who is not ...

2437. What If You Truly Were Born Again?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... God unless we are born of water and the Spirit. Let’s agree for the time being that the water he is referring to is the water of Christian baptism. What does the Lord mean by being born of the Spirit? Does it mean a certain kind of emotional experience . . . or does it mean much, much more? “Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.” Craig Brian Larson tells a story of a bright young woman named Marian, who was working her way through college by cleaning the dorm rooms of her ...

2438. Will this Be on the Test?

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Tony Everett

... pass the test? What happens if we fail? Do we get another chance? Beginning soon after birth (some folks might say soon after conception) children are measured and compared to arbitrary standards of physical, mental, social, and even emotional well being. Parents and grandparents share pictures and compare achievements. Physicians measure and chart. Professional educators establish entrance specifications and performance expectations. As we progress through life, measurements of what we know and how we grow ...

2439. A Breath of Fresh Air

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Tony Everett

... new hope, and new energy. That is God’s promise to you, to the church, and to all dry bones: “I will put my spirit in you and you shall live.” A breath of fresh air from the Lord does indeed give new life to a spiritually, emotionally, physically, and relationally drained and dry people. Hey, does that describe anybody you see when you look in the mirror? When you look at your congregation? The Lord told Ezekiel that the dry bones really were the community of Israel. After the defeat at Jerusalem and ...

2440. Can These Bones Live Again?

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... prove she was alive. (3) It would be a shock to most of us if one day our bank declared that we were dead and refused to honor our checks. That would be most inconvenient. But there are many individuals who are dead not physically dead, but spiritually dead, emotionally dead, relationally dead people on whom their families and friends and society in general have given up. Is there any hope for them? Hear the word of the Lord! God is the God of new life. That’s the good news for the day. God is the God of ...

2441. Soiled Faith and Watered-Down Churches

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... by the Holy Spirit of Christ through the gospel. This is the mystery of Christ’s power in our lives still today. This green power of germination (Christ DNA) belongs to God alone. And the power of God touching our hearts sets off actual chemical, emotional, spiritual, and physical changes within us, as we begin to grow in Christ and as Christ grows in us. The moment the Holy Spirit of Christ infiltrates the core of our hearts, the hardened shell of our doubts, our sin, and our fear fall away, and ...

2442. Fear of Missing Out

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the “real world” because they are panicked at the possibility of “missing out” on the latest communication or excitement in the “virtual world.” In its extreme form, this “fear of missing out” is “an exhaustive, competitive, and obsessive mental and emotional condition that can consume people’s energy and seriously affect the quality of their lives.” Today, we still have “FOMO” as Christians, but it doesn’t arise from a desperate effort to get inside the church. Today, FOMO is a ...

2443. The Voice-activated Life

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Texas ChainSaw Massacre 3D and there’s not one act of violence or blood in the movie. Siri is a voice that simulates a relationship. In the movie “Her,” artificial intelligence (blessed with Scarlett Johansson’s voice) takes on a definite personality and emotional intelligence . . . to the point where a man falls in love with the voice in his operating system. At a point in the movie, Samantha (the name of his virtual girlfriend) starts to be distracted from her virtual relationship with him due to ...

2444. Let It Go

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... his present "concealment" of his discipleship. To trust the water and the wind is to let the "storms" come as they will, to trust in God’s protection, and to "dare" to make faith not just about rationality and rules but about relationships and emotions. When you let go of everything, you make the paradoxical discovery, you truly have everything. As everyone who has ever learned to ride a bicycle has learned, when you let go of your control, you find the ultimate equilibrium. Third, let go of our certainty ...

2445. Outpouring and Indwelling

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... they replayed her story for a team of volunteer “listeners.” As she told her story her brain activity and the brain activity of her listeners began to synchronize. Whenever her frontal cortex lit up, her listener’s frontal cortex lit up. When her emotional response center, the insula, grew active, the insula in her listeners’ brains also showed increased activity. In short, as a great story teller she was able to bring the brains of all her listeners along with her on her story. Story teller and ...

2446. Apron Up (Mother's Day)

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a symbol of the “sacredness” of the table in the midst of everyday living. An apron mom or grandmom was the life of the house “as for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord.” With her dedication and love, nourishment both physical and emotional, these “women of the cloth” wrapped us up in the faith and raised us clothed in love of God throughout all the family generations. The apron wraps us in generational memory. Like a swaddling cloth, it protects an identity hewn and cut from a tough cloth ...

2447. The Key to Getting Enough Rest

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... is mental. Our body feels tired not because our bodies have been too active, but because our thoughts have been in overdrive dealing with fear, anxiety and stress. Most of us don’t have jobs that put a lot of physical stress on us, but mental and emotional stress are another thing. Worry and stress are killers. Gordon MacDonald once noted that no man ever collapsed because of the burdens of the day; it is when the burdens of tomorrow are added to the cares of today that a person begins to sink. I’m ...

2448. Breaking News: A World Gone Wild

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... disasters are increasing in frequency and severity. As we see we have gone from a few in 1900 to 450 in the year 2000. [Pastor’s note: the graph is provided in your PowerPoint file for this message.] Natural disasters don’t just cause physical and emotional problems. For many, they cause severe spiritual problems and raise deep theological questions. When the weather is great and the seas are calm and the sun shines or the rain is gentle, God doesn’t get any credit. As soon as a natural disaster hits ...

2449. Family Re:Union - Great Expectations

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

James Merritt

... and to whom we are going to do it. There is even a posture that we adopt almost naturally, almost as a reflex, when we sense the need to submit. For example, when we are contrite or broken, we will fall to our knees, physically expressing what we are feeling emotionally. When a subject comes before a king what does he do to submit? He kneels to acknowledge that he is in the presence of his master. When a believer in a religion comes to pray to his god, what does he do? Many times he kneels to acknowledge he ...

2450. Ignite: Fire and Water

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

James Merritt

... did? They jumped in the water. Specifically, they jumped into the water of baptism, but there is one difference. Normally, water extinguishes fire, but in this case baptismal water enhances fire. Stay with me! We are going to deal today with one of the most emotionally charged issues any pastor ever deals with. If you grew up in a church where baptism in any form or fashion was practiced then you know there are two things that can get people extremely charged up and that is either messing with their baptism ...

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