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1. How Life’s Pressures Affect Good Judgment

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Brett Blair

... A king commits murder to save his honor over a stupid oath. What a waste all because a powerful man was not able to see his original error and makes a promise in haste. II This brings us to our third and final lesson: pressures in life can affect good judgment. Now let me tell you, it doesn’t matter your station in life. All of us experience pressures and they come at us every day. And these pressures will influence the decisions you make. Lloyd J. Ogilve, in his book Life Without Limits, tells the story ...

2. Little Things Affect Little Minds

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... thunder as it rents the air: "You are charged with making mountains out of molehills. You have spent your entire life making mountains out of molehills - that’s what you’re guilty of. When things were trivial, you made them tragic. When men and women were affected by small passions. you were pompous and lectured them. "Yes, you were on the earth for eighty years, yet you never got beyond your childhood images of what is significant in life and what is not. You did not even see the potential in what was ...

3. For the Love of God Is . . .

1 John 5:3-4

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... 's very best, Philia is giving in nature. All of these loves are powerful. Storge, Eros and Philia have about them the willingness to give of themselves, that's when they are at their very best. We also know what they can be like at their worst. Family affection, love for your spouse and friendship are three of the most important aspects of love there are but there is one that is both like and yet very different from all three of these.It's the love that shapes us as Christians. It shapes our relationshhip ...

4. How To Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... more spent less. (3) For some parents, it is easier to give children things, rather than wings. Toy makers watch the divorce rate for the same reason. When the divorce rate rises, so do toy sales. Divorced parents and grandparents tend to compete for children's affections, so they buy toys. (4) As if toys could ever substitute for genuine love. Jesus commanded us to love one another as he loved us. Some people do not know how to love. They pass on the love-deficiency that they learned as children to their ...

5. Can The Church Count On Me?

1 Chronicles 29:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... King David made about what was in his day, the House of God, the Temple, and he makes this simple statement, "I have set my affection on the House of my God." (I Chronicles 29:3, NKJV) David made no bones about it. He had directed his heart to love God' ... s house that he loved it and that raises three questions that I would like you to answer today. I. Can The Church Count On My Affection? This is a very fascinating story that we are reading. David had a desire in his heart to build a house for God. It was ...

6. Living In The Spirit Of Love

Galatians 5:22-25

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... from four different Greek words. Storge, Philia, Eros and Agape. Each of these words defines a different kind of Love. Briefly lets look at the first three and then we'll focus on the fourth. I. Storge (Affection) Storge or Affection. This is the word we use when we talk about something we like intensely or have an AFFECTION for. "I love cheese popcorn. Or I love chocolate chip cookies fresh out of the oven and just barely cool enough to eat. I love pizza." You'd probably never hear Eve say, "I just love ...

7. While This House Lies In Ruins

Haggai 1:1-15

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... this little song written by humorist Allan Sherman: Oh, the moon is shining bright upon the car wash, So I'm having my Volkwagon washed today. But the way things go with me, the way my luck runs, Just as soon as they finish it will rain. Our power to affect the world around us increases when we act as a community. As a people we can seek to feed the hungry and make a difference. Or as a people we can forget the temple and see what happens. Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the ...

8. Missing the Mark

1 Samuel 8:1-22

Sermon

Charles Allo

... ? Do we first realize that our lives are not robotic and regulated to automatic decisions. No we process every decision through what we feel and go through. So I want to ask you how you are perceiving God and His ways? How has your life's issues affected your view of God. Are you on the brink of decision because of what you sense and feel? As you know God, but also know your situations, which experiences come to the surface? We must recognize these emotions and not reject them. But realize that there is ...

9. Our Common Life in Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... glows with light and power today as we turn to verses 1 through 4 of the second chapter of this Philippian letter. “If then our common life in Christ yields any thing to stir the heart, any loving consolation, any sharing of the Spirit, any warmth of affection or compassion, fill up my cup of happiness by thinking and feeling alike with the same love for one another, the same turn of mind, and a common care must be no room for rivalry and personal vanity among you, but you must humbly reckon others better ...

10. God Is Not Dead

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... while he was angry with the priests, leprosy broke out on his forehead, before the priests in the house of the Lord, beside the incense altar.” He got angry at everybody else, including God, even though he had committed this sin. But at this point his sin had only affected him. Here we see flawed worship. But that is not the end of the story. V. 21 goes on to record, Then Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.” Jotham was 25 years old when he became king. Now Jotham ...

11. Who's Your Daddy?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... --children have a great need for holding and being held. This is helpful to them in feeling a sense of grace in their lives--that they are loved simply for being themselves. Many of us come from families where there is little tradition of showing physical affection, and that is sad. A man was waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland, Oregon when he noticed a man coming toward him carrying two light bags. The man who was approaching stopped nearby to greet his family. First this man motioned ...

12. What Gets Into People?

Mark 1:21-28

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King Duncan

... feel that they should be able to think their way out of their depression. Their family and friends also regard it simply as a case of “being down in the dumps.” They say, “Get over it.” But do you really think that you can will radically affect your thyroid by just willing it to happen? Maybe, but not likely. Even praying about it may not make much difference. At such times you need to see a physician. Make sure that there is not a physical cause when something troubling gets into you. In the ...

13. Heaping Coals and Virtues

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... challenge the easy assumptions and remind the congregation of some hard facts to be quite important to the on-going life of the congregation. But even a congregational catfish is still bound to try to fulfill this injunction to "love one another with mutual affection." The remaining items in the list continue to clarify the way that Christians are to live, particularly together. "Outdo one another in showing honor" sounds a little foreign to most people, but it seems that Paul is using a fancy way to remind ...

14. Said the Night Wind….

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... the right and left of me, wondering if they’re wondering what’s going on with me. Why was I crying so? I was affected by this story about two men, one black, the other white, one wealthy, the other poor, one college-educated, the other not able to ... know And I think t myself, what a wonderful world Yes, I think to myself, what a wonderful world It is a world in which we are affected by the cries of others. Do you hear what I hear? I hear a baby crying. On this night of nights, we dare to claim that it ...

15. Close Up Parents: Be Cheerleaders, Not Jeer leaders

Colossians 3:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... that is driven to succeed to the nth degree, because they are haunted by the ghost of unrealistic expectations that one or both parents placed on them. There are others in this room who live in perpetual sadness because of a parent that never showed them the affection and the attention that they deserved. My own father had a mother who lived to be ninety-nine years old and in ninety-nine years she never one time told him that she loved him. We are in the middle of a series entitled, Picture Perfect, and ...

16. What Do I Do When My Prayers Go Unanswered?

Deuteronomy 3:1-11, 23-26

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James Merritt

... them. All prayer has a ripple effect. Every time God answers "Yes" to a prayer, you can rest assured that always affects somebody else. When I pray for something, I can't see how my prayers are going to affect my life down the road. I can't see how my prayers are going to affect my family. I can't see how my prayers are going to affect my church or you. I can't even see how that prayer is going to affect me completely. Prayer is just like a nuclear bomb. For a nuclear bomb to explode there must be a change ...

17. The Perfect Gift

Luke 2:1-7

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Maxie Dunnam

... God’s great gift, the perfect gift. He loves us so much, that’s who he is; he loves us so much that he gives us himself. And that leads to the second big point about gifts: the first purpose of an appropriate gift is to reveal the capacity and affection of the person giving it. Now the second purpose is that it suits the personality and the needs of the person receiving it. Let’s test God’s Christmas gift by that measurement. Isn’t our greatest need for someone to be with us? I mean, isn’t it ...

18. Up Close & Personal: Coming Into Focus

1 John 1:5--2:14

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James Merritt

... you, if I cheat you, I can go to God all day long and confess that sin. God, I cheated her. God I stole from him. God, I gossiped about her. God I hurt his feelings, please forgive me. If I do not go to the one who has been affected and I do not go to the one that has been offended, then I am still not right with God and I still can’t get up close and personal. When you confess your sin vertically to God that leads to restoration, but when you confess your sin to others ...

19. Mirror, Mirror ON The Wall . . .!

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... runs like this: "I don't like me. And God is my creator. Therefore, I will have nothing more to do with God. He messed me up the first time. I won't give him a chance to foul me up again!"\n Low self-esteem can also adversely affect your family life. A teenager who has difficulty with self-love might begin to overdress and run up some high clothing bills. Or she might begin to "underdress." Her dad begins to notice and complains, "You're not going to school dressed like that, are you?"\n Self-loathing ...

20. The Sadness Of God

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... . We're free to decide. But God paid the price of sharing our sometimes painful life situations in the hope that we'd make the right decisions. Here's what we need to understand. Our choices do matter. What kind of person I become does matter. My moral conduct does affect other people, and therefore it affects God. It's up to me to choose what sort of person I shall be, but God has decided to bet on me, as it were, to pay the price which that entails. If I make the wrong choice, it will ...

21. The Way Life Ought To Be

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... crazy world!Still we dream. We share with St. Paul that idyllic hope of a world patterned after the life of Jesus himself. Listen to St. Paul's words: "So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to his own ...

22. Family Survival

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Stephen DeFur

... ground before you?' So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept this matter in mind." We'll stop the story right there for now, because we want to talk for a few moments about the robe. The robe is an expression of a father's love and affection for his child. The robe says this child is special, prized and valued by me. When a child learns that he will never wear the robe, never light up his father or mother's eyes, something inside that child dies. When the robe is handed out to only one child ...

23. To Care for the Earth

Leviticus 25:1-7

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... environment. The Alaskan oil spill, spills in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere are examples, as well as the deliberate despoiling of the environment in the Persian Gulf by Saddam Hussein. The Chernobyl nuclear explosion which occurred years ago is still affecting the lives of people far removed from the scene. English sheep growers can''t market many of their animals because their flesh is contaminated with radioactivity. Names such as Times Beach, Love Canal and Three-Mile Island have become familiar to ...

24. Is Suffering Punishment for Sin?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... What are we to make of such a statement? Well, perhaps those words are not so much a statement of what God does as they are a statement of how life works. We are all tied up together in the same bundle of humanity. What one person does affects other persons, for good or for ill. The deeds that we do have their “fall out” far beyond themselves. If one generation rebels against God and God’s will for the world, then future generations will suffer for their misdeeds. Who is to doubt that “the iniquity ...

25. A Tireless and Timeless Image

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... you in shops, and all of us in neighborhoods and homes. Into those places you will not carry rods and staffs. But you can carry with you the rod of informed judgment and the rod of language; and you can carry with you the staff of affection and caring. There are sheep out there needing care; you have skills that can make you a modern-day shepherd. Please take upon you this tireless and timeless image. You will be surprised how warmly, welcomingly, and gratefully you will be received. And your exertions will ...

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