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1. Why Are We So Split Apart?

Matthew 5:9

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... , maintain, and restore right relationships between people. Our third relationship is our relationship with God. This may be a relationship of fear and alienation in which we try to hide from God, as Adam did in that Genesis story. It may be a relationship of enmity and hostility, because of our circumstances for which we blame God. It may be one of complete indifference in which we essentially live as if God does not exist. But when we can see the Creator, the Sustainer, the Governor of the universe, a God ...

2. Tale of the Tares

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... are idolatrous –they are not infused with the spirit of God, but a spirit of hostility. The similar word in Hebrew is ayab (to hate, to be hostile). Other similarities are eybah and awr. Ayab is the word used in the phrase from Genesis: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed….” (3:15). From the beginning of time, the “seed” of evil or temptation/inclination for hostility is compared to the seed of God. Yet it’s important to note that no one in humankind is ...

3. The Cross: God's Answer To Our Deepest Needs

Colossians 2:8-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to cry out with him, "O wretched man that I am!" Ever since Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden, sin has been the factor of human life that has ravaged our beings, torn us to pieces, set us at odds with God, and at enmity with each other. Did you see the movie "Amadaeus"? It was an absorbing drama that brilliantly chronicled how the shadow side of human nature can finally envelope and destroy a good person and his gifts. It was a dramatic witness of sin in our life -- ravaging our being ...

4. More!!!

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... cards while wearing surgical gloves and a mask to protect you from any anthrax spores, don't wish that the government will catch these bio-terrorists and get new vaccines out to the public. · Ask for the end of all disease, for the end of hate and enmity, for the end of suffering upon this Earth! · Don't read the Christmas story and thank God for that baby born just over 2000 years ago, whose birth brought God's presence into this world. · Ask for that baby to be born again this Christmas 2002, bringing ...

5. No Longer Strangers

Ephesians 2:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... peace,” (vs. l4). Paul is saying something radically new and revolutionary. Gentile’s are near to God - through Jesus Christ: “He is our peace.” In Christ God died for both Jew and Gentile, bringing them both into union with himself. In his flesh abolishing the enmity which the law had created. And what does that mean today? To you and me, to the world? It means that there is no person beyond the realm of God’s salvation – and that is Jesus Christ. He is our peace. Then the second word: “One ...

6. God’s Providence: The Long and Short of It

Genesis 45:1-15

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... brothers, we see this marvelous and emotional reunion. People who had been cruel are forgiven. People who had been antagonistic to one another now embrace one another. And a father whose heart had been broken by tragedy — and whose family had been broken by enmity — will see his son again and have his whole family reunited. The events that lead up to this happy ending were entirely guided by the providence of God. Joseph is quite clear on that point. Five times in as many verses, Joseph makes explicit ...

7. Love That Surpasses Knowledge

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... that Paul prays we might have the power to grasp. It is a love that flows freely, without consideration of reward or plan for recompense. This is a love that is not inherent to human nature. We are more inclined to return love for love and enmity for enmity. Scripture says, "... how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving ...

8. Knowledge

Genesis 3:1-19 · Psalm 90

Sermon

Will Willimon

... being." Which brings us to the end of the story. Do you remember how it ends? (Those of you who are Baptists and have heard this story before this morning - do you remember how it ends?) The story ends, not with this curse of pain and enmity of thorns and dusty ··· death. It ends by saying that the Lord God, the Creator, the Gardener, the Accuser, becomes the Tailor. God made, for the two creatures, clothes. Creatures who know that they are naked need clothes, some protective covering as they go out into ...

9. The Agony And The Ecstasy Of The Family

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... preached and got thrown out of the synagogue in Nazareth? Very likely. Did they participate in trying to throw him over the cliff? Quite possibly. The family conflict went from bad to worse. The conflict reached fever pitch. If Jesus had conflict and enmity in his family, we should not expect to escape the agony of the physical family. There are misunderstandings and conflicts in every family I know. There is pain and sorrow, suffering and death. Some family members judge others and even hate their own ...

10. The Taught Can

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... mess we have made of our world and our lives. No one can be blind to the desecration of the planet. No one can avoid the wickedness that kills and maims, impoverishes and starves people in every country and city. Each of us must acknowledge personal enmities and selfishness and deliberate misdeeds. It is bad enough to realize how self-centered we are; it is even worse to comprehend the greater stupidity it is on our part to think we can dethrone God from life's real center. People sometimes apologize for ...

11. Thankful Living

Joel 2:18-27

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John A. Stroman

... us that " we have so secluded ourselves in human superiority, in intellectual arrogance, in a domineering attitude toward nature, to where we are incapable of perceiving the harmonious sounds of nature."2 Our deafness toward nature has tragically caused an enmity between humankind and nature, between nature and nature which makes thanksgiving, on our part, almost impossible. To the earth it's tough to sing those thanksgiving hymns when we realize what we have done through the greed of our commercialism ...

12. How Can We Restore the Christian Home?

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... in the religion they practise." Both of these opinions are true. Only a vital religion can provide the power needed to cultivate and sustain this love that cements human relationships in depth and through time. You see: all love is of God, and all hatred and enmity are of the evil one. Since himself is love, then true affection in the home is more likely to deepen and endure where his presence is acknowledged, honored, and made central. Where love is, God is. And the home where such a reality is cherished ...

13. The Saving Grace Of Gratitude

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... , to even come into close proximity to a leper was to risk spiritual pollution. And to touch a leper was to incur such pollution that exaggerated rituals of cleansing would be necessary before one was allowed back into polite company. Even the strong enmity between Jews and Samaritans was overcome by the stronger social taboo of leprosy. Nine of the ten lepers were Jews; one was a Samaritan. Their common affliction brought them into community with each other -- a community of the socially damned. It's not ...

14. The Kindergarten Kingdom

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Erskine White

... as she rushed towards the communion table. I wonder how many grownups anywhere are as prepared to receive the bread and cup as this little girl was. She was eager and innocent, filled with joy and anticipation. She didn't come to that table burdened by the enmities or resentments which so often divide people; she wasn't distracted by the anxieties and hurts which accumulate at work or at home during the week. In spiritual terms, she was clean and "pure in heart" (Matthew 5:8). All she wanted was to eat with ...

15. The Faith of the Cannanite Woman

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... mainly in the fact that she turned to Jesus for help. That was quite remarkable, however, when you remember that she was a Gentile, a Canaanite, and therefore a traditional enemy of the Jews. They had been despised for centuries. It was as real and deep an enmity as exists today between the Arabs and the Jews. On another note, one might wonder what indeed Jesus was doing in this foreign land. On no other occasion did he venture out of Palestine. Why now? The common explanation is that he knew that he was ...

16. To Be Sure

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... ," now gives us the story of the "Thankful Samaritan." The "Thankful Samaritan" in today's gospel is "twice an outsider." It was enough that he was a Samaritan, and therefore a "foreigner." There was open hostility among Jews and Samaritans in Jesus' day. Enmity had been brewing for centuries, and especially since the return of the exiles from Babylon in the sixth century B.C.E.4 Though it may be that by Jesus' day few remembered the stories of its origin, the hostility was mutually shared. Believed ...

17. Is Christianity An Escape?

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

... spirits. It’s said there have been more people killed by Nazis and Communists, slain for their faith in Christ, more martyrs in our time than in any other period of history. In our country we don’t expect that fate but we may still feel the enmity. For us the persecution may not be open and violent but lurking and subtle. I feel it in how the world stereotypes us - as in television and films, showing church members as blue-nosed, simple-minded killjoys, only fit to be ridiculed. I feel it in the ways ...

18. The Promise of the Savior King

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

... of all the cosmos. We live in Advent's promise and hope. We still await the final fulfillment of God's promise to David when the savior king will rule justly and righteously. We still hope for the time when justice and righteousness will turn enmity into friendship, strife into harmony, brokenness into wholeness in our world. We await God's reign in Jesus the Messiah and that hope makes us uncomfortable and uneasy with pretenders and false leaders. No wonder we so often are disappointed and yet again and ...

19. The Promise of Wholeness

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

... future action of God is proclaimed on the basis of what he had already done for Israel. We know what God has done for us. We see it all wrapped up in the human figure of Jesus. A stinking straw bed, the dust and dirt of a traveling rabbi, the enmity of the establishment, a cross crammed into a hill-top hole, a gaping grave. In the person of Jesus is God's ultimate deed, God's creative act of deliverance. In Jesus is God's deed which gives shape and meaning to our present and our future, which makes us ...

20. God Turns Darkness to Light

Isaiah 49:8-26

Sermon

... from his crucified death, and who has freed us from our slavery to sin, promises that darkness is not the ultimate shape of our lives. God has promised ultimately to restore us and the whole creation to a condition of light, life, and peace, where enmity, strife, and powerful oppression will not be present. God promises that acid rain, chemical agents and other pollutants will not destroy the water, forest, air of our world. And there are agents of God at work, seeking to bring that promise to reality by ...

21. Eating at the King’s Table

2 Samuel 9:1-13

Sermon

Various Authors

... of Philippians Paul pleads with Euodia and Syntyche, two women in the church at Philippi, to please try to get along with each other. That is all he says, but just sit and watch those two women in your imagination, and you can almost see some of the enmity (maybe unfounded) they had for each other. The Bible is not just stories about saints. It is full of personal histories of folk exactly like us. That’s the reason it is a grand place to people-watch. There is a man mentioned in the Old Testament whose ...

22. Beyond the Ordinary

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... we must also despise the suffering that we have the capability of inflicting on others. Thus, we, as disciples of Christ, should resist evil and overcome it with good. Overcoming evil with good is more than mere nonresistance. It is responding to active enmity with active love. Jesus used three extreme examples to illustrate his point. Those who live by the higher ethic of over-abundant righteousness are to turn the other cheek, give away undergarments, go the second mile, and give to any who borrow. In ...

23. Only Love Can See the Star

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... meaning of the Advent journey. Only love can see the star which leads to the discovery of God’s wonder for our lives. As we come to the Holy Sacrament, let us come thoughtfully, reverently, submissively. Let us rid our hearts of all enmity, hate, strife ... of all busyness, pre-occupation, and pretense. For Communion is a moment of truth when we kneel before the awesome mystery of Christ’s birth. The Wise Men found God and themselves ... when they worshiped ... by presenting themselves, their souls, and ...

24. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... 5:17). That is, a person may surrender himself so completely to the personal influence of Jesus Christ that his life will be both revolutionized and empowered. Delivered from self-centeredness and inner conflict, he is given a new sense of adequacy. Enmity, suspicion, and fear which corrupt his social contacts give way to good will, trust, and courage. He begins to realize what it is to live - more abundantly. He becomes aware of an ability to tap spiritual resources with which evil social situations ...

25. Great Is Your Faith

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

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