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1. Tears At The Tomb

John 11:17-37

Sermon

William G. Carter

... flowed beyond all bound; When Jesus groaned, a trembling fear Seized all the guilty world around.2 The world was put on notice when Jesus arrived in Bethany that day. He wept tears of sympathy, choosing to associate himself with those who mourn. He wept tears of indignation, affirming death as our common enemy. Yet the good news is Jesus wept tears of action. It was not enough for him to weep over the world's pain, or to distinguish between God's way and the ways of the world. Jesus committed himself to ...

2. How Can We Restore the Christian Home?

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... a child shall not enter it." And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands upon them. Mark 10:2-16 (RSV) And they were bringing children to him, that he might touch them; and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God ..." And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands upon them." (vv. 13, 14) The Christian home, once the stable element in the ...

3. The Law of Unintended Consequences

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... circumstances that we are not aware of that keeps God’s will being exercised at the moment we ask, but God never wills anything except our best good. Of course we can’t know what was going through Jesus’ mind. All Mark says is that Jesus was indignant when the man came up and asked to be healed. And yet, Jesus reaches out his hand and touches the man. “I am willing,” he says. “Be clean!” Immediately the leprosy left the man and he was cleansed. We see something very important about leprosy in ...

4. Surprised by Joy

Luke 2:8-14

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... . It was joy. And it caught me by surprise. It was a gift from God, right there in the store. Brothers and sisters, let us, just for this one, special day, put away our anger and our fear. Let us set aside our bitterness, our resentment, and our indignation. Let us take a vacation from our doubt, our annoyance, our exasperation, and let us open ourselves to the possibility of joy. Let us look upon this holy child and remember the message he will bring to us — that we are loved and accepted, that our sins ...

5. Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Christians

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

William L. Self

... 1,247,240, to Israel with him.1 The king was honest enough to admit he could not heal Naaman. However, he was reminded of the prophet Elisha and his miraculous powers, so he sent Naaman to him. Elisha bid Naaman to bathe seven times in the Jordan. Indignant, Naaman at first refused. The Jordan, a muddy river between two muddy banks, is not like the clean, pretty rivers of Syria. Finally, he agreed to do this as instructed, and was healed. To how many of us do these words apply? They were mighty but were not ...

6. God Stood Up

Sermon

James Bjorge

... you." Jesus then turned to Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of men" (Matthew 16:23). Those words cut deeply into Peter. A stern rebuke it was. Jesus was not apologizing for showing indignation. One day this Jesus took some rope and drove the animals out of the temple and he threw out the racketeers for they were defiling the house of prayer. This Jesus was known to walk clear through a lynching mob and yet not a hand was laid on him ...

7. Time For Action

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... of him. "Sure, Pop," said the second son, but he never did go do the work. "Which son," asked Jesus, "did the will of his father?" Like most of Jesus' parables, we see here perfect representations of human nature. THE RESPONSE OF THE FIRST SON IS THAT OF INDIGNANT PROTEST. "No, I won't go. How dare you ask me to do that! You know I was going swimming with my friends." Many of you who are parents have encountered that kind of response at some time or another. We all know people whose first response to ...

8. The Agony of Defeat

2 Samuel 11-12, 1 Kings 15:5

Sermon

James Merritt

... that he was more concerned with the life of a sheep than he was the life of a man. Today, we have a nation so far from God that they're more concerned with whales, spotted owls, and snail darters than they are with unborn babies. David with his righteous indignation says, "As the Lord lives, the man who has done this shall surely die! And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity." (vv. 5-6) How little did David know that he was not just being a king, he ...

9. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

... Kushner, in his bestselling book When Bad Things Happen To Good People, suggests that, rather than being angry at God for the suffering and injustice in the world, we should understand ourselves as being angry together with God at this suffering and injustice. Righteous indignation, he contends, is a gift from God. It is God, he says, who gives us our sense of what is fair or unfair. Our feeling of compassion for the afflicted is a reflection of the compassion God feels in response to suffering. God's ...

10. Righteous Woman

Genesis 38:1-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . If there's a moral here, a point of edification for all us good church-going people, it is not the one we wanted. Tamar has committed those sins which good bourgeois church people condemn--deception, illicit sex. Judah reacts, at first as the world reacts--indignant condemnation. Reminds you of King David and the prophet Nathan (2 Samuel 12:1-6). ''The man who did this ought to hang," says David. ''Thou art the man," says Nathan. A woman was involved there, too. ''She is more righteous than I," King David ...

11. The Narrow Gate

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

John G. Lynch

... gate, or of any other narrow gate humankind can construct to control access to the healing power of God. His mercy is as wide as the Steppes of Siberia, as vast as the world. It knows no limits. It has no narrow gate! This ruler of the synagogue was so indignant that he said to the woman and to all the people standing around, "There are six days on which work ought to be done. Come on those days to be healed and not on the sabbath day." Well did Jesus speak to those who followed that command: "Strive to ...

12. Speaking Truth to Power: The Ministry of Nathan

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... your life, and you can readily gain a sense for the cruelness of what this rich man did. Can you imagine the pure cruelness, the unadulterated meanness of this man? The story must certainly hit the bulls-eye with King David, because it instantaneously aroused his indignation. “I swear by the living Lord that the man who did this ought to die.” (2 Samuel 12:5 TEV) It summoned his passion for capital punishment, and for justice. “For having done such a cruel thing, he must pay back four times as much as ...

13. Bold Talk Of Faith

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

John P. Rossing

... was approachable, he wanted to see him. One might have expected him to turn his back on God, the way it seemed God had turned his back on Job. I'm sure we all know neighbors or family members who haven't spoken to each other in years out of indignation over some injustice or hurt feelings. You may also know people who don't believe in God any more because God let their child die, or their business fail. That's just what Satan was hoping Job would do when he proposed his test. Satan suspected that once the ...

14. The Therapy of Song

1 Samuel 16:14-23, Exodus 15:1-21, Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... , and in the midst of agony, speaks a word in behalf of peace and sanity. During the conflict in Vietnam over a decade ago, we heard a number of folk singers burst forth with songs of indignation and hope. But the same has happened during other periods. In 1916 Carl Nielsen, the Danish composer whose works are just now coming into their own, composed his Symphony No. 4 which is felt to be a protest against the First World War, but even more importantly, a musical assertion ...

15. The Forbidden Anger

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of presumption. Jesus is not claiming here that all anger is sin. The Hebrew word for anger occurs 455 times in the Old Testament; 375 of these refer to the anger of God. The Lord does get angry. Nahum the prophet asked, "Who can stand before his indignation? What can endure the heat of his anger?" (Nahum 1:03) Jesus got angry at times. In Mark, chapter 3, we have an example. One Sabbath Day in the synagogue Jesus met a man with a withered hand. Some of the Pharisees were standing around ready to pounce ...

16. The Three Poison Pills of Position, Prestige, and Power

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Brett Blair

... are headed but the gallows. First and second positions are out of the question. Least of all is the only option or nothing at all. III James and John wanted position. They wanted prestige. And third they wanted power. Notice that the other ten disciples became indignant when they heard what James and John were up to. It was a power play, a strategic maneuver, and the other disciples resented it. We are drawn to power, to wield it over another. Mankind has always looked for greater and greater means to wield ...

17. Read My Heart As Well As My Lips

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... caused by the unbelievably inhumane treatment many of the slaves experienced. He hated slavery with everything that was in him. One day one of his best friends, Samuel May, tried to calm him down. He said to Garrison, "Oh, my friend, try to moderate your indignation and keep more cool. Why, you are all on fire." Garrison replied, "Brother May, I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice around me to melt." Well, the only way any of us can melt mountains of ice is to be on fire. The ...

18. Are We Able?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of the Exchequer...or, as we might say, the “Secretary of the Treasury.” James and John’s request seems completely out of order. Mark says that “When the (other) ten heard it, they began to be indignant at James and John,” (v.41) but I wouldn’t take that at face value. Perhaps they were indignant because they had their eyes on those same seats, themselves. II. HOW COULD THE DISCIPLES BE SO DENSE? David H. C. Read is amazed that Jesus did not turn on these two pushy disciples with anger and ...

19. Holy Monday

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... listened to a hot-tempered raving, ranting tirade directed at him by an opponent whose mouth worked faster than his mind. At the end of it, Churchill said, in his own Churchillian way, “Our honorable colleague should, by now, have trained himself not to generate more indignation than he has the capacity to hold.” A lot of people are like that. Most of the time, anger is not a very pleasant thing to behold. In Sinclair Lewis’ famous novel BABBITT, which is a study of small-town life, Lewis gave us the ...

20. Children in the Arms of a Loving God

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Michael Milton

... the passage today, it is Jesus who says the most amazing things. And what He says is not only about children but about each of us. And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” And he took them in his arms and ...

21. Strong Medicine

Judges 4:1-7

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... . Both Deborah and Jael can serve as role models for us. When we face situations of oppression and cruelty, especially when we are not the ones being oppressed, we sometimes have an initial feeling of righteous indignation, but we usually get over it. Our problem often is that we don't translate our righteous indignation into action. If we are tempted to turn away from an example of injustice, to go on with business as usual, Deborah's speech to Barak may become the word we need to hear. Deborah implores ...

22. What Jesus Wants for Chrismas (Part 1)

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the meaning of his coming. As Ralph Bergengren puts it in "The Unwise Christmas," "Christmas itself may be called into question / If carried so far it creates indigestion." It was not indignation at our indigestion that moved Aldous Huxley to end his book The Genius and the Goddess on a tragic note. It was indignation at our inebriation. The narrator sees the author to the door with the poignant parting words: "Drive carefully. This is a Christian country, and it's the Savior's birthday. Practically ...

23. Mistaken Identity

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... powerful divinity. So Herod was trying to play it safe. He was not about to garner more ire than necessary, especially if it came from transcendent sources. To have a powerful God against you was an unwise political bargain. Still, John's public indignation against Herod, especially after Herod stole his brother's wife, was more than the king could tolerate. Herodias, too, disliked the man. She was at least as cunning as her new husband, and would not dismiss John quietly like some quack or minor irritation ...

24. When Fishermen Don't Fish

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... worrying over who the pastor is paying attention to and who [he/she] is not. And soon the church has lost its focus! We get upset over who is singing a solo in the choir. We get flustered if somebody new sits in our pew. We get indignant if someone else gets the office that we think should have been ours. When fishermen don’t fish, they fight. The Rev. John Fitzgerald tells a delightful story about the church in the early days of our country. In 1770, Charles Woodmason was an ordained clergy from the ...

25. Living Between the Times

John 17:20-26

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... challenged the laws of apartheid. The white South African judicial system sentenced him to life in prison. For many of his nearly three decades in prison, he labored under a hot African sun using a hammer to make big rocks into little rocks. Indignity upon indignity was heaped upon him — including being denied permission to attend the funerals of his mother and his eldest son. When Mr. Mandela was released from prison, he had reason to be angry and bitter about the way white South Africans had treated him ...

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