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1. In the Mood for Murder

Matthew 5:21-26

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King Duncan

... more garbage trucks pass you by? Here’s my bet: You’ll be happier.” (8) You would be happier . . . and the world would be a better place. Learn to control your anger. Learn to forgive those who have done you wrong. When you are in a mood to kill, either literally or figuratively, pause for a moment and remember Christ’s teaching. Turn your anger over to him. And walk away with a smile on your face. 1. Landon Winstead, Redefining Success (Kindle Edition). 2. As told by Lance Webb in Making Love Grow ...

2. When the Mood Shifts

Luke 23:33-43

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Alton F. Wedel

... , the pained, the paralytic, and the infirm, for as he preached the gospel of the kingdom, he healed them of their diseases, and cast out demons. His fame spread southward to Jerusalem and north to Syria. The skies were bright with promise. We can understand the mood. We have heard the promise that prosperity is just around the corner. We have heard the bands strike up the tune, "Happy Days Are Here Again." We have been given the assurance of a great society, a generation of peace, and the great things that ...

3. How's Your Mood Today?

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Victor Yap

... Science of Negotiation,” was with a friend when he bought his morning paper from an old, run-down newsstand. The counter, the paint, and the roof of the stand did not appeal to Raiffa’s friend. Neither did the owner, who was in a bad mood. Raiffa left his money on the counter, interrupted his conversation with his friend, and greeted the owner “Good morning, Sam!” The owner Sam, however, snarled, barked “Hah!” and walked back to the back of the stand. Raiffa’s friend, who was shakened by the ...

4. Leave It On The Course

1 Timothy 3:1-16

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Robert R. Kopp

... the problems may not go away, we can always get back to them with a little more energy and a lot more perspective after recreation. I think of a story from Martha Albertson: Jerry is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The ...

5. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... Breaks hither over Indian seas, That Shadow waiting with the keys, To shroud me from my proper scorn. XXVII I envy not in any moods The captive void of noble rage, The linnet born within the cage, That never knew the summer woods: I envy not the beast that ... life; As I confess it needs must be; O Sorrow, wilt thou rule my blood, Be sometimes lovely like a bride, And put thy harsher moods aside, If thou wilt have me wise and good. My centred passion cannot move, Nor will it lessen from to-day; But I’ll have ...

6. What Is Your Holy Week Address?

Matthew 27:45-56

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Robert Noblett

... Jesus and his companions to the garden of Gethsemane, and it reaches its height when one of Jesus’ followers draws his sword and cuts off one of the ears of the high priest’s slave. Next we have Good Friday with its suffering, and its mood is defeat. Jesus is treated to a kangaroo court, completely lacking in any semblance of judicial respect, found guilty and taken away to be murdered. The synoptic Gospels paint a picture that reflects defeat. It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness ...

7. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... this is how you’re going to treat me, put me to death right now.” It’s true, isn’t it – that we whose ministry involves seeking to lift others, and keep their eyes focused on “higher things,” have our turn trying to conquer the destructive moods in our own life. Moffatt has a wonderful translation of Job 4:3-5, which describes our situation: “You have yourself set many right, and put strength into feeble souls; your words have kept men on their feet, the weak-kneed you have nerved. But now ...

8. The Lenten Season

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John R. Brokhoff

... legalized in 325, Lent became a period of preparation for the entire people of God. 2. In the past, Lent was a period of penitence. It was a time for mourning, solemnity and sadness. A hymn for Holy Week says, "to come and mourn with me awhile." The mood is expressed in the penitential color, violet, for this season, the same color as Advent. To remind the faithful of the nature of the season, a violet veil was hung between the nave and chancel. Often the altar cross was veiled in violet as a reminder of ...

9. How Can You Tell When People Are Religious?

Mark 2:18-22

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Daniel G. Mueller

... no reason for them to fast while he was around. Jesus wrapped his answer in the imagery of a wedding reception. He called himself a bridegroom. Just as the mood of a wedding reception is one of gaiety and joy, so also the mood of the followers of Jesus is to be full of joy. The mood of a fast is like the mood of a funeral and that’s just not an appropriate mood for Christians. Remember, fasting happened as a response to grief when a loved one died, out of remorse over sin, as a way to make God listen to ...

10. Black Preaching: A Four-Cornered Universe

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... text in an attempt not only to help hearers make sense of the text but also to reveal how it intersects with their lives presently. If critics say the essential idea of the text is not captured because of the lack of structural exegesis, the essential mood or backdrop of the text which informs the extant or secondary truths of the texts themselves may be disclosed in ways that still help hearers grasp the fundamental truths and milieu of the scriptural passage.1 In other words, is there some other way that ...

11. The Waiting Game

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James Bjorge

... truth that the waiting for the Lord’s return is not a dead doctrine but a living motivation. We are told to wait like servants awaiting their master, like people waiting for the bridegroom to come so the marriage festivities can begin. The waiting always captures the mood of celebration. We do not wait for his return before we can start rejoicing. We rejoice now because he is going to return. Pascal once said that it is a glorious thing to ride upon a ship that may be well shaken and tossed by the waves ...

12. Reinforced With Joy

John 15:1-17

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O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... is dead." Luther scolded her for her blasphemy and replied: "How can God be dead? He is eternal." "Yes," she answered, "but from the way you are cast down, one would think that God must be dead." That act of his wife shocked him from his mood of depression to a mood of renewed confidence. It was Jesus’ knowledge that God was not dead that sustained his joy in the Upper Room. While men’s evil hearts and wild emotions were soon to destroy his earthly life, he knew that God was still in control. God would ...

13. The Long Lonliness

Romans 13:8-14

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Maurice A. Fetty

... and with the early Christians that we are dealing with a God who confronts us personally within history and assures us of life and communion and fellowship beyond history. "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will," says Shakespeare, in a more helpful mood (Hamlet, V, ii. 10). Are we alone and afraid in a world we never made? Not so, says the Bible. Not only has the Christ of God come to us, he has also given us his Spirit to empower us and to encourage us toward the end of time ...

14. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

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James W. Moore

... man at the swimming pool) that it’s now or never for me. All of these great attributes are found in Bartimaeus’ true grit. Let me tell you about Jerry, a great example of the spirit of grit. Jerry was one of those guys who was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. Ask him how he was doing and he would always say, “If I were any better I would be twins.” Someone once asked him why he was always so upbeat, and Jerry said, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, “Jerry ...

15. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

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James W. Moore

16. How to See the Future

Matthew 26:17-30

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Mark Trotter

... sacrament itself, we sang the Agnus Dei, "O Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us." After all of that, I don't think anyone who took the cup felt like saying, "cheers!" It was a different mood in that service. A penitential mood, and an introspective mood, focusing on me, me, me, and my sins. The reason I believe that so many people back in those days would stay away from communion, and why it was celebrated so seldom, they would tell me, was because they didn't understand it ...

17. The Meaning Of Advent

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John R. Brokhoff

... 1. Repentance -- forsake the sins of the world for a godly way of life. 2. Prayer -- pray for the coming of Christ, for he shall save. 3. Patience -- his coming may be delayed. Watch and wait, for his coming may be sudden. The Mood Of Advent 1. Expressed in color. The mood of Advent is expressed in the liturgical color, purple. It depicts a feeling of quiet dignity, royalty and repentance. Purple was the traditional color of a king's robe; the coming Christ is King of kings. Advent, like Lent, is a time for ...

18. Passion Sunday

Matthew 26:57-68

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Dennis Koch

... sends us off in another direction! Place us in a crowd and the emotional equation becomes even more complex and unpredictable. On the day of Jesus' arrival, Jerusalem was in a festive mood. People were excited.They thought the excitement would last. But, in a matter of days, the mood became dark and cruel. Today, our mood is mixed. We are celebrating the kingly procession while thoughtfully contemplating the meaning of the coming week. Help us to hold onto this mixture of feelings. We want the impact of ...

19. Believing is Seeing

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

20. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... them to understand was not an all-purpose one. When he had to trim from it what he didn’t want the preacher to hear, it didn’t impress the mules at all. I have tried to say here that, like the shepherds, we need to arise and go - in mood and spirit - to Bethlehem. I have tried to say that we need to learn the language in which God is speaking there. And why do I say these things? Because there at Bethlehem God has established Contact Point One, and we need to meet him there. Changing the figure from ...

21. Service Beset by "What’s the Use?"

Isaiah 49:1-7

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... an elderly millionaire who has been taking tranquilizers for twenty years. The need is desperate in order to give him meaning to life. He has nothing to live for." All of these instances have a common factor that can be expressed in one word: futility. This mood is reflected again and again in our human story, and the Bible is no exception. In the fourth verse of Isaiah 49, we hear a cry of discouragement from this great prophet: "I have labored in vain. I have spent my strength for nothing...." Now, for ...

22. More Than A Mannequin; Not Quite A Masterpiece

Acts 4:32-37

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King Duncan

... us that sometimes our emotions take cues from the reactions of our bodies. For example, we are told that if we look in a mirror first thing in the morning and smile, we will put ourselves into a good mood. It is not necessary for us to be in a good mood in order to smile. We smile and the good mood follows. Knots in our stomach may tell us we are afraid. We may not have any consciousness that we are experiencing fear until our body tells us. The experience precedes the emotion rather than vice versa. In the ...

23. Praise the King with a Song of Joy

Luke 2:1-7

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King Duncan

... favorite Christmas memories. Doris Shumate remembers that her family used to play instruments and dance late into the night on Christmas Eve. Doris’ nephew, though blind, could play any instrument put into his hands, and his music got the whole family in the mood for dancing and singing. The Shumates didn’t have much in the way of material goods. Their tree, if they decorated one, didn’t shelter a mountain of gifts. The centerpiece of their Christmas celebration was a family party full of music. (3 ...

24. Can You Smell the Perfume?

John 12:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... flowers with an eye to the nose," observes Sally Ferguson, director of The Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center. We know two things about this least developed, most mysterious of all our senses, this most postmodern sense of smell. 1) Fragrances affect our moods. The sense of smell is wired to our brain to our emotions. Scientific research has demonstrated the power of smell, or environmental fragrancing, to affect our mental states. Things that smell good just may be good for you. My mother used to ...

25. Integrity Deficit Disorder

Matthew 21:23-32

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Otis Young

... their actions or decisions. That's where integrity comes in. Having integrity is about behaving in the way you promised to behave even though the mood in which you made the promises has changed or the environment outside you has changed. If you have integrity it protects you from your changing moods, desires and feelings. It even protects you from the changing moods of other people. It protects you from saying you are going to something and then not following through. One day Jesus told a story designed ...

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