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1. In the Mood for Murder

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

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. Leave It On The Course

1 Timothy 3:1-16

Sermon

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 ...

3. What Is Your Holy Week Address?

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

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 ...

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

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

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 ...

5. How Can You Tell When People Are Religious?

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

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 ...

6. Black Preaching: A Four-Cornered Universe

Sermon

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 ...

7. The Waiting Game

Sermon

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 ...

8. Reinforced With Joy

John 15:1-17

Sermon

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 ...

9. The Long Lonliness

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

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 ...

10. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

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 ...

11. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

12. How to See the Future

Matthew 26:17-30

Sermon

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 ...

13. Believing is Seeing

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. More Than A Mannequin; Not Quite A Masterpiece

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

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 ...

17. Praise the King with a Song of Joy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

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 ...

18. Can You Smell the Perfume?

John 12:1-11

Sermon

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 ...

19. The Joy of the Lord

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... sistance network. Because of his work with the resistance he was captured by the Nazis and was deported to a Nazi concentration camp. One day Desnos as well as some other prisoners were taken away from the barracks of this camp. Leaving the barracks, the mood among Desnos and his fellow prisoners was somber. The prisoners rode on the back of a flatbed truck. Everyone knew the truck was headed for the gas chambers. When the truck arrived no one could speak at all. Even the guards fell silent. Suddenly Robert ...

20. No Substitutes

Galatians 3:15-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... a dynamic relationship with the living God. We dare not ever allow mob rule to become a substitute for the inner testimony of the Spirit of God. Scientific law the sociological norm these are but two of the substitutes that we employ in place of faith in a living God. Mood altering chemicals might be another. “I can’t make it through the day without my valium I need a drink I have to have something to relax me at night so I can go to sleep a few energy drinks to give me the energy I need for the day ...

21. Wild Thing

Luke 4:31-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... inhabit yours? This is a question for our culture. The spirits that torment us …keep us up at night. They haunt our memories and infuse themselves into our daily interactions. To have a bad spirit about things can change you. To be in a bad mood can change your behaviors. Depression can turn people into someone else. So can addictions. So can various mental illnesses. But for most of us, it’s enough to be without our morning coffee. Ever know one of those people? “Coffee! I need coffee!” The truth ...

22. All You Can Do is Laugh

Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 21:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of defiance against the gravity of the world.It is God’s gift to the human spirit, spontaneous laughter, the ultimate defiance to hopelessness and death. Laughter takes us by surprise. Laughter is an “anti-gravity” miracle. Levity. It “levitates” your spirit, your mood, lifts you up out of your grounded reality and into a place of hope, belief, faith, and the demand for a different truth. Laughter can sometimes be deep joy resonating and bubbling up from the depths of the soul in the face of ...

23. The Burdens Of The Past

Haggai 2:1-9, Haggai 1:1-15

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... to be strong, but also to work (on the temple). Get your act in gear. Get it done. Don't be so focused on your own needs, problems, and feelings. Doing something for someone else has a way of changing our melancholy moods. There have been times in my life when I have found that a blue mood has been dispersed by visiting a shut-in or helping someone in some way. Just knowing that I have been helpful to someone else lifts my spirits. It helps me see that the world is a richer, better place because of my ...

24. Look, The Morning Star

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... new heaven and a new earth, are only fairy tales. The writer of the Second Letter of Peter had to contend with the dark mood of despair and hopelessness in his own day. He knew that at one time the Christian community had been alert, looking for the ... conversant with the life and thought of Peter and applied his teaching to the critical issues of his own later day. Confronted with the mood of skepticism concerning the last day, the writer is so bold as to affirm in clear-cut terms "the power and coming of our ...

25. I Am The Light Of The World

Sermon

Ronald Lavin

... life and gives you a purpose for really living. Many people claim that the kind of day it is has a lot to do with their mood. If it is a dark, gloomy day, they tend to feel dark and gloomy. On a bright, sunny day they tend to feel bright and ... remember that Jesus is the very warming rays of God which come to our dark world in order to change our attitude. Jesus is a mood changer. Through an attitude change, he can help you interpret what is happening around you in a new and different way. Jesus said, "I am ...

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