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1. Sentimental Slaves

Exodus 16:2-15

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... To Sodom. To Egypt. When God has delivered you, and his best plan for you is ahead rather than behind: Why look back? Perhaps because it's home. Sodom had become home to Lot and his family. Egypt was home to those Israelite slaves. And we always tend to be sentimental about home. For us today, we must remember that, at some level, sin is home for us. That is to say, we were born and raised in it. It's where we come from. When the Jews sit down each year to eat their Passover meal, they include bitter herbs ...

2. What God Has Joined Together

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... you must never be afraid to say "sorry." "You must never go to sleep bad friends," she said. Of course, she’s right. There are times in every marriage for forgiving and forgetting and saying "I’m sorry" and going to sleep good friends. That’s positive sentiment override. By the way, Florence’s husband Percy, 105, said his secret to marital bliss was just two words: "Yes, dear." (7) Are you able to overlook one another’s faults and forgive one another’s mistakes? All of this leads us to the final ...

3. Endorsing The Future

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Harold Warlick

... of our history, then that is precisely where we must look for God's voice and God's activity. The acceptance of perceived limits is in reality a part of our Christian witness as well as our hope for a more meaningful future. We all endorse certain sentiments that come our way in life. Some entertainers and coaches earn more from their endorsements than they do from practicing their professions. One of the saddest stories of scripture to me is that of Joseph of Arimathea who came to claim Jesus' body. He was ...

4. Ruining the Christmas Spirit

Matthew 24:36-44

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Charles L. Aaron

... to do at Christmas is to hang on as best we can. We fill the holiday with reindeer, snowmen, eggnog, and cookies. We try to fake a little Christmas spirit, but trying to paste on Christmas cheer can just mask the emptiness inside. We try to fill the emptiness with sentimentality. Maybe the lectionary committee knew what it was doing by assigning this text for the first Sunday of Advent. If these unsettling stories from Matthew do nothing else, they tear away our attempts at ...

5. Our Father Who Art on Earth

Proverbs 1:8-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... a Father’s Day at all. After all, Mom had her day, and, so old Pop won’t feel badly, we’ll have one for him. It’s never quite come off has it? It certainly isn’t on our hit parade of the best days of the year. Whatever sentiments or emotions we manage to muster always seem to be a bit forced if not down right counterfeit. It’s sometimes a question as to who is the more embarrassed, the fathers or the children, when the whole thing turns out to be a rather tawdry imitation. Why? Who’s ...

6. Leveling the Landscape

Luke 3:1-20

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Charles H. Bayer

... animals -- also cleaned up, and the wise men and the star, and the choir singing "Silent Night." I want the tree and the egg-nog and the cookies. And most of all I want the innocent babe lying there in his swaddling cloths. I want all the romance and sentiment Christmas has to offer. Don't you? We shall have them -- in due time. But first we must get to the manger, and that road leads by the Jordan River with its grim prophet. Perhaps there is no super highway we can take from here to Bethlehem. Perhaps we ...

7. Mother's Day

Romans 16:1-27

Sermon

Brett Blair

... who this remarkable woman was who served as a mother figure for the great Paul. But it really makes no difference, because what he writes makes an excellent springboard for a Mother’s Day sermon. Some people ridicule Mother's Day as a lot of sentimental drivel. They say that it is nothing more than the creation of the greeting card companies and the florists. And, to be perfectly candid, there are many ministers who shun this day because, they say, it is not a religious holiday. Furthermore, they preach ...

8. A Salute to Mothers

Romans 16:1-27

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Brett Blair

... this remarkable woman was who served as a mother figure for the great Paul. But it really makes no difference, because what he writes makes an excellent spring board for a Mother’s Day sermon. Some people ridicule Mother's Day as a lot of sentimental drivel. They say that it is nothing more than the creation of the greeting card companies and the florists. And, to be perfectly candid, there are many ministers who shun this day because, they say, it is not a religious holiday. Furthermore, they preach from ...

9. Listen

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Charles Curley

... a child shall not enter it." - Mark 10:15 If you want to enter, if you want to be part of God's vision, God's future, God's hope for the world and eternity, come to God like a child, a child like Samuel. It is easy to get sentimental about children, especially about infants; to talk about their innocence, their purity. Yet any parent who has walked the floor through a long night with a squalling infant who will not go to sleep also understands the tyranny and dependence of the child. In fact, it seems to me ...

10. Bringing Love Close

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... God himself. And, then, we'll take a second look at loving him. I hope I will not offend you when I say that I am not infrequently offended by what is presented as "love for God." Love for God frequently seems little more than a very sugary sentiment. An extreme example here is the man or woman dressed up in shining satin, embroidered cowboy suit with plugged-up six-guns, and western accent, speaking of Jesus as "muh saddle buddy and the best friend a man ever had." The love expressed in the calendar-type ...

11. Enter God

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... knowing that it will come with forgiveness and acceptance. When I receive Jesus into my life, I may feel more comfortable with him, but a meeting with Jesus always works its way back to judgment. I know that I can never make Jesus suit my convenience or sentimentality. There can be no pretention of control, “But, after all, you know you love me.” This amounts to a power play. I know now that nothing less than the justice, love and mercy of God are working in Jesus. Jesus comes with love in his eyes, but ...

12. A Time for Tears

John 11:17-37

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Louis H. Valbracht

... , also. In at least two places recorded in Scripture, our Lord is confronted by circumstances where the only appropriate reaction seemed to be to cry. To us, that is a fact of tremendous importance. In the first place, if Jesus wept, then weeping is realism and not sentimentalism. If Christ, himself, was left, upon occasion, with no weapon for the warfare of life except a sob, then how ridiculous of me to think that I can go dry-eyed through the days of my years. How stupid of me to set a goal for myself ...

13. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

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Maxie Dunnam

... to achieve immortality through his work, he wanted to achieve immortality by not dying. And that’s the way we are. And that’s the sentiment of the man who said, growing old isn’t so bad, when you consider the alternative. Let me state it this way, one of the ... the reality of death and claimed the promise of eternal life. So death is not to be covered up, and it’s not to be treated sentimentally. It is an inevitable part of the process. It is the end of life as we know it. But it is the end only of the ...

14. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

15. Tears At The Tomb

John 11:17-37

Sermon

William G. Carter

... , the death of a beloved friend was the event that prompted Jesus' tears. His tears looked like our tears. This fact had led some commentators, and a lot of preachers, to assume Jesus was deeply moved at the death of his friend. Perhaps Jesus was overcome by grief, sentiment, and sadness at the loss of a loved one. At the tomb, Jesus appeared as human as the rest of us. Many people are comforted by that sight. A few years ago, four-year-old Conor Clapton fell to his death in New York City. After the tragedy ...

16. Repentance: A New Relationship

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... means being able to say, "I'm sorry." Healthy-minded people must have self-critical faculties in good working order which enable us to reflect on some things we've said and done (or failed to do) and experience regret. Maturity means being able to express that sentiment appropriately. We are all occasionally guilty of saying or doing things we later wish we hadn't. Of course, it's possible to overdo this point. I'm not recommending that we go into a major guilt trip every time we slip a little. But at the ...

17. A Faith That Burns

Luke 12:49-53

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W. Robert McClelland

... exhausted from their efforts to increase profits. "Come to me, all you who~ labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Peace, I leave with you." We have sentimentalized God's love, just as we have so many of the stories surrounding the King. The birth narratives of Jesus, and the seasonal sentimentality surrounding them, are a case in point. They were never written as Christmas stories to be acted out in Sunday school pageants by people wearing bathrobes. We have trivialized these gospel stories ...

18. Liking the New and Improving the Old

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... It was really pretty messy, but the best we could do. The chances are good, however, if you ever had an ice box, that this story has awakened all kinds of memories of your own and we could all become pretty sentimental and nostalgic just thinking about the past. But for me, that's all it is: good memories and nice sentiment, but I don't want to go back to the old ice box of my childhood. I like having a cold refrigerator with a freezer on the side, with an ice-maker that spills out cubes by just pressing a ...

19. The Bottom Line

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... us with grace. I am thankful we worship a God who is both tough-minded and tenderhearted. If God were only tough-minded, God would be a cold, passionless despot sitting in some far-off heaven. But if God were only tenderhearted, he would be too soft and sentimental to function when things go wrong. Thank the Lord for a God who is tough-minded enough to transcend the world, and yet, tenderhearted enough to live in it!"2 What's the bottom line in religion? The bottom line in terms of what God expects is to ...

20. What Christmas Is About

Isaiah 9:1-7

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Robert Beringer

... this term takes us to the heart of what Christmas is about. What could be more peaceful than that beautiful scene of a holy night, with shepherds watching and angels singing, and Mary placing the baby in Bethlehem's stable? But Christmas is much more than a sentimental remembrance of the birth of a baby long ago. Christmas is about God's plan for peace on this earth, and as another Christmas breaks on our not-so-peaceful world, we are challenged once more to ask ourselves what we have done in the past year ...

21. Checking The Vital Signs

Luke 24:36-49

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... attitude, that person will be sure he is dead and never came out of that grave. Love is a beautiful thing. The God of Easter is a God of love and he wants one of the signs of the congregation to be an accepting and beautiful love that is not sentimental but is carried out in actions and justice. When I came home after preaching to those 1,700 people, I promised myself that in two weeks I would revisit that “Easter high” and test out if it was really true that you and I had experienced again God coming ...

22. One Flock, One Shepherd

John 10:1-21

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... other denominations are blood brothers and sisters of ours, and belong to the same flock, even when they don’t see us in that way. Just as we show our love in different ways (not all husbands get their wives flowers or all wives send cards with sentimental poetry), down through the years as we have become aware of our God and what he did for us on Calvary, we have worked out different ways to get together and express our thanks. Lloyd George, the British statesman, once remarked: “The church I belong to ...

23. Advancers Over Decliners

Luke 19:11-27

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... each writer has his own unique elaborations, in substance both of them are writing the same story. But this one does not occupy a cherished place within the hearts of most of us as other parables of Jesus do. This one can’t be sentimentalized as we have often sentimentalized the favorite and familiar. This one can’t be sweetened with a little sugar from the bowl of pop-style religion. It doesn’t throw us into the welcoming arms of God as though he were our heavenly babysitter. When we sweep aside the ...

24. The Love God Wants

Matthew 22:34-40

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... and emotion, and they moved people to tears and generosity. But, Gantry was a charletan, a manipulator of people and their commitment. His words were hollow, self-serving, and deceitful. He captivated people by eloquently parading before them the beauty and sentimentality of love, and exhorting them to be more loving; but there was little love in Gantry himself, only an all-consuming desire to build a religious empire and garner its fame and fortune. In the end, Gantry perished, and with him the hopes ...

25. What Will He Find… When He Comes? - Shorter Version

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... for you." The secular non-religious understanding of the word, sends shivers up and down my spine. I don’t like the word without it’s Christian meaning. I When the world says “I hope so..” doubt resides in the sentiment. Our hope is different. Our hope is not a sentiment. First, our hope is a hope that does not disappoint. How differently the Bible uses our word. Rather than resignation, the word bristles with excitement and expectation. It is for the writers of both the Old and New Testaments a ...

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