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Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... sin--the dark elements that rest deep within the essence of the human self or the human soul. Like Jung, theologians admit we cannot deny or unmake this shadow-stain on ourselves or psyches. But we must be cautious ... longer shadow over her heart. She succumbs to desire for the tree's fruit so that she may become wise. The tree and its fruit have not changed. But the woman, standing under the darkening influence of the serpent's suggestion, perceives the tree in a new way--a needy, greedy and self-fulfilling ...

2. Naomi and Ruth

Ruth 1:1-22

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

... the narrators’ attempts to portray these characters unidimensionally. 1:15 Your sister-in-law is going back to her people. C. Jung argues for an organic link between ethnic identity and individual personality, that what we are as individuals is organically connected ... Zaphenath-Paneah (Egyptian for “the god speaks and lives,” Gen. 41:45). Saul signifies his awareness of God’s international love by changing his name to Paul (Acts 13:9). Though her friends seem not to take her seriously (2:1; 3:1; 4:17 ...

3. All-Surrounding Grace

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Elaine M. Ward

... 't everyone find this country every time they go to the wardrobe? If things are real, they're there all the time. They don't change." The professor thought for a moment. Then he said out loud, as if he were still thinking to himself, "If there is a door in ... the white man. The Native American replied that his people believed that the white man was "mad." "Why?" Jung asked. "They say they think with their heads." Jung agreed that this was so and asked him how he thought. "We think here," he replied, pointing to ...

4. The Surprise of Absolute Victory

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... Jones makes it clear: "You don’t need to know everything about yourself to surrender yourself - all you need to know is that you need to change masters - and do it!" I can hardly wait to see what God is going to do in the 1980s, in the twenty-first century, what he ... in life ... and finally experienced fully in the next life." And this is made possible by the love and availability of Christ. Karl Jung was being interviewed by the B.B.C. He said, "Suddenly I understood that God was, for me at least, one of ...

5. Clean Hands

Psalm 26:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... for holidays, and I thought that I noted a change in him. He seemed less self-assured, less confident that he always knew the right answer. I told him that I thought I had observed a change in him, a change which made him seem more accessible, more human. He ... no longer pray Psalm 26 with a straight face. But there were lots better, lots deeper, more real Psalms that he could now pray. Jung noted that each of us wears a mask, a persona, similar to the masks that were worn in ancient Greek drama. This is the ...

6. What Do You Mean, "Repent"?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Thomas Long

... a heart attack, or we are laid off from our work. It happens in one form or another to everyone, and such experiences call for a changing of goals, a reformulation of values, an alteration of the ways we cope with life and make our key decisions. This is, of course, a ... we are doing is repudiating our past, wiping the slate clean, turning over a new leaf, beginning all over again. Carl Jung was groping toward this when he wrote, In the second half of life the necessity is imposed: Of recognizing no longer ...

7. John the Baptist, Sanctified Indifference, & the King of Pop

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... who doesn’t know someone for whom a lie is just a more convenient interpretation of reality? The great psychoanalyst Carl Jung once noted that there were only two kinds of people he could not “cure:” schizophrenics and compulsive liars. Both create ... song went to charity. Listen to the words: “If you want to make the world a better place Then look at yourself and make a change.” What if Michael had someone who had the John the Baptist courage to hold a mirror up to his life and remind him on the ...

8. Even God Called Time Out

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

James Weekley

... truth cannot be negotiated from our end. They are high principles which he has given for our own good. The renowned psychologist, Carl Jung, warns that, "Only Christianity is keeping them in check and if Christianity is relegated, the old horrors will come back upon us ... t we give thanks to our VCR's and cable TV for deflating our family potentials? Isn't it true, also, that as we short-change God it is we who come out on the short end? Consider the alternatives. Mom and dad can grow old before fifty and the ...

9. The Most Beautiful Word

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... when we hate ourselves, and we hate everyone else because we hate ourselves? It’s well to remember what Dr. C. G. Jung, the father of Modern Psychotherapy, has said: "Apart from a person’s discovery of the religious outlook on life - a vital faith, ... fell back with a little choking sob and a sigh, and she slipped back into a coma. As death approached, her face changed. It seemed that the lines of sin, the marks of degradation were somehow erased. She looked different. A miracle had been performed. One ...

10. A Christmas To Remember

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... Joseph's shop." (3) Joseph must have been the happiest man in all of Nazareth. Mary would soon become his wife. Then one day everything changed. Mary wanted to speak with Joseph. She told him about an angel visiting her who told her that she would have a child who will "be ... aspirations, dreams in the Bible revealed God's will or plan for that individual. In studying over 80,000 dreams Carl Jung has discovered that many dreams reflect a "process of spiritual growth." God speaks to us in many ways. One way is ...

11. Be Careful What You Call Me

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... this: Be careful. People are people, and pride is pride. But here is what is important, GOD IS STILL GOD. Dr. Carl Jung once said something that ought to cause every believer to reflect very carefully. What he said was this: "One of the main ... that gave us unity but our agreement on doctrinal issues. We came together not for confession and forgiveness but for debate." This change in attitude towards God had its greatest impact in Kefa's prayer life: "God Himself had become a distant figure," he writes. " ...

12. Staying Open to God

Matthew 23:1-39

Illustration

King Duncan

Dr. Carl Jung once said something that ought to cause every believer to reflect very carefully. What he said was this: "One of the main ... our lives. It was not the blood of Jesus Christ that gave us unity but our agreement on doctrinal issues. We came together not for confession and forgiveness but for debate." This change in attitude towards God had its greatest impact in Kefa's prayer life: "God Himself had become a distant figure," he writes. "He had become a subject of debate, an abstract category ...

13. On Being a Hot-Fudge-Sunday Church

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... every day of the week. Not until some sensitive souls complained about using the name of the Sabbath for a sweet treat did Smithson change the spelling of his delicious invention to "sundae." Who doesn't enjoy a good hot fudge sundae on any day of the week? The ... principle of enantiodromia (the regulative function of opposites by which everything sooner or later runs into its opposite Carl Jung built a psychotherapy on the principle that the only way to escape enantiodromia was to face the opposite from the ...

14. God Is No Respecter Of Persons

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

... looked-up-to. Indeed, psychologists today tell us the most basic human drive is not sexual, as Freud thought, nor for power, as Jung thought - it's the drive for respect. We'll do almost anything to be admired, because admiration gives us worth. That's the ... a survey for the church - answering such questions as: have you recently started any new programs, gotten any more schooling, changed any basic theological positions? I had a great urge to send the questioner a "sensitivity survey" which Dr. Robert ...

15. Life - The Womb of the Eternal

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... revealed in us." But our awareness and our blindness to reality hold to the paths of unlife and of death. Carl Jung reminds us sadly "It is becoming more and more obvious that it is not starvation, not microbes, not cancer, but man himself ... .5 Martha, stubbornly holding on to her cocoon, resents it when she sees Mary learning to fly. The Scripture does not say, "Change your mind," but something totally different, "Let God remold your mind." The birthpangs of life are toward ultimate meaning. Life comes to ...

16. Embalmed Leaders

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... In many of the new nations of Africa with which we must deal in the United Nations, there seems to be an almost daily change of government, as one leader is overthrown and another government takes over. And we might ask ourselves if we are any better off ... of the people or just ‘White House fever,’ as Robert Bender called it." Freud called it "the expression of the ego." Jung called it "the hunger for power." Adler called it "the desire for recognition." Dewey called it "the drive for significance." A ...

17. The Terrible Tree

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

George Bass

... to him, and he died believing that he had completed the work that his Father had given him to do. When Kim Dae-jung, a devout Catholic, was sentenced to death some years ago, he said that his situation was enough "to break one’s spirit." He ... people. The cross of Christ always reminds us that "My ways are not your ways, says the Lord." God has the power to change hatred, persecution, self-righteousness, and death into love, fellowship, humility, and life, because that’s what he did in the death of Jesus. ...

18. Someone Greater Than a Prophet

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... is an attempt to portray the authentic man according to a certain mission of life" (p. 23). For them Jesus becomes Jung's "ideal of the self: the 'inkblot in which each person sees what he considers true manhood (personhood)' " (p. 23). ... as by offering his free grace to our aching and hungry hearts. And what he asks of us in this season and every season is a change of mind and heart, a turning away from all the trivial faiths and limited causes to which we give ultimate allegiances. By his grace, he would ...

19. Bread for Everyone (I am the bread of life)

John 6:1-15, John 6:25-59

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... see the large picture. That is why this story can be set squarely in the midst of our modern world. Not one thing has changed! We modern people love the spectacular just as first century persons did. The disciples wanted to send the people away. However, Jesus cared ... of physical earthly bread to direct us to the spiritual--and the hunger for meaning, purpose and fulfillment. Carl Jung, one of our century''s greatest psychiatrists, has said that the central neurosis of our age is emptiness. Humanity'' ...

20. What Happens When You Are Not Number One?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of saints - (when we define saints in the stereotypical way). They were very ordinary men. It was with people like ourselves that Jesus set out to change the world. (William Barclay, The Gospel of Mark, p. 263) So, it’s an issue with which we all must deal, even as the disciples of ... a new kind of study in the field of psychology. As he studied the works of the great pioneers Freud, Jung, and Adler, he concluded that the problem with psychology was that it tended to be oriented toward people with problems ...

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Jung

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

Andrea Jung

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?

Andrea Jung

The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.

Carl Jung

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

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1. The Shadow

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

2. Naomi and Ruth

Ruth 1:1-22

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

3. All-Surrounding Grace

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Elaine M. Ward

4. The Surprise of Absolute Victory

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

5. Clean Hands

Psalm 26:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

6. What Do You Mean, "Repent"?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Thomas Long

7. John the Baptist, Sanctified Indifference, & the King of Pop

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

8. Even God Called Time Out

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

James Weekley

9. The Most Beautiful Word

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

10. A Christmas To Remember

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

11. Be Careful What You Call Me

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

12. Staying Open to God

Matthew 23:1-39

Illustration

King Duncan

13. On Being a Hot-Fudge-Sunday Church

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

14. God Is No Respecter Of Persons

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

15. Life - The Womb of the Eternal

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

16. Embalmed Leaders

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

17. The Terrible Tree

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

George Bass

18. Someone Greater Than a Prophet

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

19. Bread for Everyone (I am the bread of life)

John 6:1-15, John 6:25-59

Sermon

Eric Ritz

20. What Happens When You Are Not Number One?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Jung

If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.

Andrea Jung

Carl Jung

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

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