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John 10:22-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... Drake's eyes sparkled. He drew back his branch and whacked Kevin across the face as hard as he could. Kevin fell to the ground, screaming bloody murder. Meanwhile, Drake threw down his stick and tore off toward home. Quickly Kenneth grabbed Kevin and took him into the house. While his wife comforted Kevin, Kenneth visited next door. Trembling with anger, he beat on the door. Gradually it opened, and there stood Mr. Nemyre with Drake peering from behind him. "Your son Drake just hit my son Kevin with a stick ...

2. Love Your Enemies

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... his father died his mother and he tried to run the service station. His mother opened the station every morning and after school Kenneth went down and worked until they closed. As he worked he began to notice a large file of debts that had accumulated ... first step toward loving them. You say, "But pastor, what she did to me was too horrible. I can't forgive." And I ask, who is your anger and resentment hurting most of all? My guess is that it is worse on you than it is your enemy. Why not begin with a clean ...

3. Paul's Prayer For Us

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... a crack house. The only witness who came forward to convict the men was a fourteen-year-old boy named Kenneth. Both of Kenneth's parents had died, and few of his relatives wanted him. He had been shuffled around to various houses, never knowing where his next ... looking at a book, "I remember in the Bible somewhere that it's a waste of time to talk to people about faith when they're filled with anger. I've got only so many hours in the day to talk to people who want help. I don't have a lot of time for people who ...

4. A Difficult Day to Follow Jesus

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... easy. And yet, not forgiving can take a greater toll on us than forgiving ever could. Kenneth Hart, a psychology professor at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada studied sixty-six recovering alcoholics. The individuals had one thing in common: They were all angry with someone. Teaching forgiveness, Hart found, is one way to break the cycle that causes recovering alcoholics to relapse. If they release their anger through forgiveness, they no longer have a reason to use alcohol as an escape. One of ...

5. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... them until they change. Paul says that followers of Christ are to get rid of six vices. These six vices are: 1. Bitterness, 2. Rage, 3. Anger, 4. Brawling, 5. Slander and 6. Malice. Sounds like a session of Congress, doesn’t it? Do you have any problems with any of these ... life with him. 1. Danny Morris in Spirits Laughing, pages 17-18. Cited by Bishop Kenneth Carter, http://day1.org/3360-the_hand_of_god_on_the_shoulder_of_a_troubled_world. 2. http://www.firstbaptistchurchoc.org/Sermons_06/grieving.htm. 3 ...

6. Proper 20

Psalm 79:1-13, 1 Timothy 2:1-15, Jeremiah 8:4--9:26, Luke 16:1-15

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... defiling of the Temple by other peoples. He pleads with God not to punish his people because of the past sins but to pour out anger on those who do not know God. Context of Luke 15 and 16 The parables in chapter 15 stress the joy in heaven over the ... poor. And perhaps Jesus and his hearers knew of such a real incident. It was a kind of Robin Hood story if Kenneth Bailey is correct. CONTEMPLATION Issues and Insights 1. Why the Parable? People are sometimes puzzled by the parable of the shrewd steward. ...

7. Homecoming

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... RIGHT NOW what's coming to me." My inheritance!!! It was an outrageous request - it said in effect, "Dad, drop dead!" Dr. Kenneth Bailey, who taught for years at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, writes of knowing of only one case in ... life where this kind of request was made. An older son asked his father to divide the family inheritance. And the father, in great anger, took a stick and drove his son from the house, never to permit him to return again. All the neighbors in the village applauded.( ...

8. Room When in Distress

Psalm 4:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... our lives. Each one of us gives battle to the thought of being left where we are who we are, with no way out. The poet, Kenneth Patchen, expressed it this way: Isn’t all our dread a dread of being Just here? Of being only this? Of having no other thing to become? Of ... .. .self-condemnation. . .guilt of failure.. .FEAR (The words came to me easily: suffocating indulgence.. .fear... selfishness.. .anger. . . inconsistency.. .guilt...ALCOHOL. Nobody could have convinced me of the power of alcohol — ever. I was ...

9. Sit Up and Speak!

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... parish, blurted out, "Oh, pastor, they just found the body of my son, Kenneth. He drowned in the Missouri River over at Chamberlain!" I was stunned, and then I heard her sob. "It had been a hot day. Kenneth, driving gravel truck all day, decided to take a swim to cool off. ... Young man, young woman, young of heart, I say rise! Leave your coffin. Leave your sick bed. Leave your cynicism, your anger, your hostility with God or whatever is deadening you to the things of God and the abundant life. For after all, ...

10. Confidence, Joy, and Hope

Acts 2:14a, 22-32

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... wants that job. You may have heard of the saying, “Don’t shoot the messenger.” It means, “Don’t take out your anger on the person delivering the bad news. It’s not their fault.” Did you know there are variations of this saying in ... life with God. If we keep that truth in mind, it makes every challenge and heartbreak we experience in this life more bearable. Rev. Kenneth Kovacs shares a story he heard about a woman from Indiana who was volunteering at a refugee camp in El Salvador. As this woman ...

11. When The Cheering Stopped

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Brett Blair

... with your use of the word commitment. That sounds very binding and restricting.” Listen to what Methodist Bishop Kenneth Carder (Tennessee) wrote recently: “The church of today has become an institution in which even belief in God is ... talk more and more about commitment and secondly because he opened the doors of the church to everyone. It angered some people then, and let me tell you, it will anger some people today. III Finally, I would suggest to you that the cheering stopped because Jesus began to ...

12. When The Cheering Stopped

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... your use of the word commitment. That sounds very binding and restricting.” Listen to what Methodist Bishop Kenneth Carder (Tennessee) wrote recently: “The church of today has become an institution in which even belief in God ... careful. Why did the cheering stop? Because on Palm Sunday, Jesus opened the doors of the church to everyone. It angered some people then, and let me tell you, it will anger some people today. III Finally, I would suggest to you that the cheering stopped because Jesus began to talk ...

13. When The Cheering Stopped

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

14. How to Deal with Friends, Foes, and Fools

Proverbs 27:6

Sermon

James Merritt

... fool is: The loud mouth who loves to hear himself talk, and forces others to do the same. (Prov. 18:2) The hot-tempered bully who thinks anger, violence, and the bigger gun proves his manhood. (12:16; 14:16) The egotist who believes he is a "self-made man" and worships his "creator." ( ... (Waco: Word Books, 1987), 236-237. 5 Bits and Pieces, October 14, 1993. 6 H. Wayne House and Kenneth M. Durham, Living Wisely in a Foolish World (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992), 101. 7 John Blanchard, ed., ...

15. You Provoke Me...and That's Good

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Version of Colossians 3:21, “Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.” What a great verse. “Provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.” But that’s another sermon. I bring ... 1. The Good Clean Funnies List, good-clean-fun-subscribe@yahoogroups.com 2. A complete version of this commercial was compiled by Kenneth J. Hockenberry at http://www.beulahpresbyterian.com/sermonapr05_07.html. Or it can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76h8jbjZqOI. ...

16. The African Foundations Of Christianity

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... times is that many people, both black and white, think that Black History began four hundred years ago in what Kenneth Stampp called "The Peculiar Institution" of slavery. Yet, when we diligently and painstakingly research our history, we see that it ... that he had made people angry by marrying a Cushite woman. We stated earlier that Cush is another name for "Ethiopia." Their anger was not kindled because she was black but because she was of another nationality - Ethiopian. Since the Ethiopians are revered as ...

17. The Power to Change the Past

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . But it's something that over the course of time I feel confident will be resolved," she added. "I can say I don't hold a lot of bitterness or anger. Those things would be detrimental to me and my family, and the terrorists have certainly taken enough from us. I'm not going to let them take any more."(5 ... , 1/7/83, pp. 22-26 4. Doris Donnelly, Putting Forgiveness into Practice, quoted by Kenneth Gibble, "She Washed Jesus' Feet," The Christian Ministry, Sept.-Oct., 1990, p. 29 5. Reuters News Service, 9/4/02

18. How Do You Get To Heaven?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... to neighboring Lithuania, Ivan exterminated the city, torturing its citizens for five weeks and killing 60,000 people. In one fit of anger he even struck his 27-year-old son in the head with an iron staff, killing him. On March 18, 1584, Ivan ... to Rome and kiss the sacred steps and know that our sins have been thus atoned for? Psychologically, that would be a great option. Kenneth Chafin once said that when he was a young minister he thought his most difficult task was to convict people of sin. Later on, ...

19. Temptation

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... 32.3 percent say they wrestle most with their spending. Just 10.8 percent say the hardest thing to control is their anger, 16.9 percent pinpoint their fears, and 1.5 percent their smoking, drinking, or drug use ” or abuse. But everyone has their ... that sign knew English better than we may suppose. Not only swimming but life itself should not be lived in the absence of a Savior. Kenneth Filkins has caught this beautifully in a poem entitled "The Pit." Let me share just a little bit of it with you: A man fell ...

20. Getting Our Lives Out Of Hock

Psalm 105:1-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... for they were "only joking." Regardless, they seem to have a knack for seeing other people's faults (and ignoring their own)." (Kenneth A. Schmidt, Ibid., p.95) The compulsion to control. Do you have that compulsion; or, are you in hock to someone ... hock but you can take it from there. We could also talk about other things that have our life in hock: our loneliness, anger, depression, perfectionism, low self-esteem which we talked about in a previous sermon. Time doesn't allow that because we need to spend ...

21. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... three blessings. I need hope, and so do you. The first is a summary of church history by one its distinguished reporters, Dr. Kenneth Latourette, who wrote "No life ever lived on this planet has been so influential in the affairs of men as that of Christ ... easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may wish for justice, freedom, and peace. May God bless you ...

22. Obstacles as Popsicles

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... protection within the Hebrew community. Still others contend that their fear of God prompted virtuous behavior on their part, but helped rouse Pharaoh to such anger that he proclaimed the horrible official death sentence upon all Hebrew baby boys. But what else could the midwives have done?] God's ways are ... and bloodied world. Finally, let it be God holding your broken spirit." (Xavier theologian Kenneth Overberg, "Pieta: The Mystery of Divine And Human Suffering," Spirituality, 8 (July/August 2002), 205.)

23. Who Will Go?

Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... possibly send you upstairs to audition. If I send you upstairs, I could lose my job."5 Curry felt deep hurt and anger. Painful as it was, that moment of looking directly into the face of prejudice changed his life. "Nothing had prepared me for ... the question, "Whom shall we send, and who will go for us?" And, can you say with Isaiah, "Here am I, Lord. Send me!"? 1. Kenneth L. Waters, I Saw the Lord: a Pilgrimage through Isaiah 6 (Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1996), p. 83. 2. James Dickey, "The Calling of ...

24. There’s Still Time

Mt 6:1-2, 5-6

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... world. In their name we rend our hearts and not our clothing. We return to the Lord, our God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love. Finally, Jesus gives us a needed, even welcome reminder. When he tells us to lay up for ourselves treasure in heaven, where ... still time. Amen. 1. For information on the Smeltzers see A Cup of Cold Water, by J. Kenneth Kreider (Elgin: Brethren Press, 2001), pp. 399-401. 2. Graydon F. Snyder, "Sayings on the Delay of the End," Biblical Research ...

25. A Call for Repentance - Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... for this evening. Joel writes, “Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave behind a blessing grain offerings and drink ... W. Jones, http://gbgmchurches.gbgm umc.org/aldersgate ma/s030713.htm. 2. Kenneth W. Osbeck, 101 Hymn Stories (Harvest House, Eugene, OR; 1978), pp. 145-147. Cited in Davis, (Harvest House Publishers, 1988).

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