Sermons About Emotion
Help Me, I'm Angry
Everybody it seems, is, angry these days. You turn on the cable news shows and instead of getting your fix of news, you get loud opinions, angry shouting, and harsh words. You drive down the road and instead of peacefully enjoying the scenery, you’re subjected to honking, flipping, cutting off. Some go home and instead of finding their castle to be a place of refuge, it’s a place of anger, shouting, threats. One thing that may surprise you is that the Bible doesn’t call anger a sin. In fact, anger is a natural, normal, God-given human emotion. It is uncontrolled anger that is a sin.
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What To Do With Our Joy
As we finish our series in the Psalms on the emotional life of God's people, we look at joy as our last subject. What keeps us from joy? What encourages our Joy? What is the foundation for our joy? It’s an important subject since all other messages ultimately serve to bring us through them to the soul-satisfying experience of finding our greatest delight and joy in the One for whom our souls long.
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What To Do With Our Anger
We are continuing our series of discussions that are intended to help us take a closer look at our emotional life. How do we handle anger? The beauty of Psalm 137, as graphic as it is, is that it shows us that by pouring out our emotional life before God in prayer, by being honest with how we’re really feeling, by not stuffing our emotions down, our anger can be kept from turning into an unrighteous outburst.
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What A Woman Needs
More than anything else, a woman needs to know she is, has been, and will be loved. Men are uniquely qualified to provide this in the marital relationship. Key verses: Gen 3:16, Eph 5:25-30, 1Peter 3:7
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From Seed to Fruit
If you are a believer, or if you aren’t but have heard about Christ’s death on the cross, or anything about the Gospel, then the seed of God’s kingdom has been planted in you. Just like Jesus himself illustrates in the story of the sower, seed that is planted is expected to grow and eventually mature and bear fruit. Has the truth about Jesus grown in your life? Is it bearing fruit? This study goes through the four scenarios of circumstances that you may relate to regarding this seed—soil by the wayside, rocky soil, thorny ground, and good soil. The goal is to be in the good soil meaning that you honestly recognize your deplorable situation and accept God’s plan as the only viable plan for you life. Do something about it today and take an action step that will keep you growing and bearing fruit.
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Advent: Love 2008
In the gospel we learn that we love God because God first loved us (1 John 4:19). In the gospel we hear of the truly loving One who came for us. We hear of the promise of God that tells us that all our hatred, all our despising of God and His goodness was swallowed up in Jesus’ death and was victoriously defeated in Jesus’ resurrection. Have you forgotten the gospel of grace where God’s love is shown most clearly. Jesus is calling us to remember the very basis for our love, the content of our love, the very person of our love, Jesus.
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Following Like Jesus
The hallmark of our Christian faith is that we actually live it out! "Our faith" is to be more than just an intellectual knowledge or an emotional experience but it is to have practical and powerful impact on our daily lives! As we speak of Jesus "incarnation" it becomes clearly apparent that in order to achieve what He achieved, He had to have absolute TRUST in the plan of the Father! The classic "struggle" was when He faced His impending death, and cries out in the garden of Gethsemane "not my will but Your will be done." Those four words might summarize the entirety of our commitment to Jesus Christ - "Your will be done." So here is the rub....why do we find it so difficult to release control of our lives into the loving hands of Jesus? Why is "following" often such a struggle for us? What is it that keeps us from this deep, abiding contentment of taking our hands off and surrendering 100% to Him? Following the Father's plan took Jesus to the cross! Are we prepared to "lay it all on the line" in order to follow Him today?
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A Beneficial Terror
The fear of God is an unpopular topic in our day and age. We often prefer to think of God as a sort of nice grandfather who gives out presents but never disciplines. But the one true God in the Bible is the almighty Creator of the entire universe who rules and reigns with both love and wrath, and we should all have a healthy fear of Him because He can discipline us now for disobeying His good commands. We should also fear Him because we will all stand before Him one day and give an account for what we did with our lives, and He has the power and authority to punish those who do not put their trust in His Son in hell for all eternity.
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