This Week's Sermons

Fruit That is Never Out of Season: Gentleness
by John Maxwell
Galatians 5:22

When we talk about gentleness and meekness, we read that Jesus said, “The meek shall inherit the earth.” When we talk about this subject, there's a tendency for many of us to kind of recoil. It’s kind of like the businessman who was leaving church after hearing the pastor say that the meek shall inherit the earth; he said to his wife, “All I’ve got to say, if the meek are going to inherit the earth, they’d better become a lot more aggressive.” And I heard another quote the other day that said, “If the meek will inherit the earth, what will happen to us tigers?”

The Mango of Meekness
by James Westervelt
Galatians 5:22

A mango is a tropical fruit which hasn’t really “caught on” like the orange, the pineapple or the banana. For those who have acquired a taste for it, it’s sweet and delicious. But for those who haven’t, it’s “different” enough to taste “funny.” Like the spiritual fruit of meekness, the mango is often misunderstood and under-appreciated!

Meekness Versus Anger
by Antonio Torrence
Matthew 5:5

What is meekness? Meekness is a habit of patient endurance under provocation. Meekness answers the question of how we deal with provocation. How do we handle agitation? How we handle confrontation?

What It’s Like to be Christ-Like: Meekness
by David Parks
1 Peter 2:21

…Barclay said it was the hardest word in the Bible to translate. Great men are described as meek: Moses (Numbers 12:3) Jesus (Matthew 11:29, 21:5; 2 Corinthians 10:1) It is STRENGTH UNDER CONTROL. The word was used to define a powerful horse that was under control of its master…

Blessed Are the Meek
by Frank Lay
Matthew 5:5

Once again we have a beatitude that is completely contrary to the thinking of the modern world. It is oppossed to everything which the natural man thinks. “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” World conquest, possession of the universe-given to the meek, of all people. The world thinks in terms of strength and power, of ability, self-assurance and aggressiveness.

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This Week's Sermon Illustrations

Mango Meekness
Contributor: Christian Cheong

The meek is like the mango tree. All its branches hang with fruit. Passer-by come and assails it with stones and sticks. It responds by dropping the fruit at every blow, at the feet of those who assail it. At the close of the season, it stands scarred and battered, its leaves torn off, its branches broken. …

Meekness = Humility
Contributor: Troy Mason

Dr. Samuel Brengle (Salvation Army) said “The axe cannot boast of the trees it has cut down. IT could do nothing but for the woodsman. He made it, he sharpened it, he used it. …”

Meekness Family

Proverb: “Patience is sister to meekness, …”

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Build Me A Son
Contributor: Danny Thomas

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face him self when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee—and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. …

Love is Everything
Source: Dwight L. Moody

“The fruit of the Spirit begins with love...love is the first thing, the first in that precious cluster of fruit. Someone has said that all other eight can be put in terms of love. Joy is love exulting; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love on trial; gentleness is love in society; …”

Jesus Calls Us to Rest
Source: A W Tozer, The Pursuit of God
Contributor: Paul Kuzma

“Jesus calls us to His rest, and meekness is his method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort. The rest Christ offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend. ” ...

Meekness Is...
Source: Henry Ward Beecher

Meekness is not a mere contemplative virtue.…

Strength Under Control
Contributor: Randy Aly

The Greek word for meekness literally means “strength under control.” Meekness describes a wild stallion who was tamed…

Blessed Meekness
Source: Alexander Maclaren

“Meek endurance and meek obedience, the acceptance of His dealings, of whatever complexion they are, and however they may tear and desolate our hearts, without murmuring, without sulking…”

Gifts From God
Source: Susan Annette Muto. Blessings That Make Us Be. New York: Crossroads Publishing Company, 1982.

The first barrier to meekness arises whenever we claim as our own what is really a gift of God. To live in meekness, we must try to remember that all we are, have, and can do is a gift. It is an act of arrogance to place ourselves at the center of being and doing. Only God belongs there. …

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