Synonyms: take action, take steps, take measures, take the initiative, move, make a move, react, do something, proceed, go ahead, behave, function, perform, operate, work, take effect, serve, be efficacious, play, play a part, take part, be an actor, be an actress, be one of the cast, appear, pretend, play-act, sham, fake, feign, put it on, bluff, pose, posture, masquerade, dissemble, dissimulate, deed, action, gesture, feat, exploit, performance, undertaking, maneuver, stunt, operation, venture, effort, enterprise, achievement, accomplishment, law, decree, statute, bill, Act of Parliament, edict, fiat, dictum, dictate, enactment, resolution, ruling, rule, judgement, canon, ordinance, proclamation, command, commandment, mandate, measure, stipulation, direction, requirement, division, section, subsection, portion, part, segment, component, bit, turn, routine, number, item, piece, sketch, skit, playlet, dance, song, pretense, false display, show, front, facade, charade, guise, affectation, appearance
Antonyms: do nothing
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Lori Wagner
... ve mentioned that enable you to know for sure. Basically, it comes down to this: you only need to remember one important thing: Every act of God ends with a promise! If there’s hope abounding, God is in it! *Photo from www.southerninlaw.com. Adapted by Jim Walton ... Turns Water to Blood Proverbs 3:9-10 Psalm 104 Isaiah 62; Isaiah 25:6-9; Jeremiah 31:1-14 Joel 2:15-24; 3:17-18 Amos 9:11-15 1 Corinthians 10 and 12: Paul’s Letter to the Corinthian Church regarding Baptism in One Spirit John’s Witness about ...
502. Parabola
Luke 10:25-37
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... Parable of the Mustard Seed The Use of Parables The Parable of the Wicked Tenants Luke (8:4-18; 12:13-13:9; 13:18-30; 14:7-17:10; 18:1-14; 19:11-27; 20:9-19; 21:29-33) The Parable of the Sower The Purpose of the Parables A Lamp Under a Jar ... of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and make it eighty.’ And his master commended the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly; for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light. And I ...
503. Scandal
Matthew 16:21-28, Matthew 17:14-23, Matthew 20:17-19, Matthew 26:1-5
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... Land. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Matthew’s Witness to Jesus’ Prophecies of His Death and Resurrection (16:21-23; 17:22-23; 20:17-19; 26:1-5) Minor Text Deuteronomy: The Raising Up of a New Prophet Like Moses (18:15-22) Psalm 2: The ... 31-34) John’s Witness to Jesus’ Prophecies of His Death and Resurrection (7:12-24; 12:20-36; 13:31-14:7; 16:16) The Acts of the Apostles: Jesus the Son of God (13) 1 Peter 2: Christ’s Suffering 1 Corinthians 15: The Resurrection of the Son and the Promise ...
504. Lord of the Harvest
Matthew 9:35-38, Luke 10:1-24
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Lori Wagner
... climb and the succeeding storm. Sherpas are those who live in the mountainous regions of Nepal and the Himalayas. Many of them act as guides for climbing the legendary Everest. Because they are used to the thinner air and terrain of the mountains, and because ... that people were sheep without a shepherd is not new to scripture. It’s found many times in scripture (Num 27:16-17, 1 Kings 22:17, 2 Chronicles 18:16, Jeremiah 50:6, Zecharaiah 11:15, among others). Each time, it was an indictment of Israel’s ...
505. Even in Our Hiding
Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... stood there with the coldness clutching my heart. But forgiveness is not an emotion—I knew that too. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ‘… Help!’ I prayed silently. ‘I can ... Helps David Flee from Ramah and Hide from Saul (1 Samuel 20) The Lord Bids that Elijah Hide in the Kerith Ravine (1 Kings 17) Jehosheba Hides Joash Son of King Ahaziah for Six Years to Protect Him (2 Kings 11) Everything in Its Time (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) ...
506. Wild Thing
Luke 4:31-37
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... Text The Song of Moses: Our God Who Heals (Deuteronomy 32) Elijah Heals the Son of the Widow at Zarapheth Who Challenges Him (1 Kings 17) An Evil Spirit Torments Saul and He Tries to Kill David (1 Samuel 16:14-23; 18:6-16; 19:1-24) The Prayer of ... scriptures for today, whether Saul is being calmed by hymns, or others healed with prayer, we know as Christians, the healing is not in the act, but in the Holy Spirit’s power. “Not by might, but by the Spirit,” says the Lord. Today, we must be ever and always ...
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Lori Wagner
... right hand on me and said, ‘Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.” (Rev 1:17-18) And as we read today in Acts 5:17-25, even the bars of prisons could not hold the disciples from their life-giving mission. No lock could ever keep them from their proclamation! For in His sacrifice, we have been healed. Jesus bears the wounds on the palms of God, as a reminder of ...
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King Duncan
... said. He defined a spectator as a person “who sits forty rows up in the stands and wonders why a 17-year-old kid can’t hit another 17-year- old kid with a football from forty yards away . . . and then (that same spectator) goes out to the ... free. At least they were headed toward their own homeland after spending centuries in slavery. Even more importantly, consider the mighty acts of God that they had witnessed—the parting of the Red Sea and the Passover experience that had finally melted Pharaoh’s ...
509. Your Wake-up Call
Philippians 3:1-11
Sermon
King Duncan
... him to go house to house in Jerusalem, hunting down followers of Jesus and dragging them off to jail. He even participated in an act of mob violence when a crowd of equally zealous Jews stoned to death a young preacher named Stephen. By his own standards, Paul was ... the world. 1. “The hotel wake-up call gets personal” by Nancy Trejos, USA Today, May 17, 2013, https://www.usatoday.com/story/hotelcheckin/2013/05/17/hotels-human-wakeup-call/2167171/. 2. “Annoying songs for my son to wake up to,” Posted ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... are well have no need of a physician, only those who are sick; I have come to call not the righteous but sinners." (Mark 2:17) In the first letter to his protege, Timothy, the Apostle Paul writes: "The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus ... sin. And that's the Good News. It's the Good News because the Son of God gave his life for us. And his very act of giving himself for us, proves that the love of God is forgiving. The woman at the well, the woman caught in adultery, Zaccheus the ...
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King Duncan
... a stadium, enduring freezing cold, as well as pouring rain or intense heat to watch their team play. They yell their heads off and act like fools to cheer on their team. They heckle the umpires. There is something about loyalty to a sports team that makes a person ... and support in a community of people who are striving to live as authentic Jesus followers. Paul writes in Philippians 3:17, “Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on ...
512. A New Beginning
2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Sermon
Mark Ellingsen
... regard anyone from a human point of view (v.16a). Anyone in Christ is proclaimed to be a new creation. The old has passed (v.17)! This new beginning is a glimpse of the end tmes. This new beginning is the result of the fact that Christ has reconciled us to ... theologian of the last century, Karl Barth, profoundly explains the nature of God’s forgiveness in this text. He wrote: The act of divine forgiveness is that God sees and knows this stain [of human sin] infinitely better than man himself and abhors ...
513. Three In One
John 16:12-15
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Dave Zuchelli
... 22 where we see the “throne of God and of the Lamb” (v. 1) and the “Spirit and the bride say, ‘Come’” (v. 17). The “Lamb,” of course, is Jesus; and he shares the throne with his Father. Many non-Christians (as well as a few Christians ... doesn’t end there. We are also called to be in community with each other. When we read the early chapters of the book of Acts, we get a sense of what this can be like. The early Christians took their sense of community very seriously. They looked out for one ...
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King Duncan
... when he became a follower of Jesus. Could he ask for more than that? So he agreed to let the surgeon use the donor heart for the 17-year-old boy. The good news is that the boy’s surgery was a success, and John received another donor heart one week later. (2) It’s ... in Channon’s memory. The Newsoms and the Christians advocated for a new law in Tennessee, the Channon Christian Act, which was passed in 2014. It puts limits on how criminal defendants and attorneys can negatively portray the victim of ...
515. Facing Death
John 18:1-19:42
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April Yamasaki
... man is glorified and God is glorified in him” (John 13:31). When Jesus prayed for his disciples one last time before his arrest, he prayed, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify your son, that your son may glorify you” (John 17:1). The gospel of John speaks of Jesus’ death as an act of supreme agency where Jesus was not forced into dying on the cross or manipulated into giving up his life. Instead, he deliberately laid it down. “I lay down my life in order to take it up again,” said Jesus. “No ...
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Lori Wagner
... into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:17 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to ... into healing and cleansing grace. Likewise, we do not worship the cross, but we worship Jesus, who in taking our sins upon him in his sacrificial act transformed sin and death into God’s restorative and saving grace. “For whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life!” This scripture ...
Sermon
Douglas J. Deuel
... the message of God to God's people. Before presenting God's message to God's people, Isaiah identified God with God's past acts of faithfulness. He was sure to clarify that the message he brought came from the God "who makes a way in the sea, a ... brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick" (Isaiah 43:16-17). This is an obvious reference to God delivering God's people out of the bondage of Egypt. God parted the Red Sea to allow ...
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George W. Hoyer
... ; I will put my words into the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command (Deuteronomy 18:17-18)." After our Lord's resurrection, Peter made the sign connection of "that prophet" and Jesus clear to the Israelites of his day ... Jesus which empowered the miracle. And then Peter identified Jesus with the prophet whom God would raise up, even as Moses had said (Acts 3:22f). What Jesus was doing here for these thousands was being done on purpose, for this purpose: to alert them to what ...
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George W. Hoyer
... of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you? ... His temple is holy -- and that is exactly what you are!" (1 Corinthians 3:16-17). Let's hear it for us all, for us who have heard, who hear the word of the Lord. The man once deaf was also mute ... hop to it to be doers of the word. James admonishes: "Be doers of the word, and not merely hearers, who deceive themselves ... The doers who act, they will be blessed in their doing" (James 1:22, 25). We might well wonder what this man did after he could hear and speak. ...
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Robert A. Hausman
... correction. It has not trusted in the Lord; it has not drawn near to its God (3:1-2). Are we not like that picture? We glibly talk of our faith in God, but we hardly expect God to act in the world. We do not expect God to do good or harm. We live by market forces, military might, and medical technology. We turn to self-help books for peace and to the lottery for a miracle. We ... over you with gladness, he will renew you in his love; he will exult over you with loud singing as on a day of festival (vv. 16-17)"
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Paul E. Robinson
... you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. (James 2:14 -17) What Dr. Jennings, in making his strong point, overlooks, however, is that the human person is more than just a mind that makes decisions. The human person ... . Fasting, remember, was a religious act of devotion to God, including not eating for a period of time, but also, for some, putting on sack cloth and covering oneself with ashes. It was an act of worship and humbling oneself ...
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Richard Hasler
... your hearts." Jesus is the "morning star." He is the fulfillment of the Torah: "a star will come out of Jacob" (Numbers 24:17). He is "the bright morning star" (Revelation 22:16). This word, "morning star," literally phosphoros, the bringer of light, is the one to ... s Day we constantly return to the witness of God's great redemptive acts in history culminating in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Through reading, speaking, hearing and acting upon this Word the good news is kept alive in each new ...
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Robert S. Crilley
... the whirling cloud, "for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name" (Exodus 33:17). Relieved that the tension is apparently resolved, everyone settles back, ready for a much needed intermission. However, we have ... sick and fed the hungry, we view the footprints of God. In the One who forgave sinners and befriended outcasts, we find evidence of how God acts in a broken and hurting world. Indeed, through the One who died in our stead -- taking upon weary shoulders the burden of human life at its ...
524. Every Shot I Ever Hit
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
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Robert R. Kopp
... will be raised ... the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many" (see Matthew 17:22-23; 20:28). We remember his existential love. He said, "I am with you always" (see Matthew 28:16ff). We remember his eternal love. He ... or bowling alley or baseball diamond or football field or wrestling mat or card game or whatever, we can remember every word, act, and appearance of our faith. Unless we're being deposed or something, the truth is God gave us the gift of ...
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Thomas A. Pilgrim
... , trying to talk to him about two thieves on a cross and one being saved. But the other man will not talk about that. In the second act there are a few leaves on the tree. One of the men becomes excited because he thinks Godot is coming. But they never see him. At the ... xiv. 2. Wallace D. Chappell, The Trumpet's Certain Sound (Nashville, Tennessee: Wallace Chappell Ministries, Inc., 1987), p. 17. 3. James W. Moore, Christmas Gifts That Always Fit (Nashville, Tennessee: Dimensions For Living, 1996), p. 52. 4 ...
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