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Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

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1. Proper 17

Exodus 3:1-22, Jeremiah 15:15-21; 20:7-18, Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8

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Russell F. Anderson

... text says that God knows the sorrows of his people and has heard their cries of oppression. He sends Moses to free them from their taskmasters. Thus, from the beginning of the Old Testament to the end of the New, we see a God who is empathetic, entering into the joys, pains and sorrows of his children. Old Testament: Jeremiah 15:15-21 1. Sermon Title: One Is The Loneliest Number. Sermon Angle: Jeremiah chafes under the burden of having to proclaim God's judgment. He complains that he is denied the company ...

2. A Love For All Seasons (ii) (communion Meditation)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... local chapter of supportive people for parents in crises. I've shared in "Tough Love" support groups, and I know people who attend such gatherings weekly. These are people who are undergoing similar stress and need the support of others, need to have that empathetic ear that will hear them out, need to learn from other people's successes and failures. In that kind of fellowship, they receive the strength and courage to take tough stands which enables them to say, "No," to an erring son, daughter, or spouse ...

3. A Positive Addiction

Romans 1:1-17

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Robert R. Kopp

... out. 2. Career Bureaucrats Need Not Apply -- Everybody knows our denomination is dying. So why would we be interested in someone schooled in keeping us headed in the wrong direction? We need someone who has been in the trenches, survived, succeeded, and empathetically knows what makes churches grow. Moreover, nobody in our local churches is going to listen to someone who tells us how to do what she or he has never done. 3. Positive Pastoral Instincts -- Our executive presbyter must be a coach (encouraging ...

4. God Sends Us Ahead

Genesis 45:1-28

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... happen to us in our lives at the hands of others, but we can allow God to redeem them. All the terrible comments and relationships and events can become God's life-giving purposes. If these incidents have matured us in Christ, if they have made us empathetic and able to help others out of their lethargy, hurt, or bitterness, then our past is redeemed. We have been sent ahead. Blaming others traps us in the past with them. A black picture of others sticks us with a dim image of God. Charles Stanley writes ...

5. The Demanding Crowd

Mark 1:29-34, Mark 1:35-39

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John A. Stroman

... proclaimed Word (Jesus Christ), is properly presented through the Holy Spirit, then the church has power. We need to be faithful to the Word. Our Responsibility To God's Word Christians are responsible to declare the Word. Like many of you, I was filled with empathetic pain as I watched Schindler's List. Krakow, Poland, had a history for centuries as a stronghold of the Christian faith. One has to ask, "Where was the church?" when all of this was taking place. For fifty years historians have been asking the ...

6. David and the Devil

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Robert Noblett

... he becomes. This happens when we help our children develop a healthy sense of conscience and when we impart positive values. Recent research indicates that concern for others begins much earlier than we once thought. Studies show that almost at birth babies respond empathetically to the cries of another infant. Therefore it would seem that there is almost a kind of predisposition on the part of very young children that can be enhanced and encouraged or allowed to fade and die off. A recent report sums it ...

7. I Just Need To Talk To A Real Person

John 15:1-17

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Arley K. Fadness

... preaching to the theme of "The Need For A Sense Of Community And Deeper Relationships." Theme: The Need For A Sense Of Community And Deeper Relationships Characters: Hattie Elderly lady Heidi Hattie's young niece Voice over a microphone backstage Tone: Humorous, empathetic Setting/Props: Living room in Hattie's apartment Exaggerated large cell phone Approximate time: 5-6 minutes (Music, such as the piano playing of Lorrie Line, in an upbeat major key) Hattie: (Sitting in rocker and knitting) I think I'll ...

8. Epiphanies and Training Wheels

Mark 1:9-13

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Johnny Dean

... isn’t really sure if ANYTHING the Bible says about Jesus is accurate, so we really don’t know enough about him to form an opinion one way or another. I think the predominant image of Jesus today is Jesus, the good friend. Jesus is the kind, empathetic, nonjudgmental friend who comforts and consoles and rarely, if ever, criticizes or condemns. Folks today want a 24-hour-a-day, on-call Savior, always there when we need him, but he doesn’t stick around and embarrass us with his presence when we think we ...

9. Why Aspire to Sainthood?

Daniel 7:1-14

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... endow them with power to live in terms of the highest they know. It is possible to forgive one’s enemies. It is possible to love people who are unlovely. It is possible to cultivate sensitivity of mind and heart, and to live in responsive, empathetic communion with other persons. A selfish life can be turned into a self-emptying one. A timid, cowardly life can become confident, courageous, and strong. The grace of God makes it possible. It comes about through faith in Jesus Christ and commitment to the ...

10. Which Way?

Matthew 16:21-28

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... with scolding sermons when they get there). Sometimes generations must go by before we start to reap the terrible fruits of such sowing. But it comes. Short term, we see results. Long term, there’s death, not life. A quiet, healing, empathetic, suffering compassion would have nurtured life among those frightened worshipers. But short term, it would not have looked as though much had resulted. Sometimes, cruciform existence looks a little lunatic, especially if we can’t wait until resurrection, which may ...

11. Only the Wounded Can Serve

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

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Allan J. Weenink

... of purer eyes than to behold the iniquity of his children cannot be expected to speak convincingly about forgiveness. Yet Christ on the cross experiencing man’s most inhumane treatment could beg forgiveness for all humanity. Here is the love of an empathetic heart and a compassionate soul. Here is first-hand understanding of the fears of men that torment them into doing their worst when their fright is greatest. Here is preaching at its most eloquent moment ... not a white-robed priest standing remotely ...

12. He Was Afflicted

Isaiah 63:7-14

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King Duncan

... homeless should be in our thoughts and hearts during this season of the year. Christ suffered on our behalf, which reminds us of people we know who are suffering physically and emotionally. This is that season of the year when we find it easier to be empathetic, accepting, caring--the way we should be all year long. Most of us are familiar with Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. We all know Scrooge, who was so greedy and mean that he rejected Christmas and all the beautiful aspects of the holiday. You will ...

13. Let Familiarity Breed Contentment

Hebrews 13:1-25

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Leonard Sweet

... even more people behind – · behind racial bars; · behind class bars; · behind educational bars; · behind isolation bars; · behind fear bars; · behind addiction bars; · behind emptiness bars. You can choose how to exert your energy. Either you exert it to feel an empathetic connection with these imprisoned ones. Or you can exert it to build your own prison and wall yourself, your heart and soul, away from the pain and suffering of these others. Do you honor marriage? Your own? Others? The covenant ...

14. Romans 13:9-21

Romans 13:8-14

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Leonard Sweet

... on those who are actively involved in bringing hardship into the lives of Christ’s followers. After making this aside, Paul now looks again within the faith community. In vv. 15‑16 the commonality of mind is that which enables an empathetic connectivity among believers. Paul is not exhorting Christians to all “think the same things among each other,” but is encouraging believers to “think the same things towards each other.” This commonality of mind, an outgrowth of “authentic love,” will ...

15. With Friends Like These ...

Job 38:1-7 (34-41)

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Mary S. Lautensleger

... them. Your faces, your tears, your embraces will be etched in the griever's mind forever. Your presence is, for the griever, the body of Christ. The big question is not, "What shall I say?" but "How well can I listen? How can I be an effective and empathetic listener?" A grieving person needs to talk about the loss and to remember. Grievers need to tell the story of their loss again and again. Grievers may turn down invitations to get out and be with friends when that is the very action that is needed most ...

16. What's Your Drink?

Isaiah 43:16-21

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Leonard Sweet

... makes the drinker joyful. As Psalm 104:15 states, wine "was made to gladden the human heart." Finally, the cumulative effect of the first drink's side-affects is a better disposition towards congenial fellowship. Mixing and mingling is easier and an empathetic sense of interest and concern for others is often demonstrated by those "in their cups." But as Lloyd-Jones, a teetotaler himself points out, the problem with alcohol is that the good feelings it evokes are not transforming. They are merely transitory ...

17. On Being a Hot-Fudge-Sunday Church

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

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Leonard Sweet

... ? - Can we minister to those who are feeling the emptiness of a materialistic lifestyle and yet want more and more "things"? - Can we minister to a terrified society that is passing new "get tough on crime" laws, yet whose juries are increasingly lenient and empathetic? - Can we minister to a world that is getting richer, and poorer at the same time? (What are the two groups toward which the church is least prepared to do ministry? The rich and the poor.) No middle ground will get the message of Christ ...

18. Acts 4:32-35

Acts 4:32-35

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Leonard Sweet

... from the sales are brought to the apostles for equitable distribution. The text does not indicate that those with lands and goods sold all they had, impoverishing themselves for the sake of equality. Rather the gift of great grace creates an actively empathetic community which naturally does all it can to provide for its poorer members. Grace enabled these early Christians to transcend the fixation on self and replace it with concern for the whole community as the highest priority. Relating the Texts The ...

19. Mark 10:35-45

Mark 10:35-45

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... Hebrews cuts right to the heart of what is of ultimate concern for human beings - the end result of Jesus' journey, which is his coming into glory in heaven, seated at God's right hand. That the writer of Hebrews excepted "sin" from Jesus' empathetic human experience is a typical early church affirmation. Christ's sinlessness is assumed and affirmed even as is his sympathy. But even though Jesus did not sin, he faced the temptation of sin and through resisting it has experienced how beguiling and seductive ...

20. Acts 4:32-35

Acts 4:32-35

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

21. When Are We Most Like God?

Exodus 2:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... was changed to compassion and her compassion overrode pride of race and station. She recognized the child as a Hebrew, and she knew that her father wanted all Hebrew baby boys killed. But as soon as the infant cried, her heart was touched and she entered empathetically into the Hebrew experience. That’s the point I want to make. Nothing is more needed in our day than empathy. To be able to identify with others to share their experience, to laugh with those who laugh and weep with those who weep. So now ...

22. Spiritual Teaching Gifts

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Dr. Earl Radmacher

... . The message of knowledge: Arranging the facts of Scripture, categorizing these into principles, and communicating them to repeated or familiar situations. Service Gifts. Contributing: Giving most liberally and beyond all human expectation. Mercy: Being sensitive or empathetic to people who are in affliction or misery and lifting internal burdens with cheerfulness. Helps: Seeing tasks and doing them for or with someone in order to lift external burdens. Distinguishing spirits: Detecting a genuine or ...

23. Colossians 3:12-17

Colossians 3:1-17

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... are those that are particularly associated with Jesus. Compassion (splagchna okitirmou) literally referred to the bowels or “innards” that is, a “gut-wrenching” feeling of connection to another. Kindness, humility, meekness and patience were also all empathetic and not highly regarded responses among early first century peoples. Humility (“tapeino-phrosyne”), while clearly a positive virtue in this list, was generally considered a sign of a small or mean-spirited individual within first century ...

24. Put on Some Clothes

Colossians 3:1-17

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Leonard Sweet

25. Your Home Page

Hebrews 13:1-25

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Leonard Sweet

... prisons made of emotional bars. All that is “good stuff” that can be touched and dragged to our home page. But even if we “drag” back some questionable quests to our “home page,” not to worry. Jesus will help us figure it out. The ethical, empathetic and, most essentially, loving software provided by Jesus’s spirit will clear out all the toxic viruses and soul-sucking spam that the world sends our way. After all, the human soul was not created for sin, but for the presence of God in all God ...

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