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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. Tricks

Matthew 22:15-22

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... with your right hand. The higher it goes the better. The child will think that the tissue is still in your left hand. Lesson: Good morning. I need a volunteer. Chose one of the smaller children and sit her down in the chair. I have a magic trick I am going to perform for you. Do you want to see it? (response) Ok. Watch this tissue very carefully; I am going to make it disappear. First Stretch. Watch the tissue. Have you ever seen this done before? (response) Second Stretch. Watch the tissue very closely ...

2. The Psychological Tricks We Play on Ourselves

Matthew 21:33-46

Illustration

Roger G. Talbott

... had the right stuff and he didn't. So also, we tell ourselves: Why should I fasten my seat belt? I haven't even scraped a bumper in 20 years. What are the chances that I am going to be in a car accident this afternoon? We understand these psychological tricks we play on ourselves. Well, let me put it this way: we understand these psychological tricks other people play on themselves. We seldom understand the psychological tricks we play on ourselves if we did, we wouldn't play them.

3. Was It a Trick?

John 20:19-31

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

... ? (Let them answer.) Okay, those who think I can do it, have faith. The rest of you have to see me do it before you will believe. You’re just like Thomas, who wouldn’t believe until he saw with his own eyes. Okay, Let’s do it. (*Do the trick as it is explained below.) Now, you all believe I can do it because you saw it done. Jesus says that God blesses those who believe without seeing. Do you all believe in Jesus as your Lord and Savior? (Let them answer.) That’s good! You are blessed then, because ...

4. It’s a Trick

Mark 9:2-9

Humor Illustration

Billy D. Strayhorn

A brilliant magician was performing on an ocean liner. But every time he did a trick, the Captain's parrot would yell, "It's a trick. He's a phony. That's not magic." Then one evening during a storm, the ship sank while the magician was performing. The parrot and the magician ended up in the same lifeboat. For several days they just glared at each other, neither saying a word to the other. Finally the parrot said, "OK, I give up. What did you do with the ship?"

5. Daddy's Trick

Humor

"Oh, I sure am happy to see you," the little boy said to his grandmother on his mother's side. "Now maybe Daddy will do the trick he has been promising us." The grandmother was curious. "What trick is that?" she asked. "I heard him tell Mommy," the little boy answered, "that he would climb the walls if you came to visit."

6. Trick Questions

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Steve Molin

... Jesus answered brilliantly, but because he avoided their trap. You see, the Pharisees didn’t care about Caesar and taxes. They wanted to embarrass Jesus because he was stirring the pot with all his talk of love and forgiveness and grace. So they kept on asking him trick questions. Master, we caught this woman in the very act of adultery. Our law says that she should be stoned to death; what do you say? Which of you has never sinned? Master, our law says that no work should be done on the sabbath, so why ...

7. Tricked Into Forgiveness

2 Samuel 14:1-33

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... King David guessed that the woman had told him a made-up story and that Commander Joab was behind it. But David admitted that the woman had made a valid point. He gave Joab permission to bring Absalom back home. You could say that King David was “tricked into forgiveness.” I doubt that there is a single person in this congregation who does not have at least one grudge against somebody tucked away in your heart. Why is it so hard for us to forgive? Why is holding a grudge so delicious? Is it because ...

8. A Trick Resurrection

Luke 20:27-38

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... her tombstone: “Waiting.” This person who died may be waiting for the resurrection of the dead, but the Sadducees who raised this question in the conversation with Jesus certainly did not believe in the resurrection. They were only trying to use a trick question about the resurrection to force Jesus into an impossible reply. In order to understand the Sadducees’ question, we have to know something about Levirate marriage in the Jewish tradition. According to Deuteronomy 25:5-10 if a brother dies it is ...

9. Trick or Treat

Matthew 23:1-39

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim: The best leadership seeks to help people not burden them to point of despair. Key verses: 4 and 11. Props: One small bag of dried uncooked noodles—bow tie pasta works best. Hide the bag of candy. Lesson: What is today? (Halloween) What do we do on Halloween? (response) I happen to have something for you. Reach in and get a prize but you only get one. Allow each child to reach in the bag and pull out a noodle. As they are getting the noodles affirm the “prizes.” That looks good! Wow, another ...

10. Lady Astor's Tie Trick

Illustration

Staff

Lady Nancy Astor, the first woman ever seated in the British House of Commons, encountered a lot of male antagonism but proved herself capable of giving as well as receiving in that arena. Once, at a formal dinner, Lady Astor said to her neighbor that she considered men to be more conceited than women. Noticing that she had been heard around the table, she continued loudly: "It's a pity that the most intelligent and learned men attach the least importance to the way they dress. Why, right at this table the ...

11. Trick Questions, Big Answers

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Scott Bryte

"Wars and revolutions, nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom, earthquakes, famines, and pestilence ... betrayal, hatred..." (Luke 21:10-11). Whoa! What season is approaching? What about "Peace on earth and mercy mild"? Actually, both images are at play here. Yes, Christmas is coming — a beautiful time. But juxtaposed against that is a life of great uncertainty for all of us, a time when our institutions, those entities in society upon which we have depended, our temples, are crashing down around ...

12. Parenting Tricks for Parents

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Youth Guidance

Catch the child being good. Tell the child what behaviors please you. Respond to positive efforts and reinforce good behavior. An observing and sensitive parent will find countless opportunities during the day to make such comments as, "I like the way you come in for dinner without being reminded; I appreciate your hanging up your clothes even though you were in a hurry to get out to play."

13. Just Be Like Jesus

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Children's Sermon

... . Why did he think that I wanted his picture? [Turn it around and show them the picture of the monkey.] Wasn't that a trick, a mean trick? See, if I keep talking and doing things like this, you won't like me and you will never believe me again. Am I ... to show you what God wants us to learn from his holy Word this morning. God says that we should not try to trick people or let people trick us with empty words or promises. St. Paul says that God really gets angry when some people try to make other people think ...

14. Trip Questions

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... at best biopsies of the soul, assessments of where you are on your spiritual journey. Test questions are at worst a means of separating the sheep from the goats, a checklist of judgments so that we can put you in a convenient spiritual category. 2) There are Trick Questions I love the story of the incompetent counterfeiter who spent all day making up some funny money. At the end of the day, it dawned on him that he had mistakenly been printing $15 bills. He figured the only way he was going to get anything ...

15. Proper 12

Genesis 29:15-30, Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52, Romans 8:28-39, Psalm 105:1-45

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... include v. 31. The story of Jacob and Laban separates into three parts. I. The Marriage Contract (vv. 15-20) II. The Trick (vv. 21-29) III. The Victim (v. 30) Significance. Two aspects of Genesis 29:15-30 require commentary. The first is how ... bestowed upon Leah suggests that in many ways the confrontation of Jacob and Laban is her story. She is the innocent victim of the trick, and because of that, she is also the only one worthy of God's attention and blessing. In this role she parallels the situation ...

16. Sticking Up for God

Acts 13:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... Bar Jesus. Paul stood up and looked Bar Jesus in the eyes and told him that he was a son of the devil, full of every trick that the devil could teach, and that he was going against the goodness of God no matter what anyone said. With that Paul told him ... believe in Him. It may take a lot of courage the first time to stand up and speak for God against people who are trying to trick other people into believing in them, but if you try, God will be on your side. We need Christians who think that God is always ...

17. Which Mask Will You Wear?

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... Halloween comes from the same root as “Hallowed be Thy Name.” Halloween is the day before the traditional Christian celebration known as All Saints’ Day. It was intended to be a “hallow(ed) e’en.” Our tradition in which we think of ghosts and trick‑or‑treating comes from Celtic beliefs. The Celts believed that the souls of the departed roamed the earth one night in the fall. Since it was a time of harvest, the people would huddle together in front of fires, eating, and telling stories. And ...

18. Why Do We Ignore Warning Signs?

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... play on ourselves. Jesus describes it in the tenth chapter of Matthew where he says, "Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell" (Matthew 10:28). The theological trick we play on ourselves is to fear the wrong thing, the wrong people, the wrong situations. The tenants in the parable were afraid of paying the rent. They should have been afraid of the landowner. The religious leaders were afraid of losing their power. They should ...

19. "Simon Says"

Matthew 24:4-5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . They want to play the game so much that they forget to listen for the words, "Simon says." That means that they are out of the game and they lose.There are some really good things that we can learn by playing this game. Some people also trick us about things that are more important than games. Some people try to get us to follow them because they tell us that Jesus sent them as a new kind of teacher. They sound very good and sometimes Christians follow them away from their church because these people ...

20. Magic Mountain

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

... that knot and slide it from one end of the rope to the other. And when I’m done, I’m going to untie the rope and let the people take the two pieces back to their seats with them," apparently, to try to figure out how he did the trick, or simply to wonder about it and marvel at his ability to do magic.52 If the disciples were at all inclined to think that what was happening was an act of magic, they soon changed their minds, because two other figures appeared and, immediately, they knew who they were ...

21. To Drown Hell and Burn Heaven

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Kristin Borsgard Wee

... if he's paying a whole denarius to the guys who worked just one hour." Not so. Each worker received the same pay, whether they started at dawn or lounged in the marketplace until the last hour of the day. The early workers were angry. They felt that a bad trick has been played on them. They confront the manager, who reminds them that he paid them what they agreed on. He kept his part of the bargain. What business is it of theirs to tell him how he should run his affairs? It is his money, his vineyard. Can't ...

22. The Place beyond Punishment

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... is a God on a too-human scale, that's what. There are miracles, yes, mostly of a medical nature, a few to satisfy hungry stomachs, at best a storm is tempered, water is briefly walked upon. If that is magic, it is minor magic, on the order of card tricks any Hindi God can do a hundred times better.4 This Son on the other hand who goes hungry, who suffers from thirst, who gets tired, who is anxious, heckled, and harassed, who has to put up with followers who don't get it and opponents who don't respect ...

23. What Do You Expect?

John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... a young man who discovered that Christ is the bread in a dramatic way. Eddie Elguera is one of the most famous names in skateboarding. His nickname is El Gato, or The Cat, because he could perform amazing tricks on his skateboard and still land on his feet. He even created a special skateboard trick that is named after him. By age 18, Eddie was the two-time world skateboarding champion. But Eddie discovered that his achievements and awards and fame didn’t bring him any satisfaction. He dropped out of the ...

24. Inextinguisable Light

Matthew 5:10

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... , they can be overcome by the light of Jesus." To illustrate this idea of light being stronger than darkness, I ask one of the children to blow out the birthday candle. She does -- but it's a trick candle, and in a few seconds it is once again burning brightly. "Trick candle!" several of the older children announce. "Yes," I agree, "it's a trick candle.4 It's a candle made a special way -- with a light so strong you can't blow it out. And that's how God's love is. No matter how mean someone is to you ...

25. Costumed Christians

Colossians 3:14

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... say with obvious anticipation of their upcoming foray. "Well," I go on, "what's fun about it?" "You get to dress up in a costume!" Sally announces. "A costume?" I question. "Now that does sound like fun. Are any of you planning to go trick-or-treating in a costume on Halloween?" Little heads nod with eager affirmation. I begin to ask what costumes they have chosen. "A dancer!" "An alligator!" "A butterfly!" These answers come along with acknowledgments from other children that they have not yet decided what ...

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