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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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226. A Love Feast

John 13:1-17, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... the Master as he gave this example to his disciples. We praise you for the privilege of knowing Jesus Christ as Risen Lord and Loving Servant. Help us to remember that the way to lead is to serve, the way to adore is on bended knee, the way to ... in the name of the Servant King. Amen. (If necessary instruct congregation to move to the venue for the Agape Meal.) C. The Love Feast (Agape Meal) Gathering For The Meal (After hands have been washed the following hymn is sung. It is followed with this litany from ...

227. Solomon's Song Of Love

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... . "For lo, the winter is past." But the Song is not simply a song to the goodness and beauty of creation, a simple song to spring arriving. No, the creation song is only background music to the main tune of the Song Of Solomon, which is this song of love, the song of two lovers: "the voice of my beloved, look, he comes leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills," "my beloved is like a gazelle, or a young stag," "my lover is mine and I am his, who browses among the lilies," "catch us the foxes, the ...

228. Bringing Love Close

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... Jews who seemed to feel that God's only concern on this earth was with the nation to Israel, that he was so wrapped up in this love that he is content to let the rest of the world go by. As if God were Lord only of Israel, or today, Christ were only Lord ... . Cause us to prove our belief by taking great care never to stifle, nor distort, nor waste the power to wonder, and the power to love which you give to us. Give us the vision to see your direction which shows us each moment, by every day's events where to ...

229. For The Love Of What?

Psalm 137:1-9, John 2:12-25

Sermon

Erskine White

... sat down by the rivers of Babylon and wept. Bitter tears streamed down their faces as they cried out, "How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?" Picture also an early Christian named John, writing a letter to the church. He's talking about love and light and things that abide forever, but he's writing from a dark, dank prison cell. Babylon is gone and replaced by Rome, but as John writes, the Lord's people are still surrounded by false gods and a hostile culture. They live in an empire where ...

230. Channels Of God's Love

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... asking as you came here today. I hope to deal with it much as I think Jesus would. Jesus had this wonderful ability to love, to understand that illness is illness, no matter what its cause, and that people are so much more than just their illnesses. If you ... knew all that, but he refused to respond in the way most people would. For him, illness was illness, something to be set right by the love of the one true living God. I don't mean to minimize the tragedy of *'s illness and his death. I just mean to say God ...

231. Grow in Love in Preparation for Advent

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... return of our Lord, through whom we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Our Father, our love relationships get all out of proportion so easily. We are people who love, but sometimes we love things, or our friends, more than we love you. Then there are other times when we love you so much, but we cannot find it in our hearts to love one another. Forgive us for making love such a small thing. Help us to experience love as a growing fellowship that knows no bounds. Thus may we be strengthened in our commitment ...

232. Christ's New Commandment of Love

John 13:31-38

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... that proves to others we are Christ's disciples. People: It is our desire to follow our Lord's commandment to give ourselves to each other in love. Collect Compassionate Father, whose Son gave himself unselfishly to his followers, and commanded his followers to love one another in the same way: Instill in us a genuine love for each other, that our world may be convinced we are disciples of Jesus, in whose name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession The most wonderful commandment has been given to your church ...

233. COUGH DROPS, LIKE LOVE?

1 Peter 4:8

Children's Sermon

... bad feeling passes away. How many of you take a cough drop when your throat is a little scratchy or you have a cough? Lots of you do. Has anyone ever told you that cough drops are a lot like love? They haven't? Well, let me show you how they work and then maybe you will understand how cough drops and love are a lot alike. [Pass out cough drops to the children, but tell them not to put them into their mouths until you tell them to.] Now, we are all going to have to pretend that we have very ...

234. LOVING UNCONDITIONALLY

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... the Sermon of the Mount, Jesus speaks against the emotion of hate. Rather than hurting back those who hurt us, Jesus tells us to pray for them. Right about now we may be thinking, "But this is not the natural order of things." Correct! It is not normal to love an enemy. It is unnatural not to hit back. Grudges are natural reactions to offenses. Does God expect us to be abnormal or unnatural? He sure does. For you see, Jesus makes it clear that the ways of God are not the ways of the world ... they haven’t ...

235. How Could A Love So Right Go Wrong?

Genesis 24:1-67, Genesis 27:41--28:9

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... sounds like a country song, like this one, “I’m miserable without you, it’s almost like having you here.” Then there is my favorite, “If the juke box took tear drops, I could dance all night long.” That one makes me cry every time. How could a love so right go so wrong? The Old Testament story of Isaac and Rebekah starts out so beautifully, but it has a tragic ending. Isaac was a 40-year-old bachelor who implored God to help him find just the right wife. God provided a beautiful young woman of ...

236. Not Having Seen Him, You Love Him

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... with our physical ears. We have not placed our fingers in his hand and side. Our information also is secondhand. Even more amazing, we are 2,000 years removed from those days when he walked and taught beside the Sea of Galilee. We have not seen him and yet we love him. How can it be? MAYBE IT IS BECAUSE OF THE DIFFERENCE HE HAS MADE IN OUR WORLD. So much that is good in the world can be traced directly back to the little village of Nazareth and a humble carpenter who lived there and taught about the Kingdom ...

237. The Love That Conquers the World

Matthew 22:34-46; Mark 12:28-34

Illustration

Frederick Buechner

... thing--of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles. The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing--the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, the unlovely. This is compassion, and it touches the heart of the world. The love for the more fortunate is a rare thing--to love those who succeed where we fail, to rejoice without envy with those who rejoice, the love of the poor for the rich, of the black man for ...

238. Sharing God’s Love

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... what will you give to the nation?" Now this son was very intelligent and thus he replied, "I am a man of vast intelligence and I love to learn. If you leave your kingdom to me I will give it all my intelligence and knowledge. It will become known as the most ... and his sons indicates, and our reading from the letter to the Hebrews says, Jesus' action has changed everything. Through his act of love the world has been washed clean. It is a new day as Jesus reigns supreme as Lord and King from the wood of ...

239. Love Is Action

Illustration

Cloverleaf Mall

... cents burning a hole in my pocket; I never offered it to Helen, and she never asked for it. Because she knew the whole family motto. It's not "Love is Action." It's "Love is SACRIFICIAL Action!" Love always pays a price. Love always costs something. Love is expensive. When you love, benefits accrue to another's account. Love is for you, not for me. Love gives; it doesn't grab. Helen gave her quarter to Brandon and wanted to follow through with her lesson. She knew she had to taste the sacrifice. She wanted ...

240. “Lord, I Love the House Where You Live”

Psalm 26:1-12

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... one’s feet but a path engraved in one’s heart (Ps. 84:5). Illustrating the Text Writing our autobiography Personal Testimony: When we look at Psalm 26:8, we see the principle that motivates David’s life. It is the centerpiece of the psalm: “Lord, I love the house where you live, the place where your glory dwells.” David is developing his theme of verses 1 and 11 as he tells us what influence has caused him to lead a “blameless life.” This is really the theme of his autobiography. All of us are ...

241. Daddy's Love

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... came from a little girl. She said, “I didn’t know what God looked like, so I just drew a picture of my daddy.” (1) Today is Father’s Day. It is our most fervent prayer that when our boys and girls look at their Dads, they see God’s love reflected in their Dad’s eyes. Of course, not every Dad is a great Dad. In fact, Dads don’t get much respect in our society nowadays. Some of you will remember the wonderful story of the family who had three small children who were determined to have their own ...

242. A Feast Of Love

Psalm 23:1-6

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... fists, I want you to tell me who it is that prepares a table for us?" "God?" John questions. "Yes, John. God prepares the table ..." As I speak, I unfold a checkered cloth and spread it on the floor in front of the children. "... and God sets that table with love." With these words I place a heart (cut from wood and painted red) in the center of the cloth. "And you know, a really interesting part of this verse says that God prepares this table in the presence of our enemies. So, that's got to mean that if I ...

243. God's Love Is Deep

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Alan R. Lindberg

... We share his peace everytime here at Trinity we celebrate the Lord's Supper. This peace is more than the absence of pain and trauma: it is the very anesthesia of all of life. It is an entire different existence - beyond time and space. And as much as we humans love this world and will fight to save our lives, we will also long for a life free from the constraints of our human bodies. There will be those today who will try to take God's task of judging ____________. But we believe that we cannot do that. For ...

244. The Centrality of Love in Christian Service

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... out the task God has assigned to us as his church, gifted as we are, without the gift of love. We desire that gift most of all. Collect Gracious Father, whose nature is love, and who has created your children with the capacity to reflect that nature by receiving and sharing that love: Recondition our lives with the gift of love; that all we do in service on your behalf may be done in the spirit of genuine love, making effective the purpose of the many gifts you have given us. In our Savior's name we pray ...

245. Love is like Soap Suds

Philippians 1:9

Children's Sermon

... knew that . How many of you knew that he always does things in just the right way? You all knew that too? Terrific! Do you know why he’s so good to you and me and does these things so well? Because he loves us so much. He keeps loving and loving and loving and the more he helps, the more he loves. Let me show you. You see this bowl of water? Well, I’m going to pour some liquid detergent into it. (Pour a generous portion but don’t pour so much that it begins to make suds). When I do this, you ...

246. So Great a Love

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... the effort, for the God he had come to know in Jesus was worth getting to know. In his letter to the church at Ephesus, in the second chapter, he scrawled these words with quill pen on parchment: "But God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ; by grace you have been saved" (Ephesians 2:4-5 RSV). Hollow words these are, if the only God you have been introduced to in your life is the God who is most ...

247. A Shepherd's Love

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... that much, but that’s the Gospel. God really does care for us so much that Christ lay down his life in our behalf. This brings us to the second thing we need to know about the Good Shepherd. God knows us by name. God doesn’t just love humanity en mass. God loves each of us intimately. God knows our name. Jesus goes on to say, “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me just as the Father knows me and I know the Father . . .” One of the most disturbing and influential books of the ...

248. Radical Love is Forgiving (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . She lets her hair down, something that no woman would ever do. And she anoints him, not with cheap olive oil, but precious perfume. So she hadn’t mastered all the skills of high places, she’s been used to living in low places. But could anyone doubt her love, even if it was sensually expressed? What do you do with grace? You say thank you and have sense enough to receive it. That’s what you do with grace. How do you receive forgiveness? You receive it by faith, that’s how you receive it. Verse 50 ...

249. Do You Love Me?

John 21:1-19

Illustration

Robert Allen

... is a very tender and moving scene in the play, Fiddler On The Roof. Tevyev and his wife Golda are being forced to move from their home in Russia. One day Tevyev comes into the house and asks his wife, "Golda, do you love me?" "Do I what?" "Do you love me?" Golda looks at him and then responds: "Do I love you? With our daughters getting married and this trouble in the town, you're upset, you're worn out, go inside, go lie down, maybe it's indigestion." Tevyev interrupts and asks the question, "Golda, do you ...

250. Kids' Advice On Love

Humor Illustration

... gives me a headache to think about that stuff. I'm just a kid. I don't need that kind of trouble. (Kenny, 7) CONCERNING WHY LOVE HAPPENS BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell. That's why ... likes to eat. French fries usually work me. - (Bart, 7) WHAT EXACTLY IS MARRIAGE? Don't forget your wife's name. That will mess up the love. (Roger, 8) Marriage is when you get to keep your girl and don't have to give her back to her parents. (Eric, 6) When ...

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