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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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2501. Marriage, Sexual Intimacy, and Spiritual Devotion

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

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Preben Vang

... the issue of marriage, Paul completes his discussion on how Christian faith impacts social and interpersonal issues with a theological conclusion anchored in his anticipation of Christ’s imminent return. His introductory “now concerning [NIV: ‘about’]” hints that he feels a question posed by the Corinthians needs further explication. His recognition that he does not have a command from the Lord is a mere disclosure statement; he does not have a specific Jesus saying to quote. The reference to his ...

2502. Unity and Community (Part 1)

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

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Preben Vang

... us in increasing our sense of worth, solving our problems, or gaining the respect of others. If we do receive such gifts, we often feel tempted to use them for our own agendas and to better our own lives. Rarely do we eagerly desire the greater gifts and ask ... to offer it to her in an effort to look generous. Sometimes believers approach spiritual gifts this way, developing abilities they feel will make them happy and later trying to pass them off as spiritual gifts for the benefit of others. Instead, we must ...

2503. The Priority of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Preben Vang

... mirror vaguely reveals must exist and will later come to be seen with full clarity—face-to-face. Then, as Paul exclaims, “I shall know fully, even as I am fully known [by God]” (12:12). Illustrating the Text Spirituality is not about feeling good; it is about willingness to participate in Christ’s sufferings. Drama: Come up with an advertisement for a strange new product: suffering. The ad should make a poignant and/or humorous illustration of the fact that nobody goes around shopping for suffering ...

2504. David on the Run

1 Sam 21:1–22:5

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... experience in Gath reminds him to wait on God’s guidance (22:3). Through a prophetic message from Gad, God calls him back to his own land to face up to his destiny (22:5). David has found a “stronghold” (metsudah) in Moab (22:4–5), where he feels secure, but it is time for him to realize that the Lord is his true stronghold and source of protection. Through the coming years, David indeed learns this lesson. Later, as he reflects on how God has delivered him from all his enemies (2 Sam. 22:1), he ...

2505. Adversity of a Righteous Man

Job 1:1-22

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Daniel J. Estes

... . On the other hand, if Job’s pious behavior is truly rooted in his heart, then his faith in Yahweh will survive amid the rubble of his experience. 1:20–22 Then he fell to the ground in worship. Job’s response to this profound calamity is twofold. Feeling the full force of grief, he tears his clothing and shaves off his hair, which are customary rites of mourning in the ancient world (cf. Gen. 37:34; Isa. 15:2; Jer. 7:29). At the same time, Job also falls to the ground and humbly worships God. All ...

2506. “In the Lord I Take Refuge”

Psalm 11:1-7

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C. Hassell Bullock

... can be an instrument of faith, and for the more spiritually timid of us, it can be an amazement that faith could be so bold. Regardless of our spiritual temperament, we will need to walk through the Psalter with a respect for both dispositions, or we will never feel at home in the psalmic world, which is, we must admit, the world of human reality. The psalmist’s triple petition is answered by the faith he expresses in the final confession of trust and his all-too-brief aria of God’s grace (13:5–6). We ...

2507. “Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit”

Psalm 31:1-24

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C. Hassell Bullock

... I commit my spirit.” 31:16 Let your face shine on your servant. This is an allusion to the priestly benediction (Num. 6:25; see table 1 in the unit on Ps. 4). See also Psalms 4:6; 27:9. David prays this blessing on himself to suppress the feeling of uncertainty that plagues him.[16] 31:17 Let me not be put to shame, Lord, . . . let the wicked be put to shame. An answer to this prayer against his enemies (31:17–18) would confirm his trust in God and bring his problem to resolution. Verses 21–22 ...

2508. “The Lord Most High Is Awesome, the Great King over All the Earth”

Psalm 47:1-9

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C. Hassell Bullock

... song and celebrating his worth in his presence by proclamation and meditation—has largely been replaced, at least in the West, by a form of entertainment calculated to give worshipers the equivalent of a sauna or Jacuzzi experience and send them away feeling relaxed and tuned up at the same time. . . . The question is not whether a particular liturgical form is used, but whether a God-centered as distinct from a man-centered perspective is maintained—whether, in other words, the sense that man exists ...

2509. “You Have Given Me the Heritage of Those Who Fear Your Name”

Psalm 61:1-8

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C. Hassell Bullock

... to the sanctuary as that of a “resident alien,” if not officially, then emotionally. Maybe it is because he is in the midst of the crisis, as he certainly is, that he uses this verb (gur) and gives his “dwelling” in God’s house a different nuance. Indeed, he feels faint because the crisis is so intense (61:2b), and the thought of being in God’s house as a guest is enough at this point. He is so distant from God that he can hardly think of being a bona fide resident! As we determine the place and ...

2510. The Image of Gold and the Fiery Furnace

Daniel 3:1-30

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Ronald W. Pierce

... fell down and worshiped the image. The narrator’s tedious repetition of the names of the instruments (also in 3:10, 15) creates an environment in which conformity feelsnormal, while resistance stands out.9 The sea of people bowing before the image reinforces this feeling. 3:8–12 some astrologers came forward and denounced the Jews. The Aramaic kasda’in, like its Hebrew counterpart in 2:2, can denote profession, “astrologers” (2:2, 4–5, 10; 4:7; 5:7, 11), or ethnicity, “Chaldeans” (1:4; 9:1 ...

2511. What Can I Get By With?

Luke 17:5-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... confronted with Jesus’ word: “When you’ve done all those things which you are commanded, say ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what was our duty to do.’” Maybe this is the reason we don’t like this hard saying of Jesus. It opens up our feelings of self-righteousness, and it condemns our smug attitude of thinking that we measure up to the kingdom’s demands. I ask you: Is there any way that any one of us, by any amount of effort or obedience to the will of God can establish a claim ...

2512. Save the Children

Mark 9:30-37

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King Duncan

... those who don't have a warm, safe place to sleep at night. God also hurts for children who are very shy and those who feel like outsiders and those whom other children laugh at and are cruel to. You see, you can still be at home with your family and still ... or at school like that. You may never be able to help find a missing child, but you could be kind to someone you know who feels left out and alone. You may never have much money to feed hungry children, but you could be a friend to someone who needs a friend ...

2513. The Grace Question: “Are You a Teacher…and Yet Do Not Understand These Things?”

John 3:1-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... . That’s what Jesus was telling Nicodemus. You must be born again, and that birth is from above. It’s not something you do; it’s something God does, and He does it through the Spirit. The wind blows where it wills; you see the sign of it and you feel it, but you don’t know from where it comes or where it goes. Will Willimon spoke a challenging word. He said, “We are so preoccupied with the need to make a decision for Christ, that we forget that in Christ, God has once and for all made a decision ...

2514. Look Again

Matthew 1:18-25

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James L. Killen

... or our parents, anxieties about whether we can stay employed or make ends meet with our income. Some of us even look within ourselves and see things that make us feel not okay. Knowing that we have to live in that world can cause lots of anxieties. We may even feel like we want to run and hide. Lots of people must have had similar feelings in the days when the biblical drama was being played out. There were tensions between the religious and ethnic groups within the Jewish nation. The poor were very poor ...

2515. Thank You, Siri...Oops!

Luke 17:11-19

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King Duncan

... of you who have smartphones know that one of the most frustrating things about using them is that when the voice inside them--Siri, Cortana, or whomever they may be--gives you the information that you need, there’s no one to say “Thank you” to--not without feeling like a complete idiot. The need to express gratitude is one of our most human attributes. Some of us even want to say thank you to a piece of electronics. And yet, there are far too many people who simply ignore this simple act of courtesy ...

2516. Eliphaz

Job 4:1–5:27

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Gary M. Burge

... of each speech arguably acknowledge past comments of other characters. In Job’s first response to Eliphaz, for example, one feels the pathos welling up within Job over the discord between his life’s reality and Eliphaz’s counsel (Job 6– ... is brought on by humans themselves (5:7). This last verse is the heart of Eliphaz’s consolation here. Job should not feel victimized by outside forces. Something within Job’s human condition is responsible. 5:8–16 · Job must acknowledge the human-originated ...

2517. Epilogue

Job 42:7-17

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Gary M. Burge

... you according to your folly” (42:8). The NIV’s translation leads the reader to see that the friends have somehow, somewhere in the story, committed folly. But we may be missing one of the most striking, and troubling, instances in the Hebrew Bible of attributing human feelings to God. We must consider two things: the structure of the utterance and the behavior in mind. (1) The words underlying Job 42:8 are a common idiom in the Hebrew Bible: “do x with y,” where y is a person or entity and x is the ...

2518. I am the Door

John 10:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... he just wanted to visit a friend, he would go to see Grandma Sudley. “How are the ladies?”, she would say. “They’re still after me,” he would answer. “Not me,” she would say. Grandma Sudley always asked him to say a prayer with her just so he would feel he was doing his job, even though both of them knew she prayed more often and better than he ever thought of. One day word came that she was dying, and her family wanted the young preacher to come. When he got there, he didn’t want to go in ...

2519. Accept His Peace

John 4:1-26, Romans 5:1-11, Exodus 17:1-7

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King Duncan

... by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.” What wondrous good news that is. If we do not have that peace, we lose energy worrying about the wrong things. If we do not have that peace, we may carry a life-long burden of feelings of unworthiness. No wonder that before he sank that sixty-two foot putt, Larry Nelson prayed for peace. Peace really is one of the most precious gifts that Christ offers us. One elderly gentleman found that peace even though he was confined to a bed for forty ...

2520. A New Possibility

Matthew 4:12-23

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James L. Killen

... this world's ways if we hope to survive. Many of us suspect that if we really did try to live the life that Jesus taught us, we would quickly be run over and left bleeding in some ditch. Let's admit that many of us have good reason for feeling that way. But the biblical belief in the kingdom of heaven never was a naive belief about pie in the sky or on earth either. Jesus came into a world of violent conflict, and from very early in his ministry conflict swirled around him. But Jesus came saying, "Things ...

2521. A Happy Ending

Joshua 5:9-12

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Charley Reeb

... want to move on to a better one, but cannot find the energy or courage to take that first step. Maybe someone has hurt you, and you feel it is time to forgive and move on, but resentment has become a good friend. Perhaps a loved one has died, but you can’t seem ... alone. Maybe you have grown out of your present job, but the routine of it is all you have ever known. Maybe you feel called into full-time ministry, but don’t want to give up your lavish lifestyle. Perhaps your faith is growing into new ideas, ...

2522. Dying To Live

Isaiah 43:16-21

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Charley Reeb

... God pulling us away from our past, we hang on with tooth and nail and scream, “I won’t do it!” Most of us go kicking and screaming into redemptive change. Ironically, we favor bondage over freedom. We feel more at home in Egypt than the Promised Land! Yet every human being must choose between two deaths. We can die in our sin, or allow our sin to die. One is a horrific death, the other is a glorious one. If we are honest with ourselves and search the ...

2523. Wounded Healers

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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Charley Reeb

... , “Some Christians stay at the foot of the cross and never climb up on the cross to see what Jesus sees.”[3] This is where being a wounded healer begins — climbing up on the cross to see what Jesus sees and to feel what Jesus feels. I need to warn you, however. What Jesus sees and feels on the cross is not pleasant. Isaiah 52 and 53 vividly describe the ugly and painful wounds Jesus suffers for us, reminding us of just how wounded we are. And as we hang on the cross with Christ, it does not take ...

2524. Need a Lift?

Acts 9:36-43

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Charley Reeb

... church was willing to allow the love of God to flow through them in order to bring the dead to life. Imagine how different the world would be if we became concerned not about winning the race, but helping others to finish it. Imagine, imagine, just imagine how it feels to run hand in hand toward the finish line, knowing no one is left behind. 1. Quoted in John Ortberg, If You Want to Walk on Water, You’ve Got to Get Out of the Boat (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2001), p. 132. 2. Ibid. 3. Charles R ...

2525. Love without Limits

Acts 11:1-18

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Charley Reeb

... you are around those kind of people. Now, as you have them in your mind, hear these words of our Lord: “I choose to give to [them] the same as I give to you ... are you envious because I am generous?” (Matthew 20:14-15). How does that make you feel? — Like telling Jesus to go jump off a cliff? Like telling Jesus he’s crazy? You’re not alone. In fact, you are in a lot of good company. The Bible is filled with people who thought our Lord was crazy. In the Old Testament, Jonah thought God was crazy ...

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