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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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2551. How Well Do You Listen?

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... her. He says he looked into her. Somehow he felt empowered to reach down into the depths of her being, and he had an eerie sensation that he had touched her soul. What surprised him even more was that she was doing the same thing to him. He could feel her spiritually pouring herself into him. She stopped her quacking. He says he had never heard of her doing that--but in that moment, she stopped quacking. Then she lifted her eyes and looked around at the sky and the trees and the people nearby, and she said ...

2552. A Law Written On Our Hearts

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... Lord for putting her where He had put her.” However, “realizing that her heart was not right, she got down on her knees and said, ‘Lord, you know that I do not like these people at all. God, help me to love them.’ “She did not feel any different, but she resolved to exercise love. She baked her neighbors a pie and took it to them, thus beginning a caring relationship.” Here’s what was interesting according to Hughes. “Those neighbors did not change, but she did. She had begun to love them ...

2553. About Donkeys and True Greatness

Mark 11:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... a dubious reputation. Their reputation, of course, is for stubbornness. It is said that it is considerably more difficult to force or frighten a donkey into doing something it perceives to be dangerous than, say, a horse. Some say that is because the donkey doesn’t feel a connection to its owner that a horse does. Of course the stubbornness of a donkey is said to have saved the life of one of the Old Testament’s less glorious prophets. His name was Balaam. His donkey is said to have miraculously spoken ...

2554. Uncertain Certainties

John 20:19-31

Sermon

John Jamison

... Jesus showed up then but doesn’t pop in around here once in a while and give us a bit of proof too? Please understand, I’m not making light of what happened in that closed room, and I’m not making light of the pain so many of us feel at times because of our very real doubts. It’s just that I’ve seen so many people who are going through so many horrendously painful experiences. And I know that one little visit from Jesus, holding out his hand and saying “Put your finger here,” would have made a ...

2555. Chaos and Solitude

Mark 6:30-44, 53-56

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... 6:34, the people around Jesus were like sheep without a shepherd. Matthew 9:36 reports the same thing in a slightly different way. There we read that the crowd was harassed and helpless. Many people there were frightened, anxious, confused, and defenseless. Ever feel that way? Ever experience the chaos that abounds all around us? Chaos is catching. Have you ever succumbed? There is no doubt that there is chaos in the world we live today. The speed at which we live, the noise that surrounds our days, the ...

2556. Giving Up Control

John 6:1-21

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... you see what is happening to us?" We think, "Don't you care?" The story of Jesus walking on water is about Jesus coming to where we are. That's the real miracle. Jesus moves toward us when we are in trouble. Jesus cares about what is happening. When we feel that God is far off or sleeping and that he must not care about us because bad things happen to us even when we follow the Lord, we have the opportunity to remember the hardest lesson of all. God is in control, not me. God acts on his time schedule ...

2557. Jesus' No-Nonsense Guide to Success

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... prayer. Sometimes we might receive it in worship or as we take part in the Lord's Supper. Sometimes we receive it through music, friendships, or taking the time for an afternoon nap and being refreshed that way. And sometimes when we really feel at peace, when we really feel close to God, sometimes we may just want to stay there. We may want to enjoy ourselves, to enjoy God's goodness, and leave all the responsibilities and frustrations of the world behind. But successful living is more than just Jesus and ...

2558. When Your Life Is Put On Hold

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... We know God loves us. We know He is aware of our concerns. We have confidence that he is moved by our prayers. It’s just that sometimes he seems to move very slowly. And it is difficult for us to deal with those delays. We feel so helpless. An O’Hare Airport study of air traffic controllers, completed just prior to the controller’s strike several years ago, confirmed the high stress level that these controllers are under. The job is stressful, however, not simply because these controllers have to make ...

2559. What Really Counts

Mark 9:38-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... disciples are trying to protect their brand. And it appears to me that we, his followers, have been more like Jesus’ original disciples than like him. Look at what has happened to us. We have splintered into thousands of different groups, and each one, of course, feels that it has a corner on the truth. God must get a good laugh out of it all if it doesn’t cause Him to weep. Jesus’ disciples were upset that someone who wasn’t a part of their group was performing miracles--specifically, casting out ...

2560. A Word to the Wealthy

Mark 10:17-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... the human need for love and acceptance.” Mrs. Suzuki, a retired doll-maker who rented a family, wrote about it: “From the bottom of my heart, I felt as though they could be my family. I know they’re not my real family, but there was a real feeling of warmth.” (3) How sad. Old people who pay younger people to give them a little attention because their own families ignore them. Of course, maybe there ought to be a “Rent-a-Dad” agency in every community or a “Rent-a-Spouse” agency. It’s not ...

2561. Telling the Truth

Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... babies and radiant rainbows. The good news is a reality show and it begins amidst the shards of our broken lives. The good news begins by telling the truth. I find John’s truth-telling refreshing and cathartic. Telling the truth out loud — to each other — feels like a refining fire of freedom. Telling the truth brings us to our knees in supplication and need, preparing us to submit body and soul to the fresh gift of love and grace that only God can provide. This day let us hear John the Baptist ...

2562. God with Skin On

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... . But look again. You are also touching yourself. For you too are safe, precious, special, beloved. Through your baptism you have become one with Christ and you have become a bit of God with skin on. There are swaddling cloths of grace wrapped tightly around you. Can you feel them? They are there to keep you safe, to keep you warm, and to tell you just how beloved you are. But then, please look in the manger one more time. What you see is not just God — or yourself. What you see are all the brothers and ...

2563. What To Say When You Roll Out Of Bed

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

William G. Carter

... you." He promised to balance the checkbook, but didn't get around to it until three or four checks bounced. Then he expressed his regrets, adding, "I love you." One day his wife said, "You must stop saying that you love me." He complained, "But I do love you. I feel it; I say it; I think it." She said, "No, if you loved me, you would do something about it. You would keep your part of the relationship." She was right, because she knows the full shape of love. To love God with all our strength is to keep our ...

2564. How Intelligent Is God’s Design?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... what was wrong. The child tearfully explained that he and the other children had been playing hide-and-seek and that he had hidden himself, but no one had come seeking him. The father kissed his small son lovingly and said, “My child, now you know how God feels. For God is hidden in our midst and waits patiently for us to begin the search.”[3] Friends, this Epiphany Sunday let us arise and shine. Let us arise and join the Magi, seeking the new thing God is always doing in our midst. And in the random ...

2565. How Angry Are You?

Luke 4:21-30

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... as pious as all that sounds — it is likely that Jesus takes that time to pay attention to his life. He takes time to pay attention to his feelings, to his anger and his fear, to his hopes and to his dreams. Yes, Jesus shows us a way to “befriend” our anger and to accept it as ... cliff. Usually, when conflict and disagreement happen, all of us in the fray are participants in the turmoil and the hurt feelings and the raised voices that emerge. We are all part of the problem. But, my friends, all of us can ...

2566. A Remedy for Rejection

Luke 4:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... want me for a sunbeam.” (2) Twenty-seven years old! What a waste. Drug addiction is a terrible thing. So is depression. That is why I am saying to you if you are going through a hard time right now, hang in there, regardless of how desperate you may feel. Most people who determine to take their own life discover that, if they can just hang in there until the cloud passes from their soul, there is hope on the other side. Time is a remedy for rejection. But an even greater ally is God. If somebody had just ...

2567. What Will We Do When He Is Gone?

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... my way, I yield my flick’ring torch to thee; My heart restores its borrowed ray, That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day May brighter, fairer be. O Joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, And feel the promise is not vain, That morn shall tearless be. O Cross that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from thee; I lay in dust life’s glory dead, And from the ground there blossoms red Life that shall endless be. (“O Love That Wilt Not ...

2568. The Ascension Day Experience

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... , is the experience of ascension. Most of us know what that is like. We have been there. It is felt when you were six years old and your best friend moved to another city. It is felt when you were sixteen and the first person for whom you had romantic feelings told you to get lost. The experience of ascension can be much more serious. It is what happens when you are 35, married, and find a note on the refrigerator door. “I am leaving. I no longer love you. My attorney will be in touch. I plan to fight for ...

2569. An Absolute Cure for Boredom

Philippians 3:7-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... business trip, a very attractive woman made sexual advances toward him. He did not give in, but he was seriously tempted. He was torn between two worlds. He was torn between his commitment to Christ and the world of “Do what you’ve always done” . . . “Do what feels good” . . . “Do what gets results now.” Was it worth what it might cost him, he wondered, to give up his old life to follow Jesus? That’s the central question of life, isn’t it? Is there a God? If so, what does God want from me ...

2570. What Gets Into Us?

John 18:1--19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

... God, and yet he spent the last days tortured with jealousy and seeking to murder David, the man who would succeed him. Then there was David--poet, soldier, leader of man, favored by God. He could have chosen a wife from thousands of beautiful women. Why did he feel the need to take the wife of one of his soldiers and then, why in heaven’s name have that soldier killed? And King Solomon--wisest man in the world--why did he end his life in intellectual, moral and spiritual dissolution? Could he not see what ...

2571. Surprise--One Got Out!

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... is in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. I’m not saying that nothing ever bothers me and I don’t have problems, but I feel like I’ve found the answer to the six-foot hole. I know I’ll spend eternity with God and I have a promise ... cried out,” she said. “I kept whispering to myself, ‘Then it’s real! It’s been real all the time!’” That’s how we will feel on that day when the dead in Christ shall rise . . . It’s real! It’s been real all the time! Christ is risen from the dead ...

2572. The Way Grace Works

Eph 2:8; John 21:15-25

Illustration

Lewis B. Smedes

... our cancers, transform all our kids into winners, or send us all soaring into the high skies of sex and success. Grace is rather an amazing power to look earthy reality full in the face, see its sad and tragic edges, feel its cruel cuts, join in the primeval chorus against its outrageous unfairness, and yet feel in your deepest being that it is good and right for you to be alive on God's good earth. Grace is power, I say, to see life very clearly, admit it is sometimes all wrong, and still know that somehow ...

2573. Appropriate to Speak

Exodus 20:1-21

Illustration

Lewis Smedes

... . It does not ask us to tell the people at the next table in a restaurant that their manners are repulsive. It does not obligate a nurse to contradict a physician at a sick person's bedside. Nor does it require me to divulge all of my feelings to a stranger on the bus. We are called to speak the truth in any situation in which we have a responsibility to communicate. Further, the command requires only a revelation that is pertinent to the situation. A politician ought to speak the truth about public matters ...

2574. In Search of a New Life

Revelation 21:1-5a

Sermon

King Duncan

... we can receive is the ability to step back and look at our lives realistically. It is so tempting to be defeated by those inner voices that tell us that we can’t. It is so common to exaggerate the difficulties that confront us. How often we say or feel, “This is the worst thing that has ever happened to me,” when an objective view of the matter will reveal it to be only a minor and temporary setback. Perhaps this is one of the most blessed benefits of prayer. Spending time alone with God helps us to ...

2575. A Hall of Fame Dad

John 16:12-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... t you? But doesn’t the doctrine of the Trinity say to us among other things that the first Hall of Fame Dad was God? After all, the first two persons of the Trinity in traditional religious language are the Father and the Son. [I can see why women would feel left out whenever we use that language. I hope you know that I know that God is Spirit and not flesh and therefore has no gender. But change is slow in an institution like ours. Please bear with me.] Today we salute our fathers. Dad, we love you. The ...

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