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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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2651. Preachers, All!

Acts 2:1-13, Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . In Luke, and in Luke's second volume, the Book of Acts, people get the Holy Spirit in order to speak. I talk for a living, and even though after years of doing this, I am not nearly as nervous as when I first began, I am still nervous, still feel this rumbling in the pit of my stomach on Sunday morning. That's rather amazing, when you consider how many sermons I've preached and how long I have been at this business of speaking. I am therefore not too surprised to find out that, when people are asked what ...

2652. The Call

Matthew 16:13-20, Mark 1:14-20, Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of you comes up to me, after this sermon, and says, ''I found your sermon such a comfort. I have always thought myself to be a poached egg and I deeply appreciate your giving me the courage to stand up and admit it." What would I say? ''I don't feel like a poached egg and I believe that, if a vote were taken, even in this congregation, to determine how many other poached eggs are here, you would lose.'' We a really are, in Russell's words in a ''desperate'' situation. Who are we? All those for poached eggs ...

2653. Finding Your Place

Romans 12:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... pastures. In our adolescent years it becomes terribly important to be wearing the right jeans, the right shoes and socks, or no socks. Why? Because our terror at our weakness, our vulnerability, produces a terrifying urge to conform. The weaker and more out-of-place we feel, the more our need to find our place, to gain strength from the crowd. Is that why the State, with its ideology, its military hardware, its flag and its ceremonies of power, has become so important to us at a time when humanity's future ...

2654. The Howling

Acts 2:1-21 · John 14:8-17, 25-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... it transformed entire communities, towns, peoples, and nations and created a new community called the “ecclesia,” the church. Wherever those are gathered, the Spirit may touch down. Can you feel the Spirit around you? Can you feel the power of God amidst you? Can you hear the Spirit’s presence howling in your ears? See the light of Christ with your eyes? Can you feel your heart skip a beat and your mind try to deal with the paradox of what it means to be touched by that Spirit? No one is immune from ...

2655. The Most Important Thing

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... true to myself, not the life others expected of me I wish I hadn’t worked so hard I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings I wish I’d stayed in touch with my friends I wish I had let myself be happier. (3) Anytime someone at the end of their lives says ... there’s just no reason to assume any fit between the demands on your time–all the things you would like to do, or feel you ought to do–and the amount of time available . . . The only viable solution is to make a shift: from a life spent ...

2656. More Than a Popularity Contest

Luke 12:49-53, Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... you to this world. Saying ‘Yes’ to me means saying ‘No’ to this world and its comforts and priorities and value systems.” Have you ever dropped in on the middle of a conversation and thought, “Wait a minute—did I hear that right?” That’s how we may feel when we read this passage from Luke 12. Jesus is the love of God in the flesh. He is the Prince of Peace. The one whose death healed our separation with God and with our fellow humans. So these words from Jesus sound like they’re out of ...

2657. What's a Human Book?

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... did you expect when you came to Jesus? In fact, that’s a question I’d like to ask you this morning too: What did you expect when you came to Jesus? Or did you expect anything? I’m so glad you came to church this morning. I hope you feel loved, welcomed, accepted just as you are. But I don’t know your story. I don’t know the beliefs, the questions, or the struggles you may have brought with you today. I don’t know what you expected when you walked through these doors. Maybe you expected a guilt ...

2658. Have You Seen a Buck Flying Past?

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... could ever dream, the wish that if granted would make us happier than any other blessing, is to know God, to actually experience Him. The problem is that we don’t really believe this idea is true. We assent to it in our heads. But we don’t feel it in our hearts.” (5) This is why every Christian community around the world since the beginning of the Church has emphasized prayer, repentance and self-examination. This is why Jesus told us to die to ourselves so that his Spirit could live in us. That’s ...

2659. Graciousness and Grumbling

Matthew 20:1-15

Sermon

Will Willimon

... done to us. It is not (and I heard Brother Falwell preach it this way not long ago) a story of how employers ought not to be limited by governmental regulations regarding fair treatment of employees! It's not even a sermonette on how we ought to feel kindly toward those prodigal sons and daughters who somehow manage to slip through our system of ethical cause and effect and get saved. Jesus goes out of his way to avoid any intrusion of some moralistic point in the story. There is no suggestion of laziness ...

2660. The Steady March Forward

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... ). Jesus told them to shake the dust of the town off their feet if they were rejected. James and John must have been feeling their oats, for when they were rejected by the Samaritans, they wanted to call fire down upon the town and destroy it. Jesus ... particularly want to go. After the resurrection, Jesus had a stunning interlude with Peter. It was one during which many of us feel that Peter was forgiven and healed of his times of denial. During that conversation (found in John 21), Jesus told Peter that ...

2661. All Dressed Up

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to do. I want you to close your eyes for a moment and imagine that you are putting on your “servant’s apron.” Or perhaps for you it’s a nurse’s uniform, a nun’s habit, a prayer shawl, or your “church” clothes. How do you feel? How has your demeanor changed by imagining this form of dress? Jesus encourages us not just one hour a week, not just at certain high holy days, not just when we are engaged with scripture or at prayer meeting, to remember to clothe ourselves in an attitude of ...

2662. Lose the Cape

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... you, what can be better than that?” She was right. There is nothing better than that. But there are a lot of people who don’t know that love — who don’t know they are loved. This is a cold, dark world and people are dying to see and feel our light. There are people who are wondering if the violence and evil around us is all there is. People desperately need love. Growing up one of my favorite actors was Burt Reynolds. In the ’70s and ’80s, he owned Hollywood and had the world by the tail. He ...

2663. Missing!

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... that your teenage son or daughter, or perhaps grandson or granddaughter has come of age to drive. He or she takes the car and one night, you get that phone call that no parent or grandparent ever wants to receive. Accident! Turnpike! You rush to the place with a feeling of dread in the pit of your stomach and thankfully, although the car is totaled, you find your child alive! The car is lost. A good deal of money is lost. How many of you at that moment are worried about the lost money and car? Of course you ...

2664. To See and Be Seen

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... means, they have been unwilling to be seen. Human nature can often cause us to “hide” ourselves from others. Sometimes, it may be because we feel we won’t be accepted for who we are. Sometimes, it’s as a result of past trauma or pain that we put up walls ... Wittenberg, he did so, knowing that his dissension would be seen. But he also knew how important it was for all people to feel they could approach a loving, and forgiving, and grace-filled God who would see them, accept them, and love them as they ...

2665. Time to Listen

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... And then he destroyed the puzzle piece. (1) There’s a very creative way to get revenge and ensure your friend understands how it feels to have the ending spoiled for you. That’s kind of mean. But it reminds me of a hilarious story from the early days of ... that not being able to bring up the past made it very difficult for them to accuse one another or have hard feelings toward one another. The result was that the fourteen were restored to fellowship. A healing took place that night in their relationships ...

2666. Secret Swerve

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the time came for him to be born. From that dark womb, God would make an entrance into the world bringing the Light of hope with him. God’s eyes would see for the very first time what it felt like to be part of God’s own creation, to feel and see and experience life as a human, to save his people from within their own world. Emmanuel, “God with us” would come to free the earth from sin and God’s people from themselves. Like the prophecy that preceded him, he would be a liberating force for a world ...

2667. The Most Important Question

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... gone.) We must remember what Peter Kreeft told his class at Boston University: “Christ changed every human being he ever met. If people claim to have met Jesus without being changed, they have not met Jesus. When you touch Jesus, you touch lightning.” Perhaps you feel your heart being opened today. You have tried everything else life has to offer and it has never satisfied. You’ve been there, done that, and have thrown away the T-shirt! Maybe you are ready to put your hope in Christ. Rick Lawrence is ...

2668. Pontifex

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... of sin and the pain of estrangement from God. When Jesus on the cross uttered the words, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” he experienced the same pain and forsakenness of being separated from God as you and I do when we feel separated from our creator due to our sin, disobedience, and doubts. Though Jesus was still without sin, he experienced the agony you and I endure each moment we separate ourselves from God because of our sin. At this moment Jesus became our high priest. Jesus, as ...

2669. How Does Prayer Work?

1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16)

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... time about the power of prayer -- as if God is eating cornflakes with them at the breakfast table every morning -- and when you pray, it feels like you are ringing the doorbell to an empty house! A colleague of mine tells of the time when he was helping paint the ... saw me, grabbed a rope, threw it out to me, then tied the rope to the dock and told me to pull myself in. I got the feeling this was not the first time he had done this for a guest! As I was pulling on the rope, there was this optical illusion. It ...

2670. Brace Yourself!

Matthew 5:21-37

Sermon

John Jamison

... meant or that any of the things I have imagined are exactly what happened that day on the hillside. I could be mistaken. But I believe it enough to stand up here, light my little candle, and say it out loud. I know that many will disagree, and some may feel that I have gone to far. It isn’t the first time, and won’t be the last. That happens when you try to make complicated things simple. It is simple to understand how to follow Jesus, but it is difficult. Following Jesus is risky. It can be dangerous ...

2671. The Mountain

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

John Jamison

... still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!” God answered Peter’s questions by reminding them that they weren’t up on this mountain to feel good, or to somehow get away from the hardships of being a follower of Jesus. They were here to be shown, once and for all, that Jesus was the Son of God. This mountaintop experience wasn’t about giving the disciples a warm and fuzzy religious experience ...

2672. The Mud Room

John 9:1-41

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... muck of life, to live in the grey areas, to tolerate ambiguity, to be ok with some confusion, mystery, difference of opinions, and supernatural truth, allows us to gain new clarity and a clearer understanding of what it means to be alive, to be vital, to feel creative, renewed, and to be relational. In order to see our world more clearly, we need to muddy and blur our vision. Certainty of vision creates division.The more we think our own eyes can predict our truth, the more divisions we will create. Only ...

2673. Shut the Back Door!

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ! This is why Jesus doesn’t just stand guard at the gate. There are all kinds of reasons not to leave the sheep in the sheep pen. Sheep can get into all kinds of trouble and bedlam when entrapped too long in the pen. Imagine how you feel stuck with the same people in one room for days on end! All kinds of disorder can ensue! Grouchiness, orneriness. Now throw a marauder or troublemaker into the mix, some “back-door” intruder, and you’ve got some stressed out, anxious sheep to deal with, who while ...

2674. What Heaven Will Be Like

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... escape the presence of sin and evil in this world. The consequences are all around us. And in us. We feel powerless to counteract the forces of injustice, oppression, exploitation and violence that desecrate God’s good creation. We ourselves are ... this. And now, all these years later, us having the property in our possession.” (5) Life has to be better than this. We all feel that truth deep in our bones, don’t we? We look around at this broken, dysfunctional world and we imagine that life has to be ...

2675. The Gift of Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... simmer within us, eating at our emotions and our body, is like burning down our house to get rid of rats. C. S. Lewis once observed that he had finally forgiven a man who had been dead for more than thirty years. Imagine that--carrying around negative feelings toward somebody for thirty years after they are dead. Meanwhile, as has oft been noted, the other person is out dancing. Why would you do that to yourself? In the very first chapter of his book Total Forgiveness, Pastor R. T. Kendall tells of a time ...

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