Sermon and Worship Resources

Synonyms: touch, feel, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, contact, using one's hands, sensation, sense, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, notion, inkling, hunch, fancy, apprehension, presentiment, premonition, foreboding, love, care, affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, warmness, emotion, sentiment, emotional state, compassion, sympathy, empathy, fellow feeling, understanding, concern, solicitude, solicitousness, tender-heartedness, brotherly love, sensibilities, sensitivities, self-esteem, ego, pride, opinion, belief, view, impression, intuition, instinct, estimation, guess, theory, hypothesis, thought, way of thinking, point of view, atmosphere, ambience, aura, air, mood, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour, aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, skill, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination, sensitive, warm, warm-hearted, tender, tender-hearted, caring, soft-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic, responsive, receptive, intuitive, thoughtful

Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

Showing 251 to 275 of 2036 results

251. Fourth Sunday In Advent - Joy!

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Bulletin Aid

David M. Oliver

... of their hearts." In contrast, conventional wisdom suggests, "You only go around once in life. You have to grab for all the gusto you can." "The one who has the most toys at the end wins." We know that pride comes before the fall. Why is it that we insist on being stubbornly prideful, and self-sufficient, even when we know that it is counter-productive? Mary's relationship with God is starkly different. It was characterized by holy humility and absolute trust in God's power and provision. The powerful in ...

252. God, The Holy Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... the Galileans could not know. What do you think all this means? Rabbi: It is very unusual. I'm not sure what to say. I am reminded of the story of the Tower of Babel. With great pride and arrogance, people started to build a very high tower to reach all the way up to heaven. But God saw their pride and mixed up their language so they couldn't talk to each other any more without great effort. This morning, it appears that God has reversed that process. These Galileans are being understood by everybody. This ...

253. Proper 10

Ephesians 1:1-14, Psalm 24:1-10

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... greatness to yours, O God! What lineage, however honorable, can be traced with confidence in your eternity? What national history or personal history, deserves to be mentioned in connection with the history of your saving acts? Forgive the haughtiness that accompanies our pride of race, or place, or person. Only by your grace are we received into the heavenly realms, through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen. DECLARATION OF GOD'S FORGIVENESS Hear the Good News! In Christ our release is secured and our sins are ...

254. Proper 6

1 Samuel 15:1-35, Psalm 20:1-9, 2 Corinthians 5:1-10, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, 1 Samuel 16:1-13

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... for joy over your victory, and in the name of our God set up our banners. May the LORD fulfill all your petitions.Now I know that the LORD will help his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories by his right hand. Some take pride in chariots, and some in horses,but our pride is in the name of the LORD our God. They will collapse and fall, but we shall rise and stand upright. Give victory to the king, O LORD; answer us when we call.

255. Fasting In A Fast-food World

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... or temper or jealousy or pettiness are inside, they quickly surface when you start to fast. Begin to fast and immediately you are tempted to call attention to your "deep spirituality" of fasting (like the Pharisees Jesus told about), and our pride erupts. Begin to fast, get hungry, and you get mean! Begin to fast, and our prevailing sins quickly rise up to expose themselves. Jesus told us not to call attention to ourselves when we fast. The Pharisees did that, and the only reward they received were pious ...

256. Proper 14

Mt 14:22-33 · Rom 9:1-5 · Ex 14:19-31 · Ps 106:4-12

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... . The Bible teaches us to fear God not in terms of being afraid of God but to honor, respect, revere and obey him. The fear of God removes all reasons to be afraid, for if God is for and with us, we have it made. 4. Pride before a Fall. Peter illustrates the truism that pride precedes a fall. With great bravado he challenges Jesus to ask him to let him walk on water, too. He is sure he can do it. He has perfect self-confidence. He can do whatever Jesus asks him to do. But, the turbulent waves whipped by ...

257. The Prodigal Nation

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Erskine White

... as their parents. We are turning the ethic of Jesus upside down - we can bail out corrupt savings and loan executives with multi-billion dollar subsidies, but we can't give the working poor a living wage! The nation's image makers tell us "the pride is back," and they speak of "kinder, gentler" times ... but we continue to systematically abandon entire inner cities and all the people in them to the unrelieved miseries of poverty and neglect. We are number one in the world in military spending. We are number ...

258. Joseph's Story

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Erskine White

... local farmers who needed yokes for their oxen. Those were fairly quick and easy to make, but I taught my sons to take pride in even the simplest jobs. Good carpentry requires great care and careful measurements; even a yoke, for example, has to fit the oxen ... my yoke upon you, and learn from me. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matthew 11:28-30). I smiled with pride when I heard Jesus had said that, because I knew He had learned about yokes from me. Well, enough about my family and my work. ...

259. Blind Beggars All

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Erskine White

... set us free. Amen Pastoral Prayer O Great and Good God, who sent Your Son to walk among us with eyes and ears and healing hands, make us more aware of the Bartimaeus within us. Help us to see ourselves as blind beggars too, that we may never let our pride stand between us and You. Make us more eager to wait by the side of the road, calling out our plea and confessing our need for You. Make us patient for Your reply, that we may gratefully receive Your many good gifts when our faith has made us well. Most ...

260. The Faith of the Cannanite Woman

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... How can he possibly help me? There is the barrier of culture. A generation that travels faster than the speed of sound may well wonder, how it can get help from a Palestine Jew who traveled on a donkey? Can Jesus even understand our problems? There is the barrier of pride. Am I willing to get beyond myself and admit that I cannot handle every situation that comes up in life Are we able to cross the barrier that says: I don't need you Jesus. I am doing quite well by myself. It seems clear that when this lady ...

261. “You Did That for Me!”

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... innocent submission makes us insecure. Remember how Jesus said that we were to become as little children if we wished to enter the Kingdom of God? When we receive gifts of care, we are like little children. This offends our pride. Could this be the heart of the matter? When our pride is tested, we feel uncertain. We feel threatened. Sometimes we are ashamed. We are left only with surrender -- to let go and submit ourselves into their care. When we receive and feel vulnerable, we are not the center of our ...

262. An Our Good Works And Generosity

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... that all we are and do must end in death. So it is that even our "good" deeds, because they are marred by selfishness and sin, ultimately lead us to death. Such good works are nothing more than another nail in our coffin. No room is left here for spiritual pride. The very best of our deeds deserve the judgment of hell. They are some of the reasons that we must die. The words of today's psalm hit the nail on the head: "For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have ...

263. Preparing The Way

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... just knew that all of us are "turned in on self," as Luther described sin. "Selfishness, impatience and materialism are all on my list," grandfather Frank said to his grandson. Religious slackness, moral erosion and complaining were on Malachi's list. Crookedness, inferiority and pride made John's list. What items belong on our lists that we may be made ready for the coming of our special guest? God is coming! 1. Stephen V. Daughty Emphasis magazine, C.S.S. Publishers, Lima, Ohio, December 1988, page 6. 2 ...

264. A Lesson From Prayers Overheard

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... or dishonest humility. Rather than looking upward to God, the Pharisee looked sideways to the publican; and there is no question about it, the Pharisee looks splendid when compared with a publican! The demon of pride comes racing in and an unwarranted sense of security reigns in regard to our relationship with God. Not a few of us believe this is the practice that fuels virtually all gossip. Who ever hears "good gossip?" Feeling insecure ourselves, we look to the failure of others to comfort our ...

265. Saved By Water: The Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... desert on which any of us might walk. The woman of Sychar was on a sexual desert. A lot of people are. There are other deserts. Many of us have at least one foot in some kind of desert; it may be a desert of greed or selfishness or spiritual pride or fear or hatred or anger or an unforgiving spirit. Whatever our desert is, it is drying out our spiritual selves; it is killing us. We are dying of thirst. To that desert - our desert - comes the same living water that came to the woman at the well. For every ...

266. Always Home

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... many times I thought I would not see him alive again. Many times he came back from the edge of death. He seemed to take a pride in God's ability to do that for him. Then, after healing, came the day to come home, if only for a visit.There is also ... Those Christian friends of his who have died now live in the same place as he. He's not moving out; he's moving in.___________ took pride in being the oldest living memr of the church housed in this building. It was a badge of honor earned by God's grace. It was ...

267. The Elders

Drama

William Grimbol

... ! DAVID: Well, well, back to back banquets. RUTH: Back to back to back to back. RACHEL: Amen. You two make every meal a banquet. DAVID: My wife is an excellent cook. I am only showing my pride (Patting his portly stomach). NATHAN: God warns of having excessive pride (both resume laughing; back slapping ensues). RACHEL: You two! Just finish. We want to enjoy conversation without the sounds of your incessant chewing. RUTH: Yes. Please hurry. DAVID: (Gobbling remaining food) Your wish is my command. NATHAN ...

268. The Dripping of Water

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... each foot over the basin and pours over it handful after handful of cool, cleansing water. He dries the foot with his towel. As Jesus did this, each disciple must have seen himself as he really was. He saw with terrible clarity his silly pride, his jealousy, his petty squabbling. In that moment, each one must have felt utterly ashamed. Here was Jesus, acting as servant to them, as if he were symbolically saying, "Even though you're confused about what really counts, even though you don't really understand ...

269. Divorce-Proofing Your Marriage

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... that nothing I did ever pleased her. Her constant criticism made me feel like a total failure at home." You know, ladies, a husband will do almost anything to live up to the good image his wife has of him. Do you compliment your husband and let him see your pride in him? The same is also true for women! A wife tends to be as beautiful as her husband makes her believe she is. Listen to the way the writer of Proverbs 31:29 praises his wife. He said, "Many women are good wives, but you are the best of ...

270. Six Nails of the Cross VI: The Nail of Cruelty

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the joyous proclamation of the resurrection. Yet my heart and my mind revolt against this continual confession of personal inadequacy, of personal pride and guilt. Never before have I longed so for the peace and comfort which my church can give me; for the ... new life of the resurrection. These nails are beginning to hurt; I no longer wish to hear nor preach about the nail of pride, the nail of hatred, the nail of envy, the nail of indecision, the nail of infidelity, the nail of cruelty. I am ready ... ...

271. Prayers for Year A

Bulletin Aid

William S. Carter

... may see Jesus; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and rules with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, within our world today. Amen. ASH WEDNESDAY · Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 Heavenly Father, we come here to share with you. Take away our pride in ourselves and rather fill us with a profound feeling of your worth. Grant our worship a tone of quiet confidence; through Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, who lives and rules with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, within our world today. Amen. FIRST SUNDAY ...

272. Humble Servants of the Lord

Luke 14:1-14

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... and follow You. Give us the wisdom and strength to hear Your call and be Your faithful followers. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, You taught us not to be puffed up or full of pride, yet so often we seek our own glory. You lived Your life in true humility, yet so often we seek prideful greatness. Lord, You offer us Your loving forgiveness, yet so often we will not forgive others. Forgive us again and heal our hearts, Lord, and help us share Your love with others. In Christ we pray. Amen ...

273. Talk! Talk! Talk!

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... of our people, as he says, "Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I. Do they speak with tongues? So have I. Do they see visions? So do I. I speak as a fool!" And so does everyone else who speaks with pride about his own experience and tries to convince anyone of the truth of the gospel in that way. The next time you want to witness for Christ to some unchurched person, keep yourself under the discipline of silence. Keep your mouth shut, and then witness. Just ask yourself how ...

274. Christian Unity

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... to lead us if we will only follow. We praise You, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have failed to see the wonder and peace that would be ours if we would only give up our pride and seek Your guidance. Forgive us, Lord, when we have been so pride-filled and stubborn. Take now our yielded lives and use them to do many wonders in Your kingdom that others might know Your love. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "Be Still, My Soul" "Savior, Like A Shepherd Lead Us" "Jesus, Lover ...

275. Everybody Pray!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

... relatives are gone, and he lives in the late afternoon hours of his life. His little room is a somber sort of place. He is filled with pride about a job and career long ended, but still vivid in his memory. When I visit him he says, "I pray a lot. It does me ... life because our souls are stagnant in self-interest. Not just our prayers, but our very thinking is so utterly self-centered. As pride rules our life, so it rules our thinking and effects ourprayers. Why don't we pray more for other people? I don't ...

Showing results