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 2951 to 2975 of 4971 results

2951. All I Need Is A Little Rest!

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... and after the worship they couldn’t stop talking about what had happened. Jesus and his friends went to Peter’s house for lunch. When they got there, they found Peter’s mother-in-law sick with a fever. Giving us all a beautiful example of how to care for mothers-in-law, Jesus healed her. He touched her and took the fever away. News of this healing traveled as quickly as the news of the earlier healing in the synagogue and, combined, they caused all the people of the region to come to Jesus, bringing ...

2952. Overcoming Loneliness

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... Thy spirit’s eye to learn ... Thy dearest friend dwells deep within thy soul, And asks thyself of thee. That he may give himself to thee! In the play, Green Pastures, De Lawd said to Gabriel: "Don’t forget about dat star." "Yes, Sir, I’ll take care of it." "And Gabriel, remember bout dat little sparrow with the broken wing." "Not even a bird falls except your heavenly Father knows about it." Are you alone? Remember the Bible verses you learned as a child: "Whither shall I flee from thy presence? "If I ...

2953. A Good God and the Problem of Suffering

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... son was killed?" Of course she was bitter because of her son’s accident. Dr. Scherer, a wise and compassionate pastor, answered with divine insight: "I don’t know, I don’t know, unless he was where he was when his son was killed." God aware. God caring. God, himself, entering this world’s sorrow. God involved in my anguish. God suffering with Christ and with all his children in the redemptive process. You know, we can best see the eyes of God when we look into the eyes of Christ. There is no doubt ...

2954. Spiritual Blindness

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... only thing we read in braille is the Bible." Is this not part of the message? A message for those of us who have 20/20 vision? We have been blind! Rather than accept our associates, neighbors, friends who have impaired vision, we have carefully walked around them - physically and psychologically - thinking we are kind. In reality we should have accepted their condition in the same way they accept ours. Ability To See I am a visual person. Everything in my personal experience is visualized. In my "mind’s ...

2955. Counting The Cost?

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... of years ago I gave up the idea of completing everything for Christmas. Like you, I thought the ideal Christmas Eve would be the snug feeling, "I’ve done everything for everyone." But would this not mean a carefully restricted list of gifts, cards, messages? If we are loving, caring, we always think of more people we would like to remember with some token of friendship - that individual we have not seen for years, the newcomer to the neighborhood. How does one approach Christmas Eve? Thankful for so ...

2956. The Lord is Our Healing and Salvation

Mark 5:21-43

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... praise for You have heard our pleas and given all who will believe the gift of prayer so that we might pray for one another to make a difference. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O God, we confess we are slow to trust our lives into Your care. So many times we seek after every other way we feel might offer hope rather than seek Your Way for our lives. And rather than accept You as the Creator God of the Universe, we try to make You as only one of us, limited and small. Forgive us, Lord ...

2957. In Our Weakness is the Lord's Strength

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... proclaim Your glory that others may come to know and love You as we do. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, many times we have gotten so involved in dealing with our struggles in life that we have begun to think we are strong enough to take care of ourselves. Lord, we have even failed to share our worries with You in prayer and behaved as though You have no real power in our lives at all. Forgive us, Lord, and be our strength in life that others may see You. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "A ...

2958. Give Me A Break

Mark 6:30-44

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... , a pause and respite, brings us comfort, O God. Let us find during this service of worship a time to pause from ceaseless reaching out and a time to find renewal for the spirit. Amen. Prayer of Confession Well, God, sometimes we feel drained from caring about others, from giving when there seems no more energy for loving, and from coming up with more ideas and new plans for accomplishing the goals we have set. Teach us not to berate ourselves for compassion exhaustion. Show us how to recognize and schedule ...

2959. Provide

John 6:1-24

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... not only to manage our needs but to bring contentment. Through Jesus Christ. Amen. Prayer of Confession At times, O God, we are overwhelmed by the task at hand. We begin to consider ways of running away. Remind us to stay and to keep as a priority caring for others. Remind us to trust that you will provide for basic needs of body and spirit. Through the Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Hymns "Come, Let Us Join with Faithful Souls" or "The Savior Calls; Let Every Ear" "Come, O Fount Of Every Blessing" "Hymn Of ...

2960. Christmas Every Day

John 1:1-18

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... of you." Soon the storm did break with fierce flashings and thunderings. The frightened child cried out for her mother. When the mother came and comforted her, she said gently, "You know, dear, I told you God is right here and he takes care of you." The child replied, "Yes, mother, I know that, but when it thunders like that a little girl wants somebody near who has skin on." A word was not enough. Even a mother’s reassuring word was inadequate. The child needed a friendly human presence, a gentle human ...

2961. Christ and Time

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... . It is Christ who has shown the senselessness of violence and war in settling the tensions in human relations. It is Christ who has elevated woman from a position of domestic slavery to dignity and honor. It is Christ who has inspired a new attitude of tender care for the child. It is Christ who has led men to realize their responsibility to treat with sympathy those who are unfortunate and need help. It is Christ who stirs the world’s conscience to sorrow over wrong and to struggle for the right. Not in ...

2962. As We Remember - Memorial Day

1 Chronicles 11:10-25

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... presents in another famous address will be realized: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in: to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." A word must be spoken, finally, about another aspect of Memorial Day. It has ...

2963. Christian Thanksgiving

Philippians 1:1-7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... enough To share my bread, Alert enough to tell Those blinded by their woe That I still see a star. When hungry children Shake with fright, What can it mean to God That I am safe at night?" Both within the church and in reaching out to care for all suffering and needy people we have reason to pray with the apostle that "love may abound more and more." A living congregation is a loving congregation, and the more it shoulders the responsibilities of love, the more it becomes a source of gratitude. The fourth ...

2964. God’s Wounded Healers

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... are loved as a beautiful, truly beautiful human being." I never expect to receive a more healing benediction than that, and it wouldn’t have been given to me except that I was unable to hide my wounds for a moment - a moment long enough for someone to see and care and reach out. Our primary task together in the church, as Nouwen puts it, is not to take away pain, but rather to deepen the pain to a level where it can be shared. In the sharing of our wounds will our healing come, not in the hiding of them ...

2965. Letting Go

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... A. GOODLING is an ordained United Church of Christ minister whose Ph.D. is in clinical psychology. In addition to being Professor of Pastoral Psychology at the Divinity School at Duke University, he is the Director and a Staff Counselor with the Pastoral Care and Counseling Institute of Durham-Chapel Hill, Inc. His sermon Letting Go was preached at a chapel service in the divinity school. In it he speaks pastorally and artistically of the necessity of surrendering our cherished and familiar ways of being in ...

2966. A New Perspective

Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... find a new frame of reference? How does a person fall in love? How does he become a believer? We don’t know the answers to this. I know you can’t force it, you can’t make it happen. But it’s not going to happen unless you really care. Your orientation will never be captured by a cloud if you never look up into the sky, nor will it be captured by Christ if you never put yourself in his presence. You have very important choices about the context in which to live your life, to be open to ...

2967. The Struggle of Faith

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

A local pastor for ten years, the author of a number of publications in the area of pastoral care and counseling, WILLIAM B. OGLESBY, JR., has been from 1952 to the present Marthina DeFriece Professor of Pastoral Counseling at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. He is a past president of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and a Diplomate of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors involved in a ...

2968. Like Trees Walking

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

A Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and a Supervisor in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, HELEN E. TERKELSEN is currently Director of the Lex King Souter Center for Pastoral Counseling and Pastoral Care in Fall River, Massachusetts, as well as a teaching supervisor and adjunct faculty at Andover Newton Theological School. In the midst of these and other related duties, she claims to be doing what she would rather be doing more than anything else. This sense of ...

2969. Jerusalem, Emmaus and the Meaning of Life

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... Duke University. Presently, Ms. Sullivan is an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, a CPE Supervisor, as well as a Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. She has been on the staff of the Georgia Association for Pastoral Care in Atlanta since 1977 and preaches both in institutional chapel services and on invitation from local churches. The image of life as a journey and the particular journey from Jerusalem to Emmaus and back recorded in Luke 24 are poetically intertwined by ...

2970. Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of bread and two fish. Those are the facts. Five and two. No more, no less. Send the five thousand people home; we can't take care of them today." Andrew, like all of us, is subject to the laws and facts that govern the world but God is not. I do ... day drew near. They had listened and followed for hours. It was now time for dinner and the disciples, perhaps out of care for their Master or feeling quite hungry themselves, wanted to send the people away. Then Jesus surprised his disciples, asking them to feed ...

2971. What Must I DO to Receive Life?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . But this young rich ruler ran up to Jesus and knelt before him, in the middle of the road in broad day light for all to see. If his friends saw him, those within his social class there ?would be no end to the ridicule, but he didn’t care. That makes him a man of ?courage in my book. Now notice what he asked: Good teacher what must I do to inherit eternal life? He did not come to Jesus with verbal puzzles, mental gymnastics, and pious theological jargon. That was what the Pharisees did. They would come ...

2972. Lord, I Want To See

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Brett Blair

... from the prison house of darkness. That he saw clearly. Day after day the world passed by Bartimaeus not really seeing him, not really caring about him. He heard the sound of camels, the shouts of children, the gossip of the women, the business talk of the men but ... life. We don't see the needs of others. To our lasting shame we are like the disciples. We are too busy to stop and to care, and to be a friend. Somehow you and I have got to start kicking out the junk of our lives and start making room for people ...

2973. Advent 1: Won´t You Let Him Into Your Heart?

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

James W. Moore

... :00 news on television to say the blessing at the evening meal. The child, with his mind still on the calamities of the newscast, said the grace and then added a personal note. "Dear God, please take care of Mommy and Daddy and my little sister and Gramma and all the people in the world and please God, take good care of yourself because if anything happens to you, we are all sunk." There is something of my own faith in that prayer. I realize that I have neither the wisdom nor the intelligence to always make ...

2974. God With A Human Face

John 1:1-18

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... text, we see God's love in that by faith in Christ we become children of God. Luther considered John 3:16 the greatest text in the Bible: "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son ..." It is like Hallmark advertises, "When you care enough to send the very best." God cared enough for humankind to send God's very best. The very best was God in Jesus. Christmas, then, is a festival of love because we are now convinced as we gaze into the face of Jesus that God truly loves each of us. How can we be ...

2975. Someone Greater Than a Prophet

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... as a consequence we can be assured the wheat will be separated from the chaff -- an assurance the prophets could not always give. And when you think of it, we should be grateful for the reality of judgment. Judgment is God's way of saying, "I care about the world." Judgment means that things do matter, that there are order and coherence in place of disorder and chaos. Judgment is the confidence that eventually evil and good will be named and separated, that the righteous life does have meaning in the face ...

Showing results