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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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My salvation does not hinge on my emotions. I have an official record. I have the Word of God: "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God: that ye may know that ye have eternal life."

Adrian Rogers

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

Adrian Rogers

Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, it is designed to be used for constructive spiritual purposes. The person who cannot feel anger at evil is a person who lacks enthusiasm for good. If you cannot hate wrong, it's very questionable whether you really love righteousness.

Dr. David Seamands

One must never make a show of false emotions to one's men. The ordinary soldier has a surprisingly good nose for what is true and what is false.

Erwin Rommel

The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied burst of emotion but the long and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Thomas Jefferson

2982. When Someone Disagrees with You

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . One night in the subsequent months, her new stepfather broke into her room and sexually assaulted this young girl, whereby she became pregnant and bore a young son. Of course, to top it all off, her mother blamed her for the assault. The emotional impact of the accumulation of these events drove this young woman nearly insane. She ended up running away from home, carrying with her a tremendous amount of resentment towards her mother, her stepfather, and all men in general. Here is this now sixteen ...

2983. How Do We Forgive?

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... in our lives. There have been persons who have wronged us and it is so, so difficult to let go of our feelings of anger, resentment and even hatred. For many Christians, forgiveness of people who have hurt them is the biggest obstacle to their mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. In one of his books, business guru Brian Tracy tells about a man who called him one day from the Netherlands. The man had a testimony to give. He said he was raised in a dysfunctional family; he didn’t get along with ...

2984. How Often Do You Change The Rope?

Illustration

Brett Blair

All of us sometimes reach the breaking point emotionally. There is a monastery in Thessaly Greece called The Meteora. It's perched high up a 3,000 foot cliff and at one time was accessible only by a terrifying ride in a rope basket. The basket is pulled with a single rope by several strong men, perspiring under the ...

2985. Well of Wisdom, Water of Life

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... us to calm ourselves by still waters. Jesus tells us He will give us eternal life by giving us a drink from His Living Water. Wherever there is water, the symbol for bodily life, we will also find God’s wisdom, presence, and spiritual/physical/emotional life and rebirth. In the original Genesis creation story (in Genesis 2), God causes water to spring up from the bowels of the earth to water the land. The Hebrews (and later Jews) therefore called the natural springs that flow and bubble up from under ...

2986. Lord, Let My Heart Be Good Soil

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... story like the parable of the sower means that reaction is usually an attempt to distance ourselves from the personal impact of the story. The story is safer if we can intellectualize it and then conveniently rationalize it away and not have to deal with the emotions stirred up by the message. For example, we all know that a love letter is not meant to be analyzed — nothing can kill off a declaration of love faster than over-analysis. No, a love letter simply calls for a response on the part of the loved ...

2987. One Feisty Woman

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Roy Howard

... trials of every human being. He laughed and he cried; in fact, nowhere was his humanity more poignantly revealed than when his dear friend Lazarus died. Jesus wept. He lashed out in anger at the injustice of religious leaders. He suffered emotional torment in the garden. And here, in this surprising encounter with a despised indigenous woman, Jesus revealed his initial narrow understanding of his full vocation. Acknowledging the full humanity of Jesus allows us to marvel even more with wonder and gratitude ...

2988. What's In a Name?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , beautiful, and kind. If a child is raised being called worthless, stupid, ugly, or bad, that child will begin to think of him or herself as worthless, stupid, ugly, or bad. The human capacity for language association allows us to perceive ourselves conceptually and emotionally according to the names we place upon our person. We all know therefore that if we want to lift someone up, we tell them, they are durable, strong, and resilient. Bullies on the other hand have the ability to wreak havoc on the human ...

2989. Your Wake-up Call

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... he finally reached the summit of Mt. Everest. A number of his fellow climbers had died along the route. Krakauer wrote, “I understood on some dim, detached level that [it] was a spectacular sight. I’d been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many months. But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, I just couldn’t summon the energy to care.” (3) That’s interesting. What do you do when you finally “arrive” and the ...

2990. Remember to Say Thank You

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... need our gratitude and appreciation, but just as surely we need to demonstrate how we feel about them for our own sakes. More and more studies are showing that a sense of gratitude is one of the most beneficial things we can do for our own mental, emotional and even physical well-being. A.J. Cronin once told of a doctor he knew who prescribed in certain cases of neuroses what he called his “thank-you cure.” When a patient came to him discouraged, pessimistic, and full of his own woes, but without any ...

2991. Christmas Snapshots

Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’t be afraid” or “Fear not!” It must be a startling experience to encounter one of these messengers of God. But this is an integral part of the Gospel—the idea that followers of Jesus should not be afraid. Fear is one of the most common emotions that human beings experience—fear of the unknown, fear of death, fear of failure, fear of losing your job, fear of doing the wrong thing and embarrassing yourself, etc. The list goes on and on of things to fear. The angels were proclaiming a message that ...

2992. Blessed to Be Among the Company of Mourners

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. — Matthew 5:4 Recently I conducted four funerals in four weeks and by the end of the month I was emotionally and spiritually exhausted. It’s hard enough to conduct a funeral for a stranger, far more so for a friend. And these people were my friends, friends with whom I had attended parties, shared meals, and enjoyed a laugh or a good joke. At the reception following the fourth of ...

2993. Opposite of Woe

Humor

Somewhere I read about some aspiring psychiatrists who were attending their first class on emotional extremes. "Just to establish some parameters," said the professor. "Mr. Jones. What is the opposite of joy?" "Sadness," said the student. "And the opposite of depression, Ms. Smith?" "Elation." "How about the opposite of woe, Mr. Brown?" "I believe that's giddyup," the student replied.

2994. Are you a G.O.A.T.?

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... personality, and not one often tempered toward harmonious relationships and community. Goats in the animal sense have bourn this kind of label from the beginning of the scriptures. While sheep are characterized as obedient, gentle, docile, loyal, emotional, and sweet-tempered animals, goats are characterized as arrogant, mercurial, independent, strong-willed, destructive, and self-serving creatures. While sheep recognize a Shepherd’s voice and will submit to direction and caring, goats on the other hand ...

2995. Driven to Their Knees

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... walking had been his greatest goal in life, and he labored tirelessly toward achieving that goal. But once it was attained, he explained, there was no higher goal and he became disillusioned. He lost his ambition and his drive. Finally, he suffered an emotional breakdown.” For another astronaut, however, the moon visit meant something totally different. In his autobiography, To Rule the Night, James Irwin wrote, “As we flew into space, we had a new sense of ourselves, of the earth and of the nearness to ...

2996. Where Is He?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... must occur and gives the child a hug, assuring he or she is still loved and cherished. But not all households behave in this way. Unfortunately, in our world, some children aren’t merely afraid of disappointing a kind and loving parent, but are physically and emotionally terrified of a caregiver, who may or will act violently, whether or not the child has done anything at all wrong. That kind of hiding is not a child in contrition but a child in survival mode, anxious for his or her life. It happens more ...

2997. Beginning the Lenten Journey

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... back to that strong visual. They would be remembering the actors who wore masks to hide who they were. One man could have played several parts in a play and he would need a mask to differentiate the characters. The actor used a mask to display the emotions attached to his character’s lines. Masks hid the true nature of the speaker. With one word, hypocrite, Jesus had created an image for each hearer of a man behind a mask pretending to be something he wasn’t. Most people listening would have known who ...

2998. Rising to New Life

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... When the two men met, however, the effect on the doctor was powerful and immediate. Dr. Bob was brought face to face with a fellow sufferer; the encounter transformed his life. Bill told his new friend that alcoholism was a disease, a malady of mind, emotions, and body, a fact that he had only learned recently from a physician in New York. Bill’s support and ideas brought Dr. Bob to sobriety; neither man ever drank again. Alcoholics Anonymous had generated its first spark of life, its first recipients of ...

2999. Under the Fig Tree

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... gets you,” “knows you,” “and deeply loves you.” Some say it’s the eyes, that when you look into someone’s eyes, you can see into their soul. Others believe, it is some kind of physical pheromone action, or a deep-lying emotional connection. Still others believe it is an intuitive spiritual connection that goes beyond usual recognition. Whatever it is, those kinds of encounters are real. We also however have those kinds of encounters in our relationship with God, with Jesus. Sometimes, when we ...

3000. Choices

Philippians 1:12-14, 19-24

Sermon

Will Willimon

... world appears to be untrustworthy to the infant of six weeks, Erikson believes that child's level of trust is damaged for life. Child developmentalists say that a child learns half of everything it will ever know in the first three years! Socially, emotionally, intellectually, so many things lie outside the realm of my decision. "When did you decide to become a Methodist?" "Well, I made an extensive study of all the beliefs of world religions. Eventually, it was neck and neck between Islam and Christianity ...

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Adrian Rogers

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

Adrian Rogers

Dr. David Seamands

One must never make a show of false emotions to one's men. The ordinary soldier has a surprisingly good nose for what is true and what is false.

Erwin Rommel

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied burst of emotion but the long and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Thomas Jefferson

2982. When Someone Disagrees with You

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

2983. How Do We Forgive?