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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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2976. David

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... David ALL: What did history think of him? His father? FATHER: David was a good boy. Brave, too. Took care of the sheep as well as his brothers. He made mistakes. But he was a good King, David. ALL: His brothers? BROTHER: When he went out after Goliath I thought he was a goner! Our baby brother! Well, none of the rest of us ever did anything much. David was different. ALL: Saul? SAUL: It’s too late, but I should never have let him in the palace! He was my undoing! ALL: Jonathan? JONATHAN: I loved him. He ...

2977. Treasures You Can Share

1 Corinthians 14:13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . St. Paul knew about it and, as a matter of fact, he could speak in tongues. But Paul said that we must be careful about the way that we use the gift. Sometimes people are more impressed about what they are doing than what actual good they are doing. Paul thought that this was dangerous. I have an example of what I am talking about. Here is a painting that you and I might call modern art. The colors are beautiful, and they go together very nicely, but what does it mean to us? The artist knows what it means ...

2978. What About Heaven?

Revelation 5:11-14

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... feel that they are being made fun of at this point they will keep their imaginations to themselves.] Those are very good answers. I thought that you might say some of the things you did so I had some things like angels and clouds and harps cut out of ... - all of us plan to spend time with God in this place that we call heaven. Certainly the writer of Revelation, a man called John, thought a lot about heaven and he had some real ideas about it. He often talked of the angels and their singing. He knew that there ...

2979. Warm

Romans 15:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... burning brightly. That’s a warm feeling. Some little girls I know think about a nice fur muff to put their hands in so that they do not get cold. That is a warm thought. There are some people who like to put an afghan like this around them and just sit in a nice big chair and drink hot chocolate. That is a really nice, warm thought. People like to think about warm things and not cold things. They also like to be treated warmly. Do you know what I mean when I say treated warmly? [Let them answer.] That’s ...

2980. MR. CAIN

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... . And I told him to move away, to leave me alone. And he said it was not right that brothers should be apart. And next I thought I saw a hint of tears in his eyes. He held his hand out to me; and I plunged my hand into his heart. JAREL It ... . And you struck back - as any red-blooded American boy would do. CAIN He never touched me. His blood poured over my hand; and I thought to myself; I should have a cup. And then I laughed. JAREL But what about the scar. Explain the scar. Somebody sure touched you. CAIN ...

2981. THE RECEPTIONIST

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... could practically be my father, he’s old enough. I was sort of an afterthought. I mean, after my brother, I think my father more or less gave up on the human race, and he went in for raising cattle. But the cattle business went so good he must have thought to try human beings one more time. Obviously it wasn’t my idea. GRACE But what about your brother? SETH He’s tried a lot of things. For a while, when I was still pretty small, he’d write to us. It would start like a letter. "Dear Family, How ...

2982. THE OLD MAN IS WASTING

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... I was only joking. JAREL I figured that. SETH I mean, that small stuff - that’s strictly for suckers. JAREL Sure, we both know that. And you’re into something a lot bigger than that - you’re selling tickets to a funeral. Well, that’s original. Cain never thought of that. SETH (Returning to the cards) Let’s just play the game. Okay? JAREL (Taking the cards from him) Wait a minute. I can smell a swindle - and I’d like to be in on it from the beginning. No more tricks, please. SETH Tricks? JAREL ...

2983. Hungry for Anything?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... he said, "that I most eagerly aspire after future eminence. My whole soul burns most ardently for it, and every earthly thought centers around being someone of importance." Anatole France wrote: "At a tender age, I had a longing for renown. I said ... this nation has produced, said that he dreaded to be alone. "My frightful insecurity," he writes, "has been so invasive and powerful that I thought that I might go insane." I think of the perfectly healthy young woman who used to call me almost every day to have me ...

2984. A Time for Tears

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... loudly, hoarsely, brokenly. You see that precisely the same capacities that made Christ capable of love’s satisfactions also made Him capable of love’s sorrows. No person is more vulnerable to sorrow than a person who loves. Christ did not weep because He thought that Lazarus was lost forever. He wept because of the physical companionship with Lazarus here and now; and that loss was very real. In the Gospel, Christ pointed out the same reaction in His disciples: "Now, because I have told you that I am ...

2985. Molehills and Mountains

Matthew 6:25-34, Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... , our fretfulness, is our tendency, many of us, to choose the wrong roads, to climb the wrong hills, seek the wrong goals. I remember that one summer when I was a lad, my father was driving us through the Black Hills. We took a little by-road that we thought would be a short-cut to where we were going. We wound up through the hills for some distance on that little, one-lane track, and, finally, the road suddenly ended. That was it. It didn’t go anywhere. We couldn’t even turn around. We had to back ...

2986. Our Father Who Art on Earth

Proverbs 1:8-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... he stole a neighbor’s car, ran away. He was apprehended in a Southern state. It was my duty to go down and have him remanded to my custody. As we drove back through the night, this dirty, crushed, tired and hungry lad sat penitently by my side. As he thought of his father at home he alternated between two attitudes - fear - "what will he do to me," and love - "what have I done to him?" As we arrived at the home it was like the prodigal coming home. It was four in the morning, but the father, who had been ...

2987. Chapter III

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... far as to use God’s name in a disrespectful way, that act was taken as a good sign that that person’s whole relationship with God was sick. Why else would a fellow treat the name as though it were nothing? To the Hebrews, God never was thought of as common. He never was just another "side-kick." He was the Holy Other. While he could be, and wanted to be, near and communicated with, while he was always approachable, he was not just "one of the boys," who could be treated with levity, let alone contempt ...

2988. ASSAYER

Jeremiah 6:1-30

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... or lead were formed. Whichever method he used, the next step was always the same - he merely had to weigh the residues on the balances to determine the porportion of gold, silver, or other metal. There is a very famous story of an ancient king who thought that he was being cheated by his chief treasurer, so he called in his mathematician-in-residence and asked him how he could prove this treasurer’s dishonesty. He was told to melt down the treasure at the next accounting and compare it with the treasurer ...

2989. PHILOSOPHERS

Acts 17:18

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... Jesus and the resurrection." Philosophy is the study of man, nature, and society as a whole. The word, which comes from the Greek philos (loving) and sophia (wisdom), means love of wisdom. Philosophical thinking is the most general and abstract kind of thought. The philosopher tries to organize knowledge into a logical system, and he questions all of the ideas that men take for granted, trying to discover whether they can be justified by reason. To the Greeks, who originated philosophy in the Western world ...

2990. PRIEST

Deut. 26:4

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... which breaches of holiness are expiated. In the old kingdom the priests had shared the place of the prophets as the leaders of thought were the psalmists and the scribes, who spoke much more directly to the piety of the nation. From the foundation of the ... pastor" rather than priest for our spiritual leaders. But we must recognize the influence of the Hebrew priesthood on the thought and organization of Christendom. Two main points were taken over - the doctrine of priestly mediation and the system of ...

2991. Episode III: Birth of the Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... you were a preacher. What kind of preacher are you anyway? What church do you belong to?" In one of those moments when just the right words came, I answered him quietly, "I belong to a church that throws birthday parties for prostitutes at 3:30 in the morning." Harry thought a moment, and then almost sneered as he answered, "No you don't; there is no church like that. Because if there was, I'd join it." What compels a man at 3:00 in the morning in a greasy diner on some back street to throw a birthday party ...

2992. A Kudzu-Kind of Kingdom

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... a barefoot boy on the front row who kept swinging his feet. Even before the sermon was over, Bill thought to himself, "This sermon is a loser." After the benediction that same 10-year-old boy named Donnie came up and introduced himself and invited Bill to have ... lunch with his family. Bill thought to himself, "He owes me at least that after messing up my sermon." They had a delightful lunch. Then Bill drove back to ...

2993. Broken and Beautiful

Luke 18:9-14, Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... when compared to David's. Saul's throne and God's Holy Spirit were taken from him. Why the difference in punishment? Saul's confession was half-hearted, much more a rationalization, full of excuses. Saul was more concerned about what other people thought than what God thought. He begged the prophet not to tell the people. Saul reminds me of a major college basketball coach whose school was found guilty recently of ten violations of NCAA rules. The coach offered lots of excuses like these: It's impossible to ...

2994. Pillars of the Church

Exodus 17:8-16, Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of about a dozen folks and said, "Bishop, I hope you don't mind me sharing honestly with you. The first time I heard you speak was years ago at the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta. You were Dean of Candler Seminary. Frankly, that day at the Biltmore, I thought you were the weakest speaker on, the platform. " The Bishop relied weakly, "But I had to follow Miss America!" The laymen continued, "I told my wife then that it's no wonder that lots of preachers can't preach if this fellow is in charge of training them ...

2995. Defeating Giants

1 Samuel 17:1-58

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Goliath must have had some Texan in him. Everybody in King Saul's army was terrified; everybody except a teenage boy named David. He was visiting his brothers in the army. The Israelite soldiers compared themselves to Goliath and thought--How small I am! But David compared Goliath to God and thought: What a puny giant! The Spirit of God resided in David. Therefore, whereas the Israelite soldiers saw Goliath as too big to hit, David concluded that he was too big to miss. You know the story. David volunteered ...

2996. God Makes The First Move

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Reds' manager said, "Tommy, I'll see you at the ballpark. I'm going to hang around a little." Tommy said that he reached the door and glanced back over his shoulder; he noticed that his friend was praying at the altar and lighting a candle. Tommy said, "I thought about that for a few moments. Then, since I couldn't take any chances, I doubled back and blew out his candle." Isn't it strange how we often don't want anybody to get ahead of us spiritually? The most accurate reason you are here, I believe, is ...

2997. The Witness of the Spirit

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... and then caused the lady to almost faint when he told her that she would soon receive a check for $200,000. This lady thought she was poor, when indeed she was wealthy. Now let me apply that story to the spiritual realm. All the spiritual riches which ... We dreamed about you and prayed for you for years before you came to us. Not only did we want you; we yearned for you. We thought our hearts would break if God did not send you to us. Then, on a wonderful day we will never forget, a phone call brought the ...

2998. Marriage: God's Idea

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... paid the man and then they took off down the highway. He asked his wife, "What were you discussing with the guy back there?" She said, "Tom, you won't believe this. I went to high school with that guy. In fact, we dated for almost an entire year." Tom thought about that as they rode along. His pride just made him say, "Well, honey, it's a good thing you met up with me. Otherwise, you might be the wife of a gas station attendant rather than the wife of a CEO." Immediately, she replied, "Honey, if I had ...

2999. The Seeds of Social Conflict

Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... people have a legend about two brothers who lived side by side on farms. One of the brothers was married and had children while the other brother lived alone. They loved each other deeply. One day the bachelor brother began to worry about his married brother. He thought, “My brother has many mouths to feed, while I have more than I need.” So the bachelor brother came up with a plan. Each night he delivered a basket load of grain from his barn to his brother’s barn. Meanwhile, the married brother ...

3000. Right on the Money!

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... customer service rep told her that it might be OK to eat if the freezer had maintained a below-zero temperature the entire time, but even so the flavor would have deteriorated so much that it wouldn’t be very tasty. The caller replied, “That’s what we thought. We’ll just donate it to the church.” That turkey is not what the Bible means by first-fruits, it’s more like the last survivor. Giving first fruits was illustrated beautifully one day by a boy of about 10 who lived in a village deep in the ...

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