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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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3001. Imagine

Revelation 21:10, 22-26

Sermon

Will Willimon

... It is true that the world would be a better place if we did good and stopped doing bad. But is it true that the abundant human misery in the world rests at the feet of what I do or don't do? Guilt is surprisingly delicious emotion for competent, capable people like us. Surprise! busy, intelligent, resourceful people: There is more pain, rage, grief, and tragedy in the world than has been generated even by our guilt. The amount of evil out there exceeds the currently available means of eradicating it here. A ...

3002. Unsanctified

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... that synagogue, and his spirit was restored. We don’t revere Jesus simply for his teaching. We love to read about Jesus’ amazing wisdom in the scriptures and we too are amazed at how astute he was at recognizing our faults, our moods, our mental and emotional blocks, and our unhealthy inclinations. But that’s not why we worship Jesus. That’s not why we have a church. We worship and revere Jesus, because Jesus is the Son of God with the power to vanquish evil, to destroy sin and death, and to create ...

3003. Be Healed

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... as modern medicine does. But Jesus was a healer. He addressed what some have called “soul sickness.” There are spiritual and psychological conditions which, if not addressed, can keep people from getting well. Once the underlying dis-ease (anxiety, lack of emotional well-being, feelings of distress) has been addressed, the patient can recover. It may well be that this was Jesus’ contribution to the health and wellness of the many people he healed. The question naturally arises: If Jesus was God’s ...

3004. Imagination

Luke 1:39-45, 46-55

Sermon

Will Willimon

... imagination." That is, there is no world prior to our image of what ought to be in the world. We cannot live without dozens of mental images of things not present to the senses. Daily, black marks on a page move me to deep emotion. Just words. Just images. But such images make the world. When I first read Moby Dick I got vaguely, but nevertheless really, seasick. Imagination is reality. So Walter Brueggemann says that scripture "funds the imagination." Think of Sunday that way. Church is where we gather ...

3005. Holy Extravagance

Mark 14:3-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... has made us contemptuous of style, beauty, the work of human creativity, song, dance and festivity. It is rather our flattened, drab world that robs us of our vision and calls the resulting gray, prefab landscape real. Whenever our church cuts loose and becomes emotionally extravagant, this excessiveness is our way of being in love and, by our love, being a sign, a signal, a witness to the advent of a new heaven and new earth. To anyone who will listen we shout that "Christ loved the church." (Ephesians ...

3006. Happiness Full Stop

John 15:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... and friends. She spoke often of the beauty of life, and how she was so grateful for every moment she had. (7) The amazing thing about a woman like Alice Herz-Sommer is that her time in the concentration camp with her son did not leave her emotionally devastated. I believe it was her sacrificial love for her son that gave her hope and strength in the worst possible circumstances. How can we, as followers of Jesus Christ, ignore the model that the Gospel provides for us? God so loved the world that He gave ...

3007. This Verse Says It All

John 3:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... not perish but have eternal life. What a remarkable promise that is. You and I can have life that never ends through faith in Jesus Christ. You have heard that truth all your life, but have you ever made it your own? It does not require a grand emotional kind of experience. It does not require a spectacular vision. Your experience of God’s grace need not be the same as every other believer’s. But there needs to come that time in your life and mine when by faith we make a conscious decision to surrender ...

3008. All Wrapped Up

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , the truth of Jesus’ resurrection would be clear, all wrapped up. But it wasn’t. First of all, Mary was a woman, and in Jesus’ day, men tended to downplay the witness of women. It would be easy for them to say, she’s imagining or emotional. It’s therefore a miracle and a significant statement in itself that Jesus chose first to make himself known to a woman, to Mary Magdalene, a woman apparently with faith much deeper and more convicting than any of Jesus’ other disciples. She is the first ...

3009. I Doubt It!

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... was the Messiah. What caused this brave and loyal follower to doubt the statements by his fellow apostles that Jesus was risen from the dead and that they had seen him? Psychologists who have studied doubt tell us that there are various reasons. It could be an emotional reaction to a disappointing event. It is like that old saying goes, “Burn me once — shame on you. Burn me twice - shame on me.” For Thomas it could have been his intense reaction to the loss of Jesus. He was willing to die for him and ...

3010. Shuttered

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to a computer screen or television for days on end. Some have lost their sense of engagement and excitement for the future. Others have become downright disillusioned and disoriented. Burnout! It’s the result of prolonged stress, worry, uncertainty, mental and emotional exhaustion, and it’s pervasive across the world. We are living in a groggy state of mental fog. We have not only shuttered our buildings and businesses, we have shuttered our psyches. We feel disconnected, shells of our former selves ...

3011. Not Your Lips, but Your Life

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... . This is your legacy. How do you get an unbelieving world to believe? William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army, was once asked for the secret to his success. The Salvation Army is known for their life-transforming ministries that meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of people all over the world. Booth replied, “I will tell you the secret. God has all there is of me. There have been men with better brains, greater talents, and greater opportunities. But, from the day I got a vision ...

3012. Giving Our Best

Mark 7:24-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... injured, she did not attempt this move during the Olympics, and consequently she did not win a medal. Before the games began, she prayed for strength to move through her routine without making a mistake. And she did perform well, but she did not win. Emotionally, she was crushed. She joined her parents in the stands, ready for a good cry. “I’m sorry,” she said, “I did my best.” Her wise mother uttered ten words that Cathy says she will never forget. “Doing your best,” said her mother, “is ...

3013. Like a Phoenix

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... how they should go about doing ministry, he remembered this lesson and advised them accordingly: First, travel lightly. Don’t burden yourself with extra provisions trying to cover any possible eventuality. And this applies not just to your physical provisions but to your mental/emotional ones as well. Take your faith with you but don’t feel like you have to pack every answer to every question in your mental suitcase. Give yourself the freedom to trust in the Lord a little bit. Second, be a good guest ...

3014. Desperation to Hope

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... beauty that is inherent in it. But death is not the final word. Throughout the gospels, Jesus Christ proved that death, even death, need not be a barrier for us. Even death need not lead to hopelessness. Even death — any kind of death, be it physical, emotional, moral, or spiritual — need not be the ending of our lives but can, indeed, be the beginning of them. For I am convinced, as is Paul in chapter 8 of Romans, “that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things ...

3015. Missional Discontinuity

Mark 6:30-44, Mark 6:45-56

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... than that which is supplied by fishes and loaves alone. We need mental nourishment, the kind that comes from taking the time to learn something new about ourselves, about our religious faith, about the world around us. We need the emotional nourishment that we get from spending time, structured or unstructured, with our friends and our families, playing, talking, listening, laughing, and just basking in the warmth of their love. We need the spiritual nourishment that comes from prayer, meditation, corporate ...

3016. Jesus' Vacation

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Will Willimon

... in life is not IF we shall be burdened but rather which burdens we shall bear. As a pastor, I spent much of my day providing comfort to people who were cracking under the burdens of affluence. Two cars, the big mortgage. How many of our emotional, physical illnesses are due to stress brought on by economic overextension? ''Honey, the dishwasher is not working. By the way, the hot water beater is on the blink. Wait here until the garage door repairman calls." There are weeks when we appear to be the victims ...

3017. Living Sacrifice

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Will Willimon

... Churchill calls for blood, sweat and tears in adversity. Martin Luther King, Jr., tells of a dream. Bach sets faith to music so that the inscrutable Holy One enters our midst and embraces us. Minds are changed when imaginations are freed by giving human emotion a massive dose of normality. There is nothing easy about it. It takes hard work, weekly, every Sunday work, yes, and suffering. It costs lives. Sunday is dangerous. Is that why Paul uses the image of sacrifice? The word conjures up screaming animals ...

3018. The Heart's Deceit

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... I should say, lack of it. Both are fanned by fear. What are the Pharisees afraid of? Perhaps losing their power, their authority, their status, their money, or perhaps they are afraid of God. Perhaps they are so unsure of themselves and so blocked off emotionally and spiritually from God that they have imposed rules even on themselves in hope that this will bring them closer to their righteous goal. The more fear, the less trust both in themselves and others. But the problem is, that also means, less trust ...

3019. When You Know How It Ends

Mark 13:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The timing of the song is complex, and requires the musicians to pay close attention to one another. In most musical scores, there are notations to play a certain section slowly or quickly. Messiaen cared more that his musicians play this song with great emotion. Instead of using notations to drive the pace of the music, his notations read, “Play tenderly, play with ecstasy, play with love.” (10) Even if we don’t know the future, we don’t have to live in fear. Like the beautiful quartet written ...

3020. Joy on an Elephant

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

Mary Austin

... Why are you fighting this so hard?” And “Do you love your job?” And “When you were little, what did you want to be?” The doctor suggested, gently, that she try something else. Try something else? She had been trying so hard already. She crashed — emotionally, and then physically, falling in a place she knew well. In the tears and the pain, she started to think about what she had wanted to be when she was young. Being a race car driver was clearly out, but Mowgli from “The Jungle Book” was ...

3021. Jesus' Tears

John 11:32-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... who have hurt so badly at some time in our lives so that our tears also flowed could identify with him. Anybody who has ever been hurt knows what it is to cry, unless we are one of those sad people who have learned to smother any show of emotion. That is a very unhealthy practice. Joanne Wallace, in her book The Image of Loveliness tells about a lady in a class she was teaching who had been married for thirty years. As a child she had been taught that “big girls don’t cry.” Subsequently, she had never ...

3022. For Us Or Against Us?

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... obliteration if one harms a “little one.” Jesus is using this term not only for children, the most vulnerable members of society, but also the most vulnerable in our midst. That includes people with post-traumatic stress disorder, degenerative diseases, emotional handicaps, senior citizens, those unable to make reasoned choices, leaving them vulnerable to those who want to take advantage of them — you make your own list. People who prey upon others must heed that warning about a giant millstone. These ...

3023. Empowering the Powerless

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... showcase our unique personalities: the MBTI/16 Personalities, the Myers-Briggs, the SAPA, or the new, hugely popular Enneagram test. Each kind of test is designed to reveal or highlight certain characteristics about our character, our personalities, or our emotional wellbeing. Looking at the various ways we have scored, we can potentially make better decisions about career choices, find partners who complement us, seek projects that showcase our strengths, or work on improving our weaknesses. But some types ...

3024. Pulling Our Punches

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... word translated as ”shocked” is a rare one, stuynazo. It can be translated as angry, in the sense of weather. In Matthew 16:3 it is used to mean “an angry sky.” We might say, “His face clouded up.” The rich young man’s physical appearance betrayed an emotion that made it clear that Jesus had asked him to do the one thing he could not do. This young man, who ran to catch up to Jesus, walked away dejected, knowing he could not possibly do this. In a way, isn’t this impossible? Think if this ...

3025. Fathers Need A Giant Sized Faith

1 Samuel 17:1, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... been okay at one time to divide parental responsibilities. But we don't live in Leave It To Beaverland anymore. In today's society it nearly always takes both parents working to make ends meet. And it definitely takes both parents parenting to nurture an emotionally and spiritually healthy family. Somehow, guys have bought into the idea that Moms are the ones who are supposed to nurture the children. That it's the Moms who are supposed to teach them about faith and church and all that kind of stuff. All ...

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