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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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301. Two Kinds of Wisdom

James 3:13-18, James 3:1-12

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... church in interparty strife, much less the casual curse of someone with a personal grudge. James points out the inconsistency of such cursing by adding, who have been made in God’s likeness. Although a saying of Jesus forbidding cursing may be his deeper emotional basis (e.g., Luke 6:28), James uses instead this theological argument to drive home the inconsistency of the action. The Old Testament refers to humans as made in God’s likeness (Gen. 1:26), and it uses that fact to argue about the seriousness ...

302. Marrying a Captive Woman

Deuteronomy 21:10-14

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... very common. It was a sign of wealth and prestige and so was something of a perk of royalty (in spite of Deut. 17:17). Bigamy (as defined in this law) may have been more common. The law accepted it, but by pointing out its emotional and economic dangers, possibly offered tacit criticism of the practice. The law reckoned with inevitable favoritism, but acted to prevent it from denying the firstborn son his proper rights. There are, of course, stories in the OT where the order of inheritance was reversed or ...

303. The Power to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... believe it or not, was looking out for our best interest. Forgiveness is to our benefit as much as it is for the person who has injured us. Our question for the day is, how do we forgive? Forgiveness is a redemptive act that is essential to our mental, emotional and spiritual well being. It is not enough to simply “act civil” toward a person who has wronged us--to let “by-gones be by-gones.” We must move from our hurt to reconciliation or else we leave an open wound that is not allowed to heal. But ...

304. Where Did He Get Such Authority?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... ? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are--the Holy One of God!” What in the world is an “impure spirit?” Is this the ancient world’s way of dealing with people with mental illness? Perhaps. This certainly sounds like a man who is emotionally troubled. He doesn’t really sound angry or evil. He’s not threatening to shoot everyone in the synagogue as a deranged man might do today. He was only asking Jesus what his motive was as he stood in the synagogue that day. “What do you want with ...

305. A Time to Get Angry

John 2:13-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... given to a young officer who, when the battle looked hopeless and his men were driven back, waged what his superior officers called “a one-man war.” When asked how he did it he said, “I just got mad.” (3) Anger sometimes is the only emotion that will get people into action to solve a personal or societal problem. The slave trade in Great Britain came to an end because a deeply religious man named William Wilberforce became angry. He saw human beings treated like cattle, and he resolved that he would ...

306. God’s Absurd Answer

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... devastating lives and they dream about revenge. They dream about how happy they will be when they take the babies of their enemies and dash them against the rock. Quite simply in all religious history there is a wide spectrum of human emotion and action. Again and again, we see “holy” scripture being used to feed human hatred. Because God is often described through the perspective and experience of sinful people, we find primitive and partial interpretations of God portraying the holy one as bloody ...

307. The Garden of Betrayal and the Garden of His Burial

John 18:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... we need to know that Jesus understands and hurts for us. He’s experienced such a trial himself. We see that plainly in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. John, on the other hand, doesn’t put much emphasis on Jesus’ psychological and emotional struggle, but plunges right into the story of Judas’ betrayal. He reports that Judas came to the garden, guiding a detachment of soldiers and some officials from the chief priests and the Pharisees. They were carrying torches, lanterns and weapons, a classic case ...

308. Trust in Me

Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is the way you’ve got to go.” Sometimes…you’ve just got to trust your intuition. You take what you know….and make a “leap.” And that leap is a form of trust. Without trust…there is no faith. And with trust comes intuition, emotion, awareness of the Holy Spirit…without which there is no relationship with God. We need to “pay attention” not just with our minds…but with our whole selves. Without trust, you cannot live in the Spirit. Trust is that reasonable gift of God that takes us ...

309. Lady of the House / The Practice of Joy

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... trick” your mind into being happy or joyful –by smiling, laughing, singing, or dancing. Remember that song, “Put On a Happy Face?” The song by Tony Bennett? It didn’t just mean fake it! But when you start smiling, your body chemistry starts changing, and your emotional state changes with it. [You may want to take a moment and hum the song, or ask people if they remember the lyrics…..Grey skies are gonna clear up….put on a happy face….brush off the clouds and cheer up…put on a happy face ...

310. A Restless Spirit

1 Samuel 28:1-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Those who can’t see the ghost are not remembering. Those who see him, are those for whom memory must form their future. The “ghost” becomes like an omen that signals where memory and action meet. A “ghost” can also indicate an inner struggle, an emotional turmoil, something that “haunts.” When the past inserts itself into our present, it alters our state of mind, state of soul. We must remember our past in order to go into our future. Hamlet is called upon by his father to remember him and to ...

311. You Are Gifted

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... above are talking about intellectual capacity, or the capacity to understand concepts more quickly. Some might define it as a tendency to overachieve or simply to stand out in some way more than our peers. Others might define it more in terms of emotional intelligence or even spiritual intelligence.* But no matter which definition we choose, our obsession in our culture with “giftedness” tells us a lot about what we value. In fact, if we look at young parents, raising kids, sending them to preschool, we ...

312. Holy Goat!

Leviticus 16:1-34, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... game as a child. And as an adult. What irony that children play and pretend to hide, then are delighted to be discovered and come out of hiding. But adults hide for real! And for very different reasons! We may not physically hide. But can we emotionally and spiritually hide! And we have no intention of being discovered! For any number of reasons, we adults find it extremely hard to allow anyone to discover the deep reaches and recesses of our souls. We adults find it even harder to come out of hiding ...

313. Unfettered Faith

Mark 1:35-39, Mark 1:40-45, Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... describe sin in this way visually is often the way we describe the long-term effects of shame and guilt upon our person and our spirit. It is a slow-developing disease and eats us up from the inside out and gradually destroys our spiritual and emotional health, literally causing us to separate from those we love and the community we share. Shame and guilt, anger and envy all serve to remove our “clothing/skin” of holiness granted us by God. It eats it away until we no longer see ourselves as beautiful ...

314. Big Spender

1 Kings 10:14-29, 1 Kings 11:1-13, Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ). The great part of this story is that this is a “return” story. This isn’t a story in which someone turns to God as a last resort. It’s a story about someone realizing that life without God is a desolate wasteland for one’s emotional and spiritual wellbeing. That being in union with God is refreshment, wholeness, identity, and all we need. This is an “over the rainbow” story with a “no place like home” ending. The robe, ring, and sandals are all symbols of royalty and “wealth” of a ...

315. All the Pretty Horses

Luke 12:13-21, Luke 12:1-12, 1 Kings 3:16-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... their relationships. Most of us are not farmers, storing up grain. But in our lives, we store up all kinds of things! We can store up resentments. We can store up anger. We can store up hatred. We can store up hurts, whether real or imagined. We can store up emotional pain. We can store up our ghosts from the past. We can store up guilt. We can store up envy. We can store up jealousy. And we can store up shame. All of these separate us not only from others, but from our relationship with God. We all build ...

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Bob Hoskins

317. All You Can Do is Laugh

Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 21:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in “absurd” situations. When our lives feel utterly hopeless, meaningless, thwarted, and senseless, laughter seems the only possible response. Somehow, by laughing, the situation becomes lighter, or if not, at least we extract ourselves from it. Laughing alters our emotional perspective on a serious situation beyond our control and unburdens us from drowning in it or believing in it too much. Laughter is suspended reality. When we laugh, we are suddenly removed from the gravity of our plight; we ...

318. I Have Seen the Lord

John 20:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... much less a human being. There was no dignity in it at all. He hung there naked while soldiers jeered him and spat upon him. Where were the 10,000 angels who could come at his beck and call? His followers cowered now behind closed doors—their emotions a mixture of cynicism and despair. Perhaps you have been there. Maybe you have lived for a while behind closed doors. Many good people have. Grief, fear, hopelessness cause us to retreat. We don’t want to face the world. Pastor Kelly Fryer lost her father ...

319. It's Worth the Wait

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... been in a conversation, and then the person you’re chatting with suddenly goes silent? It’s disconcerting, isn’t it? Researchers in Holland ran a study to measure how long a conversational gap has to last before it creates negative emotions in the people involved. They discovered that all it takes is four seconds of silence in a conversation to inspire feelings of anxiety, exclusion, incompatibility, and awkwardness. Just four seconds of silence makes us feel insecure and uncomfortable. A member of ...

320. We Wobble, but We Don't Fall Down

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... who was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone cancer. Terry was only 18 years old when doctors had to amputate one of his legs above the knee. If you were in Terry’s shoes, would you be bitter? Worried? Hopeless? Instead of giving in to his emotions, Terry determined that he would learn to live a full life with his prosthetic leg. Terry set a goal of running across Canada to raise money for cancer research. He called it his Marathon of Hope. His dream was to raise $1 million dollars for Canadian ...

321. Walking with God

Acts 2:1-21 · John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... relationships with others, because people will stop and talk to him, socialize, and get to know him. They are drawn to his dog. The relationship has increased his social life and ultimately his psychological health. Those who have either Seeing Eye Dogs or other emotional support animals know that no longer must they walk through an unknown and sometimes terrifying world blind, but they now have a guide to walk beside them, to be their eyes, to see the road ahead, to make judgment calls, to defend them if ...

322. Walking in the Way of Love

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... to God.” Basically, he pointed to three kinds of ways that we show the love of Christ. First of all, walking in the way of love requires an active love. In Jesus’ life, love was a verb, not a noun. It was an action, not an emotion. Almost 100 years ago, there was a Scottish pastor by the name of George Morrison who preached a sermon on the subject of “unconscious ministries.” He said that other people watch what we do more than what we say. Our attitudes and actions have a tremendous influence ...

323. Feasting on Love

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... many of them were stuck in a place of basic needs. What are the first two important things Jesus does in his ministry? He feeds people. We saw this last week in our gospel reading. And he heals people. He takes away their emotional, physical, and spiritual distress. And then he restores them into community. Think about the bulk of Jesus’ ministry. Every time he heals someone who has been alienated, separated from the Jewish community, outcast, or isolated, he invites them back into community. He heals ...

324. The Secret Man

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... Jesus did not deserve it. Jesus was not guilty of a crime. Jesus was not exposed to public humiliation and a complete loss of face. Jesus was covered with shame for something he had not done, but he accepted it. Certainly we don’t deserve the physical and emotional suffering we experience either. But I wonder if we only truly pick up our cross and follow Jesus when we stand up for him, stand up for the gospel, and receive shame, false accusations, loss of face, for his name, for the sake of the good news ...

325. Which King Do We Worship?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... excited you are about your ultimate destination, the longer the trip seems to take. I wonder if the Magi, the wise men in our Bible passage, felt like time dragged on as they traveled to see the new king of the Jews. Think of all the emotions they experienced—excitement, wonder, fear. They were astrologers who studied the stars and ancient prophecy. They knew that a brilliant star would one day mark the birthplace of this new king of the Jews. So, when that long-awaited star appeared in the sky, they set ...

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Showing 301 to 325 of 3128 results

301. Two Kinds of Wisdom

James 3:13-18, James 3:1-12

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

302. Marrying a Captive Woman

Deuteronomy 21:10-14

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

303. The Power to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

304. Where Did He Get Such Authority?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

305. A Time to Get Angry

John 2:13-22

Sermon

King Duncan

306. God’s Absurd Answer

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

307. The Garden of Betrayal and the Garden of His Burial

John 18:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

308. Trust in Me

Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

309. Lady of the House / The Practice of Joy

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Lori Wagner

310. A Restless Spirit

1 Samuel 28:1-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

311. You Are Gifted

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

312. Holy Goat!

Leviticus 16:1-34, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

313. Unfettered Faith

Mark 1:35-39, Mark 1:40-45, Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

314. Big Spender

1 Kings 10:14-29, 1 Kings 11:1-13, Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

315. All the Pretty Horses

Luke 12:13-21, Luke 12:1-12, 1 Kings 3:16-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

I realised one day that men are emotional cripples. We can't express ourselves emotionally, we can only do it with anger and humour. Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

Bob Hoskins

317. All You Can Do is Laugh

Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 21:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

318. I Have Seen the Lord

John 20:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

319. It's Worth the Wait

Acts 2:1-21

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