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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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3251. Mr. Macho & Forty Days of Love

Mk 9:2-9

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King Duncan

... Forty Days of Love. I realized on Wednesday that I was wrong." "Wednesday?" his pastor repeated. "What happened on Wednesday?" "I got one of those letters!" the man said. The letter came as a total surprise. It was from a person the man never expected to hear from. It touched him so deeply he now carries it around in his pocket all the time. "Every time I read it," he said, "I get tears in my eyes." It was a transforming moment in this man's life. Suddenly he realized he was loved by others in the church ...

3252. Pastoral Prayer for First Sunday of Lent

Mark 1:9-15

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Joel D. Kline

... be empowered to bring healing and wholeness. Where darkness abounds, grant us courage to walk in the light, our eyes fixed on Jesus, the light of the world. God of healing and compassion, We hold before You now those in special need of Your healing touch … God, make us mindful of those among us this day who silently hold hurts and brokenness within them. Teach us to look into one another's eyes and hearts. We pray for those experiencing pain in their significant relationships, those who are yearning for ...

3253. Pleasing Our Family

Mk 1:9-15

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King Duncan

... this: "I overheard him once talking with a group of playmates, when each one was telling what he wanted to be when grown up, and Lowell said when his turn came, 'I want to grow up and be a man like my daddy.' Few things in my life have ever touched me as those words did, or have given me a greater impulse to dedication. What kind of a man was I going to be, if I was to be the pattern for my boy?" Rufus Jones became a great man partially because his son was proud of him. What a ...

3254. Consumerism

John 2:12-25

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Brett Blair

... on membership and expenditures than God's dream of the Good News proclaimed, justice administered, and inclusiveness and healing accomplished. Discipleship cannot be seen as a church option, alongside volleyball and jazzercise. Likewise, worship cannot be viewed as a weekly variety show, but an opportunity for us to get in touch with the Transcendent God. And yes, clergy are guilty as well. Too much time is spent encouraging people to think positive about their sin.

3255. Looking at the World through the Eyes of God

John 3:1-21

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Brett Blair

... we experienced the horror and tragedy and heart-wrenching pain of September 11, 2001, which led to the War on Terror, prompting military action in Afghanistan and now in Iraq. And over the last few dramatic days, unforgettable images have captured our minds and touched our hearts. There will always be dictators, tyrants, wars, and rumors of war. There will always be the darkness. The story is told of a young man who entered a very strict monastic order. It was so strict that members were permitted to speak ...

3256. Born of the Spirit

John 3:14-21

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Mickey Anders

... is a life filled with mystery and the unexplainable. Science has taught us to ask the how questions. Our contemporary culture seems to be obsessed with the tangible, the explainable, and the measurable. And we are tempted to believe that the only reality is that which we can see and touch. But Jesus calls us to a life of the spirit. It's a life lifted by the invisible power of the wind.

3257. Easter 5

Acts 8:26-40, 1 John 4:7-21, John 15:1-17

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John R. Brokhoff

... , the washing away of sin, and is the means of being incorporated into the body of Christ, the church. Epistle: 1 John 4:7-12 1. Manifest (v. 9). Can love be seen? Love is a spiritual quality that has no concrete reality which eye can see and hand can touch. But, like other spiritual realities such as faith and hope, love is very real. It can be seen as it is "manifested." God's love can be seen in the giving of his only Son to die for us. Love today can be seen when it is manifested in the ...

3258. Proper 25

Job 42:1-6, Job 42:7-17, Mark 10:46-52, Hebrews 7:11-28

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John R. Brokhoff

... son of David. The one is plainly human helpless and handicapped. The other is the Messiah, son of David, who is human but also divine. One son cries to another Son. Through the divine Son, both can be sons of the Father. 3. Call (v. 49). The cries of Bartimaeus touched the caring heart of Jesus. He stopped and asked for Bartimaeus to come to him. Why did Jesus not go to him since he was blind? Was it a test of Bartimaeus' faith? A person needs to make a response; he needs to express his faith. Note that the ...

3259. The Work of the Students

Lk 24:36-49

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King Duncan

... pupils filled them in. Then with a few master strokes, he completed the paintings. Now consider who we are. We are students in Christ's school. We are not masters. We simply fill in the sketches he has already begun. When we have done all we can, he provides finishing touches to produce a masterpiece. To understand our role in such a way relieves us of the burden of being sufficient in our own abilities to do what he has called us to do. We are his students, his servants, his apprentices. He is the Master.

3260. Devout of this World

John 20:19-23

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Elizabeth Gilbert

... every religion will try to sit you down with their stacks of books and prove to you through scripture that their faith is indeed rational; it isn't. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly know all the answers in advance to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be ...

3261. Proper 9

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10, Mark 6:1-6, Mark 6:7-13, 2 Samuel 5:6-16

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John R. Brokhoff

... without honor among his own people. He was unable to do mighty works because of the people's unbelief. So Jesus left with his disciples to teach in other towns. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS Gospel: Mark 6:1-13 1. His own (v. 1). There is a touch of irony and tragedy in the words, "his own country." It might have been "his country." "Own" intensifies the closeness of the relationship his very own country, Nazareth, where Jesus grew up, worked as a carpenter, and where his family and relatives lived. The tragedy ...

3262. Christmas 1

Isaiah 61:10–62:3, Luke 2:21-40, Galatians 3:26–4:7

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John R. Brokhoff

... up and nowhere to go? (61:10). Need: Clothing, they say, makes a man or woman. Clothing says something about the character of a person. Nudity is not the normal thing since the time of Adam and Eve. After their sin, they felt the need of covering. In a touching scene, God makes clothes for his first couple. Even God never appears to us in the nude. He wears masks and people. He came to earth clothed in the flesh of Jesus. Our nakedness of sin calls for our being clothed. In this passage, God's people are ...

3263. The Rush and the Hush of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... Methodists, Shaking Quakers, “Amen” African-Americans, and Ecstatic Evangelicals of all sorts who once again embraced the “rush” of the Spirit. In the twenty-first century there is a lot more “rush” than “hush.” But, for those who have been touched by the Holy Spirit, who have been invited into the stereo-sound that is a singularity of solitude and socialness, the “hush” and the “rush” are both available. Here is the promise of Pentecost: Can you live this promise? “Rush hour ...

3264. Too Good Not to Be True

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... worker, in looking through the pile of clothing found a boy’s sport coat that seemed entirely new, with no sign of wear. Some rich family had apparently not needed it. “Son,” said the social worker. “Try this on.” The boy put it on slowly and then began to touch it and look at it. His eye grew wide with quiet excitement. “Why,” he gasped, “it’s new!” Here is a child who had known only cast-offs and hand-me-downs. For the first time he had something new to put on. It was an occasion of ...

3265. A Shepherd's Love

John 10:1-21

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King Duncan

... out of town. In her letter she says, “Never again can I think of the Good Shepherd without knowing that he must love us beyond measure if we are like sheep to him. A sheep is smelly, with an oily kind of dirt that lingers on anything it touches and soaks right through clothing to give an overall aroma long after you’ve come in. One old ewe that I hate with a passion, since she takes advantage of every unsuspecting moment to assert her authority, had trouble having her lamb. Would you believe we had to ...

3266. A Mother's Love

John 15:1-17

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King Duncan

... issues, but become temporarily insane when I discuss the threat of nuclear war to my children’s future. I want to describe to my daughter the exhilaration of seeing your child learn to ride a bike. I want to capture for her the belly laugh of a baby who is touching the soft fur of a dog or a cat for the first time. I want her to taste the joy that is so real it actually hurts. “My daughter’s quizzical look makes me realize that tears have formed in my eyes. ‘You’ll never regret it,’ I finally ...

3267. Paul’s “We-With” Body-Building

2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Timothy 4:9-18

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Leonard Sweet

... everything. The mission of the founders of Wikipedia was, for the first time, to give anyone with a computer (that’s over a billion people, and if you include cell phones, 3.3 billion people) free, easy to access information at the touch of a button. On Wikipedia the continual exchange of information, constant peer updating of hundreds of thousands of articles, open-source evolution of new avenues of inquiry: all the above created a living, growing, changing community of Wikipedia users and contributors ...

3268. This Is Where I Found Christ

Mark 5:21-43

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James W. Moore

... in silence, gently caressing the trunk with both of his hands. When his amazed wife came out of hiding and asked what he was doing, Zacchaeus replied simply, "This is where I found Christ." I can just imagine that for the rest of their lives, that woman who touched the hem of Jesus' robe that day on the street and the daughter of Jairus who was raised up in that room in her home, continually brought people back to those sacred spots and said, "This is where I found Christ! This is where Christ loved me into ...

3269. Never Ever Give Up!

Mark 5: 21-43

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James W. Moore

... vast viewing audience, he said this: Today, I fight a different battle. You see, I have trouble walking and I have trouble standing for a long period of time. Cancer has taken away a lot of my physical abilities. Cancer is attacking and destroying my body. But what cancer cannot touch is my mind, my heart and my soul. I have faith in God and hope that things might get better for me. But even if they don't I promise you this. I will never ever give up. I will never ever quit. And if cancer gets me then I ...

3270. Where There's Death, There's Hope

Mark 5:21-43

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Robert Deffinbaugh

... the stipulations of Leviticus 15, whereby she would have to be pronounced unclean. As such she had been an outcast for twelve years. She could not take part in any religious observances, nor could she have any public contact without defiling those whom she touched. Apparently, she was also forced to be separated from her husband. Last of all, this pathetic woman has lost all of her financial resources. Mark tells us that she had spent all of her money on doctor bills, with no relief — indeed, with added ...

3271. Proper 14

2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33, Psalm 130:1-8, John 6:25, 41-51, Ephesians 4:25–5:2

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B. David Hostetter

... , you send someone with a word of encouragement, or a gift of food or flowers, or an invitation that leads to a change of scene and an opportunity to recover and go on. When our chins are on our chests, you send someone with a loving touch to raise our eyes to you. Joy and thanksgiving break through the clouds like the sun after a storm. We exalt your name together, ever-loving Parent, understanding Brother, Holy Spirit of God, eternal and liberating. Amen PRAYER OF DEDICATION As God’s dear children, we ...

3272. Proper 17

Psalm 45:1-17, Song of Songs 2:1-17, Mark 7:1-23, James 1:17-27

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B. David Hostetter

READINGS Psalter—Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9. A love song [OR] Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9 First Lesson—A romantic song of love includes a touch of spring fever. Song of Solomon 2:8-13 Second Lesson—This reading introduces the 'wisdom literature' of the New Testament. James 1:17-27 Gospel—Jesus teaches that genuine purity is in our inner life, not merely ceremonial sanctity. Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 CALL TO ...

3273. Proper 22

Job 2:1-10, Psalm 26:1-12, Mark 10:2-16, Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12

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B. David Hostetter

... sick and the shut-in, of other sinners, gathering around you in one needy company. Amen PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Creator of stars, nurse to the wounded, healer of broken spirits: that you have power to rule the cosmos fills us with awe. That you stoop to touch and heal us, fills us with amazement. You give new heart to the humble. We thank you for all that sustains life—human, vegetable, animal. Receive the thanksgiving of all creation, the psalms of your people, the music of the birds, the sounds of all ...

3274. Proper 7

Mark 4:35-41, 1 Samuel 17:1-58, Psalm 9:1-20, Psalm 133:1-3, 2 Corinthians 6:3-13

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B. David Hostetter

... with Christ, we urge you also not to accept the grace of God in vain. PRAYER OF THE DAY Caring Creator and Leader, reassure us that the powers of nature are not beyond your control, nor the inner storms of our own nature beyond your quieting touch, so that we may trust you more fully and find the calm we need when circumstances threaten to swamp us. Amen PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING God of storm and calm, Christ of confusion and order, Spirit of gales and stillness, we are grateful to find you near whatever ...

3275. Proper 8

Mark 5:21-43, Psalm 130:1-8, 2 Samuel 1:17-27, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

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B. David Hostetter

... poverty, might become rich. Pastor: Friends, believe the good news! People: In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. Exhortation Be rich in faith, speech, knowledge, and zeal of every kind. Show yourselves lavish in generous service. PRAYER OF THE DAY Approachable God, may we touch you in faith and receive the cure of our spiritual and physical maladies so that we may live at peace and in freedom from what troubles us, through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING God of mystery, many of the things ...

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