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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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3301. Maundy Thursday

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Bulletin Aid

... Nurturing God, we confess our habitual failure to take seriously the rituals in which we participate, including the Supper instituted by Jesus in this Holy Week. We eat of the bread half-heartedly and drink of the cup absent-mindedly, and seldom manage to feel his presence or your grace there. Forgive us, we pray, and renew our appreciation for this most precious gift. Enrich our weak spirits with your Holy Spirit, so that we may experience in this and every eucharist a communion, not only with one another ...

3302. Good Friday

John 18:1-11

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... , seeing there a victory rather than a defeat, we may be moved again by his tragedy and inspired by his triumph. In his redemptive name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of all mercy, we confess how hard it is, despite all of our pious claims, for us to feel deeply the death of one person so many centuries ago, or to take seriously the impact that it is supposed to have on our lives. Forgive our scepticism, O God, and touch our thoughts and ...

3303. Easter 6

Acts 17:16-34

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... Most exalted God, you have not remained aloof but drawn close to us in the person of Jesus. Make your presence felt as well in the power of your Holy Spirit: that, feeling you near, we may be both comforted and coaxed to do your will. In the name of Jesus we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Merciful God, we confess that we often do not feel close to you, not because you have removed yourself from us, but because we have alienated ourselves from you, as well as from one another. Forgive us, we pray, and help ...

3304. Proper 29

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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... THE THROES OF EVIL! Leader: God gives us comfort and sustenance! People: GOD GIVES US GOODNESS AND MERCY FOREVER! Collect God of Creation, you have promised a day when you would be all in all. Give us a taste of that divine intimacy now: that, feeling you within ourselves and all creatures, we may experience a new oneness with you and your universe. In the cosmic name of the Christ we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of compassion, we confess that we let the genuine Otherness of your transcendent nature ...

3305. Advent 2

Matthew 3:1-12

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... afraid to be alone. You and I, behind the presents we give, are reluctant to love. You and I, behind our friendly words, are unwilling to stand beside one another. You and I, behind our hymns and prayers, are afraid to stand before God. I say it and we feel it in our hearts. Ministers: Lord, have mercy upon us. Pastor: Let us pray. Ministers: Almighty God, in the maze of the mass media of our day, we have conformed, we have forgotten how to be ourselves. We have sought to escape the birth-pain of self-hood ...

3306. The Devil Quotes Scriputure, Too

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

... God. It is so easy to be tempted by what "everybody knows;" to be caught by what everybody expects we will be and do in this life. It is a temptation we just find ourselves sliding into bit by bit, until one day we wake up to find we’re feeling sort of cynical and jaded about life and that we have forgotten the promises of God who called us out of the wilderness and promised to make us a new creation altogether. This is the worst temptation of all - to be tempted away from hope. In Jesus Christ, God came ...

3307. Bloody Hands, Troubled Soul

Mark 14:12-26

Drama

... My God! Is everyone else like me? Are we all thinking the same thing?" Wouldn’t it be ironic if all of these disciples were planning to turn him in?" It seemed to be just as he predicted would happen to us - brother betraying brother. I had the feeling we were all caught up in something much larger than ourselves, something more important and compelling than my little schemes of self-protection. "The Son of Man will die as it is written," Jesus said. "But woe to the one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed ...

3308. A Zealot’s Greatest Battle

Drama

... been looking everywhere for you. Matthew said I might find you here. He’s alive, Simon! Jesus is alive! Simon (Calming her) Anna ... Anna, calm down. What’s wrong with you? (Feels her face for fever) You’re not having a relapse, are you? Too much emotion ... too much depression ... too many tears. I’m not surprised! Anna I’m feeling fine, Simon. Please believe me ... it is true! Several of the women have seen him, and when Peter and ... Matthew (Interrupting as he and James the Less run in) Simon ...

3309. The Sent Sitter

Acts 2:1-21

Children's Sermon

... ? Were you scared? Worried whether they’d come back? Worried that you were really alone? That the babysitter really wouldn’t be able to take care of you the way Mom or Dad would? (Receive responses from all these suggestions.) How do you feel about babysitters now? If you have a good babysitter, that can be exciting. He or she might let you have some extra ice cream, stay up a little later, play your favorite games, or some new ones. (Receive responses from these suggestions.) That’s the way it was ...

3310. Security: Deeply Personal

Ezekiel 34:1-31

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... or the most finely-tuned committees and executives. He looks after us and thereby gives us a secure approach to all that life offers. Join me for another sign. God Personally Will Judge "Behold, I, I myself will judge ..." gives no room for dubious thought and feelings. The Son of David judges simply by being who and what he is. As he went about ministering, I find it inconceivable that most were left in doubt about their relationship with God. History seems to indicate the Jews fought him at every turn ...

3311. HE DOES NOT WILLINGLY AFFLICT

Lamentations 3:1-66

Drama

... said they would come back to get me; but it’s been so long. 1: I’ve got to get out of here! [Pushes forward, out of the chair into a standing position. Is unsteady for a moment, but remains standing. Looks around; takes a step forward; looks around. Finally feels confident enough and runs out] 2: It’s been so long. They said I could leave if I wanted to ... [Realizes; stands up, very tentatively; is a little shaky, but remains standing. Looks around; takes a step forward; looks around ...

3312. FINDING A WAY

Drama

... and stumble their way toward the center; all are blind. Eventually they meet in the center and come together in a group. They discover each other and begin to touch and feel one another around the face and head. One by one, they are able to see, but as soon as they are, they fall away from the group. When all can see, they become very embarrassed with what they have been doing, pull their hands away from each other and excuse ...

3313. The Syndrome

Matthew 6:25-34

Drama

... really great. Why don’t we go to the park? Sally: [Enters and interrupts Billy] Oh, Marsha! What beautiful new clothes. They look so right on you! Marsha: [Breaks away from Billy and goes immediatelyto Sally] Don’t they thought. I feel like they give me a new air of sophistication and poise. I feel like a new person. Sally: And you look like a new person, too! Marsha: Do you realize that I had to save for a whole year to be able to afford these. [They exit] Billy: [Alone, to the audience] Evangelism is ...

3314. Turn Out the Lights! The Party's Over!

Daniel 5:1-31

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the experience of old King Belshazzar. Now is the time to repent and acknowledge Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. You may do that right now. In your bulletin is a prayer of Christian commitment. Let’s bow our heads. I will pray this prayer, line by line. If you feel led to receive Jesus Christ by faith as your Savior and Lord, just repeat after me silently, line by line. Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I am a sinner and need your forgiveness...I believe that you died for my sins...I want to turn from my sins ...

3315. "Gone Fishing!"

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... live and work among the people of the Binghampton section of Memphis. That young man, Nathan Cook, fresh out of seminary, is engaged to be married. For a young couple to invest themselves in a low-income section of our city is a bit risky, but they feel called into deep water. Bill Hybels, the senior minister of the great Willow Creek Church near Chicago, is one of the most capable leaders in America. He heard God’s call when he was about twenty years old. He was a college student on staff in a Christian ...

3316. Do You Believe In Easter?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the great actress, Helen Hayes. Her nineteen-year-old daughter died of polio. She wondered how she would bear the loss. She said that her key to survival was the assurance God gave her of a life after death. She said, "I always feel, even when I’m tired or feeling my years, Ah, I’ll be seeing Mary again." (4) The fourth and final step in spreading the good news of resurrection is: WE TELL OTHERS! Then the cycle is complete and the news of resurrection spreads exponentially by personal conversation, FAX ...

3317. Jailbreak at Midnight

Acts 16:16-40

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CSS

... from her affliction. They had been beaten and kept in jail overnight. Nothing was to be gained from continuing the case. So the jailer came and reported this to Paul, adding, "Therefore come out and go in peace." Paul by this time was beginning to feel his power. The jailer was now on his side and other people in the city must have been outraged by the treatment given him. Paul therefore turned the tables on the magistrates with a bombshell announcement. "We are Roman citizens who have been publicly beaten ...

3318. Let Yes Be Yes!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

... we need, the doorway to the future. Each of us has asked ourselves and one another and the silent stars at night: "Must there not be a better world than this? Must our lives not have been meant to be put right, instead of broken as we see and feel and live them?" God answers: Yes! How did you first hear God say "yes" to you? Was it through a parent? A teacher? A pastor of this congregation or another one you may have known? Was it through someone who didn’t even use "religious" language - ever? Was it ...

3319. For Christ’s Sake, What’s Going On?

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... goes by, that you have not been talking to him. Or, perhaps by total accident, you’re thrown together with this person somewhere, and you have to deal with him. You have occasion to bring up the grudge or hurt you’re feeling - or you simply can’t suppress it any longer - so you tell that person how you feel about it. Then, to your amazement, you discover that he didn’t realize that what he had done had hurt you in the first place. Or he didn’t even realize he’d done it! Or he hadn’t meant at ...

3320. It Isn’t Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

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... see newsclips of the starving of the world and shake our heads. Among the other thoughts which crowd our consciousness, we have a feeling that somehow this is unfair. Things should not have to be that way. Sometimes we even vow to cut down on our eating ... , love. We’re truly citizens of two kingdoms, with a foot in each. We yield to civil law. But simultaneously, we feel God’s compelling Spirit tugging us to something better, something higher, something far more liberating than "mere justice." It has been ...

3321. Opportunism? Or Opportunity?

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

... to workers who would have a chance to share the harvest with him, but he did. He didn’t have to set things up so that the workers had a free hand managing the enterprise while he stepped out and didn’t hassle them. We all know how it feels to have somebody supervise us without giving us the freedom to experiment and make mistakes, along with the successes we are bound to have while learning on our own. This owner, in his wisdom, gave full freedom to the workers. The end of the parable indicates that the ...

3322. Let’s Face It

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... we come to terms with death and draw courage from the promises of Scripture and of Christ’s victory for us, we still feel angry about death and dying. Death destroys relationships. It tears our loved ones from us. It interrupts what we have come to know ... my life from me, I’m ready," only then are we prepared to live the full life here he’s given us to live. What a liberating feeling it can be, to know that since we are the Lord’s, we need not, dare not, fear the daily walk he gives us. Death may ...

3323. God's Best Gift In The Worst Times (Sermon Series No. 2)

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... .” Let the Messiah feed you during this holy season. Invite him into your life as Savior and Lord. Let his spiritual food be your best gift in the worst of times. II. NOTICE SECONDLY THAT MICAH PROMISES THAT THE MESSIAH’S GREATNESS WILL BE OUR SECURITY. Do you feel insecure as we enter this Advent season? You do if your marriage is less than solid. You do if your job is at risk. You might if you have medical problems. If you have lost a loved-one in the last year, insecurity could be part of your grief ...

3324. Mary's Revolutionary Song (Sermon Series No. 3)

Luke 1:39-56

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Bill Bouknight

... a church do this? Every affluent church needs poor people in its membership. We need them more than they need us. Why? So that Jesus will feel at home among us. After all, when God became flesh, he chose to be one of the “am ha’aretz”, the people of the land, the ... identify with us. And if we try to be church without Jesus, we will be nothing more than a religious “feel-good” club for the pious and the proud. Historians still consider the successful American Revolution as something of a miracle. ...

3325. For He Shall Save His People

Matthew 1:18-25

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Staff

... of course he wants to be healed. Hasn’t he been asking for that all of these years. Yes, but what we say and what we really feel deep down may be two different things. It is interesting to me that so often the ones who need counseling the most are the ones who do ... us. He came to save his people! But do we really want to be saved? III Another reason we resist salvation is that we feel uncomfortable with the biblical image of power. What is the Biblical image of power. It is a small baby in a manger. It is ...

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