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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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3476. On the Emmaus Road with Cleopas and His Friend

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

James W. Moore

... , she glanced casually to her right… and almost fainted! Sitting there at the counter right beside her was the noted actor Paul Newman. He had always been “crazy about” Paul Newman. He was her heart-throb, her dream-boat and there he was!... close enough to touch! She couldn’t believe it… she was so excited and so nervous, but she decided to be strong and to maintain her composure. I mean she didn’t want to act silly… or do anything dumb in front of Paul Newman. She paid for her ice cream ...

3477. He Pitched His Tent Among Us

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... than we are by a set of puppies tumbling over each other. Then it happened. Men found that they were not alone. There was someone beside them and that someone was God; not out of it, but in it, at the raw sore heart of it; touched with a feeling of their infirmities, afflicted in all their afflictions, and always there; so that, in the loneliest, toughest situation or experience, there are two of us - our own frail, foolish, frightened heart, and the all-sufficient God upon whom it can lean. (Interpreter ...

3478. Assurance: The Privilage of All Believers

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was doomed to failure. He went home from Georgia, downcast in mind, despondent in spirit pierced to his heart with the futility of all his efforts, and the emptiness of his soul. On the ship, returning to London, Wesley came in touch with some Moravians, and they impacted his life tremendously. A storm battered the ship to the point that even veteran seamen panicked. Everyone was terrified except the Moravians. They were calm and assured; they gathered together, prayed and sang hymns, apparently oblivious ...

3479. The Church: The Dwelling Place of Wonder

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... - and it was something. It included a retired bishop who wore a gem-studded robe, and was aided by a little altar boy. The old bishop also waved a censor or container that emitted a cloud of incense. Tallulah, so the story goes, reached over and touched the old gentleman. Getting his attention, she said in her gravelly voice, “Darlin’, your gown is divine, but your purse is on fire.” Now that’s not the kind of fire we need in the church. We need the fire of “koinonia” — the kind of koinionia ...

3480. Style: Some Distinctive Marks of a Methodist

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , removed from personal experience. In the arrogant rationalism that pervaded the day, everything had to be utterly reasonable. The second thing that had happened was that the nature of the church as an organization had become remote, removed from life, not touching the people where they were. One Bishop, for instance, had been made a Bishop, given life-time stipend, but never set foot in the diocese over which he presumably had spiritual and temporal oversight. It was obviously all temporal and nothing ...

3481. Evangelism Jesus' Style

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to them, or to argue with them, or try to convince them of some theological proof. Most people don’t need advice from us - they need love — and isn’t that the Gospel? Do you remember the inimitable Bear Bryant? I heard a story about him that really touches. Just before he retired, he said: “When I retire, I’ll probably die; I’ll probably have a heart attack!” Did you know he said that? A month, 30 days before he retired, he said, “I’ll probably die soon after I retire. Football has been my ...

3482. Christ's Chosen People: Privilege

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you.” I WE ARE CHOSEN FOR FRIENDSHIP. Now if that doesn’t touch you as deeply as it should, rehearse the setting and know how tenderly piercing this word would have been for those who heard it first. The more precise translation here is “No longer do I call you slaves.” The Greek word is doulos. Barclay reminds us that “the ...

3483. God's Chosen People: Partners

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you.” WE ARE CHOSEN FOR FRIENDSHIP. Now, if that doesn’t touch you as deeply as it should, rehearse the setting and know how tenderly piercing this word would have been for those who heard it first. The more precise translation here is “No longer do I call you slaves.” The Greek word is doulos. Barclay reminds us that “the ...

3484. There Is a Price for Everything

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... t everything, but there are some things we can do with our money as Christians that we can’t do in any other way. Through our link with the Apportionment Program of the United Methodist Church, we support a world mission that touches the spiritual, physical, educational, and social needs of people in every corner of the world. And there is much more — the particularized mission expression of this congregation is almost breathtaking. The support of theological schools where persons are trained to be the ...

3485. The Burning Bush

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... bursts out in a magnificent crescendo of joy, exclaiming: “To hell with decency I’ve got to have that rabbit.” The dull-minded, unimaginative, dead-spiritual will immediately conclude that the psychiatrist was as sick as the patient, that both had lost touch with reality. But wait. Maybe, just maybe, you and I are a lot like Dr. Chumley — living among fly-specks where there are miracles leaning against lampposts…right on our own corners, right on the corner of Highland and Central, or Perkins and ...

3486. The Reluctant Prophet

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to say. Moses offered a third excuse. You’ll find that one on over in chapter four: verse I. “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, “The Lord did not appear to you.” Now we get to a point that really touches home. What Moses is actually saying is, “Lord, is there any thing in my life that will verify what I am saying? They won’t believe that you have spoken to me. We know the feeling don’t we? We are always burdened with the awful fact that our lives ...

3487. Let God Be God - As if It Could Be Otherwise

Exodus 7:14-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , Ray concluded: “No amount of rationalization, intellectualization, or humanity considerations can receive the overwhelming guilt is present at the unconscious level as the result of abortion.” I’m sure he would agree that it’s only the tip of the iceberg is touched by him and those who worked in this field. This rage continuous rampant, the suffering is going to be intensified. This is only one area where the truth cannot be played with, much less denied. There is a connection between sin and ...

3488. A Sunday Kind of Love

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... story in a sermon many years ago that I’ve never forgotten, partly because the lowest grade I ever got on a test in my life was a grammar test. I got 44. My story concerns a high school student who was seriously burned in a car accident. It was touch and go as to whether he would live or die. The boy’s high-school English teacher didn’t know how bad his burns were, just that she didn’t want him to fall behind in his homework. So she arranged for a tutor to go to the hospital and ...

3489. The Blood Shall Be a Token

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . So we are talking about Passover and Calvary. Arthur Pink, in his book, Gleanings in Exodus makes a rich suggestion about verse 22 of our text. Listen to that verse again: “Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch the lentil and the two door posts with the blood. This, suggests Pink, “is a marvelous picture of the suffering of our blessed Lord upon the cross.” The picture is marred a bit by the weak translation of the Hebrew word for basin. The word rendered ...

3490. The Gospel of Marah

Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... masculine. For some mysterious reason, John and I hit it off that Sunday after noon. We found ourselves alone out on the balcony of his beautiful home. He talked honestly as I dared to probe a bit, and listen. By a miracle of Spirit, soul touched soul. Only a short time before, the huge manufacturing business that he headed was swallowed up in a conglomerate, and he’d lost his prestigious and powerful position. His world had crumbled and the “good life” that he had finally grasped, was now fading; it ...

3491. The Ark of the Covenant

Exodus 25:10-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to those places where we’ve never been before. We lose ourselves in the question. Am I going to be okay? Be honest, do you ever ask what you will do at the swellings of Jordan? Do you fear that heart and strength will fail? Do you dread the touch of the cold water? Do you wish that you’d lived in days when bushes burned with fire, when voices spoke from the mount, when the angels seemed visibly to precede the hosts, and one like the Son of Man walked the glowing embers with his faithful witnesses? There ...

3492. When Being Christian Has Worn You Down (Compassion Fatigue)

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... become of the need for love. The closer we walk with he Lord, the more our eyes are opened, and the more we see the loneliness and pain, the quiet desperation of people around us, reaching out - hoping that someone will see, and hear, and stop, and listen, and touch. The closer we walk with the Lord, the more tender our hearts become, and we cry within when need goes unmet. So, it’s tough – so very though for the sincere Christian to recognize that there is a limit to what we can offer. But we must do ...

3493. Opening and Closing Doors

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’, and now I hold my breath, I am so afraid I’ll worry that I’m worried half to death.” To worry or not to worry? There are occasions when worry is not only acceptable but needed. We’ll get to that in a moment. As we begin, let’s touch base with the situation. There is a good picture of it in Charles Schultz’s Peanuts. Snoopy is flat on his back on top of his good old doghouse. “Rats,” he cries. Now he sits up and continues, “How can I sleep knowing that any moment a wolf could come ...

3494. In the Lions' Den (Dealing with Stress)

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the fact that we deny our feelings by repressing them creates stress that we’re often unconscious of but cannot evade in terms of the devastation upon our life. So, is the beginning, acknowledge stress, be familiar with its causes, and try to stay in touch with that which is bringing stress to your life. II. ADMIT LIMITATIONS Now a second suggestion. Admit limitations. This has to do with everything I’m talking about in terms of causes of stress. Stress is brought about by conflict between our inner and ...

3495. The Geography of the Christian Experience

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... at this very moment.” Then she added a challenging word: “But being happy with him now means: Loving as He loved, helping as He helped, giving as He gave, Serving as He served, rescuing as He rescued; being with Him for all the 24 hours, touching Him in his distressing disguise. That is one of Mother Theresa’s favorite phrases – “his distressing disguise.” That’s the way Jesus comes to us – incognito. With Mother Theresa, we should know that’s the way he comes. He told us so himself in the ...

3496. Exit and Entrance

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... him to come nearer. As he reached her bed, he broke down with uncontrolled sobbing: “Oh, my God, can you ever forgive me?” he cried. “Please forgive me. I would give anything to change places with you. Oh, can you forgive me?” The woman extended her hand to touch his arm, and said, “I forgave you long ago, and one day my husband will find it in his heart to forgive you. Please don’t torture your soul. God has forgiven you. He promised us that in Jesus Christ. He will help you as He has helped me ...

3497. He Presented Himself Alive

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... alive. He... presented Himself alive. He... presented Himself alive. If we could appropriate today just a portion of that truth, it would transform our lives, and this Easter Sunday would be God’s great surprise of Joy! Let’s try. Even if we touch just the hem of this garment of magnificent truth, great healing and renewing will be ours. “He presented Himself alive.” Three words I’m suggesting as the hinges on which this to life— giving meaning swings: Place, Presence, Promise. I First, place. I ...

3498. The Power of Death Reversed

Luke 7:11-17

Illustration

Ron Luchies

... and churches and expensive funerals aren't going to change that. Jesus enters into the situation with strange words and even stranger actions, words and actions that at first glance seem totally out of place. He says to the widow, "Don't cry." And then He touches the funeral board, so that all attention will be focused on Him as He addresses the carefully wrapped corpse. "Young man I say to you, get up!" Jesus doesn't wrestle in prayer to His Father. He doesn't struggle in deep spiritual warfare. He simply ...

3499. Don’t Deny the Existence of Trouble

Mark 4:35-41

Illustration

Maurice A. Fetty

... father took his son to the front of their lovely, substantial home, pointed out across the neighborhood, and said to the boy, "There, you see everything is okay. These are solid homes and we are safe and dry in them." About that time a tornado touched down a block away and utterly destroyed several of these "substantial" homes. The storms of the natural world are real, just as are the storms of the spiritual, psychological world. Trouble and tragedy are real. Evil and death are real. Jesus never said to his ...

3500. Comfort in Our Distress

Luke 7:11-17

Illustration

King Duncan

... were too great. It was then that help came. His grandmother saw the light burning in his room in the wee hours and came to sit with him. Later when it came time for her to begin her own long journey from which there is no return he touched her hair and knew in those moments that she had saved his sanity. Into that lonely room at midnight she had come, abandoning her own sleep, in order to sit with troubled young Loren. Eiseley never forgot what that meant to him. To know that someone sees and understands ...

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