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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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3826. The Things Close to Your Heart

Mark 13:1-31

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Leonard Sweet

... , suddenly things became different. In her words, “I never knew what things were like until you taught me how to look at them.” Life in Christ is like that. When we see life in the light of Jesus’ light, we hear, see, taste, touch, smell new things and think new thoughts. We also need to remember that ‘relational’ is a community hermeneutic. There are no solitary Christians. The gospel is social by its very definition. The nature and function of the New Testament Church, the New Temple which ...

3827. The Temple of Doom and the Bridegroom

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

3828. The Winning Word

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... Respond To God With Appropriate Actions The Israelites worshiped the God of the word, but they also responded with obedience. These worshipers translated their affirmative attitude into positive appropriate actions! We need to make the appropriate actions when God touches our lives. The appropriate action occurred when Israel's leaders began to assume their God-given responsibilities for spiritual leadership. Gene Getz observed that after Ezra had shared the law of God with the total congregation, a smaller ...

3829. The Call of God

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... only nurture itself on the things that breed the worst in life — despair, misery, and the like.[3] III. God Uses The Person He Has Called (Jeremiah 1:10) God commissions Jeremiah to share the good news of God with the people in verse 9. God's hand touches Jeremiah and declares that he has put his words into his mouth. He has given him a direction to speak. Jeremiah gives a clearer picture than any other biblical writer of what it means to receive and transmit God's word. Certainly Jeremiah is nothing ...

3830. The Call of Holiness

Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... Each sees people in need. People on this earth have endured tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, diseases, famine, floods, injustices, hatred, and war. Compassionate people care and see the incredible needs of fellow human beings. Each cares about people in need. People have been touched to their very souls about people in need. This care is genuine and part of the divine residue in spite of the fall of humankind in the Garden of Eden. Each reaches out to people in need. There are food pantries, compassionate ...

3831. Lessons From a Hurricane

Jeremiah 17:5-10

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... wants to examine his own heart! So what should be in our hearts as we encounter God? It should be a heart that is: * sensitive to God; * rejoicing in the Lord; * a living sacrifice for God, yielded on the altar of faith; * allowing God to touch and change the heart; * giving to offer self for others; and * thanking God for his grace. How is your heart? Hurricanes do come and they hit hard and sometimes persistently. I want my life to reflect what William Henry Channing who was a clergyman and reformer ...

3832. A Resume of Righteousness

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... depictions have so often been glorified and idealized. Long before contemporary magazine covers were offering us airbrushed images of celebrities, Michelangelo carved for us a perfect David and a magnificent Moses. The portraits painted by scripture, however, are not so touched-up. While men like Moses and David are celebrated, they are not romanticized. We see the men and women of scripture through a very candid lens. Moses is remembered as peerless (Deuteronomy 34:10-12), yet his epitaph comes to us ...

3833. That’s Why We Call It Good

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... That fruitfulness, then, makes this beauty more than a mere still-life portrait. For this life is not static: it is cascading, abounding, and reproducing. Then, as a crowning element, finally there is one more component in the creative act: a finishing touch on the masterpiece. Humankind — the artist's personal signature. Or, perhaps even more than that. Jan Van Eyck was a noted fifteenth-century painter from northern Europe. In 1434, he painted a portrait of the Arnolfini wedding. Visible on the ...

3834. The Gospel According To Pronouns

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... sent to refer Cornelius to another person, to Peter. We are reminded, at this juncture, of the conversion of the apostle Paul. The risen Lord himself had appeared to Saul on the road to Damascus, and yet it was still essential for Paul to be put in touch with another person — a believer named Ananias there in Damascus — in order for God's whole will to be done in Paul's life. Here, in our story, Peter was the person selected for the assignment. He arrives at the home of Cornelius in order to share ...

3835. What God Expects From Worship

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20

Sermon

Chrysanne Timm

... have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them. — Isaiah 1:12-14 By Isaiah's time, the worship life of Judah had disintegrated into a series of rites meant to appease a God whom the people no longer seemed to know. They had lost touch with the God of their ancestors. They had ceased to respect God's core values of justice and mercy, especially toward those who were at risk in their society. Their many worship services and token religiosity were so far from what God intended that God was sickened ...

3836. Oh, By the Way…

Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He is that Son of Man who received glory and dominion over all peoples, nations, and languages. Because Christ is risen — he is risen indeed! — the events of human history, no matter how great and terrifying, cannot touch the destiny of God's holy ones. And therefore, as the apostle Paul writes in Ephesians, we, the saints now living on earth, can live to the praise of his glory (Ephesians 1:6, 14). Amen. 1. Paul D. Hanson, Old Testament Apocalyptic (Nashville ...

3837. The Baptism of Jesus

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... her best pastoral tone of voice, Rev. Sarchet said, “Cameron, do you really want to be baptized just because everyone else is?” His freckles winked up at her and he replied, “No. I want to be baptized because it means I belong to God.” His pastor was touched by his understanding. “Well, then,” she said, “How about next Sunday?” His smile turned to concern and he asked, “Do I have to be baptized in front of all those people in the church? Can’t I just have a friend baptize me in the river ...

3838. The Bride of Jesus

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... away as he finally beheld the joy of his life. That got her crying,” Barnes concludes, “which made me cry as well.” (2) There is something about a wedding, isn’t there? Whether things are perfect, or even very imperfect, there is something about weddings that touch us. Throughout the Bible the relationship which God has with His people is compared to the love a bridegroom has for his bride. It is the predominant theme of the book of Hosea. In Hosea 2:19 we read, “I will betroth you to me forever ...

3839. The Joy of the Lord

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... of whenever he felt alone. “Joy is not just jumping up and down whenever your team makes a touchdown,” says Graham. “It’s that deep, abiding emotion that gives a lonely soldier’s wife the ability to reach out to an equally lonely man and touch him with God’s presence. The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity.” (1) G. K. Chesterton once said, “Joy . . . is the gigantic secret of the Christian.” C. S. Lewis put it this way, “Joy is the serious business of ...

3840. Extreme Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... there is to be absolutely no physical contact of any kind between male and female students. There is only one legitimate exception to this rule. If a male student happens to see a female student about to fall to the ground, it is permissible to touch her to break her fall. However,” the announcement continued, “we shall not tolerate any young woman making a practice of falling.” (1) Yes, young people, there have been colleges that have been that strict. Our lesson for today is about love. In fact, it ...

3841. When We're Estranged from God

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king’s horses, and all the king’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again.” And it is true of our lives. We are broken people and the only hope we have of being put back together again is for God to touch our lives. We can’t put ourselves back together again, but God can. There was a young man in Wisconsin named John. John was kind of scary. He was in his early twenties and was very active in MMA, or Mixed Martial Arts. He liked to fight. One day his ...

3842. When We Are Uncertain about The Future

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... bit of knowledge can even increase our fears. I understand this was true of the great scientist Louis Pasteur. Once Pasteur discovered the germ theory of disease he began to realize that germs are in the air and on everything you touch. And, in Pasteur’s time there was no such thing as antibiotics. Through pasteurization, the process Pasteur developed, he discovered he could remove bacteria from milk. However, humankind was still at the mercy of invisible killers like strep and staph infections, and ...

3843. When We Feel Lost

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... on Rembrandt’s painting. He writes: “As soon as I recognized the difference between the two hands of the father, a new world of meaning opened up for me. The Father is not simply a great patriarch. He is mother as well as father. He touches the son with a masculine hand and a feminine hand. He holds, and she caresses. He confirms and she consoles. He is, indeed, God, in whom both manhood and womanhood, fatherhood and motherhood, are fully present. That gentle and caressing right hand echoes for me ...

3844. A New Kind of Authority

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

King Duncan

... , “I once was lost but now I’m found, was blind but now I see.” So Saul, the ambitious man with big plans, has an experience that brings him to his knees. And he realizes that his whole life has been one big mistake. And through the touch of an ordinary man named Ananias, Saul’s life is radically changed, and he becomes an Apostle of Jesus, whose followers he had persecuted. Do such things happen to people in the real world that kind of radical life-change? Sometimes. Some of you will remember the ...

3845. The Healing Fountain of Tears

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a relationship, a promise, a dream, a hope, a haven — and a snowballing of bad side-effects start stinking up your world more than you could have ever imagined. We are not clean. We are creatures. And creatures stink and sweat and stain everything we touch with sins and shortcomings. Our critical masses turn quickly into critical messes. You know what else? We know we stink. We know we are unclean. We know we’re messed up. That is the most short-circuiting and the most spiritual part of our existence ...

3846. What the Ascension Tells Us

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

King Duncan

... turned to his bride and said, “Inge . . . These people are celebrating our arrival. You are now the princess.” (1) Suddenly Inge saw her husband in a new way. In today’s lesson from the Gospel of Luke the disciples of Jesus experience the crowning touch in their roller coaster journey of discovery about who Jesus really was. He had been their teacher and their friend. They had seen him do marvelous things feed the five thousand, heal the leper, even raise the dead. But they also witnessed the crowds ...

3847. Just Checking

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , an access road has been re-opened. There is a way available for all those who believe. The first “garden” is now reborn as a “garden city” (see Revelation 21:10-21), open to all whose sins have been washed away. It is with a profoundly personal touch that John hears the proclamation that “It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony . . .” Only in this verse, in this vision, does Jesus refer to himself to another by using his own personal human name. “It is I, Jesus” speaks ...

3848. Good Hearts

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and got a glimpse of God’s back on Sinai. The Israelites constructed an impenetrable portable “safety deposit box” for God’s presence they called the “Ark of the Covenant.” Violating the no-peeking rule for the Ark resulted in death. Even touching the ark resulted in death. When the Temple in Jerusalem was finally constructed, there was a hierarchy of sacred space. There were outer courtyards available to Gentiles and women. There were inner circles available to devout Jewish males. There were ...

3849. What the Trinity Does

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... an explanation of the Trinity, the best one possible comes from the great mind of C. S. Lewis who undertook that task in his book Mere Christianity seventy years ago. He writes, “An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying to get into touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God so to speak, inside him. But he also knows that all real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God that Christ is standing ...

3850. Between a Rock and a Hard Rock Thrower

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is recorded in their Scriptures. Christians have an entirely different view. From the very earliest times, when follower of Jesus went on pilgrimages, they journeyed not to pay tribute to a place, but to enter the presence of a person -to try to touch, even to take away a portion of, the clothing or dead body of a saint, or of Jesus himself. (For more see Caroline Walker Bynum, Christian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in Late Medieval Europe [2012]). What united Peter and Paul, despite their differences ...

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