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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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4101. The Baby Who Changes Everything

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Robert Beringer

There was a commotion in Roaring Camp. Cherokee Sal, the only woman in this rough, tough mining settlement, was dead after giving birth to a son whose father was unknown. Around the crude cabin where the newborn child lay helpless and crying, the hundred or so hard-bitten goldrush miners gathered in curiosity and concern. Death was so common here, but birth - this was a whole new experience. Stumpy, a fugitive from justice on charges of bigamy, had by common consent taken charge of the little one's arrival ...

4102. A Lesson From Prayers Overheard

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

We Watched His Eyes! It was late New Year's Day when the showdown finally came. The number one and two college bowl teams in the nation were set to fight it out in the Fiesta Bowl at Tempe, Arizona, deciding who would lay claim to being the "Beast of the East" and the best in the nation. Among those who predict such things, there was agreement that the nation's number one team would remain number one that night. Their passing attack had been unstoppable all season long, and it would remain so. A high- ...

4103. Not Your Favorite Father's Day Scripture

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Johnny Dean

Ever since the publication of the immensely popular book, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, there seems to have been a deluge of studies, books, and newspaper articles about the differences between men and women. I read one such article this past week. Some behavioral scientist claims to have discovered what most women probably already knew – that men get bored more easily than women. In other words, men have a shorter attention span than women. Now I know that there are some men, perhaps even some ...

4104. Faith Bridges the Gap

Luke 7:1-10

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All through the last half of the movie Reds the viewers were prepared for Jack Reed’s death. After he had lost a kidney when he was a young man, his physician had warned that an infection could be fatal to a person with one kidney; there were no "wonder drugs" in the World War I period. Toward the end of the movie, when Jack was hospitalized with a high fever in Petrograd, Russia, it was rather obvious that his time had come. His wife, Louise, who had reached his side after a long and difficult - and ...

4105. Keep The Devil Out!

Luke 4:1-13

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Because of the book and movie, The Exorcist, there is probably more talk about the Devil than ever. The movie earned even more than The Godfather - $180 million. For blocks, people lined up waiting to enter the theaters. One theater operator reported that, at each showing, there were four blackouts, six vomiting spells, and many spontaneous leavings during the show. Today, we are pre-occupied with the Devil. In New Jersey, a twenty year old lad persuaded his two best friends to drown him because he ...

4106. Because He Lives

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

My favorite day of the entire year is Easter. To declare the Good News of resurrection is the ultimate thrill for a preacher. It's even better than being a baseball fan in Yankee Stadium or a mountain climber on Mount Everest or a blues singer on Beale Street. No news is quite so good as "He lives!" 1995 will always be a special year for me because I have had three Easters. The first one I shared with you back in April when over 5000 of us celebrated resurrection in five great services (count them, one on ...

4107. The Hardest Thing That God Could Ask

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

Dear mothers, today is your day! If you are a mother or step-mother or guardian, please stand and let us affirm you. The New York Times did a job analysis recently. They found that being a mother was the most demanding vocation they could find. It requires at least seventeen distinctive job skills, including that of psychologist, nutritionist, financial manager, and conflict mediator. In view of the skills required, the Times estimated that the job should pay $500,000 per year. Moms, you are underpaid! (1 ...

4108. Not of the World

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

The preacher urged his television congregation to tithe. "Give 10¼ of your income to the Lord," he said. "But why should I tithe?" someone asked him. "To get," the preacher replied. "We tithe in order to get. I want to get healed, I want to get well, I want to get money, I want to get prosperous." This popular form of Christianity was recently written up in Time magazine. The "prosperity Gospel." That is what it is called. There are many who peddle its wares. You might have heard some of them on radio or ...

4109. A Lesson From Two Golfers And A Saint

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was a very devout Roman Catholic evangelist. One of the stories that grew out of his ministry concerns a time when he was baptizing new converts in a river. He would wade out waist-deep into the water and call out for new Christians to come to him, one by one, to receive the sacrament. Once he baptized a mountain chieftain. Saint Patrick was holding a staff, called a crosier, in his hands as the new converts made their way to the water. Unfortunately, as he was ...

4110. Time For Action

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

There is a humorous story about Bob Zuppke, the colorful football coach at the University of Illinois. Zuppke was trying to get his team prepared to play the University of Iowa. "Men," he roared, "I want you to get in there and die for Illinois. Nobody will be taken out unless he's dead. Get that? Unless he's DEAD!" The inspired but overmatched Illini played Iowa to a standstill until late in the fourth quarter when they finally ran out of gas. In fact, one of the frail Illinois halfbacks litterally keeled ...

4111. The Repentant Heart

2 Samuel 12:1-31

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Timothy Smith

Mighty King David acted on his impulses when he saw Bathsheba bathing in the afternoon sun. David committed a sin. David had not given any thought to the consequences of his sin. He thought he could get away with anything. After all, he was the king. David knew right from wrong ” that was why he went to such lengths to cover up his sin. As you will recall, David had Bathsheba's husband Uriah killed in battle. After a period of mourning David took Bathsheba as his wife. David hoped that he could put the ...

4112. Why The British Coast Guard Doesn't Like Eric, But God Does

Luke 15:1-7

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King Duncan

Last year, newspapers around the world carried the story of Eric Abbott, a British sailor who makes a habit of getting lost. On August 10, 2000, the British coast guard rescued Eric Abbott for the sixth time after he sailed off course and ran aground. You would think after all these mishaps, he would give up sailing. No way. Abbott plans on hitting the water again soon. Some would admire Abbott for saying that he won't give up sailing. The members of the British coast guard don't share that admiration. It ...

4113. Something To Die For

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

It is one of the most dramatic stories to come out of the Civil War. Colonel Joshua Chamberlain of the Union Army's 20th main regiment received orders from General George Meade to shoot 120 deserters, or take them with him into battle at Gettysburg. No one would be allowed to return home. At this point in time, the Union army was demoralized and in disarray, and Chamberlain's decision would be a monumental one. He walked slowly to where the deserters waited, knowing that he had to make a decision about the ...

4114. The Three R's Of A Spiritual Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

A heart patient visited his cardiologist for his two-week follow-up appointment. He informed the doctor that he was having trouble with one of his medications. "Which one?" asked the doctor? "The patch," the man replied, "the nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours, and I've run out of places to put it!" The doctor was flabbergasted. He had the patient quickly undress. The man had over fifty patches on his body! He didn't understand that each time he put on a new patch, he needed to remove the ...

4115. The Huddle Is Not the Game

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

Not being a great sports fan myself, I have to rely upon others to help me with the sports imagery in writing about the topic above. In this case, I want to call upon evangelist Tom Skinner to flesh out the metaphor which gives us the title for this chapter and which helps us to understand the mission and purpose of the Church. He writes, In football we have what is called the huddle. We have only 25 seconds in the huddle. If you stay longer than 25 seconds, you are penalized five yards for delay of game ...

4116. The Fourth Day Comes

Luke 24:13-35

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Maxie Dunnam

The Emmaus walk is one of the most significant, spiritual renewal experiences in which I have ever participated. You may have heard something about this experience, perhaps you read about it in The Courier a few weeks ago. Almost 100 membership of Christ Church have shared in it, and at the end of April, members of our church and other churches in Memphis will lead the first Memphis Emmaus for men. And then toward the end of May, we will have an Emmaus experience for women. The pivotal event in this ...

4117. Would You Make a Good Witness? (Ascension Day)

Acts 1:1-11

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King Duncan

We live in a crazy world. People do and say funny things. Even lawyers. No, I’m not going to start off with any lawyer jokes, but many of you may have seen lists of “bloopers” taken from real life courtroom cross examinations. These lists contain funny things that lawyers say. I want to enter them into evidence at this time: One unnamed lawyer, during a cross examination pointed to a picture. “Were you present,” he asked, “when this picture of you was taken?” Another lawyer asked: “She had three children, ...

4118. God Really Cares

Matthew 27:46

Sermon

James Merritt

Thomas Wolfe, the author best known for the novel, You Can't Go Home Again, once said this about loneliness: Loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon...is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. When we examine the moments, acts, and statements of all kinds of people not only the grief and ecstasy of the greatest poets, but also the huge unhappiness of the average soul is evidenced by the innumerable strident words of abuse, hatred, contempt, mistrust, and scorn that forever ...

4119. The Pride Is Right

Jeremiah 9:23-24

Sermon

James Merritt

The name, Albert Einstein, is one of the most well-known names in all the world. Time magazine chose him as "Person of the Century." His influence is seen in every life around the world. The atomic bomb, the big bang, electronics, quantum physics all bear his influence. He will probably be considered for all time the standard by which all scientists measure themselves. But as tall as he was in scientific theory, he was equally as small in spiritual theology. Because even though Einstein believed in a being ...

4120. I Believe That Jesus Was Conceived By The Holy Spirit

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

It’s a shame that about the only time we think about Mary, the mother of Jesus, is around Christmas. I’m grateful for the recent movie, “The Nativity,” that focused attention on her. Mary was a remarkable young woman. In our Apostles Creed, she is one of only three people mentioned—Mary, Jesus, and Pontius Pilate. (1) When we meet Mary in Scripture, she is just an adolescent Jewish girl, probably 14 or 15 years old. She is engaged to marry a young carpenter named Joseph. Though this engagement was probably ...

4121. Why Me?

Proverbs 16:4, Colossians 1:16

Sermon

James Merritt

A survey that was recently taken in USA Today asks the question, "If you had the opportunity to get a direct and clear response from God, what one question would you ask Him?" By an almost 2 to 1 margin, over the number two answer, the number one question people would ask God was this, "Why am I here on earth?" Let's face it more than ever before, life, the meaning of it, the purpose of it, the reason for it, gets more and more complicated. I am convinced that the overwhelming majority of people on this ...

4122. To Live Is to Choose

Matthew 7:13-14

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Maxie Dunnam

It been in this congregation only eight days, but I discovered that there are a lot of men in this congregation who play golf. In fact, I’m wondering when some of these men work. I hope you won’t hold it against me that I don’t play golf. I do like golf stories. There is one out of the life of Arnold Palmer that legend of a golfer in our time that introduces the theme for our message today. Arnold Palmer, the legendary golfer. During the Los Angeles Open Golf Tournament a few years ago, Arnie was ...

4123. The Ark of the Covenant

Exodus 25:10-22

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Maxie Dunnam

There are three arks mentioned in the Bible: Moses’ ark, Noah’s ark, and the Ark of the Covenant. All of these arks are saving arks. You remember the stories. At the beginning of our journey through this book of Exodus, we talked about how a brave mother reckoned on God. She already had two children, Aaron and Miriam, when Moses was born. The Pharaoh had put out an edict that all male children were to be killed. Something - and I think something even more than a natural mother’s love - some voice whispered ...

4124. The True Shepherd

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Lee Griess

It's no wonder that the image of the shepherd was so frequently on the lips of our Savior. It's no surprise he used that illustration so often. For the image of a shepherd and the sheep was very much a part of Jesus' heritage and culture. Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, was the keeper of great flocks of sheep. Moses was called by God to be God's deliverer of the ancient Jewish people while living as a shepherd and tending the flocks of his father-in-law. And David, the greatest king of the Jewish ...

4125. Come

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

A garden full of flowers in bloom. A stroll through the park. A trip to the museum. Holding your grandchild. A long conversation with your best friend. A new book. An afternoon nap. A cold drink of water. A dip in the pool. A few minutes in prayer. What is it that refreshes you? What is it that quenches your thirst? Years ago, in the very first church in which I was able to serve the Lord's Supper, a little girl from the neighborhood, maybe eight or nine, visited the church. After Worship she was talking ...

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