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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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401. Trapped!

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... nearly hopeless to wean them off of their dependence on this drug. One scary factor in this epidemic is that so many of its victims are young. And it is no respecter of persons. People living in slums have been affected; people who have everything that a person can want have been affected. Late last summer pop star Justin Bieber opened up on Instagram about “a string of bad decisions” he has made. He says these decisions led him from being a beloved teen performer to becoming what he calls “the most ...

402. The Next Big Thing

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Samuel, “How long are you going to grieve over Saul?” God says, it’s time to stop grieving over what has been, and who you thought Saul was or would be. It’s time now to pick up your horn, fill it with oil, and put your loyalty and affections elsewhere. It’s time for change. Samuel must move his loyalty to a new person but also to a new reality. He needs to realize that power, position, and authority do not make a king, that these do not automatically command his loyalty. But only a king who is ...

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

Abraham Maslow

Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness; to show affection to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.

Agnes Smedley

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Buddhist Proverb

Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system, and profoundly affects the health. You have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt.

Charles W. Mayo

Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

Vincent van Gogh

408. The Rabbi's Apprentice

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , as well as he, are good Jewish men. They follow all of the laws and customs. They are extremely confused. They notice how angry the Pharisees are getting, because Jesus is telling people that upholding their Jewish customs are not necessary for God’s affection and favor. They are worried at where Jesus is going with all of this. When they question Jesus, he replied, “Leave the Pharisees alone. They are blind people who are guides to blind people. If a blind person leads another blind person, they will ...

409. The Unattendant Effect

Humor

Our congregation offered to send their beloved pastor on a six-month vacation. He declined saying: "On the one hand, I am afraid that such a long absence might affect attendance in worship. On the other hand, I am afraid that my absence might not affect attendance in worship."

410. A Quantum Decision

Mark 1:4-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... shouldn’t be. We should feel a special responsibility for every child or adult who is baptized at this alter. So let me say it again. The most important decision that anyone can make is to be baptized because, if it is authentic, it will affect every other decision you will make. It is a quantum decision. Secondly, once you are baptized, you belong to this community of faith. This becomes part of your extended family. We are responsible for one another. We are brothers and sisters together. Here is where ...

411. Driven to Their Knees

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... has been to deepen and strengthen all the religious insight I ever had . . . On the moon the total picture of the power of God and his Son Jesus Christ became abundantly clear to me.” (3) Who could not be affected by walking on the surface of the moon? And who could not be affected by being in the presence of Christ as his divinity was being made manifest? The time came for Jesus and his three disciples to come down off the mountain. As Peter, James, and John descended the mountain they pondered the ...

412. Wrong by Association, Right by Jesus

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . For some, this realization sparks a collision of identity and doubt, fear of exclusion, fear of rejection. Even if we’ve done nothing wrong, we feel wrong by association. Or we feel, we may be forever labeled. It might affect our future. It might affect our career. Peer pressure is a powerful thing. Social pressure is even more powerful. The pressure to conform can be sometimes overwhelming. Overpowering. Stressful. And defining. Your family and friends are telling you: “Disassociate now for your own ...

413. Because We Are Chosen

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... from a Portuguese phone book and left them a share in his estate. After his premature death at age 42, many of his heirs thought they were being scammed when they received their unexpected inheritance. (1) Can you imagine how this unexpected windfall affected their lives? We hope his heirs spent their wealth more wisely than did Luis. Even more amazed was a journalism student in Moldova named Sergey Sudev, who received a surprise inheritance totaling around $1 billion dollars from an uncle he hadn’t seen ...

414. When Good People Pray

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... treating victims of a disease that crippled many young people back then called polio. Her method, which was bitterly contested at the time within the medical community, differed from the conventional medical practice of the time. The conventional practice, referred to as “splinting,” called for placing affected limbs in plaster casts, a practice that was not only quite uncomfortable, but ineffective as well. Instead of putting polio sufferers in plaster casts, Sister Kenny applied hot compresses to the ...

415. Constant Companion

John 14:23-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... kind of loneliness that the disciples are experiencing is not just emotional but deeply spiritual. We are whole (holistic) creatures. Our emotions, physicality, and spirit are indelibly linked together. When we feel emotionally upset, it will affect us physically and spiritually. When we feel spiritually lost, it will affect us emotionally and physically. The author John Steinbeck once smartly penned, “A sad soul can be just as lethal as a germ.” It is a clever phrase and it is spot on. In fact, science ...

416. Recruiting Volunteers

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... a 5K race for a good cause. We all have different causes we believe in and motivations for volunteering. But I have trouble grasping the motivation for some people’s volunteer choices. A few years ago, NASA advertised for volunteers for a study on how space flight affects healthy bodies. They recruited fit, healthy volunteers who matched the general physical profile of their astronauts. Then they asked these volunteers to spend 15 weeks in a hospital bed so they could measure how this bed-rest position ...

417. Beloved

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... you. You communicate easily. They encourage you to be yourself and do your own thing. They put in effort and prioritize you and your time together. You both can collaborate and compromise. They support you. They respect you. They show up with small signs of affection each day. They want the best for you. You will grow together. Today, post pandemic, many people are putting even more value on love. They may have lost loved ones. They may have been separated from them for a time. They may have weathered ...

418. When Everything That Matters Has Been Torn Away

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... had been torn away, he found the one thing that was bigger than his fears: his faith in God. Joseph remembered that he was a child of a merciful and faithful God, and he let that knowledge guide his perspective and his actions. And his faithfulness didn’t just affect his future—it affected the future of his family and of a whole nation. Our God is a God of hope. Our God is a God who promises that in all things He will work for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose ...

419. Not Everybody Sees the Stars

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... around me because I don’t have it and -- the most painful realization of all -- that this expectation and longing will never be fulfilled. If I could have anything I want this Christmas, I would ask for a place to belong among persons whose love and affections would reach out and enclose me, who want to include me in their circle.”[1] Not everybody sees the Christmas star. Some don’t see it because of broken relationships. We need to respond to them -- we need to become those persons whose love and ...

420. Flow

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of experience, I like to think that “deep prayer” engages our minds in a similar state of “flow.” Dr. C noted that whether in individual or group flow, the state positively affected a person’s cardiovascular health, spirituality, and psychological well-being. Flow positively affects balance, happiness, and personal growth, while also raising self-esteem and self-awareness. It’s no wonder that in today’s world, medical professionals study “prayer” as a healing engagement, promoting optimism ...

421. Investing Our Inheritance

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... up alongside of him. Tenderly she would slip her hand into his and she would hold on tightly for as long as he would allow. The minister came to understand that even more than the food he bought for her, this little girl hungered for the love and affection he offered. Now, when the minister prays, he often thinks of that little girl. He thanks God for the opportunity to minister to her. Even more, he thanks God for using that little street child from Bombay, India, to teach him of the many ways he has ...

422. Transforming Love

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... to Christ was such that he was able to demonstrate great courage, as well as forgiveness for his persecutors. Saul watched as the stones were hurled and he heard Stephen say, "Lord, do not hold this sin against them" (Acts 7:60). Saul must have been greatly affected by that display of grace by Stephen. Then, following Saul's encounter with Christ, Ananias came to him. Saul had been blinded by scales. He was unable to eat or sleep. He must have also been wrestling with the guilt he felt for what he had done ...

423. The Agony And The Ecstasy Of The Family

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... appeared to Jesus' family that he had thrown away security, safety, and society's values. Jesus' family thought he had thrown away security. Jesus had left home and the carpentry business his father Joseph had set up in Nazareth. Jesus' departure had directly affected the financial security of his family. He was the oldest son of a dead father. In Jewish culture, as the oldest son, Jesus was responsible for the security of the whole family. Jesus had become an itinerant preacher, which had no security for ...

424. The Sending Plan (Alternate title: Our Human Predicament)

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... was struggling with addiction recently told me, "I don't know why I did it again. I don't know what made me do it. I felt out of control, as if there was another me fighting what I wanted to do." Division sets in. Our personal lives are deeply affected by divisions. Jesus says, "Cast out the demons." "We can't do it," we reply. "You are right," he responds. "Demons are too strong for you. I'll do it, but I'll do it to you and then through you. I'll do it through the Christian community. You ...

425. The Sign For Home

John 6:1-15

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... stickers are, of all signs, surely the most irrelevant. "Thomas E. Dewey for President" is as meaningful as "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too." But up-to-date significant signs go unheeded at great cost: "Bridge out" or "Detour." They are vital signs. They are signs that affect life or death. Signs determine whether you make it home or get where you're going. The sign in today's gospel is significant, vital for today. Jesus was the sign maker. He was creating these signs on purpose. Jesus knew what he was doing ...

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401. Trapped!

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

402. The Next Big Thing

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

408. The Rabbi's Apprentice

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

409. The Unattendant Effect

Humor

410. A Quantum Decision