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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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4301. The Church's Mission--A Parable

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Philip Anderson

... ! But I want to tell you what happened then. My sister leaned over the crib, and very carefully and tenderly lifted the child, and held it next to herself. At first the child screamed all the more, as if its innocent nature had come to be suspicious of every touch. But as she held it securely and warmly, the baby slowly began to quiet down. And finally, in spite of wounds and hurts and past experience, it felt the need to cry no more. The baby remains in my memory as a living symbol of the choice we face ...

4302. Bearing One Another's Burdens

Galatians 6:20

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Editor James S. Hewett

... fiber. As a young boy, the garment was so abrasive to his tender, sensitive skin that it caused him a great deal of pain and discomfort. His older brother, moved by his brother's suffering, would wear Booker's new shirts, until they were broken in and smoother to the touch. Booker said it was one of the most striking acts of kindness he had experienced among his fellow slaves. What a beautiful illustration of "bearing one another's burdens," which we are admonished to do in Galatians 6:20.

4303. Courage in the Storm

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Editor James S. Hewett

... problems over the last two months. I have monstrous phantoms; all men do. And inside and outside the wind blows. But when the time comes, like now, then the storm around me does not matter. The winds within me do not matter. Nothing human or earthly can touch me. A peace gathers in my heart. What seems unpossessable, I can possess. What seems unfathomable, I can fathom. What is unutterable, I can utter. Because I can pray. I can communicate. How do people endure anything on earth if they cannot have God?

4304. Mediocrity Every Morning

Humor Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... want two boiled eggs, one of them so undercooked it's runny, and the other so overcooked that it's about as easy to eat as rubber. Also, grilled bacon that has been left on the plate to get cold, burnt toast that crumbles away as soon as you touch it with a knife, butter straight from the deep freeze so that it impossible to spread, and a pot of very weak coffee, lukewarm." That's a complicated order, sir," said the bewildered waiter. "It might be a bit difficult." The guest replied, "Oh, but that's exactly ...

4305. Can't vs. Can Do Attitudes

Philippians 4:10-20

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Unknown, Edited by Brett Blair

... go home?...................Day's go by so quickly around here I don't have any idea........................I'll come up with some alternatives Let somebody else deal with it.........I'm ready to learn something new We're always changing direction......We're in touch with our members It's too radical a change....................Let's take a chance It takes too long for approval............We'll walk it through the system Our members won't buy it................We'll do better at educating them Our company is ...

4306. A Solemn yet Joyous Feast

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... Holy Communion. Holding tightly to each pew along her route, her expression discouraged offers of assistance. “Yes,” her eyes seemed to say, “it is a struggle. But I intend to make it on my own.” Suddenly, someone nudged her from behind. The person who touched her was someone else struggling to make it, someone who did not see the expression that discouraged others from helping; it was someone who was blind. The woman with the twisted legs allowed the woman who was blind to take her arm. “As they ...

4307. What Gets Into Us?

John 18:1--19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

... make New Year’s resolutions every day of the year, we can keep a diary, as did Ben Franklin, and meticulously seek to eliminate all of our bad habits and substitute them wholly with good, but we will only be dealing with symptoms. We will never touch the disease. Dr. J. Vernon McGee once offered a good illustration of that truth. He tells about a game he used to play which he called “jumping to Catalina Island.” He says, “It’s about twenty-five miles directly across to Catalina from the pier in ...

4308. Only a Pebble?

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Editor James S. Hewett

... and very thirsty. He had not had anything to drink in a long time. He came to a jug that had a little water in the bottom of it. The old crow reached his beak into the jug to get some of that water, but his beak wouldn’t quite touch the water. So, what did he do? He started picking up pebbles one at a time and dropping them into the jug. And as more and more pebbles accumulated in the bottom of the jug the water rose in the bottle until finally the old crow was able to drink ...

4309. The Road of Life

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Author Unknown

... like madness, he said, "Pedal!" I worried and was anxious and asked, "Where are you taking me?" He laughed and didn't answer, and I started to learn trust. I forgot my boring life and entered into adventure. When I'd say, 'I'm scared," He'd lean back and touch my hand. He took me to people with gifts that I needed, gifts of healing, acceptance, and joy. They gave me their gifts to take on my journey, our journey, God’s and mine. And we were off again. He said, "Give the gifts away; they're extra baggage ...

4310. A Stone in the Sun

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Editor James S. Hewett

... there, dormant, waiting to be released? Wondering, he glanced up at the sky. Sunlight? That was the answer. The rays from the sun were all the stone needed to come alive. How much like each of us! Of ourselves our lives are empty, colorless, without meaning. Only when we are touched by the glory of God is our inner beauty revealed.

4311. Feeling Through Others

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Editor James S. Hewett

Helen Keller was deaf and blind from an incurable childhood disease. Anne Sullivan taught her to read through her senses of touch, smell, and taste. At the end of her autobiography Helen Keller says: "Fate—silent, pitiless—bars the way. Fain would I question his imperious decree; for my heart is undisciplined and passionate, but my tongue will not utter the bitter, futile words that rise to my lips, and they fall ...

4312. The Communion of Life with Life

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Gene Bartlett

... ’t hear God's inside whisper and so He sent Jesus to tell them out loud." The Gospel of John declares dramatically, "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us." The Word, that living expression of God, tells out loud His truth and sees to it that we are in touch with the power and glory at the heart of Creation. We are brought into the personal presence of the lover of our souls. How great that blessing! How wonderful that gift!

4313. Fruit of the Spirit

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Donald Grey Barnhouse

Love is the key. Joy is love singing. Peace is love resting. Long-suffering is love enduring. Kindness is love's touch. Goodness is love's character. Faithfulness is love's habit. Gentleness is love's self-forgetfulness. Self-control is love holding the reins.

4314. Not on Mother's Day

Humor Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

After dinner on Mother's Day a mother was washing the dishes when her teenage daughter wandered into the kitchen. Horrified to see her mother at the sink, she exclaimed, "Oh, Mama, you shouldn't have to do dishes on Mother's Day." The mother was touched by this seeming thoughtfulness and was about to take off her apron and give it to her daughter when the daughter added, "They'll keep till tomorrow."

4315. High Flight

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Editor James S. Hewett

... eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue, I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace, Where never lark or even eagle flew. And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod The high untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

4316. The Little Secrets of Snowflakes

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Chad Miller

... love and life Christ has for them. In other words, Christ uses Christians to make Christians! Whenever we experience pressures and difficult burdens, when we see a part of our lives broken or shattered, these are often the circumstances God uses to let our faith touch someone close to us and be the seed for a new and beautiful life in Christ. To many, the reason we face difficulties in life is a great mystery. But to us, we live expecting to bear burdens for our Savior and anticipating that the pressures ...

4317. In Search of a New Life

Revelation 21:1-5a

Sermon

King Duncan

... openly and honestly with the belief that He is with us. We may not feel adequate but He is adequate. Have you ever watched a basketball player when he or she is “hot?” The basketball player who is “hot” gets the feeling that everything he or she touches is going into the basket. That confidence in turn engenders success. Start each new day with the positive affirmation, “God is making me into a new person. He is with me.” He gives us a new confidence. But He also gives us a new perspective. One ...

4318. Setting His Face Toward Jerusalem

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

King Duncan

... a question for you this morning, a quick opinion poll. How many of you believe that current technology makes certain tasks easier? For example, how many of you prefer a washing machine to a washboard when doing laundry? How many of you like keeping in touch with family and friends on Facebook or Instagram? But how many of you also believe that we can misuse technology in ways that the inventors of these various technologies did not even think about when they invented them? For example, there was an article ...

4319. Time to Pick a Side

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

King Duncan

... REMOVE.” Problem solved! If I don’t answer the phone I’ll be in the shower. A trade school in Great Britain came up with an eye-catching warning sign to post in factories. On a piece of electrical equipment, they posted a truly scary sign: “Danger: Do Not Touch. Not only will this kill you, it will hurt the whole time you are dying.” (1) That’s a warning sign you shouldn’t ignore. In our Bible passage for today Jesus has a warning for his followers. The warning is this: if we choose him as our ...

4320. Making Your Life Count

1 Timothy 2:5-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... is but one mediator between God and human beings, the man Jesus. Again, this was no frivolous claim. Most of the early Christians had been Jews. The God they worshiped was a God of power, majesty and strength. To look upon God was to die. To even touch the things of God with unclean hands was to risk awful retribution. The Jewish God was no “man upstairs.” He was a God whose glory could not even be properly contemplated by mere mortals. And yet, St. John writes in the prologue to his Epistle, “In the ...

4321. A Strange, New Math

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... in God's strange math 1 + 1 + 1 = One. For those who believe that, their eyes look upon their neighbor in a whole new way. For those who believe that, their arms cannot help but reach out to join those who know the same math. For those who believe, God touches and blesses and makes them (us) one with him and with one another. Amen. "

4322. We Are Not Alone

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... . The Holy Spirit thus becomes the “Holy Spouter.” From this perspective, one can tell when people are in the throes of the Holy Spirit because it just comes gushing from them. If you don’t experience outbursts of religious ecstasy, you’re not really in touch with the Holy Spirit. We Lutherans and many others in the mainline tradition hear the charge all the time that our faith is too quiet, too passive. Actually, I’ll admit we do often seem restrained: we seldom allow the Holy Spirit to stir us ...

4323. Beauty Tips

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... in others. To lose weight, I will let go of stress, hatred, anger, discontentment and the need to control others. For poise, I will walk with knowledge and self-esteem. To strengthen my arms, I will hug at least three people a day. I will reach out to someone and touch them with love. To strengthen my heart, I will forgive myself and others.

4324. Growing Like a Weed

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Rev. Richard E. Stetler

One educator had an interesting experience at the school where she teaches. A potential new student was brought to her class by his parents. The other students were all busy putting the finishing touches on a very intricate creation they had constructed out of blocks. When the boy saw what they had made, he immediately went over and kicked it down. The children were confused by his behavior and looked to the teacher for some explanation. The only thing she could do at the ...

4325. Foxhole Faith

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King Duncan

They tell the story of a young soldier in Italy who jumped into a foxhole just the seat-of-his-pants ahead of a bullet. Crouching and digging in a bit better, his hand touched metal, and he brought up a silver crucifix, left no doubt, by a former resident. A moment later another leaping figure landed beside him as the shells screamed. When the soldier got a chance to look, he saw that his companion was an army chaplain. Holding out the crucifix, the ...

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4301. The Church's Mission--A Parable

Illustration

Philip Anderson

4302. Bearing One Another's Burdens

Galatians 6:20

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4303. Courage in the Storm

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4304. Mediocrity Every Morning

Humor Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4305. Can't vs. Can Do Attitudes

Philippians 4:10-20

Illustration

Unknown, Edited by Brett Blair

4306. A Solemn yet Joyous Feast

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

King Duncan

4307. What Gets Into Us?

John 18:1--19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

4308. Only a Pebble?

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4309. The Road of Life

Illustration

Author Unknown

4310. A Stone in the Sun

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4311. Feeling Through Others

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4312. The Communion of Life with Life

Illustration

Gene Bartlett

4313. Fruit of the Spirit

Illustration

Donald Grey Barnhouse

4314. Not on Mother's Day

Humor Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4315. High Flight

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

4316. The Little Secrets of Snowflakes

Illustration

Chad Miller

4317. In Search of a New Life

Revelation 21:1-5a

Sermon

King Duncan

4318. Setting His Face Toward Jerusalem

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

King Duncan

4319. Time to Pick a Side

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

King Duncan

4320. Making Your Life Count

1 Timothy 2:5-7

Sermon

King Duncan

4321. A Strange, New Math

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

4322. We Are Not Alone

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

4323. Beauty Tips

Illustration

4324. Growing Like a Weed

Illustration

Rev. Richard E. Stetler

4325. Foxhole Faith

Illustration

King Duncan

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