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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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4501. Celebrating the Virtue of Humanity

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... even to ask them for a ride. But when I looked into your eyes, kindness and compassion and mercy were evident. I knew, then and there, that your gentle spirit would welcome the opportunity to give me assistance in my time of need. The heartwarming comments touched the horseman deeply. He said, “I am grateful for what you have said. May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.” With that, President Thomas Jefferson turned his horse ...

4502. How Faithful Are We?

1 Corinthians 11:23-25

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... have to wait? You are being cruel, though you are not a cruel man. Men do what they please and get away with it. But once when I was lonely,” Mrs. Dowson said, “I fell. He meant nothing to me except that he was gentle and noticed my hair and touched my face. He was there, Arthur, but God knows where you were, for days at a time.” “I atoned and God has forgiven me because God is good, but you never forgave me. It hurt your pride. I was one of your possessions that someone else had used. I guess ...

4503. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... that this set of actions would explain the meaning of his death in a way that nothing else—no theories, no clever ideas—could ever do.” (2) No wonder the church has for so long celebrated this sacred night. This is the one night we can see as well as touch the meaning of Christ’s death. But if we want to have the ultimate meaning of it all, all we have to do is read a few verses farther in this same chapter to verses 34 and 35 where Jesus says, “A new command I give you: Love one another ...

4504. Under the Fig Tree

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . It’s what the couple felt after their encounter with Jesus on the road to Emmaus. It’s what Nathanael felt when he encountered Jesus that day. And it’s what truly will change your life if you let Jesus in and allow Him to discern your life, and touch you, heart and soul. Today, this week, as you go about your life, take some extra time apart to spend with Jesus. I pray that your close encounters with the Lord our God will bring much fruit and goodness and blessings and joy to your life and those ...

4505. Now

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Will Willimon

... most of the New Testament is concerned with this problem of absence. When Jesus was with us, in the flesh, that was one thing. From his own voice we could hear, "Rise, let us be going," and "Fear not!" There was always the possibility of the healing touch, the reassuring word, guiding light. But in the meantime, in the absence, in the valley between his first advent and the next, what of us? Is not this the great issue in the whole last two thirds of John's gospel? The disciples asking, always asking, "Lord ...

4506. More

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , thoughts for the day, religion relegated to the conventional, the boring rehash of the obvious and the already known. Here is protest against Sunday as adjustment to what is seen rather than probing of the more. We came to church for certitude, to touch base with the known, but apocalyptic speech does not give certitude. In the poetic, apocalyptic, Spirit-anointed space, possibility overwhelms necessity in life and we can breathe. So we go forth after church. There are the same quarrels in the car on the ...

4507. Fever Pitch

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... do what was expected, what was usual, what the people wanted, what they preferred. They wanted a break from the relentless traveling. They hoped Jesus would put down roots at least for a while and build up some momentum in the people he had already touched. But Jesus was determined to keep on walking. Jesus’ urgency comes from the same kind of passion, drive, and initiative that drives us onward in the face of a pandemic, even though we desperately want to stop and take a breath. Deep in his heart, Jesus ...

4508. Imagination

Luke 1:39-45, 46-55

Sermon

Will Willimon

... tend toward mostly facts and figures. We're more in to statistics than symbols. We keep close to the solid stuff which we call "reality." Of course, when one begins with the assumption that, "real" only refers to that which can be touched and tasted, reality shrinks, our expectations for what can and cannot be done get scaled considerably down. Neil Postman (Technopoly) sees our preoccupation with computers as evidence of our paucity of imagination. Postman says that the modem world has convinced itself ...

4509. Go!

Acts 9:10-19

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of the gentiles, the one we know as St. Paul? Or was it little Ananias? Ananias, who, on the basis of nothing but this voice and this vision risked his life, went to the street ca11ed Straight, addressed this once bitter enemy by the term, "Brother," touched him, laid hands upon his head, and was thus the agent of one of the most dramatic transformations in all of scripture? When we are converted to Christ, we are not simply converted into loving Christ, but, in loving Christ, we are commanded to love those ...

4510. Responding to God's Love

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... who raised him as her own child. Many years later, after the boy had grown and become successful in business, he received a letter from his aunt. She was terminally ill and from the tone of her letter quite afraid of death. Thus, the man who had been raised and touched by this woman decided to write her a letter in response. He began, “It is now 35 years since I, a little boy of six, was left quite alone in the world. You sent me word that you would give me a home and be a mother to me. I ...

4511. The Vine

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... grow until it consumes the world with God’s beauty. But we live in a world of choices. God has given us choices. We can be part of another kind of vine. We can associate ourselves with the kinds of vines that bear poison flowers or are poisonous to the touch. We can allow our nature to be taken in by vines that harm instead of vines that feed and heal. The question is, what kind of garden do you choose to be part of? For when other vines attempt to move into God’s holy vineyard, God will cut them ...

4512. Following God's Plan

1 John 5:1-6

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... population in Hebrew society as the hero, he placed the virtue of compassion over adherence to the law, and thereby insulted the Jewish ruling elite. When he readily associated with lepers, drove demons from Legion, and allowed a hemorrhaging woman to touch him, thereby making himself ritually impure and suggested that such actions were proper, people were taken aback. When Jesus broke the Sabbath law and suggested that “The Sabbath was made for humankind, and not humankind for the Sabbath, so the Son ...

4513. Easter Power

Acts 14:8-18

Sermon

Will Willimon

... powerful. Not that doctors believe that themselves. As a doctor friend told me, 'We doctors really don't do all that much healing. But the public believes that we can heal. That's the important thing. So we ask the patient to take off his clothes, we touch him in a few places, ask him what he thinks is wrong with him, tell him he's probably right, give him a pill, and he usually gets better." Still, that's power. And that's also a possible reason for our national disillusionment with the medical profession ...

4514. Walking with God

Acts 2:1-21 · John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... relationship with God. Their lives were focused on that awareness, and they allowed God to guide them, to move them, and to orient them. The early church would be founded in this same way. Those who came out of that Pentecost experience, in which the Holy Spirit touched down upon them in a dynamic and powerful way, emerged a new person, a person animated to share the gospel, excited about what the world could become, charged up to be change-makers, assured in what they were meant to be and do. With the Holy ...

4515. The Sign of the Serpent’s Tree

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God’s only Son, God’s own Spirit, to move us and redeem us into restored relationship with God. Why restoration? It has to do with that blessed tree. The tree of Life. The serpent’s tree. Both and the same. The forbidden tree, the tree not to touch, the fruit not to consume, the barrier not to trespass, the “no” we couldn’t honor. The sign of the “tree” is complex. Not arbitrary but two-fold, the tree reminds us both of God’s creation and promise of life but also of our transgression and ...

4516. Will the “Real” Jesus Please Stand Up

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , untrustworthy, and alien. True, some Tiktok videos may be “cringe” as some might say. But even those videos help us to discover and create our own set of “ethics” about what is okay and what is not, not based on a set of preconceived rules but on what touches our souls, and how they make us feel. If the Enlightenment age was the age of the mind, today’s world is the age of emotion, self-awareness, others-awareness, and connection on a level that says we can be as weird as we like as long as ...

4517. Like a Phoenix

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... that, no matter what topic you lite upon, you will find the talks fascinating. I have never heard one that wasn’t amazing. Anyway, Dr. Verghes gave one of the most beautiful and moving TED Talks I’ve ever heard. It was called, “The Doctor’s Touch” and he concluded his speech like this: I’m an infectious disease physician, and in the early days of HIV, before we had our medications, I presided over so many scenes like this. I remember, every time I went to a patient’s deathbed, whether in ...

4518. Little Start, Big Finish

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... -saving. No idea is so irrational that it can’t lead to a problem solved. In the kingdom there are no throw-away moments, no inconsequential conversations, no unimportant people. Every person who walks through the door is important. Every word spoken is a witness. Every life touched is a gift of God. It’s one of the many privileges and blessings of my chosen profession that I have gotten to meet and be invited into the lives of lots of people and I’ve been doing this profession for a lot of years, now ...

4519. The Invitation

Matthew 20:1-15

Sermon

Will Willimon

... by mid-February, only a few of your fellow classmates have begun work on the problem. Well, that's their business. They will be sorry come May. You have been at work since the second week of January. The week before exams, you are proudly putting the finishing touches on your paper and the solution to the problem. Some in the class tell you that, if they work hard over the next few days, staying up for 48 hours straight, they may get it finished. There are others who haven't even begun; there is no hope ...

4520. Living Sacrifice

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Will Willimon

... questions raised by the world's abnormality are quite beside the point. We have not gathered primarily to "address the issues" as the world has identified them, but rather to upend and subvert terrestrial abnormality which maims and kills everything it touches. Christ did not offer better answers to the social, religious, political issues of his time or ours. Rather, he trampled death, the supreme Lord of Abnormality, and gave life to those entombed, death always being the first choice of abnormality, every ...

4521. Metaphors Be with You

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... when he caught one in an error. He was the neighborhood fix-it guy with a basement workshop full of old radio tubes and switches and small, old electrical appliances from which he cannibalized parts for the ones he was fixing. He never allowed a mechanic to touch his car and insisted on doing all the engine repairs himself. That man loved machines. People, not so much. He had a hard time making eye contact and he had a habit of standing too close when he talked to people and then mumbling what he said ...

4522. Seeing with Eyes Closed

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and we can’t see them, because we have convinced ourselves, they do not exist. Or we are distracted by the “real” things we are dealing with in our everyday lives. How do you know something exists? Is something is real? Many of us would say, if we can touch it, taste it, feel it, hear it, see it, experience it, it exists. And yet, as we saw earlier, that’s not exactly true. Just as we train ourselves to recognize when we need to put on sunscreen to combat those invisible rays of the sun, or to mount ...

4523. Sword of the Spirit

John 6:56-69 · Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , its safety, and its success. The sword was a “discerning” sword, a judging sword. It could “mystically” discern the heart of he who grasped its handle and knew who would be worthy.In Arthur’s day, and even today, persons deemed worthy are “knighted” by touching a sword to either side of their shoulders. This gesture signifies that the person designated has been discerned to be of true character and nature and will be loyal to the kingdom. It is an honor to be knighted. In his letter to the ...

4524. Clean and Unclean

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... he himself was now unclean, and must leave the planet as no one would have any contact with him. As stated earlier, the prejudice doesn’t make any rational sense. Like pretty much every job on the planetoid, everything was automated. No one touched anything. But prejudice is not rational. It has nothing to do with reality. All societies have their own definitions of clean and unclean that sometimes have no real connection with germs or no germs. The biblical rules had nothing to do with scientific ...

4525. The Song of Servanthood

Luke 1:39-45 (46-54)

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... event. First, it was from the beginning that this plan of salvation originated. John wrote in his first epistle (letter), “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched — this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us…And our fellowship is with the Father and with ...

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