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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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4626. A Secret Is Finally Revealed

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... love and God has plans for us as God’s children. Paul’s great affirmation provides what David Buttrick calls a “metanarrative,”3 a universal concept that enables creation, fall, redemption, and glory to provide a meaning which sweeps across time. Without a sense of a meaningful future, a telos, those early Christians in the Ephesus region, not to mention you and I, would be given to short term goals. We would not appreciate the pervasiveness of the revealed secret. We are all adopted children of God ...

4627. Good News for Good Living

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... that the Easter faith preceded us and remains after us in time. In a strange way, today’s text, with its loud assertion that “he was raised on the third day,” can “neither be measured nor contained by time and history in any ordinary sense.”1 The Easter faith creates us; we do not create the Easter faith. • Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures. • He was buried. • He was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. • He appeared to Cephas, to the ...

4628. Taking the Sting Out of Death

1 Chronicles 15:1-16:6

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... raw. Her malignancy was advanced. Her son called her on the phone. “Are you afraid?” he asked. “No,” she said. “My mother went like this; my brother went like this; hundreds of thousands of people go like this each year. If they can do it, I guess I can.” Sensing his fear, she said, “It’s all right. I have more people over there waiting to say hello to me than I have here to say goodbye to.”3 And that is precisely what you and I shall have, kin and friends living in a home, waiting for our ...

4629. God Knows

Isaiah 5:1-7

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... excellence of soil and plants, the owner has spared no effort in constructing some nice features: a watchtower is built, a wine vat is made. Everything about the vineyard is perfect, it would seem: good land, good soil, good vines, good accessories. In a real sense, the vineyard had become an object of devotion and affection for the owner. It is the love of his life, the passion of his soul. Having invested much of himself and much of his resources in it, the vineyard owner sits back and awaits the harvest ...

4630. Make Up Your Mind!

1 Kings 18:16-46

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... live too far away to get to a ballgame like this more than once every couple of years, so I pull for both teams. That way, no matter who wins, I go home happy.” You don’t have to be a sports fan to know that if you have any sense of loyalty to the home team, you will not root for both sides. “No one can serve two masters” (Matthew 6:24) is a principle that has application for sports as well as for religion. Yet, that is exactly what we seem to be attempting in our current quest for ...

4631. Bad News from a Good Man!

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

There are two facts we all need to remember before we can make any real sense out of life. The first is that God is sovereign and holy, just and loving. The second is that we are not. We are servants, unholy, self-centered, and self-seeking. This Scripture passage is a marvelous illustration of this. You would think that seeing God send fire from heaven ...

4632. With All Your Heart

Joel 2:12-17, Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... prophet’s entire oracle to Judah, whose language is reminiscent of Isaiah, Obadiah, Zephaniah, Malachi, and Jeremiah in their reference to the “Day of the Lord,” “the enemy from the North,” and “judgment on foreign nations,” contains a heightened sense of urgency for the people of God. Joel’s lament is that the day of the Lord is coming. Such events in ancient times had portended “seismic disturbances” of disastrous proportions. The prophet’s warning contains elements of pessimism and ...

4633. While He May Be Found

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... . Listening is something we don’t do well in this culture. We hear what we want to hear. We see what we want to see. We hear others not as they are but as we are. People talk at each other. The drama and trauma of daily living anesthetizes our senses so that we cannot hear. We cannot hear because we are tired of hearing. We cannot hear because we have heard it all before. We cannot hear because we are on sensory overload. We cannot hear because it cuts us to the core, offends us, and turns us off. We ...

4634. Deformed, Disfigured, and Despised: A Marred but Magnificent Messiah

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... despised, and marred came to him to receive healing from him. Yet he could not heal himself. Jesus attracted these people unto him. Why? Was there something about his physical condition that enabled them to identify with him? Because he looked like them did they sense he could provide a cure for them? Jesus embodies two basic contradictory realities: one of being deformed, disfigured, and despised, which is the man we shall never want to be; and the other is having the power to heal others, which is the man ...

4635. He Commanded Us to Preach

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... the past that dash our hope for the future. Too many things bind us and choke off the life of the spirit in us. We need to be set free from our sins of me-ism, racism, sexism, ageism, and other isms that bind and destroy our sense of community. Parents carry emotional, spiritual, and psychological baggage and pass that baggage on to their children who pass it on to their children. The spiral of iniquity spins out of control from generation to generation. People need to be set free from the various forms of ...

4636. The Hospitable Servant: A Woman Named Lydia

Acts 16:11-15

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... was from New Jersey and had no relatives or friends in Atlanta. Believing that he could find friendship in a church, he joined, but later he was dismayed because no one ever invited him to their home. No one ever welcomed him or made him feel a sense of belonging in that church or the city. He later left the city, discouraged because there was no hospitality among the believers of that church. It is not enough to be baptized and believe, we must show concern and hospitality for those in the body of Christ ...

4637. You Shall Receive Power

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... change light into darkness? Power to restore the Kingdom of Israel to its former greatness? What kind of power is Jesus talking about? His apostles are nervous, anxious, excited. They envision a power that will forever change their lives and those around them. They sense that a new power is permeating the air: the power of renewal and change. To possess this power would mean a new might and spiritual hegemony for them as followers of Christ. Jesus promises this power to his followers. During his ministry he ...

4638. The Child of Promise

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... , and the horses enjoy the same sunlight we enjoy. However, the “great light” of which the prophet Isaiah writes is a light that is far more penetrating and meaningful than the important light of which Carl Sagan wrote. Isaiah means light in a much larger sense. This is the light that existed before the creation of light or the lights of the firmament. The “great light” is the revelation of God which is an enlightenment that enables us to see what the microscope and the telescope cannot reveal to us ...

4639. The Promise of Baptism

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... .” For the people of God to be called by name means that they belong to God. They are ruled by God, and, as we shall hear, they are called by God’s name. So we are not to think of baptism as a name-giving ceremony in the ordinary sense, but in the conviction that in baptism we are granted the very name of God, because we are God’s. Baptism Is Conditioning In the case of Israel, the prophet wanted them to understand that in the baptism Israel would have in passing through the waters with the presence ...

4640. The Promise of Sight

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... . The captivity of the Northern Kingdom had taken place a whole century before. The whole history of this people extended backward 1,300 years. How much the average Hebrew exile may have known about Hebrew history is difficult to say. We can imagine their sense of history was just as dim as what the average Christians know about their tradition of two thousand years. That is what the prophet had to overcome. The people had to be reminded of what God had done for them throughout their history to understand ...

4641. The Fruit of the Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... for before, he no longer wanted. What had seemed good to him before now appeared to be evil and vice versa. What was on his right before was now on his left. And what was on his left was now on his right. The prophet wanted the exiles to sense that same kind of change in looking at their situation. Instead of living by all the threats of the power structure around them, they could visualize the power as weakness that would soon falter. They could look to the word from God as to where the power and the ...

4642. Kingdoms in Conflict

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

... but these things are lost on Pilate. In the published diaries of Joseph Goebbels, the infamous Nazi Propagandist, there are two or three references to Mahatma Gandhi. Goebbels believed that Gandhi was a fool and a fanatic. If Gandhi had the sense to organize militarily, Goebbels thought, he might hope to win the freedom of India. He was certain that Gandhi couldn’t succeed following a path of non-resistance and peaceful revolution. Yet as history played itself out, India peacefully won her independence ...

4643. Exchanging Our Eschatological Heritage

Luke 21:5-38

Illustration

William G. Carter

... for many years, once observed how people in our time lose hope for the future. It happens whenever we let our culture call the shots on how the world is going to end. At this stage of technological advancement, the only way the culture can make sense of the future is through the picture of everything blowing up in a nuclear holocaust. The world cannot know what we know, that everything has changed in the death and resurrection of Jesus, that the same Christ is coming to judge the world and give birth ...

4644. There Is Hope (A Christmas Communion Meditation)

Luke 1:67-80

Sermon

Brett Blair

... us, and said: “Oh, isn’t it beautiful.” We coddled and sentimentalized the story. When we read the story we are too often projected into a world that was more rosier than ours, where miracles were still possible and God was more active and hope made more sense and evil was stoppable and reality wasn’t quite so harsh. The Christmas story sometimes creates a little of the feeling of Wizard of Oz. When Dorothy and her dog Toto have been transported by a tornado into the land of Oz, you’ll recall that ...

4645. Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Brett Blair

... she had been chosen to be the mother of the long-awaited Messiah. Gabriel told Mary that her aunt Elizabeth, well past the child-bearing age, had become pregnant. Immediately Mary went to visit Elizabeth. Under the influence of the Holy Spirit, both women sensed that God has chosen them for special tasks and would do great things through their children. Mary was then given by the Holy Spirit insights far too profound for a simple teenager to originate. She declared the impact that her son would have upon ...

4646. When Our Children Teach Us

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... old teddy bear at home? He’s about worn out. Maybe we can buy you a new one in Boston or when we get back.” But he said, “No, I need it.” So off to Boston they went. He held tightly to that teddy bear all the way. The surgeon sensed how important the teddy bear was to the little boy, so he allowed the boy to keep the bear with him throughout all the many examinations prior to surgery. On the morning of the surgery, the hospital staff brought in two surgical gowns – one for the little boy and a ...

4647. Good News

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... destroyed in the war. You can read about it in the Old Testament books of Ezra and Nehemiah. So how is Jesus fulfilling it? Here it is…now don’t miss this: God said it is through suffering of the servant that salvation in its fullest sense would be realized. Israel, described here as male servant, would have to suffer before he could be redeemed. Here is how Isaiah described the redemptive nature of Israel’s suffering: He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering ...

4648. The Healing of Jairus' Daughter and the Hemorrhaging Woman

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the crowd… and when no one seemed to be looking, she reached out tentatively, fearfully, and touched the hem of His robe. At once, the hemorrhaging stopped. For the first time in 12 years, the flow of blood stopped. Jesus simultaneously felt or sensed that something special had happened -- it was a unique touch -- and He felt strength go out of Him. Immediately, Jesus stopped. He turned around and asked, “Who touched Me?” The disciples were astonished by the question in the midst of all the pushing ...

4649. The Healing of Blind Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... way to Jerusalem. He is on His way to the cross when He encounters Bartimaeus. Bartimaeus, the blind beggar, is sitting by the roadside in Jericho. Bartimaeus is doing what he does daily; he is begging for money. Obviously, he has heard about Jesus. Bartimaeus senses that this is his moment, his chance, so when Jesus comes near, Bartimaeus begins to cry out urgently, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.” The crowd tries to shush him. They think Jesus is too busy and too important to be bothered with ...

4650. The Healing Power of the Resurrection

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... as men shoveled the soil of Georgia on top of his cedar casket. But just them, a little two-year-old girl name Faith Fuller, who lived on the farm, unprompted and spontaneously, stepped up to the grave and sang her favorite song to Clarence. She had sensed that this was a special day for her friend, Clarence. So boldly and loudly in her little two-year-old voice she sang this song to him: “Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, dear Clarence, Happy birthday to you.” Little Faith ...

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