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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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4676. How About Some Applause for the Creator?

Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... All Content ©2023, https://generousorthodoxy.org/sermons/the-star-and-the-child-a-christmas-sermon. 2. Https://Cepreaching.Org/Commentary/2022-12-19/Luke-21-14-15-20/. 3. Anwahs, “Trespassing Snowmen,” Dailygood.org, 26 December 2007 view.php?qid=4259> 250 Anecdotes. 4. Staff, The Florida Times-Union, https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/husband-jacksonville-woman-who-took-dishwashing-job-during-pandemic-care-for-him-dies/69752111007/. 5. Rev. Dr. Stephen R ...

4677. Tresspassing Snowmen

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

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Angela Akers

... find out who made the snowmen on [the old man’s] lawn, I will be sure to send them something in return. They gave my son, myself, and our elderly neighbor “the biggest, bestest present ever!”[1] 1. Anwahs, “Trespassing Snowmen,” Dailygood.org, 26 December 2007 view.php?qid=4259> 250 Anecdotes.

4678. No Other Gods

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... Cohen, Juliet Bennett Rylah, Lestraundra Alfred, and Sara Friedman. 2. “7 Random Things I Noted While Throwing Away 465 Items” by Mathias Barra, Published in Ascent Publication, Dec 14, 2020. 3. Source: American Forest & Paper Association https://swa.org/DocumentCenter/View/277/History-of-Garbage-PDF#:~:text=In%20the%20late%201700's%2C%20Benjamin,throw%20it%20into%20the%20street.3. 4. No Other gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols by Kelly Minter (David C. Cook: Colorado Springs, CO.), 2008, p. 45 ...

4679. When Payday Comes

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Steven Molin

... represented those who only worked nine hours, six hours, or one hour in the vineyard, and yet the employer provided the same reward to them as to those who were there from the very beginning. It’s not fair. It’s not equitable. From a worldly point of view, it makes no sense at all. But again, this is the kingdom of heaven we’re talking about. I was troubled twenty years ago when Randy determined that he had earned the reward of confirmation day, but Mike didn’t do enough work to earn it. Says who ...

4680. Walk the Talk

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... fast to their own beliefs, rituals, laws, and self-serving rules. They had lost track of what God had tried to tell them for years through the scriptures, the prophets, the kings, and others. They continued to see the world as their idol, believing in an alternative view of God. Jesus’ corrective went like this, as he tried to make clear God’s intent and their desired response: “A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’ He answered, ‘I will not ...

4681. The Great Debates

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... have cast aside the “divinity” of Jesus, relegating him to an astute teacher at best. To do this is to ignore Jesus’ entire mission, his message, his resurrection, and his fulfillment of God’s promises. To do this is to take a Pharisaic view. We know how that ended. To be a Christian means believing in the person of Christ. His humanity and his divinity. Incredible? Yes! Debatable? Ask the Pharisees. Ask Job. Challenge God if you dare. [1] This actually brings up an interesting issue about ...

4682. Heroines of the Faith

Mark 1:29.39

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... you would reconsider.” The guy said, “Nope, I want you to increase my IQ times five, and if you don’t do it, I won’t set you free.” “Please,” said the mermaid, “You don’t know what you’re asking... it will change your entire view on the universe... won’t you ask for something else... a million dollars, anything?” But no matter what the mermaid said, the guy insisted on having his IQ increased by five times its usual power. So, the mermaid sighed and said, “Done.” And he became a ...

4683. Eagles Who Just Walk Around

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Maxie Dunnam

... above the ground." But then Woodstock falls to the ground looking dazed and snoopy says, "Maybe he'll just be one of those eagles who walks around." Isn't it amazing how quickly we settle for less than is promised and is possible? The psalmist had a thrilling view of our place as human beings in God's creation. "When I look at the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and stars which though hast ordained, what is man that though aren't mindful of him? Though hast made him a little lower than angels ...

4684. His Own Knew Him Not

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Will Willimon

... I labor so to sound, “special”? New. Unusual. You've heard me before. Worse, you've heard this story before. Now let me see, what new can I say about this? Yes, I've got a sermon, “The story of the Prodigal Son seen from the point of view of the fatted calf.” That’ll get 'em. I bet they never heard that before! When things are new, unfamiliar, strange, we react with excitement. “How odd” we say, “how utterly fascinating!” I've never thought about it that way before. Yes, I shall have to go ...

4685. Teach Us to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... thine be done.” Because Christian prayer does not come naturally, prayer is a problem for many modern people. What are we doing here? For what are we supposed to ask? What to say? For some, prayer has become little more than auto-suggestion, self-therapy. In their view, prayer is mainly of value in helping us to get our heads straight about what we ought to do: Prayer is a time for quiet meditation so that we might enter ever more deeply into our own already inflated egos. Note how many of our prayers are ...

4686. The Great Reveal

John 12:20-33

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Lori Wagner

... has come for him to be “glorified.” He then talks about the grain of wheat that falls into the earth and dies. That in order to be resurrected, it must first die. In other words, Jesus is explaining to his followers, and especially his Greek listeners why Plato’s view of the soul is not correct. He is explaining that 1) the soul is not separate from the body but we are holistic creatures that will die, 2) the soul is not pre-existent but that we were created by God (YHWH) as a holistic creature, and 3 ...

4687. Jews and Christians: All in the Family

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... sort of liberal, intellectual imperialism which first demands that both Christians and Jews be converted into bland, universalized, American pagans before we can live together. Some of the silliest arguments over the future of the Duke class ring took this point of view: Let's all agree to act less religious, suppress our distinctive beliefs and act like rational, universal human beings and then that will settle the problems of our differences. No. Religion, for Jew or Gentile, is not something we check at ...

4688. I Love You — If You Know What I Mean

1 John 3:16-24

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... the church; those who believe what we believe. Those who are not a part of our faith? Nah, those aren’t included in the command. For me to love you as God wants me to, first be a part of my group; my church, my country, my race, my social views, my status, my… it’s a long list. But I will remind us there were no lines or fences outside the empty tomb on Easter morning and no list of qualifications for being one of those that Jesus died for. In fact, that morning there wasn’t even a church ...

4689. On Rendering to God and to Caesar

Mark 12:13-17, Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... Methodists have never had any qualms about mixing religion and politics. We were on the forefront of agitation for child labor laws, women's suffrage, disarmament. The recent United Methodist Bishop's statement condemning nuclear weapons is typical of our view that Christians must work to create a better society. The presence of Duke University, for that matter, is a visible expression of the Methodist penchant for permeating all of life, including the intellect, with the Gospel. Formerly, only we liberal ...

4690.

Psalm 73:1-28

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... . 2:3, 5, 9, 10.) The conception of most psalms (6:5; 30:9; 88:10–12) and most of the OT, however, is that the dead face a shadowy existence in Sheol and are believed to be cut off from Yahweh. Psalm 73 may be consistent with this majority view, but it may also share with Psalm 49 and Genesis 5 a belief that one’s relationship with God is indissoluble. If verse 24 does point to some kind of resurrection, it is interesting to note how the writer arrived at this conclusion. He did so not by virtue of ...

4691. God’s Reputation and the Destruction of Jerusalem

Psalm 79:1-13

Teach the Text

Craig C. Broyles

... land, the king, and the temple. When we readers of the Bible consider the exile, we usually do so from the clear perspective of the Former (e.g., 1–2 Kgs.) and Latter Prophets (e.g., Isa.; Jer.). We may wonder how there could be any legitimate view other than to see it as deserved divine judgment. But the Bible itself also embraces the human response, even one that expresses complaint and frustration to God (v. 5, cf. esp. Ps. 74), though without presuming the people stand in the right (vv. 8–9). Psalm ...

4692.

Psalm 93:1-5

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... . 6–7), and of his “house” or “holy temple” (vv. 1–4). 93:3–4 Although “your throne” is “from remotest time,” Yahweh’s kingship is here exhibited dramatically by his superiority to the sea (Hb. yām, v. 4). Contrary to the static views of divine kingship that many of us imagine (God merely sitting on his throne), this psalm presents King Yahweh exerting his warrior strength and waging battle against chaos and evil. The term for the seas (v. 3) is actually “rivers” (Hb. nehārôt ...

4693.

Psalm 97:1-12

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... put to shame, the villages of Judah are glad because of your judgments (v. 8 is identical to 48:11, found in a Song of Zion). Yet we should recall that the opening verse has invited the earth also to be glad. What judgments are in view is not specified and may vary according to the particular place Psalm 97 had in the larger liturgy at the temple. They may relate to Yahweh’s righteousness revealed in the thunderstorm theophany against his foes (“justice” in v. 2 and “judgments” in v. 8 translate ...

4694.

Psalm 99:1-9

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... ’s bowing down before him. (This “exaltation,” Hb. rwm, before the cherubim-ark is therefore ritually distinct from its processional ascent, Hb. ʿlh, into the inner temple, as celebrated in 47:5, 9 and mentioned in 68:17–18; 97:9.) In view of verse 2, we see the congregation enacting ritually what is already true spiritually, namely that “he is exalted.” 99:6–9 The emphasis of the praising narrative of this section lies on the dialogical relationship between Yahweh and his people, as ...

4695.

Psalm 100:1-5

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... creator of a covenant people (cf. Isa. 43:1, 15; 44:2). The designations, his people and the sheep of his pasture (cf. 23:1), point particularly to the latter role. These phrases, among others, are closely paralleled in Psalm 95, where both divine roles are in view: he is both cosmic Creator and “our God” in particular (vv. 3–7). Thus, in Psalm 100 Yahweh has a right to this confession of him as God because he is our maker, possessor, and provider. Our dependence on him is clearly implied in the sheep ...

4696.

Psalm 131:1-3

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... . It is composed of a personal confession to God (vv. 1–2) and an exhortation to the congregation, Israel (v. 3). To some readers, the attachment of a corporate exhortation to so personal a confession might sound artificial (esp. perhaps in view of the identical imperative in the preceding psalm, 130:7). But, as this commentary has emphasized, the so-called division between individual and corporate is of our own devising. The combination of personal confession and public admonishment is attested in other ...

4697.

Psalm 138:1-8

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... Yahweh’s glory, which is great (v. 5), is that he condescends to help the lowly (cf. 113:4–9). 138:7–8 After celebrating the international scope of Yahweh’s praise, the psalm returns to the worshiper’s own situation, this time with a view towards the future. His recent deliverance (v. 3) gives confidence for future protection: Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you preserve my life. Yet the ultimate basis for this confidence lies not in this historical precedent, but in the character of Yahweh ...

4698.

Psalm 139:1-24

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... pleasant reading? Some commentators believe that interpretation of the psalm must begin with these verses. Its occasion would thus lie in the speaker’s conflict with the wicked: they have accused him falsely and he now seeks vindication from God. In this view, Psalm 139 is to be interpreted in light of others that are said to reflect more clearly a situation of false accusation (Pss. 7 and 17). Although nothing in the psalm rules out this interpretation categorically, Psalm 139 is distinctively different ...

4699.

Psalm 142:1-7

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... other words, the speaker claims that the confessions reported here are not insincere and manipulative, as though he had suddenly become religious in the face of an emergency. “You are my refuge” (Hb. maḥsê) is a familiar confession and becomes especially meaningful in view of the preceding lament of having no refuge (Hb. mānôs). Claiming Yahweh as my portion in the land of the living is particularly associated with the Levites (Num. 18:20). However, it is also found in psalms that do not appear to ...

4700. “The Words of the Lord Are Flawless, Like Silver Purified in a Crucible”

Psalm 12:1-8

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... Psalms understands this in the legal sense of being “cut off” from the community7 (lit., “may the Lord cut off all the lips of division”). 12:4 By our tongues we will prevail . . . who is lord over us? Clearly the power of speech is in view here—they were right on that score—but power built on lies and deceit will ultimately lead to ruin, if not in this world, definitely in the world to come. “Lord” is the Hebrew word ’adon (“lord,” “master”), sometimes used as a substitute word ...

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