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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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26. Of Preachers and Preaching

Micah 1:8-16

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... . What do you want to hear? Is it your wish to be congratulated or to be challenged? To be confirmed in your opinions or shocked into new awareness? To be soothed and comforted or aroused to repentance and action? Can you be counted on for a more sensitive response than Micah found in his audience or than Jesus witnessed in the nine lepers? And now to conclude all this let me remind myself and you that I have been speaking, for the most part, from within a limited, segmental view of the ministry. I have ...

27. God Is No Respecter Of Persons

Acts 10:23b-48

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... the brightest of God's chosen people, wasn't good enough to gain God's respect. Peter deserted Jesus, cursed and hid. Could it be if Christ's forgiveness of Peter, on Easter, did not return the disciple's pride, at least it did give him a heart sensitive for the shortcomings of others? Could it be this same humiliated saint was the perfect choice to tell the foreigner of God's grace? God is no respecter of persons - he is not partial to one race over another, once class over another, one nation over another ...

28. Learning to Be Graceful

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Harold Warlick

... are having marital problems, children from broken homes and those who have financial or mental problems are a few of the people who need the sign, "wide load." In addition there are people who possess religious hang-ups. Now you and I need to be sensitive to the "wide load" people in our lives. We need to cultivate a graceful attitude toward people. In fact, there are times in our lives when we will carry heavier loads than other times. The graceful people will respect that and allow room for our behavior ...

29. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... as can be, "Lend a sharp ear to your parents now." The word spoken to the parents is equally important. The Greek term translated "provoke" is erethizo. Its root meaning is "to stir up," or "to agitate." Its intent is to remind parents that we ought to be sensitive to our children, and not shove, or constantly poke, or rub them raw, with a deadening hand. Even if they are our children, they are people to be lived with, not things to be possessed and used. They must be lived with in light of that fact. If ...

30. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Luke 13:22-30

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David E. Leininger

... until he got what he wanted. Jacob was a rascal...like an ancient P. T. Barnum who believed, "There's a sucker born every minute." But there is something else about Jacob. In spite of all his tendencies toward being a scoundrel, he had a certain religious sensitivity. Do you remember the story of the midnight wrestling match between Jacob and the angel?(1) The angel said "Let go," but Jacob said, "No, not until you bless me." The angel replied, "If I bless you, I will have to make you lame," but Jacob said ...

31. Is Conscience the Best Guide?

John 16:5-16

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Donald B. Strobe

... conscience, and feel no guilt whatever for our participation-however small-in the things that cause the ills of our world, then we are in a very sorry spiritual state, indeed. That is why one of the tasks of the Church is to sensitize our consciences. The notorious safe-cracker Jimmy Valentine, it is said, used to sandpaper his fingertips to make them more sensitive to help him feel the tumblers fall into place as he robbed safes. Perhaps the task of the Church is to sandpaper our souls, to make them more ...

32. When Compassion Overcomes Irritation

Mark 6:30-44

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Donald B. Strobe

... , p. 157) There are people all around us who hurt. Do we know? Do we care? I came across a reference to the fact that there was a Michigan high school in which the students designated October 1, 1986 as “Nerd Day.” One freshman was bright but sensitive; since entering high school, he had been harassed and teased for being a “nerd.” One day before “Nerd’s Day,” this 14-year old boy hanged himself in his own home. He simply couldn’t stand any more. Although that school will no longer have a ...

33. Breaking The Negative Cycle

Matthew 5:1-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... power of the positive to operate in our relationship. You and I do not within our own power have the kind of tolerance and patience that we need to deal with other. We can be intolerant. We get caught up in a negative cycle. We aren’t as sensitive and as appreciative as we ought to be. Christ is the divine yes in marriage, reminding us that we must continue to say yes, continue to say yes to the commitment of fidelity and trust and valuing and accepting and affirming that makes marriage God’s greatest ...

34. At Home In The Daylight

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Maxie Dunnam

... problems, and all of them were complicated by an adulterous relationship on his part. He is one of the most sensitive persons I know...sensitive to a fault, really. Not the least cause for the mess he was in was his inability to say no to anyone -- or to make ... a decision for fear of hurting another. Believe it or not, he was keenly sensitive about his relationship to God. We never had a session that he did not talk about that relationship. Forgiveness was a big issue ...

35. Epiphany: A Faith to Work Miracles

John 2:1-11

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... of our own generous impulses, that the miraculous must struggle for any kind of hearing. That's why it's so important that those of us who believe in God, and who believe deeply in love, compassion, and service to others should be sensitive to our potential agents of the miraculous. Many prayers are left unsaid, or are spoken tremulously, because we have been conditioned to expect nothing; and expecting nothing, ask for nothing. Many ventures, some grand and some ordinary, are never begun because we don ...

36. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v2

1 John 4:7-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... I do – and hearing from you as I give you the opportunity to make your requests known to me – I am burdened by what is going on in your lives. These are prayer burdens to me and sometimes more than prayer burdens. That’s the way it is for the sensitive Christian, and especially for one who is called to ministry. I still remember my life as a pastor, and there is a degree to which I carry this over into my life here. Hardly a week would pass when I would not be so burdened by the cares and concerns ...

37. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v1

1 John 4:7-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... I do – and hearing from them as I give them the opportunity to make their requests known to me – I am burdened by what is going on in their lives. These are prayer burdens to me and sometimes more than prayer burdens. That’s the way it is for the sensitive Christian. I still remember my life as a pastor, and there is a degree to which I carry this over into my life at Asbury Seminary. Hardly a week would pass when I would not be so burdened by the cares and concerns of my congregation that I would ...

38. A Tale of Two Dancers

Mark 6:14-29

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Mark Trotter

... the issues that have to do with the most sacred and the most mysterious periods of human life. They have to do with our sexuality, our birth, and our death. Therefore we ought to discuss them with the most restraint, the most humility, and sensitivity. But we don't do that. We discuss them politically. We take sides. We are politicized and polarized, and we make judgments about the other side. It is just terrible. You hear the most judgmental words spoken, Christian against Christian, on these issues, where ...

39. You Can't Win them All

Matthew 10:2-14

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Mark Trotter

... . When I was the pastor of another church, many years ago, a woman called me on the phone. I could hear her crying, obviously very distraught. She asked if I would come over and talk with her, which I did. She was a fine Christian woman, much more sensitive than most of us. She confessed that she did not like her neighbors. She felt that she was being unChristian. She had this terrible guilt that she had lived with for the longest time. She couldn't stand it any longer. She said she wanted to like them, she ...

40. Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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James McCormick

... Christians should not be bound by those. But listen now: because unity was important, because their oneness in Christ was important, and because they were to worship together, eat together, live together, and be in mission together, they all needed to be sensitive to the things that were important to those who did not share their preferences. So, the Jewish Christians had to be careful not to impose their lifestyle preferences upon the Gentile Christians. And, at the same time, the Gentile Christians were ...

41. Until He Comes

2 Timothy 4:7-8

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James Merritt

... , I am seeing that type of preaching and teaching creep more and more into what used to be called our "evangelical world." I want to say to every preacher here, regardless of your style of worship; whether you are sinner-sensitive, seeker-sensitive, or you don't have enough sense to be sensitive, keep the faith. When the hounds of heresy nipped at his heels, Paul kept the faith. When the lions of apostasy roared in his face, he kept the faith. Until He comes heresy will grow, apostasy will abound, and the ...

42. Lord, Is It I?

Mark 14:12-26

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Maxie Dunnam

... the fact of sin in all of us. Do we need to argue that? We know it too well, don’t we? The fact of sin in our life. But — what about the awful possibility of the expression of that darkest sin — the sin that claws at our tender sensitivities — that we may be the traitor — that we may betray Christ. We can’t even begin to think of that possibility, can we? It violates everything we feel, the thought of it tears at our hearts — that we would betray Christ. But think the roots of sin are in ...

43. Dust Off The Throne

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16, Luke 1:26-38, Romans 16:25-27

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David J. Kalas

... prophet’s door to find out what the Lord has to say. Still more rare is David’s move here: the king initiates the conversation, not because of what he wants from the Lord, but because of what he wants to do for the Lord. David’s sensitivity is exemplary. He saw for himself precisely the kind of thing that we usually need someone else to point out to us. Indeed, David saw for himself essentially the same thing that the prophet Haggai was required to point out to the Jews of post-exilic Jerusalem 500 ...

44. “Weak and Strong” Should Get Along

Romans 14:1--15:13

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C. Marvin Pate

... 1) Christ as the basis of unity (vv. 1–6); (2) Christ as the means to unity (vv. 7–13). Verses 1–6 make the point that since Christ’s sacrifice brought Gentiles into the arrangement of the new covenant, they need to be sensitive to their Jewish Christian siblings for the sake of Christ. Here I think that Gentile believers need to bear with their Jewish Christian brothers and sisters by affirming the latter’s Jewish heritage. For example, for some time now in biblical scholarship Christian scholars ...

45. Correcting Cephas

Galatians 2:11-21

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Gary M. Burge

... of Christ has destroyed all previously imagined divisions among humankind (see Gal. 3:28). Paul acknowledges his own position among the “Jews by birth” but goes on to explain that this “advantage” (see Romans 2–3) only allows Jews to be even more sensitive to the need for God’s justification because of their own inability to perfectly follow the torah (i.e., the biblical law). Paul, then, has not denied the Jewish advantage; he only shows that the advantage in itself is not enough to provide ...

46. Mimosa Pudica

Luke 10:1-10, 16-24

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Robert C. Cochran

... to mimic. Pudica is Latin for “shy,” “bashful,” or “shrinking.” So, I guess you could say that the mimosa pudica is mimicking shyness. The mimosa pudica is known by many names. In the U.S. and England it is also known as “Sensitive Plant,” “Humble Plant,” “Shame Plant,” “Prayer Plant,” “Tickle-Me-Plant,” and “Touch-Me-Not.” In Spanish, it is called, mori-vivi (“I died, I lived”). In Tonga, it is called mateloi (“false death”). In Hindi, it is known as chhui-mui ...

47. Christianity: A Worldly Religion That Makes Sure That Even Animals Matter

Revelation 5:11-14

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Mark Ellingsen

... just what the Bible says. God loves the world so much that he died for it, so he could restore it, make it new. The book of Revelation says it (21:1). The logic of Christian faith also testifies to the fact that we have a worldly, ecologically sensitive God. Think what happens every Sunday. I recite the Words of Institution (the story of the Last Supper). When I do this, Jesus is present and enters the ordinary bread and wine on our altar. Ordinary bread and wine. Fruits of the earth. But they are certainly ...

48. Love In Action

Mark 10:17-31

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Will Willimon

... on a cross for what everyone already finds easy. We say we do it out of love. To ask more would- be to risk provoking a crisis in their lives which might blow them away. You are so morally and emotionally fragile, aren't you glad that you have a sensitive, caring, affirming pastor like me to protect you? Of course, there is a good chance that you're smart enough to see through my claims of pastoral love and protection. You know why I don't ask more of you, call you to Abundant life rather than mere decency ...

49. Simply Simon

Luke 7:36-50

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Alexander H. Wales

... amazing things during his meetings. And he teaches some good, Bible-based stuff, getting back to the basics, talking about the heart kind of religion rather than the rule bound religion that is so popular with the 'in' group nowadays. I've heard that he tends to step on some sensitive toes every once in a while, but I think that's always going to be true with some of these hard-liners. "Anyway, when I heard he was going to be in town, I sent one of my servants to visit with his disciples to see if I could ...

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Betty Lynn Schwab

... Christ to be as Christ to all who are oppressed in our congregation and in the world. We are called to set all captives free. Let us pray together. Congregation: Holy God, God of the Passover and God of the crucifixion, help us to be sensitive as Jesus was, sensitive to all who are mistreated by other people, especially by those who are in their church. Forgive us for our part in their oppression. Stir us to work for everyone's release. In Jesus' name we pray. Child: Amen! Our bitter herbs! (Raises herb and ...

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