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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. Favoritism Forbidden

James 2:1-13, James 2:14-26

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... the economic status of the rich man: Here’s a good seat for you. He eases himself into the most comfortable chair, to the warm smiles of all present. The poor man, however, receives only a cold You stand there, or Sit on the floor by my feet. ... so one stayed home while the other wore the garment to the market or the rabbinic school. At night they buried themselves in straw to keep warm. The without … daily food in Greek is not the same as Matt. 6:11 but means the same. James has used a form more common in ...

27. Faith and Deeds

James 2:14-26, James 2:1-13

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

28. Dressing For The Marriage

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Mary Venema Swierenga

... When you marry, you commit yourself to the other, you bind yourself with promises to love the other as yourself, you promise to caringly bring your whole self to your relationship. Wear that caring, committed love you've promised today as the overcoat that will keep you warm for a lifetime together. There is one more thing that needs to be said -- actually, what I'm about to say undergirds everything I've said to far. These clothes Paul invites us to put on are not made of natural fibers. They are woven of ...

29. Is It Too Late?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

George Johnson

... would be willing to wave our flags and blow our trumpets if we would decide to spend 50 billion dollars to prepare for and wage war on the threat to Mother Earth. Is it too late? There is differing opinion on how serious the ozone crisis and warming trend really are. We all agree that is a problem. But how serious is it - 70 percent serious, 90 percent serious? Perhaps this example will help. Your two-year-old is outside playing. Someone comes and reports that your child is headed for the freeway, exploring ...

30. How Should We Live?

Luke 3:1-20

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... out here? (y-y-yes) If the child is not hugging himself and shaking, place his arms in that position. You look cccold. I'm feeling pretty warm though in my nice TWO big coats. Don't you like my coats, Josh? (response) I can't imagine being out on a night like this ... ? (response) Oh, would you like one of my coats? (response) I really don't need two coats. Put the coat on him. Are you warm now? (response) I wasn't being very nice, was I? (response) This is how we are supposed to live as Christians. There's a ...

31. The Bells Of Christmas Eve

Drama

... a girl and her little brother stumble upon an old man dying in the cold. (Tonio and his big sister Cesca are trudging along to the village church. An old man, Giuseppe the baker, is lying in their path.) TONIO: It is so cold! CESCA: Hurry. The church will be warm. Others will be there. TONIO: Why aren't the bells ringing? CESCA: I don't know TONIO: But they always ring on Christmas Eve. CESCA: I said I don't know why they aren't ringing. TONIO: Who is this? CESCA: It is Giuseppe the baker. He has fallen by ...

32. Is It Wrong for Us to Brag?

Luke 18:14

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Two paper bags. Good morning, boys and girls, and how are you today? Isn’t it good to have the world so nice and warm? I love warm weather, because there are so many nice things that I can do when it’s warm. I like picnics and swimming and playing ball and riding bikes and going on hikes and camping out and just so many things. Anyway, it’s good to have the warm weather. Say, I brought some friends with me today. Well - at least one of them is a friend. The other is kind of a big blow-hard, ...

33. Bridges, Not Walls!

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... history, which revealed a God who was full of surprises, was going to record one more surprise and it was a big one. No longer was there to be a wall between the Jews and Gentiles. All people are God’s people. The bridge is in. This is a warm story. It is a beautiful story about the crossing of a tremendous frontier. It is a story full of wonderful surprises. There’s no applause here for the feelings of hate. There’s no support for division. Rather just the opposite is true. We have a Roman soldier ...

34. John Wesley: Religion of the Heart

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... you. We Christians need heart-warmers so we can feel our religion. These are ... "very great and precious gifts he promises us.” And we, too, ... "may come to share the divine nature" (1 Peter 1:4). There was no elitism on Wesley’s part once his heart was warmed. He took it out to all of God’s people. An R. Hancock completed a famous engraving of John Wesley in 1790. The words over the engraving are "He went about doing good." It ought be said of us as well. Perhaps we need a conversion. Wesley was ...

35. Do You Hear What I Hear?

Luke 1:46-56, Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... to which others are blind: "He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty." Said the shepherd boy to the mighty king, "Do you hear what I hear? In your palace warm, mighty king, Do you hear what I hear? A Child, a Child shivers in the cold-- Let us bring him silver and gold, Let us bring him silver and gold" Something new and unexpected. A word of hope in a hopeless world. Do you hear it? That is the ...

36. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman

Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in the house of the high priest. Except for Peter. Peter was there, in the courtyard. He didn’t acquit himself very well, but at least he was there. “And as Peter was below in the house, one of the maids of the high priest came, and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him, and said, ‘You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.’ But he denied it, saying, ‘I neither know nor understand what you mean.’” Mark 14:66) I. I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS IS NOT A STORY OF PETER’S COWARDICE, BUT OF HIS ...

37. Bearing the Cross

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... returned it to her. At night he wrapped himself up in this soft green blanket. It was very cold there in the woods and he was warm in it and he slept soundly through the night. In fact, he slept so soundly that he had never had occasion to see the King of ... the World who was said to come early each morning to make all things fresh and new. But the elf was so wrapped up in his warm, snug, soft green blanket that he never was up and never had seen the King of the World. One time a shepherd met this elf out in ...

38. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (ii)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place, Penguin Books, 40 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010, USA) Singing the Lord's song is not a solo performance. We sing together, or we sing for someone else until they can sing, or others sing for us until our hearts are warmed and our tongues loosened, and we can join the singing. SINGING THE LORD'S SONG IN A STRANGE LAND (#2)Scripture: Psalm 137: 1-6 A few months ago, I told a lawyer story in one of my sermons. It was a funny story that didn't speak too well ...

39. The Power of Partnership

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord." There is also strength when a man and a wife have children. "Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb is His reward." (Ps. 127:3) We do need someone to warm us on those days when life turns cold; when the east wind of trouble blows our way; when we are buried under a blizzard of heartache; when the chill of depression and discouragement freezes our very heart. We need the heat of a hug, the warmth of a word ...

40. A Matter Of The Heart

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... its hands set at 8:45—a quarter before nine. For John Wesley, that was the moment of his open heart surgery, a heart strangely warmed—in fact, a new heart. And, of course, Brother Charles Wesley would put it to song: O for a heart to praise my God, a ... , a copy, Lord, of thine. [2] If hardness of heart is the diagnosis and open heart surgery is the cure, then a heart strangely warmed, a new heart, is the result. And that brings us to the text for the morning, Psalm 51. It begins with that cryptic note ...

41. Journey To The Heart Of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... m so glad we’re finally making camp for the night. (sits stage right, opens up her bundle, sets a blanket down, and pretends to warm herself by a fire) Hamid: (pulling out a small notebook and pretending to write in it) Journal entry number one. We left in such a ... roads all my life. I’ve never seen an angel. Maybe it was a bird or something. Come over here by the fire and get warm and tell me what you think you saw. And why are you out here all by yourself, anyway? David: Tonight, our father asked us if ...

42. Style: Some Distinctive Marks of a Methodist

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... only us Methodists —— the world needs it - the catholic spirit lived out in the different denominations. II Now the second ingredient of a Methodist style. What we label in the vernacular as “heart-felt religion”. In Methodist language it is the experience of the “warm heart.” This has meaning at two points: the individual, and the fellowship - the larger group. The Methodist movement was born in England and soon began to burn with a fire of love across that land in large part because of two big ...

43. LENT: The Passion of Christ: "Denied!"

John 13:36-38; 18:12-27

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... saying, "Is that how you answer the high priest?" [23] Jesus answered, "If I have spoken wrongly, testify to the wrong. But if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?" [24] Then Annas sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. [25] Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They asked him, "You are not also one of his disciples, are you?" He denied it and said, "I am not." [26] One of the slaves of the high priest, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, "Did I not see you in ...

44. True North

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... in all kinds of positions. You saw them sprinting all over the field. What were they doing? They were stretching and warming up. A professional athlete would never start playing a game without first warming up. Spending time with God is our time to stretch our souls and warm up our hearts before God. It prepares us for our day. Christ’s followers should never begin a day without first warming up before God. This is how our souls become sensitized to God’s guidance each day. Imagine how different your ...

45. The Golden Hour

Exodus 19:1-25, Genesis 15:1-18, Ezekiel 24:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... beautiful God is in our lives, and how near God is, even when we feel in pain and alone. God’s presence is illuminated through our darkness and shadows, through our too-blinding-bright-to-see-anything moments. God’s presence is there around and among us, warming us, illuminating our world in ways too amazing to imagine, leading us back to life and into God’s promise of a future and a home. God’s promise comes to us most in those times we feel near defeat, near death, near hopelessness, near darkness ...

46. Gracious

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... multitude of ways. We still have those who feel the immense gratitude that comes with knowing the true gifts of Jesus and what he has done in their lives. Let us be thankful. Enormously thankful. And in doing so, I wish to you all that you feel the “warming of the heart” that may infuse you with love, joy, thankfulness, and the impetus for change. May you be a blessing to your family, to your neighbors, to your community, and to God. And may you reap the abundant rewards that Jesus has to offer you. In ...

47. Judgment Day

Mark 13:1-31

Drama

Steven E. Albertin

... took place. A new kingdom was established, a kingdom not dependent on whether we work out a mutually verifiable arms treaty with all the third world countries of the world, prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction, replenish the ozone layer, or halt global warming. In today's Gospel Jesus tells us not to be alarmed, not to be frightened. We don't have to be afraid of the dangerous uncertainties of this world. We don't have to be afraid of nuclear holocaust or environmental disaster or cancer or ...

48. Letting God

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Matthew 2:1-12

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... ! JOSEPH: That was awful! MARY: What? What do you mean? JOSEPH: It was so embarrassing! Those people were able to take care of my wife and child better than I can. I couldn't give you blankets, but they brought them. I couldn't give you sheepskins to keep you warm, but they did. MARY: God sent them because he knew you couldn't do it alone. JOSEPH: That's just it; I couldn't do it! I know you're trying to cheer me up, Mary, but it only makes me feel worse. God had to step in and take ...

49. Sharing The Warmth

1 John 4:21

Children's Sermon

Teresa L. Major

... out in the snow building a snowman and you come inside with wet mittens and a red nose and frozen toes, what is the first thing you want to do? (Children respond.) Get warm! Of course. You want to get rid of that cold feeling and warm up. Sometimes, when I come in after being out in the cold, I like to stand in front of the radiator and warm my hands and feet. The heat rolls over me and before I know it, the cold has been chased away. Have any of you ever seen a radiator? I have radiators in my ...

50. While This House Lies In Ruins

Haggai 1:1-15

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... , and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and you that earn wages earn wages to put them into a bag with holes. Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you have ... little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and you that earn wages earn wages to put them into a bag with holes. Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you ...

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