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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. THE NEIGHBORHOOD GAP

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... a Christian who is aware of the grace of God to say, "As a matter of emotion I dislike that man, but I will do good to him because as a matter of Christian principle, I love him." It’s great to feel a warmth toward people, and if we took Christ seriously, we would probably feel warmth a great deal more than we do. The Christian faith isn’t primarily the way we feel - it is tied up in the way we act, the way we relate. Liking may follow loving; fondness may follow action; but it may not, and that ...

27. The Second Naiveté: Babies, Angels, Shepherds, And God

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... of humble love and eternal truth, help us give up the idols of our vain worship, to center our lives on the Christ. Grant us release from false ideas and inadequate concepts which hinder our vision of you. Let our hardness of heart be melted in the warmth of this manger room of love. On this night of the world's first family, we would remember our own. Some of us are home from school or service or distant work. Others of us are home after arguments and alienation, home, ready to be accepted and reconciled ...

28. The Gift of Fire

Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... go out to watch it...which, of course, creates a big problem for those kids who DID grow up to be firefighters. On a winter's evening, we like building a fire, not just for the warmth, but for the chance to watch it do its work. On a summer's evening in the woods, we enjoy gathering around a campfire, not for the warmth, but for the sheer pleasure of being near it. Fire fascinates us. Now, combine those two thoughts: gifts and fire. I wonder what would happen if someone gave you a gift OF fire. To be sure ...

29. Jesus, Where Are You?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... Martin, was like the first picture of the laughing Christ in certain ways. Instead of a pale, blond, sorrowful man with a glowing halo over his head, this Jesus was dark skinned, strong, and healthy looking. He had a broad smile, and He glowed with warmth and good cheer. His gaze was straightforward, honest, and twinkling with mirth. This was a warm, personable, real Jesus. The kind of man anyone would want to follow. As Cal contemplated these two images of Jesus, he realized that he had never known this ...

30. Are You Going Down?

Luke 2:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... house lonely and desolate in the midst of a storm. It was a sad picture. Then, with a quick stroke of yellow oils he put a light in one window. The effect was magical. The entire scene was transformed into a vision of comfort and cheer, of warmth, of happiness, of love. One of the most important symbolic events of our lifetime occurred within the last two decades. It was the destruction of the wall that separated East and West Berlin. The division of post-war Germany and the erection of the Berlin Wall had ...

31. Busybodies

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... greater than their love for money. Their love for him was even greater than the principle of being responsible. Their love for him was greater than his tiny heart and mind could imagine. He need not sit out there in the cold regardless of his crime. There was warmth the warmth of love and forgiveness in his parents' house. That is a lesson that we all need to learn, isn't it? Jesus broke the rules. He healed a woman on the Sabbath. Jesus wanted us to see that God's love for God's children is greater than ...

32. He Touched Me

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Think about that, years without a touch. Every one of us needs physical, human touching. Experts tell us that infants need to be held a lot. You know who those experts are? Mothers. The moms here can talk about that basic need for physical warmth. I believe you cannot spoil an infant by touching them. When Marcel Gerber was sent by a United Nations committee to study the effects of protein deficiency on Ugandan children, she found, to her surprise, the opposite of what she was expecting. Uganda infants ...

33. Being A Sheep Is Not So Bad (compared With Being A Goat)

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Annie Sullivan taught her the meaning of the word "love." One day, Annie hugged Helen and signed, "I love Helen," into Helen's hand. Helen wanted to know what "love" meant. Was it like the sweet smell of the violets? No, not quite, Annie said. Was it like the warmth of the sun? That was still not it. A few days later, Helen returned to the word "love." Annie replied, "You cannot touch the clouds . . . but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day ...

34. Jesus, Our Hope

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... I live in. Into that world where people weep and are hurting and broken there was a cry. It was a cry of a fragile little baby breaking upon history’s scene. Strips of cloth are wrapped around his tiny body. His mother nuzzles him close for warmth and nourishment. Does the wonder of the picture still amaze you, or have you gone through so many Christmases that you have become deadened to the mystery? In the fragility of a tiny baby crying at his mother’s breast, where livestock nervously move about, and ...

35. In the Darkness of Despair, There Is the Light of Hope

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... , and increase joy, and break yokes of despair. You can be a witness of this light by living the meaning of it, by being a person of hope, by reflecting the light of Christ, by sharing the warmth of it in your daily life, by inviting other people to come into this lighthouse to learn of the light and feel the warmth of it. In this light, they will find hope. Centuries ago, a nobleman in Europe built a church for his people. It was a place of beauty. He thought of everything. But when it opened, and a great ...

36. Salted with Fire

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... bear the name of Christ, are promised that both the staying power of salt and the surviving power of fire will be theirs throughout their life. If you've been salted with fire you can never lose the sharpness and freshness of your faith. Nor can ever be quenched the warmth and power of God's presence in your life. (A great way to end the sermon this morning would be to have everyone come up and cast some salt into a fire that is on or near the altar as a symbol of having presented their bodies as a living ...

37. The Power of Partnership

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... alone?" (v.11) Now there are some that thinks this refers to married partners, who lie in bed on a cold wintry night and they bring warmth to one another. I wonder how many of you men can relate to that? I love cold weather. I had rather it be cold than ... 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 from someone who will encourage us. Two are more productive than one. IV. Two Are More Powerful Than One "Though ...

38. Help Wanted: Only Shunammites Need Apply

2 Kings 4:8-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... s way would be designated "Shunammite households." Each of these would maintain a "prophet's chamber" - a room that was always available on a moment's notice to provide hospitality and warmth to those doing the Lord's work. Like the Shunammite woman's rooftop chamber, this small space would provide the weary with warmth and privacy - a place to refresh their bodies with sleep, their minds with study and their souls with prayer. The Shunammite tradition remained a familiar phenomenon in American culture long ...

39. Kill Them with Kindness

Proverbs 3:3, 19:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... leadership. I desire to be the best leader that I possibly can and one of the things I have learned is – tenderness can motivate people to do things that toughness never can. The great leaders do not drive people with the crack of a whip. They lead people with the warmth of a kind word. Aesop told a fable one time in which the wind and the sun were arguing over who was the strongest. The wind said, "Do you see that old man down there? I can make him take his coat off quicker than you can." Well, the sun ...

40. Jesus Brings Hope

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... of the dark winter is now in retreat; the light of spring has stepped to the front. We see these signs in the landscape — the flowers, blossoming trees, the singing of birds in the morning. We can see changes in people's perspectives as well. The warmth, light, and general beauty of the springtime environment gives new life to how we feel and, therefore, the perspective we take on in life. The hope of the physical environment is echoed by the presence of God's activity in our world. The Easter season ...

41. Lord, Is It I?

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the yellow sunshine no longer lies in pools of liquid gold on polished mahogany, where white lilacs no longer hang like ghostly lamps in a green night. Here the sunshine is warmth, the mahogany smoothness, and the lilac a deep well of fragrance into which one can plunge and drowse away one’s life. But this change of the sun from light to warmth, of the mahogany from color to smoothness, and of the lilac tree next door from whiteness to fragrance, was not dramatic. It was slow, very slow; it took more than ...

42. Worry Not

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... not provide us with a secure sense of the world. If we encounter trust during our infancy, says Erikson, the stage is set for a lifelong perception of the world as a good and pleasant place. But if our caregiver wasn’t emotionally adept at expressing warmth and love, then it’s likely we grew up to be mistrustful and insecure. (5) Many of us have a susceptibility to stress and worry built into our very personalities. On top of that, modern life has many built-in stressors. Some of us have very stressful ...

43. Night of Light

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Timothy Cargal

... winter. The fact that they make the commitment to attend church in this prime “family time” shows that they understand as well that a spiritual light has shined into their lives. They have seen the light of the glory of the Lord and have felt the warmth of God’s grace and peace. All of that is as it should be. Those who have been blessed by God should recognize and rejoice in that blessing and share its benefits with others. To paraphrase the first question and response of the Westminster Catechism ...

44. Eliphaz's Third Speech to Job

Job 22:1-30

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... to carry out the decisions and decrees of Job. Eliphaz returns to the sun imagery of verse 26 when he says that light will shine on Job’s ways. There Job lifted up his face to God as to the warmth of the sun. Here restored relationship means that God’s light and warmth will shine on all that Job does. This would be a remarkable change in contrast to Job’s current experience that is consistently painted in somber terms of darkness. It also contrasts with Eliphaz’s use of darkness as an indication ...

45. God with Skin On

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... until he arrived at the cottage where his family lived and knew that he was home.” [1] My friends, tonight we have come home. It’s all beginning to feel familiar — the sweet voices in the darkness, the comfort of well sung carols, the anticipation of light spreading warmth in our midst, and those words about a place and time when God was real. It is a place and a time that can become real again tonight. It is a simple Palestinian village where a husband and a wife weep and laugh over a baby — a soft ...

46. Behold, the One Who Betrays Me Is With Me

Luke 22:14-34

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of them it could be who would do this.” This professor revealed to me, the other day, the rather seedy etiology of two human activities which I had heretofore considered congenial. Why do we shake hands when we meet? A show of friendliness and warmth? Not so. The handshake originated in Europe, the Middle Ages. Men shook hands when they met (women did not) as a means of checking one another for concealed weapons. The ritual clinking of glasses that follows a toast at the dinner table? Well, after checking ...

47. For a Special Woman

Proverbs 31:10-31, Luke 10:38-42

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

... you ever called, I should tell you to remember there are other worlds in which to sing. And she wanted you to know that what was true for your canary was also true for her.” I tell that story because I could picture Kate being that operator. She had a warmth to her, she emanated tenderness, and she exuded kindness. As someone told me at the wake, she was a perfect combination of honey and sugar. If there was anyone in need of help, she was there. So, it would be just like her to reach out to that boy on ...

48. God Is Like...a Comforter

2 Corinthians 1:3-7

Sermon

Kenneth L. Gibble

... your place in the bed, but then the comforter made its presence felt. You were warm and cozy. Some of you may have an old patchwork comforter at your house; perhaps you have children who use it on their beds sometimes. Maybe they like to snuggle underneath its bulky warmth. But there is no way they can appreciate its merits the way I did when I was a youngster. It takes a bedroom with a temperature near the freezing mark for a comforter to truly live up to its name. God is like a comforter. That’s the ...

49. Allowing God To Do A New Thing

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... asleep. He continued to hold her that night for some time and, as he did so, healing took place. Why? Because he was reminded that he was not alone. He became acutely aware that in spite of the difficulties he faced, he was still surrounded by love and warmth. In so many ways, that can be the experience of the Church, if we will trust in God and God's providential care of us. Whatever pain we carry, whatever disappointment we have experienced, God can do a new thing in our lives. God alone can provide the ...

50. Becoming A Faithful Witness

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... the cruel things others might say to him. Yet, throughout that experience, he remembers that he never wanted to miss his youth group meetings at church. The reason? One of the youth counselors was a woman who aggressively reached out to him. She conveyed unconditional love and warmth to him in heavy doses. Slowly he began to feel worthy of love again. This woman cared about him and she conveyed that to him by the way she talked to him and the things she said to him. It gave him hope that, in time, others ...

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