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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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501. Secret Sauce

John 13:31-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... tendencies live within us. How we live them out will determine the kind of communities we build. Why does Jesus put so much emphasis on love? Why does Paul keep emphasizing love, love, love? Because love is the sealant if you will for sympathy, compassion, community, and unity. Love is the mortar that binds every stone that lies upon the cornerstone that is Jesus. As soon as love becomes peripheral and something else works its way into our foundation, our edifices begin to crumble and separate. Communities ...

502. Rule Breakers

Matthew 5:21-37

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... lost all his appeals. He had read one of Buckingham’s books and had been so moved by it that he asked if Buckingham would come visit him the night before his execution and would be present for the event. Buckingham says he didn’t feel much sympathy for the inmate until he met the man’s family. His parents were desperately poor but had managed to scrape together enough money to drive from Oklahoma to Florida to visit their son the night before his execution. The father told Buckingham that he wanted to ...

503. A Tattoo for the Heart

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... example, it’s obvious that one group Jesus disliked was the hypocrites. We’re often reminded that Jesus never called anyone a sinner, and that’s true. He looked pass the sin to the person caught in wrong-doing. Still, it is obvious that even Jesus had no sympathy for hypocrites—people who say one thing but do exactly another. Now I have to be careful here. None of us totally live up to our faith. That’s why the elements of grace and forgiveness are so important in our faith. Still, most of us are ...

504. One Tough Master?

Matthew 25:14-28

Sermon

Will Willimon

... pounds of silver, and to the third servant one talent, about fifteen years of wages in one lump sum. A lot of money, probably more money than this little man had seen in his whole life. Then the master left town, which probably increases our sympathy for the little one talent servant. The master is not only rich, he is an absentee landlord, probably living up somewhere in the Northeast while his servants slave for him in the mines of Appalachia or the textile mills of North Carolina. Just when they ...

505. Embarrassing Visits

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Mary Austin

... there. If I had something embarrassing to check out, I went to the library in the next town over, where they didn’t know me… and where I wouldn’t run into my neighbors with a big stack of cringe-worthy books. Remembering that, I have a lot of sympathy for Nicodemus, coming to see Jesus at night. For us, Jesus is the big deal, but in their world, Nicodemus was the bigger figure. He was well-known as a Jewish leader, and it would have been embarrassing to be seen with Jesus… or to have people think he ...

506. Hell: Ocean of Oatmeal

John 10:10

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... ." Does that speak to you? It does to me. Hell: the deadness of a huge ocean of oatmeal in which we are caught. It may look like this: sad...wanting joy; despairing...looking for hope; anxious...needing courage; bereaved...hoping for sympathy; lonely...longing for friendship; bored...searching for meaning; hostile...needing love; guilty...desperate for forgiveness; dead...grasping for life. Is there hope to escape such hells? Take courage -- there is! Jesus provided the good news -- "I am come that you may ...

507. The View From The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... a memorial sermon after the assassination said, “He [Lincoln] fed us faithfully and truly. He fed us with counsel when we were in doubt, with inspiration when we sometimes faltered, with caution when we would be rash... He fed hungry souls all over the country with sympathy and consolation... He fed us with solemn, solid truths... Best of all, he fed us with a reverent and genuine religion. He spread before us the love and fear of God just in that shape in which we need them most, and out of his faithful ...

508. The Glory of God

Romans 11:33-36, Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... important question, one which determines the course of Western Civilization, or at least of your own life, and not know the answer. So surely, as we gather in this place of big questions, in a time when we are inundated with questions, you and I have sympathy with Jesus' disciples in today's Gospel: It is exam time for the disciples. They have heard Jesus preach and teach, witnessed his work. Then, at Caesarea Philippi, the day of reckoning comes: ''Who do people say that I am?'' Jesus asks. ''Some say John ...

509. Vengeance: Human and Divine

Matthew 13:1-9 · Isaiah 44:6-8 · Psalm 1-12, 17-18, 23-24

Sermon

Will Willimon

... -law refuses to accept you as a daughter. your boss gives your job to someone else, the professor gives you a C when you know you should have made an A, the landlord refuses to rent to you because of the color of your skin. Perhaps you felt genuine sympathy for t e poor demented soul who killed the little ones at the restaurant last week, but.... Before you're too hard on these Jews who wanted to bash in the heads of the Babylonian babies, think how you would feel about the Nazis who led your little ones ...

510. The Lord Is With Us

Luke 1:26-38, 2 Samuel 7:1-17, Romans 16:1-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... realities of married life. The new career eventually becomes the same old. We would laugh with scorn at the person who longs for the joys of marriage and family life but cannot bring himself to accept the physical reality of erotic love. We would have little sympathy for the professor who left teaching because all of her students were not geniuses. Sometimes, when I do premarital counseling, I have the future bride and groom each take a sheet of paper. I say to them, “On one side, I want you to write down ...

511. The Power of Weakness

Mark 8:27-38 · Psalm 19

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

... in Sheffield, England; another 200 were injured. At one of the hospitals to which victims were taken, an attending surgeon spoke to the parents who had come to find out the fate of their children. The surgeon read the names of those killed, expressed his sympathy to the parents, and then said that as a Christian he believed God understood the parents’ grief and was with them in their time of need. One father bitterly responded: “What does God know about losing a son?”[2] This is what we need to ...

512. The Divine Mission

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... was not until they spied caring mothers that each began a mighty and mournful wail. Not only that, but the crying from pain changed its tone when they each rested in the comfort of hugging arms—wails that earlier seemed edged with torment became whimperings seeking sympathy. A big part of prayer, it seems from scripture, has to do with finding our way into the care of a Father, even when the hurts and pains of life still trouble us. Third, I think that Jesus is reminding his disciples, and us through them ...

513. For Someone Noted for Their Smile

Psalm 39 · John 6:51-58

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

... We’ll remember her garden and how much she loved working that garden. We’ll remember what a great animal lover she happened to be, what a social butterfly she was; and we’ll remember how she could always be counted on for a kindness, for sympathy or for loving care. In recalling Nancy Campbell, we’re going to remember her valiant fight against her illness, a fight which unfortunately she could not win. In remembering Nancy Campbell’s life, we’re going to have a lot to smile about because it was ...

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