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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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601. Waltzing With Coyotes

Luke 6:27-36

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... the church. It's the annual Waltzing-With-Coyotes dance and ice cream social. WILLIE: Whet's a Waltzing-With-Coyotes dance? BART: I hain't adancin' with no coyotes, thet's fer sure. WILLIE: I danced away from a dawg wonct. He was atryin' to bite me. BART: You air a dawg, so thet come natural. WILLIE: Weel, you got breath liken a dawg. You could knock me down with it. BART: I didn't know ya got up from the last time I knocked you down. WILLIE: Thet's cuz yere blind in both eyes from my a hitten ...

602. Priorities

Luke 9:51-56

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... . We're here to find Jesus so we can follow him. (JESUS IS WALKING PAST) MOE: Now look, there's Jesus. You two stay here. I'm going to talk to Jesus. (TO JESUS) Jesus, I'll follow you wherever you go. JESUS: Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. (MOE IS DAZED. JESUS SEES LARRY) Follow me. LARRY: Lord, let me first go and bury my father. JESUS: Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of ...

603. Super Christian III

Luke 13:22-30

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... : The present Cast: Announcer Woman Man Super Christian George -- his son ANNOUNCER: And now, the adventures of Super Christian. Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall church buildings in a single bound. WOMAN: Look, up in the air. MAN: It's a bird. WOMAN: It's a plane. MAN: No, it's Super Christian. ANNOUNCER: Yes, Super Christian, who, disguised as a mild-mannered Sunday school teacher, wages a never-ending battle for peace, justice, and the Christian way. As our ...

604. Sketch Practice

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... IS ASLEEP. WELL, ALMOST EVERYONE. \nA WOMAN WANDERS ON STAGE IN A PENSIVE-DREAMY MOOD. SHE IS \nDRESSED IN HER PAJAMAS AND ROBE WITH HER HAIR UP IN CURLERS, BIG \nSCUFFS ON HER FEET AND COLD CREAM PACKED ON HER FACE. SHE SITS \nAND LOOKS DREAMILY INTO THE NIGHT AIR. SHE SITS FOR A WHILE, \nTHEN A MAN JOINS HER. HE, TOO, IS IN NIGHT WEAR) \nBEN: Honey, what's wrong? Are you all right? I woke up and you \nweren't there. \nLISA: I was just thinking what a great life we have. This \nhouse, the kids, you ...

605. The Agony And The Ecstasy Of The Family

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... ' family arrived while he was debating with the religious leaders about Satan, the prince of demons. Someone told him that his mother and brothers were there. Jesus responded, "My true family members are those who do the will of God." There was tension in the air, not only because of the hot debate with religious leaders, but because of conflict with family members. Jesus knew the agony of family life. There is agony in every family. There is also the possibility of joy which helps us face the conflicts of ...

606. The Sending Plan (Alternate title: Our Human Predicament)

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... out demons, facing the predicament of evil. The Predicament Of Evil We do not fully understand the nature of demons or their arenas of activity in the interior dimensions of the human being or the exterior dimensions of what Saint Paul calls "the powers of the air" (Ephesians 2:2) or "the Principalities and Powers" (Ephesians 1:21; 6:12; Romans 8:38; Colossians 1:16; 2:10; 2:15). In the baptismal service parents are asked to renounce "the Devil and all his ways," because we recognize that there is a power ...

607. A Ministry Of Hospitality

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Richard Patt

... contact, or by some word of acknowledgment from another human being. All these people need hospice care; they need the hospitality of the church, because inwardly they are dying. They need a place of shelter, no matter how fleeting, where they can catch another breath of air to sustain them, lest they die. There was a minister who had a favorite slogan that he often repeated in his sermons. He said, "The church is not like a country club; it's more like a hospital." That's what Jesus was saying here when ...

608. Clever Christians

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Richard Patt

... : most churches have adopted some of the ways of the world (of the business world, for instance) for the sake of effectively preaching the gospel. So, for instance, our church buildings use modern, thermostat-controlled heating and air-conditioning. Pastors think nothing of driving around in fully-equipped automobiles as they carry out their ministerial duties. Church offices make widespread use of computers, printing equipment, and advertising expertise in communicating with parish and non-parish persons ...

609. Keep Things Flowing

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Richard Patt

... flowing in our lives. Today Christ wants every Christian to pray, "Lord, as your blessings flow to me, may they continue to flow through me, for the good and encouragement of others!" Life in general suggests flowing rather than stagnation. We want the blood and air to travel through our bodies; we try to avoid those things that cause a buildup of plaque and clogged arteries. In recent times we've come to appreciate the cycling and recycling that go on in nature. There seems to be a constant flow, the ...

610. A New Kingdom Coming

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... with the burdensome future created by Washington legislators and bureaucrats, others are dismayed at the future created by technocrats such as Coale in the automotive industry. Even now, the new anti-pollutant catalytic converter will itself pollute our air with dangerous quantities of sulfuric acid. Future Shock author, Alvin Toffler, is correct when he says: "Technocrats suffer from myopia. Their instinct is to think about immediate returns, immediate consequences. They are premature members of the now ...

611. A Tree Well Watered

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... stand with people who are poor and to work against any system which oppresses them. We can quickly see how we have been a part of a system which ignores the poor or uses them. We balance our budgets on the backs of the poor, we give them our polluted air to live with as we flee, one per automobile, into our suburbs, we offer them money to take our toxic wastes and our nuclear waste. Still, the poor are resented by the rich, and if you side with them and give them hope, you will raise the ire of the ...

612. Extreme Measures

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... God. God, being pleased with his humility, spared him for a time, and the wrath would be brought down on a future generation. The point here is that in this world of extreme measures where the slaughter of the innocent is as common as the air we breathe, where the innocent are unjustly tried and executed, where people are living in communities and families under siege in fear of their lives, where the common man is afraid to bring truth to powers which have corrupted themselves and have instilled so much ...

613. Advent 1

Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... a fragile environment with a relatively small margin where life in the flesh is possible. A recent television ad illustrated how tentative life can be. It points out that persons can only live weeks without food, only days without water, and only minutes without air. We also know that the range of temperature is relatively small. Too cold and we freeze; too hot and we cook. Disasters come in many forms. Earthquakes can kill thousands in a brief span of time. The reports from Kobe, Japan, indicated that most ...

614. Proper 19

Psalm 14:1-7, 1 Timothy 1:12-20, Jeremiah 4:5-31, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... One Sinner ... Ninety-nine Righteous." (v. 7) This is a one percent recovery. The joy over the lost and recovered is always greater than over something we have always had and never lost. It is easy to assume good fortune. We usually only think about the importance of air, for example, when it is absent from us. 10. "Ten Silver Coins." (v. 8) We are inclined to think that the parable is about a woman (often also assumed to be a widow, though the text does not say so) wearing her dowry on her headdress. That ...

615. Sow's Ears And Silk Purses

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... to drunkenness. Nor is it much comfort to construe the wine as unfermented grape juice. In the first place, the Greek word is wine, and in the second place any effort in those pre-pasteurized days to keep grape juice free from the yeasts of the air would have been futile. It was wine all right. Despite Mr. Welch, who first produced an unfermented beverage for Methodist communion services, the wine of the last supper was also precisely that -- wine. For those of us who spend a large chunk of our time dealing ...

616. When Your Nets Are Empty

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... -- they might get hungry any minute. It is another thing to have the vague feeling there are no fish in the water. But heaven help anyone who tells us. An avid sport fisherman, who got to his favorite Canadian lake by seaplane, one day noticed, from the air, two other fishermen below who had landed their plane on a lake he knew to be sterile. For some strange ecological reason these waters held not a single fish. As a courtesy he landed, taxied up to them and told them what he knew. Afterwards, from a ...

617. On The Road To The Cross

Luke 20:9-19

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... , or new ideas, or new inventions until someone comes along with enough patience to explain it to them. I had a friend who worked construction one summer while going to seminary. The work was hard; the pay was good; and it was great being out in the air everyday after sitting in dusty, stuffy classrooms for the better part of his life. But it was a foreign world to him. It certainly wasn't part of his seminary curriculum, although any pastor that has ever been involved in a building project believes that it ...

618. The Gifts Are Unrelated

Ephesians 2:1-10

Illustration

Paul Lintern

... animal figurines ü muddy, greasy, ready-for-the-trash figurines. She cleaned each one with an old toothbrush, glued it to a three-by-five card, and wrote a scripture verse on the card. On the card with a little bird, she wrote, "Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" Placing a sheep on a card, she wrote, "The Lord is my Shepherd." One figure was an armadillo; on that card, she wrote, "Put ...

619. Before The Sun Sets

Ephesians 4:1-16

Illustration

Staff

... tell you why we talked at the table. Because when we got married the minister placed his hand on ours and said, 'Don't ever let the sun go down on anger.' Your father and I have always followed that counsel. Because we have always cleared the air before retiring for the night our marriage has held together. We want you children to know that conflict will happen, differences will appear. But your marriage stands a better chance if you never let the sun go down on anger." The children learned about one of the ...

620. Friendship? Yes, Please!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... ! Flying alone, however, a goose can only go half the speed and for hour and a half flights before resting. Why the difference between a flock and an individual bird? Scientists point to a phenomena they call synergism. In formation, the lead bird breaks the air resistance creating in his path a helpful updraft for the birds who follow. When the lead bird tires, he drops back and allows another bird to lead. The others are pulled along in V-formation with a helpful wind suction. And scientists even believe ...

621. All Mine To Give!

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... is on course, battle ready, and fully stoc_esermonsked. Quite often divers put on their diving suits and jump off the ship into the dark undersea world to bring the light of the gospel to those submerged in sin. We aship hold their lifelines and pump the air to them and haul them in when they've been down long enough. This past year people have jumped off into prison ministry and we've bought the Bibles and books they've taken with them. We've funded music ministry in schools, poor churches, and orphanages ...

622. Miracle Ten: Healing A Blind Beggar

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon Aid

Harold H. Lentz

... reading: "It is spring and I am blind." He knew that there was beauty all around him: spring flowers, blossoming shrubs and trees, newly-sprouted little leaves, but he could only imagine how wonderful all that beauty was. It must be vexing to smell spring in the air but not be able to witness this wonderful time of year. Do we fully appreciate the blessings of sight which God has given us? Are we moved to express gratitude for so wonderful a physical sense? Second Sight A line in a hymn reads, "I was blind ...

623. Famous Last Words

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

William L. Self

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." -- Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895 "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876 "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, ...

624. Lighting A Fire In A Cold Room

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... approach Christmas, this is a time of candles and fires. We enter a season where fires are lit in even the warmest of rooms. People in sun-belt states will rise Christmas morning and lay a huge fire in their fireplaces. Then, with their air conditioners running full blast, they will sit by the crackling fire and open their presents. The ambiance, not the need, necessitates the fire. Sometimes the Advent candle means but a furthering of the religious ambiance of the Christmas season. We light the candle for ...

625. Light In The Land Of Shadows

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... message, or read a book, or walked in solitude under the quiet stars and made an agreement with God. We gave God who and what we are. Our sincerity could not be doubted. The reality of God's presence was known to us and we walked on air for days. Yet the remembrance has become just that, a remembrance. Some call it a testimony, a testifying to what once was. But here again, we cannot treasure that experience or even revive it and live on it forever. Christ is not waving from our personal pasts but ...

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