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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Ugo Betti

777. Don't Flaunt It

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... Everyone in the office scolded him, but he continued to smile. “This is a very special coffee cake,” he exclaimed. “I accidentally drove by the bakery this morning and there in the window were those wonderful goodies. I prayed, Lord, if you want me to have one of these delicious coffee cakes let me have a parking place directly in front of the bakery. And sure enough,” he continued, “the eighth time around the block, there it was.” Many of us can identify with the fellow at two points. First, if ...

778. Priceless Gifts - Mother's Day

Proverbs 31:10-31

Children's Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... .) I brought a package with me this morning which is filled with Father's Day gifts which you cannot buy in a store. These are things which the Bible says you should give to your father each day. Let's open the box and see what is inside (you may have one of the youngsters help with opening the box). (Pull out the first card.) What does this say? (Honor) God said in the Ten Commandments that we are to "HONOR OUR FATHER and MOTHER ..." So honor is something you should give to your Dad every day. You can show ...

779. He Longs to Dust Us Off

Matthew 21:33-46

Illustration

King Duncan

... he sat there he got more and more dusty. No one seemed very interested in a teddy bear like that. Then it happened. A little girl walked into the store and spotted the dusty teddy bear with the drooping bib. The clerk suggested that perhaps she would rather have one that was perfect, but the little shopper was insistent. She wanted the dusty one on the top shelf. When the clerk finally got the teddy bear down and handed him to the little girl, she threw her arms around him and exclaimed, "I love you, but I ...

780. Ascension Day

Luke 24:44-53

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... congregation concludes with verse 53. Responses to the Word Ask your congregation's praise and worship team to prepare a musical response that lets the congregation become living echoes of the disciples described in verses 52-53. If your congregation does not have one, borrow a praise and worship team from a neighboring church that is doing a lot of contemporary music. Follow the congregation's normal pattern of worship until the gospel lesson has been read. Have the pastor briefly emphasize verses 52-53 ...

781. How to Lose Your Life

Mark 8:35

Children's Sermon

... good job listening, in Sunday church school or at church or at home, to know so much about crosses. In fact, I see some of you even are wearing crosses on your clothes or around your neck. Jesus told us that we should all have our own cross. So I have one right here. This is my cross. But that's not really what Jesus meant. Jesus meant that we should be ready to do what Jesus did on the cross. Jesus lost his life on the cross, just as you explained to me a minute ago. And Jesus says we should ...

782. Walk the Talk

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... world so far. As if Creation itself were not enough! God perhaps wanted to experience creation from the inside out, see life as we see it, because God needed us to understand God in a way that we could see, hear, smell, taste, touch. Human beings have one way of experiencing reality –the created world. We know only by what our minds can discern from within this enclosed reality. God understood how hard it was for us to grasp the vast, great, encompassing nature of God. In a sense, the created world itself ...

783. The Motherly Compassion of the Christ

Matthew 10:1-42, Matthew 9:35-38

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

Gospel Notes The verb in verse 35 rendered in English as "had compassion" means literally to have one's "guts" wrenched, vis-a-vis either the bowels or, oddly enough, the womb. What we have on Jesus' part here, then, is the kind of deeply felt, profound love for "harassed and helpless" children usually associated with motherhood, which may well have been its reference in the original Aramaic. ...

784. Nervous Hands

Psalm 139:1-24, Matthew 5:13-16

Children's Sermon

Object: Child's night light What is this? Do most of you have one in your home? Why? It is a night light. It helps us see in the dark. In our house we use them when we go to bed so in case we need to get up, the light will help us see in the dark. I like having a light like ...

785. Belonging to Christ

Galatians 3:29

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... ? (yours) That's right; it is my bag. So the things inside belong to whom? (you) Right. Even though the things are different, it doesn't matter what they look like once they are in my bag. They belong to me, and people know not to take them. Application: I have one more question. Whose are you? (response) Saint Paul said that you and I belong to Christ. And because you and I belong to Christ, it doesn't matter if we are a boy or a girl, or an American, an Asian, an African, or a European. If we belong to ...

786. Friendship and a Double Boiler

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Illustration

In explaining the virtues of a double boiler the hardware man said, "These pans can be used separately or together and either way they are most serviceable. You see how one fits into the other but they are easily separated. We have one over here that is slightly damaged and once they are used together it takes real prying to get them apart." "I'll take the good one," said the customer. True friendship is the kind wherein both friends are able to be of value separately or work together with satisfaction. ...

787. On Divisions in the Church

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... God (who made it grow). Such a comparison clearly shows that “neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything” as over against “God, who makes things grow” (3:7). It also shows that “the man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose” (3:8). They should not, therefore, be compared with one another by the community (though each “will be rewarded according to his own labor” by God’s ultimate judgment). They should be regarded in the same way, as “co-workers in God’s service ...

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Friedrich Nietzsche

789. Three Teams

Humor

Someone has come up with a solution to the conflict between college football and academic responsibility: have one team for offense, one for defense, and one to attend classes.

790. Spartan Life

Illustration

John Wesley, founder of the Methodists, and a friend were forced to sleep on a floor, using their coats for pillows for several weeks while on a preaching assignment. After nearly three weeks of this spartan life, Mr. Wesley awakened one morning about three o'clock. Turning over, he clapped Nelson on the side and said, "Brother Nelson, let us be of good cheer. I have one whole side yet, for the skin is off but one side!"

791. Easter 3

Luke 24:36-49, Psalm 4:1-8

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... We are of the repenting community whose sins are wiped out. We need to know you more truly so that your divine love may come to perfection in us, through the Spirit of the Risen Christ. Amen. DECLARATION OF GOD'S FORGIVENESS Hear the Good News! We have one to plead our cause with the Divine Parent, Jesus Christ who is just and the remedy for the defilement of our sins, not our sin only but the sins of all the world. Friends, believe the Good News! In Jesus Christ, we are forgiven. EXHORTATION Bind yourself ...

792. Traveling Light

Mark 6:8

Children's Sermon

Object: a walking stick. Boys and girls, do you like to take walks? Do you like to go hiking? Have you ever found a walking stick to take with you? I have one here. It helps to make your walking easier, doesn't it. Suppose I told you we were going to go on a walk and keep going for two or three days. What do you think we would need to take along, besides a walking stick? (Let them offer some suggestions.) ...

793. The Church Store

John 2:16

Children's Sermon

... people to come inside and buy the things that they needed. We might even start a grocery in the Sunday School. Does that sound like a good idea to you? It doesn't! Can anybody tell me why our church would not make a good store. (Let them answer.) I have one very good reason why it would not make a good store. Did you know that Jesus told some people once that they should not make the House of God into a store? It's the truth. He told some people that were selling pigeons, cows, goats, and sheep, that the ...

794. Proper 6

Matthew 9:35-38

Bulletin Aid

Theme: The motherly compassion of the Christ Exegetical note The verb in verse 35 rendered in English as "had compassion" means literally to have one's "guts" wrenched, vis-a-vis either the bowels or, oddly enough, the womb. What we have on Jesus' part here, then, is the kind of deeply felt, profound love for "harassed and helpless" children usually associated with motherhood, which may well have been its reference in the original Ararnaic. ...

795. A Ship without a Port

John 3:1-21

Drama

Angela Akers

... of advertising team Person carrying a cross Setting: The conference room of an advertising agency Props: Conference table and chairs White poster board with ad slogans and pictures (paste magazine ads onto poster board underneath the slogan) (As the characters talk, have one person carrying a large cross who wanders through the set, observing them. The other actors in the skit should be oblivious to the presence of the person carrying the cross. By the last line, the person carrying the cross should be ...

796. Let The Children Come In!

Mark 10:1-12

Illustration

Michael B. Brown

... but whoever the author may have been obviously comprehended the Christ-likeness of children. The author obviously understood that to be like Jesus we must somehow become like children again. Let The Children Come In! There's something quite nice about children. Every family should have one or two They're such a fine race When they're kept in their place: Say, the playground, the park or the zoo. In his place, a child's quite delightful, Full of fun, a most interesting buddy. But his yearning for action Can ...

797. I Want to Live Forever

Mark 10:17-31

Illustration

Ozzie Smith

... , you have two more wishes." The man said, "OK, now I want all the women in the world." And, BOOM, all of the women in the world are there around the man. So he has all of the money and all of the women. And, finally, the genie says, "You have one more wish. What do you want?" The man said, "I want to live forever." And, BOOM, he turns him into the Energizer bunny!

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

Andrew Shue

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Jay Alan Sekulow

800. A Family Crest

Mark 3:31-35

Children's Sermon

Parents: The children's message today was about people doing the will of God and being in God's family. The object used was a coat of arms. If your family happens to have one or knows someone who does, you might want to show it to your children. You may want to make your own. A large piece of white posterboard would be enough space for all members of the family to work together on a family crest. Around the outside of the posterboard ...

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 776 to 800 of 4962 results

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life.... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Ugo Betti

777. Don't Flaunt It

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

778. Priceless Gifts - Mother's Day

Proverbs 31:10-31

Children's Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

779. He Longs to Dust Us Off

Matthew 21:33-46

Illustration

King Duncan

780. Ascension Day

Luke 24:44-53

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

781. How to Lose Your Life

Mark 8:35

Children's Sermon

782. Walk the Talk

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

783. The Motherly Compassion of the Christ

Matthew 10:1-42, Matthew 9:35-38

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

784. Nervous Hands

Psalm 139:1-24, Matthew 5:13-16

Children's Sermon

785. Belonging to Christ

Galatians 3:29

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

786. Friendship and a Double Boiler

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Illustration

787. On Divisions in the Church

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

Friedrich Nietzsche

789. Three Teams

Humor

Someone has come up with a solution to the conflict between college football and academic responsibility: have one team for offense, one for defense, and one to attend classes.

790. Spartan Life

Illustration

791. Easter 3

Luke 24:36-49, Psalm 4:1-8

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

792. Traveling Light

Mark 6:8

Children's Sermon

793. The Church Store

John 2:16

Children's Sermon

794. Proper 6

Matthew 9:35-38

Bulletin Aid

795. A Ship without a Port

John 3:1-21

Drama

Angela Akers

796. Let The Children Come In!

Mark 10:1-12

Illustration

Michael B. Brown

797. I Want to Live Forever

Mark 10:17-31

Illustration

Ozzie Smith

Andrew Shue

Our enemies, like the Grecian hero, have one vulnerable point. You have not touched it yet. What should have been their element of weakness has been suffered to remain an element of strength.

Jay Alan Sekulow

800. A Family Crest

Mark 3:31-35

Children's Sermon

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