Sermon and Worship Resources

Synonyms: touch, feel, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, contact, using one's hands, sensation, sense, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, notion, inkling, hunch, fancy, apprehension, presentiment, premonition, foreboding, love, care, affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, warmness, emotion, sentiment, emotional state, compassion, sympathy, empathy, fellow feeling, understanding, concern, solicitude, solicitousness, tender-heartedness, brotherly love, sensibilities, sensitivities, self-esteem, ego, pride, opinion, belief, view, impression, intuition, instinct, estimation, guess, theory, hypothesis, thought, way of thinking, point of view, atmosphere, ambience, aura, air, mood, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour, aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, skill, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination, sensitive, warm, warm-hearted, tender, tender-hearted, caring, soft-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic, responsive, receptive, intuitive, thoughtful

Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

Showing 776 to 800 of 4770 results

776. The Resurrection Is Freedom

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... ultimately separated us from our loved ones. They are still with us in the sense that God is caring for them now, like he is caring for us. Consequently, whenever Jesus comes to us he brings our loved ones with him.) That is the different light in which we can view the sufferings, sins and the evil that are in the world. Suffering, sin and evil do not have the final word in our lives, or even in the lives of our loved ones who are gone. Sin, suffering, and even death, do not have the final word. What is the ...

777. No One Enters The Kingdom… Save With Empty Hands

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... Lord we profess to serve. In our worship service we bear witness to the victory and power of God in Christ by means of a liturgy which may be simple or complex. The crucial point is whether the liturgy becomes an end in itself or whether it is viewed as a means that can be adapted and renewed. In a word, is our particular liturgy or Christ the lord of worship? In our form of government we provide a structure that is indispensable to the ordering of the Christian community. But it is possible to manipulate ...

778. The Best Offense Is A Good Defense

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... , ‘I’m all right so far.’ ” Siegel tells his cancer patients and others he works with that the attitude of saying “I’m all right so far” can get you through a lot of things. Such an attitude is an open rather than a closed view of life that is bound to have a salutary effect not only on our physical health but on our whole being. Disciplined people are flexible. Disciplined People Are Creative Finally, disciplined people are creative. In 1890 a Canadian named James Naismith was faced with a ...

779. For a Thirty-three-year-old Cancer Victim

Matthew 13:24-30

Eulogy

Harold Warlick

... until we can join you." He promised that he would - and that is going to make our living easier. 3. Finally, Charlie left us a view of death as a joyous way out of life - a going forth into something bigger and better. "He is happy now," are the words of ... It was awful. It would be a lie to say it was pleasant and what we would have wished. But when we got to the top the view was magnificent. You could see for tens of miles. It was breathtaking. I still wish we could have come up the easy way. But we still ...

780. Athanasius Faithful Teacher

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... archdeacon, becoming very much a valuable assistant to the bishop. At this time a Christian priest by the name of Arius began to promote his view that the Son of God was not a full and equal partner in the Trinity. In all fairness to Arius, we must admit that ... be in and out of favor with the various Roman emperors, depending upon whether they supported the Arian heresy or the orthodox view laid down by the Nicene Council. We need to realize that this was a time of theological fluctuation for the church. It ...

781. Bartolome’ de Las Casas Protector Of The Indians

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... the Spanish crown should force the Indians to become Christians. Las Casas spent five days responding to Sepulveda’s arguments. Among other things, Las Casas argued that it was in dying and not in killing that the apostles had spread the gospel. In the end the view of Las Casas prevailed, and Charles V tightened up the laws against Indian slavery. Las Casas appears to be quite the hero, doesn’t he? And yet he, too, had feet of clay. Early on in his crusade to abolish Indian slavery, Las Casas proposed ...

782. The Benefit of the Doubt

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... from the church when I got a little older, And years later, when I finally returned to the church, it was NOT to the same church where my honest doubts and questions were met with reproach. So I have to wonder – what if the church changed its view of and teaching about Thomas, began to picture him as one who had the courage to admit his lack of understanding. What if the church began to celebrate the willingness of Thomas to express his honest doubts? What effect would that have on the public perception ...

783. The Sound of Weeping

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... . On a particular day, years ago, a little procession could be seen on that Bethany road. Jesus is among them, riding a donkey. The people seem bright and happy as they march along in the morning sun. They round a bend in the road and the city comes into view. The procession stops; so does the talking. The sudden silence is soon broken by the sound of someone crying. If is the cry of a man - the deeply-moving sound of a man weeping. That man is Jesus. Once before, we have been told "Jesus wept." (John 11:35 ...

784. Loving

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Larry Powell

... . Children frequently "make up" rules for a game as the game progresses. The rules may be changed, altered, or forgotten. What is worse, if the game does not go to suit someone, he may promptly "take his glove and go home." Such reasoning is correctly viewed as immature and inconsiderate in adult affairs. Things do not always go to suit us, but remarkably, life goes on. Regard for the other fellow is the overture to love. Paul said that a person should be prepared to "give up some childish things" in order ...

785. A Reflection of God's Love

Matthew 27:32-44

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... them. Props: A cross that can be held and a hand mirror--the mirror will be viewed one child at a time. It is best if the cross can fit comfortably in the height and width of the mirror. Lesson: I have something with me this morning open your coat or robe and take a look in the mirror--don't let anyone else see the mirror-- ...

786. A House Or A Home?

Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... school any of us attends. If we parents don't make an intentional effort to pass along Christian values and family traditions to our children, no one else will. It reminds me of the old days when the Pony Express was in operation. I remember viewing reenactments on television of the mail being carried hundreds of miles by horsemen. One rider would gallop alongside another and pass a saddlebag of important messages to him. The fresh rider would carry the mail for a distance, and then hand it to another until ...

787. The Gift of Peace

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God ... (Ephesians 2:14-19) If we are going to be recipients of the gift of peace, then our world view must change. A man asked me whether or not our church was going to provide refuge for El Salvadorians, as churches in Tucson are doing in defiance of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. During the ensuing discussion, I told him that fundamental to the position ...

788. Giving Away the Store

Luke 22:7-38, John 13:1-17

Sermon

Carl Jech

... of religion emphasizes and focuses upon power. God is seen as having the power and human beings must scrape and bow in order to wheedle and coax God into giving them what they need or want. But the view that develops in the New Testament is that our dependence on God is not a matter of power. It is a matter of relationships! It is a matter of a mutually loving relationship. "We love because God first loved us." "A new commandment I give to you, that you love ...

789. Colorizing Jesus

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Carl Jech

... is a factual story. There once was a seminary student who was having a hard time accepting this idea that the writers of the New Testament Gospels took poetic license with their accounts of the life of Jesus. He was particularly bothered by the extreme view of some scholars that Jesus might not have been an actual historical person at all! One day as a fellow student was playing around with his tape recorder, the two suddenly fell into a spontaneous mock interview with the troubled student pretending to be ...

790. Divine Liturgy, Divine Play, Divine Comedy

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Carl Jech

... want to be that free and creative, we should simply create a new form. In some instances, our attitudes toward the "real presence" of Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar degenerate into an attempt to hold onto Jesus too tightly. Some of us hold the view that the bread and wine truly become the real presence of Christ to us only when we in fact partake of the physical elements. (Leftover or spilled wine, for instance, is simply wine. We should save or dispose of it with an appropriate sense of decorum, but ...

791. The Real Jesus is Channeling Grace

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Carl Jech

... us, but the Christian message does not try to be offensive just for the sake of being offensive. The fact is that while John the evangelist views "the world" both as hostile to Jesus and as the object of God's love, the overall focus is upon God's love for the ... the LCMS schism, Bishop David Preus of the American Lutheran Church gently chided the delegates, saying that while some people seem to view the church as a loaf of white bread, he preferred to think of the church as more like a fruitcake, where there ...

792. A Sword and a Sacrament

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... making us suffer. Sometimes, we suffer without an apparent cause or an obvious reason. We believe ourselves to be victins of a blind fate; and, we fear that God is dead - or at least indifferent. Isaiah, on the other hand, does not view suffering as a negative end of life; rather, he views suffering as a means of accomplishing redemption. It is a weapon - a sword with which to fight evil and to conquer it. Isaiah cries out, "I gave my back to the smiters ... I hid not my face from shame and being spit upon ...

793. The Messiah For All

Ephesians 3:4-6

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... in every 805 years in the solar system. And so, obviously, the Magi could have known nothing about that. In 7 B.C., in the winter, there occurred a very close grouping - actually a juxtaposition - of three planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, as they were viewed from the earth. They became, literally, one light in the sky, more brilliant, obviously, than anything else in the sky at that time. That grouping occurred under the Sign of the Zodiac, Pisces, in the winter. Some of you have noted that in my regular ...

794. The Same New Jesus

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... the "Gentle Jesus," the humble "Servant-Savior" with a bowl and a towel, who sits washing the feet of his disciples and silently submitting to the ignominious death of a criminal on a cross. This is a true picture of our Lord, but, it is only a one-dimensional view. It is only a partial picture of our Lord, particularly when we fail to project our vision above time and space in order to catch a vision of the regal Christ who reigns as king of all creation. The evidence of the Ascension is limited in the New ...

795. People Get Ready!

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

Brett Blair

... get ready not by predicting a date but by getting rid of our fears. Now, don’t think for a moment that Jesus has some Pollyanna view of the world here. He knows just as well as any of us that plenty is wrong with the world and much of it isn’t ... would happen to those insecurities if we suddenly sold everything we owned and gave it to the poor? I am convinced that we would view life from the perspective of needs of others and we would come to depend on God, truly depend on him, for our most basic daily ...

796. Christ the King The King On His Cross

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Alvin Rueter

... such a thirst for it. If we don’t find justice with God, then where else? Umpires and referees make questionable calls in our sports. We call them biased or blind or both. They may be neither one. They just made an honest mistake. Or, from their point of view, it looked different than it did from ours. Whatever. It’s clear we long for justice on the playing field or the rink or the game floor and that we don’t always get it from human beings. Not in our courts either. We have a great judicial system ...

797. Lord, I Believe - Or Do I?

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

... , God can often accomplish more through us in shorter years than in the normal lifetime, whatever that may be. "I tell you, God will vindicate them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth?" The Long View The Master’s searching question stretches far beyond our faithless moments, beyond our questions, doubts, and answered or unanswered prayers. It has its focus on our Lord’s return for judgment and salvation and the vindication of his own. The story of the ...

798. Are There Any Questions?

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

... be contradicted. But I have followed his career with interest, and after a long series of distresses, he is in the fold again - not in my church, but in another. And strangely, it is where the dogma is thick and where the battles rage in public view. His idealisim has been replaced with realism, but I want you to know that this young gentleman today is one solid witness to the difference that the resurrection faith has made in him. He was gone, but he is found. The Resurrection Life is Now What difference ...

799. Why Aspire to Sainthood?

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

... misconception account for the fact that we hesitate to say we are trying to be saints, or that we know other people who are saints? Can we identify sainthood in the making, in dynamic process, short of static perfection? Perfectionism is a very different thing when viewed in dynamic rather than static terms. I shall be very disconcerted if after this service you confide in me that you are a saint, for I shall doubt that you have arrived at this level of perfection. If, however, you should tell me that you ...

800. The Day of Pentecost

Isaiah 44:1-5

Sermon

... interpreted rightly only by the eyes of faith. Over the centuries, he has offered humanity the signs of the Tabernacle, the Sabbath Day, a chosen people, a Cross, even bread and wine. Still, what those signs signify depends on how we view them and whether we view them through the eyes of faith. In this passage, God says he has declared the meaning of his actions through sacramental signs: signs which conveyed, in themselves, an interpretation of what he was doing. Israel should have been able to understand ...

Showing results