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 826 to 850 of 2036 results

826. Shipwrecked on Malta

Acts 27:1-12, Acts 27:13-26, Acts 27:27-44

Sermon Aid

CSS

... and set the small boat adrift before the sailors clambered into it. Both in encouraging the crew and now in saving the ship, Paul asserts his leadership and shows the power of his personality, and his clear thinking. Luke observed and recorded this behavior with great pride. Even as a Roman prisoner, Paul is shown as a hero who was given strength by the assurance of God’s power and presence in his life. Paul’s leadership at a time of crisis was again asserted when dawn broke over the tumultuous gray ...

827. Universal Brotherhood

Illustration

Viney Wilder

God, help us see beyond mere race or creed, Beyond false pride which tears our world apart, That men, as individuals have need Deep rooted, basic in the human heart. To be accepted, to be understood, To make some contribution of real worth, To feel a mutual bond of brotherhood With men of every race throughout the earth. Cloth us, Thy children, ...

828. Shirking Responsibility

Illustration

L. Robert Keck

... lowly of that which God has created, namely, the human being. I don’t think that pays God any compliments! Harvey Cox, the Harvard theologian, has reflected on the subject in his book, On Not Leaving It to the Snake. Cox suggests that the major sin of humankind is not pride; it is not trying to become more than we were created for, but sloth, the unwillingness to face up to all that we are capable of. Cox suggests that the greatest sin in shirking responsibility for full actualization of human potential.

829. For Christ’s Sake, What’s Going On?

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... what’s on each other’s minds now that they’re "one in Christ" or have "the mind of Christ." Some of the same folks think that, once a Christian, all the passions common to the world - such as competitiveness, rancor, jealousy, greed, pride, and anger - somehow melt away. If Christianity embraced the concept of perfectibility this side of heaven, that might make some sense. Much to the contrary, however, Christian teaching has affirmed throughout its history that a controversy rages in each one of us ...

830. It’s How It Ends That Matters

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

... have been faithfully on course dare not slip into the temptation which assails them more than any other sort of pilgrim: the temptation to suppose that they are somehow more acceptable to God because they made the journey with no detours. Such unmitigated pride would turn us into pilgrims of the Second sort: those who said "Yes" initially, but then, by narrowness and lack of charity, rejected others whom they supposed to be inferior (rather than embracing all who were on course with them), thus turning ...

831. Faithful Servants of the Lord

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... Collect O God, some would have killed Jesus before Your message of love had even been delivered, yet worldly intrigue is as nothing before Your mighty throne. We give You praise, O Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often in our pride we feel we can actually erase Your voice of salvation from history. Pharaoh would have killed Moses; Herod would have killed Jesus. We, in our hearts, have even tried to silence Your voice of warning when we had our own plans outside the way of faith ...

832. What Do You See?

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... In the Cross of Christ I Glory," "The Old Rugged Cross," "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross," "Beneath the Cross of Jesus," "Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross," and many, many others. The cross is a symbol of the Christian faith. The tool of torture becomes the pride of our profession. It’s strange, when you stop to think about it. Imagine someone holding up a rope, a hangman’s noose, and saying, "This is a sign of my faith." Or think of wearing a small, intricate, electric chair on a gold chain and calling ...

833. Count Me In!

Isaiah 56:1-8

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... theft? Didn’t Jesus say that he came to call sinners to repentance, not some, but all sinners? If sinners are in need of correction and conversion, how can we help them to change their ways if we exclude them from Christian fellowship? You’re In! Prejudice and pride may draw a circle that excludes people from God, but the very nature of God as universal in his love and truth draws a circle that leads one to say, "You’re in!" Our text points to the all-inclusiveness of God’s Kingdom - "My house shall ...

834. Claim Your Ministry

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

"but whoever would be great among you must be your servant." - Matthew 20:26b Augustine wrote: "So deep has human pride sunk us that only divine humility can raise us." This point was not lost on St. Martin, the famous soldier-saint of France. The story goes that one day he was praying and there appeared to him a figure robed like a king with a jeweled crown and gold-embroidered ...

835. Victim or Visionary

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... at the moment; they have no meaning beyond that; they pass away as they came; they point in no direction; they change nothing (quoted in The Portable Greek Reader.) But Christ’s suffering has changed something. It has changed us. His amazing love strikes us in our pride and emboldens us to take up our own cross. No longer are we victims. Now we are agents of God’s redemptive mission. As Auden reminds us in "Memorial": Our grief is not Greek: As we bury our dead We know without knowing there is reason ...

836. Faith A New Potential for Life

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... of the Spirit, for there is no way I could have written anything as beautiful as this on my own ... He comes amongst us armed with Love with Truth with Power. Why do we not understand? His love we scorn believing we need it not, for we are strong in pride and blindness is our code. But still he gives and gives and gives. Oh, if only our strength would fade as mist before the sun, and we begin to see His love for what it is, the very foundation of all eternity. His truth we fear, and afraid, we hide ...

837. Shepherding One Another in a Collapsing World

Romans 9:1-29

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... obstinate, Whether he were of high or low estate, He would be sharply checked with altered mien. A better person there was nowhere seen. He paid no courts to pomps and reverence, Nor spiced his conscience at his soul’s expense, But Jesus’ love which owns no pride or pelf He taught - but first he followed it himself, - Chaucer "We are not called to be able to give the total explanations for all the mysteries of life; but we are called to be alert to the opportunities that come our way to share our faith ...

838. The Impartiality of God

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... " with instructions to send for the man who could reveal to him the Savior! Is it not this way with us? Much as we need to be saved from our evil deeds, even more at times do we need to be saved from our good deeds, from ourselves, and the pride that is willing to settle for decency and piety rather than righteousness and godliness. In himself Cornelius was not, at least to any outward appearance, a "bad man," nor are most of us. But to "not be bad" is quite different from being Godly. To be Godly we need ...

839. The Strength of Poverty

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... to poverty. The First Lesson emphasizes the same thing as it talks about what lies in the future for Israel. "I will leave in the midst of you a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord." Not those who in their haughty pride think they possess so much by way of strength or wealth or nobility shall hold the future of Israel, but those who understand how little anyone can ever own will be the future of the people of God. We are called, then, by the text before us to examine ...

840. Journey To The Cross V: Jesus and Simon Peter

Mark 14:66-72

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the prettiest angel in heaven.” By the miracle of God’s grace, the actor moved from arrogance to compassion. Now, that is precisely what Christ helped Simon Peter do and that is precisely what Christ wants to help us do… to move from arrogance to compassion; to move from selfish pride to graciousness; to move from selective love to unconditional love, and respect for all people. To do less, is to profanely deny our Lord.

841. THE MOST WONDERFUL GIFT

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... that God’s salvation is a pure gift, won for us by God’s actions and effected without any help or aid from us, militates against our, "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" philosophy. Second, it smacks us where we hurt the most, right in our pride. Adults are hesitant about accepting gifts which they know they have not earned or merited. We do not want to feel obligated to anyone. It is not an easy matter for us to come before Almighty God and accept what he wants to give us - the most wonderful ...

842. GUTS TO BE CHICKEN

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... the disciples? They were rugged men of the sea, not panty-waists. Looking deeper at his teaching, we see that Jesus Christ was calling forth from us a greater strength than hitting back. He suggests we elicit a force that can control the anger of hurt pride. One that can take a bad situation and change it into a good situation. Rather than hitting back and lowering oneself to the standards of the oppressor, stand tall, Jesus says; turn the other cheek. It takes guts to be chicken. When someone spits in your ...

843. The Necessity of Moral Commitment

Gen 3:1-24 · Is 28:15

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... ; and with winsomeness, forgiveness and love to share this "meaningful arrangement," person-to-person, until the Kingdom comes. But, stupidly, we continue to believe "that the reason for our rebellion against God’s order is not irrational pride, but a legitimate determination to achieve self-fulfillment through ‘freedom’ and to devise a better, universal ‘meaningful arrangement’ than God did in the first place."2 How stupid can you get? Our existential philosophers have affirmed the authentic ...

844. The Forgiven and the Forgiving

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... and me in our day by day relationships. We say, "All right, Lord, I will try. But Lord, you have got to help me." And he will. I have just read The Thorn Birds, a fascinating novel about Australia. Tragedy poisoned the story from beginning to end. Unforgiveness, pride that was too afraid, or too tired to show love; using the hurt that one had received as an excuse to "take it out on" somebody else who was innocent, thus producing one unspeakably lonely life after another. It is a great story, but it is too ...

845. Magnify Your Ministry!

Romans 11:11-24

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry," said Paul. "Ministry" as St Paul used the word here is synonymous with "service." We might paraphrase Paul’s words to say, "As long as I’m an apostle to the Gentiles, I will take pride in my service to others because I believe in what I am doing for Christ’s sake." In fact, Paul actually said this to the Corinthians when he wrote, "Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. For what we preach is ...

846. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR ALL SAINTS’

Drama

Tom Eberle

... to stand. We pray now to be freed from our self-tied restraints. Amen. Words of Assurance The good news comes to us from a letter written by St. Paul to the church at Corinth, a congregation fractured by divisions, torn by petty arguments, and inflated with pride - to which he addresses every one there as saints - people made holy and whole by God. "To the church of God which is at Corinth/your city/town, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place ...

847. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... be disabled, but rather in the sense that a handicap can be that locus in which an individual experiences the saving power of God. Hence a St. Paul, plagued by that somewhat mysterious "sharp physical pain," announces: "I shall therefore prefer to find my joy and pride in the very things that are my weakness; and then the power of Christ will come and rest upon me." (NEB, 2 Corinthians 12:9) These reasons emerged out of a convergence of two experiences I have had recently. One experience was and is the ...

848. Are You Exercising Your Faith?

Mt 4:1-11 · Phil 3:12 · Gen 32:3

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... dishonesty. Furthermore, she was feeding her faith all too often at those religious fast food places. Four noons a week she would dine under the green arches of religious envy, and sometimes on Fridays whe would sneak into Col. Sander’s Kentucky Fried religious pride. Her physician of the soul was firm in his direction: no more religious fatty foods! For a few days she bowed to his directive, but then it was back to old habits once more. A short while later, the soul physician’s prophecy came ...

849. Joseph

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... way nor out of reach. He was at hand, giving Mary comfort and sustaining, supportive love, so welcome and so needed. Jesus was born in miracle, but the setting conveys normal relationships. Joseph opened the door to shepherds and wise men. With genuine pride the couple made their way for presentation in the Temple, "... they brought him to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord ..." Old Simeon appeared as "... the parents brought in the child ..." Saintly Anna spoke to them, of redemption yet to come. They ...

850. Nag, Nag, Nag!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... give the lady was his own position, because she was his mother, a member of the board of directors. It was not beneath Jesus to take a towel and basin and wash the feet of his disciples in the Upper Room. Is there anything "beneath" you because of your pride? It is the humble who ask, plead, and beg for God’s favor. Humility is the quality that will make you admit when you are wrong and will cause you to ask another’s pardon. Carl Sandburg, in his book Lincoln: The War Years, tells about Colonel Scott ...

Showing results