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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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826. Can We Really Get Along?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... account for this shocking interracial, intercultural first-move? After all, most Jews would not drink from a cup that Samaritan lips had touched. In verse 9, she says, in effect, "Hey, what's with you? Don't you know that Jews have no dealings ... water." She thought it was rather foolish to talk about living water with a man who didn't even have a bucket. In verse 16, Jesus touches a point of brokenness in her life. He says, "Go get your husband and then come talk with me." "But I'm not married," she said. " ...

827. Food for Faith

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... percent of American dogs are overweight. This is causing dog food companies to offer diet food for dogs such as "Fit and Trim" which claims to have less calories for your dog. Look at the miserable contrast: the overfilled stomachs of dogs almost touching the ground and the bloated stomachs of children suffering from malnutrition! If we had compassion on the poor and hungry, we would voluntarily change our life-styles which would call for less food in-take. Then, we could take the money saved from buying ...

828. Doing the Splits

Matthew 20:1-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... ask you to do. I am going to give a penny to everyone who can do an exercise. My first exercise is an easy one for people like you but a hard one for older people. I want you to bend over and touch your toes without bending your legs at the knees. Put your feet together and touch your toes. [Let each one do it and then give a penny out to all the ones who said that they could do it. First, very noticeably, give a penny to all the ones who could NOT do it.] That was pretty good ...

829. The Unemployed Embalmers

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... life. They had seen him bring plenty out of want, health and strength out of tragic illness, Mary Magdalene herself had felt his healing touch as he brought her forth from immoral, evil insanity. They had seen him bring life out of death. They had seen every promise ... , and people are dying of right now. The only thing he’ll have to learn is to tell a patient that he seems to have a touch of the virus that seems to be going around right now. They don’t know what it is, but it’s a virus, and they might ...

830. EPISODE 9: EASTER SUNDAY

Drama

Robert Clausen

... the bullet scars, I won’t believe it. JESUS: Thomas. THOMAS: Is it you, Lord? JESUS: Come and see. THOMAS: You know how hard it is for me? JESUS: Reach in and feel the wounds. THOMAS: [Touching JESUS] It’s flesh and blood. You are my Lord ... JESUS: Yes, Thomas. THOMAS: ... and my God. LAZARUS: [Entering] Lord, Lord! You’ve done it again! JESUS: [Laughing] I’ve done it again, Lazarus. We share the mystery. LAZARUS: It’s an honor, Lord. PETER: Lord, what do we do ...

831. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... ; and often many of us have felt like the small boy at bedtime who said, as the babysitter turned out the light, "There’s too much darkness in this room." Let me say it again: We need, so urgently need, to make pilgrimage to Bethlehem, where heaven bends down to touch the hurt of earth, and where God lays six or eight pounds of infant Child amid the darkness, and a halo of light is formed, and grows, and grows, and grows until he says, "I am the light of the world." A small boy’s father died, and the ...

832. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... and behold the marvels of man’s creative genius, the great structures and machines, the ships that sail the sea and air and go even where the air is not. Yes, it’s out there - the wonderful world we live in. We may travel to see it, reach to touch it. But there is another world, the world within, the world of what we are, the world of the inner heart. It is the world of deepest hunger and longing, of highest aspiration and dream, the world of struggle and quest, the world of feelings too deep for words ...

833. Name Above Every Name

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... speak with you of the singular role this name plays in the mighty drama of prayer. You and I need God. We need the touch of his hand upon our lives, his forgiveness, his blessing, his help. We seek through prayer, and through prayer receive. We are told in ... a body or the form of man. I know this is totally unacceptable anthropomorphism. But only a moment ago I said that "we need the touch of his hand upon our lives," and I doubt if that terminology gave you any difficulty. We do it all the time; we often use ...

834. It will Crumble into Dust!

Isaiah 12:1-6

Illustration

Jon L. Joyce

... thought that surely the love of a woman and the shelter of a home would be his answer; but she, too, fell into dust at his touch and the home crumbled into a broken shed. Later in his journey, the knight came to a warrior clad in golden armor; but the warrior, too ... the crest of the hill. So he cried out, in Tennyson’s words, "Lo, if I find the Holy Grail itself and touch it, it will crumble into dust!" A concluding point could be made that God’s triumphant grace offers us deliverance from the ...

835. Marantha: Come Lord Jesus

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... with the letter, opened it. This is what it said: "Dear God, my name is Jimmy. I am six years old. My father is dead and my mother is having a hard time raising me and my sister. Would you please send us $500? Love, Jimmy." The postal employee was touched. He showed the letter to his fellow workers. All decided to kick in a few dollars each. They were able to raise $300 which they sent to the family. A couple of weeks later they received a second letter from Jimmy, addressed again to God. It said: "Dear God ...

836. Do Wrinkles Hurt?

Psalm 92:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to Jesus Christ by allowing him to be the Lord, the boss, the commander of his life. He said, "Yes." Then we prayed together, inviting Jesus Christ to be Savior and Lord for him. Later, cancer claimed that man's body but it couldn't touch his soul. He faced that disease with calm, confident faith. I am convinced that the persistent peace of his last days here was directly related to the fact that he had already made his long-term reservations. Some people have made extensive preparations for retirement ...

837. Derailed Dreams

Genesis 37:12-36, 50:15-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... discord. Mellis would then put his fingers on exactly the same keys that Parr had struck. Then he would blend the notes of the discord in such a way that it was transformed magically into a heavenly harmony. Something ugly became something beautiful as America watched and listened. God can touch the diabolical discord of our derailed dreams, transforming our disasters into sacred stepping stones. God is still in the miracle business! When we offer him our frustrations and fractured hopes, he ...

838. You Have Been Subpoenaed!

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , then do it. And leave the results to God. In a few moments I will give you a chance to write down some names. I was deeply touched a few years ago by a letter written to the TV talk show host, Larry King. I'm not sure how the Washington Post got a copy ... you question that, I also know that one day it will be revealed to you. My prayer is that you remain open and God will touch your life as he has mine. Once I was a disbeliever. When I could not fill my life with basketball, I would simply substitute sex, ...

839. God Got Personal

Sermon

James Bjorge

... a holy God. The people trembled for now they heard from a prophet that which was in part written on their hearts. They knew then what the Lord requires of people. He seemed very impersonal. The contact was directive and corrective. There was no warm touch at that moment. History bears the footprints of God marching on. His hands seem to have been molding and making something for someone. But it was difficult to determine just what was happening and where it was all going to end. Schiller, the poet, said ...

840. MR. CAIN

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... It was self-defense, of course. CAIN His hand was empty. JAREL And he let you have it. And you struck back - as any red-blooded American boy would do. CAIN He never touched me. His blood poured over my hand; and I thought to myself; I should have a cup. And then I laughed. JAREL But what about the scar. Explain the scar. Somebody sure touched you. CAIN I ... I slipped. JAREL You slipped? You fell down, and you slipped up. And you’ve been a very slippery man ever since, haven’t you, Mr. Rotarian? CAIN It ...

841. THE JOURNEY

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... reveal their emptiness) Not against you. Not over Seth. No power at all. CAIN (Clutching the broken radio to him, he shudders, just as he did when he received his maternal blessing) Mother ... no! I’m sorry. GRACE He never mentioned your mother. CAIN She blessed me. (Touching the scar) GRACE You told me she was dead. CAIN There’s only my father now. GRACE Seth said that you’d probably go back to him someday. I think that’s what he said. He implied ... yes, he IMPLIED that you’d never be anxious to ...

842. THE OLD MAN IS WASTING

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... 48. And pick up as much Arizona Oil as you can lay your hands on. But don’t go above 15 and 1/2. And keep in touch. (He hangs up) JAREL Now, what was that all about? SETH It’s all part of the game. JAREL I’ll bet. SETH Well, why not. JAREL ... The future’s in corn. It’s a great message. SETH No, corn IS the future. You go to the board of trade or you get in touch with somebody there, and then you buy maybe four, five hundred bushels of corn. Only you don’t buy real corn; instead you buy corn that’s ...

843. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... those he fashioned. He is not a God who was content to put a world together and then leave it to spin in isolation while he went off to roam his heavens. In fact, to have someone to whom to relate, and with whom he could stay in touch, God hit on the magnificent idea of creating man. James Weldon Johnson, that most sensitive black poet, in his book God’s Trombones, depicts God in the act of creating the universe. With incomparable zest he portrays God rolling the sun into shape in his palms, flinging the ...

844. Chapter III

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... in the palm of the other she would trace the letters of the alphabet, spelling out what it was that the child was touching. And as she went through that routine over and over again, Annie Sullivan said she used to sit, almost pleadingly saying to ... sorts of places where we come into physical proximity to people but still are able to put up our invisible shields that keep them from touching us. So, be it at the office where we work, or the school we attend, or with the people whose back yard butts up against ...

845. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... in return from, the persons to whom they one day will pledge themselves for life. Those sexual urges are not smutty. One must learn, however, how to channel and express those feelings in a way that does not degrade the drive or the persons with whom we come into touch. This means, as one preacher has pointed out, that we must descipline ourselves to say "no" to some things now so that we can have them in a better, or fuller, or richer way later. We must learn, says Dr. Ralph Loew, the "Yes" of "No."1 While ...

846. Chapter IX

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... that Mrs. B. takes too much something in her tea." And Mrs. J. to Mrs. K. that very night was heard to say, she grieved to touch upon it much, but "Mrs. B. took - such and such!" Then Mrs. C. went straight away and told a friend the self-same day, "Twas ... the reasons this Commandment saw the light of day. Do you see then, how far reaching are the arms of this Commandment? Like its brothers, it touches us where you and I live. It tells us that to live as God’s men, in God’s world, in the creative way that ...

847. Spiritual Markers

1 Samuel 7:2-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the way to Memphis." "Here I raise mine Ebenezer; hither by thy help I'm come; and I hope, by thy good pleasure, safety to arrive at home." What and where and when were your Ebenezer moments? When were the times that God was almost close enough to touch? When was his help critical? When and where did he place his fingerprint on your soul? When you come to Holy Communion today, name those Ebenezer moments and thank God for them. That great saint of the church, Bishop Earl G. Hunt, Jr., tells a legend about ...

848. The Might of the Mite

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... than the bottom line, stronger than the medical prognosis, more secure than a deed with one's name on it. This widow knew that even on the darkest day, underneath are God's everlasting arms. Almost exactly a year ago a young adult in our congregation touched my heart with this letter: "I joined Christ Church one year ago. At that time I made a decision to tithe. One year ago my cancer reoccurred. I am here to testify that during the past year God has been gloriously faithful." Long ago a certain Jerusalem ...

849. The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... in the United Methodist Church we honor the lectionary and the seasons of the church year. That insures a witness to the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ. How can one go through the season of Advent and not touch upon the doctrine of the incarnation. How can one go through Lent without touching upon the doctrine of the resurrection? Likewise, how can we embark upon the season of Pentecost, as we did last week, without mentioning the doctrine of the Trinity? Today is Trinity Sunday. This is a day that has been ...

850. Even The Bosses Wash Feet!

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... I am better than you but simply because we are more affluent. But you say, "Bill, that's crazy'" Not as crazy as the Lord of the universe washing dirty feet. President Nelson Mandela of South Africa is one of those rare politicians who has the common touch even when the cameras are not rolling. When he speaks at banquets, he makes a point of going into the kitchen and shaking hands with every dishwasher and busboy. When out in public he often worries his bodyguards because he is prone to stop to talk with ...

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