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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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901. When God Adds Insult to Injury

Colossians 2:6-15

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... that comes from within us. A recovering drug addict, writing to her pastor about the faith she and her husband — also an addict — had found, described faith in terms as eloquent as we can find anywhere. For us, faith is not a warm, comforting, fuzzy, feel good. Faith was gritting our teeth, walking through the agony and helplessness of addiction recovery, and continuing to put one foot in front of the other, doing what we were told was the right thing to do, and trusting, praying, and hoping that God ...

902. Running with Perseverance

Hebrews 11:29 – 12:2

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... world weighs us down. We look out at the world and it seems as though things are not becoming any better. That can affect our faith. Arguments and disagreements in the church can weigh us down. At some point in the church, something or someone will hurt our feelings. It is hard to build our faith with all of these things weighing us down. We have trouble running with perseverance. We need a faith that sustains us. We need a faith that doesn't fade away in the middle of the race. Hebrews assures us that we ...

903. The Utmost Patience for the Foremost Sinner

1 Timothy 1:12-17

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... is part of the human experience. The Bible gives numerous examples of people who experienced God as far away. It is true that sometimes we separate ourselves from God, but it is also true that sometimes God seems far away and we don't know why. We feel like the psalmist who cried out, "How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?" (Psalm 13:1). Our sinfulness is something we do, we cause, and also something that is part of the whole creation, something we ...

904. Breaking The Cycle - God’s Answer In Forgiveness

Genesis 45:3-11, 15

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... can destroy our emotional, psychological, and spiritual life if left unchecked and unhealed. The New Testament word for bitterness is from the root pic and means "to cut or prick." Literally it is pointed, sharp, or pungent in its action and feelings. Bitterness manifests itself as prejudice, an acrid tongue, exaggerated lies, and revenge. Chuck Swindoll illustrates this in his book, Seasons of Life. He writes that during his time in the Marine Corps he and his wife rented a studio apartment from a ...

905. Be a Bethany

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... not need followers. He needed friends. Where is your favorite place on earth? Where do you go — physically, mentally, or spiritually — to find the strength and support you need to travel though your days? Have you cultivated a “Bethany,” a place where you can feel safe, a place where you can be you, whoever that is? Jesus loved Bethany. He loved his friends, those whom he cared for so much that he undertook a huge reclamation project for that community. Bethany had been polluted and putrefied by the ...

906. The Best Gift of All

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... near panic attack when it dawned on me that I had yet to experience even a morsel of a twinge of genuine seasonal peace.” In a rush of homesickness, he blamed the palm trees and the green grass and Florida’s warm nights for the way he was feeling. He was convinced that the only possible road to receive Advent peace required a trip down memory lane into Christmas past. He arranged a last minute flight home to London. His parents met him at the airport and welcomed him home. That day he walked to the town ...

907. On Speaking Terms

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Argile Smith

... for yourself God’s answer and watch him actually take care of the need that you brought to him. Probably most important, you could feel God’s gentle touch as he placed his loving hand on your shoulder or hugged you in his strong arms. His physical presence with ... good he is to us, and how much he wants us to come close to him. What does this story have to say to us when we feel that God’s not on speaking terms with us? It assures us that God doesn’t hold grudges and that he’s always willing to open ...

908. Seeing Jesus

John 9:1-12

Sermon

David O. Bales

... . Often popular religion simply equates feelings with faith. That can be a real problem. If faith can be reduced just to feelings, then the question isn’t “Is Jesus the clearest revelation of God in all creation?” but “How do you feel today?” Our feelings, as a church educator used ... ’re part of how God created us. They’re just not enough, consistently, to base faith upon. I can feel rotten, sometimes even when I’m serving God in an important way (like informing parents that their child was ...

909. Cleaned and Claimed

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ . . .” (1 Peter 3:20-22). One of the meanings of baptism is to be made clean before God to have a clear conscience toward the Almighty. This may be the greatest need we have as a people today. We may not admit it. Some of us feel pretty good about where we are in life. It escapes our attention somehow that we were created for something better. Some of you remember when the late Pat Summerall was the voice of the national Football League. With his silky smooth voice and understated manner he set the ...

910. Nothing to Hide

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He was fond of watermelon, so he sneaked quietly up to the cart and snatched one of the melons. Holding it in his arms he then ran into a nearby alley and sank his teeth into it. No sooner had he done so, however, when a strange feeling came over him. Without a moment’s hesitation, he had a change of heart. He walked back to the cart, replaced the melon and took a ripe one. The second story concerns baseball slugger Ted Williams. Williams was forty years old and closing out his career with the ...

911. Here's Mud in Your Eye

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... second wheelchair is a stroke victim. One side of her face is paralyzed. She watches this woman with growing incredulity. What does the woman think is going to happen? She wonders. Did she imagine she was going to jump out of her chair and walk? Alice feels outraged. She also decides that this is the most embarrassing scene she has ever witnessed and that she wants above all to leave. But she didn’t leave . . . She told herself that she had to leave before she started to scream in despair, but before she ...

912. You Have a Friend (Memorial Day)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... captured Stanley’s loyalty? He did only what all followers of Jesus are called to do he came alongside people who needed help. He made sure that no one ever felt they were orphaned in this world. That is what our faith is all about. If you are feeling very alone this day, know that God is alongside you. God will not let you go. And if you know someone who is hurting, be a friend, be a comforter, be an advocate just as Christ has been for you. 1. Daily Encourager. Cited in Monday Fodder, www.mondayfodder ...

913. Envision: The Great Commandment

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

James Merritt

... 16) It has been said many times that you can give without loving, but you can love without giving. One of the ways that you know your love for God is really getting to where it needs to be is when you start giving to God financially, not because you feel like you have to, but because you want to. You don’t give it for a tax break. You give it simply, because you love God. There is still another dimension to this commandment that we haven’t yet touched on and it is the horizontal dimension. Jesus goes on ...

914. Up Close & Personal: Coming Into Focus

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... ever prayed and felt like your prayers were falling on deaf ears? Have you ever felt like God was a million miles away? Even though you are a follower of Christ, would you say right now that your relationship with God is distant at best? That may be just a feeling or it may be a fact. You may be very distance from God. That is the bad news. The good news is you don’t have to be. God wants you “Up Close & Personal.” He wants the most intimate, close relationship you have to be with Him. I thought it ...

915. Running over the Cat

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... bargainer, a ruthless competitor. Despite his success, he had never learned to read or write . . . He had been sick recently, and his face and his walking showed it. But he walked over to the widow and started to cry, and she cried with him, and you could feel the atmosphere in the room change. This man who had never read a book in his life spoke the language of the heart and held the key that opened the gates of solace where learned doctors and clergy could not.” (6) How do you comfort someone who is ...

916. Turn On the Light

John 8:12-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... in our house. We were engulfed in complete darkness. I happened to be kind of close to Teresa when it happened. I stood real still for about three seconds and then I screamed out, “Boo!” It is the closest she came to divorcing me. Ask yourself some questions. Do you feel like in your own life the power is out and you are living life in complete darkness? You really don’t have a clue why you are on this earth? You don’t have a clue what you are supposed to be doing with your life? You are facing a ...

917. Demons, Pigs, and the Economy

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... security number on an IRS form, in our struggle to be more than middle- or upper-middle class serfs to a government despicably wasteful; in such an effort, is it any wonder we react in violence and distorted sexuality in a desperate effort to feel, be connected, count somehow, and make a difference? Our schizoid world may not be far from that of the demoniac's. If artists and neurotics are predictive and prophetic as Dr. May suggests, Picasso's painting Guernica, with its fragmented bulls and torn villages ...

918. The Man Among Myrtle Trees

Zechariah 1:7-17

Understanding Series

Pamela J. Scalise

... promise in verse 3, but without condition. The return will be with mercy, reversing the 70 years of withholding mercy (v. 12). The word “mercy” comes from the same root as “womb” (rkhm), suggesting an association with the fierce loyalty and tender care that a mother feels for her children. The Lord’s love for the people Israel is even greater than a mother’s love (Isa. 49:15). As evidence of God’s return, my house will be rebuilt in the holy city. Ezra 5:1–2 credits Haggai and Zechariah with ...

919. What Can I Do With My Guilt?

Hebrews 10:11-18

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... and all of our bitterness? Wouldn't it be great if somebody was acting in a way they shouldn't, all we would have to do would be to sprinkle a little bit of pepper on them and make them sneeze and they could get rid of all their bad feelings and bad thoughts? We could go off to fight wars, and carry pepper shakers with us rather than rifles, and bombs, and tanks. Of course, that's silly, isn't it? It takes more than sneezing to get rid of our bad thoughts and bad ...

920. Claiming Hope

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

James L. Killen

... promising a new possibility. His preaching revived the people's long-cherished hope for the coming of the promised messiah. What about us? Would we have gone out to hear John preaching his message of hope? Are we hungry for hope? Frankly, some of us probably are not. Either we feel that we have all we want or we have some plan working that we think will meet our deepest needs as soon as we work it. Or maybe we have given up on any hope that anything can be much different from the way things are. Or maybe we ...

921. The Cost of Discipleship

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

James L. Killen

... will know that it is really what God wants for you and you will see that it is very good. When you catch that vision, ﬁnd all of the ways you can to help it become a reality. When you get into that, it will not feel like you are carrying a cross. It will feel like you know you are a part of something that is so big and so good and so important to you that you cannot imagine yourself doing anything other than giving yourself completely to it. When that happens, you will know you are participating in God ...

922. Defeating Discouragement

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... who seeks to live by their own power will eventually break down. Isaiah put it this way, “Even youths will faint and be weary and the young will fall exhausted.” Count on it. No matter how young you are, how self-sufficient you may be, or how independent you may feel, if you try to live your life on your own power, you will break down. You will fail. You will give out. You will be discouraged over and over again. This is a truth so many of us resist. We don’t want to be told that we can’t ...

923. Pop Verses: Proverbs 3:5-6

Proverbs 3:5-6

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... and relying on God. But when we are stuck in life being patient and trusting God is very difficult! Or am I the only one who feels that way? When I get to a dead end in my life, you know what I find much easier to do? Get impatient! Let’s move ... t see a way forward. Any place is better than where we are now. The grass is always greener. The other side is always better. We feel so miserable, so alone, so stuck that we will do anything to get away from where we are. Trusting God and his timing is not always ...

924. What Do You Bring to the Table?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Tom Garrison

... seemed like a burden under his tutelage became a means of mounting to the sky. This is a parable, it seems, of what happens when we answer Jesus' invitation and bring our burdens to him, yoke ourselves to him, and resolve "to learn of him." He can take things that feel to us like heavy obstacles and show us how to use them as the means of moving forward. This is the kind of rest and "refreshment" that is promised here. Jesus does not say that all our burdens will be taken away, but that he will show us how ...

925. Job's Reply to Bildad

Job 9:1–10:22

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... 4 and 14 that dispute with God is impossible because of his overwhelming wisdom and power. Now Job has come to question whether God truly champions the cause of the innocent, or enforces justice in the world. The Futility of Innocence 9:25–26 Job feels his days swiftly ebbing away. The verbs pile up in this picture of his life: it recedes swiftly (qll, “be swifter; recede”) into the distance before Job’s eyes; his days fly away (brkh, “flee”) before him like a runner (rts, “run”) straining ...

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