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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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926. Something is About to Happen!

John 1:1-14

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... keep our lives above rough waters. Life will take us into the depths, and when that happens the deep in us calls out for some great deep answer. Perhaps that is where some of you are tonight. You are lonely…you are unsatisfied by life…you feel hopeless…you feel overcome by addiction or sadness and your searching for answers. You thought the one place you might find it is in a church on Christmas Eve. Well, you have come to the right place. Because if you are open your heart, you will receive the power ...

927. Of Mice and Men

Hebrews 10:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... it is, whether major or seemingly minor, you regret it now. If only God could remove the guilt, you would be healthier and happier if it could just disappear. Of course, guilt has its purpose in our lives. Guilt is to the soul what pain is to the body. We feel a stab of pain and we know that something is wrong, something that we need to take care of. So it is with guilt and the soul. Guilt helps us see that something is wrong with our life just as pain tells us something is wrong with our body. Author ...

928. Holy Happiness

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... I felt very far away from God. These days, tears come frequently and easily to me as much in times of joy as in times of sorrow. And often my tears flow for the pain of others, not just for myself. I certainly don’t feel as “in control” as I used to. But I do feel more human, much more connected to and dependent upon God. Life is somehow much richer. Yes, I understand why Jesus says “Blessed are those who weep.” This past couple of weeks there have been a lot of tears flowing around here. Some of ...

929. Be Ready for the Possibility of the Resurrection

John 20:1-18

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... I don’t love you anymore. I am leaving. My lawyer will be in touch.” It is being at the scene of the accident when the policeman tells you, “We have called the ambulance, but it appears your husband died of his injuries.” It is the feeling that overwhelms you when the doctor says, “The lab reports are back. The results are not good. You have a very aggressive form of cancer.” That was Mary Magdalene’s experience that Sunday morning in the garden cemetery. She felt as though her life had caved ...

930. Free From What? For What?

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... and no one’s been paying any attention. So, what is it that teens have to teach us? As adults, our attempts at independence are generally balanced by our need for security: we can’t walk away from our domineering boss because we need to feel financially secure. Teenagers, however, are less concerned with safety and more interested in autonomy, so they provide for us good models of what happens when our inflated notions of the importance of independence are allowed to run their full course. In the 1960s ...

931. No Longer Home Alone

John 15:13-17

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... was driving a borrowed pickup recently and six or seven miles south of Belle Plaine on Highway 169 I ran out of gas. It's a lonely feeling. But a young teenager who happened to be at home gave me some gas. I worried as I approached the farmhouse on foot that she would be ... . It read, "I'm so lonely I could die, my phone never rings ... I'm the only one on earth. How else can I feel? All alone. See no one. Oh, dear God, help me ... will somebody call me?" The letter containing $1 and six stamps for anybody who ...

932. Blessed

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. This beatitude is not about that normal and natural mourning that comes in the midst of life. We all mourn at the death of a loved one or a good friend. Remember, these are not descriptions of feelings, they are prophetic pronouncements about the coming kingdom of God. Here, “those who mourn” refers to those who can see and understand the fallen state of the world — the whole world and not just their personal enemies or the enemies of their country. They ...

933. Revised and Revisioned

John 8:48-59, John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41, John 10:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... high IQ, but she has a low EQ. She doesn’t have a clue what “love” means, except to define it. She finds love, not in the heart or in people, but she finds it in a pool of information. She is missing the ability to love, to intuit, to feel, to discern. So, what will happen if Siri’s intelligence increases but her ability to love is still missing? What if Siri becomes so intelligent that she doesn’t need us anymore? These are questions we are asking now in our culture. We are at a point in our ...

934. The Great Dinner

Luke 14:1-14, Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of your church, or in your neighborhood coffee bar, or somewhere in your neighborhood, and be present to listen, to anoint, to bless, to bestow ashes upon anyone who comes up to you. Don’t wait for people to have to fight for a place at Jesus table, or to feel it is hopeless to even try. Go out, and let them know, Jesus has already invited them. Let them wear their mark of Jesus proudly. Let them not be the least that day. But you become the least, so that they may know Jesus. And know, God delights in ...

935. The Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... skull-cap on his head. He sees the man lying on the field, and immediately goes to help. As he runs across the field to feel the man’s pulse, he calls to you to help. You walk over slowly, stand a distance away, and watch paralyzed as he bends down ... doubt to return home. You should get home too. Why did you even follow him? You’re not sure. But you have the feeling, you’re in the midst of something extraordinary. You stand there stunned. You have just witnessed an event you will never forget. Why did ...

936. The Promise of Dreams

Genesis 37:1-11, Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to matter. The church doesn’t seem to know what to do with them. After all, there are bills to be paid, Christmas gifts to afford, work to be done, jobs to be held, children to feed, daily life to endure in the midst of what feels like an unstable world. Or as Abraham Maslow might suggest in his pyramid of emotional values, “dreams” fall somewhere far beyond more urgent needs for food, shelter, stability, security, and a host of other practical matters. And yet, from out of the murkiest of depths, we ...

937. Follow the Light

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Matthew 2:1-12, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... s that place within where we can see no light. Somehow, the light of Christ has been extinguished from our soul. We’ve all been there at one time or another, that wasteland of the soul, where hope has been shut out, where the echo of God’s silence feels deafening. It’s a time when the dark parts of us envelope all of our light, all of our hope and our optimism, our spirit of expectation, and our sense of well-being. Like a great big dark cumulonimbus cloud, that doom and gloom settles upon our spirit ...

938. Scroll Bread and Honey

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... at his home in Missouri died in 1820 when he was 86 of “dietary indiscretion,” which some friends revealed was his overeating of sweet potatoes, his favorite food. He just kept eating them, day after day, until one day he sat down in a corner, complained of feeling sick, and died.*) If you are diabetic, you cut out sugars and starches! At least you’re supposed to, right? Yeah, I know, we’ve also got the cheaters out there. But we try, right? Cause we have no real desire to poison our bodies. We all ...

939. Sheep Just Wanna Have Fun

John 10:1-21, Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... it by the tail and create new ways to do life. God gives us the gift of freedom in Jesus not to inhibit us into following blindly and mindlessly, but God gives us the gift of freedom in Jesus, because he will open doors and gates for us when we feel shut in. He will lead the way to open fields and clean waters when are lives have become rancid or stagnant. He helps us discover things to eat when our food for living has run dry. He gives us courage to stand before a common foe and to face it ...

940. What's In a Name?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... names that cling to you like barnacles now in your mind. If you have had many loving names placed upon you, no doubt, you are feeling good right now. But many of us unknowingly carry with us many false names, names that have been foisted upon us by others, or ... piece of paper, or you can say them out loud. Or you can simply bring them to the surface in your mind. How do they make you feel? Now I want you to hear Jesus’ words for you, as told to us by Peter himself (1 Peter 2:5): “As you come to Him, the ...

941. Soli Deo Gloria

Romans 16:1-27

Sermon

Ron Love

... or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and in most Western music, harmony.” The important point for us is the phrase “emotional expression.” Music often articulates that which we feel but are unable to put into grammatical sentences. Paul concluded his letter to Rome with a doxology. Doxology comes from the two Greek words doxa and logos. These two words basically mean “words of praise.” Paul chose to close his ...

942. Under the Fig Tree

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in fact or proofs or logic. When we fall in love. When we pick up the phone to call someone just as they were thinking of us. When we have a sense of something wrong and then hear the news. When we look at someone and get a feeling about them. Although animals may have this sense to a greater extent, we humans have it too. And for many, it guides their lives. John Wesley would say that we can’t be a true Christian without that relational, intuitive, spiritual encounter with Jesus that “warms our hearts ...

943. Homecoming

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Will Willimon

... rest of us. Every day the lines got longer. Every day, we were cruelly impressed by the gap between the huge need and our meager medical resources. Each evening, before sleep, we would sit in a circle and process our feelings. Toward the end, this Duke doctor just broke into tears saying what most of us were feeling. "I've seen over a dozen women" she said," with fibroid tumors. Not serious. We remove dozens every day at Duke. Yet they will die, from them. We can't operate here. All I've got to give them is ...

944. Shuttered

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... exhaustion, and it’s pervasive across the world. We are living in a groggy state of mental fog. We have not only shuttered our buildings and businesses, we have shuttered our psyches. We feel disconnected, shells of our former selves. And we don’t know what to do about it. This must have been the feeling Jesus’ disciples had as well after the crucifixion. Thousands felt their hope had been dashed and destroyed. Others felt disillusioned and betrayed by someone they put their trust in. He had promised ...

945. Easter Power

Acts 14:8-18

Sermon

Will Willimon

... that the biggest, most overly built, most expensive buildings are no longer churches, but hospitals? We thank God that we have progressed to the point where we have something we can do for that crippled man from birth. Do we put so much into medicine because we feel that it offers us power? What Paul did for that poor man is done almost daily in Duke Hospital. We don't call the physicians who heal "Zeus" or "Hermes," but we do offer them government grants, about the closest thing to worship that we can give ...

946. Like a Phoenix

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. And out of that sense of failure, I remember, I would always examine the patient. I would pull down the eyelids. I would look at the tongue. I would percuss the chest. I would listen to the heart. I would feel the abdomen. I remember so many patients, their names still vivid on my tongue, their faces still so clear. I remember so many huge, hollowed out, haunted eyes staring up at me as I performed this ritual. And then the next day, I would come, and I would do it ...

947. Seeing with Eyes Closed

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... about all of the things you can’t see: Microwaves X-Rays Ultraviolet Rays Oxygen Carbon Monoxide Wind Viruses Bacteria Sound Waves Can you think of any others? How do you know they exist? In most cases, you see the after-effects of their presence. Or you can feel them. Or maybe it’s because we believe that they exist. Others have told us so. Maybe it’s a combination of all of these. But the fact is, quite often, we are absolutely sure that certain things exist, even when we cannot see them at the time ...

948. Yes, You Can Work Yourself to Death

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... how life is. What can you do about it?” A seasoned doctor was training his latest group of interns on diagnostic techniques. He wrapped up his training by saying, “Never ask your patients if they feel tired.” Why? Someone asked. “Because,” the doctor said, “everybody feels tired.” And he may be right about that. Everybody feels tired. That’s normal, right? It’s a hazard of modern life. I’m not against hard work. I thank God for the opportunity to work, and to use the skills and energy He ...

949. A Sympathetic High Priest

Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... is right beside you and me in the hurts of life. And that is a powerful place. Think how life works. The people in your life whom you can most lean on are ones who have been there with us or have experienced something like we have. The grieving feel they can best relate to someone else who has lost a loved one. Somebody who’s lost as job gets more comfort and understanding from someone who lost a job too, especially if it’s with the same employer. The addict relates best to another addict, the war vet ...

950. Spirit Powered Anointing

Luke 4:14-21 · Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... say next. Today, I invite you to revel in the knowledge of your baptism, of your own commissioning into the joy of God’s community. For you too as the church have been anointed by God for mission and the joy of Christ’s salvation. Enjoy the joy you feel. This is the good news! What Jesus says to you also today should give you great cause for celebration. For he is your liberator. He is your savior. But what Jesus will say next will also be your challenge. For this you too will need to hold onto that ...

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