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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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76. I Love You, Man... And I Don't Want Your Beer

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Big Bang to the Bit Bang (play on the sound system). [End the sermon with an interactive time with people exchanging the peace with one another saying: "I love you, man" and/or "I love you, sister" and "I love you, brother" followed by either, "And I don't want your beer" or the words, "God loves you, brother. God loves you, sister."] Now that we've hugged one another with the love of Christ, let us go out into this world and hug it with these words: "I love you, world. God loves you, world . . . with "The ...

77. When God Wants To Mold a Man

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Staff

... to drill a man, And thrill a man, And skill a man, When God wants to mold a man To play the noblest part; When He yearns with all His heart To create so great and bold a man That all the world shall be amazed, Watch His methods, watch His ways! How He ruthlessly perfects Whom He royally elects! How He hammers him and ...

78. The Want to Believe

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Staff

... them were preparing to go to church, he approached a man known for his Christian character and said, "Suppose you stay at home and tell my why you are a Christian." The man, knowing he couldn't match wits with Huxley, hesitated. But the agnostic said gently, "I don't want to argue with you. I just want you to tell me simply what this Christ means to you." The man did, and when he finished, there were tears in Huxley's eyes as he said, "I would give my right hand if only I could believe that!"

79. Just As I Wanted It

Humor Illustration

... in the shape of an "M". He insisted that on a specific date it must be ready. The day before the deadline the insistent customer arrived to see how the cake was progressing. "Oh, this is all wrong," he yelled. "You've made a capital 'M'' cake. I wanted a lower-case 'm''. I will be by here the same time tomorrow and I expect my cake to be done right. The manager apologized profusely, and assured the man that his cake would be finished by tomorrow and would be done right. The customer returned the next ...

80. God Wants All of Us

Prov 31:25; 1 Pet 3:4

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... of me." "All of me, why not take all of me, can't you see I'm no good without you. You took the part that once was my heart, so why not take all of me." And that's the truth, we are no good without God. God wants all of us. Not just our heart, not just our mind, not just our soul, not just our strength but every bit of us. And God wants us to bring it to Him like that little girl, and place all we are and have and ever will be at God's Altar.

81. Hey! I Want To Believe!

John 20:24-31

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... of the things I like about baseball is that some baseball players get nicknames. Like Lefty Gomez and Dizzy Dean- -two great old baseball stars. Some nicknames are great. Others are not so great. I don't believe I would want to be called Goofy, like Mickey Mouse's friend. I certainly wouldn't want to be called Dopey like one of Snow White's friends. One of Jesus' disciples developed one of the most famous nicknames in all the world. He became known as Doubting Thomas. Thomas wasn't with the other disciples ...

82. I Want to Make Sense Out of My Life

John 6:24-35

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... , isn't it? Sometimes we can feel like our life is a Rubik's Cube. Sometimes we can feel so mixed up, and we just want some help straightening our life out, getting it back in order. Have you ever felt that way? Maybe you've had a bad day, maybe ... this Rubik's Cube.And you know the best way to get everything straightened out? Talk to God about it. Pray. God loves us, and He wants to help us with our problems. (As you speak, straighten out the Rubik's Cube and return it to its original appearance) And when we ...

83. What Kind of Ruin Do You Want?

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Maxie Dunnam

... moment when no one said anything, for everyone there knew what he was talking about. Then, finally, one of the men spoke up in a soft voice. “And what will happen to you if you don’t carry on your business as Christ teaches? What kind of ruin do you want?” You can apply that question to the whole of life -- not just to business, but to social relationships, to your home, to political life. What kind of ruin do you ...

84. Seeing What We Don’t Want To See

John 12:20-33

Sermon

Mary Austin

... own selfishness. It is some kind of commitment to something outside us. Our souls rub up against the needs and wishes of someone else and are shaped in the process. Out of our commitment to a church or a person or a cause, we let go of what we want... and are made into better people. Every time we repeat something to a forgetful parent... run an errand for a sick friend... play a boring game with a toddler for the thirtieth time... listen to a friend tell a story we’ve heard before... we begin to let go ...

85. Why Do We Want To Learn?

Proverbs 1:2, 5

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... . We all need to be adding new things to our store of knowledge. As we do so, year after year, life will change and be better. That is why we should never stop learning new things. Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home: When a child does not want to go to school, or take time to read. When you, as a parent, are learning new things. When using food coloring in the kitchen.

86. Do You Want To Be More Spiritual?

Romans 8:1-17

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Clement E. Lewis

... feel would have the endorsement of Jesus. Are you about to do what you sincerely believe is right under the circumstance and proper at the time? Are you putting off what you know ought to be considered because it may require more of you than you want to give of yourself, time, or substance? It is hard to feel spiritual comfort, or to be satisfied within yourself if these matters cannot be rightly dealt with. We need to take our emotions and our reasoning both into account. Sometimes we are torn between the ...

87. Doing What God Wants

1 John 5:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... bit about belonging to the family of God. This is really something important but we don't talk very much about it. We talk a lot about the things that God does for us, and we should because he has done and continues to do everything for us. But we want to talk about what it is like to belong to the family of God, and about some of the things that we should do. Let me explain. If you live in a family, you do certain things. Your father works, maybe you mother works, so that you have money to ...

88. That's All I want

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A little child happily mis-translated, "The Lord is my shepherd; that’s all I want."

89. Lord, I Want To See

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Brett Blair

... deafness and blindness, once wrote a magazine article entitled: "Three days to see." In that article she outlined what things she would like to see if she were granted just three days of sight. It was a powerful, thought provoking article. On the first day she said she wanted to see friends. Day two she would spend seeing nature. The third day she would spend in her home city of New York watching the busy city and the work day of the present. She concluded it with these words: "I who am blind can give one ...

90. Lord, I Want to See - Sermon Starter

Mark 10:46-52

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Brett Blair

91. All I Want for Christmas is Joy

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

James W. Moore

Her name was Karen. She was the young mother of two pre-school children: Laurel, her daughter, age 5, and Matthew, her son, age 2. Karen wanted the children to learn the real meaning of Christmas so early in December that year she brought home a small manger scene. All the figurines in the manger scene were made of wood, so they were pretty much indestructible.., and also easy for little hands to pick them up and ...

92. All I Want for Christmas is Peace

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

Have you heard about the young woman who lived on a large ranch in West Texas? She had fallen in love with a local cowboy named Tex...and she wanted to get married. But Texas was inexperienced in the world of romance...and to make matters worse, he was extremely shy. She realized that she needed to help him a bit to move this courtship along.., so she took matters into her own hands. “Oh, Tex,” she said, “Do you ...

93. All I Want for Christmas is Hope

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

James W. Moore

... voices and talk and appeals in our noisy world... that we pull back into a hard shell.., and stonewall our way through life. Too many of us throw in the towel, retreat from the struggle, and give in to the sin of the closed mind. We don’t want our thought—world disturbed by new ideas... so we tune out. We have ears, but we will not listen and we do not hear. In the year 1870 the Methodists in Indiana held their Annual Conference on the campus of a local college. The president of that college addressed ...

94. The Cross We Do Not Want To See

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... to have it removed. There were cries that the ugly cross was a sacrilege and desecration. One pastor commented, "The reaction was understandable: we do not like to be reminded of the suffering of God for our sin." (2) We need to talk about the cross that nobody wants to see. Not the cross of guns and pistols and knives and bayonets and bullets and bombs and broken bottles. But the cross of pain and love and, ultimately, hope. I. Let's Begin with the Pain. The adulation of the crowd on that first Palm Sunday ...

95. Nobody Wants To Make Cold Calls

Luke 10:1-24

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... ? I read that a honey bee travels an estimated 43,000 miles to gather one pound of honey. Can you imagine that? Forty-three thousand miles! That is a long, long way. Jesus sent his disciples out to gather people just like a bee goes out to gather honey. Jesus wants us to find as many people as possible who don't know about his love, so we can let them know how important they are to God. We are to be as busy as bees finding people who are afraid and unhappy and angry and helping them find the love ...

96. What Jesus Wants

Matthew 9:1-8, Matthew 9:9-13, Matthew 9:18-26

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John R. Brokhoff

Years ago there was a man in the west who was caught stealing sheep. They branded him on the forehead with the letters ST, "sheep thief." Later his life changed and he became a model for all. People forgot that ST stood for "sheep thief" and thought it symbolized "saint." This is what Jesus wants to happen in every person's life, including yours and mine. He associated with sinners, had dinner with them, and once explained to his enemies that he came to call sinners that they might become saints of God.

Mark 6:30-44

I feel, and can never cease to feel, myself a partaker in a crime which is constantly being committed, so long as I have extra food while others have none, so long as I have two coats while there exists one person without any. I must seek in my heart at every moment, with meekness and humility, some opportunity for doing the job Christ wants done.

Leo Tolstoy

98. We Want It Our Way

Mark 10:17-31

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Thomas Peterson

... came, he was unwilling to keep his part of the bargain. I wonder if there is a parallel here. We put Jesus off, promising, "Just one more of this and one more of that then I will be willing to go with you, Jesus." Are we not like little Fausts, wanting to have it our way? After all, we say, we deserve it! And what do we say to Jesus when he comes to claim us?

99. Everybody Wants to Be Somebody

Mark 10:35-45

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Kenneth L. Carder

Everybody wants to be somebody. Since the dawn of history, human beings have been trying to move up the scale of importance. The clincher used by the serpent to tempt Adam and Eve was "when you eat of [the tree of good and evil], your eyes will be opened, and you will ...

100. I Want Peace

John 14:23-29

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When Dante was exiled from Florence, he knocked at the door of the Franciscan monastery at Lunigiana. He was asked, "What do you want?" He replied, "Peace!"

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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76. I Love You, Man... And I Don't Want Your Beer

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

77. When God Wants To Mold a Man

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Staff

78. The Want to Believe

Illustration

Staff

79. Just As I Wanted It

Humor Illustration

80. God Wants All of Us

Prov 31:25; 1 Pet 3:4

Illustration

Billy D. Strayhorn

81. Hey! I Want To Believe!

John 20:24-31

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

82. I Want to Make Sense Out of My Life

John 6:24-35

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

83. What Kind of Ruin Do You Want?

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Maxie Dunnam

84. Seeing What We Don’t Want To See

John 12:20-33

Sermon

Mary Austin

85. Why Do We Want To Learn?

Proverbs 1:2, 5

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

86. Do You Want To Be More Spiritual?

Romans 8:1-17

Illustration

Clement E. Lewis

87. Doing What God Wants

1 John 5:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

88. That's All I want

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Staff

A little child happily mis-translated, "The Lord is my shepherd; that’s all I want."

89. Lord, I Want To See

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Brett Blair

90. Lord, I Want to See - Sermon Starter

Mark 10:46-52

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Brett Blair

91. All I Want for Christmas is Joy

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

James W. Moore

92. All I Want for Christmas is Peace

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

93. All I Want for Christmas is Hope

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

James W. Moore

94. The Cross We Do Not Want To See

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

King Duncan

95. Nobody Wants To Make Cold Calls

Luke 10:1-24

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

96. What Jesus Wants

Matthew 9:1-8, Matthew 9:9-13, Matthew 9:18-26

Illustration

John R. Brokhoff

Mark 6:30-44

Leo Tolstoy

98. We Want It Our Way

Mark 10:17-31

Illustration

Thomas Peterson

99. Everybody Wants to Be Somebody

Mark 10:35-45

Illustration

Kenneth L. Carder

100. I Want Peace

John 14:23-29

Illustration

When Dante was exiled from Florence, he knocked at the door of the Franciscan monastery at Lunigiana. He was asked, "What do you want?" He replied, "Peace!"

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