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 1026 to 1050 of 4950 results

1026. All Together

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... flesh (Acts 2:17), and not just to chosen individuals, is a mark of the Messianic age. Somehow Peter knows this, so in his sermon he recalls the words of that mysterious prophet, Joel: And in the last days it shall be, God declares, That I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh ... - Acts 2:17 / Joel 2:28 We need to see that the gift of tongues was a gift in the first-century church, but we also need to see that Pentecost was more than just "tongues." Many biblical scholars stress the fact that the gift of ...

1027. Life After Life

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... continue to watch over her just as he had during the years of their long companionship ... "He went on singing in his bed in the same divine way until about six in the evening, and then, as he said in one of his poems, silently, invisibly, the human spirit left him, becoming a part of the eternity on which his eyes had been so faithfully set during his mortal years." Muggeridge quotes a friend of Kierkegaard, one who was present at his death in 1855. The friend said he had a look about him that "shone out ...

1028. His Baptism and Ours

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... than the sense of reverence that one feels in the presence of a person of spiritual power. He had begun to feel, although he was still uncertain and hesitant, that this Jesus was none other than the one who was to come, the one who would baptize with the Holy Spirit. John is awed and shaken to the depths of his being. "You come to me for baptism," he says, "it is I who need to be baptized by you." To John there was something highly inappropriate in the idea that he who could well be the Messiah himself, the ...

1029. Christian Thanksgiving

Philippians 1:1-7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... all mankind ... It is fitting that we give our thanks for the safety of our land, for the fertility of our harvests, for the strength of our liberties, for the health of our people ... I urge that all observe this day with reverence and with humility. Let us renew the spirit of the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving, lonely in an inscrutable wilderness, facing the dark unknown with a faith born of their dedication to God and a fortitude drawn from their sense that all men were brothers. Let us renew that ...

1030. Opening Up Heaven

Luke 3:21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... of faith and commitment. Today we are one week removed from the beginning of a new year. This can also be a time for a new beginning for us. Let us begin this new year in a posture of prayer that we too might see the heaven open, the Spirit descend, and discover anew that we are indeed children of God. 1. TARBELL'S TEACHER'S GUIDE, Vol. 82, (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell, 1986). 2. Herb Miller, EVANGELISM'S OPEN SECRETS, (St. Louis: CBP Press,1984). 3. (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell, 1987). 4 ...

1031. Surprise!

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... handed a scroll from the book of Isaiah and asked to preach on it. He didn't have to flip around for a while to find what he wanted. He went straight to Isaiah 61, a Messianic passage of great importance to the Hebrew people, and read these words: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of ...

1032. Afraid of Sanity

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... routines of business life. I think we can all understand the person who said: “Each of us tends to be, not a single self, but a whole committee of selves.” We are all mixtures of angel and devil, good and bad, clean and unclean. And Jesus commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. It did, and as a result a herd of pigs - two thousand strong - rushed down the steep bank into the sea. Now, don’t you wish you knew what that was all about? I am not going to tell you. Primarily because I haven ...

1033. Trusting the Truth

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... , we have the mind of God and not a double-mind fighting and quarreling with itself. The Bible--God''s guidebook--helps us to make the right choice, to encounter the truth of God. We also are given a great teacher to help us in that pursuit--the Holy Spirit. Do you know that the highest compliment you can give God is to trust Him enough to seek His Will for your life, and to allow Him to deliver the goods? I recently heard an insightful definition of the word "Ego." Ego stands for "Edging God Out." James ...

1034. Height Advantage

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... at Ephesus comes alive: "... the working of his great might which he accomplished in Christ when he raised him from the dead and made him sit at his right hand in the heavenly places" (Ephesians 1:19-20). What was accomplished by God's "great might" enables the Spirit of Jesus Christ, which was available in the flesh so long ago, to be available to you and me today. What a privilege! I was surprised back in April of 1994, at the strong reaction I received to something I said in a sermon that day. I spoke ...

1035. Humility

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... . All of us were absorbed by what my Father had said, and we awaited what he was struggling to say next. ‘Someday I hope someone will come up to you as you’re fulfilling your duties as a senator, tug on your sleeve and say, “Senator, your spirit is showing.” Ashcroft tells about an event that occurred just a few months after his father’s death. He was at an airport, trying to board a flight that was delayed. The agent looked at his ticket, which had a connecting flight in St. Louis, and insisted ...

1036. Proclaimers Of The Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the harvest. So I close. As Christians, we are proclaimers of the gospel. As such, we must remember three principles. One, we can proclaim the gospel anywhere. Two, we are to proclaim the gospel everywhere. And three, when the gospel is proclaimed, the spirit guarantees the harvest. When we remember and practice these principles, we share in the most exciting of all ventures, and the results and the rewards will be great. Here is a final illustration of the results and the rewards. The American Red Cross ...

1037. A Church for the 21st Century: Holy, Charismatic, Apostolic - An Enclave of Resistance

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the models a Los Angeles Times reporter wrote a review of the cathedral. This is a part of what the reporter said: “Moneo is creating an alternate world to the everyday world that surrounds the cathedral, a testimony to grandeur of the human spirit, an antidote to a world that is increasingly spiritually empty.” Then he wrote this sentence: “The cathedral, set in the midst of the secular city, will be an enclave of resistance.” What an image . . . the Church an enclave of resistance. My friend Mark ...

1038. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v2

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1039. What Making a Difference Looks Like

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... grace of God that can keep us both.”8 Notice that the specifics of mercy are left unspecified. Jesus speaks of the merciful person but not their actions. This is no oversight. It is so we will not just apply the principle but listen for the guidance of the Holy Spirit in each new situation. Mercy is not a policy or a procedure; it is an invitation to do business with God in the giving and in the receiving. A world with no mercy is a world with no future and everyone locked up in the chains of the past. If ...

1040. Proper 11

Genesis 28:10-22, Romans 8:1-17, Romans 8:18-27, Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... in heaven. 2. Prayer without words (v. 26). Prayer is more than words. It is intimate communication with God. The thoughts and feelings do not have to be verbalized. They go beyond words to sighs. It is not glossolalia. It is no language at all - spirit with Spirit. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Gospel: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 1. Holy Tares! (13:24-30). Need: When a child is especially unmanageable, we say he is a "holy terror." There are people in the church who can be called "holy tares." In the text, the ...

1041. Dead Man Walking

Psalm 130:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... clings to a faith in a listening and living God – a God who hears his cries and is moved to action. By the time Psalm 130 closes, the psalmist has not only risen up out of his personal abyss – his soul's hellhole – but his spirit has become sparkling under the promise of divine forgiveness. After beautifully and movingly expressing both his despair and belief that God is a God of forgiveness, love, and redemption, the psalmist joyfully invites all of Israel to share in his faith. If God will forgive ...

1042. You've Won the Heavenly Sweepstakes!

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... money, fame, and things. But it is a possession nevertheless. If even our greedy consumer culture can understand such a possession-filled possession, why does the twenty-first century church seem to have such trouble accepting the validity, the necessity, for a Spirit-filled possession? Why do so many churches find comfort and contentment in just "trusting the process" year after year, opportunity after opportunity? In today's gospel text Jesus taught that if his disciples would simply love him and obey his ...

1043. Living Outside the Box

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ego! The most "in" crowd, the most knowledgeable and assured, were counseled to humbly accept their inadequate comprehension and to wait for the coming Spirit to reveal to them the truth, little by little. In fact, the one person in the Bible who comes across as the most knowing ... ? To be open to the future is . . . to be open to what you don't know. In fact, when it comes to things of the Spirit, it almost seems that the more we know, the more we know we don't know. But what we know, WE KNOW. "One thing I do ...

1044. Blue Highway Blessings

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to train our eyes to look, to see the evidence of God's presence in our lives and in the world around us. Listen. Listen for the voice of God. Spend time in the Scriptures. Listen to the words of Jesus. Give attention to the witness of the way the Spirit of Christ is at work in other people's lives. Having done those three, you can: Go. Go into life with a new awareness and a new confidence that the God who is with us will fulfill his good purpose in our lives. (James A. Harnish, "Finding the 'New' You ...

1045. Baptism of the Lord

Psalm 29:1-11, Isaiah 42:1-9, Acts 10:23b-48, Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... , a great preacher of the fifth century, spoke of today's celebration in this way: Today, as the psalmist prophesied, "The voice of the Lord is heard above the waters." What does the voice say? "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." Today the Holy Spirit hovers over the waters in the likeness of a dove. A dove announced to Noah that the flood had disappeared from the earth; so now a dove is to reveal that the world's shipwreck is at an end for ever. (Christian Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours ...

1046. The Bloodline of Christ

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Christ’s offspring, all members of the body of Christ, are born red. We are all red-blooded disciples of Jesus. In the human body it is the process of oxygenation that turns our life-blood a healthy red. In the human soul it is the breath of the Holy Spirit that turns our lives into red-letters. We are used to “red letter” editions of the New Testament, editions that put all of the words spoken by Jesus into bold red type. What we aren’t used to is seeing that each and every one of us are Jesus ...

1047. The Supreme Worth of the Second Birth

John 3:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... understand before you enter the kingdom of God. He said you must be born again before you can enter the kingdom of God. You see, the Spirit is like a breeze. You can't really explain wind. You can't even see it, but you can see the results of it. I heard ... to tell you today that if you will just set the sail of your heart toward the Lord Jesus Christ, the fresh wind of the Holy Spirit will blow the ship of your life right into heaven. b. It Is Miraculous "Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born ...

1048. The True Feng Shui Life

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... would be disciples of this wave-riding, water-striding Christ, we must be prepared to like a windblown life, waterborn life. Our God is not a status-quo God. Our God is a God of movement, of change, of motion. Remember: our God first created with the Spirit blowing over the face of the primeval, chaotic waters (Genesis 1:2). If we willingly step out of our status quos to follow Jesus, we had better anticipate getting wet. Christians are not called to be perfectly coiffed. If we are really living life in the ...

1049. Healed By The Great Physician

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... magazines and see the word “healing” on the front page, what do you think of? New-fangled diets? Miracle drugs? Perhaps. We tend to compartmentalize healing. If something is wrong with your body, you go to a physician. If something is wrong with your spirit, you go to a clergy person. If something is wrong with your mind, you go to a psychiatrist. In one sense, that is entirely proper. But the Bible does not divide healing into those neat sections. Indeed, Jesus offered healing for the whole person ...

1050. Tweed Jackets, Sweat Pants and Wet Suits

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... regime. The sweat-suited believer endeavors to actively engage a Sunday faith in a Monday world. This tends to let the world set the agenda, making faith respond to its claims. The most challenging, exhilarating and intimidating stage of experiencing the Holy Spirit's wind and fire in our lives involves the courage to put on a wet suit of faithfulness. Wet Suits: Wet suits allow one to become immersed completely in a new and strange, even potentially hostile, environment. Unlike other clumsier attire, the ...

Showing results