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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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1176. A Vision of Freedom

Isaiah 65:17-25

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... from Isaiah, and he dealt with the very questions with which we have been grappling. He wrote: The Kingdom of Christ is not to be found there [while we live], but it rises to another place, where sense is not, but where faith is. So if I should feel sin, death, and evil and nothing good in my flesh, I must nevertheless believe in the Kingdom of Christ. For the Kingdom of Christ does not have its place in the senses.3 Do not be surprised if you still experience your old imperfections. The new “you” whom ...

1177. The Second Touch for the Out of Touch

1 Kings 19:1-18

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... that Elijah’s adrenaline was flowing freely when he was on the mountain and as he ran those seventeen miles into Jezreel. He was ripe for an emotional collapse. When Jezebel warned him what she planned to do, his mind went into park and his feelings took over, causing him to panic and want to die. Blinded by emotion, he was persuaded that his victory on Mount Carmel was of no account. His negative thoughts coupled with exhaustion coming off his powerful victory caused him to fall into a deep depression ...

1178. The Promising Child

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... is not difficult to understand that when a mother offers her son for service to the Lord that this is done with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the mother, like Hannah, is prompted by the highest motives and sincere devotion to God. That must be ... have been a bittersweet kind of experience, the writer who gives us the account of that moment does not describe Hannah’s feelings. Instead the writer simply states, “She left him there for the Lord.” Then the writer includes a beautiful psalmody we know as ...

1179. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... m so mad at myself.” And then he said, “Jim just before I called you, I said a prayer and I told God how bad I feel that He gave me two special moments and I turned away from both of them, and I made God a promise that I intend to keep. I ... the room were moved to tears by his gratitude. And you know, if you blow it up a bit, that’s the same kind of gratitude I feel today toward Jesus Christ. “If I lived 30 lifetimes or 50 lifetimes or 100 lifetimes. I could never repay Jesus for what He has done for me ...

1180. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

1181. The Ten Commandments #2: No Idols!

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the fire; over this half he roasts meat, eats it and is satisfied. He also warms himself and says, "Ah, I am warm, I can feel the fire!" The rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, bows down to it and worships it; he prays to it and ... makes wild roller coasters seem tame, a world with political moorings coming loose amidst Washington sex scandals, we crave certainty. We need to feel CONFIDENCE in something...or else we go bonkers and start looking for rifles. To be sure, having a good idol around can fill ...

1182. The Powerful Moments that Change Your Life Forever

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

James W. Moore

... powerful moment like that, that changed your life forever? How long has it been since you had a kairos moment in a chronos world? Kairos moments are all around us if we have the eyes to see them, the ears to hear them, and the hearts to feel them. Now, this morning I want to share with you three kairos moments that I have experienced that changed my life. I am going to be very personal because kairos moments are very personal. I. The Kairos Moment of Encouragement The word “encourage” in French means to ...

1183. Life Between Verses 4 and 5

Psalm 13:1-6

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... that such a day will come again. It seems to me that the church, when it is at it's best, lives it's life between verses 4 and 5. We hear that deep SIGH when words cannot come. We hear the laments from both within and without as people feel free and safe to speak to their anguish. All by itself, that listening ear helps the healing process because, as psychotherapy has taught us, there is catharsis in voicing the pain. Between verses 4 and 5 tears are shed, because when the church is at its best, we rejoice ...

1184. The View from the Mountaintop

Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and thy neighbor as thyself' - that church would I gladly unite with." Many today would echo that sentiment. He went on, "Probably it is to be my lot to go on in a twilight, feeling...with him of old time, who, in his need, as I in mine, exclaimed, "Help Thou mine unbelief."(11) Honest Abe was a man of honest faith...and honest doubt. Those words, "I believe; help my unbelief," came from another man whose life reflected a mixture of honest ...

1185. God Bless the Child

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . Jesus would have none of it though. He said, "Let the little children come to me." One of the things we need to note in this lesson is that Jesus was indignant - ANGRY - at what was being done. It is not hard to imagine how he feels about the situation of the children of our world today. He would indeed be angry over the lack of elementary rights denied to those we call "underprivileged." He would be angry over our limp acceptance of the preventable poverty which condemns children not only to suffering ...

1186. Broken Hydrants

Jeremiah 17:19-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... month one of the girls she had become friends with handed her a Bible. "When you're feeling sad," her new friend instructed her, "look here, and when you're feeling lonely, look here." Michelle tried to explain that she wasn't interested in reading the Bible ... came down with a crippling illness. An inner ear infection with serious complications gave her double vision, a queazy feeling like seasickness, blackout spells, dizziness, and the inability to walk a straight line. Lying in a hospital room overlooking ...

1187. Lips And Hearts

Romans 10:8b-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... she needed something more than simply signing on the bottom line and accepting Christ as her Savior. She needed to be fed spiritually. Paulette set aside time each day to read her Bible and pray. The time she spent in prayer and Bible reading soon erased her feeling of emptiness. "Now I have an abundant life," she says, "because I am learning wonderful things about God as I feed on the Bible's words. God is my best friend, and I look forward to reading my Bible every day." (2) Maybe our hearts are empty ...

1188. Good News For Broken Hearts

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... do it, so can I." She did not realize that Jackie Kennedy on national television was not Jackie Kennedy behind the scenes, sharing her heartbreak with her family and friends. So that woman's grief remained repressed because she never let herself express what she was really feeling. (1) Have you ever known what it is to have a breaking heart? Have you ever let go and let the tears fall without regard for what others might think? Luke tells us about a woman who did just that. He tells us about a woman whose ...

1189. What's This World Coming To Anyway?

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Randolph W. Barr

... ." Pastor Smith realized that these guys were serious about their faith and about their pain as well as the dishwater repair. He tried to think of ways to at least get them out of the kitchen and into the fellowship of the next room so that they wouldn't feel so put upon. Before he could say a word, Hank sang a new verse of the same song. "You know why this dishwasher backed up, pastor? It's because those people from the baby shower didn't read the instructions. They didn't clean out the filter screen after ...

1190. Hope For Those Whom Life Has Cheated

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... of us is a signpost pointing to God. For example, when we see a movie, we want to see justice done. That is what a happy ending is usually about. We want to see wrong righted. We want to see the good guy win. And we feel cheated if virtue does not triumph. Feelings like that are so universal that Lewis felt they are evidence that we are created in the image of God. The Hebrew Bible is obsessed with the idea of the justice of God. Remember Abraham's argument with God concerning Sodom. The Lord had revealed ...

1191. God Believes In Us, Too

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Dr. Chane M. Hutton

... ," the dean replies. "I mean, it isn't quite so urgent, at present, whether you believe in God as whether He can believe in you. If you will conduct yourself in a manner that might encourage Him to believe in you, the time may come when you can feel that you should return the compliment." (6) Believing in Jesus is of utmost importance. But that really begins by realizing Jesus believes in us. Look at all the people in the Bible that Jesus believed in. They were people like you and me. Jesus believed in them ...

1192. Good News For Tough Times

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to all who seek peace with God. His light shines in the darkness all who follow it go home praising God for the gift of life they have received. This is the encouraging word that comes to those of us who, like the Seven-Up man, feel overwhelmed by our circumstances. Truly the Christmas story is for today what it was in Bethlehem two thousand years ago Good News for Tough Times. 1. Leslie and Bernie Flynn, HUMOROUS NOTES, QUOTES AND ANECDOTES, 1973, p. 27. 2. Max Lucado, GOD CAME NEAR, Multnomah Press ...

1193. Marriages That Last

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... she's a neighbor. We relate to each other more like enemies." To which Don replied enthusiastically, "That's great. I have good news for you. Scripture covers that base as well. It says, Love Your Enemies.'" Both husband and wife told Don, "But we just don't feel like loving each other, and we certainly wouldn't want to be hypocritical, would we?" Don said, "Why don't we suspend the discussion of hypocrisy for a week? Let me encourage you to go back to treating each other like you loved each other." To the ...

1194. Watch!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... naturally to have that sense of excitement about life. There is a revealing story about a family gathered in the library enjoying a magnificent thunderstorm when the mother thought of Jill alone in the nursery. Fearing lest the little girl should be awakened and feel afraid, her mother slipped away to quiet her. Pausing at the door, however, in a vivid flash of lightning that illuminated the whole room, she saw the little girl sitting up in bed clapping her hands in excitement and shouting, "Bang it again ...

1195. Casting Out An Evil Spirit

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... same Stalin who is said to have murdered millions of his own people in his adulthood. Confronted with monsters like Stalin and Adolph Hitler who seemed in every respect normal human beings but found it possible to rationalize barbaric behavior, we feel no need to look behind every bush for demonic spirits. The human face of evil is enough. Outside the Christian community, however, there is tremendous interest in the demonic. Hollywood has discovered that our primordial fears are fertile ground for grinding ...

1196. Grace The New Fashioned Way

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... be destructive to their spirit. Then there is the pride of virtue. And of course this was the grievous sin of the Pharisees. "God, I thank thee that I am not as other men." (Luke 18:11). The Pharisees were proud of their virtue. It became a barrier in their feelings toward other people. This was highly offensive to Jesus and it is to us. The great preacher Dwight L. Moody once said, "It is well that a man cannot save himself for if a man could only work his way into heaven, you would never hear the last of ...

1197. The Explosive Power Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... give you another Counselor to be with you for ever." (John 14:16). He may not make us a great preacher like John Jasper. He might not even make us a very eloquent lay speaker. But he will give us strength in our time of weakness, patience when we feel we can hold on no longer, hope in our seasons of despair, and love when we are enshrouded with bitterness. For you see, in spite of what we might consider to be excessive enthusiasm on the part of some believers, the Holy Spirit is none other than the Spirit ...

1198. A Man Who Walked the Talk

Acts 7:55-60

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Forgiveness is for wimps. That is the attitude many of us have. An old Scottish story tells of a man who feared he was on his death bed. He sent for an acquaintance with whom he had had a bitter quarrel and asked that they put away their feelings of enmity. The acquaintance agreed and started to leave the room. The old man rose up on his elbow and spoke one final word, “But remember, if I get well our old quarrel still stands.” We can understand his attitude. The need for revenge is a powerful emotion ...

1199. What About the Weeds?

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... how weeds grow. They grow without any effort on our part. No one goes out and plants a weed. No one cultivates it, waters it, sees that it gets enough sunshine. Weeds require no labor. There is a little poem that describes how many of us feel about gardening. It goes something like this: “To cultivate a garden takes a lot of labor; I would rather live next door to a gardener and cultivate my neighbor.” Weeds require no labor. They just appear. Weeds remind me of that mindless bit of philosophy still ...

1200. Why Did He Do It?

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... and even himself. Every time he lost a portion of his self-esteem, another part of the sign was ripped off. Maybe Judas had his IALAC sign torn to shreds through the years. He couldn't let anyone love him, even Jesus. It can happen to people. People can feel shut out in any group. I know we have to watch out for it continually in the church. AND MAYBE IT WAS SIMPLY A WEAKNESS OF CHARACTER ON JUDAS' PART. After all, why does anyone betray a friend, a spouse, an employer? Betrayal happens all the time in this ...

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