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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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1201. Sandbox First, Soapbox Second

Mark 1:29-34, Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of the curious and the committed, the hopers and the hangers-on, that was always around him and always changing. In today’s gospel text a simple, inconsequential healing is detailed. Simon’s mother-in-law is miraculously healed of a fever by Jesus’ direct touch. It is a minor event in Jesus’ ministry. But it is significant enough to Simon Peter, to his mother-in-law, and to the other disciples present, that this healing should became a part of the written legacy of Jesus’ life and mission. Equally ...

1202. Victorious, but Not Unscarred

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... language which serves so many of our friends who are deaf. Do you know what the sign is for Jesus? I understand it is the tip of the middle finger of one hand touching the palm of the other. When deaf persons are worshipping, they will make this sign many times during their service: Jesus, the one with scarred hands. And when they touch the place where the scars were, they remember. (3) The details of Christ’s death have always had an impact on those who believe in him, though sometimes in ways that are ...

1203. Love Each Other (Mother's Day)

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... other again,” Dad joked. Nathan quickly answered. “Then I’m riding with Mom.” (2) Smart young fellow. Actually, the situation can be summed up in the words of one mom when she said, “I’d like to be the ideal mother, but I’m too busy raising my kids.” Touché! Our lesson for the day from John’s Gospel is perfect for Mother’s Day because it is about love: “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as ...

1204. Why Are You So Afraid?

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... . And so often our fears are out of proportion to reality. Someone had made a recent trip to the beach. He said upon his return, “I discovered I scream the same way whether I’m about to be devoured by a great white shark or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot.” It’s true of most of us, even if we’re not aware of it. We have a tendency to turn molehills into mountains primarily because deep down we are afraid. Most of the problems we have are caused by fear. It may be the fear that someone ...

1205. Walls, Walls, Everywhere Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... Didn’t Jesus extend hospitality to people who were otherwise outsiders? Didn’t he heal when he wasn’t supposed to and touch when no one else would?” Twenty two years later, she says, “I am still ashamed, for we all including myself missed ... ’s love to reside within us, and then live out that love on a day-to-day basis so that everyone we come into contact with is touched by that love. Do you see any other hope for the world? I don’t know of one. We need leaders and we need citizens who are ...

1206. The 4 Spiritual Flaws

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... not. Unless you were Bill Bright in 1952, when he offered that gleaming, golden nugget of insight to a new generation of spiritual seekers. But the "laws" Bill Bright proposed were far from rude and reactionary. Instead they were redeeming and revealing. And they have touched many new generations of searching young men and women, people seeking to find a direction and meaning for their adult lives. If it's been awhile or never Bill Bright's "Four Spiritual Laws" are as follows: 1. God loves you and offers a ...

1207. No Pleasing Some People

John 12:1-8

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... ought to look in our own wallets and purses and take it upon ourselves to give more. As Jesus said, you will always have the poor with you — do something about it. Don't look to others to do something. They don't like anything that Mary has done here — touched Jesus, wept on his feet, spent money. No one says, "Okay, there are poor here, so I'll spend my own money on them." It's all about her money. Mary is using the good china. She is living the resurrection. You will know Christ in the poor. You will ...

1208. Holy Ground

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... queries to the Dunker Annual Meeting where the elders debated practice and theology, but she went unheard for half a century. Finally, in 1910, she spoke on the floor of the annual meeting and explained why she wanted the practice changed. She said: "We want to be in touch with Jesus." She won the day. We still want to be in touch with Jesus. We still want to be in that upper room. We want to be close to Jesus in his darkest hour. Come all ye faithful, come and adore. Amen.

1209. Quitters

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... free and outrun the larger players. The coach talked with his quarterback about giving the ball to Calhoun and letting him run with it. The quarterback agreed. However, the first play came and Calhoun did not touch the ball. The coach was mystified. Then the second play came, but once again Calhoun did not touch the ball. Now the game was in the final seconds with the smaller team’s only hope being for Calhoun to break free and score the winning touchdown. The third play was executed and still Calhoun ...

1210. Divine Dynamite

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , most people would prefer that. After all, an explosion does not leave things as they were, and there are not many who are comfortable with change and particularly a change in matters of religion. After all, there are enough changes in our lives without touching the one seemingly solid foundation that we have. We would rather not allow any questions to arise concerning expressions of faith. That is why folks talk about our church rather than the Lord's church; in their heart of hearts, they would just as ...

1211. Lent 3

Psalm 63:1-8, Isaiah 55:1-9, Luke 13:1-9, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... shadow of God’s wings.” The psalm may indicate one way to deal with depression, sadness, and loneliness: verbalize the distress, imagine that God is present in a variety of ways — mother hen, protector, friend, stabilizing rock — and respond with music that touches all the emotions, ending with songs of joy. The psalm reminds us again and again that we are not able to travel this human way alone; we must seek sanctuary and companions. Contemporary Affirmation (Unison) The Holy comes to us in many ...

1212. A Dramatic Rendering Of 1 Kings 19:1-15

1 Kings 19:1-8

Drama

Julia Ross Strope

... Elijah, speaks, and moves some distance behind Elijah.) Angel: Wake up, Elijah. Wake up and enjoy this bread and water. (Elijah sits up, looks around, and examines the food. He nibbles a bite or two and lays back down.) Angel: (touches Elijah, shakes him awake) Get up, Elijah. You must eat before you set out on the journey ahead of you. (Elijah stands, stretches, eats, drinks, then begins to weave a walk toward the cave — in center aisle or back of chancel if there is room — nibbling a piece of bread ...

1213. Proper 11

Genesis 18:1-10a, Psalm 15:1-5; 52:1-9, Amos 8:1-12, Luke 10:38-42, Colossians 1:15-28

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... of satisfying events and of disappointing events. Jesus indicates how we can make it through the thick and the thin: stay in touch with the Holy Spirit, avoid allowing others to bash our boundaries, and spend time with companions who share our desire to be ... fruits and succulent green vegetables. We don’t like looking past them to see who produced them or the pesticides that might have touched them or how they were savage to the land. We are fearful of not enough to eat; we dread seeing the pictures of ...

1214. No More Tears

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... was beyond any possible hope of being revived. (3) When Jesus arrives at Bethany, it is Mary who reaches him first. She falls at his feet and says, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” Then we come to that most touching scene. When Jesus saw Mary weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked. “Come and see, Lord,” they replied. And here’s where we read, “Jesus wept ...

1215. Proper 25

Psalm 65:1-13, Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22, Joel 2:23-32, Luke 18:9-14, 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... us nor forsake us. We are mindful of the intricate ways you bless us and call us to be our best selves. Thank you for your consistent love. Amen. Call To Confession In these next few moments, we have opportunity to breathe deeply and feel in touch with the holy. Pray with me and then continue your private conversations with God. Community Confession Spirit of God — we have received so many ideas and so many things from our ancestors. Still we feel anxious. Fill our empty spots. We see the global village ...

1216. Teammates in Building The Kingdom

1 Corinthians 12:12-31a

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... common effort to build the kingdom of God in our world. Paul begins his famous analogy by describing the power of baptism in unifying the body of Christ. He says that our baptism in the Spirit unites us, whether Jews or Greek, slave or free. Thus, Paul touches on both of the critical bases: sacred and secular. Not only are the Jews, those who were the first converts to Christianity, part of the body, but also the Greeks, that is the Gentiles. Jesus' message of salvation goes out to all. He goes on to say ...

1217. How Rich Is Rich?

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... money is bad for us, or at least that coveting money, loving money, chasing after money is bad for us. If the passage is right, we are in trouble. We cannot get by without money. We don't have the option of living the way an alcoholic must live, never touching the stuff. We need money to survive. Dealing with money is a constant battle for all of us. We have to figure out what money means for our Christian faith. As many people point out, the passage does not say that money itself is bad for us. The real ...

1218. Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Luke 15:11-32

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... ” did not extend to keeping foreigners in food during a famine. In a desperate attempt to stave off starving, the young man finds himself performing an unthinkable job for an observant Jew — tending swine. In Leviticus (11:7: 14:9) the uncleanness of eating, touching, even herding swine is clearly spelled out. But for the younger son even this most heinous job doesn’t manage to take the edge off of his desperate plight. He is still so constantly hungry that he would like to eat the unclean animal ...

1219. Are You Part of the Scandal?

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1220. Revelation 22:12-14; 16-17; 20-21

Revelation 22:1-6

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... , an access road has been re-opened. There is a way available for all those who believe. The first “garden” is now reborn as a “garden city” (see Revelation 21:10-21), open to all whose sins have been washed away. It is with a profoundly personal touch that John hears the proclamation that “It is I, Jesus, who sent my angel to you with this testimony . . .” Only in this verse, in this vision, does Jesus refer to himself to another by using his own personal human name. “It is I, Jesus” speaks ...

1221. Acts 2: 1-21

Acts 2:1-13

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... they are virtually weightless and cannot sink. To describe colors to someone who has always been blind and only knows the world by touch, we might say blue “is like” cool running water, red “is like” the heat of fire, and white “is like a handful of ... ’s text from Acts, which endeavors to describe the coming of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit’s empowerment of all it touches. In the Acts 2 text Luke describes the sound and appearance of this promised, new gift from the ascended Jesus as “like ...

1222. Just-Say-The-Word Disciples

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , our nationhood, our Plundering the Egyptians means learning from the world, and then, on the basis of that experience of learning, finding the best way to offer Christ to the world. To “plunder the Egyptians” is not to be in tune with the culture, but in touch with the culture while in tune with the Spirit. To “plunder the Egyptians” is not to sync with the culture, but sync with the Spirit as we synergize with the culture we're in. What did Jesus pray for his followers – that we would be IN ...

1223. Two Sinners

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Pharisee, could bear. With a silent sneer he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is that she is a sinner.” Jesus knew exactly what Simon was thinking. He said, “Simon ... it comes to the behavior of others. That is what Simon was doing. “If this man were a prophet,” he sneered, “he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is that she is a sinner.” Yes, she was a sinner, but that was not for Simon to decide ...

1224. On Speaking Terms

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Argile Smith

... could be put to God directly. The needs that you have could be brought to his attention instantly. You could hear 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 us would make following God easier. It wouldn’t be best for us. Like Moses, we can’t see God’s face and live. To see God’s ...

1225. Let Them Eat Cake

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... in Christ stands firm, and our relationship with him stays strong, all the bad stuff, all the truly evil encounters we have here, can be countered with “pound cake” — with God’s ability to upside down forces that on their own hurt this world, but when touched by God’s grace and love, can be recreated into that which can bless and beautify this world. When it fights, the world wants its pound of flesh. Maybe Jesus wants instead some pound cake: “Let them eat cake.” Is it time for you to bake ...

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