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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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1226. "He Who Commands Is He Who Fulfills"

Matthew 22:34-40

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... one repeated daily by all the devout people of God: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind"? Heart and soul and mind: do they not refer to the inward center of the person? Are they not the seat and residence of emotion, motive and attitude? Does God’s greatest and heaviest expectation of his people then have to do with the way they feel rather than the way they act? There is no time to ask such questions, for Jesus immediately proceeds to part two of his answer: to love ...

1227. The Servant’s Credentials

Matthew 23:1-39

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... experience. But at times it can be incredibly vexing. There are those to whom the managing group must, after extensive testing, torturous discussion and agonizing interviews, finally say, "No." Some are drawn to church occupations out of fairly severe emotional and psychological needs. Others lack the gifts their intended occupations require. And a few quite simply misperceive what professional service in the church is all about and refuse or are unable to alter their perceptions. I think of one man ...

1228. The Things That Are God’s

Matthew 22:15-22

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... . Only then can commitment to God become a kind of gravitational force which gives us some stability and balance when all the strings on our lives are being pulled this way and that. Mind you, commitment to God is no guarantee of comfort - material or emotional. It produces its own tension, because it demands that we constantly re-examine all our other loyalties to be certain that they are in their proper places. And, if any be discovered which demand of us what rightly belongs to God, or which require of ...

1229. The Love God Wants

Matthew 22:34-40

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... with all heart, soul, and mind; only Christ loved his neighbor as himself. Sinclair Lewis’ character, Elmer Gantry, comes to mind by way of contrast. Elmer Gantry’s revivalistic sermons on love were silky smooth, oozing with sentiment and emotion, and they moved people to tears and generosity. But, Gantry was a charletan, a manipulator of people and their commitment. His words were hollow, self-serving, and deceitful. He captivated people by eloquently parading before them the beauty and sentimentality ...

1230. The Beginning of a New Life

Ruth 2:1-23

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... the head of the baby was in Teresa’s swollen stomach. Convinced that all was now well, she expressed her thanks - with a chicken, which Don Paolo refused - and left. Ruth was above any type of histrionics or hysterical display that might temporarily touch the emotions and pocketbook of Boaz. She went out into his field as a gleaner and gained his attention without saying a word to him. The person who has had the opportunity to visit China recently, especially if that person has been able to see the people ...

1231. To Touch The Untouchable

Luke 5:12-16

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... , we need not be afraid to get near to people who are seriously ill. The first step is to touch with compassion the person who stands in need of prayer and healing. Why is it that we do not come to Jesus first when we are suffering physical or emotional pain? Why is it that we do not enter into prayer immediately when we learn that we or those we love are suffering from a potentially serious illness? No doubt you have heard it said when someone is critically ill, "Well, we've done everything we can do. All ...

1232. Power

2 Corinthians 6:7

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Harold Warlick

... he said. "We don't have anything in common, intellectually or socially." We asked him if he'd gone to church or the university chapel or belonged to any service organizations there at UT. "Oh, I'm way beyond that, too," he asserted. "I'm long past that simplistic emotional stuff. That pie-in-the-sky by and by stuff is for poor and unintelligent people." Rather sadly the recruiter said, "Son, we don't need to offer you a scholarship. We don't want you. Go somewhere else. You don't even know who you are. Your ...

1233. The Nearest Hand

Luke 10:25-37

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... wounds of humanity on a collective scale, to improve the lot of whole classes of people faces us with many complications. It cuts across historical patterns, social structures and economic strata. Not only is it costly in cash, it is unsettling to the emotions, disturbing to security and dynamite to the status quo. No wonder there is disagreement. On the one hand, there are people within the church who fear that the church of our day is irrelevant, not concerned enough with the plight of humanity. On the ...

1234. Growing in God's Freedom

John 8:31-41

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... to George Gallup, Jr., there are thousands of us who actually do want to grow up. We have the urgent need to feel that we are growing in our faith. I know I want to grow in my faith and life. I want to grow intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. I do want to mature and learn and expand my faith. Ignorance is not bliss. Immaturity is not attractive. Peter Pan may think it's wonderful, but Wendy and her brothers, after spending time in Never-Never Land, discover differently.3 On this beautiful ...

1235. Away with the Stable

Luke 2:1-7

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... said, "I tell them to pay special attention to those times when they find tears in their eyes." That's where Christ is born. If we want Christ to be born in the cradles of our hearts, we might do well to look for him in those experiences which cause emotions to surface in our eyes and in our hearts. If we want a new awareness of Christ's birth, we might give attention to those times when our heart skips, a knot lumps in our throat, and feeling pulses through our veins. Here, right in the middle of it all ...

1236. A House for God

Matthew 7:24-29

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Gary W. Houston

... if you have been foolish and have fallen from the flood - you still can start over. It’s not too late to build a house for God with your life. Did you know that God is good about that? The great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick tells about his mental and emotional collapse in his book: The Living of These Days when he says: For the first time in my life, I faced, at my wit’s end, a situation too much for me to handle. I went down to the depths where self confidence becomes ludicrous. There the technique I ...

1237. Jesus’ Hospital

Matthew 9:9-13

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... left him still sick. So he put his confidence in Dr. Jesus. Today you and I are invited to Jesus’ Hospital for a thorough soul check up. We need a treadmill test to see if our hearts still have any love left in them. We need to plug our emotions into a tester and see whether they go out to others or get blocked up with a tourniquet of self concern. There was a story published in the Gospel Herald that said: Dr. Howard A. Kelly was a renowned physician and surgeon, and also a devout practicing Christian ...

1238. Advent 2

Isaiah 11:1-16, Psalm 72:1-20, Romans 14:1--15:13, Matthew 3:1-12

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... every detail, and is completely black; without saying a word, the message the statue symbolizes is transparently clear, "Repent (you who have been baptized in the name of the Lord), for the kingdom of heaven is near. Prepare the way of the Lord." No one is emotionally disturbed or upset by the sculptured figure of John the Baptizer, but they would be if the boys and their father were allowed to speak for him. Even a recorded message, not unlike those in the Hall of the Presidents in Disney World, would move ...

1239. Epiphany 2

Psalm 40:1-17, John 1:29-34, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Isaiah 49:1-7

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... by God who comes after him. He alone is the holy one, whose sinlessness and perfect obedience to God cause us to cry out, "Lord, have mercy and forgive our sins." (Lavin, in Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, when his wife is ill and her life is in jeopardy puts that emotion in our hearts and the words in our mouths. He reminds us, as he cries out a "Kyrie, Eleison," that we are the ones who are "sick" and need Christ's deliverance.) 4. The Christ we need has come to us in the only way that will be beneficial to ...

1240. Epiphany 4

Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Matthew 5:1-12, Psalm 1:1-6

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... Jesus had been preaching, along with "the kingdom of heaven is near," calls for a radical change of life-style by those who respond to this demand. The true Christian is one who is aware of his/her poverty - spiritual poverty - in emotions, in attitude, in hunger and desires, in relationships, in intentions, in complete and utter devotion to God. This person knows the meaning of sin and repentance - and discipleship. Discipleship means living a subservient life, poor in spirit, not simply living in physical ...

1241. Pentecost 7

Matthew 18:21-35, Romans 14:1--15:13, Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:1-14, Psalm 103:1-22, Genesis 50:15-21

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... , not love and forgive - as ben Sirach and Jesus insist - that person or persons. (When Michael Dukakis was asked what he would do, if his wife were attacked and raped, many people - among them Christians - were outraged, simply because he vented no emotion, showed no signs that he would hate the person, and gave a rather unemotional and academic answer that suggested forgiveness.) 3. God's ultimatum - forgive your enemy - stop hating, because your eternal destiny, after death, may be lost. Genesis 50:15-21 ...

1242. April Showers

1 Samuel 20:1-42

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... fear. Yet the Bible dares assert that the Lion of the tribe of Judah - the greatest warrior in Israeli history was scared out of his wits in the desert. Centuries before Freud, the court historian who wrote our story knew that one of the most basic human emotions in a crisis is fear. Yet, like a leitmotiv in a Wagnerian opera, the words FEAR NOT conquer the minor key of despair, and rise to a crescendo of victory throughout the holy text. Mark Twain remarked, "I am an old man and have known many troubles ...

1243. The Farmer and the Fugitive

1 Samuel 25:1-44

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... to associate ourselves with Nabal. Like him, all of us have let the sun go down on our anger. Anger is not always a sin. After all, Jesus was often angry with fat cats stealing cheese from poor church mice. The anger the Bible says is foolish is the emotion that puts the lid on compassionate love. Anger that destroys ourselves, our families, and our friends. Rich men, and even nice middle class folk, for the most part shut the door in the Son of David’s face. There was no room for him at the inn. No room ...

1244. Bound for Glory

1 Samuel 25:1-44

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... the Lord deal with the nasties and the meanies. Our job is to keep the lid on anger as tightly clasped as a cookie jar is before a Cub Scout meeting. Nabal was a fool because his anger so upset him that he died from it. David, who was an emotional man with mercurial mood swings, nevertheless was able to bridle his warlike impulses as he remembered that he was indeed in the bundle of life. He was bound for glory, because he was one of God’s faithful children. By yielding to hate he would fall out of this ...

1245. The Annunciation

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... was sitting on the edge of my cot in the small house my parents owned. The rest of the family was outdoors where it was cooler. I was lost in a daydream which was not unusual for me since I was 14 and experiencing the moods, conflicting thoughts and emotions of a teenager. It was dusk, and I was faintly aware of birds calling outside my window. Soon, I would lie down to sleep. Another day would be finished - another day bringing me nearer to my marriage day. I had long admired Joseph, of the house of David ...

1246. The Attitude of Readiness

Matthew 24:36-51

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Russell F. Anderson

... the mother's or the father's friends and family to share in the joy and expectation, the waiting and the watching for the precious gift of a new life from God. Most importantly, there was no time for the parents to prepare themselves emotionally and spiritually to properly receive their surprise package. Many denominations teach that the Spirit of Christ has been conceived in our hearts through baptism. Yet millions of so-called Christians seem to have no awareness of the Christ who dwells so near. Could it ...

1247. Advent 2

Matthew 3:1-12

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... , we may appreciate all there is to await and anticipate in the coming One, in whose name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of empathy and care, we admit that we fall easily into the yearly trap of sentimentalizing the birth of Jesus for our own emotional satisfaction, and lose sight of the wonderfully tragic and redemptive life that lay beyond it. Forgive us, we pray, and help us to see that the Coming Christ for whom we prepare is more than just a baby, but indeed a baptizer with fire and the bearer ...

1248. Palm Sunday

Mt 21:1-11 · Isa 50:4-9 · Ps 118

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Paul A. Laughlin

... us a Christ whom we exalted and then executed. Give us at last the spirit of steadfastness: that, deeply devoted to you, your Word, and your will, we may remain faithful despite the twists and turns of events and the peaks and valleys of our emotions. In the trustworthy name of Jesus we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Most merciful God, we confess how fickle our faith is, and how much we are like those ancient palm wavers, who quickly turned from praising, hailing, and extolling you, your Christ, and your ...

1249. Epiphany 3

1 Corinthians 1:10-17, Isaiah 9:1-7, Psalm 27:1-14, Matthew 4:12-17

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... them to the season of Epiphany, with a brief explanation. He followed with this "declaration of joy" between pastor and ministers: Pastor: Come, let's celebrate life with our whole selves. Ministers: Praise be to God for our minds that we may know the mind of Christ, for our emotions that we may love in his name, for our wills that we may choose to serve him in the common life. Pastor: Do you know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? Ministers: We come to worship to learn what this ...

1250. Lent 2

John 3:1-21

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... Just Me" source unknown) Stewardship Challenge Suggestion: Build around the stewardship of listening to where people are, rather than where we assume they are. Christ considered no one worthless, as we do. You may want to use Jimmy Carter's comment about his emotional belief that his daughter is of more worth than the children in Africa. All of us believe that about our children. To prove that, we need only listen to our prayers. Charge to the Congregation Suggestion: Keep before the people, the essence of ...

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