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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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1251. Beloved Just As You Are

Mark 1:9-15

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

Good morning girls and boys. How are you today? Good, better, or best? (Let the answer.) (Engage in small talk with the kids.) I love to see children here at church. Of course I love to see moms and dads and others too. But your coming to worship warms my heart. I have a couple of questions to ask you this morning. First of all, when are you loved? Are you loved just as you are, or are you loved because you did a job you were asked to do? When are you loved? For example: Do your parents say to you, “Go ...

1252. Being Hello People

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

Herb Gardner's most famous play is "A Thousand Clowns." One of his other plays which only lasted about three weeks on Broadway was entitled, "The Goodbye People." There's a marvelous scene in that play where the lead character is trying to get financial help for his failing business. He calls his friends one after the other. As soon as they discover what he's after they grow very cagey. They back off, get cool, and say goodbye. After several such goodbyes, he says to one of them, "You're so much better at ...

1253. You're In the Army Now

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

“Therefore take the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” What did you do this summer? I don't know if they still ask school children to write essays on that subject at this time of the year. I'm sure that George Williams never asked for an essay on, “My Most Memorable Summer” in his English classes here. However, if they did, I would be happy to tell you about my worst summer. It was after my Junior Year of college when I spent an ...

1254. Taking the Long Way Home

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Will Willimon

“Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, through the region of the Decapolis.” Mark 7:31 Durham is one of the toughest places on earth to find your way around in. Bisected by a freeway and this campus, a downtown full of one way streets (all one way in the wrong direction) -- am I now on Chapel Hill Street, Chapel Hill Road, or simply the main road to Chapel Hill? The things that Cornwallis Road does are positively criminal. Where are we? Where are we in ...

1255. But, Why?

Titus 3:4-7

Sermon

Scott Bryte & Kimberly Miller van Driel

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit. This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Merry Christmas! It’s finally here! After counting down the school days and the work days, the ...

1256. At the Table

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

In my faith tradition, Maundy Thursday usually involved a remembrance of the first communion service. Many of the churches I have been associated with have scheduled a light supper and following that supper, at small tables of six to eight attendees, bread is broken and the cup is shared, much as this passage from 1 Corinthians related. The commemoration is somewhat solemn often because we Christians forget that this offering of bread and cup was offered during a family celebration, a Passover feast, ...

1257. For Someone of Distinction

Matthew 5:13-16 · 2 Timothy 4:1-2, 6-8

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

If You Build It, They Will Come [You need to describe the wonderful experiences of that person’s life and tell of the wonderful memories they’ve left behind.] There was a movie made several years back that I believe many will remember. The movie starred Kevin Costner. It was entitled A Field of Dreams. It’s a beautiful, whimsical tale of a young farmer who hears a voice from a cornfield say: “If you build it, they will come!”[1] “Build what?” He wants to know. Build a baseball diamond was the answer. “Who ...

1258. A Sermon About Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

A responsible pastor must have a theology of prayer that goes beyond churchy axioms, pious clichés, pop theology, and Bible verses proof texted from the King James Bible. An authentic theology of prayer must offer hope in the promise that God answers prayer, but it must also be prepared to respond to the questions of those whose prayers “availeth not.” We must be, at once, ready to celebrate with those whose cancer went into remission and to weep with those whose cancer didn’t, when both persons’ prayers ...

1259. God Is Like...a Friend

2 Corinthians 5:16-20

Sermon

Kenneth L. Gibble

It’s time for class to begin. You troop in with the rest of your classmates, you get out your notebook and pencil, and you look up front where your teacher stands ready to get started. “All right, class,” she says, “let’s review. What have we learned so far about Benjamin Franklin?” Remember those days? Some of us here this morning are still students, so this scenario is all too familiar. For most of us, though, being asked to review what we’ve learned is something that doesn’t happen much anymore. But ...

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