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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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1351. Christmas 2

John 1:1-18

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... You may want to use this quotation from Henry Van Dyke: "Are you willing ... to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open ... are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas." (source unknown) Charge to the Congregation Try this: Build it around W. H. Auden's comment when the shepherds arrive at ...

1352. Proper 10

Matthew 13:1-23

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... re-election depended upon the good you had done for the church during that time. Would you be re-elected? Suppose there were a long waiting list of those desiring to get in. Would your name appear on the list? Suppose you were called upon to tell why you thought the church should keep your name on its roll. Have you a record of helpful services to offer in self-defense? Suppose every member of the church did just as much as you are doing now? Would more seats be needed, or would the doors be shut and nailed ...

1353. Proper 19

Matthew 18:21-35

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... to the Celebration One pastor began this way: "In the name of the Hidden One who reveals self through worship, study, prayer, fellowship, welcome to this celebration of the body of Christ. You may want to follow with this litany between pastor/ministers: Pastor: Have you thought about who you are as you come to worship today? Ministers: Some of us have; some of us haven't. However, when we think about it, we recognize that we are the people of God, called by God's love in Jesus Christ, not because we ...

1354. A Glory Revealed in the Cross

John 8:12-30

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... there is no other Savior."6 We come to know (believe and understand) the true identity of Jesus - and thus to see him exalted to the place of all authority in heaven and on earth - in the Crucifixion. And we shouldn’t be surprised that such thoughts cause offense - even for those who know, believe, and trust in Jesus. Paul wrote in First Corinthians: "For the word of the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but for us who are being saved, it is the power of God." Luther contrasted the Theology ...

1355. A Glory Revealed in the King

John 12:12-19

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Charles M. Mountain

... time, but on the first Palm Sunday he seemed ready to acquiesce to their demands. He mounts the donkey’s colt and rides it to the general acclaim of the crowds. All the actions and words of this mass of people reveal their expectations of what they thought the "glory" of a king should be. First they took palm branches and ran out to meet Jesus. This was the traditional way of greeting a conquering king. Waving palm branches was a visual and spectacular way to give him thanks and praise. As they waved the ...

1356. Sunrise Surprise

Drama

... he asked you from the cross just before he died, "Oh, My God, My God, why did you forsake him"? (She calms a bit) My hope ... gone! (She gets up, looks toward the tomb) In there, behind the stone that seals the door, lies the body of him who I thought to be the hope of the world! (She notices that the stone has been rolled away, and gasps in amazement) The stone! Someone has rolled it back! Someone has been here! (She first peeks in ... then walks in) He’s gone! Someone has stolen the body! Oh, no ... now ...

1357. THE PROCESS

Drama

... ’t know - such a long time; so many memories; it doesn’t seem right. 3: [Enters, carrying one package; sits down in 2’s seat] To move on and leave them? 1: Well, to push them aside ... 3: But isn’t it more like moving on? 1: I hadn’t thought of it like that. It seemed hard and cruel. 3: But is it? Just moving on to something else? 1: That’s it, isn’t it! 3: Isn’t it? 1: Just moving on. Not forgetting ... 3: Or condemning ... 1: Or pushing aside ... 3: Or ignoring ... 1: Just moving on ...

1358. The Touch of the Master's Hand

Luke 5:12-16

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Bill Bouknight

... be for such persons. When we touch these persons, it could be with the touch of Christ. OF COURSE, THERE WAS A SECOND CATEGORY OF PERSONS WHOM JESUS TOUCHED—THE SICK. All kinds of sick people. One woman was healed of internal bleeding when she acted on this thought, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed." (Mark 5:28) Have you ever felt the power in the fingertips of a caring physician or nurse? That same power of touch is extended by lay pastors and Stephen’s Ministers of our church who visit ...

1359. The Yestermorrow Eclipse

John 10:1-21

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... ’s really no need for it to broadcast at all because it’s already here and has been here for a long, long time. Christ tried to warn us about it in his description of the lilies of the field. He was asking us to give some thought to how much time lilies spend with concerns, details, and arrangements for tomorrow, the day after, and the month and year after that. And he concluded with the observation that today had plenty within it and even housed opportunity for life if we could pause in our tomorrow ...

1360. The Wizard of Yoj

Psalm 100:1-5

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Edward L. Palmer

... If one enters the kingdom as a little child, it must surely be a source of great joy. True joy could never be understood or experienced in the Land of Yoj. The wizard and his subjects had permanent blindness to some of the most basic fundamentals of joy. Yoj thought joy was to be found in power and strength. It never entered their minds that true joy could be found in weakness. Night after night, the Wizard of Yoj would walk out into the darkness shouting "I am the greatest!" Off in the distance was a white ...

1361. Jailbreak at Midnight

Acts 16:16-40

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... In the neighborhood of a church I once served was a small frame house, set back from the road, with a sign in front saying, "Sister Mary - Readings. Find out about your marriage, business, money." Presumably Sister Mary made a good living from people who thought they were being given information about their future, as if Sister Mary knew anything about it. So people in Philippi 2,000 years ago weren’t really any more stupid than some people today. The slave girl pursued Paul’s group through the streets ...

1362. Revival at Corinth

Acts 18:1-17

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... new province. Gallio was a prominent Roman, the brother of the philosopher Seneca who was the tutor of Claudius’ son Nero. Since the old-time Jews at Corinth had never given up in their efforts to discredit Paul, the leader of the synagogue, Sosthenes, thought the political change offered an opportunity. The new governor might want to curry favor with the Jews in the area. Sosthenes therefore got the Jews to join together in a complaint that Paul was persuading people to worship God, contrary to Roman law ...

1363. No Longer Spectators - But Participants!

Acts 2:14-41

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Barbara Brokhoff

... words of his famous hymn: "Abide with me: fast falls the eventide, The darkness deepens; Lord with me abide! When other helpers fail, and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, Oh, abide with me!" We can also witness to those doubters like Thomas who, in the Gospel lesson, thought the resurrection of Jesus was just too good to be true. Haven’t nearly all of us felt like Thomas? He had been ready to die with Jesus at the time of Lazarus’ death. He doubted, he had no faith, he had no hope, and yet, after ...

1364. Are There Two Baptisms?

Acts 2:14-41

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Barbara Brokhoff

... old mine quarry. It was filled with dirty, brackish, lime water and was not the best place, but it was all that was handy for the baptism. The Sunday afternoon came, the crowd gathered, and the hesitant new convert came forward to be baptized. He was having second thoughts about it and was terrified that he would drown. Besides, the water smelled to high heaven, and what seemed like a good idea a few days before had now lost a lot of its enchantment. He said to Dr. Ward, "You won’t let me drown, will you ...

1365. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

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John R. Brokhoff

... Perish? One night Jesus and his Disciples were in a boat on the Sea of Galilee. It was a long hard day and Jesus was exhausted and went to sleep. While he was sleeping, a terrific storm suddenly came and frightened the men to the point that they thought the boat would capsize. One of them shook Jesus awake and asked, "Teacher, do you not care if we perish?" The question recurs, "Does God give a damn whether we live or die? Is God concerned about the hardship and suffering we must endure?" Our text has good ...

1366. Forgive To Be Forgiven

Genesis 50:15-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... be followed by seven lean years. When Jacob and his sons were about to die of famine, Jacob sent his sons to Egypt to buy some of Joseph’s grain. When the brothers came to Joseph, he gradually revealed himself to them, for they and their father had thought he was dead. Joseph had the Jews come to Egypt to escape the famine. After Jacob died, the brothers were scared of what revenge Joseph would take on them. Up to this time, their selling him into slavery was not discussed. No apologies were made and no ...

1367. Christian The King

Ezekiel 34:1-31

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John R. Brokhoff

... , according to James, by "the royal law" of love. In today’s lesson from Ezekiel, God describes himself and his work as the shepherd of Israel and then announces that he has appointed David as shepherd who is to feed the sheep of his people. In Hebrew thought, a shepherd is considered a king, for like a king, a shepherd owns his sheep unless he is a hireling and not a shepherd, and like a shepherd, he leads, protects, and feeds the sheep. But God makes David a shepherd-king of his people. Since Ezekiel ...

1368. What Is Your Mercy Quotient?

Luke 6:17-26

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Wallace H. Kirby

... place beneath: it is twice blest, It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. - William Shakespeare So Jesus says in the fifth Beatitude, "O the happiness that comes to you when you can get on the inside of other people, and see with their eyes, think with their thoughts, and feel with their feelings. If you do, you will find others doing the same for you. And you will know this is what my Father did in sending me." Like Louis Mayer, we must realize that what we shout at life, it shouts back at us. What ...

1369. An Altered State of Consciousness

Romans 5:1-11

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Robert G. Tuttle

... with you excerpts from a beautiful letter recently received from him. Dear Dr. Tuttle: ... It’s one a.m., just got in from work. I find my thoughts drifting back over this past year to a lot of dear people in my life, of whom you are one, who helped me to get started on the ... energy injection." Imagine that! This, he says affects forces within the body and brain. He continues, "It is thought that spiritual energy may be magnetic in nature." I am grateful that the scientists are recognizing reality here. ...

1370. The Impartiality of God

Acts 10:23b-48

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Hubert Beck

... in terror." He asked God what he wished of him; he was told to send for Simon who was living temporarily in the same area. It is this part of the story that we are interested in at just this moment, for we find here something of the thought we were exploring a moment ago: the need to save us from ourselves. Were it enough for Cornelius to have simply been a "devout man who feared God with all his household," doing good and praying regularly, God would not have interrupted his life so dramatically. But God ...

1371. Magnify Your Ministry!

Romans 11:11-24

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Raymond Gibson

... show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied." Jesus was deeply disappointed by Philip’s request and said, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father" (John 14:8-9). Jesus thought Philip would surely recognize the image of God in him after three years of association; and the world surely expects those who have been reading about Jesus and hearing about Jesus and praying to Jesus in church to project Jesus in their lives. Yet all too often the ...

1372. When the Church Is the Church

Philippians 2:1-11

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Raymond Gibson

... , praising God and having favor with all the people ... (as) the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved" (2:44-47)? Wouldn’t it be great to be a member of a church that was the Church God intended it to be? St. Paul thought the church at Philippi just might be such a church. Of all of the churches he had founded, Paul knew and loved the Philippian church best. He knew all of its charter members described in Acts 16 as though they were his own family: Lydia, the business woman from ...

1373. The Post Launch Slump

2 Cor 8:10-11

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Robert Noblett

... that are mandatory while not being exciting. We do them simply because they need to be done. The prospect of brushing my teeth four times a day doesn’t catapult me into orbits of ecstasy, but brush them I must lest I wish them to become decayed and removed. The thought of getting even my little hair cut does not rank high on my list of anticipated moments, but should I fail to get it cut then one day some parishioner might say to me what P. G. Wodehouse once said to another, "Why don’t you get a haircut ...

1374. Winners, Losers and the Gospel

Mt 16:25

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Robert Noblett

... help you win on any number of fronts - your heart will win, your pocketbook will win and your self image will win. In fact there are a whole host of habits and preoccupations which, if shed, will find us winners through loss. This, and not the ridiculously silly thought that we should go around dismembering ourselves, is really the point of Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount when he declares that: "if your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of ...

1375. Leah

Genesis 49:29--50:14

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Warren Thomas Smith

... the deep recesses of her husband’s life. Of all the miracles, none is more remarkable than love. How silently it overcomes and wins. In James M. Barrie’s What Every Woman Knows, John Shand stood as the all-important figure, at least so he thought. But Maggie, the unimportant, insignificant little wife, had a secret. She had written all his powerful speeches. It was the secret every woman knows: behind every important man there is a wife, mother, sister, or sweetheart, who can make or break him. Leah’s ...

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