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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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1551. Maybe Today....

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... whatever we might do, we do not become a partner with the evil. The danger of waiting for God to send some heavenly armies is that we buy into the idea of seeking vengeance. The great “so there!” It would be natural for us to feel that… perfectly justifiable to feel that… if we were not God’s children. Vengeance is not ours to take, no matter how loudly it screams for us to claim it. The greatest threat of evil, the greatest threat of the darkness we sometimes live in, is not that something might ...

1552. Belonging at the Table

John 6:51-58

Sermon

David Coffin

... longer belonged to this larger body in Jesus Christ. I felt as if I was not part of the vine in John 15. I had been baptized, attended church, even been ordained as a pastor, but was refused at the communion table. The time that I needed to feel God’s grace and presence the most, was when it was denied. Again, I persisted and found another congregation. However, today as such stories as mine are shared and there are people who are less patient with the church and simply will drop being part of organized ...

1553. The Power of Weakness

Mark 8:27-38 · Psalm 19

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

... him fulfill — actually try to keep him from fulfilling — God’s plan through him? Jesus told Peter and all those gathered around that there was no way into God’s kingdom that bypassed the cross. That’s not a happy message, it’s not the basis for the feel good movie of the summer. But it’s how God is alive and how God is at work redeeming each of us, all of us, and all of creation. One prominent preacher said, “You cannot succeed preaching the cross. People do not want to hear it; they already ...

1554. Risky Business

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , have become in real life mostly mission averse. Our inner “warning signal” goes off every time we think about going out into our communities and talking about Jesus. We might as well be lost “in space,” for that is how many of us feel about our culture right now. It feels like a strange and dangerous environment, in which we don’t know who is “out there,” who will react in a hostile way, or who may challenge us, trash us, or put us down for our Christian beliefs. Our decreased tolerance for ...

1555. Coming Home

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... favor!” While the passage may make us smile knowingly as a parent who has ever “lost” and “found” a child who has wandered off in a public place, it’s a frightening experience but not an uncommon one. What makes this experience uncommon is that Jesus feels so completely at home in the Jerusalem Temple, where he senses God’s presence in the stories and scriptures of the faith and in the circle of rabbis devoted to God’s word. This would be a sign of his calling to come. For when God issues ...

1556. Faithfulness In These Days

Romans 10:8b-13

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

... and took a deep breath as I pictured myself walking down into the basement of my sinfulness. I wasn’t sure what would happen. I opened the door, in my mind’s eye, and the dankness hit me. I paused. I froze for a moment. Then, feeling that I wasn’t alone, feeling the hands resting on me, I took a first tentative step. Slowly I stepped onto the next step and then the third and fourth. I, in my mind and heart, was really reluctant to take each step but I continued to gain comfort from the hands lightly ...

1557. Seeking the Presence of God

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

... own breath, when bad or tragic things happen to us. We have two choices: we can move into the embrace of God and seek to feel deeply God’s presence or we can move away from God angrily asking God why we were not spared. The choice is really ours ― ... about. Many of us experience natural disasters and sometimes disasters of our own making. Yet, we are never alone. When we do not feel God, God has not moved away from us; more likely we have moved away from God. The question for the Jesus follower is: who ...

1558. Time to Light the Fire

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Holy Spirit fire, haven’t we? So much so, that we fear anywhere in which that Holy Spirit fire “might” occur! Like a patient fearing a life-saving operation, many of us today just don’t want to take the risk. We don’t want to rock the boat. We feel good and comfortable just the way we are. We want things to change. We want our churches to grow. We want our churches to flourish. We want to be a major center of our communities. We want to be a powerful force of good for the people around us. But ...

1559. The View from Cloud Nine

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... joy. Just as clouds remain our “go to” metaphor for the presence of God and a higher, intuitive experience that lies beyond our control and knowledge, the popular phrase, the“view from cloud nine”maintains that metaphor in terms of the feeling evoked by our “cloud-soaked experiences. The phrase for us means to experience a perspective of extreme happiness, joy, bliss, or euphoria. Most sources attribute the phrase to the US Weather Bureau’s classification system employed since the early 20th ...

1560. Courage to Break

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Our choices, no matter small or large, define who we are and where we are going. Life-altering decisions can make us or break us. Our greatest growth comes from the courage to “break.” “Breaking bad” may seem like the “easier” decision or the one that feels like our only option at the time. But it takes greater courage to “break” from our desire to draw the “get out of jail card” and to ask instead for help. Let’s face it. Most of our worst decisions came from the decision to “go ...

1561. The Grey Zone

John 21:1-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... for Gen Z, existing in that murky place between casual and committed has felt like a comfortable answer to the complexities of forging a permanent, challenging, possibly inhibiting relationship.[1] For others, lack of commitment arises out of a feeling of instability, mistrust, and an inability to leave one’s comfortable past behind in order to embark on a shared future. In an uncertain world, “safety” dominates in our priorities.[2] Yet, without trust, risk, vulnerability, and commitment to ...

1562. Remember

John 14:23-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... with rituals, and songs, and worship. We remember him with scents, and images, and sounds. We remember him in our mission to love as he loves. In all that we do as disciples of Jesus, we honor his life, his death, and his promise. And in return, as we feel his presence around us, he grants us his peace, his love, and new life. Today, we continue Christ’s legacy in our gatherings called the church. We heal. We love. We learn. We grow. We plant seeds of hope in the lives of others. We celebrate the moments ...

1563. A Sermon About Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.” As protestants, many of us are averse to praying prescribed prayers, especially those written by other people in other times and places. We feel that, if we try to pray those prayers, God will think of us as un-spontaneous and, perhaps, insincere, as though we are plagiarizing another’s work and claiming it as our own and God, like some cosmic college professor, will give us a failing grade ...

1564. God Is Like...Fire

Malachi 3:1-4 · Luke 3:1-6, 9,16-17

Sermon

Kenneth L. Gibble

... it was to have someone set you right in love. How much worse it would have been to have your wrongdoing ignored or condoned. God’s judgment is like that. Sometimes we feel God’s judgment when a friend or colleague shows us how we are hurting others or ourselves. Sometimes we feel God’s judgment when our conscience tells us we are doing wrong. Sometimes we feel God’s judgment mostly as an absence or void in our lives, and we know we must do something fill that void. Why do we need the fire of God’s ...

1565. Who Are These, Robed in White?

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Will Willimon

... called to "put on the Lord Jesus Christ." In putting on these clothes I signify that I have more value than simply what I feel inside. The clothes actually change me, make me more than I could be simply on my own. Clothes not only protect me from cold and ... heat, but also from the "nakedness” of society and its demands upon me. When I'm dressed in a tux, I feel more confident in a formal social setting. From clothing comes power, power which I would not have on my own. It is important to buy ...

1566. Allowing God To Do A New Thing

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... home. It was difficult for him to take care of his three young children, drive to the hospital to be with his wife each day, and also carry out his responsibilities as a pastor. He sat alone in a rocking chair late one night. He was beginning to feel as if his difficulties were becoming insurmountable. About that time his little girl awakened. She was only two years old at the time. She wandered out to where he was sitting. She wanted to be rocked. He held her and they rocked together. In no time at all ...

1567. Suffering And Service

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... member of the church came to them and said, "I cannot tell you anything except God will help you through this." The young woman perceived that Christ was speaking to her through this person, saying, "I am with you in your pain." One week when she was feeling fatigued and weary, she attempted to slip into church unnoticed. Someone approached her though, and told her, "You are not the kind of person that people can just leave alone." She felt Christ was reaching out to her at that time to let her know, "Even ...

1568. A Call To Community

Acts 16:6-10

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... be very active. There were no guarantees Cocoa would make it. Sometimes the chemo kills the dog. Sometimes it just takes the zest out of life for them. The kids especially hated having to keep Cocoa chained up. It was painful to watch him lie there, not feeling well and with very little energy. They took to keeping Cocoa in the house more. The chemo had not touched his heart or his yearning for affection. And the kids gave him more love than any dog deserved, any dog except Cocoa. There is something about ...

1569. In Pursuit Of The Promise

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... what I am about to receive."1 We are like that too, sometimes. We aren't quite sure if we should tremble in fear and anxiety or if we should give thanks for the opportunity that lies before us. That must have been part of what the disciples were feeling when Jesus left them. They were fearful at the loss of their leader. Yet this also would prove to be an exciting time of phenomenal growth for the Church. In today's passage of scripture, we encounter the beginning of the Church's ministry apart from Jesus ...

1570. Deep Depression Or High Hope?

1 Kings 9:1-9

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... and hell. I trembled in all my members. Christ was wholly lost to me. I was shaken by desperation and blasphemy of God!" The truth is, we all are depressed to some degree, at some time. Perhaps not to the extremes I have just mentioned, but we get to feeling low, useless, worthless, nervous, apathetic, no-account, worried, or just plain "blue." We call it having a "bad day." Dear Abby, in her column, listed some portents of a bad day: "You know it's going to be a rotten day when you wake up facedown on the ...

1571. Good News Among The Rubble

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

J. Will Ormond

... first hearers, and they can be good news for us. They imply that there is an orderly progression in history, that contrary to all appearances things are not out of hand. God is in control. Trust God. Sometimes when catastrophes occur in our world or in our personal lives, we feel there is no future for us. Have you ever heard someone after the death of a child or a spouse cry out in agony, "My life is over. I have nothing to live for now"? In the midst of the rubble of despair the message of the Lord is ...

1572. Transfiguration

Luke 9:28-36

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... , here, a living sacrifice. RALPH: You're ruining the whole thing for me. MABEL: Will you get a life? You can't stay here. This is just a building. RALPH: This is the church. MABEL: It's still just a building. RALPH: But, this is the place where I really feel alive, more than anyplace else in my life, my job, my home, anyplace. I didn't expect you to understand. This is where my friends are. This is where we worship together. MABEL: And this is the place you'd like to build a little wall around and shut the ...

1573. Guilt And Shame

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... That's ... \nSAM: Let me explain.\nRENA: Explain? How can you explain disrespect -- total \ndisregard for your wife and family? Why did you feel it was \nnecessary to go to a place like that? \nSAM: I just wanted to see what it was like. \nRENA: I don't ... : Look, Rena, I'm no good. I know that. Your father was \nright. I'm no good. \nRENA: If you think I'm going to feel sorry for you after hearing \nthat pathetic little whimper, you're sadly mistaken. \nSAM: Well, what do you want? What do you want from me?\ ...

1574. The Thieves

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... NERIAH\nLEDAN: I'm leaving and nothing can stop me. \nZETHAN: Oh, the thing has a voice! What is it? I didn't know \nthis thing could talk! \nLEDAN: Leave me alone. I lost some good friends. Have some \npity. Leave me alone. They're dead. Don't you feel anything? \nZETHAN: It was a stupid blunder. We should never have tried it \n-- right under the Romans' noses -- foolish. Someone was bound \nto get caught. Jediael and Bela were too slow. When you're too \nslow you get caught. We're just lucky we didn't get ...

1575. The Advocate

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... 16:8). Another translation reads: "He will expose the guilt of the world in regard to sin, righteousness, and judgment." Contrary to popular belief, guilt is a good thing, not a bad thing. Of course, a distinction must be made between real guilt and false guilt. False guilt feels like real guilt. False guilt means that we feel guilty, even when we have not done something wrong. False guilt comes from inferiority. There is plenty of false guilt around. But real guilt has gotten a bum rap in our day. When we ...

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