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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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1726. Epiphany 2

John 1:43-51, John 1:35-42

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Wayne B. Keller

... That's also true about our faith. Proclamation of the Word Consider these ideas: At a church trial some years ago, one of the members of the congregation seeking to leave the denomination, said, "No new truth has been revealed since 1620." We may feel that way in attempting to say something new about the calling of the disciples. Those early disciples, despite their constant misunderstanding of the life and ministry of Jesus, surely must have caught a glimpse of some new hope, faith, and love in the person ...

1727. Friendship with God

John 15:18--16:4

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Wayne B. Keller

... friendship: 1. Willingness to listen. 2. Trust. 3. Patience. 4. Confrontation, assertively, not aggressively. 5. Commitment. In my book, "Achieving and Receiving Intimacy," I define love this way: "Love is not a feeling; love is a commitment which contains all of the feelings that people feel. Sometimes we're sad with each other; sometimes, angry at each other; sometimes, scared of each other; sometimes, confused around each other; and sometimes, joyful in each other." Stewardship Suggestion: Bruce Larson ...

1728. The Unfairness of God

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

William J. Carl

... which sets your heart beating in anticipation. Naturally, you figure since you worked eight hours, you’re going to get eight times as much. But when you get to the head of the line, open your pay envelope and find only $40, tell me how you are going to feel. Maybe not in the south, but in big union towns like Pittsburgh or Detroit, a deal like that wouldn’t last five minutes. The word would be out on that employer, just like that! I don’t know about you, but I’d be pretty upset. But sometimes that ...

1729. What Is Servant Leadership?

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

George Johnson

... to God and have the stones in our lives rolled away." Though I didn't continue to elaborate on the sermon, I could have reminded her of the pastor's emphasis on the resurrection of Jesus as the basis for our hope and new life in Christ. But, feeling I'd detained her long enough, I concluded by saying, "I found it very helpful and biblical." "You did?" her voice and face expressing disbelief. "Well, I asked my husband after the service, 'Did you hear him say that homosexuality is okay?' He agreed that we had ...

1730. A Parent’s Debt

Romans 13:8-14

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Thomas Slavens

... play. Parents also owe it to their children to love them by caring for their emotional needs. Parents owe their children a sense of achievement. Children need to feel that they are important. They need to feel that what they do is important. Parents more than anyone else can give children this feeling. Parents owe their children encouragement to develop their minds. They owe their children frank, honest sex education. When questions are asked, they should be answered truthfully and naturally. Reproduction ...

1731. Breakfast on the Beach

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Steven Burt

... cock crows today, you will deny me three times.” “And [Peter] went out and wept bitterly.” Now the connection is made -- the connection we see in the use of the phrase “charcoal fire” both in the courtyard and on the beach here. Try to feel, if you will, the immense weight of guilt and shame that Peter is carrying. He is, after all, Peter -- the rock, the first one to make the confession, “You are the Christ,” the faithful, well-meaning, loud-mouthed disciple who blurted out, “Lord, even if ...

1732. Jesus Is Rejected

Luke 4:14-30

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James Garrett

... about religion -- about her father’s strict Puritan moralism, about the preachers of her childhood who made her feel “guilty, guilty, guilty,” and about her growing disenchantment with organized religion. But she also talked about Jesus ... To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.To reach out for another is to risk involvement.To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.To love is to ...

1733. Luke’s Beatitudes And Woes

Luke 6:17-26

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James Garrett

... us go and do,” no “oughts,” no “musts,” except by implication. It’s there! They bring us into the realm of the true and the valuable, the eternal and the good. As always in the presence of the true, the right, and the eternal; we feel the imperative. We hear the command. It’s like being in the presence of somebody of extraordinary value, someone whose life counts for something. You know people like that. To be in their presence makes a difference. The world will be different because they lived ...

1734. The Story Of The Scandalized Neighbors

Luke 15:11-32

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John M. Braaten

... How would you react if a boy who came from a respected family of your church denied his Christianity, his American citizenship and his cultural heritage all in one act? I tell you, there were many who were so angered by Judah's actions that they even stopped feeling sorry for his parents, as much as they liked them. It is a fact of life, once you've turned away from everything that speaks of commitment and love, once you have abandoned all that is good and decent, once you have denied all that is sacred and ...

1735. The Interview

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

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Larry Goodpaster

... change. “That’s what makes this position so important and extremely necessary at this time. The world is so fragmented and tormented that it does not know what to do. We need laborers, and many of them, now.” “Well, it sounds very exciting,” she broke in, feeling her adrenalin rise. “But just how am I supposed to go about doing this? Your ad says there is a job description -- I’d like to see it.” “You’ve already seen it,” came the director’s reply, “if you have seen and read the ...

1736. The Soft-touch God

Hosea 11:1-11

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Keith Hammer

... ’s automobiles. She would pay for her own gas and insurance and help with the upkeep of the car she was driving. A few weeks later Amy had her first “fender bender.” It really wasn’t her fault, so Mom and Dad did all they could to help her not feel so badly about it. They got the car fixed and said, “Let bygones be bygones.” Then after Amy had been driving three months, she let one of her boyfriends drive her car and he wasn’t as good a driver as Amy. The boy’s family paid to have Amy ...

1737. Fruit Or Twinkies?

Drama

Timothy W. Ayers

... for? Bill: (He is chewing on the TwinkieTM) I tried a SnickersTM and a TwinkieTM and neither one of them seemed to do it. Sarah: How about some fruit? Bill: Oh, come on now. What makes you think that fruit would be the thing that I need? Personally I feel that what I need is something a little more like ah - potato chips. Sarah: Bill, this exasperates me. You will try just about everything in the house to fill up that great empty void you call a stomach except for fruit. Fruit is known to help you cope with ...

1738. Here I Am, Lord; Send Somebody Else!

Drama

Timothy W. Ayers

... job of Sunday School Superintendent. I'm afraid there is just too much stacked against me to go off to the mission field. Don't get me wrong, I think that missions are really important. There just isn't any way that I can serve on a foreign field. I feel God needs me right here. If God were to call me, what would I do? I'd say, "Here I am Lord, send somebody else." I'm afraid that foreign missions will have to wait. Right now, I just can't get involved in something that takes me so far ...

1739. The Invitation

Drama

Timothy W. Ayers

... friends. (Pause) What do you mean? (Pause) Come on now, I call you when I don't have some scheme up my sleeve. (Pause) No, this is not a sales pitch. Well, maybe it might be construed to be somethinglike that. (Pause) OK, if that's the way you feel about it, see if I care. Goodbye. (She hangs up and moves counterclockwise until her back is to the congregation) #3: (Picks up phone and dials it) Hello, Mary? (Long pause) Oh, my. (Pause) I understand. (Pause) You seem a little down. Two tough calls, huh? I ...

1740. The Rich Young Ruler

Mark 10:17-31

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Brett Blair

... place. Obviously, something was missing. You see; that's the problem with the law. It's a bottomless pit. There is always that nagging feeling that there is one more thing you must do before God loves you. It's like the teenage boy trying to win the love ... There is nothing that he won't do for her. But deep down inside he's never quite sure of her love. He always harbors the feeling that if he quits doing she will quite loving. You see the problem is that he is following the law and that is the shortest road ...

1741. Make Suggestions to God?

Matthew 21:33-46

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... is the question that Jesus talked about today in our Bible lesson. I brought along some books to help us see how God might feel about people whom he trusted with his love and who no longer listen or share their lives with him. We are not going to ... homes ignore the good books, and the books are sad because they have so much to share, and no one to share it with. God must feel like these books sometimes. He has so much to share and no one pays any attention to him. People are too busy for God. They have ...

1742. The Hard-Boiled Egg Story

John 14:20

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... white keeps the yellow together and by doing that they all stay together. It's kind of a good feeling to know that you and God the Father and Jesus the Son are together like the egg. I think it is a good feeling, don't you? (Let them answer.) The best part of this is that when we are all together we ... share our happiness and our sorrow. When you are feeling kind of badly because of something that has happened to you, then you know that Jesus and the Father are ...

1743. An Our Good Works And Generosity

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24

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Mark Ellingsen

... a bit miffed when the recipients of our benevolence are ungrateful. If our motivation had not been to receive the world's thanks, we would not become so disgusted with ingratitude, would we? Have you not ever felt such feelings? I have, and our Lord's words condemn me. Have you ever come shuffling away from an ingrate saying, "I have done so much for her, and she has forgotten it already. People are so ungrateful!" Or perhaps you have made the point this way: "I would be happy to ...

1744. God Works Through Opposites

Matthew 21:1-11

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Mark Ellingsen

... , does not seem to answer our prayers. In the doubts that we have about him, then, we see our sin more clearly. Indeed, you and I really are like that fickle crowd of disciples on Palm Sunday. Yet we need such experiences. We need to see and to feel in our hearts that we have nothing to offer God. You need your false security, your false gods, destroyed. I do too. Only then are you truly ready to receive the forgiveness that Easter offers us. Only then are you ready to receive the salvation that God gives ...

1745. Led By The Shepherd

John 10:1-21

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Mark Ellingsen

... me in these types of decision-making. All of the types have something to do with me (and you), because all of those ways of making decisions have something in common. Behind them all is the "gut-feeling" upon which all of us rely when we make a decision. (This "gut-feeling" is a symptom of our sin.) It is the "Do your own thing" gut-feeling. I am doing what I do, I am deciding this way, because that is the way I like it. I do not like it that other way. Have you ever caught yourself saying or thinking such ...

1746. Focus Your Faith

John 14:5-14

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Mark Ellingsen

... sometimes he would not seem very loving. Yes, we really only truly know who God is when our prayer life has been strengthened by looking to Jesus and his church. Do not get me wrong. I am not saying that you cannot find God in life itself. How often we feel that life is really sweet, really good, and that God must be there in the middle of it. But sometimes life is not so sweet. How about you? How about you when you have been knocked down by life? If the only thing that you knew about God was how ...

1747. Good Works Will Not Save You!

John 14:15-31

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Mark Ellingsen

... sermon he once gave on our gospel text for today. He puts these words in Jesus' mouth: "You should not be guided by such feelings or believe your own thoughts [Luther had Jesus say]; you should believe my Word. For I will ask the Father, and as a ... first come and live with us! As usual, Martin Luther said it so well: "But, as Christ said earlier, it all depends on whether you feel and find that you love this man [Jesus]. For if you truly believe this, then love will be there, and your heart will be moved ...

1748. Good News!

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... ," he said. "I want to believe, but I just seem unable to have enough faith." I replied, "God forgives us in Christ, David. God sets us free." David is considering coming home. He hasn't quite stepped across the line and committed himself to Christ because he feels unworthy, but I'm confident he will. Borderline believers, you can come home to God. Un-believers, aren't you homesick for the One who created you? Prisoners, won't you return to God? John was on board a ship in a vicious storm in 1736. He turned ...

1749. Mourning Turned To Joy

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Ron Lavin

... before God for what they have done. From brassy materialism to the new fad called the New Age Movement, idolatry has crept in like a fog and captured people today as of old. Idolatry has brought with it a sadness which psychologists today call anomie - the inability to feel one's own feelings. "The Living Dead" is the name of a rock group. "The living dead" is also a description of the "Me Generation," rationalizing away its sins until the state of sadness and mourning take over and inhibit expression of ...

1750. Wedding: Love and Fear

1 John 4:1-6

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Charles E. Wolfe

... over love, however, for he gives sharp content to the word. We love God by keeping his commandments. (5:3) We are to do rather than to feel. We are to believe in Christ and to love one another. (3:23) There are teeth placed in the command to love. If we do it, ... rockets. It is the will, and not emotion, which maintains a family over the years. They can continue loving even when they don’t feel like it. First John does not use this particular verb of the love of man and wife, but in Ephesians 5:25 husbands ...

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