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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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1751. To the Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Charles Curley

... . And those few times when some mighty change comes upon us, transfigures us, are often not the most welcome times in our lives. It sometimes seems to me that there is far too much emphasis on belief in the Christian religion - on intellectual assent or emotional commitment. And far too little attention paid to action. Moses went up a mountain and there the glory of the Lord was revealed to him. The purpose of that revelation was not to change Moses, to make him more spiritual, more loving, more sensitive ...

1752. A Church for the 21st Century: Holy, Charismatic, Apostolic - An Enclave of Resistance

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it? We are at war. Last year in Brooklyn, or Queens, New York, there was a terrible accident. A seventh-grade student died on a Friday afternoon in a pool accident. The following Monday when the class came back to school, as you can imagine, they were emotionally distraught. Some of the kids were crying. One of the children asked their teacher, Mrs. Rezario, “Do you think Johnny is in heaven?” And Mrs. Rezario said, “Of course he is. God loves every one of you. Look, I am going over to the corner here ...

1753. God's Say-So

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... guilt. And we all know the power of it. We become aware of how far off the path we’ve strayed, how cold and hard we have been to someone we love, the harm we’ve caused, the lost moments and lost opportunities. All of that brings all sorts of emotion: guilt, grief, shame, and anger. It can cause us to move into depression. But the good news is it can also bring us to a spiritual place as well -- a place of new awareness. If we will remember God’s say-so: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall ...

1754. Power For Christian Living: Am I On My Own?

Romans 3:3-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... about my involvement, but many folks in the congregation could not understand my commitment and participation. I couldn’t understand their lack of understanding. The Gospel seemed clear to me. The pressure, stress, and tension wore me out. I was physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted – ready to throw in the towel – when I went to a weeklong conference, led by the world-famous missionary evangelist, E. Stanley Jones. I will never forget going to the altar one evening to have Brother Stanley ...

1755. Some Healing Is Up To You

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... care as well as pastoral care from ministers in our congregation. I noted that she always kept her distance from me. One day at a social reception, I walked up to her from the side, put my hand on her shoulder, and greeted her. She reacted in a very emotional way, and I knew that for some reason I had frightened her. She moved away from me as quickly as she could, without a word. Later, one of the ministers on our staff who was counseling with her requested that he and this young woman come to see me ...

1756. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of Jesus was really metaphorical – a faith proposition, not literal reality. He quoted scholar after scholar and book after book. He concluded that since there was no such thing as the historical resurrection, the religious tradition of the Church was groundless, emotional mumbo jumbo because it was based on a relationship with a risen Jesus, who, in fact, never rose from the dead in any literal sense. When he had finished his brilliant lecture he asked if there were any questions. After about ...

1757. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v2

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... about it? Last year in Brooklyn, New York or Queens, New York, there was a terrible accident. A seventh-grade student died on a Friday afternoon in a pool accident. The following Monday when the class came back to school, as you can imagine, they were emotionally distraught. Some off the kids were crying. One of the children asked their teacher, Mrs. Rezario, “Do you think Johnny is in heaven?” And Mrs. Rezario said, “Of course he is. God loves every one of you. Look, I am going over to the corner ...

1758. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... radical about my involvement, but many folks in the church could not understand my commitment and participation. I couldn’t understand their lack of understanding. The Gospel seemed clear. The pressure, stress, and tension wore me out. I was physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted and ready to throw in the tow, when I went to a weeklong retreat conference – a Christian Ashram – led by the world-famous missionary evangelist, E. Stanley Jones. It was Tom Carruth, that beloved mentor of many ...

1759. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v1

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ? How many homeless people will sleep under a bridge or in an alley tonight? How many single mothers are in our midst whose energy is drained and nerves frayed just in surviving? How many elderly folks are in nursing homes, rotting emotionally because their families have forgotten them? How many prisoners might find help when they are released if there were places of hospitality – churches – to integrate them into life again? Questions like these haunt the compassionate Christians. The more we love, the ...

1760. A Thousand Years Of Ashes

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... they thought he was playing a trick on them. But that story was not true. Two years later the boy who pushed Chris into the pond finally confessed his transgression. However, by then it was too late for healing. Each of the boys suffered long term emotional and psychological damage from the secret they had been carrying. (4) Many people carry around a heavy burden of guilt. Maybe it was the way you treated someone in your family. Maybe it has something to do with your work. There is great therapeutic value ...

1761. People With Shining Faces

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... in our hearts will gradually reveal itself in our outward appearance. Spend a great deal of time worrying? Some day it will show up on your face. Have bitterness and envy in your heart? Beware. You are chiseling in flesh what you harbor in your most private emotions. When Moses came down from the mountain after his encounter with God, his face shone. Rather than spending a fortune on plastic surgery, it sounds to me like you and I need to spend more time in God’s presence if we really care anything about ...

1762. In the Wilderness With Moses

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... one of the most powerful drives we have, and if it is prostituted--that is, if it is used in a way other than that for which God designed it--it can bring much harm. Inappropriate sexual activity has destroyed many people in our society--physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually. It has destroyed reputations and destroyed families. Anyone who does not understand that simply has his or her head buried in the sand. And it hurts the heart of God. It hurts God to see men and women debased and distraught ...

1763. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... , say they believe abortion is immoral. In David Reardon's book Aborted Women: Silent No More, one woman shares why she had an abortion even though she felt it was wrong: “My family would not support my decision.... My boyfriend said he would give me no emotional or financial help whatsoever. All the people that mattered told me to abort. When I said I didn't want to, they started listing reasons why I should. I started feeling like maybe I was crazy to want to keep it? I finally told everyone I would ...

1764. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... vision of who this holy God of love is are absolutely binding upon us as Christians. Read the Book of Proverbs and gain wisdom; read the Song of Solomon and learn about passionate love; read the Psalms and learn how to pray through the full range of your emotions; read the prophets and learn about social justice; read the historical books to see how God dealt with the sins of his own people; read the book of Genesis to learn about the purposes of creation and how this world got into the mess it is. We are ...

1765. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... thing Jesus did was to trace the action of murder down to the underlying attitude of anger, to move, as we said, from the wicked fruit down to the evil root. A lot has happened before murder takes place. And it all starts with anger, which is the emotion we often use to cover up hurt and disappointment. At one level anger is physiological, a form of arousal, the fight-or-flight reaction than helps us deal with threats. But it is also more than chemistry; anger is a danger signal that something is wrong and ...

1766. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... of all babies were born to unmarried women, compared to only 3.8 percent in 1940. Cohabitation increased by close to one thousand percent from 1960 to 1998” (Statistics from an Let me remind you, before we turn to his teaching on this most intimate and emotionally charged issue, that Jesus was a male and a man; he felt hunger, desire and thirst; he had as much testosterone in his system as anyone; Jesus appreciated beauty, but Jesus never looked at a woman as an object; his warm touch was not a tool of ...

1767. Going Hard against the Grain

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... people, that’s who. People loyal to Jesus Christ who believe that his wisdom of non-violent creative response is more powerful than all the hatreds of this world. And in this they become star-throwers. A South African woman stood in an emotionally charged courtroom; she listened as white police officers acknowledge the atrocities they perpetrated in the name of apartheid. Officer van de Broek acknowledged his responsibility in the death of her son. Along with others, he shot her 18-year-old son at point ...

1768. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... will have none of that. He’s into very large circles, as big as the world, as big as all the types of folk we avoid. Contrary to common thought, the words love and hate in Jesus’ world do not have primarily to do with positive or negative emotions. They are conscious exaggerations to speak about who gets preference, who gets regard, who gets help, who gets first place and who gets second, who is included and who left out.11 The first I love, and the second, by contrast, I hate. One I help, the other ...

1769. Playing to the Right Audience

Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... regular fasting as a common discipline. I have practiced fasting off and on over the last thirty years, both as an aid to prayer and as a remedy against one of my besetting sins which is gluttony. Gluttony is eating beyond what is required, usually to satisfy some emotional need or to cover internal pain with a calorie coma. Obesity is a spiritual as well as a medical and psychological problem. I find that I commit gluttony when I am anxious or fearful, which is too much of the time. Food is a safe place to ...

1770. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... me Lord, Lord... but the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven.” To assent and piety must be added obedient action for faith to be completed. If God is going to save all of you, he must have all of you: mind, emotions, and will. The thinking part, the feeling part, and the choosing part. Not a fragmented piece or segmented slice but a whole self surrendered to Christ, brought into alignment, and pointed towards the kingdom of God. A convinced mind, a converted heart, and an engaged will are ...

1771. To Live Is to Dance

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... by beating others. Even the family, even the family is turned into a competitive arena. Children rebel against authority, husbands and wives respond to one another with negative aggression - making their marriages a duel. Pitting their resources against each other, emotionally manipulating - never willing to express weakness, never willing to admit failure. We see life as a battle and we deal with it by fighting. III. Whimpering The third way we deal with life is by whimpering. Now this is the opposite ...

1772. Big Fish

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... put it this way: “The difference between average and successful people is that successful people do not waste time arguing for their limitations, they transcend them. They take their fair share of lumps and continue on regardless. Although bruised and sometimes emotionally injured, they pick themselves up and start over again. Like those blow-up clown punching bags, they refuse to stay down.” (7) Maybe you tried starting a new business and failed. Maybe you landed the job of your dreams, but did not ...

1773. Branching Out

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Michael Milton

... and so will you. Some of the most joyful Christians have had unhappiness in their lives. No, the Gardener’s goal for your life is a joy that is supernatural and can never go away. We must surely, also, say that this joy is not a narcissistic emotion. Narcissus, you will remember, was a Greek mythological character who saw his face in a reflecting pool and fell in love with himself. And so the self-worshipping society around us that constantly promotes your base desires to satisfy self is not what Jesus is ...

1774. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... s see who can take a bath fastest”) that are really about your own need to get through it; and when there is an underlying tension that causes sharp words or sibling quarrels. (3) It’s a challenge, but somehow we need to grab hold of our own emotions from time to time so that we can communicate to our children that they really are the center of our attention, that they have inestimable worth in our eyes. We help them develop inner peace, first of all, when we give them positive messages about themselves ...

1775. The Blessed Promise

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

A few years ago, authors Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz drove more than 10,000 miles across the United States. All along the way they interviewed people about the meaning of life. They said that in their travels they may have discovered the most emotionally significant piece of real estate in the country. It is the few square feet right outside the gate of each airport terminal. On this patch of carpeted flooring, people greet loved ones who have just flown in. The excitement builds as they search the crowds ...

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