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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

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1776. Determining Your Destiny

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

James Merritt

... so many ways. They were different in their positions. In the eyes of society, one was a somebody and the other was a nobody. They were different in their possessions. One was billionaire and the other was a beggar. They were different in their passions. One loved gold and the other loved God. It was that difference that actually determined their destiny. As we study these two men they teach us the central lesson of this parable. Key Take Away: Today’s decision determines tomorrow’s destiny. Nobody gets ...

1777. Poem: Ozymandias

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert… Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things, The hand that mock’d them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside ...

1778. Poem: Adonais

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... place; The eternal Hunger sits, but pity and awe Soothe her pale rage, nor dares she to deface So fair a prey, till darkness, and the law Of change, shall o’er his sleep the mortal curtain draw. IX. O, weep for Adonais! – The quick Dreams, The passion-winged Ministers of thought, Who were his flocks, whom near the living streams Of his young spirit he fed, and whom he taught The love which was its music, wander not, - Wander no more, from kindling brain to brain, But droop there, whence they sprung; and ...

1779. When Is Enough...Enough?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... idealistic student he once had in one of his classes named Ralph. During his undergraduate years, Ralph was committed to becoming an advocacy lawyer who would champion the rights of the oppressed and stand up against the exploitation of the poor. Ralph was full of passion for justice and radiated a compassion for the underdog that inspired all who knew him. By the time he graduated from law school, however, Ralph was deeply in debt. So he took a job with a large firm that specialized in corporate law and ...

1780. What Kind of King Is This?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... hometown was so little respected that there was a common expression, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” He confounded many who came into contact with him. He certainly confounded Pontius Pilate. Go with me back to those dark days just before Easter. Passion Week has begun. Jesus has predicted his death and now it is time for the fulfillment of his prediction. He has been captured and arrested and brought to Pilate to dispose of his case. Pilate decides to interview Jesus personally. Maybe that is ...

1781. Brushing Your Teeth with Oreos

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... .com. 3. Tom Phillips, “Chinese University Sets Up Dormitory for Overprotective Parents,” Metro, 17 September 2010, http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/841237-chinese-university-sets-up-dormitory-for-overprotective-parents. Cited in Dan Miller, Wisdom Meets Passion: When Generations Collide and Collaborate (Kindle Edition). 4. William Barclay, The Daily Study Bible: The Gospel of Luke (Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press, 1953), p. 25. 5. M. Bianchi, John P. Robinson, Melissa A. Milkie, Changing Rhythms of American ...

1782. A Cry in the Dark

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... in a tormented confession: "But war is pain, and hate is woe. Come in thy lowest form of love, and I will kneel and kiss thee…." He almost pleads with God to stop the awful battering of antagonistic powers and descend in kind humility so that the passions of love might be reborn and rekindled again. This, of course, is a marvelous bridge between the bellicose prophecies of the Old Testament and the juxtaposed incarnation of Jesus that emerged out of them. God did indeed come down, like God had done in the ...

1783. The Transforming Power of Grace

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... God took it away. John Newton heard the call of Christ, "Come on down here, John Newton. I am going to your house today." He was touched by God's transforming grace. Newton renounced his slave trade past. He stopped investing in slavery and became a passionate abolitionist. The autobiographical tone of a hymn Newton wrote about the time he underwent this change is obvious. Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost, but now I am found; was blind, but now I see. Zacchaeus ...

1784. The Challenge to Forgive

Luke 7:36--8:3

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... that excuse him from responsibility for the corruptions of society. Characteristic of many Pharisees, many Americans, content with their personal assessment of their goodness, condone and often support an entertainment industry that exploits our every passion, elevates and applauds violence, and trivializes our most precious human experiences like sex, marriage, and family. Americans deplore the corruptions that abound in our political, economic, and judicial systems but piously evade responsibility for ...

1785. Shall We Waddle or Fly?

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... , at least I hope you’re listening intently. That amazing philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once told a parable of a community of ducks. Each Sunday these ducks would waddle off to duck church to hear the duck preacher. The duck preacher would speak eloquently and passionately about how God has given the ducks a special gift. The gift was wings with which to fly. With these wings, the duck preacher would assure them, there is nowhere ducks cannot go. With those wings there is no God?given task the ducks ...

1786. Eyes Fixed Upon the Goal

Philippians 3:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” What a marvelous statement of St. Paul’s passion for serving Christ. This is why St. Paul has helped so many people over the past two millennia. He knew what was truly important in life, and he gave himself completely to accomplishing what was important. Many people live ineffective lives because they do not focus ...

At the sight of this last conflict, I felt a sensation never known to me before: a confusion of passions, an awful stillness of sorrow, a gloomy terror without a name.”

Samuel Johnson

1788. Humanist Manifesto II

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... their source from human experience. Ethics is autonomous and situational, needing no theological or ideological sanction. Ethics stem from human need and interest. To deny this distorts the whole basis of life. Reason and intelligence are the most effective instruments that humankind possesses. There is no substitute; neither faith nor passion suffices in itself. No deity will save us; we must save ourselves.

1789. The Mighty Have Fallen

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Michael P. Green

... is large, you will get the impression that everything above is coming to earth. The great mass starts slowly to topple, crackling and exploding even louder at the base, until it comes sprawling down with a fearful momentum. The mighty can fall. The deadly saw of appetite or lust or passion steadily cut away the supports underneath until, what once was great, comes crashing down to earth.

1790. No Moral Progress

Illustration

Winston Churchill

Certain it is that, while men are gathering knowledge and power with ever-increasing speed, their virtues and their wisdom have not shown any notable improvement as the centuries have rolled. Under sufficient stress—starvation, terror, war-like passion, or even cold intellectual frenzy—the modern man we know so well will do the most terrible deeds, and his modern woman will back him up.

1791. The Apostles Persecuted

Acts 5:17-42

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... Peter’s escape in 12:6–19 (see disc. on 3:1–11). Other critical questions relating to this passage will be discussed in the exposition and notes to follow. Mention need be made here only of the further parallel that has sometimes been found between the passion of Christ and the treatment meted out to the Christians in this and the following chapters (see also the disc. on 19:21–41). Thus Gamaliel’s speech and its outcome (5:35–40) have been likened to Pilate’s verdict in Luke 23:15f., and the ...

1792. In Pisidian Antioch

Acts 13:13-52

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... it was his friends, not his enemies, who performed this last service. And yet two of his friends were members of the Sanhedrin (Luke 23:50f.; John 7:50ff.; 19:38ff.). Was this what Paul meant? He was certainly acquainted with more than the bare facts of the passion narrative (cf., e.g., 1 Cor. 11:23) and may have been aware of all of these details. Or was he here simply speaking in general terms? In any case, the important point is that in putting Jesus to death these people had unwittingly carried out all ...

1793. In Athens

Acts 17:16-34

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... both physical and moral evil in the world. They taught that, though the virtuous might have to suffer, no real evil happens to them, nor real good to the vicious. As a Stoic one trained oneself to rise superior to all the circumstances of life and to human passion, to be “self-sufficient”—“a king,” or rather, “a god” in oneself. The Epicureans were named from Epicurus, born in 341 B.C. on the island of Samos. Their human ideal was a state in which the body was free from pain and the mind from ...

1794. Paul’s Arrival at Jerusalem

Acts 21:17-26

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

The remaining chapters of Acts describe the “bonds and hardships” that Paul had to endure. That so much of the book is given to this may be due to a desire on Luke’s part to simulate the passion narrative of the Gospel, in which the events of a few days are told at a length that seems disproportionate to the whole (see disc. on 19:21–41). But it must also be remembered that Luke himself was probably involved in these events, so that they would have loomed ...

1795. Paul the Roman Citizen

Acts 22:22-29

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... the air (cf. 2 Sam. 16:13; Job 2:12; Rev. 18:19) and shouting (v. 23). In the latter word we have another reminder of the story of Jesus. The expression is found in Acts only here, but six times in John and four times in the Johannine passion narrative of the cries of the Jewish people against Jesus (John 18:40; 19:6, 12, 15). Their rage against Paul is historically credible. In the years between A.D. 56 and 66 the intensity of Jewish hatred against all things foreign was white-hot. 22:24 Meanwhile, the ...

1796. Made Alive in Christ

Ephesians 2:1-10

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... a condition, people do whatever suits the desires and thoughts of their sinful nature. Literally, the phrase is “lusts of the flesh” (sarx). The word sarx does not imply that the body is intrinsically evil but refers rather to the sinful principles, passions, or physical appetites that dominate one’s life (Gal. 5:19–21). Thoughts includes one’s intellectual and reasoning ability (cf. Col. 1:21). The consequence of such evil and ungodly action is to become objects of wrath. Thus, by following their ...

1797. Paul the Preacher to the Gentiles

Ephesians 3:1-13

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... Paul was referring to earthly social structures that are included in the redemptive activity of God. In his book God’s New Society, he provides a short history of the study of the principalities and powers (pp. 267–75) and makes a passionate appeal that readers of the NT understand them as supernatural beings rather than as “structures, institutions and traditions” (p. 273). It is unclear what effect this revelation of God’s mystery through the church is to have upon these heavenly beings. All ...

1798. The Armor of God

Ephesians 6:10-20

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... references to “stand” (6:11, 13, 14) emphasize the theme of watchfulness and steadfastness that characterizes this early catechism (cf. 1 Cor. 16:13; Col. 4:12; James 4:7; 1 Pet. 5:8, 9). Although the NT often speaks about an inner warfare caused by the passions of the flesh (Rom. 7:23; Gal. 5:17; James 4:1; 1 Pet. 2:11), the enemies that the readers of Ephesians are to resist are spiritual in nature and include the devil and “the rulers, … the authorities, … the powers of this dark world” (6:12 ...

1799. Freedom From Human Regulations Through Life With Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... nature (“body of sin,” Rom. 6:6; “body of death,” Rom. 7:24). Paul develops similar ideas when he talks about the “old man” that is “put off” in baptism (Rom. 6:6; Eph. 4:22; Col. 3:9, 10) or the crucifixion of fleshly passions and desires (Gal. 2:19; 5:24). What a tremendous message of liberation and victory this is for a congregation being seduced by a group of false teachers still enslaved to cosmic powers and authorities and seeking to free themselves through useless rituals and ascetic ...

1800. Overseers and Deacons

1 Timothy 3:1-16

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... held by the false teachers (4:3; cf. 3:4–5). The next word, temperate, often means with regard to alcoholic beverages. However, since that is specifically said in verse 3, temperate is probably used figuratively to mean “free from every form of excess, passion, or rashness” (cf. 2 Tim. 4:5). The overseer must also be self-controlled and respectable, words that often occur together in pagan writings as high ideals of behavior. A Christian leader is to be more than, and therefore certainly not less than ...

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 1776 to 1800 of 2415 results

1776. Determining Your Destiny

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

James Merritt

1777. Poem: Ozymandias

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1778. Poem: Adonais

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1779. When Is Enough...Enough?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

1780. What Kind of King Is This?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

1781. Brushing Your Teeth with Oreos

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

1782. A Cry in the Dark

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

1783. The Transforming Power of Grace

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

1784. The Challenge to Forgive

Luke 7:36--8:3

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

1785. Shall We Waddle or Fly?

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

1786. Eyes Fixed Upon the Goal

Philippians 3:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

At the sight of this last conflict, I felt a sensation never known to me before: a confusion of passions, an awful stillness of sorrow, a gloomy terror without a name.”

Samuel Johnson

1788. Humanist Manifesto II

Illustration

Michael P. Green

1789. The Mighty Have Fallen

Illustration

Michael P. Green

1790. No Moral Progress

Illustration

Winston Churchill

1791. The Apostles Persecuted

Acts 5:17-42