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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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1801. Uses of the Past

Philippians 3:4b-16

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... to be like me, and you will be ready to give up the past and journey into the future with Christ. But then he adds this line. "Only let us hold on to what we have attained." That is a fascinating line. In a letter in which all of his emotions seem to run over, a letter filled with crescendos of prose, mounting up, talking about "pressing on toward the goal of the upward call of Jesus Christ." Then he comes down to earth all of a sudden, as if he has forgotten something. He writes, "Let us hold on to ...

1802. Epiphany 7

Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:33-37, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, Leviticus 19:1-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... not resist evil, even to the point of the cross. Humanity is to follow his example. 2. Enemies (v. 44). We are to love our enemies. Is Christ asking too much of us? How can we love those who hate us and hurt us? Love for enemies is not an emotional love. It is agape love, a love for the undeserving and the unlovely. Love is seeing that all people receive justice. It is helping those in need. Why do this? Again, we do it because of the nature of God. He loves his enemies - he allows the sun to shine ...

1803. Pentecost

John 20:19-23, Acts 2:1-21, 1 Corinthians 12:3-13, Psalm 104

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John R. Brokhoff

... church proclaims the Word and administers the sacraments through which the Spirit grants forgiveness and eternal life. Epistle: 1 Corinthians 12:3b-13 1. A Spirit-made Christian (12:3b-13). Need: How does one become a Christian? Must we have an ecstatic emotional experience? Do we decide to accept Christ? Do we have a choice to be or not to be a Christian? Is accepting Jesus as Lord and Savior a human accomplishment? Often television evangelists and prolonged invitations given at revivals lead one to think ...

1804. Trinity

John 3:22-36, Matthew 28:16-20, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, Exodus 34:1-28, Genesis 1:1-2:3

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John R. Brokhoff

... person to win the world, to baptize, and to command. It is by his authority that disciples today can say, "Your sins are forgiven." 4. Baptizing. People are brought into God's kingdom through baptism. Entrance into the kingdom is not by a subjective and emotional experience or by a declaration to accept Christ. Baptism is the act of inclusion, incorporation, or introduction into the name of the triune God - into the name or nature or being of God. This introduction is not into a segment of God but into the ...

1805. Swept Away!

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... and abundance. In her novel Animal Dreams, Barbara Kingsolver introduces us to two sisters - Codi and Hallie - whose mother died in childbirth and who were raised by a cold and autocratic father. The two sisters react very differently to the emotional impoverishment of their childhood. Codi becomes a drifter, unable to find roots in work or love or relationship - suspicious of the world - scared of passion - cynical about this crapshoot called life. But Hallie makes a different choice. Somehow she is ...

1806. The Power of Positive Dreaming

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... self - the memories, feelings, needs that our mind rarely acknowledges. Psychologists now know that if this unconscious material is ignored, if it is not acknowledged and integrated in some way into our experience of living, then we will suffer great mental and emotional distress. We will experience persistent anxiety about the meaning and dependability of life. Dreams, visions, hunches are the way we compensate for the spirit and truth we have cut out of our lives. Dreams are the way we discover the full ...

1807. Vital Vulnerability

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... think about someone, something, some purpose beyond our own. And so, when all is said and done, what is being born this night is not only a new image of God, but also a new image of our own self — more mature, more responsible, more compassionate, more emotional, more physical, more ethical, more spiritual than any self we have ever known. Yes, this baby God has come to disturb us and to delight us, and to make demands upon our very souls. And if we fail to respond, well then we will be neglecting, even ...

1808. The Rest of the Story

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... show us the way. And today, it is Mary and Joseph and an ancient matriarch named Rachel, who model faithfulness for us. They invite us to weep. They invite us to dream. And they invite us to trust. Yes, first they invite us to weep. For it is in our emotion and our empathy that we feel God's heart beat. Then they invite us to dream. For it is in the intuition and imagination of our minds that we most clearly hear God speak. And, finally, they invite us to trust, for it is in the offering of our lives ...

1809. The Offense of Grace

Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... is wrong. We live in a world where eighty percent of Americans believe in legalized revenge - better known as capital punishment. We live in a world where, after parents die and sibling rivalries turn into warfare, millions of dollars and thousands of emotional hours are spent contesting wills and fighting over family heirlooms. Yes, resentment and retaliation, judgment and blame are tightly woven into the fabric of our human nature. This negative reaction to the bad things in life is learned behavior in a ...

1810. Worry and Wonder

Matthew 6:24-34

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... in his head, the melodies in his soul, the silent music in his fingers that constantly, pervasively, magically sustain him. Yes, we watch his soul striving for the vision, the kingdom of God beyond his Jewishness, beyond the evil of Hitler. Yes, he lives - spiritually and emotionally - in an inner place of trust and hope that no anxiety can control. The Apostle Paul writes: "It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God." But the terror he talks about is not the terror of anxiety. It is ...

1811. Through the Lens of God

John 4:5-42

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... that when she spoke, the Lord stopped what he was doing, listened, and took the appropriate action. Her heart reached out to the small and the helpless, so she took a particular interest in me from the start. "Maum Jean's sensitive, emotional antennae instantly picked up the loneliness and withdrawal I felt, after three years of suffering from polio. Moreover, her marvelous diagnostic sense surveyed the polio damage and decided that, regardless of what the doctors might think, something could and should be ...

1812. God, the Enemy

Matthew 10:24-39

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... to God the companion is surrender - exactly what one does when an enemy wins. For many of us, our first surrender to God came not because God gently asked permission to come into our lives. More likely he used a battering ram to punch an enormous hole in our emotions or some other aspect of our being. He came in like an invader, commandeered space, and made it clear that we'd better learn to live with his presence, at least for a while. God, it seems, is not one to pussyfoot around, patiently waiting in the ...

1813. Try This on For Size!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... person. This is why he offers you a yoke that is a perfect fit. He knows that if you work the right job, marry the right person, make the right salary, live in the right neighborhood, and so on, you will be at your best physically, emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually. We look at America today and see tired people. They are under-challenged or overborne by their walk in life. Sexual perversion, financial stress, self-contempt, and divorce are but a few of the symptoms that life is being lived out of ...

1814. The Incomparable Christ

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... with God and other people. If I become a Hindu, through diet and meditation, I achieve a relationship with myself, but have nothing with God, people, or creation. In Christ, however, I am promised a relationship that is based on love that intellectually, emotionally, and willfully includes God, self, neighbor, and creation. This is the exceeding breadth of the great commandment of Christ - to love God and my neighbor as myself. See in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 God's interest in the whole person: "May the God ...

1815. Influence!

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... and all, and heed well! Verse 1 informs us Jesus spoke these words to "the crowds," to his "disciples," and to "the scribes and the Pharisees." And after he made these remarks, he broke down and wept! (v. 37ff). Why was Jesus so fervent? Why so emotional? Because he wants his people to be different, to exert a positive leadership. Notice in his words the contrast between what we are as opposed to what we can be. Preach/Practice First Jesus points out the gulf between what we say and what we do. "Practice ...

1816. What If the End Is Near?

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... for you? For us? What does the Lord want us to do? According to the Bible, he is calling us to repent of our sins and believe the gospel. He is calling you to love God in the power of the Holy Spirit, to love him with all your emotion, will, and intellect. And he is also calling you to love creation whether it's yourself, the environment, or other people. That love begins with your family, it continues with your neighbors and spreads out to your job, your church, even the entire world. Do you see how God ...

1817. Faith's Curious Dynamic

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... course, is exactly what we don't want him to do. That's a curious dynamic indeed, where you both want and don't want the same thing. Life itself has plenty of curious dynamics like that, though we are more apt to identify them as mixed emotions, contradictions, or paradoxes. Any war brings more of them to the fore, but that war especially had yielded a bumper crop of conflicting feelings. For example, many of us who strongly supported our troops weren't convinced we should be fighting this war at all. But ...

1818. Once More with Feeling!

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... . No crying. No sound except the sickening buzz of flies. Both times I emptied my pockets, but it didn't really help. A week later and the money was spent and they were hungry again. Most of our church's giving is like that. It is compassionate giving. It is emotional giving, but it needs to be intelligent giving as well. A motto of the Peace Corps can be of help here. It says, "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." It ...

1819. The Greatest Gift

Matthew 1:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... people approached the manger, one by one, and received someone else's cross containing a sweet or bitter Christmas memory. Again in silence, people opened boxes and read the quotes and stories that were found therein. The outflow of emotions that surrounded the opening of these crosses surpassed secular gift exchanges, partly because these boxes contained Christ-centered, raw experiences and moving memories. In order to enhance a participatory atmosphere, the chairs in the chapel were placed circularly with ...

1820. Redundant Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and Redundance Matthew 22:34-46 The God of Abundance, the God of Abundant Love, has provided us with redundant ways to experience and discern God's abundant love in our lives. *We may experience God's love through our heart--through an upswelling of emotion which we can call heartfelt love. *We may experience God's love through our soul--through a depth of spiritual stirrings and shakings and other soul stuff which we can call soul-felt [or soulful] love. *We may experience God's love through our mind ...

1821. A Talent for Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . For Paul, flesh is skin and bones. But flesh is also the incarnated, encapsulated human soul that experiences life and death, enabling and disability, through the vessel of an organism and the boundaries of human existence. Flesh isn't just emotions, hungers, longings, urges, and failures. Flesh is the most basic limitation that comes with incarnation, the power of particularity. Every self is a "word-made-flesh." We experience life as a fleshly "self," as a self-preserving, self-absorbed, self-obsessed ...

1822. How Can Religion Go Bad Doing Good?

Matthew 7:21-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... was the size and scope of the project - specifically how much land in the center of the German capital would be given over to serve as a reminder of the greatest atrocity any German government had ever committed: the Holocaust. Because of the emotion, the outrage, and the terror connected to the Nazi attempt to wipe out European Jewry, there was nothing but disagreement and dissension in the years between the memorial's concept and its final construction. This month (May, 2005) the long-awaited opening of ...

1823. Boxing Day

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

According to that great source for all Christmas holiday knowledge - Bon-Macy Department Stores - this thing is the be-all-and-end-all of the holiday season. "It holds emotion. It holds expectation. It holds what might be the most memorable holiday ever. THIS is the shape of the holiday season." OKAY. I give up. What's this all-powerful shaper of the season? What's this ultimate shape of the holiday season? It turns out to be . . . a box. ...

1824. Low Carb Christianity

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... hard sayings of Jesus (and there are shelves of books on these hard sayings), some call this the hardest of the hard. How could such horrible-sounding advice create strong, faithful disciples? Even when we understand that Jesus isn't talking about an emotional response but is describing behaviors and actions, this rejection of the family as our primary connection, our safe harbor in a heartless world, and the rightful recipient of our greatest loyalty, is hard to swallow. In the first century, far more so ...

1825. Crack Open Some Easter Eggs and Be Cracked Open

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... interior, the stench from the decaying body would have been sickening. The spices the women carry were to mask that odor of death that would have been present on this "third day." This third day starts with physical exhaustion – not to mention all the emotional upheaval and suffering the women carry with them. They are looking forward to nothing except Jesus' cold, smelly, dead body. There is nothing more they can do for Jesus except prepare him for burial. That's when they find their first Easter egg. It ...

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