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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

Showing 1851 to 1875 of 2565 results

1851. The Raising of Paul

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... &usg=AFQjCNHUwK-wDX29tth094-5jyrY33lQrA [Optional: clip of Jill Bolte Taylor, “A Stroke of Insight”: link above. If you show just the few first minutes it’s enough.] Think of the amazing works of human brains working together –the symphonies, the art, the works of philosophy and literature, new physics. The invention of computers, bots, the internet, Siri! Wow! Human hearts can work together powerfully too –that part of our brain that urges us to gather together and comfort each other in the ...

1852. All In

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... event, every time in the scriptures we see an encounter with God, we see God pursuing us! God is going whole hog, all-in on our behalf, while much of the time, we are complacent to say the least. Look at the most famous scene in Christian art, Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel painting, where God is stretching out the divine finger to Adam, and Adam offers a limp and leisurely response. We don’t see a whole lot of us pursuing God. In fact, it’s the exact opposite! We see complaining, lamenting, griping ...

1853. You Are Gifted

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... “more-I want it.” This has gotten so bad in our culture that by the age of 5, parents may already have enrolled their small children in at least 3 or 4 different classes or activities from nursery school to toddler’s gym classes, to art classes, music classes, even language classes! All to prove that our little youngsters are well prepared to …achieve! And by the time they reach middle school, many of them are not only burned out and mentally and emotionally exhausted, but are what we might call ...

1854. Emergency!

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... are a people who turned from God, were disobedient to God, and in fact, tried to shut God out. They were in the habit of building “ziggurats” in Babylon –tall towers for the worship of the Babylonian deities. Ancient Babylon was a center for science, art, and culture, complete with wealth and beautiful hanging gardens. But it was also a center of idol worship. And the tower was an altar. Unlike the rough stone of the altar of Jacob, the tower of Babel was a manmade façade, symbolizing the efforts ...

1855. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. “I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.” The Spirit and ...

1856. Plucked from the Blaze

Zechariah 3:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , joy, tears of relief, and the renewed desire to follow Jesus into the world for a lifetime of service to those people who are forgotten like Wesley’s poor and miners and convicts. Take a moment to look at that “photograph” of Jesus –that art, that stained glass, that sculpture, or that painting. Remember when YOU were saved. Remember when you became a “brand plucked from the burning.” You are saved to serve. Remember to re-member. In in that double remembrance, go….serve the world in Jesus ...

1857. Sweet Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... shape them and guide them. Isaiah’s scripture is filled with metaphors related to husbandry of vineyards. The grape was a popular fruit in the middle east, for wine, juice, dye, cooking, eating. Wine was the staple drink with meals. And so, the art of the vineyard would have been understood by many. The passage begins with a love story –between God and God’s self (the Elohim) in relationships as lovers who then plant a vineyard, beginning with Israel and Judah. Later Paul will redefine that vineyard ...

1858. Caring for the Vineyard We Did Not Plant

Matthew 20:1-16, Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... creative hands-on remodeling --for men and women alike! Its premise is simple: how to take an ordinary, drab, old, crumbling, or even condemned house, a “fixer-upper” if you will, and renovate and revision that house into a new, sound, and exquisite piece of art based on the identity and style of the homeowner, still while remaining true to the feel of the neighborhood or context. For many, the proposed renovation of a home becomes more than a hobby or a project. It becomes a mission driven by passion ...

1859. The Well Watered Soul

Ezekiel 17:1-24, Ezekiel 47:1-12, Matthew 12:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... faith this morning by learning lessons about who we are from the Madrona tree. As human beings, we are born with what I like to call a God-skin. Our God-skin is a gift of innocence, purity, freshness, sinlessness created fresh from the Master Potter’s art studio. God-skin is endowed upon every person born on this earth. Along with being endowed with God-skin, we are endued with the tools to thrive in this world. But our participation is necessary to activate the resources that our ours. We must choose to ...

1860. The Healing Tree

Revelation 22:1-6, Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1861. God Encounter

Luke 1:1-4, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of God encounters was to engage in what he called “means of grace.” Each person may find their own “thin place” in one of those “means of grace.” Some may experience God in prayer or meditation, some in music and song, some in the beauty of art or liturgical dance, some in holy communion, some in reading the scriptures, some in walking through the woods on a misty morning. Jesus loved to go to the mountains, the gardens, the desert, or the sea to pray, and we know He must have experienced many ...

1862. A Spooky Kind of Love

1 Samuel 28:1-25, Matthew 28:11-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a righteous and upright King. He wanted to rule a tight ship of a country in God’s name. To that end he expelled all of the mediums and spiritualists from the land of Israel. He was ferocious in his “righteousness.” And all those who practiced the arts of superstition and spiritualism had fled the area or had stopped practicing openly. But when Saul found that God would not appear at his beck and call, he decided to take matters into his own hands. He ordered his men to find him a medium. “There’s ...

1863. Against the Grain

Mark 3:13-19, Isaiah 28:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... famous poem about roads converging in a wood. It might mean going up against the rules or society’s expectations, behaving differently, counter-culturally, ruffling some feathers by doing something unconventional, behaving contrary to one’s own nature. The word comes from the art of wood planning. When you take a beam of wood and want to plane it, or smooth it, you need to plane it “with” the grain, along with the direction of the wood fibres, so that it becomes smoother and eliminates splinters. To ...

1864. The Dwelling Place

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... us through the curtain, that is, His body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings.” (Hebrews 10:19–22) This week, I was learning the art of turkey roasting from one of our expert turkey roasting members! And I discovered that one of the important tips is to “cover” or “tent” the turkey underneath the lid, so as to keep it extra moist. That way, the moisture will stay inside and infuse the ...

1865. Raison d’Etre

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... . But that’s not all he said. There’s more to the quote, but I’ll come back to that. First I want to talk about the opening idea, the idea of an indifferent universe. Many people in my generation first encountered the notion of an indifferent universe through art and literature, and most of us were introduced to it in a short story called, “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London.[1] I must have been in the eighth or ninth grade when I first read that story. Until that time I had been raised on romantic ...

1866. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... to enhance the child’s reading ability as well as teaching other social skills. The afternoons are spent in cultural enrichment, family engagement, intergenerational servant leadership, community involvement, conflict resolution, and social action. Activities may include arts and crafts, dance, music, field trips, sports, rehearsal for a final event, and social action and community service projects. The Freedom Schools program has been studied and evaluated by more than a dozen nationally recognized ...

1867. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus is saying to us is, “You have a soul.” Or to be more accurate, you are a soul. Have you stopped to think about that lately? You are not a random collection of cells. You are not the sum of your current circumstances. You are a work of art, made in the image of God. You have the imprint of the eternal, all-powerful God Almighty within you. Your soul is a mark of God’s abundant love for you. It marks you as incredibly valuable in God’s eyes. Which leads us to a question: are you experiencing ...

1868. Faking It or Making It?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... ourselves and our needs to God and His plan for the world? What if we could surrender everything we have and everything we are to God and His will for our life? Would that not mean that we were becoming a new person? Cody Garbrandt is a Mixed Martial Arts fighter. Cody says he was raised in a family of fighters. Cody gave an interview recently that was quite fascinating. It was about surrendering. Here is what he had to say, “Surrender is a foreign word to many fighters. It was a foreign word to me in my ...

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Abel Stevens

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Adolf Hitler

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye; it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Agnes Martin

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Agnes Martin

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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Showing 1851 to 1875 of 2565 results

1851. The Raising of Paul

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1852. All In

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1853. You Are Gifted

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1854. Emergency!

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1855. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1856. Plucked from the Blaze

Zechariah 3:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1857. Sweet Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1858. Caring for the Vineyard We Did Not Plant

Matthew 20:1-16, Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1859. The Well Watered Soul

Ezekiel 17:1-24, Ezekiel 47:1-12, Matthew 12:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1860. The Healing Tree

Revelation 22:1-6, Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1861. God Encounter

Luke 1:1-4, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1862. A Spooky Kind of Love

1 Samuel 28:1-25, Matthew 28:11-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1863. Against the Grain

Mark 3:13-19, Isaiah 28:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1864. The Dwelling Place

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1865. Raison d’Etre

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

1866. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

1867. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

1868. Faking It or Making It?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.

Abel Stevens

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

Adolf Hitler

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye; it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Agnes Martin

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Agnes Martin

Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

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