Sermon and Worship Resources

Synonyms: touch, feel, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, contact, using one's hands, sensation, sense, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, notion, inkling, hunch, fancy, apprehension, presentiment, premonition, foreboding, love, care, affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, warmness, emotion, sentiment, emotional state, compassion, sympathy, empathy, fellow feeling, understanding, concern, solicitude, solicitousness, tender-heartedness, brotherly love, sensibilities, sensitivities, self-esteem, ego, pride, opinion, belief, view, impression, intuition, instinct, estimation, guess, theory, hypothesis, thought, way of thinking, point of view, atmosphere, ambience, aura, air, mood, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour, aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, skill, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination, sensitive, warm, warm-hearted, tender, tender-hearted, caring, soft-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic, responsive, receptive, intuitive, thoughtful

Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

Showing 1951 to 1975 of 2747 results

1951. The Voice of the Shepherd

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... fully and more clearly listen to the The Voice of the Shepherd. And when we listen, The Voice of the Shepherd Guides Us. At the age of forty-seven, Nick Thomas found himself unemployed and under tremendous financial pressure. He had had a successful career in the Air Force and the insurance business, but a series of financial reversals had set him back and the failure of his own consulting business had left him with no place to turn. He didn't know what to do. Frustrated and seeing no way out, Nick's wife ...

1952. Fingerprints and Lovemarks

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... internal organs, which sustain and support each other. Every organ looks different. Every organ works differently. Every organ takes on different challenges. Hearts pump blood, but they cannot filter it. Livers filter blood, but they cannot provide oxygen. Lungs suck in air, but they cannot provide food. Stomachs and intestines turn raw organic material into fuel for the body. Our DNA reads the same, for we are all part of the body of Christ. But both infinitesimal and infinite differences will always make ...

1953. Our Common Life in Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... :00 a.m. each day Sister Emmanuelle welcomes 40 youngsters who attend school in her hut. She teaches both Christians and Muslims to read and write and introduces them to a wider world than the garbage heap. Waving aside the flies that fill the air in enormous clouds, Sister Emmanuelle also spends the hours each day visiting her flock, carrying a ledger in which she meticulously records the names and needs of 3,000 families. She is gentle, but that gentleness turns to steel when she confronts bureaucrats and ...

1954. No Instant Maturity

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to be open we shut ourselves up in the security of relating only to our “own kind” we become provincial and growth is stymied. It even happens to the church. Some churches are as open to new ideas as a tomb in a pyramid is open to fresh air. Someone has said that the seven dying words of any church are: We never did it that way before. When we become rigid, creativity dies. We lose our capacity to meet challenges from unexpected places. We grow accustomed to set rituals and patterns and so we are closed ...

1955. Magnificent Fools

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

During World War II a cartoon appeared in daily newspapers across the country which attracted much attention. It pictured a young soldier driving a jeep madly across the battlefield. Bullets whizzed past his head; shells burst in the air; bombs fell on every side. It seemed that he was going to become the object of one of them and meet death itself. Still he drove on madly, zig-zagging, trying to dodge death itself. To take one look at the picture you would think the young man was foolish ...

1956. Freedom to Set Free

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , rigid conventions and sterile artificialities, shackled by guilt which produces an inner rigidity and blocks growth and dynamic discipleship - it is to such persons as we are, smothered in our spiritual development, fettered in self-forged chains, that this word of Paul comes like fresh air on a smoggy day. Listen to it. “Christ set us free, to be free person, to stand firm, then, and refuse to be tied to the yoke of slavery again” (Gal. 5:1 NEB). Though we know very little about them, it helps us to ...

1957. On the Road with Some Would-Be Diciples

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the problem here. He sounds too good. He talks a good game,… but somehow Jesus senses that this man is not really ready… To give the allegiance And make the sacrifices demanded in the cost of discipleship. This man is speaking “high-sounding” words into the air, but he is not really ready for the action which looms ahead in Jerusalem in the shape of a cross. II. THE SECOND MAN INDICATES THAT HE WANTS TO BE A DISCIPLES, BUT THEN HE SAYS: “Let me go first, Lord and bury my father.” Jesus’ answer ...

1958. One to Take the Place of Jesus

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in the Back Bay district of Boston, which 150 years ago was entirely under water. When they built the church, they drove 4500 wooden pilings into the wet, spongy ground for the foundation. The wooden pilings will not rot as long as they are under water, but if the air gets to them, they will begin to decay and the church would fall in. So, every week a member of the “Committee on Water Levels” goes down into the basement, looks into the well and checks to see how high the water is. When I read that, my ...

1959. Dying to Live

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

Two men went up in a hot-air balloon one May morning. Suddenly they were enveloped by clouds and lost track of where they were. They drifted for what seemed like hours. Finally the cloud parted, and they spotted a man below them on the ground. “Where are we?” one of the passengers hollered down. The man on ...

1960. Some Second Thoughts about Giving

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... protect our prejudices, never exposing them to any more light of truth than was ours when our prejudices were formed. So our attitudes and reactions are galvanized with a protective coating. Too many of us are as open to new ideas as a pyramid tomb is to fresh air. Now this could be the sermon, but it’s really only the introduction so I won’t pursue it any further. I hope the point is well taken: We need to have second thoughts. Today I want to share with you some second thoughts about giving. We are ...

1961. Live the Questions

Exodus 5:22--6:12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I bear you on eagle’s wings, and brought you unto myself.” Isn’t that sublime imagery? It’s a picture of a parent bird baring on its mighty wings the young fledglings of its nest, and “carrying them through the dizzy steeps of air.” How magnificent, how effortless, how incomparable, that flight! So God spread abroad his wings, took his people, and bare them on his pinions, delivered them, brought them into the land, flowing with milk and honey. He did what he promised. We can live the question ...

1962. A Dependable Guide

John 16:5-16

Illustration

King Duncan

Pastor Michael Walther tells of listening to a radio program (Focus on the Family) about a famous test pilot. This pilot was flying a fighter jet in bad weather and about to make his instrument approach to an airport. The air traffic controller called and asked how much fuel he had. "Plenty," he said. "Well," the controller said, "we've got a little problem. There's a young pilot who is not instrument rated. He's lost in the clouds, and we were wondering if you could intercept him and lead ...

1963. The Ark of the Covenant

Exodus 25:10-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... continually. And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart. So the Lord said, ‘I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the ground, man and beast and creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. “(Genesis 6:5-8 RSV). Isn’t that a marvelous word - that last sentence, “But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord.” And the Lord commanded him to build ...

1964. Taught by a Golden Calf

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of the His place in our lives. And then there is security, our neurotic drive for security which shows our lack of faith in God. Do we believe He cares for1IT own or not? Do we constantly claim His promise (Matthew 6:26) “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor / gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them; are ye not of more value than they?” Some subtle ones may serve to make love in marriage distorted to the point that it usurps God’s place in our lives. I’ve ...

1965. When You Have Everything You Need, Except What You Need (Managing Money)

Luke 12:22-34, Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to impress his mother on her 80th birthday. He paid for a highly trained parrot that could speak in four languages and sing many songs. It was one of the rarest, most accomplished parrots in the world. To further impress her, he had it shipped by air. A few days later, he called long distance and asked, “Well, Mother, how did you like the bird I sent you?” “He had a delicious flavor!’’she said, “although I must admit, he was a little bit tough.” It is interesting how we think about and ...

1966. Opening and Closing Doors

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... people in our city who do not — and millions of people around the world who don’t. But we worry, nonetheless, about our jobs, our economic security, about what we will do and how we will live when we retire. Jesus says, “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” (verse 26) Not only about needs, we worry about our status, our relationships. How am I coming off? Am I really liked? What ...

1967. In the Lions' Den (Dealing with Stress)

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not to let people down. So it was not an easy thing for me to dial those numbers and cancel those engagements it was a very difficult thing. But when I did it, it was as though a heavy cloak had been taken off on a hot day and fresh air began to cool my skin. It as though I was getting an internal massage that took he tension out of my inner being, very much like a massage takes the tension out of our physical bodies. It was then that I internalized and made my own, what I had intellectually ...

1968. For Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... freedom. It is to such persons as we are – bound in bland conformity, and religious conventions, shackled by guilt which produces growth in dynamic discipleship – it is to such person as we are, smothered in our spiritual development, that this word of Paul comes like fresh air on a sultry day. Listen to it again: “For freedom, Christ has set us free; stand fast there fore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.” We need to score that word indelibly upon our minds. We are set loose by Christ ...

1969. Are You Paying Too Much For Your Whistle?

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ! You that are longing to see his face, will you this moment his grace receive? Are you paying too much for your whistle? Is it time, like Paul, to chuck that shiny whistle you’ve been blowing and paid for so heavily that you’re out of breath, gasping for air? It is time to get some new breath? Is it time to get a new whistle to blow, one that is God-breathed? It’s a whistle that will take your breath away, and give you a whole new way of living and being and breathing in the world. And ...

1970. When You Want to Run Away

Psalm 11:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... will power were not enough. Having heard his story him how he determines whether grace or will power is needed in certain situations he now confronts in his daily life. He didn’t bat an eye, he didn’t even flinch. He just look with an air of spiritual confidence and quoted a well—known prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr: “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.” (Barry Boulwaro, “The Power is Not ...

1971. In the House of the Lord

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God’s daily providence. So when you tend to pride over what you have accomplished, take a second thought. When you’re drifting further and further into that deadly pit of self-sufficiency, draw yourself back. Where would you be without God? The very air we breathe, God gives. Our physical life is but a flickering light dependent upon a remarkable infrastructure of life which God provides. That’s the reason I can’t understand people who do not tithe. Not to tithe is like glaringly snubbing your nose ...

1972. John the Baptist: Parable and Prophet

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , a missile, a television antenna, a dollar sign, a test tube, an oil barrel, a bloated belly, a hand gun, an automobile, a peace symbol? I join David McKenna in suggesting that the dominant symbol of our generation is a forefinger pointed into the air and accompanied by the chant, “We’re Number One.” The symbol, of course, comes from the world of sports, where winning has come dangerously close to being everything. I’ve told some of you my story about the football game between Alabama and Notre ...

1973. The World's Best-Known Widow

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sleek elegance, testifying by its design and engineering to its exclusive price tag - undoubtedly some where in at least the $55,000 to $75,000 range. Its driver’s identity lay hidden behind shaded windows. But the mere presence of it bespoke a certain air of individuality and distinction for its owner - paused briefly as it was before that regulating traffic signal, until surging out ahead of the pack when the light changed to green. It was an impressive sight - bearing in it a kind of testimonial to the ...

1974. The Measure You Give Is the Measure You Get

Mark 4:21-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God must do the rest. After this, Jesus told another parable about a grain of mustard seed - the smallest of all seeds - yet when it is sown and grows up; it becomes the greatest of all scrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade. (Verses 31 and 32) All these parables have to do with growth, and they have to do with the Kingdom. In the context of the parables – Jesus speaks his cryptic word which is the core message we want to appropriate today – the ...

1975. Emmanuel - God with Us

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... have that fashion and heads that know, But our hearts we lost - how long ago! In a place no chart or ship can show Under the sky’s dome. This world is wild as an old wives’ tale, And strange the plain things are, The earth is enough and the air is enough For our wonder and our war; But our rest is as far as the fire-drake swings And our peace is put in impossible things Where clashed and thundered unthinkable wings Round an incredible star. To an open house in the evening Home shall men come, To an ...

Showing results