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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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2076. The Sounds at the Summit

Exodus 19:1-25

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... sound like a strange sort of way to speak to the people and Moses? Put aside the element of mystery in the conception and birth of Jesus, the Incarnation, and we are confronted with a much better way for God to speak to human beings. Jesus spoke and taught and touched people in a very special manner, and most who heard and saw him knew that God was speaking to them. Today, God allows us to get near enough to him, through his Word and his servants, to hear what he has to say to us. He comes to us so ...

2077. The Keeper of the Covenant

Exodus 31:1-11

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... forward and placed their flowers on the largest wreath that stood before the names. They both bowed. Then they [slowly] walked back across the bridge to the launch." Brower says, "I wished for a flower to add to theirs. Instead I could only step forward and touch, lightly, the two blossoms they had placed there." For three people, at least, real reconciliation, like that, which God works in Jesus Christ, had taken place. That is the sort of God we see speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, and that is the God ...

2078. Round Trip to Bethlehem

Ruth 1:1-22

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... do not know about, such as visiting a veterans’ hospital a couple times a week to play cards with a man who is permanently hospitalized. This man attempts to keep his covenant with God, with his wife and children, and with other people whose lives he is able to touch. Infidelity is the mark of one man’s life, but fidelity is the measure of the other man’s whole being. Maybe he knew the Naomi-Ruth story and some of it rubbed off on him as part of his Christian heritage. So Naomi and Ruth went their way ...

2079. Judgment and Justice

Amos 5:18-27

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... served there, about the Gospel, about Christ, and about the Christian faith. He obtained New Testaments for them and, later, copies of a catechism, in Chinese, of course, and at the end of a nearly three week stay in mainland China, he promised to keep in touch with them. What began as a routine job for the two national tour guides became a pilgrimage into the Christian faith. They found the way to appease their spiritual hunger in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our business as Christians is to worship God in ...

2080. Responsive Reading

Luke 15:1-7

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... Congregation: Those who dwell in a land of suffering shall be freed. Pastor: On that day, the Lord God shall wipe every tear from their eyes, and death and mourning shall never be again. Congregation: Come, Lord Jesus. Pastor: Let us pray for all whose lives are touched by fear and grief: Savior of all people, may your blessing again light the way of your people that we may walk in safety. Congregation: Give us your love to cast away the works of darkness and put on the garment of light. Pastor: We pray for ...

2081. Getting Our Tablets Ready

Exodus 20:1-21

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... and I will come with a message, a help, a blessing. In true worship we do this - we come before the Lord and we say: "Here I am, Lord. I've done the best I can to knock the rough edges off my life. Now I await your hand, your touch - I await whatever it is you wish to do with what I bring." And you can count on this: When you have hewn your tablets and smoothed them as well as you can, God will not leave them untouched.

2082. The Seven Stars

Revelation 1:9-20

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... of a troubled, trembling man. What of those stars? Well, he must have laid them aside somewhere. It must be an extremely important activity to hold seven stars in one's hand. But to hold these is not nearly so important to the Lord Christ as it is to touch with blessing a solitary human person who is bowed before him in adoration and awe. Here is the kind of Lord we worship - one who can put aside the care of stars in order to care for one person who comes in reverence to him. Know this, dear friend ...

2083. The Ungoofer

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... the bank's ungoofer; but, my friend, you and I have no difficulty at all in getting through to ours, if we really try. In fact, we have an appointment with him right here this morning. We have kept our appointment, and he has kept his. We are now in touch with the One who forgives, untangles, heals - ungoofs. If there are tangles and snarls, messes and mix-ups, tell him about them - and trust him.

2084. Tuning to a Distant Signal

Psalm 96:1

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... else, silencing all other sounds for a moment, they struck that note. In his shepherd's hut in the distant mountains, the shepherd heard that sound, and from that single note he put his instrument into tune again. This is the hour of worship, a special time of being in touch with God. Here we listen for the signal-tone he strikes for our lives, for the pitch he gives by which our hearts may be put in tune.

2085. Keeping Our Colors True

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... of color tones, and the colors I choose may not be right, may not be what they once were." So it is with us, in the requirements of our ongoing life. Lest we wander astray, we need occasional exposure to some unchanging and unfading standard. Unless we are in touch with some constant reference, we can deviate and scarcely know it. We need some touchstone to test ourselves by, one that is worthy of what life is, one by which our life-tones can be safely set. So, in worship about once a week, we seek a fresh ...

2086. Launching a Mayflower

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... , neither you nor I can know what Mayflowers may be launched before another week goes by. In this hour, we are here together before God to prepare ourselves for whatever launchings there may be, for whatever new seas we may be called to sail, for whatever new shores we may touch before the voyage is done. May God give us grace for the living of this week, for new ventures of faith, courage for the hard places, and joy for all the journey.

2087. Finding Our Souls

Mark 8:36

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... they did, so the legend says. Well, in whatever way man's soul got where it is, God knows it is there. The problem is that sometimes we don't. We let our souls get lost within us. Running in dizzy circles around life's outer edges, we sometimes lose touch with what is at the center. Here in worship today let's try to find our souls, wherever they are within us. Let's strip aside all the overgrowth that holds them down and keeps them where the shadows are. Let's try to open up ourselves to let some ...

2088. Keeping on Course

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... with God; we are seeing where we are; we are finding out about our directions in relation to his will concerning our journey of life. We can so easily become confused or lose our way out there in the weekday world of days, and we need this checkpoint. Here we touch base with the Lord of our life, and from him we take our bearings for going on. We can deviate from the course, by winds and currents be carried far astray, unless from time to time we check in with God to set our course again. You see, it is ...

2089. Our Gunsback Awakening

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... Gunsback in 1896 when "there came to me, as I awoke, the thought that I must not accept this happiness as a matter of course, but must give something in return for it." And so he did. His surging gratitude of spirit overflowed in kind acts of compassion touching the lives of more than 200,000 persons. You know, somewhere along the way most of us need some kind of "Gunsback awakening." We need to become aware of how blessed we are and resolve to do something about it. May a Gunsback awareness of God's great ...

2090. A Change of Direction

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... not follow the road by which they had come. Having come to the Child, their visit made a difference in the way they traveled afterward. Today you and I have come to this place. Here we worship. May our worship bring us into such life-changing touch with our Lord that we will choose to go forth by a different way. Whatever the terrain over which they traveled, returning home, those ancient wise men went with lighter hearts, with greater joy, with deepened hope, with a strengthened faith. So can we - as we ...

2091. The Deeper Happening

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... all the undefined and undiscovered elements which make up the total of what we are. And many of the results of our Sunday tryst with God are deeper within us than mind can ever reach. Whatever you may or may not remember from this hour, may you be so in touch with God this morning that there will be with you when you go an inward glow of spirit, a warmth of heart, and a joy which no circumstance of tomorrow can ever take away.

2092. The Exercise of Faith

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... of doing this: helping others, loving them; forgiving others, living nobly; firmly holding high ideals and going straight. But your faith is best exercised when you ask it to do the thing it alone has the power to do, when you ask it to lift up your soul for the touch of God. This you do when you truly worship him.

2093. The Seekers

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... and a searcher, that he has walked down the path to meet us, reaching for us. And we know that in Christ he comes very close. Here today, we join the age-long caravan of the searchers. In worship we look up to God, we reach out to him, to touch hands anew with the reaching hand of God. So we are united in the fellowship of a common questing - together with all searching souls of all time and with one another in this hour.

2094. Let Christ Speak The Word

Luke 7:1-10

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... unusual. This tells us that he was a man of great compassion. You will remember the circumstances of the healing of the paralytic which we discussed last week. The friends of the handicapped man believed that their companion would not be healed unless he was touched by the hand of Jesus. Since they could not get into the house where Jesus was working because of the great crowd, they dismantled the roof so that their friend could be healed. In today's lesson, we see a very different approach to healing ...

2095. Our Splintered World

Luke 12:49-53

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... they stood. There was a knight of Bethlehem Whose wealth was tears and sorrows His men at arms were little lambs His trumpeters were sparrows His castle was a wooden cross On which he hung so high His helmet was a crown of thorns Whose crest did touch the sky. - Author unknown This is the man that brought the judgment of God upon the people. This is the man that divides families, communities and nations. The division he brought extends from his day to our day, and each person must decide which side he or ...

2096. The Master Has Come - And Is Calling For You

John 11:38-44

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... China. His great work there still bears fruit even today. I The Master has come - and is calling for you. The story of Jesus coming to Bethany at the death of Lazarus is filled with beauty and despair, drama and pathos, joy and sorrow. It is a human story which touches our human hearts. It sweeps us up in this suffering we see - and we know we have been there. In a very real sense it is the story of all of us. The Master has come, - and is calling for you. Word came to Jesus that his good friend Lazarus ...

2097. The Master Has Come - To Face Jerusalem

Mark 11:1-11

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... Tuesday she went back to the shop and the butcher asked, "Did Jesus Christ come?" The girl said, "Yes, he did." The Master has come - to face Jerusalem. Palm Sunday - and the world is armed to the teeth, ready to blow itself up with the slightest touch of one finger on one sensitive button. Palm Sunday - and there are fights between whites and blacks in two Georgia towns; the Ku Klux Klan raises its ugly head every now and then; and the South African government still gets away with murder. Palm Sunday - and ...

2098. The Master Has Come - To Be Lord of Life

Luke 24:1-12

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He was eight years old, and mentally retarded. His name was Stephen. I do not know much about him. I only read his story in another church’s bulletin. But, I was touched by it. There were seven other children in his Sunday church school class. In the spring as Easter approached the children were asked to bring to Sunday church school those L’eggs panty hose containers, with some object inside which represented new life. Not wanting to embarrass Stephen, and being ...

2099. At Table With The Lord

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... do the will of him who sent me. Mary (Mother): And that's the way it's always been. And he will be obedient even unto the death on the Cross ... God's annointed, the Son of God, but my baby, my Babe of Bethlehem. Oh, how gentle was his touch, how smooth his skin, how soft his cheek. Hymn: "Away In a Manger" (Women exit or take seats. Men enter.) Narrator: When the evening was come, Jesus sat down with the twelve disciples. And, as they ate, Jesus said, "I am the living bread which comes from heaven. If any ...

2100. The Life We Prize

Luke 9:18-27

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Various Authors

... who lives in me." (Galatians 2:20) I have to be willing to go to the Cross in self-denial; I reluctantly do so. Even then I rationalize taking back my own schemes. When I compromise God’s commandments, I leave a mark, often invisible, on everything I touch. But eventually these flaws show up as my apparently self-sufficient life begins to fall apart. As Jesus emptied himself and went to the Cross, so I must die to all within myself which is not of him. Paul said, "If we have been united with him [Christ ...

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