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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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2126. Even Our Business Belongs to God!

Jeremiah 32:1-44

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... , 1955-1986), Vol. 31, p. 39. 3. Ibid., p. 44. 4. Martin Luther, Commentary on Psalms, in D. Martin Luthers Werke (Weimarer Ausgabe) (56 vols.; Weimar: Hermann Böhlaus Nachfolger, 1883ff.), Vol. 40III, pp. 370f. 5. See Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1998), esp. pp. 96-97, 136-141. 6. Luther, “Commentary on Psalms,” Vol. 40III, p. 280. 7. Martin Luther, Lectures on Deuteronomy (1525/1526), in ...

2127. When Life Gets Hard, Christian, Rebel!

Lamentations 1:1-22

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... of a mustard seed, in our Gospel Lesson (Luke 17:5-10). When we break it down rationally, the “yes” that our Bible lessons say to life in the midst of all life’s chaos and hard times does not make sense. That is hardly surprising given the paradoxical character of Christian faith. As usual the sixteenth-century reformer Martin Luther put it very well in one of his sermons. He wrote: 13. To this I reply: I have often said that feeling and faith are two different things. It is the nature of faith not to ...

2128. Life's Not Always Fair, But God Will Straighten It Out

Habakkuk 2:2-20, Habakkuk 1:12--2:1, Habakkuk 1:1-4

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down at the table of brotherhood ... I have a dream my four little children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!3 I have a dream that someday 11 a.m. will not be the most segregated hour of the week; that Black and white will live in the same neighborhoods and really get to know each other. The vision of the End and dreams of ...

2129. A Match Made In Heaven

Hosea 1:1-2:1

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... Go take for yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord” (1:2). I protested loudly, not wanting to stand up and in any way imply that my friend was marrying a woman of dubious character. It’s just not the kind of things friends do. But he was insistent. The wedding sermon had to be from Hosea. “All that talk about whoredom is just symbolic,” he said. “What matters in this text is the faithfulness of God. God is faithful, even ...

2130. At The Potter's House

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... see and be seen. It’s a shame that nobody goes there much anymore. The potter’s still there. Still working with the clay. It’s all pretty much the same. Except there just aren’t many people around. It’s too bad. I blame it on that Jeremiah character. Ever since he started coming around, people started staying away from the potter’s house. He calls himself a prophet. I call him a pain in the neck. He says that God has appointed him as a spokesperson, that God picked him to be a prophet before he ...

2131. The ABC Gospel

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... -life regressions, out-of-body experiences, channeling, mantras — the list goes on and on. The New Age (which is truly just old Hinduism warmed over), Zen yoga, seances — anything but faith in the resurrected Lord of the cross. Today’s Scripture reading has a character like that. His name is Naaman. Of all the stories connected with the life of Elisha, the story of Naaman is probably the best known. Although it happened long ago, it has some striking parallels for our own experience. As we think of ...

2132. Plumb Line Prophecy

Amos 7:1-9, Amos 7:10-17

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... blood of his cross. — Colossians 1:15-20 Jesus knows well the depth to which we are willing to go with God and the straightness of our walk with him. He is the Cornerstone of the church and the Master Architect of the universe. It is he who builds character within us and he alone who made the sacrifice that was necessary to straighten us out when we were crooked and out of sync with God. Is your life leaning in the wrong direction? Come to the great plumb line, Jesus. Put your life in his hands. Give him ...

2133. Deformed, Disfigured, and Despised: A Marred but Magnificent Messiah

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and all creation. All praises due to the deformed, disfigured, and rejected one who stood in our place against the power of evil and gave us victory! If we might come anywhere close to his shining example of manhood and exemplify his holy boldness and strength of character, God the Father would be pleased. The savior of the world was not someone whose beauty we looked to but someone whose power we looked up to. He was not a man who could be measured by the superficial indices of this world, because he came ...

2134. The Promise of Sight

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... of the Church itself to keep the people from understanding the freedom that was theirs under the gospel. From age to age the Church has suffered through many different approaches to its own faith that have robbed it of its evangelical character. Pietism in the seventeenth century made its efforts to strengthen the faith of the Church by emphasizing its feelings. Rationalism in the eighteenth century was a movement to make the faith of the Church perfectly reasonable. Similarly, orthodoxy in the nineteenth ...

2135. Light from the Word

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... record of how the people met together for the reading of the word from God. We are not sure how the books of Ezra were originally organized chronologically, so even though this text is found in what appears to be the memoirs of Nehemiah, the story’s central character is Ezra. We read that it was in the beginning of the month of Tishri when this took place, for them possibly the beginning of a new year, an ideal time to begin anew. That would be late September or early October on our calendar. It was the ...

2136. Mr. Smith Goes to Jerusalem

John 20:1-9

Drama

Dave Marsh

... John: Okay, Okay! I get the hint. Just humor the old man. Kids: We have! Adam: Where are the rides, Dad? John: What? What do you mean? Adam: You said this vacation was going to be like going to Disney World. Where’s the rides? Katie: Yeah! Where’s the characters? I have this autograph book and I haven’t seen Mickey, Minnie, or even King David for that matter! John: Wait a minute. When I said it was going to be like Disney World, I meant that we were going to have lots of fun and hang out together and ...

2137. The Attic

James 5:13-20

Drama

Dave Marsh

Director's Notes: Some of my dramas feature characters that are a bit over the top. In fact, they carry a particular subject to the extreme. The Attic is one of those dramas - no one really has a box of 'miracle stuff' but it's these extremes that provide an awesome contrast to the real answer: If we want ...

2138. The Delimma II (A Drama about Prayer)

Drama

Dave Marsh

Director's Notes: A follow-up to the Dilemma drama. This also uses pre-recorded v.o. so see that drama for more information. These are always fun to do especially when the character is way off target. This drama is intended to expose erroneous thoughts about prayer: God listens better in church, God delights in a more sophisticated prayer, a more sophisticated prayer accomplishes more than a simple one, God answers prayers immediately, etc... The other thing about this one is that it ...

2139. Family Night Live

Drama

Dave Marsh

... Remote TV Guide Glamour magazine Setting: The family room. (LIGHTS UP CENTER STAGE where the John and Angela are watching TV (much to Angela's dismay) and Isabelle is reading her magazine...) John: Ha ha ha ha ha! Whoa. That Danny Partridge… what a character! Angela: You call this fun? Watching reruns of the Partridge Family? John: Shhhh! I love this part. This is where they sing one of their classic songs! Angela: You call those songs classics? They don’t even play their own instruments! I thought this ...

2140. We Interrupt This Service

John 1:1-18

Illustration

Brett Blair

... by moving seamlessly from "Holy, Holy, Holy" to "the telephone crisis counseling ministry is in need of additional volunteers," by punctuating its soaring praise with the commas of the earthy details of its common life, the church is expressing in its worship one of its most basic convictions about the character of God: "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us....

2141. The Healing Of Simon's Mother-in-Law

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

James W. Moore

... and out of style. She wore no make-up. She could not look me in the eye. Most of the time she stared at the floor and when she looked up, her eyes darted like a scared rabbit. She was in a pitiful state. She looked like that Ruth Buzzi character on the old “Laugh-in” TV show. I brought in a psychiatrist. We both worked with her, but to be honest we didn’t make much progress at all. It seemed hopeless. But then the most amazing thing happened. A new young man named Jerry moved to town (the son ...

2142. Eager For The Journey

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... first tempted them with things; the second seduced them with an experience unlike any other. I like to think that Sir Francis Drake discovered what Jesus knew all to well. And that is this: The paths that are offered to us must promise to shape us, build our character, change our world view, if they are to have any appeal to us at all. If we are presented with a challenge that will change, we will be eager for the journey. What is it about Jesus' message that made the disciples eager for the journey? I They ...

2143. His Cleansing Of The Temple

Luke 19:45-48

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the fig tree had withered over night. It was Simon Peter who exclaimed: Master, look, the fig tree that you cursed is withered. Jesus replied by rather unclearly urging his followers to have faith in God. There are reasons to not like this story. It is out of character for Jesus. You might even say it is an embarrassing episode in his life because he appears to be unfair. Why blame the tree for not doing something that it was incapable of doing? And yet, here is Jesus, using his power to blast a tree that ...

2144. Who You Gonna' Vote For?

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Brett Blair

... person. What do we mean when we say that a person is lost? Well, we have over oversimplified this in America and said that their soul is lost, but it can be much more tragically real than that. Zacchaeus lost his self-respect, his dignity, his reverence, his character, his conscience, his conviction, his friends. His story reminds all of us that we can stand in danger of losing everything in life that is rich and real to us, if we hold on to worldly wealth. Man’s biggest problem is that when he has lost ...

2145. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Then Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” The scriptures tell us that the blind man, Bartimaeus, then received his sight. And listen to this – he FOLLOWED Jesus on the way. What a great story this is, great drama, great characters, great theology, and great lessons to learn here! Let me lift up three great lessons we discover in this story… the lessons of grit, grace, and gratitude. I. FIRST, THERE IS THE LESSON OF GRIT. If you look up the word grit in a thesaurus, you ...

2146. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

2147. Jesus and Mary and Martha

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Dr. Boyd E. Wagner

... our choices. That’s why we pray. That’s what prayer is. Mary was very much involved in service and in her devotion. Prayer determines our next move. Sometimes our religion as it begins in discovery and in adventure ends up in a Christ-like character. That’s the intent. It is true, that in our prayers and worship we are not always challenging our smallness and our prejudice. Sometimes we are satisfied with being devoted or being religious. In true religion there is no separation in devotion and service ...

2148. The Devil Made Me Do It

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... trip" our society is on is the loss of incentive for repentance, restitution, or improvement. Years ago, America's first televangelist, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen said, "There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society, than the denial of personal guilt."(7) Guilt can accomplish some very positive things. A Kansas City man who robbed a bank in Abilene over forty years ago recently donated $50,000 to ...

2149. Sometimes You've Got to Shout!

John 12:12-19

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... 't find him here, so shut up!" What about that? Granted, we come from a very reserved tradition, but is there anything about Jesus that really makes you want to shout...like when your child or grandchild was born? Or has Jesus taken on the character of something familiar and comfortable...like a child as it grows? Still wonderful, but no longer COMPELLING you to let the whole world know? Perhaps there is another problem. Perhaps we are not inclined to shout so much anymore because we have been disappointed ...

2150. Under the Rainbow

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... " that. But they had something we need to recover right now. I can't turn loose this story of Noah and the Flood because after all of the devastation...there's a rainbow...I'm not going to live without that kind of hope..." The Peanuts characters Linus and Lucy are standing at the window watching the rain. Lucy says, "If it doesn't stop raining everything will be washed away." "Oh no!" says Linus. "Genesis chapter 9 says that never again will God wash everything away." "Thank you." says Lucy, "that is a ...

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