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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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Sermon
Lee Griess
... part of the heritage of Christ. This picture of God as a shepherd who cares for the flock comes even more clearly into focus in the New Testament. Jesus once told a story about a shepherd who had 100 sheep, but one of them went astray. In our way of thinking, a 99% return on our investment would be fine, most desirable, in fact. But not for the shepherd. In Jesus' teaching, the shepherd leaves the 99 alone in the wilderness to go in search of that one lost sheep. Later, when Jesus was speaking to the crowds ...
Sermon
Mary Austin
... beginning of Jesus’ ministry. He places this moment in the temple between the story of Nicodemus coming to Jesus at night, and Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well in the noonday heat. Both of those stories are about dismantling long- held ways of thinking, and Jesus is making that same point here. Adding to the layers of meaning, John writes this down after the physical temple has been destroyed. Writing to people who have always found God in the temple, John points us to another way of ...
Sermon Aid
Richard A. Jensen
... 1-6. Each story needs to be briefly told. The two stories of the Sabbath, Mark 2:23-28 and 3:1-6, might best be told together. The thread that holds our stories together could be the theme of transgressing or breaking boundaries. Jesus breaks down old ways of thinking about one's relationship to God. Jesus offers a new way to understand our identity as God's people. Our identity is not as clean or unclean people. "Be made clean!" Jesus says to us (Mark 1:41). "I give you a new identity as sons and daughters ...
204. It Isn't Fair! - Sermon Starter
Matthew 20:1-16
Illustration
Brett Blair
... milkman who lives in early 1900 Russia sings what he would do "if I were a rich man." His wife reminds him: money is a curse. He immediately shouts up to heaven: curse me God, curse me. Jesus has just turned away a wealthy man, and in the Jewish way of thinking it doesn't make any sense. In fact, I am not sure how many Methodist preachers would have the courage to do it. My entire ministry I have been waiting for a sugar daddy to come along. But it was Simon Peter who drew the question even more clearly ...
Sermon
... ; lords are served - they do not serve; lords humble others - they never humble themselves. Jesus did. His power was manifested in service; his honor in doing for others what they could never do for themselves. What a strange way to exercise Lordship! To our way of thinking a lord should, well, "lord it" over others. He should order people around and take things from others on the basis of some theory of the "divine right of kings." But here we see Jesus, the eternal Word of the Father, begotten before the ...
Bulletin Aid
Wayne H. Keller
... John the Baptist's announcement about the Coming One, who makes all things new by his Spirit? To what, to whom, do we give our time, money, energy? Charge to the Congregation: "Repent," said John the Baptist, which means, "Change your behavior; change your way of thinking and doing and being. One is coming who can and will make that happen in your life if you allow his Spirit to come in and transform you. That's my promise, that's his promise. Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice!" Blessing Meditation: (Printed at the ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... , in between the woes, Isaiah declares that the righteous will have their just reward (v. 10). Their deeds are very different from the deeds of the community as a whole (v. 8). He does not use “remnant” language, but he presupposes what would become another way of thinking about a remnant (see on 10:20–21). The remnant is a small minority accepting a call to faithfulness when most fall from it. This is the first indication that there is such a group within the community. At the end we might expect the ...
Sermon
Lee Ann Dunlap
... the Jewish faith, that is). Belief in Jesus was tolerated at the time for the most part, yet they insisted that salvation lay in observing the Law. But many Gentiles saw little value in circumcision or dietary demands of the Old Testament. To the Greek way of thinking, what happened to the body had little to do with the state of the soul (which departed at death). For the hedonists sensual pleasure was the ticket, "If it feels good — do it!" And in Rome's civil religion fulfillment lay in good citizenship ...
Drama
... "Peter" to my friends. And I am here to speak for Jesus, who I believe is the Anointed One, the Christ long awaited by our people. I am here to tell you that Jesus is a sign that everything has changed for us. Well, God has not changed, but our way of thinking about God has. It is clear to me now that it is not the kingdoms of Rome or Herod, or even the Sanhedrin which matter, but that Jesus is in control. I know this because I have seen his power exercised over demons and storms and illness, and I have ...
Sermon
Wallace H. Kirby
... for shoddy sins like self-indulgence. But above all, we pray to be pardoned for our lukewarm commitment to Jesus Christ; for living, not by his truth, but by our own preferences. Help us to commit our lives to the Lord of life, to his way of thinking, acting, being. When Jerusalem was captured by Babylonian forces in 597 B.C., the city was left intact, but the king and certain other leading citizens were taken to the captors’ homeland. Among those refugees was a young priest named Ezekiel. While exiled in ...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... why did this happen to me? Are you punishing me? Are you there? Have you deserted me? Don’t you care? Are you asleep?" Saint Paul the apostle, as he writes to his friends in Corinth who have found faith but are in danger of going back to former ways of thinking, says, "From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view" (2 Corinthians 5:16, RSV). There you have it "from the human point of view" - that is, the side that we humans seem incapable of leaving. We are in the center, asking the ...
212. Simple Enough?
John 13:31-35
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... what people ought to have done. We can replay key events and point out how extremely simple the solution was and criticize those on the ground with the benefit of hindsight. How about our own celestial Civil War? Is not humanity, to one way of thinking, in open rebellion against the kingdom of heaven? How many churches, even as we profess that Jesus is Lord, put themselves first, engaging in infighting, backstabbing, and plotting? More important, we are in possession of all the information we need to win ...
Sermon
Lee Ann Dunlap
... than just presence. Something like, "Don't worry, they'll love you. It'll be great," would bolster so much more willingness on the part of Jeremiah, or any one of us. Instead he gets, "I will be with you to deliver you." To some folks' way of thinking, that implies hazardous duty rather than a good time had by all. Few rational people, young or old, are eager to engage in the hard and thankless job of truth-telling — particularly if pronouncing the truth brings pain to those we love. Condemning the sins ...
214. Unum Humanum
John 17:20-26
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... defined by denominations obsessed with establishing their differences rather than their similarities. Perhaps our greatest problem has been distinguishing Jesus' promise of oneness from our own concept of "hegemony." Hegemony refers to the situation where only one way of thinking, one way of seeing, is allowed and accepted. Historians have finally noticed in the last few decades that a hegemonious skewering of history has led to textbooks filled with the exclusive viewpoints and experiences of Western white ...
215. Eliphaz
Job 4:1-5:27
Understanding Series
Gerald H. Wilson
... of aphorisms based on observation to support his claims (4:7, 8–9, 10–11). The first of these provides a thematic introduction to the whole collection and calls for a reaffirmation of the idea of retribution. In this way of thinking the innocent never perish, nor are the upright ever destroyed. Eliphaz’s restatement of retribution recognizes the possibility of righteous suffering that stops short of complete destruction or death. Proverbs also recognizes that the wise and righteous can experience ...
Teach the Text
C. Hassell Bullock
... words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful.” The process begins in their self-deception, is expressed in their words, and perverts their actions (“they fail to act wisely or do good,” 36:3), culminating in a life totally bent to their wicked way of thinking (“on their beds” and “a sinful course [or “way”],” 36:4a, b).[7] The final disposition, parallel to their failure to “do good,” is that they “do not reject what is wrong” (36:4c). The progression then, like that of Psalm 1 ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... to give up the normal benefits of their liberality and generosity (such as honorific statues and inscriptions, “front row” treatment like that sought in Luke 14:7–11). Household dependents should accord such masters a brotherly respect. Regardless of which reading is correct, Paul calls Christian slaves to a new way of thinking.
218. Water Without Price
Revelation 20:1-7
Eulogy
Richard F. Bansemer
... it. They say that it's for the container. Everything in life has a price tag on it, so it is very difficult for us to believe God when he says: "To the thirsty I will give water without price."Churches are guilty of often following the world's way of thinking, even when it come to matters of salvation. Too often the church says: "Do this, do that, accept this and believe this, then God will save you." No, our lesson says it too clearly to add to it: "To the thirsty I will give water, without price. This is ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... knocking on their door and what role they would play in it? The disciples wanted to be prepared. Whether it was prepared to fight or flee, hunker-down or hide-out, isn’t quite clear. The future might be frightening, but to the disciples’ way of thinking, an unknown future was even more terrifying. Jesus’ response refuses to give his disciples the comfort of a definitive, step-by-step time-line to the final Day of the Lord. Jesus doesn’t offer any “most direct” GPS map to the horizons of history ...
220. Four Chariots
Zechariah 6:1-8
Understanding Series
Pamela J. Scalise
... at Hazor (Josh. 11:6, 9) and Tabor (Judg. 4:5; 5:28). Kings of Israel and Judah had owned chariots, but in postexilic Yehud the only chariots belonged to the Persian emperors. 6:4–5 Zechariah’s vision report gives his audience a different way of thinking about the Persian horses and chariots. The Lord has chariots, too (e.g., Hab. 3:8; Isa. 66:15). In Zechariah’s vision the horses emerge from between two mountains—mountains of bronze (v. 1). These two peaks may be the heavenly counterparts of the ...
221. Life Between the Times
Revelation 22:7-21
Sermon
Mark Ellingsen
... I am going to spend the rest of my life there.”[4] Modern theology has gotten interested in this idea of life being lived with an awareness of being between times, lived with the future in view. One of the great proponents of this way of thinking is a German theologian names Jurgen Moltmann. On this matter he has written: “Christianity” has its essence and is good not in itself and not in its own existence, but lives from something and exists for something that reaches far beyond itself... If we ...
222. Dinner Guests
Luke 14:1, 7-14
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... God's people." By faithfulness to Torah, the observant Jew could say, "I know who I am, and the world knows who we are: We are the ones who keep God's Law." At a time when most other cultures were being lost to Roman ways of thinking and doing, the Pharisees offered a method for maintaining Jewish identity.[2] Third, this dinner party at the home of a Pharisee takes place on the sabbath. Keeping this holy day for rest and worship was central to Jewish differentiation from the surrounding Roman culture ...
Understanding Series
Robert H. Mounce
... the expression to mean “God forgive you for saying so mistaken and shocking a thing” (p. 188). Jesus turns around (that is, turns his back on Peter) and says, “Out of my sight, you satan. You’re a stumbling block in my path because your way of thinking comes from men not from God.” It is instructive to compare Jesus’ response to Peter with his words to the tempter in 4:10. In the earlier account, he says, “Go away, Satan” (hypage satana): here he says, Get behind me, Satan (hypage opisō mou ...
Sermon
John A. Stroman
... being born all over again. Because of the resistance of the religious leaders of his day, Jesus knew he was going to have a difficult time. So he shared with his audience this simple parable because he knew of their temptation to keep the old ways of thinking and doing. The problem with the old skins was their rigidity and inflexibility. Why were these religious leaders so rigid? They sought to defend the faith of their fathers and they did not want an itinerant preacher fooling around with it. They felt it ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... doctrinal foundations of our faith. Even less do we seriously entertain the notion of genuinely heretical views undermining the sanctity of those foundations. In its past the Church has been inflamed by "heretical" doctrines that challenged proscribed ways of thinking about God and God's relationship to humanity. Today those who lost the historical battle with the majority are only thought to generally illustrate righthearted believers with wrongheaded ideas. A heresy, we are convinced, is just an ...
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