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 2276 to 2300 of 4770 results

2276. Proper 20

Job 26:1--31:40, James 3:13-18, Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:33-37

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... 37 Theme: A different sort of greatness Exegetical note This particular passage is apparently directed toward certain false (probably Gnostic) Christologies that turned Jesus into a docetic divine messenger and granted his followers an exalted status. Contrary to that view, Mark asserts not only that suffering and death were the destiny of Jesus, but also that discipleship is not a matter of the greatness of priority and prestige; that true "greatness" resides in the humble assumption of such despised roles ...

2277. Proper 24

Isaiah 52:13--53:12, Hebrews 4:14-5:10, Mark 10:35-45

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... ; that we may transform our goals and expectations in accordance with your ideal of servanthood rather than our idol of success. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Merciful God, we confess that we are too much influenced by worldly views of what constitutes greatness, and too little devoted to your scriptural teachings and examples. Forgive us, we pray. Alter our perspectives and change our hearts, so that we shall honor those activities and people who give most of themselves. In Christ’s ...

2278. Thanksgiving Day

Joel 2:18-27, Matthew 6:25-34, 1 Timothy 2:1-15

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... have us go. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession God of infinite mercy, we confess that we are not as thankful for or supportive of our political leaders as we should be. We are partisan in the worst sense, praising and praying for only those whose views match ours, or those whom we know to be religious like us. Forgive us, we pray. Remind us that you are God of all and can work through the believer and unbeliever alike to effect your will. Move us with your Spirit to pray for all who lead us ...

2279. The Parable of the Talents

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . How did he word it: “ I was afraid” and I hid my talent. Fearful of doing the wrong thing, he chose to do nothing at all. This was perhaps a man who did well under supervision, but now he is left on his own and he is terrified. We view this man with contempt because he hid his talent in the ground. But our contempt is misguided. This was considered the traditional way of saving money in that day in time. He was being a good conservative businessman. He was not going to risk someone else’s money by ...

2280. The Discipline of Witnessing

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

... sufficient to give us license to ignore Christ’s commission to each one of us. So let’s think about witnessing today. I. To begin with a definition, a witness was ONE WHO HAD A FIRST-HAND KNOWLEDGE OF AN EVENT. (We ought to know that from our viewing of Perry Mason and the other courtroom scenes on television) Isaiah suggested that Israel - the whole nation - was a witness because she had a first-hand knowledge of God. God had reached into the brick pits of Egypt and led her out, giving her a destiny as ...

2281. If You Had Been Here

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... takes place at the heart of life absolutely silently. Dr. William Pollard of Oak Ridge traced the exciting journey from the small to the smaller to the smallest. "Just a few years ago," he said, "we adjusted ourselves to a simple, satisfying view in which everything was made up of just three elementary constituents, electrons, neutrons, and protons. But this did not last for very long. Soon additional particles were being discovered, a whole array of them, and each particle had an antiparticle, so today ...

2282. The Good News of the Cross

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... " When you understand that word "Father" in reference to God, then you begin to understand the risk that God had taken when He made of man a FREE spirit, with the power of choice, with the freedom of will. While the concept of fatherhood is a joyous view of God and gathers with it all the happiest human affection, it also gathers to itself all of the most piercing sorrow that clusters around the Cross of Calvary. The sorrow of God? That sounds peculiar, doesn’t it? The sorrow of God - they are essentially ...

2283. The Generation Gap

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... , the attackers often look and sound different than the kind of people with whom we usually deal. The Vice President of Wooster College described a student-trustee confrontation before school opened last year. A number of students had been invited to share their views and problems with the Board of Trustees. They met together for three days and by the second day about the only reaction of the Board was, "What’s wrong with these kids? They wear dirty shirts and put their feet all over the furniture ...

2284. THE MARRIAGE GAP

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... as any kind of legitimate symbol of Christ and the church. Now, the symbols we use are not important - but the concept of marriage that we hold may well be. If the reason for our hesitation in using marriage as a Christian symbol is the fact that our view of marriage is an unhappy one - something needs to be said. We’re thinking, during this pre-Lenten season, about God and the gaps - feeling that God has a word to a mankind that is cut apart by gaps of generations, race, economics, and what have you ...

2285. The Racial Gap

Psalm 53:1-6

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... T. Washington, for example, is always hailed in textbooks as the prime example of a black man who made it with sweat and hard work and served as an inspiration to his people. In point of fact, his docility infuriated militant Negroes, and his views did not represent completely those of the Negro community, and there was considerable bitterness engendered by his career. My point is only that we haven’t been fair or accurate in our reporting of history, and we have consequently kept the black man from ...

2286. A WALL OF ROCK AND THE EVERYBODY GAP

Drama

William McKee Aber

... sermons on "The Gaps of our Age." The theme of this dialogue-drama is that people build walls between themselves in everyday life. They wear masks and become hard, like rocks, as they endeavor to protect themselves. It is hoped that each person viewing this dialogue-drama will realize that Christ can open and bridge this "gap." THE CAST Judge Jack Wormwood Sue Christian Child THE SETTING This dialogue-drama can be easily presented in any church chancel. Wormwood and Christian can speak from the lecturn and ...

2287. Everyone Has a Somebody

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... to bring our groceries for loading. We had no more than pulled up to wait when an impatient fellow parked behind us, and began honking his horn. I paid little attention. I thought he was honking at someone else. He kept it up. Finally, I looked through the rear-view mirror and saw him shaking his fist at me. I stuck my head out the car window. "Hey!" he yelled. "Can’t you read signs? Get that (expletive deleted) car of yours out of the way. Park somewhere else. This is the grocery pick-up!" "Do you think ...

2288. Mission Accomplished!

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... for the first time after entering lunar orbit, there in the foreground is the moon landscape. In the background, emerging from the blackness of space is the earth, 230,000 miles away. How insignificant we as individuals appear from such distance. From this picture, we view our home as a round ball with deep blue oceans and swirling white cloud cover. Yet, how perfectly has this round ball, sitting in space, been made for us to inhabit. Once a day it turns around. Once per year it revolves around the sun ...

2289. Sharing with Our Brothers

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... cluster of new-born churches along Paul’s missionary routes, out of their own poverty, rose to respond. They begged Paul to be allowed to participate. Their generosity reaches across the centuries to motivate us. We need such motivation, for what we face in view of the starving masses is a monumental task. The Task that Faces Us There are an estimated 2 billion people who are undernourished. Of these, 460,000 are reported as suffering actual starvation. We are told that one person dies of starvation every ...

2290. The Bread of Life

Luke 9:10-17

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... , too irresponsible, and not at all in line with verse 12 of John 6. It seems Mrs. A did not conform to what Mr. C felt was applied Christianity. "Coming home from Sunday morning worship, with sermon, she ought to act otherwise," was Chompo’s point of view. Now it is common knowledge that Your Friendly Garbage Can was well read. He suspected that the newspapers which were used to line him had not been more than casually digested by the so-called Christian Mrs. A and family. Mr. C’s comment: "She never ...

2291. THE WATCHERS

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... in Jerusalem and there he saw Joseph and Mary and the infant Jesus. And the holiness of the moment captivated his entire being. Waves of hope surged within him. It was almost more than he could comprehend. He felt like a child again. And for the first time as he viewed the infant Jesus he felt as if he had at last found all that he was watching for. And he went to Mary and Joseph and picked the child up in his arms with tenderness as one who was holding a precious gift and he exclaimed, "Now I can end ...

2292. Focused Light

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... known that in every nation any one who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to him. Yes, all Christians know this, but only with great difficulty. Shall I accept as a full brother a man who seems to me quite dangerous in his political or economic views? It’s not easy to do. Maybe that’s why most hymnals omit from Frederick Faber’s well-known hymn, "There’s a Wideness in God’s mercy ..." the stanza But we make his love too narrow By false limits of our own; And we magnify his strictness ...

2293. Extended Light

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... , it has one essential function. Time "times us," as with a stop-watch. It measures us. It accurately evaluates progression or regression. Massey Shepherd in his book Liturgy and Education says, "The mission and message of Jesus were not concerned with the future viewed as ongoing history, but with the future as the fulfilling of the present." Time reveals whether this year we have fulfilled last year’s spiritual and moral potential. Did the saving light of God’s grace which shines in the Epiphany Star ...

2294. Unwavering Light

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

The Apostle Paul is seen by many as having a dismal view of marriage. He is even suspected by some as having had an unhappy marriage himself which sadly colored his regard for matrimony itself. A few wonder if his references to his "thorn in his flesh" is his personal description of his nagging wife. But, in all fairness, let us put ...

2295. OUR LORD RISEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... stay alone and grieve," she had said. "Come with us. The ceremonials for the holy day will bring peace to your mind." But Mary of Magdala had not answered. Instead, she had walked to the window, stared out through vine-covered lattice work that shielded her from the view of those who were hurrying toward the temple. This woman only added to her pain. That she could think of other things, that life could go on as usual, with their Lord lying in the cold stone tomb. They had left her then, and Mary was alone ...

2296. The Boss

Mark 1:1-8

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... Cast: Gus Al -- his friend AL: (AL AND GUS ENTER) What a meeting! My twelve-year-old could chair a meeting better than that. GUS: It was a difficult meeting, that's true. AL: Difficult? I don't see how you stand it. He doesn't let you express your views on anything. GUS: It's always been like that. I was surprised at first, but I've gotten used to it. AL: Why don't you do something about it? GUS: Do something? Like what do you suggest? AL: Well, quit for one thing. GUS: No, I don't think ...

2297. Who Are You?

John 1:19-28, John 1:1-18

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... it? GINNY: I don't know what those educators are thinking of, wanting young people to decide what their career goals are when they're in junior high school. DAN: Boy, I almost walked out of the meeting. GINNY: I'm glad you didn't. They needed to hear your views. DAN: Well, I guess I gave them a earful. GINNY: Yes, you did that. DAN: I'm still angry. Kids have to have Time to be kids and not to worry about careers at that age. GINNY: Johnny and Melissa are certainly kids who are enjoying their youth. DAN ...

2298. In The Heavenly Places

Ephesians 2:1-10

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

Theme: It is best to have all the answers about how to enter heaven before you need them. Summary: It's never stated in the Bible that entrance into heaven is easy. Two candidates lining up at the pearly gates express two opposing views, one quite worldly and the other simply trusting in Jesus. But who is this third person helping the worldly-wise person? He seems to have all the answers. Are the answers any good? Playing Time: 5 1/2 minutes Setting: Just this side of Heaven's pearly gates Props: None ...

2299. Academics, Fanatics, and Other Disciples

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... of the self. And, yes, it has to do with strength, with energy and action. But to all fanatics, to all authoritarian religions convinced God is in their box and possessed by their religious system, to all true believers who never doubt their views, Jesus might say in the words of Oliver Cromwell, "I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, think it possible you might be mistaken." Yes, Jesus calls us to discipleship -- thinking, learning discipleship accompanied by devotion and energy. II. If some of ...

2300. A New Kind of Teaching

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... truths. He exhibited far more concern for the message of the Kingdom than for his reputation. Far from withdrawing to an inner circle of intellectual elitism, he ventured out into the countryside and marketplaces and synagogues to make known his views. He loved people and wanted to help them, so he spoke as plainly as possible. No wonder, then, that "the common people heard him gladly." Most all disciplines of learning have their own jargon. Technicians, doctors, economists, lawyers, theologians, and ...

Showing results