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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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2401. Sold!

Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15

Sermon

Chrysanne Timm

... in grief; they cannot and should not be rushed out of it. There is a time in the process of grief work when people must be allowed to sit with their pain, acknowledge it, and own it. To try to rush someone around or over grief will simply leave those emotions unresolved or buried, to resurface unexpectedly and painfully. Like the old camp chant about the bear hunt goes, when we're coming to short grass, or tall grass, or woods, or a river, "You can't go over it, you can't go under it, you can't go ...

2402. Earth, Wind, and Fire

Joel 2:23-32

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... will all have equal access to God's revelation. Twice in these verses we are told that God is acting so that the people will not "again be put to shame" (vv. 26- 27). Shame is far more significant than just embarrassment. Embarrassment is a temporary emotional response to a specific situation. Shame is a condition that can become chronic, a state of being that affects our ability to function in the world because it eats away at who we understand ourselves to be. Shame can take a deep hold on us when ...

2403. Thanksgiving Is Nine-Tenths Of Possession

Deuteronomy 26:1-11

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... for today reveals that biblical thanksgiving has a shape and a structure to it that can be summed up as follows: Thanksgiving is intentional, sacrificial, liturgical, and communal. First, thanksgiving is an intentional act of the will. It is not just a transitory, spontaneous emotional response (v. 3). It is part of the joyful duty of being in covenant relationship to God. As such, it is something that can be planned for in advance and, to a certain degree, scheduled so as not to be forgotten. Perhaps, you ...

2404. When We're Estranged from God

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... degree are estranged from God. There are some members of this congregation who live very close to God. I am in awe of your spiritual commitment. But let’s not kid ourselves. None of us is perfect. We’re all sinners. There are gaps in our lives, emotions that will not heal, resentments that still fester, prejudices that come to the surface under stress. In a sense we are like snowflakes. Snowflakes are so beautiful and white and look so pure, but every snowflake has a tiny piece of dust at its core. And ...

2405. When We Feel Unwanted

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... Indian girls are able to officially erase their names. Those who are named “Nakusa” or “Nakushi” are allowed to replace that name with a name of their own choosing, a name that tells them they are worthy and accepted. (1) Is there any emotion more devastating than feeling unwanted, rejected especially by those who are supposed to love you? Jesus knew what that was like. His own people rejected him. One who was closest to him betrayed him, another denied him, and, when he needed them most, almost ...

2406. The Servant Leader

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... chance of running into Jesus here than most places.” (3) That’s a pretty good explanation. And it is a challenge to the rest of us. I love the way Ruth Harms Calkin put it in a poem, titled I Wonder: You know, Lord, How I serve You with great emotional fervor in the limelight. You know how eagerly I speak for You at a Women’s Club. You know my genuine enthusiasm at a Bible study. But how would I react, I wonder, if You pointed to a basin of water and asked me to wash the calloused feet of ...

2407. Surprise in a Graveyard

John 20:10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... supreme, as they pealed forth the blessed, the glorious, the triumphant strain, ‘For he shall reign for ever and ever, King of kings! and Lord of Lords! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!’” (6) Most of us couldn’t express it that well, but we’ve experienced that same emotion. It is the music of Easter. It is the joyous surprise of Mary, and Peter and those other 500 believers to whom the risen Christ appeared. And it is the song that rings in our hearts this day, “For he shall reign for ever and ever ...

2408. In the Service

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Coyle, etc. catapult it into a category all its own. It has a castle as a set, the British Isles as scenery, World War I as a backdrop, quirky characters, and enough plot lines to sketch out the Milky Way. Yet while the emotions that drive the characters and their stories are eternally familiar — love, money, desire, ambition, acceptance, success — the social fabric these needs are played out upon are fairly foreign to us. The stark class division between the upstairs and downstairs, between those who ...

2409. Give It Up

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... “types” are actually less about male vs. female, Mars vs. Venus than they are about the different ways human beings act and react to the world. We think about things. We feel things. We take action on things. Our interior convictions and emotions inform our exterior actions. Our mind, marrow and muscles, our heart, head and hands, can never be disconnected. We are bodies. We are spirits. We are souls. Did everyone have pancakes on Tuesday? “Shrove Tuesday” traditionally is the day all the grease ...

2410. John 20:19-31

John 20:19-23

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... (i.e. still hiding) Easter evening when Jesus first appeared to his disciples, Thomas is present a week later, that is, the Sunday after Easter. The Sunday after Easter is commonly known as “Low Sunday.” Exhausted by all the events of Holy Week the emotional roller-coaster ride of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, No-Name Saturday, Easter Sunday the Sabbath after Easter tends to be a bit muted. Plus it’s one of the lowest attended worship services of the year. But for Thomas, “Low Sunday” became the ...

2411. So Send I You

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

2412. The Healing Fountain of Tears

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... wept over Jonathan’s death, Elijah wept, the people of Israel sat down and wept when in Babylon and they remembered Zion, Peter wept bitterly when he denied Jesus, the Magdalen wept at his tomb…Peter wept. Paul, not often portrayed as an emotional person, wept, was wept over, and challenged Christians to “weep with those who weep.” He thanked the Ephesian elders, and testified to serve them with tears for three years. Timothy cried when he left . . . That is why Trevor Hudson says that every person ...

2413. Jailhouse Rock

Acts 16:16-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... In the middle of your prison experience, are you able to sing? Maybe you should. I know that neither Paul nor Silas had ever read a book on bio-feedback, but experts in that field tell us when we express a positive action it produces a positive emotion. Experts tell us that people don’t smile because they feel good, they feel good because they smile. According to a study at Wake Forest University, singing aloud is one of those positive actions that can increase a feeling of well-being. So, when you are in ...

2414. What the Trinity Does

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of that same drive is within every human being, especially males. The most natural thing in the world is our drive for survival. This causes us to lash out against anything or anyone that threatens us. What an amazing transition it is for us to grow spiritually and emotionally to the point that we are able to regard every person as a brother or sister in Christ and not as a threat. That kind of growth rarely comes without struggle. It is part of what Paul would regard as our war with God. But when we are ...

2415. Luke 7:1-10

Luke 7:1-10

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

When we find ourselves in the wrong place, taking a wrong turn or making a wrong decision, we say we have gotten “off track.” Whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, we feel disquieted outside familiar, customary territory. We crave comfort food and the well-worn paths taken with friends and family to help us get back “on track.” In today’s gospel text Luke takes an event that would have made Jesus seem radically “off track” — visiting the ...

2416. Just-Say-The-Word Disciples

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Centurions who will have enough faith to be “Just-Say-The-Word” disciples? ____________________________ COMMENTARY When we find ourselves in the wrong place, taking a wrong turn or making a wrong decision, we say we have gotten “off track.” Whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, we feel disquieted outside familiar, customary territory. We crave comfort food and the well-worn paths taken with friends and family to help us get back “on track.” In today’s gospel text Luke takes an event that ...

2417. Between a Rock and a Hard Rock Thrower

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... tall, stout and bushy-haired and Paul is small, thin and balding. Peter was “blue collar” all the way. He was a small town fisherman with no friends in high places, and no education to speak of. Slow to comprehend at times, he was impetuous and emotional. Yet Peter was also one of those natural born leaders. In every list of the disciples we have, Peter is always named first. From the outset he is their spokesman. Peter followed Jesus with his whole heart, but not always with his whole brain. Paul was ...

2418. Luke 10:25-37

Luke 10:25-37

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... by all Jerusalem-centered Jews. The response of this “unclean” Samaritan to the plight of the wounded man is extraordinary. First, after seeing the man in need he goes closer. Leaning over him he “felt compassion” or “pity.” His emotional response immediately results in action. First, he offers emergency medical care, giving the first-century version of disinfectant (oil and wine) and carefully dressing and binding up the injured man’s wounds. Second, he gives transport, giving up his own ...

2419. What Really Matters

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... is a wonderful story in one of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books that says it all. A father lay staring up at the ceiling. Beside him, his wife was fast asleep, exhausted after the long drive back home. The drive was made even longer by the emotional strain of returning home without their only daughter. It was her first day at the university. It was her first time away from them. The father reminisced about his first day of college. It seemed like a lifetime ago, riding in his father’s rickety old truck ...

2420. Go Hard or Go Home!

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

King Duncan

... jump up and dance around and wave my hands in the air. If I do that at a game people go, ‘He’s a real fan!’ If I do that in church people say, ‘He’s a fanatic! He’s a nut case.’ You don’t want to get too emotional about your faith. It’s ok about anything else but not that.” (4) I think we all can relate to that, and it is a crying shame. That is what is missing in many of us. We have no great driving passion for God. It is not that we are ...

2421. Lean on the Cloud

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of aspirin. But as the emergency Apple “app” warning revealed, we do seem to place faith in our electronics. We have more faith in Artificial Intelligence than human intelligence. We input all of our most private information — personal, financial, medical, emotional, and we trust that it is safely stored away. We routinely hit “send” secure in our faith that our message will go swiftly to its appointed destination without interception or invasion. We trust our family trips to a GPS screen ...

2422. Cure for an Aching Back

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... up at all. That strikes me as an unbelievably sad situation. Forgetting the pain and the inconvenience of not being able to straighten one’s body, imagine what that would do to your self image. Imagine not just the physical pain, but the emotional pain of this kind of obvious deformity of the entire body. Dr. Ralph F. Wilson suggests that this woman’s problem was probably what physician’s today would call Ankylosing Spondylitis, or Marie-Strümpell Disease, a disease that causes bones in the ...

2423. Hebrews 13: 1-8; 15-16

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... an attitude is now elaborated again, but with an emphasis not just on compassion, but outright empathy. Because they are indeed all members of one body, the Body of Christ, believers are not just to extend themselves to prisoners. They are spiritually and emotionally to experience the pain of imprisonment themselves. They are to feel with their hearts and spirits the agonies of those who are tortured. As members of one body those who are free and those who are imprisoned are “bound together” (“syndein ...

2424. The Total Gift

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... baby Jesus. Joseph would raise Jesus as any parent would. Jesus was no ordinary baby. Jesus was God in the flesh. That is what incarnation means — God became one of us in Jesus! During his life Jesus experienced everything that we do, the full range of emotions from grief and despair, to joy and triumph. We are able to closely identify with Jesus knowing that through his life he experienced the same ups and downs that we do. Jesus knows just what we are going through. Jesus is the “Son of God” both ...

2425. Philemon 1:1-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

Historians love digging through boxes in the attic or diving into the bottom of old trunks. Why? Such excavation often results in finding a cache of old letters. Unlike “official” historical documents, personal correspondence reveals the actual thought and emotions of an individual, what they believed and felt and what they actually did rather than say they did. With the advent of e-mail and the accompanying demise of paper correspondence, one wonders how future historians will connect with that level ...

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