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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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2451. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... form from the dark of the Deep. Just as Jesus breath fills you now. You long for it. You know you do. There is a beauty and a beckoning to God’s love for us that is so much more than reason can explain, so much more than a moral compass or a reasoned doctrine. God is the eternal alpha and omega, the Root of the Tree of Life, the Bright Morning Star that lights up the heavens. As God dances with Creation, the Song of Songs emerges, a song older than time, and eternal as the Heavens themselves. When you ...

2452. Tale of the Tares

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Matthew’s Witness to Jesus’ Instruction on the Coming Harvest Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest ...

2453. Big Spender

1 Kings 10:14-29, 1 Kings 11:1-13, Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’ “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the ...

2454. Caring for the Vineyard We Did Not Plant

Matthew 20:1-16, Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ) God’s Laws of Mercy (Exodus 23) The Unkempt Vineyard (Proverbs 24:30-31) Psalm 115: The Lord Will Bless Us Psalm 65: The Lord’s Bounty Psalm 80: The Transplanted Vine of Israel The Song of God’s Vineyard (Isaiah 5) Be Generous in Your Love and Compassion Paul Says (2 Corinthians 9) Jesus’ Parable of Vineyard Workers “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his ...

2455. Dusted

Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and His Family (Genesis 18-19) Shimei Casts Dirt Upon David for His Deed (2 Samuel 16) Elijah Confronts Ahab and Jezebel (1 Kings 18) Psalm 30: The Lord Turns Wailing into Dancing Psalm 44: Lord Raises Us from the Dust Psalm 103: The Lord has Compassion and Remembers that We are Dust Psalm 113: The Lord Raises the Needy from the Dust Psalm 119: Follow the Lord for the Enduring Reward God’s Warning to Samaria and Jerusalem (Micah 1) The Crowd Tosses Dust at Paul’s Proclamation (Acts 22) Image Exegesis ...

2456. The Excellent Meal Ticket

Genesis 37:1-11, Genesis 37:12-36, John 21:15-25, Mark 8:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... them at his feet; and he healed them. 31 The people were amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled made well, the lame walking and the blind seeing. And they praised the God of Israel. 32 Jesus called his disciples to him and said, “I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may collapse on the way.” 33 His disciples answered, “Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to ...

2457. Metathesiophobia

Ecclesiastes 11:1-6, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... not learned how to offer this new kind of people grace and love. And it has not learned how to encourage this new kind of people to invest in faith, and in a faith community, in Jesus, and in a mission that summons their sense of care and compassion, vulnerability and vision. The Church has become a “wall flower” in the digital dance of 21st century culture. It does not know the steps and is afraid to make a move. It has become paralyzed and immobile and finds itself more and more on the sidelines. The ...

2458. Written on the Palms of His Hands

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , these symbols reminded the wearer of something or someone important to them in their lives, something they never wanted to forget, or never would forget! God too has “hand tattoos”! Listen to the words of Isaiah: “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! Behold! I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me!” (Isaiah 49:6) God inscribes us –not just our names but our very ...

2459. The Politics of Love

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... just the kind that restores human dignity and demonstrates universal care. Jesus takes it far beyond that. Jesus advocates a politics of love that is self-sacrificing, that stands in the face of injustice and hate and returns it with love, forgiveness, advocacy, and compassion. Even on the cross, Jesus makes his own atonement plea to God: “Forgive them. They don’t know what they’ve done!” As disciples of Jesus, our Lord and Savior calls us to a different kind of politics, a politics of love. To love ...

2460. Serpentine Soul

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... bronze in Rev 1:14-15. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text The Story of the Bronze Serpent (Numbers 21) Minor Text The First Covenant Given to Moses (Exodus 34) Psalm 41: God’s Grace Toward Those Who Sin Psalm 103: The Lord’s Compassion Psalm 116: The Lord is Gracious Psalm 147: The Lord Gathers the Outcasts of Israel The Scripture Jesus References as a Warning to the Pharisees and Scribes About the Priestly Function and Sacrificial Tradition in Jerusalem (Hosea 6) God’s Grace is for All Those ...

2461. The Physician

Isaiah 38:1-22, Matthew 8:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... as Divine Healer, with the power of God within him to heal and to save. By placing his hands upon both heart and lungs, Jesus reminds us that He is restorer of our heart, and breather of our Holy Breath. He embodies both the Mystery of Life and yet the compassion of a God who walks beside us, puts hands upon us, and seeks to be with us in a kind of intimate and loving relationship that defies all human logic. And no matter how tattered our image of Jesus may become, no matter how we discard him, tear him ...

2462. Raison d’Etre

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... we grow toward the light, or will we grow toward the darkness? It’s up to us. In Jesus Christ, God has shown us the direction God wants us to evolve. God has shown us how to live if we want to orient the universe toward light and love, toward compassion and generosity and hope. God has shown us, in other words, the path to God’s kingdom, to authentic human living. In fact, Jesus tells us, in today’s gospel lesson that his way is not just the preferred way of living and evolving, it is not just God’s ...

2463. Rock of Salvation

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... sledge hammer. It was used to fend off wild animals from sheep herds, to protect them from harm, and as a tool to make way through difficult terrain. In essence, the “rod” was an authority, power, justice kind of tool, as opposed to the “staff” which was the compass and leading tool of the shepherd. God does not tell Moses to take up the staff, as he later does with the defeated poisonous snake on it, but God tells Moses to take up the rod, the symbol of God’s power and authority, and a “weapon ...

2464. Priceless!

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... the world’s third richest man, Warren Buffett. Buffett has an estimated net worth of $83.3 billion. That’s a great deal of money. Somehow, with all that money, Buffett has managed to maintain many of his Midwestern values as well as a wonderful sense of compassion. Buffett is a wise man when it comes to money. People pay small fortunes to solicit his advice. So he has been dubbed “the Oracle of Omaha.” How much would it be worth to you to have lunch with Warren Buffett? It’s interesting. Each year ...

2465. God’s HS Smart App is Always Watching

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... evil is made better with more evil, that darkness is overcome by the bonding to the dark, or that the answer to killing is more killing. All of us know in the deepest corner of our hearts that good is the only power stronger than evil, and that compassion is the power that changes a darkened heart. In the most recent Star Wars movie, the “Rise of Skywalker,” we see the characters of both Rey and Kylo Ren struggling with who they are, with the good and dark forces that lie within each of them. But in ...

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

Albert Camus

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Albert Schweitzer

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

Amy Grant

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Andre Maurois

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

Andrea Thompson

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Anthony de Mello

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

Anton Chekhov

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