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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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1. Life Isn’t Fair

Amos 5:18-27

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Sims Robert

... the devil and all his works?” O’Riley, who was fully conscious, thought for a moment and said, “Frankly, Father, considering the condition I’m in, I’d rather not antagonize anyone right now.” The children of Israel were having a tough time and given the conditions they were in, they could ill afford to antagonize anyone, especially God, but they did. Amos, the prophet, pleaded with them to return to God with their whole heart. He reminded them that they had abandoned God and forsaken his ...

2. Image and Inscription

Matthew 22:15-22

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... his countrymen and women who staggered under the yoke of Roman oppression, who resented paying any sort of tribute or tax, no matter how trivial, to the government occupying their homeland against their will. But to say "No" would be to antagonize the Romans themselves who cared little about First Century Palestine except for maintaining order there and collecting taxes thence to finance their enormous empire and feed its gluttonous military monster. Jesus rejects the simple either/or. "Show me the coin of ...

3. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

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Kent Moorehead

... projected. What do you think would happen? What almost always does happen? His utter selflessness, his exaltation of character qualities above everything else - in short, his style - would be and is decidedly offensive. Some it would merely annoy, others it would seriously antagonize. "Blessed is the man who finds nothing that repels him in me" (Matthew 11:6). Finally, and this is the conclusion of the whole matter, we must sooner or later recognize that the only valid test as to whether we, his so ...

4. The Way, The Truth, And The Life Style

John 14:5-14

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Thomas Long

... a "life," between fitting the pieces together to make a pleasing whole and finding in the whole of life that which makes for peace. As he considered the dilemma, he cited Tolstoy's moving reflection on Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, in which Tolstoy wrote, "The antagonism between life and conscience may be moved in two ways: by a change of life or a change of conscience." Tolstoy chose to preserve his conscience; he began to live like a peasant. But such a fearsome choice, this young man admitted, was out of ...

5. Easter - Fact And Fiction!

Acts 10:34-43

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Barbara Brokhoff

... . All of this Easter bunny, Easter eggs, Easter clothes, Easter sales may seem like harmless fun, but if it diverts our attention from the central truth of what the resurrection of our Lord is all about, then it is no longer harmless. I have no personal antagonism against a cute, little bunny who lays eggs for children - (Do you suppose they really believe that stuff we tell them?) - but it is life and death business (no pun intended) if we allow the rabbit to eclipse the fact of the resurrection! Jesus did ...

6. Redemption Near And Dear

Luke 21:5-38

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Erskine White

... during a season in which it seems that everyone but them is headed home to be with family and friends. I also think of those who face real turmoil when they do go home for what will be, at best, a bittersweet reunion. Their families suffer hurts and antagonisms which date back many years, and holidays always threaten to bring these tensions out into the open. For these people, there will be signs of fear and foreboding during a season which is supposed to be warm and sweet. Finally, I think of all of us who ...

7. Who Is Your King?

Mark 11:1-11

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Erskine White

... burdens, but you yourself do not lift a finger!" (Matthew 23:20. "Woe to you, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear clean and beautiful, but inside are full of the bones of the dead" (23:27). In four short days, Jesus has antagonized both the Roman political leaders and the Jewish religious leaders. He has united them in opposition to Him. If they feared or disliked Him before, now they want Him dead. Jesus knows that regardless of what He does or fails to do, the world is ...

8. Shake It Off!

Matthew 10:1-42

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... to our spiritual progress is our inability to shake off the things done to us by others. We can't get on with our lives because we are still angry and hurt by another's sin against us. We must find ways of redirecting our antagonism into something higher. We must channel our hurt, our anger, our despair, and our disappointment into something positive. Let go. Unpack the baggage. Stop wallowing in the quagmires of the past. Get your passport stamped and move on to higher ground, to your next destination ...

9. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

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Harold Warlick

... in that part of Michigan and Indiana. I dreaded it. I just knew some professors would call in questions I couldn't answer. Or worse yet, some nut would call in a crazy question and get me in a trap that would demand an answer certain to antagonize half the viewers. The interview began with the host asking me, "Uh, what shall I call you: Doctor, Father, Reverend or Preacher Warlick?" Rather innocently I said, "I prefer to be called Hal." You would have thought I had struck him between the eyes with a club ...

10. From Inferiority To Fulfillment

Isaiah 62:1-12

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Ron Lavin

... took the form of panic and flight. "Basically," he said, "I'm always looking for a place - for somewhere to be." The boy had felt rejection by his parents. Vainly he struggled to reconcile to his parents, but the effort proved hopeless. Anger and antagonism were felt by the boy to such an extent that he felt he had no home. The parents' divorce complicated matters considerably because, like many children of divorced parents, he felt he was responsible for their problem. Unconscious forces kept him in a ...

11. The Nearest Hand

Luke 10:25-37

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Carveth Mitchell

... programs, in all the frantic busyness of modern life, we are apt to forget: the need for personal daily kindness and compassion has not diminished. We must not let our zealfor social programs take the place of our personal witnessing, nor let our antagonism to social programs poison our personal compassion. It’s no use saying, "let them fend for themselves." The people who need us most are those who in one form or another have been beaten until they are no longer able - mentally, physically or financially ...

12. The Nearest Hand

Luke 10:25-37

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13. Do I Dare Be Different?

Matthew 5:10; 10:1-42

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Wallace H. Kirby

... are three words that we must not ignore: "Blessed are you if you are persecuted ... for righteousness sake." Persecuted not for the sake of self-righteousness, but the sake of righteousness. I think a lot of us feel at times that some of the antagonism toward Christian people and the church might be spared if Christians would not deliberately go out of their way to provoke it. Sometimes our dogmatism turns us into intellectual bullies. I am always suspicious of the self-professing Christian who knows it all ...

14. Can We Really Get Along?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... country of Galilee up in the northeast corner of Israel. Normally Jews took a circuitous detour on this trip so they could avoid a region called Samaria. The people who lived there, the Samaritans, hated the Jews and the feeling was mutual. The antagonism was even worse than what prevails today between the Jews and the Palestinians. This hatred was all in the family. Both Jews and Samaritans claimed Abraham as their ancestor. But whereas the Jews had kept themselves racially pure by not marrying foreigners ...

15. The Hard-to-Believe Promise

John 14:5-14

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Louis H. Valbracht

... was weakness. That which he thought was weakness was strength. Today our greatest danger, beloved fellow citizens and fellow Christians, is not our weakness. Our greatest danger is our strength! Consider the dangers of power. When Laval asked Stalin not to antagonize the Pope, Stalin merely retorted: "How many divisions does the Pope have?" One of the dangers of power: it makes men overconfident. It blinds their eyes to reality. Samson, in the Old Testament, was supremely confident of his own strength and ...

16. Achieving An All-In Victory - 1952

1 John 5:1-12

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Kent Moorehead

... integrity, uncritically acquiescing in mob behavior, is to pave the way for dictatorship and tyranny. Actually what we see in social behavior is nothing other than a projection of what is going on in individual lives. The tensions, resentments, antagonisms every person has known; the envy, prejudice, hate each individual has indulged; the compromise, confusion, and inner conflict you and I have experienced; all this gets itself compounded with the evil attitudes of other individuals and directly it all ...

17. Is The Social Gospel Out Of Date?

Matthew 6:25-34

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Kent Moorehead

... that would outrage the specially privileged and evoke their vengeance is obviously too much to ask. To tackle a traffic that destroys thousands of human beings every year, but that pays fabulous dividends to its investors, is obviously sheer fanaticism. Why antagonize or alienate some of our wealthiest members by ranting against social drinking, when what they want and need is comfort and peace of mind? To expect the Christian churches to lead in such a controversial issue as desegregation is preposterous ...

18. Preaching Unpopular Truth - 1943

John 18:38

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Kent Moorehead

... ? What? When? How? Why preach unpopular truth? Why not be adroit, skillful, wise, enough to avoid issues that are controversial, disturbing, and inevitably provocative of trouble? There are certainly many matters of importance that may be preached about without creating antagonism and dissension. In tragic hours like the present, when compassion, comfort, and courage to endure are so essential, why not speak the word that blesses rather than the one that burns? "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your ...

19. Courageous Preaching

Isaiah 50:1-11

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... foreign land. It is hard! We are accepted but with great suspicion. In addition we have the language problem. Their style of life and religious practices are strange to us and vice versa. We live "frightened" most of the time. We don’t want to run any risks which might antagonize our hosts. At home we had everything. Here we have next to nothing. Not even a church to worship in. We are homesick for home and the way things used to be. We cry: "It is nothing to you, all you who pass by Look and see if there ...

20. A Man Whose Dreams Came True

Genesis 37:1-11

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R. Blaine Detrick

... Perhaps he should not have told his brothers and his parents about these cheams: it might have been wiser to have kept them to himself. He did, however, share his dreams; as a result, he was hated by his brothers. Dreams often encourage such opposition and antagonism - for us, as well as for Joseph. There are those who will seek to force a person - to force you - to forget or forsake a dream. Many beautiful dreams have been left shattered and crushed, strewn across the pathway of the past. Recall your high ...

21. The Word of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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T. A. Kantonen

... we were yet sinners Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8). Through the cross God wins us back to himself. The redeeming love of the crucified Christ "breaks the power of cancelled sin and sets the prisoner free." Whether we have crucified him with indifference or open antagonism, he loves us too deeply to abandon us. He loves us as we are. He atones and redeems and enables us to live as God’s children. Let us not, then, take offense at the cross when it exposes our hardness of heart, our godlessness, and our ...

22. The Gospel for Labor Day

Matthew 20:1-16

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T. A. Kantonen

... He pays first the men who had come last and gives them each their denarius. If only he had first paid the men who had come first and given each the denarius agreed upon and sent them home, there would have been no quarrel. But he seems deliberately to provoke antagonism. When the men who had stood up for twelve hours to the hot sirocco wind come last and each receives the same wage as those who worked for only one hour in the cool of the late afternoon, trouble was sure to come. What are we to make of this ...

23. Light from the Word

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... for position and efforts to find common ground led Robert Kennedy to believe that Johnson was an inveterate liar. Johnson and his followers, on the other hand, thought of Johnson as a mediator and an excellent negotiator. Robert continued to grow in his antagonism toward Johnson for many reasons. When Johnson did serve as Vice President, President Kennedy did ask him to chair a committee dealing with civil rights. At the time Mr. Johnson’s committee had no legislation to back them up, but did rely on ...

24. The Lightest Touch

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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Harry N. Huxhold

... to extend its domination and influence in the world. Judah should have learned from the Northern Kingdom of Israel what kind of fate awaited a people of its own tradition when they did not heed the word of God. Judah and Israel had suffered great mutual antagonisms, because they were so strongly related both by blood and by the word they had from God. At times they joined forces to ward off common enemies. Yet the Northern Kingdom fell, because the nation had been indifferent to the word of God the prophets ...

25. The Awesome Power Of Love

John 15:1-17

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King Duncan

... Christ to the cross. That's love like unto God's love for you and me. Wouldn't it be tragic in the light of that kind of love, if you and I in the body of Christ could not get along with one another? How trivial our petty antagonisms and animosities are in the shadow of Calvary. "Love one another." What a simple commandment, yet it carries such power. Power to heal minds, souls and bodies. Power to lift us to new planes of accomplishment. I cherish that kind of love for our fellowship and I believe it ...

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