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Synonyms: humiliation, mortification, chagrin, ignominy, loss of face, shamefacedness, embarrassment, indignity, abashment, discomfort, discomfiture, discomposure, guilt, remorse, contrition, compunction, disgrace, dishonour, discredit, degradation, disrepute, ill-repute, infamy, scandal, odium, opprobrium, obloquy, condemnation, contempt, pity, misfortune, crying shame, cause for regret, source of regret, sad thing, unfortunate thing, discredit to, disgrace to, stain on, blemish on, blot on, blot on the escutcheon of, slur on, reproach to, bad reflection on, bring into disrepute, degrade, debase, defame, stigmatize, taint, sully, tarnish, besmirch, stain, blacken, drag through the mud/mire, give a bad name to, put in a bad light, humiliate, mortify, make someone feel ashamed, embarrass, abash, chasten, humble, put someone in their place, take down a peg or two, cut down to size, show up

Antonyms: honor, pride, respect, glory, praise, dignity, honor, esteem, glorification, laud, compliment, regard, credit, elevate, acclaim, pleasure, favor, kudos, recognition, flatter, admiration, greatness, happiness, self-confidence, reverence

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1. The Condemning Heart

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... knows there are people who carry invisible sins all the time sins like envy, sins like bitterness and hatred, sins like having a condemning heart. But God sees those sins. So Christ instructed in Matthew 7: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the ... eye. And you are offended at your neighbor’s speck while ignoring your own two-by-four? In other words, if you have a condemning heart, you are out of sync with the heart of Jesus. Remember the woman at the well. She was a Samaritan and she was a ...

2. No Condemnation!

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... of sinners. You read on, and there is: The prodigal son in the arms of a forgiving father. There is a man with palsy who hears, "Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee." There is the woman taken in adultery who hears from Christ, "Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more." There is the thief on the cross (and that word of grace), "Today you will be with me in paradise." Read on and on, down to the end of the New Testament - and your wonderment can only grow when you consider what it means ...

3. The Broken

John 8:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... , the jury has gone and all of a sudden she had gone from the courtroom to the judge’s chambers. She is awaiting the verdict, which has to be guilty, because she was caught in the act. In fact, she is pleading guilty, but the Judge says, “I don’t condemn you.” If you have ever wondered how God reacts when you fail, when you blow it, when you mess up, when you are guilty then you ought to frame these words and hang them on the wall of your heart. When you fess up to your mess up these are ...

4. Shame On Who?

John 8:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... not to judge the liar, we are to judge his lying. Even though we are not to judge the adulterer, we are to judge his adultery. Even though we are not to judge the homosexual, we are to judge his homosexuality. Don't think you have to be perfect to condemn sin. Condemning sin is not the same as judging the sinner. I want you to write this statement down in big, bold letters and never forget it. GOD LOVES US JUST THE WAY WE ARE, BUT HE LOVES US TOO MUCH TO LET US STAY THAT WAY. It is not my ...

5. Good News about Christ

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... we can do is call for help.” (7) Do you understand that God calls this church to be a “rescue team”? That is who we are and what we are about. And so we celebrate Christ’s reign over the world. Jesus is God incarnate. Jesus came not to condemn, but to save. And we are those who are called to serve as Christ’s rescue team, seeking to save the least and the lost. Go forth and be Christ’s people. 1. THE JOKESMITH. 2. Michael Kurtz, http://www.mts.net/~flcwin/2002%20Archive.html. 3. Cited by Larry ...

6. God So Loved the World

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." Judgment there shall be, but judgment is not to be my message or the Church’s message. Listen to the way John puts it. "... the one who does not believe is condemned already, because he or she has not believed in the name of the only Son of God" (John 3:18). We do not have to judge people. People judge themselves. We judge ourselves by not believing in Jesus Christ as our Savior. The last section of our reading ...

7. No Longer Damned

Romans 8:1-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

... that belonged to other people. Can you help me sort out which one belongs to God, and which one does not? It's a mystery to me. I think only God can sort it out. All I can say is Romans, chapter 8, verse 1: "Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Tony Campolo tells the story somewhere about getting a phone call at home. A voice said, "We need a minister. Our friend died, and we need a minister to do the funeral." "When's the funeral?" Tony asked. "Tomorrow." Tony said, "I ...

8. Paradise Promise

Luke 23:33-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... man hope, the hope for a different, renewed, reconstructed life, a hope for a new tomorrow, a hope that he might have a new chance, the hope for eternal life. The man had done nothing in his life to deserve it. And neither do we. He had been condemned justly. And goodness knows, so are we. But all of that is erased away by the Word of Jesus. Jesus has the power, the presence, and the grace to take our weary, wretched, guilty souls and to transfigure them into shining beacons of eternal hope. He has the ...

9. Some Women's Stories

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Carl Jech

... of some general principle. We have not walked in their shoes. We do not know the total situation of the woman accused of adultery in the presence of Jesus. Perhaps Jesus did know. When he told her to go her way and sin no more he was not necessarily condemning what she had done to get in the fix she was in. The author of the story may be thinking of Jesus as being aware of extenuating circumstances. (The Gospel of John does have a rather lofty notion of Jesus' God-like special powers.) But regardless of all ...

10. OUR LORD SMITTEN

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... moon the night before. A sense of urgency pressed the centurion, and he shouted to his men to hurry the procession along. He felt nothing else. Just the urgency to be done with it. At best, it was a tedious task and he would have to stay until the condemned were dead. Other times this had taken as long as two or three days, a dreary vigil to keep guarding the living dead who would not die. At last they mounted the top of the rock-strewn hill, where three holes had been dug, large upright beams laying one ...

11. A Blood That Passes Over

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... over their past errors and sins. And so it is with Christ our lamb of God who passes over the sins of our disobedience, our own complicity with the slavery of sin. It is the blood of Christ that passes over our sin, that lifts the eternal condemnation and penalty of death that sin warrants and wages. It is the blood of Christ, our unblemished paschal lamb whose sacrifice and blood become the sources of atonement, or at-one-ment, with his people. The blood of Christ provides a way out of the eternal penalty ...

12. Thou Shalt Not Judge - True or False?

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... :34) I would add, and to refuse to deal with sin and to punish sin, is an even greater reproach. Any nation that says character doesn't matter is a nation that has lost its character. There is a moral to all of this. If you want to escape the condemning judgment of God, you had better judge yourself as a sinner in need of a Savior, and accept the Lord Jesus as your Savior. Because if you do not, you, too, will face the consequences of your actions, and you will face God as your Judge. 1 Julia Duin, "America ...

13. The Plank

Matthew 5:38-48; 7:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... finger on a thorn when we’re trying to smell the roses, don’t we? In our culture today, we are quick to condemn. There is nothing we enjoy more than toppling the people we’ve put on the pedestals. But Jesus is all about grace. You ... you want God to have mercy on you in all of your faults and all of your pain, then you have no business criticizing or condemning anyone else for theirs. Or in another way: God has bestowed upon you abundant forgiveness, love, grace, and mercy. Now, it’s your job to ...

14. Hate Evil

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... it cannot believe in itself. Nothing in the world is trustworthy. Even our best friends let us down. That is just the way it is. But God is perfectly willing to sweep all that aside. "Indeed," says the evangelist, "God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him." God's love for the world is so great that he is perfectly willing to cover the situation for us. God provides the way out of our perishable, darkened and futile life by giving us ...

15. Give Them Good News...

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... offer people Christ. In a thousand different ways to make Christ such a vivid reality to others that they will have to say either "Yes" or "No" to him. Sometimes those of us who are a part of the church offer the world only sin and guilt and judgment and condemnation. Our message is all bad news. We neglect the good news about God's love and power to forgive. We fail to lift up for others the hope of a New Way of Life in Christ. I remember a lady from my youth who was a brilliant witness for Christ ...

16. On Doing the Truth

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... -righteous folks who make a hobby of pointing their fingers at other people and pointing out all of the sins and shortcomings of the world. The truly Christian person has no need to do that. By his or her very presence, the rest of us stand condemned. And our quick criticisms of such persons may well stem from our own sense of guilt about how far short we have fallen from the standard of Christ. Alcibiades, the spoilt Athenian genius who was a companion of Socrates, would say to his teacher, “Socrates, I ...

17. The World’s Favorite Scripture

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... plane, still hot and bitterly angry at the audacity of this man, until she sat down, buckled her seatbelt, reached into her purse for a tissue, and there was her bag of cookies. [4] Now there is a moral to all of this. If you want to escape the condemning judgment of God, you had better judge yourself as a sinner in need of a Savior, and accept the Lord Jesus as that Savior; for then you will never have to face Him as your judge. [1] Jonathan Alter, "In the Time of Intolerance," Newsweek, March 30, 1998, p ...

18. Who Will Cast the First Stone?

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... than the kingly silence of Jesus and his willingness to let the vicious nature of the mob be shifted from the woman to him. But let’s bring it even closer home and probe deeper our own disposition. Why is it that we find it so easy to judge and condemn, so difficult to love and forgive when we know that that is the only way of redemption? I’m not talking about criminals and prisons now. I’m talking about how we live from week to week. Look at the events of your life during the past two or three ...

19. "The Loneliness Of Injustice"

Psalm 26:1-12, Mark 14:53-65

Sermon

R. Sheldon MacKenzie

... paralyzed man. He had done then, according to them, what otherwise only God can do. He was claiming now what no person had the right to claim,-- a special place in relation to God. Jesus was not yet condemned to death,-- the court seems not to have had that authority. And so it condemned him as deserving death. They needed only the means of inflicting the death penalty. In the meantime, they began to treat him as if his death had already been decided. When confronted with the tales of false witnesses, Jesus ...

20. Turn Out the Lights! The Party's Over!

Daniel 5:1-31

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... In John 3:36 we read, "Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him." But here comes the good news, as declared by St. Paul to the Romans and to us: "There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus…" (Romans 8:1) How can you be sure that you are forgiven and eternally saved? It is so clear in Romans 10:9—"If you confess with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the ...

21. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... with those closest to you at work and at home. We can’t help but see in others the flaws that are unaddressed in our own soul. We see the world as we are. The lenses inside our heads are clouded; sin blinds us to the truth. So when you condemn someone in the privacy of your thoughts, even more if you hear it come out of your mouth in an unguarded moment, recognize that it says more about your spiritual pride and sickness than about any flaw in the other person. Let it be a warning that something is wrong ...

22. Conviction with Compassion

John 8:1-11

Sermon

James McCormick

... this is the key point, and the third thing I want to say: if our high standards are violated by others, if sins are committed, we are never justified in cutting the offenders off from our love and concern. The proper Christian response is not condemnation, but forgiveness; not a sneer, but a tear! Everyone must be welcome in the community of faith. No one must be excluded. What looks and sounds like Jesus? Jesus never excluded anyone. And, after all, the community of faith is where you get new life. Where ...

23. Rebirth

John 3:14-21

Sermon

John Jamison

... that he sent his only Son to save it, and then turns around and says that those people who do not believe in him will be condemned. We need to look at the full story, and learn what was actually going on, to see if that helps us make sense out of ... and revealing who they really were. If a person could truly believe that God loved them regardless of their mistakes, instead of condemning them, that would truly be like being born a second time. And at that moment, something began to change inside Nicodemus. Some ...

24. God So Loved

John 3:16-17

Sermon

Will Willimon

... ashes, whips, the sacrifice of an after-dinner martini or a chocolate bar that we are here. It was love that put us in this parade. We kneel not as miserable worms but as those brought to their knees by the sheer wonder of the gift. It was not to condemn us that our Lord bid us bear his cross, but to save us. We are here not as the lost but as the found. The cross is heavy, and clouds gather, and we shall have more days for honesty, more Sundays to examine our lives again and to pray for ...

25. The First Murder - 1940

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... and our inability to see all of the truth about any man that Jesus laid down the great imperative: "Judge not lest ye be judged, for with what judgment ye judge, ye yourself shall be judged" (Matthew 7:1). In the second place, we must condemn the sin but we must never condemn the sinner. We must forgive him. To apologize for a man is never for his sin. If he has done wrong it ought to be frankly recognized. But to say "You are evil, all evil, because you have done wrong," is something else again. We ought ...

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