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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. Sustaining the Weary with a Word

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... eyes to convey comfort to those who are hurting and lost. I did not hide my face. Why should I hide my face from the faces of those whose mouths mock and spit at me and whose teeth are clenched? There is no shame in my face. There is no disgrace in my brow. There is no terror in my eyes. Why should I drop my head in humiliation? Why should I hide my eyes from thee? Why should I look towards the ground instead of the heavens whence I have been called to do your work? Why should I not ...

2. How to Make Heaven Happy

Luke 15:1-10

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James Merritt

... 've even used the word "dirty" to describe bad things. We will talk about "dirty films," "dirty magazines." Or sometimes a girl will lose her virginity and say, "I feel so dirty." That's because sin makes us dirty. But this coin was also lost in disgrace. Jesus speaks of this woman having "ten silver coins." Now these were not just any ten coins. They had a tremendous sentimental significance. In that day when a husband took a bride, she did not receive a diamond ring. She would receive a headband with ten ...

3. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

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Carl Jech

... the manna in the wilderness, I believe we are confronted with the issue of anger. How are we to understand the wrath, the anger, the disgrace which seems to be as much a part of God's nature as is love and grace? How can we cope with our own mixed ... of love and anger toward each other and toward God? How are we to comprehend the tension between the Cross as grace and the Cross as disgrace? In a sense, the real question before us is whether or not it is even correct to think of anger as a part of the shadow ...

4. Till Death Do Us -- Unite

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... escapes, all nations will die, and we are covered up. The shroud refers to what the executioner puts over the condemned man's face before the rope is pulled or the switch flipped. We are all condemned people, "for the wages of sin is death." Death was a disgrace for Jesus, too, hanging naked on the cross. That's why they had to get him off before the Sabbath sundown. But death isn't all there is. Death for the Christian, though unpleasant to go through, is really just that, a "going through" to the other ...

5. Death Shall Be No More

Isaiah 25:1-12

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E. Carver McGriff

... profound word, that of Isaiah, then: "He will swallow up death forever. Then the Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces, and the disgrace of his people he will take away from all the earth..." Of course this is Easter and supposed to be a day of joy and hope ... Son of God know which to choose, and he promised life beyond. Isaiah also pledged that God will take away the disgrace of his people. In other words, we need not fear the judgment. Judgment: that's another matter for faith alone. Shakespeare ...

6. Take a Close Look (At the Widow)!

Mark 12:41-44

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James W. Robinson

... may be the Hebrew belief that death before old age was a calamity, a judgment for sin which was extended to the wife that was left. It was therefore a disgrace to be a widow."[1] The word "widow" itself implies disgrace. " ‘Widow’ in Hebrew resembles the word meaning ‘be mute’ ... suggesting the muteness induced by disgraceful widowhood."[2] Although the highest of Hebraic religious thought did indeed recognize the plight and special needs of the widow, it is probable that the widow of Mark’s ...

7. The Gift Of Inadequacy

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... -and-white striped beard and rumpled seersuckers, dreamily plodding to the altar rail in his squishy-sounding yellow Wallabees, or thoughtfully munching his donut at coffee hour, oblivious to the steady snowfall of powdered sugar down the length of his necktie, was in disgrace. It was the other members of the congregation who acted differently, either going out of their way to be too cordial to the professor, as if it had just become public knowledge that he had a fatal disease, or else darting him prurient ...

8. How To Fail Successfully

Mark 6:7-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... there comes a time to stop trying. When nothing moves, it's time to move on. When nothing works, it's time to change... It is no disgrace to admit defeat and to face the fact that we have failed. Love has a right to be wrong and if we cannot be wrong, we will ... I tried to figure out what could have gone wrong with Papa's call. In my mind, the ministry had somehow been disgraced." For ten years he had shepherded and loved that congregation, but now they didn't want him anymore. When Margaret arrived home, ...

9. The Agony of Defeat

2 Samuel 11-12, 1 Kings 15:5

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James Merritt

... church." You are either an argument for Christianity or an argument against Christianity. You are either a stepping stone or you are a stumbling block. Every time a Christian sin, every time a man of God falls, it displeases God's heart, it despises God's word, it disgraces God's name. But don't lose sight of the fact that David was forgiven. Years ago in Ohio a teenage boy came home drunk one night from the senior prom. He asked his mother to forgive him, but it happened again and again. By the time he ...

10. Houston We Have a Problem

Nehemiah 1:1-11

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James Merritt

... to attack, and open to harassment. Because of this, the people were discouraged. Whenever an army would finally take a city, the first thing they would do, would be to destroy the walls. Broken down walls were a disgrace. In this case, not only a disgrace to the people of God, but a disgrace to God Himself. Let me just share with you how important walls can be. Think about it. Walls Of Fidelity - Protect Marriage Walls Of Marriage - Protect The Family Walls Of The Family - Protect The Community Walls Of The ...

11. Gateway to Grace

Joshua 5:9-12

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... their heritage; to enter into the gateway toward freedom. Because they were ready to walk through that gateway, to cross Jordan and claim God's promises, the scripture tells us: "The Lord said to Joshua, 'Today I have rolled away from you the disgrace of Egypt.' And so that place is called Gilgal to this day" (Joshua 5:9). The disgrace of Egypt was still on them, despite their escape from that land, because they were still slaves to their past. Crossing Jordan, entering the gateway, they put away the ...

12. The Spice of Death

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... the body of Jesus to a garden and placed his body in a fresh tomb in which no one had been laid. That was a bold gesture that could cost Joseph the loss of a job and his prestige in the community. Likewise, Nicodemus may have been disgraced in the ruling order of the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin for participating in this right. That did not matter now. Joseph and Nicodemus did what the disciples did not hang around to do. The disciples had fled for their lives. Joseph and Nicodemus had remained that they ...

13. Shameless Passion

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... to reality. She gives her all to be everything to everyone! That's passion! Jesus was passionate too. Our text delineates three areas in his life: 1) passion to hear and listen to his Father; 2) passion to give his life willingly; 3) passion not to be disgraced nor let his children be shamed. Let's look at these three longings of Jesus and hear God speak to us. He Heard And Listened To His Father The only reason Jesus could be passionate about his mission and ministry, even though he only had three years ...

14. No Particular Place To Go

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Timothy J. Smith

... to escape from the consequences. It's always easier to run from the past than to confront it head on. During that time she lost touch with her family. Pat realized that she caused her family plenty of pain and heartache. She not only disgraced herself; she had disgraced her entire family. Pat ran away from her family and her painful past. Five years later Pat once again became involved in an illegal act. Her past caught up with her. Pat found herself without a home or personal possessions. It was at this ...

15. Not

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... Trusted In God's Deliverance - So Can We Isaiah's suffering servant and our Savior believed in ultimate triumph. "But their insults cannot hurt me because the Sovereign Lord gives me help. I brace myself to endure them. I know that I will not be disgraced. For God is near, and he will prove me innocent. Does anyone dare bring charges against me? Let us go to court together! Let him bring his accusations! The Sovereign Lord himself defends me - who then can prove me guilty?" He knows that deliverance is ...

16. The Secret of Survival

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... That is why, when the Israelites crossed the river Jordan and first set foot on the Promised Land, they called the place Gilgal, which means, "rolled away." In our text, the Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have removed from you the disgrace of being slaves in Egypt." God had rolled away the disgrace of being enslaved. God had rolled away the waters of the Red Sea. God had rolled away the waters of the river Jordan. Just as for us Christians, God rolled away the stone from the door of the tomb, and he released ...

17. A Princely Passion

2 Samuel 13:1-22

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... deed to David, who was no moral paragon himself, as we have already seen in the sordid Bathsheba tale. Amnon did none of these things. What he did do was kick the disgraced Tamar out of his private palace with the violence of Pat Summerall kicking a pigskin through the uprights. The disgraced princess was forced to take refuge with her brother Absalom. David revealed his parental pusillanimity by refusing to discipline the undisciplined rapist Amnon. Amnon sulked in his playboy mansion, while Tamar wailed ...

18. Bitter-Sweet Recollections

Isaiah 50:1-11

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Barbara Brokhoff

... plucked out the beard; I did not hide my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord God will help Me; Therefore I will not be disgraced; Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed. He is near who justifies Me; who will ... was painful and shameful. The Greeks named the cross foolish, the Jews called it a curse, and the Romans said it was a disgrace. The Romans felt it was so shameful, in fact, that only slaves, aliens, and foreigners could die on a cross. A Roman citizen, ...

19. Amazing Grace

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... depths in search of a new sensation ... I grew careless of the lives of others. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on ... I ceased to be lord over myself ... I allowed pleasure to dominate me. I ended in horrible disgrace.1 A denial of grace is "disgrace." Listen to Sir Kenneth Clark speaking in his autobiography, recently published: I had a religious experience. It took place in the church of San Largo, but did not seem to be connected with the harmonious beauty of the architecture. I can only ...

20. Called into Friendship

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... . We must be willing to share everything with him - our worst as well as our best. There was a young man who had disgraced himself in a serious crime and then tried to conceal it from everyone, especially the person whom he admired most of all. He ... . My wife left me and took the children. I’ll kill myself one of these days." And on went the sad story of uncontrolled destruction and disgrace. When he finished, Dick said, "Tom, look at me. You know what I was like in the old days, just the same as you are now ...

21. The Home Under God

Matthew 6:5-15

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T. A. Kantonen

... failed has made him exert every ounce of his strength to make good. God, says Christ, is like that. "No earthly father loves like thee, No mother, e’er so mild Bears and forbears as thou hast done With me, thy sinful child." We have betrayed him and disgraced his name, yet he continues to trust us and to give us new opportunities. He knows our worst and still believes in our best. Many of the dark things in life, the trials and sufferings that come to us, serve his fatherly purpose of bringing us to our ...

22. Light for Beauty

Isaiah 62:1-12

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Harry N. Huxhold

... message about restoration that is the subject of the reading we have before us today. What the prophet wrestled with is how the people could understand the nature of their reconciliation with God. This was no easy task. A nation destroyed, taken into exile, and disgraced as being a nation no more would find it difficult to think of the possibility of being restored as a people. One does not have to be very old to recognize how often the maps of Europe, Asia, and Africa are changed by military and political ...

23. All That From A Little Bit Of Water?

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... us. There is a humorous story about Sam Houston, the hero of the Texas fight for independence in the 19th century. Houston had been an up-and-coming young politician in Tennessee. He was governor of Tennessee when his wife left him. Houston left his office in disgrace and lived with the Indians for many years. The Indians called him the "Big Drunk." But he finally made a new life in Texas, married a very religious woman, became a senator and yes, the city of Houston is his namesake. When he was well into ...

24. If Only -- In Spite Of

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... thorns of grief -- for the pointless death of a child, a husband, a wife. Others are thorns of betrayal... "A thorn can be a divorce, long past, that still poisons the blood-stream of our lives. A thorn can be a child we think has disgraced us, or one we think we have disgraced. A thorn can be any lapse of judgment or mistake. The way we treasure mistakes sometimes makes me think they are the holiest things in our past. "You see what I'm getting at: In this world there are things hoped for, and things stuck ...

25. Love One Another

Luke 7:36-50

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James W. Moore

... Help! Help!” A neighbor walking by heard his cry and looked down in there and said, “John, is that you? I can’t believe you are down there. Look at you down there in that ugly hole… an embarrassment to your family, an embarrassment to yourself. You are a disgrace!” And the neighbor really told him off. Then he went on into town and told everybody about it and how he told him off, and he said, “I’ve been wanting to say that for years!” It was quite a speech, but John was still in the hole ...

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