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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. Guilt: How to Keep Your Conscience Clear

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... either a clear conscience or none at all.1 Perhaps the most powerful and poisonous of all human emotions is the emotion of guilt. Guilt can make a person afraid of their own shadow. There is a story told of the time when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the ... thing either. I want to get even, to be made even, whole, my debts paid (whatever it may take!), to have no blemish, no reason to feel guilt or fear….I’d like to stand in the sight of God to know that I’m just and right and clean. When you’re this way ...

2. Guilt And Grace

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... disciplining the children: either that we have disciplined them too much, or haven't disciplined them enough? And that's only one of many things that can make a parent feel guilty. A book titled How to Be a Guilty Parent listed 85 different types of parent guilt. Like "Working Mother Guilt." That's what happens when you get a telephone call that goes: "Hello, Mom? Is that you, Mom? I can hardly remember your voice any longer! Now, I know you don't like me to bother you at work, Mom, but, I've really got to ...

3. Lifting the Burden of Guilt

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... to you now, ‘Your sins are forgiven, go and sin no more.’ He will forgive you and sustain you." I never found out who called me that night. I hope she got the message and found her peace. How did Jesus handle those people who came to him paralyzed by guilt? Here is the picture (Mark 2:1-13). Jesus is preaching to a large crowd in someone’s home. Four friends are trying to carry a paralyzed friend to Jesus for healing. The crowd is too great. They can’t get near the Master. They climb up on the flat ...

4. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... the ATM, their bumper still attached to the chain, and their license plate still attached to the bumper. If we don't like the idea of God punishing us, we will certainly find a way for someone else to get the job done. Likewise we can try to serve our guilt away. We'll be as good as good can be, and make up for our mistakes. We'll get forgiveness the old-fashioned way, the Smith Barney way: We'll earn it. This much is certain: We'll make ourselves miserable in the attempt. As a young monk, Martin Luther ...

5. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it is the gift of God— [9] not the result of works, so that no one may boast. Peter learned what Grace is all about. His guilt was wiped away forever. Batman on the other hand need to hear what Paul writes in Romans 8:1-2 (NRSV) [1] There is therefore ... life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Who do you line up more with Batman, Driven by Guilt? Or Peter, Driven by Grace? My hope is that you have experienced the forgiving grace of God. And your life is lived in gratitude for ...

6. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we do not allow the Lord to examine us in this way, we become prisoners of our sin -- but we also set ourselves up for a pervasive guilt and shame that will eventually mar our lives. But to know our sin, doesn't mean that we have to wallow in it. We must trust ... . And that leads me to the final thing I would say today -- a call to each one of us. If we're going to deal with guilt and shame we're going to have to be patient. First, we're going to have to be patient with ourselves -- we're going to have ...

7. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it is the gift of God— [9] not the result of works, so that no one may boast. Peter learned what Grace is all about. His guilt was wiped away forever. Batman on the other hand need to hear what Paul writes in Romans 8:1-2 (NRSV): [1] There is therefore ... in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Who do you line up more with Batman, Driven by Guilt? Or Peter, Driven by Grace? My hope is that you have experienced the forgiving grace of God. And your life is lived in gratitude for ...

8. Come Forward to God's Throne Where There Is Grace (Relief for Guilt)

Hebrews 4:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Today’s English version translates that: “Let us be brave, then, and come forward to God’s throne where there is grace. Now, let me be bold in sounding my thesis. Most of us are ridden with guilt because we do not accept the fact that at God’s throne there is grace. It’s a deep religious question - perhaps the deepest of all religious questions, having to do with the nature of God Let me tell you two stories: One of them comes from South ...

9. Who Will Take Away This Burden Of Guilt?

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... us some day when we ask him about our sins. "I don't have any record of your ever having done wrong." Do you believe that? Do you believe, as our lesson for the day teaches, that he has taken away your sin forever? Then why not leave your guilt, your shame, your constant selfberatement here at his altar today. You can rid yourself of it through the power and the grace that only He can give. Forgiveness begins at the foot of the cross. Why not experience that forgiveness today? 1. PAUL HARVEY'S FOR WHAT IT'S ...

10. A Woman Burdened with Guilt

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... m thinking about people who are the victims of grinding poverty. Perhaps she had been sexually abused as a child. We don’t know what brought this woman to this place in her life. But we do know that she had not hardened herself to it. She still felt guilt. She still felt regret. She still longed to be made clean. Simon the Pharisee obviously wasn’t willing to cut her any slack. “If this man were a prophet,” he said to himself huffily, “he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is ...

11. Forgiveness: Human and Divine

Matthew 6:12-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... sends Jesus Christ, His supreme salvation, so that by putting our faith and trust in him we can have that forgiveness, that cleansing from guilt and sin and be made whole in him. The New Testament uses five major words for sin. One means to miss the goal ... changed and to be more appealing and more acceptable to him, and to prove the love that they now have for the Lord. The old guilt is the kind that is hopeless. It''s accusing of self, accusing of others. The Godly sorrow is the kind that seeks to change in ...

12. In Praise of Feeling Guilty

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... push for our own autonomy, to take responsibility for ourselves, to seek for better ways of doing things, and on the other hand, senseless rebellion that leads to destruction of self - and others. 2) Now to consider Cathy’s question: "Where does all the guilt come from?" Guilt is a uniquely human experience! "Oh," you say, "not so! Nothing looks as guilty as my dog when I scold him, as he slinks with his tail between his legs, or cowers or hides." Ah, there is the difference - he "cowers" - this is guilty ...

13. Estranged Hands

Psalm 143:1-12

Sermon

... 5): "I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done." If we, together with King David the writer, take but just a few moments and meditate briefly on the gracious activities of our God, we can find great comfort and reassurance even in the face of guilt. God gave up his own Son. Will he fail now to forgive and restore us as his people? The price has been paid. What more needs to be done than for us to accept this gracious gift of our Lord? When we consider all the history of God's grace ...

14. Of Mice and Men

Hebrews 10:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Yancey began to view pain not as an enemy but as the language the body uses to alert us when something needs attention. “The very unpleasantness of that language makes it effective: pain‑sensitive people almost never duplicate the injuries of leprosy patients,” says Yancey. (3) Guilt is to the soul what pain is to the body. It tells us that something is wrong and needs to be dealt with. And if we ignore that inner voice that tells us that something is wrong, then we do it at our own peril. A teacher ...

15. Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Last!

Genesis 45:1-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... an accurate warning of evil. The Psalmist sings, "Thy word have I hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against thee." Good guilt is really good. It serves a positive function. It highlights our sins and weaknesses -- our need of God's grace both to forgive and ... theme of the entire story: The hand of God, which decides to lead to a gracious end, ends all the confusion of human guilt. Joseph wishes to concentrate all attention on that which is most important: the leading of God, which had made use of all ...

16. The Miracle of Salvation

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

... . It is an inescapable problem - or it is until we discover the escape from it that has been provided. And oddly enough that escape comes in the form of a cross. I I suppose that the first thing we must say about the cross is this: IT DEFINES OUR GUILT: IT SHOWS US THE DEPTH OF OUR SIN. We’ve said all along that miracles are often quite ordinary in appearance to the non-believer. It is only through the eye of faith that God’s intervention in history is shown. Even though many of us have misunderstood it ...

17. Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hell!

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... you but you know that it makes you the worse for it." Arthur Walker was experiencing his little bit of hell out of the guilt that was gnawing away at his soul. So was Kathleen Spiker. She was a young woman 26 years of age. She and another woman ... s able to assuage that sense of loneliness you have and bring you to joy and great peace within. He''s able to take away that gnawing guilt you feel in your soul, and when he does, it will be a glorious feeling indeed. A man who had been a devoted pastor for 50 ...

18. Unfettered Faith

Mark 1:35-39, Mark 1:40-45, Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... beautiful people of God, but as partial persons, lonely and burdened. This can also be the case when we do something wrong. Our guilty conscience can literally eat us up inside. Some sins are placed upon us. If you were abused as a child, you bear shame and guilt that are not yours (but sins of the father or mother). Yet you bear that shame upon yourself. The reality then of sin is that it can be with or without actual fault! Sin is a condition, and like the condition of leprosy, can be healed (made clean ...

19. Washed By Water: The Jordan

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... God's forgiveness makes us shine like scrubbed kids. We glow. We radiate. We need that washing because we were born with sin. We continue to need the promise that went with that washing because of the sins we commit day by day - and because of the guilt of that sin. Guilt and sin are the very stuff our lives are made of. Since Adam and Eve, since the beginning, since the fall of humankind, we have all needed to be picked up out of the dirt and filth, and washed off, scrubbed up. Baptism is that washing. But ...

20. Unwrapping Presents ... and People

Sermon

James Bjorge

... anxiety of our age to three main sources: the fear of meaninglessness and lack of purpose in life, the presence of guilt, and the inevitability of death. These are the wrappings that plague us and often imprison the human soul. God’s power for ... my sin to thee, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord’; then thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin" (Psalm 32:3-5, RSV). At that point joy swelled up eternal in the heart of David. David was set loose to dance to ...

21. Reflections on a Bumper Sticker

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... down in his gospel in order for you to come to him. "For the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins." That's why he came. And "life is too short to feel guilty." Now the first thing that needs to be said in talking about guilt and sin is that some people ought to feel guilty. I mean, they have done terrible things. They have hurt people. They have thought only of themselves. They have manipulated people. They have used people. They have done those things that they ought not to have done, and they ...

22. The Advocate

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... thing, not a bad thing. Of course, a distinction must be made between real guilt and false guilt. False guilt feels like real guilt. False guilt means that we feel guilty, even when we have not done something wrong. False guilt comes from inferiority. There is plenty of false guilt around. But real guilt has gotten a bum rap in our day. When we feel true guilt because we have hurt God or some person we love, we can repent. Without true guilt, we do not repent. When we don't repent, we are not forgiven. True ...

23. Haunted

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... all it takes. That’s all it takes. Jesus offers us a perpetual “ticket to ride,” an unending offer of entry to anyone who turns to him. That’s what repentance is. It’s simply turning to God. It’s allowing God to free you of the burden of guilt, sin, and horror that you carry, so that you can find peace. Today, I ask you, what disembodied voices have you allowed to plague your mind? What age-old sins of the past are you allowing to rule your present? Jesus wants to take all of that from you. All ...

24. Shame on You

1 Timothy 1:12-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... on the rug, a broken what-not, a chewed shoe - it only takes one phrase to crush your dog's faint optimism and fawning spirit. In a low, I'm-the-master-voice, you intone: "Shame on you! Oh, how could you? Shame!" Complete canine collapse ensues. Guilt overwhelms the creature. It throws itself on your mercy or slinks away in abject misery. This is probably one of the main reasons people like to have dogs as pets - it allows us to wield the power of punishment and forgiveness with such clear-cut, unambiguous ...

25. The Author Who Wipes Away Sins

Acts 3:12-19

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... away his life." That's the bad news Peter pronounced on the crowd just outside the temple in Jerusalem. That message produced guilt in the crowd. This kind of guilt is appropriate. There can be no accepting of grace without accepting responsibility for what we have done. Real guilt is good as a precursor of forgiveness. In our day, real guilt is often confused with false guilt. False guilt comes from feelings of inferiority. When you feel inferior, you will feel guilty, even when you aren't guilty. False ...

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Showing 1 to 25 of 1207 results

1. Guilt: How to Keep Your Conscience Clear

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

2. Guilt And Grace

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Alex Gondola

3. Lifting the Burden of Guilt

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

4. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

5. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

6. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

7. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it is the gift of God— [9] not the result of works, so that no one may boast. Peter learned what Grace is all about. His guilt was wiped away forever. Batman on the other hand need to hear what Paul writes in Romans 8:1-2 (NRSV): [1] There is therefore ... in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. Who do you line up more with Batman, Driven by Guilt? Or Peter, Driven by Grace? My hope is that you have experienced the forgiving grace of God. And your life is lived in gratitude for ...

8. Come Forward to God's Throne Where There Is Grace (Relief for Guilt)

Hebrews 4:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

9. Who Will Take Away This Burden Of Guilt?

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

10. A Woman Burdened with Guilt

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan