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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. It’s Humble or the Umbles

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... dangers and infections out there. Evil is rife and rampant in our world. But God has clothed you and robed you in the armor that will keep you alive, the armor that will change you into the person you were always meant to be, inside and out. If you’re humble enough to receive this armor, then you shall be in the sight of God something beautiful and powerful. Or let me close in the words of Isaiah: "You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God ...

2. Oh, Lord, It's Hard To Be Humble

Luke 18:9-14

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... them a bunch of brats? (no) Can you tell me how I should pray? (response) What else can I say? (response) Okay, let me try it again. Would you help me pray again? (response) Oh, thanks, you've been so much help! Let's pray again: Bow your head and humbly pray "God, please forgive me, I am a sinner. I am not always nice to people and sometimes I'm mean to my mom and my dad and my brothers and sisters and friends, and I say things I shouldn't say. Please forgive me." Well? (response) How did I ...

3. By Humbly Doing Good

1 Peter 5:6-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... TO THE LORD — I think one of the great texts in all the Bible is what Jesus said in Matthew 11:28. Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am humble and gentle in heart and you will find rest for your souls. Bring your burdens to the Lord and leave them here. Or as the writer of Proverbs said, Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge God ...

4. Hermon: The Camel Who Was Humbled

Matthew 19:24

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... Bible about which I would like to tell you this morning. I think it has something to say about being proud or being humble. At the time this sentence was made Jesus was talking to people about entering into the Kingdom of God and what they should be ... this was too much. But wait a minute, the other camels were not laughing, they were cheering. "Proud Hermon," they said, "has humbled himself and was saved from the enemy." Hermon felt good because he had not only done what had been asked of him and brought the ...

5. Jesus Enters Jerusalem as a Peaceable and Humble King

Matthew 20:29-34, Matthew 21:1-11

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... . Just as those in Matthew’s first-century audience could have had views of royal power that emphasized its absolute and violent use, we too might picture kingship in ways that do not fit Matthew’s royal portrait of Jesus. Matthew portrays Jesus as the humble Messiah-King, who comes with peaceful intentions. This is an essential part of how we are to preach and teach Jesus as king. Illustrating the Text Matthew shows Jesus to be the true king of Israel, the Son of David, who brings restoration. Cultural ...

6. Oh, Lord, It's Hard To Be Humble

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... and sometimes it’s just not. The gift is God’s to give out of his incomprehensible mercy. We don’t go back home made righteous and justified because we prayed correctly, or followed the proper order of worship, or sang the right songs, or were sufficiently humble. If we are justified, if we are blessed in our worship and prayer, it’s only as a gift of God’s love, which knows no boundaries, but is incapable of hate. God’s love extends to sinners of all shapes, sizes, and colors, whether we agree ...

7. The Humble Teddy

Luke 14:11

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... way he raised that car and did almost all of the work for me. It wasn't so bad after all, and I owe it all to Teddy the Tire Jack. Jesus says that there are a lot of people who are his followers just like Teddy. We call them humble people, and they work hard, though very few people notice them. Teddy rides around in my trunk and never says a word. He is almost unnoticed until I have something awful happen like a flat tire, and then he is ready to help, even to lift a heavy car. That ...

8. How to Stay Humble in a Haughty World

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Brett Blair

... resist it. Does that mean we shouldn’t be proud of our accomplishments. Not at all. But we should not seek the accolades that come with success. The book of Proverbs has a terse reminder for us all: Pride comes before a fall. II So, how do you stay humble in a haughty world? First, don’t seek honor for yourself and second, expect to be honored only in the life to come. This is Jesus’ second piece of advice and it is given to the Pharisee, the man hosting the party. Don’t throw dinner parties for ...

9. Ordinary and Humble Princes

John 1:43-51

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Scott Hoezee

... out to be nothing but the man behind the curtain, a puller of levers and switches who looks like a humbug of a charlatan. But then, almost before the dust of that reversal of expectation settles, we get jolted yet again: as it turns out, the humble man behind the curtain is a pretty good wizard after all. Fairy tales are stories of transformation, and that's what happened to these simple people we call the disciples. If you took the disciples and brought them all together into one room, you would never ...

10. The Humble King

John 12:12-19

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... crown Him King will soon call for His crucifixion, for God can never be put in a box. The Jesus I want to know is a humble King. I would like to put those two words together this morning. He became one of us so we could become more like Him. The Bible ... living in a sense of guilt. Humility is keeping your feet on the ground and your mind on Christ. We come to Holy Week as humble people. Peter Marshall once said, “Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change and when we are right, make us easy to live ...

11. He Who Exalts Himself Will Be Humbled

Luke 14:1-24

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Mark Trotter

... up to separate us from one another. There were just two people, brother and sister, the sister concerned about the brother. It changed his life. He said he learned more in one moment than he did in four years at Harvard. He saw in one moment what it means to humble yourself as our Lord did, "who did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but ...

12. Humvee Holiness and Humble Holiness

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of the heart. We have a God who doesn’t look on outward appearances (1 Samuel 16:7; John 7:24, 2 Cor.5:12). Jesus looked beyond the face to the heart. We don’t need a church of Humvee holiness, but of heart holiness, or humble holiness. Each one of the three great monotheistic faiths has holy sites. But there is a difference between what makes a site “holy.” For Jews and Muslims, holy sites are places that are sanctified by a sacred event and recorded in their Scriptures. Christians have a different ...

13. Humble Servants of the Lord

Luke 14:1-14

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... come. People: Let our hearts be focused this day on the glory of the Lord. Leader: Let us sing with joy that we are all made welcome in God's house. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect Almighty Creator God, in Christ You called us to be humble and to take up our crosses and follow You. Give us the wisdom and strength to hear Your call and be Your faithful followers. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, You taught us not to be puffed up or full of pride, yet so often we seek ...

14. Humble Servanthood

Mark 1:40-45

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Scott Hoezee

... well, congregations that attract many members, and so on. Still, Jesus' desire to keep things quiet until the cross reminds us that whether or not we prove to be wildly popular, it is always a quiet and careful and humble apprehension of the gospel that is key. Jesus' own example of humble servanthood comes as a critique of our own overweening tendency to be enamored with all that is glitzy and eye-popping. We should be wary if the Jesus we worship fits too snugly into any cultural context on this earth ...

15. A Humble Servant

Mt 3:13-17; Lk 17:10

Illustration

King Duncan

... , but it was too late to wake any of the servants. With a sigh he picked up all of the shoes, hauled them to the kitchen, and spent half of the night polishing them. Dr. Charles Mayo was secure enough to be humble himself like that. Jesus was secure enough in his relationship with his Father to humble himself to wash his disciples' feet. He had no need to say to the world, "Look at me! I'm somebody great!" He had all of the approval he needed. Note: A rather harmless story but we were not able to confirm ...

16. How to Stay Humble in a Haughty World - Sermon Starter

Luke 14:1-14

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Brett Blair

... of honor. Assuming they are the most important guest, they will soon be embarrassed, Jesus says, by someone more distinguished. They will be asked to get up and move to the end of the table. They will be dishonored before all. How do we avoid humiliation? How do you stay humble in a haughty world? There are two things that we must do. Don't put yourself in a position to eat ...

17. Living Humbly

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. 2: And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death -even death on a cross. 1: Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, 3: so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and ...

18. Humble Bond-servants of Christ

Galatians 5:1-15

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... grace as if we deserved them and they were ours without obligation. Too often, Lord, we have even forgotten how it was Christ who paid the price for our redemption and that it is to You we owe our very lives. Forgive us, Lord, and call us again as Your humble servants to carry Your Good News into the World. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "Forward Through The Ages" "Open My Eyes" "Work For The Night Is Coming"

19. Humble Acts of Service

Mark 8:31--9:1

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Brett Blair

... were tears in the eyes of many of those soot laden and weathered faced coal miners. They had been given a sense of their own self worth by the man at the top. Service does not always come with big fancy ribbons. And I think it is forever true, that humble acts of service provide us with the deepest sense of joy and the most fulfilling satisfaction.

20. Develop Leaders—Humbly

Colossians 3:12-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... role as a spiritual leader—a person with the responsibility of influencing God's people in God's direction—in your family, in your community, at your church, and yes, even at work. Today, I want to talk about developing leaders humbly. I. SPIRITUAL LEADERS CLOTHE THEMSELVES IN CHRIST. In the scripture lesson for today in Verse 12 Paul says, “Clothe yourselves with compassion and kindness and humility and genuineness and patience." Clothing stores have a saying which goes, “Clothes make the person ...

21. The Humble Post Rider

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Thanks to the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, everyone has heard of the "midnight ride of Paul Revere." But few have heard of Israel Bissel, a humble post rider on the Boston-New York route. After the Battle of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, Bissel was ordered to raise the alarm in New Haven, Connecticut. He reached Worchester, Mass., normally a day's ride, in two hours. There, according to tradition, his horse promptly dropped ...

22. Be Humble or Stumble

Illustration

King Duncan

Be humble or you will stumble. Ted Williams, the great baseball player, had to learn that lesson the hard way. As Fay Vincent writes in The Last Commissioner, one time Ted registered in a Florida hotel under the name of Al Forrester. The clerk recognized him and asked, “Are you really Al ...

23. In My Humble Opinion

Humor

Isn't it refreshing when people in the spotlight don't take themselves too seriously? Democratic Senator Fritz Hollings tells colleagues he took a "polygraph" test recently to find out what the lie-detector fuss is all about. But Hollings, a silver-haired and flamboyant orator from South Carolina, reports he flunked the test when he started a sentence with: "In my humble opinion...."

24. A Humbling Moment

Matthew 23:1-12

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Pastor Michael Hartwig of Valparaiso, Indiana, tells about visiting a man in a nursing home who had been instrumental in starting the major industry in town. When he died, Pastor Hartwig was asked to do the funeral service. Hartwig was nervous, because he knew their church would be packed with dignitaries. The service went well, and on the way to the cemetery he began to turn in his Bible to the passage he was to read at the grave side. While he was turning to I Corinthians 15, the funeral director ...

25. Humble Beginnings

Mark 1:1-8

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Samuel Massey

In Minnesota you can step across the headwaters of the Mississippi River. It is no more than a tiny stream. It is amazing that a river so mighty can begin in such an inconspicuous way. Perhaps we have a similar experience as we read the first chapter to the Gospel of Mark. The message of Christ has raised up nations and brought them low, launched and defeated armies, started large social movements and destroyed others. Think of all that has been done in the name of Jesus Christ and how inconspicuously the ...

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