Synonyms: captured, trapped, catch, took, arrested, grabbed, taken, seized, stuck, apprehended, picked up, entangled, nabbed, jammed, abducted, acquired, got, bagged, gotten, netted, cornered, appropriated, tangled, snared, ensnared
Antonyms: free, freed, unconfined, loose, unrestrained, set free, uncuffed, emancipated, enfranchised, released, ambiguous, flaccid, let go, discharged, unbound, uncaged, unchained, unfettered, unleashed, unshackled, untied, avoided, discounted, disregarded, missed
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1. Let It Loose!
Mark 7:31-37, Exodus 4:1-17, Exodus 4:18-31
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Lori Wagner
... am strong.…” (The Words of Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:8-10) “When I am weak, I am strong.” This is what it means to trust in Jesus. Because no matter what it is, your “I can’t” is always God’s “I can.” When Jesus opens the ears and looses the tongue of a man deaf and mute, he isn’t just doing a parlor trick. He is showing everyone watching the glory and the power of God. That when we depend upon Him, nothing will be too hard for us. Do you believe in miracles? Walking in your “Jesus ...
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... dying with cancer, wanted to talk with me about his faith. Another came on our campus on Easter Sunday and said to one of our staff members, "I am lost. I need to know there is a possibility of life for me. There are things that I need to turn loose." Very wisely the staff person said, "Do you have something you need to give me today that I can help carry?" He gave her a switchblade knife saying, "Take this so I won’t kill myself or anyone else." The issue is the same. When Jesus said, "Because I live ...
3. Sleep Loose
2 Corinthians 13:11-13
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Leonard Sweet
... beds are hidden under piles of this junk. 2. Listen to my appeal The most important word here is listen. We can't hear if we won't be quiet and tune in. Listening saves us from the risk of going off half-cocked, misinformed and misdirected. To "sleep loose," we must listen for the message of God's love which comes to us through the sounds of the Holy Spirit. 3. Agree with one another We are not just to tolerate each other's company (some of the Corinthians apparently could not even do that). We are called ...
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Robert S. Crilley
... concluding stitch sown, and everything we've attempted to weave from the tapestry of life at last unfurled, there will invariably remain a few loose threads left dangling. Even the Scriptures, I think, bear witness to the dictum that regardless of one's effort or endeavor, works in ... and everything we've attempted to weave from this grand and glorious tapestry at last unfurled, even those threads left loose and dangling will be joined to the tie that binds, forever connecting our lives to the Life on high. 1 ...
5. Breaking Loose
Romans 8:1-17
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King Duncan
... some of us are letting our circumstances and not our faith dictate how we feel about life. We are letting our fears and our doubts enslave us. God’s purpose is that we may not give in to our circumstances but they we might overcome them that we might break loose from the bonds that keep us from being all God created us to be. It is sad to see anyone who has been broken by life. Some people have bumped into obstacles for so long that they have quit trying. Life has been so painful for them that they have ...
6. Witnesses
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
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Mark J. Molldrem
... we stand proclaims this drama as the fulcrum of human history and the balance point for our personal lives. What a joy it is for us to stand with so many witnesses from the first century and from all the centuries between then and now. Jesus is let loose in the world where no one can stop him. We are his witnesses, that others too may believe and find new life in his name. This life is characterized by the forgiveness of sin, deliverance from death and all evil, and the promise of life everlasting. Indeed ...
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King Duncan
... we experience Christ's transforming power we are unhatched eggs who can only fly if we become more than we are. To experience the transfigured Christ is first of all to be terrified, then it is to be transformed. AND FINALLY IT IS TO BE TURNED LOOSE, TO BE TURNED LOOSE TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD FOR WHICH CHRIST DIED. Christ came preaching the Kingdom of God, the reign of God in every heart. And it is to his followers that he has given the commission for the teaching and the preaching of this kingdom. That's ...
8. As Long As It Is Day!
Matthew 18:21-35
Sermon
Stephen M. Crotts
... , "93." In the midst of this tale a ship at sea is caught in a terrific storm. Buffeted by the waves, the boat rocks to and fro, when suddenly the crew hears an awesome crashing sound below deck. They know what it is. A cannon they are carrying has broken loose and is smashing into the ship's sides with every list of the ship. Two brave sailors, at the risk of their lives, manage to go below and fasten it again, for they know that the heavy cannon on the inside of their ship is more dangerous to them than ...
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Harold Warlick
... years ago. And it is lodged in your soul now. When life throws its worst at you, what will happen to you? Will you cry? Will you fight? Or will you endorse that power of God within you to believe in so much more than your smallness and let it loose? Can you make fresh, every day, the world around you and learn to renew life in the very crises and limitations which impinge upon you? Fresh Every Day How do we take the best we have inherited from our past and make it our own unique experience today? As we ...
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Leonard Sweet
"God is love." How many times have we said that without really considering what "love" actually is, what love really entails? This sermon examines some of the ways the church is called to embody love, and the binding and loosing power of love. This week's texts offers love as the most characteristic manifestation of God we can ourselves imitate. Unfortunately "love" has also become one of the most maudlin and meaningless words in our vocabulary. The American Heritage Dictionary defines love in terms of sex ...
11. Constantly Abiding
Philippians 2:1-11
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Maxie Dunnam
... does not depend upon our success, but upon his grace and forgiveness. We’re not under law where everything depends upon our performance we’re under grace where everything depends upon his love. When we accept this, we can relax. We can live in the now and hang loose. Remember that word of Paul in our scripture God is at work in you, both to will and to do his good pleasure. Keeping that in mind, we know that the burdens of yesterday’s failures is too great for us to bear. The anxiety over tomorrow’s ...
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Lori Wagner
... are Swallowed Up When the Earth’s Mouth is Opened Up by God (Numbers 16) Psalm 40: My ears have been opened; I proclaim your saving acts Psalm 51: Open my lips Lord The Joy of the Redeemed (Isaiah 35) Daniel’s Speech (Daniel 10) The Lord’s Power to Loose (Job 12:7-25) God’s Heavenly Voice Who Calls You (Hebrews 3) Jesus Heals a Man Born Deaf and Mute Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. There some people brought ...
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King Duncan
... says that security checkpoints can be stressful and distracting, and travelers often forget to take that last look around and make sure they got all their items. Their mind is someplace else. And that little lapse in focus adds up to $1 million in loose change for the TSA each year. (2) This week, people all over the United States will be celebrating Thanksgiving. Author Charles Dickens accused Americans of celebrating this holiday all wrong. He said that we should set aside one day each year to complain ...
14. The Last Laugh
Luke 24:1-35
Sermon
Will Willimon
... see the face of the High priest up at the temple when he hears the news?" They started laughing again. People who had before had nothing but tears, laughed. Somebody passed a loaf of bread. Then the wine. One thing led to another, the spirit got loose, people were shouting, laughing. Out in the street, bystanders heard the commotion and said, "They're at it again, those followers of Jesus. They're behaving as they did when Jesus was with them. They're drunk!" Peter came out and told the crowd, "We couldn ...
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Mark Ellingsen
... Lazarus from sin. Lazarus was given a new life that day at the tomb. It is rather like the new life that God gave you in your baptism (Romans 6:4-11). The new life that Jesus gave Lazarus was a life loosed from bondage, loosed from the bandages and the cloth that bound him in death, loosed from the sin that trapped him and us. All of our Bible lessons for today make this point. In our first lesson, God used the prophet Ezekiel to bring the people of Israel back to life from the dead. God gives the people ...
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... bishops to head his movement. He lived and died an Anglican priest. He was a staunch defender of England’s cause in the Revolutionary War. He was a small man physically, but spiritually a giant and certainly one with an iron will. Yet, all not letting loose accomplished was to prove God had other plans and John’s work was done. Change the names and places. The great, near great, and the bulk of humankind have been faced by similar circumstances. In ministry God gives us a work to do. We are privileged ...
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James Bjorge
... 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 the Lord again. And the promise comes to us: "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John 1:9, RSV). He breaks the power of cancelled sin, He sets the prisoner free ...
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King Duncan
... now he's having second thoughts. It reminds me of one of Jerry Clower's stories about Eugene Ledbetter. Eugene and Jerry went coon hunting. They treed a coon but could not budge him from the tree. So, Eugene decided he'd climb the tree and shake the coon loose. But, to his surprise, it was not a coon up the tree. It was a wildcat. In a little while Jerry heard the "awfullest" commotion up in the tree you could imagine. Then came the voice of Eugene screaming, "Jerry! Jerry! Shoot up here amongst us. One of ...
19. Keeper of the Keys
Matthew 16:13-20
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Lori Wagner
... those who are not too lofty to stoop down and listen, even to a child. This is why Peter is keeper of the keys. Whatever God seeks to bind, Peter will hear God’s voice and in Jesus’ name loyally bind. Whatever God seeks to loose, Peter will hear and in Jesus’ name will loose. Peter is a loyal and humble servant of God’s kingdom.He is the steward of the new faith that recognizes Jesus as Son of God. He is Jesus’ most trusted and loyal administrator. He is the keeper of the keys. Today, we look upon ...
Sermon
George W. Hoyer
... for joy." Today's message instructs us to do what we can do. We can sing for joy, and not merely because we have much to be glad about, but in order to let others hear the good news that they, too, can be glad. Our tongues have been loosed, not for loose talk, but for the words that free. James cautions us about thoughtless talk: "You must understand this, my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak ..." (James 1:19); that is, slow to speak in anger. We could add, slow just to chit chat, to ...
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E. Carver McGriff
... of us would probably not think to do in such an emergency. She bowed her head and began to pray for God's help. Suddenly, Mom remembered that she had, among her groceries, purchased a can of pressed meat. Frantically, she tore open the sack, pulled a long key loose from the side of the can and rolled back the metal top. With that she was able to cut the strings of her daughter's shoes and slip the foot out of the shoe, and away from the rails. The train roared past shortly thereafter. The woman who wrote ...
22. Living Water
John 7:25-44
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Leonard H. Budd
... passing joys, a life more abundant than any other life, a power that meets any and all troubles, a perpetual fountain, clean and clear, cool and refreshing." We have stood where Jesus talked with that Samaritan woman, promising to quench those drives that were for her a loose destruction. We have dipped our hand into the cool waters lifted from Jacob's well, the very well from which she pulled water on that day long ago. And I drank the water, much to the chagrin of a nurse nearby. It was a drink to quench ...
23. Redrawing The Landscape
Multiple Scriptures
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Harold Warlick
... that operates in life. I'm not a physicist or even a mathematician. But I do know this. You can take four apples and place one on each corner of a table. Tie a piece of string about three feet long to the stem of each apple. Gather the loose ends of the strings in your hand and raise your hand above the table until the strings become tight. As you tighten the strings by pulling upward the apples will all come together. Essentially, says scripture, when men and women look upward, it's not just an individual ...
24. Compassion
Luke 10:25-37
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Harold Warlick
... Sometimes," he answered. "Generally by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and are very shabby. But these things don't matter at all because once you are real you can't be ugly, ... like 63 than 33 years old in appearance. His face must have contained more wrinkles than mine and his joints must have been quite loose. He probably was dead broke and mentally worn by all the sacrifices he had made. But he was the most real person who ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... to the lepers in New Delhi, India. I have seen him touch the heart of a little Communist girl in Russia. Recently, I have seen him asking soul-searching questions through a young Communist guide on the train from Suchow to Sanghai. The Christ is free. He is loose in the world, not just for the first century, but to the end of history. This is the work of the Holy Spirit. About four years ago, I had the privilege of holding some preaching missions in Australia. One mission was in a church in Adelaide, South ...
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