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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. Shame On Who?

John 8:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

I recently came across an article in a Baltimore newspaper that was entitled, "Whatever Happened To Shame?"[[1]] The journalist who wrote this article made, I believe, a very astute and accurate observation. These are just some of his remarks. "Some of us remember when "shame on you" or "you ought to be ashamed of yourself" meant something. There was a moral obligation to feel shame and to direct it toward ourselves. I don't think this happens much anymore...Instead of feeling shame, we feel embarrassed, ...

2. Does Love Make You Sorry?

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

Are you one of those who thinks that a true Christian is always happy? A drummer in a Salvation Army band hit his bass drum with all his might - BOOM, BOOM! The band leader suggested that it might be better if he did not hit the drum so hard. "Bless ya, sir!" explained the drummer. "Ever since I was converted, I am so happy that I could just bust this bloomin' drum!" The truth is that a Christian has times when tears are in order. In Ecciesiastes, we are told that there is "a time to weep and a time to ...

3. How Deep Is Down?

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

Maybe it's my age, but I don't have the sense that popular music today addresses the human issues as the lyrics of songs fifteen or twenty years ago did. Glenn Yarbrough sang a ballad that touched the quick of life. How low is lonely? How deep is down? How far is away When you're in a strange town? When your breathing is the night's only sound? How low is lonely? How deep is down? Down. Down. How deep is down? How much is many? How little is few? How much of me has become a part of you? Now that I've lost ...

4. Ashamed Of The Gospel

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Erskine White

For I am not ashamed of the Gospel. (Romans 1:16) I want you to step into a time machine with me this morning. We're going to spend a few minutes today back in ancient Rome. We are going to the place they call "the Eternal City." In this year of 54 or 58 A.D., Rome is certainly the most magnificent city this side of China. It is the hub and heartbeat of an empire from Europe to Africa to the edge of Asia. Everything we see in Rome gives the image of power and wealth. First, we see the Roman army, marching ...

5. Wrong by Association, Right by Jesus

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

It’s cool to be cool. Everyone loves to feel they are part of something bigger than themselves, part of something amazing, part of a great project, a fantastic mission, an exciting team, a member of the “cool” crowd. We feel good when we sense a shared identity with others, especially one that makes us feel appreciated, wanted, engaged, or valued. But what happens when others in our lives think our “cool” is not so hot? What does it mean when the “cool” crowd turns out to be the “wrong crowd,” at least in ...

6. I Don't Get No Respect

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

Some of you will remember the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield who made a handsome living with the phrase — “I don’t get no respect.” “I don’t get no respect,” Rodney would say, adjusting his tie. “I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back . . . With my dog I don’t get no respect. He keeps barking at the front door. He don’t want to go out. He wants me to leave . . .” Said Dangerfield, “I asked my old man if I could go ice-skating on the lake. He told me, ‘Wait till ...

7. Don't Be Ashamed . . .

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

King Duncan

Since this is an election year I thought you might enjoy a story about William Allen White. White was a famous Kansas newspaper editor and journalist. He was also an ardent Republican. As part of his job as a reporter, however, he once had to attend a state convention of the Democratic Party. "I fail to see any clergyman here," said the presiding chairman, "so I shall call on Mr. William Allen White to open the convention with prayer." White rose and replied, "You will have to excuse me. I am not up to ...

8. The Bible, Your Mirror? by Dr. Lawrence L. Lacour

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Mann

Jesus, the authority on people, knows and understands you. We have our text to assure us. Think of it! Through faith in Christ we can understand ourselves and others. These words about Jesus have a unique relationship to the theme for this series. The Greeks, who asked Paul about the meaning of "this new teaching" were hearing this message for the first time. But the teaching about Jesus and the Resurrection is not new to you. Most of you have been taught it from your youth. But if you are like the people ...

9. OK, God You Win!

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

Did you ever pick a fight with God? Did you ever get mad at God or argue with him about the way he was treating you? Did you ever say, “God, why did you forsake me?” or “Why did you allow a hurricane to devastate the earth, like Hugo that caused ten billion dollars damage in South Carolina?” or “Why do some wicked people prosper and some righteous people suffer?” or “Why do bad things happen to good folks?” Maybe you did not, but Job did! He was a good man who loved and feared God. The Bible describes him ...

10. Beautiful

John 20:19-23, Song of Songs 4:1-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Prop: A Garden Tapestry if you can Have you ever seen someone on the street walk by with a really grumpy face? It kind of catches you off-guard, doesn’t it? And you kind of walk around them, giving them some space, treading on tiptoes, right? But what happens when you walk by someone on the street, or in your apartment building, or in a store, and that person looks at you and smiles? You smile back, right? If they say, “Good morning!” and smile at you, you say “Good morning” back…and smile. And your day ...

11. The View from Michal’s Window

2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19

Sermon

Stan Purdum

When I was teenager, I worked one summer at a church camp washing dishes. One day, after cleaning up from supper, the cook, his assistant, the groundskeeper, and I ended up out behind the dining hall where there was an old tree stump on which someone had painted a target. The cook, who was always up to trying something new, had brought with him the kitchen's meat cleaver, a hatchet-like utensil, and he suggested a contest to see which of us could throw the cleaver most squarely into the center of the ...

12. How To Deal With Suffering

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Erskine White

Although He was a Son, He learned obedience through what He suffered. (Hebrews 5:8) Note: This sermon was preached in the midst of a long summer heat wave which afflicted much of the nation. In the early 1960s in the deep South, when the backlash against the civil rights movement got especially severe and the violence of white racists got especially brutal, Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to a packed church one night and said, "We have entered into a season of suffering." Scripture says that "To everything ...

13. Cross Eyed: Rebuke

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

Have you ever said something really dumb? Or said something that came out all wrong? I know I've said a lot of dumb things or just plain wrong things like the time I was preaching about the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham. I clearly had Isaac written in my notes but I called him Isaiah throughout the entire sermon. But there was one Sunday morning when the opening words to my prayer made everybody laugh. As we got ready for the morning pray, what I meant to say was, "Let us bow our heads in and pray silently ...

14. Jars of Bad Candy

Matthew 22:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A jar full of candy. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you have heard the word "hypocrite" spoken by someone? (Let them answer.) It is one of the favorite words for big people. They use it a lot. It is usually someone else they are talking about, but sometimes they use it when they are talking about themselves. It is a big word. Say it with me, hypocrite. One more time, hypocrite. Do you think that a hypocrite is someone good or bad? (Let them answer.) I have an example of a hypocrite with ...

15. What Makes You Blush?

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

An ad once appeared in the personals column of a newsletter. It read like this: "Married, professional man, 47, with problems in home, seeks dalliance with a married/unmarried, intelligent woman." The ad had been written by some researchers. They were curious about who would respond to such an ad. Much to their astonishment, they were deluged by responses. For example, here's one: "I am a 34-year-old female, pretty, rubenesque, brown hair, dark blue eyes. I work as a nurse in large urban hospital. My ...

16. The Golden Gift

Drama

A Christmas play based on a scene from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Program Notes Our play is based on an incident which comes early in one of Victor Hugo's greatest novels, Les Misérables - ("The Wretched Ones"). This book was published while Hugo was in exile in England in 1862. It was written as a social novel in which he made society itself the heavy in the piece. The novel was received with mixed reactions. One reviewer called it "his pernicious book." Another more charitably wrote: "It is ... the ...

17. “You Did That for Me!”

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

A friend and I were having lunch. We enjoyed jumping from one topic to another, sharing, interrupting, countering. I did a double-take when my friend slipped in a surprise. “My marriage is in trouble.” The conversation changed at once. Another new topic had occurred to me, but I dropped it. The time had come for listening. Our conversation had changed from a freewheeling exchange to an intimate opening and sharing. I asked leading questions and made observations. I was trying hard to listen, actively using ...

18. The Taught Can

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

You have heard that it has been said in old times, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach." But I say unto you this morning, "Those who are taught, can do." As one who has been taught, I say this unto you as to those who have been taught by God, "Having been taught, we can." All this is pertinent to us all because as the Preacher in Ecclesiastes wrote, "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven" (Ecclesiastes 3:1). Are we aware of what time it is? There is a time to be ...

19. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

“I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them.” In a message titled Seizing Your Divine Moment Erwin McManus speaks of his son Aaron: “One summer Aaron went to youth camp. He was just a little guy, and I was kind of glad it was a church camp. I figured he wasn't going to hear all those ghost stories.... But unfortunately, since it was a Christian camp and they didn't tell ghost stories, because we don't believe in ghosts, they told demon and Satan stories instead. And so when Aaron got home, he was ...

20. I Wonder if God Exists

Genesis 1:1-5

Sermon

Charley Reeb

Recently, the Barna Research Group conducted an important poll to get the pulse of inquiring hearts about religion. They asked a cross section of American adults: “If you could ask God any question about your life, what is the single most important question you would want to ask him?” In addition, USA Today conducted a similar poll by asking readers, “If you could get in contact with God directly, and get an immediate reply, what would you ask?” Not surprisingly, the results of these polls yielded very ...

21. Beautiful Words Of Life

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

Comedian Drew Carey once said something that I think is quite funny. I hope no one will think it's sacrilegious. Carey asks, "So what's the Pope doing with bodyguards and bulletproof glass? Is he afraid someone will shoot him? [Is he afraid] he'll die and go to heaven? That would be horrible, huh?" Then Carey adds, "If the Pope's afraid to die, what chance do we have?"(1) Interesting thought. I doubt that the Pope is afraid to die. I'm sure the bulletproof glass is so he can continue leading the Church as ...

22. Slaying the Green-Eyed Monster

Proverbs 27:4

Sermon

James Merritt

Channelview, Texas is a neat middleclass suburb of Houston. It is a typical bedroom community of nice homes, nice cars, and nice families. Competition is fierce in all sports, but recently the competition got more than a little intense—not in football or in basketball, but in cheerleading. Amber Heath and Shanna Holloway lived right around the corner from each other. They had been friends for years. Amber was president of the Student Council and Shanna was Vice President. Their mothers were also wonderful ...

23. Will the “Real” Jesus Please Stand Up

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Who is the “real” Jesus? How hard is it for us to see Jesus as a real person who felt sadness, happiness, grief, joy, who experienced laughter, who joked with his disciplines, who got angry, who could wrestle with his own pain? And yet, if we don’t recognize this Jesus, we lose the gift that God gave to us in the reality of the fully human (not just divine) Son. Watching the way Jesus handles his own struggles, reveals his own humanness, can help us to recognize and accept our own. Today, nearly every ...

24. Using our Special Talents

Romans 12:6-8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Cup, scissors, picture. Good morning, boys and girls. How are you on this beautiful winter morning? Winter must be a very special season for God, because He decorates His earth with snow and beautiful cloud formations in the heavens. It is wonderful how the various seasons do different things and make us feel differently. It makes me think of some good friends around my house that have special jobs. Let me show you what I mean. First of all there is my friend, Charley Cup. [Hold up cup, admiring it ...

25. Searching for Happiness

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

Many people today spend their lives in a desperate search for happiness, for pleasure, for fun. Many people in our society are simply bored. They mope around, fantasizing about some secret joy that lies out there somewhere. “I’m looking for adventure, excitement, and beautiful women,” said the young man to his father as he was leaving home. “And don’t try to stop me!” “Who wants to stop you?” said his father. “I’m going with you!” The ironic thing about seeking such pleasure, however, is how little joy it ...

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