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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. Sacred Pleasures

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... every gathering, and filling friends and family. Hosting big parties, with lavish spreads, flowing fountains of champagne, and being proclaimed the “consummate host,” that is a pleasantry some of us crave. But the greatest “hosting” that we are called to offer is the sacred pleasure of “a cup of cold water” — that is reaching out to the ones who are in the greatest need. A “cup of cold water” can be the difference between life or death. There are two ways to get through life. Take some wet ...

2. Pet Peeves and Pet Pleasures

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to focus less on our “pet peeves” and more on our “pet joys” this year? Instead of bonding with strangers on the elevator over the bad weather or bad news of the day, why not share a moment of joy and transform someone’s day with God’s pleasure. Let’s check our “pet peeves” with “pet joys.” I’m not the only one thinking these thoughts. Popular women’s writer Ann Voskamp calls herself a “wild crusader for crazy joy.” She just launched a 30 days of Crazy Joy where each day you do ...

3. When Do You Feel God's Pleasure?

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

James W. Moore

... or pressed the Pope’s hand to his forehead… in a Muslim gesture of respect, indicating that reconciliation had happened. And… somewhere in heaven at that moment God was smiling… and I’m sure that at that moment, John Paul could feel God’s pleasure. What Pope John Paul did there in Rebibbia Prison was profoundly Christian. In my opinion, it was the most Christ-like thing he ever did. He sought out the enemy. He embraced the enemy. And he forgave him. The caption read… “Does forgiveness have ...

4. You Bring Me Great Pleasure

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... you lead in 2011 fails to live up to God’s expectations? In Hebrews 10:38-39 the consequences are spelled out in stark terms. If we lose courage, lose our faith, lose our way, these are the worst words anyone could ever imagine hearing: “My soul takes no pleasure in anyone who shrinks back. But we are not among those who shrink back and so are lost, but among those who have faith and are saved.” As wonderful as it would be to hear God say one day, “I’ve tracked your life and ministry. You bring me ...

5. The Pleasure of Your Company

Matthew 26:17-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . The stationery is the heavy expensive type, which blows the Cousin Alfred theory; he's too cheap to buy this. Que pasa? You open the letter and, well, yaba-daba-doo, it IS indeed from the man himself. An invitation: The President of the United States requests the pleasure of your company... You look up at the fellow who brought it and he is smiling like this is the part of his job he likes the best. You look around in the kitchen for somebody to show it to, but you are alone. You think about running ...

6. What Is 40 Days Of Purpose?

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... t need to make you. He was under no obligation to create you, but He chose to make you. He chose to do it for His pleasure. One of the most amazing facts to me, is that even though God know everything about me, He still loves me. He wants me to know ... Worship Him continually." (Psalm 105:4, TEV) Worship is a 24/7 deal with God. I want you to remember that worship is for God's pleasure, not yours. If you come to a church service and leave and say, "I didn't get anything out of the worship today" you missed the ...

7. Wicked

Luke 20:9-19, Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... money and my life into growing this business. I’m not handing it over. Jesus tells this story to remind us, a covenant is a covenant. No matter how much we believe that we are the “captains” of our lives and our souls, we are mistaken. We serve at the pleasure of our Creator! We owe our lives to God. We were created to give praise and to reflect the glory of God. That is our position in life. We are the tenants. God is the landholder. But not only are we the tenants, WE are the fruit. Mathew tells us ...

8. The Glow

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is that these curious events have got to be important. Otherwise, Luke would not have taken the time here to relay them and in exactly this way. What did it mean for God to “bodily” envelope Jesus? What did it mean for God to find “happiness” or “pleasure” in Jesus? Technically, in God’s own self? The Greek eudokeo gives us a clue. The Greek word has multiple meanings as Greek words usually do. Here it can mean to consent to, approve of, find favor with, be pleased with, be happy with, to take ...

9. The Gravity of Grace

Ephesians 1:3-14

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Leonard Sweet

... only in that grace-infused atmosphere that we can experience the wonder, the joy and the thrill of living in God's "good pleasure." Only when we have been brought back to the gravity of grace can we experience the levity of life lived in the Spirit ... the grace we are freely offered, " ... so that we ... might live for the praise of [God's] glory" (v.12). The pleasures of grace are yours. But the pleasures of grace don't come cheap. You have to give up living to please yourself and live a life that is pleasing ...

10. Messies Anonymous

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... life he has ever felt the depth of joy they felt when that one egg was brought carefully into the house on that snowy December day of 1932. "A person's life," Jesus said, "does not consist of the abundance of his possessions." Are you able to appreciate the simple pleasures of life? And one more question: ARE YOU SEEKING, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, TO LIVE A CHRIST-LIKE LIFE? There's no use talking about the eternal joy of life on the other side of the tomb if you don't really enjoy living for Christ on this side ...

11. Searching for Happiness

Ephesians 5:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... her world. Through the art of gratitude Hailey found herself lifted out of her rut and celebrating life. (5) G. K. Chesterton once wrote: “The test of all happiness is gratitude.” And he’s right. Now let’s go back to Solomon who experienced every earthly pleasure, yet something was missing from his life. He was a miserable man. Have you guessed what it was that was missing from his life? He had never learned to say, “Thank you.” Even though he had a mountain of what other people would count as ...

12. You are Anointed

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... like that smell stays with you a long, long time, right? What about the smell of skunk? Black mold? Or the pervading smell of Eau de Diaper when you lift that diaper pail after a week of deposits? Some smells are fleeting. Others last a very long time. Pleasurable smells leave us feeling elevated with a sense of the beautiful in our world and in our being. Horrible smells leave us aware of the stench of the world, and we wrinkle our noses and try to get away from that which offends us. In our scripture for ...

13. Proper 23

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... of the human condition, of why the world and life are not what God wants them to be and what they ought to be. Look at the wars that have wreaked such suffering on us, perhaps culminating in Hitler's holocaust. It was not in pursuit of pleasure, but in the lust for power - control. If it should go to nuclear holocaust, through a combination of that nuclear winter and clouds of radiation killing literally every living thing on the planet (and they tell us that would be the result if we were to detonate ...

14. Loving The Jesus Way

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, it shares the joy of those who live by the truth." Let's face it, Friends. Not many of us are not guilty here. We don't love the Jesus way. Now and again we find ourselves taking pleasure in other people's sins, gloating over the wickedness of other people. We express this in the way we talk about other people's failures. I'm quite certain that there are more than a few white folks in our city -- maybe some here today -- who got some hidden ...

15. Looking to the Unseen

2 Corinthians 4:18

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... : everything appears to the worldly man as a tangled web a maze to which there is no clue." If such a man says there is nothing new under the sun, it is a result, says Robertson, of his determination to live only for excitement and pleasure. "His heart becomes so jaded by excitement that the world contains nothing for him which can awaken fresh or new emotions." It seems many college young people today live just such a life. Many of their weekends are spent in heavy indulgence in alcohol. A typical party ...

16. Who is That Crouching at Your Door?

Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Or a loving smile. Or a pat on the back. Or something that says, we are good. We did well. We’ve been gazed upon with pleasure. How many of you have done something great around the house, and you can’t wait until your spouse or parent or friend comes back and ... hearing Jesus vs the Pharisees? Are you hearing Martin Luther vs the Catholic Church? Cause when it comes to God’s gaze of pleasure, it’s not about the deeds. It’s all about the attitude. It’s ALL about the state and the beauty of your ...

17. I Am The Way, The Truth, And The Life

Sermon

Ronald Lavin

... wrestle with the questions of life in reference to some kind of ultimate reality through some kind of faith or loyalty. Certainly no one would say that this attempt is all bad. The religious person, unlike the hedonist, is not only concerned about his own pleasures, but the happiness of others. Unlike the humanist, he has values beyond the human realm. But like both, he discovers that his way of religion does not fulfill his ultimate desire. At its best, religion is man's attempt to think about and live by ...

18. Winning When It Really Counts

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... things you cannot do if you would be the best. But the gain is worth the pain. Losers live only for today and its pleasures. In Marcel Proust’s REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, a lady named Oriane must decide how to spend an evening. She can either sit by ... chooses the latter. Why not? She is a thoroughly modern woman. She lives only for herself. She has no value system--only her own pleasure and comfort to guide her. Why should she not indulge herself and ignore her friend? She has no God to judge her. No sense ...

19. If Only -- In Spite Of

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... heavenly point of view, is only a slow process of learning to be kind." So, when Paul prayed that second time, maybe he heard from the Lord that kind of word and learned that what makes us unhappy can also make us more alive. Pain can bring more life than pleasure. But for this kind of life to sprout and flourish we have to stop denying and defying those thorns. We have to begin to accept them...the Talmud says that the true hero is one who makes the enemy a friend. We can apply that insight to our own ...

20. The Sign of the Dove

Matthew 3:1-17 · John 1:1-34 · Mark 1:1-8 · Luke 3:1-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... “we get” from God. The dove is a relationship bird. And a covenant is a two-way relationship. When the Lord’s presence enfolds you like the wings of a dove, you are filled with the knowledge of God’s glory and the radiance of God’s pleasure. But you’ll also have a mission and a calling from God to fulfill. Sometimes that mission includes characteristics of a dove. For example, when a church seeks a pastor, it has been said, they want the strength of an eagle, the grace of a swan, the gentleness ...

21. The Fear Of Taking The Plunge

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

Richard Patt

... Jesus was coaxing the disciples with the appeal, "Let go, and let God." But after saying all that, Jesus realized that such appeals scare most of us half to death. So he adds those comforting words: "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Jesus enjoins the disciples not to get hung up on fear as he issues yet another drastic appeal: "Sell your possessions, and give alms...." What were the disciples afraid of? They were afraid of the same thing you and I are ...

22. I Found It!

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10

Sermon

Carl B. Rife

... something extra we know is somehow a part of life. That is Religion One and the emphasis there is on truth. So you go pleasure, good, truth. But he said there is another level that we have discovered. This level is revealed in the scriptures. This level is Religion ... is much the same with the faith in God at this second level that Kierkegaard is talking about. Not to work so hard in seeking pleasure or the good or truth but to let go and let the God who is seeking you in the first place embrace you in his ...

23. Time and Timing

Habakkuk 1:12--2:1, Habakkuk 1:1-4

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... -called great are, as we say, brought down to our level, the victims of alcoholism, or a dissolute life. Oh, yes, we rejoice over the death of the wicked. The more righteous we sense ourselves to be, the more fully and freely we gloat. But not God. He takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Always with God there is the hope that the wicked would turn from their way and live. That the wicked would seek good and not evil. God does not give up easily, though it may seem so to us. "The vision has its time ...

24. The Ten Commandments: One God, Only One

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... called "the unknown God" to make sure that if they had missed any, he or she would not be angry with them.(10) One of the best known of the Greek gods is one that is still worshiped today: Bacchus, the God of Pleasure. Be clear about this...there is nothing wrong with pleasure. There are some who would have us believe that anything remotely smacking of fun is wrong. The Puritans were like that. They went so far as to outlaw any celebration of Christmas. Even today there are those who think of God as some ...

25. A Man of the Moment

Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... on what excites them at that instant in time, but lots of people never seem to outgrow that. We continue to want what we want right now, even if fulfilling the momentary urge will affect our longer-term goals. We often seem to be unwilling to delay immediate pleasure even when it is in our best interests to do so. Think of it as eating our dessert before we eat our vegetables. That's okay occasionally, but always filling up on dessert so that there is no room for vegetables is very bad for our health. Going ...

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