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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. Voice Recognition

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... be your digital concierge and report back to you with a voice of our choosing. X-Box One recognizes who is speaking to it and obeys the voice of its “master” instantly. It’s all magic. But to our kids, it’s not magic, it’s normality. But Voice Recognition didn’t begin as magic, or as science. It began with Jesus. In some of the most defining words of discipleship Jesus ever spoke, here is what he said: “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me” (John 10:27). A disciple is ...

2. Leaping from Recognition Point

2 Samuel 11:26—12:13a

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... That is another sermon, however. What is of interest to us today is what happens to any of us when we have a sudden recognition of ourselves in a tale or lesson we see or hear or read somewhere or in verses from the Bible. The story or lesson ... in faith or in compassion or in understanding or in wisdom or in grace. There's a song in our hymnbook that is about arriving at recognition point, though it doesn't say it quite that way. It's a spiritual that came out of the American slave community, and it says, "It ...

3. A Nod of Recognition

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

There was a game show on television. Some of you may remember the 1970’s remake of it, and a few may even remember the original from the early 1950’s. It was one of those shows that keeps cycling back into our lives in different formats. Today, iTunes even has a version of the game. It is called “Name That Tune.” The rules were simple, the host would play a few notes from a popular song and the contestants tried to be the first to guess it. There are some songs that are easy to recognize from the first ...

4. Discipleship - Path to Fulfillment

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... for one reason or another. For example, the kitchen crew responsible for preparing and serving the church supper would feel slighted if the master of ceremonies failed to have the guests express appreciation with a round of applause. James and John craved far greater recognition. They thought in terms of sitting at the head table, or on the platform, with the Guest of Honor. In all honesty, I must confess that I have never been one to resist being escorted to the head table at a church or civic affair ...

5. Recognizing the Lord

Isaiah 60:1-6

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... the best that has ever lived. As they say, he was one who could do it all. Yet, he lived in obscurity until fortune allowed him to be discovered through his presence at Carlisle, and his association with the legendary coach, Pop Warner. Jim Thorpe's recognition as a star athlete presents a good illustration to the principal theme we celebrate in our churches today, the Epiphany of our Lord. Jesus was born in an obscure town in a stable and placed initially after his birth in a manger, a feeding trough for ...

6. When Mickey Mouse Recognizes You...

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... ,000. (3) That says something about human nature, doesn’t it? Status is at least as powerful a motivator as money. That’s true today. It was true 2,000 years ago. Jesus knew that, and he saw an opportunity to use that very natural craving for recognition to teach us some very useful lessons. One Sabbath, Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee. When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them a most interesting parable: “When someone invites you to a ...

7. Who is Greatest Among You ...

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

... along with ambition. We can feel sorry for losers, but we prefer to associate with winners. Nothing pleases a student body more than a crucial victory by their team culminating in the chant, "We’re number one; we’re number one!" We look for and expect the recognition and reward that come with a promotion as we aim to move up another notch on the corporate ladder. And, if we end up disappointed with our advancement in life, well, we can still hope that our children will excel and achieve more than we did ...

8. Week Two Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... God. If we make up our minds to set things right, as Isaiah suggests, and we do our best to do it in an unassuming way, then certainly God will see and, like Brother Andr‚, we will be recognized. Few if any of us will find the "official" recognition of sainthood, but if we do God's will we are God's saints. Let us learn a lesson from the humble life of an uneducated doorman; let us ready ourselves in some small way as our Lenten journey continues this day. Wednesday Week TwoJeremiah 18:18-20Matthew 20 ...

9. Encounter with a Stranger

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Robert Allen

... the loaf of bread? Was it a familiar gesture? Was it a glimpse of a hand which had known the print of a nail? Whatever it was, a silence falls over the table. No one moves. No one speaks. They just know. There is a recognition of love. And, there is joy at that recognition. David Redding tells of having a big, black Scottish shepherd as a pet when he was growing up on a farm in the country. He named the dog Teddy and they became inseparable companions. Teddy would wait on him to come home from school at ...

10. A Strategy For Status Seekers

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... to know that my name is John Dillinger." We are told that the plainspoken wife of the household calmly said, "Now that we know your name, wipe your feet, state you business, and be on your way. We’ve got butter to churn." A pathetic craving for recognition can cause people to do crazy thing seven become a notorious killer. But pride can hinder us in other ways. I was reading about Margaret Mitchell, the author of that fantastically popular novel about the Civil War, GONE WITH THE WIND. It is said that she ...

11. Point Of Origin

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... of the Genesis 1 account of creation that we can almost recite it from memory. Perhaps these first five verses of the Bible have been subject to more minute examination than any other opening verse of any book, religious or secular. But just maybe a recognition will take place in our lives this year. "In the beginning God created...." The chapter which follows those words is not a scientific attempt to answer questions as to how life got going. The chapter is not a repudiation of the sexist passages in the ...

12. Pride: The Deadliest of the Seven Deadly Sins

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... you learn to empty yourself."5 That's what the apostle Paul says to us. If you want to learn the ways of God, then listen to this: Jesus Christ had the very nature of God, but he did not count himself too good or as deserving special treatment and recognition. No, he emptied himself and became a servant, serving even the likes of you and me; and even dying for you and me. We call that humility. Jesus Christ humbled himself, gave himself, so we might have life. It wasn't pride in who he was as the Son of ...

13. Designer Religion

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... if we weren’t hung up on money or status? Probably not. Our communist friends in the early days of that movement tried to motivate people to produce strictly out of loyalty to society. It didn’t work. It never does. We need rewards. We need recognition. We need the fancy cars and the big houses. Nevertheless, lack of humility can be a serious matter. People do crazy things out of pride. One of the people whose reputation has been somewhat enhanced by the changes behind the former Iron Curtain is Nikita ...

14. Under the Fig Tree

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , and as you stand before Jesus, knowing that He sees you in your sin and in your fault and in your goodness and in your humanness, as He sees and discerns the deepest reaches of your heart, you will also know and recognize Him. This kind of “recognition” is the essence of faith. No matter how many scriptural passages you can memorize, no matter how many times you come to church, no matter how many hymns you sing or committees you are on, it may increase your book “knowledge” of God, but it won’t ...

15. Two Lives to Live

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... the two groups as much as we want, but for Jesus, it was very simple. And I believe it all comes down to what is in our heart. There are two ways to live our life. We can be driven by a heart that seeks wealth, satisfaction, pleasure, position, and recognition, acting in ways that everything we do somehow is meant to bring something back to us. Or we can be driven by a heart that seeks to find ways to give something to the poor, feed something to the hungry, wipe the tears of the weeping, and be a friend ...

16. Sermons

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... -dead man whose only hope was that death would soon try for the third time and bring him at last the end of grief and the release of oblivion. That was all anyone could hope for before that first Easter Day. Thomas was only more forthright in his recognition of the fact of death, more uncompromising with wishful thinking, more proudly wedded to his own integrity in the face of death. The other ten had the easy part now. They had seen the dawn which Thomas had not seen. It ill behooved them to be impatient ...

17. Giving with Open Hands

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... can buy, while withholding time and attention. To give with the back of the hand implies that little care or affection goes with the gift. After a while the gift itself fades into insignificance. Such gestures are more often an insult than a recognition. 2. Closed hands. I call these computerizing hands. Before the gift is released, circuits go into action computing the return. Theo, on the Bill Cosby Show, was sorely distressed because he had given away a privilege he longed for himself. He had received ...

18. Competition In The Kingdom?

Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... that first Easter (Mark 16:1ff). The woman had, or was to receive so much glory. Yet it was not enough; she wanted more. She asked Jesus to give her two sons the highest place possible in the kingdom. Is not that kind of discontent, that sort of lust for recognition and reputation, the way it is with us? We faithful followers of Jesus are never fully content, are we? Of course, when we are not content with all that has been given us, we are not being faithful. Yet at any rate, it is true, we are not content ...

19. To Thank Is To ...

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

... is true, I cannot stand by and watch you starve or be bent out of shape by injustice or watch your mind and heart lose vision because you don’t have opportunities to learn. What I am, is driven by this: "This interior resonance of recognition, begetting, or evoking praise and thanksgiving, is a function of the particularity of grace itself. For grace has its marks. Whenever men encounter grace it is the shock and the over-plus of sheer gratuity that announces the presence, as indeed, it invented the name ...

20. Cheering Stones

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... corner, and the caption, "There’s a place near by, where a Carpenter still mends broken men."2 That’s cheering for Christ! The need of the world for Christ is so great today that someone must cheer for him. Someone must give voice to the recognition of his greatness and of his power to mend broken lives, to resurrect dead hopes, to set persons on the right path again, to enable them to live with dignity and purpose and wholeness, and to move our world in the direction of peace and brotherhood. People ...

21. The First Murder - 1940

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... came about. Cain was the elder brother and he was a tiller of the soil, a farmer. Abel was the younger and he was a keeper of sheep. They were called upon, as all men have been called to do, to offer some sort of token of their recognition of God’s ownership of all things. Both brought their best. Cain brought the finest fruit of the field and Abel brought a slaughtered lamb. Cain’s offering was not acceptable white Abel’s was. A lot of theological stupidity has been marshalled as great insight and ...

22. The Problem With Giving Up Chocolates

Mark 8:34-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... NEEDS-DRIVEN. I think you can see that rather easily, can't you? The immature person is driven only by his or her needs. How can I fulfill my physical needs ” needs for food, shelter, etc? How can I meet my emotional needs ” needs for recognition, power, security, etc.? If you are a needs-driven person, then other people are simply objects that you use to satisfy your needs ” whatever those needs are. You start becoming mature when you are able to subjugate your needs to your values. For example, one ...

23. What Are You Working For?

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... church or in the community. Few of us who are ablebodied would be content to sit inside watching television all the time. Most of us are working at something. The question is, For what are we working? Some people don't even know. Money, power, recognition? Some of us would answer simply, survival. Columnist Herb Caen wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle sometime back: "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion ...

24. The Seven Year Switch

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... salvation was completed many years ago by Jesus Christ, and it's a finished work. All you can do is simply accept it. You have done nothing and can do nothing to merit salvation. It is free to all who will receive it." New life in Christ begins with a recognition of who we are and what our situation is. We are cut off from God. We are helpless to fill the emptiness within by our own initiative. All we can do is to receive that which God freely gives ” His grace. When we do that, it becomes possible for us ...

25. Humility You Can Be Proud Of

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... humility Jesus was calling for. Let's look at the kind of humility that Micah and Paul and most especially Jesus were calling for. FIRST OF ALL, WE NEED A HUMILITY THAT ALLOWS US TO DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE WITHOUT THE REWARD OF RECOGNITION. There was an interesting article in LIFE magazine sometime back. It was about Dan Dyer, a maintenance man for Roper Hospital in Charleston, SC. Until 1989 Dan had been responsible for the hospital heating and air conditioning for 8 years ” and yet the hospital staff ...

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