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Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

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1. A Streak of Common Sense

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... repeats his request to come in. The pig refuses, so the wolf huffs and puffs and blows the house in. The second little pig is done for. A new long-range consequence had come to pass. Now we have to ask whether the two little pigs showed genuine common sense or not? Coming to the brick house the wolf calls out, is refused entrance, blows as hard as he can, but the brick house stays safe. Furious, the wolf comes down the chimney only to land in a kettle of boiling water set there for just such an emergency ...

2. The Five Senses

Luke 24:36-48

Sermon

John Smylie

... died. A few days later, he and I opened the closed casket so he could see again for himself what he did not believe when he saw her the first time on that very shadowy night. The disciples did not trust their eyes — the only way they could make sense of what they were seeing, was to say that they were seeing a ghost. How could it be real that Jesus was among them? The disciples needed to hear the words of Jesus. They needed to hear his voice and experience his challenging words that were so familiar to ...

3. How Do We Make Sense of This?

Romans 8:35-39, Hebrews 10:1-39

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... there to die. There are a lot of things in the Bible that are open to interpretation, and we have to do our best to make sense of them. But one thing we can't doubt, now that we've seen the Word made flesh — Jesus — we know that God is love. So, ... over him. I know this may be sounding a little deep here, but hang in there with me and think about it. It really makes sense. Ultimately, what power is there in amassing power for ourselves so we can exert it over others? Then, doesn't the need for power have ...

4. Why The Resurrection Makes Sense

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... that if you accept the authority of the Bible, if that is where you know Jesus and accept its version of him, then it makes no sense to deny that Jesus is risen. Now this is not a blind faith. In fact, we can make the case for it like a lot of other ... marvels of the resurrection: Behold, thus we must view our treasure and turn away from temporal reality that lies before our eyes and sense. We must not let death and other misfortune, distress and misery, terrify us so. Nor must we regard what the world has and can ...

5. A Sense of Urgency

Acts 9:32-43

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... is not eternal. The revival time of the dead is both chronos and kairos. We must act within chronos and we must have a sense of kairos. We must be in time and on time in the things of God. Ask any emergency room physician about the importance of ... still has that power. It is through our work as servants of God that people come to know who Christ is. If we do not have a sense of urgency for our work in meeting the needs of people we might well be telling them that Christ does not have time for them. We need ...

6. Making Sense

John 17:6-19

Sermon

John Jamison

... Jesus no longer sitting at the table with the disciples but standing in the courtroom, making his closing statement before the jury. While the words before and after the prayer were to help the disciples understand, John wrote the prayer to make perfect sense to those logical Greeks and Romans. In a formal, structured manner, Jesus stated his case in his prayer. He recognized that God is supreme and that everything and everyone belongs to God. He then made the affirmation that he, Jesus, actually came from ...

7. The Olfactory Sense of Prayer

Exodus 30:34-38, Exodus 30:22-33, John 12:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... they are. You could also have them taste them with clothespins on their noses to see if they know what they are first.] How did that experiment work? Scientists now tell us that humans can detect at least over 10,000 unique odors. In fact, our olfactory sense is the only sense that has a straight line to the part of our brain that deals with memory and emotion. Humans aren’t as good as dogs at this—we have 5 million smell receptors, but dogs have 300 million. No wonder people say your dog sees the world ...

8. Our Senses

Luke 2:30-31

Children's Sermon

Mark A. Hultquist

... noises that are soft (clap softly). All right, now what about our noses. What do they do? They help us smell all kinds of great scents. I have a bottle of perfume here that everyone can smell. I also have a dessert here. What is that a hint for? Our sense of taste. Just imagine how great that is going to taste! And with our touch we can feel things that are soft and things that are rough. Finally, our eyes help us to see what is around us - all the beautiful things God made. Our lesson for today talks about ...

9. He Came to His Senses

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... to the recognition of our identity is sometimes painful. The good news in this text, of course, is that the father is waiting to bestow our identity upon us again - at least from our point of view, for, from his he’s not removed it - when we come to our senses and recognize that we are what we are because we belong to the family of God and to the family of man (the father’s household). The good news is hilarious! The father received his wandering son in an hilarious way, when you think about it. The son ...

10. A Sense of Place

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... where most of the people live, it's hard to fault them. Commitment to Christ is not limited to where a house of worship is located. Or to say it a different way, regardless of how we relate to places outwardly, we need to have a different kind of place/sense that focuses us toward God's presence within us. Now it's fine to have a location that serves as a visible symbol of God's presence. But it's another thing to rely on the symbol for salvation rather than on the presence of the God the city symbolized ...

11. Ain't No Sense Worrying

Luke 10:38-42, John 14:1-14

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Mickey Rivers

Mickey Rivers, a one time outfielder for the Texas Rangers, explained his philosophy of life: Ain't no sense worrying about things you got control over, because if you got control over them, ain't no sense worrying. And their ain't no sense worrying about things you got NO control over either, because if you got no control over them, ain't no sense worrying.

12. Man, Give Me Some Bread: I Want To Make Sense Out Of My Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... the crowd wanted to crown Jesus king. They had never experienced anything like this before. They were in a near frenzy. Jesus, sensing this, took his disciples across the lake to Capernaum. Many from the crowd, though, got in boats and followed. Jesus knew what ... all the majesty and dignity we've been endowed with in Christ. If that would dawn on all God's people, if they would sense their significance in Him, then we all could become more aware of His purpose in us." (2) That would be the ideal, wouldn't ...

13. If Your Sense of Purpose Ever Becomes a Burden, Remember Your Value

Matthew 10:40-42

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... for today by noting that whoever welcomes his team of leaders welcomes him, and so also welcomes God the Father. Keep that observation in mind when you think about your purpose, about God's purpose for you. We can get a little clearer about our sense of purpose, more clearly recognize that it is not a burdensome task but a joyful response, if we delve a little more into the full background of Jesus' remarks. Move on to verse 41. Here Jesus speaks of welcoming prophets. These remarks indicate that among ...

14. Have a Sense of Humor

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... yourself in some amusing inconsistency and then laugh at yourself. This is the foundation of a healthy sense of humor. Note the inappropriate or funny things people say or do in public, and draw parallels between ... reading diet published collections of wit and humor, humor columnists, comic strips, and stories by writers with a well-developed sense of humor. Occasionally do something harmlessly absurd and totally out of character for your spontaneous entertainment. Avoid sarcasm, ridicule, and excessive ...

15. A Sense of Wonder

Matthew 2:13-23

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Eric Ritz

... is illuminated with this light. Then comes this thing slowly rising up in total silence, because it takes a few seconds for the sound to come across the water. You hear a WHOOOOOSH! BOOM!' It enters right into you. You can practically hear jaws dropping. The sense of wonder fills everyone in the whole place," says Needleman, "as this thing goes up and up. The first stage ignites this beautiful blue flame. It becomes like a star, but you realize there are humans on it. And then there's total silence. People ...

16. A Shared Sense of Humor

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Bernard Asbell

... humor in twenty-five jokes, cartoons, and comic strips. The study showed that couples who agree on what's funny are more likely to like, love, and want to marry each other than those who didn't laugh at the same things. Moreover, it found that couples with a common sense of humor tended to have been together longer than the others. A shared sense of what's funny, say the authors, "is indicative of many things: values, interests, preoccupations, intelligence, imagination, and needs."

17. When It Doesn't Make Sense

Humor Illustration

... . Let's get outa' here!" Mike: "No way. As soon as we get out, Lizzie an'' the girls will take it. I saw this refrigerator box first. It's MINE!!!" Brian: "But we're gonna' croak in here! We could get heat frustration and die, man! This doesn't make sense!" Mike: "This is war, Brian. It's not SUPPOSED to make ...

18. Restoring Our Sense of Priorities

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... the material. From such a scheme no good can ever emerge, and hence "so what?" is ultimately popular and acceptable. The grim reality is that from us has gone almost any concept of a Being who loves us and therefore has a moral claim upon us, or any sense of purpose, but all is "a jumble of things going it blind" (to use Fosdick’s phrase), with nothing that cares, and hence we feel no pull of any ultimate meaning to life. There is no rationale whatsoever for the Ten Commandments in an outlook such as that ...

19. Making Sense of the Ascension

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . From several decades of doing pastoral counseling I have learned that it is far better to be single than to be married to the wrong person. God doesn’t call everyone to marriage. But I use the story to leave you with this reminder. In a deeper and more profound sense, you and I DO know how life is going to turn out. It is going to turn out with Christ. As E. Stanley Jones once said so poetically, “All of life will end up at Jesus feet.” It will. The question is: Will we be there with it? Are we ...

20. A Sense Of Past And Future

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... ours to keep. As this new year begins we praise your name for this and every season! Amen. Prayer Of Confession To everything its season, Lord, and yet we rebel when you deny your surprises and seek a false security in the same old thing. Between our sense of past and future comes the now, the impossible, the deep. We are waiting to be filled with an irreplaceable moment of living like the kingdom. Amen. Hymns All Things Bright And Beautiful All Beautiful The March Of Days God Is Working His Purposes Out

21. A Sense of Urgency

Mk 1:1-8

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King Duncan

... he did not want to waste any of it. There was still work to be done. Many of us can feel the pressure of time right now as Christmas comes ever closer. John the Baptist had that same urgency. Jesus had that same urgency. The early church had that same sense of urgency. Time is important. Time is in short supply.

22. The Senseless Rejection of Common Sense

Mark 10:1-12

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Brett Blair

It has never ceased to amaze me the senseless rejection of common sense that the US Press and some academics engage in. A magazine cover story (Time Magazine) read, "What Divorce Does to Kids." That was the title. The caption read: "New research says the long-term damage is worse than you thought. Should unhappy parents stay hitched?" It seems to me the ...

23. A Sense of Awe

John 2:1-11

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... that "each part and tag" of his own person was a miracle, and that "a mouse is miracle enough to confound sextillions of infidels." He reminded us that we are surrounded by the glorious and the miraculous and do not know it. Science ought to have increased our sense of awe, as it has unfolded the marvels of the heavens above and mysteries of our bodies within; but we take the attitude that if we know how far it is to a given planet, we have, therefore, encompassed all its significance. We need to know that ...

24. Embrace the Sense of Community

Matthew 20:1-16

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Philip W. McLarty

... it comes his turn to stand before the landowner and receive his pay, instead of complaining as the others, John throws out his hand and says with tears in his eyes, "Thank you, my lord, for what you've done for us today!" God's justice arises out of a sense of community in which we see the "eleventh hour" workers as our brothers and sisters whose needs are every bit as important as our own.

25. Sense In The World

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Bruce Shelly

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line . . . Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality namely my idea of justice was full of sense.

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