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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. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. All Your Facilities Intact

Acts 17:16-34, Colossians 1:15-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . In it Esme, a thirteen year old girl, writes a man who has gone off to war. She writes, "I hope you come back with all your faculties intact." Salinger's anthropology, evident in all his writings, is that we are born with all our faculties intact, with all our senses working. You can see that in little children. Early life as a human being is like a Garden of Eden. It is a time of innocence. But in adolescence, when we begin to go out in the world, we lose that innocence. It can be described as losing our ...

15. The Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... think to ourselves, if something really terrific happens to me, then I will feel grateful. But such gratitude is a fleeting emotion, gone just as soon as life has one of its downturns, as life must inevitably have. No, the secret is to commit yourself to a sense of gratitude, regardless of what happens--then you will be able to find joy in even the most humdrum and sometimes even in the most painful experience. How do you do that? You do that by centering your life in the grace of Jesus Christ. Our lesson ...

16. Laughing in Church

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Carl Jech

... I sent some friends a card that showed Mary, Joseph and the babe in the manger under the star, with Joseph saying to Mary: "Quit complaining! What did you expect with a one-star hotel?" Inside the card I wrote: "To be 'full of grace,' is to have a sense of humor." Now I suspect some people might be offended by this kind of "religious" humor. But I stand by the card and would insist that far from being sacreligious it is in fact a wonderful expression of the gospel of grace in Christ that we learn about in ...

17. Jesus and Mary Magdalene

John 20:10-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... know tonight exactly what it means. I don’t understand what’s happening in my body, but I prayed to God that He would give me peace… and He has! Even with all that I have been through and all I have yet to go through, I have this deep sense of peace that passes understanding.” And I said, “That’s because of all the prayers that are being prayed for you right now… and it’s because God is right here with us. And June said, “I know. I can feel His presence here and I’m not afraid. I ...

18. The Four Scents of Adventing

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and one’s soul) with a calmness sorely needed. The pace of bread-making demands a rhythm through which peace can only descend: Collecting ingredients, measuring correct amounts, stirring, kneading, softening, adding a spicy surprise. Again, are we speaking of baking bread or a sense of calm that we all wish would descend upon our lives? Sentness: As sent ones, do we carry the aroma of peace — the weight of peace into the lives of our family and friends, or does chaos and discord reign? Response: Take a ...

19. Love Over Logic

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Carl Jech

... of goodness proclaimed by the Gospel are valid, don't they have to be valid regardless of whether or not heaven is a part of the equation? If, as we have noted, Christian faith is about learning to live creatively in the dynamic tension between a sense of moral urgency and a sense of humor - if it is about learning to live in love - isn't it more than worthwhile to participate in such faith even if there were no "next life"? We must wonder about a person who is disgruntled with this world and can't wait for ...

20. The Spiritual Fitness Demands of the New Age

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... you, where you can land with safety. That’s what Jesus was telling us. There is a way of life that God has prepared for us. We can reject it and destroy ourselves, but it is there to save us, to give us life. That’s what a high sense of Christian morality is all about. It is a way of life! But the abnormal is so intensely advertised in modern literature and drama, in movies and television, that people are almost convinced that the abnormal is normal. It’s hard to find your way when the sign posts ...

21. I've Been To The Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a body out into the full-flood of life again. Only those who know the deadly weariness of the beach can quite understand the living joy of the ocean when we get back to it once more!" (Elizabeth Vining, FRIENDS OF LIFE, p. 153). That will always do it -- our sense of need will keep us open to God's glorious presence and power. Look back over your own life. When have you been most aware of God's glorious presence? In a letter I received just this week, a mother told me how vividly aware she and her husband ...

22. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... do about Miss Smith? She never had any children. But she has been teaching the first grade Sunday School class for 30 years. “She is like a mother to all of us,” said someone, “We ought to be able to recognize her on Mother’s Day.” And that makes sense, doesn’t it? In fact, we really ought to have a day to honor all those people who give loving service to others. Some of you are at that point in life where you are being the parent to your own mother and/or father. “Sandwich generation” is a ...

23. Can You Smell the Perfume?

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... are born anosmic; some people develop anosmia often from head injuries – like Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry's, which is why he says his ice cream has so many tactile and other sensory characteristics. Some people drift into anosmic states by repressing their sense of smell. Some years ago The New York Times commemorated Valentine's Day by doing a "Science Times" feature spread on what it called "the second-sexiest organ of the body" – the nose. It seems that the odor receptors of the nose are more ...

24. A Time for Us

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... the pieces will fit together, a time when the fulfillment they dream of will be realized, a time when human life will make sense, a time when the mysteries and questions will be resolved, a time when they will have the confidence they have not lived and ... the month, or the end of the year. How we long for that time. And yet, how quickly time passes us by, even the young sense it. Middle school students wonder where the time goes. Older people who used to have time on their hands, now wonder if they have any ...

25. Rules For A Happy Life

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... ; when he is revealed, we will be like him." Yes, but he's referring to the children of God. That may not happen unless we take seriously the rules of life: honesty, integrity, loyalty, kindness, love. Third: The Rule Of Your Own Best Self. Each of us has an inner sense of who we are and what we hope to be. What kind of person are you? Do you have integrity? Do you want to be known in your vocation as a man or woman of honor, of unimpeachable honesty? I know a man who builds shopping centers. Some time ago ...

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