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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Leonard Sweet
... passion. Be Yourself. It has always been true: Everybody wants everyone else to be just like them. Oscar Wilde said that the first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. Wilde continued: "What the second is, no one has yet discovered." God has called us to "show up" and "be present" because God has need of the unique gifts and strengths each one of us has to offer to this place and time. God wants you to be just like you. God wants you to be who you are. An old cowboy saying declares: "You can put ...
2. Showing Up
Ephesians 3:1-12
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John N. Brittain
... all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. — Ephesians 1:7-10 Jesus had shown up, the incarnation had happened, at exactly the proper time for this message of God's unbelievably lavish grace to be made known to humankind. The resurrected Jesus then showed up at just the right time not just to show Paul the error of his ways, but to commission him to set out in the ancient world proclaiming the gospel. And in verse 10, Paul says that now the church has shown up to make this incredible message ...
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Mark Trotter
... . Then he would head for the synagogue in Charlotte and feel right at home. He would see Harry in the synagogue, and he would say, "Harry, who are these Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians?" So the way you handle this story is to ask, "What if Jesus showed up here?" What if Jesus showed up (oh my) in First Church San Diego? I think he would look around, and say, "Nice place. Real big. You can get a lot of sheep in here." Then you know what he's going to say? He's going to say, "Destroy this temple, and ...
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James Merritt
... , he said, "I don't know. I guess I stayed too close to where I got in." So many Christians do that with their faith. For most of their Christian life they stay too close where they got in. You see, we often think that "growing up is showing up." We think that if a person comes to church on Sunday morning, and perhaps even attends a Bible study group, and maybe even holds an official position in the church like deacon, or Sunday School teacher, or committee member, or a trustee, that he or she must be ...
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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... or to resurrect. There were those whose hammer time was spent nailing Jesus to the cross. Then there were those whose hammer time was spent making him a coffin so he would have a grave to lay in. You can always trust the negative hammer time Christians to show up when a hanging or lynching is going on. They always have their hammers and nails and two-by-fours ready to nail somebody to the cross. Never mind that the person is good. Never mind that the person is innocent. Never mind they don't know the person ...
6. Run Away Bride
Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 22:1-14, Hosea 1:1-2:1
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Lori Wagner
... of them, the groom gets cold feet because he is in love with another. In others of them, it’s the bride who either runs away or calls off the wedding at the last minute. Have you ever been to a wedding where one of those getting married didn’t show up and ran away? Anyone here? [You can tailor the story below to your own, or tell is in the third person]: Many years ago, before my call to ministry, I was commissioned to play the organ for a wedding. It began like any other wedding with about 20 minutes ...
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Charley Reeb
... . Because let me tell you God’s power and love are alive and well in the midst of suffering and evil. Wait on that. Put your faith in that and you will find renewed strength. Take a look at what Isaiah says occurs when we wait for God to show up: Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. One translation of the phrase, “mount up with wings like eagles” is “they shall put on wings ...
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Harold Warlick
... Public Is Cordially Invited To Attend.'" Well, we did just that and the little bi-weekly town newspaper ran the advertisement on the front page. The night of the program a horrible thing happened: by golly, the public showed up! I mean the public showed up! The whole public showed up. We were all thrown together in sharply contrasting mixes. The gathering was about sixty percent white, thirty percent black, and ten percent Hispanic. The president of the gas company sat in his three-piece suit, surrounded by ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... disciples. It is a satchel charge planted at the very foundations of our building, the world where we live, and the fuse is even now burning. The world as we know it is coming down; it has already judged itself unworthy of continuance by what it did when Jesus showed up; it will at the right time be demolished by God and replaced by a new heavens and a new earth, a world where Jesus’ rule with the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit is the only one that matters! The Sermon on the Mount is not about ...
10. Unreasonable Mercy
2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13
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Lori Wagner
... in your pews? You don’t get fed up with doing a ministry for others, when none of them ever end up coming to church or putting money in the offering plates? You don’t feel your ministry has failed when the people you minister to never show up to worship or add to your rolls? You wouldn’t flinch when someone who looks, acts, dresses completely differently than you came into church one morning and sat with you for worship? Would you welcome….anyone? Does your family have room for the black sheep of ...
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King Duncan
... for the New York City Fire Department. He was known throughout the city for his ministries to the homeless population, to people with addictions, to AIDS patients. On September 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, Father Mychal Judge showed up to aid the firefighters. He was praying over the injured workers and the firefighters when debris from the collapsing building struck him in the head and killed him. At his funeral, the Rev. Michael Duffy gave the following eulogy: “And the ...
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James Merritt
... not sprinkled to death. For a long period of time the word Baptizo had no religious significance whatsoever. Women baptized their dishes. Sinking ships were baptized into the sea. Kids playing in a river dunked or baptized each other. Then one day a man showed up named John and he began baptizing people. Mark 1: 4 tells us: "John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins." Mark 1:4 John said that baptism is an outward sign of an inward repentance. In ...
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John Jamison
... proof, and we still haven’t seen anything yet. That’s the key issue in this story, isn’t it? That’s the question that comes up any time we hear this story again. Sure, we’re happy to see Thomas come around, but really, why is it that Jesus showed up then but doesn’t pop in around here once in a while and give us a bit of proof too? Please understand, I’m not making light of what happened in that closed room, and I’m not making light of the pain so many of us feel at times ...
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Robert J. Elder
... the Baptist appeared; and people from all over went out to him to be baptized; and he said, "One who is more powerful than I is coming after me" (v. 7). And that was about it. Eight verses sum up all the preparation, then in verse 9 Jesus will show up for his baptism. The church sets aside four weeks each year during Advent to get ready for the arrival of Jesus, Mark sets aside eight sentences. It's as if Dave — not one to be compared to Jesus by any means — was to emerge from a random subway station ...
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Leonard Sweet
... at the birth of your child might make you a “parent,” but it does not make you a changing diapers, up-all-night, learning dinosaur names, cheering at rain-soaked side-lines, doing Algebra homework, enforcing curfews, saving for college, Mom or Dad. Just “showing up” at church every Sunday morning might make you a member-in-good-standing, but it does not automatically put feet on your faith. G. K. Chesterton used to say that “Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing ...
16. The House on The Rock
Lk 6:12-49 · Mt 5:1-12
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Lori Wagner
... and Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia. You actually may have someone in your parish who knows someone who built their house this way, or whose parents’ house was built this way. When a German immigrant came to build his house, all of his relatives showed up to help. Together, they had all of the skills necessary to complete the task. One was a carpenter, another an electrician, another a mason, and another a plumber. Most of them could do almost all of those skills themselves, but each chimed in with ...
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King Duncan
... of love and compassion, just as we failed the test of keeping all the ceremonial and moral laws. We don’t have it in us to love as Christ loved us. Robert Morris tells a somewhat amusing and also telling story about a disheveled Hispanic man who showed up at the rear of a church after midnight service on Christmas Eve. The pastor of this particular inner city congregation, named Mark, was a friend of Robert Morris. Mark was a man who was devoted to serving the homeless, but he was getting weary and this ...
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Stan Purdum
... problems of being new in town and having a brother who recently became a paraplegic as the result of an auto accident. Then her life is suddenly further complicated when God starts speaking to her. God comes to her not as an inner voice, but disguised as other people and showing up in the midst of Joan's day. One time, God comes to her as a cute boy on the bus. Another time, it's as a woman with attitude working in the cafeteria of Joan's school. Other times, it's as a maintenance worker, a little girl, a ...
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James Merritt
... listening to them when they talk? Giving them your full and undivided attention? Taking an opportunity to lay down with them at night just to talk to them and hear their dreams? Making sure you are always there when they really need you? Showing up for their ballgames, their concerts and their performances? One hundred years ago, fifty-four percent of a parent's waking hours were spent with his or her children. Today, the figure is eighteen percent. Another study revealed that the average middle-aged father ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... so much controversy around Jesus, why the demons were always screaming at him to leave them alone, and why some of the Jewish leaders were so fed up with Jesus. You had either to side with him as a follower or brand him as public enemy number one. When God shows up, and when omni-presence gives way to real presence, to abstain is not a choice; you are either for him or against him. And if the Father has shown up in the person of the Son in the power of the Spirit, there is only one proper response, and that ...
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King Duncan
... One day his family went to a church event, a community picnic, held by a church in his community. The pastor of that church talked with John and invited him to church. John didn’t seem very interested. Some time went by, and one day John showed up at church, accompanied by his 3-year-old son. And something happened to John in that church . . . something quite beautiful. The word of God took root and grew in John’s heart. He went to church some more. He took some instructional classes. Finally, he joined ...
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Molly F. James
... in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work.” We can keep the faith — together. We can keep the faith by showing up, by gathering together in community to worship God. We need to show up so that we can be held up when we are struggling, and we need to show up so that we can hold others up when we feel confident in our faith. We show up because being in community is an essential part of what it means to be a Christian. I encourage you to keep ...
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Tony Everett
... do we do to get the Lord’s presence and power anyway? Well, nothing, really. We don’t do anything to “get it.” God gives it to us! Look again at today’s lesson. David didn’t say anything at all. In fact, he didn’t even do anything except show up, “and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon David from that day forward” (1 Samuel 16:13). The Lord gave power and presence to us and for us on the cross. The Lord gave that power and presence to us and for us in the water of baptism, in ...
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Mary Austin
... in, but still where it all happened. Our faith is all about the tangible, the real, and what we can see and hold onto. That comes from Jesus himself, the giver of bread and cup, the hands-on healer, the foot washer. He went to a lot of trouble to show up in person, after his resurrection. He wanted his friends to know, without a doubt that he was real and alive in the physical body. The stories go out of their way to tell us that this was not a ghost or a hallucination. The body of Christ is central to ...
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King Duncan
... Christian hospitality of that congregation. She smelled of urine and sweat, often slipping away on Sundays from her shelter before the caretakers could give her a bath. There were those in the church who wished she would have kept walking by their building. But she showed up for worship almost every Sunday. You could tell by Pauline’s loud voice when she had entered the building. She sat near the front, so no one could miss her in her knit cap and grubby, heavy overcoat. Some made sure they did not sit ...
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