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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. Praying for a Whole New World

Luke 21:5-38

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William G. Carter

... . The good news for Advent is that we don’t have to expect a logical continuation of everything we have already seen and known. Something different is on the way. As theologian Walter Brueggemann notes, “What we ready ourselves for in Advent is the sneaking suspicion, the growing awareness, the building restlessness that this weary world is not the one God has in mind. God will work another world ... according to the person and passion of Jesus.”2 The day is coming when the love and justice of Jesus ...

2. When It Is Dark Enough

Luke 21:5-38

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Charles H. Bayer

... faced tragedy in your life, or are sure you never will, I suppose you can tune out about now, go over your Christmas shopping list, or let visions of sugar-plums dance in your heads. But if you carry the scars of grief or trouble, or have the sneaking suspicion you may walk through some mighty dark valleys before you die, you may want to listen. The point of the text is this. When there is nothing you can do -- nothing -- God will act on your behalf. When you are without resources of any kind, when you see ...

3. The Discipline of Witnessing

Isaiah 43:1-13

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... ve heard people say, "I can’t talk about God, because it’s too personal, and I can never talk aloud about things this personal and this meaningful to me." Perhaps - but unless there is some time when we feel like talking about God - I have a sneaking suspicion that He’s not as meaningful to us as we imply! Most of us don’t talk about our wives too much - and the relationship with them is deep and meaningful. Remember when you first fell in love? How you buttonholed your roommate in college and told ...

4. When "Well Done" Is Rare

Matthew 25:14-30

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Eric Ritz

... a noun. The pretty good student in fact Was part of a pretty good mob. The first time he knew what he lacked Was when seeking a pretty good job. It was then when he saw the position He discovered that life can be tough. He soon had the sneaking suspicion That pretty good might not be enough. The pretty good town in our story Was part of a pretty good state. Which had pretty good aspirations And prayed for a pretty good fate. There once was a pretty good nation Pretty proud of the greatness it had But it ...

5. Whose Child Is This?

Matthew 1:1-17

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J. Howard Olds

... Abraham, lay our weapons down, and say once more to all the world that we have more to gain by being kin to one another than we do in killing one another. Children of Abraham have more in common than they have apart and I have a sneaking suspicion that the world is yearning for an understanding like that. Jesus Christ the Son of Abraham. B. Jesus Christ, the Son of David All of us would like a little royalty in our heritage. Queen Elizabeth reportedly said at some point that she would like her son Charles ...

6. A Sabbath Argument

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... old man on the council jumped up and said, "Pastor, there is something that has been disturbing my heart for a long time, but I never felt right talking about it. But now I can't control myself any longer. I must tell you that I've always had the sneaking suspicion that our Lord Jesus was something of a liberal."

7. Disabled

Luke 13:10-17

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Dave Zuchelli

... to the congregation. “There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the sabbath” (Luke 13:14). So in essence, he generally laid the entire congregation low — and in particular, the woman with the eighteen-year demon. I have a sneaking suspicion that the leader of this synagogue was a bit skeptical to begin with. He was probably looking for some slip-up on Jesus’ part so he could jump in and save the day. He was the leader there, and he didn’t want some stranger horning ...

8. How Do You Like Yourself?

1 Peter 3:8-22

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Louis H. Valbracht

Tell me, what do you think of yourself? How do you feel about living with you? You know, the precedents aren’t too encouraging. A man that we call Saint Peter cried out: "O, Lord, keep away from me, for I am a sinful man." A man whom we call Saint Paul had the words wrenched out of him: "O, wretched man that I am." And the great king, David, cried out in the Psalm: "I am a worm" - I am a worm! - "and no man." Or make it more contemporary. A teenage girl in my study stated her problem honestly: "People don’ ...

9. Hope in the Shadows

Mark 13:1-31

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Darrick Acre

This is the season we celebrate Christmas. The shopping has begun. The countdown of days left to make purchases is underway. Jewelry commercials are dominating the airways. People are passing by the Salvation Army bell ringers as they go in and out of the mall looking for just the right gift. It’s Christmas! This is the time of year when we decorate with lights, greenery, and all the symbols of the season. We sing carols. We greet the people we pass with tidings of good cheer, “Merry Christmas!” We rejoice ...

10. The Autobiography of God

John 14:5-14

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Donald B. Strobe

Halford Luccock once told of a woman in a certain American city, who called a local minister on the telephone a week or so before Christmas. She was in much agitation, and explained that she was in charge of the community Christmas tree lighting ceremony. What disturbed her was the limited selection of carols to be sung. She could not, she said, find just the right songs for such an occasion. “Most of the Christmas songs,” she said, “are so distressingly theological.” “Well, replied the minister, “ ...

11. Life in the Living Stone Age

1 Peter 2:4-12

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Leonard Sweet

Canaan Valley, West Virginia is a high mountain valley. It is, in fact, the largest high mountain valley east of the Rockies. The valley nestles in the bottom of a bowl, surrounded by barren, windblown tundra on the tops of the mountains. As you walk across the strangely spongy surface of the mosses and lichens that cling to the earth high up on the mountain ridge, suddenly there rears up a row of teeth in front of you, stone stalagmites pushing up from the earth. Chiseled and chipped by decades of wind ...

12. From Greed to Generosity

Mark 10:17-27

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J. Howard Olds

Author and spiritual director Richard Foster says, “The great moral question of our time is how to move from greed to generosity." That's what we would like to talk about today. A. GREED: the Bible calls it avarice, or covetousness. Greed is the gratification of my desires often at the expense of the common good. We all have a need for greed. We are born to be greedy. It would be easy today to talk about the greediness of Enron executives who are on trial for pocketing millions of dollars. It would be ...

13. When You Drop the Ball, What Next?

Mark 1:21-28

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Leonard Sweet

There are two things we absolutely crave in our lives: predictability and spontaneity. We crave the comfort of predictability. We work long and hard to grow life in a steady job, a certain career, a consistent source of income. We earn degrees, save money, buy insurance, invest for retirement. We have a home, a family, a schedule, which gives structure and meaning to our days and nights. We build our lives on the secure foundation of predictability. But conversely, we also crave spontaneity. We hunger for ...

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