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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1. Earth, Wind and Fire
Acts 2:1-21; John 15:26-27, 16:1-15
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... were "strangely warmed." That warmth, gave them the power they needed to carry out the mission of God. B. Monsters, Inc. is a movie about a monster world that is fueled by fear, literally. The company motto is "We scare because we care." Each day, Mike, Sully, and the other monsters line up on the shop floor as a machine carries dozens of closet doors to individual scaring stations. A scream collection canister rests beside each closet door, which is a portal to the room of a small child. If the monster ...
2. The Foreigner
Luke 17:11-19
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... accepted him not merely as a Samaritan but as a fully equal child of God. Who had the greater restoration? The Samaritan. The dirtier the image, the more stunning the restoration. We all need healing by Jesus. All fall short of the glory of God and are sullied and bent by sin. Some of us will take God’s healing for granted. Those who have experienced the most difficulty in the world, the most bias, the most abuse, the most loneliness, the most rejection will cherish God’s gift the most. Why do you want ...
Sermon
Siegfried S. Johnson
... They fear contamination with anything relating to a child. If a monster re-enters their world with even so much as a child's booty stuck to their fur, a frantic decontamination process ensues. At a key moment in the movie, a little girl enters the closet world of Sully, the most famous monster at Monsters Inc., the monster who is the most prolific producer of screams. At first terrified, because he was taught to be terrified of children, he slowly learns there is nothing to be afraid of at all in this child ...
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Erskine White
... . Good Lord, who inspires us in our special calling as children of the Living God, help us to be less disappointing as Christians ourselves. Make us the kind, generous and loving people You mean for us to be. Leave us never boastful, arrogant or rude. O God, keep us from sullying Your sacred Name with our unworthy words and deeds, that others may see Your light in us and receive new life in You. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen
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... of what was then Spanish Africa. No Arabs nor any Europeans had explored this place: "Without questions," he writes, "I was the first human being ever to wander over this ... this iceberg ... I was thrilled by the virginity of the soil which no man or beast had sullied. I lingered there, startled by this silence that had never been broken. The first star began to shine, and I said to myself that this pure surface had laid here thousands of years in sight only of the stars." But on top of the sand, he began ...
6. Scenes From a Marriage
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
Sermon
Craig Erickson
... to a healthy marriage. But in Bergman’s characters, it degenerates into self-centeredness. Sexual attraction? This is also nice to have in a marriage, to say the least. But there’s a darker side to these drives, which are ever so easily sullied by the human proclivity to dominance and manipulation. "Scenes from a Marriage" is a tragedy in the classic sense, for Bergman’s husband and wife characters are fatally flawed. They lack that which alone keeps virtues from becoming something other than virtues ...
7. Clean Light
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Sermon
William F. Dunkle
... the Christians at Corinth, the Apostle Paul is insisting that human bodies, while not immortal, are important. God makes them. They are God’s intended creation. This, then, is why Christians do not abuse their bodies or permit them to be soiled or sullied. Saint Paul says our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit. But our problem is always how to keep ourselves clean and pure. In Christian history we have tried almost everything. Hermits have crawled away into deserts and climbed high mountains. Zealots ...
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... pollution. But perhaps the greatest weakness of the academic disciple is not evil action but the triple A's of academia -- aloofness, abstruseness, and abstraction. Obsessed with the notion of pure thought and pure science, the academic disciple never comes down to earth to sully his or her hands with the harsh realities of daily life. The academic type disciple is a modern-day agnostic or dualist who believes God is known through thought more than action. If God is pure Mind, they reason, then one can get ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . JUST AS IMPORTANTLY, JESUS CALLS US TO IDENTIFY WITH THOSE HE CAME TO SAVE. So many Christians are much more like the Pharisees than they are like Jesus. The Pharisees set themselves apart from unrighteous people. They were much more concerned that they did not become sullied than that the sick and the dying be saved. Jesus wants his followers to have a heart for all people. He wants us to identify with the least and the lowest. It is interesting that Jesus told those whom he was sending out "to eat and ...
Sermon
Stephen M. Crotts
... that this generation is like school children who pipe and their friends won't dance, who wail and their chums won't cry. "There is no pleasing you!" We simply find something wrong with everything. John Wesley pointed out that every gift God gives man is quickly sullied by human hands. He said every revival comes with defects. So he'd pray, "Lord, send revival without the defects." But then he told the Lord, "If you won't do it, then send the revival with the defects." Pharisees only see the smoke, never the ...
11. Letting Go
Acts 7:55-60
Sermon
Bill Mosley
... where the creatures have to be bribed into believing? He says: Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire. It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to. There are rewards that do not sully motives. A man's love for a woman is not mercenary because he wants to marry her, nor his love for poetry mercenary because he wants to read it, nor his love of exercise less disinterested because he wants to run and leap and walk. Love, by definition, seeks ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... Bible because it connects her to the faith once for all delivered to the saints. Do you know how many martyrs to the faith died so that you could have a pew Bible? In the pre-Reformation church the "Word" was considered too sacred to be sullied by the hands of unschooled common people. Translating the Bible into the vernacular was a sin punishable by imprisonment and death. Putting a translated version of the Scriptures into the pew box, so that just anyone could read it and interpret it for themselves, was ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... , however, know what it means when "he has a bad chip." Sign 2: Moral Malaise According to Time magazine's report of a Daily Express survey, 84 percent of those polled did not think that Prince Charles' TV confession that he had committed adultery sullied his reputation (Ginia Bellafonte, "People," Time, 18 July 1994, 61). The church as an organized institution has become too comfortable, too at home with the standards and values of the world. Our silence in the face of such signs of the times suggests that ...
14. Joshua People Obey and Serve
Joshua 1:6-8, 24:14-15
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... it the Miracle on the Hudson and I'm sure God's hand was involved but part of the success of the ditching of that plane and the rescue of all the passengers was the Obedience of the Pilot and the Captain of that Commuter Ferry. Pilot Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, who some are calling "Captain Marvel" is a former Air Force fighter pilot who has flown for US Airways for 29 years. He has over 19,000 hours in the air and runs his own safety consulting firm. After 29 years of flying, after 29 years of pre ...
15. Spiderman: Saved To Serve
Colossians 3:1-4, 12-17
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... but apparently had this thing about Jesus and his followers. He thought they were preaching blasphemy and so he saddled up and got ready to take them out. His first victim, recorded in Scripture is Stephen, one of the first Deacons. Saul couldn't even dare to sully his hands as they stoned him to death but stood by, holding the cloaks and gloating. But then, on his way to Damascus to arrest even more of these upstart Christians, Saul is bitten, not by a radioactive spider but by Jesus himself. There on the ...
16. Spiderman: Saved To Serve
Colossians 3:1-4, 12-17
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... respected in his circle but apparently had this thing about Jesus and his followers. He thought they were preaching blasphemy and so he saddled up and got ready to take them out. His first victim, recorded in Scripture is Stephen. Saul couldn't even dare to sully his hands as they stoned him to death but stood by, holding the cloaks and gloating. But then, on his way to Damascus to arrest even more of these upstart Christians, Saul is bitten, not by a radioactive spider but by Jesus himself. There on the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... is a name we use each time we pray. When we serve the Lord’s Supper or baptize or when we attend to any of the ministries of the church, we do it in Jesus’ name. We have seen popular heroes celebrities, politicians, business leaders, clergy whose names have been sullied by time, but not this name. It is a name above all names. And as you leave this place today, my prayer is that you will take that name with you and treat it with reverence. Well known evangelist Sam Kamaleson of India was preaching in an ...
18. Little Ones
Luke 18:15-17, Matthew 19:13-15
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... who would push them away. Jesus challenges his disciples never to allow or to cause one of his young followers to “stumble” in his or her faith. Children for Jesus have an innocence, a trust, a loyalty, a beauty and purity of faith that must not be sullied or soiled. While Jesus literally talks about children, he also uses “child” as a metaphor for the kind of faith he wants all of his followers to have. And he will protect their faith in him and in God no matter what. Jesus has encountered several ...
19. The Stone is My Witness
Matthew 28:1-10, Mark 16:1-20
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Lori Wagner
... removes the sediment from our aching hearts, the stories of sin and doubt and shame, and releases our lives from the heaviness of death to live and witness to the lightness of grace and glory. God is a sculptor, who creates us from the stone slab of sullied and muddied lives, to new tenderness and beauty, with God’s ever powerful hands molding us and reforming us in mercy and grace. God the Creator sees the child within us that God the Father made with His own hands. Sculpture too …is made from stone ...
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