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. Walk in Light
Isaiah 2:1-5
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... , 25) God did not do that only once, eight centuries before Jesus. It was done in Jesus’ time when God’s only Son was nailed to the Cross, and again in our lives each day. God treats us like rusty iron and has to burn off our rust. We are tarnished gold to be polished with God’s Word and Law. I once spent some time in a restaurant in Virginia, where many hunters gathered. A young man of eighteen or so walked in ahead of me. He had just shot his first deer. I heard him say to the woman ...
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Steve Burt
... backpacker who offered to walk with the man seeking to claim his inheritance. Others must look for hikers to walk with. Still others of us can be what I call "coin scratchers," people who find a tarnished coin in the dirt and scratch off the corrosion to see if it's a dime or a penny. People whose self-image is so tarnished they have no way of knowing the soul inside them: they need the help of us "coin-scratchers." But even there we find a trap. We can be seduced into helping others while avoiding our own ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... but oh, what a mess, Seeing all that garbage fueled my distress. Bitterness, fear, anger and strife, Lay in the dust of my tarnished life. Pettiness, jealousy, old words I regret, Hadn't been swept out since, well, I forget. Down on my knees I started to ... my life that was rotten, Now fell in two piles, Forgiven, Forgotten. I tried cleaning out my own heart one day, All cluttered and tarnished I'm here to say. But in one simple moment with words barely spoken A heart was healed that once had been broken. No ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... but oh, what a mess, Seeing all that garbage fueled my distress. Bitterness, fear, anger and strife, Lay in the dust of my tarnished life. Pettiness, jealousy, old words I regret, Hadn't been swept out since, well, I forget. Down on my knees I started to ... my life that was rotten, Now fell in two piles, Forgiven, Forgotten. I tried cleaning out my own heart one day, All cluttered and tarnished I'm here to say. But in one simple moment with words barely spoken A heart was healed that once had been broken. No ...
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Paul W. Kummer
... at every level of society. My victims are helpless. They cannot protect themselves against me, for I have no face or no name. To track me down is impossible. The harder you try, the more elusive I become. I am nobody's friend. Once I tarnish a reputation, it is never quite the same. I topple governments and wreck marriages. I ruin careers, cause sleepless nights, heartaches, and grief. I make innocent people cry into their pillow. I make headlines and heartaches. I am called gossip. The next time you want ...
6. Mother's Day
Romans 16:1-27
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Brett Blair
... is sentiment to this day, but what is wrong with that. Seems to me that a little bit of sentiment is healthy. True enough, there are some women in the Bible, such as Jezebel and the vindictive Herodias, who had John the Baptist beheaded, who tarnish the institution of motherhood. There are women today who abandon, abuse, and corrupt their children and who create a poor model, but I like to think that these are the exceptions. Most mothers do the right thing and deserve recognition. So this morning I would ...
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Brett Blair
... is sentiment to this day, but what is wrong with that. Seems to me that a little bit of sentiment is healthy. True enough, there are some women in the Bible, such as Jezebel and the vindictive Herodias, who had John the Baptist beheaded, who tarnish the institution of motherhood. There are women today who abandon, abuse, and corrupt their children and who create a poor model, but I like to think that these are the exceptions. Most mothers do the right thing and deserve recognition. So this morning I would ...
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Thomas Long
... are not able in our own strength and on our own resources to care for others, even those closest to us. But this "bad news" is really the best good news of all, for Jesus takes the basin and the towel and tenderly, mercifully washes our soiled feet and our tarnished souls. 1. Belden C. Lane, "Inadvertent Ministry," The Christian Century, (November 7, 1984), p. 1030. 2. Robert Wuthnow, "Stories to Live By," Theology Today, XLIX/3, pp. 308-309. 3. Ibid., p. 308.
9. Uncovering Cover-Ups
John 15:18--16:4
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Maurice A. Fetty
... over the presidency to Gerald Ford, Congressman from Grand Rapids, Michigan. The cover-up had been uncovered. Since that time, we have had no shortage of the exposure of cover-ups and as a result, the image of some of our dearest heroes has been tarnished. For example, my father and his generation were great admirers of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the F.B.I. But recent books and articles have uncovered a variety of behaviors and improprieties which would have greatly offended my dad. John F. Kennedy lauded ...
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Robert Salzgeber
... . Hence, as long as we are with the eternal divine logos, the infinite "Word become flesh" in the Lord Jesus, our thoughts come from God, not from man. But as we see in the lesson, this eternal relationship with the "Word become flesh" is easily tarnished. "Jesus rebuked Peter, 'Get away from me Satan,' he said, 'Your thoughts don't come from God but from men!' " Peter did not yet have the spiritual perception to see that the by-product of Jesus' suffering and death would be resurrection power and growth ...
11. As Is
Ephesians 2:1-10
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Mark J. Molldrem
... , more tomorrow. We can look at our lives and see how many ways in which we are broken. We do not measure up to what we would like from ourselves. We have dreams, but they often turn into nightmares. We have an image of ourselves, but it is tarnished. We know the truth of the words, "You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world." Paul expresses this in another way in his Letter to the Romans: "There is no distinction ƒ all have sinned and fall ...
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Robert Allen
... the nation and led to his resignation. John Tower was considered by many to be the ideal candidate to be the Secretary of Defense, but when the revelation of his private conduct involving excessive drinking and womanizing became public knowledge, he was tarnished and discredited so severely that he could not get Senate confirmation. A prominent minister with a bright future in the church becomes a major topic of conversation when his wife files for divorce and rumors that he has been involved with another ...
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Larry Goodpaster
... have had to spend a great deal of time doing their homework. A paralytic is healed, both physically and spiritually. A tax collector, whose way of living spoke of graft and greed, is welcomed and offered a pew with the disciples. And sinners, souls and spirits tarnished by what society has done to them or said about them, find a forgiving word at the table of the Christ. Can it be that in doing our homework we rediscover what this means: “Thus says the Lord, I want from you concrete expressions of your ...
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Keith Hammer
... long line. In reality that’s what it means to be a child of God and live in the community of people who trust Jesus as Lord and Savior. We are all responsible for the lives and actions of one another. When our sister or brother sins, we all are tarnished by that sin. When a sister or brother lives out her or his faith in a way that many see the love of God, all of us have reason to rejoice. We do note that in our text where God appoints Ezekiel to be the watchman that God does add ...
15. The Stranger in the Manger
John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28
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Johnny Dean
... familiar. It even SMELLS familiar, as you carefully open the lid and gaze once again at the treasures of Christmases past some long ago, some not so long ago. Here is the ornament you bought to commemorate your first Christmas as husband and wife a little tarnished maybe, a little ragged around the edges from the numerous moves from one house to another, but still a treasured keepsake. And, look! Here's one that says "Baby's First Christmas." As you look at your child now, it seems so long ago that you ...
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Carl Jech
... to lower our standards and expectations or to give in to despair and moral paralysis. The Christian doctrine of sin is not an overly negative assessment of human nature. It is simply an honest recognition of the seemingly never ending tension between great expectations and tarnished realities. "The good that I would, I do not, and the evil that I would not, that I do." (Romans 7:19) In the face of such perplexity, such a predicament, talk of mere rewards and punishment according to our desserts - or of free ...
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Brett Blair
... the greatest athletic accomplishment of our time. But, let me tell you something. These athletes and singers and actors are catapulted to the national spotlight but their star soon fades, either because our memories of them fade over time or they tarnish their reputation more quickly because of their own personal failings. Fame fades and new fads and fashions emerge. This is acceptable business encouraged by the music industry. The industry philosophy is, “You are only as good as your last hit record ...
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... attended just a few years back, there is a Luther statue that I had to pass each morning on the way to class. It was tremendously imposing, this statue of the book-bearer Luther. But often as I passed I wondered why it was neglected, covered with green tarnish, and why the money could not be appropriated to "reform" it every year, at least at Reformation time. It seemed to stand there as a symbol - the symbol of a church grown moldy in neglect of Luther’s gospel of the Christ, in the formal recitation of ...
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... I, if I be lifted up will draw all people to myself"? We look to his resurrection and ascension and then, indeed, we see the fulness of his glory. Christmas is about to end for another year and, before long, it will be Lent, when Jesus’ glory gets tarnished a bit. But Easter will come, then, perhaps, we may dare to remember the story of how he came into the world as a helpless child, how he grew to manhood, preached, taught, and healed for three years before his passion and death, because we remember, and ...
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... who sticks closer than a brother. He is a father who dies for his children on a cross. Come home to him today and claim your dynatic birthright as a child of God. He has given you the gift of eternal life in a kingdom whose glory shall never be tarnished, and whose promise gives us hope for the future. Sing with James Montgomery as we hail in faith great David’s greater Son, Jesus the Christ: The time of time shall never His covenant remove; His Name shall stand forever; That Name to us is Love. Amen
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... asked to do a task his father has in mind for him. But later - maybe much, much later - he reviews the situation, realizes his stupidity, and tries to make up for lost time. He turns his "No!" into a "Yes!" and even though his reputation may be badly tarnished by this time, he joins the great adventure with the others. Sometimes some of these "First-No-then-Yes" types make the most enduring travelers along the way; they know the stakes; they know the other side of things; they know what it can be like to be ...
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Robert Noblett
... is to say, we lose, concretely and here and now, the considerable human resources of mind and, yes, of body that thousands upon thousands of men and women have to offer America. But we also risk losing something else - our own dignity badly tarnished - both by emotional stinginess, and by a narrowness of vision that can only be called spiritual. Notes 1. John Gliedman and William Roth, The Unexpected Minority (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), p. 17. 2. Sonny Kleinfeld, The Hidden Minority (Boston ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... time - for no reason, no reason other than love, she poured the ointment upon Jesus. Examine the next service you perform for God, for the church, for someone and see what the motive is - is it pure and untainted by self-seeking or is it tarnished with desire for self-glory? Isn’t that a terrifying question to ask about our good deeds? Only you can interpret your motives - other people may misunderstand them entirely, for good is often done with a fine motivation, and we have been accused of ulterior ...
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Bill Bouknight
... . If you use God's name profanely, you nullify your Christian witness for anyone within the sound of your voice. Profanity is a billboard-sized advertisement saying: "God doesn't mean much to me." If you engage in shady business deals, your Christian witness is tarnished for all persons aware of those deals, until you take steps to make it right. If you behave one way at church and a totally different way at home, you will have no significant Christian witness in your family. Now, I want to issue an ...
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Robert Allen
... over. We may make the wrong choices when we struggle with the temptations that come our way in life, but God does not abandon us. God does not forsake us. God does not leave us alone. This is a hope that is real! It is not false. It is not tarnished. It is not cheap or shoddy. It is real! We have One who is with us and will never leave us alone.
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