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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

Showing 1 to 25 of 1964 results

1. Global Warming

Genesis 2:18-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... up" to our responsibilities by redirecting our inward fixation and looking out on our families and communities with new eyes. The United States is responsible for 22% of the world's carbon dioxide output, by far the largest contributor of gases that produce global warming. That amounts to about 55,000 pounds for every American man, woman and child. To make matters worse the United States has been one of the slowest nations to recognize the dangers of our punching holes in the ozone. On November 6, 1990, all ...

2. Warm

Romans 15:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... he wanted them to be his disciples. That is the way so many people became followers of Jesus. When they were hungry, he fed them. When they were sick, he healed them. If they were lonely, he visited them. Jesus showed people that he cared, and they had a warm feeling for Jesus. That feeling is a little different from being wrapped in a blanket, but I think that you know what I mean. Maybe the next time you are cold and you think about those logs burning, or the fur muff, you will think about the way Jesus ...

3. A Chance to Warm Up

Mark 1:1-8

Illustration

Billy D. Strayhorn

... just too much for me. I've been confused from the day I was born. I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast. We're not really prepared." And Linus asks, "What did you want . . . a chance to warm up first?" The Advent season is supposed to be our chance to warm up. It's that time to prepare our hearts and homes for the birth of the Christ child. It's that time when we put all the decorations in their place, the presents are bought and wrapped, the cards sent out and received, and ...

4. Poem: Warm Summer Sun

Eulogy

Mark Twain

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here; Warm southern wind, blow softly here; Green sod above, lie light, lie light; Good night, dear heart, good night, good night.

5. Strangely Warmed

John 3:1-21

Illustration

Leonard H. Budd

... with the Moravian missionaries in London. Many years earlier he had finished his studies. He had long ago learned history and philosophy and many languages. He had been ordained a priest years earlier. But now, at age 35, he first discovered his spirit-being "strangely warmed." The message of God's love had penetrated his mind in such a way that - with a third of his earthly life already over - he was now a changed person. That personal experience shaped the remaining two-thirds of his years upon this earth ...

6. A Warm Welcome

Luke 7:36-8:3

Illustration

Beth Quick

My mother shared with me an email she received with this "Affirmation for Today", by an unknown author. In part it reads, "Today I will find the grace to let go of resentments of others and self-condemnation over past mistakes. Today I will not try to change, or improve, anybody but me. Today I will act toward others as though this will be my last day on earth. Today I will be unafraid. I will enjoy what is beautiful, and I will believe that as I give to the world, the world will give to me." As children ...

7. Be Warmed and Filled

Humor

Some years ago the readers of Charles Schultz's PEANUTS comic strip saw Snoopy shivering out in a snowstorm beside an empty food dish. He was looking longingly, expectantly, toward the house. Lucy came out and said, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled!" And then she turned and went back into the house and slammed the door. In the last frame you saw a confused Snoopy looking toward the house, shivering and hungry and utterly baffled.

8. Warm Feet

Humor

Legend has it that when Dr. Daniel Drew, founder of Drew Theological Seminary, died, his family had been called to his bedside. The doctors knew the end was near. Since he gave no sign of consciousness, one of his daughters asked, "Has he gone? Has he gone?" Her sister replied, "Feel his feet. Feel his feet. Nobody has ever died with warm feet." At that Dr. Drew opened one eye and said, "Joan of Arc did." Then he died.

9. A Warm, Steamy bath

Galatians 3:26

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A big bath towel. Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you took a bath last night? [Let them raise their hands.] Was it hot and steamy? I just love to take a bath and feel the hot water roll over me. I don’t know if I always liked to take a bath, but I sure do like it now. How many of you can remember a time when your mother put a big bath towel like this one around you after your bath and gave you a big hug? [Take a big bath towel and wrap it around one of the children so that they can ...

10. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... been an hour away. XIII Tears of the widower, when he sees A late-lost form that sleep reveals, And moves his doubtful arms, and feels Her place is empty, fall like these; Which weep a loss for ever new, A void where heart on heart reposed; And, where warm hands have prest and closed, Silence, till I be silent too. Which weep the comrade of my choice, An awful thought, a life removed, The human-hearted man I loved, A Spirit, not a breathing voice. Come, Time, and teach me, many years, I do not suffer in a ...

11. Friendship? Yes, Please!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... with Naomi, Ruth's quality of relationships came to the notice of Boaz who asked for her hand in marriage. Charles Dickens wrote, "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." We get cold alone. But together we can stay warm. In coming to you for friendships I acknowledge I need you. I need your listening ears, your insight, your wisdom, your help. Alone I am weak and vulnerable. Together with you I find what I need to go on. Leslie Weatherhead wrote, "He who hugs life to ...

12. Prayers for the Sundays After Easter

Bulletin Aid

Rolland R. Reece

... want a smile on our face and a liveliness in our voice when we come to you. We don't want to be hidden and cautious, but warm and open. Enable us to speak honestly. It matters too much for us to come to you in some stuffy, outdated way. We want to be real ... use war to achieve peace. Many of our brothers and sisters still can't read, can't work, can't sleep inside, can't eat one warm meal a day. We turn to you, not only to ask you to erase our problems but to assure us that our effort and dedication will ...

13. Miracle In the Bethlehem Inn

Drama

... there are so many people around. You and Adam can clean one of the stalls and fill it with fresh clean hay and we will be warm enough. Come, Lela and Susanna, let us see what we can do to help Aunt Elizabeth get the evening meal ready. Lydia, you go with your ... it? A baby was born right there in the stable. It sure is a good thing Adam and Papa had cleaned it and made it warm and nice. And the little baby lying there in the manger! He was so cute! I feel like there is something special about that baby. Does ...

14. Inner Warmth

1 John 4:7-21

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... expanded air enter the balloon. In a way, this represents the Christian life. We are like the bottle. God's love, which is warm and wonderful, is like the flame. When God's love comes into our life it gives us what we call "abundant life." However ... kind and courteous and helpful, not only to our parents, but to our brother and sister; and to all we meet. Let the strong, warm, steady love of God fill your life to overflowing. Then let that fullness be seen. Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home ...

15. Breakfast on the Beach

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Steven Burt

... maid who kept the door to the court of the high priest said to Peter, “Are you not also one of this man’s disciples?” He said, “I am not. “Now the servants and officers had made a charcoal fire, because it was cold,… Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said to him, “Are you not also one of his disciples?” He denied it and said, “I am not.” One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Did I not see you in the garden ...

16. Jesus, Where Are You?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... Samra, in his book, The Joyful Christ, tells of a time when he needed healing and found it in a new vision of Jesus. Over ten years ago, Cal's life fell apart. His failing health had driven him to move far away from his family and friends, to the warm environment of Arizona. His health had also forced him to leave his job. His marriage had failed. He was worn out and sick, lonely and depressed. At the young age of fifty, Cal Samra had no more hope left. He decided to take his own life. Cal bought a length ...

17. Bridging the Generation Gap

Ephesians 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... a young mother who went to her pastor and said, "I'm having trouble with my son." The pastor said, "What's wrong?" She said, "Yesterday I warmed his soup and called him for lunch, but he didn't come." The soup got cold so I warmed it again, called him again, but he still didn't come. I warmed the soup a third time, called him again, and he still didn't come. Finally, after I warmed the soup the tenth time, I lost it and screamed at him and he came." She said, "What do you think my problem is?" The pastor ...

18. Parenting 101

Ephesians 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... a young mother who went to her pastor and said, "I'm having trouble with my son." The pastor said, "What's wrong?" She said, "Yesterday I warmed his soup and called him for lunch, but he didn't come. The soup got cold so I warmed it again, called him again, but he didn't come. I warmed the soup a third time and called him again, and he still didn't come. Finally, after I warmed the soup the tenth time I lost it and screamed at him, and he came." She said, "What do you think my problem is?" The pastor ...

19. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Ron Love

... Aldersgate Street had his own form of a manger, and he was never the same again. Where is the manger that changed your life? Where did the Christmas experience happen for you? When did you come to be able to say, “I felt my heart strangely warmed.” Did your Christmas experience, whether it happened on December 25 or another day of the year, make you enthusiastic to serve Jesus? Did your Christmas experience give you a heartfelt zeal to share the love of Jesus? Did the moral power of the incarnate Christ ...

20. The Dream For Wisdom

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... the city of David. Our prayer for David, companion in these past weeks, is that David sleeps, at last, in peace. For in those last years, David is so advanced in years, so old, that he cannot get warm. They cover him with clothes, but he does not get warm. They bring him a young maiden to lie beside him, but he does not get warm. I imagine David shivers in the knowledge of all that his life has taught him, the hard way. At the end of his life, David shivers in the knowledge that the fear of the Lord is the ...

21. Elijah and the Widow of Zarapheth

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... that today?" you ask. "Yeah," I say, "there's the pity." Because God was in that very ordinary stuff. And we just don't make it ordinary enough. God is in ordinary events. As I have been, I am sure you have been thrilled by and warmed to the voice of Luciano Pavarotti. I warmed to him even more when in an interview he was asked how it feels to be regarded as the greatest living tenor, and perhaps the greatest tenor ever. "It is not I," he responded. "I am not my voice. The voice is something I possess. It ...

22. Changing in the Spirit

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... Jesus teaches you, you find that you are becoming more like Jesus. I think that is wonderful and I am sure that you think so too. The next time you take a look at your heating pad, look at the switch and see what I mean. Turn it on to warm first, and then move it up. You will not know when it got hot, but pretty soon you will feel the difference. You have changed the heat by degrees. The Spirit of God is changing you and making you more like the Lord Jesus every day. That is one of ...

23. Fingerprints on the Chalice

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Steven Burt

... least as many Communion experiences as there are people. And each person has many Communion experiences. Who knows what will be triggered by the smell of bread and juice, by their taste or the weight of them in one’s mouth? By the words of the preacher or the warm hand of the assistant? Maybe it will be the smell of incense or candles, or the song of a bird outside the sanctuary window that brings a person face-to-face with God. Or the shadows cast by a candle, or the sun streaking through a stained gass ...

24. It's Not a Snuggie Love

Mark 15:1-15, Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... TV” hottest Christmas present of 2008, the “Snuggie” blanket — the “blanket with sleeves” — the crowd’s love is warm, comfortable, enveloping — and cheap. You know the “Snuggie” I’m talking about. Since they were introduced on an ... world. Cross-bearing understands the gift of true sacrifice. A suffering, crucified savior is the scratchy, abrasive opposite of warm, fuzzy Snuggie love. Jesus exercised his greatest power when he was willingly made powerless upon the cross. Cross-bearing ...

25. Why Am I A United Methodist?

I Timothy 1:12-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , while the leader was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for my salvation: And an assurance was given me, that He had taken away ... , England, nor the name of a church in nearly every city in America. Aldersgate represents a personal, convincing, transforming, heart-warming, Christian experience that empowered one of the greatest spiritual awakenings in the history of the world. It is a part ...

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Showing 1 to 25 of 1964 results

1. Global Warming

Genesis 2:18-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

2. Warm

Romans 15:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

3. A Chance to Warm Up

Mark 1:1-8

Illustration

Billy D. Strayhorn

4. Poem: Warm Summer Sun

Eulogy

Mark Twain

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here; Warm southern wind, blow softly here; Green sod above, lie light, lie light; Good night, dear heart, good night, good night.

5. Strangely Warmed

John 3:1-21

Illustration

Leonard H. Budd

6. A Warm Welcome

Luke 7:36-8:3

Illustration

Beth Quick

7. Be Warmed and Filled

Humor

8. Warm Feet

Humor

9. A Warm, Steamy bath

Galatians 3:26

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

10. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

11. Friendship? Yes, Please!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

12. Prayers for the Sundays After Easter

Bulletin Aid

Rolland R. Reece

13. Miracle In the Bethlehem Inn

Drama

14. Inner Warmth

1 John 4:7-21

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

15. Breakfast on the Beach

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Steven Burt

16. Jesus, Where Are You?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

17. Bridging the Generation Gap

Ephesians 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

18. Parenting 101

Ephesians 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... a young mother who went to her pastor and said, "I'm having trouble with my son." The pastor said, "What's wrong?" She said, "Yesterday I warmed his soup and called him for lunch, but he didn't come. The soup got cold so I warmed it again, called him again, but he didn't come. I warmed the soup a third time and called him again, and he still didn't come. Finally, after I warmed the soup the tenth time I lost it and screamed at him, and he came." She said, "What do you think my problem is?" The pastor ...

19. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Ron Love

20. The Dream For Wisdom

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

21. Elijah and the Widow of Zarapheth

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

George Paul Mocko