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Synonyms: attach, build on, add on, put on, put in, append, adjoin, join, affix, connect, annex, add up, add together, total, count, count up, figure up, compute, calculate, reckon, tally, enumerate, find the sum of, go on to say, state further, continue, carry on

Antonyms: remove, subtract

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1. Add That Special Ingredient

John 6:25-59

Children's Sermon

SHARING THIS WEEK'S GOSPEL THEME AT HOME Parents: Children of all ages love to cook with you. The children's message used ordinary flour to show that when we add other ingredients to flour, it can become a variety of different foods. The added ingredient that makes each of us special is love. This week you may want to pick a favorite bread recipe (since for several weeks the lessons have been about Jesus as the Bread of Life), and ...

2. Add Something Nice

Matthew 6:1-4

Children's Sermon

... you could read a story to your younger brother or sister. If you think really hard, you could probably think of lots of nice things to do for other people. So this year during Lent, instead of giving something up, let's try to do something nice for others and add something special to other people's lives.

3. Add a Little Salt

Mark 9:50

Children's Sermon

... 't like to eat it because it doesn't taste like anything. Even though it may be good for our bodies, if we can't get any taste out of it, we may just stop eating it altogether. Then we lose the good part. One of the flavors we can add to food that seems to need some is salt. I have some here with me today. We know that you can use too much salt on something if you are not careful. If you use too much salt, it makes your food taste terrible. It could even make you sick ...

4. It Don't Add Up

Matthew 14:13-21

Illustration

... and got fourteen and called number fourteen." The coach hesitated a moment and said, "But son, six and seven make 13." The boy, quite unmoved by the correction, said, "You know what coach? If I was as smart as you, we would have lost the game." Things do not always add up the way they are supposed to, do they?

5. Add It All Up

Mark 8:36

Illustration

Staff

... businessman, "when I got off the boat, I had only 36 cents and the pants I was wearing. Today your sister is an art teacher, your brother is a doctor, and you are an accountant. I have a car, a house, and a good business. Everything is paid for. Just add it all up, subtract 36 cents and the pants, and there's your profit."

6. Love Adds the Chocolate

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... love and prayer stand a better chance of producing a happy family. Duty gets offended quickly if it isn't appreciated. But love learns to laugh a lot and to work for the sheer joy of doing it. Obligation can pour a glass of milk, but quite often love will add a little chocolate.

7. When God Adds Insult to Injury

Colossians 2:6-15

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

So many things separate Christians into groups: denominations, different ways of practicing the sacraments, different understandings of how to organize the church, different attitudes toward social issues like sexuality and money, even different perceptions of who Christ was. With all of that disagreement and separation, what unites us? Is there any common ground among us, other than simply calling ourselves Christians? Are we hopelessly divided, or can we push aside some of these barriers and embrace as ...

8. A WALL OF ROCK AND THE EVERYBODY GAP

Drama

William McKee Aber

... : You may be wrong, Wormwood; maybe he will risk the encounter. Sue: What do you mean, "Why did we go?" I had a good time! (with insight) Is that what has you upset? All evening you were awfully quiet. (pulls down BLOCK) Jack: I suppose you don’t know why? (adds BLOCK) Sue: No (pause) I don’t. Jack: (in a rush) Your telling everyone, in so many words, your husband is a failure, that he didn’t get the raise you counted on. Why did you bring that up with all your friends there? You know they always said ...

9. A Man, A Woman, and the Test of Doom (A Drama about Marriage)

Drama

Dave Marsh

... you buy it from Sears? … subtract 10 points. 14. Sears Hardware? … subtract 25 points. 15. Does your wife keep her paycheck while you share yours? ...add 10 pts. 16. Do you do laundry as much or more than your wife does? ...add 10 pts. 17. Do you go grocery shopping with your wife? add 10 pts. 18. Do you know how to cook a casserole without using a cookbook? ...add 5 pts. 19. Do you still own back issues of Sport’s Illustrated’s Swimsuit? ...subtract 20 pts. 20. Have you ever forgotten your wedding ...

10. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:7-12, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... it robs God of his rightful honor as sovereign and exalts a mere human as if he or she were God. Any plan confidently made outside God’s will discerned through prayer and meditation is not just foolish—it is sin. 4:17 To round off his thought, James adds a concluding proverb, which some speculate might be a saying of Jesus because of its tone and topic: Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins. On the surface it simply rebukes sins of omission: A person who knows he or ...

11. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:1-6, James 4:13-17, James 5:7-12, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

12. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:7-12, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

13. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:13-20, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:7-12

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

14. Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

Habakkuk 2:2-20, Habakkuk 1:12--2:1

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... 11 in the Heb. The singular reappears in v. 13b. 1:14 The Qumran Habakkuk pesher has the nice alternative reading lo for loʾ, which more directly refers to Gen. 1:28, “like sea creatures for them [humanity] to rule over.” 1:15 The wicked foe: the NIV adds this; there are no equivalent Heb. words. The antecedent for the verb is the “wicked” in v. 13. 1:16 By his net . . . in v. 16b is, more literally, “by his net his portion is fat and his food is rich.” 2:1 On the alternative understanding of ...

15. My Cup Overflows

John 10:22-42

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... can only give us so much. They can't completely fill our cup. Only God can fill our cups. And, you know something, when God gives now fill the glass at a very slow and steady pace as you complete this paragraph he keeps giving and he never stops. He adds let the glass overflow at the same rate until all the water is poured out of the pitcher so much to our lives. He gave you your life and fills it with sunshine and rain; he fills it with friends and family. And, he doesn't stop there. He protects ...

16. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... cross, the empty tomb, and the gift of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, there is no darkness for us. In the opening of his Gospel, John writes, "This was the real light, the light that comes into the world and shines on all men." (John 1:9) And John adds, "The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has never put it out." In the miracle of the healing of the man born blind, this promise of light that cannot be defeated or destroyed is once more confirmed. Pray God is and may be continually confirmed in ...

17. Ignite: Fire Extinguishers

Acts 15:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... Jewish believers were saying, “Before you can be saved you’ve got to have surgery” or to put it mathematically, “Before we add you to the church there is a part of you that must be subtracted.” Can you imagine what that did to ... . We all tend to settle in to our particular version of what Christianity ought to be. We have a tendency to add one thing to two things. We either tend to add our own requirements of how to have a relationship with God or our own requirements on how to be right with God ...

18. Paul's Ministry in Thessalonica

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... its use with the correlative verb, paradidomi, “to hand down,” in 1 Cor. 11:23; 15:3; see note on 2:13); the second, dechomai adds the thought that they had welcomed what they had received (cf. 1:6; 2 Thess. 2:10). Emphasis is laid on the fact that what ... the servant of a gospel that would be preached “in season and out” (2 Tim. 4:2). But there had to be a preacher, and so he adds that it was the word of God which you heard from us. It was also the word which is at work in you who believe. Here ...

19. Making One's Calling and Election Sure

2 Peter 1:1-11

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... which is imparted to us by God and from God, without any labour on our part; but the oil is that which man ought to add by his own diligence and faithfulness, that the flame may be fed and increased. Thus the matter is set forth without a parable in ... believer was cleansed, forgiven, and so enabled to make a fresh start (1 Pet. 3:21; Rom. 6:1–14). Additional Notes 1:5 Add to your faith: Lists of virtues were common in the ancient world and were frequently included in Christian writings: e.g., Rom. 5:2– ...

20. Do You Have the Great Pearl?

Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... good works to the work of Christ if he wished to be saved. One Christmas, as the story goes, the artist presented his Christian friend with a beautiful painting. But instead of the Christian being grateful, he criticized the picture. He said, "I think you should add a tree here and another bush there. Put some more rocks in the foreground and an old stump in the center." Somewhat angered, the artist replied, "If I do that, it would spoil the picture. Anything added to that picture will not improve it but ...

21. Loch Ness, Locusts, and Bread

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... people do it as a sacrifice. Usually it's something that's bad for them anyway. This Lent, in the power of the cross, why not add something? Add a contemplation of the cross and what it means. Add a renewed effort at reading the Bible, and taking to heart what God gives us there. Add times of prayer and meditation to your daily routine. Add concern for others less fortunate. Add the servant life, the spirit led, faith-filled life that for Jesus ended on the cross and for us ends at his feet. "Fear not, be ...

22. Every Day God Enriches

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the food originally had iron, but the iron was lost during the refining process, the food will be 'enriched' to add the iron back into the food. We often mistakenly think enriched means 'added vitamins and minerals'. Enriched simply means to ... us. Worship, prayer, devotion, the music and even the sermon all fortifies our faith. It fortifies our walk with Christ. It adds that extra something that strengthens our relationship with God. Every day God enriches our lives through fortifying our faith. III. Enhances ...

23. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... comes to the end of his second speech, Elihu claims to speak for all men who truly understand. He is supremely confident of his analysis of Job’s situation, and just as certain that Job speaks without knowledge and insight. 34:36–37 To his sin he adds rebellion. In verse 36, Elihu expresses his desire that God would exact his full judgment upon wicked Job. Elihu’s rigid logic has led him to conclude that Job is not at all a victim as he has claimed. Rather, he is an obstinate fool, a scorner whose ...

24. The Image of Gold and the Fiery Furnace

Daniel 3:1-30

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... rendering of verse 17 is more of an interpretation than a translation: If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it (3:17). The Aramaic does not say, “If we are thrown into the blazing furnace.” The NIV adds this clause to explain the Aramaic, which could be translated “If it is” or “If it be so.” (See the Additional Note on 3:17.) A better translation of the sentence is “If our God whom we serve is able to deliver us . . .” The Jews are not saying ...

25. Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem

2 Chron 32:1-33

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... this way the Chronicler transforms the encounter with the Assyrians into a holy war in which Yahweh fights the battle on Judah’s account. In 32:9–19 (which abbreviates the source text 2 Kgs. 18:17–37 || Isa. 36:2–22 in 2 Chron. 32:9–16 and also adds 32:17–19) we find the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, speaking to Hezekiah king of Judah and all the people of Judah through his officers (quoted in 32:9–15) and in a letter (quoted in 32:17b). It is noteworthy that this is the only speech by a foreign ...

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