Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 15, 2001
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BITTER OR BETTER
Dr. Jim Moore, pastor of St. Luke’s UMC in Houston wrote a book entitled "You Can Grow Bitter or You Can Grow Better". He writes that he got the idea for the title from a young woman who once came to him in a most tragic moment in her life.
She had tears in her eyes and her
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Contributed by Herman Abrahams on Aug 15, 2007
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Years ago there was a terrible outbreak of disease in a tiny village in a remote part of Africa. Both children and adults were, getting sick and overcome with nausea. Several,weeks passed, and the sickness became widespread, and people started dying. Word of the disease
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Charismatic
Contributed by Glynda Lomax on Dec 26, 2014
"Bitterness is like taking poison, and waiting for the other person to die." - Malachy McCourt
I once knew a woman whose heart had been broken by disappointing relationships. She became very sarcastic towards the opposite sex and could often be overheard making disparaging remarks about
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Charismatic
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 27, 2010
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BITTERNESS KILLS
Bitterness has been medically linked to glandular problems, high blood pressure, cardiac disorders, ulcers, and even insanity.
One leading psychiatrist wrote, "90% of all people in insane asylums could be released immediately if they would learn how to forgive, or how to be
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COMMON BITTERNESS
When I was in college, I worked as a youth director at a little church out in the country about an hour’s drive away. There were two families in that congregation that didn’t get along. When they came to worship, they would take up their positions on opposite sides of the room
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Presbyterian/Reformed
Contributed by David Tack on Dec 22, 2011
THE MEANING OF BITTERNESS
"Eadie [A Scottish Theologian 1810-1876] says that Pikria [bitterness] is 'a figurative term denoting that fretted and irritable state of mind that keeps a man in perpetual [constant] animosity--that inclines him to harsh and uncharitable opinions of men and things--that
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Baptist
Contributed by Scott Rodgers on Apr 12, 2008
Bitterness is frustration that has festered. If jealousy is a simple cut, bitterness is the
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Baptist
I once saw a Peanuts cartoon in which it showed
Charlie Brown taking Snoopy his dinner which consisted of a
bowl full of dog food. When Charlie Brown got there
he found the dog in his usual position; asleep
on top of the dog house. Charlie Brown set the bowl down
and said, "Dinner is
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
Many years ago Michelangelo, the sculptor, and Raphael, the painter, were commissioned to execute works of art for the beautification of the Vatican.
Although each had a different job to do and both were highly respected, there arose such a bitter spirit of rivalry between them that at last they
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Contributed by Michael Deutsch on Nov 19, 2008
To lick our wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back -- in many ways, it is a feast for a king. The chief
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Baptist
Contributed by Thomas Cash on Jul 7, 2009
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TRADITIONS
When the Shema prayer (Deuteronomy 6:4-9) was recited during a service at an old synagogue in Eastern Europe, half the congregation stood up and half remained sitting. The half that was seated started yelling at those standing to sit down, and the ones standing yelled at the ones
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Christian/Church Of Christ