Synonyms: touch, feel, sense of touch, tactile sense, tactility, contact, using one's hands, sensation, sense, suspicion, sneaking suspicion, notion, inkling, hunch, fancy, apprehension, presentiment, premonition, foreboding, love, care, affection, fondness, tenderness, warmth, warmness, emotion, sentiment, emotional state, compassion, sympathy, empathy, fellow feeling, understanding, concern, solicitude, solicitousness, tender-heartedness, brotherly love, sensibilities, sensitivities, self-esteem, ego, pride, opinion, belief, view, impression, intuition, instinct, estimation, guess, theory, hypothesis, thought, way of thinking, point of view, atmosphere, ambience, aura, air, mood, climate, character, overtone, undertone, tenor, spirit, quality, flavour, colour, aptitude, knack, flair, bent, talent, gift, skill, art, trick, faculty, ability, propensity, inclination, sensitive, warm, warm-hearted, tender, tender-hearted, caring, soft-hearted, sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic, responsive, receptive, intuitive, thoughtful
Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice
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1. Living By A Hunch
2 Kings 4:8-37
Sermon
Keith Hammer
... us. In Jesus’ day, when people saw persons who had leprosy, many turned and ran the other way. In our day, when some persons come to know of someone who has AIDS, that person is often shunned. And yet we today realize how misplaced their fear was. I have a hunch that the same is true for many of us today regarding AIDS. To be sure, it is a dreadful disease, but persons who have it do not deserve the shunning they often get. The same, to a lesser extent, could be said of people who are homeless or people ...
Humor
A small boy, told not to go swimming in a nearby pond, came home with his hair wet. He told his mother he had fallen into the water. "Then why aren't your clothes wet too?" she asked. "Well," he replied, "I had a hunch I might fall in so I took off my clothes and hung them on a limb."
3. Trust in Me
Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 2:1-7
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... . Think back in your own life. When were the times in YOUR life when you had to trust your intuition to move and maneuver your way forward? [Allow time if you’d like for people to comment on those times or share experiences.] Ever had a “hunch”? Good detectives don’t just assemble information, although they do that. They don’t just look at facts, although they do that. But there comes a time in the investigation when “intuition” plays a large part in the step they take next. In fact, sometimes ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... of them died for that faith! This is the faith that isn’t easy. It cost something to hold it back then, and I have a hunch that it costs something to really hold it today. If it doesn’t cost us anything, we can only wonder whether we’ve really got it. ... struggle. When the movie THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST appeared a year or so ago, it received a lot of criticism. I have a hunch that many people never really understood the movie or the message of the book on which the movie was based. Having read a ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... we can see God “as He really is.” I doubt whether we could stand to see God “as He really is.” The God of the Bible is both hidden and revealed. One reason for this is our limited understanding. How could we handle such a revelation? I have a hunch that it would overwhelm us. Another reason that we can never see God “as He really is” is that God always leaves room for doubt. We are not forced into faith. If we could see God “as He really is,” then our freedom of choice would be gone. We ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... a breather from our responsibilities. During my forty years’ service as a parish minister, I observed that most ministers seem to have a “Jehovah Complex.” That is, they have the absurd notion that if they do not do something, it will never get done. I have a hunch that once in a while each of us needs to resign as Chairman of the Universe, and allow God to carry on his work while we rest. The story is told about the eccentric Methodist Bishop Quayle, who sat up worrying about a problem one night. In ...
Sermon
Richard Patt
... day for God's people!). And even on the sabbath people become sick or continue to be sick. Jesus notices a woman, all hunched over, obviously one who had been ill for a long time. He is a merciful Lord, so he takes the initiative to call her ... have broken it. Our sins from birth to the grave make us ten times more ill than the poor old woman in the story, whose back was hunched for eighteen years. As pride-filled sinners, we have gone around breaking God's holy law at will, and a lot of times we haven't ...
Sermon
George Johnson
... suffered and that kept hope alive for him. His pain took on meaning. We seldom know all the facts. New information is always needed. One should never stop looking for more insight and knowledge. But our knowledge will always be imperfect. To act in love means to follow the hunches we have been given even before we are 100 percent sure. That's why faith, hope and love are always tied together. We do the loving things with the faith that God is with us and can forgive us if we are wrong. In the midst of this ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... without sin cast the first stone!” The word here translated “without sin” may mean “without a sinful desire.” I have a hunch that many people are moral only because the opportunity to be otherwise has not yet presented itself! One gets the impression that ... Jesus’ eyes, a look which kept her on the straight and narrow for the rest of her life? We will never know. But I have a hunch that even if the love of God will not keep us pure, the fear of God won’t do it, either! “Go your way, and from ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... with that person. Breaking bread is a sign of reconciliation and love. And here is Judas, breaking bread with the very One he is about to betray! The record doesn’t tell us whether Judas actually ate that morsel of food or not, but if he did, I have a hunch that it stuck in his throat, and a few minutes after he slipped away from the meal, you might have seen him gagging in the bushes outside the dining hall. It is indeed hard to eat while you are living a lie. We must not imagine that Judas was some ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... upon God’s grace. And if in such a palace or hotel, any of us wound up in the servants quarters, I have a hunch that we would find Jesus there as well. It is fascinating to see how other writers have interpreted the word over the centuries. The ... day die!” To which the man replied, “I’m not a member of this parish!” We are mortal, you and I. And I have a hunch that until we face the fact of our own death, we cannot really begin to live. We live in a state of perpetual anxiety. Paul Tillich defined ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... on his knees, praying, out of patience with God. He prays, “Aunt Stella isn’t married yet. Uncle Herbert hasn’t got a job. Daddy’s hair is still falling out. I’m tired of saying prayers for this family without getting results!” We may smile, but I have a hunch that his words strike a little too close to home for most of us. But what if prayer is something more than simply asking for things? What if prayer is, as Jesus said, simply abiding in Him and allowing Him to abide in us? What if prayer is ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... . Of course, we cannot prove that John had any of these images in mind when he wrote this story, but I have a hunch that our understanding of the Gospel narratives would be vastly enhanced if we only knew the Hebraic, Biblical background behind them, which was ... the time when a dread of one kind or another was not in the air.” I can relate to those words, and I have a hunch that you can, too. We all have our fears. “You tell me your fears, and I will tell you mine.” “All God’s children got fears ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... takes “offense” at Him. Literally, they “stumbled,” or were “scandalized”-that’s what the Greek word means. I have a hunch that there is much about Jesus which scandalizes us, too. Unfortunately, most of us put up a good front, and listen ... able to accomplish here and now - through us. Our unbelief does not render God impotent, but it can have a dampening effect. I have a hunch that God could do a lot more in and through this congregation, if we would only let God do so. But our theme song seems ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... know that there is newness waiting for him in the marriage and the life he already has. Where are your dreams and visions, needs and intuitions this day? Is the unconscious voice of God whispering to you in your heart, in your sleep, in your feelings, in your hunches? What is the restlessness which is stirring you up and echoing in your emptiness and bubbling within your fears and anxieties? What is it that God is trying to say to you in the undiscovered parts of who you are? How is God pushing you to give ...
16. Blessed are the Poor in Spirit
John 20:24-31, John 20:19-23
Sermon
Mike Ripski
... specifically the work of forgiving sins and retaining them? Of all that Jesus did and could have assigned his followers to do, he names forgiving sins and retaining sins? What does he mean? I don’t know for sure. But I’ve got a couple of hunches. One is that, while forgiveness is always available, those who need it aren’t always at the point of acknowledging they need it. There are those who are still disregarding God’s Will for God’s Creation. There are those who are oppressing, hurting, and ...
Sermon
Alex Gondola
... Angie says, "is the one that is broken. You wouldn't have much love if you couldn't share the heartaches. You get so much of a reward when you love others. People take you in as one of their own. You always feel special when you are loved." Angie, hunched over against a cold wind, makes her way through a fence into a garden. A man named Ben is working the frozen ground. Spring is just months away. If there's one thing the Navajo knows well it is that a proper garden depends on preparation. They retreat into ...
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... to his surprised court, “I did fast and weep while he was still alive.... But now that he is dead, why should I fast? I will some day go to where he is, but he can never come back to me.” (2 Samuel 12:22-23 TEV) I have a hunch that David was able to get on with his life because he had first entered wholeheartedly into that period when matters hung in the balance. He probably churned matters over and over again in his mind; he surely wrestled with his contributions to the darkness that was upon him. And ...
Children's Sermon
Kenneth Mortonson
... feel more comfortable. So, also, with words of guidance. Once you accept them and live by them you will soon become comfortable with them. For example, if someone says that people look better if they stand up straight and I accept that and then find myself walking around hunched over -- when I remember that statement and I find that it applies to me; then I will stand straighter and look better. That is what it means to say, "If the shoe fits put it on." All the things that you learn in church and in school ...
Sermon
W. Robert McClelland
... , whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will give us no peace until we do."6 Here, modern psychotherapy can help us. We begin by listening to ourselves at the deepest levels of our being: dreams, intuitive hunches, fantasies. As we come to understand the language of symbolism, decipher its meaning and trust its message, we find that, in fact, we are listening to God. We become aware that these communiques emerging from the depths of our being are the voice of Being itself ...
Sermon
George Johnson
... this pulpit with the assumption that some have yet to accept Christ's invitation to come. Some have not taken it seriously. I don't know who you are, but you do and God does. Today you will hear the invitation once again. 3. Another assumption or maybe a hunch I have this morning is that some don't know how to accept the invitation. You are still asking, what does it mean to be a Christian, a follower of Jesus? How do I 'become a Christian? I'll never forget my senior sermon at the seminary. Everyone wanted ...
22. A Parent’s Debt
Romans 13:8-14
Sermon
Thomas Slavens
... love. What parents owe their children is love. Parents owe their children love by caring for their physical needs. In a museum in Chicago one wing houses a display of the story of humankind. One of the first scenes depicts a cave family. In the foreground is the hunch-backed cave father. He is dressing an animal he has killed for the family to eat. Inside the cave is the naked mother with long, stringy black hair and an animal-like face. She is nursing the baby. Here is a symbol of a family caring for each ...
23. Hostage Crisis
1 Kings 19:1-8
Sermon
Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... to himself. "I got to find a match." Again he jerked through every pocket of his pants, jacket, and shirt. Still no match. Wildly flailing his arms more frantically now, he began overturning chairs and tables in the room. Yellow eyes widened in disbelief as he hunched his back Neanderthal-like in search of that fire; that flame to heat the cooker that would launch his mind, body, and soul beyond the confines of reality. "I got to find a match," he whispered, half screaming. "If I don't find that match, I ...
24. It's Performance That Counts
Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29
Sermon
Larry Goodpaster
... our grand professions which are not backed up with gracious actions. Lip service and verbal affirmations matter little if they are not fleshed out in one’s daily life. I have no definitive word, nor do I have a text to prove my suspicions. But my hunch is that nothing disappoints our Lord more than a church building filled with people who make great promises, but who then fail to allow those promises to affect their conduct. Now I realize that we are treading on uncomfortable ground at this point. Most of ...
Sermon
Larry Goodpaster
... happens. From out of nowhere we are hit with a major interruption and knocked out of our seats. It is an encounter with a word from which we will not easily recover. There are many passages in the Bible I would just as soon not be there. I have a hunch if you thought for a few moments, you would come up with a few of your own. The text for this morning is one of those major disturbing, frightening passages. If you have not read it lately, then brace yourself for you may be in for quite a shock. Buckle ...
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