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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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226. Jesus' Public Opinion Poll

Matthew 16:13-20

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... people like you. Jesus once had a public opinion poll of his disciples. He asked all of the disciples what they had heard about him. He wanted to know what people were thinking about him and who they thought that he was. He asked each disciple. Some of them said that he was the prophet Elijah and others thought that he was the prophet Jeremiah. Some were talking about him being John the Baptizer. There were a lot of different ideas of who Jesus really was and each of these people that they talked about were ...

227. Opposites

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... are not really what they look like.The greatest example, of course, is the whole crucifixion of Christ. They thought that they were killing a man. They thought when they were done, he would be done. They thought that the nails and the cross would end it. They thought that the spear made doubly sure. They thought that the stone in front of the tomb was heavy enough to keep Christ buried forever. They thought that the guard was strong enough to keep dead bones dead.So many things looked so real to those ...

228. Opposites

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

229. L. T.: The Lonely Terrestrial

Drama

Edward Long

... it is nice to have nice things, but I promise to think of others too ... (The others make affirmative sounds.) SUSIE: I'm going to keep my date with Lee, if he'll still go with me. MRS. ROGERS: Thank you so much (She is beaming), for a while I thought our semester's work was all in vain. You have my thanks and best wishes for a happy Christmas. CAROLERS: (Sing We Wish You a Merry Christmas and leave. Lights down.) VISITOR: There in this little spot on earth, in this town you call home, all quiet and covered ...

230. Sowing Seed Is Never A Waste of Time

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... could be in Tennessee with my wife, visiting with her father who is very ill, visiting with my mother and my brother and my sons and my grandchildren, not to mention my daughter whom I haven’t seen in three weeks. This is just a waste of time…" That last thought was still echoing in my head when I heard another voice (don’t worry – this one wasn’t in my head, but in my heart) and what that voice said to me stopped me dead in my tracks. The voice said only four words: "Where is your faith?" I didn ...

231. Have You Talked to Jesus Lately?

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... a place like Memphis, you can’t be too careful, you know? "You have the advantage of me," I said, putting a little more distance between us as subtly as I could. "You got my name off the sign. I don’t believe you told me yours." "I thought you might have recognized me," he said. "I’m Jesus. Jesus Christ, Son of God." "Oh, really?" I said, as I looked frantically around to see if anyone else had heard this announcement and could help me subdue the young man if suddenly became violent. "Well, you sure ...

232. "Oh Yeah, Thanks a Lot" -The Grateful Leper

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... . I sensed that he knew that my feelings were too big to come out. He knew. Then he spoke. "Were not ten cleansed? Where are the other nine? Has only this one who is a Samaritan returned to give glory to God?" I could say nothing to him. That they thought they had other, more important things to do was so very sickening. "Arise and go your way, for your faith has saved you," he said. I got up and walked among the crowd ... as one of them. I was clean outside ... My flesh was human again. There was no smell ...

233. Vacillation - Pontius Pilate

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... 've done a terrible thing. What if it was true, Pilate? What if he was the Son of God?" "Are you serious?" I said. "Yes." "You always were the superstitious one, weren't you? Well, you may find it hard to believe, but even I gave a moment's thought to that possibility when I was searching for a way to release him. Yet I reasoned that if, in some fantastic unlikelihood, I actually was judging divinity, the whole affair wouldn't get very far. Jesus would have waited for my judgment, then laughed at me and the ...

234. Encounters With Christ V: Jesus and James and John

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

James W. Moore

... and John comes to Jesus in Matthew 20 and makes the request that her two sons will get the top two spots in His kingdom. Remember the story with me. Jesus is heading toward the cross. He has “set His face toward Jerusalem”… He is surely thinking deep thoughts about the dramatic showdown He will face in the Holy City in just a few days now… This passage is just one paragraph away from Holy Week, just five verses prior to Palm Sunday. He has told His disciples what lies ahead,… But they don’t get ...

235. Ebeneezer: The Satisfied Pig

Luke 15:16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... wonder what is causing the disturbance." Then he noticed that there was a new man in charge of the feeding. "What a sad man," he thought to himself. Why should anyone be so sad? Ebeneezer worked his way over to the man with the big bag of pods that he gave ... men in the whole world. I would be happier if I could live like one of his servants than I am now." "Perhaps he would," thought Ebeneezer, "after all he certainly isn't doing a very good job of feeding us. But I hate to see him so unhappy." Later Ebeneezer ...

236. The Bridge

John 1:1-18, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 1:26-38, Genesis 3:1-24

Drama

H. J. Hizer

... Why can't she see that? If I allow one I'll have to allow more -- who knows where it will end? Wife: You'd have thought I'd given them the bridal suite! They thanked me for my kindness. Me! I have been called a hundred things, but no one ever called ... worry, everything is under control. Two: But, Lord, two places at once! Five: Relax. You know I can do things you haven't even thought about. Three: Will everything -- you know -- be taken care of? Five: Yes. Two: How can we be sure, Lord, if you're gone? Five: ...

237. The Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... man. It may seem curious to us that he makes no effort at all to stop and help but this priest was probably thinking that the man was already dead and that time for help had now passed. But probably, also, in the back of his mind was the thought that according to temple law whoever touched a dead man was considered unclean for seven days. That meant that he would lose his turn of duty in the temple. His obligations to the temple obviously came before his obligations to this beaten man, a man whom who didn ...

238. The Foolish Farmer

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... my gratitude? How often in my grasping selfishness have I left other people out of my possessions? There are times when I think much about my goods and little about my soul; when I have planned carefully for next week, and carelessly for eternity. It is a staggering thought, and it drives me to my knees and makes me exclaim, "God have mercy on me - a fool." Our heavenly Father, help us to take an honest look at ourselves - to try to see ourselves as you see us. Save us from being fools like this man. Amen ...

239. Hunger, Health, and Happiness

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

... take them to lunch, and they would take him to lunch. That’s the way it was. He opened the paper and looked again at the picture of the child. He knew he had to do something, but he did not want to just sit down and send money. He thought of his church and his pastor. Early in the week he called the church office and made an appointment with his pastor, and they talked together about the church’s programs of feeding the hungry people of the world. Mark was more excited than ever. That day he made a ...

240. Good News for the Multitudes

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Thomas C. Short

... on the railroad, and only one of the five of us lasted the first week. It was too tough or we were too weak. We thought we were ready for this tough job, but we were not. We had not accurately counted the cost. The Invitation of Jesus Jesus was on ... be limited. An older man heard the warnings and did not try to play tricks on himself. "First to thine own self be true." he thought. He knew himself and his fear of pain and suffering. He did not want to hear of any requirement that included taking up a cross ...

241. The Foolish Farmer

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

242. How’s Your Appetite?

Matthew 5:6 · Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... you want righteousness enough to pursue it as a starving man would food, as a dying man gasps for air, then, and only then, will you find it." A recent letter from a friend said, "Since our Lenten Prayer Group, I hunger to read the Bible." I thought as I read that sentence, "Watch out, friend, with that kind of hunger, you will be filled." I offered a prayer of thanksgiving for her hunger. In an air battle somewhere over the Pacific Ocean during the Second World War, one of our planes was hit by artillery ...

243. Journey To The Cross V: Jesus and Simon Peter

Mark 14:66-72

Sermon

James W. Moore

... into the afterlife. This soldier had no feet. They had amputated his feet so that he could not flee his post. Now, the thought of that disturbs, haunts and hurts, doesn’t it? Five innocent people, five probably healthy young people were killed so they could ... Franklin and some idea of his place in history. Then he would answer questions. One day, a boy raised his hand and said: “I thought you died.” “Well, I did die. I died on April 17, 1790, when I was 84 years old. But, I didn’t’ like it ...

244. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... , comments that some Jews believed that it was possible for a person to sin in the womb before he was born. A woman "with child" who worshiped in a heathen temple could cause the child within her to be guilty of idolatry. There was also a belief in Jewish thought that the life-soul existed and was responsible before birth. Some rabbis went so far as to teach that all life-souls existed in the Garden of Eden before the creation of the world. As they waited to enter the world, it was possible for them to sin ...

245. Looking Ahead with Hope

John 1:43-51

Sermon

... carry his cross." You may have overlooked it, but in the next book in the Bible, written about thirty years later, there is a verse which says, "Simon of Cyrene, father of Rufus and Alexander." When Simon of Cyrene was forced to carry the cross he must have thought there couldn’t have been anything more degrading. How he must have felt the eyes of the hostile crowd upon him. They looked with scorn at a man forced to carry a felon’s cross, charged with the worst. Yet, just thirty years later, out of the ...

246.

Drama

David E. Ullery

... done marvelous things. But he said nothing. I sensed that he had nothing but contempt for me. Pilate: I know what you mean - but I thought that he felt sorry for me. I have never seen a more heart-broken man. Herod: He seemed to be unafraid of death. Pilate: I ... will your friends say? Aren’t you incurring quite a risk? Joseph: What does it matter? All my life I have sought God, and I thought that Jesus was He. Now that he is gone, there is so little that I can do. Pilate: What will you do with the body? ...

247. OUR LORD BETRAYED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... using this sentimental bit of the foot washing to change his mind - well, it wouldn’t work. He had committed himself to his own salvation from the death this man seemed determined to bring not only on himself but on them all. Nothing would turn him back. His thought was so deep, so heavy, he almost missed the words of the teacher. "He who ate my bread," he was quoting from the scriptures, "has lifted his heel against me." Then, as if to remove any doubt that he knew, he added, "One of you will betray me ...

248. When God Is At Work

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Brett Blair

... all along--leading, sustaining, guiding this poor wretch to an appointment with history, God with him and by him even when this poor man thought that his life was over with? He perhaps had even given up praying. It seems to me that if Mark is telling us anything ... the final victory of life. God is at work all the way through, there by his side even when God may have been the furthest thought from his mind. I suspect that we are very much like this leper. When we are in the midst of crisis, when we are hurting ...

249. Luther of Wittenberg

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... ’s how some cultures first came to know about God - by seeing violence in nature. ANTAGONIST: It’s little wonder Martin Luther thought of God as a violent, angry destroyer. Wasn’t that the storm that drove him to join the monastery at Erfurt? PROTAGONIST: ... but she was stubborn. She told me she had her sights set on one man and one man only. I had no idea it was me. I thought I was too busy to get married. And, with danger lurking everywhere, it didn’t seem fair to expose a wife and family to what I ...

250. It’s not what you know, but who you know!

John 1:19-28

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... Unless it develops within the context of knowing God it can even be dangerous. The more educated one becomes the greater the likelihood seems to be of falling away from the faith. I remember in my early years of college thinking how "cool" I was because I thought there was no God. "In their wisdom, they become fools ..." is how Saint Paul described it (Romans 1:22). Fools say there is no God (Psalm 53:1). The solution is not to stop gaining knowledge, nor to stop learning, but rather to learn in the context ...

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