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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... the public eye. So, they figured that if they could entangle Jesus in a controversy over Roman taxes, the heat would be off them. Somewhere they learned that the best defense is a good offense. But Jesus’ answer did what was characteristic of his responses to loaded questions. He carefully avoided being victimized by their malice and, at once, challenged them to a new faith-understanding. "Show me the money for the tax," he said. And they brought him the coin of the realm. "Whose image and inscription do ...
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... . My enthusiasm for getting a driver’s license suffered a severe blow that night. The realization came to me in the worst sort of way that the freedom I longed for, with all its independence and personal privileges, was just the flip side of a serious responsibility. The open road of freedom was also the narrow path of obligation. A similar realization is suggested in Jesus’ words to us about being made free by the truth. The truth which liberates us is none other than the truth of God in Jesus Christ ...
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... back into action once again by the doctors. At another time when he was relatively clear-headed, Mr. Hook asked his physician to discontinue life-support services, or to show him how to do it himself, so as to relieve the doctor of any moral responsibility. However, the doctor refused. He said that someday Mr. Hook would appreciate how unwise that request made in a state of pain and suffering really was. One month later Professor Hook was discharged from the hospital, and in six months' time he had regained ...
2529. Real Strength
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5
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Harold Warlick
... will be unfaithful with much." If there is sexual freedom before marriage, and people violate their principles before marriage, it's hard to avoid trouble after marriage. The person who cheats before he or she attains a responsible position in the company will face many more temptations to cheat after a responsible position has been reached. The farther you travel in life the more opportunities, not fewer, you have for wrongdoing. You think it's easy to lose your moral fiber at 18? Wait until you're 38 or ...
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Harold Warlick
... the days of your life; you will sweat and toil; and when that's over, you will return to the ground from which you were taken; you are dust and to dust you shall return (Genesis 3:16-19)." Then God drove them out of the garden. In reality, the response from God seems all out of proportion to the mistake - from our point of view. But not to God. Arrogance is his cracking point. As we view the Bible, we can say God's cracking point is consistent, from the Tower of Babel, when humans tried to reach into the ...
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Harold Warlick
... I must be here in my Father's house (Luke 2:49)." The Scriptures relate that Mary and Joseph did not understand at all what their son did or the remarks he made. I can conjecture the modern-day parental and spousal wrath that would have been the response from many. The battle to save self esteem would have been a neurotic categorical demand that the failure was somebody else's fault. "Well, if you weren't gone all the time, Joseph, and spent more time with the boy, he might not prefer these strangers to his ...
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Call to Worship Leader: God, our Creator, has given us the gift of creating in our ability to have children. Men: And he has given us the responsibility of creation in our obligation to raise those children. Women: In our job of parenting, we catch a glimpse of God’s responsibility to all of us, to his creation. Leader: What would we do if our children said, "Why have we been born? Why couldn’t I have perfect vision and curly hair? Why aren’t I taller than I am? Couldn’t you have raised me to be ...
2533. Is There No Balm in Gilead? - Sermon Opener
Jeremiah 8:4--9:26
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... Civil Liberties Union and the People for the American Way. Now, let me give you a little piece of advice. If you think this, don't announce it on national TV for all to hear two days after a national tragedy. You won't like the response. The next morning a White House representative called Falwell as he was driving to the National Cathedral memorial service in Washington, and told him the President disapproved. I never want to say something so egregious that I get a call from the office of the president ...
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Brett Blair
... Civil Liberties Union and the People for the American Way. Now, let me give you a little piece of advice. If you think this, don't announce it on national TV for all to hear two days after a national tragedy. You won't like the response. The next morning a White House representative called Falwell as he was driving to the National Cathedral memorial service in Washington, and told him the President disapproved. I never want to say something so egregious that I get a call from the office of the president ...
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... live as near God as the bubble is to the ocean and yet not find him. He may be "closer than breathing, nearer than hands or feet," and still be missed. Historically Christianity is dry and formal when it lacks the immediate and inward response to our Great Companion; but our spirits are trained to know him, to appreciate him, by the mediation of historical revelation. A person's spiritual life is always dwarfed when cut away from history. Mysticism is empty unless it is enriched by outward and historical ...
2536. Salt and Light
Matthew 5:13-16
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... her a bike for transportation. On several Sundays a family gave her a ride to and from church. In June, the youth came to the Institute to present their musical. We had hoped thirty patients would attend. Seventy showed up. Amazingly, the people were attentive and responsive. Only a few walked out. Later, many said how much the program had meant to them. The most worshipful moment for me was when Gloria, who is autistic and withdrawn, stood for one of the numbers. She had been so moved that she had to dance ...
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... at the tax office. And He said to him, ‘Follow Me.’ And he arose and followed Him." Now that’s what we call a response to a call don’t we? Jesus said: "Follow Me." Matthew got up and followed him. The problem with many of us is that ... gone too far away from Jesus, the Tree of Life everlasting. We need to eat his body and drink his blood and become restored. This takes a response to his call: we have to get up and follow him. We have to go where he lives and leave behind all those tables of things that ...
2538. Epiphany 5
Psalm 112:1-10, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Isaiah 58:1-14, Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20
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... to the one who is the Word incarnate, therein sounding again the Epiphany themes of manifestation and light: "Almighty God, you sent your only Son as the Word of life for our eyes to see and our ears to hear." The second sentence speaks to the sinner's response to the word Jesus spoke as supreme teacher: "Help us to believe with joy what the Scriptures proclaim...." It is a prayer that places us on the "mountain" where Jesus teaches us as he taught the people long ago. The Psalm for the Day Psalm 112 - This ...
2539. Epiphany 7
Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:38-42, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, Leviticus 19:1-37
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... have to bless, you bless." He said that his neighbor's dog would come over to his garden and do considerable damage; asking the neighbor to restrain the dog did no good. He said, "I either have to bless him, or curse him, so I bless him." His response to the archbishop's perplexing action was this: "If you have to bless, you bless." God said something like that, through the author of Leviticus, to his people, when he declared, "You must love your neighbor as yourself." 1. Who says so? God says so. He is the ...
2540. Easter 3
Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:42-47, Isaiah 43:1-13, 1 Peter 1:13-2:3, Luke 24:13-35
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... and blessed and broke the bread, that they recognized him - and then he simply vanished out of their sight. They immediately walked back to Jerusalem - at a much faster pace, I am certain, than was used on their journey to Emmaus, and found the Eleven. In response to the statement of the people gathering with the Eleven, who said, "The Lord has risen indeed, and has appeared to Simon," Cleopas and the "other disciple" announced what had "happened on the road, and how he was known to them in the breaking of ...
2541. Pentecost 4
Psalm 100:1-5, Genesis 25:19-34, Exodus 19:1-25, Romans 5:1-11, Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42
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... the world. The church is evangelical by the work and definition accorded it by Jesus Christ; its business is the Word of God, and particularly the good news, the Gospel of our Lord. The Prayer of the Day (LBW) The Gospel for the Day is responsible for the content of this prayer. It defines the church as "a new company of priests," whom God has created and called "to bear witness to the Gospel." The "priesthood of all believers" rests on this evangelical principle; not only may all of the faithful "approach ...
2542. Proper 7 & Pentecost 5
Jeremiah 20:7-18, Psalm 69:1-36, Psalm 91:1-16, Genesis 28:10-22
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... 16, 32-34 (R) A song of the passion that is considered to be second only to Psalm 22 in the Psalter. It finds a response in the instructions that Jesus gives to the first apostles in the Gospel for the Day. Clearly, it could be put - parts of it, ... to "this place." Jacob awakened from his dream and remembered the presence of the Lord; God had come to him and made a promise. His response has been recorded for all time: "Surely the Lord is in this place; and I did not know it.... How awesome is this place! This ...
2543. Proper 11 & Pentecost 11
Isaiah 44:6-23, Psalm 103:1-22, Psalm 86:1-17, Exodus 3:1-22, Romans 8:18-27, Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43
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... Catholics and the Lutherans tend to follow the lead of some biblical scholars by cutting apart the psalm, the Book of Common Prayer gives liturgical priority to the use of the entire psalm in its proper sequence, with the option of saying or singing verses 11-17 in response to the first reading. The Psalm Prayer (LBW) God of mercy, when Christ called out to you in torment, you heard him and gave him victory over death. Fill us with the love of your name and help us to proclaim you before the world, that all ...
2544. Proper 12 & Pentecost 10
1 Kings 3:1-15, Exodus 3:1-22, Romans 8:18-27, Romans 8:28-39, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52
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... desperately, when life threatens to overwhelm us, and this is the lowest level of prayer; we might pray dutifully, because we know that, as faithful Christians, we should pray to God every day, and this is a higher level of prayer; and, we might pray as a loving response to the God of all goodness and grace, who in Jesus Christ has saved and redeemed us, and this is tile highest level of prayer. In this story - a dream sequence, if you wiff, Solomon offers a prayer that has a touch of desperation in it, an ...
2545. Proper 14 & Pentecost 12
1 Kings 19:9-18, Psalm 29:1-11, Psalm 106:1-48, Romans 9:1-29, Matthew 14:22-36, Exodus 13:17--14:31, Jonah 2:1-10, Psalm 85:1-13
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... well as a responsory to the 1 Kings reading of the Roman and Lutheran lectionaries, because it spells out what the "voice of the Lord" can do in all of nature. Psalm 106:4-12 (C) This psalm, which is a psalm of national confession, acts as a response to Exodus 14's story of Pharaoh's pursuit of the children of Israel, and makes contemporary God's care and power by individualizing and personalizing the gracious action of God in delivering the Israelites by a watery defeat of the Egyptians at the Red Sea. In ...
2546. Proper 15 & Pentecost 13
Isaiah 56:1-8, Psalm 67:1-7, Psalm 78:1-72, Exodus 16:1-36, Romans 11:11-24, Romans 11:25-32, Matthew 15:21-28
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... has been chosen because it points to the way that God has offered himself and his blessings, to all people - and, in the Gospel for the Day, to a humble Canaanite woman of great faith - in Jesus Christ. It has to do (v. 1) with the post-exilic response of God's people in doing works of justice and righteousness in the expectation that the salvation of God - in the Messiah - will soon come. But it also looks to the role of "foreigners" in the worship of the Temple, stating that if they love the Lord, keep ...
2547. Proper 17 & Pentecost 15
Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8, Exodus 19:1-25, Jeremiah 14:1--15:21, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Psalm 114:1-8, Psalm 63:1-11
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... suffering for the sake of the world." As it has been composed for the new lectionary, it points to, and reflects what is in, the Gospel for the Day, in which Jesus informs his disciples of the fate that will befall him in Jerusalem. It also spells out our response to his command to "take up our cross and follow him": "Humble us by his example, point us to the path of obedience, and give us strength to follow his commands; through your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." The Psalm for the Day - Psalm 26 (E, L) It ...
2548. Pentecost 7
Matthew 18:21-35, Romans 14:1--15:13, Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:1-14, Psalm 103:1-22, Genesis 50:15-21
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... , who had received the forgiveness of a huge debt but wouldn't show the same mercy to a man who owed him an insignificant amount of money, the prayer speaks out: "O God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity." The gracious response of the faithful, in which they show love, mercy, and forgiveness to others, is connected to the glory of God in this prayer: "Grant us the fullness of your grace, that, pursuing what you have promised, we may share your heavenly glory; through your Son ...
2549. The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
Isaiah 25:1-12, Psalm 23:1-6, Psalm 135:1-21, Deuteronomy 34:1-12, Philippians 4:2-9, Philippians 4:10-20
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... the Lord now and forever, for your name's sake. Psalm 135:1-14 (C) Here is a song intended to be sung in the worship of the Temple, and undoubtedly meant to be sung antiphonally. It may be well to do it that way, rather than read it responsively, as so often is the custom in our churches. It speaks of - and praises - the God whom the children of Israel know, acknowledging his power to "do whatever pleases him" in the world, and his goodness toward Israel during and after the Exodus. The climax, as used in ...
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H. Michael Nehls
... used properly, is an important tool, a life-giving tool for Christians, at Christmas time and all year long. But if it becomes our god, then, my friends, we’re in real trouble. Then the love of money becomes the root of all evil. As responsible Christians, we need to make responsible decisions. In chapter 23 of Luke’s Gospel, Jesus spoke himself of the color green. Jesus referred to it as he was being led on his way to Golgotha, to be nailed to the wooden Cross and put to death. As he was going, the ...
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