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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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2526. The Lure Of The Easy Way

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... ?" We want to deal this morning with the lure of the easy way. Jesus and His disciples were at Caesarea Philippi. Their ministry to this point had been a stunning success. Crowds pressed in on them everywhere they went. People eagerly reached out to touch this attractive young teacher from Nazareth. The disciples themselves were caught up in the excitement of it all. Jesus asked them, "Who do you say I am?" and Simon Peter answered enthusiastically, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God!" It was ...

2527. Started Toward A Great Tomorrow

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... late to make a new beginning. There is power and potential and promise within each of us waiting to be unleashed. Indeed, God's plan is that we be more and do more than any of us can ever imagine. Consider that man whose writings and witness have touched more lives for God than any other except Christ himself. St. Paul was a persecutor of the church. He was there when Stephen became the first Christian martyr. Indeed, he was part of the lynch party. He even held Stephen's cloak as Stephen was pounded into ...

2528. Jesus And The Ayatollah

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... him face to face with the claims of God upon his life. When it was finished, he gave up all his academic degrees and distinguished posts and went to Africa to serve as a missionary physician. For he read Jesus' story of the rich man and Lazarus and it touched his heart. So when his patients awakened from the anesthetic in that little hospital in Lambarene the first words they heard were the old doctor's, "The reason you have no more pain is because the Lord Jesus told me to come to the banks of the Ogowe ...

2529. No Improvement Possible

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... without stopping to think of that night in the YMCA and of a young man, who later became Bishop Donald Tippet of the San Francisco area, whose confidence changed his life."(1) There is something life changing about that kind of love. Who could help but be touched by it? What we need today is not a revival that would bring more people into church. What we need is a revival that would motivate us to take Christ's redemptive love out into the world. THAT KIND OF LOVE IS REDEMPTIVE, AND IT IS RECONCILING ...

2530. Salvation By Faith Alone

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... holding him. With shaking fingers he undid the straps that were holding his boots to his belt. Then, taking a deep breath and asking God to help him, he did it. He flung himself full length out of his boots across the deadly sand. His fingers touched the marsh grass. Desperately he grasped several strands. Then slowly, carefully, inch by agonizing inch he pulled himself out of his boots onto the solid earth. (1) He was safe. It had been an enormous struggle, but he was safe. That is how many people regard ...

2531. Ultimate Thanksgiving

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He writes," Her young husband is in the room. He stands on the opposite side of her bed and together they seem to dwell in the evening lamplight, isolated from me, private. `Who are they,' I ask myself, `he and this wry mouth I have made, who gaze at and touch each other so generously?' The young woman speaks, `Will my mouth always be like this?' she asks. `Yes,' I say, `it will. It is because the nerve was cut.' She nods and is silent. But the young man smiles. `I like it,' he says. `It is kind of cute ...

2532. Celebrating Christ The King

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... like that. They had entered a new dimension of reality. They had contact with the very Son of God. Here was a man unlike any man who had ever lived. How do they communicate who Christ really is to people who never heard him speak, never felt his touch, never saw his footsteps by the Sea of Galilee? There are many images representing Christ in the Scripture. We see three in our lessons for the day. EZEKIEL PORTRAYS HIM AS THE GENTLE SHEPHERD. That is a familiar image, is it not? It is used throughout the ...

2533. Possibly Our Best Year! (A Sermon for New Year's)

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... strong, however. They radiated such joy that the Martins inquired about its source. Mrs. Doolittle responded with pride, "His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me!" Mrs. Martin was so taken by the response that she went home and that same day arranged those touching words into a lovely Gospel hymn that Ethel Waters immortalized. "His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me!" How can this be any other than a great year? We know who we are. We know where we are going. We know who's going ...

2534. Hey! I Want To Believe!

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... and they never are able to understand the significance that event has for others in the fellowship. It might be a choir cantata or a Lenten service, or it might simply be a regular Sunday morning service that somehow God uses in a very special way to touch hearts. But they weren't there, and it is very difficult to describe to them the wonder of it all. I appreciate so much those of you who take seriously your commitment to support the church with your attendancenot only for those events that are appealing ...

2535. Would You Mind Rescuing Me?

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... them in. Then with a few master strokes, he completed the paintings. Now consider who we are. We are students in Christ's school. We are not masters. We simply fill in the sketches he has already begun. When we have done all we can, he provides finishing touches to produce a masterpiece. To understand our role in such a way relieves us of the burden of being sufficient in our own abilities to do what he has called us to do. We are his students, his servants, his apprentices. He is the Master. THE SECOND ...

2536. One For All

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... snake was evidently imported from Australia, New Guinea, and The Solomon Islands as a stowaway in military shipments. Guam now has no way to get rid of the snakes. The Bible teaches us that man has always carried a snake problem with him. Everything we touch we infect. We discover a way to harness the wonderful energy of the atom and begin building bombs. We invent the internal combustion engine and pollute the air. We discover a way to extract from nature cures for various ailments and we end up producing ...

2537. Breaking Down The Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... and tossed it to him. Doby went on to become one of the strongest hitters in major league history. (1) I don't know anything about Joe Gordon's religious commitment. I would like to think he did what he did because Jesus had touched his heart. I do know that as we finish this century America is still struggling with ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity. Communities are divided. Even churches are divided. We are still fighting battles that should have been over long ago battles between literalists and ...

2538. Read My Heart As Well As My Lips

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... WE DO IT BY SIMPLY RESPONDING TO CHRIST'S INVITATION. For 30 years Mother Teresa has worked in the slums of Calcutta, India. She has worked among the most forsaken people on earth. You and I would recoil from most of the people that she touches every day. The dispossessed, the downtrodden, the diseased, the desperate. And yet, everybody who meets Mother Teresa remarks on her warm smile. How, after 30 years of working in conditions like that does she keep a warm smile on her face? Well, its interesting. She ...

2539. From The Rubble Of Life

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... . A large crowd of curious folk had gathered to see this man called Jesus pass through their town on his way to Jerusalem. The news of his compassion and his healing power had reached beyond Jericho to the outlying area. People wanted to see him and touch him. When Bartimaeus learned that it was Jesus passing by, he knew that this was his one opportunity to do something about his situation. This was his one opportunity to escape from his life of dependency and despair. Thus he began to cry out, "Jesus, son ...

2540. Noblesse Oblige

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... who was the cause of the original disinheritance, an exemplary woman with whom Lord Fauntleroy is very close, cannot live on the estate. The story of the initial conflict and misunderstanding, and the subsequent healing and restoration of relationships, is a touching one in which everyone eventually lives happily ever after. "When the Earl of Darringcourt's representative first comes to America with the proposal, a circumstance arose which is analogous to the life of a Christian. He describes what life will ...

2541. Opening Up Heaven

Luke 3:21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... time, they sat down, and one of them said: "Let us sit perfectly still and see if we can feel the way in which the air is moving because it always moves toward the shaft." There they sat for a long time, when suddenly one of them felt a slight touch of air on his cheek. Up he sprang to his feet, exclaiming, "I felt it!" They went in the direction in which the air was moving and reached the central shaft and freedom from their dark captivity. We also need to feel the movement of the air, do we not ...

2542. Judas

Luke 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... to burn their truth into Bunyan's soul and he settled into the victorious lifestyle history has remembered him for. The point is thisall of us are capable of betrayalof a friend of a spouse, of a cause, even of Christ. Evangelist Bailey Smith tells a touching story about a man who happened to be a carpenter at the time of Christ's crucifixion. His wife suggested to him one day that the Roman government was advertising for carpenters to make a bid on crosses that they used for execution. They could sure ...

2543. A Pentecostal Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... Why? Because we are Christ's body and He is the Eternal Word. We are called to communicate the Good News of God's love revealed in Christ. There is a story about an English gentleman named Alfie. Alfie could do nothing right. He bungled everything he ever touched. One day in a moment of deep despair and desperation, he tried to take his own life. He failed at that, too. While he was in the hospital, a friend came to visit. The friend asked, "Alfie, why did you do it?" And Alfie responded, "Because there is ...

2544. A Mystifying Question

1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

King Duncan

... Bill Fuqua was fourteen-years old, he decided to stand utterly motionless for a long period of time in a public place-just to see what type of reactions he’d get. His curiosity definitely paid off. One lady, for example, walked by him, stared, then touched him. When her action brought no response, she actually remarked, "Oh, I thought it was a real person!" Since then, Bill has advanced to the point where he now holds the world’s record for doing nothing. On one occasion, he stood motionless for ten ...

2545. Forgiven!

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... from his feet, and she kissed his feet and anointed them with ointment. The Pharisee was scandalized by such behavior. "If this man were a prophet," he said to himself caustically, "he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner." Jesus could tell what the Pharisee was thinking. So he said to him, "Simon, I have something to say to you." The Pharisee answered, "What is it, Teacher?" Jesus instructed him with a parable. "A certain creditor had two debtors ...

2546. Entering Into The Agony

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

The Los Angeles TIMES recently carried a touching story about an 80 year old man who entered into an agreement with three young couples who were renting apartments in his building. He agreed to allow them to buy their apartments at a very low rate. Please do not misunderstand. This was not your typical condominium conversion. He was ...

2547. Lost In America

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... bank of the Ganges River. One morning, after he had finished his meditation, he saw a scorpion floating helplessly in the water. As the scorpion was washed closer to the tree, the old man reached out to rescue the drowning creature. As soon as he touched it, however, the scorpion stung him. Instinctively the man withdrew his hand. A minute later, though, he tried again. This time the scorpion stung him so badly with its poisonous tail that his hand became swollen and bloody and his face contorted with pain ...

2548. From Timid To Terrific

2 Timothy 1:6-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... deeds are celebrated, and good ones relegated to page 49 of the paper; Where first place goes to push and shove, And the cost of things is put above the cost of time together; Isn’t it wonderful that from time to time, The best of us, Reach out and touch, The rest of us?" There is a lot of Gospel in that. "Perfect love casts out fear." (I John 4:18). When the late Dr. E. Stanley Jones preached on love in India, a church leader complained that though he had saturated his leadership with love, one of the ...

2549. Victory on a Broken Knee

2 Timothy 4:6-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... to bring him back to the main point. “But, Mr. Smith,” she said, “we all would really like to know to what you attribute your long life?” Mr. Smith didn’t answer Jane Pauley directly. He went ahead talking about his flowers. He touched them, watered them, and concentrated on them while the audience watched and listened patiently. “This little lovely won’t bloom for another two years,” he chuckled, as Jane made one last attempt, before the cutaway to a commercial, to discover the elixir for ...

2550. Marriage In Heaven? No. Heaven In Marriage? Yes.

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... years, which comes to almost twenty-five hundred servings of breaded fish fillets. He admires his wife and it is important to him to express his admiration. (2) This fact was impressed on me when I read something out of Lee Iacocca's autobiography. He wrote some touching words. He says, "All through my career at Ford and later at Chrysler, my wife, Mary, was my greatest fan and cheerleader. We were very close, and she was always at my side." It took enormous courage on her part to be there, he said, because ...

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