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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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2626. Surprise!

Luke 4:14-30

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... like to hear me play the violin, because I can't play a violin. Do any of you play the violin? The violin is one of the most beautiful instruments in the orchestra. It is also hard to play. It takes many years to be able to develop the proper touch, but in the hands of a truly great violinist, the violin can make music that is both sensitive and melodic. There is one problem with a violin. A violin must be continually and properly tuned to be played well, for if it is not, even the finest violinist cannot ...

2627. Jerry's Story . . . And Ours

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... in it, and there's no pension plan. People are going to laugh at you, and most of them won't listen. But let Me worry about that. You just tell them how I feel--I'll take care of you." And before Jerry could object, God reached down and touched his mouth and gave him the words to say. If you know a little bit of your Old Testament theology, then you recognize the protagonist of our story. In the year 628 B.C. or thereabouts, God called on Jeremiah, a young man from a priestly family. As the son ...

2628. Living With Difficult People

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... area of agreement. In 1994, a Korean air jetliner crashed in the southern resort of Cheju while landing during a storm when the pilot and copilot argued whether the runway was long enough, then fought each other for control of the aircraft as it touched down, causing it to skid off the runway and ram a safety barricade. All 152 passengers and eight crew members survived by jumping down an escape chute moments before the Airbus A300 exploded in flames, but pilot Barry Edward Woods and copilot Chung Chankyu ...

2629. Nobody Wants To Make Cold Calls

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... in their grief. But when they arrived at the chapel, the words he had hoped to say did not come. Instead, and almost without realizing what he was doing, he took a tissue, wiped at the tears in the eyes of the parents, then wiped his own tears and touched the tissue to the baby's head and said, "Nicole, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit." He said nothing else--the tears were more eloquent than words could have been. (3) Jesus wept over Jerusalem, and Jesus ...

2630. Like Everest Without Oxygen And Wimbledon Without A Racquet

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... , the lawyer is so taken aback that he cannot even voice the word Samaritan. To him a Samaritan was a vulgarity, and to speak of someone as a good Samaritan was the "oxyiest" (if there is such a word!) of oxymorons! To grasp the story we need just a touch of a geography lesson. Jerusalem and Jericho are only 17 miles apart. They are both safe places: Jerusalem is the Holy City and Jericho a desert oasis, but to get from one to the other is to travel through the wilderness of Judea. This is a wilderness of ...

2631. Balancing Act

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... from Eastern religions which are penetrating our nation so rapidly. The meditation these groups are advocating is not God-centered, but consciousness-centered. I say this not in a critical sense, but in a cautionary one. There is a difference in getting in touch with your inner voice and directing your consciousness outward and upward toward God. Meditation has a rich history within the Christian community. It is a history we have in large part neglected. We, like the disciples, have been so busy saving the ...

2632. Time to Pull the Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... life had a new purpose and peace. He became determined to break the chain of foolish choices and defeated living that defined the Waite men. Brian married a godly woman and entered the ministry. He served as an Army chaplain overseas, but he kept in close touch with his parents, who were atheists. Brian's new attitude convinced his parents that his faith was real, and that they could have a relationship with God, too. In 1996, both of Brian Waite's parents gave their lives to Christ. (8) There are no weeds ...

2633. Changing Lives Through Jesus Christ!

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Linda Richard

... sales on your part. You can be the wholesale distributor in your area! Now many of us enjoy talking on the telephone! Any many of us have family and close friends living far enough away that we frequently call long distance to keep in touch. So having a credit card for phone calls is quite handy. Still, we must admit that we have serious doubts about the "totally fulfilling and life-changing abilities" of selling prepaid phone cards, whether at the wholesale or retail level. But there IS something that ...

2634. It Could Happen To You!

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... last two words of the title, words which narrow the focus of Easter's impact. Those last two words add a vital dimension to Easter. This passage is preceded in Luke 24 with the wonderful story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus. This touching story was told, remembered and cherished by the Christian community because they understood it as a great help in appropriating Easter to themselves. The question standing out in this story is not a theological treatise on "How did God raise Jesus from the dead ...

2635. Building A Life

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... is DANGEROUS in weather like this." “Well, I'm determined to try," was Linda's gutsy, if not very informed, response. “Then I guess we're just going to have to hug you," the trucker suggested. Linda drew back. “There's no way I'm going to let you touch me!" she said angrily. “Not like THAT!" the truckers chuckled. “We'll put one truck in front of you and one in the rear. In that way, we'll get you through the mountains." All that foggy morning Linda followed the two red dots in front and had the ...

2636. Worriers Or Warriors?

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... still his performance was marked by slips and falls. Then came the 1,000-meter race at those same "˜92 Olympics. He had never won this event before, but he knew this was probably his last chance ever to win a gold medal. Approaching the starting line, he touched a ring around his neck containing the birth stone of his eight-month-old daughter, Jane. She was named after his late sister. Once more, in a major race, Dan slipped. But this time he did not falter as he had before and when he crossed the finish ...

2637. Building A Faith

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Park with his older sister. She was holding his hand, but then they got separated. He panicked, and went first in one direction and then in another, calling her name. He was lost. He crossed Fifth Avenue, stopping traffic. Confused and terrified, he suddenly touched an iron fence which felt familiar. Excitedly, he began to grope his way along the familiar iron and stone buildings. Finally, he came to his family's apartment, opened the door and walked in. His mother came in behind him, spoke his name and ...

2638. How To Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... us to love as he loves. What are some appropriate ways to express love--particularly in the family? Love comes in many forms. FOR ONE THING THERE IS SIMPLE, PHYSICAL AFFECTION. All of us--particularly children--need lots of physical interaction. We need to be touched. That is one of our most basic human needs. Joan Benny, daughter of the great comedian, Jack Benny, remembers Sunday mornings as being her "special time" with her father. "Daddy would wake me up for breakfast about 7:30," she wrote. "Then we'd ...

2639. Like A Mighty Army

John 17:20-26

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... good to remember people who have been our friends or have done good things for us. Of course, the reason we come to church each week is to remember Jesus who loved us more than anyone has ever loved us. Let's thank God all those people whose lives have touched us and made the world a better place to live and especially, let's give thanks for Jesus.

2640. Wrong Way. On Purpose

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... had landed in Ireland? Everyone knew that he had come the wrong way on purpose. I suggest Jesus did the same. Wrong Way. On Purpose. The well-known Scottish commentator, William Barclay, suggests the tongue-in-cheek view. Barclay sees evidence for this "light touch" in the Greek word Jesus used for dog, " , kunariois. He describes the word as a diminutive, not the offensive word which might be used for the frightening scavenger dogs roaming and hunting in packs, but rather of the pet lap-dogs. "The tone and ...

2641. What In The World Is Happiness?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... to some studies, people in our affluent, safe, comfortable society are more depressed than they have ever been! Where have we missed it, Lord? Where is happiness to be found? First of all, let's dispel the notion that Jesus was a dewy-eyed dreamer--out of touch with the real world. Do you know Thornton Wilder's Heaven's My Destination? It's a comical little play about a poor soul who attempts to put the Sermon on the Mount into practice. The results are disastrous. In one scene he refuses to take interest ...

2642. Look Who's Giving Thanks!

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... son--the wife of an impoverished farmer. Then she pressed a package into this woman's hand. It was the gold wrist watch her son had received on his graduation, the only object of real value the boy had ever possessed. The mother's act of gratitude so touched people's hearts that it has become something of a legend in and around this small village in Normandy. (5) When we feel someone has done something important for us, we have a need to say, “Thank you." Some of us would say “Thank you" to our parents ...

2643. The Tenth Man

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... ABOUT HEALING THESE MEN WITH LEPROSY. Jesus had many ways of healing people in the Bible. For the blind man, he used mud and saliva on his eyes. For Lazarus, he simply called him by name and commanded him to come back to life. Sometimes Jesus touched people, sometimes he just spoke healing over them. In the case of these men with leprosy, he did neither. Instead, Jesus told them to present themselves to the priest. He asked them to take a risk. Unclean persons, such as people with leprosy, were not supposed ...

2644. It's A Terrible Thing To Be Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... of his mother. How at twenty-six she was raising three children all alone. She labored for a pittance to support her family. She is a devout Catholic. Her faith would not allow her to remarry. From the time Bradshaw's dad left her, she never touched another man, says Bradshaw. "What an incredible faith!" says Bradshaw, "What commitment to one's beliefs." (1) And what a terrible thing it is to be rejected. There was a story in the newspapers sometime back about an 11-year-old boy in Los Angeles who hanged ...

2645. Setting An Example

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... He was made fun of, kicked, and even turned away from hospitals. Sadan said, “I can still remember when Dr. Brand took my infected, ulcerated feet in his hands. . . . Dr. Brand and his wife were the first medical workers who dared to touch me." Sadan had undergone numerous operations including “tendon transfers, nerve stripping, toe amputations, and cataract removal." Despite his suffering, here is how Sadan, a man who suffers from leprosy characterized his life: “I must say that I am now happy that I ...

2646. The Problem With Keeping All The Rules

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... a little Indian boy named Pratap. When Ewald handed him a camera, Pratap began to shake all over. He explained that he was a Harijan, a member of the lowest, untouchable caste in India. Harijans aren't allowed to hold cameras. Pratap was afraid of even touching one. But Wendy Ewald insisted that he take the camera and use it to share his ideas. A few days later, Ewald passed Pratap's house. He was posing his family for a picture. The scared, self-conscious little boy was bursting with self-confidence. A ...

2647. Insincere Religion

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... or we become very stressed-out people. You cannot please everybody, no matter how hard you try. A third-grade teacher came into her room one Valentine's Day and found a handmade card bearing this message: "All the third grade loves you, Miss. Smith." This touched her deeply--until the next morning when she found a note with a corrected tally on her desk. It read: "All the third grade loves you, Miss Smith. All but two." There is no way anyone who works with people can please everyone. Usually it is ...

2648. Where Can I Be Safe?

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... most of the floorboards and you will fall into the basement where all of the rats are! Sign # 5. To whom it may concern: some of the items in this house have been engraved with Federal Identification Numbers. Others have merely been wired to explode when touched. Good luck . . . (1) Well, maybe those will do the trick. Maybe they will keep your home secure. Does it seem to you that people are more afraid than they use to be? One summer evening during a violent thunderstorm a mother was tucking her small boy ...

2649. Come Home To God

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Angela Akers

... fruit again. He will return the people to prosperity. And here lies one of the most beautiful promises of the Old Testament in verse 25: "I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten . . ." There is a beautiful quote on repentance from the television show "Touched by an Angel." One angel remarks to a person on the wrong path, "God wants you to fall on your knees and take your future back while you still have the chance." (6) God still has a future waiting for us. He is ready to bless us, restore ...

2650. Another World

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... enveloped them. Then they heard a voice out of the cloud: "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear him." When the disciples heard this voice, they fell on their face. They were terrified, as you might imagine. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, "Arise, don't be afraid." When these poor startled disciples had recovered enough to lift their eyes, Moses and Elijah had disappeared. Only Jesus was present. As they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them not to share what they had ...

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