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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251. A Large Fish Story
Jonah 1:1-17, Jonah 3:1-10
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... it all you are not alone. God is there, ready to replace guilt with forgiveness and to bring hope into hopelessness. Each year in America, clinical depression strikes 17 million people. The common symptoms include a persistent, sad, anxious, empty mood, difficulty sleeping, changes in appetite and loss of pleasure in activities that were once enjoyable. Depressed people often have trouble concentrating; they may experience feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. Here is the good news. Over 80 percent of ...
Sermon
Donald Macleod
... laureate of a hundred years ago, sang in his rollicking poem, Mandalay: Ship me somewhere east of Suez, Where the best is like the worst, Where there aren’t no Ten Commandments An’ a man can raise a thirst. But two centuries earlier in a more serious mood, the Parish Register of a little church in Lancaster, Nottinghamshire, cited these lines: Have no other gods before me; Unto no image bow the knee; Take not the name of God in vain; Do not the Sabbath day profane; Honor thy father and mother, too; And ...
253. Song of the Vineyard
Isaiah 5:1-7
Illustration
Larry Powell
... circumstances at that particular time. Deuteronomy 16:13-16 describes the carnival-like atmosphere which occurred in the ancient Feast of Booths. Some commentators have surmised that Isaiah rendered this specific message at such an occasion, in a manner consistent with the mood of the observance. However, there was perhaps another reason for the message being contained in a song. It has been told that Arkansas’ own Jimmy Driftwood was once a teacher in the public school system. It seems that in the course ...
254. L’envoi
Psalm 150:1-6
Sermon
Gordon Pratt Baker
The poet who compiled the Book of Psalms concludes it with a paean of praise befitting the moods and aspirations of the sweet singers who preceded him. For he clearly discerns one striking fact underlying the variety of their songs, namely, that the quality of the devotional life determines the character of our years. Moreover, the psalmist further perceives that the God who accepts our veneration welcomes the ...
Sermon
Robert Allen
... He was praying in a certain place, that when He ceased, one of His disciples said unto Him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples. Evidently, they had been observing what prayer meant in his life. He went into prayer in one mood and came out in another. Praying for Jesus was not just a form, but a force, a power. Prayer was vital and influential in his life and they wanted him to tell them how to pray. Watching Jesus awakened their belief in prayer. As they watched his personality ...
256. The Flight From Light
Isaiah 60:1-22, Matthew 2:1-12
Sermon
Erskine White
... poke fun at it or cut it off? When we feel like bursting with happiness and enthsuiasm about something that has gone well, when we find ourselves on one of life’s rare mountaintops of joy and grace, why do we feel a need to puncture the mood and rush back down into the valley again, as if we are afraid the good feeling might last too long? Our texts show something like this happening after the birth of Jesus. "Arise, shine; for your light has come," cries Isaiah. After suffering for all of human history ...
Sermon
Durwood L. Buchheim
... enough to cast out demons and heal the sick. They also preached that people should repent. Next to the resurrection, repentance is the most frequent theme in the book of Acts. Repentance was Peter’s message in every important situation. But one fears that repentance is not the mood of our time. We live in the age of the "no-fault cult," a time when apparently no one is guilty and no moral questions are asked. I am "okay" and you are "okay" although wrong things are being done all over the place. No one is ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... to the Colossians: "As you have therefore received Jesus Christ the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in thanksgiving." If love is the distinguishing mark of the church, her dominant mood is gratitude. Paul wrote, "In all things give thanks for that is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." This means that no matter how awful your situation, you can always find cause for thanksgiving. At least you can say, "God is in this with ...
259. In Control
Mark 13:1-31
Sermon
James W. Robinson
... roads, pirates on the seas, in the amphitheatres men murdered to please applauding crowds, under all roofs misery and selfishness. It is really a bad world, Donatus, an incredibly bad world ... An incredibly bad world ... That’s the way it is today, we feel, in our worst moods. It is a world gone sour. Maybe it is beyond the reach and influence of God. But Cyprian was no pessimist. Why? What was the reason for his hope? Just this: It is ... an incredibly bad world. Yet in the midst of it I have found a ...
Sermon
Edward Chinn
... says: "Whenever the evil spirit came upon Saul, David would get his harp and play it. The evil spirit would leave and Saul would feel better again and be all right" (1 Samuel 16:23, TEV). The music of David helped Saul to get over his black moods. Furthermore, the boy David was helpful to Saul in another way. While he was taking food to his brothers who were serving on the front lines in Israel’s battle against the Philistines, David saw the Philistine giant, Goliath, and heard him taunt the army of ...
261. Getting Together
Isaiah 51:17--52:12
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... out rhythm. It looks like this, and when you shake it there is a sound that makes you want to tap your fingers and toes. A long time ago people used castanets for very sad and also very happy occasions. Whenever they wanted the people to have the same mood they played the castanets and everyone started to move and feel the same way. Let me show you what I mean. Suppose that I start shaking the castanet in a certain rhythm like this (choose a very simple rhythm). Now, you clap your hands in the same rhythm ...
Drama
Ed Irsch
... to track down our shepherds, running all over Bethlehem, and you ask me if I’ve lost any sheep o ... (stops) Did you say "sheep"? (relaxes) Oh. Sheep. (then, thankfully) Martha. Martha. You know just what to say to get me out of an ugly mood. (pauses, thinking) How did you know? Martha: (all innocence) I have ways of finding out. Johnathan: Phoebe? (knows the answer, even with no indication from Martha) Phoebe. Martha: Think of it, Johnathan. Sheep without a shepherd for half the night and not one of them ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... is communicated to me when I take time to listen. I speak not of some strange, metaphysical experience. Rather, I refer to communion with my pastor father who was so much a part of me that it still seems that I can hear him. In the same mood, the Heavenly Father seeks to give us His word of assurance. Most men in a noisy world don’t take time to communicate with God in silence. Leslie Weatherhead said that the soul’s hours of greatest exhaltation come through silence. We cannot hear God clearly amid ...
Sermon
William McKee Aber
... it (which might be "not much!") Let’s admit that no one speaks for the Negro any more than anyone speaks for the whites. For all of the variety I think one need not be particularly astute to discover there is a discernable change in form and mood in the black community - a movement to what has been called "BLACK POWER." This expression means many things but primarily, I think, it is a seeking of an identity by the black man that may make real dialogue, and ultimately real love, possible. White society has ...
265. Sharing with Our Brothers
2 Corinthians 8:1-15
Sermon
Ewart E. Turner
... by 13 points. This is one direct cause of the present instability in world society. Modern communications bring something to poverty populations unknown a few years ago: namely, the startling comparison with well-fed populations. The masses are in the mood to break their chains, by violence if necessary. Paul could report to the Corinthians so glowingly about the generosity of the Macedonians because these poor churches gave out of Christian self-interest. They were making brothers, though they had never ...
Sermon
E. Jerry Walker
... bread and wine. Near the door were a basin and a pitcher of water, but the men sullenly ignored them. Their custom had been on such occasions of a common meal for one of their number to take towel and basin and wash the others’ feet. Tonight the mood of the men was such that none would humble himself to this task, and they went directly to the table, their feet still travel-stained. Judas took his customary position, a place or two removed from the leader, while John, son of Zebedee, brother of the one ...
Sermon
E. Jerry Walker
... man should carry his own instrument of torture to the execution site. The gruesome parade through the city was calculated to be a lesson to others who might have notions of sedition or robbery or tumult. And from what the centurion had seen of the mood of the over-crowded city, it was a well-timed deterrent. The first criminal was urged forward with a brisk lash of the scourge and he stumbled toward the gate in the east portico. A contingent of soldiers went ahead, others beside and behind the condemned ...
Sermon Aid
John W. Rilling
... windswept hill where three grim crosses are silhouetted against the luminous blue of the coming dawn. It was Easter, but they did not know it yet. They were coming to the place of death seeking a dead body to pay love’s last tribute to mortal clay. This is the mood of many, yes many who have come into this house of prayer this Easter Day. May God in his mercy let the rays of the sun of truth shine in your hearts today. 1. WHEN MORNING GILDS THE EASTER SKIES - it shines into an tomb. One thing even the ...
269. In All Things Be Thankful
Ephesians 4:17--5:21
Sermon
Brett Blair
... how they should conduct their Thanksgiving Sunday services. Things were about as bad as they could get, with no sign of relief. The bread lines were depressingly long, the stock market had plummeted, and the term Great Depression seemed an apt description for the mood of the country. The ministers thought they should only lightly touch upon the subject of Thanksgiving in deference to the human misery all about them. After all, what was there to be thankful for? But it was Dr. William L. Stiger, pastor of a ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... of their bedrooms like well-seasoned troops. He then turns to Maria, the new governess, and curtly informs her that her signal on the whistle will indicate thus and such. She very quickly informs him that she does not answer to whistles. She introduces a new mood and slowly the children begin to respond to her and the house is transformed from a military barracks into a home. Of course, you cannot miss the point. It is kindness that has won the day. Of course, there is a drawback in kindness. Kindness means ...
271. Getting Ready
Mark 13:24-37
Sermon
Brett Blair
... of the year. Choirs are rehearsing Christmas music; sanctuaries are decorated with poinsettias, Chrismon trees, and candles. Children are preparing for pageants. Pastors are busy preparing for worship. It is a busy and exciting time of the year. The activities and mood of the season make it difficult for the most necessary thing to occur—repentance. Repentance seems inappropriate at Christmas. After all, ”Tis the season to be jolly.” Talk of sin and judgment and repentance and turning away from our ...
272. In Quest of Fire
2 Chronicles 36:15-23
Sermon
Larry Powell
... ; but they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, till the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, till there was no remedy. (36:15, 16) "Arrogant indifference," I believe, will gather in the mood of this passage. Persistently, the word came. Self-assuredly, it was dismissed as irrelevant. The messengers of the light faithfully proclaimed a message that was not their own; it transcended them. The priests and people, barking their insults, drove the message ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... co-participants in the miracle that was about to take place. Do you know how biologists evaluate life? It is in terms of the capacity to experience pain. The more the pain, the higher the life form. A worm experiences little pain, but a dog can actually experience moods. Have you ever noticed that? Haven't you ever seen a dog pout? Dogs can actually grieve over people, and I understand that over at the tracts in West Memphis there are some people who grieve over dogs. I'm not sure. Scientist say that man is ...
Sermon
Robert G. Tuttle
... will not examine the eyes of an angry person. At such a time the retina is distorted by an abnormal blood flow. "I’m so mad I can’t see straight" actually makes sense! Within our bodies vital organs sit in judgment upon our moods and tempers. Hate pumps up our blood pressure. Rage is indigestible. I’ve tried it and I know. Brain, heart, blood pressure, digestive system form a jury that quickly condemns our blighting bitterness and our consuming resentments. Even tissue changes take place. For these ...
275. Saved!
Mark 10:17-31
Sermon
Warren Thomas Smith
... . "Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel...." Thus it was that a limping man returned home, limping because he had wrestled with himself and with God, and God blessed him with a new name, a new personality, a new being. Charles Wesley caught the mood and spirit in his "Wrestling Jacob": Come, O thou Traveler unknown, Whom still I hold, but cannot see; My company before is gone, And I am left alone with thee; With thee all night I mean to stay, And wrestle till the break of day, With thee all ...
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