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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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2801. He Comes As He Came

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... wear small consoles on our chest with perhaps 10 levers on them which we can activate ourselves, or which other persons can operate, providing any pleasure sensation we desire. The levers, through wires to the brain, would trigger various enjoyable responses at a mere touch." (quoted by Donald J. Shelby, "Relate in Love and Courage", Santa Monica, April 12, 1981). We haven't seen that Mr. Kahn is right -- but he still may be proven right -- with all the advancement in technology. If he is right, love will ...

2802. Gratitude Takes Practice

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was considered to be both a religious and a medical problem. So if you were a leper and you got better, the way you established your health was to go to a priest to be confirmed as "well." Jesus did not tell them they were well. He did not touch them and heal them. He just said, "Go and show yourself to the priest." Luke says something very interesting. "As they went", they noticed that they were clean. Do you see? As they went they noticed they were clean. You see often, we have to act in faith before ...

2803. Our Father's Love Begotten

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , Randy's home-going celebration, which he had planned along with his Episcopal priest, and after the committal at the cemetery, we came back to the church for food and fellowship. The affirmation of Randy's faith and the witness of people whose lives he had touched was causing me to overflow with joy. I was walking down the hallway of that little Episcopal Church and I came to a bulletin board, a part of which was dedicated to evangelism. On that bulletin board was a poster which had this graphic statement ...

2804. When Being Good Is Bad For You Or Breaking The Chains Of Co-dependency

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... (the co-dependent) must have caused it and they can make it better. They do not respect Others enough to allow them to work out their own problems. They promote dependence. "Co-dependents are so focused on other's people's feelings that they lose touch with their own feelings and cannot determine what they themselves want. They just want to make everybody happy." (Rev. Bob Olmstead, "When Being Good is Bad for You") One critic of the co-dependency movement has said that as currently defined, it fits 99.9 ...

2805. Reflections On A Calling (ten-year Anniversary Sermon)

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... microwave oven in the parlor than we spend talking about how we're going to feed the hungry. Well, you get my point. Pettiness is a fly in the ointment of ministry. Powerlessness, pace and pettiness -- these are things that keep me aware of my humanness, and keep me in touch with my desperate need for more than I am. And that leads me to my next line of reflection. I like the way Paul puts it. In verse 1, "Since it is by God's mercy we are engaged in this ministry, we do not lose heart." It is impossible ...

2806. The Wholeness Question: Do You Want To Be Made Well?

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... would have looked for Jesus right there where He was --at the Pool of Bethesda, by the sheep gate, because there all the sick people, the blind, the lame, the deaf gathered. So, it was there that Jesus was more likely to find someone needing His healing touch. And what more needy one could He choose for healing than this man who had been flattened for thirty eight years -- an invalid, always too late to reach the water when it stirred and its healing quality was present and active. In this story is one of ...

2807. The Easter Question: Why Are You Weeping? Whom Do You Seek?

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... light on the 4th Floor West of Children's Hospital, for she had the time of her life, even though she was fully aware that she might die anytime. As she neared the end of her life, Katie talked a lot about going to Heaven. Because she could not see, touch became one of her mean's of communication. One of her favorite things was to snuggle close to her mother and rub her mother's ear. Not long before she died, Katie said to her mother with a smile, "When I am in Heaven, and you feel a tickle on ...

2808. The Danger Of Straying From Home (Father's Day)

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... his remarks by saying, "I would go down to the station every so often and sit there to listen for the whistles of the trains to blow." (Story told by Gerald R. Mullekin, "Too Precious to Forget") It was the whistle of the train that put him in touch with family and home. It's a marvelous story that quickens our minds and prepares us to think of our Proverb for today: "Like a bird that strays from its nest is one who strays from home." What a poignant image to consider on this Father's Day...straying ...

2809. The Need To Pay Attention

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God to be everywhere. I want God to be somewhere." I am with that little girl. When mother said, "God is everywhere," it didn't help very much, because she wanted somebody to be closer than everywhere. She wanted someone she could see and touch and maybe hug -- somebody close enough that she wouldn't need to be afraid. (Richard G. Watts, "God Who Is Somewhere - a Christmas Meditation for Children," (unpublished), quoted in sermon "Six Geese A-Laying" preached by Rev. Bob Olmstead). We have that in Jesus ...

2810. Food That Is Needful

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... One who forever loves us, and will never forsake us. Helmut Thielicke, the great preacher of Germany from a generation or so ago, said this in one of his sermons: "Who ever has fellowship with the Father in Jesus Christ knows this part of his life cannot be touched by anybody or anything. Often I may wriggle or writhe...but in that secret part I am held. That is immovable, and the storms of life cannot evade this peace...there I have a hold, because I am held. There is the place where the world is overcome ...

2811. To Live Is To Grow

1 Timothy 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to remain children. That's a deadly decision not to grow. But I want to use the image of a child or the nature of children, as a challenge for us. You remember Jesus' experience with His disciples and children. When the crowd brought children to Him for Him to touch them, the disciples scolded them. But when Jesus saw this He was very indignant and He said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not try to stop them; for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you, whoever does not accept the ...

2812. Through God's Breathed Word

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , but before that, she worked two to three jobs at a time, cooking at restaurants, nursing homes and day care centers." She points to her church, The Philadelphia Church of God in Christ, as the source of her strength. This is what she says, "If the Lord hadn't touched my heart and changed me, I wouldn't be doing this." (Quotations and story from The DeKalb News/Sun, July 1, 1992, pages 1B and 4B) That's what I'm talking about. When we are filled with gratitude for what the Lord has done for us, our wills ...

2813. How To Fail Successfully

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and see where they could have done better. As an English writer of the seventeenth century put it: "I have lost all -- and found myself". (Shelby) There comes a time to stop trying. In Margaret Jensen's book, First We Have Coffee, there is a touching scene of her Baptist preacher father's being voted out of the congregation. She describes how the news reached her. Called to the dormitory phone, she heard her sister saying, "Margaret, this is Grace." Then after a momentous pause, "Papa has been voted out ...

2814. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... us that transcended words. We held hands in silence, as we looked into each others eyes and entered into each others heart. He knew that he was dying, and he did want to cover that up, but he knew that even in dying, he was going to make it. Soul touched soul that day, and deep called to deep, as we faced the reality of death and claimed the promise of eternal life. So death is not to be covered up, and it’s not to be treated sentimentally. It is an inevitable part of the process. It is the end ...

2815. Concerning Miracles

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... , me, and my Heavenly Father." I wish some modern day faith healers were as compassionate--those who parade hurting people before the television cameras. We read, "After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said to him, 'Ephphatha!' (which means, 'Be opened!' ). At this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly." Mark goes on to tell us ...

2816. What God Has Joined Together

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... with communication, Tom and his wife Grace listened to the instructor. "It is essential," said the instructor, "that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other." He addressed Tom, "Can you describe your wife’s favorite flower?" Tom leaned over, touched his wife’s arm gently and whispered, "It’s Pillsbury, isn’t it?" The rest of the story gets rather ugly, so I’ll stop right here. There are many couples who, if they were honest about it, would confess that they are living ...

2817. From Hurting to Helping

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... sisters, great friends, and my community of faith. Their love and prayers are nourishment for my heart and mind and soul." She goes on to say that essential to moving on, is action. "Focus outward, not inward," she advises. "Action is crucial. Do something, anything to touch the world again." (2) Bartimaeus understood that. Jesus was passing by and he leapt into action. He jumped to his feet and came to Jesus. "What do you want me to do for you?" Jesus asked him. Bartimaeus said, "Rabbi, I want to see." "Go ...

2818. The Hinge of History

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... in history on his own; even his place is not dramatically significant. The six other personalities are remembered because their names are associated with Jesus or with John the Baptizer. If the tetrarchs of ancient Ituraea and Abilene matter today, it is because they touched human history at the same time as John, so that the Gospel writer recorded their names in association with the wilderness preacher. For John was a hinge of history. When he declared, "Prepare the way of the Lord," he closed a door on ...

2819. Christmas and the New Family

John 1:1-18

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... all of literature with the sustained beauty, elegance, and power which can be found here. No actor is skilled enough to read them with proper power, and no preacher can hope to explain them adequately. Only through the Spirit of God can we begin to touch a fair measure of their grandeur. "In the beginning," the inspired writer says, "was the Word." It doesn't seem a likely way to introduce the Christmas story; but John is anxious for us to understand that Christmas had its beginnings long before Joseph and ...

2820. From Empty Nets to Full Lives

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... . Put another way: every human soul is a collection of fears, joys, strengths, weaknesses, sins, and goodness. God is able to meet the human soul at any of these points of reality, and ready to do so. If we are willing to be a channel by which God can touch the life of another person, even in the most routine way, God is finding a place in that person's life. And that small place, like leaven in the lump, can eventually influence the whole life. We don't have to be theologians to do this -- or blazing ...

2821. Saints in Shorts

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... pockets." "I've got an extra scarf," offers another. But the half-dressed man turns down all the offers, though his teeth are chattering and his body is shivering violently. If we can imagine someone so uncomfortably out of place -- and so seemingly out of touch with the reality around him -- then we are prepared. We are prepared to read the New Testament. We are prepared to think about the kingdom of God. We are prepared to hear the teachings of Jesus. And we are prepared to understand the kind of people ...

2822. Whether You'll Weather the Weather

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... most secure place to be during a tornado. Basements are usually concrete and underground: a foundation of rock, if you will. And so that's where you want to be -- where you need to be -- during a storm. As it turned out for us, no tornado touched down in our immediate area, and so our shelter was not sorely tested. Both men in Jesus' story, however, do have their shelters tested. Both experience the same potentially devastating kind of storm, but they are not equally devastated in the end. The house with a ...

2823. Costly Extravagance

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... the act itself, like Mary's, will "fill the house" (read: the church) with a certain fragrance. It is the fragrance of love, devotion, and gratitude for one who has loved us so lavishly and in such a costly, costly way. Three hundred denarii can't begin to touch it. How do you honor and say thanks to someone who has saved your brother's life? Indeed, saved your own life? Mary's gift was both "costly" and extravagant, even lavish. She was overcome with joy and thankfulness. Maybe she overdid it. On a Friday ...

2824. Thorns and Thistles

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... God himself fashioned Jeremiah in his mother's womb, like a potter working with a lump of clay (v. 5), as he has fashioned each one of us, and he knows Jeremiah and us through and through (cf. Psalm 139). Similarly, God himself reaches out his hand and touches the prophet's lips and puts his words in his mouth (v. 9). Second, the God who calls Jeremiah is Lord of lords and King of kings. Jeremiah is called to be a prophet to "nations" and "kingdoms," and God can establish and build up those nations or ...

2825. Peter's Vision

Acts 11:1-18

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... , you see, chooses people whom we would never choose. He's always surprising that way. He does not go by the rules of the politically correct and the socially acceptable. He singles out that long-haired youth in the rock group or that confessed criminal in jail; he touches the life of a struggling single mother or the heart of a timid, middle-aged spinster. And he pours out his Holy Spirit upon them and claims them for his purpose. They show up at our church door, wanting to sit at the Lord's table with us ...

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