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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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2826. Formed by the Potter's Loving Hand

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15, John 8:48-59, John 9:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... have a keen sense of smell that provokes in us not just like or dislike of one scent or another. Smell stirs memory. Smell influences mood. So, when we approach someone and get an uncomfortable, unexplainable feeling….are we sensing something about that person’s emotions? That person’s spirit? Are we “smelling” danger? Perhaps we’ll never be sure if it’s the nose that knows or our intuitive skill. But for sure, we can sense a person’s spirit, almost as if that person exudes some kind of ...

2827. Knitted Together from the Womb

Exodus 2:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... death. Or better put…We all go through life grieving the inevitability of death. And fearing when it will arrive. Maybe this is what leaves us so averse to risk. And yet, the people who are most risk-averse are what we might call the emotionally and spiritually “walking dead.” For risk is the fodder of relationships, of beginnings, of growth, and of life. Think about it. We take for granted some risks more than others –like the risk we take driving 70 down the highway inches from the car beside ...

2828. Run Away Bride

Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 22:1-14, Hosea 1:1-2:1

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ” for Adam –the one who will “save” him from lone-ness. With Eve, Adam now exists in human “relationship.” Both exist in relationship with God and with creation. In a sense, Eve is Adam’s saving grace. He is “saved” from starvation –emotional and spiritual by his new relationship with Eve. And when he “knows her,” they conceive….and bear fruit. When they nourish each other in love, when they respond to God in love, “fruit-bearing” goes easily. God’s love has “salve” in ...

2829. House of Prayer

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... harder as we go along: Praise (recognition of God’s kingdom and hope for God’s way to prevail among all –this is the declaration part of what rabbis in Jesus’ called The Kaddish, a prayer for disciples) Provision (we put our spiritual and emotional and physical needs into your hands God –give us the strength to live this prayer every day) Personal responsibility (extend to us the grace we would extend to others –this is the hard one) Protection (but save us from ourselves…cause we will mess ...

2830. Scroll Bread and Honey

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... through an organization called World Vision. As a result, she brought clean water to thousands upon thousands of men, women, and children. It’s become vogue to take care of our bodies. But we are more than just our bodies. We must also watch out for our minds, emotions, heart, and spirit. For we are consumers by nature. And a lot of what we are putting into our hearts and minds and spirits may not be any better than eating a pound of saccharine or drinking a quart of saline. We need real food for our ...

2831. Wild Thing

Luke 4:31-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . We are called to be “Get Out Of Doors” (GOOD) people, go-into-the-culture people, be-among-the-people people. We are called to proclaim Jesus’ beauty, truth, and goodness in a world stricken with pain and infected with illness both physical and spiritual, emotional and intellectual. We are called to be God’s healers, because we go into the world inoculated with the protection of Jesus Christ, our redeemer and healer. If you are a lover of the sun, you don’t stay inside. You wear sunscreen and go ...

2832. Deliverance (Angel on Your Shoulder)

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

In our culture, we are fascinated by people who seem to have an intuitive, intimate relationship with animals. While most people like animals and admire them, a few people seem to have a kind of inside track on how to communicate emotionally and intuitively with animals in ways that are relational and respectful. Animals immediately sense this in people, and respond in a trusting, calm, and easy manner. Even animals that otherwise have seemed stubborn, or wild, or even mean, seem to relax and bend toward ...

2833. Vendetta

2 Kings 1:1-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Israel, he seeks instead to appeal to a baser spirit. And in this, he dishonors himself. Ahaziah may have been looking at the Philistine god Baalzebub as an “adversary.” Adversary is the way the Hebrew people described the forces of one’s baser emotions that would drive their inclinations toward bad deeds.^ It also described a real “adversary.” But as Jesus would later point out in his discussion with some Pharisees, “it is craziness to be an adversary against yourself!” Yet in a sense, at one ...

2834. Dangerous

John 12:12-19, Zechariah 9:9-13, Zechariah 9:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to have a relationship with your kids or grandkids. You need to put up with a bit of disorder in order to help someone learn something new. You need to embrace a bit of chaos and even pain sometimes in order to continue to grow in your emotional or spiritual life. You need to be ready for a lot of messiness when you accept Jesus into your life. Dangerously creative. Provocative and unpredictable. That’s who Jesus is. That’s who we are in relationship with each other. That’s who we are in relationship ...

2835. We Will Be Changed

Ezekiel 37:1-14, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in 2017 in which they identified a new syndrome called “takotsubo” –an incurable heart condition in which the heart muscle becomes literally “stunned” by grief or trauma causing the left ventricle to actually change shape. It is brought on by intense emotional or physical stress and affects the heart’s ability to pump blood. Although the condition is rare, and most recover after several months, for some the condition can be fatal. Even when not, the heart incurs scarring that never goes away ...

2836. Job and the Mind Storm

Job 42:7-17, Job 42:1-6, Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... order to allow God to re-form us as the Grand Divine Potter of our lives, to fire us up into beings of breath and passion for God’s love and mercy. The metaphors in Job describe the kinds of things going on in the character’s mind and emotions, as is typical in the Hebrew scriptures. As powerful as these forces are, they are no match for God, whose voice is more powerful still. And who can still any of our storms with one Word and presence. The voice, wind, breath of God combines with beautiful imagery ...

2837. God Encounter

Luke 1:1-4, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and space are suspended just enough for God to intervene. Liminal space is transitional space, in which the secular world experiences a sacred moment, a sacred space. This is a God encounter. What Mary experiences changes her completely, not just physically but emotionally and spiritually, as she answers a “call” from God to be God’s “pregnant” miracle. For in a God encounter, anything can happen. A God encounter is a space of expectation. Once God’s power breaks through and incarnates into the ...

2838. The Good Yoke

Matthew 11:25-30, 1 Kings 19:1-8, 1 Kings 19:9-18, 1 Kings 19:19-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... subjects, or the cords of bondage to his way of life that may be foreign and distasteful to his subjects (and to God’s people). Paul uses this metaphor too to illustrate the metaphor or what it means to be “bound” spiritually and emotionally and mentally to someone or something that is not Christ: “Do not be bound together with unbelievers.” (2 Corinthians 14). This does not mean we should shelter ourselves away from others. It simply means, we should not “yoke” ourselves to their issues and ...

2839. The Alabaster Jar

Mark 14:27-31, Mark 14:12-26, Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... it delves into two people’s desire for one another. Jewish rabbis and scholars traditionally interpret the Song as a grand sensual metaphor for our relationship with God. Our passion for God is not meant to be a mere intellectual experience but a highly emotive, sensual, passionate one. We are meant to long for God, to submit to God with our bodies, minds, and spirits, and to rejoice in the covenantal relationship, as in a marriage or wedding. One of the interesting and intriguing customs in the Jewish ...

2840. Feasting on Leviathan

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God. We can get easily confused, distracted, disoriented from our relationship with the divine. One of the most telling stories that describes this is the story of Jonah, in which Jonah the prophet tries to run away from God. The tumultuousness of his emotions and his anger is played out in the stormy sea, wind, and waves. Finally, tossed into the sea, he resides within a “leviathan” like creature until God causes him to be returned to dry land. He is literally (and symbolically) “eaten alive” by ...

2841. Jacob's Sheep

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... odds and all norms and expectations. An “outlier.” A “black swan.” A community that existed in the midst of others but was notably different in communal culture to the degree that it affected everyone who lived there not just emotionally and spiritually, but physically. This insertion of an alternative kind of close and faithful community into the midst of American individualist, consumerist culture influenced anyone who became part of that community, but only when they became immersed within its ...

2842. The Physician

Isaiah 38:1-22, Matthew 8:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... intrinsically and intuitively, instinctively and undeniably, that Jesus is our Savior, the Healer of our EVERY ill, as the famous hymn goes. Illness, pain, doubt, death are all states of separation from the wholeness that God promises us, not just physically, but spiritually and emotionally. When we are in pain, when we are ill, when we are facing the worst times of our lives –these are the times when our faith is most challenged. And it’s the time that we need Jesus the most to “heal” our fissures ...

2843. The Art of Keeping Quiet

Luke 1:5-25, Ezekiel 3:16-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a “punishing” act, as we sometimes like to think. It is a salvific act. In Ezekiel’s case, God enables him to reach a place of confidence, trust, a place of quiet strength, before God will speak through him. God needs to quiet Ezekiel’s mind, his emotions, his fears, his turbulent spirit, in order for him to be used as a vehicle of prophecy. In Zechariah’s case, he too requires deep quietness, a soothing of his mind, rest from doubt, a respect for the mysteries of God. Let’s look at that story ...

2844. Look At Your Fixations!

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Jech

... ago and the person became so fixated on the injustice of the event that wandering from place to place trying to win sympathy and help has become a permanant lifestyle. When the Pope visited Canada, one newscast showed two young girls sobbing with intense emotion as "the Holy Father" touched and kissed them. Whether it is the Pope, Michael Jackson or the Beatles, how many people have gone through their life fixated on some kind of "he-touched-me" experience that colors their life forever? Obviously, it makes ...

2845. The Power of the Unseen

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . You can choose by what “spirit” you allow to take residence in your heart what kind of “spirit” you spread to others. And there are many kinds of spirits aren’t there? Just like there are many kinds of viruses and illnesses of the body, mind, and emotional well-being, there are many kinds of spirits. You know that song, “There’s a sweet, sweet spirit in this place?” You can tell when you walk into a place what kind of “spirit” resides in that place. As a Christian, you need to ask, is ...

2846. Fake News vs. Fantastic Good News

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... to be a good time to get out of town. They were grieving, in shock, confused by Jesus’ death and the strange rumors about his resurrection. Some of you know what it’s like to suffer a loss and be overwhelmed by so many questions and emotions. How do you clear your head and think straight? These two disciples were working on that as they walked the seven miles to Emmaus. And our Bible passage reads, “As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along ...

2847. The Wind Came

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... will always be a radically heterogeneous collection of individuals. We celebrate that diversity today. It means that Christ is the Savior of the entire world. He is not the Savior of a small homogeneous group alone. I may be cold and stiff with little ability to express my emotions, but he is my Savior just as surely as he is the Savior of the warm-hearted believer who jumps three pews to express his conviction. He is the Lord and Father of us all. This brings us to the final thing to be said, and that is ...

2848. God’s HS Smart App is Always Watching

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Tiller of God’s Beloved Vineyard and Everyone in it, Divine Manager of Everything God Treasures, Divine Healer of Relationships and Ills. Today, I challenge you to look beyond your own motives, beyond your own inclinations, beyond your own emotions, beyond your own decisions. Think as one entrusted with God’s precious field, responsible for creating the sweetest and most wonderful wine that will nourish everyone around you. And make your decisions wisely. Because remember, the Holy Spirit is watching ...

2849. Good for What Ails Us

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... But we never find lasting peace and wholeness and a solid place upon which to build our lives and our future. Satan sees it all and purrs with contentment at our confusion. Everywhere we turn we are confronted with a society and lives full of physical, emotional, social, and spiritual sickness. How do we respond? What effect does the crowd have on us? Does its frenzied panic suck us in? Does its weary resignation fill us with fear or loathing? Or does the sight of the crowd, harassed and helpless like sheep ...

2850. Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... .com/news/8-multi-million-dollar-masterpieces-found-in-unexpected-places. 3. “5 Stories of Compassion That Will Inspire You to Show Up for Others” by Marina Khidekel, Thrive Global, Sept. 9, 2019, https://thriveglobal.com/stories/compassion-empathy-emotional-intelligence-anecdotes-stories/. 4. “Heisman winner's speech leads to over $260,000 in donations for families in poverty” by Elizabeth Wolfe and Saeed Ahmed, with contributions from Phil Gast, CNN, December 16, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/2019 ...

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