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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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2926. Let Familiarity Breed Contentment

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... intentionality and spontaneity, wonderment and wisdom. When we keep our eyes down – making sure we don't stumble over any impediment that might slow us down; when we keep our mind fixed in one direction – focused on a single goal: we lose sight, we lose touch, we lose connection with all the glories of the world that surround us everyday. Anyone ever read The Phantom Tollbooth? It's a classic children's story, first published in 1961. But like all classic children's stories, it's as much for adults as ...

2927. Let's Dance

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... persons and one essence. Irish preachers like to use their national emblem: the three-in-one shamrock. Early Christian preachers used the "root, the shoot and the fruit" of a growing plant, or the sun, its ray of light, and the point of the ray where it touches the earth. Here's one from the New Zealand Prayer Book: · God is the Earth Maker, · Jesus is the Pain Bearer, · Holy Spirit is the Life-Giver. But for some in the Christian tradition, even stodgy theologians, the metaphor of the dance was used to ...

2928. Murphy's Law and Messiah's Law

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... hidden flaw." (Amateur Scientist, Scientific American, April 1956, 166.) There was actually no one person who came up with Murphy's Law. Rather, in U.S. Navy educational cartoons of the 1950s there was an aircraft mechanic named Captain Ed Murphy who bungled everything he touched and of whom it was said: "If there is any way to do it wrong, he will." There was a revision of Murphy's First Law added shortly thereafter: "If anything can go wrong (with a mechanical system), it will, and generally at the moment ...

2929. Pay It Forward!

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... kind for three other people. In turn, each of those three people was to do three good deeds for three other people. The results are exponential and explosive. If everyone kept his or her part of this equation, within months every single person on the planet would be touched by the goodness of another human being. Palm Sunday is our time to "pay it forward." We don't have to "pay the price." That's already been done by Jesus. But what if each one of us here this morning committed simply to "telling a secret ...

2930. Set Life Free

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... free, is its mystery. We can never know if or when life will spring up, and whether or how it will grow up. There's an old saying: "We know the number of seeds in an apple, but only God knows the number of apples in a seed." Each life touched by the word of Christ's gift of salvation will respond in its own unique way. Our response is like those seeds in the apples. Some lives will respond with only a little fruit. Some lives will bear great amounts of fruit. Some who respond will produce no fruit at ...

2931. Straw Polls and Soul Quakes

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Simon Peter and doubters like Thomas. It descended upon nationalistic Zealots like Simon and good ole boys' like Andrew. The Spirit visited the women who supported Jesus financially. It descended upon the brothers of Jesus who initially didn't believe. The Holy Spirit touched every one of them because every one of them was important. No one was omitted. Every single one of us is important and vital to what God is trying to accomplish through his church." ("Only The Beginning," in Joyce Rupp, ed., Out of ...

2932. The Shadow

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... serpent's agenda is deceit and despair. After drawing the woman into conversation, she reveals the reason for not eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: They will die. She even embellishes upon God's command, adding now that simply to touch the fruit will mean death. The serpent immediately perceives that it's this fear of death, not a sense of obedience to God, that's keeping the woman's hand from the fruit. He then gives her permission to disobey, first by taking away the fruit's ...

2933. This Kiss

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of worship, of "church," without asking why we do it or what we feel. Layers of Technology that amaze us with what machines can accomplish, the astounding array of information we can now so easily gather, access, manipulate, and exchange at the touch of a button. Layers of Sophistication that let us look back at our first-century ancestors as though they were some alien species, unrelated to us and our more "advanced" desires. Layers of Scientism and Rationalism that convince us to validate scientists ...

2934. The Crowd that Watched God Die

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... atop Golgotha to watch him die. The self-righteous were all there that day. Dressed in their long robes, with their arms folded, they smiled approvingly. Some of them had received gifts from his hands, food and wine. Some had received healing from his touch, leprosy gone, sight restored. Christ had been good to them, but now they cursed him; they taunted him; they hurled his sayings back at him. Mr. Carpenter, you have nails in your hands ... You cannot build the temple up there! ... He saved others; let ...

2935. The King Who Died

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... time the dog, still standing, becomes really confused and of course terrified, thinks these two geniuses have gone insane. The dog takes off to find cover, under the brand new Navigator. The men continue to scream as they run. The red hot exhaust pipe on the truck touches the dog’s rear end, he yelps, drops the dynamite under the truck and takes off after his master. Then BOOM! The truck is blown to bits and sinks to the bottom of the lake. The insurance company says that sinking a vehicle in a lake by ...

2936. Can You Smell the Perfume?

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... he had unstopped, whose mouths he had opened, whose limbs he had restored? It was almost more than he could bear. But then Jesus smelled the perfume... And then he remembered the woman with the hemorrhage of 12 years who had faith to reach out and touch the hem of his garment and be healed. And when they beat him with a whip until the blood ran down his back like a waterfall, his skin already supersensitive from the aftereffects of hematidrosis (sweating blood); And when they put back his own clothes on ...

2937. How High Is Your Faith Quotient?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . If IQ was used in the past to predict success (even though it seldom did – the world is run by average IQ, C students), EQ is the newest rage. EQ stands for Emotional Quotient. People with high EQ's are people who are in touch with their feelings. High EQ people supposedly make better team players, demonstrate better attitudes, and are more motivated. But the IQ and EQ phenomenon doesn't stop there. Now there are two more being added to our vocabulary: AQ and SQ. AQ – Adversity Quotient – measures ...

2938. Who Put It There? (Mother's Day)

1 Peter 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... head that sees what she shouldn't but what she has to now, and of course the ones here in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and say, 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word.' 'Lord,' said the angel, touching his sleeve gently, 'Come to bed. Tomorrow.' 'I can't,' said the Lord, 'I'm so close to creating something so close to myself. Already I have one who heals herself when she is sick, and can feed a family of six on one pound of hamburger, and can get ...

2939. Life's Four Big 'Ds' and One Bigger 'D'

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... pursuing those mores) that we fall from desire into the four D's of depression, doubt, disappointment, despair. Sometimes desire can be disguised in the most innocent robes. Often the desires that push us over the precipice aren't for material things we can touch or hold or use. Some of our desires are for spiritual things like perfection, ease, or accomplishment. When a couple is joyously awaiting the birth of a new child, they may modestly respond to questions about what they want with just a healthy baby ...

2940. Go Meditate!

Revelation 19:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... have love, I'm as annoying as a ringing phone. I can chase a naked toddler through the house while cooking dinner and listening to voice mail. I can fix the best cookies and Kool-Aid in the neighborhood, and I can tell a sick child's temperature with one touch of my finger, but if I don't have love, I am nothing. Love is patient while watching and praying by the front window when it's 30 minutes past curfew. Love is kind when my teen says, "I hate you!" It doesn't envy the neighbors' swimming pool or ...

2941. Prayer

Matthew 3:1-12

Bulletin Aid

Stephen Brown

... . We fear the change… for his axe will clear out the dead branches and unyielding trees. We shun the upending… for his fire will cleanse and bring forth fresh forests and a cleansed earth. We dread the new... for his Spirit will move where it wills and touch those it chooses to ordain. Calm our fears. Dismiss our shunning. Wipe away our dread. Give us brave eyes to see his coming. Give us strong hearts to cheer his coming. Give us courageous lives to welcome his coming. Come Lord Jesus. Come now. Amen.

2942. Will You Still Listen?

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... preparing for through education, financial savings, research, training may suddenly become completely irrelevant to your new divinely directed pathway. When that happens, will you still listen? Sometimes, as NASA's geological experts learned when soil samples revealed they had not touched down in what they believed was one of Mars' long-evaporated lake beds, the Word will drop you into situations that seem far beyond your capabilities. What you believe to be your strengths will be weaknesses, while what you ...

2943. Making Holiness

Luke 1:67-80

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... cake for Gramma was an act of art, an expression of a lifetime of finely-honed skills. All of her cakes came from a creative combination of head work, hand work and hard work. Her head and her hands beat to the rhythm of her sense of taste, smell, and touch, sight and sound. I never saw any recipe cards or cookbooks in her kitchen. Gramma Boggs let the cake be what it wanted to be, and made it up as she went along. A cake required more flour when the batter didn't feel right. Ingredient amounts had to be ...

2944. A Personal Testimony

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Russell N. Gallimore

... in swaddling clothes lying in a manger [move toward manger, if used as a prop]. Then the shepherds, one by one, knelt down beside the manger in such a humble manner. I can’t really explain what happened to me after that, but somehow I was touched and moved to kneel beside that manger, too! [Kneeling while speaking] Not only had a baby been born near my place of business, but strangely, I felt this babe had also been born in my heart! [Arising] Oh, incidentally, I never did settle up with that couple ...

2945. A Personal Testimony

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Russell N. Gallimore

2946. Death by Chocolate

Hebrews 9:11-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of her wealth if the child could only be brought back to life. The Wise Man told her that in order for her wish to be granted, she would have to journey through the land and bring him a coal from the fire of one house that death had not touched a house in which no one, not master or servant, and grieved for the loss of a loved one. The woman went from house to house, and at the end of a year returned to the Wise Man without the coal but with a heart that had finally accepted the ...

2947. The Whole Shebang in Six Words

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... have discovered two small knots of neuronal tissue above each ear they have nicknamed "god spots." These knots seem to mediate peak experiences in religion, creativity and intuition. When these god spots are stimulated, the person feels at one with the universe, in touch with the divine. Trying to find a God spot on the brain, trying to identify God as the quantum vacuum-all this is more modernist materialist rantings. (For more examples see Andrew Newberg and Eugene D'Aquili, Why God Won't Go Away ...

2948. The Longest Distance in the Universe

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... asked. He replied, "I sensed that he really needed his son, and that his son just wasn't here. Then I realized he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son. And I knew how much he needed me." God wants to use your hands to touch the world. Will your hands connect the head and the heart? Will you stretch out your hands, connecting the head and heart of our world? When Moses stretched out his hand, the waters turned to blood, and later parted. When Jesus stretched out his hand, Peter was rescued as he ...

2949. What Happened to the Leftovers?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... has been lame ever since an accident when he was a child? Jesus told him he could walk. And suddenly, he could. Then there was my little cousin Sarah. She's six, you know, and she's never uttered a sound since birth. She cried out in joy when Jesus touched her. Oh, I want you to see Jesus for yourself. In fact, I urge you to seek him. Yes, I know you don't like crowds. And you're neither blind nor lame. Neither am I. But I received a miracle, too. You know me. "Always unprepared. I hadn't ...

2950. Out of Order

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... see the big picture, their confusion over Jesus' identity, their fixation on their preconceived messianic images and expectations, were easy prey for depressive thoughts and feelings. Reunited with their master, plunged into the midst of a crowd eager for Jesus' message and touch, the disciples gloomily fret over where their next meal will come from. In 6:52, the text immediately preceding Mark's conclusion in verses 53-56, the disciples refuse to open their hearts and souls to the truth of Jesus' identity ...

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