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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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276. Third Sunday of Easter

Luke 24:36b-48

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... with someone who is good at sewing. Ask these two people to make a huge banner with a bigger-than-life Jesus holding out his hands to the worshipers. The figure should be as realistic as the two people can make it. Add just four words to the banner, "Touch me and see." Ask some of the youth of the church who are good at sketching pictures to provide four pictures to be reproduced for the worship bulletin cover. The four pictures are: (1) Jesus' wounded hand; (2) a piece of broiled fish; (3) a scroll of the ...

277. God’s Flowing and Our Ebbing

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... difference between our humanity and God’s holiness. Moments of that nature remind us that we are creaturely and derived. Far from mocking us, they recall for us whose we are. Your Guilt Is Taken Away But in this difference we are not left to falter and grovel. And he touched my mouth, and said. “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin is forgiven."(Isaiah 6:7) One of the attending creatures Isaiah saw in his vision takes a firestone from the incense altar of the temple ...

278. The Compassionate Highway

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... divine forgiveness and acceptance. That is a miracle whether on the Galilee shoreline or in the suburbs! You see, we are that crowd that ran around the edge of the sea. We still come to Jesus for healing. We want only to reach out to him in spirit-touch. We still seek him that we might be forgiven for the sins we have done. In that forgiveness we can be healed. We seek him to confess the evil we have condoned. That confession, too, brings healing. We desire that the emotional burden we bear might be lifted ...

279. Proper 4

Mark 2:23-3:6, 1 Samuel 3:1--4:1, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... of an old American village, where they visited the potter's shop. "Careful!" the craftsman exclaimed. "Please don't touch the pottery on that shelf. You'll ruin it." Then he surprised us when he said, "Why don't you touch the ones on the other shelf?" Needless to say, the Hutchcrafts were curious as to why some vases could be touched and not others. Glancing at the "do not touch" shelf, the potter explained, "These haven't been fired yet." The potter explained that there was more to creating masterpieces ...

280. Jesus the Healer

Luke 6:19

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... one of the things we use electricity for is a heating pad. And the reason that we use the heating pad is to make our bumps, bruises, and aches feel better. Jesus must have been like a heating pad. People got better just by touching him. The Bible tells us today about the time when people stood in line, or all around him, just to try to touch him so that they would feel better. And you know what? They did feel better. The Bible tells us that Jesus was able to cure people of bad diseases when all he did was ...

281. God's Descending Spirit

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... , am honest enough, never to presume to say how God's Holy Spirit works. That is mystery. My mortalness is too real to pronounce the Spirit's limits, where its presence is most seen, best seen or not seen. I really cannot preach of where the spirit of God touches you! I do believe that the boy who confronted his army sergeant knew the "nowness" of God for his life. He had received the Holy Spirit in an enduring and empowering way. But that is one boy in one situation. The witness of the church is that God's ...

282. Wedding: Love as Grace

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... do it. So, shutting her eyes she prayed, "Please, Lord, lay your hand on me." And as she sat there, suddenly she cried out, "He touched me! He did. I felt his hand on my head." But then, after a moment of reflection she added, "But I really think it ... God wants to bless you with love, whose hand do you think he will use? In the economy of God, when he wants a hand to touch the life of someone with grace, he usually uses the hand that is nearest. This means that through marriage, you are now special agents of ...

283. Doing Our Homework

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

... . To be the church means we must be the ones who are moved to action by the feeling of another’s pain at the depths of our being. Who among us has not been affected by the stories and pictures of Mother Teresa, acting with compassion and the touch of love on behalf of those who are left to die on the streets? But how many of us, feeling the empathy for those in desperate circumstances, will reach out as does she? During the euphoric days of early 1991, when we were celebrating the end of Operation Desert ...

284. "Simon Says"

Matthew 24:4-5

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... to play this morning because it is one of my very favorites. The game is called "Simon Says" and it is played like this. I will say "Simon Says," touch your nose, and you will touch your nose. Anything that Simon says you must do, you should do it, but if I tell you to do something without saying "Simon says," you must not do it. If I say touch your nose and you touch your nose, then you are out of the game. I am going to try and trick you. The last one in the game is the winner. (Play the game ...

285. Basic Service: I Am The Resurrection and the LIfe

John 11:17-37

Eulogy

Brett Blair

... home. Even after the sun would set you would back there with the flood lights on shooting the hoops and not only shooting the hoop but doing the cheerleading for yourself and the play by play. It reminded me of my own childhood--how our homes and parents touch our life. Shaping us into the people we are today. For better or worse, no child escapes being shaped by these tender years. And, jerry, eve though I do not know all the stories of your childhood it seems to me that there were many happy moments. You ...

286. Stairways Of Heaven

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

Justin Tull

... gigantic steps. After studying this text I would like to rename those steps the “Staircase of Heaven.” I did not name it the staircase to heaven because we are not giants who unassisted can make our way to heaven. It is God on high who brings a touch of heaven to us. The stairs originate not on earth but in heaven. It is the God who promises to be with us who connects forever heaven and earth. The good news is that there are staircases of heaven all around us. There are spiritual escalators everywhere ...

287. Sticking Together

1 Corinthians 1:10

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... a lot stronger than the other. Do you want to guess which one is stronger? (Let the children guess) Well, you might think that the tall one is stronger, but just the slightest touch barely touch the top and let it crash, making sure that it doesn't crash into the smaller one will bring it down. But you can touch the smaller one now touch it softly and it will remain. Do you know why? It's because the smaller house has all of its parts close together. When they're closer together they are stronger. The tall ...

288. When a Member of the Family Dies

John 11:17-37

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... ." (KJV) We should follow their example and cry. They were not sissies! They were not being childish and silly. They were not showing weakness or lack of faith. They were responding normally to the pain of grief and loss. They cried because they hurt! So when your life is touched with grief after some great loss, or the death of someone you love, cry and cry some more. Cry as much as you need to and don't be ashamed of it. For your tears will help wash the pain from your heart! God Is With You The second ...

289. Duties in Christ's Love

Hebrews 13:1-25

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... to Worship Leader: Let all who seek to serve the Lord with gladness come now for worship! People: We serve the Lord with joyful hearts, for Christ touches others through us. Leader: Seeing the Lord touch and restore others confirms our joy and faith. People: Then let us be about the tasks Christ has called us to do. Leader: And let our songs ... You, Lord, when we acted rudely or in uncaring ways toward others. Forgive us, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "Moment By Moment" "He Touched Me" "Reach Out And ...

290. Finding Life!

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

... life - there is a spiritual quality within us. From our very birth, or perhaps before, we have a spiritual character; from the very start, we are more than mere animals are. The spiritual quality we have is, as it were, a wick unlighted and awaiting a touch of flame to set it aglow. We human persons are spirit-creatures, having the high potential of coming alive spiritually, of having spiritual life as well as physical. So there is the life we have and the life we may have. As biologically we are alive ...

291. The Godness Of God

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

... the wagon. A man, Uzzah, put his hand on the ark to keep it from falling. The moment he did, it was as though he had touched a high tension power line, for he fell over dead. God is so great that man cannot see him. "No man has seen God at any ... face and cried out, "Woe is me, for I am undone. I am a man of unclean lips." Before Isaiah could deal with God, coals touched his lips to burn away his sin. Then Isaiah could say to God, "Here I am. Send me." After a miracle, Peter confronted Jesus and realized ...

292. Walking the Streets

Matthew 10:1-42, Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Richard L. Thulin

... welling anger he said, "They're all pigs out there. Nobody cares about anyone else. The world's full of cheats, liars and bums." I think he wanted to crawl into my ivory tower and keep me company. When one really walks the streets and really gets in touch with real people, what is it that one sees and feels? Matthew tells us that when Jesus did it, Jesus saw harassed and helpless people and felt compassion. These were the same people that the teachers of the law and the Pharisees moved among. But they seem ...

293. Where the Power Is

Mark 5:21-43

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... him and made himself well. Jesus knew that his power had gone out of his body and into the body of someone else. He was glad, but he wanted to know who it was that believed so much in him that he would say a prayer and touch his clothes, knowing that he would be healed. Now the woman was frightened because she could feel that she was well for the first time in a long time. This is what she thought would happen, but when it did, she was amazed at the power of Jesus. He had ...

294. The Woman at the Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... in her, moved in closer. "Go, call your husband." She: "I have no husband." Jesus: "You are right; you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband." Now we can understand why she was so defensive, resisting every attempt by Jesus to touch her life. She had had to be such a woman, or else she would have "gone under" years before. This was her way of fighting off things that threatened her management of the narrow segment of life she carved out as her own. At last Jesus got her ...

295. "Preference by L’oreal"

Lk 17:11-19 · Mt 6:25-33 · Jn 6:25-35

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... great country and there are still good things here. Are we still worth the special attention we seem to get? As Christians on Thanksgiving Day we go a step beyond that specialness of the five senses. We go a step beyond just those things that we hear and see and touch. We know we really are special no matter what happens in the world, because God has said we are special. We are so special we’re worth a lot of effort on God’s part. We as Christians can stop and say to ourselves, "God cares for us and God ...

296. God's In This

Matthew 5:1-12

Illustration

Brett Blair

... way, and I hope the people at the concerts see this, because I, we, are very unattractive, weak vessels." I know what she means. Every now and then you hear something, whether it is music or poetry, or some bit of wisdom that touches you on a level we're not accustomed to being touched. As soon as you hear it, you know that it is addressing eternal truths. I like to think that those who sat around Jesus on that day in Galilee when he first preached, "Blessed are the poor in spirit," looked at each other ...

297. The Joy of Being a Caring Person

Mt 25:31-46 · Lk 16:19-31

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... . Let’s get this straight - we don’t help others just for a show. We help others because it is our spirit to help. Our spirit touched by the spirit of Christ makes us caring people, and a spirit of caring brings us close to God. We are a caring people for God’ ... little home. But our outreach worker cannot do all of my caring for me, or for any of us. I see some needs about me, where I touch life, which I will have to take care of myself. I will want to take care of them, as a part of my life. But, am I ...

298. This Grace In Which We Stand by Dr. Gene E. Bartlett

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... feeling good that it all has been done again. But there are moments, and sometimes they catch us by surprise, when the psalmist’s words in another setting describe what happens here. "Deep coils unto deep," the deep Christ calling unto the deepest in us, touching those places so long covered and kept safe; the old and tired anxiety that keeps us from fullness of life; the unattended sin of which we have grown so weary, but which we cannot let go; the malignant alienation from someone that exacts its toll ...

299. The Waters of Your Baptism

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... begin each day is to think, if not say: "Hey, I'm a new creature in Christi through baptism I have celebrated my new identity." Now, a word to teenagers and adults who have not been baptized or cannot determine for sure that they have been baptized. Get in touch with one of us ministers at once. We will instruct you further about baptism and then give you an opportunity to be baptized. Why should you, as a 30-year-old, for example, be baptized? First, because the word of God instructs us to do so. When the ...

300. Out of Doors: Nature and Supernatural

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... nature, and he taught from it. If I want an object lesson, I have to carry it into the pulpit or trust that you and I can blend our imaginations to envision a scene. Jesus had his illustrations at first hand; the people could often reach out and touch them. "Consider the lilies of the field," Jesus said, and the people looked at a hillside just to their right. "A certain man went out to sow seed," Jesus said, and every person in the crowd knew what he was talking about, because they had either sown seed ...

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