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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Billy D. Strayhorn
... 're called to live by a different set of standards, a different way of treating one another, a different way of looking at the world. As the Message puts it: "Friends, this world is not your home, so don't make yourselves cozy in it. Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul. Live an exemplary life among the natives so that your actions will refute their prejudices. Then they'll be won over to God's side and be there to join in the celebration when he arrives." If we're Looking For Happiness, then ...
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J. Howard Olds
... that remain in their infancy. Here was His reply. “If you lived to be seventy, you would have more unfinished business than you have at sixty-three. Besides, the rise and fall of these ministries are not dependent upon you. So sweep out your self-pity and check your ego at the door, take up your cross and follow me.” Does God ever talk to you like that? Sometimes we need to remember who is in charge here! IV. The Church Is of God and Shall Be Preserved To the End of Time For God’s Kingdom To Come ...
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J. Howard Olds
... , goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (Galatians 5:22) We are so brainwashed by productivity even in the Church that we know very little about fruitfulness. The results of productivity are big churches, big budgets, big staff, big choir, big egos. Productivity is a result of goals established, strategies implemented, evaluations made. When you are engrossed in productivity you have little time for fruitfulness. To be fruitful is to plant a seed, tend the soil, maybe add a little water and ...
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J. Howard Olds
... is community, what would that mean to the Church? What could a renewal of the Trinity do for the Church? What if the Church reinvented itself — not as an ecclesiastical powerhouse with popes, bishops, and pastors in charge, and not as an entrepreneurial ego trip of some narcissistic, charismatic preacher who wants to be accountable to no one — and became a community? What difference would it make? What if the church became a genuine community of faith that reflected the community of God as expressed in ...
305. A Guide for Growth
Philippians 1:1-11
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Maxie Dunnam
... – that he lay down his life for a friend.” That kind of love means caring. It means listening. It means laying aside some of our selfish wants and desires and entering the other person’s world. It means getting off the ego trip that too many of us are on and finding our identity in sharing relationships. Nothing is more difficult, yet nothing is more necessary. Love creates real things; selfishness creates isolation. Love makes relationships; selfishness makes estrangement. Love inspires open hands ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... this new theology. I was among them. They were all prepared. The precise psychologist had his notebook with all the notes he had taken on the books and articles written by Altheiser, Hamilton, and others. The self- styled atheist was equipped with a strong ego of “the man come of age” who had no need for the sentimental religion of which he had once been a professional proponent. The three minister all rather defensive and uncertain had put on their buckles of truth and their great shields of faith ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... our life. So, to deal with stress we admit limitations. III. ASSERT YOUR WILL Now closely akin to admitting limitations is the third direction I would offer for living in the lion’s den. Assert your will. By asserting your will, I’m not talking about competition or ego battles, nor am I talking to the neurotic need of too many of us to have our own way. I’m talking about the kind of stance which equates self-will with God’s will, that arrogant positions which takes the line from the umpire, its-not ...
308. Living on Full Alert
Matthew 24: 36-44
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J. Howard Olds
... knows what time it is but God, so why should the rest of us care at all. Verse 36 But about the day and the hour, no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, or the Son, but only the Father. I know it is a blow to the human ego. We always want to know what is happening. When we do not know, we usually make up something. People have been doing that about the end of time since the beginning of time. History is full of people ignoring this statement of Jesus. In Paul's letter to the Thessalonians ...
309. When It's Time To Unite
I Corinthians 1:10-17
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J. Howard Olds
... the table. Sometimes I wonder, did Jesus have any idea when He lifted the bread and broke it at that table so long ago how broken His body would eventually become? Did he have any idea? If somehow we are to become one body under one Lord, a lot of egos are going to have to kneel at the Cross. Christ must be crowned King of kings, Lord of lords. Sometimes we thought it might happen. For a moment that September day last fall it seemed as if our differences did not matter so much. We could join hand with ...
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J. Howard Olds
... sleepy children, gets them a bite to eat, drops them off at day care and school, fights the morning traffic, hunts for a parking space, grabs a cup of coffee, slides behind her desk. For the day, she endures the petty office gossip and deals with fragile male egos in order to make enough money for her struggling family. She finds time to take her daughter to flute lessons and her son to T-ball practice, although she has little time for herself. What makes her do it? She loves her children. That is what love ...
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J. Howard Olds
... tires, that would free the trailer. You could drive out, refill your tires, and be on your way.” That is just what the driver did. When life has you stuck under some overpass of your own making, it might be time to stop, let the air out of your ego, give yourself some extra room, so you can refill your life with the grace of God’s love. People all wrapped up in themselves make very small packages. That night on the Jabbok River, Jacob was all wrapped up in himself. A careful reading of the text, however ...
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J. Howard Olds
... , “Do you have a lot of “Stars” in your church?” I respond by saying, “No, we have a church full of servants. There is a direct difference between stars and servants. A “Star” is a big name; a servant is a big person. A “Star” is big on ego; a servant is big on eagerness to help. A “Star” is big on image; a servant is big on involvement with others. Be humble and gentle. Humility is the ability to know ourselves as God knows us. The word humble comes from the root word humus. Be down ...
313. The Road of Joy
Philippians 4:4-7
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J. Howard Olds
... is release from self-centeredness. Life is not about you. It is not about me. Life is about loving God and serving others. Some of us are searching for happiness when what we need is holiness. Eugene Peterson wrote, “Centering life in the insatiable demands of the ego is a sure path to doom. Life confined to self is a prison; a joy-killing, neurosis-producing, disease-fomenting prison." But thank God almighty, a Savior is born for you. Maybe it's time we prayed with King David. “Restore to me the joy of ...
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Leonard Sweet
... this, I have never failed to pray in the morning, on my knees, asking for help, and at night, to express gratitude for my life and, most of all, for my sobriety. I choose to kneel because I feel I need to humble myself when I pray, and with my ego, this is the most I can do. . . .In some ways, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him. Most of you know that in 1991, Clapton’s four-year-old son Conor, the child he loved so much he went to ...
315. Praising Our Savior
Philippians 3:7-11
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J. Howard Olds
... to know Christ. Do you know Him? I. I WANT TO LIVE LIKE CHRIST... ....in the power of his resurrection. Christ knew who he was. You've probably never heard the name Ted Giannoulas. He has been the San Diego chicken for thirty years. At first Ted loved his alter ego. “It was freeing to act like a chicken and stir up the crowd. But," says Ted, who is now fifty, “if you are not careful, you can lose yourself in that suit. I have plenty of chicken stories, but I don't have any Ted stories. I've lost myself ...
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J. Howard Olds
... first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all." II. THE BODY OF CHRIST HAS ONE SPIRIT "For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body and given one spirit to drink." How can we be truly one? We can check our egos at the door. Every once in a while someone pays me a visit to complain that the church is not meeting their needs. While I am always concerned about effective means of ministry, I suggest the concern is more secular than spiritual. Customers question the effectiveness of providers ...
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J. Howard Olds
... , I'd had both my legs amputated, died of complications from the surgery, and left a $100,000 to the church building fund. I understand that sometimes we are far from being perfect. Prayer can become gossip; community can produce conflict; preaching can become ego trips; and people hungry for authority, can gain a lot of control. In spite of our frailties I want to build a church where: Love is evident. Forgiveness is real. God is glorified. People are discipled. Community is served. Sometimes I sit and ...
318. William Barclay on the Rich Fool
Luke 12:13-21
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William Barclay
... rich fool was aggressively self-centered. It was said of a self-centered young lady, "Edith lived in a little world, bounded on the north, south, east and west by Edith." The famous criticism was made of a self-centered person, "There is too much ego in his cosmos." When this man had a superfluity of goods the one thing that never entered his head was to give any away. His whole attitude was the very reverse of Christianity. Instead of denying himself he aggressively affirmed himself: instead of finding his ...
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Charles L. Aaron
... to worship their way, with no interference from anyone. Now, those prison walls confined John. We can't know what it was like for John to be the superstar preacher. We don't really know much about him, so we don't know if he was able to keep his ego in check when crowds of people from all over came to hear him preach. Perhaps it is safe to say that John at least felt a kind of excitement with so much religious energy in the air. All of that religious energy was part of the expectation in the beginning ...
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Lee Griess
... about being a president or prime minister or better yet, a king or a queen. But not so with Jesus. For he knew the reason for his coming. Whereas royalty come determined to rule, Jesus came determined to serve. Whereas most monarchs spend time building their ego with the trappings of office, Jesus came in humility. Remember, this king chose his vehicle of transportation. Whereas royalty come on the back of a mighty stallion or in the luxury of a private jet, the Bible tells us this king came on the back of ...
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Wayne Brouwer
... community that could visualize the prize. "Winning isn't everything," he was often quoted as saying, "It's the only thing!" His Packers proved him true, time and again. Coaching is nothing without a team that responds. Leaders are merely overblown egos if there is no one who will follow. During the tumultuous French Revolution of 1789, mobs and madmen rushed through Paris streets. One journalist reported a wide-eyed, wild-haired wastrel lumbering along one day, feverishly demanding from all he saw, "Where ...
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Chris Ewing
... visualize the prize. "Winning isn't everything," he was often quoted as saying, "It's the only thing!" His Packers proved him true, time and again. Where's The Team? Coaching is nothing without a team that responds. Leaders are merely overblown egos if there is no one who will follow. During the tumultuous French Revolution of 1789, mobs and madmen rushed through Paris streets. One journalist reported a wide-eyed, wild-haired wastrel lumbering along one day, feverishly demanding from all he saw, "Where ...
323. Being a Witness
Acts 2:14, 22-32
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Schuyler Rhodes
... experience firsthand what it means to receive the newness of life that comes as we embrace the reality of the resurrection. Then, sisters and brothers, we won't be droning on about doctrine or history. We won't get caught up in our committees or our own ego investment in church program and structure. We will no longer feel the need to be in charge of a diminishing legacy. We will possess the passion, the immediacy and the power of true witnesses. People will stop and pay attention. They'll sit and want to ...
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Schuyler Rhodes
... a new ideology. It's not about moving left or moving right. The call to conversion that comes to us in this incredible passage has to do with having a new mind. It has to do with transforming our minds out of the modes of culture and ego. We become, in this process, something completely new, almost as if we were re-created. At least, this is Paul's take on the subject. "So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new!" (2 Corinthians ...
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Timothy J. Smith
... would inspire the soldiers in battle or maybe Barak was simply testing her commitment. Without faltering, Deborah agreed to go with him, assuring him of the victory, but noting that it would come at the hand of another woman, Jael. So much for Barak's male ego! Deborah was not afraid to lead by example. She teaches us that leaders should be on the frontline, getting their hands dirty, not secluded in a safe location. Her love and trust of God was so great that she was willing to place her life on ...
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