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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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301. Where Do Sins Go?

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... because he bore the sin of many and interceded for their transgressions. (Isaiah 53:4-6, 11-12, NEB) The consequences of sin do not only affect you; they do not only run out and affect other persons. In the Cross of Christ, we see that even God is touched by the consequences of our sins. The God of Mount Calvary is different from the gods of Mount Olympus! The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is not an indifferent Spectator untouched by the world’s pain; He is an active Participant in the world’s ...

302. A WALL OF ROCK AND THE EVERYBODY GAP

Drama

William McKee Aber

... counted on and I thought I was helping, you know, sharing with her, when I said I knew how she felt because you hadn’t gotten your raise ... (she reaches toward the wall) Wormwood: DON’T TOUCH! Never touch. Touching necessitates response, breaks walls, shows love. Be insulated, don’t talk about it.... Don’t touch! Christian: The wall is big enough by now so that he won’t see Sue’s hand reaching toward him. Jack: Ooops - there’s that ride now - I hear the horn - I wish Harry would quit smoking ...

303. When God Is At Work

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . II The second thing we can learn from this man’s tragic story is that our suffering moves God’s hand. Moves his heart. “Filled with compassion” are the words Mark uses. God does not sit idly by when we are in pain. Jesus reached out and touched the man, saying, “I am willing; be clean.” There is a story about a New York City policeman investigating a case. Dialing the phone on one day of the investigation, he somehow knew before he had even finished that he’d made a mistake. The phone rang ...

304. Overcoming Loneliness

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... cells) were shining bronze cages and had no secrets from guard or visitor. But six were sealed behind massive bronze doors, each with its judas hole. I looked through one and could see a man sitting motionless on a bed, beyond all human power to move or touch or make laugh or weep. He was there because he would kill if any chance were given him, because he was possessed, day in and day out, during every hour of working and sleeping too perhaps, by a hatred that consumed him without ceasing ... was his soul ...

305. Light to Serve

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... us to blot out our sin and unworthiness. God shares the sacrifice our Lord Jesus Christ made for us by his death and resurrection through sacramental means so that we not only hear but are also touched with the righteousness of Christ. John Updike relates how people can struggle with their awareness of their inadequacy and unworthiness in his novel In the Beauty of the Lilies. The story begins with Clarence Wilmot, a tender soul and highly sensitive Presbyterian pastor, who loses the faith. The reader ...

306. Real Gratitude

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... talking about. When Jesus saw him, he sensed that Zacchaeus was the loneliest man in town and His heart went out to him. Jesus looked up and said, “Zacchaeus, make haste and come down for I must stay at your house today.” Zacchaeus was visibly touched, indeed, overwhelmed by this acceptance and this special honor. It had been a long time since anyone had been nice to him. Zacchaeus was so grateful, so filled with gratitude, that it changed his life. Notice that Jesus gave him no material gifts. He gave ...

307. How Shall We Pray?

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... working for the Kingdom as well. A little girl is kneeling beside her bed. She says, "Dear God, if You’re there and You hear my prayer, could You please just touch me?" Just then she feels a touch. She gets so excited! She says, "Thank You, God, for touching me!" Then she looks up, sees her older sister, and gets a little suspicious. "Did you touch me?" The sister answers, "Yes, I did." "What did you do that for?" she asked. "God told me to," was the reply. Even as we are asking God to bring His Kingdom ...

308. I Can Have Anything?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... very best seed." To those who returned the green cloth with some money, the televangelist promised great prosperity: "Send me your green prayer cloth as my point of contact with you!" he pleaded. "When I touch your cloth...it will be like touching you!...When you touch this cloth, it will be like taking MY hand and touching me. I want the anointing that God has put upon my life for miracles of finances and prosperity to come directly from my hand to yours... You can reign in life like a king!" According ...

309. Answers To Life's Three Critical Questions

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... do I find the energy and the endurance to heed God's call? There was no question where Jeremiah's power came from. First, God supplied Jeremiah with an identity, then God charged him with a job to do. When Jeremiah protested, God told him not to be afraid, then touched his life in such a way that he was able to do the job. When God calls, God also supplies the ability. God's calling doesn't rely on our talents, it relies on our obedience. What if Jeremiah had said no? It is supreme arrogance for us to tell ...

310. On Being Picked For The "Rework"

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

King Duncan

... Lucy." Lucy had taken a job at a candy factory and she was being trained on the first day of her new job. It was Lucy's duty to stand at a conveyor belt with pieces of candy continuously passing in front of her. She was to add the finishing touches to the process. Her boss had walked out of the room, but not before she emphasized strongly that her job was vital. She would lose her job if she let even a single piece of candy slip by her station untouched. At first Lucy was doing fine, but the conveyor ...

311. Skating To Where The Puck Is Going To Be

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... are troubled, and picture Jesus, not as a four-color picture from a Bible page, but as God incarnate, allowing people to touch him. Some came to hear Jesus. There's an ironic note here. Luke reports "a great cloud of his disciples" listening to ... to God's will." (2) As Christians, we are the body of Christ in today's world. We have a special responsibility to touch those whom Jesus touched, for we believe that each person carries within him the Imago Dei, the image of God. Jesus never said that it's good ...

312. If You Are The King Of The Jews....

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... him a select group of men and women to carry on his work. There was nothing special about these men and women. In fact, they were quite ordinary. There was only one thing that distinguished them--they had been touched by the Master's hand. And when Christ left them, he gave them a charge--that they were to reach out to touch others with his love until the day comes when every person on this earth knows himself or herself to be a child of God. That's what it means to be Christ's body. Our task is his task ...

313. The Christ Of Healing

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... the hem of His garment. You want to know that it is more than simply mind over matter. You believe that there is help available beyond the power of both your inner physician and your outer physician. You long for the healing touch of the great physician. A careful reading of the scriptures, as well as the testimony of people who have experienced such healing, cry out to us that His help is indeed available. Ours is a healing God. We cannot know, and we cannot understand, all the elements involved in the ...

314. Too Good to Be True?

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... ." Or to put it colloquially, "Chill! It's going to be fine. I know you don't understand how all this has come to pass, but it's going to be all right. In fact, very all right." What now follows is a time when Jesus invites these people to touch him and feed him, and in that way they come to know that they are a companioned people. There is a world of difference between loneliness and solitude. When we feel lonely, it is as though we are in this big world all by ourselves, and no one else knows ...

315. What a Resume!

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... ever seen a song? I've heard many songs, so have you. But seen a song, that is something quite new. Well, dear ones, I have seen that new song! It is the expression of the presence and nearness of Jesus seen when one person who has great need is touched in love by another who is living the new baptized life in Christ. That's the new song, and you and I have seen it many times. An old VacationBibleSchool chorus had us sing, "Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me; all his wonderful passion and purity. Oh ...

316. The Joy of Shared Truth

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... and heard we proclaim also to you.... -- 1 John 1:1-3a (RSV) Do you hear that? He's trying in every way to convince his readers that what he's talking about is real. He and other disciples have heard and seen with their very eyes and touched this word of life, this Jesus. Such enthusiasm, yet such awareness of how impossible it must come across to others -- just too good to be true. Will anyone ever believe it? Have you ever had such an overwhelming experience that when you begin to tell someone about it ...

317. What Making a Difference Looks Like

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... at this point. At any time where we have caught a glimpse of God and knew it was so: a reflection of his glory in nature, divine mystery in the face of another, beauty that took our breath away, a sermon that lifted the veil, an act of mercy, a touch of healing, in that moment we have experienced purity of heart in some degree. It is not as foreign as we might imagine. That we are believers at all is a guarantee that we have seen at least something that drew us towards Jesus. The promise here is of more ...

318. Try This on For Size!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... of soup, some cheap advice, a game and he travels on. He is going once, going twice, going, almost gone. But then the Master comes, and the foolish crowds, They don't understand, the worth of a man's soul And the change that's wrought by the touch of the Master's hand. - Myra Welch Yes, Christians, our hurts, our brokenness, all our problems are best taken care of by the Master. Others may give us encouragement, a listening ear, or a word of truth, but it is to Jesus, to the Master, that we primarily go ...

319. WaterFire Disciples

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is a disease which got one rated unclean by the official Hebrew purity code of the day. This leper breaks the law, approaches Jesus, and says, "If you choose you can make me clean." Mark goes on: "Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said, 'I do choose. Be made clean.'" Actually, most scholars today agree and argue that the best translation of the Greek here is not "Moved with Pity" but "moved to anger" (REB). Why angry? Maybe angry that these people were banished from their ...

320. What Is That in Your Hand?

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon

James McCormick

... is the point: God took what Moses had, blessed it, and used it to accomplish His purposes. It was only a piece of wood, but Moses was frightened by the power of it when God took hold of it and used it. Only an ordinary rod, but when God touched it, it became extraordinary indeed! II. This story of Moses reminds us all that everyone has something which God can use for good. Everyone! It may be a talent. It may be experience or contacts. It may be money or other resources. It may be simply a praying heart ...

321. Believe in Jesus

Acts 16:25-34

Sermon

James W. Moore

... . She learned it from Jesus. There are a lot of people in this world who sometimes feel like that doll looked – worn, tattered and used. They are the ones who need our love most of all. They are the ones who need to feel the loving touch of the Master’s hand touching through us. If we don’t love them, who will? This was the power Paul and Silas had. The power that gave them courage and confidence. The power that inspired a jailor. The power that comes from Jesus because, you see, he gives to all of ...

322. Honor To Whom Honor Is Due

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

James Merritt

... many temptations, but he kept himself clean. When he came home to South Carolina and met his mother, he put his hands upon her shoulders, and said, "Mother, look deep into my eyes. I have lived clean and straight. I never took a drink, I never gambled, I never touched a woman. I honored my father and my mother." His mother looked at him, with tears running down her cheeks, knew it was so, and blessed him in the name of heaven. It is not a coincidence that Dr. Lee lived well into his 90s preaching the gospel ...

323. Caring for the “Little Ones”

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

George Reed

... who came in contact with her would also be unclean. Here is someone who no self-respecting Jewish man would ever talk to and someone a man must not come in physical contact with at any cost. It is no wonder that when Jesus stopped the procession and ask who touched him that she was afraid to answer. Yet, the fact that she had felt healing power rush through her from Jesus gave her the courage to own up to her act. She probably thought that she was in for a good tongue lashing and she would be glad if that ...

324. John 20:1-18

John 20:1-18

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... Christ, not her physical self. Mary embodies the words of the old Quaker tune "Simple Gifts" when "by turning, turning" she "comes round right." There is almost as much debate over the final two verses of this pericope. Why does Jesus instruct Mary not to touch him at this point when he then invites Thomas the doubter to poke and prod away a few verses later? What does Jesus' command to Mary in v. 17 then really mean? Newer translations assert that Jesus' caution is in the present imperative, "Stop holding ...

325. John 20:1-18

John 20:1-18

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

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