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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... was "in Christ reconciling the world to himself." Jesus must have wondered about the meaning of all the stories told him from the time he was a little child until he was baptized by John. They were important to him, just as they are important to our understanding and the development of our faith. Those tales helped him to perceive his relationship with the Father and to comprehend the role John was to have in his mission in the world. Can’t you picture the child Jesus asking his mother, "Tell me the story ...
3327. Magic Mountain
Matthew 17:1-13
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... of that story that there was a way it would turn out all right after all. But the news was final, a prelude to a week which would take us to another cruel death and a cold cemetery unmoved by any amount of tears."53 Did Peter, James, and John understand that Jesus was about to die and God would raise him up again? Matthew doesn’t tell us the answer to that. It was Jesus who spoke to the three disciples, saying, "Don’t be afraid ... Rise, and have no fear." They did just that, still, trembling a bit from ...
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... runway to see the sky those Magi had scanned. In that part of the world the night sky is like an inverted bowl of black ink and the stars dance like diamonds in the liquid sky. I began to understand more about those wise men who studied the stars for thousands of years there, those Magi. I also began to understand how they must have appreciated the dawn, for the night is thick there. The darkness does not just cover you, it fills you, and you begin to think that all real life is in that inky sky. So taught ...
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... that many more of us are in the position of those Hebrew slaves in Egypt - confronted now with the question: Whom will you serve? I remember, when I was a boy, growing up in the United States, that there was one part of this story I could hardly understand; and that was: - why these slaves were so reluctant to go! - why they resisted the leadership of Moses! And then, once they had gotten out into the desert - how it was that some kept wanting to go back! As the saying goes "to the fleshpots of Egypt." I ...
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... legend which seems to make religious devotion a matter of man’s choice and man’s seeking out God. Certainly the dictum of St. Augustine is true: "Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee." This highlights the Hebrew-Christian understanding of the ways of God with humankind. God is the initiator, not man. Man can only cry out. Israel’s second lesson from the Midian incident was that here at the beginning a relationship was established. First, a relationship between God, Elohim, and ...
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... Or some, in the drug culture. Others, however, will come to the insight that the problem lies in the profound loss of a religious tradition, for, yes, we all have the Bible - that, certainly - But, how do you know what is in it? How do you understand all of those things that are there? And, yes, here we are sitting in a fine church.9 But who built it? And, what was their purpose, their intention? And, what did they want for their children and grandchildren? Dear friends, these Lutheran congregations that we ...
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... times. Now, if you have been hurt once and again and yet again by another, I think you will understand that forgiving that person seven times is genuinely generous. Even impossibly generous, you might add under your breath. However, seven ... , I hope. Let me ask: does your friend know how badly he hurt you? If he doesn't, I think you should tell him. He needs to understand how breaking a confidence is a dangerous thing. On the other hand, maybe he knows and just doesn't care. That's even harder to accept. But ...
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... flesh and dwells among us full of grace and truth? How else do you and I even have the possibility of perceiving, understanding, but vision? There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. And the Spirit of ... the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And his delight shall be in the fear ...
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... familiarity. Rather, the way to God is held in marvelous balance. We come to a God who is, at the same time, both above us and with us, a God Transcendent and Immanent. He is big enough to help us and near enough to want to. Jesus combined this understanding so beautifully when he taught us to pray, "Our Father (the God near) who art in heaven (the God far above us in sinlessness and power), holy be your name." Make no mistake about it, the Transcendent God is not an angry God; neither is he a master we ...
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... has called Jesus "true God and true man." Many will ask how it is possible for Jesus to be completely human and completely divine at the same time - that is not logical or reasonable! The Church then replies as did Martin Luther, that no one can understand or adequately explain the natures of Christ because it is simply one of the great mysteries of our faith. It is something that Scripture affirms as true while we simply stand in awe, trying to illustrate it and symbolize it, even though we cannot explain ...
3336. Mi Casa, Su Casa
Matthew 21:33-46
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Mark Radecke
The relationship between a landlord and a tenant is at best a tenuous one: the landlord is understandably concerned about the use or abuse of his property (after all, it is his house); the tenant understandably concerned about the maintenance and privacy of the place (after all, it is his home). Our friends’ younger daughter begged - no, she positively importuned - her parents for a pastel colored bedroom. They relented, and asked permission of their landlord, offering to buy the paint, provide the labor ...
3337. Real Absence
Matthew 25:1-13
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... ’t she have fallen the other way? Why Kampuchea, Nicaragua, Afghanistan? Why AIDS, cystic fibrosis, cancer? Why hurricanes, tornadoes, floods? Why? The glib answers of the Religious Right point us to an angry and wrathful God. That doesn’t square with our experience and our understanding of God and the gospel. But why, God? Where are you? Do you give a damn about this world we’ve learned to call your own? About this child who’s learned to call you Father? Where are you? Why don’t you speak? Why ...
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... suddenly and unexpectedly a little over a year ago. I miss her terribly, and part of me is surprised that the wound is yet so fresh, the tears so ready after these many months. Having ministered to more than a few in acute grief, I now have a new understanding of the chronic aspect of mourning: not so much the pain as the sorrow; not so much the shock as the sadness; not so much the anger as the emptiness. A dull and empty ache, an absence where there should be a presence or at least an availability. But ...
3339. The Love God Wants
Matthew 22:34-40
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... , how do you see the situation?" And most all of us have given in to the fashion of creating nouns out of adjectives as we express the need to "get back to the basics" in everything from education to economics. We long for clarity and understanding of the fundamental matters of living. As our lives become more and more complex, we yearn for simple, easy-to-cope with issues and ideas. But life seldom cooperates in our search for simplicity. To some extent the growth of religious fundamentalism in our society ...
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D. Wayne Burkette
... make it come as early as possible. Well, here I am, retired, and, I tell you what - it ain’t what it’s cracked up to be!" Mind you, this little story Jesus told is no rehearsal of carpe diem philosophy. To the contrary, it says that we should understand that the present is part and parcel of the future. Like God’s Kingdom which is coming but which is also here now, so we live in the meantime as though the future were already ours. But think of the temptations we face in the meantime, temptations which ...
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... that his covenant should be respected and obeyed by all those who claim to believe in him. What Romano Guardini writes in his The Saints in Daily Christian Life applies to Jews and Christians: Above all, (the believer) acts in the perspective of God’s will. He understands that the task, which presents itself to him here and now, is indeed something which he must accomplish. He is not a visionary, neither is he a slouch. He makes use of his intelligence to do his duty before God and can give a good reason ...
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... did these photographs graphically depict dangling bodies, but also the approving smiles of whites who were standing about. Sometimes we have to put a face on evil and see it in all of its consequences to understand it. Sometimes people personify evil by calling it Satan. I would not argue with that, as long as people understand that even in a satanic world, we still possess free will. People may be brainwashed, but they are not in a hypnotic trance. It was the free will of people who brought down the World ...
3343. The City Unshakeable
Psalm 46:1-11, Hebrews 12:25-29
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... its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult ... God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved." With the bringing of the Ark of the Covenant there, and the subsequent establishment of the temple in that city, the people came to understand Jerusalem as the place God had chosen to reside. For them, it was "the city of God," and thus unshakeable. Now it's fine to have a location that serves as a visible symbol of God's presence. But it's another thing to rely on the symbol ...
3344. The Seekers
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... , and in spiritual matters also we have always been seekers and searchers - Moses going into the mountain, Isaiah going into the temple, John going into the wilderness, Paul going into Arabia, and anyone going into a sanctuary of worship. Moreover, we of the Christian Faith understand that God is also a seeker and a searcher, that he has walked down the path to meet us, reaching for us. And we know that in Christ he comes very close. Here today, we join the age-long caravan of the searchers. In worship ...
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Donald Dotterer
... us almost everywhere we look. Humanity's inhumanity to individuals and groups of people has a long and sordid history. Ever since Cain murdered Abel, we have experienced evil spirits working deep within the human soul as people destroy one another. We may not understand the violence which is the result of hatred and bitterness, but we feel at the very least that we can explain crimes which philosophers categorize as moral evil, that is, evil that is caused by one person's cruelty towards another human being ...
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... in this holy season of Lent. Today we continue to explore the powers of prayer, faith and healing which you have granted to us. In these times together O God, we pray that you would open our hearts and our minds so that we may have faith and understanding. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. You may have heard the expression, "He has an Atlas complex." This usually refers to an individual who seems to have an exaggerated sense of his or her own importance. Or it may refer to the person who feels that he or ...
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... healing may be offered in the Sunday school classes or other settings. One excellent resource for such a study is James Wagner's Blessed to Be a Blessing. A series of Sunday sermons on the healing ministry of Jesus will promote an understanding of this ministry throughout the congregation. It is advisable to receive approval from the church's administrative council. The most important task of the church's healing ministry is to pray for those who are ill and those who are experiencing broken relationships ...
3348. Power
2 Corinthians 6:7
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Harold Warlick
... our griefs and carries our sorrows: not just at Calvary but all the time. That is certainly a sobering thought. It means that God's power is love and not might. It also means that God's power is directed toward a purpose: The whole world coming to understand that love is greater than force. As such, if love is God's goal, God cannot rush to God's end by using the shortest possible means. For example, a teacher could have a great class if he or she simply excluded all the lazy, tiresome and below average ...
3349. Compassion
Luke 10:25-37
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Harold Warlick
... very shabby. But these things don't matter at all because once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." Real isn't how you're made. Real isn't how old you are. It is a thing that happens to you. And the skin horse ... than all of us put together. He was the most beautiful person who ever lived. He was ugly only to those people who didn't understand. For me, the time between Christmas and Easter symbolizes the most critical time in the life of the Christian. This is the time that ...
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Harold Warlick
... a parent, either. I knew just how I'd be as a parent in my dreams. I'd be slim, popular, handsome and very caring and understanding. I'd be up on their music, and kind and tolerant when they brought home poor grades. I'd spend hours communicating with my boys. We' ... Two people who loved their enemies, whose righteousness was greater than the Pharisees, who were executed by forces they did not understand, cause us to ask, "Where was the design in all of this?" What happened to the dream? They believed in the ...
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