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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Schuyler Rhodes
... up, the dog doesn't get walked. If I don't wake up, I miss meetings, hospital and home visits, and a host of other responsibilities that come with pastoral ministry. I don't much like the alarm, and there are days when I don't like waking up, but I ... have no end, is there something that calls for repentance? As we hear the language of fear and retribution, does our faith have a response? Is there a change in national behavior that God might have in mind for us? And in the midst of this national malaise, ...
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Schuyler Rhodes
... The child who has learned gentleness and openness at home hits the schoolyard to find suddenly that the world isn't the way Dad and Mom said it was. Ouch, ouch, and ouch again. This is the feeling I get when I read this passage from Acts. My initial response to it is, "Is this really in the Bible? Do you know what will happen if we try this in the real world? They can't mean ... well ... that's ridiculous. It's naive! It sounds like communism!" In any discussion I've ever undertaken regarding this scripture ...
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David J. Kalas
... up with the moaning when a flight is delayed; Moses mans the complaint department for what was, beginning to end, God's project. He takes his own complaint, therefore, to God. "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me." And, in response, God directs Moses to a rock that will become for the people a miraculous source of water. What followed then must have been a sight to behold. The water miracle that gets the most attention in Exodus is the parting of the Red Sea. But this water ...
3354. Not All of This Is Me
Deuteronomy 8:7-18
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Timothy J. Smith
... Lord your God, by failing to keep his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I am commanding you today." The message Moses wanted them to grasp was not to forget God and assume that they had brought themselves into the promised land. It is a natural human response to look to God for help in times of trouble. It is easy to forget or neglect God when everything is going well. The temptation is to assume that when everything is going fine, we do not need God or that God can do nothing for us. We ...
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John N. Brittain
... praise and worship shares its root with the description of a shepherd using the crook to reign in and guide the flock. We are grateful for guidance and protection. But perhaps most striking in the Hebrew Bible is the teaching that praise and blessing are the appropriate human responses to God's acts of salvation in history. Think of Psalm 96: O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Declare his glory among the ...
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John N. Brittain
... churches where a very small group of highly dedicated people with powerful spiritual experiences has been the leaven in the lump, so to speak, that began a renewal and revival of the whole congregation. But in those cases the people involved clearly understood their responsibility to "the common good." Years ago, Eileen and I took a group of students to Monterrey, Mexico. Most of us spoke little Spanish, and few of our hosts spoke much English. Pastor Jonás Alvarez reflected with us one day about the time ...
3357. Will It Last?
1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23
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John N. Brittain
... , contention, and strife. It is in vain to account it an act of piety to turn away the ear from hearing this cry of distress." It is vain because if we believers and churches are indeed God's temple indwelt by God's Spirit, we have an enormous responsibility. "For all things are yours, whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future — all belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God." All things. There is not an issue, not a development ...
3358. In the Balance
Romans 5:12-19
Sermon
David O. Bales
... him, of course, at each step, but sin operated in each decision he made and at each moral intersection where he turned the wrong way. The modern world tends to act as though we're all perfectly free agents, responsible for ourselves and often responsible only for ourselves. Ancient Israel believed in the solidarity of groups, even all of humanity. In Israel, people believed themselves to be bound in a national community, clan, and family as one personality. Their lives were interdependent. Their interests ...
3359. Yes, You
1 Peter 2:2-10
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David O. Bales
... that ordained people aren't somehow above their non-ordained brothers and sisters in the faith. John Calvin, to the glory of God, was never ordained. As one of the greatest Bible scholars and Bible teachers of all time, he points out that we are each responsible to study the Bible ourselves and that we're all priests for others — whether we are ordained or not. That's the exalted position God grants to each Christian. This is what God recreated us to be through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. Some ...
3360. Captive Free!
Romans 7:15-25a
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Steven E. Albertin
... important writing, The Bondage of the Will. It was written against the great humanist scholar and devout Christian, Erasmus of Rotterdam. Erasmus argued for "free will." God wouldn't have given humans the commandments if we didn't have the freedom and ability to obey or disobey them. In response Luther argued, "Yes" and "No." Yes, we are free to choose to do or not to do certain things. But we are not free to choose to be something that we are not. A pig may want to fly but it can't fly. Pigs just don't fly ...
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Larry Lange
... . We had not attempted to overcome evil with good and had therefore lost an opportunity to show Michael that there was even such a thing as good (Romans 12:21). Although it might be unrealistic to expect such mature, loving Christian responses from children, the apostle Paul did expect such responses from adults. And for good reason. It is how our Lord responds to the snowball fights we start or fund or fail to protest each and every day. Michael never came by to play again. He started smoking and continued ...
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Mary S. Lautensleger
... labor is invigorating, and is a way of serving God. In her book, Dakota, Kathleen Norris refers to the Benedictine motto ora et labora as counsel: "... a well-made cabinet, a well-swept floor, can be a prayer."1 There are the ordinary, everyday responsibilities that must happen in order for the church as an organization to run smoothly. Paul doesn't think of himself more highly than he thinks of other Christians. He wants to share his faith and also wants other Christians to strengthen him, an attitude of ...
3363. Breaking Away to Follow Christ
Luke 14:25-35
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David E. Leininger
... she's probably a fast learner and will probably get the hang of ditch-digging in a few months," Will said. "Look," said the father, "this is no laughing matter. You are completely irresponsible to have encouraged her to do this. I hold you personally responsible," he said. As the conversation went on, Dr. Willimon pointed out that the well-meaning but obviously unprepared parents were the ones who had started this ball rolling. THEY were the ones who had her baptized, read Bible stories to her, took her to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... wonder if Jesus would also do something for my allergies. 3. All right! Now I can buy a new wardrobe. 2. Why didn’t this happen sooner? And number 1: Thank you, Jesus! You are my Lord and Master. (3) Only one of the ten returned with this kind of response. But that one gave us some important lessons. For one thing, we can see that faith and gratitude go hand in hand. Think about it and I believe you will agree. If you trust God, you cannot help but have a profound sense of gratitude about what God has ...
3365. Chosen
John 15:9-17
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... , a daughter or son. We have been chosen as a friend of Jesus. III. Chosen and Appointed A. Being chosen to love and chosen as a friend of Jesus has its privileges, but it also has its responsibilities, too. That means we are chosen and appointed. All that really means is that because we are CHOSEN, we have some responsibilities to carry out. I know some of you are thinking, this sounds like boot camp or the military when the Sarge or the Chief would come up and say: "I need 2 volunteers. You and you." It ...
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King Duncan
... what he had done. He also realized that he would never have done this in the daylight. Somehow, the very darkness encouraged him to litter, a thing he deplores. There is something about light that reminds us of our responsibility to other people and helps us to do the responsible thing. “People who do not live in fellowship with others,” writes Larson, “live in perpetual darkness and continually do things of which they are ashamed. But people who live in a fellowship where they know and are known live ...
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King Duncan
... world of light and life and belonging? (5) This is what Christmas is all about. God invades our world, crawls under the bed, as it were, comforts us and draws us out into the light. And what is our response to God’s coming into our world? It is to take the love of Christ to everyone we meet. Our response is not to be a matter of simply passive receiving. We are to pass on to others what has been given us. Tony Campolo tells about a friend who pretends to go shopping each Christmas season in the Nordstrom ...
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King Duncan
... is a cute story going around about a family that bought a pet hamster. The children promised they would take care of it. You can guess how that worked out. Mom ended up with about 90 percent of the responsibility. One evening she was thoroughly fed up with the kids’ lack of responsibility. She asked, “How many times do you think that hamster would have died if I hadn’t looked after it?” After a moment, her 5‑year‑old son looked up and asked innocently, “Uh . . . Once?” Well, of course he ...
3369. Romans 15:4-13
Romans 14:1--15:13
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... :11). Although Jesus was the fulfillment of the Jewish Messiah, he was meant to be praised by all “the nations.” In other words, the “Gentiles” who stood outside of the first covenant were intended to recognize his messiahship. The appropriate Gentile response, the apt response of all humanity to God’s merciful gift of Christ, is uncontained praise and unconstrained rejoicing to the glory of God. As his final scripture citation, Paul notes the promise of the “root of Jesse” as the one who will ...
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King Duncan
... . She was not the desperate young woman who had called earlier . . . Apparently some other girl had dialed a wrong number. I told you it was bizarre, but true. Don’t you hope that the girl who did call was brought to faith by what she thought was the response of her father to her situation? We don’t know what the phone call meant to her, but what is impressive was the reaction of the man’s real daughter to the letters of support she received from her Mom and Dad who thought she had let them down ...
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King Duncan
... eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Notice that it is not the man who is cursed, but the ground. Man already had been given dominion over the garden. He was already responsible for its upkeep. But now it will no longer be a joy to maintain. The loss of intimacy not only extended to Eve, but even to the earth from which Adam had come. Now life would be “toil.” The Hebrew word for toil is the same word as that used ...
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King Duncan
... born blind. That’s important. It is not God’s will that this man or any man or woman whoever they may be be blind. Blindness comes from many sources. It might be the result of trauma or disease. In a man born blind, maybe damage to a gene was responsible. We don’t know. However, we do know this: if you are blind, physically blind, you are not that way because God willed it. If you have cancer, or some other adverse condition, it is not because God willed it. If you are going through a devastating time ...
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King Duncan
... someone is dubious about claims of any kind, they are apt to be called a Doubting Thomas. Has anyone in scripture been so universally and in my mind, so unjustly maligned than Thomas? Oh, we think of Judas the betrayer and Pilate washing his hands of his responsibility for Jesus’ death. But they stand justly accused. But Thomas? Would you permit me the opportunity today to seek to reverse the reputation of this unjustly accused young man. I will attempt to do so now and I will seek to do so again on the ...
3374. Matthew 17:1-9
Matthew 17:1-13
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... baptismal declaration found in Matthew 3:17. But it then adds a directive for Jesus’ disciples: “Listen to Him.” This “listen up” order once again recalls the promise of the prophet “like Moses,” whom the people are instructed to “heed” (Exodus 18:15). The disciples’ response to the divine cloud and voice is distinctly different than Peter’s earlier cheerful suggestion that he pitch a few tents for the heavenly crew. As appropriate of any encounter between God and humans, the normal ...
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... 3:27-28. To argue this point Paul moves from scriptural quotations to an example taken from everyday life. In human relationship, work done for another demands due wages. But Abraham was not reckoned as righteous because of any work that he accomplished. God’s response is based upon the fact that “Abraham believed” God’s promise to him as declared in Genesis 15:4-5. God’s act toward Abraham was like that of an employer who takes mercy on the employee who has done no work and rewards him anyway ...
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