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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326. Lent 4
John 3:1-21, Numbers 21:4-9, Ephesians 2:1-10
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Russell F. Anderson
... to save the world, not condemn it (vv. 17-18). Why then was Christ pictured in ancient and medieval art as an implacable judge? Could it be that the church literally wanted to scare the hell out of people? It seems that for quite some time the church lost contact with the grace of God and reverted to legalism. The law condemns and kills but God's mercy in Jesus Christ gives us life. There is condemnation for those who refuse to come to God's light, but it is self-condemnation, not the will of God in Christ ...
327. Proper 11
Ephesians 2:11-22, 2 Samuel 7:1-17, Mark 6:45-56, Mark 6:30-44
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Russell F. Anderson
... 53-56 The disciples return from their preaching, teaching, and healing mission exhausted from all their ministry. Jesus proposes that they get into the boat and go to a place of solitude, but wherever they go, the crowds follow them. Jesus heals all who are in contact with him. Between verse 30-34 and 53-56, we have the stories of the feeding of the multitudes and the account of Jesus walking on the water. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS Old Testament: 2 Samuel 7:1-14a Putting God in his place. David wanted to put ...
328. Easter 5
John 15:1-17, Acts 8:26-40, Acts 9:19b-31, 1 John 4:7-21
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Russell F. Anderson
... Ezekiel also likened the nation to a vine (Ezekiel 15; 19:10). Other passages could be cited as well. Jesus is claiming here that he is the true or authentic vine, not Israel. The Jews believed that the way to stay alive spiritually was to keep in close contact with their ethnic and spiritual identity. "Not so," says Jesus, "I am the true vine." To stay alive spiritually you must adhere to Christ, you must be grafted into the true vine. To be a child of Abraham will not, by itself, save a person. To merely ...
329. Epiphany 5
Job 7:1-7, Isaiah 40:1-31, Mark 1:29-39, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27
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Russell F. Anderson
... wholeness. Jesus dramatically demonstrated that he could fulfill their need. That's why the crowds beat a path to his door. They undoubtedly needed more than mere physical or mental healing, they needed reconciliation with God, but the obvious need was Jesus' point of contact. The church must employ the same strategy, fulfill an obvious need, so that we might eventually minister to the deeper needs of the spirit. How to greet the day (v. 35). Mark tells us that Jesus rose a great while before the break of ...
330. Epiphany 6
1 Corinthians 10:23--11:1, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27, Leviticus 13:1-46, 2 Kings 5:1-27, Mark 1:40-45
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Russell F. Anderson
... me clean" (v. 40). Of course, being banished from society would not do wonders for one's self-image. The leper had some hope but was not sure Jesus would want to help. The Lord was moved with compassion, touched him and pronounced him clean. Jesus' contact with the leper was a break from tradition, though he did instruct the man to go to a priest for the required cleansing rites, which would certify him as ready to re-enter normal society. Jesus strongly urges the man not to broadcast his healing because ...
331. Proper 16
John 6:25-59, John 6:60-71, 1 Kings 8:22-61, Ephesians 6:10-20
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Russell F. Anderson
... computers and have gotten on to the internet, the world wide web, you will have discovered something called a "home page." Many churches and denominations have home pages, which provide information about themselves and informs folks as to how they might come in contact with the various services which they provide. The home page is not the place where the church dwells but is a link to it. When Solomon prayed, he realized that his house could not house God; indeed, the whole earth cannot contain his presence ...
332. Proper 18
Mark 7:24-30, Mark 7:31-37, Proverbs 22:1-16, James 2:1-13
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Russell F. Anderson
... . Jesus touched the man's ears and his tongue, since those were the parts that were not whole, which opened his ears and freed his tongue. Unfortunately, there is also a wrong touch. Shoving a sister away, hitting a neighbor, inappropriate and destructive sexual contact are examples. Jesus had just the right touch, which people are still seeking, a loving touch, a healing touch, the divine touch. Outline: 1. The deaf man was brought to Jesus because Jesus had the right touch. 2. Jesus' touch healed him and ...
333. Proper 23
Job 23:1-9, 16-17, Mark 10:17-31, Hebrews 4:12-16
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Russell F. Anderson
... The Lord assures them that they would receive interest on all that they left, many times over in this life, and eternal life in the world to come. THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS Old Testament: Job 23:1-9, 16-17 Finding God (v. 3). Job felt that he had lost contact with God. If he could find God, he would lay his case before him to establish his innocence. In every generation, there are those who have lost sight of God; he is no longer real to them. Where do we find God? In his word (Second Lesson) and particularly ...
334. Proper 25
Hebrews 7:11-28, Job 42:7-17, Job 42:1-6, Mark 10:46-52
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Russell F. Anderson
... faithful to the Lord are bound to be more blessed than the former days. Those who love the Lord for a lifetime will receive a rich harvest of blessings. Epistle: Hebrews 7:23-28 1. Sermon Title: Always Accessible. Sermon Angle: Recently, I had trouble making contact with two different lawyers that I've dealt with. One has not returned my calls and the other didn't bother to show up for an appointment. Good legal counsel is not always available, not by a long shot. Unfortunately, the same can be said for ...
335. Proper 8
2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Samuel 1:17-27, Mark 5:21-43
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Russell F. Anderson
... of an unstoppable faith. First there is Jairus. He pushes his way to Jesus in the midst of a large throng, falls to his knees, and implores Jesus repeatedly to heal his little daughter who is near death. On the way to Jairus' house Jesus comes in contact with the woman who had the hemorrhages. This woman had seen all the doctors, tried all the cures, becoming destitute in the process. Yet she would not give up the quest for a cure. She heard about Jesus and believed that he could cure her. She found ...
336. The Resurrection Of Our Lord
John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Mark 16:1-20
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Russell F. Anderson
... weeping, she responded: "They have taken my Lord away, and I don't know where they have laid him" (v. 13). I wonder how many of us have misplaced Jesus? Well, he was right here when I left him five years ago. I've been too busy to keep in contact. Can anybody inform me as to Jesus' whereabouts? A living Christ in place of a corpse. Of course, Mary Magdalene didn't misplace Jesus, nor did anyone else. God raised Jesus from the grave. Our God is not in a grave; our God is on the move! Unless you stay ...
337. Christmas 2
Jn 1:1-18 · Lk 2:41-51 · Eph 1:3-18 · Jer 31:7-14 · Ps 147
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Russell F. Anderson
... presented a problem. The Jewish ideas, such as that of Messiah, would not have a great deal of appeal in the non-Jewish world. John must have searched for symbols that spoke to his Greek-educated audience but which also had a point of contact with Christianity's Jewish roots. The tool that he chose was the concept of Logos. This concept was employed in Jewish intertestamental books and was an integral part of Greek thinking. John realized that Christianity had to be packaged into familiar cultural concepts ...
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Lee Griess
... his sermon by suggesting that if you put a piece of iron in the presence of an electrified field, that piece of iron itself will become electrified. And in the presence of that electrical field, it is changed into a magnet. As long as it remains in contact with that field of power, it will continue to attract other pieces to itself. We are like that piece of iron. In the presence of Christ, we experience his love and take on his likeness. We are changed, electrified by the Holy Spirit, to attract others to ...
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Paul L. Sandin
... . But may it also be a place where your families and friends may come and find love, joy and peace. But even more than these, may that home be the place from which you go forth each day to be a blessing to all with whom you come in daily contact. The God of Love unites you together as husband and wife. Go now in peace, trusting that the love which unites you today in holy marriage will also make you one forever.
340. Which Ones Were Lost?
Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10
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Merle G. Franke
... several hippie couples, on those infrequent occasions when two of them decided to formalize a relationship that had been in progress for quite some time. And from time to time I dropped in on some of the hippie hangouts just to shoot the breeze. Such contacts would not have gone unnoticed, particularly by the few in our midst who were most critical of such associations. Those few asked me to meet with them to discuss their concerns. What were their concerns? Mostly the people I associated with from time to ...
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R. Sheldon MacKenzie
... passage. He who had been rejected by his friends, his disciples and his religious leaders, is here rejected by the people of Jerusalem. The figure of the Man from Nazareth, alone now in spirit as well as in body, rejected by everyone with whom he had come in contact during the last week of his life, is a picture we shall not soon forget. Sometimes the truth is told when people least intend it to be so. It had happened with Peter when he denied any knowledge of Jesus as he shifted uneasily in the courtyard ...
342. Where You Do Not Wish To Go
John 21:18
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John E. Sumwalt
... her own finger. The fact that it occurred before the injection spared the nurse any danger of infection, but Wilma could see that it had been very upsetting to her. The nurse knew she had AIDS. Wilma decided that everyone else who came into contact with her had a right to know, too. The word spread fast. There were many expressions of caring; phone calls, cards, letters and quiet conversations with neighbors and friends. People were horrified for her and sympathetic at the same time -- or so it seemed ...
343. Do You Want To Be More Spiritual?
Romans 8:1-17
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Clement E. Lewis
... Christ is the best means of finding that life and peace. When we are truly spiritual persons we often find that we have considerable influence on others. These lines may well serve as our prayer. May every soul that touches mine, Be it the slightest contact, get therefrom some good, Some little grace, one kindly thought, One aspiration yet unfelt, one bit of courage For the darkening sky, one gleam of faith To brave the thickening ills of life; One glimpse of brighter sky beyond the gathering mist, to make ...
344. Epiphany 2
John 1:43-51, John 1:35-42
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Richard F. Bansemer
... first recorded words of Jesus in the Gospel of John are: "What are you looking for?" Jesus was being followed by Andrew and one other disciple of John the Baptist. John had revealed the identity of Jesus to the two men as "the Lamb of God." One contact led to another, and by the end of the passage, Jesus had at least four disciples, and probably five (if the unnamed other disciple with Andrew was John, the author of this Gospel). The promise of Jesus at the beginning of these disciples' discipleship is that ...
345. The Set Face And The Turned Head
Luke 9:51-56, Luke 9:57-62
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Larry Powell
... sealed with tenacity. To use a very unscriptural untheological word, the kind of commitment we see demonstrated in the Scriptures brings to mind the word, "flypaper." Would you agree that flypaper tends to cling like a magnet to that with which it comes in contact? If you think flypaper is tenacious, let me read you something: "Five times I have received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I have been beaten with rods; once I was stoned. Three times I have been shipwrecked ...
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Larry Powell
... be for thinking people who are looking for strong, convincing evidences of God. They can see the Bible, read it and hear it read. They can see the church and observe its program, see the gestures. But what people are really looking for is eye-to-eye contact with the Source. There are obstacles aplenty. Christian friends, the Bible says in so many ways that if the almighty God, and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit are ever to be visibly evident in human affairs, it will be through the human witness. The ...
347. Christ the King
Jeremiah 23:1-8
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George Paul Mocko
... that Hammarskjold, through his greatest years, had been moved by profound religious sensitivities. That Hammarskjold sensed the presence of God equally and deeply in such diverse experiences as watching a drop of rain course its way down a pane of glass, at social contacts at a cocktail party, and in the work and decisions of the massive events of history, the course of which he was determining. In "all things ..." (you) "stand alone before God and that each of your acts is an act of creation." (Markings ...
348. Sight And Insight
John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41
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John R. Brokhoff
... had a friend in Jesus. APPLICATION Relevance Of Revelation 1. When we deal with vision, we deal with every person, for everyone was born with two eyes. Physical vision may not be perfect. There is near-sightedness and far-sightedness. Some must wear glasses or contact lenses. Without them people are often helpless to read or work. Partial blindness is a handicap. Total blindness is a life of darkness in spite of the fact that there are seeing-eye dogs, braille and a new electronic device that can translate ...
349. Fish Miracle
1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13, Luke 5:1-11
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John R. Brokhoff
... 's account of Peter's call, we are told that Jesus was in Peter's home and healed Peter's mother-in-law. At the time of the fish miracle a close relationship was knit together as master and disciples. It was the culmination of previous contacts, and now the fishermen entered a second career of full-time work for Jesus in his ministry of kingdom building. APPLICATION Relevance of Revelation 1. God's call is the subject of all three lessons for this fifth Sunday after the Epiphany: Isaiah, Paul, Peter. Today ...
350. Transfiguration
Luke 9:28-36 · Matthew 17:1-8 · Mark 9:2-8
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John R. Brokhoff
... mundane and ordinary. We need an uplift, a "high," something or someone to make us feel good. To get it many resort to drugs, sex and mysticism. The transfiguration was a thrilling, exciting, unforgettable experience which can be repeated if and when we come in contact with God. 2. The transfiguration deals with the fundamental questions we all ask. Really, who is Jesus? What was the purpose of his life? We ask the same questions about ourselves: Who are we? What are we here for? What are we to do with ...
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