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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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3876. Fear of Missing Out

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... s spreading to older generations more and more. Truth be told, we’ve all experienced a “FOMO” meltdown or two. A laptop battery expires on a road trip. We find ourselves stranded with no cell service. The wireless is out at the hotel. When staying in touch is prevented, when staying instantly connected is not possible, there is an uptick in our insecurity, and a subtle permeation of panic sets in. We desperately need to know what is going on. We all have FOMO moments. I would venture to say, there are ...

3877. Right in Front of Our Eyes

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!” When the disciples heard this, they fell face down to the ground, terrified. But Jesus came up to them and touched them. “Get up,” he said. “Don’t be afraid.” When they looked up, they saw no one except Jesus. As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus instructed them, “Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of Man has been raised from the ...

3878. Voice Recognition

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of fear and despair, Jesus affirms that both he and his “peace” are present and in their midst. They are to continue to proclaim that peace because “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” Even Thomas, who said he would not believe until he could touch the wounds of Jesus, melted at the sound of his voice. His voice was enough to banish all need to prove by the other senses. This empowering voice of peace reaffirms the promise Jesus had made in John 17:18: “As you have sent me into the world ...

3879. The Life of Your Table?

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and opened his fingers to receive the staff of life. His fingerprints, his palmprints, were marked upon the meal. The wounds of the crucifixion were bare. The familiarity of those hands were revealed. These were hands they had seen before – healing, gesturing, touching, picking up children. And these were the hands that took their wounds with them into eternity. Not the scars, which are closed, healed wounds. But the open, raw wounds: “Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it had been slain” (Revelation ...

3880. Don't Roll It Back

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... I don't remember going to dwell in the stone you are working on. And Michelangelo answered God: But my Lord, since your child came to us, you don't have to pick and choose your places of rest; he left your Spirit everywhere we just have to discover it, touch it and reveal it to others. That's what it means to live. The stone is rolled away. Don’t roll it back.

3881. Waking the Giant

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... In the same way the work of the first disciples still influences us. Centuries ago, men and women were commissioned to make disciples of all nations. Although they have been dead for almost two thousand years, the effect of their work has traveled through history and touched us. It is felt in our lives and in our churches today. (3) Such was the impact of the first Pentecost. Pentecost represents the birth of the world’s one true sleeping giant the church of Jesus Christ. We can say that without Christmas ...

3882. Great Balls of Fire!

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Happy Natal Day, church! As a kid did you ever terrorize a sibling by scuffing your feet on the carpet and walking towards your “prey” with an index finger pointing at them? The threat, of course, was “static electricity.” If you touched you brother or sister, it meant a small but smarting little zap. A small shock — big fun! A local grocery store (actually, the local Orcas Island Supermarket where we live) recently bit the bullet and spent big money on some major renovations. Among the ...

3883. Flip the Switch

Psalm 119:105

Sermon

James Merritt

... must be repeated. Why? The donkey is an impure animal, the black dog could be Satan in disguise, and women are impure regardless.”[1] When I was growing up people used to complain about women wearing pants to church. They complained if a man’s hair touched his collar. They got hung up on the way people dressed – whether or not you ought to use hymnals, whether men should wear suits and women should wear dresses. Everybody has a right to their opinion, but when those opinions take on the authority of ...

3884. God Is Not Dead

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... burnt offerings on the altar.” The first thing Noah did, was he worshipped God. Verse 21 tells us: “the Lord smelled a soothing aroma.” The word soothing literally means “pleasing.” That aroma of Noah’s worship was so pleasant in the nostrils of God, and so touched the heart of God, here’s what we read: Then the Lord said in His heart, ‘I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living ...

3885. Trust

John 4:43-54

Sermon

James Merritt

... he will do. It is just believing the word of God. “Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17) You see this man had to learn a very valuable lesson. He thought “believing is seeing.” He said, “Lord, you come to my house and touch my son, let me see with my own eyes you can heal him, and I’ll believe in You.” But Jesus didn’t take that bait. He said, “No, I won’t give you my presence, I won’t even show you my power, but I will give you my ...

3886. Envision: The Great Commandment

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

James Merritt

... start giving to God financially, not because you feel like you have to, but because you want to. You don’t give it for a tax break. You give it simply, because you love God. There is still another dimension to this commandment that we haven’t yet touched on and it is the horizontal dimension. Jesus goes on to say this, "The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 22:39-40, NASB) In and of itself, there is ...

3887. Envision: The Great Commitment

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

James Merritt

... good music and a Bible lesson, and go on with your life. My friend, that is not the life that God envisions for you. Your talents and abilities, your time, your effort, can make a tremendous impact on others. You can’t take things with you. But the people you touch and the God you serve, when all is said and done, will be what really matters. Can you envision a life where Jesus meets you at the gateway to heaven, and looks at your life in service to Him and to others, and says, “Well done, by good and ...

3888. All In: Calling Your Bluff

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... to cover a tennis court. Our hearing is so sensitive it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds. Our brain is more complex than the most powerful computer and has over 100 billion nerve cells We give birth to 100 billion red cells every day When we touch something we send a message to our brain at 124 MPH (for those of us who are A.D.D. - that sounds a tad slow!) We are about 70% water (that is why most of us are all wet!) Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms ...

3889. All In: Skin In the Game

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... . He wants His money to be used for His glory not for our convenience. He wants His money to be used for His mission, not for our pleasure. The primary purpose of your money is not to see how much stuff you can buy, but how many lives you can touch. It is more than that. As you know the first part of our mission statement is to “Love God.” One of the greatest ways you ever show God that you love Him is by prioritizing your giving. You have heard it many times. You can give without loving, but you ...

3890. Come One, Come All

Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... . He prayed for two weeks and nothing happened. He then decided to write God a letter requesting the ten dollars. When the postal authorities received the letter to “God USA” they decide to send the letter to then-President Bill Clinton. Clinton was so impressed, touched and amused that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy a five-dollar bill. Clinton thought that would appear to be a lot of money to the little boy. The little boy was delighted to get the five dollars. He sat down and ...

3891. Sometimes You Have to Do Something

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... the rights of others. We try hard to keep the Ten Commandments and a few lesser commandments that aren’t even mentioned in the Bible. We’ve no major vices but few major virtues either. We’re like the sad young woman in Tennessee Williams’ touching play, The Glass Menagerie, who expects a “gentleman caller” to ring her bell, to love her at first sight, and to marry her. But she does nothing to attract any young man’s attention. She simply waits while life passes her by. God must get awfully ...

3892. She Had Great Faith

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... As an example Denn tells how one night he brought home some freshly ground meat. In a hurry to go out he forgot the meat and left it on the kitchen floor, in a box. Later, when his parents got home, the meat was still intact. Spike hadn’t touched it. Spike was such a good dog, says Denn, you could leave treats on the coffee table and never have to worry about Spike getting into them. However, Spike wasn’t perfect. One Christmas Denn’s father was standing in the kitchen looking over the half wall that ...

3893. Get Off Your

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... are gifts of prophecy (NOT common), gifts of teaching, gifts of preaching, gifts of giving, gifts of governance, gifts of generosity, gifts of compassion. All of these gifts, Paul insists, are equal, because they are equally "transforming." For all those who are touched and transformed at the moment of their confirmation with the risen Christ, there is no other existence except that of a wholly transformed life. Some people seem to think so highly of themselves, so morally superior and pure that they think ...

3894. For Those Who Are Auditing the Class

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... hopes and dreams for you. I’ve been studying about transplants, and I want us to go the hospital together today, because I want to give you my good heart!” Obviously John was stunned. He hugged his dad tightly. Together they cried. That special moment touched John so powerfully that for the first time, his hope was restored. He decided to quit feeling sorry for himself and to find another solution to his dilemma. A short time later, John was able to have a bypass surgery and he was healed. Today he ...

3895. The Ice Bucket Challenge

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Anyone remember playing "tag?" The worst thing that could happen to you when you were playing "tag," was to be touched and declared ... "Tag! You’re it!" Once you were "tagged" you were the odd one out. Once you were tagged you were the enemy, the outcast, the outlier, and you worked hard to get that moniker off your back by giving it to someone else. How times have changed. Now ...

3896. Living “I Don’t Know” While “In the Know”

Matthew 21:23-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... their own rejection and disbelief of him as he worked and witnessed among the people. To declare that John’s mission was just some sort of personal mission, his own singular-fueled desire, would enrage the huge numbers of people whom John had touched with his message and baptized with his own hands. Answering Jesus’ question was a “lose-lose” situation politically for the Temple authorities. Back then, as here today, there are pc czars, people who live and listen and read at red-alert for anything ...

3897. About that Salesman

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... Pope, Pope Francis, has brought to his high office. Francis has been noted for his humility, his concern for the poor, and his commitment to dialogue as a way to build bridges between people of all backgrounds, beliefs, and faiths. We have been touched by such decisions Francis has made such as that of choosing to live in a Vatican guesthouse rather than the papal apartments of the Apostolic Palace formerly used by his predecessors. The much beloved Pope John XXIII also brought this dimension to his office ...

3898. An Announcement to a Virgin

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... enters with his horn tucked under his arm. Sensing the Lord’s dilemma, he brushes his lips across the trumpet to keep the feel of it and asks, “Lord, has the time come for me to blow the trumpet?” “No, no,” said the Lord, “don’t touch the trumpet, not yet.” God continues to worry with the problem. Gabriel asks the Lord again what he plans to do. Will he send someone to tend to the situation? Who will it be? Gabriel makes some suggestions. “How about another David or Moses? You could send ...

3899. A Guide to a Rich and a Joyous Life

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’” (Matt. 22:37-39). Love for God and love for neighbor tells us everything we need to know about the Ten Commandments and we would be more in touch with the teachings and example of Jesus. I read recently that 97% of Americans say the 10 Commandments are important but only 5% can name 3 of them. I’m not going to give you a test. Here is an abbreviated form of these commandments as they ...

3900. A Family Celebration - Maundy Thursday

John 13:18-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... does not join in. This may be very meaningful for them, but it does not reflect the biblical understanding of communion. We may hear of the good pastor who comes to a hospital room with communion set in hand. And we know that many lives are touched in this way. There are occasions when the Lord’s Supper is served on an individual basis. But the Lord’s Supper is best understood as a communal event a celebration by the whole company of saints. The very word “communion” refers not only to our ...

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