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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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376. Joy

Luke 2:1-11 · Isaiah 9:2-6

Sermon

Will Willimon

... danced back to work, Isaiah declared holiday, having witnessed the amazing, undeserved and unexpected intrusion of a loving God. People are joyful, because God has moved, because there is a force loose in the world greater than ourselves. Last night at Bethlehem we so sensible, down to earth, dull modem people learned: Somebody else is active in this world. In our battles with Emperors or with malignancies of body and mind, it isn't all left up to us. I know that all is not right in your life. There ...

377. Holding On

Job 1:1; Job 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... climbers. Nearby is an even more difficult and dangerous crag, called in English, “Fool's Needle.” That mountain sounds appropriately named to me. “Fool's Needle.” Why do mountain climbers tie themselves to one another? asks the old joke—to keep the sensible ones from going home. That’s Fool’s Needle. Standing 11,487 ft. high—only the more experienced mountaineers even attempt to scale its slopes. Sometime back a young student was trapped for three days on the north face of Fool’s Needle ...

378. For Us

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

Will Willimon

... for you. For you. That's what I, in my bumbling attempts to preach, try to tell you. Jesus among us as bodily presence of the promises of God to bring you home, all for you. Having tried to tell you, tonight we show you. I hope that your delicate sensibilities will not be put off by the blood and gore of it all. It really is amazing what lengths God will go to to get to you. As Calvin said, God never forgets, in dealing with us, that we are creatures, not angels. Therefore God deals with us in ways ...

379. Sheep and Shepherds

John 10:11-16 · Psalm 23

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . She could have done so much with her life. It could have been easier for her. Damn, what a waste.” Are sheep worth so great a price? Somewhere Paul says, “It is not as angels that He has loved us.” Today's text says, nor is it as intelligent, rational, sensible folk who are perceptive and brave enough to make our own way toward him. doing for us that which we, sheep as we is as sheep that he has first loved us, his own. Amen.

380. Watch This!

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... and sociologists have given the various groupings of folks that live in our immediate vicinity. For example: The largest demographic grouping in our region is named “American Royalty” or “Power Elite.” They are described as having “high aesthetic sensibilities,” a “global perspective,” a “drive for affluence,” with a thriving “sense of well-being.” The American Royalty group along with the second group makes up over 50% of the population in our region. That second group has been ...

381. John the Baptist and Mrs. Nolan

Mark 1:1-8

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... be good for goodness sake . . .” Obviously, I’m not knocking being good. Being good is really the only way to experience the abundant life. Anyone who has tried the alternative will tell you it’s true. Anyone who spends their lives rebelling against the sensible laws of right living will discover they are only deluding themselves that it will give them any lasting happiness. If your primary reason for keeping the law is fear of divine punishment, you’re on the wrong path. It’s like a woman that Dr ...

382. How a Baby Changed the World

Luke 1:26-38

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” Mary gave a very sensible response to Gabriel’s announcement that she would bear a son whose kingdom would reign forever: “How will this be,” she asked, “since I am a virgin?” We will come back to her response in a few moments. Gabriel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on ...

383. If I Had Only Known

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... fatal accident, we erect a stop sign. After a disastrous flood, we build a dam. After the damage is done to our friends, our families, our character, then we begin to shed copious tears for the actions and attitudes that did the damage in the first place. How much more sensible to take the forward look - before traveling further towards some destination With foresight to forsake it rather than hindsight to regret it.

384. That Mountaintop Moment

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... have difficulty making sense of it. Kind of like the earth gleaming brightly within that vast blackness of space. These are “mountaintop moments,” times when reality pauses and God breaks through with such energy, power, and unexpected glory as to convince us, despite all sensibility, that God is real. That what we think we know can’t even touch the vastness of the mind of God. If you think about it, we, as human beings, live in a kind of constructed environment here on earth. Our very ability to ...

385. The Christian Mother

John 15:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... away. I felt as though I was split in two, so keen was my desire to follow her and yet so deep was my longing for the woman who's spirit had truly companioned me and upheld my own. And there she stood. Her pale, plump face was gentle and sensible, her grey eyes had a warm and kindly twinkle. I did not hesitate. My finger gripped the small worn blue leather copy of the book which was to identify me to her. This would not be love, but it would be somthing precious, something perhaps even better than love, a ...

386. The Interpretation of the Vision

Daniel 8:15-27

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... to true Christianity. Indeed, we must continue to speak out against anti-Semitism today. But we must also be careful to interpret texts such as Daniel and 1 Maccabees in light of their original historical context, even when their views go against our modern sensibilities. While the stress there is on the sin of Antiochus IV, the theme of God’s wrath is also present, including the concomitant notions of Israel’s sin and punishment. The phrase “later in the time of wrath” is further elucidated by the ...

387. But, Why?

Titus 3:4-7

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Scott Bryte & Kimberly Miller van Driel

... is joy and disappointment. We think of it as inevitable. We act as though it were logical for far off and powerful God to suddenly change tactics and close the distance between heaven and earth down to zero. But it’s just not. It is neither logical, sensible, nor inevitable. Why did God choose to take flesh and live among us? This world is messy, and we are very far from perfect. Yes, we love, laugh, and write songs. We imagine, build, and occasionally do heroic, selfless things. But we also lie to each ...

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