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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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401. What Makes Us Human?

Isaiah 6:1-13

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Louis H. Valbracht

... for what I can get out of it, for my strength, my inspiration, my sustaining, my security. And so, then, who becomes the god who is worshiped? Who is the god that is being worshiped when this is our total reason? They are looking for some emotional boost, looking for some uplift that will, supposedly, prove that their tete-a-tete with God was worthwhile. When nothing happens, they drive away to the theater or to the woods or some place else where they think they will have such an uplifting experience. And ...

402. Repent!

Acts 2:14-41

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... and for the embarrassment to his family, anger at the years taken from him, fear for the future, determination to go straight - words and feelings poured out of this usually quiet and dignified man. When they were through, he sat huddled, chin on chest, drained of words and emotions. It's hard to face a broken man. It's embarrassing and somewhat unnerving because it reminds us we all are broken in some way. We all put on, for the world, a face we know is a little phony, a face that hides, with mascara or a ...

403. Epiphany 8

Lk 6:39-49 · 1 Cor 15:51-58 · Jer 7:1-7 · Isa 55:10-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... a wave of anti-intellectualism in the religious community. "I feel" legitimizes behavior. Such "new pietiesm" (the Church experienced such a movement several hundred years ago) can become an insufferable tyranny, dividing head from heart and leading to emotional excess. A. Intelligence is God's good gift 1. It rescues us from emotional excess 2. It keeps us honest 3. It serves as a check on behavior B. God is above our intellect 1. We need to keep our reason in perspective: God is wiser than we are 2. God ...

404. Lent 2

Lk 9:18-36; 13:31-35 · Php 3:17--4:1 · Jer 26:8-15 · Gen 15:1-12, 17-18

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John R. Brokhoff

... given you an example." The people in the pew look up to the person in the pulpit as an example. Children look to parents as the kind of people they should become. 2. Tears (v. 18). Tears express deep emotion. They show how deeply we feel about the thing that brings tears. Some are afraid of expressing emotion in the church. To have tears is for some a sign of weakness or of being out of control. Paul is moved to tears over the unChristlike lives some church members are living. With tears he appeals to them ...

405. Sunday of the Passion

Lk 22:14--23:56 · Isa 50:4-7 · Php 2:6-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... law shows the moral integrity of Jesus' followers. They were good, godly, obedient people whose witness of the resurrection can be accepted with confidence. Lesson 1: Isaiah 50:4-9a 1. Disgrace. The suffering of the Messiah was not only physical but mental and emotional. This may be a worse form of hurt - hurt feelings. The Servant as a faithful follower of God endures shameful treatment. His enemies pull out his beard and spit in his face. Jesus endured this form of suffering: the soldiers dressed him up ...

406. Monday in Holy Week

Isaiah 42:1-9, Hebrews 9:11-28, John 12:1-11

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... your Son: Inspire our hearts with freedom to demonstrate our love and devotion, that we may be sincere in the faith and worship we express with our lips. In our Savior's name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We are people with emotions, Father, but we are afraid our emotions will conflict with our intelligence. So our devotion is controlled by what we think rather than by what we feel. Forgive us for love we have felt, but which we suppressed. Forgive us for love we have expressed, but which we did not ...

407. Christians Trust in God

Matthew 6:25-34

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Joe Pennel

... paralyzed by worry over our future. Despondency becomes a deep pit, with sheer walls, from which we cannot escape; we become virtual prisoners of fear and worry and may be immobilized by this combination of emotions and the mind. The trouble with any type of overwhelming concern is that it may make emotionally handicapped people of us, who are unable to live normal, productive lives. When we ought to be trusting God and pursuing life to the utmost, we find ourselves being consumed by forces in our lives ...

408. Ready or Not

Matthew 10:1-42

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... out their Christian discipleship things get stirred up. When God rules in the hearts and social relationships of his people, some unsettling always occurs. At times it happens within families. I have known seminarians, for example, who bore all kinds of emotional and financial family pressure, because they chose to leave the family farm or household and study for the ministry. I have known women who received abusive treatment from their husbands, because they felt the need to give themselves to the program ...

409. In Defense of the One-Talent Servant

Matthew 25:14-30

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... ’t misunderstand me, your Honor, I’m not trying to pass the buck (or should I say "talent?"). But I feel compelled to note that Five-Talent and Two-Talent have had an easy life compared to the defendant. One-Talent: (interrupting his attorney, speaking with emotion to the Judge) I only wanted to protect what I had. That’s all. Is that so terrible? I’m no more guilty than everybody here. Narrator: The silence in the courtroom is heavy with feeling as all who have come to the trial realize that they ...

410. Real Strength

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Harold Warlick

... wiping his eyes. Peter Ueberroth states flatly: "This young lady ... was the finest and strongest athlete that I ever saw."2 It takes real strength not to get trapped by your body, weak or strong. It takes real strength not to get trapped by your anger or your emotions. It takes real strength to deny yourself in order to contribute to others. It takes real strength to go out in public when all might laugh at you. It takes real strength to labor over and over again to reach a mighty and lofty goal. It takes ...

411. The Cracking Point

Mark 12:1-12

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Harold Warlick

... Then on Sunday after lunch all the aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters and assorted friends like me would bid one another farewell. My friend's father, Mr. W., was one of the nicest, most even-tempered persons I have ever met. He was always in command of his emotions. One Sunday, as we packed the car to return home, it started raining. All the relatives were gathered on the porch watching Mr. W. pack the trunk. His wife came out in the yard and stood there under her umbrella giving Mr. W. instructions. For 10 ...

412. Coping With Anger In A Close-up World

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Harold Warlick

... 't trying to be "far out" or overly dramatic. You see, he was not making the statement for the benefit of others but for our own benefit. In order to be free and healthy, we must pray for those who we think are our enemies. We must channel those emotions into something positive or like the rattlesnake we will bite ourselves to pieces. Anger is a form of energy. We can say "forget it." But no one can do that. Energy cannot be destroyed. It can only be converted into another form of energy. Do you pray for ...

413. Proper 20 & Pentecost 18

Matthew 20:1-16, Philippians 1:12-30, Philippians 1:1-11, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Jonah 4:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13, Psalm 27:1-14, Psalm 145:1-21, Psalm 106:1-48

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... had not responded to him, the loving and faithful son, who had shared so much with his father; close to tears, he had to leave the room, go out in the hall, where his emotions took over and his resentment poured out. The setting and the plot of the story are different, but the drama and the human emotions - resentment and selfishness - between this incident in the life of a man who went on to become a famous scientist and writer are essentially the same as in the parable Jesus told about the landowner ...

414. Pentecost 23

Exodus 22:16-31, Leviticus 19:1-37, Ruth 2:1-23, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16, Matthew 22:34-40, Matthew 22:41-46, Psalm 1:1-6

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... response of Christians to the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. The cross of Christ frees persons from the threat of the law, and it also makes new creatures out of people who are able to love God and each other. 2. Godly love is more than mere emotion. It is emotion that is informed by knowledge of God's good and gracious actions toward his creatures in the Garden of Eden, in the beginnings of Israel, from Egypt to Calgary to wherever we are in his world. That is the kind of love that will really be two ...

415. The Precepts of the Lord

Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:7-14

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... figure out on our own, naturally, were it not for our ignorance and passion. Ignorance about God’s law needs no comment. I will comment on passion because I see that a few heads are beginning to nod. Passion refers to the overriding of morality by emotion. Somehow, passion is supposed to make a violation of God’s law a little more understandable. For example, it is to the advantage of someone on trial for the defense counsel to convince the jury that while the crime was indeed committed, it was a crime ...

416. On Mars Hill

Acts 17:16-34

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... Life was to be lived moderately, carefully, and impassively. Strange to their ears was Jewish talk of laws given by God and of punishment for sin. Despite their great learning, the things Paul spoke about seemed beyond the pale of reason. His emotional and heated arguing stirred up their resistance. "What is this babbler saying?" they asked. The original word for "babbler" means a cock sparrow who flits about the marketplace picking up almost invisible scraps from the ground. The "babbler" therefore was one ...

417. Surprise! Surprise!

Matthew 25:31-46

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Michael L. Sherer

... the pure air of the gospel and enjoy its healing power can debate the issue. We know the architect is right. Intellectually we don’t have any difficulty with it. Perhaps we have no problems with it emotionally either. But that might be saying more to our credit than we have a right. It may well be a terrible emotional hurdle for us to leap across, to push our boundaries out to match those of the architect. It’s not hard to understand how and why it happens. All God’s children have a ghetto mentality ...

418. For He Shall Save His People

Matthew 1:18-25

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Staff

... . God has sent us a Savior, and there are a whole lot of people who don’t want to be saved. Well, you say, how ridiculous. Everyone wants to be saved. On an intellectual basis, perhaps, but on an emotional basis where decisions are really made ( and I am convinced that most of our decisions in life are emotional ones and not intellectual ones—I think studies prove this) I am not so sure that we do want salvation. Indeed, I think that we even resist salvation. Oh, it is true that we sing songs in church ...

419. For He Shall Save His People - Sermon Starter

Matthew 1:18-25

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... God has sent us a Savior, and there are a whole lot of people who don't want to be saved. Well, you say, how ridiculous. Everyone wants to be saved. On an intellectual basis, perhaps, but on an emotional basis where decisions are really made (and I am convinced that most of our decisions in life are emotional ones and not intellectual ones --I think studies prove this) I am not so sure that we do want salvation. Indeed, I think that we even resist salvation. Oh, it is true that we sing songs in church like ...

420. The Joy of Sorrow?

Matthew 5:4

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Wallace H. Kirby

... the grievers, those who sorrow, are dressed all sorts of ways in rags, tags, velvet gowns. Scratch the surface of any one of us, and you will find some kind of sorrow or heartache. Can there also be joy here? Our minds have tried to deal with this universal, emotion in four different ways. The first is to deny the reality of it. Simply say there is no pain, loss, or suffering. Bury your head in the sand and refuse to see it. This is the method of the Christian Scientist. Such a denier was once asked what he ...

421. Do We Want to See?

Luke 6:17-26

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Wallace H. Kirby

... could find it relatively easy to obey. But the meaning goes much deeper, so deep in fact, that we wonder if any of us wants to see God. The word "heart" in the Bible means the whole personality, the mind, will, and emotions. Those whose minds, wills, and emotions are unmixed, unadulterated, and unalloyed in motive will see God. That’s the reason it is so demanding: Blessed is the man whose motives are always entirely unmixed. It is seldom that we act from absolutely unmixed motives. If we give generously ...

422. THE BEAUTY OF SELF-LOVE

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John H. Krahn

... is not. In order to have the beauty of self-love, the Bible states that we must get our love priorities in order. The first object of our love must be God. The love God wishes demands the action of our whole personality. All of our being: moral, emotional, intellectual, and physical must go into our love of God. Only this is completely acceptable to God, and only this is adequate for his shaping of our lives. When we give God a mere fraction of ourselves, God himself becomes a mere fraction of what he might ...

423. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

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Robert Noblett

... blind and at least one of my people has the use of only one eye. What’s more, we have many who are dependent upon walkers and wheelchairs for their mobility. Then too, we have people with cognitive and organic deficiencies and, in addition, people with emotional handicaps. Fact of the matter is, handicaps are all about us and maybe we even count ourselves among the handicapped (we have even borrowed that term for use in the game of golf which may be a rather flippant use of an expression that far too ...

424. The Un-Parade

Matthew 16:21-28, Luke 19:28-44

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Robert Noblett

... I have felt the presence of God are when his praise has been spontaneously upon my lips. Wordsworth was making the same point when he wrote of poetry: "I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."1 Maybe the most genuine expressions of faith are those that catch us by surprise and emerge before we can even plan for them. Isn’t this precisely what happened to Janus when he remarked to Jesus, "I believe; help thou my ...

425. Are You Still Frightened of the Dark?

Genesis 1:1-5 · John 1:4-5 · Psalm 139:11-12

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Robert Noblett

... accountability. And I think of Jairus and his little daughter and how Jesus helped that father move from the darkness that found him thinking his daughter near death to the point of illumination where he learned his daughter to be not physically sick but emotionally troubled. What’s more, for Christian people, Jesus Christ is the "light," inasmuch as he lays before them the avenues that lead to life. Utilizing these twin themes, John in his Prologue declares of Jesus: In him was life, and the life was the ...

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401. What Makes Us Human?

Isaiah 6:1-13

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Louis H. Valbracht

402. Repent!

Acts 2:14-41

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403. Epiphany 8

Lk 6:39-49 · 1 Cor 15:51-58 · Jer 7:1-7 · Isa 55:10-13

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John R. Brokhoff

404. Lent 2

Lk 9:18-36; 13:31-35 · Php 3:17--4:1 · Jer 26:8-15 · Gen 15:1-12, 17-18

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John R. Brokhoff

405. Sunday of the Passion

Lk 22:14--23:56 · Isa 50:4-7 · Php 2:6-11

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John R. Brokhoff

406. Monday in Holy Week

Isaiah 42:1-9, Hebrews 9:11-28, John 12:1-11

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407. Christians Trust in God

Matthew 6:25-34

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Joe Pennel

408. Ready or Not

Matthew 10:1-42

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409. In Defense of the One-Talent Servant

Matthew 25:14-30

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410. Real Strength

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Harold Warlick

411. The Cracking Point

Mark 12:1-12

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Harold Warlick

412. Coping With Anger In A Close-up World

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Harold Warlick

413. Proper 20 & Pentecost 18

Matthew 20:1-16, Philippians 1:12-30, Philippians 1:1-11, Exodus 32:1-33:6, Jonah 4:1-11, Isaiah 55:1-13, Psalm 27:1-14, Psalm 145:1-21, Psalm 106:1-48

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414. Pentecost 23

Exodus 22:16-31, Leviticus 19:1-37, Ruth 2:1-23, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16, Matthew 22:34-40, Matthew 22:41-46, Psalm 1:1-6

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415. The Precepts of the Lord

Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:7-14

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416. On Mars Hill

Acts 17:16-34

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CSS

417. Surprise! Surprise!