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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Drama
Marcia Miller
... We hadn’t really planned on the extra people. Mary quietly came to our table and said she would take care of the problem. I thought she meant she would have the waiters go to buy more wine. But before anyone could stop her, Mary went to Jesus and told him ... down the street. The parents of the children would duck into stores or turn the other way just to avoid me. It was as if they thought it was my fault that I was deformed. I tried to maintain a normalcy in my life, but I was alone and I was lonely. One ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... with Samaritans?" This was bait for an argument about Jewish-Samaritan differences. Jesus would not take the bait. In verse 10 Jesus switches the subject to the mysterious topic of "living water." He said, "If you knew who I am, you would ask me for living water." She thought it was rather foolish to talk about living water with a man who didn't even have a bucket. In verse 16, Jesus touches a point of brokenness in her life. He says, "Go get your husband and then come talk with me." "But I'm not married ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... it." It can happen to any layman, also. A young lady who had grown into Christian maturity became engaged in serious and meaningful prayer. She daily sought the will of God for her life. This led to resistance at home. Her parents called her a fanatic. They thought it was all right for her to go to church, but anything beyond that was going too far. By word and example her parents discouraged her in her Christian descipleship. When a member of a family puts Christ first in his life while the other members ...
404. Salvation as Hope
Romans 13:8-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
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T. A. Kantonen
... apostle was obliged in the second letter to warn them against being "quickly shaken in mind or excited" (2 Thessalonians 2:1-2) and to give practical instructions for living in the present world. But the expectation of the parousia continues to condition Paul’s thought even in the later epistles, as when he writes to the Corinthians: "The appointed time has grown very short; from now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those ...
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Kent Moorehead
... of Communists. It is just as true of the left as it is of the right. The worst sin you can commit, from the standpoint of the Communists, is any sort of deviation from the line, and they will do all things to coerce you into that kind of thought control. This is abhorrent to the liberal. There must be tolerance. We come then to the fifth major characteristic, which is the test or the guide on which liberals rely. Not in any absolute sense, but as a major guide, there is reason. The supremacy of reason - my ...
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Bill Bouknight
... about how it's easier to sleep in the dark and we all need rest. But Mary interrupted, saying, "I know why it gets dark at night. That's when God puts the world in his pocket." What a brilliant statement by a little person of faith. What a comforting thought...to be in God's pocket as we sleep. Jesus is not calling us to be naive or simplistic. He is calling us to trust in God as completely as a little child trusts a parent. Jesus wants us to be confident that when we read the Bible intelligently, it ...
407. Well, What's for Sure?
2 Timothy 1:1-2:13
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... isn’t. It’s at the heart of every human life. Think of how limited Helen Keller was in obtaining provable certainties. She could not hear. She could not see. She could not speak. But when they were finally able to communicate with her and the time had come, they thought, to tell her about God, she could only answer: "But I have known Him all along. You have only told me His name." I don’t care who you are. I don’t care how modest you are about your own intellect. I don’t care what they put down ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... at a piece of ground, another looking at a yoke of oxen, another taking care of a new bride. They missed the feast. They apparently thought that there would be another one that they could go to. As I see lives end, as T. S. Eliot puts it, "with a whimper, ... me that I’m going to get rid of my bad habits. I’m going to change my way of living. I’m going to be more thoughtful of others. I’m going to make better use of my time. Well, perhaps next summer. How many are the new leaves that we are all going ...
409. Chapter VI
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... bring the man into being in order to live, and develop, and grow. God did not go to all of the trouble fashioning the man to have the life impulse he gave to him squeezed out of him by another of his kind when he came along. Man had been "thought up" and "put together" to inhabit the Lord’s earth and in the process learn what it means to be a man, especially God’s man. And God wanted that learning, developing, and maturing process to last for a long time, because it was a holy man who was involved ...
410. Chapter VII
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... are born in sin," I know what runs through the minds of many of the people who hear those words. The "sin" mentioned, many think, refers to the sexual act that produced the child now at the font, as a similar "sin" produced the parents. If they thought about it a little, most of these persons might drop the "sin" label, but the fact remains, that for a lot of people the conceptual act still seems somewhat "carnal," or "fleshly." That kind of appraisal of sex isn’t tied up with this Commandment. This guide ...
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Michael J. Anton
... a nerve-wracking process. It was a waste of good time. And it was motivated by fear that either the Lord might come like a thief in the night or that my life might be ended suddenly - in either case I was afraid I would be found with some foul thought in my mind. And therefore, I would not be accepted. What I was doing, of course, was playing my own savior. I felt compelled to save my own mind by my tricky little formulas. And I completely distorted and denied the meaning of the Gospel. I had to give the ...
Drama
Georgianna Summers
... had sat down next to him. Katie: You didn’t have to ask her to get up so I could sit there. Becky: I had to think of some excuse. Besides that, you were the one who wanted to sit next to him. Katie: Me! You were the one who thought he was so cute. Becky: Who cares? I like Tom better, anyway. [Robbie enters.] Robbie: Are you girls still talking about boys? Honestly, don’t you ever think of anything else? Katie: What else is there to think of? Robbie: Legends, that’s what. They’re due this period, and ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... as we see all the Peanuts kids go wildly screaming about. Finally in the last square we see all of the children huddled on the top of Snoopy’s doghouse waiting for the end of the world. And Charles finally speaks up with a puzzled voice: I thought that Elijah was supposed to come back first. Well, Charles Brown knew his Bible. Elijah was supposed to come back before the end time. So the disciples have heard the people talking about Jesus as if he was Elijah. But, others said that Jesus was John the ...
414. Blessed among Women
Luke 1:39-45, 1 Samuel 2:1-11
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Erskine White
... wonder and God of light, we continue to stand in awe at the way You brought Your Son into the world, and we thank You for the ordinary people who helped You do it. In particular, we thank You for the service of Mary, whose courage, faith and thoughtful serenity continue to appeal to us today. We ask that the example she set inspire our own virtues, helping us to rise above the world’s worship of self to follow Mary’s higher path of humility, obedience and self-giving service. Most of all, dear God, we ...
Sermon
Carl E. Zahrte
... to see men die like that, and I said a silent prayer of thanks to God Almighty that I was not in their position. Soon, I thought, I’ll be in the temple courts, praising God for his mercy, and praying for the deliverance he had promised to his people. But I surely ... seemed that the sun refused to shine, I heard him cry out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" I had been angry because I thought God had turned his back on me. I had been forced to go out of my way to do a dirty job I didn’t want to ...
Drama
Curt M. Joseph
... for the sacrifices and also good Hebrew currency so that the Temple offerings can be received. Caiaphas: Yes, my father, you thought of everything. We provide the priests to inspect the animals of the people, and when your priests find their animals ... nation on the face of the earth. Annas: To do any less would be to deny the purpose for which he came. Judas: That is what I thought, but I just didn’t know what to do. Caiaphas: Just tell us where he is and we will do the rest. Judas: (with suspicion) What? ...
417. A Thimble Full Of Ocean
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
Sermon
Larry Powell
... the corner of his eye he watched the ant approach a gap between the two cushions. It paused, appeared puzzled, looking first one way and then another. Finally, it descended down the edge of one cushion and climbed slowly upon the other. Weatherhead remarked that, as he thought back about it, he wished he had helped the ant across the gap but was afraid he would only have frightened it or "muddled" things up. The ant, he said, had no idea of his presence, nor was it conscious of the dramatic oratory that was ...
418. The Remote
John 14:5-14
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... FLY: We're not connecting here. I asked you if you ever really learned anything and you tell me you got good grades. There's a difference, you know. SUSAN: I had the best teachers. FLY: Great! But did you ever question anything they told you? (PAUSE) Just as I thought. You never did, did you? Didn't you ever wonder if what those teachers were teaching was the truth? SUSAN: Wasn't it? I mean, it was in the books, wasn't it? FLY: Whoa! Reality check. How do you know that what was in the books was truth? SUSAN ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... great men on earth who had met a violent death possessed great powers in the spirit world. Some, therefore, believed that Jesus was literally John the Baptist, come back to life, or sent back from heaven. In fact King Herod himself believed this and trembled at the thought. In Mark 6:16 it reads: “ This man is John the Baptist, whom I beheaded, and he has been raised from the dead.” Herod had heard all of these miraculous stories of Jesus and he just knew it was John the Baptist come back from the grave ...
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... we invent for ourselves. Comfortable with familiar ideas, we never venture far from our intellectual neighborhood. Too often satisfied with the palliatives of platitudes and cliches, we avoid the unfamiliar and unknown. Fixed in the routine of set social habits and acceptable patterns of thought, we tend to conclude there is nothing new under the sun, and that as things have been, they always shall be. O God of the universe, mind and energy of all that is and is to be, forgive us our smallness of mind and ...
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... , and I now await the end of my life" (quoted in Ferris, p. 89). Some years ago a man boasted to me of his extensive travels, impressive education, and vast experience, and that as a consequence he was convinced there was nothing new under the sun. How sad, I thought. How tragic to enclose yourself in such a prison. But then again, many of us get in that mood from time to time. So then tonight, let us with the shepherds bow the knee to mystery. Let us with the poets and prophets, physicists and philosophers ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... He shrugged a little and left my class and my life. Later, I heard a report that Tom had graduated, and I was duly grateful. Then a sad report, Tommy had a terminal illness. Before I could search him out, he came to see me. “Tommy, I’ve thought about you so often. I hear you are sick.” “O yes, very sick.”… “Can you talk about it?” “Sure. What would you like to know?” “What’s it like to be only 24 and dying?” “Well, it could be worse.” “Like what?” “Well, like being 50 and ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... attractive, outgoing, personable, radiant, and happy. She was an only child and her parents were devoted to her and so proud of her. A member of his church she did a youth “speak-out” in an evening worship service. Her words were inspired and thoughtful from the pulpit that night. She was so wholesome, so clean-cut, so full of life. But, the next morning, an urgent ringing of the telephone. It was Jessica’s mother alarmed, concerned, frightened saying that Jessica had been taken to the emergency room ...
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David E. Leininger
... barn where the children's pony was stabled. Warm shelter. He put on his coat and galoshes and tramped through the deepening snow. He opened the barn door wide and turned on a light. But the birds did not come in. "Food. That will bring them in," he thought. So he hurried back to the house for bread crumbs which he sprinkled on the snow to make a trail into the barn. To his dismay, the birds ignored the crumbs and continued to flop around helplessly. He tried shooing them into the barn by walking around and ...
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David E. Leininger
... scriptures and see the accounts of the ancient Israelites, again and again the picture is one of relatedness - related by blood through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; related by tribe through the sons of Jacob; related by faith through their allegiance to Yahweh. In fact, the picture often is the nation thought of in terms of just one person - in Isaiah, Israel is called the "suffering servant"; in Hosea, the nation is shown as the unfaithful wife; in the historical books, the good or evil deeds of the king are ...
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