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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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4326. Persistent Prayer

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Jill J. Duffield

... story, the sure and certain end of God’s salvation story and therefore, ours. That is the divine telos of justice, reconciliation, resurrection, as well as life eternal and abundant. The immorality of that judge was immaterial in the face of God’s unchanging character. Our own limitations cannot thwart divine will, not ultimately. Some days we will relish when it is revealed that the emperor has no clothes but many, many days we will recognize that the least of these are forced to live on less and less ...

4327. The Grande Masquerade

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

In 1842, Edgar Allen Poe wrote a disturbing short story called “The Masque of the Red Death.” The story follows a character named Prince Prospero during a time in which a strain of plague is causing people throughout the land to bleed to death. Confident that he can outwit and escape “death,” Prospero seals himself and a large number of his friends inside of his abbey away from the outside world. He ...

4328. Spiritual Perception

Mark 1:11

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Gary Preston

Back when the telegraph was the fastest means of long-distance communication, there was a story, perhaps apocryphal, about a young man who applied for a job as a Morse code operator. Answering an ad in the newspaper, he went to the address that was listed. When he arrived, he entered a large, noisy office. In the background a telegraph clacked away. A sign on the receptionist's counter instructed job applicants to fill out a form and wait until they were summoned to enter the inner office. The young man ...

4329. Feeling Like…

Matthew 28:16-20

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Paul van Dine

Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick related a story from his own childhood. His father had said to his mother, upon leaving the house one Saturday in the morning hours: "Tell Harry that he can cut the grass today, if he feels like it." Then, halfway down the walk, his father turned once more to add: "And tell Harry that he had better feel like it." Well, in its own rather humorous way, there is something essential about life wrapped up in that. For there is a difference between knowing we are supposed to do ...

4330. The Power of God Is Real

Matthew 28:16-20

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Paul van Dine

In David Dunn's book entitled "Giving Yourself Away," he tells of a lesson he learned from a bus driver whom he once had met. Riding the bus this day, Dunn noticed a driver who was exceptionally cheerful in every imaginable circumstance. There was a kind and happy word from him for everyone who stepped on the bus, and again for everyone who left. As he was about to get off, Dunn told the driver he was the happiest bus driver he had ever seen and wondered what the reason was. "Well," the driver said, "to be ...

4331. Forgive Us Our Christmases

Luke 2:22-40

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Mike Motsko

Is it just me or does it seem to you as well that with each Christmas the activity surrounding the holidays just gets more and more hectic? It is not difficult to lose one’s perspective at Christmas. I recall the story about an 8-year-old girl who had a most disappointing Christmas. She didn’t get the gifts she hoped to receive. She got into arguments with her older brother. Her mother walked into their play area to find her fighting with him and she was blamed. She took her anger out on the cat and found ...

4332. In the President's Pockets

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Charles Swindoll

About halfway through a PBS program on the Library of Congress, Dr. Daniel Boorstin, the Librarian of Congress, brought out a little blue box from a small closet that once held the library's rarities. The label on the box read: "Contents of the president's pockets on the night of April 14, 1865. Since that was the fateful night Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, every viewer's attention was seized. Boorstin then proceeded to remove the items in the small container and display them on camera. There were five ...

4333. A Cultural Shift in Decline

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Charles Swindoll

Sociologist and historian Carle Zimmerman, in his 1947 book Family and Civilization, recorded his keen observations as he compared the disintegration of various cultures with the parallel decline of family life in those cultures. Eight specific patterns of domestic behavior typified the downward spiral of each culture Zimmerman studied. Marriage loses its sacredness...is frequently broken by divorce. Traditional meaning of the marriage ceremony is lost. Feminist movements abound. Increased public ...

4334. The Last Time

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Charles Swindoll

There was a couple (let's call them Carl and Clara) whose twenty-five year marriage was a good one. Not the most idyllic, but good. They now had three grown children who loved them dearly. They were also blessed with sufficient financial security to allow them room to dream about a lakeside retirement home. They began looking. A widower we'll call Ben was selling his place. They liked it a lot and returned home to talk and plan. Months passed. That fall, right out of the blue, Clara told Carl she wanted a ...

4335. Training for Delinquency

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Charles Swindoll

How to Train Your Child to be a Delinquent When your kid is still an infant, give him everything he wants. This way he'll think the world owes him a living when he grows up. When he picks up swearing and off-color jokes, laugh at him, encourage him. As he grows up, he will pick up "cuter" phrases that will floor you. Never give him any spiritual training. Wait until he is twenty-one and let him decide for himself. Avoid using the word "wrong." It will give your child a guilt complex. You can condition him ...

4336. A Little Privacy Please

Mark 6:30-56

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Charles Swindoll

A research psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health was convinced he could prove his theory from a cage full of mice. His name? Dr. John Calhoun. His theory? Overcrowded conditions take a terrible toll on humanity. Dr. Calhoun built a nine-foot square cage for selected mice. He observed them closely as their population grew. He started with eight mice. The cage was designed to contain comfortably a population of 160. He allowed the mice to grow, however, to a population of 2200. They were ...

4337. Art from Ruins

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Charles Swindoll

Years ago, an angry man rushed through the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam until he reached Rembrandt's famous painting "Nightwatch." Then he took out a knife and slashed it repeatedly before he could be stopped. A short time later, a distraught, hostile man slipped into St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome with a hammer and began to smash Michelangelo's beautiful sculpture The Pieta. Two cherished works of art were severely damaged. But what did officials do? Throw them out and forget about them? Absolutely not! Using ...

4338. A Striking Encounter with Wildlife

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Charles Swindoll

While hunting deer in the Tehema Wildlife Area near Red Bluff in northern California, Jay Rathman climbed to a ledge on the slope of a rocky gorge. As he raised his head to look over the ledge above, he sensed movement to the right of his face. A coiled rattler struck with lightning speed, just missing Rathman's right ear. The four-foot snake's fangs got snagged in the neck of Rathman's wool turtleneck sweater, and the force of the strike caused it to land on his left shoulder. It then coiled around his ...

4339. Skunk Run

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Charles Swindoll

A funny thing happened in Darlington, Maryland, many years ago. Edith, a mother of eight, was coming home from a neighbor's house one Saturday afternoon. Things seemed too quiet as she walked across her front yard. Curious, she peered through the screen door and saw five of her youngest children huddled together, concentrating on something. As she crept closer to them, trying to discover the center of attention, she could not believe her eyes. Smack dab in the middle of the circle were five baby skunks. ...

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4326. Persistent Prayer

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Jill J. Duffield

4327. The Grande Masquerade

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

4328. Spiritual Perception

Mark 1:11

Illustration

Gary Preston

4329. Feeling Like…

Matthew 28:16-20

Illustration

Paul van Dine

4330. The Power of God Is Real

Matthew 28:16-20

Illustration

Paul van Dine

4331. Forgive Us Our Christmases

Luke 2:22-40

Illustration

Mike Motsko

4332. In the President's Pockets

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

4333. A Cultural Shift in Decline

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

4334. The Last Time

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

4335. Training for Delinquency

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

4336. A Little Privacy Please

Mark 6:30-56

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

4337. Art from Ruins

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

4338. A Striking Encounter with Wildlife

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

4339. Skunk Run

Humor Illustration

Charles Swindoll

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