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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Johnny Dean
... from the parking lot of one of the local hospitals. He went on to state his belief that morality in America today is on the decline, especially in the large cities, and he further stated that the cause for this decline, in his opinion, has been the intentional, systematic removal of all discussion of religion for the educational institutions of America, beginning with the Supreme Court decisions of 1963 and 1964 which banned first Bible reading and then public prayer from the classroom. I partially agree ...
427. In and Out of Favor
Luke 1:5-25, Acts 14:8-20
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How quickly the opinion of crowd can change (cf. Acts 14:8-19). Amazingly, these were the same people who, moments ago, "were speaking well of Him". Fast forward three years and we witness another extreme shift in attitude during Jesus' last week of ministry. "Hosanna" (an expression of adoration to God) would swiftly ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... know not what they do." One of the most difficult lessons we all have to learn, and one of the most difficult prayers we all have to pray, is to keep from making judgments. We are so judgmental that we make statements about one another, formulate opinions, direct ridicule toward each other without stopping to try to understand. Some years ago I heard a minister relate an experience that taught him never to make prejudgments. He was a Methodist and had just been assigned a new church. Trying to get to know ...
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Ron Lavin
... why doubt has caused us so much trouble is that our doubting has been done as if we were the measure of things, as if our doubting and questioning determined truth, as if we ourselves could vote on whether or not God is important, as if our opinions were the most important issue of all. Doubt is a legitimate exercise, a meaningful experience for a limited human being, but if in doubting, man sees himself as the measure of all things, he will remain in what John Bunyan in Pilgrim's Progress calls the "Sloth ...
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Ron Lavin
... So, even a man of God can fall into the trap of feeling sorry for himself. So, after great victories, people can be particularly vulnerable to temptations. The scene is set. The tension has peaked. The drama unfolds. The man of God, the only one left, in his opinion, is ready to give up. What will God do? First, Elijah, standing on a great rock on a great mountain just outside his cave, feels a wind beginning to blow. His hopes rise. "Maybe God will be in the wind." But no. Trees tumble. Rocks fall. But God ...
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Ron Lavin
... we are not ... Why, you are ... So am I ... The sores are ... gone. It has been years since I smelled fresh air. My God! I am clean ... We are all clean. Clean. Are we really clean? Feel. See. Touch. Smell. Everybody is clean. "What to do next? There are different opinions. 'I must run home and see my wife.' 'I'll bet my son is grown.' "Don't you think ..." I started to say. "I can return to my business.' 'I can go to my friends.' 'Don't you think that we should ...' " I started again. My voice trailed off ...
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Ron Lavin
... as a military leader. "Force ... I will have to use force," I thought. "No man has been able to govern these Jews," my Roman friends said. "They refuse to be conquered and they constantly bicker. When two of them come together you'll hear three opinions on any topic," they said. Force is necessary when words fail. The Jews. They are radical about being ruled. Some of them are Zealots who would revolt if I was not firm. They are quite particular about their religious customs. They are fanatic about belief ...
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Larry Powell
... , or well spent - depends largely upon you. Time does not provide content to your life; you provide content for it. Be careful what you say about time, for you run the risk of exposing yourself. To say, "I don't have time for that," usually expresses your opinion about "that" instead of your schedule. To say, "I have plenty of time," is to say more than we know. Sometimes people say Church is a waste of time. Are they describing the Church or themselves? We are inclined from time to time to think that we ...
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Larry Powell
... his will. He has placed his treasure in, as Paul phrased it, "common clay pots, to show that the supreme power belongs to God and not to us." (2 Corinthians 4:7) To forget that would be the biggest blunder of all. SUCCESS: ONE MAN'S OPINION Ralph Waldo Emerson's early life was marked by poverty, frustration and sickness. His father, a Unitarian minister, died in 1811, leaving Ralph's mother to raise five sons. One of Emerson's younger brothers was mentally retarded and spent most of his life in institutions ...
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James W. Moore
... in Martha. We may find ourselves… or someone we know… somewhere between the lines. When Jesus looked at Martha that day, He saw deep down inside of her… first of all… the dangerous attitude of… I. RESENTMENT… Martha was resenting Mary. In my opinion, there is nothing more destructive to our spiritual lives than resentment. It can absolutely ruin your life… and Jesus knew it. It concerned Him to see this dangerous attitude of resentment in Martha. In the Greek language, there are two words for ...
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James W. Moore
... ! It’s O.K. to learn from and speak out of your own personal experience. As the scriptures put it… “Jesus spoke with authority… not as the Scribes and Pharisees.” In Jesus’ day, if you asked a Scribe a question, he would not give his own personal opinion. He would say, “I’ll go look it up”… and then he would quote someone or some tradition. Not so with Jesus… if you ask Him a question, He would tell a parable or tell you what He thought. Sometimes, He would even say, “You have heard ...
437. Monologue: Hannah
1 Samuel 1:1-20
Drama
Lynda Pujad
... desire for myself. As I was talking to God, Eli the priest suspected that I was intoxicated and he complained to me about it. I felt humiliated. Eli had to be convinced about the genuineness of my purpose in the temple. After he listened to me, he changed his opinion about me and hoped I would receive God's blessing. Shortly thereafter, I did conceive and bear a child and I named him Samuel. I never forgot my promise to give the child to the Lord to be trained and used for his purposes. It never occurred to ...
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Carl Jech
Introduction I shouldn't have much trouble keeping you awake today! Since the word prison brings to mind such topics as crime, victims' rights, vigilantee justice, and jailed demonstrators, I have little doubt that most of us have strong feelings and opinions on these and related issues.The most famous line in our text for today brings into particular focus the issue of civil disobedience for the sake of conscience. Having miraculously escaped from prison where they had been placed for disobeying the order ...
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Carl Jech
... touch with their religious traditions are like people who say "I've listened to enough concerts, I've read enough books, I quit." Then he adds: "There are concerts, books waiting. Why deprive yourself?" Peli reminds us that the Jewish Talmud encourages and welcomes differing opinions. It assumes that we will do new thinking on old issues but that we will always check these new ideas and new issues against a tradition that is more than 3000 years old. It has been said that if progressive John XXIII had been ...
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Carl Jech
... is just a poor imitation of the "idea of chairness," it is not particularly valuable or important. For Plato, a painting of a chair was particularly useless and valueless because it was nothing but "an imitation of an imitation!" Plato had a very low opinion of art and artists because he felt that art was just too far removed from Reality. Plato would not have appreciated John's words about the glorification of Jesus as representing and symbolizing the glorification of God. The Bible, on the other hand ...
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Carl Jech
... , in society. The problematic element in Confucianism is that it fosters such total reverence for cultural community and traditions that ethics is reduced to little more than etiquette! Moses and the prophets were able to criticize even the most popular opinions or officials of their day on the basis of ethical principles that transcended mere cultural prejudices. It remained for Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, to make this kind of ethical thought and critisim legitimate in China. Narrow-minded, culturally ...
Bulletin Aid
Carl Hoefler
... loved us even in our sin. Amen. Prayer of Confession Our Father, we need friends, and you have given them to us. But many of them we have turned into enemies, not because we have wanted to, but because of human nature, personality conflicts, and differences of opinion. Forgive us for not overcoming that which makes enemies out of friends. Forgive us for our failure to make friends out of our enemies. Grant us the love to be merciful, as you have been with us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Hymns "At Length ...
Bulletin Aid
James Wilson
... to share faithfully Your Gospel. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, You have called upon us to share Your wonderful salvation with those around us, but we have often been reluctant or we have been "too busy." We have let the opinions others might have about us keep us from boldly sharing Your love. Forgive us, Lord, and fill us anew with Your presence. Send us again to proclaim Your Gospel to the world. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "Softly And Tenderly" "Count Your Blessings" "This ...
Bulletin Aid
James Wilson
... , You have given us Your love and the hope of eternity, and You ask in return only that we spread Your Good News. Lord, help us share Your Gospel effectively. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, too often in our lives we have allowed the opinions of others to be more important to us than being faithful to You. Somehow, Lord, we allow ourselves to fear the rejection of our "friends" if we try to share Your Gospel more than we fear Your eternal rejection if we do not share Christ. Forgive us ...
Bulletin Aid
James Wilson
... others might come to know about and receive Your salvation. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, we often chase after the things of the world, thinking they will give us peace, joy, and life, instead of seeking Your will for us. Too often we have let the opinions of others be more important to us than Your Word. Forgive us, Lord, and help us refocus our lives toward You and the living message of the cross. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "Freely, Freely" "Bring Them In" "Jesus Saves"
446. Talk! Talk! Talk!
Jeremiah 1:1-19
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... attempts to dissect the experience of a person encountering God in the sublime height of that experience. May God forgive those who feel compelled to make intriguing interpretations of what actually takes place in the silent sanctuary of a person's soul. There is always the implied opinion that if you have not experienced such an encounter, then you don't know God, you don't know Jesus Christ. I have come to the conclusion that the tales told by persons about "the night I met the Lord" or "the day I gave my ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... consciousness that you, my friend, stand in the presence of your Creator! That's an awesome fact before which I shrivel. I hope you do. You are not here to worship yourself, nor am I, any more than I am standing here in this pulpit to express a personal opinion. You won't want, then, to drop the "Thees" and "Thous" any more than the dignity and good order of worship. You won't quite be able to say, "Come, you Almighty King," or "Christ, you Lamb of God." You want to stay at the distance that dignity and ...
448. The Law of the Spirit
John 13:34
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Brett Blair
... one another." Did you catch it? A law telling us, no, commanding us to love. Rev. Richard Daggett says, this law invades the very depths of our beings; this law presumes to have jurisdiction over the way we think, the way we feel, over our opinions, our prejudices and biases, our concepts of superiority, over the way every fiber of our being, both inward and outward, responds to the world around us. And then Richard says this: This law clarifies to us that while religion and law may exercise lordship over ...
449. Members of a Family
John 17:20-26
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John M. Braaten
... your family is like my family, your day-today operation is not marked with constant good will and cooperation. Parents can disagree with each other, or the children, or the youngsters with each other. There are so many possibilities for dissension - goals will vary, opinions often differ and wills may clash. I think the reason for the popularity of the television cartoon "The Simpsons" is that it lays bare some of the battles which are fought in the arenas of many homes. Apparently there is some comfort in ...
Sermon
... , And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find me, unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. From what we've learned of McVeigh's attitudes and opinions, those lines probably come as close as any to a philosophy of life for him. Even to the point of ending the appeals process, McVeigh sought to be the master of his fate. But of course he's not. And in a letter written just a day before his death ...
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