Sermon and Worship Resources

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

Showing 426 to 450 of 4653 results

426. Healing And Forgiveness

Luke 5:17-26

Sermon

... was in this crowd a man who was paralyzed. He and his friends knew that they must get close to this Jesus in order for him to be able to be healed. The friends must have been men of great faith, and they would not be deterred from reaching the touch of the Master. Since they could not get in the door, they decided to dismantle the roof, and gain entry in this way. One lesson which this passage teaches us then is that the faith of this crippled man's friends played an important part in his healing. It says ...

427. The Miracle Comes at the Breaking

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Various Authors

... few loaves and fish. Thus they would remember the awesome moment when Jesus took a boy’s luncheon loaf in hand, looked to his Father in prayer, and began to satisfy the hunger of a great crowd by the miracle of what happened to crumbs of bread under his touch. This is certainly possible, even likely. It’s quite probable that these two men were part of the crowd on that special occasion, and if they were, they would no doubt have an indelible memory of the event. But most of all, I think, it is that this ...

428. This God’s For Real!

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

... for a year or so. Simon Peter, like the others in the gospel band, had been with Jesus every step of the course from the first day he had left his nets at Galilee and taken up with him. The gospel story Matthew tells is one of healing, touching, teaching, caring, curing. Or, to put it otherwise: The God whom Peter saw in Christ was one who "bothered with" creation to the uttermost - to totally identifying with it. There was no god in the ancient world’s experience to match such a deity. Nor has there been ...

429. Changing the "Too Much Syndrome"

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

David M. Oliver

... it or seen pictures of this majestic work of art. In one scene, Michelangelo depicts God reaching with a strong, outstretched arm toward Adam, the first human. Adam is also reaching, but with bent elbow, somewhat more tentatively, back to God. Their fingers do not quite touch. What the artist re-creates, however, is a reminder of another thin place: the time when God began creating humanity in God's image and called us good (Genesis 1:31). These places and stories remind us that God has been reaching out to ...

430. If You Had But One Request

1 Kings 3:1-15

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... is a deeper need, for he said, "Man does not live by bread alone." What is wealth without wisdom? Remember the old myth about King Midas? His one request was that everything he should touch would turn to gold. At first it was great, but when he touched his food, it turned to gold. What would he eat? You can't eat gold. Worst of all, he touched his lovely daughter, and she turned to gold. The young ruler had wealth, but he did not have the wisdom to obey Jesus’ command to sell all, give it to the poor, and ...

431. Jacob’s Jabbok

Genesis 32:22-32

Drama

Richard F. Bansemer

... of this figure, this man, this God who had him and struggled with him. Even as daylight approached he hung on to and clung to this angel, this spirit, whoever, whatever it was. And then it happened. It was only a touch. The power of God requires only that much effort. Jacob was touched in the hollow of his thigh and at once he became lame, a cripple, for the rest of his life. Henceforth the proud Jacob could never walk again in lofty arrogance. That must have been an agonizing new fact in his relationship ...

432. Do We Want to See?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... than a thousand words." Isn’t this so because what we see gets hold of us, and sight is the sense that makes things real to us? Blind persons have developed other senses to compensate for loss of sight. The tips of their fingers are much more sensitive to touch than ours, and their sense of hearing is keener, but for most of us the sense of sight is the predominant sense. The poet Alfred Lord Tennyson was once asked what he would request if he could be granted a wish. "I would ask for a clearer vision of ...

433. The Excitement of Meaningful Living

John 10:10 · Matthew 6:33 · Ephesians 3:20

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... nothing to mark you out from the ants and the sparrows." But Sammy found it. He became a new person under the possession of God.4 "Be strong in the Lord." Dr. Henry Sawatzky describes the moment of new life: "Deep within your solitude he comes, he touches your mind and your heart, and slowly, very slowly, you come out of your place of sorrow ... and tears and pain, or your mounting frustration ... a resurrection as sure as that which happened ... so long ago."5 Abundant life is a miracle. It is a gift from ...

434. Are You Still Frightened of the Dark?

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

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... is a backlogging of more darkness, as more and more it seeks expression. And the pressure builds. James Hillman helps us here when he writes, The Devil’s power seems to grow not in our shadow but from our light. He gains when we lose touch with our own darkness, when we lose sight of our own destructiveness and self-deceptions. Theology says that pride leads directly to the devil; psychology can confirm this since, analytically seen, pride is a denial of the personal shadow and a blind fascination with ...

435. Our Three-Faced God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... !" Then God said to him, "Indeed? And you would empty the mysteries of the Infinite God with the little dipper of your thoughts?" Jesus is God in person. He brings God down to man’s comprehension. He becomes concrete and specific, a God who can be heard and touched. We need Jesus to reveal God the Father to us, or we would never truly know God. We love God, too, because Jesus is the mediator between this awesome God and man. God is too great to be approachable. Who can stand in God’s holy presence? Who ...

436. On Leaving Your Signature

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... his signature, his impact, his influence, his message. This day we are attesting to the fact that our Lord touched another life, and that life touched another - and so the chain reaction continues. He has left his mark. One loving heart sets another aflame. In ... qualities that have left their imprint. You are being responsive to the stamp of spiritual influence that has already touched your life, and you are responsible for leaving your own individual mark. These are challenging and exciting days in which ...

437. Our Search for Intimacy - The "Father" God

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... death, but it will make it possible for us to live without panic. You and I know hundreds of people, but we have only a few friends. Keep those friends. In fact, deepen the friendships. Be an intimate friend yourself. There is an art to developing intimacy. Reach out and touch someone. Intersect with his life. Give of yourself. Ours is a personal God. Christ has set the example. He has ...

438. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... I invite you to go again thoughtfully and prayerfully to your New Testament and read it for the answer to this one question: What was the meaning of the future for those people? Whatever they saw in their time, they saw also that God was in it, touching it with redemption and hope. It has been often said that "pessimism is another name for atheism." True. You just cannot, with understanding, be a true theist and a pessimist at the same time. But when in every real and significant sense, God is pushed out of ...

439. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... sailed on" and that every sunset finds us looking forward to another dawn. Speaking of logbooks, there was the intrepid explorer Fridtjof Nansen and his voyage to the North Pole. At one point in the ship’s log, Nansen made this entry: "We let down 3,500 fathoms and touched no bottom." In our voyage of life, sailing through strange waters, we don’t know how deep they are either. But we don’t have to know, for the depth of the water doesn’t matter when you’re on top of it. Mystery? If we are living ...

440. The Perfect Gift

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... have inner peace have inner war, a war between their selfish desires and the ways of God. When a person becomes a Christian, the war ends, because self surrenders to Christ. In the wake of the surrender, Christ sends an inner tranquility that no tranquilizer on earth can touch. "My peace I give unto you," said Jesus, "not as the world gives do I give unto you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid." (John 14:27) So, there you have it--four special gifts that are part and parcel of the ...

441. Our Unmanageable God (The Second Commandment)

Exodus 20:1-21, Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... times of drought they could caress the golden calf and get rain. They wanted a slot- machine god, a god they could touch for whatever they needed. Something in us wants to objectify, localize and control God, to make him fit our patterns and preconceived ... get with it." I have a dear friend, a retired pastor, named Bob DuBose. Years ago I heard him tell a story that touched my heart deeply. When Bob was a boy, his brother had pneumonia. This was before the time of antibiotics; pneumonia was terribly dangerous ...

442. The Cross In My Pocket

Isaiah 52:13--53:12, Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , my richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride." The entertainer Dale Evans, wife of Roy Rogers, is fond of saying, "I looked for my pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow, but found it at the foot of the cross." When I touch that cross in my pocket, I am reminded of certain great truths that mean more than all the world to me. FIRST, THE CROSS IS THE GREATEST VALENTINE IN HISTORY It describes the purest expression of love the world has ever known. Note verse 22 in our text for the ...

443. God Stood Up

Sermon

James Bjorge

... of a man by the size of the God he has." Maybe there is some truth to that. Let’s take another good look at the real Jesus who grew and stood up in the pages of Holy Scripture. Once they were bringing little children to Jesus that he might touch them and the disciples rebuked those that brought them for they evidently thought Jesus was too busy for such tasks. Mark records this (10:14), "But when Jesus saw it he was indignant, and said to them, ‘Let the children come to me, do not hinder them; for to ...

444. Chapter VIII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... Because they, and we, are still God’s, we are responsible to him for how we use everything we have and touch, be it skills and abilities, property, people, resources, or ourselves. In current terminology, we are engaged in "stewardship of life." This ... servant of all" (Mark 9:35). In other words, the greatest man is the one who uses his life to enrich the ones he touches. Such a lifestyle shows that the one who lives it understands just how valuable people are. That understanding of what life is all about ...

445. We Are More Than Laborers - Labor Day

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15, Ecclesiastes 5:8--6:12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the glory of God and puts in a good word for you, too. How good it is if we can put our heads on the pillow most nights, saying prayerfully, “Lord, with your help, I gave a pretty good account of myself today; I did my work with a touch of class.” Some of us are in management positions. The way we manage and advertise and compete reflects on our God. The Bible is slanted toward the poor is suspicious of affluent people like most of us. The Bible teaches a keen sense of economic justice. For example, in ...

446. Feeling Down And Looking Up

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... there. I looked for her again on Sunday morning, but she was not there. I never saw her again. I had no way to get in touch with her. Two weeks after our conversation I learned that she died alone beside a lonely road. She had taken her own life. I could hardly ... were - in Babylonia. We must never be discouraged for lack of dramatic success. Perhaps there is more impact on the lives we touch than is apparent. Jesus had an amazing power to uplift people, in ways more than just the curing of bodies. I think ...

447. Coming Down The Mountain

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... of a dying friend, and calling on people who are lonely. We don’t have an abundance of volunteers for these kinds of things. When I hear someone say, "Why isn’t the church more exciting?" I usually conclude that the person who says it may be somewhat out of touch with what the church is doing on an everyday basis. It is true, the church generally doesn’t do a very good job of being exciting, at least in terms of emotional appeal. It is good when we can appeal to people in such a way that they feel ...

448. Loved People, Love People

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... great country. Poor children in America are an example of our farthest neighbors. I would guess that most of you do not encounter any of these poor chilren in your normal daily routine. I know I don’t. Our individual acts of love, therefore, will not begin to touch this problem. We really need to get at the structures and systems of life in our nation that create the problems. To do that we will have to get organized. To do that we will have to join forces with all people of good will who wish to tackle ...

449. Blind Bartimaeus - Model For Healing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... in Christ, the answer to our deepest needs. "Great David’s greater Son," we cry, "have mercy on me." He acknowledges our faith, determination, and persistence by granting us the blessing we seek. He tells us, as he told Bartimaeus, "Go your way," after he has touched us; but only an ingrate would accept the opportunity. And so, in gratitude, we follow. Bartimaeus came to Jesus after the Master said to the crowd, "Call him." There is our clue as to what is involved in discipleship; we follow him in the Way ...

450. Jesus' Visit

John 20:24-31, John 20:19-23

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... Christian life without seeing Jesus. All on faith. That's tough to do. I could believe as strongly as the disciples if I could touch Jesus. NANCE: You really mean that. What about faith? CARL: Faith? I need some right now. (THE SCENE SWITCHES TO PETER AND THOMAS AS ... of proof do you want? CARL: I don't know. JESUS: How about this. Why don't you come and put your finger here and touch my hands and place your hand in my side. You don't have to be faithless any more. You can choose to believe! (CARL CROSSES ...

Showing results