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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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451. Even in Our Hiding

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the feeling.’ “And so woodenly, mechanically, I thrust my hand into the one stretched out to me. And as I did, an incredible thing took place. The current started in my shoulder, raced down my arm, sprang into our joined hands. And then this healing warmth seemed to flood my whole being, bringing tears to my eyes. “‘I forgive you, brother!’ I cried. ‘With all my heart!’ “For a long moment we grasped each other’s hands, the former guard and the former prisoner. I had never known God’s ...

452. Song of the Sabbath

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35, Mark 2:18-22, Mark 2:23-3:6, Mark 3:7-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... minutes, on a “path of totality” from Oregon to South Carolina through 14 states, the sun was entirely eclipsed by the moon. Darkness covered the earth. Cold blanketed the planet. Then as the sun emerged from its eclipse, the light, and the day, and warmth returned. Perhaps this is what it felt like in the dawn of creation, as The Creator’s conducting arm swept across the pitch-black canvass of the universe and sprinkled stars within the heavens “like a tent.” Night separated from day, and “time ...

453. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... your child was born. The time you kissed for the very first time. The time you laughed until you got side stitches. The place where the story of the two of you began. What is your song of songs? Does your song make you feel the passion of love? The warmth of the sun? Can you smell the fragrance of that special time and place wafting back into your memory? Can you visualize the place where you met? The visual suggested to us by the author of what’s known in the scriptures only as the Song of Songs is a ...

454. The Golden Hour

Exodus 19:1-25, Genesis 15:1-18, Ezekiel 24:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of hope, becomes a life-saving, life-giving moment, a golden hour miracle, in which death and doubt is defeated and Jesus always wins. The true nature of life and creation is revealed through the presence and power of God to illuminate our world with warmth and light, allowing us to see ourselves, our neighbors, and Jesus through God’s multi-color spectrum. Did you ever see a sunset that was so beautiful it took your breath away? That’s what it feels like when you experience that revelatory power of ...

455. Seeing with Eyes Closed

Exodus 34:1-28, Exodus 34:29-35, John 1:1-18, Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God’s mission in Jesus’ Name. It’s as though something in him as “shifted.” And it certainly has. With his past eyes removed, Paul now has his vision restored to see Jesus differently, to see Him truly. The Light is not just a warmth and an illumination. It’s a literally the power of creative energy, creative disruption, the creative mercy of God that can knock down faulty currents and restore one into right thinking. As Jesus opens His disciples’ eyes to understand/see the truth of scripture ...

456. House of Stone

Psalm 118:1-29, Isaiah 18:1-7, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, 1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Builder (or stonemason) is also Jesus the Rock, the Living Rock of Ages. And we are His artisan disciples. We are edgy, but we fit together in a way only God can design. Together, we become altars in the world, full of God’s warmth, vitality, strength, and grace. We are not only formed by the Potter’s hand, but sculpted and smoothed and fitted by the Stone Mason’s chisel and trowel. Remembering happens in relationship. Jesus as “tekton” is our relational cornerstone, even also as our substance ...

457. Raison d’Etre

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... , to build a fire. With each failed attempt his hands became more and more useless from the cold and caused him more problems. Finally, when he used all of his matches in one final and desperate attempt, he got a fire started. He could feel its life-saving warmth beginning to spread into his frozen hands, face, and legs. He reached up to break a few branches off the tree he was sitting under for shelter and, as he broke off a branch, he realized that the boughs over his head were covered in snow but it ...

458. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

... one person in the relationship had a whole collection of unpleasant personality characteristics as a result of repressed anger and low self-esteem. The way in which this person's anger was always bubbling just beneath the surface made it virtually impossible for intimacy and warmth to occur. Here was a person who was angry and didn't know it. I think, on the other hand, of the couple in which the wife responded to virtually every difficult situation with nothing but anger. The husband wanted to be held and ...

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.

Barbara Sher

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is a vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

Daniel O'Connell

May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.

Eskimo proverb

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

465. About Those Magi

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... said, “Go and search carefully for the child. As soon as you find him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship him.” Actually, worship was the furthest thing from Herod’s mind, as you well know. So, by the time we leave the joy and warmth and love of Christmas and move to Epiphany, we enter a world of realism where love is endangered by hate—joy is threatened by fear—and kindness is overshadowed by evil. In fact, that’s not too different from the world in which we live. We live in a world ...

466. An Encounter with Jesus

John 12:20-33

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... or disturb my sleep, but just enough of him to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of him to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation. I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the eternal in a paper sack, please. I would like to buy three dollars’ worth of God, please.” You entered your Lenten journey because you knew that you hadn’t given your whole heart to Jesus. You’ve ...

467. Missional Discontinuity

Mark 6:30-44, Mark 6:45-56

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... new about ourselves, about our religious faith, about the world around us. We need the emotional nourishment that we get from spending time, structured or unstructured, with our friends and our families, playing, talking, listening, laughing, and just basking in the warmth of their love. We need the spiritual nourishment that comes from prayer, meditation, corporate worship, and the study of scripture. An old friend of mine, an avid fisherman, had a bumper sticker on his truck that said, “If you’re too ...

468. Briny Faith

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the power of the Holy Spirit, the more our lives will live out that covenant of love and grace and peace. [hand out grains of salt if you can –pink Himalayan salt works well] I have here today salt. If you hold it in your hand, you will feel the warmth it generates. As you hold in your hands, I invite you to say a prayer, asking God to come into your heart, to salt your spirit with the purifying fire of the Holy Spirit, and to generate within you His purity, His grace, His power, and His peace. For you ...

469. For The Love of God Is Contagious

Mark 7:31-36 · Luke 5:12-15 · 2 Corinthians 5:16-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... those whom he healed, we're called to go and tell others, go and love others. Lovers of others smile a lot. Something caring and contagious flows through them. It's inviting, warm, gentle and kind. Lovers of others treat you as someone really special. Warmth and welcome quickly turn into genuine friendship. They like you as a wonderful person and do not hesitate to say so. Lovers of others' faces light up every time they see you. Their hugs and handshakes and personal words make you feel totally accepted ...

470. Seeing Is Believing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in Jesus’ mercy and compassion, the more we will feel his healing in our minds, hearts, and bones. Today, I want you to close your eyes and really see Jesus. Feel him around you, feel his love for you and his boundless mercy. See his light and feel his warmth encasing you. Know the power of his healing touch. [Pastors, if you are open to it, this may be a good time to do a healing and anointing time in your service. Invite people forward to be anointing in the power of the Holy Spirit, even as they invite ...

471. Unto Us

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Will Willimon

... had a new convert. The next morning, sitting next to mother at St. John's On the Interstate, I was mildly dozing through the service, when words caught my ear, words read by the nasal priest, words until that morning, I had thought to be words of warmth and comfort. Now these words sneaked upon me, struck me as terrible, or wonderful. The First Lesson: ''God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son...." Gospel: ''And the Word ...

472. Sheep and Shepherds

John 10:11-16 · Psalm 23

Sermon

Will Willimon

... do not encourage comparison with human beings. People from places like Montana tell me that sheep are uniformly witless, dirty, dumb. Pigs have bigger brains. Dogs are more sociable. Cats are cleaner. On a cold night, sheep will pile themselves on one another for warmth, smothering those on the bottom. They will walk right off a cliff, I am told, if they are frightened. And it doesn't take much to frighten them. Lambs are sometimes cuddly and cute. But sheep? Matthew 25 notwithstanding, I see no particular ...

473. God IS

Luke 20:27-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of space. When he stared out into the “coldness of space,” he found himself seeing everything differently once he stepped back onto the earth. He was moved to tears as he returned home to planet earth. His experience gave him a new appreciation for the “warmth of the Earth” as opposed to the “cold, dark, black, emptiness” of space. He felt a new connection to those around him and a new appreciation for this life as only we know it.[1]Shatner felt in leaving the earth behind a kind of emptiness ...

474. The Light from the Cliff

Matthew 5:13-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... about doing good things, although good things are always good. It’s not merely that we worship Jesus and proclaim his Light to others through our words and sermons. We are called to allow Jesus access to our very hearts. To allow him to infuse us with a warmth, a light, a fire, an energy, a brightness and hope so bright and encompassing that we can’t help glow in its wake. When others look at someone infused with the love and saving power of Jesus, they may not put their finger on it, but they can tell ...

475. Shut the Back Door!

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... can’t stay entrapped in the sheepfold. A sheep’s gotta eat! A sheep’s gotta breathe. A sheep’s gotta exercise those playful limbs. Sure, sheep need to come in for protection at night to sleep protected by the stone walls of the fold and the warmth of their companions. But by day, they need to roam the pastures, eat freely, drink water, frolic, run, explore, and play, all guided and watched over by the devoted Shepherd. To eat without being eaten! That’s a stress-free sheep’s dream! And who wants ...

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451. Even in Our Hiding

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

452. Song of the Sabbath

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35, Mark 2:18-22, Mark 2:23-3:6, Mark 3:7-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

453. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

454. The Golden Hour

Exodus 19:1-25, Genesis 15:1-18, Ezekiel 24:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

455. Seeing with Eyes Closed

Exodus 34:1-28, Exodus 34:29-35, John 1:1-18, Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Lori Wagner

456. House of Stone

Psalm 118:1-29, Isaiah 18:1-7, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, 1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

457. Raison d’Etre

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

458. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Barbara Sher

Carl Jung

The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.

Daniel O'Connell

May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart.

Eskimo proverb

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Frances Rodman

465. About Those Magi

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

466. An Encounter with Jesus

John 12:20-33

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

467. Missional Discontinuity

Mark 6:30-44, Mark 6:45-56

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