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 4751 to 4775 of 4981 results

4751. “Trust in the Lord and Do Good”

Psalm 37:1-40

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... if God does not allow some formidable problems in life so that we might “take refuge in him,” and taking refuge in God is the ultimate solution. Illustrating the Text Injustice Testimony: Anyone who has lived in this world for a while knows what it feels like to be the victim of injustice. Most of us have seen the injustice of “the wicked,” those who cheat and lie in order to get ahead, often at the expense of the powerless. Ask a person from your congregation to share an experience of injustice ...

4752. “Cast Your Cares on the Lord and He Will Sustain You”

Psalm 55:1-23

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... and the testimony to the betrayal of Jesus by Judas in Matthew 26. God will always be faithful. Applying the Text: The sense of betrayal is not an uncommon human experience. If we live in this world for any length of time, chances are we will experience what we feel is a betrayal from someone we believed was trustworthy. Maybe it is a friend who turned his or her back on us. It could be a friend who pursued our spouse or partner. Possibly it is a parent who abandoned or mistreated us. Maybe it is a business ...

4753. Why Did He Do It?

Mark 14:1-15

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: None Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever had someone hurt your feelings? That is a terrible feeling, isn't it? Sometimes it is your best friend that says something that is cruel. That hurts even more, doesn't it? What do we do when someone who is a friend betrays us? I hope we forgive. One of Jesus' closest friends betrayed him. What was that friend's ...

4754. A Lesson Learned from a Snake

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... to me two things. In the first place it speaks of Jesus’ purpose for coming into this world. “For the Son of Man came,” says Jesus, “to seek and save the lost.” That was his entire reason for being. If you are feeling lost his morning--if your life is in a helpless tangle--if you feel immobilized by doubt or fear or guilt--Jesus is looking for you. You may have come to this place looking for him. But even more surely, he is here looking for you. Jesus was looking for Zacchaeus more diligently than ...

4755. Are You a Pillar or a Pillow?

2 Thessalonians 2:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... and anger toward God. I was reading recently about Fanny Crosby, that writer of some of the best loved hymns in our hymnal. Did you know that she was not born blind? She was blinded for life as a child by a physician’s blunder. How would you feel after such a senseless occurrence? Yet it was Fanny Crosby who gave us some of the most beautiful expressions of faith in our hymnal. Some unknown person has rightly said, “Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a person down or polishes him up depends on ...

4756. A Celebration of Hope

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... in life we cannot face alone. There are some things we simply do not have the inner resources to bear. That’s a lesson most of us learn with the passage of time. One of the most refreshing things about being around young people is their feeling that they are invincible and that nothing is impossible for them. Whether it is righting the world’s wrongs, curing society’s ills or even avoiding death, youth is convinced that an answer can be found. Such confidence and such optimism about the future is ...

4757. The God of Hope

Isaiah 11:1-10, Matthew 3:1-12, Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... great writer, Pirandello once told a story about a man filled with so much dread that it drove him mad. When he fell in love with the woman of his dreams, he pretended that he did not care about her. He was afraid that if he gave in to his feelings of love for her he would lose her. He kept up this display of disinterest so long that he nearly did lose her. When he did finally ask her to marry him and she accepted, he nearly went crazy planning the honeymoon. He told everyone that they would be going ...

4758. Unnoticed at Your Own Party

Isaiah 35:1-10, Matthew 11:2-11, James 5:7-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s the young lady in the corner?” His friend replied, somewhat startled, “Don’t you know? I must introduce you. That is the bride.” (1) Can you imagine being left alone and unnoticed at your own party, particularly at your own wedding? That is how Jesus must feel at Christmas. Most of the celebration of his birth--the lights, much of the music, the gift-giving, the parties, etc.--have very little to do with him. How sad--not just for him but for us. For you see, we need Jesus. The people around us ...

4759. David Returns to Jerusalem

2 Samuel 19:9-43

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... happened. They reflect on all the good things David has done for the country and decide they want him to return as king (19:9–15). When David hears about this sentiment, he sends word to the elders of his own tribe of Judah to see how they feel. Although the rebellion was launched in Judah, David is willing to forgive them for their actions. In fact David even announces that he will make Absalom’s general Amasa the new commander of his army. It is possible that David has found out about Joab’s role in ...

4760. Jesus Comforts the Sisters

John 11:17-37

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... :27). Jesus is her Lord; knowledge of his powerful abilities will come with time. One unique feature of this story is the way in which Jesus expresses his emotions over Lazarus’s death (11:33, 35, 38; cf. Luke 19:41). He does not approach suffering and death dispassionately. He feels the pain. He knows tragedy and has feelings. In this case these emerge out of his love for his friend Lazarus (11:36).

4761. Timothy’s Encouraging Report

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... This mutual love was the counterpoint to the hostility and social ostracism that the church experienced from without. This “love” has to do with group attachment and solidarity. Love places the interests of the other first and is not the same as feelings of affection and emotional warmth. Even though the Thessalonians already show mutual love, the apostles pray that their love might increase abundantly and even overflow. And the prayer is answered (2 Thess. 1:3). The objects of this love are the other ...

4762. The Hidden Inheritance, the Hidden Lord

1 Peter 1:1-12

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... reality is unseen: there is an inheritance that can never perish, which is kept in heaven for us (1:4), as a result of Jesus’s resurrection and our new birth through him (1:3). And there is no possibility of losing it, for however weak we may feel, we are shielded by God’s power until the moment of salvation comes. Our present experiences are all preparatory, making us fit for glory. Jesus too is unseen: but even so, with our eyes fixed on hidden realities, we will love him and our hearts will sparkle ...

4763. Final Exhortations and Greetings

1 Peter 5:1-11, 1 Peter 5:12-14

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... of his deliverance. We humble ourselves before him not as before an earthly master, awaiting instructions, but so as to feel the burden of anxiety lifted from our shoulders (5:7)! His readers may be consumed with anxiety about their earthly enemies, but Peter tells ... them that the spiritual foe is far more deadly (5:8–9). And we feel his pressure on us not just through our earthly trials but especially through the temptation not to face those trials with faith. 5 ...

4764. Dr. Jekyll Meet Jesus

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... in life. It doesn’t seem fair but we can spend a lifetime paying for a foolish, youthful mistake. C. Roy Angell once gave a somewhat whimsical example of this hard truth. He told about a farm boy who was angry at a neighboring farmer who had hurt his feelings. The boy tried to think of some way he could get even. The plan he arrived upon was this: Early one morning he rode twenty miles on horseback to purchase a bag of seed--Johnson grass seed. After dark he sowed his neighbor’s richest bottom land with ...

4765. I Once Was Blind…and Maybe I Still Am

John 9:1-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... a person fractured a bone, they could not have it attended to on the Sabbath. Imagine having to suffer needlessly for up to 24 hours because of a silly religious rule. If anyone sprained her ankle or foot, she could not even pour cold water on it to make it feel better. Then there was that famous law that a woman dare not look into a mirror on the Sabbath for she might behold a gray hair and be tempted to pluck it out. That would be working on the Sabbath. Ladies, how would you like being under such a law ...

4766. Are You Sorry Enough to Wash Your Face?

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... , "I'm not even worthy of entering the service." Catch the emotion of the latter man's confession! That's remorse! It is that emotional sense that I not only know intellectually that I am guilty and I feel a sense of deep shame for who I am and what I have done, but in my soul I feel my guilt and the consequences of my sin. That is remorse, the second component of repentance. The third component of repentance is a return to God. "I declared first to those in Damascus, then in Jerusalem and throughout ...

4767. The Power of the Trust Factor

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... , as we study Job's story further, he loses his health, family, and wealth in a very short time. Job knows what it is to feel as though life were turning against him. He is hurt. His wife also is hurt and angry with God. His friends, who come to comfort ... needs a friend! Jesus' words stun them. The words shatter the disciples' collective confidence. All, except perhaps the betrayer, Judas Iscariot, feel devastated. Now comes chapter 14 to remind us that when the hard times come we are to accept them as part ...

4768. This Spirit Is Not Spooky

John 14:15-21

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... in the power of the Holy Spirit can satisfy our craving for real life. Let me tell you how this happens: Your life feels drab and you reason, "There has to be more." You are correct! The Holy Spirit brings refreshment to our dreariness and we come ... leads us in new ways but the Holy Spirit? Another indicator of the personality of the Holy Spirit is that he has the capacity to feel emotion. Paul writes of "the love of the Spirit" (Romans 15:30). Paul also notes that he "cries" in Galatians 4:6 and that he ...

4769. New Year's Resolutions

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

James L. Killen

... who did not pass that test? "You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels..." (v. 41). Gulp! That can take us by surprise, especially now that many people have developed a philosophy of life that makes them feel self-righteous about their selfishness and causes them to make loud speeches announcing that if a person is hungry it is because he is too lazy to work and the only thing that is significant about an alien is that he is illegal. Some people find ...

4770. Come and See

John 1:29-42

Sermon

James L. Killen

... about those things and what we will try to do about them. Some people have made a practice of asking "What would Jesus do?" It may be more helpful to ask "What would Jesus want me to do?" When someone has done something to hurt you and you feel anger building so that you might make a destructive response, ask "What would Jesus want me to do?" When some other person's need seems to make some demand on you and you find yourself resenting it, ask "What would Jesus want me to do?" All of those things are ...

4771. Humanity Reaching Out

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

James L. Killen

... probably thinking that they would never dare to cherish hope again. If we are sensitive to what goes on around us, we must sometimes feel that way too. It is the result of the inhumanity that always seems to be at work to destroy everything truly human and everything ... are as people, we are tempted to think that all who are different from us are not really human, and sometimes we feel righteous about trying to destroy them. When that happens, inhumanity wins by subversion. It destroys us as we tear down the ...

4772. Called to Bigness

Isaiah 58:1-12, Matthew 5:13-20

Sermon

James L. Killen

... Hipshot as the role model for their faith but that really does not prepare us to answer the call of Christ. Our culture has lost much of its sense of moral accountability. We seem to think that we really ought to feel free to do just about anything we want to do without feeling any sense of responsibility either for the cost of our actions or for the effects of our actions upon the community as a whole. It is amazing how many things we have managed to convince ourselves are okay. That too has infiltrated ...

4773. Can You Hear It?

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... apart. Maybe you have been battered, beaten, and bruised and are hanging on to life by a thin, frayed rope. Maybe you have taken a frightful fall and are looking at the scattered pieces of your life asking, “How will I ever put myself back together?” Perhaps you feel ill-equipped to face your challenges and are just plain terrified. If any of this touches you where you live, Isaiah is chomping at the bit to speak to you. In fact, Isaiah is leaping off the page to tell all of us how he has handled life ...

4774. I Wonder Why My Prayers Go Unanswered?

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... read through the gospel of Luke, and you will find Jesus praying consistently at every turn in his life. He prays as he senses God’s call on his life; He prays before choosing his disciples; He prays as he serves and heals other people; He prays as he feels the demands and pressures of his ministry; He prays as he faces the cross; He prays as he finishes his work on the cross. Jesus is continually praying. You could say that prayer for him was as vital as taking his next breath. He knew that in order to ...

4775. I Wonder about Life after Death

John 14:1-3

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... upset and angry about the subject that they virtually deny their own death. The denial of death is an interesting phenomenon in our culture. Many feel like Woody Allen when he said. “I don’t want to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” The Fear ... , let’s suppose you said, ‘I don’t want to leave my mommy’s tummy. I love it here. It is nice and comfortable, and I feel very much loved in my mommy’s tummy. I don’t want to die out of my mommy’s tummy. I don’t want to be ...

Showing results