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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Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... years ago. I hope they have the power to do as much for you: “Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life. It strikes us when we feel that our separation is deeper than usual, because we have violated another life, a life which we loved, or from which we were estranged. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure ...
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... understand what was going on and, now that they are old enough to know that they got it, they still don’t know how they feel about it, so they just kind of ignore it. Some receive it in childhood and then, when they become teens, they try to give it ... , so I do not believe in the things I was singing... if that doesn’t bother you and you want to listen anyway, please feel free. What’s your business is your business and what’s my business is mine, please just enjoy the music whatever you might happen ...
4878. Loving Made Real
John 13:1-17, John 13:31-38
Sermon
David & Marian Plant
... well, who is concerned for every breath we take, who is with us from the moment of our first breath until the moment of our last, and beyond. Let us linger with it, not timidly, but unabashedly. Not with embarrassment, or hesitation, but with an openness to feel the presence of God. If we allow ourselves such a moment, push aside all the cultural conventions, perhaps, if for only a moment, we can come close enough to God to sufficiently understand the call to follow, to love each other, to love all, as we ...
4879. Should We Wash One Another's Feet?
John 13:31-38, John 13:1-17
Sermon
King Duncan
... in the movie were spontaneous--unrehearsed. For example, it is the Upper Room and Jesus is washing the disciples feet—one being Judas. Marchiano writes about this scene: “It would be easy to write (Judas) off as an avaricious creep, but I have a feeling it wasn’t that way at all . . . I can’t help but think that he was confused, impatient, fearful, proud and ambitious—in other words, your everyday kind of guy.” As the Last Supper scene progresses, Marchiano says he will never forget it. Judas ...
4880. Lost in Plain Sight
John 1:29-34, John 1:35-42
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... of it, that, in the end, it will result in some good. The paramount existential stress, he said, does not come from lack of things or even lack of activities but from lack of meaning, the feeling that the things we are doing have no point and, because of this pointlessness, we come to feel bored and cynical. This lack of meaning in our lives, Frankl believed, comes from freedom without responsibility. When the measure of our freedom is matched by an equal measure of responsibility, then and only then, do ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... Messiah, the one they hoped would restore Jerusalem to its glory and power. They were even more perplexed that his body was now missing from the tomb. Even though they were family, and among the close followers of Jesus, all they could now see and feel was sorrow, disillusion, and bewilderment. They were so beside themselves they couldn’t recognize Jesus, even when he walked and talked beside them. Their faith had been shattered like this pot. [You can shatter a pot if you wish...or hold up the pieces of ...
4882. Moving On
Luke 6:12-16, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... Jesus blood and righteousness.” The sea squirt swims happily for the first phase of its life, and then finds a rock or peace of coral it likes, attaches itself to that rock. Once it attaches itself to a rock, and “finds” the place where it wants to live and feels most at home, it freezes its moment, digests its brain, and becomes a plant. The brain is for movement and memory. There is no need for a stationary sea squirt to have to deal with the past or the future. So it eats and digests its brain, and ...
4883. Syrophoenician Lives Matter!
Mark 7:24-30, Matthew 15:21-28
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... to sharing our table with the “Syrophoenicians” of our neighborhoods? Are we a place where those who don’t dress very well, who don’t smell very well, who have maybe different problems than we do are welcome to our table? What about those who don’t feel very well --- who are disabled or depressed or suffer from some sort of mental illness? Are they welcome here? Are you as eager to see them and say “hello!” to them as you are everyone else? Are you as eager to spend time with them, sit with ...
4884. God Gives the Pharisees the Finger!
John 7:25-44, John 7:45--8:11
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... concern. Second, they do not intend to hold a proper or fair trial, even if it means they commit the sin of false witness (or lack of witness). Third, she is not the one truly on trial. She may be simply a ploy in which to dishonor Jesus. Her feeling, her actual innocence is not really an issue. She is a scapegoat. And Jesus knows it. Does Jesus pause to think as he’s writing on the temple floor? What is he writing? We know that he pauses to give his “verdict,” then continues writing upon the floor ...
4885. The Light That Dwells Among Us
Matthew 16:13-20, Matthew 16:21-28, Matthew 17:1-13
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... it has on us. Light changes us. Light enlivens us. We need the vitamin D it stimulates. We need the healthy glow it gives us. We need the chemical changes it effects inside of our bodies, in order to grow, to digest, to mature, to feel joy. You’re probably all familiar with JRR Tolkien’s Hobbit. In the Hobbit, is a creature named “Gollum,” who is shriveled (both physically and spiritually), green, and slimy, from living completely in the dark. Living in the dark. But that could characterize a lot ...
4886. Grounds for Blessing
Matthew 13:1-23, Luke 8:1-15, Mark 4:1-20
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... you? Are you ready to remove the impediments that keep you from an everlasting life with Jesus? If your heart is ready, Jesus is ready for you. I invite you now to come forward –whether you are stuck living on the path, or on the rocks, on whether you feel your life is being choked by worry and pain, whether you are growing lovingly in relationship with God, or whether you need God and don’t know how to get there –come forward now to the altar and ask Jesus to come into your heart, to take root, to ...
4887. Precocious
Luke 2:41-52
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... time to answer.] We get used to being able to communicate. One of the things we fear the most is the inability to speak. Look at any crime show. When we see that gag go into the mouth, when we see that tape across the lips .…we cringe. We feel oppressed. Our “voice” has been extinguished. And the only thing we want to do is…SCREAM! There’s a movie out…I think it’s still out right now….called “Room.” Based on a novel by Irish writer Emma Donoghue, “Room” is the story of a boy and his ...
4888. Lost
Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:11-32
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... speaks of a Shepherd, who upon realizing one of his 99 sheep was lost, went searching for him until he found him. And upon finding him and returning him to the fold, he called friends and neighbors to celebrate his return. Jesus says, this is the same way God feels about a repentant sinner. God will search for his one lost everywhere, and when found, will celebrate with all of the company of heaven. For the one who was lost and found is cause to celebrate. The 99 who have not strayed he has no need to worry ...
4889. Wicked
Luke 20:9-19, Matthew 21:33-46
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... and force you to live up to your agreement. But you’ve hidden the profits. You don’t want to give up the business you feel you’ve grown and prospered. It’s yours now. Right? Possession is nine-tenths of the law. I try my best one last time: I ... s labor, still the result is the same –the usurping of what was not his to claim. When we in the church start feeling that this building is “ours,” that our ministries and committees are “ours,” that things need to be “our way” ………we too ...
4890. The Lamb
Luke 19:28-44, Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, John 12:12-19
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... end of Lent is this: Do you love your Lamb? Are you willing to let your Lamb go in your stead? There are some heartstrings involved in this. Think about it. If you truly recognize the sacrifice that Jesus has made for you and for me, our hearts will feel the gratitude, the horror, the humility, the “hugeness” of the reality of the cross. The hope of the resurrection to come. Can you in your life allow Jesus to be YOUR sacrifice? Are you willing to be one of those He has saved with his blood? The door ...
4891. The Gardener
John 20:10-18
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... the presence of God, the presence of Jesus, the original gardener, who can tend our torn roots, and restore our beauty in the eyes of God. When Mary hears Jesus’ voice, she recognizes Him. She then tells the disciples, “I have seen the Lord.” To see and feel Jesus’ presence in the midst of your life, you need to spend time in the “garden” of your heart, the place where you and God commune together. The more time you spend in the “garden,” the more you will see and hear the Lord. Listen –He ...
4892. Redemption
Acts 2:1-13
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... . This time, the breath will be the breath of eternal life. The disciples in that upper room literally felt Jesus’ breath on and within them. What does it mean to feel Jesus’ breath on you? Without breath, the body dies . . . Without the breath of Jesus, the Church cannot live and breathe the love of Christ. Can you feel Jesus’ breath on you this morning? In that Pentecostal moment, bridegroom and bride are consummated. This time, it’s not just Adam, but all of adamic humanity. God’s breath ...
4893. Secret Savior
Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... like “Benny,” and we love that this quiet person has been such a gift to others. Or we play Secret Santa, and we enjoy putting the emphasis on the people getting the gifts. We love to see the joy in their faces, the gratitude in their hearts, and we feel good, knowing we’ve done a good thing, have made someone else smile. But Jesus is also telling us, this goes for prayer too. And we don’t often think of prayer this way, do we? How can prayer be secret? We most often think of prayer as something WE ...
4894. A Piggy Pudding
Matthew 8:28-34
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... It’s a time in which Christians are not the norm. Any given day, you are surrounded by people who are not followers of Jesus –in your workplaces, in your gyms, in your schools, in your clubs. We feel good as Christians here in the church, surrounded by other Christians. But Jesus wants to ask us what it would feel like to follow Him into those other places. Jesus came to save not just the Jews, not to create a new religion called Christianity, not just to do what He could in His own lifetime. Jesus came ...
4895. Ten Pounds of Mercy, One Pound of Faith
Luke 19:11-27, Matthew 25:1-13, Matthew 25:14-30
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... church also behaves much like you or I do. The church has a culture of its own, a personality, depending on its tribal identity. Each local church within the body that is the Church has a personality, and a body of its own that thinks and feels according to its own encounters, its own joys, its own experiences, and….its own fears. And fear can paralyze a church. What’s the church’s greatest fear? For most churches today, the answer is… .. are you ready . . . your community. That’s right, you heard ...
4896. The Funeral Crasher
John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14, John 14:15-31
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... Jesus’ disciples at a time of fear and confusion over when their master will leave them. He confirms that he will leave them. But he’s talking to them about death. His death! They react as you might expect or as you would react. With anxiety. They don’t feel ready. They fear being left alone. They don’t understand what he’s telling them. But they know, he says he’s leaving. They know he means to die. But what will that do to their ministry? To their lives? To them? To his mission? Is it all over ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... . Wouldn’t it be for you? This week…..I want you to allow yourself to think about those questions that plague you in your sleep…..that haunt you in your doubt….that nibble at the edges of your mind. I want you to allow yourself to feel the reticence to believe the unbelievable, and embrace the supernatural. God can withstand your doubts. God allows us the time and the space sometimes to hover and pause in that place where things just doesn’t make sense. Nowhere space. Look up into the stars at ...
4898. The Sound of Joy
Genesis 17:1-27, Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 18:16-33, Matthew 28:16-20
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... our misunderstanding of that word, joy….that impetus to laughter. Our culture has sentimentalized “joy” with “happiness”. It has trivialized what this means in our lives. Jewish sources would say, the command to be joyful suggests not that we try to force ourselves to feel something we don’t. But it is an act. And when we act in praise and worship, when we put our focus on Jesus, when we contemplate His awesome gifts in our lives, the blessings God has given us, when we gather together in song ...
4899. Dressed for Success?
Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53, Acts 1:1-11
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... holy presence. And that kind of dressing will change us irrevocably. For, we Christians who are “clothed” with the Holy Spirit’s power will always wear our baptism on our sleeve. We will be changed, not just in how we look, but in how we think, how we feel, and how we act. In our culture, we are so imbued with the idea of how to dress for leadership, for business, and for success, that we often forget that what’s most important is that we are “wearing” the clothing of the Holy Spirit,” that we ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... . Jesus …Rain on me! Let’s just take a moment and allow that reigning presence of Jesus to rain over you today, over your face, over your body, over your mind, over your life. Let Jesus rain His peaceful, flowing, healing rain all over you. Do you feel that Holy Spirit power? That’s that same power that energized and infused the first apostles to raise up the early Church, and that power can be yours too –to allow Jesus to raise up this church, to raise up these communities for Christ, to raise up ...
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