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
Richard Hasler
... Black Angel, by citing an incident in the life of Corrie Ten Boom. She had seen the worse of the war in a Nazi prison camp. After the war she went on a speaking tour throughout Europe preaching “forgiveness” as the only solution to their present plight. She thought she was able to forgive after all these years until she spoke in Munich, Germany. After the service a man came up to her and said, “How grateful I am for your message, Fraulein… To think that, as you say, he has washed my sins away.” He ...
Sermon
Richard Hasler
... You can’t change anything in this world; you can’t change anything. But those cynics didn’t know that it was only Friday. Sunday’s comin’!” It was Friday and on Friday Pilate thought he had washed his hands of a lot of trouble. The Pharisees were struttin’ around, laughin’ and jokin,’ each other in the ribs. The thought they were back in charge of things, but they didn’t know it was only Friday — Sundays comin’!” The preacher worked the phrase for an hour and a half. By the time he ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... should be me.” (6) Before the foundation of the world, before the beginning of time, God made a plan for saving humanity. And that plan required someone to die as a perfect sacrifice to cover our sins. In Jesus, God is saying, “If someone had to die, I thought it should be me.” When you love someone, you make plans with them. You make plans for them. You want to give them the best of you, and that means long-range planning for their good. And that’s what God does through Jesus Christ. God shows His ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... that he set his hostages free after just six minutes. Some of you who are parents of small children understand this completely. I thought about the importance of asking the right questions as I read our Bible story for today. There are 42 verses in the ... about her new life titled, Father Does Know Best, and she has raised money for victims of child abuse. The woman who once thought she was unworthy of being in God’s presence now says, “I’m an encourager. I have a ministry of compassion. God totally ...
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April Yamasaki
... Jesus so transformed was such a glorious vision, such a tremendous experience that Peter didn’t want it to end. Maybe he wanted to hold on to this spiritual high drama, to extend it by building three shrines and staying right where he was. Perhaps he thought of the Jewish festival of the booths where people would build shelters outdoors and live in them for seven days. The holiday had started as a harvest festival but it became a reminder of how the people of Israel had wandered in the wilderness as part ...
4906. Sent
John 9:1-41
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April Yamasaki
... Gentile Christians (Acts 15:22). The apostle Paul wrote to the Philippians, “I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I may be cheered by news of you” (Philippians 2:19). So too, Jesus was sent by God with a purpose—carefully, thoughtfully, with attention to detail, as a gift for the world--to do God’s work, to teach, to preach, to heal, to show the world who God was and is. The word “sent” appears twice in our text today: first in Jesus’ description of himself as sent by ...
4907. The Big Move!
Matthew 4:12-23
Sermon
John Jamison
... we find some new meaning in a passage we have probably read or heard many times before. We’re going to try and remember what was going on back in the first century when this story actually took place and see if that might give us any new thoughts about why John wrote this down. John was writing about what happened when John the Baptist was finally arrested and put in prison, and Jesus moved to Galilee where he started collecting his disciples. It sounds so simple and clean as John told it; pretty calm and ...
4908. To Cross Over
Romans 4:1-5, 13-17
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Dr. Ronald Love
... can cross over. The idea for the Christian flag emerged on Sunday, September 26, 1897, when a speaker failed to show up for a rally at Brighton Chapel on Coney Island, the recreational area for New York City. Sunday school superintendent Charles Over- ton thought quickly on how to fill the void. He decided to turn the American flag into an object lesson. Using the colors of the American flag, Overton said the Christian flag should have white for purity, innocence, and peace. The flag’s blue panel should ...
4909. All We Are Left With...
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... of nails being pounded into his hands and feet. He had the power to save his life. He knew that the Father had put all things under his power. And what did he choose to do with that power? Pastor Steve Bezner of Houston Northwest Church posted the following thought on Twitter: “Sometimes I joke about what I’d do if I had one day left to live. Eat junk, go crazy, etc. Today it hit me: Jesus knew. And he washed feet.” (3) Why, in his last night on earth, would Jesus use his awesome, divine power to ...
4910. Don't Be Afraid
Matthew 17:1-9
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Lori Wagner
... Jesus, he was so taken off guard that it blinded him for a while in order to sort through what he had experienced. After a time, his vision was restored and yet his image of others had been altered during his time in the dark, womb-like muddle of his thoughts. Much like others Jesus healed, Paul saw when he was ready and able to see. We do the same. God is a God of patience and an artist of light and shadow. We need both light and dark. We understand God and our world within shades of meaning and gradual ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... for his second novel. Jamil reports the joy of that moment: “Seven-year-old me finally got to hug my second-grade teacher again.” Then he shared on Twitter the story of finding Ms. Lung after all those years. Part of his Twitter thread read, “. . . I thought it was important that people hear her story, and that they know how much one teacher, in one year, can change a child's entire life.” (3) How will others look back and describe your life? Let’s use a fill-in-the-blank example. Think of ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... any others; afterwards learn as many as you please. Rev. King Duncan, editor of Dynamic Preaching in a preaching seminar said he thought the hymn "This Is My Father's World" ought to be the second song taught to children. "Jesus loves me" should ... it out from us, and sing all our tunes just as quick as we did at first. I once heard a revival preacher say that he thought, "too many church members were singing "Standing on the Promises," while they were sitting on the premises?" By that I took it to mean that ...
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April Yamasaki
... . The disciples had already been arguing among themselves about which one of them was the greatest (Mark 9:33-34). James and John had already asked Jesus if they could sit next to him “in glory,” at his immediate right and left in what they thought would be the best seats (Mark 10:35-41). Their mother had joined in their request, and the other disciples had been angry that they would ask Jesus for special favor (Matthew 20:20-24). Even then they needed protection from division and disunity. We need ...
Sermon
William G. Carter
... lazy allegiance, every partial affirmation, every half-hearted hope. As one New Testament writer put it, “Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two- edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And before God no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account.”(Hebrews 4:12-13) Do we really want to be exposed like that? Can we ...
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Will Willimon
... do. It was their problem. We need to love them, be supportive, caring. There are two sides to every problem. These things happen. Amen. "Well," he tells me, ''If that's all you, the church has got to say, then no wonder nobody has respect for the church. I thought the church cared about justice, right and wrong. If this is the best we can do with two people in our own family, then you’ve got no right to tell us what to do about Central America, capital punishment, or anything else that matters. We can't ...
4916. Catholic
Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
Sermon
William G. Carter
... those evaluations were above our pay grade.” “I believe in the one holy catholic church.” We say that a lot around here, almost every week, but I’m guessing that we really don’t give it much thought. We say “catholic” with a small “c.” We tell the inquisitors that means “universal,” as in “the big church, the complete church, the everywhere church,’ the “one in the Spirit, one in the Lord” church. Perhaps they’ve been shaped to still fight the Reformation, as some of us ...
4917. A Good Name
Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9
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Will Willimon
... it, unless you learn (preferably in college ethics classes) to rationally, intelligently think through each situation and then to decide and act. But that, I have come to feel, is a much too limited view of ethics. We don't live like that. Most of us live, not by abstract thought, but by habit. Most of us don't steal out of habit. Most of you have not had to agonize over whether or not to steal the wallet from the person who sits next to you in the pew. There are some things you can be counted upon just not ...
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Will Willimon
... vision. He said it was as if a voice was speaking to him, clearly, beckoning him, guiding him. He said that he guessed that I thought he was crazy. "Not at all," I replied. "After all, rm in the vision business. At what point in my sermon did you hear ... the cafeteria, different, because for one shining moment, you have seen. "Well, that was all wonderful," Peter, James, and John must have thought to themselves on Monday morning as they got back to business at hand in the valley. But what good does it do? ...
4919. A Woman Dancing
Exodus 15:20, 21
Sermon
Will Willimon
... some truth -- like the truth which erupts on Easter -- too wild and unbounded, unexpected and unexplainable, to be contained in prose and logic. You've got to sing, dance it, to know it. Last Easter, a woman said to me, on the way out after the service "I've always thought about the resurrection. Now, I've seen it." She was dancing as she left, as if a weight had been removed and she was unbound, free to move to a new beat She's back this year, this time with a tambourine in her purse, just about to die to ...
Sermon
Will Willimon
... for $9.95 plus postage, will set you up for life. Jesus is a dangerous, demanding, expensive operator inviting people to the most costly trip ever taken. This isn't a course in Religion 101 where we all sit back in class, take a few notes, think lazy thoughts about God, receive a few interesting but essentially cheap insights and then collect our books and go to lunch. This is Jesus. This is discipleship. In case anybody thinks that we will get away with an hour a week on Sundays (when it's not raining) and ...
Sermon
Will Willimon
... widow only had two little coins to her name and she dropped in both. Jesus said, "She gave more than all the rest because she gave, not 10% off the top of her riches, but in her poverty, she gave everything she had. All. Everything." So just in case you thought Jesus was some professor who asks for nothing more of you than an open mind and three hours a week, he tells you what he's really after -- everything, the whole ball of wax you call your life, every red cent of it. What think you of the Christ? Isn ...
4922. Who Are These?
Revelation 7:9-17
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Will Willimon
... my own, or even yours, but that of the church, a two thousand year procession which wrote some of its best stuff in blood. At the base of this pulpit there's a bald-headed prophet, probably Jeremiah. He has a scroll and a quill in his hands. I once thought he was down there as a symbol of divine inspiration--the prophet taking notes from the Lord. Then one day it hit me: He's down there, up front, right under the pulpit taking notes from me! I'm accountable, not just to Dr.Brodie, but to the Saints. It ...
4923. Master Teacher
Matthew 15:10-28
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these can defile them.” Their words and actions can be sweet as honey or bitter as horseradish. Evil thoughts and deeds that derive from a heart that is not rooted in God –these are what defile. Unwashed hands do not defile. A person’s pedigree does not defile. A person’s illness does not defile. A person’s nationality does not defile. A person’s food ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... is so much more powerful than I, one who is so special that I am not worthy even to be the servant who might untie the thong of his sandals — when he baptizes you, he will wash the Holy Spirit of God over you.” For a moment, the crowd thought they had already seen the whole thing. John let them know that there was more to come - not just a joyous holiday, but more. So, stay tuned. Oh. Spoiler alert. His name is Jesus. Amen. 1. Raymond E. Brown, An Introduction to the New Testament (New York: Doubleday ...
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David E. Leininger
... sound like a complaint: “[God] has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty” (Luke 1:53). Some complaint! Maybe Mary did not know how to complain... but I doubt it. She complained later on when Jesus began his ministry. She and her other children thought he had lost his mind, and they tried to get him to stop and come home. Of course, he did not... and the rest of the story we know. No, Mary knew how to complain. She was normal; she was a human being like anyone else with all the ...
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