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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26. Temptation of the Palms
Philippians 2:5-11
Sermon
Richard W. Ferris
... or applauded by God, which would you choose? Of course the choice is not that easy if you consider that the cross stood between you and the glory that would come from God. Jesus resisted the temptation of Palm Sunday. And because he was able to overcome any inkling to give in to his ego, he was able to fulfill his purpose on earth. As a lamb sacrificed on the altar, Jesus was given over to the enemy and died for our sins — crucified for us that we might have everlasting life. And God exalted him. God ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... him after death in a way he had never affirmed him in life. It seems to me that such dramatic epiphanies must certainly make faith a whole lot easier to swallow. This morning, if we allow our imaginations to sweep us up the mountain, we may experience an inkling of visionary magic. But beware. If you try to understand this story with your mind, you will most certainly be disappointed. It is only if you try to see it with your soul, that you may find your heart strangely warmed. In this pivotal story in the ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... in Michael Paul Gallagher S.J., Dive Deeper: The Human Poetry of Faith [London: Darton-Longman & Todd, 2001], 77.) Were you not amazed by the audacious midwives featured in Exodus' preamble to Moses' birth announcement? They feared God but did not have any inkling of God's long-range plans or provisions. These midwives knew that fearing God meant that certain behavior was expected of them, that they must remain true to their calling to serve life, not death. But even as they covered their inaction with ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... . He saw nothing remarkable about this site. His soul felt nothing special. His mind was focused on the choices he had made that forced him to take this hazardous journey out of his homeland and the clouded future that he faced. An on-the-spot Jacob had no inkling that God was with him on this spot. Jacob had no idea that God, in face, was only waiting for him to close his eyes and surrender to sleep before revealing the divine presence and the divine plan to him, the third patriarch. God's promise to Jacob ...
30. Gift of Positive Thinking
2 Corinthians 1:18-22
Sermon
Donald Charles Lacy
... lives is thwarted by those who, knowingly or unknowingly, have their crossed fingers behind their backs. "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done" awaits our humble co-operation. We can never see things the way God does and, yet, let us not be too hasty. We do have an inkling, don't we? Sometimes we have a lot more than that, and we are surprised — even shocked — to learn what he blatantly points out to us. We admit he does not measure success the way we do. But let's don't be too hard on ourselves. When we ...
31. Acts 1:6-14
Acts 1:6-14
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... sustained and watchful waiting do we build up our endurance and develop the muscles of faithfulness. The disciples' waiting, of course, includes one very important activity - praying. Until the coming of the Holy Spirit, Jesus' still fragile followers have no inkling about how they are expected to become witnesses for Christ to all the earth. It is not without reason that the most specific piece of information Jesus gives the disciples is to not leave Jerusalem. Undoubtedly getting out of this frightening ...
32. Romans 8:1-11
Romans 8:1-11
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
This week's epistle text covers significant topics - the status of the law, the essence of the incarnation, the baseness of humanity (but our aspiration for greater things), the presence of the Spirit, the miracle of the Resurrection, inklings of Trinitarian theology and the gift of everlasting life. In these few short verses Paul manages to pack some of the toughest, touchiest subjects in Christian theology. In Romans 7, Paul had focused on the negatives that infiltrate human life even when there is a ...
33. John 20:1-18
John 20:1-9
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... weep for Jesus’ lost body. When she finally dares to peek into the tomb she does not see emptiness, but “two angels in white” (v.12). Yet even the miraculous appearance of these heavenly beings cannot pierce Mary’s misery. She has no inkling that Jesus’ absence has any significance. The bright white light of the angelic presence before her cannot penetrate the darkness of Mary’s faithlessness. The gentle angelic rebuke, “Why are you weeping?” is heard by Mary as simply a question. Her focus ...
Sermon
Gary L. Carver
... surround this special one from God with total protectiveness. However, when she spoke as she did, Jesus answered very earnestly, "Why did you even have to wonder where I was? Did you not realize that I must be about my Father's business?" Here was the first inkling that Jesus felt a calling in himself that even his mother was not going to be able to understand. Already stirring within him was that sense of mission that would one day sweep him out of the carpenter's shop and into places and experiences that ...
35. Lean on Me
Luke 18:1-8
Sermon
John Wayne Clarke
... especially when it seems fruitless to do so. The two characters in our parable belong together. They represent persistence in prayer and confidence that prayer will be answered. There is no good reason for anyone here this morning to pray without at least an inkling that the prayer will be answered. Otherwise, our petitions to God fall on deaf ears and our lives are worthless and have no value in God's sight. The fact is that anything worth achieving will take a certain amount of sacrifice. The attaining ...
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Lee Ann Dunlap
... " children of broken homes bear the emotional scars today, emotionally disowned as "not my people." And, like many of today's youngsters they acted out their anguish in rebellion. Those of you with less-than-perfect children might, perhaps, have an inkling. But a few of you, who have perhaps personally parented persons who are hell-bent on self-destruction, are better positioned to grasp the heartache of God amidst Israel's spiral toward disaster. While the airwaves are loaded with "cheatin' heart" songs ...
37. Come To the Water
Matthew 3:13-17
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... as Jesus had been baptized "suddenly the heavens were opened to him and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, "This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased." If there were ever any inkling of doubt in Jesus' mind, it was cleared up at that moment. God claimed Him and the water of His baptism was God's mark. That's what Baptism does for us, too. It marks us with God's signature. It's as if God signed His name on us ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... aspects of aging is my growing inability to recall important information like the Greek alphabet, the gross national product of Lebanon, and where I left my glasses. This becomes particularly pronounced when I go upstairs to get something, halfway up I realize that I have no inkling of what it is I’m going upstairs to get, so.... should I go back downstairs and try to remember what it is I needed? Or should I continue up and look around for something that needs bringing down? Unable to decide, I resort to ...
39. The Temptation To Pass By On The Other Side
Luke 10:25-37
Illustration
Robert Beringer
... officer, and his crew flying an American-built B-25, dropped bombs on the town of Kleve just inside Germany's border with Holland. Ray was 21 years old, and his bombs that day hit the railroad station, a number of Nazi factories, and the town church. He had an inkling that day that one of his bombs hit the church, but war was war. On the ground that day a young woman in Kleve mourned not only the loss of her church, but the loss of her parents who happened to live in a house next to the church. For ...
Sermon
Stan Purdum
... , but they don't know the way. As a result, people swallow all sorts of stuff — everything from astrology to crystals to UFOs to Elvis sightings. People want to connect with a "higher power" but have no idea of how. Then, too, even among those of us who have some inkling that Christ is the way, some of us perhaps don't grasp what that means. We may be relying on a record of good deeds to get God's attention and thus fail to realize that God may be reached through faith in Jesus. There may also be some of ...
Sermon
Larry Lange
... month, the doctors felt encouraged enough about the progress of the medication that they began weaning Judy off the ventilator and bringing her back from the coma they had induced. Though the new pastor had kept up the every-other-day visitation, he had no inkling about what the doctors were doing and was shocked and unprepared one day when he found that the ventilator had been removed and that as he approached her bedside, Judy seemed to be trying to open her eyes. Oh, my goodness, the pastor was thinking ...
42. LENT: The Passion of Christ: "Betrayed"
John 13:21-30; Matthew 26:14-16; 45-50
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... being betrayed. Unfortunately, a lot of times we don't see that pain because the sin of our betrayal has blinded us at the very core of our being. Our denial and our fallenness block our eyes from seeing what we've done. But, if there is even an inkling of remorse, it blows a hole in the defenses and strikes us at the very heart and soul of our existence. Scripture tells us that Peter looked into the eyes of Jesus after his third denial, just as the rooster crowed. It doesn't say the anything about whether ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
Suppose for a few minutes that you are one of them. There is no indication in scripture that you or any of your compatriots have any inkling as you set out in your boats that there might be anything amiss. To be sure, since a number of you are fishermen, you are aware that things like this can happen. After all, the Sea of Galilee is set in a deep gorge between two mountain ranges. The winds ...
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David E. Leininger
... ."[1] Smart man. I wish, after almost 2,000 years of hearing our text, the world (not to mention the church) was that smart. Jesus says, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all" (v. 35). We get an inkling of that truth occasionally in special lives such as the late Mother Teresa, but we notice them precisely because they are so rare. Then after Jesus picks up a little one who happens to be handy (and this child probably more resembles one of those filthy ragamuffins in ...
45. Life Begins At Three
Humor Illustration
Years ago Art Linkletter, in his book KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS, gave us a little inkling of how children think: "I'd like to be six. I'm tired of being five. I've been five for the whole year!" "I'd like to be forty-five so I could watch TV until thirty o'clock at night." "I'd like to be seventeen, ''cause then ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... finger. As long as there are these 36 righteous ones upon the earth, God will stay his hand from punishing the planet for its wickedness and waywardness. The most remarkable thing about these “righteous ones,” these “tzadikim,” is that they have no inkling that they are “tzadikim.” That’s why they’re known as “The Concealed Ones.” They are simply men and women living a simple life inscribed, proscribed, and transcribed by a love of God so great that it spreads that love everywhere ...
47. Mark 9:38-50
Mark 9:38-41
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... will gain a heavenly “reward.” It is unusual for Jesus to refer to himself as “Christ” in direct discourse. For such a title to be used by a stranger doing an act of kindness is even more unexpected. But the invoking of the name suggests some inkling of understanding about the power and grace inherent in that title. Yet even as the most simple act done in Jesus’ name can gain one “the reward,” there are also dire consequences for any who would use their power of position to the detriment of ...
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Leonard Sweet
... will gain a heavenly “reward.” It is unusual for Jesus to refer to himself as “Christ” in direct discourse. For such a title to be used by a stranger doing an act of kindness is even more unexpected. But the invoking of the name suggests some inkling of understanding about the power and grace inherent in that title. Yet even as the most simple act done in Jesus’ name can gain one “the reward,” there are also dire consequences for any who would use their power of position to the detriment of ...
Sermon
Derl G. Keefer
... you.” — John 13:13-15 (NLT) What have you done lately to birth hope to those mired in sin, loneliness, desperation, despair, and helplessness? Think of people right now who need you to bring them hope. Write down their names and what you can do to bring them an inkling of hope! Re­member, you are not going to bring them hope in your own strength but in the strength of the Lord! Hope In The Peace Of A Savior When we think of peace normally we view it as a cessation or freedom from war. Peace in the Old ...
Understanding Series
Leslie C. Allen
... the elders’ God of heaven and earth, an expansion of the more conventional “God of heaven” (see 1:2), which serves to express indirectly the importance of the temple project. The answer they give is phrased in such a way as to remove any inkling that the project was a novel one, conceived recently by the Judeans for political ends. Rather, this temple was associated with a long religious tradition going back to the great king we know as Solomon, who reigned in the tenth century. However, the powerful ...
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