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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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26. A Touch of the Master's Hand

Luke 13:10-17

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... and who'll make it two? Two thousand! And who'll make it three? Three thousand, once; three thousand twice; And going, and gone!" said he. The people cheered, but some of them cried, "We do not quite understand What changed its worth?" Swift came the reply: "The touch of the master's hand." And many a man with life out of tune, And battered and scattered with sin, Is auctioned off cheap to the thoughtless crowd, Much like the old violin. A "mess of pottage," a glass of wine; A game -- and he travels on. He ...

27. The Golden Touch

Luke 12:13-21

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... and girls? Does anyone know how the story of King Midas ends? (Let them answer.) Well, Midas was so miserable and so unhappy that the wise old man who had granted his wish felt sorry for him. He came to see him again and Midas begged to have his golden touch taken away. Midas had learned his lesson. He would be happy with what he had and not want any more. So the old man took away Midas' power. The flowers came back to life, his daughter came back to life, and all of his furniture and dishes and food looked ...

28. The Tender Touch (Part 2)

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Trueblood reflected upon those words as he drove on down the road. "There are so many people trying to get their load over the hill," he thought. "I have just enough strength--when added to their own--to make the thing go." (4) This is what our tender touch does. It joins the spirit and soul of another pilgrim and surrounds that person with strength they can feel and allows them to go on. G.K. Chesterton was right when he noted, "More things are wrought by prayer--than this world will ever know." The story ...

29. Touch

Mark 1:40-45

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... day these people held these babies and rocked them. The object was to get these babies to start crying again. And you know, it worked. Physical touch had made the difference. As important as physical touch is there is another kind of touch that is even more important. It is spiritual touch. And I would contend that when a people are denied spiritual touch a very similar thing happens. They stop trying to do and be good. Their lives fall in disrepair and violence, anger, lying, robbery, adultery, abuse and ...

30. Don’t Touch Me With That Water!

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

Cynthia Cowen

... ’s head, the pastor continued. "Rachel Paige Martin, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen." The pastor then turned to Nicholas, who quickly grabbed his father's leg shouting, "Don’t touch me with that water!" Unlocking their son's arms, his parents said with firm voices, "We present Nicholas Robert Martin for the Sacrament of Holy Baptism." Nicholas' defiance toward baptism stemmed from fear and misunderstanding. He did not comprehend what God was doing ...

31. The Soft-touch God

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... of God when we have been the wayward ones. And that, we must confess, happens more times than we would like it to be. Several times a week at least, if it isn’t several times a day. We can say at least two things about the soft-touch God we encounter here in Hosea. One is that there really is a difference between God being our father and our own desire to be good parents to our children. We can certainly learn from God, but time and again our emotions will prevail and we as parents and children ...

32. Touched by God

Luke 1:46-55

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... us in our lives and in our churches, on Christmas, we will come to realize that God has seen us, that God has touched us, that in all of this vast world, in all the countless heavens, God has cared for and loved us so much, that he sent to ... us his Son! The Emmanuel. God with us. How do you respond when you realize that God has touched your life? How do you react when you realize that your uncompromising position was a blessing in disguise? How do you contain what rises up ...

33. The Lightest Touch

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... this took place. However, we do know that this symbolic action was highly significant. Later God says to Jeremiah, “You shall serve as my mouth” (15:19). We know also that in the call of the Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 9:6), God does the same thing by touching the prophet with a coal to purify the mouth for the task of sharing the word. The important item for us to understand is that the word is to be shared by word of mouth. The word is to be proclaimed, dialogued, preached, taught, pored over in seminars ...

34. The Christmas Touch

Luke 2:29-32

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Robert L. Crouch

... were weak. So, too, his arms. His hands trembled involuntarily. His voice, once strong, grew tired. He grew old gracefully. For most of his 82 years, this man touched the world by holding before it the Christ of Christmas. Jesus knows the trembling hands that hold on to him with unflinching tenacity. He recognizes his faithful follower’s tender touch. He understands that the cause for which he came into our fallen world is the cause to which this frail fellow had committed his life. Since embracing the ...

35. The Personal Touch - Sermon Starter

Mark 1:14-20

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Brett Blair

... Simon and his brother casting a net into the sea. He approached them and invited them to be a part. He went a little further and he saw two more brothers: James and John. He went up to them extending the same invitation and they followed. It is the personal touch which attracts us, is it not? Cards and letters are nice and they're meaningful but they can only do so much. And advertising is so impersonal. But a shake of the hand and a personal ...

36. Do Not Touch

Mark 5: 21-43

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Despite the "Do Not Touch" signs, a museum was having no success in keeping patrons from touching and soiling priceless furniture and art. But the problem evaporated overnight when a clever museum employee replaced the signs with ones that read: "Caution: Wash Hands After Touching!"

37. The Healing Touch

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... There is much to learn about our ministry of healing because the subject has been neglected for so long. Of course, we can study the subject to death and use our incomplete work as an excuse for inaction. No, if the church is to regain its healing touch, the church has to, as the commercial says, just do it! Please note that scripture does not reserve this healing work to a certain favored few. There is no question that some individuals do have a particular gift, but the ministry is committed to the church ...

38. I Missed Your Touch Upon My Skin

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Maxie Dunnam

... bright, cheerful person, whose life held such promise could kill himself. From a journal Peter kept hidden under his bed, this poem was discovered: I missed your touch upon my skin I missed your love and warmth within And most of all, whoever you are, I missed you. That's a sad story. Do you feel with peter the driving need we all have to be deeply cared for and touched? The data is clear. We know that children who aren't played with, held, and hugged, tend to grow up with a hardness that may take years ...

39. The Power of Touch

Mark 1:40-45

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King Duncan

... that propelled these infants to maturity beyond Western standards. Many young parents today understand this principle and make it a practice to massage their infants. That's a wise practice. We all have a need to be touched. Studies have shown that touching has physiological benefits even for adults. One researcher made numerous studies on the effects of the practice many Christians recognize called "laying on of hands." She discovered that when one person lays hands on another, the hemoglobin levels ...

40. Touched by God

Lk 2:1-20

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King Duncan

... a Christmas carol. It was echoed over the infirmary where men were dying. Then all around the camp, the men began to sing, and those who could, those who were ambulatory, came to the parade field and sat there in a great circle. Gordon said, "God touched us that day." He called it the most sacred event that he had ever been involved with. No preaching, nothing of the usual church paraphernalia, just men united by their common misery, singing of God being with them and God's sovereignty. And he said, "We ...

41. Touch the Unsaved

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King Duncan

Years ago in a church prayer meeting, there was a faithful old deacon who always used the same phrase in his public prayers. He would pray: “O Lord, touch the unsaved with Thy finger.” One night however, after leading in prayer as he often did and repeating that old phrase again (“O Lord, touch the unsaved with Thy finger.”), he abruptly stopped praying. Afterwards, one of the members thinking that maybe the deacon had become ill, took him aside and asked if anything was wrong, was he ill. “No ...

42. Staying in Touch

John 15:1-8

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Joel Leyrer

... of finishing school, but the recognition that soon many of their friends will be going separate ways. And so some of the final conversations that classmates will have with each other or will put in each other's yearbooks is the desire to stay in touch, to stay connected. Because if friendships are going to last or grow stronger or develop more deeply, people have to stay connected with each other. Jesus Christ is the best friend of every person in this world. As Christians, we know this. But like any ...

43. Humility: Touching Greatness

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Staff

... Moonlight Sonata. As she was leaving she said to the guard, "I suppose all the great pianist who come here want to play on that piano." The guard shook his head. "Padarewski, the famed Polish pianist, was here a few years ago and he said he wasn't worthy to touch it."

44. Keep In Touch

Humor Illustration

Sometimes we feel temporarily out of touch with God. We are like Jimmy Carter's phone in the conversation between Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin. Begin was talking with Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office when he noticed the three phones on Carter's desk. One was platinum, one was red, and one was gold. Begin joked, " ...

45. Gentle Touch

Isaiah 42:1-9

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

Exegetical Aim: God's gentle with our lives and shortcomings. Props: Sticks that are partially cracked and almost broken or weak, and one that is strong and difficult to break. Lesson: How many of you like to play with sticks? (response) When I was young, I loved to play with sticks. Hold up the whole stick, and mimic the following. Sometimes I would pretend that I was Robin Hood and the stick was a bow. Sometimes I was a knight and the stick was a sword. Sometimes I was a baseball player and the stick was ...

46. You've Got That Healin' Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

God is Creator (Father) and Redeemer (Son), but God is also Sustainer (Holy Spirit). God's sustaining nature always seeks to heal, to restore each creature and the entire creation to its original state of wholeness. Take time this week to explore with your congregation the diverse ways God has brought healing into your life together - either through other people, relationships, or the created cosmos surrounding you. It has been estimated that nearly twenty percent of the gospel narratives are devoted to ...

47. Who Touched The Remote Control?

Jeremiah 17:7-8

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

Maybe you've heard about the family who was asked by their pastor how much time they spent together in meaningful discussion. The father said that they spent about two-and-a-half hours a day in meaning discussion. The pastor was impressed. "That's wonderful! That's more than I spend with my own family, a lot more! What kind of things do you discuss?" Mom rolled her eyes and then volunteered additional information left out by the father. She said, "We only discuss one thing: who gets to hold the remote ...

48. A Grandmother’s Touch

Acts 19:1-7

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

It's texts like this one from Acts 19 that create so many misunderstandings and downright disagreements about baptism for all ages. There was a story about a mom who glanced out through her kitchen window at her children playing across the yard. It was one of those games children play that looks complicated to the outside eye but for them it makes perfect sense. They had brought out a shovel and dug a hole in the soft dirt of the garden, dragged over the garden hose, and had an array of dolls lying on the ...

49. Needed--The Personal Touch

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Editor James S. Hewett

A man stopped at a flower shop to order some flowers to be wired to his mother who lived two hundred miles away. As he got out of his car he noticed a young girl sitting on the curb sobbing. He asked her what was wrong and she replied: "I wanted to buy a red rose for my mother. But I only have seventy-five cents and a rose costs two dollars." The man smiled and said, "Come on in with me. I'll buy you a rose." He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother's flowers. As they were leaving he ...

50. Out of Touch with the World

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Editor James S. Hewett

One of the strangest tales to come out of World War II concerns the story of two young men who were captured by the Americans in Germany near the end of the war. The two were shipped to a POW camp in this country, but attempts to integrate them were to no avail. They would not or could not speak to American authorities. They kept to themselves and refused to talk to anyone, even their fellow German prisoners. In fact, the other German prisoners insisted that they knew nothing of the pair. The American ...

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26. A Touch of the Master's Hand

Luke 13:10-17

Illustration

27. The Golden Touch

Luke 12:13-21

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

28. The Tender Touch (Part 2)

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

29. Touch

Mark 1:40-45

Illustration

30. Don’t Touch Me With That Water!

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

Cynthia Cowen

31. The Soft-touch God

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

Keith Hammer

32. Touched by God

Luke 1:46-55

Sermon

Lori Wagner

33. The Lightest Touch

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

34. The Christmas Touch

Luke 2:29-32

Illustration

Robert L. Crouch

35. The Personal Touch - Sermon Starter

Mark 1:14-20

Illustration

Brett Blair

36. Do Not Touch

Mark 5: 21-43

Illustration

37. The Healing Touch

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

David E. Leininger

38. I Missed Your Touch Upon My Skin

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

39. The Power of Touch

Mark 1:40-45

Illustration

King Duncan

40. Touched by God

Lk 2:1-20

Illustration

King Duncan

41. Touch the Unsaved

Illustration

King Duncan

42. Staying in Touch

John 15:1-8

Illustration

Joel Leyrer

43. Humility: Touching Greatness

Illustration

Staff

44. Keep In Touch

Humor Illustration

45. Gentle Touch

Isaiah 42:1-9

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

46. You've Got That Healin' Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

47. Who Touched The Remote Control?

Jeremiah 17:7-8

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

48. A Grandmother’s Touch

Acts 19:1-7

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

49. Needed--The Personal Touch

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

50. Out of Touch with the World

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

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