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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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476. The Perfect Antidote For Worry

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... not be found in money and possessions. And they're thinking, "Yeah, right. Where are we supposed to find our security?" And that's a question with which every person on earth is confronted. Where do we find our security? We worry because we are out of touch with God. That's the first thing we need to see this Thanksgiving Day. The key to defeating worry is to be grounded in God. When the disciples first discerned that Jesus really did have a different relationship with God than any they had known, they came ...

477. I Am Unworthy

Jeremiah 1:1-19, Jeremiah 6:1-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... said, "Here am I; send me!" What did Jesus say to Simon Peter after he declared himself unworthy? "Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching people." What happened to St. Paul--the self-professed "least of all the apostles"? He was responsible for touching more lives with the good news of Christ than anyone who has ever lived, except the Master himself. Part of that rich, full life to which we are called is to be emissaries of Christ in the world. Unworthy? Yes, but NO PROBLEM! Christ has called us ...

478. Son of Man; Son of God

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... life. Often, the first words they speak are simply, “Thank you.” This is what Christ did for us at Christmas. He moved into the ward with us. He placed his bed among our beds. Those who were there, those who saw him, those who touched him and were, in turn, touched by him were restored to life. The first word they had to say was “thank you.” Christmas is our time to say “Thank you.” (5) So, how would you go about changing human nature without robbing humanity of its freedom to choose life or ...

479. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... anyway and if life is worth living. You may be asking, "Is it worth going on, is it worth living with this cynical spirit that I have, is it worth living with the suspicion that's in my heart, is it worth living the way I am?" Jesus Christ can touch you and transform you and make a difference in your life. I encourage you today to trust in him and begin anew with his grace and his help. Faith in Christ gives you a fresh start, a new direction. That is what happened to a man named Nicodemus. One night ...

480. One Commandment, Slightly Used

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... least some people have caught Jesus’ command to love one another, and that is why we are here today. We are a part of the Christian Church today because somebody cared enough to touch somebody who cared enough to touch somebody down through twenty centuries until the love of God in Jesus Christ has come to touch us! “Love one another!” said Jesus. And immediately the skeptic jumps into the fray and asks, “Can love be commanded? Isn’t love a spontaneous emotion?” The answer is, “Not the kind of ...

481. The Autobiography of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to us the possibility. It can lead us to trust. It can help us to make a commitment based on what we reasonably believe to be the truth about the universe. We come to trust in the witness of a person who has been touched by a person who has been touched by a person who has been touched by a person...all the way back to that first Person, Jesus the Christ. And that is what the Church is for. To keep alive the rumor that “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself.” “The one who has seen me ...

482. On Being in the Wrong Place

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the wood; it would make him ceremonially unclean. But here was a stranger from out of town; and so they compelled him to carry the wood. Ever since, we have had a strange custom: to touch wood, or to “knock on wood,” means good luck. It is a reminder of the first man to touch wood for Jesus: Simon of Cyrene! The man who was compelled to carry Jesus’ cross. Now, you and I may say to ourselves: “Isn’t that the way life is? Things are going along well..and then suddenly, some unwanted cross is thrust ...

483. Blessings Beyond Our Dreams (Part 2 )

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the guests. (3) Biblical scholar William Barclay traces the meaning of the expression "Bless me" and concludes that it means, "Give me the joy that cannot be touched by harm or pain." That’s good--especially in light of Jabez’ name. "Give me the joy that cannot be touched by harm or pain." There’s nothing selfish about asking for joy that cannot be touched by pain. In fact, Jesus promised his followers that they would find joy. Bruce Wilkinson reminds us that when we ask for God’s blessing, we are ...

484. A Glimpse of Eternity

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... brother, Joe, came to visit. Joe had struggled with alcohol and drugs, and often his life was in a shambles. Joe and Will were walking on the farm talking when they heard a noise from a bush. They walked over and slowly pulled back the bush and saw a touching moment. One of Will''s sons was at a site where they had recently buried the family horse that everyone had ridden. The youngster had taken two wooden sticks and made a "cross" to place at the grave and was praying. Joe was a camera buff and thought it ...

485. If You Are Willing

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... at the man’s faith. But I wonder if he was trying to somehow manipulate the Master. “If you’re willing . . .” Evidently Jesus did not take offense at the man’s approach. Filled with compassion, Mark tells us, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” Immediately the leprosy left the man and he was cured. Then something quite interesting happened. Mark tells us that Jesus sent the man away at once with a strong warning: “See that you don’t ...

486. The Indwelling Christ And Holy Communion

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ? If so I made a tremendous sacrifice being a monk.” He’s the most marvelous fellow I know. His letters sparkle with life, they’re punctuated with humor. And although he is living in a monastery, Brother Simon is in touch with the world, in touch with truth, in touch with the needs and feelings of persons in an uncanny, almost unbelievable way, given the circumstances. I have spent only one day personally with Brother Simon. I slipped off from the general conference at Portland five years ago and went ...

487. Such As I Have

Acts 3:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... something deeper. In the unplanned incident that brings an outsider into our lives in a way that mind and heart can touch. We seize the opportunity of the critical moment, and we seize it when it comes, and we share the faith that ... mother to guide her child. And sometimes he takes the hand of poor creature like me, to give comfort to a neighbor. But they’re all hands touched by his spirit, and his spirit is everywhere looking for hands to use.” Such as we have, and we all have time, we all have talent, ...

488. The Game Is For A Team

Colossians 4:7-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sets us apart as a unique community. No single person within the fellowship of the church should ever have a need without having persons around to seek to meet those needs. Now we may not always be able to do so -- but we can try. We can reach out and touch. We can extend that word of compassionate concern -- that cup of cold water to a brother or a sister who is seeking to follow the same Lord that we claim as our guide. Let me plant a question in your mind that I hope will be your guide to relationships ...

489. The Whole Load

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... for my children." There was a man walking by on his way to a church meeting. He heard the poor man's prayer. He was deeply touched. At the board meeting he shared with other members this deep concern and they took up an offering. It was $100. He took it by the ... won't be long til I'm gonna need somebody to lean on. It wasn't good singing -- but it was sweeter to my ears and touched my heart as deeply as the finest music I've ever heard. It was the celebration of the truth that Jesus underscored, that we must ...

490. God Communicates in Humanly Understandable Terms

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Richard D. Campbell

... did he begin to understand how the common people lived. I also thought of a cross-country coach I know. He does not just teach by word. He runs alongside of his boys and girls. He demonstrates the art of running with his own body. He keeps in touch with the feelings of frustration and elation experienced by his runners. I thought of the contrast with my own college cross-country coach. He was a fine man and a successful coach. He used to drive alongside of us during a race or practice and yell encouraging ...

491. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... we discover a few things: that we have nothing to offer but vulnerability, that the tears we often stifle are an indicator of truth, that pushy people miss God’s best gifts, and that our greatest friend is that gnawing in our soul that nothing but God can touch. This is not the way the world operates or what it values, and that is why it continues under the curse. Only where the kingdom goes is the blessing bestowed. God will have a people who follow his Son, or he will have none at all. CONCLUSION St ...

492. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... around he is there. He is me." You don’t want to become that kind of person. You don’t want to built a house of anger and then have someone come occupy it as a permanent guest. I have known men and women like this; they wither everything they touch. So if people are frightened or intimidated by you, and if you take a pride in that because it feels strong, it is not a good thing. It’s from the other guy! In an angry world, what a wonderful opportunity for Christians to offer an alternative. We should ...

493. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... as much testosterone in his system as anyone; Jesus appreciated beauty, but Jesus never looked at a woman as an object; his warm touch was not a tool of seduction; women felt safe in his presence because he had no hidden agenda; he never leered. As ... night the one said to the other, "I have a bone to pick with you. We monks have taken vows not to look on a woman, much less touch her, but by the river you did both." "My brother, I put the woman down on the other side of the river. You still carry her in your ...

494. Big Fish

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... just a few, and then more and more, until dozens of people are in the front yard. Finally, his widow tells William to ask them all to leave. As they leave, one man says to William, “We all have stories [about Edward], just as you do. Ways in which he touched us, helped us, gave us jobs, lent us money, sold it to us wholesale. Lots of stories, big and small. They all add up. Over a lifetime it all adds up. That’s why we’re here, William. We’re a part of him, of who he is, just as ...

495. How Moses Handled Stress

Numbers 11:4-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... context of that neighborhood, saved his life. We are priests to each other. We can mediate the grace of God through our concern for other people. We can redeem their lives, give them hope, turn them around, simply by making ourselves a vessel for God's grace to touch their lives. But even more so, we are supposed to be priests to one another in the Church. We sang as the second hymn this morning, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds," in which we find this verse. We share each other's woes, or mutual burdens bear ...

496. The Problem with Promises

Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7

Sermon

James L. Killen

... business is not running like God would want it to. Abe began to catch a vision of what it would mean for business to be run in the way that God would want it run. He began to visualize companies planning everything for the good of all whom they touched, the clients, the workers, the stock holders, and the whole structure of business in the world. He began to imagine what it would mean to run one company in that way. Before the sermon was over, Abe began to have the strong feeling that God wanted him to try ...

497. Different

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Sermon

James L. Killen

... live as if there is not one. Most of us live lives shaped only by our relationships with those things that we can see and touch - and put in the bank. The idea of actually living lives that are shaped by a relationship with some great invisible reality that is beyond ... of God for salvation, he was saying that God acted in Jesus Christ to show us a better way of life and to put us in touch with one who can help us actually to be able to live it. It is interesting that he spoke of those "who are being saved," ...

498. Remembering Jesus

2 Peter 1:16-21

Sermon

James L. Killen

... kind of a situation, many people have become very confused about what to believe. Some have been led to give up on religious faith all together. When we find ourselves in that kind of a situation, we need to remember Jesus again. The story of Jesus puts us in touch with the most profound aspects of the truth about God and puts them before us in a form that we can understand. It puts the truth about God before us in the form of the story of someone like ourselves, a man, Jesus of Nazareth. We believe that it ...

499. Living in Denial

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... s talk for a few minutes about living in denial. Living in denial is a favorite occupation of many people. Some people would simply prefer not to face reality. Jane Wagner once said, “I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.” Then she adds, “I can take [reality] in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining.” Reality is stressful. If we could only turn a blind eye to it, life would be so much easier. Our story today is about a man ...

500. Rejoicing in Reality

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... quotes, so that when we hit rock bottom today, we can tear it off and find something tangible to keep us going tomorrow. As tough and together as we appear to be to others, we are as needy and impoverished of spirit as any of the people taught and touched by Jesus. And it is that very neediness that invites and receives God's blessings. It is that very neediness that provides the fertile soil for our spiritual life to grow. And if we can accept and rejoice that it is in our neediness that God's blessings ...

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