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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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551. Big Men in Little Planes

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... before crossing home plate. The three bases are: First base Salvation; Second base Sanctification or growing into the likeness of Christ; and Third base Service . . . Glass says that some of us try to touch only first base, salvation, without touching second and third. It’s like an example that pastor Gary Sanford uses. He recalls playing baseball as a boy. Sometimes his friends didn’t have enough boys to play all the positions, so they played a game that they called “Chicken-Base Baseball.” In ...

552. A New Point of View

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... cheer! The crowd is exuberant! But some of them ask, "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 a life out of tune, And battered and torn with sin Is auctioned cheap ... But the Master comes and the foolish crowd Never can quite understand The worth of a soul and the change that's wrought By the touch of the Master's hand.2 With this new point of view, we live our lives no longer keeping score, no longer counting their ...

553. The Radiant Life

Exodus 34:29-35

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... to save the world through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. - John 3:16-18 (NIV) God personally wants to touch your life. Will you let him? Amen. 1. Jan Karon, Patches of Godlight (New York: Penguin Books, 2001), npn. 2. Charles Swindoll, Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life (Portland: Multnomah Press, 1983), p. 118. 3. Patrick Morely, Walking with Christ in the Details of ...

554. Fire from Heaven

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... came with one basic ingredient: The Holy Spirit. The first gift of that Spirit was the gift of communication. The disciples touched at Pentecost were given the Holy Spirit who chose to express itself in language. A multiplicity of languages, in fact, so ... are virtually weightless and cannot sink. To describe colors to someone who has always been blind and only knows the world by touch, we might say blue “is like” cool running water, red “is like” the heat of fire, and white “is like a handful of ...

555. A Man of God

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... really do have more than we deserve of the world’s goods be more aware of the needs of those less fortunate this Christmas. Certainly Pastor Ashcroft’s life was impacted. He told his story in his church and on the web. Who knows how many lives will be touched? The point is that when you go through life able to control your response to people so that you are able to deal with them gently with love and forgiveness, when you are a person of character so that people will know that you can be counted on to ...

556. When We No Longer Recognize Ourselves

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... a time . . .” that sets the stage for our relationship with God. We were made in God’s image. But when we wander too far from God, when we follow our own reckless and self-centered desires down a path of destruction, we one day reach a place where we lose touch completely with the person we were created to be. What was once formed in God’s image has been drastically de-formed by the power of sin. And when we look in the mirror of our souls, we no longer see a child of God. We no longer recognize our ...

557. Why Christmas Is So Dangerous

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 36:26), “A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; I will remove from your body the heart of stone, and give you a heart of flesh.” Remember the Grinch? His tiny heart grows times and times bigger! God’s touch does that to us even more! Once the true meaning of the Christ child gets under your skin, and into your heart, your heart will awaken to a world of brokenness and injustice. Yes, Christmas creates awareness: awareness of just now fallen the world has become. Advent is ...

558. Life and Light to All He Brings

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... letting the light shine in our lives in a new way. A tiny newborn babe was not a spotlight. You might say that Jesus started out as an “app,” as a “here I am because you need me” individual light for each of us, reachable and accessible by the simplest touch. For Simeon and Anna, the “one touch” was just seeing Jesus and holding him. For twenty-first century Christians, you might have to reach your hand out to the person next to you, or send a message of love to an online companion. But one ...

559. TGFGF - Good Friday

John 18:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... to the horrible sight. [Often they] took strong drink to numb their senses.” (4) It’s not a pleasant thought, but it is a necessary thought. The cross is about suffering. This helps many people who are also experiencing suffering. In an article in In Touch magazine author Cameron Lawrence tells about one such man. His name is Ed Dobson. Ed was once the pastor of a 5,000-member megachurch. His sermons were broadcast to surrounding communities. “He wrote books and articles. He led 20 trips to Israel. He ...

560. Everything Must Go: The Treasure Principle

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... that gives us the English word “Thesaurus.” You know what a Thesaurus is – it is a treasury of words. What Jesus literally said was, “Do not treasure your treasures.” What is a treasure? Anything tangible that has a price tag is a treasure. If you can see it, touch it, measure it, buy it or enjoy it, it has the potential to be a treasure. If you listen carefully, Jesus makes it very plain it is not wrong to have money. It is not wrong to have treasures, because you can’t lay up what you don’t ...

561. Paradise Lost

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... trees in the garden,but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” (Genesis 3:2-3, ESV) Did you notice what Eve added to God’s word? God never said you couldn’t touch the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You just couldn’t eat of it. You could climb it, touch it, look at it, and cut it up and make firewood of it, but you just couldn’t eat it. Here is the point. The first step ...

562. Don't Give Up Now!

2 Corinthians 4:16 - 5:2

Sermon

... of a day. You do that seven days a week, you’re going to have something special.” Valvano’s memorable ESPY acceptance speech became legendary. He closed by saying: “Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever. I thank you and God bless you all.” (5) He could have been rephrasing St. Paul’s words, “Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are ...

563. What Kind of King Is This?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... Prince of the Outcasts,” it was Jesus. From the beginning of his ministry, it was clear that outcasts were a priority with him. For example, in Mark 1, Jesus expressed his compassion for a leper by touching him. Most people would have healed the man first and then touched him. By touching the leper, he himself would be made ceremonially unclean. (4) Jesus paid no attention to such matters as religious protocol. His only concern was people. He loved people. Do you understand what great good news this is ...

564. Demons, Pigs, and the Economy

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... guilty until proven innocent. In a society where we feel oppressed or powerless, in a system where we feel inconsequential and exploited, in a culture that seems controlled by alien forces, we react like the demoniac in violence or distorted sexuality. In an effort to touch someone, in a craving to know and to be known, in an effort to be something more than a social security number on an IRS form, in our struggle to be more than middle- or upper-middle class serfs to a government despicably wasteful; in ...

565. Hearts

2 Corinthians 6:14--7:1

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... of Isa. 52:11 approvingly as paraenesis for the new covenant situation in Rom. 10:15, where the apostle applies Isa. 52:7 to the apostles of Jesus Christ who preach the gospel. On the idea of not touching the unclean thing, cf. Col. 2:21. It is interesting to note that the same negative imperative m? haptesthe (do not touch) is found in the context of Korah’s rebellion (Num. 16:26), as a divine command given through Moses that the people should separate themselves from the tents of Korah and should not ...

566. The Coming of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... whatever their physical condition at the Parousia, whether dead or alive, they will not be disadvantaged. The outcome for all believers will be the same: they will be with Christ. He is both the agent and the goal of their salvation. One detects almost a touch of impatience in this summing up—“Let’s not waste time discussing whether it is better to be alive or dead. Let’s get on with the job at hand.” The aorist (subj.) verb translated “that … we may live” suggests that Paul viewed that life ...

567. An Army Officer Deeply Concerned

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... of life. Paul M. Stevens in his book Gathered Gold tells about a Japanese magazine that had a picture of a butterfly on one of its pages. The butterfly was printed with special inks that appeared to be a dull gray until it was warmed by the touch of a hand. If you touched it with your hand, the chemicals in the ink would react and the dull gray would be transformed into a rainbow of colors. (4) That butterfly is a metaphor for the power of love to heal human hearts. That love is lived out each and every day ...

568. Isaac and Abimelech

Genesis 26:1-35

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... and Rebekah. Additional Notes 26:8 “Caressing” comes from the same Hb. root, ts-kh-q, as Isaac’s name. This wordplay establishes a bold irony. In acting true to his identity Isaac, unawares, disclosed his deception. 26:11 The terms “touch” (ng’) and “guilt” (’shm) are integrally related in texts that deal with the sanctuary. By touching sancta a person commits a breach of faith against God and becomes guilty. In this light the patriarch and his wife are considered holy to God. Anyone who ...

569. Jesus, Isaiah’s Servant of the Lord, Heals Many

Matthew 8:14-17, Matthew 8:5-13, Matthew 8:1-4

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... �I will come and heal him”) is debated, as the earliest manuscripts lacked punctuation needed to distinguish between the two. Contextual factors can provide evidence for either rendering, because although the immediate context shows Jesus overcoming boundaries (e.g., touching a leper), the broader context strongly emphasizes the Jewish mission of Jesus (15:24; cf. 10:5–6). Given the lack of punctuation in the earliest manuscripts, we must use grammatical cues to discern the correct reading. In this case ...

570. Jesus’ Compassion and Authority to Do the Miraculous

Matthew 14:13-21, Matthew 14:22-36

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... edge of his cloak. Jesus’ power and compassion are implicitly communicated in this description of people coming to him for healing. The power of Jesus that comes through simply touching the edge of his cloak is reminiscent of an earlier incident in which a woman with chronic bleeding touches the edge of Jesus’ cloak (9:20) and is healed. Reference to the “edge” of Jesus’ cloak renders the Greek kraspedon, which refers to the tassels worn by Jewish men on the corners of their robes (see comments ...

571. Jesus Transfigured as a Foreshadowing of Future Glory

Matthew 17:1-13

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... people when they have encountered the divine presence: “Don’t be afraid” (e.g., Dan. 10:12). 17:7 Jesus came and touched them. Matthew portrays Jesus touching someone for healing in the case of a leper (8:3); Peter’s mother-in-law, who has a fever (8:15); and ... in the pair of stories about two blind men (9:29; 20:34). Here Jesus touches his disciples to provide comfort and alleviate their fears. 17:9 Don’t tell anyone what you have seen, until the Son of ...

572. Failing the Test and Spiritual Failure—Hardness of Heart

Mark 6:45-56

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Grant R. Osborne

... the region, ministering both in the towns and in the open countryside, with the sick lining the streets and the central marketplace in each town. He heals them all. let them touch even the edge of his cloak . . . all who touched it were healed. Perhaps the story of the woman healed in 5:28–34 had become well known, for they believed that simply by touching one of the four tassels on the fringe of his robe (required to be worn by Jewish males [Num. 15:38–39; Deut. 22:12]) they would be healed. And they ...

573. Spiritual Blindness and the Way to Overcome It

Mark 8:22-26, Mark 8:14-21

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Grant R. Osborne

... on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him. Jesus repeats the method used on the deaf and mute man in 7:33. As there, this becomes a focus for the man’s faith. Jesus does not need such devices and is accommodating the man. Both saliva and touch were well known as symbols of healing, and in both the power of healing in Jesus’s body was utilized. 8:24 they look like trees walking around. This two-stage healing is unusual, but Mark will have it again in the healing of the demon-possessed child in 9 ...

574. The Commissioning of the Disciples

Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

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R.T. France

... feet. The focus on hands and feet (rather than face) reflects the manner of Jesus’s death. Only John 20:25 specifically mentions the scars left by the nails, but the marks of crucifixion would be unmistakable, so that this invitation to look and to touch confirms not only his physicality but also his identity. (The scars would also have been visible when Jesus broke the bread at Emmaus; was that why they then recognized him?) 24:41 they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement. Joy seems ...

575. The Census and Duties of Levites

Num 3:1–4:49

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... ,000 total Levites (3:39). 4:2–20 Take a census of the Kohathite branch. This tribe deals with the most holy objects (cf. Exod. 25:10–26:14; 27:1–8; 30:1–6) and is to treat them with utmost sanctity. Only the priests, not the Kohathites, can touch these objects. The ark, God’s throne, is especially holy. It is to be covered by the sons of Aaron with the curtain, hides, and a blue cloth. While Israel is on the march, the ark will stand out as the only blue item, with other items covered with ...

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