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
James Merritt
... shoots up. He is hot. "Then David's anger burned greatly against the man, and he said to Nathan, 'As the LORD lives, surely the man who has done this deserves to die. He must make restitution for the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing and had no compassion.'" (II Samuel 12:5-6, NASB) David knows that Nathan knows him well enough to know this will not go unpunished. The man that did this will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Just like a wide-mouthed bass seeing that big juicy worm, David ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... February issue, there was an article concerning how to descend from the top of Ben Nevis, which is Great Britain's highest cliff (4,406 feet high.) It was an article complete with maps, diagrams, and compass points. There was only one problem in the article. The magazine had inadvertently erased the first of two crucial compass bearings to get off the summit, so following the directions and the maps as they gave them, climbers would go to a sheer drop known as, "Gardyloo Gully" and walk right over a 1,200 ...
603. When Christ Is King
Colossians 1:11-20
Sermon
Donna Schaper
... responsibility is in full-tilt conversation with fate, truly great nations and people emerge. When we follow Jesus as king, we maximize our personal responsibility for the world by mobilizing mercy and compassion. We also maximize the strength of communities so that we are not alone. Those who know Christ is king mobilize mercy and compassion. We are eager for personal and communal responsibility. We know we have the help we need to love the way we want to love. We are cored to Christ. I saw a bumper ...
Sermon
Lee Ann Dunlap
... him with open, loving arms and tears of joy. Jesus knew the love of the Father as well as his anguish, just like Hosea had known it. "How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel?" the prophet asks. "My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender." "I will not execute my fierce anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and no mortal, the holy one in your midst, and I will not come in wrath." The good news is that in the end God's love always outweighs ...
Sermon
Lee Ann Dunlap
... God's own commitment to the salvation of humanity. In Jesus we encounter a God who has not abandoned us even in our sin, but rather has become invested in restoring what has been broken. Our God stands not only for "Law and Order" but for mercy and compassion. Because of that, we find the strength to look beyond our fountain of tears and live for the day when joy shall be restored. Rather than the "ching-ching" of Law and Order we await the sound of the trumpet announcing the day when "he will wipe every ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... . "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these men love me?" Humbled, all Peter could say was, "Lord you know I love you." As if to say, "Lord, I can't say that any more. Not after what I did, but I DO love you." With love, compassion, mercy, grace and forgiveness Jesus looked at Peter across that charcoal fire, with the smell of that denial still in the air and said, "Feed my lambs." Jesus is being very clear about Peter's role of caring for the young flock of new Christians, the lambs. Peter was to ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... a walking advertisement for Jesus Christ. Jesus said we ate the light of the world and we can't be hidden under basket. Instead we are supposed to shine bright for the world to see. That's why the Apostle Paul wrote: "Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience" Be Obedient, Be Kind, Be Forgiving, Be Bold and Believe. These are the characteristics of Living In The Spirit of Gentleness and Self-Control. This is what it means to "let the word of Christ dwell in us richly" Be ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.’ So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him . . .” It is unique to Jesus that he taught his followers to call God “Abba,” Daddy. God is a like a Daddy who runs out to welcome a son or daughter home. Our relationship with God ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... think it's curious because this is the last miracle Jesus performs. In one flick of the finger or the blink of an eye, Jesus could have destroyed this group. But he didn't. In compassion Jesus tells the Disciples to put away their swords. And then without even thinking, His death imminent, yet His love and compassion for humanity still oozing from His very pores, Jesus reaches out and heals the man. In stunned silence, the Guards and Conspirators drag Jesus off for His trumped up sham of a trial. Conclusion ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... three times Peter answered, "Lord, you know that I love you." But it wasn't until the third time that Peter, filled with the smell of the charcoal fire, realized what was going on. At that moment, Peter looked into eyes of Jesus and saw the same love and compassion he'd seen at the first charcoal fire, the fire of failure. But this time he saw something more. This time Peter saw mercy, grace and forgiveness. And the last time Peter said, "Lord, you know I love you." I think there was a smile wide enough to ...
611. Haiti
Job 1:6-22
Sermon
Brett Blair
... also help the Haitians rebuild. We should rebuild their walls as soon as the rubble is cleared. We should rebuild their lives as soon as we honor in death all those who have died. We must help them to begin to rebuild their confidence as a people by showing our compassion as their neighbors. And, I pray to God at last, we learn how fragile we are. And our need for a God who is sovereign over all the earth Why such evil? I will leave the question open. It is among all questions the most human. Where is God ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... has been killed by a drunken driver. So, before any words pass from your lips, let them pass this litmus test of love: Are they true? Are they kind? Are they Necessary? In your heart, give a truthful answer. II. Be Flexible Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. A Green Bay Packers fan, upset that his 7-year-old son would not wear a Packers’ jersey during the team’s playoff victory last Saturday, restrained the child to a chair for an hour and taped the jersey ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... and woolly. It's not wrong; we like that warm fuzzy feeling, and we get comfortable with it. Sometimes the wool around our hearts builds, not for warmth, but for protection. It acts as a cushion against the blows of the world, the crushing sorrow we feel, that compassion fatigue. At times it gets so thick that we need to get it sheared, like the ewes. And that's exactly what the stable and manger do for us at Christmas. God uses the plain brown wrapper of the birthplace and the birthing place of Jesus to ...
614. Luke 7:36-8:3
Luke 7:36-50
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... CEO’s. Into this formerly financial relationship between lender and debtor Jesus introduces an emotional connection when he asks Simon, “Now which one of them will love him more?” There is more to relationships than a “quid-pro-quo” equanimity. There is compassion, forgiveness, and love. Jesus next focuses his attention on the woman, even as he focuses his words at Simon. As Jesus speaks to the proper Pharisee he reveals that Simon’s own behavior has been anything but proper. Simon had failed to ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... was new force in the land, possibly the Messiah. Whoever he was, life was being made different by his presence. Demons were being cast out of people. He was calming the sea of its raging storm. Wherever He went, the chief mark of his presence was compassion that resulted in healing. So the woman had heard. The word had gotten to her village, and she joined the throng that pressed out to get a glimpse of this phenomenal person about whom everybody seemed to be talking. The crowd was great. Excitement was in ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... the story. In Romans 9, when Paul was trying to articulate the plan of salvation, by grace and grace alone, he picks up this story from the Old Testament. He has God saying in verse 15: I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and compassion on whom I have compassion. Therefore, reasons Paul, our salvation does not depend on our desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. Furthermore, Paul reasons that, if God can take a heel like Jacob and make him the father of Israel, he ought to be able to do something good ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... and I buried our stillborn grandchild this week. Daniel Isaac was our hope who never came to be. For your prayers, compassion, and the great sense of community that we have received from you, we will be eternally and deeply grateful. Thank you ... Book of Job, we have the longest discourse heard from God in the entire Bible. You would think that God would come on with great compassion like a loving mother. Instead, He doesn't explain; He explodes to Job. Brace yourself like a man, Job; I have a few questions of ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... but of dependence—dependence on God who empowers us to be the kind of people He calls us to be. II. WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL What God calls liberty and justice has nothing to do with courts and juries and everything to do with compassion and righteousness. Lady Liberty says it best. You remember those words. Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these the homeless, the tempest tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... 15:22). When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead he said, “Take off his grave clothes and let him go" (John 11:44). Isaiah said, “All righteous acts are nothing more than filthy rags" (Isaiah 64:6). Here Paul says, “Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience." In the early church when new converts were baptized into the faith, they were stripped naked, and then clothed in a white robe which they wore for an entire week, symbolizing their new life in Christ. Paul ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... do I condemn you, go and sin no more." The Bible makes no distinction between sins of the flesh and sins of the spirit. Paul says in Colossians “Put to death sexual immorality, impurity, lust, greed, anger, rage, malice, slander, lying and put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience." As I was surfing the Internet looking for sermons on this text, I discovered a sermon delivered by a colleague of mine in which he said, “Sexual sin is different and in a sense worse than any other kind ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... faith who have been granted the ultimate in second chances through the grace in-our-place of Jesus Christ. We “mulliganeers,” those of us who have been given a bunch of second chances, know that we must pass the “mulligan” along. We must offer the compassion of a “second chance” to everyone we meet. Just as Jesus did with the woman in this morning’s text. A lot of composers have written “God of Second Chances” songs. There are all sorts of lyrics for the theme of Life’s “Second Chances ...
622. Losers, Weepers
Isaiah 49:8-16a
Sermon
Tony Everett
... of them — all of us. However, even if we view life through the eyes of a forgotten loser, God does not forget us. Here is the good news, friends. Pay attention to God's reply to Zion's complaint: "Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion to the child of her womb?" (Isaiah 49:15). Did you hear how the Lord persists with faithfulness and love in spite of the pessimistic doubts of the people? Do you know that God is patient with our own suspicious "buts" and "what ifs"? Listen to one of ...
Sermon
John N. Brittain
... practicing Christian patience look like? It will look like the prophets, who kept speaking and believing, in suffering and perseverance, with this specific assurance: God will bless. This is the message of grace. God gives good gifts because God is full of compassion and mercy. Grace is the element in God's character, which James wants his readers to know with absolute confidence. The Christian can be patient in suffering and consider trials pure joy because of the assurance that God will give wonderfully ...
Sermon
John N. Brittain
... on what one has done by clothing, feeding, visiting, and providing hospitality. But some of us neglect the fact that it is a parable of judgment, about whether one enters into eternal punishment or eternal life (Matthew 25:46). Of course, preparation, prudence, and compassion are all worthwhile in their own right, but in Jesus' parables, as in the beginning of today's lesson, it is the end product that is emphasized: "bringing many children to glory." Here is where things appear to get tricky: The text goes ...
Children's Sermon
Marti Kramer Suddarth
... comes in. Love is sometimes a feeling, but love is also used to describe action. Jesus isn’t telling us to feel anything. He’s telling us to do something. When Jesus says to “love your neighbor,” he wants us to show love by acting with respect, compassion, and concern, and we can do these things whether we like a particular person or not. One way we can show love is by telling people about Jesus. Maybe you can invite a friend to Sunday school or tell a new family in your neighborhood about your ...
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