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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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676. How Can We Restore the Christian Home?

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... God. Truly, Isay to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it." And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands upon them. Mark 10:2-16 (RSV) And they were bringing children to him, that he might touch them; and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it he was indignant, and said to them, "Let the children come to me, do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of God ..." And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands ...

677. How Does Religious Conduct Work?

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... his hand upon him. And taking him aside from the multitude privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha," that is, "Be opened." And his ears were opened, his ... begged Jesus to "lay his hand on him." Jesus took him aside, apart from the crowd, "put his fingers in the man's ears, spat, and touched the man's tongue. Then he looked up to heaven, gave a deep groan, and said to the man, 'Open up!' At once the man' ...

678. Can We Love Too Much?

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... feeling. It calls for affection with hugs and kisses. It is this kind of love that we and God crave. It is the warm touch, the strong hug, and the tender kiss. Do we express this kind of love in our churches? Are we too formal and dignified to ... Most of us can show love by reading the Word, the Bible. It can be read daily. The read Word becomes our daily guide and puts us in touch with God. In the words of the Bible we see the face of Jesus. “Oh, how I love thy Word” is the exclamation of one who loved ...

679. The Spiritual Organ Of Corti

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... , Saul, on his way to Damascus to single out Christians for persecution, met God face to face. Blind and deaf to God's gracious and redemptive power, the Lord came crashing into his life on that road. His entire world was flipped upside down. Jesus touched Paul's tongue so that he could tell, without any trouble, the entire world about God's amazing grace. A friend who lives in an area of the country where there are many Native American Indian reservations, attended a church conference years ago. One of ...

680. Who Can Find A Virtuous Woman?

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... dear. I want you to take a moment now to think about what you value in yourself; if virtue seems too old fashioned a word - what characteristic do you value? Think for a moment, while I tell you about a neighbor who lives alone, and everything he touches turns to loveliness, a vase of black-eyed Susans on the kitchen counter, a strainer full of blueberries in the kitchen sink, a gathering of beach stones on a side table, even his collection of baseball cards is presented in a fashion that is attractive. Our ...

681. Walking Through A Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... to the jailer as powerful as the words Jesus uttered to the sea. Through the voice of Paul, it was the Master's voice initiating a new life for that jailer. Part of this spirit-ministry in the midst of the storm is that other persons reach out to touch the hurting life, the worried life, the broken life. It is called caring for one another. And it is a blessing shared through the human family. For Christians it is the expression of Christ in our humanity. For some of us this caring is in boxes of food that ...

682. Living By Faith And Trust

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... that Jesus might offer. "My little daughter is at the point of death." What father would not be anguished to utter such a sentence? But amid the anguish that he and his town shared, there was the spirit-flame of hope that still gave some light. "If you touch her, she will be made well!" In that faith Jairus moved with Jesus toward the house, walking through the crowds of women who had already begun the death wails. At the end of their journey, the little 12-year-old daughter walked with them. The faith of ...

683. The Presence Of The Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Charles Curley

... with us. I am not a musician, but I love music. There are two or three pieces of music which affect me profoundly. Not all of them are as well known as Handel's Messiah or Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. My favorite pieces are rather obscure, but something in them touches a resonating chord in me, and when I hear them, I soar! Once I invited a close friend to listen to one of these favorite pieces of music with me, expecting him, of course to be as moved as I was. Yet as the piece ended, his only reaction was ...

684. The Saving Grace Of Gratitude

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... our doors to the poor and welcome them among us, when we work for better housing and better health care, even though it may mean paying higher taxes to make it possible, and when we do it because we are grateful that we ourselves have been healed and touched by God, then we know that the kingdom of God is among us. I know of an urban congregation, an old "downtown" church, which took some bold steps in 1987 to reach out to the silenced and excluded people of the inner city. Most of them were not residents ...

685. Proper 12

John 6:16-24, John 6:1-15, 2 Samuel 11:1-27, Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... but a great Christian who spent two hours every morning communing with God through prayer. He credited his achievements not to his own genius but to his Creator, who gave him the ability to multiply the uses of the peanut over 300-fold. Be gentle when you touch bread. Let it not be uncared for, unwanted. So often bread is taken for granted. There is so much beauty in bread; beauty of the sun and soil, beauty of patient toil. Winds and rains have caressed it. Christ often blessed it. Be gentle when you ...

686. Proper 17

James 1:19-27, Song of Songs 2:1-17, Mark 7:1-23

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Russell F. Anderson

... penetrating to the heart of the matter, for one thing. For another, it confused human philosophy with God's revelation. Thirdly, it neglected God's moral law in favor of ceremonial law and religious customs. To sum the matter up, their worship was vain because they were out of touch with the One who is the Way, the Truth and the Life. To this day, there is no shortage of vain and useless worship. Outline: 1. Jesus accused the scribes and Pharisees of vain worship (v. 7). What made it so? 2. It was out of ...

687. Proper 21

Mark 9:38-41, Esther 7:1-10, Esther 9:18-32, James 5:13-20, Mark 9:42-50

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Russell F. Anderson

... of this punishment is similar to the millstone around the neck that Jesus mentions in the Gospel Lesson. Both images convey utter hopelessness and doom. What really doomed Haman was not the king but his own deceit. Epistle: James 5:13-20 Reach out and touch (v. 13). James advises sufferers to share their misery with God and the church. "Are any among you suffering, let him pray." Share your misery with the Lord; he will hear, he will help. "Are any cheerful? Let them sing." Let others hear your praises ...

688. Trinity Sunday

Jn 3:1-17 · Mt 28:16-21 · Rom 8:12-17 · Isa 6:1-8 · Ps 29

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... the Almighty. He cries out: "Woe is me! For I am lost..." The Lord sends a seraphim with a coal from the altar to touch and purify his lips. His sin is taken away. Then the Lord asks for a messenger. Isaiah volunteers, "Here am I, send me." Lesson ... in the midst of a people of unclean lips..." Yet the confession had barely left his lips when the Lord ordered a seraph to touch Isaiah's lips with a hot coal, symbol of God's purifying forgiveness. Just as Jesus lifted up a terrified Peter sinking in the waves ...

689. Made, Lost, And Found

1 John 1:1-4

Sermon

Mark J. Molldrem

... it was almost like the boat was hiding on him or the river was playing tricks on him. He did not find the boat. It was lost. Sometimes we feel like that boat: lost. We have times in our life when we feel detached, out of reach and out of touch with God, adrift on a fast current of life going places unknown. The Bible calls this lostness sin. Sin is separating ourselves from God. Sin is breaking the line of obedience to God, just like Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden. Afterwards, they got "lost" in the ...

690. Do Not Be Doubting But Believe!

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lee Griess

... with Jesus. For him, the future was still unsure. For he had yet to meet the Risen Lord, and because of that, doubt filled his heart. "Unless I see for myself, I will not believe. Unless I can feel the marks of the nails with my own fingers and touch the wound in his side with my own hands, I will not believe." Can you sense Thomas' misery? Can you hear his loneliness, his separation and pain? I think you can, because we have all felt it. We have all gone through the same experience. We have trusted and ...

691. First Sunday In Christmastide

John 15:1-17

Bulletin Aid

David M. Oliver

... had the branch out of the water for a time, however, the needles may be starting to show signs of lack of water. Take a few needles off the branch. Please share some of your needles with those who do not have any. How do the needles feel to the touch? When you bend them, do they flex easily or do they break in two? Obviously, the longer these branches and their needles have been cut off from the tree, the drier they will be and the more susceptible to breaking. If you kept it around until the heat of the ...

692. Remembering The Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... to stop for milk on your way home." I'm speaking of remembering in a much deeper sense. A Methodist pastor had lunch with an Episcopal priest with whom he had gone to college 25 years earlier, and whom he hadn't seen or kept in touch with all those years. They didn't talk about anything serious; they just remembered together. Through their memories, they relived their college days, names of significant people came up, and with their names came faces and voices and a reaffirmation of what those people had ...

693. A Quiet Man · Andrew

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... them to Jesus. Perhaps, as J. G. Greenhough suggests, Andrew felt "it was better to give a mouthful of food to a dozen famishing men than to send the whole company empty away." Be that as it may, however, the boy responded as Andrew proposed and so touching was his gesture that hidden lunches rapidly appeared throughout the multitude, setting up a feast for all "with fragments left over." (Matthew 15:29-37; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-14) III The second circumstance calling for Andrew's response ...

694. In Stride

Isaiah 65:17-25

Eulogy

Ruth L. Boling

... listening to music, wearing concert t-shirts, creating computer graphics with ____________. You who knew ____________ remember him in countless specific ways, with his own particularities and very human traits. Let us thank God for this child, this young man, who touched so many people in his unassuming way, who never complained, who always answered "fine" or "okay" when asked how he was doing. Whether it was his doctors and nurses, his friends, his pastors, the ____________, his sister, his grandmothers or ...

695. Words As Images

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... s an everyday way of saying, "an image from life to express an abstract or spiritual meaning." Every one of Jesus' parables combine a vivid image with a meaning. The most effective imagery is that which speaks directly about human life, particularly those situations which touch the listener personally. When we hear the parable of the Prodigal Son, we cannot help but think about our own fathers, our own past and our own feelings in the reaction of the elder brother. When a pastor tells a story about a person ...

696. Jerry's Faith

Luke 7:1-10

Illustration

John E. Sumwalt

... to say the least. Wednesday night was testimony night. The opening song service was quite an experience. The songs had beautiful melodies and were easy to sing. When they sang songs like "He Touched Me" and "O, How I Love Jesus," I noticed that many had tears in their eyes as they sang with great feeling. I felt touched by this, and quite uncomfortable. The testimonies that followed were as impressive to me as the song service. People spoke about what God had done for them, how God answered prayer and ...

697. What Is That In Your Hand?

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon Aid

Clement E. Lewis

... , what we do with them in the service of others tells much of what we are in mind and heart. The hand that writes imprints a message beyond speech. The hand that aids another speaks of caring, and of loving life. The hand that touches in greeting and friendship dissipates the void of loneliness and separation from personal and spiritual security. Our hands are to be used for gathering and for feeding, for planning and for building, for sharing and upholding, for caressing and for protecting. William Cowper ...

698. A Lesson From Paper

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... to watch how we change. Materials: A candle and several sheets of paper. On one piece of paper, write a word like Hello. Lesson: A piece of paper is a very interesting object. You can fold it and it becomes a toy airplane that can fly. (Do so.) If you touch it to a flame, it turns into smoke and black ashes. (Do so, carefully. You might want a metal container nearby into which you can drop the paper.) You can write or print or draw on it and it becomes a source of communication. (Show them your word paper ...

699. Proper 9

Mark 6:1-6

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... . EXHORTATION Prefer to find your joy and pride in the very things that are your weakness and then the power of Christ will come and rest upon you. PRAYER OF THE DAY Penetrating Spirit, open our minds to the wisdom we may receive from hometown prophets. Touch our hearts with healing gifts that you have granted to our neighbors, so that your work may not be obstructed by our unbelief. Amen. PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING God of surprises, you bring the wise to birth in unlikely places and skills of art and healing ...

700. A Continuing Presence

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... or worship service and the teacher or minister puts together just the right combination of words that speaks in a personal way to a situation in your life. Some of you are thinking now, "That list is so pitifully shallow. If you really want to hear how the Spirit touches lives, let me tell you about ..." Yes! That is precisely what I want you to do. Recall that time, or times, in your life when you felt the breath of God mingling with your own breath; the mind of God inspiring your own mind; the Holy Spirit ...

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