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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Gary M. Burge
... the group to be chosen is not specified beforehand). For if the victory is to be entirely the Lord’s doing, then what kind of soldiers are involved is really immaterial. The night before battle, the Lord, probably because he is aware of Gideon’s propensity to fear especially in light of the drastic troop reduction, takes the initiative to offer Gideon a final reassurance (7:9–15). Having affirmed once again that he will give the Midianites into Gideon’s hands, the Lord then tells Gideon to go down ...
52. Spiritual Gifts
1 Corinthians 12:1-11
Understanding Series
Marion L. Soards
... to underscore the godliness of diverse expression of God’s gifts in the life of believers in the church. As Paul writes generally about gifts, one can see that he is thinking of concrete manifestations of the Spirit and not of natural, birthright propensities. Gifts and talents may ultimately be related, but they are not one and the same thing. In the present discussion Paul has special or extraordinary manifestations of the presence and power of the Spirit in mind as he reflects on spiritual gifts in ...
53. The Great Dinner
Luke 14:1-14, Luke 14:15-24
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... dare hurt a hair on the heads of my little ones!” All messages from Jesus to the takers at the table. How shocked they must have been. Many of them thought they were good and upright people. We can think we are givers, but there is also within us, a propensity to take from God, and from others, in ways that are not God’s will, and we don’t even realize we are doing it. This story is not just for those around Jesus’ table that long time ago. Jesus’ story is still for us, here today, in our lives ...
54. Apostles of Hope
John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... the times when we most grieve. Today, as in the days of the first apostles, our greatest and most valuable commodity is not gold, or money, or equipment, or even a cure, but faith –in God and in ourselves, in our future and in our human propensity for compassion and sacrificial love. Jesus did not promise his disciples that things would go back to the way they were before. Bad things DID happen. Nothing was going to change that. But Jesus assured them that even better things would happen now if only they ...
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
Adam Smith
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan
All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Edmund Burke
59. The Complex Human
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... describing two “natures” within one human being. Paul says something very similar in Romans 7 (15-25) as he describes the desire to do good inside yet also the sin that is at war against it within his body. Jesus recognizes that every human has the propensity to do both good and evil, to be both “wheat” (nourishment and seed of God) for the world and “weed” (bitterness and death) in the world. The tricky part is, they both not only can exist and grow together at the root of our personality but ...
60. The Accounting
Luke 16:1-13
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... instead with those he comes in contact with. He is then commended by the “Master” for what he has done. He has “made friends” by means of “dishonest wealth.” He has used worldly systems to God’s advantage. He has used his propensity toward “squandering” instead for the benefit of others. He has embraced mitzvah instead of the way of the world. This reference to “dishonest wealth” is an important distinction here, for the ways of the world and its systems are dishonest and are not ...
61. Fear of Flying
Mark 1:21-28
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Lori Wagner
... us from enjoying the beauty of life –and who we were created by God to be. Jesus is and always has been a healer. It was one of his primary ministries, because he knew and understood the human condition and the ease and propensity in which our “demons” of fear can control, delude, and manipulate us into disengaging with God, with others, and even with ourselves. Jesus with his “salvific” and healing hand has the authority and power to disrupt that narrative within us, to challenge our false ...
Teach the Text
C. Hassell Bullock
... . You are hiding Jews in your basement, and the Nazis come to your door and ask, “Are there Jews in your home?” How would you respond? (This is based on an actual event that led to the arrest of everyone in the home.) The propensity to lie Statistics: Based on a 2002 study, University of Massachusetts psychologist Robert S. Feldman concludes, “People tell a considerable number of lies in everyday conversation. It was a very surprising result. We didn’t expect lying to be such a common part of daily ...
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