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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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51. To Touch The Untouchable

Luke 5:12-16

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... nature of the disease called leprosy were just wrong. Perhaps his most important discovery was that since lepers could not feel pain because the disease had killed their nerve endings, they were destroying their fingers, toes and arms because they were not warned by sensations of pain when they smashed or burned their hands or feet. He began to look at the total problem of leprosy, how it affected the body and the mind. Brand asked himself how it might be combated and healed. Dr. Brand developed surgical ...

52. Beginning A Healing Ministry

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... for this are usually based upon a misunderstanding of the purpose and methods of the traditional healing ministry of the Christian church. The most prevalent reservation about instituting public healing services is that they will be associated with the sensational work of faith healers, some of whom have made a charade of the healing ministry, sometimes on nationwide television. There are faith healers who discourage sick people from seeking medical assistance, which often results in personal tragedy. It is ...

53. Amazing Grace

Romans 3:21-31

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Robert G. Tuttle

... was a new being! Grace never forces us; we can reject grace. Listen to Oscar Wilde as he described his own fall from grace. God had given me almost everything ... Tired of being on the heights I deliberately went to the depths in search of a new sensation ... I grew careless of the lives of others. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on ... I ceased to be lord over myself ... I allowed pleasure to dominate me. I ended in horrible disgrace.1 A denial of grace is "disgrace." Listen to Sir Kenneth ...

54. Faith Opens the Door

Genesis 12:1-8

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Robert G. Tuttle

... But it is not possible to be wholly at peace. For serenity of soul requires some better organization of life than a man can attain by pursuing his casual ambitions, satisfying his hungers, and for the rest accepting destiny as an idiot’s tale in which one dumb sensation succeeds another to no known end. And it is not possible for him to be wholly alive ... These are the gifts of a vital religion.1 Life is born of faith. Karl Barth puts it more shockingly, "From a man’s point of view, in his decisive act ...

55. Easter Headlines

Matthew 28:1-10

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Bill Bouknight

... cared enough to create humans in his own image, that he would find a way to fellowship forever with those who love and trust him. Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's extensive studies with dying persons have revealed some startling glimpses of wonderful sights and sensations right at the edges of death. But in the final analysis every Christian has to step out on faith and believe what he cannot prove. Being a Christian is a matter of believing that since Jesus conquered death, he will deliver his followers from ...

56. When The Cheering Stopped

Matthew 21:1-11

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Brett Blair

... . The ultimate reward for someone who tries to translate ideals into reality is apt to be frustration and defeat. There are some exceptions, of course, but not too many. It happened that way to Jesus. When he emerged on the public scene he was an overnight sensation. He would try to go off to be alone and the people would still follow him. The masses lined the streets as he came into town. On Palm Sunday leafy palm branches were spread before him and there were shouts of Hosanna. In shouting Hosanna they ...

57. Why Did The Cheering Stop? - Sermon Starter

Matthew 21:1-11

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Brett Blair

58. When Towers Fall and People Perish

Luke 13:1-9

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Brett Blair

... 13 two events have been the talk of the town. Apparently, a tower in the city of Siloam collapsed killing 18 people. The second event, Pilate publicly executed some Jews visiting Jerusalem. This was done inside the temple as they worshiped and so had a rather sensational quality to it. With these two events in mind the disciples approach Jesus and ask him an age-old question: Why did this happen? So what do we do when towers fall and people perish? I would like to offer the following as a way of dealing ...

59. An Easter Dividend: The Courage To Be and To Do

Acts 4:1-22

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Donald Macleod

... got wind of this and had the apostles thrown promptly into jail. The next morning they were hustled before Annas and Caiaphas (the same men who had part in Jesus’ trials) and were asked by what power and in whose name they had created this unseemly sensation at the Temple. Peter immediately squared his shoulders and answered that it was done in the name of Jesus of Nazareth by whose power alone people are saved. This courageous reply enraged the judges, but the ground was cut from under them when they saw ...

60. The Scandal Of Redeeming Love

Hosea 2:2-23

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Frederick C. Edwards

... overzealous fascination for information about the private lives of public people. The real or supposed exploits of actors and actresses, politicians, entertainers, athletes or business moguls appear in lurid headlines on papers and magazines that are more interested in sensation than news. Photographers stalk the rich or famous to catch an image of an unguarded moment. Fact blended with fiction becomes the means to enhance or discredit; to glorify or defame. The popularity of this material in tabloid papers ...

61. The Generation Gap

Luke 2:41-52

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William McKee Aber

... S.D! This does not represent a majority but it indicates, I think, a concern of the majority, namely a belief in the validity of the present experience. One takes a trip on L.S.D., I gather from what I read, to feel the heightened sensations of color, perception, form, and feeling. That the experience is hallucinatory is beside the point. There is a real concern for living for the moment, even though the wrong way is chosen to demonstrate it. Youth see adults as "uptight," whatever that means. (I understand ...

62. THE SURPRISED

Luke 1:5-25

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Theodore L. Yewey

... greeted by an angel and some rather unusual things began to occur. But listen ... let Zechariah tell us. "I had already made a part of the offering and I was about to ascend the steps of the altar when I realized that I was not alone. It was the strangest sensation I have ever known. No one else was to be in that holy place. But there was another being present, an unusual being. Suddenly I was very uneasy. My flesh crawled. And then this One began to speak to me in a tongue I had never heard before. It was ...

63. Luther of Wittenberg

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Michael L. Sherer

... he was forced to answer yes or no to whether he would back down from his teachings. He replied, "No. Unless I can be convinced by Scripture that I’m wrong, I will not. It isn’t safe to go against one’s conscience." In a sensational development, the emperor promised Luther safe conduct home to Wittenberg, but after Luther left the city, the emperor declared him a wanted outlaw. In effect, this invites anybody who might recognize Luther to kill him on sight. One report out of Worms indicates that the ...

64. When The Cheering Stopped

Mark 11:1-11

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Brett Blair

65. Why Fear Growing Old?

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Robert G. Tuttle

... when he said to the artist painting his portrait, "Don’t erase my lines - I won them." On his 69th birthday, President Faunce, of Brown University, gave the whole picture in these words, "The long succession of birthdays brings me to the sensation of being lifted by an elevator through the successive floors of some lofty building. On each floor the horizon is wider, the sunlight brighter, the distant and inaccessible things seem nearer." Maude Roydon approached age with a unique outlook: "Do not desire ...

66. A New Perspective

Deuteronomy 7:1-26

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Gregory J. Johanson

... fly under a bridge or down the Grand Canyon. If you really allowed yourself to get caught up in the experience, you felt like you were right there in the airplane too. The plane would swoop down and bank to one side, and you could feel all the sensations right in your own body. In one of these movies, they mounted the camera on the front of a car and some lunatic went driving wildly down a treacherous mountain road. When he went careening around a curve, everybody in the theater would gasp and grab hold of ...

67. Keeping the Glow On

Exodus 34:29-35

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Harry N. Huxhold

... ’s life and ministry. These special, unique, and revelatory experiences were intended to give comfort, approval, and meaning to ministries designed to witness to the presence of God in the lives of God’s people. These revelations were never intended to be spectacular and sensational moments of when and how God comes only in glory. We shall see from the First Reading that the purpose is quite different from that. To be sure, it is good that the purpose was different. Otherwise, we should never be able to ...

68. His Triumphal Entry

Luke 19:28-44

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Brett Blair

... would glanced toward heaven, looking for the sign that was sure to come. After all, was this not the Messiah, the Chosen One, for whom legends of angels would descend from heaven and reestablish the Kingdom of Israel. Can we possibly even imagine the sensation that these people were feeling. We might compare it to the allied armies marching victoriously into Paris and throwing off the cruel yoke of Nazi oppression, or compare it to the 3rd ID rumbling into Baghdad. Jesus was a one man liberation army that ...

69. Jesus and Andrew

John 1:35-42

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James W. Moore

... tossed a coin. Albrecht Durer won the toss and went off to Nuremberg to study art. His brother, Albert, went down into the dangerous mines and for the next four years, financed his brother whose work at the Art Academy was almost an immediate sensation. Albrecht Durer’s etchings, his woodworks, and his oils were far better than those of most of his professors, and by the time he graduated, he was beginning to earn considerable fees for his commissioned works. When the young artist returned home to his ...

70. John the Baptist

Matthew 3:1-12, Matthew 3:13-17

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David E. Leininger

... ...always honest and just in his dealings with people. He was gentle, modest, gracious...a friend to all, easy and outgoing. Many times I wished I were more like him. "Then one day, as I was preaching by the riverside, I saw him in the crowd. An odd sensation came over me. I stumbled in my preaching. My thoughts clouded. My eyes kept coming back to Jesus. Then he came to me and asked to be baptized...and I realized then that he was the one I had been talking about all along. Then I muttered something ...

71. About Kissing

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

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King Duncan

... , well, so be it. Besides, nearly everybody's interested in kissing. I read about a court case that involved kissing. Clare Tomie of Detroit told a circuit court jury she doesn't feel a thing when she kisses her husband, and the jury decided the lack of sensation was worth $275,000. Mrs. Tomie, who was awarded $260,000 said a dental operation left her lower lip and lower jaw permanently numb and had caused a strain in her relationship with her husband. The jury of four women and two men also awarded her ...

72. The Pitcher Is Not Alone In This

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

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King Duncan

... the 12th perfect game in modern major league history. The opposing team had no hits, no runs and no one even reached first base. The game featured a diving catch by rookie outfielder Rusty Greer in the ninth inning to preserve this perfect game. Greer, a center fielder, made a sensational catch of Rex Hudler's lead-off line drive in the ninth. "I was going to give it my best effort whether I caught it or not," Greer said. "No matter what, I was going to dive. I got a pretty good jump, dove and it fell in my ...

73. A Time For Miracles

Luke 1:26-38

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King Duncan

... . After an hour, Elizabeth gave up fighting the urge and told Herman she was going down to the store. He wasn't very encouraging, but she had made up her mind. As Elizabeth slid along the snowy sidewalks to the store, her numb body mocked the urgent sensation she had about that day. But as she got to the store, she noticed two small boys, about six and nine years old, standing in front of the store. The little fellows got very excited when they saw Elizabeth coming. They were two little African-American ...

74. Coming Alive To Christ

Luke 24:13-35

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King Duncan

... Suddenly something happened within Helen. Something dramatic. Something lifechanging. It was only a fiveletter word, but for Helen Keller it was a gigantic breakthrough. She now had a name for a familiar experiencewater. If this experience had a name, other familiar objects and sensations must have names as well. It was as if she had suddenly burst forth from a closely guarded prison. Now she could be a whole person, experiencing the world as a real human being in spite of her handicaps. Such a breakthrough ...

75. What Makes You Blush?

Mark 8:31--9:1

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King Duncan

... on the Ed Sullivan show, the cameras would only show him from the shoulders up. Compare that with MTV, where little is left to the imagination. When Clark Gable uttered a mild oath in Gone With the Wind, it was a nationwide sensation. Today obscenities spew forth from our televisions. Little children use words that would make sailors blush. When film star Ingrid Bergman abandoned her husband to live with Roberto Rossalini, her film career in this country plummeted. Today, such behavior would not cause ...

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