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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Bulletin Aid
Wayne H. Keller
... when we were aware of God's mercy. Write them down. Following the silence, offer a prayer thanking God for mercy. Response "Have Mercy on Us, Living Lord" Introduction to the Act of Forgiveness Now, on the other hand, if we are at all sensitive to the presence of God, we also pray, "Thank you, Jesus." For the next three minutes, write down your reasons for thanks. Following the silence, invite the people to shout out their reasons for thanks. Following each response, ask the people to offer their individual ...
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Frank Luchsinger
... Mother is not good," she said, gathering herself. "I'll be better in a minute. The doctor was just here. It's hard saying it for the first time." How will we tell the children; how will we tell our employer; what will we say to the neighbors? In sensitive times we plan how we will tell the story. Likewise, let us plan how we will share the Greatest Story: that we have been visited by Someone sent here, that he assumed human form, the Word incarnate, and lived for 33 years. After his arrest, he was executed ...
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John A. Terry
... humanity. There is a sermon which I have never written that I am going to write some day titled "Too Sensitive to be Sane." No one should be more concerned about the pain and suffering of the world than we. This beatitude can be translated ... something like this: "Blessed are those who are particularly sensitive to the sin in themselves and in society, and who feel deeply all the distress caused by the ambition, greed, selfishness, hatred ...
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Harry N. Huxhold
... difficulties that we must face. That is important for us to understand. What Jesus makes clear about his claim to power is that he so completely identifies with our problems that he is perfectly willing to lay down his life for us. What makes Jesus so sensitive to what we must endure is that he had the same enemies and the same problems confronting him. It was not as though Jesus was merely trying to understand what we have to face. He faced all the same difficulties. He was acutely aware of how intense ...
55. Those Who Mourn
Isaiah 40:1-31
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John A. Terry
... humanity. There is a sermon which I have never written that I am going to write some day titled "Too Sensitive to be Sane." No one should be more concerned about the pain and suffering of the world than we. This beatitude can be translated ... something like this: "Blessed are those who are particularly sensitive to the sin in themselves and in society, and who feel deeply all the distress caused by the ambition, greed, selfishness, hatred ...
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Thomas Peterson
... this way? When he met people who were living out their lives in chaos the sick, the disturbed, sinners he brought order to them. By sticking to the normal flow of the good life, he lives out before them an example: in his teachings he showed sensitivity to their problems and offered options for new lives. By the way he lived he was reliable and in his reliability people found order. Such service to others was not exceptional for Jesus; he did these things ordinarily. To be ordinary like Jesus means that we ...
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Robert Salzgeber
... as people and earth (land). Looking at Genesis 1:28, we see the word multiply. In Hebrew it is yabah and it does not mean to multiply our earth with so many people that we overwhelm our environment. Instead, the Hebrew word yabah means "to grow in wisdom and sensitivity." The Hebrew word for fill is mahleh, and it does not mean to fill the air with pollution. Mahleh means "to bring a gift to the earth." Cabash is the Hebrew word for subdue and it does not mean to deplete the soil by over-use or erosion or ...
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Larry Goodpaster
... for the art of listening, as suggested by a simple story and that additional sentence from Jesus. Let us put these guidelines into practice for a moment, applying our good listening techniques to this parable/sermon. If we can be, for at least one moment, open, sensitive, receptive, focused and attentive, what will we hear in this story. A farmer scatters a handful of seed, and some falls on the road, other on rocky soil, some among the thorns, and a bit in the good ground. At harvest time, the return on ...
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Larry Powell
... the carpenter was not blinded to what virtue there was. Zacchaeus was crooked, conniving, and full of trickery when it came to juggling the tax books, but his underhanded business practices could not blot out the virtue which quietly came into focus under a sensitive eye. There was a man in the community where I grew up who had a widespread reputation for being a hard-living, blustery, overpowering kind of social bully. He attended our church and, as the saying goes, "had the last say," whether it involved ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... contemporary Christians need to be "apologists" in word and deed in today’s descendants of the Ecclesiastes tradition, and of Dives and his brothers - the unbelieving crowd. I One vital element of this effort is an intellectually respectable presentation of the faith. How many sensitive and thoughtful persons do we lose when we insist on presenting Christianity in forms and styles that do not speak to today’s mind-set? A young man came to my office who had been feeling the claim of God upon his life. He ...
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... the ordinary and commonplace in their human nature. He can endow them with power to live in terms of the highest they know. It is possible to forgive one’s enemies. It is possible to love people who are unlovely. It is possible to cultivate sensitivity of mind and heart, and to live in responsive, empathetic communion with other persons. A selfish life can be turned into a self-emptying one. A timid, cowardly life can become confident, courageous, and strong. The grace of God makes it possible. It comes ...
62. Weed-Pulling
Matthew 13:24-30
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Richard Patt
... answers. We know how to solve these matters. We are tempted to have a weed-pulling spree. Don't get the idea we're advocating an anything-goes policy toward evil and sin in the world. Jesus surely detested evil and weeds as much as anyone. But Jesus was very sensitive about not injuring the wheat too. Be careful not to pull up some of the wheat with the weeds. And do not harm the good and healthy wheat in the process of your weed-pulling! So let's take our cue from Jesus in this parable before us today. Let ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... truth is that we are just now ready to begin to let God shape and mold us. That’s when our prayer life deepens, and we become more and more aware that clay can do virtually nothing to transform itself into an object of beauty. It can be soft, pliable, sensitive to the potter’s touch, and allow God to shape and reshape it, even though that process can be as painful as John’s surgery. We are often afraid that God’s will may break us, that what he asks is too hard for us to bear. Judah felt that ...
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... I dare say we have a larger average attendance on Sunday than in many other parts of this country. So, what do you think the evangelist would see? What would he say? It might be a sermon like Paul’s. If he is sensitive to himself and to the sermon he wants to preach, but is sensitive to God and to the people, he would acknowledge that God has put in each of our hearts a desire to know God. In every place, in every city, regardless of the external evidence, which might support the contrary, there are also ...
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D. Wayne Burkette
... . We remember and learn from our past, and we anticipate some future expectation, the ultimate of which is life eternal. The meantime is the present, suspended between memory and hope. And to a large degree, realization of future hope is a matter of sensitivity to the demands and opportunities of the present moment. Jesus often used parables to communicate the experience of that reality he called the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom which is also a meantime kind of existence. It looks back to its beginnings with ...
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Brett Blair
... ways. And that’s the Good News for you and me. There is still time. Time to submit to God’s word. Time to rearrange our priorities. Time to meet Lazarus at the gate. Time to keep from sharing in the fate of the rich man. Time to be sensitive to the needs of those who suffer. The alternative is a dire picture. To live for oneself, to allow others to suffer by themselves, to die behind the stone cold walls of luxury will land us in hell and perhaps our family with us. This is the catastrophic collateral ...
67. Mugwumps
Luke 6:1-11
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... lend us a sense of comfort, and I doubt that any of us could function very efficiently without some comfort and assurance. But Christ reminds us that each has its subtle dangers - dangers which claimed the human need sensitivity of the scribes and Pharisees and could threaten our sensitivity as well. I am reminded of a young seminarian on a fieldwork assignment to a suburban congregation. One Sunday afternoon, two dirty, poorly-dressed boys were sitting on the well-kept grounds of this beautiful church. The ...
68. The Call to Obedience
Luke 22:42 · Romans 1:17 · John 15:10
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Robert G. Tuttle
... and subconscious - it becomes their nature, and they are the children of God. This is a response of gratitude, a moving with God, a sensitivity to God because we love him, because he gives us and our families life, day by day, because he helps us forgive others, because ... We can be more specific: Read the Bible so that we may know God’s will more clearly; pray regularly so that we may be sensitive to God’s word for us. Come to church. Be a part of the body of Christ, that we may commit ourselves to a ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... - this could have been sold and given to the poor." Jesus answered: "Let her alone. Do not trouble her. She has done a beautiful deed." This is a hidden dimension of the power of the Christian experience that so many of us overlook. We are not as sensitive as Jesus was. We need to grow. Thornton Wilder reminds us that: "Of all the forms of genius, goodness has the longest awkward age." True, but tragic. We are just not very good at being good. We stumble and blunder and hurt people. We become unattractive ...
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Richard Hoefler
... died." It is interesting - Mary so different from Martha and yet she makes the same statement using the same words. Mary, however, is emotional. Though the words she speaks are the same as her sister’s, they are spoken differently, and Jesus is sensitive to this and treats her quite differently. Instead of the theological explanation he gave to Martha, he says nothing to Mary. He simply weeps with her. Mary, the impulsive and demonstrative sister, encounters the Lord, and he weeps with her. He shares her ...
71. A Daughter of Jacob
Matthew 15:21-28
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Richard Hoefler
... always concerned not just with the problem but with the person. Despite the fact that not a great deal of information is given to us about this woman, other than the fact that she was a Gentile, there are several things we can assume if we are sensitive to her actions in the account. It seems obvious that she was not a quiet demure type of lady. She was by nature strong willed, aggressive and very emotional. She was much like "Maude" of television fame. She was, our text tells us, so demonstrative that the ...
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Leonard Mann
... have it, that it is built into us, that it is simply our conscience. Don’t be too sure about that. As a guide, conscience is usually better than nothing, but sometimes not much better. Conscience is not a constant; it is a variable. It can be sensitized or deadened. It can be trained to say what we want it to, assuming somewhat the same role as the dummy that sits on the knee of a ventriloquist. Not many people violate conscience very much; they simply tone it down, shoot it with novocaine, recondition it ...
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Bill Bouknight
... reality visiting Christ. When someone is in need, we can usually find at least one thing to do or to say, and we can pray. When our little boy was diagnosed with a brain tumor, a neighbor brought us some homemade soup and offered it with a hug. How sensitive! Because our insides were so torn up, all we could eat was soup. Words were not very helpful; but that soup sent a caring message. If God causes a hurting person to cross your path this Christmas or anytime, you probably won't be able to solve all his ...
74. The Vicarious Servant
Isaiah 52:13--53:12
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Donald Macleod
... South to assume leadership in a popular diocese in the North where social problems of every sort abounded. Someone asked him "Why?" and he replied, "I see Jesus Christ in the face of the poor." 2. This leads us to a second thought: We must become more sensitive to the effects of sin. One day a man went into a small shop that specialized in religious souvenirs and similar mementos. He asked the clerk if she had any small silver crosses. "Yes," she replied, "but do you want a plain one or one of those with ...
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... hard to find any traces of it in our urbanized cities. Ogden Nash lamented: I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree: Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all! (2) 2. We need to develop a lifestyle which is sensitive to the needs of human beings and to the nonhuman world. This asks us to be much more aware of our pollution and waste, of how our habits and lifestyles might be quite ungodly when it comes to using up or misusing all that God has given to us to ...
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