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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. The Outsider

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... said, "Yes, that is why I came. I didn't come for the good folk. Not the righteous ones. I came for the outsiders." Jesus touched Matthew - and Peter. Have you ever had a friend turn on you? Have you ever had someone in your family, or some close friend, suddenly ... they grew, so did our love. God, Hank didn't seem to mind if my body thickened and faded a little. He still loved it and touched it. We didn't mind if we were no longer beautiful. The children hugged us a lot. Oh, God, I'm lonely now. Why didn't ...

52. Fleeced

Judges 6:1-40, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... alter the colors in the same photo to highlight the photo underneath.] So what did you really see? Our eyes can be deceptive. Our sense of touch can be deceptive. Even our taste can betray us –think of when you have a cold! Let me tell you a story. It’s one I ... he is very loyal. He wants to follow Jesus. He wants to know what to do (John 14:1-6). And still…he wanted to touch and see. Was it that he didn’t trust Jesus? No. It’s because, he doesn’t trust his colleagues. There are the sheep (like ...

53. Proper 8

Mark 5:21-43

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... , in the back of my mind, I hoped that someday someone would know what to do. Asker: You said if you could but touch Jesus' clothes, you would be made well. Where does your faith come from? Woman: Prolonged illness has made me selfish.1 My illness ... t go away, the problem continually calls. Illness requires most of our attention. It depletes strength for life. When I heard about Jesus' healing touch, I knew I would find him. The longer my search, the more I believed he could help. But his time was filled. I ...

54. Epiphany 6

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon Aid

Wayne B. Keller

... people; for some will get in contact with some painful feelings. Give five minutes of silence for the people. Follow the silence with your prayer for healing of the past. Take your time; pray slowly and deliberately. Bring in the Scripture of Jesus' touching the leper, of others who touch AIDS victims. You may want to use this prayer as a basis for your prayer: Because, God, we can hide nothing, including ourselves and our past from You, we have faced our pain. We may need more than this moment to receive ...

55. Your Faith Has Made You Well

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... communication that some claim to have, we know that Jesus is there. Jesus is always there. If we will reach out to him, touch even the corner of his garment with our prayer, we can be healed, made whole, resurrected in spirit and body through the living ... the case of the dying girl, Jesus does not rush to reach her. He doesn’t need to. He pauses to ask about the woman who touched him. Jesus doesn’t need to rush to the side of the girl in order to get there before she dies. Jesus’ power is not the ...

56. Proper 18

Mark 7:24-30, Mark 7:31-37, Proverbs 22:1-16, James 2:1-13

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... and speaking (vv. 31-37). There is an essential link between hearing and speaking. To speak well, we must hear well. The man brought to Jesus spoke haltingly because he could not hear. Jesus understood. He put his fingers in the deaf man's ears and touched the man's tongue with his spittle. Immediately he could speak plainly. Jesus told them to keep it under wraps so as not to create a sensation, but the tongues of those who witnessed this miracle could not be stopped. The majority of Christians have a ...

57. You Can Be Happy

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... that change of attitude. It was not a choice he made. Something happened to him within. He fell in love. So it is when we experience Christ's presence in our lives. The world seems to change. But it isn't the world at all. We are changed by a touch. HAPPINESS ALSO COMES WHEN WE DISCOVER THE POWER OF PRAYER. An unwritten motto of our culture is that the busier we are, the happier we are. So we strive to be busy. It's a mistake. Consider Jesus' approach. By night fall word had spread throughout the town that ...

58. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... my life had droop’d of late, And he should sorrow o’er my state And marvel what possess’d my brain; And I perceived no touch of change, No hint of death in all his frame, But found him all in all the same, I should not feel it to be strange. ... voice was low, the look was bright; He look’d upon my crown and smiled: He reach’d the glory of a hand, That seem’d to touch it into leaf: The voice was not the voice of grief, The words were hard to understand. LXX I cannot see the features right, When on ...

59. Proper 18

Proverbs 22:1-16, Mark 7:24-37, James 2:1-13

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... that faith works through love. Faith and works are inseparable. Gospel: Mark 7:24-37 When Jesus returns from his trip to Tyre, a man with deafness and a speech difficulty is brought to Jesus. The method of healing is touching Jesus put his finger in the man's ears and touched his tongue. Jesus looked to heaven in prayer for power to heal. He sighed a sigh of compassion or weariness? The miracle was performed privately and he asked for silence about it. But the people were so impressed that they could ...

60. Elisha's Bones

2 Kings 13:10-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... hide. God is beside. Near, beside, and among us. And around us. And within us. Right down to the bone! God is there. God’s mighty presence is there, even in the face of death. Even when we are faced WITH death! God’s presence is life-giving! God’s touch has resurrection power! We saw it with Elijah. We saw it with Paul. We saw it with Jesus. Especially with Jesus. Cause people around Jesus just don’t stay dead or dying! In fact, in our gospel story for today, we see that even while Jesus is on his ...

61. This Gospel Is for Our Children

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... with the gospel hold true as well for adults. Come, now, and put your tiny little hand in the great big hand of Jesus who tells us that, "Anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it" (v. 15). Let Jesus touch. Invite him to live in your heart. I promise you on his authority that this very same Jesus who picks up little children, puts his hand upon them, and blesses them, will also take you, give you his blessing, and life will be better forever. Amen. 1. Dr. James ...

62. Daniel’s Vision of a Man

Daniel 10:1--11:1

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... :15). This seems like a doublet of verse 9, where Daniel is in a deep sleep with his face to the ground. If Daniel has been touched (v. 10) and set upon his feet (v. 11), what is he doing with his face to the ground again, especially since the intent of the angel ... on 10:17). He is still weak from the encounter: My strength is gone and I can hardly breathe (10:17). This leads to a third touch in the text as we have it now (see 10:10, 16), from the one who looked like a man (10:18; see the Additional Note and ...

63. Loving Made Real

John 13:1-17, John 13:31-38

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... sharing in an act of washing. We may not tackle a foot washing this year, but when we come up to let our hands be washed... let us let go. Let us pretend it is the Lord doing this thing of loving one another. And let us linger in the touch born of God who knows us well, who is concerned for every breath we take, who is with us from the moment of our first breath until the moment of our last, and beyond. Let us linger with it, not timidly, but unabashedly. Not with embarrassment, or hesitation, but with ...

64. Epiphany 6

2 Kings 5:1-27, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27, Mark 1:40-45

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... a stick. A leper could not embrace his wife nor kiss his children. He could not live in a town or village but was forced to live in the country. A leper was considered as dead. The burial service was read over him, and he was banished from society. The touch of Jesus was a sign of acceptance, sympathy and identification with the leper. At the same time it was an act of disobedience to the laws of the land. Jesus never refused to break a law in order to help a person in need. Human values are greater than ...

65. Who Are Those Strangers In White Robes?

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the blood of the Lamb . . .'" Who are those strangers in white robes? Those are Christ's followers, those who believe on his name, those who have committed themselves to his service. In short, those in white robes are his church, his body, his bride. When you want to touch God, you do it within the context of the body of believers. You and I did not come to faith on our own. Do you understand that? The reason you and I can approach God today is because of a line of believers reaching back more than 2,000 ...

66. The Nearest Hand

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... more was needed, the wife said, "The Lord really has been good to us in our trouble." The husband chuckled a bit and said, "I ain’t seen the Lord doin’ much, but the neighbors really kicked in." You see? Because he had not realized that when the Lord touches people he takes the nearest willing hand and uses that, he failed to see the hand of God at all. There is a second consequence of our failure to remember this basic principle: when the nearest hand is our own, if it is not a willing hand we deny ...

67. The Nearest Hand

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

68. Mark 5:21-43

Mark 5:21-43

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... " and tells him the "the whole truth." Jesus' reason for calling the woman out is not to grandstand for the crowd. It is, rather, to complete the healing process for this woman. It is not enough that the disease afflicting her body be banished by Jesus' touch. Her healing is finalized by the restorative words Jesus speaks to her. Jesus proclaims this woman a "daughter" of Israel once again no longer to be judged an unclean outcast. In addition to wellness in body, she is to enjoy a wellness in her spirit ...

69. Miracle Three: Healing A Leper

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon Aid

Harold H. Lentz

... from the support of family, friends, and society in general. What Power Jesus Possessed To Overcome So Terrible A Tragedy People avoided the leper, fearing for their very lives if it should contaminate them. But Jesus did not. He approached the man and did the unthinkable: he touched him. The man with the dreaded leprosy was healed because Christ shut the door to no one. It was he who said: "Come unto me, ALL ye ..." He also declared: "He who comes to me I will in no way turn out." Christ's welcome to the ...

70. On Talking to Oneself

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... man’s life (are) his little, unremembered acts of kindness and love.” (Tintern Abbey) A minister friend in the Detroit Conference was in seminary with me. I once told him of the time in seminary when I was in the depths of despair and a kind word from him touched my life. He couldn’t remember it! That’s quite as it should be. We aren’t expected to tally up our good works and present them as a due bill to God. The people Jesus commended in the parable found in Matthew 25 did not even realize that ...

71. Now Stand Up Straight!

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... love me?" He told of the abuse he had received as a child. Nobody had every told him, I love you. He asked this crowd of young people, "Will you love me?" God so loved the world he sent his Son. The Son sent his disciples into the world to touch those who are bent over, so that they will stand up straight. One of the most gratifying and also the most humbling experiences that a pastor can have is to receive a testimony from somebody who has been healed in the Church. Most of the time they can't pinpoint ...

72. Love: The Happiness of a Godly Family

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... me tell you three things that must be true for your family to know that they are loved: (1) Verbally, they must hear that you love them. You need to tell them constantly "I love you." (2) Visibly, they must see that you love them; hug them, kiss them, touch them, hold them; show them in the way you treat them you love them. (3) Viscerally, they must feel that you love them. They must know in the deepest part of their heart, and in the depth of their soul that they are loved by you unconditionally. It must ...

73. Unstoppable Love

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... remember getting a message on Facebook that read, “Can’t wait to see you in person!” Enough said. My advice is that from time to time we need to take our eyes off of a screen and look into the eyes of the people we love and offer the personal touch like Jesus. Jesus is our best model. He never stopped reaching out to others in love. He still does today. In the story of Jesus healing a leper there are two ways we see that Jesus’ love is unstoppable. The first is through the man’s response to Jesus ...

74. We Know Exactly How You Feel, Jesus

Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... he said, "Take heart, daughter, your faith has made you well." Jesus, do you know how I feel? "Yes, my child, for I have touched you, held you, and I will hold you again." But we are sometimes more like the child in a department store who absentmindedly reaches ... we be led; whose hand will we hold?" In this time after your birth, Jesus, we also ask, "How do you feel?" We want to touch you and be in touch with you. We want to hold you. In that time long ago in the town of Jesus' birth a few came to witness and ...

75. Time Taken, Life Restored

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

William G. Carter

... course. The last time he worked on this side of the sea, "he had cured many," says Mark. "All who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him." Now it was her turn to get well. She pushed through the multitude, saying, "I don't need to talk to him. I don't ... and He shouldn't have done it. He has thrown everything off balance."1 Indeed he has. A sick woman pushed through the crowd to touch the garment of Jesus. We could expect him to rebuke her and say, "Get out of my way." Or he could have ignored her because ...

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