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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776. Higher Ground
Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... ministered to the poor. They were known to serve the sick and ailing, acting as a hospital and hospice. You might call them the Salvation Army of the first century. If Bethany was an Essene outpost for the outcasts of Jerusalem, it makes a lot of sense that Jesus would spend his time there. For the sick and dying, Jesus was their “Bethel” at Bethany. Not far from the place where Jacob saw the ladder of God in his vision, here Jesus himself would be the “bridge” between heaven and earth for those ...
777. Sparkle
Luke 4:31-37
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... remembrance, and to kill my son?” At that, Elijah heals the boy and raises him. The widow is not “possessed” by a demon in the sense of our 21st century horror flicks. But she is not living “in” the Holy Spirit of the All Powerful God of the Hebrews. But after this ... Jesus’ move to Capernaum, where he began healing many “demons” and teaching in synagogues. Why this move? In a sense, Capernaum becomes a metaphor too, in that Jesus sets up his ministry in upper Galilee “of the gentiles” where ...
778. Mending Fences
Luke 16:1-15, Luke 16:16-18
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... looking at what Jesus is getting at. Think that perhaps YOU are the finance manager of a department in a successful corporation. You are highly trusted in your position by the CEO. In wanting to be successful in your job, somewhere along the way, you lost your sense of compassion and ethics. You wanted to make the most money for the CEO, because you want to earn that raise and that promotion coming up. But you also got to really like living high on the hog. So you have overcharged people for some of the ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... of your mind. I want you to allow yourself to feel the reticence to believe the unbelievable, and embrace the supernatural. God can withstand your doubts. God allows us the time and the space sometimes to hover and pause in that place where things just doesn’t make sense. Nowhere space. Look up into the stars at night. Ponder the vastness of the universe. Have you ever tried to wrap your head around the idea of more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the sea shores? That you are such a tiny speck in ...
780. Deep Faith
Genesis 6:1-8:22, Genesis 5:1-32
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... back of it, much as in the description of the ark Noah was commanded to build. A similar description is found in Exodus in the building of the basket for Moses, in which it is also covered in pitch to keep out the water. Moses floats in a sense down river in a kind of “sarcophagus.” And yet this tomb will be his “lifesaver”….his transport to new life, ---and a new mission and relationship with God. This is also the word tebah. The word tebah is found only one more place in scripture: in Exodus 2 ...
781. The Apothecary
Isaiah 40:1-31, Isaiah 61:1-11
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... of “sin-sick” soul….is an avid one for this metaphor, as it is sin that drives us away from God, Jesus who restores our relationship with God….and puts us back into health (salve)……through His own salvation story! We are healed in a sense then by Jesus’ story….placed within us….like a salve…. The scriptures for us are the “balm of Gilead” –they help mediate between our souls and Jesus. The more aware we are of Jesus presence, the closer we get to allowing His anointing to become ...
782. Song of the Sabbath
Genesis 1:1-2:3, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35, Mark 2:18-22, Mark 2:23-3:6, Mark 3:7-12
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... or righteousness. In other words, “May it be true! Or May God’s truth prevail!” Some believe it means “loud” or fortissimo, and is an instrumental interlude in the midst of the sung psalm. In this case, it still is like a “hallelujah” in a sense –emphasizing the glory of God. Aquila, Jerome, and the Targum all use the term as meaning “always and forever.” This can be a musical notation….as in a refrain that keeps on going endlessly. Or it can be metaphorical, as in may God’s grace ...
783. Dorcas, Dinah, or Delilah (Who are You?)
Genesis 34:1-31, Judges 16:1-22, Acts 9:32-43
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... and a Life giver. In the story of Dorcas, we get a glimpse of a woman, who is a disciple of the early church, but who we know spends the bulk of her time creating clothing/cloaks for people in her community. We get a sense of her servant’s heart. We get a sense too of her giving, life-giving spirit in the way the people of the community mourn her at the time of her death. Because of this mourning (think Lazarus’ sisters), Peter resuscitates her back to life and we can assume, she then continues with her ...
784. Big Spender
1 Kings 10:14-29, 1 Kings 11:1-13, Luke 15:11-32
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! I will set out and ... hired himself out” or prostituted himself to that religion or addiction in that desolate place of the soul. When he came to his senses….sounds like any addict who realizes the place he or she is in, he knows he needs help. And so he humbly ...
785. Caring for the Vineyard We Did Not Plant
Matthew 20:1-16, Joshua 24:1-27
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... have been in the Church many years, and others who are new disciples of Jesus. Some of us are seasoned. Some of us are newbies. Some are just learning about Him. Together, we make a team of builders, carpenters, dreamers, lovers of God’s people. In a sense, we are story-builders and identity remodelers for God. Re-telling God’s Story of the Vineyard means we remember that we do not earn, do not deserve, do not control, do not negotiate for God’s extravagant grace and favor. This is God’s gift for ...
786. We Will Be Changed
Ezekiel 37:1-14, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... gospel. Bones as a metaphor are literally “full of life.” They may appear dead and non-living, but they are in fact teeming with life and restoration potential. Not only are they the DNA center of our bodies, they are the construct of our body. In a sense, our identity as a human being is housed right in our bones. I once read a story about a fisherman in South America who found within the fish, trash, bottle caps, plastic, debris. The fish had swallowed up the pollution of the river. He didn’t know ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... of internal “spirit meter” inside of us. It’s like an intuitive force we have as human beings. The same way we can “sense” danger, we can sense the spirit around us. The spirit we allow into our hearts is the spirit that we pass on to others. Anyone who has ... that if one of your family members comes home after a hard day at work and is angry or upset, you can sense it right away, and often, that spirit can seep into everyone in the household, until the entire household is reacting differently than ...
788. More
Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11
Sermon
Will Willimon
... of what God is breaking open among us, breaking open in dusty little out of the way places like Bethlehem or Soweto. Isaiah's words refuse to abide within the confines of the rationality of the dominant society, refuse to be limited by common sense, everyday experience, the NAS "Canon of Western Literature ." It was Isaiah who taught Mary to sing apocalyptically, "My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,....he has scattered the proud,....he has put down the mighty from their ...
789. Heaven
Revelation 7:9-17
Sermon
Will Willimon
... when we are one with Christ, when he is our all in all and we are his, all of us. Our egos, so anxiously seeking the fulfillment of desire, are at last overwhelmed by having our hearts' true desire met in Christ. I would expect that we shall feel some sense of pain, at how puny and silly have been so many of our desires that have occupied our hearts here, when we are given there, what here, we knew not how to desire. We, who have spent our whole lives so restlessly trying to make it with God are at ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... know that our life has a greater purpose. We hunger for transcendence, for experiences that go beyond our ordinary lives and give us a sense of awe and wonder. Danny Sugerman, who was manager to the 60’s rock band The Doors, had a great insight into our ... going to be disappointed. But when you bring your hunger to the right person—Jesus Christ—he can fill your need for a sense of purpose and peace and wholeness and joy. Jesus understood the hunger of the crowds in his day; he also understands what we ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , but everything’s under control. I know how it all ends—we win!’” (1) If you’re a big sports fan, his plan makes perfect sense. It’s a great feeling to know that no matter how bad the game may look in the moment, your team is going to turn it ... dealing with an uncertain future is by looking for someone or something to guide us. To provide us with a sense of comfort or certainty. We turn to anyone who offers us answers—political leaders, religious leaders, influencers, celebrities, even psychics ...
792. Seeking Jesus
Luke 2:41-52
Sermon
King Duncan
... serving a life sentence for murder at Parkhurst Prison in the United Kingdom. Richards was searching for some way to relieve the guilt of his crimes and his wasted life. In the prison library, he read books on every major religion, hoping he would find answers and some sense of peace. And then he came upon the Bible. As he read the Bible, Jason Richards says he began to see the truth of God. And then a horrible thought hit Richards: if there is a God, then he, Jason, was a sinner. He says this thought made ...
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... these since my youth.” And this is where the rich young man fell short. This was all well and good, but it was centered in the young man’s desire to “do.” What must I “do” the young man asked. This is a pretty good start, but in a real sense we can’t do enough. The love of God is ours, and the love of God is unearned. Mark told us that Jesus loved him. One translation reads “Jesus loved him at first sight…” and that deep and abiding love, the kind of love that Jesus seems to have for ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... on the meaning and purpose of life. I. JAIRUS'S CRY FOR HELP: A. The events told here by Mark are high drama, in every sense of the word. This is the morning after one of the strangest nights in the history of the ten cities. If you remember, Jesus calmed ... of the month. They couldn't be with their husband and they couldn't participate in any religious rituals. In a very real sense, they were untouchable. And everyone needs to be touched and held and feel like they belong. B. Coming back from a meeting in ...
795. For the Glory of Christ
John 12:20-33 · Hebrews 5:5-10
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... forgiveness that others long for. We have found and are finding a safe haven. We're called to glorify God and serve Christ by sharing the treasure we have discovered with others. We're called to be family and to glorify God together. If your life has lost that sense of belonging then this is where you need to be. If you feel disconnected then this is the place to be connected to the source of power and love, Our Savior. This is also the place to help others find that connection. And we do it all, not for ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... ’t know why, that something amazing happened that day Jesus was born, something that is still amazing today in your life and in the lives of people all around the world. You know it, because deep inside of you, you feel it and believe it. In a sense, this is what Jesus is trying to explain to his disciples in our scripture for today. He’s explaining the meaning of “signs,” those subtle hints of perception we can recognize in our world, because our faith prepares us to see them. The deeper your faith ...
Sermon
Schuyler Rhodes
... us returns to ask for more? Yes. Yes, and yes. You see, these stories come to meet us like that woman at the conference who didn’t quite come for me. Like the guy that was trying to get out of the parking spot, these stories conspire to invade our sense of the way things are, challenging us to open our imaginations to the way things might be in the kingdom of God. It is in the parables of Jesus that we discover the almost unfathomable notion that in the love of God in Jesus Christ, all bets are off. As ...
798. Spirit Powered Anointing
Luke 4:14-21 · Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... be your strength.” For the road of true discipleship is a two-edged sword. God’s grace and Christ’s salvation is amazing, but the road of discipleship is also challenging to every expectation you have, to your sense of judgment, to your sense of right and wrong, to your sense of fairness, to your sense of self. If it’s not challenging, you are not on the right road with Jesus. What does it mean to be the church? Jesus will remind us next week. [1] Lois Tverberg, “A Surprisingly Messianic Tradition ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... with love and compassion for others which, by the way, is the way Christ lived—is the only truly fulfilling way to live. You want the key to living at its best? A life of compassion is the key. Notice, first of all, that Tabitha lived with a sense of purpose. A sad thing is that so many people today live with no real purpose at all for their lives. Charles Colson, the founder of Prison Fellowship, had a healthy perspective on living a life of purpose. He was once a powerful attorney and political advisor ...
800. I'm Going Fishing
John 21:1-19 · Acts 9:1-20
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... stretch out your hands and another will tie your belt and lead you where you don’t want to go.” The scriptures indicate that Jesus was showing Peter the kind of death by which he would glorify God after which he told him, “Follow me!” Jesus’ words in a sense echo the words of Zechariah who says in 8:23: “In those days ten men from every language of the nations shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’” The idea of grasping ...
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