Sermon and Worship Resources

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

Showing 851 to 875 of 2078 results

851. Life After Life

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... been on resuscitating teams, and nobody has told me tales like these." She answered, "Honey, you remember I had an experience like this. I wanted to tell you, but I didn’t think you would understand." The whole life of these persons now is affected by this experience. Their relationships are different. They have a new attitude toward life and death. They aren’t afraid anymore. They know they were not ready to die and they want to become ready. They have a completely new understanding of love. Caring ...

852. Called to Be Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... house, Hosier sat quietly as the white minister, John Walker, preached. At the conclusion of that sermon, Hosier took his place behind the chair where he had been sitting. Very quietly he began by saying that sin was a disease, and all were affected. The Lord had sent a remedy, but some rejected the remedy because the hands of the physician were black. Hosier continued "until all hearts were moved." He then prayed. "He was like Asbury in this respect - awful, powerful, and overwhelming!" The traditional ...

853. Questions Without Answers

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... his day in court. Take God to Court We can multiply the instances when we would like to get God into court, when we could prosecute him for the violation of our rights, find him guilty, sentence him to solitary out in outer space where his disturbances cannot affect us. It’s an awful thing to say! But when his disturbances reach into our own family circles, or when "accident" deprives us of our fullest life, or when disease strikes out of nowhere, we can think those things, if not burst out to say them. A ...

854. The Remote

John 14:5-14

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... . SUSAN: Do you have any idea all the stuff I have to look at in a day? FLY: Now you're beginning to think. You're right, it will be a lot of material and you can't test all of it, but it is important to investigate that which affects your pocketbook or your belief system. SUSAN: My belief system? FLY: Oh, I forgot -- major overhaul. Yes, your belief system. All people have one. SUSAN: I don't. FLY: Sure you do. If you say you don't believe in anything, that's a belief system. A pretty shaky belief ...

855. Christian Thanksgiving

Philippians 1:1-7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... congregations, who seek earnestly to do their part as partners in the gospel in the world mission of the Church of Christ. Paul states the third reason for Christian thanksgiving in the words, "God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment." The response to the grace of God and the ensuing partnership in the gospel are motivated by intelligent and responsible love. Paul remembers ...

856. In Praise of Feeling Guilty

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... experience of the grace and forgiveness of God. True guilt seeks, indeed embraces, punishment. It is alleviated by acts of expiation. It burns within the breast (literally felt that way often) until it is confessed, atoned for, and reconciliation is affected - the theological concepts of repentence, confession, forgiveness, reparation, and atonement. This is true not only on the horizontal level with others, but also vertically, with God, and at the same time internally. As Tillich tells us, the courage to ...

857. The Shadow Ascending

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... off from the possibilities of feeding all around them - then the love, the care, the concern of the church, the Body of Christ becomes immediately involved. So I would like us to consider this area of concern to see more clearly what is happening to those affected, what might be done to help, and what all of us might learn in general from this particular form of the human predicament. A Merry-Go-Round Named Denial To narrow things, I would like us to consider alcoholism in particular, and since there is ...

858. Signposts A Commencement Address

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... be. There are always new tasks in life. This night reminds us that that is so. As life goes forward, we all hopefully grow. We all change. Our task is to be sensitive to the meaning of the changes, reading the signposts along the way as to how we are affected. Blessings, power, and prosperity be to you all. May this graduation be a time of celebration, reflection, joy, and meditation. The Rev. Bruce M. Hartung, Ph.D.

859. The Man Who Couldn't Hear

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... ; they were so busy shouting, they were so busy trying to get their precious side of the story across, that they couldn't hear one another. So each of them became like the deaf and mute man in the story this morning. Because they couldn't hear, it affected their speech. They said things that didn't make any sense and they said things that they didn't really mean. But the damage had been done.] We have to start listening to one another. Husbands and wives need to start listening. Parents and children have to ...

860. Advent 3: Won't You Let Him Into Your Gift-Giving?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

James W. Moore

... bag. She gave it to me one morning and never asked for its return. And so I still have it. If the house ever catches on fire, it goes with me when I run. Sometimes I think of all the times in this sweet life when I have missed the affection I was being given. A friend calls this ‘standing knee deep in the river and dying of thirst.’ So the worn paper sack is there… left from a time when a child said, ‘Here… this is the best I’ve got… take… it’s yours. Such as I have, give ...

861. Wrinkled Wrappings

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... for Christ to come into their hearts. Jesus taught that the pure in heart see God. Doctors say that this is literally true: a dirty heart can cause poor vision. There is a disease that causes ulcers to form on the inner walls of the heart. This condition affects the blood vessels of the eyes which become bloodshot. If the heart condition is not cured, the blood vessels in the eyes burst and the person becomes blind. "Who shall ascend unto the hill of the Lord? He who has clean hands and a pure heart ..." A ...

862. The Star Thrower

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... this fabled conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn in 7 B.C. was thought to be saying considerably more to humanity than simply, "I burn." Stargazers of the ancient Near East watched carefully for signs from the Divine Star Thrower -- astrological signs affecting terrestrial destinies. Within Judaism, Balaam's star prophecy of many centuries earlier had been associated with the Messiah's birth, where he said: "I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh: A star shall come forth out of Jacob ...

863. The Second Naiveté: Babies, Angels, Shepherds, And God

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... or service or distant work. Others of us are home after arguments and alienation, home, ready to be accepted and reconciled. As the coming of Christ bound Mary and Joseph together in love, so may his coming bind our families together in new warmth and affection. Let us have your blessing of a new family life of integrity and thoughtfulness. Cleanse our souls with fond memories, and gladden our hearts with the promise of a new day. On this night of humble, but noble birth, we would remember all women in ...

864. Divide and Destroy

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... the spread of the gospel by financially aiding Paul (1 Thessalonians 4:16, 2 Corinthians 11:9). In many respects they are his favorite congregation. He longs for them with a view that they are in the very heart of Christ. The letter expresses great mutual affection. Perhaps this is a message all of us need to hear at this particular time of year. Those of us who are in practical partnership with the Advent and Christmas programs of the church often work our way through the season with a love-hate mentality ...

865. A Secret Is Finally Revealed

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... to feed little Paul a good diet, he became friendlier. The Adams family members became hopeful. But as the weeks passed, their hopes disappeared.4 As Paul learned the language, he began to lie incessantly. He began to steal. He displayed no affection toward either Mr. or Mrs. Adams. He was totally indifferent toward the mother and father. However, he did develop a deep friendship with little Sammy Adams. One day, in direct violation of instruction, Paul Piotrastanalsis went swimming in a polluted stream ...

866. Salvation Includes Social Justice

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... politics from the 1930s through the ’60s, noted this problem. In one of his later sermons he wrote: “Much of Christian teaching down the ages has been in terms of serving or saving the soul, but not the body. What we do in the body affects the attitudes of the soul.”1 You cannot have a genuine Christian spirituality, you cannot have salvation, apart from the body. (Consider the Creed: We confess a “resurrection of the body,” not an eternal soul.) And you are not concerned about the body if you ...

867. True or False?

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... seems to increase, or at least it seems to be moving in a new direction. It’s taken a more public form. People now are being attacked in places where they work or where they go to school. That’s right, even children are being affected. In fact, sometimes the perpetrators are children themselves. Some say it’s because weapons are more easily obtained; others say that families are under too much pressure economically or that religion has become ineffective. It’s hard to say what it is, but Gomorrah is ...

868. God Knows

Isaiah 5:1-7

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... effort in constructing some nice features: a watchtower is built, a wine vat is made. Everything about the vineyard is perfect, it would seem: good land, good soil, good vines, good accessories. In a real sense, the vineyard had become an object of devotion and affection for the owner. It is the love of his life, the passion of his soul. Having invested much of himself and much of his resources in it, the vineyard owner sits back and awaits the harvest, naturally expecting a healthy return on his investment ...

869. The Second Touch for the Out of Touch

1 Kings 19:1-18

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... , and spirit. The Apostle Paul, for example, writes, “May the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thessalonians 5:23). Each affects the other, and all of them interplayed in Elijah’s breakdown. Christian discipleship has something to say about each area of our lives that can help us avoid Elijah’s predicament, which I believe was emotional, as opposed to chemical, depression. His body ...

870. The Fruit of the Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... future with confidence with the presence and help of God. God’s word works in the world. No Empty Word The prophet witnessed to the fact that God’s word was active in history. God moves history for all people. All the people of the earth are affected by the word of God’s judgment. God is constantly pressing upon all peoples to make God’s will and purposes work out in the world. That is true whether they recognize it or not. Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians were serving the will of God by taking ...

871. The Delimma II (A Drama about Prayer)

Drama

Dave Marsh

... in church, God delights in a more sophisticated prayer, a more sophisticated prayer accomplishes more than a simple one, God answers prayers immediately, etc... The other thing about this one is that it requires some music dubbed in to the tape to make it really affective. I've noted the areas where you should add it. I like to use music from the King of Kings soundtrack available anywhere (Amazon is a good place to go...) Cast: Dave: A normal guy at church Props: Chairs Pre-recorded V.O. tape Setting ...

872. The Healing Of Simon's Mother-in-Law

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the sanitarium decided to try an experiment on the pup. She made a small incision on the puppy’s leg. Then she bandaged it. Finally, she instructed those at the sanitarium to feed the puppy when he was hungry, but not to show him any affection, physically or verbally. The change in the little dog was quick and dramatic. Whereas, before he had always been energetic, frisky, happy, and friendly, he now seemed quite forlorn and pitiful. Even more significantly, six weeks later the incision on his leg had not ...

873. Would You Take The Crown Without The Cross?

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... humanity into obedience. You see this not just about Jesus being hungry after fasting for 40 days. This is Satan tempting Jesus to met need of world hunger. Use your power, the devil says, to address the issue of human hunger. Jesus would have sought to buy our affection and devotion. But that is a false picture of mankind. We do not live for things but for intimacy. We do not live for the marketplace but for the family. Jesus put it this way, “man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that ...

874. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. I choose the positive side of life. Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life, and I choose to live and be positive and to celebrate life.” Jerry was the manager of a restaurant and one morning he was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open ...

875. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

Showing results