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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76. BUTCHER
1 Corinthians 10:23--11:1
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Stephen Stewart
... by men. Meat has been one of the most ancient of man’s foodstuffs - even, presumably, when he had to eat it raw. There is an instructive understanding in man that meat contains the elements that he needs to make him strong and healthy. There is even some sympathetic magic at work here - if I eat the blood and flesh of a strong, healthy animal, I will imbibe some of that strength. With this thought in mind, we can understand the rise of a class of butchers - men who were apprenticed for a period until they ...
77. TAX COLLECTOR
Matt. 18:17; Luke 5:27
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Stephen Stewart
Modern taxes are a recent development, but the practice of taxation is an ancient one. The comment, "There is nothing more sure than death and taxes" has won sympathetic agreement down through the ages. Now, certainly, any thinking person will agree that taxes are a necessity of governmental life, but we seldom approve of the methods for collecting such taxes. We are always sure that there just has to be a better way! And this has been the attitude ...
78. The Trinity
Matthew 28:16-20
Sermon
Brett Blair
... , judge. These are all traits of the divine and we must indeed learn to think of him in these terms. But if our Christian understanding of the nature of God is to be correct, then we must also learn to think of God as our kind, sympathetic, understanding, compassionate, gentle and loving Father. To be sure there are stern images of God in the Old and New Testaments, even in the Gospels themselves. But the love of God is the major emphasis, which runs throughout the Bible. There is no message which breaks ...
Sermon
Donald Macleod
... else comes by, not even a learned person, and as he or she enters, the whole room lights up. This is an inner gift, not learned from books, but is a rare combination of being and doing. And it prompts every servant to ask: Am I gentle, kind and truly sympathetic? Do I say the right word at the right time in the right way? A stranger on a New York city bus turned to me and asked, "Are you saved?" That kind of service at the wrong time in the wrong place deserves to be ignored. 2. Another thought: How ...
80. One’s Proper Service
Isaiah 58:1-14
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Larry Powell
... after the rest of the congregation had stopped. Things had become so disconcerting that even the minister refused to sing. Consequently, Linkhaw was found guilty of a misdemeanor and ordered to remain silent in church. However, the state supreme court overturned the conviction, sympathetic to Linkhaw’s claim that singing was a part of his service to God. I was interested in this particular item because I well remember when an old fellow in my home church was asked to surrender his choir robe on the same ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... of commitment to Christ? God will take care of everything else. Tony Campolo, the Philadelphia sociologist, found himself seated beside the Pennsylvania governor at a state prayer breakfast. In the course of conversation the governor said that he was sympathetic toward Christianity but not personally committed. Campolo asked, "Why not?" The governor replied, "Well, to tell you the truth, no one ever invited me to commit." Campolo said, "I'm inviting you." within five minutes that governor had committed ...
Drama
Curt M. Joseph
... who comes in peace and love. That’s what the world needs now, not another power-hungry dictator. Judas: You’re a fool. Both of you are. The world belongs to those who have the power and the desire to reach out and take it. Matthew: (sympathetically) Judas, old friend, the world belongs to the meek, the peacemakers, and those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. The world will belong to Jesus one day; but we have to be patient, follow him, and let him do it his way. Judas: Someone needs to change ...
Sermon
R. Blaine Detrick
... , over-earnest in their conviction - to the point of intolerance. "Everybody else is wrong," they say, "If you don’t agree with me in every little detail, you can’t be right." Jesus was not that kind of a person. He was tolerant and understanding, sympathetic and sensitive, and in this particular case, he tried to calm down John. The danger, for the most part, in the Church today is not that of having too much conviction, but too little. Our problem is more a matter of indifference than of intolerance ...
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James W. Robinson
... But the miserable and lonely old man receives unexpected visitors who change his life. First appears the ghost of his old friend and business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley has an ominous warning for Scrooge. He informs him that one’s spirit must wander sympathetically among humanity, in life, or be condemned to do so after death and witness what one "might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness." Marley fades from view, and the Ghost of Christmas Past appears to guide Scrooge to the innocent scenes ...
Sermon
James W. Robinson
... was profoundly thankful to the Holy One of Israel, who had sustained her in the isolation of her dark night of the soul. Was she isolated? Was she lonely? Almost certainly. There was a stigma attached to being a widow in those days. Few Hebrew laws gave sympathetic consideration to her plight. "One reason for this strange neglect may be the Hebrew belief that death before old age was a calamity, a judgment for sin which was extended to the wife that was left. It was therefore a disgrace to be a widow."[1 ...
86. Feed My Sheep
John 21:15-25
Sermon
Ewart E. Turner
... swords, maybe blood flecked. Anticipating a kind of "good doggie" approval, they told him, "Lord, here are two swords." They had gone him one better. And this was at the most agonized time of his earthly ministry when, if ever, he needed sympathetic understanding. We ought also to "spiritualize" the needle. Some prose-minded Bible interpreters have robbed this startling hyperbole of its shock force by linking it to the postern "needle’s eye" gate, near the main gate to Jerusalem, through which a camel ...
Sermon
E. Jerry Walker
... He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong." Nicodemus glanced about the room where others had continued to arrive. He searched vainly for his friend, Joseph of Arimathea. Of all the Sanhedrin, this man only had revealed a sympathetic though furtive interest in the prophet of Galilee. But Joseph had not yet arrived. Quite possibly, Nicodemus knew, he might not come at all. On issues of intense feeling it was easier to abstain than to oppose. He turned back abruptly to the small group ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... . Learning is a way of life, teaching an honored and powerful profession. But it is an increasingly difficult profession. Some believe a college is best defined as a log with an earnest student on one end and a brilliant, sympathetic teacher on another. Others scoff at such simplistic notions as they proudly point to their highly technical learning laboratories and complex information retrieval systems. Not only is educational theory debated; educational practice is positively staggering. Think for a moment ...
Sermon
George Bass
... has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’ " He assured them there would be no problem. And there wasn’t. Unidentified bystanders, who might have been disciples of Jesus or at least have known who he was, and who must have been sympathetic to his mission, did inquire what the disciples were doing and, as Jesus predicted, allowed them to take the colt. Could it have been one of that group who became the unidentified host to Christ and the disciples that night before the passover? We’ll ...
90. Man Of Sorrows
Isaiah 52:13--53:12
Sermon
Larry Powell
... the company of the Pharisees. Early in Jesus’ ministry, "there came a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night" (John 3:1, 2). Nicodemus was curious about the ministry of Christ, perhaps even sympathetic; but in order to preserve his standing among his peers, he came to Jesus secretly. There is no record of subsequent meetings between the two, although John records that Nicodemus did question the integrity of the Pharisees on one occasion when they had ...
Sermon
Alton F. Wedel
The story has been told about a beggar (I have not the faintest notion where I might have heard it) who each day took his position just outside the gate of a very rich man’s house. The wealthy owner of the mansion, kind and sympathetic to the poor man’s problem, but sometimes on a guilt trip over what he had and others didn’t have, each day gave the beggar food and clothing and whatever else he needed to sustain his life. In return the beggar was required to do nothing. One day the ...
92. Give Up?
John 6:60-71
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... is use the money we have to pay the people we need. We can pick up some extra money whenever we need it by feeding some information to the officials. They're always ready to pay for information. I know some of the high officials and they said they're sympathetic to our cause. They want to get out from under Rome's rule too. MESHULLAM: In other words I can just act like a disciple. I don't have to really believe any of the difficult things. JUDAS: That's right. Jesus himself said we should be as wise as ...
Sermon
T. A. Kantonen
... is only the preface to the birth of the Christ-life in the hearts of men and women, of boys and girls. When Christmas ceases to be a seasonal sentimental story and becomes a living experience, it produces changed lives, more sensitive, more unselfish and sympathetic, more patient and loving. It is for this that Phillips Brooks prayed: "Cast out our sin, and enter in, Be born in us today." Christmas provides not only divine resources but also a divine strategy. The incarnation is a unique event but it also ...
Sermon
T. A. Kantonen
... power of his gospel has been released, there woman has been lifted from degradation and given new dignity and opportunity. Nor did Jesus share the old rabbinical idea that childbirth contaminates and that motherhood is something inherently sinful. On the contrary, he looks with sympathetic understanding deep into the heart of a mother as she forgets all the anxiety and anguish of labor in clasping her newborn baby to her bosom. "When a woman is about to give birth to a child she is sad, because her hour of ...
95. Light from the Word
Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18
Sermon
Harry N. Huxhold
... of helping the people to understand all that was involved. Ezra saw his task as beginning back on square one to get people to appreciate the special place they had in the heart and the mind of God. We in America should have a sympathetic understanding of what Ezra was trying to do. We have all kinds of people stressing the fact that we as a people need to recapture what it means to be American. Educators, politicians, pastors, professionals, talk show hosts and hostesses, and business men regularly ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... the average patient wants is not a doctor, but an audience.” We all need (from time to time) to ventilate our hurts and fears and talk them out with someone we trust. To “talk it out” with someone who cares… and to hear back from that sympathetic listener some words of encouragement… what a wonderfully healing process that is! II. SECOND, REMEMBER THAT THE PERSON REJECTING YOU IS REALLY THE ONE WHO HAS A PROBLEM. Let me show you what I mean. A pastor went into a hospital room to visit a little ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... do, the cross on which Jesus died is much ado about nothing. How hopelessly out of date the old spiritual sounds to us: "Not my mother or my father, but it's me, O Lord, standing in the need of prayer." Victims do not need prayer or God, just a sympathetic therapist or a good lawyer.(4) But scripture is very plain - "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God;"(5) there is none righteous, no not one."(6) In fact, there has been only one totally innocent victim in human history...Jesus. Yes, he had ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... Committee, and the Hollywood Black Lists. In a generation that had just been at war twice within five years, there was genuine terror of anything that could threaten us again. The fear of the "Red Menace" so gripped us that anyone even whispered about as being sympathetic to Communism was in danger of having life and career flushed right down the drain. Many had that happen, and all because of the same kind of gossip that the girls of Salem had spread so many years before. I read once of a woman who ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... shared with a stranger; you do not vent to someone you do not know. 2. There is a COMPLAINT. It tells God with some specificity what the matter is. It might even engage in hyperbole much as a child would in attempting to get a parent's sympathetic attention ("Oh God, this is the WORST..."). 3. Next comes the PETITION. What do you want God to do? And often, it is phrased with an imperative, a demand. "Turn, Heed, Deliver, Save." God's power is not in doubt, only perhaps God's attention to this particular ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... the tale ends there except for the little postscript that lets us know that Jonah did indeed finally go to Ninevah to preach. The message that comes through is that you cannot run away from God, no matter how hard you try. Jonah comes across as a sympathetic character...a little misguided to start out, but one who eventually sees the light. A nice story. Not altogether true...but nice. Unfortunately, to stop the story with the landing on the beach is a problem. The book of the Bible that bears Jonah's name ...
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