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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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76. We Know Exactly How You Feel, Jesus

Matthew 8:3, Luke 7:14, Luke 8:44

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 ...

77. Clean Hands

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... on backwards, jeans that sag practically to his knees, a diamond stud in his lower lip, and wearing a set of earphones. The young man grunts hello and comes in. The father is more than a little taken back. He goes upstairs where his daughter is putting the finishing touches to her make-up. "I don't think you should go out with this boy," says Dad. "He doesn't look like a nice person." The daughter is shocked. "Daddy," she says, "If he wasn't such a nice person why would he be doing 500 hours of Community ...

78. The Five Senses

Luke 24:36-48

Sermon

John Smylie

... five senses, using each of them to allow us to attain the absolute magnificence of sharing in his resurrection. Today we pray, Lord, that you will open our eyes to see you and open our ears to hear you. Lord we pray that we will reach out and touch you as we touch the body of Christ in brothers and sisters, and bread and wine. Lord Jesus, we pray that we will breathe in the aroma of your faithfulness and smell the sweetness of your presence and we pray that we will taste your goodness, at the altar and in ...

79. Be Healed, Be Held

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... robe — a prized enough possession to encourage the Roman soldiers overseeing his execution to cast lots for the chance to win it — was unique in its top-to-bottom seamless weaving (John 19:23-24). Whatever it was this sick-to-death outcast woman touched, she was transformed. She felt it immediately. Jesus felt it immediately. The woman felt healed in her body. Jesus felt healing power go out from his body. Despite the urgent, life-saving mission Jesus was on for the sake of Jairus’ daughter, he stops ...

80. Three Days To See

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Helen Keller

... open wide to all the sights of both happiness and misery so that I may probe deep and add to my understanding of how people work and live. My heart is full of the images of people and things. My eye passes lightly over no single trifle; it strives to touch and hold closely each thing its gaze rests upon. Some sights are pleasant, filling the heart with happiness; but some are miserably pathetic. To these latter I do not shut my eyes, for they, too are part of life. To close the eye on them is to close the ...

81. Journey To The Cross II: Jesus And The Hemorrhaging Woman

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

James W. Moore

... healing and life. We see it here in Mark 5 as Jesus reaches out to the hemorrhaging woman and the daughter of Jairus… love has the power to heal. II. Second, Love Has The Power To Reconcile. This is why Jesus insisted that the one who had touched the hem of His garment come forward. This woman was considered ceremonially unclean… she was not permitted to set foot in the synagogue. She was a social outcast. Jesus wanted to make it clear to everyone that she was well. He not only healed her, He restored ...

82. The Wideness in God's Mercy

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... . It is an issue filled with ambiguity. It is not a matter of black or white. But we must not lose sight of the fact that those on the receiving end of the church's judgments are persons who are valued by God and whose need for Jesus' healing touch is every bit the same as ours. There is one other element in this story which is important to notice. After Jesus healed the leper and told him to fulfill the Mosaic conditions for cleanliness, he also warned him not to tell anyone about how this all happened ...

83. Children in the Arms of a Loving God

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Michael Milton

... things. And what He says is not only about children but about each of us. And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; ... ; even when he is old he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6). This is not hocus pocus religion as if an incantation or a touch by a holy man can bring salvation. It is the faith of a parent or a loved one that says, I will bring this child to ...

84. High and Lifted Up

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... . 12:34, "How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks." Isaiah had a dirty mouth because he had a dirty heart. But these Seraphim, and the word Seraphim literally means "flame bearers" or "burning ones" come and touch his lips with a hot coal from a flaming fire. Do you see that when Isaiah came clean, Isaiah was made clean. When Isaiah confessed his sin, God cleansed his sin. 1 Jn. 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive ...

85. Sexual Discharges

Leviticus 15:1-33

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... far less prominently than in Israel. In Egypt a Ptolemaic inscription states that people who became impure through sexual intercourse, birth, miscarriage, and so forth had to pay dues before being admitted to a temple. In Mesopotamia a text says, “If a man touches a musukkatu woman [menstruant] who is passing by, for six days he will not [be pure].”2 Times of sexual abstinence due to menstruation (Lev. 15:19–24) were more limited for ancient Israel than they would be today. Menstruation was then, and ...

86. Jesus Heals the Leper

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... you are not yet ready to forgive the perpetrator, that, too, is okay. Use these moments to find healthy ways to take care of yourself. The world is a scary place; sometimes, even the church is a scary place. (Two minutes of silence.) Response: Sing again, "Somebody Touched Me." Acts of Forgiveness Remember all those messages that say, "It's your job as a Christian to forgive the person who has hurt you." Maybe so. However, you are to do so on your own time schedule, not someone else's. Perhaps you will want ...

87. Risking It All

Mark 5:25-29

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... twelve years. She had been to all sorts of doctors looking for a cure. In fact, she had spent all her money paying them to treat her. But nothing helped. "Then she heard about Jesus, and she knew that if she could get near enough to him just to touch his robe she would finally be well. But there was a BIG problem. "You see, the condition from which she suffered made her an outcast in the society in which she lived, because a person who was bleeding was thought to be 'unclean.' That meant she was not allowed ...

88. Living Beyond Unhappily Ever After

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... help us live beyond our fields of broken dreams. I know a man who can help you beyond your one-step beyond; a man who, at the touch of his hand, the whisper of his voice, can set you free and make you whole again. All the king's horses and all the king's ... who will, if you fall off the wall, pick you up and put you back together again. All we have to do is to learn how to touch him, give to him, seek him in all things, and we can get beyond the beyond that keeps us from getting on with our lives. Accept what ...

89. The Healing of Jairus' Daughter and the Hemorrhaging Woman

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

James W. Moore

... healing and life. We see it here in Mark 5 as Jesus reaches out to the hemorrhaging woman and the daughter of Jairus… love has the power to heal. II. SECOND, LOVE HAS THE POWER TO RECONCILE. This is why Jesus insisted that the one who had touched the hem of His garment come forward. This woman was considered ceremonially unclean. She was not permitted to set foot in the synagogue. She was a social outcast. Jesus wanted to make it clear to everyone that she was well. He not only healed her, he restored ...

90. On the Road with the Hemorrhaging Woman

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

James W. Moore

... t matter because somewhere in heaven, God was smiling! Now, think about this. Jesus had so many great moments like that with people… and sadly the truth is we have so few. Jesus had so many tender moments where time stood still. He could feel the touch, hear the cry, sense the need, zero in on the person, seize the moment. You know why, don’t you? Because He was compassionate and being compassionate means first of all… being sensitive to the needs of others. Over and over, Jesus in the Gospels, shows ...

91. The Gentle Healer

John 9:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... without being hit on and the elderly once more feel the comfort of human hands without embarrassment? When you are ill, you go with what you can get and sometimes a hug or a pat on the shoulder is just the healing touch that we need. While authorities are trying to pick this miracle apart, the blind man who now sees sticks to one single statement, “I once was blind but now I see." Nothing else really matters. He knew he had been helped and that made all the difference. It didn't ...

92. The Law of Unintended Consequences

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... on a cross. But there is something we need to remember before we leave this place. According to scripture, there was a time when each of us was unclean. We were isolated from God and we were isolated from one another. But, on the cross, Christ reached out and touched each of us and made us clean. But rather than telling us not to tell anyone about it, he tells us to go tell the world. If you have found healing from Christ in any way, tell your family, tell your friends, tell everyone within earshot. And if ...

93. The Authority of Jesus over Sickness and Death

Mark 5:21-43

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... have to die again. Still, Mark’s transliteration of the Aramaic words said by Jesus (“Little girl, get up!”) is intended to add a poignancy and power to the scene.6We are allowed to hear his actual words; this is not a magic formula but a dramatic touch. The miracle is instantaneous; she starts to walk and is ready to eat. 5:43 strict orders not to let anyone know about this. This seems almost an absurd demand. Who can keep quiet when a little girl is raised from the dead? Yet the messianic secret ...

94. An Untouchable God?

1 Samuel 6:1-7:1

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... when she heard of Jesus and his healing ways, her hope was rekindled. Maybe this was one from the religious community who would not hold her at arm’s length and make her feel unworthy. Perchance here was one from God whom she could reach out and actually touch. And she does. And she improves. And Jesus accepts and even affirms what it must have taken great courage for her to do. “My daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your trouble.” (Mark 5:34 TEV) Here is one, unlike ...

95. Proper 8

2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Samuel 1:17-27, Mark 5:21-43

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... (v. 23). Jairus specifically requested Jesus to come and lay his hands on his daughter in order to heal her. He had undoubtedly witnessed the Lord healing others in this manner. There is healing in Jesus' touch. We have been touched by Jesus and are called to share his healing touch with those who seek wholeness. Give credit to your physician (vv. 26-34). The woman healed of her hemorrhages frequented many doctors but they were no help. As a last resort she thought she would try Jesus. She reasoned that ...

96. Return to Glory

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

Richard Patt

... our living Lord in his mission of world rehabilitation. Our program is RETURN TO GLORY at every level of living. How do we do it? The same way Jesus did. "Jesus took the man off alone, away from the crowd, put his fingers in the man’s ears ... and touched the man’s tongue." We will do it by isolating every needy soul from the crowd and by hearing and listening to that one person who stands before us. World rehabilitation is a grand vision. We will never do it alone; we will never serve all. But there is ...

97. Eat And Live

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... the cup that lifts many of us to a higher plane. What is it? PERHAPS IT IS BECAUSE THE BREAD AND THE CUP TOUCH US WHERE WE REALLY LIVE. George Herbert once described an imaginary dialogue between himself and Christ. Christ is welcoming him at the ... forget him." In a sense, when we leave here this morning, each of us will take with us a part of Christ. We have reached out and touched him. Of course, theologically we realize that it is not we who are able to reach out to him. Rather, it is he who reaches down ...

98. Breaking the Rules

Mark 1:40-45

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

... ? Does he want to point out that Jesus took the risk of getting Leprosy? Does he want us to understand the depth of Christ's compassion that he would touch a leper? Is he simply trying to describe the moment? Unfortunately these are not the reasons that Mark carefully describes the touch. It is this TOUCH that gets Jesus into trouble with the religious leaders. It is this direct contact with a leper that banishes Jesus from Galilee. Mark's point is that Jesus broke the Mosaic law when he reached out and ...

99. Kill Them with Kindness

Proverbs 3:3, 19:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... harsh force of arrogance. I am convinced that one of the things that endeared Ronald Reagan to this nation was the fact that people just sensed he was really kind. I admit that Ronald Reagan is one of my heroes and I read a story about him one time that touched my heart. It was before he was even the President of the United States; he was the Governor of California. He was running for president in 1976 and he was getting ready for a rally in a North Carolina parking lot. A lady came over to one of his aides ...

100. The Seventy “Sevens”

Daniel 9:20-27

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... he has destroyed all dominion, authority and power. For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet. The last enemy to be destroyed is death” (1 Cor. 15:24–26). Additional Notes 9:21 In chs. 8 and 10 the verb nagaʿ, “touch” (translated in 9:21 as came), takes the preposition be with the object (8:18; 10:10, 18) or ʿal, “on” or “upon” (10:16). In contrast, Dan. 9 uses ʾel, “to” or “unto,” suggesting movement toward. The verb nagaʿ has a range of meaning: “to ...

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