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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Drama
Douglas W. Orbaker
... more. But I’m not sitting around whining what a great mother’s son I am, and hoping for some worthless friend - or non-existent God - to rescue me. Theudas Then what are you hoping for? Barabbas The same thing that you’d be hoping for, if you had any sense: an executioner with an excellent aim and a sharp sword. A miserable existence that ends in a blanket of night, not in agony as you quiver in the dust of his first blow, begging him to finish his task, so the pain will cease! That’s the only thing ...
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J. Ellsworth Kalas
... want to feel the land of the Bible come alive, spend as much time as possible out-of-doors. In the Garden spot, as you stand by olive trees which are hundreds of years old and which grow out of the remains of trees still older, you will sense the nearness of the Lord who prayed in Gethsemane. Or when you walk down to the banks of the Jordan River, you will almost see John the Baptizer and Jesus, and though you may tell yourself, logically, that nineteen centuries have passed over this River since Jesus was ...
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Thomas Long
... yet understand, discovering only belatedly and after the fact that the path they have ventured upon has led to the Christ. We see a portrait of a person being tugged along to Jesus by a brother, following more out of family loyalty perhaps than out of a sense of mystery, finding at the end of the trail, and not at the beginning, that his name ... and his life ... have been transformed. All of this goes to make Muehl’s basic point: "The roads to Christian faith are as varied as the people who profess it ...
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Edward Chinn
... act of baptizing, we ask God for several gifts for the child. The last of these gifts is requested in these words: "Give him ... the gift of joy and wonder in all your works" (The Book of Common Prayer, page 308). To live wisely is, first, to live with a sense of reverence and wonder. II Secondly, to live wisely is to review our choices. If you were to go to a courtroom in the city of Venice, Italy, you would find a peculiar custom observed in the trial of a person accused of a capital crime. When a person ...
1005. Waiting
Isaiah 63:7--64:12
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Thomas D. Peterson
... be done by night. I do not know enough about the process to work and wait through the many stages which building it requires. But, I know a lot about building ideas, so I can wait a long time for them to come around. If an idea does not make sense I put it aside, let it sit for weeks or months, and eventually come around to it again, only to discover that it has come around to me. Another layer of waiting lies all around us, deeper yet. In the story of the prodigal son the father waits. We spend ...
1006. Monday in Holy Week
Hebrews 9:11-28, John 12:1-11, Isaiah 42:1-9
Bulletin Aid
Paul A. Laughlin
... : We stand at the beginning of a week full of tragedy. People: BUT WE ALSO STAND AT THE BEGINNING OF A WEEK FULL OF WONDER. Leader: Mary knew when she anointed Jesus’ feet with oil that he was about to die. People: BUT SHE ALSO SENSED IN HER HEART THAT, AS WITH HER BROTHER LAZARUS, DEATH WOULD NOT BE THE FINAL WORD. Collect Almighty God, who placed in Mary’s heart an intuitive understanding of the implications of Jesus’ impending death, sensitize us as well; that, approaching the most sacred events ...
Sermon
William McKee Aber
... than closing. How do we communicate across a wall that seems bigger than ever? Paul says, "HOLD FAST TO WHAT IS GOOD." So, what does that mean? Stokeley Carmichael has an answer when whites ask "What can we do?" He says, "That’s your problem, baby!" In a real sense, it is, and it’s frustrating. We want to bridge the gap but we don’t know how. We want to help, but we seem to be rebuffed, and there aren’t many clues. "That which is good" is LOVE, and love is concern - honest concern. So perhaps we ...
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Ewart E. Turner
... Jesus to call him the greatest born of woman up to that time, and for Jesus to see in him the fulfillment of the words of Malachi (3:1), "Behold, I send my messenger to prepare the way before me." The Baptizer not only sensed the true nature of true religion. He also sensed that in Jesus of Nazareth this message was incarnate. This new insight into the character and purpose of God was like precious new wine that was not to be poured into old and leaky wineskins. He will be baptized with fire and the chaff ...
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Theodore L. Yewey
... was a "Preparer," whose one purpose was ... to make ready for the Lord, a people prepared. Now, at this point, it is essential that we understand our role. Often we of the Church think of ourselves only as the ones who need to be prepared. However, in a much broader sense, we of the Church are the ones living in this 20th century who are to fulfill the same task as John. We are to be the "Preparers." We are to open the way for God through the wilderness in which we live. We are to make way for the Advent ...
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Leonard H. Budd
... of barns. And at the end of that second week I proposed to close my inn and head for Jerusalem. Jesus was there. I wanted to talk with him more. He had made sense out of my world - a sense that my corner lot, and my standing in the community, did not afford. The one sheep hunted out, and found, and brought back to the fold did not make sense. The coin lost, when found, was worthy of rejoicing. Not in terms of sheep and coins - but in terms of human beings. I have not beat the boy once in the last week ...
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E. Jerry Walker
... . "He who ate my bread," he was quoting from the scriptures, "has lifted his heel against me." Then, as if to remove any doubt that he knew, he added, "One of you will betray me." So now it was joined. The veil of intrigue was rent. Judas’ every sense came alert like a cornered animal. What was his purpose? Would he turn the others on him? He glanced at the door, calculating his chances. Peter, the big one, blocked the way. All eyes were on the leader now. The room itself seemed stunned, dimmed by this ...
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Brett Blair
... did that for your sins. Forget that Jesus ever said love your enemies or love your neighbor. Now I want you to think of Jesus only as a military leader like General Tommy Franks. Imagine that your country has been invaded and is being ruled by godless men. Sense, now, that the tension is mounting and you are about to go into battle. That you are about to conduct a coup d’etat. That you and this band of ruffians are going to attempt to overthrow this government by a sudden violent strike. That the odds are ...
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Ron Lavin
... Let me get my act together first. Then I will become a Christian. If I come now, it will be because of my desperate need." They intuitively sense that their motivation is about a "two" on a scale of one to ten. Today’s story encourages all of us to come as we are, ... in her day as having sinned in some awful way. She was burdened almost to the breaking point by her isolation and sense of shame. She was an outcast for twelve long years. "Who touched me?" Jesus asked. The woman began to shake all over. " ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... to a man I had never seen, I discovered that he was a member of our congregation. I also learned that he was on the verge of a severe heart attack and that his doctor had released him from the hospital to attend the breakfast. As we talked, I sensed his uptightness and suggested that he come by my office to talk after breakfast. He accepted. In the conversation, I realized that he was burning mad at his boss. I said, "You hate your boss, don’t you?" "Yes, I do," he answered, "but I wasn’t really aware ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... himself. It is God speaking to Job as well: "I know that my Redeemer liveth." Hope flashes from the eyes of God. This is not the end. God will not let you down. We will not ultimately be destroyed. Job was beginning to grasp that Life somehow, somewhere, does make sense. Let John speak from exile, as he catches a glimpse of the eyes of God: "I saw a New Heaven and a New Earth coming down from God out of heaven and I heard a great voice saying, ‘Behold, God shall be their God, and they shall be his people ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... of us is the possibility of a religious death and a rebirth to new meaning and freedom. The false American Dream should die within Americans and not Americans themselves. But since the dream is a part of us, this means we ourselves must die in a very real sense. This is what is meant in part by a personal experience of participation in the death and resurrection of Christ that Paul lifts up. In terms of the symbolism of baptism, we need to die, to go under the water, and then come resurrected from our old ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... . Eighth grade graduation is a signpost for parents in that it is a clear marking of a necessary and vital change in the role and function of parenting. This child, whom you may have once held on your lap and fed, is no longer a child in the sense that once was so. No longer so helpless and dependent, your child is closer to legal adulthood than he/she is to infancy. So what was helpful and necessary parenting at age four or age eight is not so helpful at ages thirteen or fourteen. A graduation such ...
Sermon
Gregory J. Johanson
... someone out there "owes" me some noticing and is purposefully withholding. That immediately makes us a passive person, simply waiting to be stroked at the mercy of others whom we perceive have what we need. Your challenge, singles, is to move out and use your sense of loneliness as a clue to actively lead you to the resources for feeding that we all need. I’ll say more about loneliness and aloneness in a moment. I think a further problem which single people must face is not buying the great exultation ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... to begin there and be brought to a close there. There is a Jerusalem for each of us, a beginning or perhaps a homecoming. Anthony Padavona wrote that "the greatest endeavor in life is to come home, homecoming not in the sense of geography but in the sense of wholeness, inner integrity and peace." Homecoming happens throughout life, at different moments; at times it is a decision or simply a realization. It can deepen, refresh, and somehow change us. It deserves celebration. The student at whose ordination I ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... the fathomless mysteries of the universe, and thank you that you have brought us into the adventure of living, loving, and thinking, as a part of your grand scheme of things entire toward which the whole creation moves. Visit us again tonight with an awakened sense of your holiness and power, and quicken our minds toward the new realities you have in store for us. The world is very much with us, late and soon. The burdens of life often oppress. The pressures and stress tax our resources and nearly exhaust ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... or too conceited to see. God of this night's stillness and peace, who reigns over the stars and guides the way to the Prince of Peace; so lead us anew to the manger to behold the Christ. We confess our fascination with the world of time and sense, pomp and circumstance. But on this night of humble love and eternal truth, help us give up the idols of our vain worship, to center our lives on the Christ. Grant us release from false ideas and inadequate concepts which hinder our vision of you. Let our hardness ...
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John W. Wurster
... for this task. What you are asking of me does not fit into what I’m doing now. I am unable to categorize it, make sense of it, or understand how it is possible for me to do it.” As he voices his protest to God, Jeremiah lists his inadequacies, “I ... what God is calling you to do. To start something new, to advocate a fresh approach, to put forward a different perspective. I sensed among all those Presbyterian young people at the Youth Triennium that there is a new church being born in our midst, a church ...
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Robert Leslie Holmes
... depression’s primary symptoms is the desire for aloneness. Then, often when we are left alone, we crave company! He was detached from reality and caught in a web of ambivalence: “He got up and fled for his life” (1 Kings 19:3). Twice, it says, he had a sense that he stood alone against the world: “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts (and) ... I alone am left, and they are seeking my life, to take it away” (1 Kings 19:10, 14). “I’m the only one who stands for righteousness ...
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Harry N. Huxhold
... ) that was most offensive to God and a serious indication of how bad things were. The prophet was convinced that all this would change when the people were thoroughly cleansed through the work of the messenger of the covenant, who would bring the people to a sense of repentance and faith. Then conditions for the people of God would be as they once had been. Not only would the people bring right offerings to the Lord, but “then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in the days ...
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Harry N. Huxhold
... Lincoln is a special effort to help us feel along with Mr. Lincoln the thoughts of his heart and mind as he aspired to the presidency. Mr. Lincoln had an earnest desire to be of special service to the nation he knew was in deep trouble. One senses the compassion he had for all the people. He also recognized that the people could survive only as one nation. No one knew better than he that not everyone would agree with his purpose and will in leading the people. He also knew the terrible price that would ...
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