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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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1001. The Gospel Of Another Chance (choir Dedication)

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... on Sunday, and that she would rather not awaken me then. She suggested that the caller and I might talk the next day. He was gracious and didn't want to disturb me but said he really wanted to talk to someone. Jerry then offered to put him in touch with some other person on our church staff, but he refused. Instead, he asked if could talk with her for awhile. She assured him that, while she was not a counselor, she certainly had the time to listen. It was soon apparent that he was deeply depressed - - even ...

1002. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... those who think they have nothing. And many of us think we have nothing -- that is we think we've come to the end of our rope. We think we've come to the place where we have no place to turn. A twenty-four-year-old medical student played touch football in the afternoon; "Later in the day he experienced chest pain so severe that he knew he ought to be hospitalized. His wife drove him to the emergency room and, as he lay on the examining table, he had cardiac arrest. The doctors and nurses revived him quickly ...

1003. What If

1 Chronicles 7:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , she sent little Kay a sequel to the story -- a story about a little girl named Kay who played with imaginary characters down by the creek behind our house. One of the most precious things she has ever done. Jerry never heard from Kay. She even tried to get in touch with her by phone, but was unable to do so. I'm quite certain that little Kay died. But I'm more than certain that her last days and weeks were made more bearable because of those weekly visits from someone who first began to pray. I can't even ...

1004. At the Corner of Church and Main

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... by him, to be healed by him. These are not just the intellectually curious who have come to hear a provocative speaker. They are not merely spectators who have come to gawk at the latest magician. No, these are a needy lot. And when the Divine touch heals their frail bodies, when the eternal Son of God restores their corruptible flesh, it is a lovely and gracious intersection of Heaven and Earth. In the subway systems of some great cities, the trains and their tracks do not all run at the same depth. Some ...

1005. Unworthy or Not?

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... ONE THING MORE: HOW THESE MEN IN OUR SCRIPTURE LESSON RESPONDED TO THEIR EXPERIENCE OF GOD. Isaiah writes, "Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. The seraph touched my mouth with it and said: "Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out." Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I; send me!" That was Isaiah’s response ...

1006. All This and Heaven Too

Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the evil I do not want is what I do,” he knew what Paul was talking about. And when he read, “Since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, they are justified by…grace as a gift” (Romans 3:23-24), he knew that God has touch his life, even his. “Having experienced that grace, Luther could write these words in his hymn, “A mighty fortress is our God”: Did we in our own strength confide? Our striving would be losing. Were not the right man on our side, The man of God’s own choosing ...

1007. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is opening more and more doors for him to go out and give his testimony. When he speaks, his words have a weight and an impact that many ordained ministers would covet. As Christians reach out to touch everyone, including the unlovely who are now everywhere in our society, God touches them, too – and revolutionizes their lives. Otherwise we would just be circling the wagons, busying ourselves with Bible studies among our own kind. There is no demonstration of God’s power because we have closed ourselves ...

1008. Some Healing Is Up To You

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... power which would relieve her of this malady, but to no avail. And now she had heard that Jesus was coming to town, and she joined the multitude in going out into the village to see Him, thinking that if she could just get close enough to Him to touch Him, if she could just get near enough to put her hand upon Him, maybe – just maybe – something would happen in her life like that which had been happening in the lives of others of whom she had heard. So she pressed through the multitude and drew close ...

1009. God Outwits Us

Psalm 31:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... be on the altar.’ “’I will be the one, won’t I?” the Son asked. “And the Father said, ‘That’s right.’ “’Father, when they’re ready to put the nails into my hands and the spear into my side, are you going to cry out, ‘Don’t touch the lad!?’ “’No, Son,’ the Father said, ‘We never ask them to do in symbol what we have not done in reality.” God outwitted us. Instead of exacting payment from us—for all the sins that we commit and all of our going astray and all of our ...

1010. Samaria and Our Spiritual Journey

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... will come like it did for Jesus -- from some interruption, some unexpected encounter . . . like the woman Jesus meets at the well. He didn’t plan that; . . . or the woman who struggled to touch the hem of His garment when He was on His way to minister to a sick child. He could have ignored that touch and no one would have known. He would have still fulfilled his ministry of healing. Students, you can perform your jobs -- and even be successful -- without responding to those unexpected encounters and those ...

1011. Some Healing Is Up To You

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of her living on doctors and medicines. She was beside herself, in despair, when she heard that Jesus was coming to town. In desperation, she forced her way through the crowd. In her mind, she must have been thinking, “If I can just touch him, I will be whole.” And you know what happened. She touched the hem of his garment. The fountain of blood ceased to flow and she felt in her body that she was healed (Mark 5:24-34). There is a parade of witnesses like her who move through the Scripture. You can’t ...

1012. The Work of An Evangelist

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1013. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... along until they were willing to enter “the other half,” the half where the easy charts and pocket maps vanish and where there are no return tickets available. It, too, would launch them out upon the 70,000 fathoms of water where the foot can no longer touch bottom, where there is no longer any trusting God and keeping your powder dry, but where one must now trust God and take what comes a day at a time. (Steere, pp. 8-9) All the saints acknowledged this. They were thirsty for holiness and sought to ...

1014. We Who Are Many Are One Body

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is the gift that is ours through our salvation and baptism; it is our unity in Christ. That is the miracle that makes us strong. Without it we will have lost each other and I’m not willing to lose one of you. Once Christ’s saving hand has touched us, once our conversations are over and the Holy Spirit has led us, once His commandment to go into all the world has sent us forth from here, our mission beyond these walls is sacred! We are to spare the world our differences! Once our struggles to decide are ...

1015. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1016. Playing to the Right Audience

Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... return the fees! The disciples got drunk and high on the Spirit at Pentecost. Being filled with the Spirit is a repeatable phenomena. Genuine joy is intoxicating. Heaven is a party with no hangover. I am told that crack cocaine is really good the first time. The touch and reward of the Lord is even better. I had such an experience three weeks ago while praying with a young woman who had been horribly abused and was living in foster care. I met her at the Jamison Inn where I was staying at Annual Conference ...

1017. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... life than in others. A little leaven, I am told, effects the whole lump. When cut, we bleed the same color blood, and when a baby is born of whatever color, there is rejoicing. Penicillin cures one as well as the other. When you listen and touch and care for all sorts of people because it is your high calling and a daily duty, it does something to you, something good. But it was still the segregated world of two waiting rooms, and with a clear division between professional responsibilities and social life ...

1018. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... , took him by the hand and LIFTED HIM OUT of the pit.” That’s our job. To become the kind of people who, with God’s resources, fulfill the Golden Rule and give daily demonstrations of what he kingdom of God looks like when it touches earth. Whatever your job, this is your purpose in life. Everything else is a distraction. 1. Edited from Brennan Manning, Lion and Lamb: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1986), 165. 2. Leadership, Vol. 12, no. 3. 3. James Hewett, Illustrations ...

1019. Panic Room

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... comes in many forms. Louis Pasteur is reported to have had such an irrational fear of dirt and infection that he refused to shake hands. President and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison were so intimidated by the newfangled electricity installed in the White House they didn’t dare touch the switches. If there were no servants around to turn off the lights when the Harrisons went to bed, they slept with them on. (3) It is said that the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin so feared for his safety that his residence in Moscow ...

1020. Oh, God!

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... But,” said the judge, “never once did I see any of those fathers show any sign of affection for their teenagers.” Never once did a father put his arm around his son or daughter. Never once did he even touch his child. When a parent will show love, even by a simple act of touching, there is an opportunity for redemption. Otherwise, young people die emotionally, they did mentally, they die in their personalities because of a lack of love. (2) Now I want to turn to the last book in our Bible, the book ...

1021. A Time of Grief

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... accompanies them. As they approach the town gate, a body is being carried out--the body of a widow’s only son. Jesus did not know this woman but when he saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Don’t cry.” Then he went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. He said, “Young man, I say to you, get up!” And miraculously this young man who was dead sat up and began to talk, and Jesus gave him back to his mother. Luke tells us that the people who observed this “were ...

1022. How to Look Foolish

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . If I keep at it, I think I will master Lego toys someday. But there are a whole lot of other things that I won't even touch anymore, because I fear looking foolish. We are all that way because we want to be liked, we want to impress other people, we want to look ... in his life, he transcended every one of them. He ate with sinners. He embraced the outcasts, people that nobody else would touch in this world. He forgave the condemned. The last thing he did on the cross was forgive a criminal. He visited ...

1023. Lighten Up

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... be the President of the United States. You don't have to be a Senator, to make a difference in people's lives. You can touch the lives of people all around you every day." This little light of mine, I'm goin' a make it shine. There is something else ... of those in healing professions, and those in education. There are hundreds and hundreds of you in this congregation, and daily you touch the lives of other people. Daily you bring light into the lives of people who are overwhelmed with darkness. We want to ...

1024. When Fisherman do Strange Things

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... and they start living in the new age. "The time is fulfilled." That means, the time of waiting is over. You don't have to wait any longer. "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand." What does "at hand" mean? Imminent? Close enough to touch? There for the taking? "Repent, and believe this good news." If the fishermen's strange behavior is a model of anything, it is a model of repentance. It is what the Bible says repentance ought to look like. It means this, stop living the way you are, and ...

1025. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... a neighbor, as someone for whom he himself was responsible, and that made all the difference. How can that happen in today’s world? How can we replace hatred and bigotry with forgiveness and love? IT MUST BEGIN WITH THE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS. If we who have been touched by the hand of Jesus Christ cannot practice forgiveness and love, then there is not much hope for the rest of the world. This is true on a personal level, and it is true on a corporate level. Are you able to practice forgiveness and love in ...

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