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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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1026. Christ The King

2 Samuel 23:1-7, Revelation 1:4-8, John 18:28-40

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John R. Brokhoff

... of ethics stated in Psalm 1. David agrees that the godly will prosper and the wicked will perish. It is as simple as that! There may be exceptions, but generally it is true. Indeed, Job protested against this view, for though he was a good man, he suffered and lost everything. Life consists of rewards and punishments. Violate God's laws, and we suffer the consequences. Harmonize with divine principles and we are blessed. Outline: It is a law of life – a. The wicked have a destiny of death ...

1027. Proper 4

2 Corinthians 4:1-18, 1 Samuel 3:1--4:1, Mark 2:23-3:6

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John R. Brokhoff

... not listen to a sermon or read a gospel, but looks at Jesus-people to learn the gospel. Paul claims that even in our afflictions we portray Christ. What kind of a Christ do we reveal is it a clear or a distorted view of Christ? PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Gospel: Mark 2:23-28 1. A radical view of Sunday (2:23-28). Need: In this passage Jesus shows himself as a radical in his treatment of the Sabbath. He comes to the defense of his disciples who were breaking the Sabbath law by plucking and eating grain. In our ...

1028. The Comforts of "Thy Rod and Thy Staff": Rulership or Relationship

John 10:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... need to “know” each other. It’s a good thing that there are real difference between the way people follow Christ in South America, South Carolina, and Southern Italy. It’s a good thing we have both the Protestant view of a faith that works and the Catholic view of works that faith. A truly Christian “flock” celebrate its locavore uniquenesses. At the same time we celebrate our “locavore uniqueness,” a truly Christian flock continually prays for unity and the “one flock.” Not a unity that ...

1029. Taking Offense & The Market Place

Mark 6:1-6

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Will Willimon

"By living in a society in which most daily choices are consumer choices, people have come to view their relationship to the church in similar ways....But once people come to view choosing a church in ways similar to choosing among competing brands and styles of basketball shoes, then enormous pressure is exerted among the church to conceive of itself in those terms as well" (p. 68). And this tendency toward consumerism may be the most detrimental contemporary temptation for the church. ...

1030. Public Pressure

Mark 6:14-29

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Brett Blair

... Christian friends." An elderly woman said, "My sister thinks she has all the answers about the faith and tries to convince me of her point of view. I feel pressured to become her brand of Christian, but I keep thinking if it means being like her, I don't want it at ... feel pressure." A young pastor at a clergy conference said, "I hardly know who I am any more. There are so many points of view in my congregation, I can't please them all. Everyone wants to capture me for his camp and get me to shape the church ...

1031. Proper 15

Psalm 80:1-19, Isaiah 5:1-7, Luke 12:49-56, Hebrews 11:29--12:2

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B. David Hostetter

... eternal; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. PRAYER OF CONFESSION Steadfast God, we admit that we are easily swayed by the company we are in and their opinions. We find it difficult to speak our deeper convictions in the face of those who disagree and deride our views. We would rather be in the company of those who agree with us and need to find the courage of our convictions. Forgive our fickleness in preferring to tell people what they want to hear. Hear our prayer for the sake of your bold and truthful ...

1032. Transfiguration

Exodus 24:1-18, Psalm 2 or 99, Matthew 17:1-13, 2 Peter 1:12-21

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B. David Hostetter

... places of human need. Reveal your glory to us in quiet places of meditation and in noisy places of daily life. Amen PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING Transcendent God, all too soon our experiences of your sublime presence fade when we leave the awesome view of what you have created, whether in macrocosm or microcosm. We remember such experiences with thanksgiving. We rejoice in the awesomeness of your presence as communicated by the grandeur of architecture or the sweep of great music and art. We are humbly grateful ...

1033. When the Bills Come Due

1 Timothy 6:6-10

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James Merritt

... at him and said, "Son, they are all my helicopters." You will never be able to manage your money properly until you understand it is not your money. It is all God's money. We have an upside down view of money. We figure the money is ours and God's money is just what we may give Him on Sunday. God's view is right side up. It is all His money. Psalm 24:1 says, "The earth is the LORD's and everything in it, the world and all who live in it." (Psalm 24:1, NIV) In Old Testament ...

1034. The Weakest Link

Luke 18:9-14

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James Merritt

... , or even as this tax collector." (v.11) This Pharisee had an "I" problem. Five times you read the little pronoun "I" in these two verses. He was stoned on the drug of self. He suffered from two problems: inflation and deflation. He had an inflated view of who he was, and a deflated view of who God was, and who others were. His pride had made him too big for his spiritual britches. C. S. Lewis once said: "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and of course as long as you are looking down ...

1035. One Step at a Time

Nehemiah 2:1-10

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James Merritt

... ; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode. And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Serpent Well and the Refuse Gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire." (Nehemiah 2: 12-13, NKJV) In my version it says that Nehemiah "viewed the walls." The Hebrew word there means to "closely examine." It was a medical term used by a surgeon to describe an intense examination of a wound. Nehemiah was finding facts. He was ...

1036. Experiencing God

Acts 2:1-21

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Stan Purdum

... " on the last morning of camp, where I would try to prepare the kids for re-entry into their homes and churches. I simply explained that they should not expect the emotional part of their experience to continue at the intense level, and that they should view their churches as working on long-haul faith and trust. I'm not sure how much that helped the kids emotionally, but the thinking was right. For most of us, if there is emotion involved in our religious experience at all — and there does not have ...

1037. Things Change

1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)

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Stan Purdum

... ." The difficulty is that the young person cannot see that whatever is troubling him or her at that moment is something that will pass. Fortunately, most young people don't go to that extreme, but the assumption that things don't really change is pretty pervasive. That view, however, does not easily let go, and many of us carry it into adulthood. Back when I was in seminary in the early 1970s, there were a couple of students in one of my courses who were smokers, and it was not uncommon for them to light ...

1038. Mourning Our Fallen Tormentors

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27

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Stan Purdum

... on my sorrowful youth, yet it haunts my every waking moment and makes me a terrible husband, father, and friend.4 Conroy goes on to say the abusive father in The Great Santini is a toned-down version of his real father. When Conroy published that book, his father viewed it as a betrayal of his life, but it also forced the older man to look at how he had been, and he actually made some efforts to change. Conroy says, "I believe my father used my novel as a blueprint to reinvent himself and make a liar out ...

1039. A Sense of Place

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

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Stan Purdum

... blood. Depend on interior journeys taken anywhere I'd rather live in Venice or Kyoto except for the languages, but O really I don't care where I live or have lived Wherever I am, young Sir, my wits about me, memory blazing, I'll cope & make do.4 That view is all fine and dandy, but it wasn't enough to keep Berryman, not long after writing those lines, from leaping to his death from a Minneapolis bridge into the Mississippi River. The truth is, if we try to live entirely cut off from place, then not only we ...

1040. Mrs. Proverbs

Proverbs 31:10-31

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Stan Purdum

... , mended socks, sprinkled the clothes, combed her daughter's locks and then opened the organ and began to play "When you come to the end of a perfect day." Yeah, well, I bet she didn't think it had been a perfect day. Of course, in taking this critical view of Proverbs 31, we are judging it by standards that weren't considered in the time in which these verses were written. To be fair, we should also look at the context of the whole book of Proverbs where the overall topic is wisdom, which in the scriptures ...

1041. No Intimidation

Luke 13:31-35

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Donald Charles Lacy

... leadership, we have found it. He is daring and will not be denied. Some of us would like to see ourselves cut from that fabric and, praise God, sometimes we see miracles happen. The grace of God is allowed to work and a powerful love becomes there for all to view. It was a time of poking serious fun at Herod Antipas. A pastor taught me long ago nothing succeeds quite like well-placed and intense humor. There is a real art to this strategy of ministry. One who is not skilled in this area and out of step with ...

1042. What Outsiders Can Teach Us

Luke 7:1-10

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David R. Cartwright

... us about ourselves. But I'm not sure trying to outguess them is the way to go about it. I took a sabbatical last year in England, and had several opportunities to encounter how some Brits view Americans. It had to do with 9/11. There was a quiet, but ever present, resentment among the English about how Americans seem to view the September 11 incident as an attack only on the United States. The English lost a lot of young people when the Twin Towers went down, as did many other nations. As they looked at it ...

1043. A Samaritan Took Care of Him

Luke 10:25-37

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David R. Cartwright

... church! But "a Samaritan" is just the one Jesus centers his story around to show us what we ought to do in these half dead, ambiguous situations that life continually confronts us with. What's simply amazing, when you look at it from the Samaritan's point of view, is that he would have been brought up to be just as prejudiced as the priest and Levite and the young lawyer. The Samaritan also would have been trained in the law. He also would have known how to use the same scriptures to justify his position ...

1044. You Fool!

Luke 12:13-21

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Ron Lavin

... man, "an Eskimo came along and rescued me." Greed and possessions can blind us to the coming of God. When we are focused on something other than God, God can present himself and not be seen. Have you seen any Eskimos lately? Is something obscuring your view? Possessions can be attractive distractions. A rich woman, let's call her Betty, lost her husband. She had been away from church for many years. She felt isolated and lonely in her grief. It seemed that God had forgotten her. She went to a grocery store ...

1045. Bystanders or Standbys

Genesis 2:4-25

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Leonard Sweet

... repetition — something is amiss. The creation narratives found in Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 should never be thought of as a scenario of “Genesis 1 vs. Genesis 2.” Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 do not offer some kind of contest to see whose world view wins. Instead, the biblical text is concerned to convey as much truth, to throw as much light as possible, into the relationship between God’s creativity and our creaturely experience of creation. To discern the divine in our midst takes more than one voice ...

1046. No Box Seats in the Kingdom

Mark 10:35-45

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William G. Carter

... -to-door salesman selling funeral plans. A lot of people said he's a failure. Joel Gregory said otherwise. "For the first time in my life, at 46, I was learning what it means to be a servant," he says. "It gave me a different view of Christ, and a different view of the real needs of human beings." A friend of his didn't give up on his calling. He set up Joel to preach at some black congregations. For some reason his preaching caught fire within African-American churches. Then he was back and professor of ...

1047. Wisdom's Delight

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

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Stan Purdum

... he would need to do the creating. That, however, sounds nonsensical. We are probably better to hear the claim of Proverbs 8 as a poetic way of saying that God imbued some measure of his divineness in the world he created. In Old Testament Hebrew thought, there was a view that God had built the world and life itself to run best in certain logical ways. The idea was that if you could figure out what those ways were and then do your best to cooperate with them, your life would be happy and you would have well ...

1048. Song Sung Blue

Lamentations 1:1-6

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Lee Ann Dunlap

... ? A few religious extremists claimed that the city was experiencing God's wrath in response to convocation of homosexuals the city had welcomed. Others pointed out that a number of church assemblies were scheduled to convene there as well. At least these views, right or wrong, included God. Atheists had to look elsewhere. How does a secular society, which separates religion from science, answer such a question? In recent years we have gone to battle over the constitutional validity of "one nation under God ...

1049. A Voice in the Wilderness

Luke 3:1-20

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King Duncan

... the Advent drama. John was assigned by God the task of alerting the people of Israel that the Messiah was on his way. Some listened and some did not. We think of John the Baptist as the voice of one crying in the wilderness. How appropriate such a view is for this second Sunday of Advent for without Christ the world is indeed a wilderness. Without Christ, the world is a prisoner of war camp and we are enslaved by the power of sin. Without Christ, this is a cold, dark meaningless world. In the second chapter ...

1050. Hebrews 9:24-28

Hebrews 9:11-28

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Leonard Sweet

... of uniqueness, and carved out a particular place in the past, the present, and the future for their lives. In the Epistle to the Hebrews the author offers up a new idea, a new reality, a new covenant, one that turns the old world view upside down. The new covenant described by this author is not just “another” deal struck between God and humankind. It is wholly different in scope and kind. It transforms the very essence of the relationship between the divine and the human, and creates the possibility ...

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