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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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1051. Listen!

Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a)

Sermon

King Duncan

... to four years of hard labor in a prison camp. This experience, which was meant to traumatize Dostoevsky, had an awakening effect instead. He became more grateful, more attentive, more alive and joyful than before. He claims that this near-death experience awakened his sensitivities to the world around him in a way that transformed his writing. (3) Have you ever had an awakening experience? When was a time when God broke through your everyday life and became real to you? Was it a conversation with a friend ...

1052. I Saw the Light

Luke 9:28-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... or what we call Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Light treatments can improve autoimmune disorders, such as psoriasis and acne. Blue light can even kill antibiotic resistant Staph infections, heal wounds, and stimulate cell repair. We use laser light to operate on sensitive areas of the eyes and even the brain.[2] Light is the power behind photosynthesis. It produces Vitamin D and endorphins in humans and animals. It even reduces pain and reduces the effects of cancer on the very cellular level. There ...

1053. Not As the World Gives

John 14:23-29 · John 5:1-9

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... of empathy and compassion. It is possible, and again, it is our call to open our hearts and our minds to include the experience of others into our consciousness. The peace of God in Christ Jesus is this peace. It is quietude, a humility, an openness, a sensitivity which lets the old self die and raises up a new self, rooted and nourished in God’s love. This peace removes our cultural obsession with me - me - me - me and faces it outward in active, self-giving love. “My peace I leave with you, not as ...

1054. The Thing About Evil

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... every tale or myth. Some of these underlying “truths” helped us overcome superstitions of folks we thought were evil. For example, the myth of the vampire may have come from the knowledge of a strange blood disorder called porphyria, which causes sensitivity to sunlight, receding gums, dark red urine, and destruction of facial tissues. The disease has also been known to cause madness.[1] Tales of witches began typically as a persecution against early women healers, who used herbs and tinctures to salve ...

1055. You Don't Have to Yell

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... 20-year business anniversary. They had a group yodel. And not just any group yodel. They gathered 3,432 employees at their California headquarters and had everyone participate in a 1-minute yodel. I don’t know about you, but for people who have hearing sensitivities, that would be the longest one minute of their lives. The Yahoo folks didn’t just do this for fun. They were trying to set a world record. They succeeded. In 2015, they were awarded the Guinness World Record for “Largest Group Yodel.” As ...

1056. A Pep Talk for the Kingdom

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... what came before it. In fact, it’s easy to take this story out of context. It reminds me of a story I read about a father who took his young son, Will, to see a re-enactment of a Civil War battle. He didn’t realize that Will was sensitive to loud noises, and the booming cannons and rifles terrified him. During a break in the action, Will’s dad calmed him down and assured him that the weapons were all fake. And it looked like everything would be okay. Until one of the generals raised his sword and ...

1057. Out of the Darkness

Isaiah 9:2-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... nation today, yet compared to that terrible time when an unparalleled amount of blood was being shed in our beloved land, that division is hardly worth contemplating. And yet, during that terrible time, the Spirit of God was leading men and women of sensitive spirits to write music that will forever warm hearts wherever Christian believers gather together to celebrate the Lord’s birth. There is a message here—a message of profound hope. Listen to the word for this day from Isaiah: “The people walking ...

1058. Dealing With Difficult People

1 Corinthians 1:10-18

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... Praying for a difficult people also helps us humanize them. For the truth is “hurt people hurt people.” When we, through prayer, are able to recognize that, oftentimes, people are difficult because they are hurting inside, it helps us gain understanding and sensitivity. Respond respectfully. Now I want to give you a few guaranteed responses to difficult people that will disarm them in a respectful way. Not possible? It certainly is. Next time you are faced with a difficult person who speaks in a hurtful ...

1059. How Does Prayer Work?

1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16)

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... looking for.” God still wants us to bring him our needs, our desires, and our questions and doubts. But God wants more than that. God wants us! God wants a relationship with us. When I make prayer a habit, something happens on the inside of me. I become more sensitive to God’s love in my life; and my motives and desires begin to change. For me, prayer allows the power and wisdom of God to break in -- and I begin to be transformed by God’s love. If you want to experience to power of prayer, I have a ...

1060. Listening for $5

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... a day. The pain of loneliness was so sharp that some were willing to try anything for a half-hour of companionship. The truth is that every one of us encounters some person, probably daily, who would be willing to pay someone to listen. The tragedy is, we are not sensitive enough to identify them, or caring enough to respond. Will you start looking for those persons? Will you listen to them?

1061. Love Is Awareness

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... educated and the uneducated. The most helpful definition he received came from a workman in a furniture factory. “Love is awareness,” the man said. That became a key for exciting living for my friend and has turned him into one of the most sensitive, alive people I know. That’s not everything love is, but it is that -- awareness. A recent study indicated that some of the loneliest persons are married couples. They have nice homes, good jobs, money, family, everything, but they are out of touch with ...

1062. Fine Tuning

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... requires careful listening, an eye on the conductor, and an ear attuned to every other member of the choir. Each person tries his or her best to stay in tune with the group, to make his or her voice blend, to harmonize well, and to be sensitive to the expressions of the music. Making music together is a joint, communal effort that requires frequent “fine tuning” –with each other, with the conductor, and in a faith setting, with God. For every song sung by a choir is a slice of communal worship, praise ...

1063. Come and See

John 1:43-51

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the Body of Christ.” For all the church’s faults, this is still the place for people to come to find the friendship of Jesus. Once I heard of a Sunday school teacher who had a little lad in her class who had no right hand. She was exceedingly sensitive about any activities that she would schedule for the youngsters so as not to make this one uncomfortable. After a few months of having him in the class, she began to notice his handicap less and less and take him simply as part of the group. One day in ...

1064. The Lord Is With Us

Luke 1:26-38, 2 Samuel 7:1-17, Romans 16:1-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... have you noticed how often this or that detail of Near Eastern folklore or geography keeps intruding upon the otherwise universal quality of the Bible's message? Here you go, reading along in the Old Testament, moved by some passage of unusual sensitivity and beauty, impressed by its universal relevance for people of any age or place, when without warning you are set upon the heights of Mount Ararat, surrounded by those improbable people, the Hermonites, or else locked in a none too edifying conversation ...

1065. The Propriety of Praise

Psalm 84:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... enjoy the company of your friends when so many are lonely? How can you praise God for your food when people go hungry all over the world? The Christian thing to do is to sigh deeply, wring your hands, and wait. The Christian thing to do, the sensitive thing is to be miserable. “Why do your disciples eat and drink?” they asked Jesus. “The disciples of John the Baptist fast and say prayers.” We can tell that they are religious: they look so miserable! What do you mean partying at a time like this? You ...

1066. Jerusalem’s Humiliation

Lamentations 4:1-22

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... . 6:1–21). Perhaps the term suggests “the elite,” who are described as the picture of health but because of famine have become scrawny and unrecognizable. Sudden death seems preferable to slow death by famine. The reference to cannibalism, practiced by the sensitive women, may be a way of saying that the covenant curses have been implemented (Deut. 28:53). Still, famine drives people to bizarre actions, and the description may well be literal (2 Kings 6:25–29). 4:11–20 · Jerusalem’s dire plight ...

1067. Do You Believe in Miracles?

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of planning, can we begin planting. Like all gardeners and farmers know, cultivating a field is an organic process. When you plan it too much on your own terms, you kill it. You need to water certain crops in certain amounts and ways. You need to be sensitive to planting some plants in the sunlight and others in the shade. You need to allow them to grow and flourish without trying to harvest them too early. Everything in God’s time. Some plants may wither; others may grow like weeds, depending on the soil ...

1068. The Mother of All Yard Sales

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... -mindedness, I allowed them to examine my things and hold forth on what of mine would be saved and what would go into the sale. Some of you have met my wife and children. Let me warn you that even though they seem to be nice, polite, sensitive people, that appearance is nothing more than an elaborate and clever façade. Never have I seen such vicious and spiteful behavior. I witnessed a whole new side of my family that I had never seen before ― a grossly insensitive and (dare I say) mean side. Yes, when ...

1069. Eyes Like a Hawk

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... those we claim to care about. Your eyes will reveal the way you see the world, more accurately, the way you see yourself in respect to others. We humans are competitive creatures. Creating disciples who pay attention to the feelings of others, who cultivate sensitivity and empathy, and who elevate others higher than themselves is not an easy task. If it were, we wouldn’t need Jesus. Jesus spends a good deal of time, particularly through his parables, teaching others how to put themselves last, take on a ...

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