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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. Changed Lives: Adam and Eve

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... , ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree ...

1052. Changed Lives: Judas

Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... the death camps of World War II. He was the one who first coined the phrase “final solution.” Malkin wore gloves when he arrested Eichmann because he could not bear to touch the man. He admits he had no second thoughts about the righteousness of his mission or about Eichmann’s death. He just didn’t want to touch such a despicable man. (7) If, after Christ’s resurrection, Judas had approached the risen Lord and asked forgiveness, Christ would not have reached out to him with gloved hands. He would ...

1053. When Tragedy Strikes

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

James W. Moore

... and wholesome way to his family, to his friends, and to his God. Daily, he lived the faith of loving God and loving other people. Jerry knew how to say "I love you" and "thank you." He knew how to encourage others, especially those who needed a gentle touch or a kind word or a tender hug. He saw the one who was being excluded… and he had the courage and the ability to reach out and gently bring that person into the circle. He was always thinking of others. Last Sunday evening when the medical examiner ...

1054. The Lost and Found Son

Luke 15:11-24

Sermon

James W. Moore

... , so much so that the young man couldn’t bear to look. The older man said: “I’ll watch for you. You put your head down and relax… close your eyes. I’ll watch for you.” As they came to the old home place, the older man looked and then touched the young man excitedly on the shoulder and said: “Look, son, look! You can go home! You can go home! There’s a white rag on every limb!” Isn’t that a great story? The truth is: that powerful story is simply a modern re-telling of the greatest short ...

1055. A Mother's Love

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

James W. Moore

... and entered the room. He walked over to the bedside of his dying mother. He leaned over and kissed her on the cheek. Then, touched by that tender moment of seeing her so weak and vulnerable and dying, he said to her: "Mom, you have been such a good ... he said out loud. "O God Please Help Me!" Then he noticed something. As he was kneeling there to pray, he felt his right knee touching something hard. He felt it. It was a railroad track. He realized that if he kept his hand on that track and followed it, ...

1056. What in the World Are We Doing?

Matthew 28:16-20

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James W. Moore

... was an All-American basketball player. After his great career, he took a group of athletes on a mission work trip to Korea. After their project was completed, they were saying good-bye to the Korean villagers. Deep friendships had been established. It was a touching moment. Then, in the name of the host village, a little Korean girl brought flowers to Ed Beck and the other athletes and struggling with her English, she said: “These flowers will fade and die but you will smell here forever!” Well, I hope ...

1057. The Gospel According to Winnie the Pooh

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... you go off and do it. It means just going along, listening to all things you can’t hear, and not bothering” (p.171). Are you “listening to all things you can’t hear?” Are you seeing things that can’t be seen? Are you touching faces, and people, that can’t be touched? Are you doing “nothing” yourself because you’re off and doing everything God is doing? Too much of our “sharing the faith” is a sharing of ourselves or a sharing of our church and not a sharing of Christ. We are too busy ...

1058. What More Can He Give?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

James McCormick

... story, the ultimate expression of God’s love for us. The Bible makes the magnificent claim that God Himself drew near to us in Jesus, the Christ. Previous attempts to reach us were not adequate. Something new, something bold, something that would get our attention, something that would touch us in our depths…something like that had to be done. So much does God love us, and so much does God want us to love Him in return, that He would go to almost any length to get through to us. You see, God is not the ...

1059. The Trinity - Sermon Starter

John 16:12-15; Matt 28:16-20

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Brett Blair

... in the United Methodist Church we honor the lectionary and the seasons of the church year. That insures a witness to the whole Gospel of Jesus Christ. How can one go through the season of Advent and not touch upon the doctrine of the incarnation. How can one go through Lent without touching upon the doctrine of the resurrection? Likewise, how can we embark upon the season of Pentecost, as we did last week, without mentioning the doctrine of the Trinity? Today is Trinity Sunday. This is a day that has been ...

1060. Jesus, Out of Doors

Matthew 6:25-34

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... or had seen another do it. "There was a shepherd who lost a sheep": there wasn't a person there but whose acquaintance included someone who had gone searching for such a poor, lost beast. But the marvel with Jesus is that he took such common elements and touched them with eternity. The people who heard him teach knew all about lilies, farming, and sheep, but now they saw those things as messengers of God's work in the world. G.K. Chesterton said it well: There was a man who dwelt in the east centuries ago ...

1061. A Call to Action

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Jesus gave them his directives, then challenged them to “Go and learn.” Even those to whom Jesus offered healing took some form of initiative. The hemorrhaging woman boldly reached out and touched Jesus, convinced by her faith that her action will bring her “health/salvation/wellness.” The little girl, already gone from this life, is touched by Jesus’ life-giving hand, but she then struggled to her own feet while gripping that hand. How then did the church become a kind of “Sunday Spa” for the ...

1062. Cook Food. Serve Love.

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , then rise again, of Apple operating systems and gizmos is based on a three-part philosophy: 1) Keep it simple; 2) Make it user friendly; 3) No jargon. The iphone with its intuitive and fun-to-play touch screen technology instantly made poking at buttons and directional arrows out-dated and obsolete. Compare the iphone touch screen with the stack of remote control units that are no doubt sitting around your TV stand. Or if you want a jargon-rich, as opposed to a jargon-free, experience, go into a Best Buy ...

1063. Foundations for the Future

1 Corinthians 3:9-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... crowd. They do it because of what is behind the curtain. I'm asking you to begin afresh and anew in your commitment to giving to God's work, to giving first to the budget of the church with your tithe, and then beyond that giving to missions, evangelism, benevolence, Touching Lives, and our annual Love Offering as a way to invest in people and God's work. I ask you to do it for this reason. So that when one day the curtain of your life is drawn, and you are on the other side of that curtain, you can ...

1064. What to Wear to the War

Ephesians 6:13-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... He simply took the sword of the Spirit and thrust Satan through. Our problem is, too many people keep their sword in the sheath and never pull it out. Just last week, in the Sunday edition of the Atlanta Journal, there was an article entitled "Losing Touch with Scripture." The sub-line said, "The Bible remains a bestseller, but many people know little about it." Then it told this story: Not long ago Jay Leno, on the Tonight Show, was moving through his audience asking people what they knew about the Bible ...

1065. The Near Edge of God

Jn 1:1-3, 14

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... tingler of the web ... if, indeed, it is impossible to know how any one thing works, but only that all things are connected ... doesn't it stand to reason that God (himself, herself, Godself) would want to be known in the most intimate, web-tingling, life-touching way possible? And isn't it possible that if the body (rather than the machine) is now the paradigm by which we understand the universe, doesn't it stand to reason that God would want to become a body ... so that through that relationship we might ...

1066. Making a Meaningful Difference

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

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Greg Nelson

... as athletic director in a small school? "What will Buck Williams like to do when basketball is over?" Here's what Buck said: "Whatever I do, in terms of a second career, I want it to be meaningful, I want to touch someone's life - whether it's through business or whatever. If I touch one person's life, then my own life will not be in vain. That's what's really important." Pretty impressive perspective on life, isn't it? See, Buck Williams is expressing the need all of us feel - the need for significance ...

1067. The Great Divide

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... extraordinary claim, really quite breathtaking. Some would say, absolutely incredible. The God who created the billions of stars and planets and moons and everything that exists and ever has existed throughout eternity has come to us, met us where we are, reached out and touched us and loved us. There is a controversial movie that received a standing ovation when it was shown at the Sundance film festival sometime back. It is titled Motorcycle Diaries. The film is based on a true story about two young men a ...

1068. Finishing Strong

Philippians 3:12-14

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... those groups to respond today to the challenge. You will find a pledge card in your brochure. Baskets are placed by the doors today so that if you want to fill out a card right now, you may deposit it in a basket as you leave. T-3 means “Touching Tomorrow Together.” If all of us take part, we will finish strongly. There is a role for everybody, even the child who commits just 10 cents per week. What a shame if anybody who loves Christ and his church were to miss this opportunity! Let me close with this ...

1069. Not Bad, Just Too Busy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... more crime. Instead of an unneeded gift, why not offer a missional gift in honor of some person or family? Our missions department has produced this very helpful brochure entitled “Light Up the World.” You can make a gift for as little as $10 that will touch people in China or the Middle East or Zambia or India or Binghampton. A notice will be sent to a particular person or family informing them that you have made a gift in their honor. Copies of this brochure are outside the worship area. You can do ...

1070. High Noon

Psalm 91:1-16

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... life, a multitude of demands and pressures to succeed, high expectations of our own and high expectations from those around us. And the temptation is to lose ourselves in our work - to be so caught up in the doing that we lose touch with being to be so lost in our busyness that we lose touch with our souls and ourselves Now I speak as a sometimes-recovering workaholic, on and off the wagon time and again, and I speak as the son of a workaholic. Thinking about my dad for Father's Day last week brought back ...

1071. On the Mountainside

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... "Disciples' Prayer." Jesus gave it to his disciples as a sample prayer, a model prayer. In fact, in Luke's gospel, the prayer is offered in response to the specific request, "Lord, teach us to pray." Across the centuries and around the world, this pattern prayer has touched the hearts and expressed the desires of the faithful in every place: OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME. This simple prayer calls us to look beyond ourselves, beyond the petty boundaries of our puny lives, and to get in ...

1072. A Matter Of The Heart

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... the world. But every once in a while, I know I need to allow the pain to break through so that I can stay in touch with the needs of others, the pain of the world: Like our youth, coming home from Ghana with a new sensitivity to joys and sorrows, the ... of our brothers and sisters in Africa. Like volunteers at Cass in Detroit or our summer interns at Baldwin Center in Pontiac, staying in touch with the needs of others. Like S.O.S. teams making a home for the homeless right here in our building, and all of ...

1073. Training for a Purpose

Titus 2:11-14

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Donald Charles Lacy

... produce questionable fruit. 2. A singleness of purpose leaves no doubts. The reason for our training is to make of us people "who are jealous for good deeds." Salvation has come in the person of Mary's son and is intended to be spread among the lives we touch. We are not lethargic people. We are zealous people! Our good deeds are given birth by a right relation with God the Father through his Son, Jesus the Christ. There is excitement and love in all of this that lays before the world, acts of kindness for ...

1074. Gift of Positive Thinking

2 Corinthians 1:18-22

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Donald Charles Lacy

... doubt we have entered into that most blessed of relationships. We become established, knowing whatever happens to us, shall be well with our souls. A fulfillment, foreign to the world, is present. Our attunement with the Holy Spirit assures us we are going to touch others in a meaningful way for Christ and his church. Hurtful and unnecessary negatives are drowned in the deepest waters of the oceans. Every day will be okay because God says so! It seems many — if not most — followers of Christ ease up to ...

1075. Looking to the Unseen

2 Corinthians 4:18

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... itself, there is evidence of the reality of the unseen. Indeed, some of our most cherished experiences are not readily visible. Watch a teenage girl spend hours preparing for her big date, or watch a young man groom himself meticulously for his beloved, or observe the touch of a married couple endeared to each other for fifty years, and we witness the power of the unseen. It was the experience of the power of unseen realities which led Paul to assert, "We look not to the things that are seen, but to the ...

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