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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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1176. Rock Bottom

1 Peter 3:13-22

Sermon

David O. Bales

... trustworthy. If you've been baptized into Christ, Christ is with you in a special way. When you're holding onto life by only your fingernails, or when you seem imprisoned by forces you don't understand, or when so much of you feels dead you can hardly touch a spot that seems alive, Christ is there, too. You've been baptized. That's God's promise of faithfulness to you. Hold onto that. If Christ can make a proclamation to the spirits in prison, Christ can get to you wherever you are and whatever you're ...

1177. Boast in Our Suffering

Romans 5:1-8

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... Jesus goes out of his way to love the unlovable. He dines with sinners and tax collectors. He tells a story about a lost and profligate son who is still loved by his father, even though he has told his father to "drop dead." Jesus welcomes the outcast and touches the untouchable. But Jesus had to die for loving like that. He paid the ultimate price for daring to love like that. God raised him on the third day because God was so determined to never let his love for the ungodly be thwarted. No wonder Paul has ...

1178. Mentoring Matters

1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... minister among the Thessalonians. Although manual labor is frowned upon in much of Greek society, Paul models a healthy work ethic through his tent-making trade and is not a financial burden on this young church. Think about a special teacher or mentor who touched your life in a profound way. You are the person you are today because another was there to guide and support you in your earlier endeavors. Maybe it was a grandparent, Sunday school teacher, or even a colleague. Someone older, patient, and wise ...

1179. Here I Am

Hebrews 12:18-29

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... day, but it was God's voice I that heard. Paul was very cognizant of the Call God places on the people called Christian. And he reminds us of that in the passage for today. Hebrews 12:18-29 (NRSV) [18] You have not come to something that can be touched, a blazing fire, and darkness, and gloom, and a tempest, [19] and the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg that not another word be spoken to them. [20] (For they could not endure the order that was given, "If even an animal ...

1180. Tears, Perfume and Forgiveness

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the kids and made handmade stuff for our brothers. The only one who really appreciated what I made for him was my Dad. And I had made him homemade peanut brittle and put it in a painted tin that said something to the effect of: "Dad's Do Not Touch" We were really proud of the gifts we made because we had really thought about what to make and give. We tried to think of something special for each of them. Unfortunately everybody but Dad kind of received the gifts with a yawn. My brother even said something ...

1181. Sitting at the Big People Table

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, 1 Timothy 2:1-7

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... mustard Or bread Or salami! "I'll never eat mushrooms "Or green beans "Or squid! "And I NEVER will eat "At the table for kids!" "What's wrong?" asked my mom, She was pouring some drinks; "You haven't touched dinner… "Not one single thing!" She straightened the napkin Tucked under my chin, She gave me a hug As she pushed my chair in, She cut up my turkey bits Two sizes smaller, She held up my glass, "Have a sip of some water!" She dished up a spoon Of ...

1182. Blast From The Past

John 17:1-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... objected, but Dewitt insisted. Dewitt then called his defense over and said, "They're going to give the ball to number 45. Don't touch him! Open up a hole and let him score! Understand?" Jake had the run of his life, scoring the touchdown heard round the world, ... him to score." Like coach Dewitt, God has a high purpose for each of us. God doesn't want us to just get the ball and touch a knee to the ground. God wants each of us to score a touchdown. In praying for us at the Last Super, Jesus lifted us all ...

1183. Totally Poured Out

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... behind? The second question is, whose life will be better because you have been here? Millions of people have been touched by the life and the writings of St. Paul. Whose life is better because you have walked this planet? Your spouse? Your children? The people ... with whom you work? Have you made a conscious effort to touch the lives of others with the love of Jesus Christ? The British writer C. C. Montague once told a remarkable short story about ...

1184. He Moved Into the Ward With Us

Matthew 2:13-23

Illustration

Mark Berg

... incontinent persons, and loves them back into life. Often, the first words they speak are simply, "Thank you." This is what the Christ did for us at Christmas. He moved into the ward with us. He placed his bed among our beds. Those who were there, those who saw him, touched him and were in turn touched by him and restored to life. The first word they had to say was "thank you." Christmas is our time to say "Thank you."

1185. Feeling It in Your Heart

Luke 24:13-35

Illustration

Kenneth J. Hockenberry

... in town." Right there – that's what I'm talking about. In those words, in that moment, we know the truth of that word in our guts. George is the richest man in town – not in money – but because of his many friends, whose lives he has touched, and who have touched his. What we feel from that movie we also know in our lives. When we hear something that is true and right, we feel it deep down - there is a kind of bodily resonance that occurs. We even respond with the words, "that really moved me." Luke ...

1186. The Holy Grail

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-46

Illustration

J. Howard Olds

... hunger. Riding on, he saw a home, its opened door a promised welcome and in the door there was a beautiful woman, her eyes innocent and kind. Surely the love of a woman and the sweet shelter of home are my heart's desire, reasoned the knight; "But when I touched her, Lo! She too, fell into dust and nothing, and the house became no better than a broken shed." His soul still craving, he traveled on. He found a warrior clad in golden armor. But he also turned to dust. Then he came upon a city that sat upon a ...

1187. Skin Game

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Robert J. Elder

... was not so much of a disfiguring disease as it was a healing of an intolerable social situation: a religious law that protected the health of the community at the cost of overruling human compassion. Most certainly the significant part of Jesus' healing was his touch, the touch of a healthy person which no leper was allowed to feel. Seen this way, then, the end of the story makes more sense, when the Bible says, Jesus "sternly charged him ‘... go and show yourself to the priest' " (vv. 43-44). Jesus had ...

1188. The Little Golf Club

Sermon

John Smylie

... the yard care and I'm sure had he wanted to, he could have paid the gardener to do this work for him, but rather he got down on his hands and knees to dig out the weeds so that I would not experience the pain of their prickly touch. My hunch is that my grandfather experienced some pain in digging out the weeds. Looking back at the pain of bending over, possibly straining his back, experiencing the discomfort of those hot and humid days, I recognize in that gesture that he loved me. The little golf club that ...

1189. Soul Bread!

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... our heart. On the day that Jesus spoke about being "the bread of life," there were many people in the crowd who had never felt his touch. What I am saying is that coming to Jesus is a desire of our hearts. We think of him more often, we study his word to ... bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty" (NRSV). Christ wants to touch our lives in a way that will permanently and completely fill our deepest needs. The enjoyment of new life in him is the ...

1190. Nocturnal Christians?

1 John 1:1—2:2

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... ? That's because people always look better in candlelight. In the bright light you can see their zits and their warts and their scars and their wrinkles. It's all there. But in candlelight, it's more like looking at one of those glamour shots that the photographer has touched up. It's easy to hide imperfections in the dark. Maybe that's why it's so attractive to us. If we hide in the darkness, we don't have to see our imperfections. We can even pretend like they don't exist. We can delude ourselves into ...

1191. Time for the Offering

2 Corinthians 8:7-15

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... Smith notes: Thanks to the marvels of microphotography we can now see single nerve cells, and what catches the eye is their dendrites, waving in the air like the tendrils of sea anemones in the hope — so it appears — of touching the dendrites of another cell. When two dendrites do touch, they lock arms and, as a result, their cells stand a better chance of braving life's perils. It is religion in embryo, for religio in Latin means to "rebind," and bonding and rebinding are what religion is all about ...

1192. The Faithfulness of God

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... once when I was lonely," Mrs. Dowson said, "I fell. He meant nothing to me except that he was gentle and noticed my hair and touched my face. He was there Arthur, but God knows where you were, for days at a time. "I atoned and God has forgiven me because ... faithful to the end and without regard to the past. Her commitment to her husband was total and without reservation. This touching little story provides an excellent illustration of the message in today's first lesson on this fourth Sunday of Advent, ...

1193. God Never Gives Up on Us

1 Samuel 8:4-11 (12-15) 16-20, (11:14-15)

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... has parked on the line ever since. What a mess we humans keep making of things. Theologians call it sin and it touches us all. It's not just you with the stumbles and missteps you've made along the way. It's all of us. We keep making mistakes ... . Some were on purpose and some just happened. You know the difference. Insurance adjusters with a touch of grace often calm anxious drivers who call in from their wrecked cars, "It's going to be all right. That's why we ...

1194. Getting Through the Grief

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... if it's not possible," they said with a lump in their throats. "I'd be honored to say a few words," said the new pastor. So he spoke to a larger crowd than the sons ever expected. Despite his indiscretions and flaws, the former pastor had obviously touched a lot of people's lives. The healing that occurred that day for those sons was palpable. Why? Because God always makes something good out of the bad, no matter how bad it is. At Mickey Mantle's memorial service, sports broadcaster, Bob Costas, said, "In a ...

1195. Having a Good Name

Proverbs 1:20-33

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... , curing people by the power of God, teaching about God and man, and showing that the meaning of religion is love. He was rejected by his own people, tortured and nailed hands and feet to a cross, and died. He was buried in the grave, but the Hyenas did not touch him, and on the third day he rose from the Grave.1We believe in One High God, who out of love created the beautiful world. We believe that God made good his promise by sending his Son, Jesus Christ, a man in the flesh, a Jew by tribe, born poor ...

1196. An Answer Out of the Whirlwind

Job 38:1-7 (34-41)

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... , or great fear. You can use it in its Greek form, mega — as in megachurch; or in its Latin form, magna — as in magnify. It can refer to physical form, size, or height. Pull yourself up, stand tall, like the cedars of Lebanon! Be great! Oh, just to touch on greatness! To shake the hand of an all-star, to have an audience with the president (or the pope), to crash a Hollywood party and mingle with the stars, to wave like a fool in front of the television cameras for the Today show. Oh, for that fifteen ...

1197. Christ Is Alive

Illustration

Kurt E. DeHaan

... ; 13:33-37). The tomb was empty and the grave clothes vacant. if those who opposed Christ wished to silence His disciples, all they had to do was produce a body, but they could not (John 20:3-9). Many people saw the resurrected Christ. They looked on His face, touched Him, heard His voice, and saw Him eat (Matt. 28:16-20; Luke 24:13-39; John 20:11-29; John 21:1-9; Acts 1:6-11; 1 Cor. 15:3-8). The lives of the disciples were revolutionized. Though they fled and even denied Christ at the time ...

1198. The Forbidden Box

Gen 2-3; Rom 5:12-21

Illustration

Staff

... want you to struggle with that Adam mentality. I ask only one thing: Don't lift up the box on the dining room table. Enjoy everything else in the house, be what you want to be, do your own thing, but that box on the dining room table, do not touch." Sam said, "No problem. I can handle it." So Sam played tennis every day, went swimming, ate three meals a day. But after about five months, he saw that box. That bothered him. He wanted to know why, if he could have everything, that box was so important. He said ...

1199. I Am Baptized!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... belonged to God: “Christ’s Own Forever.” Baptism means we belong to Christ. It is said that whenever Martin Luther found himself ready to give up, whenever worry for his own life and the life of the Church he loved overwhelmed him, he would touch his forehead and say to himself: “Remember Martin, you have been baptized.” Baptism is a sacrament. Baptism is a sign that we belong to God. Baptism is also a statement of where our ultimate allegiance lies. The reason we present ourselves or our children ...

1200. Acting on Faith

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... teacher one-hundred-fifty years before trying to get up his courage to share his faith with a young shoe clerk in Holton’s shoe store had any idea that his actions would one day touch millions of lives through Dwight L. Moody, Frederick Meyer, Wilbur Chapman, Billy Sunday, Mordecai Hamm, Billy Graham, and anyone who has been touched by Graham’s ministry? You and I think too small. God has imagined greater things for your life and mine than we can ever envision if we will but trust Him. God’s timetable ...

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