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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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101. Healing And Forgiveness

Luke 5:17-26

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... as a proof that the man's sins were actually forgiven. One of the great correctives that Jesus brought to our faith tradition is the truth that people are not punished by God with illness. It is true that our sins can make us sick, as people often become emotionally upset when they act in selfish, greedy and harmful ways toward other people. But Jesus taught us that our God is a God who loves us, one who wants us to live healthy and happy lives. Our God is a God who forgives us for our trespasses. The Lord ...

102. Love - A Christian Imperative

John 15:1-17

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George Bass

... be no hope that human beings might become the loving children of God. Love would only be a beautiful word expressing, perhaps, an unattainable condition and relationship between people, as well as between people and their God. Love could only be a fleeting emotion rather than positive deeds and actions in daily living. Through his death and resurrection, Christ does really make us into new creatures, and that because we abide in his love. Love - at the tree and tomb - has released us from those enemies that ...

103. You CAN Take It With You

Luke 24:36-49

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... . We find in Jesus one who wants others to see and to touch his scars. He does this in a way that shows them the same possibility for healing. Indeed, Jesus comes as the Risen Christ to his disciples for the sole purpose of making those physical, emotional, and social scars the very sign of healing in their lives. Jesus explains to them the purpose of his scars: They are God’s means of making broken people whole and God’s means of making divided people one. He opens the disciples’ minds to understand ...

104. Faith As Healing Energy

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Robert G. Tuttle

... in some way been an expectation." We are the "Modern West." Where is our Faith? Where is our Assurance? Where is our Certainty? No wonder so many of us are sick! There is no realized certainty to unify our mental and physical functions. Emotionally we are disintegrating. No wonder our bodies are breaking down. We have been giving our "desires and whims priority over the truth," and nothing real sustains us. Smith continues, "Standard man is a man of faith; and negative secularity is a strange and sometimes ...

105. The Flow of Life

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

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Gregory J. Johanson

... most of the time most of us just do what we can. We are very human when you get right down to it. Our feelings and our emotions flow, and we’re not always in control of that flow, in spite of what our ideals tell us. We do not always need to be so ... with the flow of life and with all the things with which we struggle. He struggles as he feels the whole range of human emotion, from joy and fullness to grief, anger, and despair. He finds himself limited as he wants to do more for himself and for others. ...

106. In Praise of Feeling Guilty

Psalm 51:1-19

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Gregory J. Johanson

... did you know it is not listed in the dictionary as a feeling? It is defined as "a state or act of wrongdoing," - but not as an emotion! So we have to use the phrase "feeling guilty!" But all of us here have experienced it - we know it as a feeling. There are at least ... the world. 5) Therein we find the answer to our last question - of what earthly use is it? First, guilt is the emotion that shapes so much of our goodness and generosity. It informs us when we transgress codes of behavior we want to sustain ...

107. The Second Touch for the Out of Touch

1 Kings 19:1-18

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... . Now, notice three key factors that brought Elijah to this point. In seeing them you may be saved from a similar disaster. II. Elijah’s Dire Consequences “It is enough,” he said (1 Kings 19:4). The New International Version captures his emotion more realistically, “I’ve had enough!” Elijah had all he could take. Death seemed more attractive than life for him. Many systems are involved in being human. The Bible focuses principally on three: body, mind, and spirit. The Apostle Paul, for example ...

108. The Healing Of Simon's Mother-in-Law

Mark 1:29-34

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James W. Moore

... it bluntly: “Jim she can’t say ‘no’ to any man… and now, she has this horrible reputation. It’s all over town… We’re worried sick and we’re scared. We’re at the end of our rope. We don’t know what to do with her. She’s emotionally ill. She needs help.” Well, I met with Betty and they were right about her self-esteem. It was non-existent. She walked all slumped over. Her hair was dirty and scraggly, her clothes unkempt and out of style. She wore no make-up. She could not look me in ...

109. True Excellence

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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King Duncan

... corner of the earth who at this very hour has gone in love to be with another person in need." That's the first thing St. Paul says to us. The only excellence is excellence in love. THE SECOND THING ST. PAUL SAYS IS THAT LOVE IS MORE THAN AN EMOTION. "Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude." Is that the kind of love you have for your spouse? A woman left a shelter for battered women to return home to her husband who had mistreated her for years. "Deep down ...

110. Started Toward A Great Tomorrow

Philippians 3:12-4:1

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King Duncan

... time when his country needed great soldiers! Yet his past so discouraged him that he almost never became the leader that his country needed. Hiram was born to a father who was harsh and cold and would always see him as a failure. His mother was not a source of emotional comfort to him either; he never once saw her moved enough to shed a tear. Hiram was always small for his age. He grew up ashamed he was not the kind of leader his father expected him to be. At age 17, he was pushed by his father into the ...

111. Rise Above It

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

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King Duncan

... pain was so intense that he was on the verge of dropping out of the show. Instead, he managed to relieve the pain that fateful night by getting down on one knee halfway through the performance, and pouring out his sentimental ballads with a great show of emotion. He later worked the technique into his famous "My Mammy" number--long after the offending toe had healed. It became his trademark and helped make him a star. (5) As Tim Hansel says in his book, YOU GOTTA KEEP DANCIN', "We have two choices when we ...

112. The Bridge Builder

Luke 6:27-36

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King Duncan

... had been fueling one another's fears. (2) That's the danger in reacting--it leads to futile, sometimes destructive, actions. But responding to a situation requires thought. It requires weighing your options. It requires looking beyond ourselves and our temporary emotions. In short, responding requires Christ like character. Responding comes from a position of strength. We don't know what the disciples' reaction to Jesus' statement was, but we can pretty well guess. Human nature hasn't changed that much in 2 ...

113. How To Love

John 15:1-17

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King Duncan

... . How did Christ love us? He laid down his life. You and I would prefer to define love as a warm and fuzzy emotion. But you can't command an emotion. If I held a gun to your head and said, "Get happy!" the best you could do is fake it. And even then ... probably wouldn't be very convincing. But Jesus is commanding us to love one another as he loved us. He isn't talking about an emotion. No, the love Jesus is talking about is a decision. It is a decision to humble ourselves. It is a decision to give up our own ...

114. What Love Looks Like

John 13:31-38

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King Duncan

... up some of your self-centeredness for those you love, or you give up your own agenda, or your need for control? Do you give up your petty, me-first attitude? Do you give up some of your time, or money, or comfort level, or prejudices, or your talents and emotional resources for the sake of others? Do you even count the cost? Jesus didn't. He just said, "Not my will, but Yours be done." That's when we know that love is real: when we can say to God, "Everything I have and am is completely Yours. Use me ...

115. The Christ Of Healing

Mark 5:21-43

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King Duncan

... that we must start here, with the understanding that God's will is for us to enjoy good health. But there is a second truth that is becoming more obvious to men and women in medicine all the time. That truth is simply that there are mental, emotional, and spiritual elements to healing, as well as the physical element. There is an old story about a man who was deathly ill in a great hospital. The doctors told him that they could not diagnose his ailment, but thought that if they could diagnose it, they ...

116. If Your Eye Offends You

Mark 9:42-50

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King Duncan

... ? Sin is sin because it destroys people. It is that over-against-ness in God's wonderful creation that would take God's creation and destroy it by an inner decay. If you put yourself into the presence of sin long enough, you will destroy yourself physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. That is the hard truth of life. We can prove it in a very practical way. Those of you who jog or run or are physically active--that can almost be addictive, can't it? And suppose, because of bad weather or because ...

117. Receiving Christ

Matthew 10:1-42

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King Duncan

... .” (5) Receiving Jesus begins with the mind. Now many of you are thinking that next I will say receiving Jesus is a matter of the heart. I’m going to surprise you. Receiving Jesus is a matter of the heart, but faith that is primarily or exclusively emotion will never completely satisfy you. III. Receiving Jesus Is a Matter of Morals. So let me surprise you by saying that receiving Jesus is, first of all, a matter of the mind, but it is also a matter of morals. Receiving Jesus is about being committed to ...

118. Free At Last!

Matthew 11:25-30

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King Duncan

... will give you rest." Some of us are weary from work. Others of us are weary from worry. Much of our fatigue is mental and emotional. I am always amazed at the number of things some people find to worry about. An elderly woman at the nursing home received a ... to do with our work. People have always had to work. The reason we are weary is that we do not have the spiritual, mental and emotional resources to deal with this brave new world. We need to ask Christ to share our yoke. We need to ask Christ to set us ...

119. Thanksgiving - The Biblical Version

1 Chronicles 16:7-43

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Eric Ritz

... not only to practice thanksgiving at one holiday season of the year, but to live each day in praise and in worship to the Lord our God. We are to bless the Lord with everything that is in our inmost part and with all that we have: mind, emotion, will, memory, imagination, body, soul and spirit, everything that has breath. The Psalmist is reminded of all that God has done for him personally. How easily we forget what God has done for us. We murmur and complain because we do not remember what God has done for ...

120. Repentance: The No That Is A Yes

Luke 3:1-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed" (2: 34-35). How that lightning bolt must have shattered Mary emotionally and mentally: "And a sword will pierce through your own soul also." It struck again when Jesus was 12 years old. Mary and ... good, and repentance is an awareness of that. So, we begin there in order to say the no that become a yes. Repentance is not an emotion; it is a decision. II. Now, a second word. The call to repentance is a call to repent of our sins, but it's also a ...

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

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... no testing of persons to see if they would make good candidates for church planting. We did it intuitively, by the “seat of our pants” as we would say down in Perry County, Mississippi. I worked myself to the bone. I was worn out physically and emotionally. I kept asking myself a lot of questions – “What is the difference between this congregation and the Rotary Club? Is there a quality of life here that is not present wherever people meet together? Why is it that most of these people have the same ...

122. What Making a Difference Looks Like

Matthew 5:1-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... is a shelter. Blessing is a full embrace, happiness only a glance and a smile. The longing for happiness can only be satisfied by God’s blessing. I am a blessed man; there are many times when I am not happy. Happiness is one of those emotions that can never be had directly, only indirectly. Aim at it and you will miss it every time. Happiness, especially in its more highly concentrated forms of joy and bliss, even divine ecstasy, is always a byproduct. It comes as a gift of something else, something ...

123. When to Be Extravagant

John 12:1-8

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Mark Trotter

... last time they would have him with them. In a sense the meal at Bethany is another "Last Supper." It is not the Last Supper for the disciples, it was the Last Supper for the friends of Jesus. So during the meal, I am sure Mary, overcome with emotion, and deep gratitude and love for this dear man, just had to do something. It was unbearable, the tension, knowing all that she knew. Nobody was doing anything. Just idle table conversation. So she got up, got the most expensive thing that she owned, and did the ...

124. Love: The Happiness of a Godly Family

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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James Merritt

... it. You can do it with hugs and kisses. Studies show that touching can actually lower a person's blood pressure. Low blood pressure is an important part, as you know, of staying healthy. In a recent study at UCLA it was found that just to maintain emotional and physical health, men and women need eight to ten meaningful touches every day.9 Now I don't mean just a little pat. These researchers define meaningful touching as a stroke, a kiss, or a hug given by significant people in our lives (especially family ...

125. Minding Your Heart

Mark 6:30-44

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Leonard Sweet

... . Even more significantly, these two kinds of knowing are finally being meshed, letting people respond with their whole selves. After centuries of battle, "reason" and "emotion" are on the verge of acknowledging their intimate interdependence. Scholars are now somewhat shamefacedly talking about "the rationality of emotions," declaring that emotions often facilitate rather than obstruct reason. We might call this new recognition of an old fact "minding your heart" bringing the strength of intellect together ...

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