Sermon and Worship Resources

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

Showing 101 to 125 of 1153 results

101. He's Back

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . It is the announcement that they are free now, they can go home. That's why it begins with these beautiful words, "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people." I can hear the tenor singing that, the opening words of Handel's Messiah, "Comfort ye my people. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem." He does not sing it loudly. He sings it softly. "Tell her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins." The prophets saw that the Exile in Babylon was ...

102. Be Kind

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James McCormick

... which is the text of this sermon. Of course, all the memory verses were in King James English – it was the only Bible we had way back then! But it is just as fresh in my memory today as it was back then: “Be ye kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another.” I’m glad that someone loved me enough to teach me that verse, because basic kindness is as important as anything else I know. Probably we don’t emphasize it enough. In our fast paced world, we talk a great deal about getting a ...

103. The Lost and Found Son

Luke 15:11-24

Sermon

James W. Moore

... of that is here and more… most importantly though we have here the picture of how Jesus saw God, the picture of how Jesus understood God to be. If Jesus had been a painter and if He had painted a picture of God He would have painted Him boldly and tenderly as a loving father! Hold that in your mind for a moment… we are going to come back to that, but first remember the parable with me. One day, Jesus told the story about a man who had two sons. The younger son got restless and came to his father ...

104. A Mother's Love

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

James W. Moore

... 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 mother to me. And, ... life, I changed. I was kind to my parents. I cleaned up my room. I helped with the house-work. I spoke with tenderness and respect to my parents. I was loving toward everyone. My parents noticed and they said to me: ‘Annie, you are different! Why? ...

105. There's Nothing in the World I Wouldn't Do for Him

Mark 14:22-25

Sermon

James W. Moore

... … two older men were coming down the aisle together… - one of them was walking shakily with a cane, the other man was tenderly helping to steady his friend. They came and slipped into the seats beside me, the man with the cane (with some difficulty and ... O.K.,” I said to him. “I just wish I could have been more helpful. And I have to tell you, I was touched by the tender way you helped him. Are you brothers?” “Well,” he said with a smile. “We are not blood brothers, but he is like a brother to ...

106. If I Only Had One Wish

2 Chronicles 1:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... whose dictionary the word "impossible" does not exist. Understand this was more than just a privilege for Solomon, it was a test. At the tender age of twenty, young King Solomon was about to find out who he was in the deepest core of his soul. An anonymous ... father, and give attention to know understanding; For I give you good doctrine: Do not forsake my law. When I was my father's son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother, He also taught me, and said to me: Let your heart retain my words; keep ...

107. The Fellowship of Joy

Philippians 1:3-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... Love For The Church Paul didn't love this church with an ordinary love, but with "the affection of Jesus Christ." The word affection is the Greek word for bowels. In Paul's day, the Greeks thought that the intestines, the liver, and even the lungs, held the most tender part of human emotions. What Paul was saying was "my love goes to the deepest part of my heart." Paul had a love that only a pastor can have for a church. It was a shepherd's love. The word pastor means shepherd. Nobody loves the sheep like ...

108. A Bridge over Troubled Waters

Psalm 23:2

Sermon

James Merritt

... and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart.” (15:16) Then the psalmist said, “How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth.” (Ps. 119:103) Now the reason why the text speaks of tender grass and green pastures is because there is some grass that is inferior to other grass. There is some grass that will make the sheep sick. There is other grass that is called “goat grass” that will give the sheep indigestion. But a good shepherd leads his sheep ...

109. When What’s Holding You Up Lets You Down

2 Samuel 18:33-19:8

Sermon

Shirley Gupton Lynn

... back in horror to see the huge Harbor boy overtake his fallen brother and sweep him up with hairy arms. Robert held his breath. To his amazement, the big Harbor boy laid down the gun, tenderly held the sobbing child, and began to pull the cinders out of his knees. God's mercy is like that. God surprises us with tenderness, loving-kindness. So, when what's holding us up lets us down, like David, we can accept our suffering, examine our options, choose our action. We can run the race of life whatever our lot ...

110. Hosea 11:1-11

Hosea 11:1-11

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... of a parent "How can I give you up, Ephraim?" While God did not shrink from destroying the sinful Sodom and her sister cities Admah and Zeboiim, the thought of passing such an unmerciful final judgment on Ephraim causes God's parental heart to "recoil." The tenderness of a parent's love overcomes the dicta of the divine judge on disobedience, and God declares that Israel will yet receive a second chance. Exile and punishment will be only part of Israel's lot. Mercy and restoration will also be received from ...

111. Advent 2

Mark 1:1-8, 2 Peter 3:1-18, Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... now as promise. The people are not to look at themselves or their condition, but to Yahweh who is all-powerful but yet so very tender and gentle that he is like a good shepherd who gathers his lambs and carries them home in his arms. Epistle: 2 Peter 3:8-15a ... lift their heads and look at God. Look at the God who has a mighty arm to deliver. Look at the God who can still be as tender and gentle as a shepherd with a lost and injured sheep. There is hope and comfort in a look at God! Epistle: 2 Peter 3:8-14 ...

112. Proper 19

Exodus 14:19-31, Exodus 15:1-21, Matthew 18:21-35, Romans 14:1-12

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... has been natural disaster and rebuilding what has been laid waste by war or other human violence. Save us from the worship of firepower and destruction to respect for ministries of healing and rebuilding and improving living standards for all. In your tender mercy, O Christ, enfold the sick, the suffering, and the bereaved. May your joy be their strength. Let quietness and confidence in you, with whatever treatment human medicine can afford, heal their spirits as well as their bodies. Creator and preserver ...

113. Kill Them with Kindness

Proverbs 3:3, 19:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... with you three secrets on how to kill people with kindness. I. We Show Kindness In What We Do To Others I am always reading and studying about leadership. I desire to be the best leader that I possibly can and one of the things I have learned is – tenderness can motivate people to do things that toughness never can. The great leaders do not drive people with the crack of a whip. They lead people with the warmth of a kind word. Aesop told a fable one time in which the wind and the sun were arguing over ...

114. I Am the Ressurection and the Life

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... says he stayed on for two days in Puria, across Jordan from Bethany, and then he went. And by the time he got to Bethany, Lazarus was dead and had been buried for two days. Martha, the no nonsense, practical sister came out to meet Jesus. Mary, the fragile, emotional tender one, stayed in the house weeping. And when Martha got to Jesus she said, Lord, if you had been here, our brother Lazarus would not have died, and I know even now that whatever you ask of God, God will do it. Now that was a great faith on ...

115. The Shepherd Lord

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... first upon the ear of the moody king, whose furrowed brow made so great a contrast to the fresh and lovely face of the shepherd lad. It may have been in either time and place. There is a strength, a maturity, a depth, which are not compatible with tender youth, and seem rather to betoken the touch of the man who had learned good by knowing evil, and who, amid the many varied experiences of human life, has fully tested the shepherd graces of the Lord of whom he sings. So I believe these words were first ...

116. Two for the Price of One

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and wife, the mother and father of this little child, and they went to the room where the child was. Here we come to a very tender moment. The scripture says that He took the little girl by the hand and said to her, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” The rest ... healing to themselves and healing to others I need to close now, and I want to close with that image suggested in that tender moment in the little girl’s bedroom. Jesus took her by the hand. Add to that the fact that the woman in our story ...

117. Holy Waste

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... life — his wife, his father, his mother, his brothers and sisters, his children Then he started talking about me, and what I’d meant to him - and I cried as I read it - and it’s hard to keep back the tears now. They were very touching and tender and intimate and confessional words. I’m not being irreverent now - but I believe I know how Jesus felt when Mary poured all that perfume on Him. My friend anointed me with love - and thousands of dollars couldn’t buy that kind of gift. And the timing of ...

118. The Ad Vent Wheat

John 1:1-18

Drama

Frank Ramirez

... nigh. Be near me, Lord Jesus, I ask thee to stay Close by me forever, and love me, I pray. Bless all the dear children in thy tender care, And fit us for heaven to live with thee there. Courtney: This advertising thing isn’t so bad. The grown-ups are going to love ... : (sing) Silent night, holy night, all is calm, all is bright round yon virgin mother and child. Holy infant, so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace. Silent night, holy night, shepherds quake at the sight; glories ...

119. Harder With Time

Illustration

Philip Yancey

In an essay on prayer, C.S. Lewis suggested that God treats new Christians with a special kind of tenderness, much as a parent dotes on a newborn. He quotes an experienced Christian: "I have seen many striking answers to prayer and more ... granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle."

120. The Four Sacred Chords of Home

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... But what that “Son of Man” is offering is a way “home,” an invitation from God to return to God’s presence and dwell in God’s kingdom. It is an invitation not just to “come home for Christmas” but to “come home, come home . . . Softly and Tenderly Jesus is calling, calling all sinners come home.” COMMENTARY “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” It is the end of time? This week’s gospel text is taken from the chapter in Mark which is often referred to as “The ...

121. No ... On

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... middle-aged member of my congregation who one day was stunned to find out that he had ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease. For years he was tenderly cared for by his wife. I used to visit them almost weekly and watch how he was gradually wasting away. I was there on his last ... a stroke and was now hardly more than a vegetable. For months, Elizabeth visited Henry every afternoon in a nursing home to tenderly clean him, soothe him, and minister to him. One afternoon when I came, she was sobbing. She looked up at me with ...

122. A Bloody Cheer!

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

123. God as a Consuming Fire

Hebrews 12:18-29

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... and care for them, even after their disobedience. The prophets, for all of their thundering, teach God's love, also. Hosea could be almost as harsh as Amos, but he teaches about God's anguish over our sin. "My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my fierce anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and no mortal, the Holy One in your midst, and I will not come in wrath" (Hosea 11:8b-9). In Deuteronomy, right after the scary talk of God as a consuming ...

124. Parenting — Not For The Faint Of Heart

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

Chrysanne Timm

... house of Israel. The language of this oracle is the language of parenting. It is the language of delight in the tender moments of cradling and feeding little children, of helping them take their first steps. It is the language of deep ... over, O Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart recoils within me; my compassion grows warm and tender. I will not execute my fierce anger; I will not again destroy Ephraim; for I am God and no mortal, the Holy One in your midst, ...

125. Mary AND Martha, Heart AND Home

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... you out this morning: to play. Go Out and Play. Show others what it means to invite Jesus, not just into your home, but into your heart. “Come home, come home; You who are weary come home; earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, calling, O sinner, come home! (“Softly and Tenderly”) “Into my heart, Into my heart, Come into my heart, Lord Jesus. Come in today, come in to stay, Come into my heart, Lord Jesus.” _______________________ COMMENTARY Every good cook knows that timing is everything. It takes ...

Showing results