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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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1226. Hope from a Stump

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit . . .” He was describing hundreds of years in advance the coming of Jesus. A Messiah will come and righteousness shall rein triumphant. That wonderful writer Arthur Gordon in his book A Touch of Wonder tells about a man he met who had been a skydiver until, on his nineteenth jump, his parachute failed to open fully and his emergency chute wrapped itself around the partially collapsed main chute. He slammed into a dry lake bed at sixty ...

1227. Looking Down on God

John 13:1-17

Sermon

David O. Bales

... we squirm away. When we talk about such lofty things as Jesus’ loving us, that’s fine; but, here he is shuffling over to us on his knees, not many clothes on either, and he’s reaching to our feet with his hands. Has your teacher touched your feet lately? Anybody touch your feet lately? People hear the story of Jesus washing feet and leap to the conclusion that it’s tough being a foot-washer. It certainly is. But, when the story drops out of the clouds and into this room, it includes us; we realize ...

1228. Keep Watching, Keep Warning, Keep Chasing

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ” in the twenty first century as well. We can see where Jesus is being born and the kingdom is coming at the push of a button. We know about those places where the “peace” that is being offered is a false “peace,” a brokered brokenness, at the mere touch of a “share” button. We can be there. We can “share” the good news “Christ is born.” We can be a voice against the storm of sin and evil, for as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow put it in a verse buried in the bowels of “I Heard the Bells ...

1229. Soiled Faith and Watered-Down Churches

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is what happens when a Christian is nourished by the Holy Spirit of Christ through the gospel. This is the mystery of Christ’s power in our lives still today. This green power of germination (Christ DNA) belongs to God alone. And the power of God touching our hearts sets off actual chemical, emotional, spiritual, and physical changes within us, as we begin to grow in Christ and as Christ grows in us. The moment the Holy Spirit of Christ infiltrates the core of our hearts, the hardened shell of our doubts ...

1230. Let It Go

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Let It Go” is sung at the moment in the movie that the eldest daughter of the King and Queen, Elsa, flees her kingdom for the mountains to isolate herself and let go of the rigid expectations of not revealing her “gift.” Elsa's “gift” is that everything she touches turns to ice. Her parents taught her that her gift was a menace to others, and so she had to hide it her whole life and suppress her true self. She had an image of herself that she would be harmful to anyone. As a result she wrapped her ...

1231. Mud Makeovers

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the paint. Spit is restoration. Godspit is divine restoration and purification. That’s why in the Greek Orthodox Church, when you bless someone you spit on them. And after baptism, to “open the child to God,” the priest spits on his left hand and touches the child’s ears. God promised his chosen people that one day he would send them a Servant, the Messiah, their Deliverer. How would they know when the Servant had arrived? According to prophecy, he would “open blind eyes” (Isaiah 42:1, 7). We ...

1232. First Thing

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

James Merritt

... a far longer voyage. What I urge is that you learn to master your life by living each day in a day tight compartment and this will certainly ensure your safety throughout your entire journey of life. Touch a button and hear at every level of your life the iron door shutting out the past – the dead yesterdays. Touch another and shut off with a metal curtain the future – the unborn tomorrows. Then you will be safe for today. Do not think of the amount you have to accomplish, the difficulties you have to ...

1233. Up Close & Personal: Seeing Clearly

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... next. When we get honest in our relationship to God he gets merciful in His relationship to us. “Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth and said: ‘Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.’” (Isaiah 6:6-7, ESV) What you see here is a perfect illustration of that truth, “God loves a sinner, but hates the sin.” What Isaiah hates in himself God hates even ...

1234. God Will Provide the Resources

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... baskets worth left over! This is the same explanation of this miracle advanced by renowned Bible scholar William Barclay. Barclay says, “The miracle was not the multiplication of the loaves and fishes; it was the transformation of selfish people into generous people at the touch of Christ . . . It was a miracle of the birth of love in grudging hearts, it was the miracle of changed men and women with something of Christ in them to banish the selfishness in their hearts.” Of course, we don’t really know ...

1235. Do You Believe In Miracles?

Matthew 15:29-39

Sermon

James Merritt

... prove whether that happened or not. Jesus performs a miracle. He says, “Take up your bed and walk.” For the first time in his life, a paralyzed man walked home. That miracle was not primarily to heal a man’s legs, but it was primarily to touch people’s hearts with the truth that Jesus was God and what He said was true. That leads to the second purpose of miracles, which is revelation. One of the greatest miracles Jesus performed was exorcism, which is casting demons out of people. On one occasion ...

1236. Five Mission Killers

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... instagrams and other forms of electronic information sharing. Obviously this "average number" doesn’t begin to record the number of "outside communications" received by 1535 year olds. The numbers for that age group is much higher. It is good to "be in touch." But this "in touch-ness" is a huge "time tax." If our federal taxes keep us "working for the government" until April 17, how long are we working, how much of our personal time, our personal power, energy and mission, are we giving up to the "time ...

1237. The Landlord's Dilemma - World Communion Sunday

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... way. I love something Calvin Miller once said, “Jesus didn’t leave the world a get-well card; he got sick with it. He didn’t exempt himself from the pain he would later have to heal.” (3) There are people all over this world who have been touched by Jesus’ example. Some of them are young people. Some are older. Some of them are in lands far away. Some are right here in our own neighborhood. People caring for people. Some are never in a situation where an act of heroism is called for. Some show ...

1238. A Lesson from Jay Leno's Mom

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... too many people attend worship services as if they were attending a play. They see the ministers, musicians, and choirs as the actors and themselves as the audience. Looking at it in this way, they feel they can critique the service as to how it touched them or didn’t touch them. They feel they have a right to say: “I just didn’t get anything out of worship this morning . . . I didn’t like the hymns, the choir didn’t sound as good as they sometimes do. There were too many mistakes . . . the sermon ...

1239. An Announcement in Song

Psalm 98:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... to sing, and those who could, came to the parade field and sat there in a great circle. Gordon said, “God touched us that day.” Gordon said it was the most sacred event that he had ever been involved with. No preaching, just men united by their common ... misery, singing of God being with them. Gordon said, “We were touched by God.” (6) All they did was sing. Music can do that, can’t it? It can remind us that God is with us ...

1240. Last Impressions

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , and English chef in charge of the Murano restaurant in New York insisted that her assistants would be “family — we would do it all together” (p.102). Paul Kahan wanted his last meal on earth to be a big old pig roast, but the final touch would be “Swiss chocolate, because my wife, Mary likes it” (p.104). His final dessert was for his loved one, not himself. When Jesus was asked “what is the greatest commandment?” he issued the answer that was the impetus behind the messianic presence and ...

1241. Humvee Holiness and Humble Holiness

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... taking away with them “relics” which made every day a pilgrimage. This week, I challenge you to take a pilgrimage. We have our own “All Saints.” The “All Saints” are the “All Stars” of this church. This week I invite you to enter their presence, touch them, and give thanks to God for them by praying over them a prayer of gratitude and thanksgiving. We don’t “beatify saints.” Pope John Paul II beatified 592 men and women between 1979 and 1994. But we can beautify them with our prayers ...

1242. Skull Hill

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... me.” In the eyes of the world, these kidnapped Christians were defeated by ISIS. But their moment of greatest defeat was their moment of glorification. Let us pray for all Christians in this part of the world, and may our faith continue to submit to the Master’s Touch, and the Potter’s Wheel. May the beauty of your vessel be such that we can say with Aaron, May the Lord bless you and keep you, May the Lord lift his face upon you and be gracious unto you, May God’s face radiate with joy because of ...

1243. The Failure

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

James Merritt

... drawn to like a magnet. The people we overlook are the people He looked over. The people we wouldn’t get the time of day to He gave almost every day of His time to. We are beginning a series that may touch your heart more than any other series you’ve ever heard or will hear. It will touch a lot of raw nerves. It will bring up a lot of bad memories. It will trigger some painful recollections. Yet, the way Jesus dealt with the outcasts of society will both encourage us, who have been there, and enable us ...

1244. The Desperate

John 9:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... on the outside looking in are the very people that Jesus went outside looking for. The people we either tend to ignore or avoid or reject are the very people that Jesus looked for and gravitated towards. One of the reasons why this series is going to hit home and touch hearts so often each week is because so many of us will find ourselves in the story that we are going to study. One of those amazing stories is found in the Gospel of John. [Turn to John 9.] We are going to study a man who was not only ...

1245. It's Not Rocket Science

John 8:31-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... , God has said to be “omniscientia.” That is, He has “all knowledge.” Simply put, the God of the Bible is the God of science. The God of the Bible is the God of nature. If therefore, the Bible is God’s word then when it does touch on a scientific matter it must be scientifically correct. Incidentally, keep in mind that the sacred truths of the Bible never change, but scientific truths often do. How many scientific truths did we live by just 100 years ago that we no longer believe today? Scientists ...

1246. It Was a Dark and Stormy Evening! Father's Day

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’t hear each other over the tumultuous thunder. Suddenly they broke through the curtain of falling water into a place of peace. Behind them the water rolled from above and the sides. Ahead the falls were so close they sensed they could reach out for a touch. And yet, there was a sense of peace which Nivens decided must be like being in the eye of a hurricane. Looking up, beautifully arched over their heads, was a rainbow. The wonder of it all filled his eyes with tears. He held his breath and listened ...

1247. Poem: Adonais

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... corpses in a charnel; fear and grief Convulse us and consume us day by day, And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. XL. He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world’s slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain; Nor, when the spirit’s self has ceased to burn, With sparkless ashes load an ...

1248. Shall We Take the Escalator?

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... should plant different types, for variety.” “Reflectors need to be placed on the trees every 50 feet so people could hike at night with flashlights.” “You should have a petting zoo here so that the children could touch the squirrels, deer and bears.” I don’t know about children touching the bears. Anyway, here’s my favorite: “Escalators would help on steep uphill areas of the hiking trails.” (1) I can just see escalators all over our national parks. Still, I’m glad we have places like ...

1249. How God Looks at Marriage

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... article for the New York Daily News titled, “Marriage for the Long Haul.” Here is what she had to say: “In the neighborhood where I grew up, there was a white-haired couple who often went off for a stroll around supper time. I’m still touched by how comfortable they looked together, walking hand in hand down the road past the trees and houses where their children had once played. “It’s the longing for that--not for fairy tale bliss or the romance or a royal wedding--that propels couples to the ...

1250. A Man with No Name

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus care when my heart is pained too deeply for mirth or song, As the burdens press, and the cares distress and the way grows weary and long?” Then the chorus of the song shouts an answer: “Oh yes, He cares, I know He cares, His heart is touched with my grief; When the days are weary, the long nights dreary, I know my Savior cares.” (2) Jesus cared for Bartimaeus and that made all the difference in the world. We see the power of determination. We see the power of Jesus’ love. Finally, we see the ...

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