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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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1301. The Great Omission

Mark 1:14-20

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Charley Reeb

... a meeting about this very thing. We talked about gimmicks, models, and strategies. There is a place for all that but sometimes I wonder with Howard Olds whether we are trying so hard to be “with it” that we just “don’t get it.” We need to be in touch with the world, not in sync with the world. The church ought to be a little weird. We ought to be a little off-kilter. If people come because the values of the world have diminished them and they are looking for some-thing different, why would they be ...

1302. Prayer Changes Things

Mark 2:1-12

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Charley Reeb

... brought me back to God. I guess I could say... it brought my faith back into my heart. I can’t even tell you what the sermon was about, I can only tell you that you touched me once again... inspired me and uplifted me in a very dark place. After that I started to pray again and haven’t stopped since. I’ve kept in touch with Tamara since I received that email and she is now cancer free. She is happy, healthy, and prays every day. She says the source of her strength in good times and in bad is ...

1303. Pop Verses: John 3:16

John 3:16

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Charley Reeb

... it and experience the verse anew. I prayed that God would penetrate my heart with the message of John 3:16 so I could then share with all of you. God answered my prayer. I experienced the penetrating power of this verse again. When I did I got in touch again with something so simple yet so profound that it healed me of old hurts and wounds. It gave me peace again – peace with myself, peace with God and peace with others. It set me free from heavy things holding me back. I believe if you allow yourself to ...

1304. A Warning Against Hypocrisy

Matthew 23:1-39

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days” (Num. 19:16). Some think that the allusion is to the practice of whitewashing tombs to keep people from accidentally touching them on their way to Passover and thus becoming unable to take part in the festival because of ceremonial defilement. It is more likely that Jesus is comparing the condition of the Pharisees to tombs that are made attractive by ornamental plastering but inside are filled with all manner of ...

1305. Mary: The Handmaiden of the Lord

Luke 1:38-45

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Charley Reeb

... the great things God has done. In “The Magnificat” all Mary can do is talk about what God has done. Mary is worshipping God. This teaches us that there is only one way to know how and when to let God move in our life: stay in touch with God. Stay in touch with God daily through worship, prayer and scripture reading. If you are having a difficult time with knowing how to let God bless you, let me ask you, “When was the last time you truly worshipped God?” What are we doing in here but letting God’s ...

1306. Crowds Follow Jesus

Mark 3:7-12

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... come to see him, including many sick (3:10). The scene would have been one of frantic commotion, as viewers of newsfilms of religious excitement in Near East countries can easily imagine. Regarding him as a holy man with healing powers, the sick struggled to touch him, hoping that the mere touch of such a person might cure them. (Note the well-known story of the sick woman, 5:25–34.) The mention of a boat in 3:9 is the first of several references to a boat being used in Jesus’ ministry (see note). The ...

1307. Clean and Unclean

Mark 7:1-23

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... whether they were accidentally or deliberately omitted by some copyists (perhaps because washing beds seemed strange), or whether the words were added by some scribes who were familiar with Lev. 15, with its requirements about the ritual cleansing of the people and the clothes of people who touched a bed made unclean. 7:6 Hypocrites: This is the only occurrence of the word in Mark, though it appears several times in Matthew (e.g., 6:2, 5, 16; 23:13, 15, 25, 27, 29) and in Luke (6:42; 12:56; 13:15). The term ...

1308. The Kohathites

Numbers 4:1-20

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

... light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering and the anointing oil. The grain offering is apparently the offering regularly offered by the priests (see Lev. 6). 4:17–20 These verses expand the warning given in verse 15 that the Kohathites are not to touch the holy objects they are to carry. The concern is to preserve the Kohathites, but the broader concern is for the whole people and the danger that comes from holiness in the midst of the camp. The priests are charged to work carefully with the ...

1309. Saul Made King

1 Samuel 10:9-27

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... the concept of a natural aristocracy. The king is appointed from among the people and, whatever powers he might be assigned, he remains one of them. Gradually, through the choice of tribe, then clan, then family, the lot fell on Saul. Then, with a touch of humor the writers tell us that Saul had hidden himself among the baggage. Saul’s changed character had not yet increased his self-confidence. Saul’s experience of Samuel’s clairvoyant skills might have led him to realize that hiding was useless, but ...

1310. Jesus Heals Many

Matthew 8:14-17

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... the woman’s hand; immediately she was restored to health. This is the only incident in Matthew in which Jesus takes the initiative in healing. Elsewhere there is a request of some sort. To touch a person with a fever was prohibited by Jewish law, but in Jesus the kingdom of God was actively invading the realm of Satan’s control. The woman rose and began ministering (diēkonei is an inceptive imperfect) to Jesus (and the others as well, according to Mark 1:31). ...

1311. A Man with Leprosy

Mark 1:40-45

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... is why the man here (1:40) asks to be made clean. To have such a condition was not just a health liability; it made one a prisoner, cut off from all normal life. It is not to be overlooked that all the parallel Gospel accounts agree that Jesus touched the man (1:41; Luke 5:13; Matt. 8:3). The point of mentioning this seems to be to show that Jesus not only healed the man but also established immediate social contact with him. In doing this, Jesus could be seen as actually violating the laws about ritual ...

1312. The Healing of a Deaf and Mute Man

Mark 7:31-37

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... (7:33–34; cf. 8:22–25). Jesus’ actions can be seen in at least two ways. First, they could be seen simply as a kind of sign language designed to show the man what Jesus intended to do for him, perhaps to encourage his faith. Thus, touching the man’s ears and tongue might mean that Jesus intended to deal with these needs. Spittle (at least the spittle of certain men) was apparently regarded by many as having a healing force in both Jewish and pagan circles (see note), and so Jesus’ spitting here ...

1313. The Gershonites

Numbers 4:21-28

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

1314. The Merarites

Numbers 4:29-33

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

1315. The Numbering of the Levite Clans

Numbers 4:34-49

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

1316. The Grain Offering (II)

Leviticus 6:14-23

Understanding Series

W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

... burned on the altar. This offering reflects the gravity of ordination as well as priestly importance and holiness. Additional Notes 6:18 The last sentence of v. 18 is somewhat problematic: Whatever touches them will become holy. Is the NIV rendering the best translation or should one follow the marginal suggestion “Whoever touches them must be holy”? The commentators are not of one mind. Hartley (Leviticus, p. 97) and Levine (Leviticus, pp. 37–38) follow the alternate reading and see the phrase as a ...

1317. The Disciples Rejoin Jesus

John 4:27-38, John 4:1-26, John 4:39-42

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... surprise from his disciples that he would talk with her (v. 27). Though not a prostitute, she is sexually immoral (v. 18). By race and religion she is from the Jewish standpoint an outsider, a hated Samaritan. Jews and Samaritans, the writer explains, will not even touch the same utensils (v. 9). In reaching out to her, Jesus in this narrative is recognizably the Jesus of the Synoptics (cf., e.g., Mark 7:24–30; Luke 7:36–50; 10:25–37), the one who came to show mercy to tax collectors, prostitutes ...

1318. Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead

John 11:38-44

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... again. After the miracle, he would resume the same kind of life he had known before. Jesus, on the other hand, would be raised into a new existence in the presence of the Father and into a new relationship with his disciples. Never again would death touch him. Yet despite the contrast, the narrator uses the resuscitation of Lazarus as a “sign” (cf. 12:18) of the resurrection to new life, whether of Jesus or of those who belong to him. In itself, the raising of Lazarus is not qualitatively different from ...

1319. Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

John 20:10-18

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... she is already doing, or to stop trying to do something she is attempting to do (some ancient manuscripts add, at the end of the preceding verse, the actual words “and she ran toward him to touch him”). The point of the words Do not hold on to me is not that Jesus’ body is intangible (in contrast to later, when he invites Thomas to touch his hands and side, v. 27) but simply that because he is on his way to the Father, he cannot stay and talk with Mary. There is time only to give her the message she ...

1320. The Fall of Man

Genesis 3:1-24

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... as either “it is not certain that you will die” or you will not surely die (NIV). It is unclear whether the serpent was responding to God’s prohibition or to the woman’s reformulation of it. In the latter case the serpent would have been denying that touching the tree led to death. Then, if the woman ate of it, the serpent could claim that it had not really misled the woman about eating the fruit. By speaking so ambiguously, the serpent kept the woman off guard as it led her to doubt that eating ...

1321. The Plague of Gnats

Exodus 8:16-19

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... “dust of the ground” reminds the reader that God created Adam “from the dust of the ground” (Gen. 2:7), and also resonates with the words, “for dust you are and to dust you will return” (Gen. 3:19). The first plague touched the waters and the second touched the amphibious creation from the waters. The third employs the dust from which God created. God is in the process of creating something new. The magicians had reached their limit. They could not produce gnats from the dust. There was no one ...

1322. How Beautiful Your Feet

Song of Songs 7:1-13

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Huwiler

... mouth, he has moved to another grape image, wine. Halfway through the verse, the woman interrupts by offering the wine in/of her mouth to her lover. This is a passage rich in sensory imagery. The man moves from sight to touch to smell to taste. The woman picks up the images of taste and touch. The abrupt change of speakers also implies the sense of hearing. 7:10–13 The segment opens with another variation on the mutual possession formula (2:16; 6:3). Verse 10b is a counterpart to (or even a reversal of ...

1323. Israel to be Destroyed

Amos 9:1-10

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... verses 5–6 tell who God is. Obviously this Adonai’s hands contain all power. The fire of Adonai’s wrath melts the earth with just a touch (cf. Ps. 46:6; 104:32; 144:5; Isa. 64:1–2; Mic. 1:3–4; Nah 1:5) so that all peoples are plunged into ... will die by the sword of the Lord, because in their pride they have believed themselves their own invulnerable lords, whom judgment cannot touch, verse 10. In short, only verse 8c comes from a later hand. The rest of the oracle is consonant with Amos’s total ...

1324. When You're Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... head of the corner....” Perhaps I am not talking to you this morning. Perhaps you have never been rejected. Perhaps you’ve never been wounded. That’s wonderful in a way. It is also sad. That means you have never known what it is to feel the ministering touch of a man with nail prints in his hands. You have not needed that, so you have not experienced it. And you are at a great disadvantage in ministering to others. There are some of you, however, for whom the pain of rejection is all too real. Hang ...

1325. The Ultimate Mountaintop Experience

Mark 9:2-9

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King Duncan

... around, they no longer saw anyone with them except Jesus.” Jesus was all they had and Jesus was all they needed. When they gave him their undivided attention, their lives were filled with his power and their witness touched the entire world and is still touching it today. Are you listening? Will you be obedient? 1. Pastor Leith Anderson in a script for his broadcast ministry. Cited at http://wooddale.org/sites/default/files/media/faith_matters/sermon_transcripts/BOJ-42_2.pdf. 2. Charles Colson, “A Way ...

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