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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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1351. Identity Crisis

Genesis 32:1-21, Genesis 32:22-32, Genesis 33:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok. After he had sent them across the stream, he sent over all his possessions. So, Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.” The man asked him, “What is your ...

1352. Song of the Sabbath

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35, Mark 2:18-22, Mark 2:23-3:6, Mark 3:7-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... for each of these:] Remember the Lord with your hands. [Bring hands together in prayer.] Remember the Lord with head and heart. [Touch head and put hand on heart.] Remember the Lord with your tongue. [Bring hands to mouth and spread them wide in a ... and feet, and the worries of our hearts and burdens of our souls to put ourselves into God's hands, to allow God's outreached arm to touch us, and bind us. Selah. So good this is. The 7th Day is a day of joy, of exquisite and conscious joy in our Creator, in our ...

1353. Here Be Dragons

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of the Lord. As would be their purpose, one of these dragon-like seraphs would pluck a live burning stone (some translations say coal but the original is a heated red-hot stone –the fiery Word of God) from the fire of the altar of God and would touch it to Isaiah’s lips, purifying his speech, his lips, his tongue, and preparing him for his call as the “spokesman” of the Lord! In that act, Isaiah was purged of his sin. In that act, Isaiah became a sacramental and living “voice” of God for God’s ...

1354. Emergency!

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... place. God comes out of nowhere in our times of distress; in our times when we’ve gotten lost, in our times when we’ve gotten confused, in our times when we’ve wandered away --away from God, away from our mission, in our times when we’ve lost touch of who we are, our identity as disciples, in our times when we’ve been caught in fires of destruction and despair. God’s presence appears to us like that saving ladder of hope…..leaving us only to say, “God was here with me all the time….and I ...

1355. Dusted

Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... material that allows us to connect spiritually to God (note Jacob’s ladder).* Quantum physicists call this small particles light (the stuff of cosmic dust). For physicists as well as some Jewish thought, in order to be in touch with God relationally, we need to “ascend” to a place where we are in touch with God’s breath or “light” within us. For Christians that “Light” is Jesus, the alpha and omega, existing with God from the beginning of time (or creation as we know it). We see our world as ...

1356. The Excellent Meal Ticket

Genesis 37:1-11, Genesis 37:12-36, John 21:15-25, Mark 8:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... there for the food. But the true disciples were the ones who entered into relationship with Jesus. Those who invested in Him, truly listened and learned from Him, who allowed Him to touch their hearts with His healing hands, and to challenge and change the substance of their lives in real time. They were struck by the power of the Jesus touch. They were fed and nourished by His holy identity. But then they were compelled to go out and tell about it, to feed others as they had been fed. In fact, discipleship ...

1357. The First Songs of Christmas

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... with friends, to feast and fellowship, to gift and celebrate. We sing together. We share in joy together. And for one time of year, millions of people come out on Christmas Eve to partake in an almost euphoric experience of candlelight and carol songs. Carols touch our joy response in a way that other songs just can’t hold a candle to. They are our “heart songs.” Songs with heart. The word carol comes from the Old French “carole.” Since about 1300, the word was used for a joyful, euphoric song ...

1358. The Physician

Isaiah 38:1-22, Matthew 8:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God might be praised and revealed through him! A similar story appears in Jesus’ healing of Peter’s mother in law. In the gospel text, we read the following: 4 When Jesus entered Peter’s house, he saw his mother-in-law lying in bed with a fever; 15 he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she got up and began to serve him. 16 That evening they brought to him many who were possessed with demons; and he cast out the spirits with a word and cured all who were sick. 17 This was to fulfill what ...

1359. Look At Your Fixations!

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Jech

... win sympathy and help has become a permanant lifestyle. When the Pope visited Canada, one newscast showed two young girls sobbing with intense emotion as "the Holy Father" touched and kissed them. Whether it is the Pope, Michael Jackson or the Beatles, how many people have gone through their life fixated on some kind of "he-touched-me" experience that colors their life forever? Obviously, it makes quite a difference what our fixations are. Some seem by their very nature destructive. Others could be either ...

1360. The Howling

Acts 2:1-13, John 7:25-44

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... authentic, emotional self and the alienation he feels at the failings of American society in the tumultuous 1960s. The style of poem came to him after his psychologist told him, his poetry was too academic, and that he should get in touch with his emotional side. However, not all “howls” are sounds of pain or distress. It seems, howling is also a significant form of nonverbal communication, made by those who reside in social structures that exhibit cooperative behaviors, primarily humans, wolves, and ...

1361. Desperate Times Call For...

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... woman for her great faith! There are only three people in the Bible who were specifically commended by Jesus for their great faith: a Roman officer who pleaded with Jesus to heal his servant, a woman who had been hemorrhaging blood for twelve years and touched the border of Jesus’ robe in hopes of receiving healing, and this Canaanite woman who came to Jesus begging him to heal her demon-possessed daughter. (3) The funny thing is that none of these three people had the right according to the Jewish law ...

Music touches places beyond our touching.

Keith Bosley

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Nora Ephron

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Ray Bradbury

1365. When Someone Disagrees with You

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the church. It was one of Christ’s most important themes. But why did it occupy so much of Christ’s teachings? I believe it’s because the church meets a need in society that no other organization meets. When the church really is the church it touches people’s lives in a way no other institution can. Author Max Lucado in a new book of devotions titled God Is with You Every Day tells about a gentleman in Africa named Bzuneh Tulema. Just two years ago Tulema was the town drunk in his hometown of ...

1366. A Working God

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... and for others. God is at work, not just in some exotic, far-off place that requires a special map. The “X” of the cross of Christ marks the spot right here, right now in the very ordinariness of our lives and places and activities that are all-too-often touched by the tragedies of life. This is where God is at work. God works, and when God works the end product is not junk! Being caught up in the working of God’s Kingdom is like finding a hidden treasure; its value, like that of a pearl of great ...

1367. Remember to Say Thank You

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... orphans by then. If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful . . . you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not. If you can hold someone’s hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder . . . you are blessed because you can offer God’s healing touch. If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all. (2) If we think about it, most of us are greatly blessed. Listen then to this word of warning ...

1368. Bringing Life to a Party

Luke 24:36b-48

Sermon

King Duncan

... had sent him to do—to save wounded people. And they couldn’t save wounded people unless they could see and touch and make friends with Jesus’ wounds. Only then could they proclaim with confidence the limitless love of God. Many people desperately ... upon to pass judgment on a situation like this. But there was something about this deaf couple and their grim situation that touched Judge McDonough’s heart. Before he rendered his judgment, he excused himself from the bench and went back to his chambers. ...

1369. The Power to Witness

Luke 24:44-53 · Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... other as human beings enough to ask each other if we can say we have witnessed something, meaning that we have determined something to be true or exist in truth by means of someone’s sensory perception. If we have seen it, heard it, smelled it, touched it, tasted it, we will believe it, especially if more than one person has “witnessed” to it. To witness therefore is a communal and social way of determining a truth based in sensory perception that we on our own are not sure we can trust and believe ...

1370. Consuming Fire

Hebrews 12:18-29

Sermon

Will Willimon

... Good Samaritan, the Prodigal Son; they'll tell you about how kind and good Jesus was. But you've got to wait until you're old enough to go to college to hear a strange, big, dark, threatening text like this one: "You have not come to what may be touched, a blazing fire, darkness and gloom, a tempest, the sound of a trumpet, and a voice whose words made the hearers beg it to be silent." This isn't kid's stuff, pablum to be spoon fed by pet preachers to house-broken congregations who've lost their teeth. This ...

1371. When God Is Quiet

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... our footing. We lose our heads. We lose our confidence. Our faith begins to slip. But just as in the story of Peter whose faith allows him to begin to sink, Jesus reaches out a hand to pull us back up again. Just when we believe he is out of touch, his voice calms our waves and stills our spirits. Repositions our foundation. Restores our faith. God may appear sometimes to not hear us, to be absent in times when we feel we need God most. When time goes on and things seem out of hand, when the days go long ...

1372. Christ and the Magic Cloak

Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... rushed about the whole region, and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the marketplaces, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak: and all who touched it were healed.” Jesus exuded the power of God. Ever bring in that fresh bouquet of flowers from your garden. As long as those flowers are in your home, you can smell their fragrant scent, and you are reminded of their beauty ...

1373. It's A Wonderment

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Love. I realized on Wednesday that I was wrong." Dr. Moore was surprised and said, "Wednesday? What happened on Wednesday?" "I got one of those letters!" the man said. The letter came as a total surprise. It was from a person the man never expected to hear from. It touched him so deeply he now carries it around in his pocket all the time. "Every time I read it," he said, "I get tears in my eyes." It was a transforming moment in that man's life. Suddenly he realized he was loved by others in the church. That ...

1374. Seeing Is Believing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... feel his healing in our minds, hearts, and bones. Today, I want you to close your eyes and really see Jesus. Feel him around you, feel his love for you and his boundless mercy. See his light and feel his warmth encasing you. Know the power of his healing touch. [Pastors, if you are open to it, this may be a good time to do a healing and anointing time in your service. Invite people forward to be anointing in the power of the Holy Spirit, even as they invite Jesus into their lives and hearts.] As you leave ...

1375. In the Wilderness of Temptation

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Pork, Potato Pancakes, Candied yams, Sticky Buns, Dumplings, Blueberry Pie, Fried Rice." Hagar has this look of desperation on his face as he says, "I'd love to know who told Mean Max I'm on a diet!" (1) Temptation is just like Mean Max. It never really touches you, it never really assaults you, it just follows you where ever you go, filling you with ideas of all the things you know you shouldn't want or crave. There is something we need to understand about the power of temptation, the more we give in, the ...

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1351. Identity Crisis

Genesis 32:1-21, Genesis 32:22-32, Genesis 33:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1352. Song of the Sabbath

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Luke 7:18-35, Mark 2:18-22, Mark 2:23-3:6, Mark 3:7-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1353. Here Be Dragons

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1354. Emergency!

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1355. Dusted

Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1356. The Excellent Meal Ticket

Genesis 37:1-11, Genesis 37:12-36, John 21:15-25, Mark 8:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1357. The First Songs of Christmas

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1358. The Physician

Isaiah 38:1-22, Matthew 8:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1359. Look At Your Fixations!

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Jech

1360. The Howling

Acts 2:1-13, John 7:25-44

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1361. Desperate Times Call For...

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

Music touches places beyond our touching.

Keith Bosley

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Nora Ephron

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Ray Bradbury

1365. When Someone Disagrees with You

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

1366. A Working God

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

1367. Remember to Say Thank You