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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126. The Dogmatics of Aluminum Foil
Luke 20:27-38
Illustration
Brett Blair
... baked potato, while others condemn such nonsense and emphatically claim exactly the opposite. Meanwhile, the manufacturer stays amused and gives a good lesson in dogmatism and tolerance. When foil is made, it is rolled. One side of the foil gets shiny because it comes in contact with the heavy roller. The other side stays dull because it never makes contact with the roller. Both sides produce the same results! Surely you don't have any church members who could benefit from this little lesson on tolerance.
127. Religion at a Minimum
Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29
Sermon
Dennis Kastens
... Billy Graham puts it this way: "Every time I go to the Far East I take cholera shots, and usually I get sick from the shots. Actually, I get a small case of cholera, which makes me immune to the dreaded disease, should I come in contact with it in my travels." The foregoing is also true in the realm of religion where there are many people who have actually been innoculated against experiencing an authentic personal encounter with the Author of Life, Jesus Christ. They have had a slight touch of religion ...
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Carroll Gunkel
... into the Baltic Sea, and sunk therein. Hiltgunt had had a pipeline to the outside world through which she passed messages and received supplies. Fearing more to do nothing than to be captured, she passed the information to her contact. Unknown to her, that contact was the Swedish Count, Folke Bernadotte, then president of the International Red Cross, and later deeply involved in the fledgling United Nations. Bernadotte conveyed the message to the Allied Powers, who in turn expressed their shock to Adolf ...
129. A Daughter of Jacob
Matthew 15:21-28
Sermon
Richard Hoefler
... of us, for how many times have we told our children to wash their hands before coming to the table? But the issue here was not hygienic but religious. It was the issue of what constitutes religious purity. The belief of the Pharisees was that man’s contact with the world made him dirty. Jesus disagreed and held that nothing outside a person can enter into him and defile him. Rather, it is that which comes out of a person that defiles him. It is the condition of the heart and not the cleanliness of the ...
Drama
Tom Eberle
... requiring a certain standard of behavior from them. Toga: Have you pointed this flaw out to him? Judas: The more I pushed it, the more insistent he was about his position; so it was dropped. We are trying to improve crowd security to limit this kind of undesirable contact in the future. I would also like to say that I feel this problem is partly a result of his upbringing. He came from a poor village family. Fortunately he had the intelligence to pull himself up from that; but I am afraid that the kind of ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... all who sail with me, so Cheer up, for I believe God. How’s that for a ringing, confident faith? "I believe God!" This is the kind of conviction that speaks to us in our deepest needs. The world is dying all about us for a contact with persons who are on recent, intimate, speaking terms with God and who believe him! (No wonder Billy Graham gets so many letters, no wonder Oral Roberts gets so many prayer requests, no wonder so many religious "fanatics" are consulted - people are desperately seeking someone ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... he have approved the popular evangelism of our day, in which "I" looms so large. "What we preach," says Paul, "is not ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord" (2 Corinthians 4:5). Jesus Christ as Lord is indeed an epitome of what Paul preached. He had no personal contact with the historical Jesus but on the basis of the proclamation of the pre-Pauline church he was well acquainted with the life and teaching of Jesus. We have noted the fallacy of the view that there is a great gulf fixed between the Jesus of the ...
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Bill Bouknight
... will take about four minutes. Note the program's sponsor. Write it down. Then the next time you are in a store that sells that product, pick one up. Don't buy it. Just find the address or phone number of the home office. Then go home and contact the president of the company, telling him that as a Christian you resent his company sponsoring a program that profanes the God of Christians and Jews. Tell him that if you hear one more profane expression that you will refuse to buy his product and that you will ...
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Bill Bouknight
... the Washington mess. But we Christians have a responsibility to do something. That something may be to alert our congressman or senator that Christian principles are more important to us than partisan politics or personal financial gain. Think about this: if the only time I contact my representative or senator is when I have a personal vested interest at stake, but never on behalf of Christ's agenda, that tells a lot about what comes first in my life. I hope you will regard the Bethlehem innkeeper in a new ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
We live in a culture in which many things are disposable. Do you remember when basketball games were routinely interrupted because a player had lost a contact lens. Not any more! Now most players wear disposable contact lenses. If one is lost, just go to the bench and pop in another. Nowadays we don't have to worry about our cameras. Just take 24 pictures, remove the film, and throw the camera away. It's disposable. Just consider all the disposable things in our culture: diapers, (hallelujah!) ...
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Frederick C. Edwards
... Jesus touched that man in the Galilean village. If we are out of touch with the power of God in our lives that contact can be restored, through the simple ministrations of those who care enough to sit with us, talk with us, encourage us, and love ... listen more than talk. And, if you can, say a prayer before you leave. The words are not so important. It is the love that makes contact. The important thing to know is that God moves through us to one another. We are channels of God’s grace. We are channels of ...
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Theodore L. Yewey
... of our lives. There is only the simple statement, "And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God ..." (See Luke 2:20a). There is here stated the simple truth that some common shepherds, ordinary folk, came in contact with the living Word of God. They were deeply affected by this contact. They were changed people. And then these changed persons went back to the common business of living. They tended the same sheep. They had the same neighbors. They roamed the same hillsides. They lived with the ...
138. Gentle Light
1 Corinthians 10:14-22
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William F. Dunkle
... very disturbed because other church people did not hesitate to buy and eat the meat of animals which had been slaughtered for sacrifice on the altars of pagan gods. Was this not condoning the idolatry of heathen? Shouldn’t true Christians shun the slightest contact with the rites of non-Christian religions? The trouble with religious scruples is that they seem so easily to make us judgmental and even censorious. In other words when we are most anxious not to offend our righteous God we risk offending our ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... to exert a constructive influence on others? "Salt is good," he says, "but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltness be restored? It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill; men throw it away." Salt works by contact, and Christianity is a contact game. We are responsible for what happens when our lives touch the lives of others. Salt prevents rottenness. What are we doing to prevent the rottenness that surrounds us on all sides and corrupts especially the lives of the young and immature ...
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T. A. Kantonen
... part of the church. He leads individual men and women into personal faith in Christ but he also binds believers together into "the fellowship of the Spirit." The Trinity, then, is the church’s interpretation, in the language of an ancient day, of the living contact with God which Christ gives us. Instead of speaking about one substance and three persons, we could say in today’s language: The Trinity is the revelation of God, given in Christ, and continuing to operate in the Holy Spirit. God is one, not ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... are given courage and faith, that we also, who most surely know what loneliness is, may find a new perspective. We will be more able to endure what has to be endured - but even more, we will be able to find new ways to reach out, to make contact. If we don’t despise our loneliness, - or despise ourselves for being lonely - if we don’t think there is something wrong with us for being lonely - then it is easier to embrace the moments of closeness that come our way and in them to find joy. Prayer: Eternal ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... time out each day in private devotions when you read the Bible, reflect, and meditate is necessary to keep in contact with God. Jesus once said, "I am the vine, you are the branches." When a branch is broken off the vine, you know what happens. It withers ... and dies. To have true life, each of us must maintain constant contact with God, living in God's presence at all times. This is one main reason for God's coming to earth in the form ...
143. Dear Mr. Johnson
Ephesians 4:1-16
Drama
Dave Marsh
... on the phone and that the shipment of July 1st was in error. We ordered 17 Pentium 450 meg processors and our clerk Tina only received inappropriate flirting from me and 15 processors even though I’d like my assistant to lie and say 14. Please contact me with any questions. I expect the missing 3 but really 2 machines here on Monday. Best regards, Jim Davis. (Donna should enunciate the italicized parts) Jim: Donna?!? Are you crazy? Don’t you know the difference between what you’re supposed to say and ...
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David E. Leininger
... 20 barley loaves and some grain.(5) It is nothing more than Elisha's sheer presence that remains a constant reminder of Yahweh's power, a power greater than that of any king of Israel or any foreign ruler. Somehow word reaches Elisha (we are not told how). He contacts the Jerusalem court. What is the problem? "Why have you torn your clothes? Let him come to me, that he may learn that there is a prophet in Israel." And, while we are at it, King, you might learn the same thing your own skanky self! Now the ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... populated by a series of gods. At the top of the pecking order was a god who was perfect, untouched by any sin or evil (anything physical). Descending from the top god was a series of lesser gods (so-called "emanations") who were less pure because of their contact with impure things. At the bottom of this totem pole, was the god who created the world and all that is in it. Since physical things are inherently impure, this would be a pretty impure god. Thus, the god of the Old Testament would have been this ...
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King Duncan
... needs this particular family had, and said the address was on the paper, and he laid it on top of the piano. The Judge then said, "If you want to start a Society of St. Stephen, then you should contact this woman by 11:30 tomorrow morning. If you are not able to help her, don't worry, I'll be in contact with her tomorrow, and get her help by mid-afternoon." With that, Judge Seal remarked, "Now, forgive me, but I really must be going. Thank you for inviting me and for the coffee and the cookies." Then he ...
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King Duncan
... he belongs in a mental asylum. He's talking nonsense. There is no "other" world out there. Only the world of the movie is real for them. (2) Those first followers of Jesus must have felt something like that. They had entered a new dimension of reality. They had contact with the very Son of God. Here was a man unlike any man who had ever lived. How do they communicate who Christ really is to people who never heard him speak, never felt his touch, never saw his footsteps by the Sea of Galilee? There are many ...
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Caroly R. Gibson
... out. Oh my! The senior citizens will be going roller skating. And then Wednesday, yes, we have the craft class and the men's prayer breakfast. Well, as you see we just don't have a thing; but listen, why don't you have your representative give us a contact later in the fall...maybe something will have opened up, sir, sir? Jesus calls us, loves us, but then sends us out, gives us authority to be his missionaries. "No purse, no bag, no sandals," to shed our excess wool, and to travel his journey of faith with ...
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King Duncan
... communing with God's people all over the world. Even in prison, the bread brought him into the presence of the Lord. (7) So what do you do when the world assaults you with bad news? What do you do when you feel all alone and lose contact with Christ? How do you experience his presence and encouragement once more? Millions of Christians have found comfort in these two primary means of Grace: Reading God's Word and joining with other Christians in breaking bread in the Lord's Supper. There Christ is revealed ...
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King Duncan
... His viewers needed to send lots of money with the prayer cloth, or as he put it, "Sow your very best seed." To those who returned the green cloth with some money, the televangelist promised great prosperity: "Send me your green prayer cloth as my point of contact with you!" he pleaded. "When I touch your cloth...it will be like touching you!...When you touch this cloth, it will be like taking MY hand and touching me. I want the anointing that God has put upon my life for miracles of finances and prosperity ...
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