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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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126. Wade In The Water

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... gospel tells a much simpler story of a man, apparently of more humble means and demeanor than mighty Naaman. This man also was a leper and came and prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and implored him to be cured. And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and the leprosy left him. The prescription for his restoration to the community was deceptively simple. "Go and show yourself to the priest." The priest was the only one who could declare the man free of his leprosy. But Jesus wished the healing to ...

127. The Healing Community

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... called "Church," are called to be like him. We often ask new members to express what the church means to them. Recently, one new member wrote: "I feel an inner strength here at Our Saviour’s, a strength I need to get me through a week. The touch of tenderness and caring from this congregation gives me such a warm feeling. Someone really cares through a smile and a handshake." And a hug! Remember we all need ten hugs per day, just for maintenance. The church, a healing community? Yes, not all it should be ...

128. Smart, Wise, and Foolish

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... discover it when someone cares enough about us to value, accept, or stay with us. We also experience the meaning of the cross when in response to that, we extend the same experience to others. The cross is good news to those of us who would be more in touch with ourselves precisely because it reminds us that we do not need to earn God’s love. We call it grace! We are loved because we are his creation, and the foolishness of it all is that sometimes God’s perfect love for us must be communicated to us ...

129. All That From A Little Bit Of Water?

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... all, doesn't it? Baptism is the sign and seal that we are children of God. Or as the little fellow said, "You can't touch me, I'm baptized!" BAPTISM TELLS US WHO WE ARE. It establishes us in our rightful place in the universe. Some of you are old ... it all, doesn't it? Baptism is sign and seal that we are children of God. Or as the little fellow said, "You can't touch me, I'm baptized!" BAPTISM TELLS US WHO WE ARE. It establishes us in our rightful place in the universe. One of the most dramatic moments ...

130. Above All--god

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... study. But they are looking for more than a surface relationship with "the Man Upstairs." Instead, they want to recover the awe and majesty of God; a sense of the Divine Other. Perhaps there has never been a time in our history when there has been such a hunger to touch God. And so we come to our reading from the book of Revelation, chapter 21. [In order to help us experience the majesty of these words, I would like for you to stand as I read.] Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven ...

131. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... God in this messed up world. They are to be instruments of the kingdom and channels for the energies of the Holy Spirit. At the ends of your left and right arms are a pair of mirror images to lift in worship and to offer in work and to touch others in love. What have your hands been doing this last week? What stories could they tell? Have they pointed the ugly finger of gossip? Have they been balled in fists of anger and rage? Has the central digit been lifted in an obscene gesture at another driver? Have ...

132. Experiencing the Reality of God

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

James L. Killen

... for your life. The religion in which most of us grew up can supply what is missing from our lives. It can help us get in touch with a greater reality who is actually there in our real world, one who is alive, one who loves us and enables us, one who is ... who is invisible" (Hebrews 11:29). There are others who live in our own day and in our own world who have gotten in touch with God and who live as seeing the invisible. You probably know some of them. One young man told about his unique experience of ...

133. The Great I Am

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... this . . . I am that . . . I am here . . . I am there. We don't want the mystery of clouds and mists. We want the certainty of gold and glamour. We don't want what our minds can't grasp, or our eyes can't see. We want what our hands can touch, and our bodies can feel. And so we create our own golden calves, our own graven images: (use this as a karaoke for people to tell what they think our golden calves are today). We make a golden calf of our principles and propositions. We make a golden calf of ...

134. Jesus Is Contagious!

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... these two lines: And here in the dust and dirt, O HERE, The lilies of his love appear. Can you say that with me? . . . . . . And here in the dust and dirt, O HERE, The lilies of his love appear. For Jesus nothing is accursed. Holiness is reaching out to touch the unclean, not being afraid of the dust and dirt, and infecting the world with the contagious love of Christ. For it is here in the dust and dirt, O HERE, / The lilies of his love appear. Who will reach out into the dust and dirt this week, so that ...

135. Mark 1:40-45

Mark 1:40-45

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... (1:45; 6:35-34; 7:24-25; 10:1). What has been tagged as “the Messianic secret” was the worst kept secret in Galilee. All of Jesus’ attempts to stay under the radar were thwarted by the excited testimonies of those whose lives he touched so dramatically. Jesus was so extraordinary in his works and words that it was impossible for people to keep quiet about him. The text for today describes exactly the actions and attitudes that made Jesus’ work the topic of conversation. His encounter with the man ...

136. A Parable in a Miracle

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and able not to be felt.” (Maclaren, p. 40) Can you even faintly feel at — not really feel because none of us can do that – but can you struggle hard and feel at what the leper felt – absolutely nothing in the leper’s life was not touched by – even determined by his leprosy. And the leper knew. That was why his condition was one of such misery and despair. The leper knew his condition. His hell was that he could not escape awareness of his dreadful state during any conscious moment. And herein ...

137. The Nearest Willing Hand

Luke 10:25-37

Illustration

Carveth Mitchell

... prayer like that. You should pray about it." "All right. Maybe I will sometime." "Not sometime. Now. What better place to pray than here in the Lord's house?" Thus persuaded, the woman reluctantly folded her hands, bowed her head and closed her eyes in prayer, asking that God would touch her. About ten seconds later the other woman gently laid her hand on the folded hands of the friend at prayer. She responded as most of us would do. She jumped and said, "He did it! He ...

138. Is the Doctor in Today?

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... to draw near him. There were those who moved him. There were those who were envious of him. There were those who misunderstood him. There were those who revered him. But there was not one person who considered him too holy, too divine, or too celestial to touch. There was not one person who was reluctant to approach him for fear of being rejected . . .” (3) Christ accepts everyone, saint or sinner, who comes to him in faith. Here is the second thing we need to take away with us: In almost every contest in ...

139. Two Memorable Healings

Luke 5:17-26, Luke 5:12-16

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... his cold hands and offered his gloves to Frank. The producer refused to take them back later, a detail which, writes James, “seems hardly worth mentioning. But,” she continues, “he [Frank] often refers to that simple act of kindness . . . as a moment that touched him deeply.” She concludes with a reflection on Christ’s concern for Frank’s physical well-being as well as his grief: “When you’re sitting in the darkness with a heart that aches for [God], the slightest sign of his presence is ...

140. A Sick Woman and a Dead Girl

Luke 8:40-56

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... not dead but dead” would make no sense.) 8:54 He took her by the hand. Luke does not mention the ritual defilement that resulted from contact with a corpse. See on 5:13. Even if Jesus’s words “not dead but asleep” are metaphorical, his touch overcame death and, with it, defilement. 8:55 Her spirit returned. The wording echoes Elijah’s miracle of resuscitation in 1 Kings 17:21–22. 8:56 he ordered them not to tell anyone what had happened. Even though only five people were allowed to see ...

141. A Dead Girl and A Sick Woman

Mark 5:21-43

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... is a fair statement. The treatments prescribed often involved drinking vile-tasting mixtures and doing other such things, many of them even more strange and none of them likely to do any good, judged by modern medical knowledge. (See Lane, pp. 191–92.) 5:28 If I just touch his clothes reflects what may have been a common kind of desperate hope, for there are other references in the NT and in non-Christian sources to such ideas and customs (e.g., 6:56; Acts 5:15; 19:11–12). These NT accounts do not deny ...

142. Jesus' No-Nonsense Guide to Success

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... -- took her hand, helped her up, and the fever left her. She was completely healed! To be successful at service, we also need the healing touch of Jesus. I can't preach alone. I can't visit someone who's just been diagnosed with cancer on my own. Or at least ... behind. But successful living is more than just Jesus and me and feeling good about life. We're not meant to receive the touch of Jesus only for ourselves. That would be like singing the same chorus over and over again without ever stopping. It may be ...

143. Garden of Love

John 20:10-18, Song of Songs 4:1-16, Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... lure of a beautiful song is a mystery. You hear those first notes, and the music draws you in. It’s that song that you listen to over and over and over again. It is the song that in some way stirs your heart, makes you cry, softens your face, touches your soul. For you, it is the “song of songs.” When you are down, when you are out, when you are in doubt, when life seems dark, or dreary, you can put on that song, and you are transported to another place, where life feels like a beautiful dream. Soon ...

144. Holy Goat!

Leviticus 16:1-34, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... get into that place of OCD doubt –Jesus is the one who opens that door and lets us out. He does it by letting us touch him, by honoring our doubts. Jesus is not some far away God. He is present. He is touchable. His salvation is real. You know the ... because he needed proof. He points his finger to his wounds and invites Thomas to put his hand there. When he does touch the wounds, all of Thomas’ doubts and fears, discouragements and despair, is taken from him. Jesus bears that doubt for him instead. ...

145. It Helps If You Laugh

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... see our kids at those times when all they want is to be held; to have their heads stroked and their backs caressed as they slowly drift off to sleep. Christian mothers remind us of God's great love for humanity because they offer that loving touch we all so desperately need. III. THE BEST TRANSLATION OF GOD'S WORD: A. Finally, Christian mothers are the best translations of God's Word the world has ever seen. Four preachers were discussing the merits of various translations of the Bible. One liked the King ...

146. If It Helps You Laugh

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

147. Touchdown in the Wilds

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of advent as a time to get ready for change. For God changes the world by changing us, one person at a time. Jesus too began changing the world by changing people, healing one heart at a time. And the most healing moment in history happened when God touched down for real in the person of Jesus. I want you to think about space for a moment. Or flow. What happens when you interrupt that space or flow? It changes everything about it. Think about a still pool of water. Imagine in your mind that pool, whether ...

148. The Howling

Acts 2:1-21 · John 14:8-17, 25-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... you feel the power of God amidst you? Can you hear the Spirit’s presence howling in your ears? See the light of Christ with your eyes? Can you feel your heart skip a beat and your mind try to deal with the paradox of what it means to be touched by that Spirit? No one is immune from baptism in the Spirit. But we have to be willing to experience it. We have to be willing to see with our spiritual eyes and hear with our spiritual ears. We have to be open to the phenomenal, the supernatural, the impossible ...

149. The Compassionate Healings

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... think that God will help you when you have such a childish approach to religion? Do you really think that you can sneak up on God from behind, get what you want, and depart without being noticed? Do your really think that Jesus will heal you because you touch his robe?" Surprise! Jesus does just that. He never even takes time to correct the woman's mistaken theology. He does not give her a lecture on good theology. He just heals her. He even commends her faith (Mark 5:34). What is going on here? Trust ...

150. The Healing Of Simon Peter's Mother-In-Law

Mark 1:29-34

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... like when Jesus came over to the bed and took you by the hand and raised you up, and you felt the fever leave? You gave the best response of gratitude by immediately returning to your life work. Mother-in-law: When you are the recipient of the healing touch, the best response is through your own action. My feeling was of deep, unspoken love. It speaks of the closeness coming from familiarity, from family. Jesus did not enter our home, kick off his sandals and say, "Leave me alone, I'm off duty. I'm all done ...

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