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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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1501. A Great Gift

Luke 6:1-11

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... one on either side of him. ANN: Oh, Pastor Bob! I've been hoping to have a chance to tell you: There's just something about the way you play the piano that sends the chills down my spine. BETH: And the organ, as well. You have a master's touch. BOB: (Graciously) You ladies are too kind! ANN: No, no! We're not being kind. We're being truthful. BETH: Ann's right! I come to this church just to hear you play. ANN: I agree with Beth. Your accompaniment of the choir is perfection. BETH: But your solos are ...

1502. Discern How Things Grow

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... yet ready and he had to give them milk. They were still infants in Christ. In his original missionary work he had to be a nursemaid to them, and he laments that their endless disputes about leadership in the church confirm they are still children in the faith. He touches only briefly upon the image of the builder in the last verse of our text, and he then proceeds to develop it more at length in the next section of the letter. However, Paul is quite clear in applying the work of the farmer in the field to ...

1503. The Witness Of Caiaphas The High Priest

Drama

Dann J. Ettner

... . I am an enemy of Jesus of Nazareth! The following ismy testimony. Who could have blamed me for my opposition against Jesus? Ihad the support of the scribes and Pharisees. We knew this Jesusas a troublemaker, a person who walked side by side with sinners.He touched the unclean. He ate with tax collectors. He evenworked on the Sabbath and He did His magic to make the lame walkand the blind see. His following of disciples was growing every day. People,brought up in the teaching of the law of Moses, were ...

1504. The Witness Of A Member Of The Crowd Who Shouted, "Crucify"

Drama

Dann J. Ettner

... . I am responsible for the death ofJesus. If it is because of my sin, as the Christians say, then sobe it. I could not have done it any other way. I amconvinced that Jesus had to die. His blood is on my hands but Iwill not let it touch my heart as those Christians have. Thoseare the only two choices I see possible. Where do you think theblood of Jesus belongs? On my hands or on your heart? Theme Hymn Tune "Galilean" 1. God speaks through unknowing people, Even those who are His foes. Caiaphas and then ...

1505. Now, Even Now....

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... , how would it change things? What difference would it make? We hear of people, suddenly aware that they don't have long to live, saying that they intend to quarrel less, laugh more, more often stare into the night sky and stay in closer touch with their families and friends. Of course, for some, the reality of nearing death brings profound fear or despair. What prevents us from living so keenly aware of the blessings, needs, possibilities, dangers and beauty of this day and each day? Actually, people have ...

1506. The Risky Business of Faith

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... than to settle back and enjoy life. Then one of their children dies. She was 33, but still their child. No pain surpasses that of burying one's child, no matter the age. They move through their grief in different ways and at different paces. They lose touch with one another. Before they emerge from the pain, they have lost their marriage as well as their child. For others, it can happen differently. One night at a party, the wife sees her husband across the room and realizes she loves him no more. There was ...

1507. A Misguided Game of Hide-and-Seek

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... , even enter into it -- are all learned. We do not dream them up, we pick them up from those around us. But the fear of being torn from one's foundation, of having nowhere to stand and nothing to hold on to -- that is an insecurity which touches the very depths of what we fear most. Such, I now believe, is what so frightened Jonathan that rainy afternoon: the feeling that he had been deserted, that everything on which he thought he could depend had somehow been displaced. And perhaps this is the backdrop ...

1508. Heaven's Wait

Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... re retired -- you'll finally have a chance to do a little traveling, or maybe even straighten out those awful slices in your golf swing. As they go around the room congratulating you, best wishes mingle with goodbyes and the tears are tempered by promises to keep in touch. But at the end of the day, as you shuffle a few personal belongings into a cardboard box, you begin to realize that your life is going to change. Usually, though, it is a welcomed change. I mean, you've planned and prepared for it. And so ...

1509. Recalling, Remembering, And Rejoicing

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... to give God thanks and praise. And part of what that requires is that we recall the heavenly mercies we have each received. For some of you here those mercies may have come gift-wrapped in the smile of a newborn child; for others in the healing touch of an unseen hand at the hospital bedside. For some of you those mercies may have been so obvious and overwhelming that there was little doubt that the Almighty had spoken; for others they were only the whispers of a still, small voice -- deep within -- which ...

1510. To All Those Who Have, More Will Be Given

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Phyllis Faaborg Wolk

... , I will give you more abilities that will enable you to become an even better teacher. You will be able to reach still more people with my love on an even deeper level." The second disciple was excited, too. His gifts of compassion and empathy had allowed him to touch the lives of people in a way he had never experienced before. He told Jesus, "When you entrusted me with the gifts of compassion and empathy, I was a little shocked. As I was growing up, people would always tell me that it wasn't manly to hug ...

1511. Proper 4

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

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William E. Keeney

... into what is real and true. Jesus was believed to have a true understanding of the meaning of life and its various relationships. 9. "Not as their scribes." (v. 29) A danger of professionalism is that one depends on book learning and tradition and loses touch with reality. Much of the teachings of the scribes of Jesus' time was involved with casuistry, which seemed to the ordinary people to be petty quibbling over minor details or rationalizations to avoid the real demands of the law. They did not seem to ...

1512. The Parable of the Talents

Matthew 25:14-30

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William E. Keeney

... we are acting on our own without guidance and support. How do you persevere in such circumstances? 2. What do you do when you experience the absence of Christ in your life? Almost everyone has periods of spiritual dryness. It feels as though they are no longer in touch with God. Is it a time of testing of faith and trust? What kinds of patience and waiting do we have to exercise in the expectation that the absent Lord will return to us? What kinds of disciplines can we follow which will help us recover the ...

1513. The Promise Of The Spirit

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... robe tied with a cord, barefoot, he set out on a lifelong ministry devoted to the poor. The Spirit of the Lord was upon him. The Spirit drove Luther out of the monastery in 1517 and it was like striking a match in a tinderbox, touching off a firestorm of revival and reformation that spread throughout Europe. Wesley was driven by the Spirit out of the established pulpits of England which he loved to the open air of Bristol where he preached to the coal miners the unsearchable riches of Christ, bringing ...

1514. Holy Love and Herod's Love

Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... . And greater love hath no one than this: not that he kill, but that he lay down his life for another. At Christmastime, we are never far from the love of God. We experience it in things soft and tender; in memories sweet and fragrant; in stories poignant and touching. This morning, the First Sunday after Christmas, we bump up against the sacrificial side of God's love, and the high cost of that love. God's Son -- Mary and Joseph's baby boy -- is spared death at Herod's hand. But only for a few decades. The ...

1515. Confidence To Spare

Psalm 27:1-6, 13-14

Sermon

Robert G. McCreight

... second World War continue to have a great impact on us, a power that 50 years later we might not have imagined. The recent award-winning film Schindler's List proves once again that the faith of some people in the midst of a great international tragedy touches us deeply. Another true story out of that era came from a group of nameless people who were being hunted by the Nazis, and persecuted if they were found. Some of these people took refuge for a prolonged period of time in a dark and cold underground ...

1516. Forgiven!

Sermon

Lee Griess

... identified as "a woman of the city, a sinner." The meal takes place not in Bethany, but at the home of a Pharisee. And instead of Judas objecting to the waste of the money for the perfume, it was a Pharisee who was scandalized by a sinful woman touching Jesus. But essentially the story is the same. Jesus sums it up when he concludes, "Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much, but he who is forgiven little, loves little." Forgiven -- that's the theme of today's Gospel ...

1517. The Man Born Blind

John 9:1-12

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... . See John 1:4, 8:12, 11:9, 12:35, and 12:46. When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man's eyes,6 Jesus healed a deaf-mute person and another blind person using touch and saliva. See Mark 7:33ff and Mark 8:23ff. ... saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see.7 For another reference to Siloam in this passage, see Luke 13:4. The neighbors and ...

1518. Seeing The Whole Person

John 4:1-26

Sermon

David Belgum

... in the case of another Samaritan Woman type. The Pharisees noticed quickly that the woman, anointing Jesus' feet at the dinner table, was a woman of ill repute. If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him -- that she is a sinner ... [Jesus replied] she has shown great love. But the one to whom little is forgiven, [or who has not been accepted] loves little.-- Luke 7:39, 47 It's a challenge. Every time we can react like Jesus did with the Samaritan ...

1519. Brainstorms

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... and Mary, and by all means, James and John, the "Sons of Thunder." The accent should be on the ambivalence which marks and mars the relationship. You might conclude with a special intercession for brothers and sisters with whom we are at war -- or just out of touch. Evangelist Par Excellence. In John's Gospel there are three scenes in which Andrew plays a major part. In each of them he is bringing someone to Jesus. In John 1:35-42 it is his big brother, Simon, whom Jesus will rename Cephas or Peter, "Rock ...

1520. All-Surrounding Grace

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Elaine M. Ward

... and is caught and imprisoned. After serving his prison sentence, the tramp returns to the world and passes the flower shop of the formerly blind girl. She scorns him, only to discover the unkempt and forlorn tramp is her benefactor. Using her sense of blindness -- touch -- she feels his face and speaks the word, "You!" During Lent we are introduced to that "You" in our lives. "God so loved the world he gave his only Son ..." When Carl Jung visited Taos Pueblo in 1924 he spoke with one of the inhabitants ...

1521. Affirming The Ash Heap

Job 2:1-10, Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... with sores. His wife suggested suicide. "Job, how can you stand any more? Death would be better than what you are enduring." And to add to his woes, Job had to listen to the platitudes of sunshine theology from his friends who, for some reasons, had lost touch with the man and his suffering. We begin today an observance of Lent, the forty days before Easter. It is a time of preparation, penitence, self-examination. During the Sundays in Lent, I want to attempt a very difficult task, a task I am not sure I ...

1522. A Love Feast

John 13:1-17, 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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Frank Ramirez

... he tried to set Jesus straight. But Jesus wasn't demonstrating hospitality. He was living service. In our world, where longer life has led to the necessity of care givers, where sufferers ravaged by disease present us with the challenge of broken people who need a healing touch, where the cult of rugged individualism has made us a people who will serve others but refuse ourselves to be served, what better way to take up the cross of Jesus, but to bend the knee humbly and wash the feet of a brother or sister ...

1523. What Kind Of Love?

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... and fulfills; gift-love that regards the other as a truly unique and important individual; and divine gift-love that gives us such forgiveness and grace that we can love and accept even those things in others that are unlovable. My prayer for couples joined in marriage, and all they touch over the years, is that that they may always love amongst themselves.

1524. Eighteen Years Is Long Enough

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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John N. Brittain

... scripture. (Theologians call this prevenient grace.) It is one of the reasons that spiritual discernment is such an important gift in the Christian community. Sometimes what God is doing in our lives is more obvious to others than it is to us! Second, God touched Jeremiah and empowered him in a particular way for the ministry to which he was being called. "Now I have put my words in your mouth." Jeremiah was right -- he wasn't prepared, but God could prepare him. Finally, and most crucially, the particular ...

1525. "Is It Community Today?"

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... reason it needs to be community today is because it is through community that we are spiritually nourished. I once read an article in Reader's Digest that taught me something I didn't know about trees. It seems that when the roots of trees touch, there is a substance present that reduces competition between them. In fact this fungus helps link the roots of different trees, even different species of trees. A whole forest can be linked together underground. And if one tree has access to water, another to ...

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