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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C. Hassell Bullock
... 20), suggests a dearly beloved only daughter, whereas the masculine noun elsewhere describes Isaac as “your only son [yahid], whom you love” (Gen. 22:2). Here it refers to the psalmist’s life.12 35:19  those who hate me without reason . . . wink ... may ask the question whether we should make a distinction between interpersonal relationships, on the one hand (in which we are to love our enemies and turn the other cheek, etc.), and the behavior of those responsible for carrying out justice in society, on ...
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Charley Reeb
... ideas. God is bigger than denominations. God is bigger than the church. God is bigger than the Bible. Now, these things are important and they have their place but they cannot contain God. Nothing can! All of our language of God is a limited metaphor for his power, glory, love, and grace. The older I get and the more I grow as a Christian the bigger God gets and the more open I am to discovering the depth of who God is. I submit to you that all Christian growth goes in that direction. The moment we think we ...
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Charley Reeb
... verse is the word, “plan.” What is God’s plan for me? I want a hope. I want a future. I believe this is why we love this verse so much. Individually and collectively we crave that hope that God does have a plan for us, a future for us. We hope that is ... s will is confined to one thing. The truth is God’s will is often “all of the above.” God’s will for us is to love him and love others and that means God’s will can be fulfilled in a myriad of ways. Most of the time God’s will is not a pin ...
1579. Why Are Christians So Judgmental?
Matthew 6:2, 5, 16, Matthew 23:1-39
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Charley Reeb
... we think and believe, our heart for others. What we do when no one is looking. Whether or not we care about issues that concern our faith.” In other words what is in our hearts. How we care about the least, last, and lost. How we treat people. How we love others. That is the inside of the cup. Tony Campolo was invited to speak at a big church conference. It was in a huge arena and the place was packed with fired up Christians. When he got to the podium he uttered a filthy cuss word. Gasps filled the arena ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... can do whatever he pleases. It is rather a promise that in his behavior towards humanity God will be true to his character of love and justice. God’s character guarantees his actions. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy is simply the experiential form of “I ... have to deliver the world to wrath and punishment because of its greed and lust and war. But a God whose nature is love is free to make the dictates of justice penultimate to those of compassion. But what is the relation between God’s mercy and ...
1581. Be Holy
1 Peter 1:13-2:3
Understanding Series
Norman Hillyer
... makes this explicit. Furthermore, the meaning of chrēstos is richer than “kindness” (Luke 6:35; Rom. 2:4; Eph. 4:32). An “easy gentle relationship” (Matt. 11:30) paraphrases the sense intended here. How can new believers, who have now experienced the tenderness of divine love when they came into contact with Jesus Christ for the first time, ever want to slide back into their old way of life? But it will be only too easy to do so unless they continue to grow in the faith and the knowledge of their ...
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King Duncan
... the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.” And you know it’s true because of the great love God has for His children. This has been God’s plan from the beginning of time. The Bible tells us that death was not part of ... are alive. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living. God made you to be eternally alive. God’s nature is to love you and provide you with abundant and eternal life, even when that life requires God to take the penalty of death on our behalf through Jesus ...
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George Reed
... would refuse to cook or buy a meal on Sunday for a starving child because it would desecrate the sabbath and yet every day the love and grace of God is denied to others because they do not meet up to the expectations we have for them. We take the caring ... instead of being clear paths to lead them to God. We take upon ourselves the work of enforcing God's Law instead of sharing the love and compassion of God with others so that they, too, can find in God's good instructions a way that leads to a full, joy- ...
1584. Trusting in the Goodness of God
Genesis 2:15-17, Genesis 3:1-7
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King Duncan
... a letter to a friend in which he said, “You must never doubt that I’m traveling with gratitude and cheerfulness along the road where I’m being led. My past life is brim-full of God’s goodness, and my sins are covered by the forgiving love of Christ crucified.” (6) Here was a man facing certain execution, but he was filled with gratitude and a consciousness of God’s presence. He trusted in the goodness of God. Adam and Eve’s sin in the Garden began when they doubted God’s character. With ...
1585. Trust in Me
Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 2:1-7
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Lori Wagner
... . But those messages don’t always come in ways that we expect them to, or are comfortable with. That’s where the trust comes in. The litmus test of whether it is the Spirit prompting you is this: Is this prompt leading me in the way of love? Joseph’s upbringing would have told him to break it off with Mary, to cancel the betrothal. She had dishonored him and her family with her pregnancy. She had broken covenant, according to the law, and was subject to punishment. But like another story we looked at ...
1586. The Promise of Dreams
Genesis 37:1-11, Matthew 1:18-25
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Lori Wagner
... of sin and death, the enabling of us to fly and imagine or envision a different world with Jesus’ redemptive dream of hope for all people. God’s mission in the world begins and ends with dreams, with God’s vision for a people empowered with the love and healing heart of Jesus. To be a prophetic church in an age of high-tech dreams means we need to be first and foremost dreamers of God’s dreams for the world, not Hollywood/Bollywood/Nollywood dreams or Silicon-Valley dreams or Wall Street dreams but ...
1587. Holding On
Job 1:1; Job 2:1-10
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King Duncan
... quite like Job, but a few of us may have come close. It may be a problem with our health or a problem with someone we love, or a problem in our workplace. If that describes your life, only you know. Whatever that problem may be, there is a battle going on, and ... the grace of God. It is in holding on, enduring, not giving up on God, that we see God’s power and God’s love most clearly. And we learn that we can trust God through every circumstance, even when we cannot see Him. Author Marion Bond West tells ...
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King Duncan
... enough to qualify for God’s approval. Only the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ is enough to make us clean in God’s eyes. So who are we to stand in judgement of others? Read through the book of Acts and one message is abundantly clear: God’s love is greater than our limitations. God’s plan is greater than our prejudices. The host of a religious talk show was interviewing a man who had lived a rough and reckless life until he became a follower of Jesus Christ. As he told the story of his spiritual ...
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Lori Wagner
... graduation does not signal an ending but a huge and dynamic beginning. Jesus has chosen his disciples for a very special task, a mission vital to God and geared to their special time and place. He is appointing them to go forward in service and love after his ascension and to continue God’s mission in his name. He is “commissioning” them as apostles and appointing them for service. He acknowledges that he has taught them all that he could. Now, it’s their time to embark on an entirely new journey ...
1590. Living Through Hard Times
2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
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Bonnie Bates
... I were reconciled. His addictions came to an end, but not before he committed a crime that landed him in prison for the last twelve years of his life. During those twelve years we were able to rebuild our relationship, talk, laugh, write letters, and remember the love we felt for one another. This was truly a gift for me. I know it was for him as well. I thought, after his death, about the wasted years ― more than thirty of them ― that were lost to us. His creativity, artistic, and carpentry skills were ...
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Dean Feldmeyer
... be little more than ill-informed guesswork. But I do believe this: The God who comes to us in the person of Jesus Christ, is a loving, caring God who has numbered the hairs on our heads, who searches for us when we are lost, who weeps with us when we are in ... understand about it and we do not even have the words with which to ask. What we do have is this: We have faith that God loves us and walks with us through even the darkest night. We have the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to us to accompany us when we ...
1592. God Is Like...a Parent
Hosea 11:1-4 · Luke 15:1-32
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Kenneth L. Gibble
... Old Testament reading from Hosea, the prophet is speaking on behalf of Yahweh. Listen again to some of the phrases. When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son…. It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms…. I ... like those who lift infants to their cheeks. I bent down to them and fed them (from Hosea 11:1-4). Here God speaks as a loving parent. Notice that God could be either a mother or a father in this passage. There is no way to tell which. But the point I ...
1593. God Is Like...a Lamb
Exodus 12:3-8 · Luke 22:7-20
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Kenneth L. Gibble
... belongs to God. The apostle Paul said it best. God’s power “is made perfect in weakness,” wrote Paul (2 Corinthians 12:9). That is the mystery that turns the common perception of things on their ears. It is the mystery of God’s all-conquering, lion-like love revealed in the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. We stake our lives on this mystery, we followers of the lamb. Though it is sometimes hard, we pledge not to return evil for evil, but to return good for evil. We reject the motto ...
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Douglas J. Deuel
... Cocoa was not in sight. They knew immediately. Unexpectedly, Cocoa had died during the night. Perhaps the poison had been stronger than originally thought. Perhaps Cocoa did not have any more fight left in his tired body. Perhaps it was just his time. They had been prepared to love him for longer than two years, but it wasn't meant to be. That night as their oldest son prepared to go to bed, he had tears rolling down his cheeks and he offered this prayer: "Dear God, please tell Cocoa he was the best dog in ...
1595. Why A Cross?
John 19:17-27
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Robert Beringer
... every age, keeps calling us to a life of righteousness, peace and justice. The writer of the 139th Psalm asks, "Whither shall I flee from thy presence?" Even the Psalmist caught the wonder of a God who not only holds the stars in their courses, but who loves us like a shepherd, and pursues us like a shepherd seeking a lost lamb. What God did at Calvary, God has always been doing. In cosmic terms, the cross demonstrates how it is only the one who has been wronged and hurt who can reach across the brokenness ...
1596. Christ the King
Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46
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William E. Keeney
... for showing mercy. James 1:27 · Pure religion defined as caring for widows and orphans in distress. 1 John 3:17 · A rhetorical question implying that anyone who has the world's goods and does not help brothers and sisters in need does not have God's love. Revelation 20:9-10 · A lake of fire and sulphur prepared for Satan and the people who follow him. Revelation 21:8 · A lake of fire and sulphur as a place for the various wicked persons. CONTENT Content of the Parable Many moderns will find the judgment ...
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Derl G. Keefer
... life. In all decisions the other will be a part of the consideration of the solution. In all problems the other will be a factor to understand. In all joy they will share and in all sorrow be a support to one another. Together they start life with love -- a love that you bless and ordain. Let your blessing rest upon them forever. In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. The Exchange Of Rings Pastor: (Groom), please place on (Bride's) finger the ring you give her as a symbol of your devotion to ...
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Derl G. Keefer
... these vows after me. Pastor (Groom Repeats): I, (Groom), take you, (Bride), as my dearly beloved wife. I covenant before God, to care for you as long as we both shall live. I will place your well-being at the head of my personal agenda. I pledge my love for you in front of these people, this minister, and God. I shall pray that our lives will become one together. I will do my best to pursue God's will and purpose for our journey together. Pastor: (Bride), please place the ring upon (Groom's) finger, and ...
Drama
Peter C. Garrison
... in Christ. Otherwise, you will be in for a sad surprise ... Pontius: Nothing surprises me more than my actually listening to your gibberish. God's love in a prison cell is a surprise indeed, a lot like the surprise of having the King of the Jews standing next to me ... it hurt you? 6. What is the "ultimate truth" for you? 7. How do you live this truth? 8. How is God's love in Christ part of your living this truth? Reflection By A Famous Christian On:Pragmatism "Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that ...
1600. Proper 6
Lk 7:36 - 8:3 · Gal 2:15-21 · 1 Ki 21:1--21 · Ps 5
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John R. Brokhoff
... the world and condemns it. 3. Enemy (v. 20). Earlier King Ahab called Elijah the "troubler" of Israel. Now he calls him his "enemy" -- "Have you found me, O my enemy?" Anyone who stands for truth and is opposed to falsehood becomes an enemy of liars. Love is the enemy of hatred. A preacher of righteousness automatically becomes the enemy of the Underworld. A Christian cannot be a friend to all people. Lesson 2: Galatians 2:15-21 1. Sinners (v. 15). Are Jews not sinners? Paul refers to those born as Jews as ...
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