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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David G. Rogne
... no longer be recognized, even when it is fully displayed. Still, one must ask, what makes this particular situation unforgivable, when other, seemingly more heinous acts, are forgivable? I do not think that Jesus is in any way limiting the desire or ability of God to forgive. The situation is not unforgivable because God refuses to forgive it. There is nothing that God cannot forgive if the person involved humbly seeks such forgiveness. That is precisely why those who worry about whether they have committed ...
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David G. Rogne
... forces at work in the world which have a say in what befalls us, and we are concerned about their power. Like those disciples, we too have fears about who, or what, is in control. Fear, of course, is ruinous of life. It robs us of the ability to enjoy life. Recently, all the television news programs devoted themselves to the story of a man in Atlanta, Georgia, who killed twelve people and himself in an upscale business neighborhood. He was a day trader in the stock market, and had recently lost more than ...
1603. The Fox
Mark 6:14-29
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David G. Rogne
... he was not John the Baptist resurrected, and then I had him taken back to Pilate with no recommendation from me. From that point on, Pilate and I had a greater respect for one another. I appreciated his acknowledgment of my jurisdiction, and he appreciated my ability to avoid a politically charged situation. I am sure that I acted rightly, and I urge others not to make judgments about things that don't concern them. One final lesson, perhaps the most costly of my life, that I would pass on, is "Practice ...
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Stephen M. Crotts
... it was a test. Would Philip stress the difficulties presented or the resources possessed? Would he measure his powers or his problems? Would he focus on the hillside of people or the basket? Would he count the crowd or the loaves? Would he look at his ability to begin the work or his inability to finish the work? Jesus was testing Philip, even as he still tests you and me today. He was educating the disciples to do what they could and leave the rest to God. He was illustrating the universal law: Resources ...
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Stephen M. Crotts
... on the beach. You like the mountains! How will you become one? You want that job in Raleigh. She wants to stay here. How will you settle it? So, you see, any couple who marries is setting the stage for conflict. Thus an ability to become one is very important. Marriage counselors say that the number one source of marital arguments is money. After that comes lack of communication, emotional immaturity, inability to resolve conflicts, and finally, infidelity. Did you hear about the couple in the small ...
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Cathy A. Ammlung
... and the invitation stand, blunt and uncompromising. All the excuses we trot out to defend our wavering lie limp on the ground. We are left with the disciples' almost forlorn question when Jesus said that wealth (whether measured as possessions, power, or ability) hinders entry into God's kingdom. "Then how can anyone be saved?" "For God," says Jesus flatly, "nothing is impossible." Nothing. He actually sounds as if he means it. Nobody has an excuse; there is nothing in our lives that inevitably provides ...
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Cathy A. Ammlung
... to share my cup of pain and baptism into death? That's fine, as far as it goes, but it has nothing to do with seating arrangements in the Kingdom. And if you want my kind of authority, get ready to wear an apron, not a crown." Jesus' ability -- his power and his authority -- to forgive sins was shaped strictly by the cross. Giving his life as a ransom for many was the actual way he exerted his authority. Serving rather than being served was the way he wielded divine power. Stooping lower than the lowliest ...
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Fredrick R. Harm
... talk about power. Much is said these days about power. We hear about atomic power, military power, the balance of power, economic power, white power, people power, power structures -- the list is almost endless. The power the Spirit provides is not the ability to move mountains of earth or manipulate masses of people; it is rather the provision of a strength that makes us adequate for any possible experience that life may bring. Dr. William Barclay of Scotland often observed that the really important thing ...
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Fredrick R. Harm
... face. The time had come; he had a task to complete; it could only be done outside Jerusalem on a hill called Calvary. So the determined face of Jesus turned toward the City of Peace to accomplish on a Roman cross what no other had the right -- or the ability -- to achieve: forgiveness for the accumulated guilt of the human race. The old hymn put it well: There was no other good enough, to pay the price of sin, He only could unlock the door of heav'n and let us in. Mark Twain wrote a short story bearing ...
1610. The Source
Hebrews 4:14-5:10
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Paul E. Robinson
... 's publicist is remarkable. And sad. There are some who feel that way about Jesus. About God. About the church. About faith. Empty, well-meaning words by pastors and priests at times of terrible pain have left a question mark about the ability of the Divine Reality to understand truly. Not everyone sings the song with feeling, "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, nobody knows but Jesus. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen, glory hallelujah." The scripture reading this morning sounds heady -- theological ...
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Paul E. Robinson
... victory that overcomes the world, our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? What the author, called "the Elder" in one of the other little letters of John, writes here affirms that what has the ability to bring victory over evil is faith, and not just some generic faith in the goodness of humanity or the inevitability of social improvement. Rather the Elder writes that this faith is centered in the person of Jesus Christ. How strange it is that in the ...
1612. Height Advantage
Ephesians 1:15-23
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Paul E. Robinson
... look at Jesus' Ascension, when Jesus' physical presence left the earth, in only a few days to be replaced by the Holy Spirit. The impact of the ascension, to use the network television analogy, was like filling the skies with geostationary satellites, in terms of humanity's ability to communicate with the Spirit of God in Jesus Christ. Now I am fully aware of how removed this may seem to be from your everyday life. It may not seem relevant to the exam coming up this week or the bills that remain unpaid or ...
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Glenn McDonald
... we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently." Reinhold Niebuhr wrote, "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime, therefore we must be saved by hope." The Lord of the cosmos is working out a plan that is bigger than our abilities and infinitely longer than our spans of life. Therefore our trust is not in what we may or may not appear to accomplish in this world, but in God's promise of wholeness in the next world. As Paul puts it in verse 23, "We ourselves, who have the ...
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Glenn McDonald
... rescue me from this body of death?" Who exactly is this "wretched man"? This is no mere spiritual wannabe. This is the early Church's greatest thinker and missionary. Paul's best intentions are being stampeded by a herd of his own desires that he has no ability to control. If Paul feels this frustrated, what hope do we have that we can ever change? What makes us think that we can kick habits or resist temptations? The very next verse presents the answer: "Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!" It ...
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Harold Warlick
... And to do that, the scriptures can help us. A Christian person should never be bored with life. To be given the gift of life is the image of God. We have a purpose in life -- to finish off God's creation. We have a memory, an imagination, and an ability to love, care, and sacrifice. We are on this earth as a privilege. One out of five million sperm swam its size equivalent from North Carolina to Oregon, upstream, to fertilize an egg and one egg only or you and I wouldn't even be here, someone else would. We ...
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Curtis Lewis
... of going across the city of Nineveh. His sermon was not a homiletical masterpiece, for in the Hebrew it consisted of only eight words: "Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown." Not much of a sermon! It does not take great oratorical ability to deliver that kind of message. Surprisingly, Jonah's sermon was successful, and the response of the people was amazing. They accepted the message, believed it, trusted God, called for a fast, and dressed themselves in the clothes of mourning. Jonah was called ...
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Richard Gribble
... need to set some goals and have some dreams and hopes for the future. Such an attitude keeps us moving forward and never allows us to stagnate, a condition, which if allowed to control us, will draw us into a life of complacency and destroy our ability to make a contribution to society and the church. Dorian Gray was a despicable man, but no one was able to observe this reality on the outside. He presented himself to others as a handsome, healthy, and seemingly productive individual, a man who "had it all ...
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Richard Gribble
... a beautiful canvas, using vivid imagery, of the pardon and victory that God will win for us. Easter is a celebration of God's great victory, not only for Jesus in his resurrection, but equally importantly for the transformation that is possible for us. God's ability to reverse the irreversible, to bring life from death, must be our great source of hope. All of us in some ways need to reverse the patterns in our life that often run counter to the Christian life to which we have all been called through ...
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King Duncan
... Raspberry, a syndicated writer with the Washington Post. In a recent column he made this analogy: Some years ago, South Africa's game managers had to figure out what to do about the elephant herd at Kruger National Park. The herd was growing well beyond the ability of the park to sustain it. And so they decided to transport some of the herd to a nearby game park. A dozen years later, however, several of the young male elephants (now teenagers) that had been transported to the game park began attacking the ...
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King Duncan
... of character and integrity. And when he speaks about a topic like torturing prisoners of war, it is very difficult to argue with him because he has been there. Pat Williams in his book The Paradox of Power says that one of John McCain's strengths is his ability to tell a story. McCain learned the power of stories while he was imprisoned in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. He had been raised on stories of the sea told by his father and grandfather, who were both admirals in the Navy. So, as a prisoner of war ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... he had something that I desperately needed, so I went to that ashram and that was the beginning of new life for me. A life consciously in Christ. It was not that I had not been a Christian, I had been following Christ to the best of my ability. By faith, I had received the gift of Jesus’ death and resurrection for me. I knew myself forgiven and accepted by God, but here was something I had missed. Here was something I had missed. Myself, the dwelling place of Christ, the spirit stream of the Living Lord ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... of our words, out of our gestures, our looks, even our false smiles. We could break this negative cycle by staying sensitive to what we all know - that each child is an individual who needs to satisfy his or her curiosity, develop his or her abilities, cultivate his or her talents, pursue his or her interests. Staying aware of this, we can have the kind of homes that will build a smorgasbord of relationships. All of these flavored with positive appreciation and respect for personhood. All of them rooted in ...
1623. Living Lightly
Genesis 45:1-28
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Maxie Dunnam
... problem Jesus addressed when he said, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or drink, or what you shall put on, or what you shall wear, consider the lilies of the field. The Christian faith should result in a kind of carefreeness, an ability to live lightly. But what does that mean, and how do we begin to do it. I. We Need Flexibility. First we need to recover flexibility. Now I use that word recover deliberately, because we once had flexibility. Somewhere along the way, we lost it. And as ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... are the pacemakers, the pacesetters. Persons who have a profound sense of well-being, of who they are, who are not superficially happy, but who are deeply joyous—persons who make a difference in the world. One characteristic of such persons, she said, is their ability to share with others’ ups and downs, their fears, as well as their faith, their triumph, as well as their tragedy, their sorrow, as well as their joy. Now that isn’t easy, especially when everything in our culture is geared to our being ...
1625. The Power Of Purpose
2 Timothy 3:10--4:8
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Maxie Dunnam
... can, because I don’t know anyone who finds more meaning in what they’re doing than I. There’s another category of people, and another kind of response to work – persons who feel that what they are doing has no real relationship to their abilities, and they ought to be, there ought to be other ways of using their talent. Yet, they’re stuck. Circumstances and age have hemmed them in. Not acting sooner, limits the possibilities of acting now. And I know other people, highly successful people, who are ...
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