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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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151. Faith in the Son of God

1 John 5:1-12, 1 John 4:7-21

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... unseen, God is not unfelt. Our sense of the reality of God’s love for us grows and moves toward perfection. The Greek, teteleiō-menē estin, can mean “is being perfected,” with the emphasis, then, on the process of a maturing apprehension of God’s love. Additional Notes Within 4:7–12, the following divisions between verses have been suggested: 10/11: Brown, Epistles; Culpepper, 1 John; C. Haas, et al., Letters; Schnackenburg, Johannine Epistles; Smalley, 1, 2, 3 John; Westcott, Epistles; Nestle ...

152. Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away

Genesis 21:8-21

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... Isaac. It is likely, though, that he was making fun of Isaac by abusing his name. It is also important to note that the narrator mocks Ishmael by never using his name in this account. Whatever Ishmael was doing maddened Sarah. Perhaps his behavior made her apprehensive that he might do something, even a violent act, to take Isaac’s place. In no way did Sarah want Ishmael to receive any praise, position, or affirmation that was greater than Isaac’s, and in no way would she tolerate Ishmael’s acting in ...

153. Joseph Makes Himself Known

Genesis 45:1-28

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... did not want them to delay in bringing his father to Egypt because of a difference of opinion. It is also possible to read the line, “do not be agitated on the way” (Wenham, Genesis 16–50, p. 430); that is, they were not to become apprehensive about returning to Egypt. 45:25–28 On reaching Canaan, the brothers reported to Jacob that Joseph was alive and that he was ruler of all Egypt. Stunned, Jacob did not believe them. They continued to seek to persuade him by telling everything Joseph had said ...

154. Wimps or Water Walkers

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... -plank roadway moved beneath their feet. “I don’t think I want to drive the car across this bridge,” said the father nervously. “What are you worried about?” his teen-aged daughter replied. “It’s a rental.” Well, maybe it was a rental, but he was apprehensive, nonetheless. Some of us can sympathize with that Dad. We get a little nervous about even the thought of driving on a rickety bridge suspended a 1,000 feet in the air. Fifty feet in the air would make us nervous. If you have ever been ...

155. Who Owns the Cloud: Google or God?

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... be describing the end of the world. Listen to his words: “There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. People will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world, for the heavenly bodies will be shaken . . .” That’s vivid imagery. “Signs in the sun, moon and stars . . . nations in anguish at the roaring and tossing of the sea . . . people fainting from terror . . . heavenly bodies shaken ...

156. Educated Fear

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Carlos E. Wilton

... He found himself seated next to a Lieutenant fresh out of Jump School. The Lieutenant looked a bit pale, and sat staring off into space. The sergeant leaned over and touched his arm. “Scared, Lieutenant?” “No,” said the young officer, “just a bit apprehensive.” “What’s the difference?” The lieutenant turned to him and answered, “The difference is, I’m scared with a university education.” Fear, in this life, is a given. There’s no getting away from it. The question is, what do we do ...

157. Scandal

Matthew 16:21-28, Matthew 17:14-23, Matthew 20:17-19, Matthew 26:1-5

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... has been put to death, he will rise again.’ But they did not understand what he said and were afraid to ask him. ……… They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem; Jesus was walking on ahead of them; they were in a daze, and those who followed were apprehensive. Once more taking the Twelve aside, he began to tell them what was going to happen to him: ‘Now we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death ...

158. Daddy's Love

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It’s ironic. In most places today in our society crime is down, but fear is up. And fear can make people act in irrational ways. Fear gets a hold on us and even when we know it doesn’t make sense, we can’t shake the apprehension that something bad is going to happen to us. More than half a century ago Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film Psycho burst on the movie scene with its infamous shower scene. Behind that iconic shower curtain was the late Janet Leigh. Her attacker was played by Anthony ...

159. Trapped!

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... vertical drop, which propels the hapless rider at a speed of eighty five miles per hour into a pitch dark tunnel. Naturally Nathan loved it . . . and Mark Roberts loves his son Nathan. So . . . that particular day Roberts with a certain amount of apprehension found himself hurtling at breakneck speeds hundreds of feet in the air aboard a roller coaster named Goliath. But guess what, Roberts discovered he felt a great feeling of freedom as he rode on Goliath—freedom to enjoy the ride, freedom to feel ...

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Aristotle

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise . . . from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

Francesco Guicciardini

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honore de Balzac

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Pliny the Elder

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

Terrence Howard

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

170. The Word Above All Earthly Powers

John 8:31-36

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... . There they would meditate upon the large crucifix hanging over the altar. Professor Sittler said to himself: Is there any other image in the history of the world that could survive such constant gazing? What other form could absorb all of the worries and apprehensions heaped upon it? Throughout history, the figure of the crucified one has been at the center of devotional gravity, the center of human pain and torment.6 Then Jesus said what is, perhaps, the most important word of all: “I am the truth ...

171. Pontifex

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... , exceeds our emotional and physical resources. Other times we will be consumed by the guilt of our sin and the mismanagement of our lives, thinking there can be no redemption for our wayward soul. The situation confronting us seemingly defies a solution. Apprehensive, we await our doom. Condemnation would be our precarious lot except we have a high priest who has taken upon himself our sin, our guilt, our remorse, the problems of our own making. When we confront these problems that defy description and ...

172. One Step at a Time

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Maxie Dunnam

... a good hundred yards from the house. Now I'd never minded going after the water during the daylight, but my imagination was just as vivid as any young boy. And I wasn't too excited about going out into the blackness just for a bucket of water. When my apprehension became quite clear to my father, without a word he went out and got a lantern, returned, lit it, and put it in one of my hands and the bucket in the other. Still not convinced, I pointed out that I could only see about eight feet in front of ...

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151. Faith in the Son of God

1 John 5:1-12, 1 John 4:7-21

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

152. Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away

Genesis 21:8-21

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

153. Joseph Makes Himself Known

Genesis 45:1-28

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

154. Wimps or Water Walkers

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

King Duncan

155. Who Owns the Cloud: Google or God?

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

King Duncan

156. Educated Fear

Illustration

Carlos E. Wilton

157. Scandal

Matthew 16:21-28, Matthew 17:14-23, Matthew 20:17-19, Matthew 26:1-5

Sermon

Lori Wagner

158. Daddy's Love

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

159. Trapped!

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham Maslow

Aristotle

Francesco Guicciardini

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Honore de Balzac

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

Lucan

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Pliny the Elder

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

Terrence Howard

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

William Shakespeare

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

William Shenstone

170. The Word Above All Earthly Powers

John 8:31-36

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

171. Pontifex

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

172. One Step at a Time

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

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