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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. How Do You Know?

John 20:24-31

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... questions.) How do you know you're alive? Let's start here. (Pick a child to answer. Repeat each of their answers. Us as many as time allows. Some of them might be the following ideas.) I can feel happy and sad. I can feel cold and warm. I can touch and see. I can hear and think. I can remember things. I can smell. I can walk and run. There are lots of ways to tell if you are alive. But how do you tell if someone else is alive? (Let them respond.) The man in our lesson today had ...

152. The Road To Capernaum

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... this kind of compassion. He healed the sick, all who were brought to him. He did it not to attract attention, or to gain a reputation, or to make money or to have his own television show. He did it for one reason. He was moved with compassion. Jesus touched people with a higher level of compassion. And in that he demonstrated the love of God. That is another thing he calls us to do. He calls us to cultivate in our lives this higher level of compassion - to demonstrate the love of God. It does no good for ...

153. What Is God Like?

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... , and who'll make it two? Two thousand! And who'll make it three? Three thousand, once, three thousand twice, And going, going, gone!" said he. The people cheered, but some of them cried, "We do not quite understand. What changed its worth?" Swift came the reply: "The touch of the Master's hand." And many a man with life out of tune, And battered and scarred with sin, Is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless crowd, Much like the old violin. A "mess of pottage," a glass of wine; A game - and he travels on. He's ...

154. Table For Talkers

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

... wants to identify with us, to be one with us, to crawl under our skins, to become part and parcel of us. This is a normal desire of those who love because, on a human plane, lovers cannot get close enough to each other. They are not content until they touch each other. Ever see lovers sit on opposite ends of a sofa? This means that the Lord's Supper is the Christian's highest privilege on earth. Through the body and blood of the Sacrament on the Table, Jesus comes closer to us than at any other time or in ...

155. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... each burned a votive lamp. Franklin said that these lights not only shone for the glory of God, but enabled men at night to find their way more easily through the dark streets of Paris. So in our miracle story, the Light of the world - our Lord, Jesus the Christ - touched and healed a man born blind and brought glory to God. At the same time he brought light to all people - to you and to me - enabling them to find their way through the darkness of this life to life eternal. If we walk in darkness, it is not ...

156. No Huggies

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

... the Kingdom in fact is theirs. It belongs to them - those miserable little urchins whom the disciples rejected - and not to the disciples themselves. Then, as if to illustrate in the most graphic way what he meant, Jesus, who had been asked merely to touch the children, now scoops them up in his arms, enfolds them in his carpenter’s hands, and blesses them - and all of this, I might add, centuries before Huggies, Pampers, and plastic pants. Drooling, messy, dirty - Jesus doesn’t care. He holds them to ...

157. Like Trees Walking

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... words of the old song. Isn’t it enough that we turn to Jesus in faith? For some, yes, for many, no. Many need to be touched again and perhaps yet again to have their vision cleared to get a God’s-eye view of life, which is the miracle of Jesus. Those ... whom he loves. If you cannot see your value to God and to us, your friends in Christ, then you need to have Jesus touch you again. We can help each other to experience his loving kindness and healing. When you have looked about you and reached a conclusion ...

158. Worthy Is The Lamb

Revelation 5:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... Lord Jesus Christ. Without Jesus we would believe all kinds of idiotic things about God. Without Jesus we would have no model for abundant living. Without Jesus we would have no hope of life everlasting. And finally, without Jesus we would not be able to reach out and touch God. This is our faith. If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus. There is a story about a father who, on a dark, stormy night, in the midst of the thunder's crash and the lightening's flash, awakened and thought of his small ...

159. It's Not About Us

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... coming back to the heart of worship and it's all about you, it's all about you, Jesus." We began this series of messages on touching God by saying, "It begins with Jesus" and that is where we will end as well. It's not about us. It's about him. It' ... turned his life over to Jesus because he knew that Jesus understood his pain. (3) Henry Coffeen was not the first person to be touched by Jesus' sacrifice on the cross. We may not be able to grasp all of the musings that theologians do about the significance of ...

160. On Not Knowing What to Say

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... people who need us below in the marketplace. (Next week’s sermon will continue the story, and talk about what Peter and the disciples found when they went back down into the valley.) There is a world out there desperately in need of a vision of God, or the touch of someone who has had a vision of God and wants to share it. You see, our Christian Service is not what we do here in the sanctuary, but what we do in the world. Our word “liturgy” comes from a Greek word which means, literally, “the work ...

161. Hope Is Medicinal

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... in the world is the power to create. That is the power we saw in Jesus. And that is why the leper says, "If you will, you can make me clean." Now look at another detail in this story. It says, "Jesus, moved with pity, stretched out his hand and touched him." This is no insignificant detail. This is perhaps the most shocking part of the story for the people who heard it in those days, because it says Jesus defied the law, in this case, the Holiness Law. You can still read it today in Leviticus. It said to ...

162. Matthew 9: 9-13, 18-26

Matthew 9:9-13

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... . The hemorrhaging woman is the pharisaic idea of a walking nightmare. As an unaccompanied woman she has no business traipsing about behind Jesus and his disciples. As a woman with “an issue of blood” she is ritually unclean. Touching her or touching anything she has touched would bring her impurity upon the toucher. As a woman who has suffered from this malady for twelve years, she would have been religiously and socially outcast from friends and family, from her own community, from religious life ...

163. Three Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... on that text next Sunday, so I’ll simply illustrate it. I do with a familiar and beloved poem by Myra Brooks Welch. THE TOUCH OF THE MASTER’S HAND ‘Twas battered and scarred, and the auctioneer Thought it scarcely worth his while To waste much time on the ... Master comes, and the foolish crows Never can quite understand The worth of a soul and the change that’s wrought By the touch of the Master’s hand. Myra Brooks Welch In your mind now, look down at the manger – and the little Baby Jesus cradled ...

164. The Elephant

John 9:1-41

Illustration

William White

... of a village where all the inhabitants were blind. When a man passed one day riding an elephant, a group of the village men cried out asking the rider to let them touch the great beast, for though they had heard about elephants, they had never been close to one. About six of them were allowed to approach the animal, each being led to touch a different part of the body. After a time, the rider left, and the blind men hurried back to the people to share their experience. "So what is an elephant like?" the ...

165. The Logical Conclusion

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

John Smylie

... here and now. We belong to God — not in some mystical, spiritual sense, but in our down-to-earth eating and drinking, our touching and loving, our smelling and hearing. Our hands and feet, heads and bodies, are redeemed and they belong to God. May we ... who sit in glory at the right hand of the Father, you who come to us in the humble elements of bread and wine, you who touch us in the lives and hearts of our sisters and brothers, come now and fill us again with your very self as you have promised, that ...

166. God Disciplines His Sons

Hebrews 12:1-13, Hebrews 12:14-29

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... ēlaphaō) and gloom (zophos) are not drawn from LXX descriptions of the Sinai theophany. 12:19–20 The reference to a trumpet blast and voice is again drawn from the LXX of Exod. 19:16. According to the LXX of Exod. 19:13, the man or beast who touched the mountain was to be stoned or shot through with a dart. In both forms of execution the one killed is thus kept at a distance. This is in keeping with the dangerous potential for “contamination” by God’s holiness (cf. 2 Sam 6:7), even secondhand. See ...

167. Warning Against Refusing God

Hebrews 12:14-29, Hebrews 12:1-13

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

168. What is Your Golden Calf?

Exodus 32:1-33:6, Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God with us, all we really need to do is feel that image of God within us, feel that engraving of Jesus body and blood upon us at baptism and at communion, and we “know” that He is near. It’s not a knowing that can be seen or touched or felt like I feel this material or this chair. But it’s something so much stronger and more beautiful. I would trust my life to that? Wouldn’t you? Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text The Making of the Golden Calf (Exodus 32) Jesus’ Encounter with Zacchaeus ...

169. The Fringe

Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... need is faith in him –that even from a distance, a distance of years past, a distance of time and space, a distance of invisibility, a distance of generations gone by, that God’s power is still as strong as it was that day when an unnamed woman touched the fringe of Jesus’ garment and moved from fringe to fore in God’s and everyone else’s eyes. The fringe is the power. The fringe is the witness. The fringe is the proof that God is not only present and powerful, but merciful and receptive to each ...

170. The Giver Becomes The Receiver

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... gave suppers with bread and wine to show that his new life was a brotherhood or sisterhood. That, too, is an image that shocks us. Banquets are given in honor of great people; great people do not give banquets for the poor. Jesus touched people with his hands -- whether they were lepers or diseased or dead, like Lazarus. He touched people society would not touch. What a reverse image projection that was! Most of the societal projection of a great religious leader is the number of important people the leader ...

171. Yes, It Becomes Unclean

Haggai 2:11-17

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... to achieving this goal. I've heard it put this way: "God has no grandchildren." We may all be children of God, but none of us inherits this condition. We join the family by choice. Haggai's next question, "If one who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?" requires a yes answer. When you drop food on a dirty floor, it becomes as dirty as the floor. Every cook knows this. Most of us don't really have floors clean enough to eat off of, and even if we did, most ...

172. Epiphany 2

Jn 1:29-42 · 1 Cor 1:1-9 · Is 49:1-7 · Ps 27

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... their beds of tears, and gather them together. In turn, the Lord called his chosen ones to reach out to those in spiritual darkness, namely the Gentiles, that they too might walk in the light of the Lord. God calls us in baptism to reach out and touch someone with the good news of Christ's love. What are we waiting for? "I have labored in vain," complained the weary and depressed prophet. How typically human during a time of darkness to look back on our lives and behold only futility and failure. This would ...

173. Into The Whirlwind

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Robert Allen

... an influence with your life than you can keep from casting a shadow on a sunny day. You cannot throw a stone into a pond without causing ripples that spread out in widening circles until they touch the distant shore. And you cannot live in this world without causing ripples of influence that widen out and touch the lives of others. Once while we were in New Orleans, we leased a condo for the week while I attended the meetings of the Jurisdictional Conference. Our condo was a couple of miles from the ...

174. A Lesson From Prayers Overheard

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... about the joy of heaven when the lost were found and the out-rushing love of a father when a child was seen in the distance, trying to make his way home. He would talk of the mercy of God, and he would show that mercy, touching the diseased and making them clean, touching the broken and making them whole, calling the dead and giving them life, and in the last moment welcoming a dying man into paradise. The Pharisee's eyes had been on his neighbor and himself, not on God. The publican's eyes had looked into ...

175. The Call of the Cross

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

... and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake, he will save it." (Luke 9:18-24) One of my students took the Bell Telephone commercial to heart - "Reach out and touch someone." Last Thanksgiving, he decided that he should talk to his mother and father who were 6,500 miles away. He had to dial a California number, which he did, and from there his call was beamed to a satellite and would be sent down to a receiving antenna ...

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