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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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1751. Things Go Better With ...

Romans 8:15-16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... with the Holy Spirit? (Let them answer.) The Holy Spirit is the person that God sent to be with you and me after Jesus left the earth and went back to live with God. The Spirit, or the Holy Spirit, is not someone that you can see, hear, smell, or touch. The Holy Spirit is a person of God that is always with you, teaching you to listen and learn from the Bible. The Holy Spirit tells you when you have sinned and convinces you to ask God for forgiveness. The Holy Spirit gives you joy and peace and happiness ...

1752. Sighs from God

Romans 8:26

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... a groan. Maybe the next time you sigh with happiness or sadness, or when you sigh with just the thoughts of the day, you will think about how the Spirit speaks to God for you through these sighs. It is a wonderful way to know that you are keeping in touch with God the Father through the Spirit. All of this happens inside of you because God loves you and cares for you.

1753. Alone

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... nurture, to mold and form and give shape, to guide the growth of creation so that it will be in accord with his design. That care and completing of creation is our human task and destiny. So Genesis tells us. And when God is described as speaking to us and touching and walking in the garden, it is primitive in its visual imagery, to be sure. But, what that is saying is that here we have not a God who has done his part and departed, but a God who remains in dialog with his creation and with us. We speak ...

1754. Christ the King

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... is full of people who, once you start talking to them and they find occasion to reveal themselves, will tell you such things. People who have known the care of the shepherd king, who live and work in his kingdom, as they do, know that they are touched by God himself in a deep and mysterious sense moved by him, empowered by Him, sustained by Him. So the prophet Jeremiah, surveying the clear past of his people, sees a failure of leadership. He looks into the future, still fog-enshrouded. There he sees that ...

1755. Confusion Over a Questioned Book

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... has the power and intelligence to finish the job and bring all things to their completion. To me, the logic here is rather clear and quite overwhelming. I cannot conceive of this world bringing itself forth. Somehow the one we call God brought it forth. Everywhere I touch and examine this world I am overwhelmed by its complexity. I cannot conceive of how a God of such power and complexity can be incapable of completing what he has started. It is by his will that things came to be. It is by his will that ...

1756. Fasting In A Fast-food World

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... external actions began to penetrate their hearts, their spirits, and their lives. Changes began to take place in the church, in the families, and in the spirit of the congregation. A "holy fast" is a penetrating energy, and it gives new life and strength to all it touches where Christ is made the aim and center of it all. My spouse and I find, personally, that Lent is the richest time of the entire church year for us. Our "holy fast" of six weeks may mean we fast on our "indispensable" coffee, on desserts ...

1757. Death Of A Dream - Birth Of A Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... ) to the spirit of a person. We simply cannot live long without him. We are more right than we knew when we pray as we sing, "Breathe on me Breath of God, Fill Me with Life Anew." Witness Then the visible sign appeared: "Tongues that seemed like fire touched each person there." Had Jesus not said that they would be baptized with the Holy Spirit and with fire? "And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to talk in other languages, as the Spirit enabled them to speak." Here, as at the Tower of ...

1758. Are You A Basket Case?

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... 's heart. We don't think our own sins were quite of that magnitude; but then we have no real idea of how offensive sin is to a holy God, or we would bow our heads in shame. But however multitudinous our sins, how heavy our guilt, it can't touch the love that God has for us. He continues to rescue us with a mighty hand and outstretched arm on Calvary's cross-tree. The Future Those Israelites recited their thanks before the altar, and said, "God has finally brought us here to Canaan, this land of milk and ...

1759. A Great Big Bunch of Love

2 Corinthians 4:18

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... ? (Let them answer.) It is really hard to give away something that you like very much. Well, with this gift, even though you give it away, you still have it! Can anyone see what this gift is? (Let them guess.) This wonderful gift is love. Even though you can't touch it or weigh it or put it in a box, it is very real, isn't it, boys and girls? (Let them respond.) Your parents give you lots of love each day. Because love is catching, you have lots of it now that you can give to other people. Who ...

1760. A Guarantee From Jesus

2 Corinthians 1:22

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... to have it happen but the warm feeling that we have when we hear the name of Jesus comes from the Spirit that is in our hearts. How many of you can feel the Spirit of Jesus inside of you? (Let them answer.) It isn't something that you can touch but you just know that it is there. That is the guarantee. It is like having a piece of paper in your hand that tells you what you bought, promising that it will work. Jesus tells us that we should forgive sins that people do to us and God will ...

1761. Our Father Who Art In Heaven

Matthew 6:9

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... 't your flag or my flag, but it's our flag and we love it because it belongs to all of us. I want to tell you about someone who belongs to all of us. We all have one Father. Our Father is not someone whom you can see or touch, but He is the same for all of us. Our Father is in heaven and we call Him Our Father God. Each of us has a father, a different father, who lives with us and our mother. But this Father is different in many ways. Our Father God lives in ...

1762. HUMILITY - A POTATO FOILED!

1 Peter 5:6

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... better tasting than any other way. I am going to take this potato and wrap it in the foil and then I am going to put it in the oven. The potato will really cook inside the foil. It will get so hot that you would never be able to touch it. I suppose if I were a potato I would feel pretty bad about being cooked that hot, but I think it would be worth it. You can cook a potato a lot of different ways, but as long as you are going to cook it you might as well ...

1763. Living without Fear

Romans 6:15-23, Romans 6:1-14

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... swimming pool? Everyone who has been somewhere where there is water to swim in should hold up his hand. Almost everybody. Now this is the big question. How many of you know how to swim? How many of you can go through the water without putting your feet down to touch the bottom? Some of you can, and some of you can't. I know that when I go to the beach or the pool I see two kinds of people. There are the ones who can swim and the ones who cannot swim. I can always tell the difference between ...

1764. Squirrels and Nuts

1 Corinthians 4:1

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . We see things happen and we know that they are happening, but we do not know why they have happened. When God makes a new life, it is a mystery. When someone dies, it is a mystery. We know that God is here but we cannot feel him, smell him, touch him, hear him, or see him. God is a mystery. But even if he is a mystery, we are still asked to teach what we know about him and help others enjoy him as we do. God is a mystery, and many of the things that he does are mysteries ...

1765. Proper 15

Mt 15:21-28 · Ex 16:2-15 · Rom 11:13-16, 29-32 · Ps 78

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... demon-possessed daughter, we confront a different kind of Jesus. Is he the same Jesus whom we often describe as "meek and mild?" Can this be the same man who blesses little children, gives sight to a blind beggar, forgives an adulterous woman, heals a lady by her touch of his garment, and tells the story of a Good Samaritan? Here we experience a Jesus who does not seem to fit into this portrait. He ignores a woman's cry for help. He addresses his disciples in her presence as though she were not present. He ...

1766. Sight And Insight

John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... "too" indicates that he considered himself a disciple of Jesus. Since he received his sight, he naturally was grateful and appreciative. Who wouldn't be? He must have had the highest respect and admiration of one with so much compassion and power. When a person is touched, healed and blessed by Jesus, he wants to be a follower of Christ. Out (v. 35). "Out you go!" said the Pharisees to the man who out-reasoned them. They had no answer to his argument except to excommunicate him from the synagogue. This was ...

1767. Lent 5

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44, John 11:45-57

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... his total humanity, his love and compassion. Soon their sorrow turned into joy because Lazarus was restored to life. Voice (v. 43). With a loud voice, Jesus called Lazarus to come out of the tomb. The miracle was a miracle of words. Nothing was done, not even a touch, to raise Lazarus. It reveals the power of God's Word. We remember that the universe was created by God's saying, "Let there be ..." and there was! The Word of God has the power to resurrect the dead and to make all things new. The power of ...

1768. Walking The Familiar

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... Tom and Nancy Lincoln had a little baby last week." We need the reminder: God uses the ordinary for his purposes. The rejection of Jesus in Nazareth initiated the first missionary thrust. What had been one voice now was 12 plus one. What had been one healing touch now was 12 plus one. Further, we often think that God's work must be through such grand events as the sun standing still, or the Red Sea being pushed aside. That may be, but much more God works in the ordinary, the routine, the undramatic. Red ...

1769. Our Own Mountaintop Walk

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... . So certain was he that he had literally left his family - they had disowned him! His certainty was affirmed by the words of holy writing that he knew so well, and by the words that he had heard from Jesus' lips and the deeds accomplished by Jesus' touch. "This is our Messiah," he often said. "This is the Lord." The one regret that burned in his heart was that he was not with the 11 when Jesus, radiant, had appeared to the disciples for a last earthly time. He quizzed the other disciples often. "What ...

1770. What's a Good God Doing In a World Like This?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

James Weekley

... . You'll hear that again. For the present, the drama of God's goodness must be acted out in our limbs. His goodness in that lubricant which gets us moving toward human need. Jesus specialized in those difficult, radical needs no one else would touch ... street people ... lepers ... rip-off artists. He cared. He cared because his Good News became more then an antiseptic editorial. On our scene he cuts into our pain and aloneness. That is all the encouragement we need to deal with unexpected pain. Once the ...

1771. The Song in Search of a Voice

John 20:19-23

Sermon

James Weekley

... have their act together. What about us? Will the wailing lament of nuclear winter become our final epitaph? Silent night, Hopeless night, All is devastated, All is blight. The hours following Jesus' death were like walking barefoot on egg shells. It was touch and go. Many thoughts stitched themselves into the thoughts of the disciples. "Will it be a matter of hours before the Romans have us?" Then, to split the night like a flashing neon light, Mary Magdalene announces, "I have seen the Lord!" Excitement ...

1772. Keeping God First in the Polls

John 3:1-21

Sermon

James Weekley

... Music doesn't argue; it sings. Beauty doesn't argue; it beckons. Love doesn't argue; it outlives our griefs. Truth doesn't argue either. It stands with the stars. As Nicodemus discovered in his encounter with Jesus, truth wasn't on the far side or "out of touch." It was on our side, sticking like molasses. It had a "God with us" quality, flowing in our blood line. "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth." (John 1:14) God's truth was fashioned into a human species - capable of ...

1773. The Big Hand

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

James Weekley

... of healing and growing. If we, in his name, fumble in our relationships, then we are no better than our tormenters. Is hate worth carrying for a lifetime? Everybody pays when hatreds are left unforgiven. Richard Raines was correct when he said that when "I get out of touch with my own feelings ... I'm no good to anybody." "Take, eat ..." Only the Christ goes to the trouble to stand with us. His authentic fail-safe presence stands and cries with the alcoholic at 3:00 A.M. Only he has gone to the trouble to ...

1774. Even God Called Time Out

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

James Weekley

... time we allow for him the remainder of the week. We can't get away with Sunday-only worship anymore. Although grace before meals is commendable, he relishes more in-depth encounters. Although personal prayer before bedtime and upon awakening helps us to stay in touch, what he is after in our lives is arm-in-arm fellowship, those two-on-two encounters. Some of our more intimate moments with him come through sharing time with our families. Does that seem far-fetched? Do we really want to pay that price ...

1775. Redemption Near And Dear

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Erskine White

... show us a great light and to lead us safely through the night. It is a message for Advent and it is our faith for any time of year. Yes, we will be blessed by the sheer joy of this beautiful season in the weeks ahead. Yes, we will be touched by the wonder of the season in worship and music from here to Christmas Eve. But first, we have a message for those who must face a harder time during the holidays. It’s an Advent message we should neither be hesitant to give nor ashamed to receive: You who ...

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