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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176. Where Is He?
Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12
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J. Howard Olds
... Too Small. In it he said, “A lot of people cannot go deep into their own spiritual lives because their notions of God are too small. They are content to live with a God they can control, get a handle on, figure out. So we box God into our own way of thinking, forgetting the true nature of the great I Am who is among us.” Jesus said “I am the Messiah, I am the door, I am the resurrection, I am the way, the truth, the life. I am the light of the world. When will we let God be God? Not ...
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Ron Lavin
... to me? Are you punishing me? Are you there? Have you deserted me? Don't you care? Aren't you there? Are you asleep?" Saint Paul the apostle, as he writes to his friends in Corinth who have found faith but are in danger of going back to former ways of thinking, says, "From now on, therefore, we regard no one from a human point of view" (2 Corinthians 5:16, RSV). As mere mortals we view things "from the human point of view" -- that is, the side that we humans by our own power seem incapable of leaving. We are ...
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Leonard Sweet
... carefully what happened to the battered traveler. But stress has been USED by men and women throughout the ages as a platform for creativity and innovation. When stress is transformed into creative tension, there's made possible new ways of thinking, new ways of doing. Creative tension is what transforms steel beams into a gravity defying suspension bridge. Continued stress transforms coal into diamonds. Unrelenting tension brought an end to legalized "Jim Crow" and birthed the Civil Rights Act. Although ...
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Thomas A. Pilgrim
... can remain neutral. The king is coming and someone must decide. The king is coming and you must make up your mind about him. The king is coming and we can no longer remain the same - "something's gotta give." Something has to change in our way of thinking. Something has to be different about our loyalties. Something has to be renewed about our commitment. Something has to be chosen above all those things vying for our attention. Palm Sunday will not let us rest, will it? It confronts us always with a choice ...
180. Ash Wednesday
Mt 6:1-6, 16-21 · 2 Cor 5:20b--6:10 · Ps 51:1-17 · Jl 2:1-2, 12-17
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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe
... of God's Judgment" Setting. The reference to the Day of the Lord in Joel 2:1 provides important background for interpreting the Old Testament lesson. The Day of the Lord is not a definite period of time, which might occur in twenty-four hours. A better way of thinking about the Day of the Lord is to associate it with a definite divine event in time. The definite event is an action by God that determines the character of the world. The Exodus and the mission of Jesus are such events. Such actions are God's ...
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King Duncan
... energy. Our children’s future may be at risk. The spread of nuclear weapons is also a matter of deep concern. Years ago scientist Albert Einstein warned us that the unleashed power of the atomic bomb has changed everything, except our way of thinking. Because we have not changed, “this earth drifts towards unparalleled catastrophe.” Who would argue with Albert Einstein? And now we have the horror of international terrorism. Technology is wonderful in many ways, but in the hands of terrorists, we have ...
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King Duncan
... in counseling are women . . .” Of course the women are probably in counseling because of the men in their lives. Comedienne Elaine Boosler says that when women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking. Yes, we are different. Every once in a while, something comes across the Internet that is so amusing it has to be shared. Have you seen the one that features a wife and a husband writing in their individual diaries about the same ...
183. Dying To Live
Isaiah 43:16-21
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Charley Reeb
... responsibility. Ask a couple how challenging it is to leave a self-centered life in order to raise a child. The truth is that all of us must die in order to give birth to something new. A bad habit must die to provide room for a good one. Certain ways of thinking must change in order to get the desired action. A place of comfort must be left in order to move to a healthier one. All such radical changes must occur in order for something new to be born. Given the truth of death before birth, we should not be ...
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Frank Ramirez
... at murals of the ancient Love Feast. Jews and Gentiles had different dietary constraints, but they could both eat bread and fish. The resurrection meal found its way to their shared table. Keep in mind that in the Greek culture of the Roman Empire and the Hebrew way of thinking the natural world was a good thing, and God's gift of the body was good. This is not the only resurrection story that emphasizes how we meet Jesus around the table. In the story of Jesus on the road to Emmaus, the two disciples who ...
185. Outgrowing the Truth Fairy
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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Leonard Sweet
When we were children, the Scriptures tell us, we thought, spoke, and felt as a child. But when we grow up in our faith, we must "put an end to childish ways." What are the childish ways of thinking, feeling and speaking that we must put away today? This is a chance for you as preacher to be a "scop." Pronounced "shop," scop is the medieval term for the spy-poet, the person who crosses boundaries, even goes "behind enemy lines" to be with his or her people. Walter ...
186. Mark 8:27-38
Mark 8:27-38
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Leonard Sweet
... flies in the face of conventional concepts of success and gain, of winning and losing. These radically re-defined categories demonstrate what constitutes the "divine things" mentioned in juxtaposition to "human things" in verse 33. Jesus specifically identifies this divine way of thinking as a prerequisite to those who call themselves his followers. Jesus has not yet revealed that his impending death is to be suffered on the cross, so his directive to "take up their cross" is more meaningful to the Marcan ...
187. Epiphany 2
John 1:43-51, John 1:35-42
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Wayne B. Keller
... to the Congregation Suggestion: Shakespeare said, "Assume a virtue though you have it not; for it is a fact that the dynamic power of habit can build it into your character." The approach that I use in counseling is this: "It is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking and feeling, than to think and feel your way into a new way of acting." What new action are you willing to take this week to express yourself as a Christian?
188. Thomas
John 20:24-31
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Brett Blair
... ? If the goal of your life is for someone to show you a photograph of God, then you will be forever disappointed. Let me tell you what happens when we live in a purely rationalistic world, one where miracles are removed from our way of thinking. It happened to Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson ranks as one of our nations greatest intellects but not many people know that he rejected the notion of miracles. When he approached the scriptures he could not tolerate those passages, which dealt with the supernatural. So ...
Understanding Series
Elizabeth Achtemeier
... 8. They want to know his occupation, home town, country, and ethnic background, but they are not interested in Jonah’s biography. They want to know what god he serves, for it is that god who is punishing Jonah by means of the storm. To the sailors’ way of thinking, every god or goddess is attached to a particular location or people, and the sailors desperately need to identify the deity, in order to take measures to appease him or her. 1:9–11 Jonah’s reply in verse 9 shakes the sailors to the depths ...
190. For The Love of God is Creative
1 Corinthians 2:6-12 · Psalm 8
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... laugh and to cry and give out a Tarzan yell all at one time. But instead of doing any of those things you grin a grin that threatens split your face in two. And the sparkle in your eye is so bright it threatens to blind everybody else. To my way of thinking, it was that kind of love multiplied by the infinity of God that burst across the endless void creating the universe and everything in it. God was so filled with love, love to be shared and love to be given, that God couldn't hold it in and didn't ...
191. Strength through Diversity
1 Corinthians 12:1-11
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Richard Gribble
... crusades of medieval times, and many wars between rival Christian factions were fought basically because people were not open to varied understandings of God. Certainly such actions were an overt denial of Jesus' message of inclusivity. Intolerance in ways of thinking, politically and socially, generated the Soviet State's control of the "Iron Curtain" countries after World War II. Rejection of the Jews as a race, culture, and religion led directly to the Holocaust. These historical events stunted the ...
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Thomas Slavens
... God has come upon you.’’ (Luke 11:20b) The responsibility of those who would follow the Christ is to receive the reign of God. Citizenship in that Kingdom requires a childlike spirit. In other words, we adults are called sometimes to change our ways of thinking, to develop different standards, to rip off layers of pride, skepticism and hardness and to return to some of the spirit of childhood. What are some qualities of children that adults would do well to emulate? Among those qualities are three pre ...
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William B. Kincaid, III
... the Greeks didn't yawn. They were appalled at such a thought and quickly acted to correct what they thought of as a ludicrous, even sacrilegious thought. It wasn't that God could not have become flesh, but why would God have wanted to become flesh? By their way of thinking, the flesh was bad and the body was evil. If they could have found some way to live outside the body they would have, but they couldn't come up with anything. So, they tolerated the body as a necessary way to "house the soul." We aren't ...
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Tony Everett
... with God’s saving claim of us and God’s loving frame around us. Because God is in charge, therefore, we can change. Because in Jesus God has turned the world’s view of reality upside down, therefore, we are not trapped and entombed by old ways of thinking and feeling. Because God has turned toward us first, therefore it is possible now for us to turn toward God. Because God raised Jesus, we therefore can heed Peter’s words and stick to the God’s saving game plan: “Repent and be baptized every ...
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David E. Leininger
... Ephphatha! Be opened." Let your ears be open to Christ's word of forgiveness for your sin. "Ephphatha! Be opened." Let your eyes be open to see the opportunities God is making available in your world. "Ephphatha! Be opened." Let your mind be open to new ways of thinking that will expand your understanding of God's will for you and yours. "Ephphatha! Be opened." Let your mouth be opened to share with your friends what God is doing in your life. "Ephphatha! Be opened." Let your life be open to the movement of ...
196. The Good Yoke
Matthew 11:25-30, 1 Kings 19:1-8, 1 Kings 19:9-18, 1 Kings 19:19-21
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Lori Wagner
... material things, relationships, belief systems. Our yokes in a sense bear the markings of those identities that we are willing to take on as our own identity, the stories we adopt and adapt as our own stories. We all live in a yoke. Our yoke is our way of thinking and our way of being and talking and walking in the world. We all yoke ourselves to someone or something! And that can be good or bad. But for many of us, our yokes become more burdens than blessings. Has anyone ever gotten into a bad relationship ...
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Robert Leslie Holmes
... "Repent!" Ash Wednesday is primarily about repentance. The primary Greek New Testament word for repentance brings together two Greek words. The first means "to turn around" and the second means "your mind." Hence, the Greek word for repent means "turn around your way of thinking." The Bible calls for a process of four steps to make that a life reality. The first step is regret. Paul writes, "Godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation and brings no regret" (2 Corinthians 7:10). Regret means a ...
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J. Howard Olds
... the one who rules like the one who serves." What is this reversal of values, this alternate life style, this pursuit of discipleship that Jesus considered so urgent for followers then and now? Come let us take a closer look. I. SERVANTHOOD IS A NEW WAY OF THINKING The setting for this teaching is the upper room on the night of Jesus' arrest and trial. Jesus has just transformed the Jewish Passover into Holy Communion by breaking bread and calling it his body and passing the cup and calling it his blood. He ...
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Mark Trotter
... , or will soon be in this 20th century. So they dropped what they said was a medieval way of looking at the world. That medieval way, they said, is to see the world controlled by spiritual forces. That is just superstition. We have evolved out of that way of thinking. We have other means now of explaining these things. We have different ways now of dealing with them. We know what causes people to do bad things. All we need to do is remove the causes, change the environment, and we will get rid of these last ...
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Mary S. Lautensleger
... to insure Ruth's future by playing matchmaker. While Naomi's involvement in Ruth's love life might be regarded as an unwelcome intrusion in our culture, it was customary for parents in the ancient world to arrange marriages for their children. To our way of thinking, Naomi's scheme seems a bit strange or presumptuous. But, Naomi's advice seems to indicate her deep respect both for Boaz and for his position as potential kinsman-redeemer. She devises a plan for Ruth to meet with Boaz, who is extremely pleased ...
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