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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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2201. THE CROSS

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John H. Krahn

... that only pay dividends in hell and has set us on the positive pathway of a life with God. Our eyes need no longer be downcast; our head has no reason to be between our knees. We are no longer oppressed with our weighty sins, for we have been touched by none other than God. He has cared not just a little but powerfully. His power encountered our sin, and it was no more. His incredible desire to rescue us in spite of everything dispels even the worst sin. But we must be wise enough to permit ourselves and ...

2202. FORGIVENESS: PART II

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John H. Krahn

... difficulty seeing our faults. Believe me, we have faults. If we were able to read the minds of others, how painfully evident our inadequacies would become. Forgiveness is something we need both from God and from one another. Those around us also need to be touched by our forgiving love. Someone who abused us may very well not deserve our love but needs it. Someone who irritates us by an obnoxious personality does not deserve our love but needs it. Someone who has shunned our every effort of kindness does ...

2203. BE EASTER PEOPLE

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John H. Krahn

... one another to be regular in worship and strong in the faith. The end is drawing near. The Lord will return soon to reclaim his fallen creation. When the Lord of the church comes again, how will he find us? Will we be acting like people who have been touched by the meaning of the cross and the empty tomb? Therefore, let us continue to draw near to the Lord with a true heart and a confident faith. We hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering. We consider how to stir up one another to love ...

2204. LOVE TAKES SWEAT

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John H. Krahn

... . A lot of it is Madison-Avenue hype. It is too often connected to things, as if love is something that can be purchased. Don’t get me wrong, there is a place for candlelight, secluded beaches, special warm feelings, carefully chosen words, a quiet touch, a caring embrace, but Christian love is more often concrete than abstract. It is more real than mysterious. The dynamics of Christian love are produced more often with sweat than with perfume. They must be worked at in a daily world with daily problems ...

2205. WHAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO HONOR?

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John H. Krahn

... many mistakes, but they love you and want the best for you. Honor them, tell them you love them. Better yet, show them. The person with whom you work, those people you’ll meet later today, tomorrow’s companions through life, all need to be touched by your love and esteem, for through your love God wants to add wholeness to their lives. By your actions, your way of doing business, the way you move through life, may "honorable" become a description of your personality. We can never overdo honor. Excessive ...

2206. HAVING A REALLY GOOD FIGHT

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John H. Krahn

... we love more than anyone else, then we, as a spouse, have the greatest ability to bring healing to our relationship. If we really want to heal the other person, we can. Healing not only after fights but throughout life. Healing comes through a gentle touch or by saying "I’m sorry" and really meaning it. Healing also comes through forgiving one another and accepting each other’s limitations. Jesus Christ is the greatest facilitator of healing in marriage. He gives us the power to forgive our spouse - not ...

2207. What Are You Going to Do About Death?

Mt 10:28 · Lk 12:4

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Robert G. Tuttle

... need faith for the impossible; and this is where my God operates. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him might not perish but have everlasting life" - impossible, but real! Daily, by faith, by intuitive insight, I touch something (not real, not of this world), but I know deeply that it is real. I know it to be of another realm of Reality that has always been, and will always be - where God himself is. Ogilvie declares (in effect), "Christ seeks to liberate ...

2208. The Miracle of Christ

Ephesians 3:14-21

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Robert G. Tuttle

... hung up. This they acquire. Perhaps newborn children are "little computers waiting to be programmed," but the question is what kind of programming is it to be mathematical, scientific, financial, sheer intellectual; or is it that God will have some opportunity to touch the programming with the mystery of his presence, so that life may move from the surface to the depths, from that which is dying to that which lives. In the book Terminal Man, Chrichton suggests that no system can explain nor create itself ...

2209. "I Don’t Want to Be Perfect - Or Do I?"

Matthew 13:1-23

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Robert G. Tuttle

... his caring, his giving himself for others - what was the secret?" The seed, having fallen on good ground, produced a harvest. This experience of God "increases our capacity to love." Do I show love effectively in my family, to my neighbor, to all people whose lives I touch? Do I share the spirit of Jesus in human relationships? This is not perfection. It is growth toward perfection by the grace of Christ. What holds me back? Where have I been? What kept you? Why am I so undeveloped as a Christian? Am I not ...

2210. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... man went off singing merrily down the mountain. But the little old man with the long white beard fell to the ground sobbing his heart out, for he had given away his last bit of faith and had none left for himself. Then suddenly the little old man felt a touch on his shoulder and he looked up and there stood his Lord - the Christ! "No, Jesus," the little old man cried out, "depart from me. I have no more faith left. I am not worthy to enter into your kingdom." But Jesus just looked at the little old man’s ...

2211. Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Romans 11:33-36

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Raymond Gibson

... name, leaving only four unpronounceable consonants: YHWH. They felt that God was so great that man should not speak his name in vain. When the ark of the covenant was moved to Jerusalem, the cart that carried it almost turned over. One of the attendants, Uzzah, touched the ark - which was supposed to contain the presence of God - in an effort to steady it. Immediately, Uzzah fell dead because this was seen as an act of irreverence. No man was allowed to look God in the face, not even Moses. All that Moses ...

2212. A SERMON-DRAMA FOR EASTER

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Tom Eberle

... An intricate computer with flashing lights, levers, dials, and sophisticated gauges is now directing us to our destination of approximately A.D. 300. We are not particular about the exact year. Neither are we specific about where we land, so long as we touch ground somewhere along the perimeter of the Mediterranean Sea. Our own mental computers can calculate that we are arriving some 270 years after the time of Christ. For over two centuries now, longer than the life span of our own nation, Christians have ...

2213. Must We Have All the Answers?

Gn 2:9 · Deut 30:19-20 · Job 52:5

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Robert Noblett

... that galvanized your entire existence? I would be greatly surprised if any of us, after that first kiss, went home, and in an attempt to understand what had happened to us, pulled down our Random House dictionary from the shelf and read the words of definition "to touch or press with the lips slightly pursed in token of greeting, affection, reverence etc." Of course we didn’t do that (if we did, there is something wrong with us!), and I am suggesting that we shouldn’t be so quick to do it with the ...

2214. Are You Under Arrest?

Heb 5:11-13; 10:39

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Robert Noblett

... it is really the story of a jailbreak. A lady named Olive owned two shopping bags full of words. One bag was plain brown, very old, and filled with the kind of words that could reach out and connect her with other people. Words like share and care, grow and touch and listen and love and yes. Olive’s other shopping bag was white with a big shoe printed on the sides of it. This bag carried words to keep people away. Words like no and ignore and don't and mine and who cares. Olive carried both shopping bags ...

2215. Dessert in the Desert

Deut 32:10-12 · Ez 37

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Robert Noblett

... upon (most especially by television and radio) but refrain from initiating ourselves. In essence, my friend, it is absolutely necessary that we exercise our religious muscle and dare to name the name of God as we grow convinced that indeed we have felt God’s touch. "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so," cried the Psalmist. When we have felt - to use a line from Samuel Miller - "the glory that burns in the waste places of the wilderness," let us declare that at least to ourselves and, as appropriateness ...

2216. How Fares Your Christian Sight?

Is 6:8-10

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Robert Noblett

... . I like the reminder that comes to us with these words - From the child comes the man. From his toys come his tools. From his travels comes his wisdom. From his visions will come our future. That final line brings us to a final matter we want to touch on. That matter is visions. Not only does the Christian faith provide us with lenses that correct our perverted perceptions of ourselves and others and God, but it also sets before us visions of what can be and visions of what will be. I speak of visions not ...

2217. What Is Your Holy Week Address?

Matthew 27:45-56

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Robert Noblett

... a fool of you, but failure can come only from great effort. One who doesn’t try cannot fail and become wise.3 And Pascal was so right when he indicated that a person shows her greatness not by identifying with one extreme or another, but by being in touch with both at once. Still other people can be found living with Saturday’s lostness. In college I had a very close friend who would occasionally ask me on those days dark and drab, "Feel like a lost little boy today?" There are few things worse than the ...

2218. Phoebe

Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... have offered to take the letter intentionally a special trip - for that single purpose. The message had to reach the church at the capital of the empire. Why such interest in a letter? Undoubtedly Romans stands as the major theological tome. Few documents can touch it. Every theologian in Christian history has wrestled with it, pondered it, and may have been converted by its message. Augustine put his finger on it in the garden in Milan. Luther read and reread it at Wittenberg. In Geneva, Calvin turned to ...

2219. MIRIAM’S BABY BROTHER

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Marcia Miller

... to enter any home without knocking. I suppose you can go through all of their personal belongings, too. SOLDIER #1: We are doing it for your protection. I’ll look in the bedroom. [SOLDIER #2 walks about the room, looking under the sink, in the cupboard, touching the china cabinet - but not opening it. As SOLDIER #1 re-enters the room, SOLDIER #2 notices the empty cradle.] SOLDIER #2: What about this cradle? MOTHER: I told you that I had been expecting a child. But she came too soon. SOLDIER #1: [Examining ...

2220. THIS MAN NAMED JESUS

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Marcia Miller

... : Jesus answered by quoting Scripture. Satan was trying to force him to acknowledge his physical needs, but Jesus knew that man has more than material needs to be met. He came to meet those needs. QUOTER: For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. INTERPRETER: Jesus became a man with all the needs of man. Although he was hungry, he had the faith to overcome the temptation of Satan, for Satan ...

2221. God's Glory

John 11:1-45

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James Wilson

... People: With courage we will share God's presence with those around us. Leader: Then let us gather in song and praise for all the world to hear! All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You so wonderfully open the hearts and minds of Your children. Touch us, Lord, that the eyes of our spirit might see more clearly the ways You would have us go and serve. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we fail to pray. Forgive us, Lord, for the times we did not seek Your will; or for ...

2222. Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

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... there today that are not looking for more theories--they are looking for what John Wesley called the religion of the warmed heart. Jesus said: Nicodemus, you must be born again. You see friends, it is easy to get caught up in the form of religion and lose touch with the reality of God. We can get so caught up in doing church work, that we fail to be the church. Our intellectual comprehension of the creeds can take precedence over our living the creeds. We can Learn about the Bible and failed to be shaped by ...

2223. The Guy With The Donkey

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... should ask God to show us what He is up to. He sends each member to us not only for that member's good but also to expand the work of His Kingdom. The gifts and graces of each new member expand the capability of the church. God wants to touch and transform Memphis and indeed to reach around the world. Often we become so self-centered. We are forever praying, "0 God, bless me. Bless my family, my business, my golf game and my football team." Then God replies, "I want to bless you, but not necessarily in the ...

2224. A Matter of Life and Breath

John 20:19-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... that the Spirit does not come always as commonly believed. Many think the Spirit comes in a very dramatic and unusual way. We think of his coming as an intense emotional experience. We expect to hear bells ringing, to see angels, to hear voices, and to be touched with tongues of fire. As in the case of Saul, this may happen: a fall from his horse, blinded by intense light, and hearing the voice of Jesus. This is exceptional. For most of us the Spirit comes as he came to the original disciples. In his ...

2225. Converting the Converted

Matthew 10:1-42

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John R. Brokhoff

... hand on the table and snapped, "Damn it, girl! Hurry up with that order! I haven’t got all day!" Isn’t patience one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit? The need for conversion is seen in the areas of social concern that have not yet been touched by the gospel. Take the area of race relations. In Bennett’s book, Before the Mayflower, members of a Presbyterian church in 1767 bought two slave women. They and their descendants were hired out and the money was used to pay the pastor. In sixty-eight years the ...

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