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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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201. House of Stone

Psalm 118:1-29, Isaiah 18:1-7, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, 1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... when we engage in prayer. Prayer is a means of “formation.” And faith is the assurance that we encounter God in prayer. Through both faith and prayer, we engage in relationship with Jesus, and open ourselves up to God’s artisan hand. When God’s hand touches our hearts and our lives, we become covenant markers, signs of God’s presence in the world, altars of remembering and skyscrapers of hope to all who need to know, He is alive, and so are we! Altar call: Come forward today and take a stone from ...

202. Untamed

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... card” in the ordered life of everything everyone expected and new. His disciples would be too. Don’t let the world tame your God-feisty spirit. Don’t let the world destroy the human part of you! How wild are you? Isn’t it time you got in touch with your wild side? [1]For more on Jesus and wild animals, see Patricia Kasten, “Jesus and the Animals,” Compass News, March 6, 2020, thecompassnews.org and Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Wild Animals.See also Job 5:22-23, Job 12:7-10, and Hosea 2:18 ...

203. Faith Power

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Jesus needs to shut out those voices from Jairus’s head in order to keep him focused on the faith needed at hand. No, the enormous faith in this story comes from an outcast, ill woman, who “knows” that if she even just touches Jesus’ clothing, she will be made well. The juxtaposition of these stories tells us something about faith that we sometimes don’t want to acknowledge: it may come from unexpected people in unexpected circumstances in unexpected places and yield unexpected outcomes. And ...

204. The Debt of Love

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... down the center aisle with his backpack, ratty jeans, torn T-shirt, unshaven face, and a distinct odor. He walked down to the front, and he sat down.” Lucado writes, “The contrast struck me. When David Robinson entered, he was immediately swarmed. People wanted to touch him and be close to him . . . However, I’m sad to say that nobody jumped up to run and sit next to the homeless man. After two or three awkward minutes during which I was trying to act like nothing was happening,” Lucado continues ...

205. How to Rise above Discouragement

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... , Fosdick could feel and say, "I believe." We are forever learning that God is for us, not against us. It is we who are against ourselves in our myopia, our rigidity, our fear, our arrogance and stubbornness. Many of us are slow learners. We refuse to allow God to touch us with the new idea, the new self-understanding, the new job, the new opportunity, the new vital power he has to give. It was Isaiah the prophet who put it so well for the Lord: Seek the Lord while he may be found Call upon him while he ...

206. A Double Dose

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... succeed in his ministry, so Elisha asked that he receive a double portion of Elijah's spirit. Elisha felt the need for a second touch of Elijah's power and spirit because he knew what Elijah had been through, as had all the prophets before him. He knew the ... doing God's work, we today need a double dose of the Spirit of Christ. Wherever we serve we still need the second touch, a double portion and helping of the Holy Spirit. Without this anointing we cannot run the race, we cannot overcome the barriers and ...

207. Words, Words, Words

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Thomas Long

... she has been devoured by a social system that, for whatever reason, has passed her from man to man to man until she no longer has even the dignity of marriage. Jesus is not so much exposing her sin as he is naming her subjection. With a word he has touched the issue in her life. A former student of mine graduated from seminary and became the pastor of a small church, small enough so that she set for herself the goal of visiting every family on the roll in the first six months. At the end of six months, she ...

208. Making A Difference

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... husband and four children in a simple ranch style house not far from where she works. While Jane is well known among her circle of friends, she is barely known by others. Jane lives a simple, unassuming life. Still, the way she has lived her life has touched others. "When our two-year-old daughter died," one of Jane's friends remarked, "Jane was the one person who got me through it. She could tell by looking at you when you needed to talk." Her friend conceded, "I could not have gotten through without her ...

209. We Come to Jesus for Rest

Mark 6:30-44

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... need your rest. Leader: Jesus saw the crowds were like sheep without a shepherd, so he began to teach them many things. People: Jesus, be our shepherd and teach us. Leader: Wherever Jesus went people brought the sick to him,and if the sick even touched the fringe of his cloak they were healed. Leader: Jesus, brush us with your cloak's fringe, and heal our sickness too. Greeting Use the hymn "Serenity" as the congregation's response below. This hymn can be found in The United Methodist Hymnal. Leader: The ...

210. The Victory Of Faith

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

Mark J. Molldrem

... Jesus. Jesus is God's ensign to the world, just as the bronze snake was an ensign to the people in the wilderness. Jesus was lifted up on the scaffold of evil, bearing the brunt of its force in his person, accepting the pain of the world that is touched by hell now and then. Whoever looks to him, just like the people in the wilderness looked to the bronze snake, will be saved. This salvation is not some fantastic exemption from the ravages of evil. Evil will still have its day. The victory of faith is that ...

211. A Monolgue from Peter

Mark 8:27-30

Drama

Dr. Raymond Bailey

... a listener. So many times -- example: the woman who had an issue of blood for twelve years -- to herself she kept saying, "If I could but touch the hem of his garment, I would be healed."When she slipped in among the crowd and touched Jesus, He stopped and said loudly, "Someone touched me!" "Of course -- of course, Master," I said impatiently -- "the crowd is so close, they're touching all of us!" I didn't wait for Him to clarify what He meant, I just shot off my motormouth. Jesus ignored me and said again ...

212. “You Did That for Me!”

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... God, he knows he is able to understand fully, “even as I have been fully understood.” Of the three marvels that abide, love is the greatest. I wonder -- no, I don’t wonder, I’m convinced -- that being understood is a work of love. Coming face-to-face and touching result from a primary gift of love, to be unconditionally accepting of another. There are times in life for each of us when we know we cannot make it on our own. We do not have enough money, nor can we gain access to it; we haven’t the ...

213. Lessons From The Mountaintop

Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... are needs to be met at the foot of the mountain. There is a world desperately in need of a vision of God, or the touch of someone who has had a vision of God, and who wants to share it. Real Christianity is not just what happens in the sanctuary; ... she said to Kubler-Ross, "You see, doctor, the dying patients are just like old acquaintances to me, and I'm not afraid to touch them, to talk to them, or to offer them hope." The hospital decided to promote this woman to "Special Counselor To The Dying." And ...

214. Feel the Wind in Your Face

Acts 2:1-13

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... them like wind. They were so excited about it that they ran outside and began to tell the other people what had happened to them. Turn off the fan. Now open your eyes. Did you feel the wind? (response) Did it feel good? (response) Well, just like the wind touched all of you, the Holy Spirit came upon everyone who was praying in the room with the disciples, young and old, males and females. And God promises the Holy Spirit to those who believe in him. So the Holy Spirit guides you, too, if you let the Spirit ...

215. How Do You Know?

Matthew 11:1-19

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... forward and whisper loudly with surprise: You know what Jesus said to John? (response) He said, "You go tell John what you have seen and heard me do. When I touch the blind cover your eyes? they can see again uncover your eyes. When I touch the crippled continue touching the appropriate body parts they can walk again. When I touch the sick they are well again. When I touch the deaf they can hear again. The good news of God is being preached to the poor! You go tell John that.How do we know that this little ...

216. Time and Stewardship

Sermon

Larry Powell

... are we?" "Where have we been?" "Where are we going?" We simply lose our point of reference, sadly allowing ourselves to be blown about like a reed in the wind. There is a spiritual power in silence in that it allows us to get in touch with ourselves. (2) It puts us in touch with God. Although we do not outrun God, because his grace is always before us, we do allow other concerns to blur our consciousness to his presence in our lives. In silence, the "still, small voice" is allowed to speak to us above the ...

217. Storms of Life

Mark 5:21-43

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... big risk today and we got a band-aid. The woman took a big risk and was healed. What do you think we should do with all this money we have? (response) I bet there are more sick people in the world that are need of the church's healing touch. Where can we put the money so that others can be healed? (in the offering plate) Good, would someone put the money there. Let’s Pray: Lord, we have given this gift of $7.50 so that the church can continue to heal the sick in your name. Amen.

218. Thanks, Lord

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

... praise to God except this foreigner?" And he said to him, "Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well." If I were a sick person going to a "healer," I would anticipate being near the healer and kneeling before him/her and having the healer touch me. But there is none of this contact in Luke’s account of the healing of the ten lepers. Consequently, some of the other accounts of the healing of lepers appeal to me much more than this report from Luke. For example, Matthew gives this warm picture of ...

219. A Game for Followers

Luke 18:35-43

Children's Sermon

... you must not do it. If you do it, then you have made a mistake and you must drop out of the game. I am going to be the leader and you must be the followers. Simon says, touch your nose; Simon says, touch your toes; Simon says, touch your ears; touch your mouth. Oh, did I catch anyone? Did anyone make a mistake and touch his mouth without Simon saying to do it? Well, let's try once more. [Repeat the same process a few times until you catch a couple more children. Don't leave it with only one or two being ...

220. The Master Has Come - And Is Moved With Compassion

Matthew 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

... for his children, still they were in trouble. He made them a covenant they had not kept. He gave them a law they had not obeyed. He sent them prophets they had not heeded. So now God would send them his Son to love them - to care for them, to touch them, to reveal himself to them, to win them, to convince them, to compel them. Wherever Jesus went to help - and lift - and encourage - and heal - we see there the heart of God, the love of God, the compassion of God, the pain of God’s love. Love is often ...

221. On Being Lifted Beyond Ourselves

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... the aid of our spirit. He gives expression to our prayers, the hungerings and yearnings of our souls. And God gets the message. It is at times in my yearnings that the awareness of reality rises up from the depths of my soul. It is my reality rising up to touch God’s reality; it is God’s reality making himself known to me. It is not just my yearnings; it is God’s yearning for me. When my yearnings and God’s yearnings for me meet and unite, then I am born as an eternal person. The Psalmist cried out ...

222. Will My Ship Sink or Float?

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... was fifty-six years old and living in Carthage (A.D. 410) when he was told that Rome had been destroyed. To him the whole known world had collapsed, but he responded, "Don’t lose heart, brothers." Augustine, in a vision, had reached out and touched the Eternal. He was not surprised that temporary evil powers had passed away. "You are surprised," he continued with words of hope to his followers, "you are surprised that the world is losing its grip ... Don’t hold on to the old world; don’t refuse ...

223. The Surprise of Absolute Victory

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... he is, to chart where he is going, to know what God wants of him. We are so often blind. Dr. Robert Ozment tells a touching story. A man is looking in a window at an art display including the crucifixion. He becomes conscious of another person. Out of the corner ... us things beyond this world. The victory is real in the world because it extends beyond the world. The surprise - you can live in touch with the Eternal. But, "how can these things be?" Do we get a new set of genes? No, not at all! We just open ...

224. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... pressure of being watched. He was a second-mile man, "Humanity #11." He had a beautiful winsomeness. The grace of Christ had touched him. No wonder I am a better person for having known him. A broken, tense, fearful, sinful world is hungry to respond ... the spirit of God, but we need to have our lives tuned for overtones in the life situation. Only he who made us understands the gentle touch that can tune our spirits. The Christ came from God, from the other world where we were cast, to put us in tune for our ...

225. I Knew You’d Come

John 6:16-24

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... and failure. Peter was a man of daring and he had to learn faith by taking risks. For some this is the only way, They have to find out their own limitations by trying and failing. You can tell them that the stove is hot, but they simply have to touch it to find out for themselves. It isn’t that they are stupid, or don’t believe the sincerity of the warning; it’s just that their nature demands they experience for themselves the lessons of life. It’s the only way they learn. So Peter stepped out of ...

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