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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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2301. Someone At the Door

Revelation 3:14-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . Of course, the door represents the entrance point to a human life. The artist Holman Hunt has immortalized this image in his painting entitled, "The Light of the World.” That painting hung in some Sunday School rooms that I remember from childhood. It touched me more than thousands of words . As I ponder this scripture, with the Holman Hunt painting serving as illumination, three truths come to mind: FIRST, JESUS CHRIST IS SEARCHING FOR US. Our Lord always takes the initiative towards us. He is the Son ...

2302. Who Do We Say Christ Is?

Matthew 16:13-20

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... voices be lifted up in praise for God's love. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You have empowered us to share Christ in so many ways: in our words, in our actions, and in the way we reach out and care for others. Lord, touch our hearts with Your love. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have strayed away from Your Gospel. Too often our lives have not shared Your mercy and Your Grace. Forgive us, Lord, and help us proclaim the Gospel to the world. You are the ...

2303. Surrender

Luke 23:44-49

Sermon

Burton F. Blair

... forgot the pain she felt when her 19-year-old daughter died of polio. She wondered how she would bear the loss. At first, she found comfort in the fact that many others had experienced similar losses and had lived through them. But, then, as she got in touch with her true faith, she realized that something else had caused her to survive. "I believed, still do, and always will," she said, "in a life after death. I always believed in that, I always feel, when I’m tired or feeling my years. ‘Ah, I’ll be ...

2304. Advent I - Children’s Sermon

John 3:16

Children's Sermon

Susan Hedahl

... saying, "I love you so much that I am sending the gift of this baby to you!" Suggestions: Mention some item of good news experienced by the congregation recently. The birth of any children in the congregation can be noted. Any customs of congregational response to good news could be touched on; e.g. the placing of a rose on the altar for the birth of a child; the use of a telephone tree to relay information. A new baby scrapbook could also be used in the sermon.

2305. A River Of Destiny

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Susan Hedahl

... fish darting between our toes, see in the reflection of the water the flash of bird’s wings, and hear a voice saying to one who stands silently there, "This is My Beloved." Did we hear only the reeds whispering in the water? The small whirlpools touching the sands? Maybe all of this is simply our imagination affected by too much sunlight and moving water. No, we hear more.... The Jordan was not new to Jesus or John. Both had played in its waters as children in upcountry Galilee. The same waters Jesus ...

2306. Reviving Our Moral Responsibility

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... had their faults. But it was in a sense the age of Christendom. Its center of reference was God and the people’s response to this great reality is seen in the monuments of art and architecture and literature they left behind. But something is missing in our day. Jeremiah touched on it when he wrote: "I know that man’s ways are not of his own choosing; nor is it for a man to determine his course in life" (Jeremiah 10:23 NEB). This is what we’ve been doing. Like the kings and priests of Israel, we have ...

2307. Returning to Genuine Religion

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... told by others, but what each soul learned and felt for himself or herself (v. 34). Remember Jesus’ question of Pilate: "Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?" (John 18:34 RSV). This means that each of us must be touched individually by God and be able as a result to witness from his or her own heart. Each is constrained to do right, not because some Law requires it, but as the expression of one’s inner conviction and desire. 2. This leads us to a second point: The ...

2308. The Vicarious Servant

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... let us feel we have the sympathy of at least another human heart! Jesus always bridged the distance between those on the wayside and those on the way. He was ever passing by, but how keen were his eyes for those in need. And every need that met his eyes touches his heart. "For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many," (Mark 10:45 RSV) he said to his disciples. His was sympathy with, and only as we catch his spirit will our indifference be ...

2309. Eyes on the Unseen

Mark 7:31-37

Illustration

Larry Powell

... done for one who has cried out from the silence in faith. We are far removed in time and space from ancient Jericho where our Scriptures relate two of our Lord’s healings. However, as a society and as individuals, we yet stand in need of the healing touch. Charles H. Scott’s familiar hymn says it well; "Open my eyes that I may see, glimpses of truth Thou hast for me ... Open my ears that I may hear voices of truth Thou sendest clear." And then the all-important third verse concludes, "Open my mouth and ...

2310. Hymns at Midnight

Acts 16:16-40

Illustration

Larry Powell

... he was saved for all eternity. In all probability, the hymns which Paul and Silas were singing at midnight had little if anything to do with the Philippian jailer’s conversion. I would suspect that the eartquake stood him mentally erect, causing him to get in touch with the condition of his spirit. An earthquake can do that. So can foxholes, tornadoes, or a doctor saying to us, "I’m afraid I have some bad news." These and similar situations which you could name confront us with reality in a hurry. The ...

2311. Man Up A Tree

Luke 19:1-10

Illustration

Larry Powell

... ." And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house" (19:8-9). The story of Zacchaeus is not an isolated incident. Other similarly tainted individuals have discovered that the deep places of their lives have been touched and embraced by one whose perception and discerning compassion penetrates beneath life’s surface and addresses a lingering need. Had our Lord considered the tax collector as others saw him ... niggardly, self-motivated, crooked, irritatingly ambitious ... had our Lord ...

2312. Tearing the Roof Off

Mark 2:1-12

Illustration

Larry Powell

... friend enough to go to some extra effort, and they had absolute faith that the man inside could heal him. I hope I have a few friends like that. The paralytic owed a great deal of his recovery to his friends. What a combination: loving friends, persistent faith, and the touch of Christ!

2313. In the Eleventh Hour

Mark 14:32-42

Illustration

Larry Powell

... The shadow of the cross was lengthing, and in three particular portions of Mark chapter 14, we observe three familiar incidents which will forever remain in our memories as pertaining to our Lord’s last meeting with the twelve. Strangely enough, each of them touches upon loyalty. 1. 14:22-25. There was the Passover meal which Jesus dramatically transformed into a messianic banquet which we have come to know as the "Lord’s Supper." Let us assume all the symbolisms and transitions of this meal in order to ...

2314. Song of a Shepherd

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... more tender picture to be found anywhere of the shepherd’s sustaining care of his own. Nor can the psalmist envision the ministrations thus awaiting the flock at day’s end without dwelling on countless occasions when, in like manner, he has received the Lord’s renewing touch. A God Who Gladdens In the fifth place, the author of the Twenty-third Psalm is on familiar terms with a God who gladdens. Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the ...

2315. Song of a Pilgrim

Psalm 122:1-9

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... royal heritage he shares with his fellow Israelites. And what an illustrious heritage it is! Jerusalem is the city of David, the Lord’s anointed sovereign; and, despite her occasional burden of weakling monarchs like Ahaz and Jehoachin, the glory of the great king’s touch is still upon her - thanks to successors of such quality as Joash and Josiah, whose thrones were seats of justice (Psalm 122:5). Where people are proud of their roots they have a common bond linking them one to the other. And this man ...

2316. I Love A Parade

Matthew 21:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Robert Allen

... that he would be entering the city. A large crowd of people began to gather. In the crowd that day were friends of Jesus - those who followed him, those who had heard him preach, those who had seen him perform miracles, those whose lives had been touched by his. In the crowd that day were religious pilgrims from around the world. There were people from Judea and Galilee and Egypt and Greece. There were people who had walked across the hills and through the desert so that they might come and spend Passover ...

2317. Five Minutes After Death

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Robert Allen

... and lives of those left behind. When we lose someone whom we love, there is a vacant spot left in our hearts ... an aching within our lives ... a sorrow that never really goes away. There was a letter to the editor in the local paper that was very touching. A mother wrote the letter because that day would have been her son’s eighteenth birthday. One year ago he had been killed in a tragic incident, and she was writing to express the pain she still felt. She was writing to express how the sorrow would come ...

2318. Hector’s Case Against Christmas

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Erskine White

... world so much as to come to us Yourself, in the form of our own flesh and blood, that a God with skin on could remain next to us when we stand fearful before the night. Inspire us by this gift to give as well to others, that we may touch others with tangible comfort and help in their time of need. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.

2319. The Flight From Light

Isaiah 60:1-22, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Erskine White

... and appreciated. We are searching for the intimacy of understanding, body to body and soul to soul, but when we come to the brink of real sharing and genuine communion, we back away. When we come to the brink of one searching person deeply touching another searching person with honest love and fearless truth, we retreat and raise our guard. We practice the art of remaining strangers. In ways we may or may not recognize, we are continually fleeing from the light of caring and sharing into the lonely ...

2320. Remember Who(se) You Are

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... name and said, "I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit" and perhaps then also made a special mark - the sign of the cross - on their forehead. The congregation was amused that three or four of the children hearing that reached up and touched their foreheads as though to see if there was anything still there. So we talked about that invisible mark of Christ upon us - a sign of God’s love for us, and to remind us whose we are. Knowing that children like secret messages I had prepared ...

2321. A Prophet Like Me

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... we are the church. The church’s task of being prophetic is our job. We are the descendants of the prophets, and ours is the inheritance to be prophetic. Sometimes individually we have to assume the prophetic role within and to the church, and always be in touch with human need. Mark’s gospel tells us that at the beginning of his ministry, Jesus entered the synagogue on the sabbath day and began to teach. The people were astounded at his teaching. He taught them as one who had authority. But part of the ...

2322. And Now For Something Completely Different

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... sometimes withhold it. This man appeared on that show with the two parents and told how their love helped him to conquer his drinking problem, and expressed to all who heard him his continual amazement at the power of forgiving love. I dare say that talk show touched more people with the incredible power of the forgiveness of God through people than any church service. "Behold, I am doing a new thing." Do you perceive it? Can you imagine it? "I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I ...

2323. Here Comes the King

Luke 22:66--23:25, Luke 19:28-44

Children's Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... , all loaded with newspaper reporters and other people coming along with him ... and then there came a great big black Cadillac limousine with President Carter in it, and my sons both got to shake his hand when he got out of the car ... and they were able to touch the hand of the President. What would you think if a president came to town and he was riding on a tricycle? Do you think that would be appropriate for the President? No, that would look kind of silly, wouldn’t it? Well, that’s maybe what some ...

2324. The Ten Commandments - Part 2

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the Sabbath. The point is, we needn’t become too legalistic on this issue or we risk falling into the same trap that the Pharisees fell into. We need to understand that what this commandment is suggesting is that we need some day in the week when we get in touch with God. The Bible says: Be still and know that I am God. We need time when we can be in a place of holiness and hear the voice of God speak to us. We need a day when we can be recreated and re-motivated. We need a day ...

2325. Render Unto God Joy

Matthew 22:15-22

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... . Or the tasks of helping, forgiving, showing Your mercy to be real, and carrying on the work of Your Church are not ours. Forgive us, Lord, and help us to use our gifts and be about the work You would have us do. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "He Touched Me" "Sing With All The Saints In Glory" "Jesus Is All The World To Me"

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