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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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1. After A Lost Election, Field Of Dreams

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

James Angell

... had been organized in 1728. On the edge of the Watchung Mountains, it had a Revolutionary War cemetery across the street, a picturesque adjoining lake, and a tall white steeple overlooking the town of Westfield, the symbol of things everlasting. The ambience of the Seaboard is a mellow mix of Harvard and Yale, West Point, Fifth Avenue, Wall Street, Vermont, Gettysburg, Brooklyn, Harlem, the Delaware and Hudson rivers. As different from California as Long Island Sound is from the Mojave desert. Being part ...

2. Christ Is King

John 12:12-19

Sermon

... operating in the Caribbean launched a cruise ship billed as the most luxurious, most dazzling, and the largest of its kind. It boasts four miles of corridors that lead to staterooms, dining rooms, boutiques, two cinemas, lounges, casinos, and bars, and an ambience that truly reflects the American lifestyle. The ship was christened Sovereign of the Seas. That the name reflects our lifestyle there will be no doubt. The sovereign lords we choose are those that dazzle us with glitter, that promise an adventure ...

3. To Thank Is To ...

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

... over-plus of sheer gratuity that announces the presence, as indeed, it invented the name. By gratuity is meant a primal surprise, the need-not-have-been of uncalculated and incalculable givenness. ‘Amazing’ is the only adequate adjective; wonder is the ambience. For amazement, wonder, and grace occur together. '... they were amazed at the graciousness of his words ...' " (Joseph Sittler) Amazed by the mighty hand and the outstretched arm, amazed by "Child of God, you are marked by the cross of Christ ...

4. Messies Anonymous

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... up in the pursuit of power, pleasure and possessions. We can only enjoy a sunset if it is in Acapulco. Exercise has no lure unless we are in the right club or at least have on the right attire. Even the food we eat must be served with the proper ambience. I'm not saying these things are sinful. I am saying if you have to have these things to be happy, you are in trouble. Can you enjoy the simple pleasures of life or must you have more? Dr. Eugene Brice once read an account written by a woman born ...

5. God Will Be With Us

Isaiah 7:1-25

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King Duncan

... store located in her wealthy Los Angeles suburb. Campolo says that she “pretends to go shopping” at Nordstrom because the store is so upscale that she rarely purchases anything there. But she goes there during the Christmas shopping days because the ambience is spectacular. He says his friend gets herself a Nordstrom shopping bag, fills it with tissue paper, and meanders around the store, enjoying the decorations and listening to the live music playing in each department. On one of these Christmas ...

6. More Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 25:1-28

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

... sayings are much more vivid, and in chapters 25–27 they form larger units (“proverb poems,” as they have been called). Explicit comparisons are frequent. We are unable to say much about the general setting of the collection, but the ambience of the court predominates in chapters 25–27. The characteristic sound patterns (assonance, alliteration, catchwords, etc.) mark this collection just as they did the previous chapters. For the sake of brevity these patterns will not be emphasized here, but the ...

7. More Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 26:1-28

Understanding Series

Roland E. Murphy

8. “The King Rejoices in Your Strength, Lord”

Psalm 21:1-13

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... is pointed out by the plea “come quickly” (lit., “hasten,” hushah; see also 38:22; 70:5; etc.). 22:20 Deliver me from the sword, my precious life. While this psalm does not contain many military terms, “sword” gives a certain ambience to David’s situation, suggesting there was a military component. The phrase “my precious life” literally translates “my darling one [yehidah].” While some take this as a reference to the soul, it is parallel to “life” (nepesh) in the first half ...

9. Don't Be Afraid

Matthew 17:1-9

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Lori Wagner

... looks especially beautiful. We love the vision that the golden hour creates. When you want to create a romantic evening, what do you do? You lower the lights, you light candles, you dine in the muted glow of fireside and dimmers, you create a “golden” ambience in which you feel assertive yet protected –protected from the harshness of full light. Protected and reassured by the dark. Anyone who has stood in front of a mirror in the bright noon of day knows the shock of seeing every line and imperfection ...

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