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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Maxie Dunnam
... local chapter of supportive people for parents in crises. I've shared in "Tough Love" support groups, and I know people who attend such gatherings weekly. These are people who are undergoing similar stress and need the support of others, need to have that empathetic ear that will hear them out, need to learn from other people's successes and failures. In that kind of fellowship, they receive the strength and courage to take tough stands which enables them to say, "No," to an erring son, daughter, or spouse ...
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Robert R. Kopp
... out. 2. Career Bureaucrats Need Not Apply -- Everybody knows our denomination is dying. So why would we be interested in someone schooled in keeping us headed in the wrong direction? We need someone who has been in the trenches, survived, succeeded, and empathetically knows what makes churches grow. Moreover, nobody in our local churches is going to listen to someone who tells us how to do what she or he has never done. 3. Positive Pastoral Instincts -- Our executive presbyter must be a coach (encouraging ...
3. God Sends Us Ahead
Genesis 45:1-28
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... happen to us in our lives at the hands of others, but we can allow God to redeem them. All the terrible comments and relationships and events can become God's life-giving purposes. If these incidents have matured us in Christ, if they have made us empathetic and able to help others out of their lethargy, hurt, or bitterness, then our past is redeemed. We have been sent ahead. Blaming others traps us in the past with them. A black picture of others sticks us with a dim image of God. Charles Stanley writes ...
4. The Demanding Crowd
Mark 1:29-34, Mark 1:35-39
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John A. Stroman
... proclaimed Word (Jesus Christ), is properly presented through the Holy Spirit, then the church has power. We need to be faithful to the Word. Our Responsibility To God's Word Christians are responsible to declare the Word. Like many of you, I was filled with empathetic pain as I watched Schindler's List. Krakow, Poland, had a history for centuries as a stronghold of the Christian faith. One has to ask, "Where was the church?" when all of this was taking place. For fifty years historians have been asking the ...
5. David and the Devil
2 Samuel 11:1-27
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Robert Noblett
... he becomes. This happens when we help our children develop a healthy sense of conscience and when we impart positive values. Recent research indicates that concern for others begins much earlier than we once thought. Studies show that almost at birth babies respond empathetically to the cries of another infant. Therefore it would seem that there is almost a kind of predisposition on the part of very young children that can be enhanced and encouraged or allowed to fade and die off. A recent report sums it ...
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Johnny Dean
... isn’t really sure if ANYTHING the Bible says about Jesus is accurate, so we really don’t know enough about him to form an opinion one way or another. I think the predominant image of Jesus today is Jesus, the good friend. Jesus is the kind, empathetic, nonjudgmental friend who comforts and consoles and rarely, if ever, criticizes or condemns. Folks today want a 24-hour-a-day, on-call Savior, always there when we need him, but he doesn’t stick around and embarrass us with his presence when we think we ...
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... endow them with power to live in terms of the highest they know. It is possible to forgive one’s enemies. It is possible to love people who are unlovely. It is possible to cultivate sensitivity of mind and heart, and to live in responsive, empathetic communion with other persons. A selfish life can be turned into a self-emptying one. A timid, cowardly life can become confident, courageous, and strong. The grace of God makes it possible. It comes about through faith in Jesus Christ and commitment to the ...
8. Which Way?
Matthew 16:21-28
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... with scolding sermons when they get there). Sometimes generations must go by before we start to reap the terrible fruits of such sowing. But it comes. Short term, we see results. Long term, there’s death, not life. A quiet, healing, empathetic, suffering compassion would have nurtured life among those frightened worshipers. But short term, it would not have looked as though much had resulted. Sometimes, cruciform existence looks a little lunatic, especially if we can’t wait until resurrection, which may ...
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Allan J. Weenink
... of purer eyes than to behold the iniquity of his children cannot be expected to speak convincingly about forgiveness. Yet Christ on the cross experiencing man’s most inhumane treatment could beg forgiveness for all humanity. Here is the love of an empathetic heart and a compassionate soul. Here is first-hand understanding of the fears of men that torment them into doing their worst when their fright is greatest. Here is preaching at its most eloquent moment ... not a white-robed priest standing remotely ...
10. He Was Afflicted
Isaiah 63:7-14
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King Duncan
... homeless should be in our thoughts and hearts during this season of the year. Christ suffered on our behalf, which reminds us of people we know who are suffering physically and emotionally. This is that season of the year when we find it easier to be empathetic, accepting, caring--the way we should be all year long. Most of us are familiar with Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. We all know Scrooge, who was so greedy and mean that he rejected Christmas and all the beautiful aspects of the holiday. You will ...
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Leonard Sweet
... even more people behind – · behind racial bars; · behind class bars; · behind educational bars; · behind isolation bars; · behind fear bars; · behind addiction bars; · behind emptiness bars. You can choose how to exert your energy. Either you exert it to feel an empathetic connection with these imprisoned ones. Or you can exert it to build your own prison and wall yourself, your heart and soul, away from the pain and suffering of these others. Do you honor marriage? Your own? Others? The covenant ...
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Mary S. Lautensleger
... them. Your faces, your tears, your embraces will be etched in the griever's mind forever. Your presence is, for the griever, the body of Christ. The big question is not, "What shall I say?" but "How well can I listen? How can I be an effective and empathetic listener?" A grieving person needs to talk about the loss and to remember. Grievers need to tell the story of their loss again and again. Grievers may turn down invitations to get out and be with friends when that is the very action that is needed most ...
13. What's Your Drink?
Isaiah 43:16-21
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Leonard Sweet
... makes the drinker joyful. As Psalm 104:15 states, wine "was made to gladden the human heart." Finally, the cumulative effect of the first drink's side-affects is a better disposition towards congenial fellowship. Mixing and mingling is easier and an empathetic sense of interest and concern for others is often demonstrated by those "in their cups." But as Lloyd-Jones, a teetotaler himself points out, the problem with alcohol is that the good feelings it evokes are not transforming. They are merely transitory ...
14. On Being a Hot-Fudge-Sunday Church
Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21
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Leonard Sweet
... ? - Can we minister to those who are feeling the emptiness of a materialistic lifestyle and yet want more and more "things"? - Can we minister to a terrified society that is passing new "get tough on crime" laws, yet whose juries are increasingly lenient and empathetic? - Can we minister to a world that is getting richer, and poorer at the same time? (What are the two groups toward which the church is least prepared to do ministry? The rich and the poor.) No middle ground will get the message of Christ ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... was changed to compassion and her compassion overrode pride of race and station. She recognized the child as a Hebrew, and she knew that her father wanted all Hebrew baby boys killed. But as soon as the infant cried, her heart was touched and she entered empathetically into the Hebrew experience. That’s the point I want to make. Nothing is more needed in our day than empathy. To be able to identify with others to share their experience, to laugh with those who laugh and weep with those who weep. So now ...
16. Put on Some Clothes
Colossians 3:1-17
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Leonard Sweet
... are those that are particularly associated with Jesus. Compassion (splagchna okitirmou) literally referred to the bowels or “innards” that is, a “gut-wrenching” feeling of connection to another. Kindness, humility, meekness and patience were also all empathetic and not highly regarded responses among early first century peoples. Humility (“tapeino-phrosyne”), while clearly a positive virtue in this list, was generally considered a sign of a small or mean-spirited individual within first century ...
17. Your Home Page
Hebrews 13:1-25
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Leonard Sweet
... prisons made of emotional bars. All that is “good stuff” that can be touched and dragged to our home page. But even if we “drag” back some questionable quests to our “home page,” not to worry. Jesus will help us figure it out. The ethical, empathetic and, most essentially, loving software provided by Jesus’s spirit will clear out all the toxic viruses and soul-sucking spam that the world sends our way. After all, the human soul was not created for sin, but for the presence of God in all God ...
18. Why Are Christians So Judgmental?
Matthew 6:2, 5, 16, Matthew 23:1-39
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Charley Reeb
... t want to answer all the questions from others and was just going through a difficult time. This man worked with a judgmental Christian co-worker who observed what was going on in his life. She started hounding him to attend her church. She wasn’t really compassionate or empathetic to his struggles. She just wanted to be sure he got saved and didn’t go to hell. Truthfully, she was obnoxious, but he did his best to be nice to her. Finally she wore him down. One day she asked, “Don’t you want to go to ...
19. Heart of a Pelican
Matthew 17:24-27, Exodus 30:11-16
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Lori Wagner
... . Let’s zoom in a bit on a more personal example. What if maybe one of your children or grandchildren is selling candy to raise money for their class trip, or even better for a health concern, hurricane relief, or someone in need. You’d be surprised how empathetic children are! You technically don’t have to buy. The fundraiser is meant to raise funds from those “outside” of your family. But I know, every time my kids raised money, I bought too. Maybe I didn’t have to. But I wanted to be part of ...
20. What's Your Superpower?
Luke 24:36-49, Acts 1:1-11
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Lori Wagner
... run a marathon? Do you have mental endurance? Do you doggedly pursue your goals? Can you speak more than one language? Can you write well? Do you have the gift of mediation? Are you an organizer? Do you connect well with animals? Are you particularly empathetic? Are you a fast learner? Are you a sound decision maker? Are you a natural leader? Are you a great mathematician? What is your greatest and most defining strength? In today’s world, the belief is, if you don’t understand what your superpower is ...
21. Overwhelmed
Revelation 1:4b-8
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Will Willimon
... are looking for strength to go on in an "age of overwhelmedness." The only way to go on is to counter the seeming overwhelmedness of evil with a counter balancing affirmation of the overwhelmedness of the power of God. Our God is not some distant, aloof, and uncaring deity, some empathetic but essentially powerless being. Our God not only cares, but also acts. Our God has power to heal the brokenness among us. And that's why we sing.
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Dean Feldmeyer
... of callouses on their hands and the aches in their muscles. Marthas are overachievers, probably the oldest children, responsible, hardworking, and parent pleasers. They always know what to do. Marys are sweet and thoughtful. Probably the youngest children, soft spoken, empathetic, and affectionate. They always know what to say. Marys think Marthas are crass and pushy, crude and rather vulgar the way they are always running here and there, never stopping to smell the flowers and enjoy life. Marthas think ...
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Lori Wagner
... our creator. When we attune our lives and hearts to Jesus’ frequency, his Way, Truth, and Life, we discover not only our authentic purpose and call, but our hearts begin to resonate more deeply and fully with those around us. We become compassionate, empathetic, caring creatures. We echo God’s voice and intent for Creation. No matter how much wealth that may bless our doorsteps, when our hearts stay rooted in Christ’s love and mercy, our actions then will follow. Our hearts determine our treasure. So ...
24. Eyes Like a Hawk
Luke 14:1, 7-14
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Lori Wagner
... than themselves is not an easy task. If it were, we wouldn’t need Jesus. Jesus spends a good deal of time, particularly through his parables, teaching others how to put themselves last, take on a mentality of service, and develop an empathetic awareness of those around them in every cultural context. Using a technique I like to call the art of the “teachable moment,” Jesus typically responds to real-life situations with stories that help people see the problems with their behaviors, the glitches ...
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Will Willimon
... Easter is about God. It is not about the resuscitation of a dead body. That's resuscitation, not resurrection. It's not about the “immortality of the soul,” some divine spark that endures after the end. That's Plato, not Jesus. It's about God, not God as an empathetic but ineffective good friend, or some inner experience, but God who creates a way when there was no way, a God who makes war on evil until evil is undone, a God who raises dead Jesus just to show us who's in charge here. I don't know this ...
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