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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. In Praise of Feeling Guilty

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... creative look at many facets and questions surrounding the ambiguous concept of guilt. Cardwell includes perspectives on how guilt is both a hurt and a help in human community. This seems to be a surprising title - greeted by puzzled smiles when I have mentioned it. Feeling guilty feels so bad, it is something we all want to avoid and/or get rid of; how could there be anything to praise? In addition, it has been out of style generally, in recent years, along with its related words, sin and shame - and this ...

2. Job Feels under Attack by God

Job 16:1-17:16

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... put up security for me? Because Job regards the three friends as mockers (17:2), he cannot turn to them for help. Although he feels under attack by God (16:9–14), Job still believes that God knows that he is innocent. With no human to testify on his ... come to Job only when Yahweh finally speaks to him in chapters 38–41. 17:16 Will we descend together into the dust? Job is feeling the keen sting of grief from the loss of his family, and he realizes that death cannot give his children back to him. As in ...

3. When Do You Feel God's Pleasure?

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

James W. Moore

... us. And that is helpful, but our scripture lesson for today is even more helpful. Jesus is ready to begin His ministry. He goes out to be baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River. Understandably, John is reluctant to baptize Jesus. John doesn’t feel worth to do that. Who would? John says: “You should be baptizing me.” But, Jesus convinces John to do it and as Jesus is baptized, a voice from heaven says these powerful words: “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.” In these ...

4. Making Our Feelings Known

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... Job is correlating his own bitter defiance with the unrelenting pressure of God's hand upon his life. Job insists on seeking a resolution for his complaint not through the traditional religious practices of prayer and lament (as in the Psalms), but through a legal hearing, because he feels that he has a case against God. But Job is confronted with a dilemma: he does not know how to find his way into God's presence.1 Previously, Job felt that he was blocked in his desire to have a hearing with God by God's ...

5. You Don’t Really Feel That Way

Job 6:1-7:21

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... resulting grief mean for us in the life process. Pastors know how hard it is to find someone who will give them the right to feel as they do. We are reminded, "After all, you’re a preacher." "If only you’d turn it over to Jesus?" "Wrap the white light ... fix it, we must turn and do grief work. So we set about claiming our loss as courageously as we can, accepting the way we feel, and working our way through it. To learn to live without that which we lost we must first adapt to the loss, and this means ...

6. More Than Feelings (Weddings)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Illustration

James McCormick

... will be able to live together happily as husband and wife. That’s why, in just a few moments, I will ask the two of you to pledge your unconditional love for one another. But first, I want to remind you that love is more than a feeling. I know that what you are feeling for one another at this moment is beautiful. And, all of us here, your family and your friends, consider it to be a special privilege to share in the beauty of this moment with you. But I hope you will understand when I say that there will ...

7. We Know Exactly How You Feel, Jesus

Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... be alone. I know what it's like to be alone." Sometimes we wonder: Do you know I'm alone, Jesus? Do you know exactly how I feel? Jesus taught that God cares for the lilies of the field and the birds of the air and that the hairs on our head are numbered in ... to come, by whose hand will we be led; whose hand will we hold?" In this time after your birth, Jesus, we also ask, "How do you feel?" We want to touch you and be in touch with you. We want to hold you. In that time long ago in the town of Jesus' birth ...

8. We Know Exactly How You Feel, Jesus

Matthew 8:3, Luke 7:14, Luke 8:44

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

9. Feeling Down And Looking Up

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... to do some good. That young woman was not even able to believe in herself, much less could she believe in and trust the God-presence with her, or within her, to forgive and affirm her. It is sad but true that many of the people who are captive to feelings of hopelessness are young people. "My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God." That’s a way of saying, "Nobody knows and nobody cares about me, least of all God," and many would add, "If there is a God." A surprising number of ...

10. What's So Good About Feeling Bad?

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Joann Hary

... so grateful that we have everything all moved in, God has provided a home, and friends have been wonderful - and for just a little bit, we feel like we have it made. Then comes day after day of not being able to find what we are looking for, and we fuss and carry ... we would be if we didn't! Complaining! It truly is a part of who we are as humans. But is the health magazine right? Is feeling "bad" good for us? How often does the examination paper of life have a question we are so sure we can't answer, yet a few ...

11. When You Feel Helpless

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... (Psalm 56:8). God holds our right hand in His hand (Psalm 73:23). God supplies all our needs (Philippians 4:19). Paul could not help himself with his thorn in the flesh; Jesus could not help others because of their unbelief. Is there anything you feel helpless about? A health problem, a problem with one of your children, something at work? Remember, that helplessness is an attitude and not a situation. Our weaknesses can, if we ask God to help us, become our greatest strengths. A claim to be helpless is a ...

12. Job Feels Both Confidence and Terror

Job 23:1--24:25

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... an impartial judge, he believes he can come before God with confidence. 23:8–9 But if I go to the east, he is not there. In verses 8–9, Job looks in all directions for God, but he cannot find him wherever he searches. Because God seems inaccessible, Job feels frustrated. If Job cannot locate the courtroom and the judge, then how will he be able to get his case resolved? Job will have to wait until God chooses to reveal himself, and there is no way that Job can compel him to do that. 23:10 But he ...

13. Are You Feeling Sheepish?

Psalm 23, John 10:11-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , "What do other people think about what I am doing?" It is true of preaching, too. I am right at home here, in this pulpit. This is my pulpit. I am very comfortable here. In fact, they even remodeled this pulpit for me so that I would feel more comfortable in it. They waited about five years, though, before they decided to do that. They got around to it eventually. When I preach or speak someplace else, I really am not very comfortable. First of all the pulpit is usually down around my knees. The people ...

14. Once More with Feeling!

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... my! When we count our blessings one by one we just have to thank the Lord! Our list of blessings is longer than your arm! We feel like the country woman who said, "The Lord has blessed me so good He's done filled my cup and run it over into the saucer ... mine!? You get yours!"? I suppose we mostly are just overwhelmed. The problem just seems too big for us to deal with. So we ignore it, feeling a bit guilty. Every time we read verses like 1 John 3:17, we sort of cringe. "But if anyone has the world's goods and ...

15. God Knows Exactly How You Feel

John 19:28

Sermon

James Merritt

... the cup of God's wrath dry to the last drop. Again, He can look us in the eyes today and say, "I know exactly how you feel." Incidentally, why didn't Jesus also say, "I hunger?" He must have been famished. Again, it had been at least two days since He had had ... of the fresh drinking water so that he might not thirst. The Lord Jesus not only thirsted to show us he knows exactly how we feel, but He was thirsty so that we might drink from Him the living waters of salvation and never be thirsty again. It is not ...

16. Feeling Loved and Special

Ephesians 1:5

Children's Sermon

VSS

... people need. Does anyone know what it is? (Let them respond.) They need love. Love is what makes each one of us feel like we're special. When we feel special and loved, then we can love other people. Where do we get love? (Let them respond.) We get love from other ... we already have parents, we have more than enough love to share with others. How can we help these people in the pictures feel like they are loved? (Let them respond.) We collect cans of food sometimes at church. We save used clothing and give it ...

17. When We Feel God Has Moved And Left No Forwarding Address

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

Zan W. Holmes

... even hear the suffering cry of Jesus on the cross when he cried, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34). This is scarcely a word which anyone would have invented and put on his lips. This is his own cry, feeling God's absence, identifying with the human cry of feeling oneself shut off from the face of God at the very time when God is needed the most. Indeed if that happened to Jesus himself, then it should not come as a surprise that it happened to one of God's faithful servants like Job ...

18. Feel the Wind in Your Face

Acts 2:1-13

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... room, and they were praying. The Holy Spirit came upon 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 ...

19. Feeling, Faith and Fact

Illustration

Michael P. Green

Three men were walking on a wall, Feeling, Faith, and Fact. When Feeling got an awful fall, Then Faith was taken back. So close was Faith to Feeling, That he stumbled and fell too. But Fact remained and pulled Faith back, And Faith brought Feeling too.

20. A Dead Spirit Feels No Guilt

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Michael P. Green

A flippant youth asked a preacher, “You say that unsaved people carry a weight of sin. I feel nothing. How heavy is sin? Is it ten pounds? Eighty pounds?” The preacher replied by asking the youth, “If you laid a four-hundred-pound weight on a corpse, would it feel the load?” The youth replied, “It would feel nothing, because it is dead.” The preacher concluded, “That spirit, too, is indeed dead which feels no load of sin or is indifferent to its burden and flippant about its presence.” The ...

21. Feeling Good

Philippians 4:2-9

Children's Sermon

Shirley Jennings

... put the word "Dad" under the word "good." What if you accidentally tip your glass of milk and it spills all over the table? Does that feel good or not-so-good? Not-so-good. I’ll give it a check under "Not-so-good." Would it feel good if your mom sat down and watched a television show with you? Yes. Then I’ll put the word "Mom" under the word "good." How would you feel if you were carrying a plate full of spaghetti and tomato sauce and you dropped it? Not-so-good. I give that a check under "Not ...

22. When You Feel Like Crying

Revelation 7:17

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... made the sheets thinner and softer and began selling them as Kleenex. Now we use them to blow our nose when we have a cold. Also, we use Kleenex to dry our tears when we cry. Do you ever cry when you get really mad, or when someone hurts your feelings, or when you fall down and hurt yourself? What are some other things that make us cry? (Wait for 2 or 3 answers.) Did you know that God wants to dry up our tears and make us happy again? He does. God loves us very much, and He doesn't ...

23. Feeling Like…

Matthew 28:16-20

Illustration

Paul van Dine

... Emerson Fosdick related a story from his own childhood. His father had said to his mother, upon leaving the house one Saturday in the morning hours: "Tell Harry that he can cut the grass today, if he feels like it." Then, halfway down the walk, his father turned once more to add: "And tell Harry that he had better feel like it." Well, in its own rather humorous way, there is something essential about life wrapped up in that. For there is a difference between knowing we are supposed to do something, and ...

24. Anyone Feeling Tired?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... God’s help, I shall become myself.” Not what others expect me to be. Not some unrealistic image I have of myself. No, with God’s help I shall become who I really am. No more stressful pretenses. No more misguided strivings. I will relax and be me. When we feel accepted by Christ, then for the first time in our life we become free. When we are yoked to Jesus we no longer have to prove to the world that we belong. This is to say that when we are yoked to Jesus, we know that we are loved, accepted ...

25. So Much for Feeling Good…

Mark 10:46-52

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King Duncan

... , in the face of problems, in the name of religion. You hear them at funerals. How many hearts have been broken because of someone's outrageous interpretation of adversity. Even Charlie Brown, in the Peanuts cartoons, encountered this. One day Charlie Brown says to Linus, "I feel good. I just got back from the grocery store. Guess what? The owner and his wife both complimented me. They said I was a very nice boy." Linus replied, "In the sixth chapter of Luke, it says, `Woe to you when all men speak well of ...

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