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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. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. We Know Exactly How You Feel, Jesus

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

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. Touch and Feel, Taste and See

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... what he believed and what the others were telling him was contrary to all that he'd ever seen or believed could ever happen. Once you were dead, there was no getting up. That was absurd. I guess Thomas forgot about Lazarus. Whatever the case, Thomas needed to Touch and Feel before he could believe. He needed to see it with his own eyes. Let's look at the passage from John 20:19-31 which describes that incident. [19] When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where ...

16. When We Feel Unwanted

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... able to officially erase their names. Those who are named “Nakusa” or “Nakushi” are allowed to replace that name with a name of their own choosing, a name that tells them they are worthy and accepted. (1) Is there any emotion more devastating than feeling unwanted, rejected especially by those who are supposed to love you? Jesus knew what that was like. His own people rejected him. One who was closest to him betrayed him, another denied him, and, when he needed them most, almost all of his friends ...

17. This Feels Like Where I Came In

Mark 13:1-8

Sermon

... I am still anxious now. Because the stakes seem higher now. And while I have no responsibility to fight (as do those we prayed for this morning) or fly bombing missions (as do two of my daughter's more recent male companions), I do feel a responsibility to care and counsel, pray and preach. Especially preach, which I do this morning in the largest, most influential congregation in Michigan Methodism. Not that you need….not that anybody needs….one more "talking head." The airways (both cable and network ...

18. When We Feel Lost

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... confirms and she consoles. He is, indeed, God, in whom both manhood and womanhood, fatherhood and motherhood, are fully present. That gentle and caressing right hand echoes for me the words of the prophet Isaiah: ‘Can a woman forget her baby at the breast, feel no pity for the child she has borne?’” (2) We moderns are conscious of masculine and feminine images of God, but Rembrandt was hundreds of years ahead of us. I thought of Father Nouwen’s analysis of this great painting when I read evangelist ...

19. What Happens When We Can't Believe It?

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails ... I will not believe (John 20:25)." That is what Thomas said, when he had missed sharing the experience the other disciples had had with the Risen Lord. "Until I feel your love, God, until you give me joy and make life good, until then, God, I do not want too much to do with you." That is our version of Thomas' doubts. However, we do not have Thomas' "guts." We do not usually bring our doubts and questions directly to ...

20. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... ourselves. Nobody gets up in the morning and says, "Boy, I think I'll tell myself a whopper of a lie today ... and then believe it." But that's what we do. We believe the lie that we have to make ourselves acceptable before we can be accepted, and our feelings fall right in line. They back us up all the way. On the other hand, what does the Bible say? The Bible says that we can be healed. We need to forsake the lies and believe the truth. The truth is that we can replace the heaviness of inappropriate shame ...

21. A Priesthood of Believers

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... some may like that phrasing better. The word “priest” has a sort of strangeness about it to us Protestants and some of us feel a bit uncomfortable in using it. There has been a mystery surrounding the word that almost scares us. What I want to make ... and the space between the lines and the efforts behind the words are enough Ben thanked me for listening to him and understanding his feelings and being his friend he wished he could have seen me while I was in Richton There was a P.S. to his letter that ...

22. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... isn't possible to be close to someone without being angry at times. We let our loved ones get close to us by letting them feel our anger when it is there. And if we get to the point where we are always caving in and valuing submission to others, then ... we get angry or sad we take it out on the young ones or the old folks. We resort to anger and violence because we feel impotent and scared. Fortunately, our Bible is also a record of how people through the centuries have resolved anger. I turn our attention to ...

23. The Art of Critique

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... him, to let him guide us in our efforts, so that we too can learn the relational art of critique, the kind that leads to change and healing, peace and humanity. Jesus came not just to tell people what to do and how to live, but how to feel peaceful in spirit and loving in heart. For the artful heart is also a peaceful and positive heart, a content and stable heart. The Christian Art of Critique not something we can learn to “do” by following another rule or inhaling more wisdom, but by following Jesus ...

24. Try to Be Nice

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... for us. That is what we preach. God knows each one of us, he knows what we go through and he cares for us. He wants to wipe away the tears from our eyes. But at some point both our friends, and God, would say it's time you stop feeling, and start acting. Stop focusing on "me" all the time and start thinking about somebody else. benShea tells an old rabbinic story. He says that the difference between heaven and hell is not the size of the portions that you get to eat. If you are in heaven, or in ...

25. When God Seems Far Off

Psalm 10:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... taking care of his own. But let the tension build and the frustrations mount, let life put its knee in our stomachs and start to pin us to the mat, and you begin to wonder, where is God? When this happens, do what the psalmist did. Tell God how you feel. This will help because it will remind you that God is near enough to hear your complaints. God’s program is not like a poorly managed restaurant. You know the kind — the food is cold and tasteless and the service is poor. When you try to complain to the ...

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