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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Erskine White
... and look behind the smiles of the Christmas season, and you will find a lot of people just trying to survive rather than celebrate these holy days. Any one of us can find some way to identify with a text which talks about distress and perplexity, fear and foreboding at the advent of our Lord. So, what are we to do? How are we to overcome these feelings of discouragement and despair when everyone knows we’re supposed to be happy? Believe it or not, I saw the answer in a little daily ritual which took place ...
2. Don't Look Down
Matthew 14:22-36
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King Duncan
... out on the water.] It makes me realize how safe and secure we have made Christian faith. There was a time when the church was challenging its young people to go out as missionaries all over the world into lands that were hostile and foreboding. And young people by the thousands traded in their lawn mowers for motorcycles. During the Civil Rights movement there were Christians who risked their lives to promote the notion that all people are created equal. Some were beaten, some were ostracized, some died ...
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John E. Harnish
... 's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; Then no planet strikes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and gracious a time. Shakespeare promises that even in the darkness, the foreboding, the fear of Hamlet's day—even then, "'gainst the season of sorrow...the bird of dawning singeth all night long." Those who stumble in darkness have seen a great light. Those who dwell in the land of deep darkness, on them the light has shined ...
4. Time to Unpack
Matthew 11:1-19
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Leonard Sweet
... immune system is a disaster. You can’t grow with a perfect immune system. You need to be vulnerable and to be open to viruses to grow and mature. When intolerance for vulnerability reigns supreme, your only joy is a “foreboding joy.” You know that feeling of “foreboding joy,” even if you don’t call it that. You look at your kids snuggled in their bed. Before a sigh of contentment escapes your lungs, the panic of impending doom — an accident, an illness, a catastrophe — clutches your throat ...
5. Bible Wagon
Ephesians 5:8-14
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Dr. Ronald Love
... the worse time in the history of the world, which is not accurate for every decade has been engulfed by dark shadows. You don’t need to look any further back than the Holocaust to know that. But, this does not negate the fact that a dark foreboding storm cloud shadows our land today. ISIS should be the only answer we need for that. Yet, ISIS is rather distant from the darkness that engulfs our own lives and permeates our communities. In fact, sometimes the light shines dimly in our own church planted next ...
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Don M. Aycock
... grave. Our problems with this come not so much from mental paralysis as from our inability to love freely and fully. Yet, we do have a powerful analogy. Everyone has stood, or will stand, beside a grave as a body of a loved one is lowered into that cold foreboding clay. It seems for a while so final, so complete. It seems that along with the casket go all of our hopes and dreams. Then we hear someone reading from the New Testament: I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even ...
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Harold Warlick
... school. You perhaps clutched her hand as tightly as possible as you passed legions of strangers on their way to the classroom. You stood at the door and, perhaps, she literally had to push you in. The classroom probably appeared to be the most foreboding room you had ever entered. Looking back, that time of "letting go" of mother's hand was a necessary step. It was indeed the time to "let go" and enter another experience. Life is essentially a series of separations. We let go of certain experiences ...
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Paul E. Robinson
... of other people. However, in spite of his hesitance, Jeremiah did some remarkable things in communicating his message of both doom and hope to the people of Israel and Judah. His very life communicated the message of hope in the midst of great foreboding in the short run. William Green, a UCC pastor in Pennsylvania, writes that during a period of time in seventeenth century England, worship was a crime, and thousands of churches were torn down. One church was built, though, right during those terrible times ...
9. Hope Against Hope
Jeremiah 33:1-26
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Robert A. Hausman
... with our despair and death in order to be its undoing. We hear and believe his promise: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away" (Luke 25:33). So when you see distress and perplexity, people fainting with fear and foreboding, do not despair. "Stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near" (Luke 21:26, 28). 1. Chaim Potok, In the Beginning (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), p. 3. 2. This is one of the themes in Walter Brueggemann's Hopeful Imagination ...
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William B. Kincaid, III
... shape our relationships. May God's wisdom guide our decisions. May God's glory touch our ordinary lives. And may God's gift this night live in us and through us, that what we experience in each other is the very presence of Christ. 1. John Vannorsdall, "A Touch of Foreboding," Lectionary Homiletics (December 1991), pp. 6-7. 2. Henri J. M. Nouwen, Reaching Out (New York: Doubleday, 1975), p. 45.
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Arthur H. Kolsti
... compromised the faith of Israel. So Isaiah's way of dating tells us that this was an ominous time in the nation's history. The leper king was dead and the battalions of the predatory Assyrians were on the march, edging ever closer to Palestine. Fear and foreboding were in the air. The prophet felt the chill of anxiety in his bones. External changes were triggering an inner crisis in Isaiah's life. We can relate to that. We really cannot separate what goes on around us from what goes on within us. It was ...
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Michael Rogness
... 's eyes would soon glaze over with this kind of general talk, even though it is all theologically correct and true. Shakespeare said the same thing. After scratching his way to the throne, Macbeth learns of his wife's death and is filled with foreboding that all his murderous plotting will backfire. In his despair he says, Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death ...
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Erskine White
... . Maybe she sensed that the Light of the world had gone out on Calvary's hill, the Light which could have guided people and nations on the paths of peace. "What will happen now?" she may have wondered, as she looked to the future with fear and foreboding. "Where will the healing come from, the enlightenment, the spirit of power and truth which is so lacking in the world? Why does this world beat down and kill off the very goodness it needs the most?" "Woman, why are you weeping?" For all these reasons and ...
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Larry Goodpaster
... a new wind blowing. People are being set free, and it is like having a breath of fresh air piped into their systems. For all those new movements and experimental efforts at breathing new life into the world, there remains the staleness of fear and uncertainty and a foreboding sense of chaos even amid the winds that are blowing. What the world longs to breathe was given to the church in the breath of Christ. Pentecost may be the report of an action in the first century; but it is the hope of new action and ...
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Johnny Dean
... eye, Anna’s orderly little world became a dark, formless void. The veil that separated creation from chaos was drawn back, and the floodwaters came down, rising steadily. Formless void. Chaos, confusion, something that is nothing. Even the sound of it is dark, foreboding. Formless void. That’s all there was, says the writer of Genesis, until God decided to change it. And God breathed over this dismal, swirling nothingness. God spoke, and there was light, and it was good. God separated the earth from the ...
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... already know that he was a man of God. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be a book named after him in the Bible. Christians have no reason to question Jeremiah’s authenticity. His prophecy was not popularly accepted, and because he said some things that sounded foreboding, some called him the weeping prophet. Hananiah, on the other hand, looked into the future and announced that God’s people would be back from exile in two years. The yoke of the king of Babylon would be broken, and the holy vessels which had ...
17. Promise or Threat?
Matthew 24:1-35
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... in a cell. You ask about the charges against you and are told bluntly that the only charge is treason - treason by virtue of illegal religious expression. So there you are, separated from your loved ones and friends, your life in disorder, your future highly foreboding. You long for the way things used to be, and the memories of lost laughter and happiness play across your mind like a cinema. Can you bear up under the hopelessness of your situation? Will you be strong enough in faith? What will become of ...
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Leonard Mann
... them alike. Well, my friend, each of us is on an airplane flying west. Tomorrow will overtake us; we cannot outrace it. If our image of tomorrow is inviting, if it offers fulfillment of dream, then we can move toward it with eagerness and hope. If the image is foreboding, we are likely to move toward it with dread and fear. For most of us the tomorrows hold some of both - and our fears and our hopes are all intertwined and intermixed. Permit me now to point out two problems common to most of us as we form ...
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J. Ellsworth Kalas
... tourists crowd the streets and signs of modernity distract one from the biblical days - still, even today, it is easy for the mind to go back nineteen centuries. There is a rugged hillside, from which the villagers one day threatened to cast Jesus; it is a foreboding spot even yet. There are donkeys in the streets, just as there were then, carrying articles to or from market. Many of the people are dressed just as they were in Jesus’ day. The cypress trees and the flat-roofed houses are probably just as ...
20. Unwavering Light
1 Corinthians 7:1-40
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William F. Dunkle
... which couldn’t be transported. Of course those fires spread and great destruction resulted. Suffering was widespread. People must surely have felt terribly forsaken and defeated. Their world was ending in disaster! Their cause had collapsed! With what dread and foreboding they awaited the arrival of conquering Federal troops! Most of my ministry has been in large Northern cities, but in all the years of my Southern upbringing I have never once heard anybody in Dixie express the slightest wish that ...
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E. Jerry Walker
... of the temple compound. Nicodemus’ mind was thoughtless, yet filled with many thoughts. He had no plan, no course of action, but he hastened his pace as if just getting there were of utmost importance. He was driven not alone by concern and foreboding, but by anger as well. Caiaphas, the high priest, had called the Sanhedrin into special session, but he, Nicodemus, had not been informed. An oversight perhaps? Hardly. It had all the indications of omission by intent, and if one of his servants had ...
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Larry Powell
... would enter into a New Covenant, of love not Law, instituted by the sacrifice of his own son. It would be forever binding and blood need never be shed again. It is as if Jesus was lifting the cup in full view of his disciples to say, with a foreboding sense of finality; "Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord has made with you." The prophets had said, "Behold the days will come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah." The disciples were ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... are in blossom. The trees are filled with leaves, and all looks serene. Nevertheless, I am convinced that if we had some kind of magical power to lift the roof and peer into the homes by which we pass, we would encounter some burden, some tragedy, some foreboding loss which would simply overwhelm us." We mused on that, and he continued, "Most of us are able to conceal these matters, and many of us live lives of quiet desperation. In any event, it is most certain that trying times are part and parcel of all ...
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William G. Carter
... raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near” (Luke 21:28). He is speaking, I think, about the final arrival of God’s kingdom. The day is coming when this old world will pass away and a new creation will be given to us. Fear, fainting, and foreboding will give way to the power and glory of the Son of Man. Confusion and distress among the people of God will turn to trust and security. Every tear will be dried. Every heart will be mended. And no fourth grader will ever again have a terrible ...
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David E. Leininger
Hmmm. "Wars and insurrections, nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom, earthquakes, famines and plagues...arrests, persecution, some put to death...days of vengeance...great distress on the earth...People will faint from fear and foreboding..." Whoa! What season are we in? What about "Peace on earth and mercy mild?" Actually, BOTH images are at play this morning. Yes, Christmas is coming - a beautiful time. But juxtaposed against that is a life of great uncertainty for all of us, a time when our ...
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