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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Bill Bouknight
... run for cover! As God said to the Hebrew people who were trembling between a host of Egyptian devils and the deep Red Sea, “Stand firm and you will see the deliverance of the Lord.” (Exodus 14:13) I am hopeful in the midst of a hostile world because through Christ no situation is hopeless. My third reason for being hopeful is this: BECAUSE OF CHRIST, EVERY BARRIER CAN BE BRIDGED. Most of us Memphians love our city. We celebrate her music, her sports teams, her dynamic economy, and, of course, the river ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... from your son. It’s not worth it. Go love your son! Go make peace with your son! Go reconcile! Go fix that! Get that divisive, destructive wall of pride out of there!” Listen! Is your pride separating you from anybody today? Is your pride a divisive wall of hostility? Are you alienated from anybody today? And by the way, do you feel estranged from God? Is your pride keeping you away from God? If so, give it up! Let it go! If you will swallow your pride and turn to God in humility, God can make it right ...
3. Hosanna! Please Save Us!
Matthew 21:1-11, Matthew 26:14-16
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King Duncan
... the ultimate gift, his life, for the salvation of the world. He left this world not only with open hands, but with nail-scarred hands . . . and it was for us. He knew that those people who greeted him with shouts of “Hosanna!” would soon shout at him in hatred and hostility, but that did not deter him. But fortunately the story doesn’t end here. Holy Week ends with one more h-word, but I dare not say it today. It’s the Hebrew word for “Praise You, Lord!” I’ll let you guess what it is. It’s a ...
4. Walk In Love
Ephesians 4:1-16
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King Duncan
... are loved. We are important persons in God's eyes because of what Christ has done in our behalf. No psychology text ever written will give us a better formula for the low selfesteem that causes us to be slaves to negative emotions. Anger and hostility are destructive, degrading and detract from our Christian witness. But we do have a choice. We can escape their stranglehold. We can be new people. We can be bigger peoplebigger than our negative emotionsby walking in the footsteps of One far greater than we ...
5. Proper 11
Ephesians 2:11-22, 2 Samuel 7:1-17, Mark 6:45-56, Mark 6:30-44
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Russell F. Anderson
... and his family. That didn't work. This time God intends to construct a new humanity, not through the death of sinful people but through the death of God's own Son in atonement for the sins of the world. Through the cross God breaks down the walls of hostility between humans by giving us new hearts and the will to please God. 3. Sermon Title: How God Builds A House. Sermon Angle: In the First Lesson, David wants to build God a house and God replies that he will build a house of David. In this lesson, Paul ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... mean we will pray for diplomats and statesmen and peacemakers. It does mean we will work for peace, understanding, and harmony among the world religions. And as Christians, it means we will celebrate our love for Christ who calls us to break down the walls of hostility and build an inclusive spiritual temple of peace. As the church, we are called to model this necessary future because, as we have seen from the moon, all five or six billion of us on Mother Earth are in this together. 1. Sir Philip Gibbs, The ...
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King Duncan
... . For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by setting aside in his flesh the law with its commands and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new humanity ... all one family, the family of God. The only hope this world has is that some day we will reach across the walls of hostility between peoples and religions. When that day comes we will understand what the Kingdom of God is that time when God will reign in ...
8. Proper 11
2 Samuel 7:1-17, Ephesians 2:11-22, Mark 6:30-44, Mark 6:45-56
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John R. Brokhoff
... peace. In the person of Christ and his cross, Jew and Gentile are made one. Christ died for us both, and they are one in Christ by faith. Thus, they have a oneness in Christ, oneness with God and with each other. Christ's death has removed the hostility and cancelled the law which separated Jew from Gentile. The two are now one in the church. The practical result is that Gentiles are no longer aliens, but members of God's family. Gospel: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 The disciples return from their preaching journey ...
9. Tear Down This Wall!
Ephesians 2:11-22
Sermon
King Duncan
... to, but listen closely to the rest of this paragraph, “[Christ’s] purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.” That is not an easy passage to follow, but here is what Paul is saying to us: Christ came ...
10. Lent 1
1 Peter 3:8-22, Genesis 9:1-17, Mark 1:9-13
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Russell F. Anderson
... kept him going was his faith in God. He gave the Lord primary credit for his wilderness survival and rescue. Like Jesus in his wilderness experience, he dwelt in the midst of wild beasts but God sent angels to minister to him. The wilderness was considered a hostile environment, the haunt of evil. Jesus was driven by the Spirit into the wilderness to do battle with the Enemy and prepare for the greater struggle that was to come. According to a poll by U.S. News (reported in the April 4, 1995 issue) about ...
11. How Many Times?
Matthew 18:21-35
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King Duncan
... begins when we get up off the park bench.(2) It takes a toll when we hold on to a grudge. There was an interesting study conducted by the Gallup Organization and reported in 1994. In this study Philadelphia ranked first among U.S. cities on what was called the "hostility index." The hostility index was based on a nine-question scale that asked people how they felt about such things as loud rock music, supermarket checkout lines, and traffic jams. Other cities on the ...
12. Christmas 1
Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Colossians 3:1-17, Colossians 3:18-4:1, Galatians 3:15-25, Hebrews 2:5-18, Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23
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John R. Brokhoff
... return to battle the enemy. In World War II, MacArthur had to flee from the Philippines only to return later to conquer. 2. Destroy (v. 13). The king was determined to kill the baby Jesus. It tells us the kind of world a baby enters. It is a hostile world into which we are born, a world out to get us. Today a child faces "death" in terms of child pornography, child abuse by parents and adults, and incest. It is a rough and tough world with tyrants, murderers, and molesters. 3. Died (v. 19). The holy family ...
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Lee Ann Dunlap
... When we are confident in the hope of "that bright land to which I go" we will not be deterred by the distractions along the way — not by the temptations of safe and comfortable lodging on the side of the road, nor by the fears of rough terrain or hostile forces that stand in the way. But in the meantime, we have to keep moving. We have to guard against losing our way, and we must daily commune with God and fellow pilgrims in order to sustain our strength for the journey. Whether newly baptized or going on ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... , to which Paul refers, are the walls of the Jerusalem temple. In the house of God, there was a place for Gentiles, a place for women, a place for priests, and a place for the holy of holies. To get out of your place meant sudden and certain death. The hostility Paul references is between Jews and Gentiles. Jews hated Gentiles. It was unlawful to help a Gentile woman in need. Better for her to die than run the risk of bearing a child. To enter the house of a Gentile was to render a Jew unclean. If a Jewish ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... angry with the government over the way they handled the Branch Dividian crisis in Waco. He got angry . . . so he blew up a building and killed over one hundred innocent men, women, and children. (1) All of us, at some time or other, experience anger, resentment, hostility and rage. Thankfully, we handle it better than Timothy McVeigh. For some of us, however, anger is a big issue in our lives. It causes us to lash out at our spouses and our children. We unleash it on others on the road or in the workplace ...
16. Proper 11
Amos 8:1-14, Luke 10:38-42, Colossians 1:21-28
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John R. Brokhoff
... 1:21-28 1. Once (v. 21). Think of what you "once" were. "You have come a long way, baby!" You once lived in BC (before Christ) and now you live in AD (after Christ). Before Christ comes into a life, the person is "estranged" and "hostile in mind." Out of that hostility comes evil deeds. Because we now belong to Christ, the enmity has ceased and we are free to live and love. 2. Provided (v. 23). Indeed Christ died for our sins. We can now stand before God as blameless because our lives are hidden in Christ ...
17. Proper 11
Lk 10:38-42 · Col 1:21-29 · Gen 18:1-10 · 2 Ki 4:8-17
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John R. Brokhoff
... 1:21-29 1. Once (v. 21). Think of what you "once" were. "You have come a long way, baby!" You once lived in BC (before Christ) and now you live in AD (after Christ). Before Christ comes into a life, the person is "estranged" and "hostile in mind." Out of that hostility come evil deeds. Because we now belong to Christ, the enmity has ceased and we are free to live and love. 2. Provided (v. 23). Indeed Christ died for our sins. We can now stand before God as blameless because our lives are hidden in Christ ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... of being "one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all" (4:5-6a). Paul is clearly trying to demonstrate that the Christian community must be one of heart, attitude, and way of life if it wants to survive in the hostile environment of pagan Ephesus. While Paul is clear that a commonality in mind and heart is essential, there are several routes that individuals can follow to achieve this unified belief. There are various ways that the Spirit manifests himself as we practice different vocations ...
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Shirley Gupton Lynn
... " (Matthew 26:28). Results of sin in the world remain, but in God's eyes, it is as though we had never sinned. The guilt is gone. Our sin is blotted out of God's sight forever, to be remembered against us no more. Do you want to replace your hostile heart with a forgiving heart? Then let's ask God to forgive us for Christ's sake, and go out from here to live and forgive like the $10 million winners we are! The hymn writer says it well: My sin—O the bliss of this glorious thought— My sin ...
20. Easter 7
Acts 1:12-26, 1 John 5:1-12, John 17:6-19
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John R. Brokhoff
... to make him a liar. The truth is that God gave his Son that we might have eternal life now by believing in him. Gospel: John 17:11-19 In this high priestly prayer, Jesus is aware that he is going to leave the world and his disciples in a hostile world. Think of what the world did to him! Will not the disciples face the same opposition and fate? Naturally, the disciples would be afraid. Thus, Jesus prays for his followers, not that they should be taken out of the world as he is about to do, but that they ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... asked me to forgive him; he hasn’t said he was sorry, and what he did still hurts me. Every time I think of it, I get angry.” Remember what we said earlier about what resentment is. It is “feeling again and again the same anger and hostility”. You look at people like that, and you wonder about what’s going on within them when they’re not thinking about their situation. I believe those enemies are creeping out of that Trojan horse during the night, during our times when we’re not thinking about ...
Teach the Text
R.T. France
...  an expert in the law. This is perhaps a more highly trained professional than the normal scribes (NIV: “teachers of the law”), but the terms may be merely synonymous (see on 11:37–54). The question is probing (“to test Jesus”) but not overtly hostile, and Jesus’s acceptance of the lawyer’s answer suggests a more positive rapport than in most such encounters. what must I do to inherit eternal life? An identical question will be asked by the rich ruler in 18:18 (and will receive a similarly ...
Understanding Series
W. H. Bellinger, Jr.
... will confess their sins. The sins are characterized as treachery later in verse 40, the people’s trespass of divine instruction. The sins are akin to those of previous generations, as in verse 39. The disobedience is also called their hostility toward God, which in turn brought God’s hostility toward them. The same language is used in verses 24 and 28, and the result was exile. The people are also said to have uncircumcised hearts, a striking image akin to that in 19:23 (see the comment there), here ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... by Dr. Redford Williams, professor of psychiatry and psychology at Duke University. Twenty-five years later, those with low hostility scores had about one-fourth the risk of experiencing heart disease than those with high hostility. When looking at death from all causes, only 2 percent in the low hostility group died in the years following those tests versus 13 percent in the high hostility group. (6) Bitterness, rage and anger are dangerous to those who have offended us, but they do at least as much ...
25. Tale of the Tares
Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 9:35-38
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Lori Wagner
... are eybah and awr. Ayab is the word used in the phrase from Genesis: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed….” (3:15). From the beginning of time, the “seed” of evil or temptation/inclination for hostility is compared to the seed of God. Yet it’s important to note that no one in humankind is inherently evil! The parable clearly says that God spread all good seed! In another parable, Jesus also explains, sometimes some seeds “take” and others don’t ...
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