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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. Trust Your Intuition

1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... at you or has walked into the room, even if you did not consciously hear them. You can think of someone just as they are about to call you. We know today that the mind is much more complex and powerful than we ever imagined. Intuition, far from being dismissed as superstition or coincidence, is now considered one of the highest forms of knowledge that we can engage in. Without trying, our minds make thousands of decisions a day, based on information they are processing, discarding, prioritizing, without our ...

2. Trust in Me

Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... are always messages of love and grace. If we choose to heed them, they will take us in paths of love and grace. We don’t always get those messages in every circumstance, and we can’t be sure if it is that we are not listening, or if our intuitive sense is imperfectly tuned. Perhaps God’s voice comes especially in moments that make a difference to a huge amount of people, as we see in the Hebrew Scriptures again and again, and in the gospels. All we know is that for deep faith, we need to learn to ...

3. On Being Lifted Beyond Ourselves

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... checked and tested by reason. Recently I was talking with a great physicist. He said that the great breakthroughs of modern science do not come through the plodders, the technicians, the mathematicians, the persons who know all the rules, but through the visionaries, the intuitive minds, those that catch a glimpse of a new truth and begin to put it into a formula that others can understand. Once I was told by a friend who knew Albert Einstein that the old scientist bumped into him on the campus at Princeton ...

4. Deliverance (Angel on Your Shoulder)

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... messenger, or a sign or message from God that says “stop!” “Don’t get on that train tomorrow!” “Don’t cross that road!” “Don’t step onto that bridge!” Or ….“Don’t worry! Go ahead and take that job. You will be alright! I am with you.” Intuitively, when we bring the heart and head together, we know to listen. There’s something about that inner voice that stops us in our tracks and makes us pay attention. We know it. We trust it. So, whether we hear God’s voice in a dream, or ...

5. Some Women's Stories

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Carl Jech

... of The Book of the Dun Cow and other successful books, has observed that for a majority of Christians, literature is suspect "because it does not seem explicit enough." Many Christians "fear ambiguity," he says, and stories that function more on the level of inference, intuition and emotion, stories about particular people and moments in time, don't seem to meet our need for clear-cut answers. "But then," he adds, "we can meet Christ only in particulars, and it is always in the one we think is the most ...

6. Grace in the Midst of Judgment

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... flying, every one of them "crashed." Their planes went down, on average, within 178 seconds, or less than three minutes after they lost their visual reference points. It may seem an odd way to put it, but it takes courage to rely on instruments more than intuition. It takes courage and supreme good judgment to rely more on unchanging standards and measurements than on personal instincts that we feel certain are telling us what to do next. For pilots that's a matter of life and death -- and it happens to be ...

7. Formed by the Potter's Loving Hand

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15, John 8:48-59, John 9:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... mood. So, when we approach someone and get an uncomfortable, unexplainable feeling….are we sensing something about that person’s emotions? That person’s spirit? Are we “smelling” danger? Perhaps we’ll never be sure if it’s the nose that knows or our intuitive skill. But for sure, we can sense a person’s spirit, almost as if that person exudes some kind of fragrant aroma that either attracts or repels. We also give off a kind of odorous spirit, especially when we pray. And God can sense ...

8. Under the Fig Tree

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... with us, feel Jesus’ presence around us. I know I’ve heard many people in hospitals and other facilities tell me just that. While we humans love our logic, our rationality, and our cut and dry evidential facts, none of us can deny that we also have a highly intuitive side, a side that “knows” things that are not based in fact or proofs or logic. When we fall in love. When we pick up the phone to call someone just as they were thinking of us. When we have a sense of something wrong and then hear the ...

9. The Practice

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... knows how hard this mission will be. He knows what Jesus as a human being is going to have to go through in order to fulfill that mission. It’s not going to be easy. It’s going to require the utmost patience, compassion, endurance, support, intuition, empathy, and emotional and spiritual strength. He will be opposed, trashed, defied, threatened. He will be faced with trying to explain the love of God to those who have been trained in the past by rules or harsh treatment or influenced by status and power ...

10. Is God Like Daddy? - Father's Day

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... them. But there is one more note for earthly fathers in this parable. When Junior finally came to his senses, when he realized how much he was missing, he intuitively knew the cause...sin. The words of the scripture are "Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before you." Perhaps "intuitively" is not the proper word, because I suspect that more than intuition was involved. This was the kind of home in which the concept of sin and its consequences would have been taught to that boy from his childhood. His ...

11. The Power of Positive Dreaming

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... the world. This dream has helped my friend to take stock, to realize what is missing in his life, to help him know that there is newness waiting for him in the marriage and the life he already has. Where are your dreams and visions, needs and intuitions this day? Is the unconscious voice of God whispering to you in your heart, in your sleep, in your feelings, in your hunches? What is the restlessness which is stirring you up and echoing in your emptiness and bubbling within your fears and anxieties? What is ...

12. Seeing with Eyes Closed

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the Holy Spirit around us? How do we recognize that Jesus is with us and among us? How do we learn to see the miracles all around us? The blessings in our lives? The signs God is giving us? We need to pay more attention to our inner eyes, our intuition, our super-natural ability to sense what we believe to be true, even if we cannot see it, or cannot prove it. How do we focus more with our inner eyes? Our spiritual eyes? Well, let’s think for a moment about some other things we do to “train” ourselves ...

13. The Wisdom of the Magi

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... for whom they had great hopes for that nation and the world at large. Today, the magi have an even more important lesson for us: that knowledge lies far beyond what we can see with our eyes and understand with facts and figures. Intuition, signs, mysteries, prophecies –these begin with faith in God, the God who came down among us as the Emmanuel and started a revolution. Never underestimate the power of your faith, your spiritual discernment, your prayers, and your meditations. These are your gateways to ...

14. You Can Be Intelligent

2 Chronicles 1:1-17

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... , he is the most literate man regarding automobile engines whom I have ever met. On that subject I am completely uneducated while he is something of a Rhodes Scholar. My mother was a gourmet cook. She rarely used measuring spoons or cups. She just intuitively knew how much of each ingredient was enough. She was food smart. Michael Jordan was court smart. Conversely, we all have our gaps in knowledge. Will Rogers used to say, "We are all ignorant, just about different subjects." True. A good friend was ...

15. Kingdom Etiquette

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will give us no peace until we do."6 Here, modern psychotherapy can help us. We begin by listening to ourselves at the deepest levels of our being: dreams, intuitive hunches, fantasies. As we come to understand the language of symbolism, decipher its meaning and trust its message, we find that, in fact, we are listening to God. We become aware that these communiques emerging from the depths of our being are the voice of Being ...

16. Deliverance by a Dream

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

... the crucial decisions he had to make about Mary and Jesus. In this, he was a bit like Radar O’Reilly in M*A *S*H, who had the ability to hear helicopters before anyone else could hear them; he had a kind of sixth sense, a special type of intuition. When Colonel Potter took over command of M*A*S*H 4077, one of the first things he asked of Radar, as they were decorating the walls of the office, was "Why (are you called) Radar?" The corporal/company clerk answered, "Sometimes I can tell what’s gonna happen ...

17. Yellow Lights

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... when you come to yellow lights? Life is more full of yellow lights than red lights or green lights. And the only way you can make a right decision whether to stop or go is to use both ears, the right ear of intellect and the left ear of intuition and imagination. Use your right ear to analytically assess your rights, and whether or not you can stop safely, or whether you need to clear the intersection. But we also need to use our left ear to musically access the surroundings. Can you hear even if you can't ...

18. Disintegration and Reintegration

Mark 14:1-15:47

Sermon

John Smylie

... how this was all set up ahead of time. Did Jesus at some time in his ministry meet a man whom he would call upon later for this favor? Was there something in the encounter between the disciples and the man that was so unusual that he simply knew intuitively that this was the right thing to do? Perhaps the man had had a dream that he would be encountered by disciples and told that the Lord, the Messiah, the teacher would come to his guest room where he would have the Passover meal with his disciples. It's ...

19. The Wild Within

Luke 4:1-13, Mark 1:9-13, Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , your imagination is your “wild place.” It’s that disorderly place of imaginative dreaming in which we let our mind roam the wilderness of images, a wide open range teeming with randomness of thoughts, synthesis of uncommon ideas, mines of raw intuition, then swirling it all up into a mind tornado that can forge any number of new directions, creative urges, projects, or new trails. But our “wild place” is also where the trappings of our manners, our conventions, our courtesies, our decorum fall ...

20. Seeing Is Believing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... like you might find in a CSI investigation. Faith comes from a place of trust inside of you, based on feelings, intuition, and awareness of something inside of you that is in touch with something beyond our physical realm. How do you know Jesus is there? You ... see him with your mind, your heart, your spirit, your intuition. You know he is there. You can feel him. You can see him with your eyes closed. And seeing is believing. Why was ...

21. The Hidden City

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in a whole different way. This heightened awareness is a different kind of seeing. When Jesus tells us, we need to be “born of the Spirit,” this is what he means. We need to allow the Holy Spirit to open our eyes to see newly and differently, more intuitively, more spiritually, and more vividly. What will we see? We will see Jesus. We will see the truth of his salvation promise. We will become aware of God’s presence in our lives and in the world. We will become aware that the kingdom of God is all ...

22. Yada, Yada, Yada!

Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Anyone in a human relationship knows that! Why do we feel attracted more to some people and less to others? Why do we choose the partners and spouses we choose and allow to know us in deep and personal ways? Why do we trust some people intuitively? Why do the hairs stand up on the back of our necks when we encounter someone we feel might harm us? Human beings have a capacity to “know” that goes far beyond knowing “about” things. We have the ability to “know” deeply, to feel deeply, to trust ...

23. Making Our Feelings Known

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... is in fact to withhold part of life from the sovereignty of God. 3 The frank language of Job taking God to task and seeking to have a trial before God so that he can lay his feelings bare is something the church and the Christian have intuitively avoided. The reason for such avoidance of speech as seen in Job and other biblical writers is that it leads one into the dangerous acknowledgment of how life really is. Through such speech Job leads us into the presence of God where everything is not polite and ...

24. You Can Be Like Children

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... of the Christian faith is this: Jesus loves me, this I now for the Bible tells me so." Children teach great lessons about faith ... especially, I suspect, because they get to the heart of the matter. Children more than anyone else seem to understand intuitively that at the heart of Christianity is Jesus -- his life, his death and his relationship with us. 3 -- Additionally, children share powerful secrets about HOW WE ARE MEANT TO DEAL WITH ONE ANOTHER. My first seven years were spent on a street called ...

25. Crackpots

Jeremiah 2:1-3:5

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... It's good for business, and good for life. At the meeting they gave us a sheet called "Table Talk," things business people need to think about and talk about. It read, in part; "What are your senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, intuition!) telling you about: the things that are breaking down ... falling apart ... going away. The things that are in chaos ... disorder ...turbulence ...fluctuation. The new things that are emerging ... coming forth ... becoming evident!" That's more than a good way to look at ...

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