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. The Quality of Mercy
Matthew 18:21-35
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... droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice-blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes ... And so it does. And if you and I want the blessing of God's forgiveness of our sins, then it behooves us to cultivate the quality of mercy in every dimension of our living day by day and year by year through all of life. As Jesus taught and as Saint Francis said, "It is in giving that we receive." As from our hearts we grant forgiveness to others, so it is that from God we ...
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Lori Wagner
... delight as the fruits of Eden were meant to delight. That is, our human habitat was created to be a wine-making, love-making business. And we as God’s tenants are in the mercy and love making business. And as God’s tenants, we are held accountable for the quality of the love and mercy that we make. Want to taste and see that the Lord is good? Taste the wine made by God’s tenants, the most delectable wine in the world. Because our job is to cultivate the most wonderful fruit we can in the vineyard that ...
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... for themselves the sparkling effigy of a calf. They danced around it. They did homage to it. They worshipped it. In a sense we have done the same. We have grown tired of the alleged slow pace of divine leadership and guidance. We have turned our backs on quality living. We have given our chief attention and energy to the quantity of life. In the process it seems that we as a nation and creative society are being kicked to death by the golden calf we have fashioned for ourselves. We have a corporate case of ...
4. Marks Of A Champion
1 Timothy 6:3-10
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King Duncan
... boxer who goes the full ten rounds and does not quit until he is victorious. What does it mean to "fight the good fight of the faith?" What are the marks of a champion from a Christian perspective? In the preceding verse Paul lists the qualities God is looking for in men and women of faith. They form a kind of snapshot of the Christ-like individual. They are the marks of a Christian champion. St. Paul writes, "As for you, man of God . . . pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness ...
5. The Debt of Love
Romans 13:8-14
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” This is to say that the quality of our discipleship is determined by how surely our love for others reflects God’s love for us. “We love because God first loved us” (1 ... he saw for sure the genuine love of God between a man and a woman. He knew that love was true, and he knew that quality of love was from God. (4) The purest kind of love is that which cannot be reciprocated. God’s love is that kind of love. ...
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Thomas Peterson
... at its most dependable. As I experience chaos in my life and accept the demands which order puts upon me and do them, I grow surer that truth lies deeply embedded in order. The voice of Christ sounds even stronger in my soul. The ordinary is of common quality, rank, ability. When I touch the infinite worth in others, my world takes on a splendor which seems right for human life together. The voice of Christ grows stronger in my soul. As an ordinary meal is one served to all comers at a fixed price, so I ...
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Richard Gribble
... , if you have love for one another. - John 13:34-35 Paul's idea that love is the base of Christianity is clear, but how can we know we actually love as Jesus commanded? The apostle helps us answer this question by providing an important list of qualities present in one who loves. First, he says love is patient. We know patience is a virtue in short supply these days. The humorous little prayer demonstrates our difficulty with patience: "O, Lord, grant me patience and give it to me now!" We don't want to ...
8. Hope Rises
Mark 9:30-37, 42
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Lori Wagner
... your partner or friend. This morning we’re going to try a third exercise. In this one, we are going to make a list of qualities. I’d like you to take out a sheet of paper. If you’re at home, you can find a scrap of paper nearby. If you’re ... in the sanctuary, you can use the back side of your bulletin. Now I want you to list all of the qualities you can think of that describe a true disciple or lover of Jesus. Or you can think of it this way, what words would describe a truly ...
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Charles R. Leary
... Father wants is that all who see the Son and believe in him should have eternal life. And I will raise them up on the last day.” If we had our choice, most of us would choose a long life. But Jesus is saying through the pen of John that quality of life is far more important than its length. Beyond that is hope. I pointed out last week how George Bernard Shaw has a unique way of highlighting St. John’s insights in his book, Back to Methuselah. I’ll repeat the scene and carry it a bit further. Shaw ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... we tell the poor, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without making effort to feed and clothe the poor, then there is a death-quality about our belief. "So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead." In my office I have a copy of the 1908 ... the unbelieving victims of our system than might mass crusades in outdoor stadiums. III Our final point of witness to unbelief will be the quality of our own lives. Perhaps this is the most crucial of all. How often we spoil the faith for someone else by the miserable ...
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Leonard Sweet
... of Alexandria, as quoted in Ancient Christian Commentary, II, Mark 4:30-34). In being like mustard, we through faith in Christ resist infection and adversity as well. Mustard enhances our own soul in addition to enhancing the life of the world. It's healing qualities, through the kingdom it represents, will help heal our illnesses as well as the world's. Jesus said we are to be salt and light to the world. And mustard. Don't forget the mustard. Jesus' parable about the mustard seed reminds us that we ...
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James W. Moore
... knew how to keep up to date on all of his relationships. That's number one – a crucial lesson that sorrow teaches us – that it's important to keep up to date on our relationships. II. SECOND, IT'S IMPORTANT TO TAKE UP OUR LOVED ONES BEST QUALITIES AND KEEP THEM ALIVE. When someone we love dies, what do we do? What is the best tribute we can pay that loved one? What can we do? Many things… · Participate in the memorial service. · Give a memorial gift. · Send flowers. · Pray for the family. · Write ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... living in a $25,000 rather than a $50,000 house. In our time we find that there is no money for schools, libraries, music, and the arts but we have no difficulty raising money in terms of millions for apartment complexes and perimeter malls. If we had the quality of life as a goal, we would be glad to have less of the material things of life for those things that truly enrich life. But just try to sell this to labor unions and big corporations who demand ever higher wages and profits! A New Mind Coming to ...
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Allan J. Weenink
... elegant setting of impeccable decor, dressed stylishly, and bearing all the distinguishing marks of affluent, successful men of the world. There was a thoroughbred kind of casualness in the demeanor and an aura of "we have arrived." The ads had a compelling quality. The subliminal message fairly screamed that if one used the product promoted by a particular distillery, this ultimately led to success. Or, if one had arrived, he could do no less than take part in the sacred ritual so reverently depicted. All ...
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King Duncan
... hurt the company," his pastor assured him, "you hurt everybody in this city." (1) And that's true. We hurt the entire society when integrity is not maintained. WE ALSO HURT PEOPLE WE LOVE. In a 1987 U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT/CNN poll, Americans said that the quality which they thought was most important in a friend was honesty. It was considered to be more than twice as important as sharing common interests or having a sense of humor. Think how terrible it is to have a friend, or a child, or a parent, or a ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... themselves something which is immortal, imperishable, something that never dies, called the soul. The soul, of course, came from God, and at death it returns to God just as the raindrop returns to the ocean. The doctrine of immortality emphasizes the idea that there is a quality in all of us which is so powerful that it simply cannot die. We might even say that the idea of immortality dispenses with God. We do not need God, for we are immortal all by ourselves. The Bible, on the other hand, insists that ...
17. Pre-Game Analysis
I Corinthians 9:19-27
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Mark Trotter
... , whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on these things." Those are Greek qualities. The qualities of truth, honor, justice, purity, and graciousness, those are not biblical qualities, those are Greek qualities. They are the qualities that characterize the hero, the values the hero lived by. Paul is saying that is what it means to be a Christian. It is like being a hero, exemplifying in your ...
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James Merritt
... clever, My girl is dumb but good; But would I trade my girl for Paul's? You bet your life I would! Obviously, these qualities of love sound outstanding. But I want to say this about love and tell you why I believe it must be spiritually driven. I ... ." (NIV) John says apart from Jesus Christ and his cross, you will never know what true love is. You may experience some degree in quality of love, but the only act of pure love, unsullied by any taint of ulterior motive that has ever been performed in the history ...
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Richard Gribble
... . Past hurts are like a ball and chain shackled to our leg. Unless we cut the chain we will always be hindered in our ability to move forward. Saint Paul says at the climax of the reading that we must envelop all of these virtues and qualities of his message in love, “which binds everything together in perfect harmony” (v. 14). Love is much more than eros, romantic love. It is also fileo, the love of brothers and sisters, and the greatest form of love, at least from the perspective of the Greeks, agape ...
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Richard Gribble
... down. Past hurts are like a ball and chain shackled to our leg. Unless we cut the chain we will always be hindered in our ability to move forward. Saint Paul says at the climax of the reading that we must envelop all of these virtues and qualities of his message in love, "which binds everything together in perfect harmony" (v. 14). Love is much more than eros, romantic love. It is also fileo, the love of brothers and sisters, and the greatest form of love, at least from the perspective of the Greeks, agape ...
21. Seat of Power
Mark 10:35-45, Matthew 20:20-28
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Lori Wagner
... , to give orders, to direct, to punish. And if humans were put in charge, that’s exactly what we’d do. But it’s not the way Jesus’ kingdom works. Not the way God’s kingdom works. Ambition…. is a very human quality. Grace, humility, service…. those are very Jesus qualities. In the scripture story for today, we have James and John (and in Matthew’s story, their mother is also to blame) telling Jesus exactly this: “Lord, we want you to do for us whatever we ask.” Wow! we say. What arrogance ...
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Thomas A. Pilgrim
... could help Him do this, for He saw their true talent. He looked beyond what was obvious to all, that they were fishers of fish, and deeper than what was seen on the surface, rough men weathered by the sun and the wind. Jesus looked at those inner qualities, the real nature of those men, and He knew what stalwart, courageous, daring men they could become. Of course, you see quickly now the implications of this kind of thinking. You know where I am headed with this, and you know what I am about to say. If ...
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Robert A. Kramer
... words of Kahil Gibran, (The Treasure of Kahil Gibran) “Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity do not alter its course,” also confront them. ____ and ____ have found this freeing quality in each other’s presence. Some insight to the self occurs when we are valued, treasured, loved. Some new encounter with untouched feelings, ideas, abilities re-creates us. The partnership becomes more than the sum of two persons uniting. It is the budding of ...
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Theodore F. Schneider
... done with thanksgiving. In Colossians, watchful prayer is offered with thanksgiving, and speech is always to be gracious. On another occasion, Paul urges us to "rejoice always, pray constantly, [and] give thanks in all circumstances. "All circumstances" means that gratitude is the quality of our lives in both the good times and the bad. Though the providence of God is a major ingredient in the thankful life, it is not a matter of "counting blessings" as a cause for thanksgiving. We are urged to give thanks ...
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... distinguish between right and wrong, and to choose the right. It stirs in us the ethicizing impulse to grope beyond what is toward that which ought to be. And by thus involving us in the valuing process it draws us toward the kind of living that has enduring quality in it. It was the tug of eternity that prompted the prophet Micah to ask, "What doth the Lord require of thee?" And it was a magnificent insight into truth that enabled him to see the answer: life with God, life with eternity in it, is in doing ...
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