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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. Your Undivided Attention, Please

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... , speak of it at night as we retire for the day and in the morning when we rise to face another opportunity. We shall keep it between the eyes and wear it on our arms and post it on our doors. But we respond, "My business, sir, is to solicit alms. I do not run errands." "My job description, sir, is to receive your blessings, not to do a blessed thing beyond that." The Word today imposes that impossible demand: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength, and you ...

2. What Do You Do When Life Ain't Fair?

Genesis 29:15-30

Sermon

Steve Burt

... Cares. She had been working as a restaurant hostess since finishing college, and only six months earlier had helped organize a free holiday dinner for the city's hungry and lonely at Thanksgiving. To feed those 400 people Wendy had had to learn to solicit donations, develop a plan of action, and recruit, train and coordinate 75 volunteers. Her idea for raising Vermont Cares from the ashes was to put on an auction outside City Hall. So she applied her newly-developed planning and promotion skills to the task ...

3. A New Kingdom Coming

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... to do with jelly-fish day dreams, idle thought or vain imagination. The kingdom coming has to do with reality -- reality in all its dimensions, physical and spiritual. One time a leading citizen of the community was selling season symphony tickets to his business friends, soliciting their support. One friend said, "Thanks a lot, John. I love music, and I think it's a grand idea for our community to have a fine orchestra. But no thanks on the tickets. However, we'll be with you in spirit." However, John was ...

4. Extreme Measures

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... the cauldrons of decadence and despair. What made their measures so diabolically extreme? The first extreme measure was bringing false charges against Naboth. Because of his refusal to sell the land to King Ahab, Jezebel sat down and wrote a letter which would solicit the support of co-conspirators in her plot. They would falsely accuse Naboth of cursing God and king and would drum up support for his execution. By besmirching his character, the stage would be set for his murder. Law required that at least ...

5. What Money Can't Buy

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... physician, but money can't buy good health. Money can buy medical expertise, but money can't buy a cure for disease. Money can buy a house, but money can't buy a home. Money can buy information, but money can't buy knowledge. Money can solicit loyalties, but money cannot buy obedience. Money can buy good works, but money can't buy faith. All the characters of this story had something that money cannot buy. The servant girl had compassion. The wife of Naaman had loyalty. The prophet had knowledge. The River ...

6. All Mine To Give!

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... tithers? I have. Sometimes I get so overwhelmed by those computer generated appeal letters that come into my office, three or four a day, from ministries in urgent need. Then a man raising his support calls and wants to drop by for an hour to solicit financial backing. After him follows a brother in dire straits who wants an extra 500 dollars for unexpected ministry expenses. Driving across town one sees a billboard with a toll-free number appealing for money to be used in famine relief in Africa. A young ...

7. Broadway

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... far from the Living God as his dissolute brother! How easy it is for us who live in comparative abundance to feel superior to the rest of the world. How easy it is to look at the homeless man in the doorway, or the prostitute on the street corner soliciting, and say smugly to ourselves, "They are only getting what they deserve." How easy it is to judge people in the midst of divorce, or people with AIDS, or people born in another land, with a mean and jealous spirit. This older brother who sits with us in ...

8. Reach Out And Touch Someone

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Brett Blair

... happened the important matter of course is that in the midst of the crowd, Christ felt the touch of a single person. Don't ever say that in the enormity of the cosmos God cannot care about my concerns and me. Not only does God care, he actually solicits our concerns "Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you peace." Daughter, said Jesus (and I might add parenthetically at this point that that is the only recorded time in scripture that Jesus used that term) daughter, your faith ...

9. Plan Your Leisure - Jesus Did His!

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... busy. And when you are surrounded by colleagues and superiors and clients, you feel a certain pressure to keep busy. Then, think of all that competes for your time and energy after you leave your work place: telephone solicitations, television advertisers, door-to-door drives; sorting invitations to exhibits, lectures, travel opportunities, dinners, meetings, books, plays, movies, concerts; letters to read and to write, newspapers. Where does it end? You serve on community boards YMCA/YWCA, Education, the ...

10. Our Living Hope

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

Not every question requires an answer. Sometimes the hope is that there will be no answer. Questioning can be "posturing," that is, taking a position rather than soliciting information. By the questions raised, information is given as well as asked. Often playing to the audience of listeners or bystanders, questions are intended to manipulate others while vindicating the posture of the speaker. One needs only to listen to a congressional hearing or a political debate to watch masters ...

11. The Trifocal Festival

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

... the unique person she was; I miss our relationship, so late in becoming satisfactory to us both; I miss my children’s grandmother, my grandmother’s daughter, my wife’s mother-in-law and especially my father’s wife and companion. I miss the solicitousness, the thoughtfulness, the sensitivity and the care not to meddle. All of which is to say I miss precisely and irreplaceably her. By chance - or perhaps by providence (I can never tell them apart) - I picked up a copy of Henri Nouwen’s little book ...

12. No Sooner Said Than Done!

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... God to speak to us except through and in his Word. To hear a voice beyond the Scriptures is dangerous. For instance, John Brown claimed that God told him to kill people as a solution to the slavery question. Oral Roberts claimed that God told him to solicit funds to build a hospital which both city and state claimed was not needed, and God would give him the cure for cancer. Throughout the history of the church, the orthodox position was that God spoke exclusively in his Word, and the supposed voice of God ...

13. A Person Approved by Christ

John 1:43-51

Sermon

George Bass

... project, and his assistant, Carl Alsing. "Shall we hire kids?" said West (to Alsing). Kidder remarks: "To make it work they’d have to hire the very best new engineers they could find ..." They set out to do just that by advertising and "soliciting applications" from prospective engineers. "When they liked the looks of an application, they invited the young man - it usually was a young man - to Westborough, Massachusetts, and the elders would interview him one by one. If he was a potential Micro-kid, the ...

14. The Bible, Your Mirror? by Dr. Lawrence L. Lacour

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:4, 5) What did Eve do? She ate. In doing so, she misused her freedom and disobeyed God. Furthermore, she did what all Eves do - she solicited support for her position, persuading Adam to eat also. What happened to Adam and Eve? Feeling guilty and ashamed, they hid themselves. When the time came for their usual tryst with God in the garden, God called, "Adam, where are you?" The guilt-ridden couple did not ...

15. Getting Under Your Neighbor's Skin

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of the matter has to do with neighbors who get under each other's skins." If I were to ask you to tell me about people who get under your skin, the list would be endless. Some of you would cite people who engage in telephone solicitation. Others would point to TV preachers who constantly beg for money. Someone would nominate the folks who write negative political ads. Others get riled by drivers who make a left turn by first swinging wide right as if they were driving 18-wheelers. I would nominate football ...

16. Adultery, Cure and Prevention

Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... because of the thoughtful articles, but, watch out, they will lie about other things too. The mind is a magnificent computer, but it is no better than the material we feed it. Temptations will come our way regardless, but there is no sense in soliciting more. I doubt the wisdom of going to cocktail parties where husband and wife are expected to separate at the door and mingle all evening. I doubt the wisdom of office parties where too much alcohol and affection are dispensed rather carelessly. When out ...

17. The Healing Power of Touch

Matthew 9:18-26

Sermon

Brett Blair

18. The Burden Bearing Christ

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... for two. And our yoke-partner is none other than Christ himself. Running throughout all scripture from the beginning to the end is the theme that ours is a burden bearing Christ. He is not just a Lord whom we burden, and we do, but a Lord who actually solicits our burdens. I want to think with you this morning concerning that thought. He who would be effective must first be free from his burdens. I First, I would suggest to you that ours is a burden bearing Christ who sets us free from the burden of sin ...

19. THE NEIGHBORHOOD GAP

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... . With few exceptions the Protestant minority status is usually greatly exaggerated; Catholics simply being more visible with, perhaps, a religious symbol or statue in the car, and children either wearing parochial school uniform or appearing at the door on frequent occasions to solicit chances or funds for this or that church activity. Discounting this, what is your Catholic neighbor saying when he or she seems to be so vehement in defense of the faith? One hardly has to be an expert on ecumenism to note ...

20. Who Says A Good Man Is Hard To Find?

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... learn a second thing about this centurion: HE WAS A MAN WHO RESPECTED OTHER PEOPLE'S BELIEFS. The centurion heard that Jesus was a man who had the power of healing. "Ah," he thought, "maybe he can do something for my servant." And he made plans for soliciting Jesus' help. Instead of personally approaching the Master, though, he sent a contingent of Jewish elders to plead his case for him. Here is what the elders said to Jesus about the centurion: "He is worthy to have you do this for him," the elders said ...

21. Save The Tokens For Uncle Sam

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... of every dollar we earn. What is there that belongs to God? ONE THING IS FOR CERTAIN. WE OWE GOD MUCH MORE THAN MONEY. Don't get me wrong. Our money does belong to God. I was amused by a story published by the University of Oregon, in soliciting support from its alumni: "When the King of Siam came to America for an eye operation some years ago, his American surgeon, accustomed to setting prices somewhat by ability to pay, couldn't decide exactly how much to charge His Royal Highness$1000 to be a good ...

22. The One Thing That Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... almost certain death within six months unless he received a transplant of compatible bone marrow. With such a transplant, he had a good chance for a complete recovery. Because the likelihood of finding a compatible donor was about one in sixty thousand, McFall solicited the aid of his relatives. A first cousin was tested and proved to be a perfect match. The cousin, however, refused to go through with the transplant even though there was no danger to himself. McFall sued to compel his cooperation, but the ...

23. Someone Is Calling In The Night

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... looked at Bob and said, "I want to see you in church." Bob was dumbfounded and even embarrassed. "Why me?" he thought to himself. He wasn't attending church at the time and he admitted, was "behaving in less than holy ways." At first he thought the man was soliciting for his own church so Bob informed the stranger that he didn't live in Wyandotte. "I didn't say what church," the man replied. "I said I want to see you in church." Bob swiveled away for just few seconds, to mull over the strange comment and ...

24. Teamwork

Nehemiah 1:1-11

Sermon

Rev. Dr. Ward Williams

... death within six months unless he received a transplant of compatible bone marrow. With such a transplant, he had a good chance for a complete recovery. Because of the likelihood of finding a compatible donor was about one in sixty thousand, McFall decided to solicit the help of his relatives. A first cousin was tested and proved to be a perfect match. The cousin, however, refused to go through with the bone marrow transplant even though there was no real danger to himself. McFall went to court and sued ...

25. Meeting And Mastering Temptation

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not deserve the name of virtue.'" (Hughes, Ibid., p. 121). The word for temptation literally means "to put to the test" or "to go through". To tempt means to entice, essay, examine, or try. Temptation, then, means "a putting to proof -- for good", or "an evil solicitation -- for bad". So, temptation can be used for our good or for our harm. This certainly harmonizes with James' word in verse 12: "Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life which ...

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