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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. The Tender Touch (Part 2)

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... go." Trueblood reflected upon those words as he drove on down the road. "There are so many people trying to get their load over the hill," he thought. "I have just enough strength--when added to their own--to make the thing go." (4) This is what our tender touch does. It joins the spirit and soul of another pilgrim and surrounds that person with strength they can feel and allows them to go on. G.K. Chesterton was right when he noted, "More things are wrought by prayer--than this world will ever know." The ...

2. Tenders Of The Sacred Fire

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... is our spiritual crisis at the root of the fact that the nation is so racially divided we are terrified of those who are different. As the church, we need to address this crisis of the human spirit with the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are tenders of the Sacred Fire of faith. We need to continue to build here a community of faith which is concerned to reach out to this neighborhood, to this city, to the world. To do that, we will probably need to find new ways to be the church. The present ...

3. The Tender Touch (Part 1)

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of the healing touch of God. Remember how in the 23rd Psalm it says, "You anoint my head with oil." The cure, however, is not in the oil--but in the power behind the oil. Jesus also used clay, mud and spittle as other visual aids in the tender touch of healing He shared with others. His touch encompasses and makes all the other touches work to our good and wholeness. To show you how old this understanding of the connection between our physical and spiritual need is, hear this prayer which can be found in a ...

4. The Capacity for Tenderness

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Editor James S. Hewett

... Ulyanov was born in 1870 to a family that would suffer many tragedies in the years to come. Later, he used the pen name Lenin to promote his revolutionary ideas. He wrapped himself in his revolutionary work until he lost almost all capacity for human tenderness. Those about him said he was a most miserable man. Although married, Lenin gave little love to his wife, Krupskaya. One night she rose, exhausted from her vigil beside her dying mother, and asked Lenin, who was writing at a table, to awaken her if ...

5. Luther the Tender Father

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Editor James S. Hewett

Martin Luther was a good father, knowing as if by instinct the right mixture of discipline and love. "Punish if you must, but let the sugar-plum go with the rod." He composed songs for his children and sang these songs with them while he played the lute. His letters to his children are among the jewels of German literature. His sturdy spirit, which could face an emperor in war, was almost broken by the death of his favorite daughter Magdalena at the age of fourteen. "God," he said, "has given no bishop so ...

6. The Gospel Through the Person

Galatians 4:8-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in holding on to the centralities of the faith: God’s love for us, clearly demonstrated in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus; salvation which comes alone by grace through faith in Jesus Christ we need to hold toughly to those convictions, but we need to be tender tender in our love for those who have not yet grasped what we have grasped, or better, who have not yet been grasped as we have been by the wooing love of Jesus Christ. And that’s a stance we can take in a lot of areas of our life ...

7. How to Be a Blessing

I Peter 3:8-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... a picture of Jesus, you've probably seen it, with a heart on his tunic, a drop of blood coming from it. It's maudlin art, it's just terrible art, it's propaganda art really. But it serves its purpose, which is to reveal Jesus our Lord as tender-hearted. So tender-hearted he didn't condemn anybody. He didn't regard the external reality of anybody's life. He looked at what was inside of everybody, the image of God inside of every one. He saw not only the way people are now, he saw the way they are supposed ...

8. When God Was Nothing

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... he loved John standing beside her and said, “Woman, here is your son.” He then turned to John and said, “Here is your mother.” In his greatest hour of distress, he was kindhearted. For you see, when God was nothing we learned that love is tender. III Finally we learned that love is self-emptying. That is perhaps the most dramatic and most distinctive mark of love. That it empties itself on behalf of another. Paul uses this image by saying that God poured himself out in Jesus Christ. God does not ...

9. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... dim touch of earthly things) Surprise thee ranging with thy peers. If such a dreamy touch should fall, O, turn thee round, resolve the doubt; My guardian angel will speak out In that high place, and tell thee all. XLV The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that `this is I:’ But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of `I’ and `me,’ And finds `I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.’ So rounds he ...

10. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 1

Matthew 28:1-10

Drama

Esther R. Russ

... in my heart I had no fear. God knew about the census, and when and where the baby would be born. Joseph cared for me so tenderly as we traveled the seventy miles to Bethlehem. He walked beside the small donkey on which I rode. He found the most comfortable places for ... to him for he had not yet ascended to his Father. I didn’t mind that I didn’t understand his command. He was alive! Tenderly, he told me to run to his brothers and tell them that he was to ascend to his Father. I ran joyfully to Mary’s ...

11. Imitating Christ's Humility

Philippians 2:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... participate in his risen life. It is the Spirit who enables them to respond to this call and to enjoy this fellowship; it may therefore be called “the fellowship of the Holy Spirit” (2 Cor. 13:14) or their joint participation in the Spirit. The tenderness and compassion that they have in Christ are felt for one another. J.-F. Collange (ad loc.) thinks the reference is to the bonds of affection and sympathy between Paul and the Philippians. Paul was very much aware of those bonds, but his present concern ...

12. The Warrior And The Shepherd Are One!

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... in an evil world. What emerged from this battle with Gnostics, perhaps hardy forerunners of today's New Age proponents, was a clear Christian belief that no amount of knowledge was the Way of the Christ that was not also evident in a person's own way of tenderly caring for the other brothers and sisters on the planet. The hardy antagonist of heretics, the author of First John, struck a blow for ethical Christianity when he wrote: "By this we may be sure that we are in him; he who says he abides in him ought ...

13. A Time for Tears

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... man a "gentleman." You CAN be gentle, and you CAN be a man, simultaneously. In some places in our current literature and drama, there is a curious attention being shown to the STRENGTH of TENDERNESS. We are getting over the decades of pretended toughness, in which we bowed down to some kind of a taboo against tenderness. We acted as though we thought that the boorishness and brutishness that we saw in so many lives were signs of masculinity and strength. These were our heroes in the motion pictures. The man ...

14. Giving Comfort

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... , is God: “You who bring good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, ‘Here is your God!’” Then he adds these tender words, “He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.” Now that’s comfort—comfort that only God can give. In one of his books the late well-known pastor ...

15. Transforming Love

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... that is self-centered? It is a philosophy that says: "Give me what is mine! I deserve it and I want it and I will not be denied even for the sake of others!" Where is the consideration for others? Where is the compassion and the tenderness? A minister went through a difficult experience with his family several years ago. He had two sons and his wife was pregnant. They had had some problem pregnancies before so they knew that they needed to wait until a certain stage in the pregnancy before they told ...

16. There Is Healing in the Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... , I put out my hands to receive this child. She reaches her hands and she comes into my arms. She may stay only an instant until she returns to her mother, but she has learned the feel of touching grandpa again. Second, being touched in tender, caring ways can be healing. In many homes children are fortunate to have their need for touching or what some professionals call skin hunger satisfied. There are other homes where touching only takes the form of spanking or abuse. Some of us believe that children ...

17. Away with the Stable

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

... 25:40) One of the traditions in my family is to gather at my wife's home on Christmas Day to break bread and open gifts. For almost twenty-three years I have joined my family in that ritual. Until my wife's grandfather died, one of the tender moments of every December twenty-fifth had been Granddaddy's prayer before the Christmas feast. All of the family would gather in one room, and Granddaddy, his voice quiet but confident, would pray the same prayer every year. "Help us," he would say, "not to forget the ...

18. A Man Who Wanted to Burn a City

Luke 9:46-50

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... of John. We don’t ordinarily think of him this way; we usually picture him as a man of love and grace, mercy and compassion. See what a change comes from being with Jesus! The Master transformed this man from a Son of Thunder into a Son of Tenderness, a man who is called "the beloved disciple." We too can be changed by meeting Jesus. Aggressiveness Why did Jesus give John this nickname, Son of Thunder? Several biblical incidents can give us a clue. One day, John met a man who had been casting out devils ...

19. Christmasize Your Life

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , the ruler who will redeem Israel and reclaim her favored place among all nations. He doesn't describe a giant, or a sudden storm of divinely-charged power. Instead the prophet's image starts small. The long awaited Messiah arrives as a shoot, a tiny, tender, green sprout. This shoot doesn't spring up out of a carefully prepared, plowed and furrowed field. Its source for germination is the decaying stump of an old, once-powerful name. Jesse, the father of David, was thus the father of the entire line of ...

20. Try a Little Kindness (Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... in Christ also forgave you." Now as I thought about kindness, I thought about an incident in the life of Jesus which not only shows us kindness, but teaches us valuable lessons on the kindness that God expects from us. It is one of the most tender, sweet, and yet very familiar incidents in the life of Jesus, and it dealt with his relationship to little children. We see in this incident literally how kindness walks and how kindness talks. I. How Kindness Is Seen In Our Lord "Then they brought young children ...

21. “Blessed Are Those Who Have Regard for the Weak; the Lord Delivers Them”

Psalm 41:1-13

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... us in the daily routine of life. Two word pictures in Psalm 41 open up this truth for us. They remind us that God’s grace is a reality every day. They occur in verses 3 and 12, but if we speak of them in reverse order, the most tender of the two will conclude our lesson or sermon, and that aspect of teaching and preaching is very important. The last word should always be grace. The first word picture is expressed in these words: “In my integrity you uphold me” (41:12a). The picture is that of God ...

22. Imitating Christ’s Humility

Philippians 2:1-11

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... must unite their minds on that which is most important in the life of the Christian community and God’s mission in the world. As a community, the Philippians are to have the same love (2:2), meaning that they are to show the love of Christ, tenderness and compassion (2:1), both as individuals and as a community. As a community, they are to be one in spirit and purpose, meaning that there should be a definitive end to any factions and groups formed by personal interests. The cause of the church is never ...

23. Failure Is Not Final

Hosea 2:2-23

Sermon

William L. Self

... may or may not be of our own making. Today you must hear the word of God to you: failure is not final. There is a door of hope wherever you are in the valley. This valley of Achor is the door of hope for everyone who longs for the tenderness of the Father's love. One of my favorite stories of failure not being final is the one about Babe Ruth, the home-run champion of the world. The other part of that story is that he also led in strikeouts! Thank goodness there is no award for strikeout champion ...

24. Will We Enjoy Heaven?

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... did, those weirdos would repent and you are such a soft-hearted God you would forgive and redeem all of them. I didn't go because I want Nineveh to go to him." Jonah could embrace God's anger when it was directed against his enemies. But the tenderness of God, especially in the potential repentance of the hated Ninevites, was too much to bear. Jonah was not content to let God be God. Jonah preferred God to be unchanging and predictable. In this regard, Jonah stands as a warning to the modern church. We must ...

25. The Sermon on the Level

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

... . He knows what hunger means, for he identified in his humanity with our humanity. "Give us this day our daily bread" is easily translated by the pleading of emaciated bodies and distended stomachs into "Share with us this day your daily bread." Some of us have tender places at the level of the waistline. Jesus does not require that the faces of the saints wear furrowed frowns or on their arms a mourning band. Joy is their character. One Sunday after worship, a man came out of church and said to me, "Father ...

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