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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 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. Away with the Stable

Luke 2:1-7

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... 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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 ...

18. 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 ...

19. The Joy of Sorrow?

Matthew 5:4

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... first time I ever really knew my father," this man said to his friend. "I saw a side of his nature that I had never seen before. I had always taken it for granted that he loved me, but I never knew how much until sister died. He was so tender toward me, so comforting. Though his own heart was breaking with grief, sister’s death gave him to me in a new and wonderful way." The Bible speaks to us of how God relates himself to us as the one who has created us, who provides for us, guides us ...

20. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... and then the legs, and the shaping was all done. Finally, there in the hand of God was the man he had wanted, with his finger-prints all over him. As God looked down at what he had made, his heart must have welled-up inside of him. He tenderly took that man, lifted him gently up to his divine lips, and pressed the man’s nostrils against his mouth. Gently God breathed into him his own breath, bringing the man to life. Then, I am certain, though the Bible nowhere records it, God did something else to finish ...

21. Comfort

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... the rest of our lives without a loved one who has died will not be easy. Coping with a disability, bearing pain, loving someone who is hard to love are all difficult to do. They require strength often beyond our limits. But there is reassurance - tender reassurance. "Don’t be afraid.... Behold, your God comes with strength, ... and reward ... and vindication. He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arms. And he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are ...

22. How Can We Meet Grief?

2 Samuel 18:19--19:8

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... , may therein comfort you! In his book How To Be A Transformed Person, E. Stanley Jones wrote: "Meister Eckhart said, ‘God’s every affliction is a lure’ - a lure to help you to help others. You are made tender by your sorrow, and that tenderness can make your service tenderly effective." Dr. Jones illustrated that quotation by telling the story of Josephine Butler. This woman had only one child whom she loved very much. One day, as Josephine Butler arrived home in her carriage, this little girl ran to ...

23. The Miracle

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... uncertain and inadequate as men do at such time. Not knowing if his rough carpenter hands could be of any assistance yet knowing they must. And the woman - young, afraid, uncertain, alone yet not alone. And there in the chill night air and the dim light with tenderness and love the man did the necessary things. And with love that blots out the pain of such moments, the young woman brought forth her first born. A son! And together the man and his wife looked upon the child and marveled at the miracle they ...

24. Comfort My People

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... go. After studying it, he returned it and asked: "Do you have another globe?" That's how many of us feel at times. Is there any hope for us? We ask in despair. And a word comes to us from the prophet, "Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sins have been paid for . . . ." You and I could use a word of comfort during this Advent season, couldn't we? Polls show that even though we are the envy of the world ...

25. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... sick in body. So if you are chronically angry, if you have a short fuse, know that you are not only scalding those close to you with a boiling temper, you are also cannibalizing your own body and placing layers of unfeeling callous over your soul's most tender surfaces. We are not meant to live on anger or control others with it. It is a selective tool for occasional usage. Other pearls from Proverbs on anger are these three: "The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent man ignores an insult ...

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