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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. Touched

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... into relationships with people we have physically never met, and can build bonds between cultures and causes that are separated by half the world’s geography. Every revolution, every conflict, now happens in our own “virtual” backyard or village commons. We are touched by people and events we will never ever physically encounter. Yet they are up‑close and personal to us because of online connections. It is a connected world. Every one now can be an island, since even islands are no longer isolated ...

2. The Touch of the Master's Hand

Luke 5:12-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... when I had young children, but not anymore"; or "I’m with children all week; I don’t want to be around them on Sundays." But I remember that Jesus always found time for the children, no matter how busy he was. We have the privilege of continuing his tradition, touching the little ones in his name. As someone has said, "One hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the size of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove. But the world may be different because I was important in ...

3. The Healing Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... so energized by it that he went about from that point on offering hugs to everybody. Andy Rooney points out that there are a lot of hugs that really don't qualify as hugs. He speaks of the "A-frame hug," where two people come together and their heads touch -- but nothing else. He says that the effect is a massive leaning, so that the people look like a ski lodge. Another non-hug he calls the "chest-to-chest burp." Chest contact is made, but this makes people so nervous they start patting each other on the ...

4. The Healing Power of Touch

Matthew 9:18-26

Sermon

Brett Blair

... in Jerusalem being two examples. An embrace, a kiss, an arm on the shoulder, a pat on the back--all of these are ways of expressing a love which goes beyond words. It is lamentable that we are so paranoid on this subject in America. We have grown touchy about touching. In other parts of the world they do not seem to have this hang-up. To me, the guideline that we can use for this is from the 3rd chapter of Ecclesiastes. You recall the familiar verses that read: There is a time to live and a time to die ...

5. "If I But Touch..."

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... care is not much better than living death anyway. It only took a moment for her to make up her mind. "Who touched my clothes?" With fear and trembling she came forward, the veil slowly falling from her face. Neighbors in the crowd must have ... concerned, because when the minister asks us to greet one another, the man next to me held my hand so tightly I wondered if he had been touched in years. Now I'm upset because the lady next to me cried and then apologized and said it was because I was so kind and that ...

6. He Touched Me

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... are especially moved by the music. Others are moved simply by the beauty and the reverence of this room. Some of you are moved by a reassuring handshake or hug. Some of you by the times of prayer. For others of you, it is the sacrament, the Lord’s Supper. Touching the bread and the cup speak more eloquently to your heart than anything I could ever say. And for one or two of you, perhaps it could even be the sermon that you need. Christ ministers to each of us in our own way. There is a delightful story of ...

7. There Is Healing in the Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... body and soul. Hugging, they say, relieves many physical and emotional problems, helps people live longer, maintains health, relieves stress and promotes sleep. The studies also show that hemoglobin, the portion of blood that carries oxygen, increases significantly when people are touched. There’s your answer for those who say the Peace Exchange is artificial! And it certainly gives husbands and wives, parents and children, and significant others good reason to hug and hug and hug! Jesus believed in the ...

8. Reach Out And Touch Someone

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Brett Blair

9. Reach Out and Touch Someone

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... run into it at one of the commercial breaks. If we do not watch television or listen to the radio but we go to the ballgame, there it is on the big scoreboard in centerfield between the innings. In great big letters comes this great big sign, "Reach out and touch someone." The music blares through the loudspeakers of the stadium. It’s an ad that we all know and that we’ve all experienced. It’s familiar to us. I dare say that if we would close our eyes and if we heard that jingle, each of us would come ...

10. Just the Right Touch

Mark 5:25-34

Sermon

James Merritt

... bootleg a blessing, but Jesus wouldn't let her. This same story is told in Luke, chapter 8, and we are told there that she tried to hide. But when she found she couldn't she "declared to Him in the presence of all the people the reason she had touched Him, and how she was healed immediately." (Lk. 8:47) When a person is saved, Jesus expects a public confession so that He might get the glory. When the children of Israel were instructed to slay the lamb for the Passover, they were told to put the blood on the ...

11. Touching Hearts and Transforming Lives

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... constant reminder of the hand of God reaching to us. Even before we reach out into the unknown, God is reaching out for us, touching hearts and transforming lives. I would like to talk with you about that today. The hand of God is upon us. The hand ... the sinner's Gospel, we are the scoffers creed." I invite you to do something today. I invite you with one hand to reach out and touch the hand of God. The hand of God is reaching for you, as it is beautifully portrayed on our campus. It is, in real spiritual ...

12. If I But Touch…

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

David E. Leininger

13. Keeping In Touch… With The Lord

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... , he adds, “Don’t you forget that these are your people.” Obviously, there is a free-flowing spirit between God and Moses. This can be attributed to the fact that God and Moses kept in touch. Are you keeping in touch with God on a daily basis in prayer or is the relationship dying from neglect? Keep in touch. Presence God said to Moses, “My presence will go with you.” Moses said, “How will anyone know that you are pleased with me and with your people unless you go with us?” To paraphrase Moses ...

14. The Man From Galilee III: The Touch Of His Hand

Matthew 8:14-17

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... puts us in church always."4 Not only does it put us in Christ's church, it also puts Christ's church in us. It does something to the way we look at life. It gives us a different set of values. It makes us want to be servants. The touch of the hand of Christ upon us gives us a different understanding of our own hands. Hands which could be used for taking become hands used for giving. Hands which could be used for hoarding become hands used for sharing. Hands which could be used for holding down become hands ...

15. The Second Touch for the Out of Touch

1 Kings 19:1-18

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... to be physically fatigued, mentally frazzled, and spiritually fractured. We need to remember this: III. There’s A Second Touch For The Out Of Touch God’s gentle whisper came to Elijah’s troubled soul. The text describes it as “a sound of sheer ... baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again. The angel of the Lord came a second time, touched him, and said, ‘Get up and eat, otherwise the journey will be too much for you.’ He got up, and ate and drank; then he went ...

16. The Personal Touch

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... slogan? It was, “It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.” Desiring to reach into the Spanish market they translated their slogan and announced to the entire Latino world, “It takes a virile man to make a chicken affectionate.” Now that’s a personal touch but not the kind I had in mind. How can we reach others for Christ? We can do it by speaking their language. Understanding their Jobs, taking an interest in their hobbies, speaking to them about their families. We can do it with a personal ...

17. The Healing Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... around intently at those nearby. As his eyes came toward her, her own eyes looked to the ground. She was terrified. In a moment she fell down at his feet and, sobbing as though her heart would break, she confessed. What would he do? With just a touch, her hemorrhage had been healed. Now, with just a word, would the bleeding start again? No. "Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed of your disease." Hallelujah! What a wonderful word! HEALED. Of course, she was not the only one. Over ...

18. Touch and Feel, Taste and See

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . He knew what he believed and what the others were telling him was contrary to all that he'd ever seen or believed could ever happen. Once you were dead, there was no getting up. That was absurd. I guess Thomas forgot about Lazarus. Whatever the case, Thomas needed to Touch and Feel before he could believe. He needed to see it with his own eyes. Let's look at the passage from John 20:19-31 which describes that incident. [19] When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the ...

19. To Touch The Untouchable

Luke 5:12-16

Sermon

... Jesus, of course, responded to this man by saying to him, "Yes, I will heal you." Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man, and in doing so Jesus touched the one who was supposed to be untouchable. It is for this reason that the man was healed. My former teacher, ... healing, we will be strengthened and comforted by God's sustaining love. In one way or another, God's grace will touch us, even though we may feel that we are untouchable. After making a careful and factual study of the numerous healings ...

20. The Tender Touch (Part 1)

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... life. The necessity of weighing right from wrong on a regular basis turned out to be the best therapy I ever had." (3) Yes, James writes "therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed." There is the tender touch that each soul needs. Confession has and always will be good for the soul. Third, the concept of healing the soul and the emotions is as old as humankind. Dr. Alvarez of the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota stated that over 70% of the stomach problems he ...

21. Just When We Think We're Safest, There's a Sunset Touch

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ultimate one: death, death in our own life, or in the life of another. But the picture is here in Browning’s word. Just when we’re settled down, when we’re safest, when we think everything is going along smoothly, there’s an interruption - a sunset touch, a serious illness, the loss of a job, someone’s death. But it’s even more common than that. There’s a story told of Leonardo De Vinci who was one day working on the face of Jesus in his masterpiece, “The Last Supper”. For twelve years ...

22. The Tender Touch (Part 2)

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... 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 story ...

23. Don’t Touch Me With That Water!

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

Cynthia Cowen

... ’s head, the pastor continued. "Rachel Paige Martin, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen." The pastor then turned to Nicholas, who quickly grabbed his father's leg shouting, "Don’t touch me with that water!" Unlocking their son's arms, his parents said with firm voices, "We present Nicholas Robert Martin for the Sacrament of Holy Baptism." Nicholas' defiance toward baptism stemmed from fear and misunderstanding. He did not comprehend what God was doing ...

24. The Soft-touch God

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... of God when we have been the wayward ones. And that, we must confess, happens more times than we would like it to be. Several times a week at least, if it isn’t several times a day. We can say at least two things about the soft-touch God we encounter here in Hosea. One is that there really is a difference between God being our father and our own desire to be good parents to our children. We can certainly learn from God, but time and again our emotions will prevail and we as parents and children ...

25. Touched by God

Luke 1:46-55

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... us in our lives and in our churches, on Christmas, we will come to realize that God has seen us, that God has touched us, that in all of this vast world, in all the countless heavens, God has cared for and loved us so much, that he sent to ... us his Son! The Emmanuel. God with us. How do you respond when you realize that God has touched your life? How do you react when you realize that your uncompromising position was a blessing in disguise? How do you contain what rises up ...

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