Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on
Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation
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Maxie Dunnam
... was that way back, long before this experience, she had come to terms with who she was and what were her deepest values. That is essential for us. Because at the forks of the roads of our life, we will be tempted to give attention to our physical needs and disregard the spiritual. III. Now move to the second temptation. It was really a temptation to tempt the Lord. Let's read verses 5, 6, and 7: "Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him ...
2. Proper 4
Mark 2:23-3:6, 1 Samuel 3:1--4:1, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18
Sermon Aid
Russell F. Anderson
... 3:1-20 Lack of vision (v. 1). The Bible relates how God spoke to his prophets through visions. Those visions were lacking during Eli's priesthood, because he did not reign in his rebellious sons for their sinful ways. God does not communicate to those who openly disregard his will. It seems that a lack of vision exists in our day as well, because we have turned our back to the Lord. God keeps the light on. The spokesman for Motel 6 ends his homey commercials with the phrase, "We'll keep the light on for ...
3. The Sabbath - Delightfully Different
Exodus 20:1-21, Mark 2:23-3:6
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Bill Bouknight
... back to the original intent of the Sabbath. He said, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." Today our problem with the Sabbath is not too much strictness. The pendulum has swung to the other extreme. Our society disregards the Sabbath. There are two main culprits: greed and the self-indulgence of our secular culture. Like the other Ten Commandments, the Fourth Commandment cannot really be broken. But people can break themselves by violating it. People in America are suffering grievously ...
4. How Could A Love So Right Go Wrong?
Genesis 24:1-67, Genesis 27:41--28:9
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Bill Bouknight
... . The Lord had revealed to Isaac and Rebekah, as recorded in Genesis 25, that their elder son would serve the younger. But father Isaac was not willing to accept the Lord’s guidance; he just disregarded it. It is dangerous to disregard God’s guidance. For example, when you talk with your child about which college to attend, do you suggest that you both pray about it? You should. God knows which college will best suit your daughter, where she will meet the right people and receive the best training ...
5. Running For Joy
Hebrews 12:1-13
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King Duncan
... every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God." The writer of Hebrews calls Jesus "the pioneer and perfecter of our faith . . ." In other words, like Roger Bannister, Jesus ran the race before us. Jesus showed us what is possible ...
6. The Honor of God
Malachi 1:6-14
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... or the land of Judea. His name is feared among the nations. He is the great king. These three grounds for honoring Yahweh (as Father, master, and king) provide the structure of the second disputation. Malachi’s argument focuses on the priests’ utter disregard for the God of Israel. They of all people should be expected to remain faithful. The job of the priests as cultic functionaries was to please God by presenting offerings and sacrifices and in teaching the law of God. They may not have been ...
Sermon
Gordon Pratt Baker
... the values of her heritage. Let none, therefore, slight the role she must play in passing the heritage on to coming generations. There is a continuity to history, he asserts, in the fact that the Eternal has a sustaining purpose for his chosen people; and to disregard it can only prove fatal. For faith - any faith is always but a generation from extinction. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders which he has ...
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Frederick C. Edwards
... could she believe in and trust the God-presence with her, or within her, to forgive and affirm her. It is sad but true that many of the people who are captive to feelings of hopelessness are young people. "My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God." That’s a way of saying, "Nobody knows and nobody cares about me, least of all God," and many would add, "If there is a God." A surprising number of young people, with what should be the best of life ahead of them, are often so ...
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Leonard H. Budd
... mostly dirty, uneducated, and poor. But these deal more with his general character - and cannot singly condemn him by the Law. I present now items that deal with his intrigue - his disregard for convention - and his treasonous teaching! I had occasion to ask him one day about his followers’ deliberate, irreverent, blatantly public disregard of the Sabbath Laws. It was documented that the twelve men closest to the Nazarene picked the grain of the fields on the Sabbath. The law clearly states this shall not ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... at bus drivers and whomever else might be available. Policemen, I hear, got more than their normal share of abuse and disregard. More fights, more violence, more temper, more anger - all marks of the storm. Why? Who is to blame for our plight? ... it. The snow is not the enemy, for we and the snow occupy the same earth together. We view the snow as the enemy just as we disregard nature as we put more and more earth under concrete. We view snow as the enemy just as we spoil our rivers and streams, our air and ...
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King Duncan
... , his daughter arrived home in the family car and promptly drove over them. This brought this man to the breaking point. He told his wife not to be alarmed. Then he sent his daughter across the street where a police officer lived to tell him to also disregard what he would be hearing in a few moments. And then he got his gun and began firing wildly into the ground. Later, under arrest for reckless endangerment, he said he thought discharging the gun would help him get rid of his anger. (1) Many of us ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... it. You may have breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, "well, we are spared another sermon on money." Or, you may have thought, "Maybe that passage is too difficult to deal with. So Maxie simply disregarded it. He's not willing to admit that it's too tough to handle." Neither thought is correct. I didn't disregard it, and we are not going to escape another sermon on money. I simply waited until now, because of our Stewardship Emphasis. You've been getting information about it. The theme is "God gave...So ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... could do with it as you wished. How patient has God been with you in the use of your talent? -- talent that He has given you, natural gifts with which you have been blessed. You have used those talents and gifts according to your own design, disregarding any consideration that God may have something special in mind. How patient has God been with you as you have taken the material blessings you have received and used it without regard to His call to faithful stewardship. You have spent your money on cars and ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... has a useful function. In the past few decades, there's been a great movement toward guilt - free living. This is good when we have the right perspective. The problem is that so-called modern or enlightened thinkers have actually encouraged us to disregard guilt. They have done a good job in convincing vast numbers of people that sin is acceptable, that morality is relative to individual preference, that guilt and moral accountability are outdated. So, self-indulgence is now the norm. "To consider how far ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... that if you are here this morning, and are wrestling with whether God loves you or not, it is a matter of sin – the sin of unbelief. I’m not disregarding or diminishing those painful experiences of your past, all those relationships that reduced you to a “Norman Nothing,” or a “Susan Shadow,an object, rather than a person. I’m not disregarding that. I’m simply saying that we must deal with our sin of unbelief as the beginning answer to this problem of self-esteem and our inability to accept ...
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Leonard Sweet
... gave Jewish authorities a perfect legal right to put Jesus into a grave. According to first-century Torah interpretation, when it comes to raising the dead, the life you saved would definitely not be your own. Jesus didn't violate all these Jewish laws out of disregard for the Torah or disgust with ritual. In today's gospel text he clearly acknowledges that as part of the Torah tradition the Pharisees and scribes sit on Moses' seat. In other words, they have a deep, direct connection to God's word as given ...
17. Mark 1:40-45
Mark 1:40-45
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... and the offerings made will proclaim that new status to the community. The text does not say whether the man-made-clean found a priest and carried out the necessary ritual tasks. But if the man did obey Jesus in that respect, he clearly disregarded the mandate to silence. The Greek declares that this man “diaphemizein ton logon”, he “broadcast the word.” The cured leper did not just let his good news “slip out.” He made it his mission to “proclaim” Jesus’ miraculous work as far and wide as ...
18. Eating in the Echoing Hall
2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33
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Stan Purdum
... a mule, rode under a great oak tree and somehow became hopelessly entangled in the branches. His mule ran out from under him, and Absalom was left dangling. That was where David's men found him. Then Joab, the supreme commander of David's army, in complete disregard of his king's instruction, thrust three spears into him. Joab's armor bearers then finished Absalom off. When David received word that his son was dead, he broke down and cried, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead ...
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King Duncan
... t want us to have any fun. That simply is not true. In fact, the very opposite is true. God wants us to experience abundant joy. However, nothing would be more miserable than trying to live in a society where these laws were totally disregarded. Can you even imagine a society where stealing and murder were rampant . . . or even adultery for that matter? Can you imagine a society where people ditched their parents when their parents reached an age where they needed help? Nothing would be more miserable than ...
20. Living to Please God
1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
Understanding Series
David J. Williams
... consequence is guilty of discounting God. “Man” lacks a definite article and therefore includes any who might have instructed them or might do so again in the future. But the human teacher is incidental; the instruction is God’s, and the sin of disregarding it is against God. The seriousness of such sin, or rather, the ingratitude it exemplifies, is brought home by the description of God as the one who gives you his Holy Spirit. That he “gives” demonstrates his grace and demands our gratitude, not ...
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... even more clearly in 2 Timothy (1:13–14; 2:15; 2:24–26; 3:14–4:5). But Timothy must ultimately rely on the Holy Spirit, who, as 2 Timothy 1:6–7 and 14 make plain, is the source of the gift he is not to neglect (amelei, “disregard,” or “not take care of”). The gift for ministry, as in 1:18, is said to have been given through a prophetic message (cf. 1:18). In this instance, however, because of the broader concern for Timothy’s relationship to the community, Paul adds that the giving of the ...
Understanding Series
Norman Hillyer
... to grasp more than one’s due. The Greek word can involve coveting other people’s money or goods, engaging in illicit sexual indulgence, or lusting for power, all of which speak of going after selfish gain at the expense of others and of a reckless disregard of the moral order. These men have become “experts in greed” (2:14). The method of the false teachers is to exploit you with stories they have made up. To be effective, any evil propaganda must be a mixing of truth with falsehood. This is exactly ...
Understanding Series
Leslie C. Allen
... the postexilic community had seen evidence of divine grace unexpectedly following on the heels of punishment. This pairing of punished guilt and compassionate grace functions as a stimulus against continuing in present guilt. For the people to continue would show both ingratitude and disregard of the grim warning of history. It would add to an enormous mountain of sins piled up before the exile (vv. 6–7)—and the danger was that it would collapse and bury them all, as verse 14 will intimate. In verses 8 ...
Understanding Series
Timothy S. Laniak
... , offers his signet ring to his overly trusted premier (v. 10; compare Gen. 41:42). The narrator highlights that the king is blind to this personal vendetta of Haman . . . the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews (v. 10; see 8:1; 9:10, 24). With blatant disregard for the whole affair (and a segment of his population), the king tells him to “Keep the money (literally, “the money is given to you”) . . . and do with the people as you please” (v. 11). The king may be accepting the bribe (with typical Near ...
Understanding Series
F. F. Bruce
... says, “I offer sacrifice to no god but myself, and to this belly of mine, the greatest of divinities” (kai tē megistē gastri tēde daimonōn). Schmithals thinks the words point to “disregard for the rules concerning food” (Paul and the Gnostics, p. 109); but Paul himself shared that disregard. J.-F. Collange (ad loc.) suggests that the description is of self-worshipers who contemplate their own navels (not a natural meaning for koilia). In contrast to those who glory … in their shame Paul ...
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