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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Sermon
Steve Swanson
... is in such a dry place. He thirsts, he dies, but doesn't know where the water is. The strange truth about spiritual dryness is that it is altogether like some of the ironic Hollywood desert tragedies. As the Hollywood tragic hero collapses and dies on ... question; we have the answer. He is the Christ. He is the coming one arrived. He is the living water for any sort of spiritual dryness, for any spiritual desert on which any of us might walk. The woman of Sychar was on a sexual desert. A lot of people are. ...
Sermon
... forth into lush greenery. A new exodus will take place. God will act to create a new path of escape for his people, to restore them to the land of promise and make them whole. God will make the earth whole, working his creative power in the midst of dryness, weakness, blindness, lameness, and muteness. The future action of God is proclaimed on the basis of what he had already done for Israel. We know what God has done for us. We see it all wrapped up in the human figure of Jesus. A stinking straw bed, the ...
3. Dessert in the Desert
Deut 32:10-12 · Ez 37
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Robert Noblett
... me down in the midst of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me round among them; and behold, there were very many upon the valley; and lo, they were very dry. The people of the exile were living a time of great dryness. To these people and their dryness God sends his servant Ezekiel. God asks Ezekiel, "Son of man, can these bones live?" And Ezekiel answers, "O Lord God, thou knowest." Then says God to Ezekiel - "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus ...
Drama
Angela Akers
... , patience, kindness, gentleness, yadda, yadda, yadda. But you know, here on our show, we can never leave well enough alone. So we add in a few basic ingredients for Trouble. First, let’s try a cupful of spiritual dryness. Nothing makes a healthy Church go stale as fast as spiritual dryness does. Just let the people stop worshiping together, stop doing good works in their community, stop living by Biblical precepts, and dry rot takes over in no time. Next, squeeze the juice of a judgmental spirit over ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... C. The problem that faces the preacher, however, is how to make this passage relevant for a modern congregation. If we note the repetitions of words in the passage, it becomes clear that we have two strong figurative contrasts. First, there is emphasis on the dryness and heat of the desert (vv. 1, 6) which is a place of burning sand, thirsty ground, and the haunt of jackals (v. 7). That is contrasted with life-giving waters, streams (v. 6), a swamp, reeds and rushes (v. 7), and crocuses that grow abundantly ...
Bulletin Aid
Derl G. Keefer
... dry as far as love goes. We lose our patience, we get hurt and then we try to get even, we get all caught up in what we want, and we forget to listen to and consider the other person. Lawns can take a little bit of dryness, and so can marriages. But too much dryness and things can begin to look stressed.(Bride) and (Groom), that is not what God desires for your marriage. Sink your roots deep into the love of God, for God's love never runs dry. It has the power to nourish your lives with more love ...
Sermon
Dean Lueking
... not mean to simply leave us as observers of a strange conversation a very long time ago. How can the word come forth to us from the words of this narrative in the fourth chapter of St. John? When Our Souls Run Dry All of us experience times of spiritual dryness, when we know that life is not all that it could be, when we settle into grooved pathways of life that make our inner landscape of soul something like the pictures we see of parched desert land. It does not surprise me that this text tells of one who ...
8. The Renewal of Life
Isaiah 43:18-25
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Richard Gribble
... our lives. This certainly must have been a comforting message to the Hebrews since, I suspect, many may have felt lost, as if they were in the wilderness. A sense of lifelessness, like the dryness of the desert, must have been part of the daily experience for those in exile. But a way out of the desert will be provided and the dryness of the land will be vanquished. God will give drink to all his people (43:20c). God, through Isaiah, then reminds the people of their past. Israel had grown weary of God, for ...
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William E. Keeney
... them. It also takes time and may seem that we are acting on our own without guidance and support. How do you persevere in such circumstances? 2. What do you do when you experience the absence of Christ in your life? Almost everyone has periods of spiritual dryness. It feels as though they are no longer in touch with God. Is it a time of testing of faith and trust? What kinds of patience and waiting do we have to exercise in the expectation that the absent Lord will return to us? What kinds of disciplines ...
10. Epiphany 6
Jeremiah 17:5-10, Luke 6:17-26, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34
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John R. Brokhoff
... worthwhile we need to trust in God. What does that mean? The meaning is in the analogy of a tree. See Psalm 1. A person who trusts God is like a tree by a river rather than a shrub in a desert. Note the significance of the "shrub" because the dryness of the desert will not allow it to grow into a tree. The tree is by a river where it gets water. Outline: A person trusting in God is like a tree a. Planted "like a tree planted by water" v. 8a. b. Provided for "sends out its roots by ...
11. Epiphany 4
Luke 4:14-30
Bulletin Aid
Dennis Koch
... the power of your love through the life, death and resurrection of your son. Your love is far beyond our comprehension! Only your love can soften our resistance to the truth and set us on the new course of eternal life. Only your love can satisfy the parched dryness of our souls. Only your love can enable us to identify the gifts which you have placed within us. Only your love can sensitize us so that we become more and more alert to opportunities to use our gifts in your service. Your love is far beyond ...
12. The Day Of Pentecost
Acts 2:1-21 · Jn 15:26-27; 16:4-15; 20:19-23 · Eze 37:1-14 · 1 Cor 12:4-13 · Ps 104
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Russell F. Anderson
... environment overwhelmed them. The Jews of sixth century B.C. also found themselves in a valley of death in Babylonia. As they looked about them it seemed like their environment had swallowed them up; as far as they could see, there was nothing but desolation and dryness. God sent Ezekiel with a word of hope for the desperate wayfarers. The Lord would breathe new life into them and they would flourish once more in their land. Outline: 1. Death Valley is one of the most desolate places in the world. 2. The ...
Sermon
Erskine White
... needed to know that He was there and that He cared. Those are the moments which sustain you through the absences and the silences of God. In fact, the Christian's spiritual life may be compared to a journey through the desert. You endure long walks in the dryness and heat, where God is silent. Then you come to an oasis, where you are refreshed by the waters of His spoken Word. You drink your fill, that you may survive the dry desert sands once again. Think of your own life and your own relationship to God ...
14. Dust And Ashes
Genesis 18:16-33
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Erskine White
... and death during this period on our behalf. The least we can do is enter into the spiritual demands of the season for Him. This Lenten season will carry us through the next five Sundays. We will walk in the shadow of the Cross. We will taste the dryness of the desert and feel the loneliness of the wilderness. If we truly step into the spirituality of the Lenten season, we will feel like we have walked through the valley ar shadow of death itself. Then we will come to Holy Week. We will see the triumph ...
15. Epiphany 6
Lk 6:17-26 · 1 Cor 15:12-20 · Jer 17:5-8
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John R. Brokhoff
... worthwhile we need to trust in God. What does that mean? The meaning is in the analogy of a tree. See Psalm 1. A person who trusts God is like a tree by a river rather than a shrub in a desert. Note the significance of the "shrub" because the dryness of the desert will not allow it to grow into a tree. The tree is by a river where it gets water. Outline: A person trusting in God is like a tree - A. Planted - "like a tree planted by water" - v. 8a B. Provided for - "sends out its roots by ...
Drama
C. David Godshall
Assistant: Your coming to our world, Lord Jesus, brought blessing and judgment: help us to benefit from both. People: Help us to trust you, that we may be those who live through even the dryness of life in this troubled world. Pastor: And have us mindful that if we turn from you, we will dry up in spirit, and have no part in your kingdom. Assistant: Your death and your resurrection, Lord Jesus, give us hope of eternal life, and make us fear separation from ...
Sermon
Cathy A. Ammlung
... or are angry with God. Luther himself was almost driven to despair by the command to love a God whose commands and demands were so high and absolute. "Love God?" he's reputed to have cried. "Why, I loathed him!" Other times we experience a spiritual dryness where we don't feel much of anything. Prayers seem mechanical; worship leaves us flat; reading scripture becomes a bore. Like Luther, we may be driven almost to despair by a command to love God with the totality of our being. How can love be commanded ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... , feeling that we have our fire insurance policy and that is all that is needed. The second snare also gets its share of victims. This is the snare of despondency, into which we sink when the tide of our religious experience ebbs low. It happens to all of us - dryness of spirit. We can’t stay on the mountaintop. We become lifeless. There is a blues song which says, “I’ve got so low, I ain’t even thought about coming up.” No fruit to the spirit seems to be growing in us. We’re battered by one ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... mainly in the mouth as a dry feeling. This is due to a reduction in the secretion of saliva. When there is severe water deprivation through sweating, diarrhea, excessive urination, or hemorrhage, the secretion of saliva may even stop. It is this arid acid dryness of the mouth that gives rise to the tremendous impulse to drink. The first symptom of dehydration is thirst. Water that is normally present in the blood, lymph, and interstitial fluid is then lost. This loss affects the proper function of the heart ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... Hypothesis or a theory. He says flatly, "Jesus is coming again." More surely than the sun rising in the east, and setting in the west; more surely than the sun shining by day, and the moon shining by night; more surely than the wetness of water, and the dryness of dirt, Jesus is coming again. Every true believer in the Lord Jesus Christ will boldly declare the fact of the second coming. If you believe the bible when it says Jesus came the first time, you must believe it when it says that Jesus is coming the ...
21. Great Joy
Isaiah 35:1-10
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John E. Harnish
... harsh, hard realities of his world, desolation and destruction—perhaps natural disasters, like hurricanes and earthquakes, the seemingly endless pursuit of war and lingering torture and terror, the omnipresence of evil and the burden of sin. Can you sense it? Taste the dusty dryness of the soul…like an arid desert? Feel the harsh wind and bitter sting of the unfairness of life? Hear the screech owls of fear and the night hag of anger and resentment? Smell the sickening stench of death? If you can, then ...
22. A New Day Is Coming
John 1:6-8, 19-28
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Richard Gribble
... ; sometimes we will fail. Each time, however, we will gain something very important and learn some important lessons of life. The famous sixteenth-century mystic and church reformer, Saint John of the Cross, wrote about his dark night of the soul as a spiritual dryness. Jesus embraced his cross without regard to its ignominy. There is certainly no need for us to look for hurdles and problems for they will certainly come our way. Nonetheless we should not run away when they find us. What dark nights have you ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... fingers tenaciously around our spirit, and begins to squeeze the life out of us. When despair is like a wet blanket, smothering out the breath of our souls. Those times may not come often, but they come. When the outer circumstances of our life, combine with the inner dryness of our souls, to give us a dark night. The night becomes so dark that we feel no presence of God, and are convinced that the morning is never going to come. But it will come. In the darkness, we’re in good company. All the great ...
Sermon
Schuyler Rhodes
... that restlessly sits in the memory? A failure of integrity? A lapse of judgment? A reckless indiscretion? A stupid mistake? What must the piles of bones look like in the wastelands of our lives? Each of us knows. Each of us can feel the brittle dryness that comes when life departs; when spirit withers and blows away. It is vast. It is painful and it feels overwhelming. I mention these closely held and personal wastelands because I believe we must be in touch with these things before we move on to the ...
25. Cross-Bearing
Mark 8:31-38
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David E. Leininger
... exactly the time she began tending the poor and dying in Calcutta, and almost never abated. Although perpetually cheery in public, the Mother Teresa of the letters lived in a state of deep spiritual pain. In more than forty communications, she bemoaned the "dryness," "darkness," "loneliness," and "torture" that she was undergoing. She compared the experience to hell and at one point said it had driven her to doubt the existence of heaven and even of God. She was acutely aware of the discrepancy between her ...
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