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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251. Broken Pieces
Matthew 1:3, 5, 6
Sermon
James Merritt
... cover up their sin (that is why she is called the wife of Uriah). Then to add to her shame, she married the man who murdered her husband and with whom she had committed the sin of adultery. This is a story that is as despicable and disgusting as any in the Bible. At least the other two women did not break up a marriage, prove unfaithful to their husbands or marry their husband's murderer! Somewhere, someway, somehow God touched both David and Bathsheba. They repented and got right with God. Even though the ...
Sermon
Stan Purdum
... and saw her husband leaping around scantily clad, she was suddenly filled with loathing for him. The text words it as "she despised him in her heart." Well, has that ever happened to you? Have you ever had a sudden overwhelming feeling of displeasure or even disgust because of some behavior by someone you rely on or love? Or have you ever been on the receiving end of such scorn, where someone you've counted as a friend or coworker or perhaps even your spouse all at once erupted with caustic criticism and ...
Sermon
John Wayne Clarke
... was about him that pulled him at that place at that time to go back to see Jesus. Maybe as they walked toward the priest's house he began to notice his skin losing that scaly, white appearance. Or maybe they passed people who would ordinarily have turned away in disgust, but now they did not. I really don't know how he came to the conclusion, but when he saw that he was healed he stopped going in one direction, turned around, and began moving in a new direction. He began a new journey of faith and it led ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... danger and I need to act. If I don't, someone may get hurt." Seeing me rise, the drunk recognized a chance to focus his rage. He roared saying, "You need to be taught a lesson." As I held onto the commuter strap I gave the man a look of disgust, telling myself how I planned to defeat this man and his arrogance. I blew him a kiss in defiance which prompted him to rush at me. Just then someone shouted, "Hey!" The voice was earsplitting and it came again, "Hey!" As I turned to my left and the drunk to ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... longed for the summer and in summer for the fall. All-in-all the old man was miserable. One day he stopped at a fruit stand, but things there were no better. He found some of the fruit was too ripe and the rest was not ripe enough. He left, disgusted, but as he did, the fruit seller said, "I wish you new eyes, sir, child eyes." "New eyes," thought the old man as he walked away. "I have never used glasses; my vision has never been sharper." A week later, he again stopped at the fruit stand. The fruit seller ...
256. Loving out of Obligation
Mark 12:28-34
Illustration
David A. Cooper
... sense of oneself doing something; in other words, heartfelt charity always involves ego gratification. "However, when we give out of obligation, when we give at a moment that every part of us is yelling NO! because of one reason or another - perhaps the beneficiary is disgusting, or it is too much money, or any of thousands of reasons we use to avoid giving charity - then we are confronting our own egos, and giving nonetheless. Why? Because we are supposed to. And what this means is that it is not us doing ...
Drama
Lois Anne DeLong
... m gonna hang around a while. Fifth Child: See you at rehearsal. (All children exit through main doors, then reenter to side room. Joseph sits down and stares at the script. He climbs onto stage and crosses his arm, trying several different ways of “looking concerned.” Disgusted, he drops the script and sits on the edge of the stage.) Joseph: Well, I don’t care what anyone says. There are small parts and this is the smallest. Even Vin Diesel couldn’t make this look big. This guy’s a loser. He never ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... fact of death, people in another day lived with the inevitability of death, it was a part of their life. And Russell Baker describes how it was in his little community in a beautiful sort of way. Listen to him. ‘Morrisonville had not developed the modern disgust with death. It was not treated as an obscenity to be confined to hospitals and funeral homes. In Morrisonville, death was a common part of life. It came for the young, as relentlessly as it came for the old. To die antiseptically in a hospital was ...
259. The Martha and Erma Christmas
Luke 2:41-52
Illustration
Brett Blair
... using an old disposable razor...trashed the tablecloth. Tried that cranberry thing, frozen cranberries mashed up after I defrosted them in the microwave. Oh, and don't use Fruity Pebbles as a substitute in that Rice Krispie snowball recipe, unless you happen to like a disgusting shade that resembles puke! The smoke alarm is going off, talk to ya' later. Love, Erma Who here is not guilty of trying to have a Martha Stewart Christmas? None of us. "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire," who of us has ever roasted ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... year's rejected Marys, Josephs, shepherds and Wise Men) made a policy change: "All children who wish to be in the Christmas pageant may do so. Parts will be found for them." Well, that was more than long-time director could handle. She resigned in anger and disgust. Although the old director and some of the members felt the pageant would fall flat on its face, it didn't. However it WAS different. There must have been a dozen shepherds and 20 angels (a real heavenly host). There were a couple of dozen sheep ...
261. Superman: More Than A Super Hero
John 1:1-5, 9-14; John 13:31-32; John 20:30-31
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... , fictional heroes we're like the little boy who received a Superman cape for his birthday. Ecstatic, he donned the cape and ran as fast as he could around the backyard. It wasn't long, though, before he came back into the house with the cape in his hand. In disgust, he threw it on the floor and in anger said, "This thing doesn't work." (5) B. One of the things Brian Singer and the writers of Superman and every other comic book that has ever been written make very clear is that we are in desperate need of a ...
262. Close Enough For Comfort
Psalm 23:4, John 14:15-18
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... faith, the enemy begins to creep in with words of doubt. "You failed. You fell, God can't really love you like that. You're supposed to be better than that. What if someone else finds out? What will they think? What does God think? God's probably up there, disgusted, ready to thump me on the head and boot me out." That kind of fear cause us to doubt. Fear freezes. But that's not what God wants. II. Faith Frees A. While fear freezes, faith frees. Faith frees us to go on. Faith frees us to take that first ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... According to the rules, your caddy is the only person who can give you advice." Like a tag-team, the first explains that Francis needs a person "who really knows our course." Francis responds that, "Eddie's doing a great job for me." The men respond in disgust, telling Francis that "This is the U.S. Open, not some junior club championship!" The problem is that Eddie doesn't want to step aside. The men offer a bribe. They say that they will "take up a collection" for Eddie, with one saying, "I understand his ...
264. Superman: More Than A Super Hero
John 1:1-5, 9-14; John 13:31-32; John 20:30-31
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... , fictional heroes we're like the little boy who received a Superman cape for his birthday. Ecstatic, he donned the cape and ran as fast as he could around the backyard. It wasn't long, though, before he came back into the house with the cape in his hand. In disgust, he threw it on the floor and in anger said, "This thing doesn't work." (5) B. One of the things Brian Singer and the writers of Superman and every other comic book that has ever been written make very clear is that we are in desperate need of a ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... they were constantly trespassing. And there' more, because they were on other people’s property, shepherds were considered to be thieves. They ran the local black market! Nobody loved a shepherd! Shepherds were liars and thieves who'd steal you blind. They were dirty, disgusting and despised. And if Willie Nelson had written the song back then it would've been: "Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be shepherds!" According to the world's standards, this Gift came to the wrong people. Conclusion But as ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... he is becoming, who loathes his inability to cope with his problem, who wrestles constantly with guilt and as a result is mean to his wife and children. - I’m thinking of the college student who doesn’t study, flunks her exam and then disgusted with herself, lashes out at her roommate with hostile, critical words. - I’m thinking of the business executive who misses out on the big deal, “blows it,” loses it… and then aggravated with himself comes home and berates his family with a temper tantrum ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... belong here.” What a pity! If anyone belonged there, it probably was that particular man. Thinking about Sir Alan’s experience, I remembered another story. Many years ago a drunken sailor literally stumbled into a small Methodist Chapel. His language and lifestyle were disgusting, and he looked a reprobate. He listened to the preacher’s words, and for the first time he actually heard what was being said. The man was converted in that revival service. He began to look differently at himself, and over a ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... price to pay; but then another installment fell due. A loyal servant of David excitedly related how Absalom, back from exile, was being crowned king and was about to march on the palace. David fled in the night. In his flight, one of his old servants, disgusted with him, threw dirt on David and cursed him another installment payment for sin. “Not long after the battle was over between Absalom’s forces and David’s, a runner came to tell David that Absalom was buried under a pile of rocks with his body ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... we see the world. It is a set of glasses through which we perceive the reality of the world. Faith is a way of seeing. A kid, who is called in from play for dinner, is asked by his mother to wash his hands before coming to the dinner table. Disgusted by the whole thing, the boy laments, “Germs and Jesus, germs and Jesus, that’s all I ever hear around this house and I’ve never seen either one of them.” For some of us, faith is invisible and impossible. For some people faith is some far-out idea ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... of a struggling church, so the children's workers in that church were delighted to have a child for the Christmas play. In fact, they came to him a few weeks ago and tried casting him for the pageant. “Caleb, would you like to be a shepherd?" In disgust Caleb replied, “I'm not a shepherd, I'm Caleb." “Would you be a wise man?" “No," said Caleb. “I am not a wise man." “We would even let you be baby Jesus," said the children's worker, sensing the difficulty of the preacher’s kid. “Look," said ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... true love of his life. The blessing is offered. The milk is passed. Bread is served. Then, like a star whose time has come to appear on the stage, Joseph steps in and takes his seat next to Jacob as all of his half brothers roll their eyes in disgust. Joseph wastes no time in breaking the silence. “Had a dream last night, guys. We were binding sheaves of grain, when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while all of your sheaves bowed down to me.” Reuben choked on his oats and the others could not ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... in 1977, the lights went out in New York City. That night looters took to the streets, smashing windows, robbing stores, injuring hundreds, including fire fighters and police officers. One woman was seen returning a stolen black and white TV cursing disgustedly that she had failed to steal a color one. This week the lights went out again in New York City. Tourists were stranded outside their hotels; commuters were grid-locked from getting home. Reporters wondered out loud what might happen when darkness ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... hot gourmet meals a day. It all started fifteen years ago when Ganga was working as a volunteer for hospice. One day she was delivering some groceries to a thirty-two year old actor named Richard when he grabbed a packet of pasta and threw it on the floor in disgust. What good are groceries when you can’t get out of the bed to prepare them? Ganga went to a local deli and brought back a healthy, gourmet meal and sat down by his bed and helped him eat it. When the meal was over, she began the process that ...
274. We Are Not Tenacious
Luke 11:1-13
Illustration
... had been reelected. The next day the New York Times ran an editorial and analyzed what had happened. It said: The good people quit being good before the bad people quit being bad" Isn't that so often our dilemma. We are not tenacious. We throw up our hands in disgust. In our witnessing if we don't have instant affirmation then we throw in the towel. The same thing is true with prayer.
Sermon
Lee Griess
... reversed. The "president of the universe" takes a bullet for us. The Son of God endures the suffering and shame for you and me. Such is God's love. For if we are able to look at the cross, there amid the repulsion, the loathing, and the disgust, there underneath its ugliness, is beauty divine. As Jesus hung there on the cross that fateful Friday, he experienced it all — the shame and humiliation, the suffering and pain, the weight of our sins and wrongdoings. And through it all, he also knew that by his ...
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