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
James Merritt
... of God that surrounds you. But notice also the season for rejoicing. Not only are we to rejoice in the Lord, but we are to rejoice in the Lord "always." That means winter, fall, spring, summer, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and all day Sunday; when it is wet, when it dry; when it is hot, when it is cold; when things are good, or things are bad, we are to rejoice in the Lord. I am going to tell you something that is going to sound very strange, but it is true. The reason why most ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... , the pews have to be padded, the floor has to be carpeted; and if it is a little too hot, or a little too cold, people stay home. If they are a little too tired or a little too sick they will stay home. If it's a little too wet or a little too dry they will stay home. The average church member is like a fellow I heard about who was telling his sweetheart how much he loved her. He was on the telephone pouring sugar into her ear. He said, "Darling, I would fight lions for you. Sweetheart ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... never cease to get both amazed and a little bit aggravated at these people who claim to receive Christ, they claim to be saved, they claim to have placed their faith in Him. But then you mention getting into a pool of water for ten seconds and getting their hair wet, they buck you like a wild bronco. Do you know what is wrong with their faith? It's dead. Because friend, if you don't have enough life in your faith to get you into a pool of water, you don't have enough life in your faith to get ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... an obstacle in every opportunity. The hours are too long, the pay is too little, the job is too hard, the people are too demanding. Solomon said, "The lazy man will not plow because of winter..." (Prov. 20:4) It's always either too hot, too cold, too wet, or too dry to work. The point is, he always has an excuse. Thomas Edison, the epitome of a worker, and the antipathies to a sluggard, said, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."4 Old Benjamin Franklin ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... put it forth as a 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 ...
306. In Defense of the Offense
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
Sermon
James Merritt
... of the rope and climb up." The man said, "Oh, don't worry about me. God is going to take care of me and deliver me." The helicopter left and soon after that, the flood waters rose and the man drowned. The next scene was in heaven. This man still wet, walked up to the throne room of God and said, "Lord, I don't understand it. I asked you to deliver me and you let me drown. Why didn't you save me?" God said, "I sent you a rowboat and a helicopter, what else did you want?" Well, God ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... never came inside of people. No one in the Old Testament was baptized with the Holy Spirit because there was no body to be baptized into. Understand, also, that Paul was not speaking about water baptism. This is the dry verse not a wet verse. We are commanded to be baptized with water. We are never commanded to be baptized with the spirit. Now you can be physically baptized without being spiritually baptized and you can be spiritually baptized without being physically baptized. Water baptism puts you into ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... eye and he looked up at me and, at that time didn't have a tooth in his head, and grinned from ear to ear. All of a sudden it hit me. He wasn't crying, he was lying. He wasn't hungry, he wasn't hurting, he wasn't wet; he just wanted somebody to pick him up and play with him. We can lie from the time we are born. That's why we need to be saved because we are born in sin. I like the way an old Indian chief described it. He was asked to explain ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... boots he couldn't march, and without good boots he could not stand and fight. Attached to the sole of the boot of the Roman soldier were bits of metals or hobnails so that he would have good traction and good footing in case he had to fight on a wet field or a slippery cliff. It was extremely important for a solider to keep his feet because no soldier can fight flat on his back. That's why we are told that we must have our feet "shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." Now this peace is ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... . That is a great stress reliever. III. Be Refreshed With The Peace Of The Lord “He leads me beside the still waters.” (v.2b) Literally the Hebrew says “the waters of quietness.” Palestine does not have a lot of lush meadows because they do not have a very wet climate. Israel is a rocky, dry, hot, barren land. Between March and October there is virtually no rain. The heat scorches the grass and the water holes dry up, and sheep have to be fed, and they have to be led to sources of water. Every good ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... bucket, and since the bucket held less than a gallon it had to be drawn by hand, he would pour that water into large stone cups beside the well. Now the shepherd always made sure that the cups were filled to overflowing because sheep do not like to get wet. Remember, they are afraid of water. He would fill those cups to overflowing so the sheep could drink with ease. Whenever a sheep saw a cup that was overflowing, even a sheep knew that they had all the water that they needed to drink and they would be ...
312. The Miracle Dog
Matthew 14:22-33
Illustration
Billy D. Strayhorn
... , it ran right across the water and retrieved the duck. They couldn't believe it. Everybody was flat out amazed. This went on a couple of more times. A duck would be shot and the dog would run across the water and retrieve the duck without ever getting its feet wet. The owner was beaming. If he had grinned anymore his face would have split in two. He couldn't stand it. "So what do y'all think? What do you think of my new dog?" One of the guys who was tired of hearing how wonderful this dog was, said ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... . Under the white rock, I buried a bottle of water. It’s out of the sun and all corked up. There’s enough in it to prime the pump, but not if you drink some first. So pour about one-fourth of the water in and let her soak to wet the leather. Then pour in the rest, medium-fast, and pump like crazy. You’ll get water. The well has never run dry. Have faith. When you get watered up, fill the bottle up again and put it back like you found it for the next feller. (Signed) Desert Pete ...
Sermon
Shirley Gupton Lynn
... widow? Why did I have to struggle through life alone, have to make a living by myself? And why, oh, why wouldn't God give me any guidance? Finally, the torrent was over, and I reached up and touched Billy's face in thanks. To my alarm his face was wet. The strong young man was crying. "What is it, Billy?" I asked, shocked to my senses. "Do you have troubles, too?" "No," he replied, still holding me, "I'm just crying with you." Now I have always loved Billy. He is my son. We've always had a warm relationship ...
315. Love Is Not in Vain
Matthew 22:34-40
Illustration
King Duncan
... time was short. Then he literally tripped over another man who was almost frozen to death. The hiker had a decision to make: continue in hopes of saving himself or try to help the stranger in the snow. In an instant he made his decision and threw off his wet gloves. He knelt beside the man and began massaging the man's arms and legs. The man began to respond and together they were able to find help. The man was later informed that by helping the man who had fallen in the snow, he had most certainly helped ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... it. (Some of us can successfully rush from home to car to office to shopping mall to home without ever stepping outside.) About the only thing we will readily admit we can't control is the weather - which explains perhaps the reason why, no matter how hot, cold, wet or windy it is, the weather always seems to intrude into our conversations. It annoys us to no end that it will probably rain this Memorial Day weekend and there is nothing we can do about it. But the greatest exercise we get in control is when ...
317. Close the Loopholes
Ephesians 4:25-5:2
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... warns against allowing a "loophole for the Devil" (NEB). After all: To worm his way into our lives and minds, the Devil doesn't need much "room" at all a little slit of a loophole will work just fine. Washingtonstate's Puget Sound is a wet, rain-drenched area. Usually, the spongy land is well-suited to absorbing this vital liquid, producing one of North America's great temperate rain forests. But occasionally, torrential storms so soak the soil that it loses its cohesion. An examination of the land after ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
With Jesus in charge, you get a white-water-rafting kind of experience throughout life not a dull float downstream, but a hang-onto-your-hat exhilarating, get-wet ride. Jesus offers us a life-substance, not a lifestyle. How much do you have invested in your "lifestyle"? This "investment" counts not only the money, time, energy and enthusiasm spent, but also the satisfaction gained. Think you aren't "rich and famous" enough to have a "lifestyle"? (Ever watch " ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... culturally reprehensible "tax collectors and prostitutes" as examples of obedience and good in this week's text because they are the ones who hear John the Baptist's preaching and act on it. They accept John's baptism of repentance. They walk up and get wet. They kneel down and pray. It is the religious authorities, the traditional symbols of piety and obedience, that are judged morally wrong and spiritually empty. Look at what people do, not at what they say, Jesus counseled. So what is it that most of us ...
320. A Match Made in Heaven
Isaiah 61:1—62:12
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... watching the dust fly. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." How could two things be more different! The heavens God's realm, kept strictly separate from the earth by the firmament, a place completely unknown and unknowable. The earth simultaneously wet and dry, swarming with all sorts of creepy, crawly things. But God was able to top the divine self and to create once again two things totally different: "God created human-kind...male and female he created them" (Genesis l:27). Not only ...
321. Acts 19:1-7
Acts 19:1-22
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... second baptism, Paul re-baptizes these disciples “into the name of the Lord Jesus” (v.5). Others who had received only John’s baptism (most notably Jesus’ twelve apostles, most recently mentioned Apollos [Ephesians 18:24-28]) did not require a re-wetting in order to enter into true discipleship. But for whatever reason Paul extends both experiences to these disciples: first baptism (“in the name of the Lord Jesus”); then a laying on of hand by the apostle himself, which seemed to facilitate the ...
322. 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8
1 Thessalonians 2:1-8
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... 7 continues, Paul uses a touching, tender image. Far from being greedy or conniving, Paul and his companions lived "gently" among these people. The NRSV is again a bit stuffy here. The "nurse" they refer to would more accurately be rendered as a "wet-nurse," a woman breast-feeding "her children" or even "her own children." Surely this image is more personal and more evocative of the nurturing, loving, selfless, even sacrificing attitude Paul is trying to convey to the Thessalonians. The image of a mother ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . It is one of the most colorful and memorable stories in the Hebrew Bible. Jonah, of course, was the man who got swallowed by a big fish. One of Gary Larson’s “Far Side” cartoons depicts a bearded man standing at his front door. He is dripping wet and his clothes are in shreds. His wife opens the door. She looks at the disheveled, bearded man with disgust and says, “For crying out loud, Jonah! Three days late, covered with slime, smelling like a fish. And what story have I got to swallow this time ...
324. Making Something Beautiful out of Busted Parts
Mark 1:14-20
Illustration
... tumbled into that dark hole. Lost his family, lost his place in graduate school, lost big pieces of himself. But somehow he washed up on the shores of a good church. And when he did, he was so fragile he looked like he'd been "rode hard and put up wet" as they say in Texas. But the folks in that church put their arms around that man and slowly he started to heal, and eventually, miraculously, even reunited with his wife and children. We had this couple in our home for dinner and the man began to talk with ...
325. LIVE-SAVING STATIONS
Mark 1:14-20
Illustration
Mickey Anders
... -saving motif still prevailed in this club's decoration, and there was a symbolic life-boat in the room where the club initiations were held. About this time a large ship was wrecked off the coast, and the hired crews brought in boat loads of cold, wet and half-drowned people. They were dirty and sick and some of them had black skin and some had yellow skin. The beautiful new club was in chaos. So the property committee immediately had a shower house built outside the club where victims of shipwreck could ...
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