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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326. Playing By A Different Set Of Rules
Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43
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Larry Goodpaster
... over evil. We are called to start practicing the faith rather than pouncing on the faithless. That wonderful prayer of St. Francis of Assisi, from the 13th century, captures the essence of our ministry. Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love;where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith;where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as ...
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Thomas Peterson
... from Scripture is also part of my life-testimony: justice is the cog-wheel of democracy, and justice is God’s other name, love being his first. St. Francis’ prayer for peace comes to mind: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. I have learned that we do not sow love, pardon, faith, hope, light or joy in ...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... example of the meaning of forgiveness in real life. Joseph lived out this prayer long before it was written. In this prayer we, too, are challenged to be faithful by being willing to forgive. Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubting, let me bring your faith. Where there is despair, let me bring your hope. Where there is darkness, your light. Where there is sadness, let me bring your joy. Grant that I might ...
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Ron Lavin
... to a few people because the hearts of most were hard against the Word (Luke 4:25-27). Jesus added fuel to the fire as he said, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own town (Luke 4:24)." Restlessness now turned to anger and hatred. The Word has a way of cutting through illusions. We don't like to have our preconceptions punctured. We don't like to have our apparent acceptance called rejection and our apparent cheers called jeers especially when the person speaking is right on target and speaks ...
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Thomas A. Pilgrim
... , I order you to stand aside." They stood aside. One day, one palm-waving day, Jesus marched right into Jerusalem, the Holy City, and said to everything unholy, "Stand aside." And he is calling us to join him in the parade, and to say to every form of hatred, bigotry, ignorance and apathy, "Stand aside," and when we dare to do it those things will stand aside. His kingdom will live in us, and we will help spread his rule in his world. Would you dare to do it? Come join the parade. Pastoral Prayer: O God ...
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Thomas A. Pilgrim
... followers of Jesus - and all who loved him faced a sunset on that fateful Fri day. The sun went down on all their hopes and dreams. Jesus captured their imaginations, but the Roman soldiers captured him. Jesus gained their love and devotion, but the forces of hatred divided them. Jesus inspired the best in them, but now they have ex perienced the worst. Jesus had apparently claimed a victory, but now they have seen his utter defeat. Jesus had stood for the kingdom of God, but the power of Rome was standing ...
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Robert Beringer
... coming kingdom are able to see the advance signs that, even now, something is about to happen. Every time we as a congregation recite those time-honored words from the Apostles' Creed, "He will come to speaks a word of forgiveness in a situation of bitterness and hatred, that Christian is speaking in the future present tense. We are giving the world a foretaste of how God will help us to live together in God's kingdom. Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord! Every time a congregation stands up and sings ...
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Robert Beringer
... long the guards, the doctors and the nurses lifted up their voices in praise to the Christ Child, the Prince of Peace. It was one of those incredible moments when like Isaiah of old, we can glimpse a world where the power of God's love is greater than human hatred. That message of hope and of peace is God's Christmas greeting to you and to me. It's a message of good news to a world often filled with bad news. More than that, it's a Christmas message that can change your life!
Sermon
Robert Beringer
... officer tossed the distraught sailor a bundle of old newspapers. "Captain's compliments," he shouted. "Read these newspapers and then let us know if you still want to be rescued!" We know that the world we live in today is filled with misery and suffering, hatred and hostility, but we must never forget the radical changes that the Babe of Bethlehem, God's Emmanuel, have begun in our poor old world. 1. Radical Changes In Our Outer World Think for a few moments of the things that are different because God ...
335. Mary Christmas
Matthew 1:18-25
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John Jamison
... and waterless climate that absorbs a quart of water from your body each hour simply by your breathing. Did I mention Samaritans? Contrary to what their son would teach in a few years, Mary and Joseph knew there was no such thing as a "Good Samaritan." The hatred between Samaritan and Jew went back to Babylonian days. Even now, our now, it is often seen that when a Jew happens to walk across the property of a Samaritan, the owner runs out, throws straw on the footprints, and sets fire to it to burn away ...
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Theodore F. Schneider
... of honor, the men of the garrison gathered their families, and by deliberate plan, they gave up their lives by their own hands, an act of freedom done in a determined preference to slavery ... so great was the Jewish regard for freedom and their hatred of slavery. When Silva and his men burst through the walls in the morning, they were greeted with the silence of the dead, and the stunning symbol of the love of freedom. Death had been found preferable to slavery. This story developed in the aftermath ...
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Erskine White
... is matted with blood from a crown of thorns which has been driven into His scalp. People who line the sides of the street are jeering at Him. Every so often, someone breaks out from the crowd to spit in His face. Simon shudders silently. He has never seen such hatred in a crowd of people before. The Man carrying the cross stumbles and falls and a soldier starts whipping Him: "Get up, You pathetic King of the Jews! Get up and don't make me waste any more of my time on You!" The man rises slowly to His feet ...
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Erskine White
... even be angry or hateful toward others (Matthew 5:22), since spiritual violence and physical violence are different only in kind, not in degree. You shall not threaten others, either with a gun in your hand or a nuclear missile in your silo. You shall not promote hatred of your enemy with talk of "evil empires" when you are also evil yourselves. You must learn the message of Jesus: that love is the only way to overcome an enemy, and justice is the only path to peace. "You shall not kill." (7) "You shall not ...
Eulogy
Harold Warlick
... his followers into the world to be prosecuting attorneys. Humans have difficulty trying to prosecute the forces of evil. We tend to become merciless in our fight. We usually attack personal vices, such as tobacco or alcohol, while leaving the greater ills like hatred and prejudice virtually untouched. Eck Ring never attacked anyone in his life. Even worse, sometimes we Christians are tempted to believe Christ intended to send us out as judges. That is an attractive role. Who would not like to judge who is ...
Bulletin Aid
James Wilson
... ? Leader: In Christ there is no east or west and all peoples are beloved of God. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, in Christ You gave us such a wonderful blessing as You taught us to love and accept others and not the ways of hatred and division. Give us the strength to follow You, Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O God, so often we have chosen to follow the ways of the world as we look at others who are different from ourselves and deep in our hearts we fail to ...
Sermon
Robert Salzgeber
... went on cleansing the wound. "I rolled him off the donkey onto the ground," the soldier continued. "With one jab of the bayonet I killed him. I have never been able to forget it. The whole business of killing has sickened me." Elizabeth felt a wave of hatred and sorrow sweep over her. Here was the murderer of her father. In some strange way, the enemy had fallen into her hands. She had the power to destroy him. At this moment Elizabeth thought of her mother. What would she have done? Her mother loved Christ ...
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Steve Swanson
... of us might walk. The woman of Sychar was on a sexual desert. A lot of people are. There are other deserts. Many of us have at least one foot in some kind of desert; it may be a desert of greed or selfishness or spiritual pride or fear or hatred or anger or an unforgiving spirit. Whatever our desert is, it is drying out our spiritual selves; it is killing us. We are dying of thirst. To that desert - our desert - comes the same living water that came to the woman at the well. For every kind of spiritual ...
Drama
Edward Long
... mission after mission to unite all people in peace and harmony. Through teachers and prophets God sought to bring peace. Every time progress seemed to be made something would go wrong. Finally God determined to send an only Son to redeem the world from greed and hatred. In many ways the birth of the child was like ET coming to the world to bring a message of peace and love. All the time Christ's real home was with God in the stars beyond our Galaxy ... JAMES: (Interrupts.) Home ... (Points toward the sky ...
Sermon
Johnny Dean
... . Right now the seas outside our little boat are churning with a struggling educational system, a culture saturated with guns, drug addictions and glorified images of violence, with people so filled with hate that they would destroy a house of worship to give vent to their hatred. If you don’t think it’s stormy out there on the sea of life in 1999, you probably don’t get out much! Matthew painted a picture of the church as a fragile boat being tossed around by every wave that comes along. And whether ...
345. The Pop Quiz
Matthew 16:13-20
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Johnny Dean
... haven’t seen it?" How would you answer their questions? But we grownups also have questions of faith. Many of us talk about the questions we want to ask God if and when we get to heaven. "If you really love the world, God, why is there so much hatred and suffering and pain? Why do some people starve to death while others have more food than they know what to do with? Why do people kill each other? Why are there earthquakes that kill thousands of people and injure thousands more?" I’m sure you could add ...
346. Gentiles 'R Us
Matthew 18:15-20
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Johnny Dean
... get involved. But no matter how painful it may be, sooner or later we must resolve our differences in a Christ-like manner. How do we do that? By beginning to take seriously what God wants for us, because what God wants for us is NOT more hurt or more hatred or more anger or more guilt or more hurtful words. What God wants is NOT for things to go back to the way they’ve always been or the way they were before. What God wants for us – what Jesus died so that we might have – is wholeness and health ...
347. The Crowing of a Rooster
Matthew 26:31-35, Matthew 26:69-75
Sermon
Wallace H. Kirby
... the stigma, tried to lose himself in a foreign land. Whenever he was asked about the letters on his forehead, his only answer was to leave the area immediately. Thus he wandered for the rest of his life from one country to another. He died full of bitterness and hatred and resentment. The other brother repented of his thievery. He said to himself, "I cannot run away from the fact that I stole sheep. I will stay here and try to make amends for what I have done. I will stay and win back the respect of my ...
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Ron Lavin
... washed white robe. I was selected for the greatest honor a man could have. The crowd didn't know it. The soldiers didn't know it. I didn't know it. Nobody knew it. Nobody. The walk to the green hill outside of town started out in bitterness, resentment and hatred, Do you know how hard it is when you cannot scream out with the howlings of your soul: "Why do you always pick on blacks?" Do you know how hard it is to be a minority black in a white man's religion, to cling to it because you believe ...
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Ron Lavin
... son," she cried. "The son I nursed at my breast. How could this happen to you? And what of the promises of the angel that you would be great among men?" As I finished the hasty job, I inadvertently turned toward the woman who had spoken. I expected revilings and hatred to pour forth upon me. Instead, I saw a woman who, though she wept, showed a kind of inner peace in spite of all that was happening. She too seemed to forgive me. But why? As I returned to my work, I caught a glimpse of a woman I recognized ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... persevered with tears, he would still be blind. To give up praying before receiving an answer is to give in to the Devil. It is said that one time Satan put up his instruments for sale. There were the sword of jealousy, the dagger of fear, and the noose of hatred. Each had a high price. But standing alone on a pedestal was a worn and battered wedge. This was his most prized weapon. At the base was a sign saying, "Not for sale at any price." It was the wedge of discouragement. Why, you may be asking, do we ...
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