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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Leonard Sweet
... store, or the movies you sneaked into unpaid. I'm talking about larceny on a grand – indeed a global – scale. And I have some bad news for you this morning. Together, we've all robbed God. And our robbery is an ongoing heist that we reenact everyday. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life" (John 3:16). The words are so familiar we really don't even hear them anymore. But this is God's treasure to the world, the ...
3827. Living in the Red
Galatians 6:11-18
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... , From the burning of the noontide heat, and the burden of the day. Upon that cross of Jesus mine eye at times can see The very dying form of One Who suffered there for me; And from my stricken heart with tears two wonders I confess; The wonders of redeeming love and my unworthiness." On a Hill Too Far Away, Stood an Old Rugged Cross. Has life gone so bad that you don't know whether you want to continue living? Has your life gone sour, and nothing you taste is sweet? The cross offers new lives for old: The ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... my mind simply cannot fathom the incredibly swift passage of time that marks the span of our lifetimes. But there's something even more difficult than having to wrap our minds around yet another New Year. It is coming to terms with how the passage of time affects those we love. Every parent here can testify how much of a difference one year makes on a child. In one year a child can shoot up with 4 or 5 inches of new growth, act up with new emotions and new energies, speak up with a new voice and sit up with ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... during our times of prayer is that we simply will be still, and open, and there experience the reality of God. We will allow His love to wash over us like the waves of the sea. We will allow His strength to blow upon us like the wind blows through a ... himself as a piece of driftwood being carried on the waves of a powerful and limitless ocean, except, to him, the ocean is the love of God. Second, think of God as being present, really present, as real as any of the material things in your presence. Some people ...
3830. Proper 17
Exodus 3:1-22, Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:9-21, Psalm 105:1-45
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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe
... veracity of this advice because he lives with the strong conviction that God is thoroughly involved in human affairs. When things are left to God things turn out well. That is not to say humans are passive, rather they are free to live lives of genuine love because they trust God. Matthew 16:21-28 - "Hard Sayings on Lordship and Discipleship" Setting. The Gospel lesson for this week follows on the heels of the text for last Sunday, so readers should turn to the discussion of setting for the Gospel text for ...
3831. Proper 29
Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46
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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe
... is that preachers have used the text to talk about how the Church should be dealing with the world, when in fact it has to do with how the world should be treating the Church! And its Gospel surprise is that God graciously judges those who deal lovingly with God's people whether they "name the name of Christ" or not. This is a characteristic of Matthew's proclamation, as we may recall from the story of the two brothers sent to work in the field. Today's parable distinguishes between "the nations" and "the ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... of what God is like… and what God wants us to be like. In this parable, Jesus is showing us dramatically three great things about God and His love. 1. First, that god’s Love is inclusive and that God wants us to be inclusive in our loving. 2. Second, that God’s Love is forgiving and that God wants us to be forgiving in our loving. 3. And third, that God’s Love is sacrificial and that God wants us to be sacrificial in our loving. And, by the way, that is also precisely what Holy Communion is about.
Sermon
James W. Moore
... our way,… but actually the reverse is true… God is never nearer to us than when we are hurting. There are two reasons for that… 1. First, I think we are more open to God when we are in need; 2. And, Second, I believe God is like a loving parent who wants especially to be with His children when they are in pain. Recently, I was with some friends who are experiencing a very difficult and grievous situation and they said: “This is so hard to take. Our hearts are broken, but we’re going to make it ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... swell with the intake of the Spirit. His re-birth cry escaped like a newborn’s wail: “My Lord and my God! If each new generation are truly “red letter” children of God, we need to color RED everything: everyone we touch, everywhere we go. The color of sacrificial love, poured out for our sake, is the color with which we paint the world. Jesus did not die and rise again to “change” the world. That’s too puny a dream, too pint-sized an ambition for the son of God. Jesus didn’t die on the cross ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... poor to buy enough food or pay for my school fees. After I ended up on the streets, some people at church told me about Love More House and they asked me to come here. I am going to finish school and become a soccer player and later maybe I will ... hard to reach his goals, for he, too, would like to have the good life. But he knows there is more. Thanks to the Love More House, this young man knows there is the abundant life, and even with his limited opportunities he knows that this abundant life cannot be ...
3836. 2 Corinthians 1: 11-13
2 Corinthians 1:1-11
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... ” (v.13). The now unusual order that Paul presents here, Christ, God, Holy Spirit, reflects the order of experience for every believer. Through the grace of Christ on the cross, disciples may come to know for themselves the extent of God’s love. As disciples come together in the kind of Christ-body community Paul has described to these Corinthian Christians, they are joined into a “koinonia” community by the presence of the living Holy Spirit. Paul’s Trinitarian benediction does not try to express ...
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... ” (v.13). The now unusual order that Paul presents here, Christ, God, Holy Spirit, reflects the order of experience for every believer. Through the grace of Christ on the cross, disciples may come to know for themselves the extent of God’s love. As disciples come together in the kind of Christ-body community Paul has described to these Corinthian Christians, they are joined into a “koinonia” community by the presence of the living Holy Spirit. Paul’s Trinitarian benediction does not try to express ...
3838. Because He Wouldn’t Know; He Wasn’t Known
Matthew 7:23
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Peter Hiett
... throw Shakespeare at me, right? "Once more into the breach, dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap and watched him draw his last breath, looking to you for help. And if I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet, but you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable . . . known someone who could level you with her eyes . . . feeling like God put an angel on Earth just for you, who could rescue you from the depths of hell ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... never in America's history have more people attended church on Sunday, and yet never in America's history have fewer people taken God less seriously on Monday. Now why all of this cultural disintegration? I think the clue is found in the fact that Paul uses the word love three times in these verses. In v.2 he speaks of those who will be "lovers of themselves, lovers of money." Then in v.4 he speaks of those who will be "lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God." In other words, you will have a society ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... out crying and said, "Dr. Peale, this wrong didn't amount to anything. My sister is the sweetest person on earth, and I have been such a fool." Dr, Peale said, "Now you tell Jesus right now: ‘With your help, I now let my hate go, and I affirm my love for my sister, and Lord forgive me.'" She did that. Then Dr. Peale said, "What is your sister's telephone number?" She said, "Excuse me?" He said, "You heard me. What is your sister's number?" She gave it to him. He dialed the number and gave her the phone ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... the vast majority of Americans will sit down to eat today like a pig, never bowing their heads and thanking God for the food they have received. Gratitude is the music that brightens the face of God. It is the spark that warms the heart of God. It is the love that kisses the hand of God. I have learned that even in the worst of circumstances there is always something you can be thankful for. I heard about a preacher who was asked to fill in one Sunday at a church that had a reputation for being tight-fisted ...
3842. Castaway
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
Sermon
James Merritt
... there in a few days was born in an instant. In other words, all of America was radically changed and the industrial age had come full bloom.1 Well, I want to take you back 2,000 years to a place called Calvary. There the golden spike of God's love was driven through the wrists and the feet of Jesus Christ by the silver-headed hammer of God's grace. More than a continent was joined together—God and man were reconciled. I'm here to tell you today that until Jesus comes back, that is our ministry, that is ...
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James Merritt
... a beautiful apartment that overlooked the bay. Her big problem was she was lonely. She wrote in her diary, “I see people together and I’m so jealous I want to throw up. What about me!” What about me!” Because of her loneliness she became a loser at love. In her search for the cure to loneliness she went through 59 lovers in 56 months. She wrote this in her diary: Where are the men with the flowers and the champagne and the music? Where are the men who call and ask for a genuine actual date? Where ...
3844. The Supreme Test
Genesis 22:1-19
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... , your extremity is God’s opportunity! When you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot, hold on, and pray. God delights in answering the prayers of his people. God may not do exactly what you wish when you want it, but God’s help will be wise, loving, and timely. Old Abraham would always look back on that day at Mount Moriah as the highlight of his life, though at the time he would have called it the most agonizing day of his life. It was his supreme test. On the anvil of a broken heart, God forged ...
3845. The Great Divide
Matthew 16:13-20
Sermon
King Duncan
... Yet God has reached out to us through the carpenter/teacher/healer of Nazareth. We are the untouchables now embraced by Christ’s outstretched arms. That is what the cross is all about. Christ reached out to the least and the lowest and embraced them with his love. He communicated to them and to us that he is one of us. When Rev. Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth, were visiting Paris a few years ago, they were approached by two Frenchmen who claimed they were on a “divine errand.” It took a while before ...
Sermon
John E. Harnish
... the greedy people. The most joyful people are generous people and the stuffiest people are the stingiest people. St. Paul says, "God loves a cheerful giver" (I am often tempted to add that, here at First Church, we will also take from a grouch!), but I ... , so it is. But the fact is, this morning is not just about raising funds, it's about raising our spirits in response to God's love. It is not just trying to meet the church budget, we are trying to live out of the abundance of God's grace offered to us ...
Sermon
John E. Harnish
... of the rainbow. How disappointed we were to learn that it would require a whole new TV set, which for the Harnish family would be a long time in coming. Ah, as Archie and Edith Bunker liked to sing, "Those were the days." The days of I Love Lucy and Father Knows Best, Lassie and Roy Rogers. Ike was in the White House and all was well with the world… …or so we thought. Underneath the pleasant 50's facade, African Americans were still living in oppression; the newly-formed state of Israel was fermenting ...
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John E. Harnish
... is thy name in all the earth! In the words of Charles Wesley's great hymn, we find ourselves "lost in wonder, love and praise." [2] Several years ago, I came across a book by Charles Dickens which I had never read before. Called Hard ... really honest with ourselves, when we are really honest with the God who knows us so well, when we find ourselves lost in wonder, love and praise, the only appropriate response is humble confession, honest repentance and a contrite heart. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy ...
Sermon
John E. Harnish
... voice calling us back: "Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love." 2. Return to God…and in the end…be glad. That's the second part of the message we can give our children…the ... Don't you wish you knew what the hymn was? Perhaps it was the plaintive "Tis Midnight and on Olive's Brow" or the eloquent "O Love Divine, what Hast Thou Done?" or the powerful "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded." Oh, I know it was none of those songs, but I just wonder ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... s confined to teenagers, another survey found that 94 per cent of teachers thought they were better than their average colleague. “How do I love me? Let me count the ways.” (3) Sure, we understand the importance of positive self-esteem, but whatever happened to joy J-O-Y ... for us. This is where positive self-esteem comes from. It comes from knowing that even though we are not perfect, we are loved. We are loved by the Creator God who sent His son to die for us. There is a story of a young boy from the ...
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