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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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401. Beneath The Shadow Of The Cross

Mark 14:1--15:47

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... fell. That wasn't enough. Pilate thought it would satisfy the crowd but they were like a bunch of bloodhounds on the scent of death, and they wouldn't settle for anything less. They even chose to free Barabbas, a known murderer over Jesus. And when in disgust Pilate asked, "Then what do you want me to do with Jesus, the one you call King of the Jews?" The people yelled, "Crucify him!" So Pilate washed his hands of the matter, signed Jesus' death warrant and let Barabbas go. The priests and elders glowed ...

402. Down by the Riverside

Mark 1:4-11 · Genesis 1:1-5

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... The setting is New York City. A bum named Soapy sets out to get arrested so that he can spend the winter months in jail, warm and well-fed. At every misdemeanor Soapy commits, because of the season, fate steps in and prevents his arrest. Finally, in disgust, Soapy is returning to his park bench when he hears beautiful Christmas organ music coming from a church. As he stands outside the church listening to the music, old memories flood in. Soapy wipes his eyes and he begins to plan and resolves to change his ...

403. Divine Divestment

Mark 10:17-27

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Will Willimon

The Danish philosopher, Soren Kierkegaard, came home after church one Sunday and wrote of his disgust at what happened there. ''In the magnificent cathedral the Honourable and Right Reverend Gehei111e-General Ober-Hof Pradikant, the elect favourite of the fashionable world, appears before an elect company and preaches with emotion upon the text he himself elected: 'God hath elected the base things of the world, and ...

404. A Pep Talk for the Kingdom

Luke 18:1-8

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King Duncan

... Rockne would tear into them. They sat and sat, but Rockne did not appear. Finally, as the team began to head toward the door for the beginning of the second half, Rockne came walking in. He looked around and started to walk back out again. Then with a look of disgust on his face, he said simply, “Oh, sorry, I was looking for the Notre Dame football team.” That was all he said. That’s all he needed to say. Notre Dame won the game. Can you remember the last time you needed a pep talk? Maybe it was right ...

405. Sent

John 9:1-41

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April Yamasaki

... prophet’s instructions, the commander grew angry. He had expected to meet the prophet personally and to be cured immediately at his word. And why should he wash in the Jordan River when there were many other rivers? He was about to turn away in disgust, when his servants prevailed upon him: “Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all he said to you was, ‘Wash, and be clean’?” (2 Kings 5:13). The commander relented, did ...

406. The Last Laugh

Luke 24:1-35

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Will Willimon

... exam came, he studied all night. He walked in for the exam, and, when the professor handed it out, it was nothing but a sheet full of feet, bird feet and legs. "Identify these birds," it said. He couldn't belief it. An exam with nothing but feet! Disgusted, he went up to the professor's desk and said, "This is the dumbest, stupidest, exam I have ever seen." The professor was enraged. "You upstart! You impudent student! I'm going to report you to the Dean! What is your name?" The student stepped back, hiked ...

407. Where's God?

John 16:12-15

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David Coffin

... such a God, humans try to control and manipulate this same God. A later theologian, Wolfhart Pannenberg, would make the same observation in one of his volumes that led to this three-volume systematic theology. The apocryphal story continues about Reinhold Niebuhr whose disgust with both the capitalist and communist systems led him to write a prayer, “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference.” This is now known ...

408. Loving Against the Grain

Mark 3:20-35

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Lori Wagner

... . Upon coming up to sign the visitor booklet, I asked incredulously if indeed the entry was free. The man behind the glass counter said gruffly, “That depends on what state you’re from.” Taken by surprise, I replied, “I’m from Pennsylvania.” He snorted in disgust, glared at me as though I was a strange kind of beast, and said, “Humph, that’s a blue state.” I gave no response as to my political affiliation but quietly entered and looked around the little museum, feeling like I’d just gone ...

409. Belonging at the Table

John 6:51-58

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David Coffin

... In this Pentecost season, today’s text serves as reminder about participating in Jesus as the flesh and blood that leads to eternal life John 6:54 (RSV). At first glance, this particular text appears to be speaking of cannibalism, which evoked feelings of disgust in much of the Mediterranean world of that time. However, Jesus was referring to the Exodus 16 and Numbers 20 accounts of God’s providing for the people of Israel being fed while wandering in the wilderness. God provided quail and manna for the ...

410. In the Mirror

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

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Wayne Brouwer

... Luke told us something quite different was taking place: the religious leaders, Pharisees, and teachers of the law, happened by. They saw these social rejects, and they saw Jesus in the middle of them. They shook their heads and muttered about what a disgusting man Jesus was because of his association with those horrible nasties. At that moment, Luke said, Jesus turned to them, above the heads of the tax collectors and sinners, and spoke the three stories to them. In other words, Jesus’ parables in this ...

411. The Call to Encounter

Luke 8:26-39

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Dean Feldmeyer

... the pigs. Remember, to first-century Jews, pigs are unclean, worthless animals not unlike groundhogs or muskrats would be to us. No matter that some people actually enjoy eating groundhogs and collecting the pelts of muskrats for sale, we consider them creepy and disgusting and that’s the way Luke’s audience would have seen these pigs. A first-century Jewish audience would have no ethical problems with destroying a herd of pigs so a person could be saved from a self-destructive mental illness. Jesus ...

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