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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Joe M. Sprinkle
... , if they were allowed to trail on the ground, would be bruised and fall into sores. As it is, all the shepherds know enough of carpentering to make little trucks for their sheep’s tails. The trucks are placed under the tails, each sheep having one to himself, and the tails are then tied down upon them. The other kind has a broad tail, which is a cubit across sometimes. (Hist. 3.113) Interpretive Insights 3:1  If your offering is a fellowship offering . . . from the herd. “Fellowship offering” is ...
427. Proper 19
Exodus 13:17--14:31, Matthew 18:21-35, Romans 14:1--15:13, Exodus 15:1-21
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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe
... Lord. The implication of Paul's remarks is that, therefore, the believers should recognize and celebrate their unity in the Lord, not focus on differences in practices. Verses 7-9 make a christological statement about the common core of Christian life. All Christians have one Lord, the Lord of life and death. The bond that holds believers together despite their differences is the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, which claims them and unites them in life and death. Verses 10-12 continue this line of ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... real and drew on the power of God. That made the difference. Just like the disciples, we draw our power for living the Christian life from the same unseen presence of Christ, the Holy Spirit. In "The Korean Creed" one of our affirmations of faith, we have one of the best summations of the work of the Holy Spirit. It says, "We believe in the Holy Spirit, God present with us for guidance for comfort, and for strength." And that's the key. The Holy Spirit is simply God available and approachable, God present ...
429. Cracking the Code
Revelation 1:4-8
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Steven E. Albertin
... An unexpected disease shatters our plans. A pink slip slams the door on a career that we thought was so promising. A collapsing stock market abruptly thwarts our plans for retirement. Our best friend is killed in auto accident because he just had to have one more beer. We are continually reminded, if not ridiculed, that we do not have what it takes to succeed. Shrill voices, angry faces, biting criticisms, all shred our self-esteem. We can identify with John on Patmos and all those first-century Christians ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... you had the other coins that you would quit worrying about the one coin that you lost. Suppose, though, that I gave each one of you one of my coins? Would you take one if I gave it to you? Good, because I want you to have one of these very special coins. Now, we each have one. If you lost that coin now would you feel any differently than you did when you had a whole bunch of them? You really would. If you lost the only one that you had you would hunt and hunt until you found it. Jesus taught us ...
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Thomas G. Rogers
... have to ask you -- what do you think Jeremiah's hopeful action of purchasing a field has to say for my wife?" All eyes were upon Cynthia. It was very quiet as they waited for her response. She also waited for her response, and then, discovering that she did not have one, told the man that she was sorry for his loss, blew out her candle, and sat down. How are we to make sense of the man's question? Cynthia did understand this story correctly, didn't she? The purchase is a symbol of hope, is it not? The small ...
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Brett Blair
... 's all. Why do you have to put me down? I was just telling you that it is my birthday. I don't want anything from you. I mean, why should I have a birthday party? I've never had a birthday party in my whole life. Why should I have one now?" Tony Campolo said, "When I heard that, I made a decision. I sat and waited until the woman left and then I called over to the counter to the heavyset guy and asked him, "Do they come in here every night?" "Yeah," he answered. "The one right next to ...
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Brett Blair
... the Bread of Life" "I AM the Light of the World" "Before Abraham was, I am" "I AM the Door" "I AM the Good Shepherd" "I AM the Resurrection and the Life" "I AM the Way and the Truth and the Life" "I AM the True Vine" These eight sayings have one conclusion, that Jesus is God. Now one of two things happened here. Either Jesus said these things about himself or the church after his death developed these ideas and John put them on the lips of Jesus. But let me ask you. Why would the disciples, of whom John was ...
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Kendall McCabe
... are three ways of helping us understand how to play with the ashes and what the ashes have to teach us. "Remember that you are dust." Remember someday you will surrender, in death, all you now think you own. My dearest treasure will become someone else's property. I then have one of two choices. I can surrender it to death at some point in the future, or I can die to it now by disposing of it myself in a way that seems good to me. I can use it to purchase life for others through the many ministries of ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... is not one that can be enjoyed apart from the constant temptations offered by a promiscuous society. As a result, it is better for each man (who has not been given the gift from God [7:7] to resist such temptation) to have one woman as wife and each woman to have one man as husband. That the command is given reciprocally to both sexes is remarkable, as it transcends cultural norms and prepares for things to come later in the letter (see 1 Cor. 11:11–12). Moreover, within a marriage, sexual relations ...
436. Unsanctified
Mark 1:21-28
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Lori Wagner
Ever have one of those days when you just feel miserable, awful, ornery, grouchy? Maybe something has happened to make you feel like you have the grumpies. Or maybe nothing in particular happened at all. We call that “getting up on the wrong side of the bed.” Some days, our spirits sag, and ...
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Lee Griess
... him, but his smile remained nonetheless. "This is a special coffee cake," he explained. "I accidentally drove by the bakery this morning and there in the window was a host of goodies. I felt it was no accident, so I prayed, 'Lord, if you want me to have one of those delicious coffee cakes, let there be a parking spot open right in front.' And sure enough, the eighth time around the block, there it was!" All of us know what it is to enter the wilderness of temptation. Temptation is part and parcel of the ...
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King Duncan
... " to have lost its strategic focus? We need to remember why we are in business: we are here to serve people in the name of Jesus Christ. (3) A FINAL WAY THE CHURCH IS TO BE LIKE AN ARMY IS IN ITS DEVOTION TO ITS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. We have one leader as the church of Jesus Christ, and that is our risen Lord. More than 20 years ago Jerry B. Jenkins wrote the book, THE WORLD'S STRONGEST MAN, with Paul Anderson. Anderson was the 1956 Olympic weight lifting gold medalist. He stood 5'9" and weighed 375 pounds ...
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Richard Hasler
... to give and take. Winston Churchill once received an invitation to attend the opening performance of George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. Shaw wired him: “Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend -- if you have one.” Churchill wired back: “Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second -- if there is one.” Disciplined people follow a path with persistence but they also have their moments of lighthearted detachment from life that can be ...
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J. Howard Olds
... , after God's own heart, had his problems. His family was a source of constant sorrow. David had multiple wives and numerous concubines. The Bible says he had 19 sons and one daughter called by name in the Scriptures along with others that go unnamed. I have one wife and two sons and that's enough problems. I can't imagine what it's like to have numerous wives and dozens of children to deal with. No wonder David had problems. Everybody knows the sordid story of that moonlit night when David spots Bathsheba ...
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Charles H. Bayer
... licked. The shock comes when we realize that his mission then is our mission now. How do we define the essential work of the church? What is our relationship to this young man, who was tossed out of his home synagogue because the people assumed he was to have one sort of ministry when in reality his life and work were to be of another sort, with people they despised? "You are the body of Christ," says Paul in today's epistle. Did you hear it? We, the church, are the body of Christ! That means his ministry ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... do that. He gives us the power to say "No," to temptation and "Yes" to faith because He has experienced every temptation that we have. Hebrews 4:15-16 tell us: "For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need." And Hebrews 2:18 says; "Because he himself was tested by ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... to people who have nothing, or something we need if we are going to have what we want to write a letter. The same thing is true with food. There are people who have a lot of food, and there are some who have none. There are some people who have one kind of food, but do not have another kind. There are some people who have a lot of different kinds of food, but they have no oil. Some people have food, but they do not have factories. Some people have beautiful diamonds, but they don’t have food. It takes ...
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Don M. Aycock
... I am not. I do not know the first thing about painting. Even if I did, I would not be a painter like Picasso just because I have one of his prints. I have in my library books by writers such as Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and others. I could work at copying their styles, but I ... Faulkner or a Hemingway. Their example alone is not enough to change me. You see, all great artists and writers have one thing in common -- they are dedicated to their tasks with such devotion that they put the rest of us to ...
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Roger Prescott
... me that he has decided there is no God, or the total stranger who comes up to me at a party just when I am ready to ask the hostess for my coat, and says, "I hear you’re a rabbi; how can you believe that ..." - they all have one thing in common. They are all troubled by the unfair distribution of suffering in the world. - Harold S. Kushner* *When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Schocken Books, 1981, p. 6. I guess Absalom would have agreed. On the other hand, there is also an unfair distribution of good ...
446. Christ the King
Colossians 1:1-14, Jeremiah 23:1-8, Luke 23:26-43
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John R. Brokhoff
... back to their homeland. Above all, Yahweh will give as king a son of David who will save his people. Epistle: Colossians 1:11-20 We belong to the kingdom of Christ who, as the image of God, is preeminent in all things. In this pericope we have one of the great christological passages of the New Testament similar to Philippians 2:6-11 and John 1:1-14. It is so compact with truth and covers so much of the significance of Christ that one is easily persuaded that only an inspired writer could have composed ...
447. Proper 9
Genesis 24:1-67, Romans 8:1-17, Romans 7:7-25, Zechariah 9:9-13, Matthew 11:25-30, Matthew 11:1-19
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Russell F. Anderson
... is not a feeling but a decision, a commitment. There's a song from the '50s called: "Love And Marriage." The verse goes, "Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage ... Dad was told by Mother, you can't have one without the other." Boy, has society changed! Millions don't believe that there is a necessary relationship one with the other. Those who do hold to the connection, universally believe that love precedes marriage. Not necessarily so. Marriage may well be the horse ...
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Jerry Eckert
... humor. I like situations which cross age lines, so I was gladwhen I had a chance to tell a story about Jesus as a boy. Idid the following as a storyteller, but I think it wouldlend itself to having a young boy take part. As I writethis, I have one bright-eyed, bushy-tailed ten-year-old inmind who would have been this way, a little too smart, andstill a very thoughtful young person. In my next church, Iwould probably revise the text to allow for the kind ofyoungster available to handle the part, if I felt I ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
Object: Some splinters and a board (enough splinters for each child to have one). Do some people really bug you? Can you think of one guy or girl who is really a creep? Do you know someone who really thinks he is hot stuff and never lets you forget it? I know some people like that. Then there are the others who are always ...
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Brett Blair
... had a court case that she wanted settled. These Roman magistrates were notoriously corrupt and since she had no power to bully or intimidate them and not money enough to bribe them she was simply ignored by the judge in her county. But she does have one weapon in her arsenal—she pestered him. She nagged, she badgered, she harangued. Now let me tell you, you get a nagging woman on your case and you’ve got a problem. Finally, Jesus said in desperation the judge decided her case. We can certainly assume ...
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