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
King Duncan
... Would you rather I leave you cookies and milk or pizza? Dad says you'd probably like the pizza. Write back right away to let me know. Love, Lisa Dear Santa, I would like just one of everything. Thank you. Nancy (1) This is an exciting night, isn't it? When you're a ... would like you to call them "˜creeping, crawling creatures' in that tone of voice. For, strange as it may seem to us, He loves them. He went down to visit them to lift them up to become like Him." The little angel looked blank. Such a thought ...
4477. Taking Charge
Joshua 5:1-12
Sermon
King Duncan
... get off that bus and get on the right one. Sure, this parable of Jesus is about sin and grace. It is about a father's love for his wayward son, but it is also about a boy who suddenly realizes his strategy for life isn't working--and he knows he ... us that God has done everything needed to reconcile us to Himself. He writes, "In Christ God was reconciling the world to himself . . ." The Father loves us. He has done all He can do. Now, says St. Paul, it's time for us to do our part-- "We entreat you on behalf ...
4478. Taking Charge
Luke 15:11-32
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
... , you are right. His father welcomed him home and had a big party to celebrate him coming home. That's what grace is. The father forgave his son for wasting all his money and welcomed the young man home with love. Now, why do you think this story is in the Bible? I think we have a picture here of how God loves us. He always welcomes us back even when we mess up! I brought something for each of you today. [Pass out the candy bars.] I don't want you to get your good clothes dirty, so I am asking ...
4479. Worthy Is The Lamb
Revelation 5:1-14
Sermon
King Duncan
... , and will think his champion dad will never understand. But there will be this videotape, of a day in Sydney that he was too young to remember, but where an example of how to lose was set. And I'll show it to him, and tell him that I never loved you more." (5) Kristin Armstrong wanted her husband Lance to be the role model for their son by showing him what it means to handle defeat with dignity. We all need models in our lives, don't we? Examples, heroes--people who will show us what is possible. We need ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... At some time in our lives, all of us will look up and say, "Please, God. Listen to my need." There is a universal need for God. Christmas speaks to that need. When we could not reach God, God reached out to us. As someone has written, "Christmas is love tugging us back to God with a powerful clasp of a tiny hand reaching out from a bed of straw." There is a universal need for God and there is a universal need for peace. Isaiah writes, "He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many peoples ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... no Pollyanna faith. No pie in the sky by and by. It is about a God who took upon Himself the sufferings of real people. Why? Listen to the rest of this verse: "In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old." The Christ event is about redemption. It is about God coming to us in our need and helping us live triumphant lives regardless of our circumstances. A woman in the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... but we have not associated it with that deep unhappiness that many of us feel. Here is the good news I have to share with you: You do not have to measure up. You do not have to be at the top of your class. You are accepted. You are loved. Salvation, wholeness, healing of the inner person by God is not performance-based. In fact, in order to experience God's grace, you and I have got to somehow forget everything we've ever learned about being good. That sounds radical, doesn't it? But that is what Luther saw ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... came to where Bill sat he stopped, slowly lowered himself to the floor, and the two of them worshiped together. There was not a dry eye in the church except perhaps for the two at the front. (2) That is what church ought to be. That is the kind of love and acceptance that ought to exist in every congregation. You and I both know that. There is a bond--a cord, if you will that links us to the one who has gone to sit at the right hand of the Father. There is a cord that binds us to ...
4484. What Would Bill Do?
1 Thessalonians 2:1-16
Sermon
King Duncan
... when he was most protected by God. Chet was soon reunited with Andrea and the boys, and all of them returned safely to the U.S. (3) Don’t give up on God. Don’t presume to figure God out. God’s ways are not our ways, but God’s love for us is eternal. St. Paul never gave up on God. And St. Paul never quit serving people. Listen to his words to the church at Thessalonica: “As apostles of Christ we could have been a burden to you, but we were gentle among you, like a mother caring for ...
4485. When Death Is Gain
Philippians 1:1-11
Sermon
Edward Inabinet
... the new morn-- For the source of all music was born. He started the whole world singing a song. The words and the music were there all along! What the song had to say was that love found a way To start the world singing a song. (2) That love is God''s love for you and me in Christ. Jesus said, "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life." Through his life and death and resurrection, he makes this life available to us ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... . Paul wrote two letters to the church at Corinth. A couple of weeks ago we looked at the conclusion of the second letter, and I would like to bring those words to your attention once more. Paul wrote: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all!” (II Cor. 13:14) I imagine that Paul would have been surprised if someone had told him that those words would become an official blessing or benediction used universally by the Christian Church ...
4487. Why the Church?
Matthew 16:21-28
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... called by God to live and witness to God’s purposes in the world. When Eve asked her husband in the Garden of Eden, Do you love me? he replied: Who else? I’d like to ask you: Who else but the Church is even trying to get Christ’s work done in ... been given to us by others. It is from the Church, imperfect as it is, that we have heard the old, old story that we have loved song. The notion of God as Divine Parent, which we take for granted, was given to us by the Church. Without the Church’s tutelage, it ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... teachings and rituals, all of his people’s experience with God across the centuries, found it possible to condense the whole thing into one sentence: “He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?” (Micah 6:8) And in the New Testament, in much the same way, when our Lord was asked which commandment was the greatest of them all, summarized all of the Law and the Prophets in a couple of succinct ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... round about Him. This man has come to Him out of a desperate need, and must have been traveling since before daybreak out of love for his sick son, and so Jesus says to the official, simply, “Go; your son will live.” And the record says simply that ... laws of nature which God has put in our world. I can only feel sorrow for those misguided people who refuse medical care for their loved ones under the mistaken impression that to use human means to heal is to deny our faith in God. No, I think that God has ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... is some truth in all of these answers and arguments, but ultimately they do not really satisfy us. Perhaps the reason is that we really do not need an answer or an argument at all, but rather an assurance that behind everything there beats the heart of a God who loves us more than we can imagine, and who can bring some good out of whatever evil happens to us. After all, we are talking about a God who could take a Good Friday and make an Easter Sunday out of it! And, as a character in William Goldman’s ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... Jesus’ “glorification” means His being lifted up on a cross; His suffering, death, and resurrection. So what Jesus is doing is literally trading His life for Lazarus’ life! And how very like Him that is. We remember that he said, “”No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (15:3) Well, that is just exactly what Jesus was doing in Bethany, at the home of Mary and Martha and Lazarus. The author sketches the dramatic moments vividly. Jesus’ command to ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... This is not something we simply accept without any evidence to back it up. We proclaim the victory of a Divine Love which has descended into every hell where evil reaches its utmost limits...and rises victorious! Have you ever stopped to think ... at Calvary? There was the suffering of the innocent, the torture of the good, the agony of meaningless pain, the loneliness of abandoned love, the silence of God. All were there. When the curtain came down on that first Good Friday it seemed that the enemies of ...
4493. Holy Monday
Matthew 21:1-11
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... Sabbath, when their religious customs got in the way of the common people’s worship, He blazed with anger. Jesus’ anger was never merely negative; He wasn’t angry for the sake of anger, but for the sake of people; because the little people whom God loved so much were shut out. So, “On Monday, the Rabbi Cleaned House.” As for the physical violence on that occasion, it should be pointed out that there is no indication in the record that Jesus struck any persons. And what He used on that occasion (as ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... in the plate, but my father didn''t give me a raise in my allowance. Could you have a sermon about a raise in my allowance? Love, Patty. Age 10, New Haven Dear Pastor, My mother is very religious. She goes to play bingo at church every week even if she has a ... is why this story can be set squarely in the midst of our modern world. Not one thing has changed! We modern people love the spectacular just as first century persons did. The disciples wanted to send the people away. However, Jesus cared for the people ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... ." I do not need any of that kind of holy baloney. I am looking for the real thing. I am going to look into the face of God revealed in Jesus Christ. That is where the source of real holiness comes from. I might even laugh more and fall in love all over again with life. I have come to realize and understand that God''s holiness is to recognize human sinfulness. However, to know of God''s holiness allows us to move from sinfulness to the joy of being forgiven. Please don''t worry about how to live the holy ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... alter the mysterious will of God at work at the cross. She was silent. She simply did what she had always done--she surrendered all things to the Lord. The hymnwriter puts it this way: "All to Jesus I surrender, All to him I freely give. I will ever love and trust him, In his presence--daily live. I surrender all--I surrender all, All to thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all." (2) While I know that our salvation and access to God is not dependent on Mary--she is still a fantastic role model for anyone to ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... will take us farther than we want to go--cause us to stay longer than we want to stay--and cost us more than we want to pay. They also provide no way out of the bondage they lock us into. The Ten Commandments give us ten ways to love and experience love from our God--not ten ways that destroy us. This is why Psalm 1:2 states that we will delight in the law of the Lord. One of this nation''s most creative and imaginative preachers retired recently. His name is Donald J. Shelby of The First United Methodist ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... surrender our hearts to him and life up our eyes and hands to the heavens and lean on the everlasting arms. Perhaps knowing that God loves you and I unconditionally will open up our eyes to see him anew, and what a difference that would make. We could begin to ... we began this sermon with today. The landscape would then become the inscape where the presence of God would empower us for love and service to the Kingdom. This would not only change us, it holds the potential to change THIS CHURCH--THIS CITY--THIS ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... Lord. However, as we partake of Holy Communion Christ also gives us the great responsibility of taking the Good News back to our own Jerusalem in the urban complex in which we live. As we have met the King of the Road--on the road--His message of love can now go with us to penetrate society everywhere we go. Christ is alive--the Easter story continues! Will it continue through us? I pray that it does. There are a lot of Lucys and Charlie Browns, a lot of William Holmes Borders, a lot of fearful soldiers ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... Spirit. "At the conclusion of the service, the closing hymn was announced. We all stood to sing George Matheson's hymn, `O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go,'' written by the great Scots preacher of another generation at a difficult period of his life. ... you said is His answer. Thank you again!'' "All during my drive back to my hotel the words of Matheson''s hymn rang in my heart: `O Love that wilt not let me go. I rest my weary soul in Thee; I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow ...
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