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
... chief composer in the emperor’s court. One day, however, he hears the music of Mozart and he recognizes, even if many of his contemporaries do not, that Mozart has gifts far superior to his own. Something happens within Salieri. He becomes obsessed with the desire to destroy Mozart. He even rails against God. He believes that God is mocking him through Mozart--even though God has answered his prayer and given him great gifts, those gifts were not as great as Mozart’s, and Salieri cannot forgive God. His ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Many more days?” He did not know that his colleagues had started an office pool on when the baby would arrive. Every one of his colleagues had placed a bet on when the happy occasion would occur. The interest in his affairs really concerned no more than a greedy desire to win the office pool. (3) I’m not going to ask if you have ever faked interest in someone because it was good business or simply out of courtesy. All of us are guilty of such interest sometime or another. All of us are guilty of some ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... they arrived at the carousel they were surprised by red lights flashing and gifts of all sizes flowing down the luggage chute. A boy was heard screaming a protracted “wow” when he unwrapped the gift with his name on it to find the smart phone he desired. In another corner was a family who couldn’t contain their joy when they got the airline tickets they had asked for. One passenger went home with a 50” flat screen television. No passenger went home without a gift . . . even the dad who only asked ...
4629. The Three Kings
Matthew 2:1-12
Sermon
King Duncan
... had been confined in one of its gloomy cells for many years. But instead of joyfully welcoming his liberty, he begged to be taken back. It had been such a long time since he had seen the sunshine that his eyes could not endure its brightness. His only desire was to die in the murky dungeon where he had been a captive.” (4) Some people have lived in the dark so long that they are literally afraid of the light. Light reveals what they would prefer to keep hidden. Rev. Paul Pattison tells about a practice ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... books Max Lucado tells us about a woman named Madam Fauna. Madam Fauna is a character in a John Steinbeck novel titled Sweet Thursday. Madam Fauna runs a brothel. In spite of her occupation Madam Fauna takes a liking to a prostitute by the name of Suzy and she sincerely desires a better life for this young woman. One day Madam Fauna decides to set Suzy up on a real date with a man, not a client. She buys Suzy a nice dress and helps her get ready for the evening. As Suzy is leaving, she is visibly moved by ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... was fulfilled in a little town of Bethlehem 2000 years ago when a babe was born and the “Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” No longer were the people of God constricted to a written code. In Jesus of Nazareth they could see in the flesh what God desires out of us. It is to live as Jesus lived. The Word which had been handed down on Mount Sinai was fulfilled by the Word who came to earth and dwelt among us whose name is Jesus. And, when we understand that truth, it changes everything about what we ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... safety. A rancher who was opposed to the Christian faith had sent some men to attack the evangelist at a bend in the trail. They thanked God for causing the donkey to take a shortcut home. (1) Was that God’s prompting or simply the donkey’s desire to get home the shortest route possible that caused it to veer off the regular trail? We cannot answer that except to affirm that “all things work to the good for those who love the Lord” (Rom. 8:28). Donkeys are interesting. They have a colorful history ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.” 1. William B. Irvine, On Desire: Why We Want What We Want (Kindle Edition). 2. Gilbert Brim, Ambition (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 78. 3. Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good Fast (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1998). 4. Alan Carr, http://www.sermonnotebook.org/new%20testament/John%2013_1-5_12-17.htm. 5. Paul ...
4634. Does Easter Really Matter?
Mark 16:1-8, John 20:1-9
Sermon
King Duncan
... 10 what?” the man demanded in a desperate voice. “Years, months, weeks?” The doctor answered, “10, 9, 8, 7. . .” (4) Well, we can laugh about it . . . And deep in our heart we know that our Redeemer lives . . . but still, God has instilled within each of us the desire to live--here on this earth for as long as we possibly can. We don’t have to apologize for wanting to hold on to life in this world even as we anticipate heaven in the next one. That is the way we were created. I like the story ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. That’s an important rule: If we are to bear fruit, we must stay connected to the vine which is Christ. He only is the source of our life. I hope that is the primary reason you are here in worship today. You desire to stay connected to Christ so that you can bear much fruit. But there is a word of warning in this passage. Actually there are two warnings. Listen again to Christ’s words: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... always grasping to attain from others things or values which he or she covets. Lewis contends that many times when we humans say to another, “I love you,” what we are really meaning is, “I need you, I want you. You have a value that I very much desire to make my own, no matter what the consequence may be to you.” Now contrast “need love” with what Lewis calls “gift love.” Instead of being born of emptiness or lack, this form of loving is born of fullness. The goal of gift love is to enrich ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... who have failed in their work because they feared rejection. I know of young people who have messed up their lives because they were afraid to say “no” to the crowd, married folks who have gotten caught up in infidelity out of fear that they are no longer desirable, old people who have given up on life because they no longer have confidence in their ability to cope. The list goes on and on of the lives that fear has crippled. So it’s good news indeed to read our lesson for today, “The Spirit you ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... God. If we come to God we come because we belong with him not because he has something for us. We come because our soul needs to be in his presence not because our belly needs to be filled. Satan asks, wouldn’t you rather have your desires met first, your cravings satisfied in full? Wouldn’t you rather take the crown without the cross? II The second temptation we shall call: Fall on the Rocks: The Temptation to gain popularity by performance. And if the first temptation deals with the physical needs of ...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... dividing his own house, saying "good-bye" to his physical family in favor of a new spiritual family of those who followed God's will. Jesus was saying that real kinship is not primarily a matter of flesh and blood but the ties that come from a common desire to follow the will of God. Real kinship comes from a common goal with people in God's faith family, whether or not they are blood relatives. Real kinship is not anti-physical family, just above-and-beyond-physical family. Real kinship is in the family of ...
4640. Free Indeed!
John 8:31-36
Sermon
April Yamasaki
... a much more positive direction -- when Jesus comes into our lives, there is transformation. Instead of being filled with ourselves, we're filled with a new life and a new power. Instead of being slaves to ourselves and slaves to sin, instead of being contained by our own desires and caught between wanting to do good and being unable to do it, we can live a new life. First Corinthians 6:9-11 puts it this way: "Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? ... And this is what some of ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... part of our church. What would we do without our children? They are worth whatever effort we put into supplying them with a first-rate Christian education. Samuel Wesley was a devoted priest in the Church of England. In Wesley’s heart there burned a desire to see the church renewed and revived. One day he was studying and praying while his two small children, John and Charles, were playing on the stairway. They were quite noisy as young boys tend to be. Finally, Samuel Wesley became so distracted by the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... who has lain at death’s door, and people have prayed and prayed for healing, but physical healing has not come. Most of us are mature enough to realize that prayer isn’t a heavenly slot machine into which we pour our prayers and automatically the answer we desire comes out. If we could do that, there would be no need for faith. Faith is belief in the unseen. “Now we see through a glass darkly.” But that doesn’t mean that our prayers are unheard and unanswered. Let me give you an example. Some time ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... royal court, hoping to see how royalty live. He is caught and beaten by the Royal Guards. Seeing Tom’s predicament, Prince Edward steps in and takes Tom into his private chamber where he will be safe. It is there that Tom Canty confesses to Edward his own desires and dreams to live as the better people in society live. At this point, the two boys decide, at least for a while, to switch places. The prince will become a pauper and the pauper will become a prince. And because the two boys are so similar in ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... house” has taken on a new connotation for some women. With Congress nearly equally unpopular with both Democrats and Republicans, many wonder if the situation cannot help but be improved by the addition of a few more women in both houses. I obviously have no desire today to indulge in a political debate regarding the role of women in politics. But today’s scripture lesson may be very helpful to us as we determine the roles of both men and women in our world today. We turn for our understanding to ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... within our hearts, peace within our homes, peace within our world? Dante, the great poet of the Middle Ages, was exiled from his home in Florence. Life had turned out badly for him. He decided to walk to Paris from Italy where he could study philosophy. It was his desire to find a clue to the riddle of humanity and his destiny. One night in his travel he found himself to be a weary pilgrim who could not go any farther that day. He knocked at the door of the Santa Croce Monastery to find refuge for the night ...
Sermon
Robert Leslie Holmes
... am the worst." (1 Timothy 1:15). As Paul progresses in years and service for Christ he becomes smaller and smaller and Christ becomes larger. As his sense of self-importance sinks, so his praise and adoration for the God who so wonderfully saved him rises, and his desire to serve God grows. If you would be like Paul, crush pride and cultivate a passion for directing all your praise toward Christ. The Way Up Is Down! "If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last, and the servant of all" (v. 35). The ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... imagination of hundreds of thousands of other persons over the years. (1) Have you ever had something capture your imagination? Einstein, you will remember, said “imagination is more important than knowledge.” What is imagination? It’s a mental picture of something, usually something desirable, that could become a reality if we do our part. Sometimes it comes to us as a dream or a vision. Often this dream or vision is the first step toward a great accomplishment. Today I want to tell the story of a ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... realm of France. (2) We have the monuments, but who remembers anything about those who constructed them? The Christian faith is not a monument but a movement. It is a dynamic encounter with the living Christ. Peter could not have been more wrong in his desire to build three shelters. He doesn’t have time to retract his hasty suggestion, though, because as he is saying this a cloud appeared and covered them, and they were afraid as they entered the cloud. And a voice came from the cloud, saying, “This ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... from relationships--our relationship with God first, then our relationship with others. I have read that in Muslim countries, there are strict rules about touching garbage, so the job of garbage collector often falls to the non-religious folks or to the “least desirable” members of society. That includes Christians. In Cairo, Egypt, for example, a very poor Christian man was sorting through mountains of garbage when he came across an $11,000 watch with a man’s name engraved on the back. This watch was ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... be for God to deliver us from temptation, then we shall prevail. Romans 10:13 tells us, “Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved.” It may not be according to our time table or it may not be handled exactly according to the desires of our hearts, but God is faithful in answering our prayers. St. Augustine, before he became a saint, had a real problem with temptation. But he had a mother named Monica who prayed for him daily. On one occasion Monica prayed that God would block a trip her ...
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