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
John W. Wurster
... can. There is so much I do not know. But I do know that our lives are in God’s hands. I do know that God’s love for us has no boundary. I do know that there is someone to heal us. There is someone to make us well. There is someone to ... is the sign of God’s commitment to this world, God’s commitment to us, God’s commitment to you. In the cross, God’s love intersects our sorrow. In the cross, our lives are inextricably linked with God’s life. You can see that for yourselves. You can see that ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... of paradise. Wouldn't anyone? But the message of scripture is clear: the Lord has work for us to do...a labor of love, yes, but labor nonetheless. Costly too. In some societies, Christian discipleship may well involve death - 2/3 of the Christians in the ... of our faith is this: we have not been left alone to struggle with our feeble attempts at discipleship, even though it may be a labor of love. We have help...the help of the one who promises to be with us, even when we try and try and try but never seem to ...
453. Take This Job And Love It
2 Thessalonians 3:6-15
Sermon
King Duncan
... that gave St. Paul his passion in life--the blood-stained cross of one who was willing to give up everything for your sins and mine. "Were the whole realm of nature mine," goes the old Gospel hymn, "That were an offering far too small. Love so amazing, so divine, demands my life, my love, my all." "Even while we were still there with you," St. Paul writes, "we gave you this rule: "˜He who does not work shall not eat.'" St. Paul isn't talking to people on welfare. He's talking to people in the church who ...
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
... Christian bookstore) for the children to give to the men in the congregation. What special day are we celebrating today? Yes, it is Father's Day. What special things does your Dad or Granddad do for you? Why does he do these special things for you? (because he loves you). Because you are your father's child, you are his heir. That means you have the right to have what is his after he dies. You have an earthly Dad, but did you know you also have a heavenly Dad? Yes, God is your heavenly father. The scripture ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... class people. So we need to transport not a capitalism of greed. We need to transport a capitalism that serves. That is committed to the common good. That gives meaning because it builds self-esteem and self-worth and provides the resources for people to reach out in love and give cups of cold water in Jesus' name. What ever we do in Russia as a government or as a church, we must not leave the spirit unattended to. Even in our conversation with Gorbachev, and I'll tell you about that later -- not later in ...
Bulletin Aid
H. Burnham Kirkland
... that Light and his direction to guide our feet into the way of peace. All: Praise be to God! Collect Lord, you have taught us the meaning and the power of true love. May that love keep on growing, as our faith and understanding of you continue to grow, enabling us to make better judgments. Keep ever before us the challenge to show forth that love in all that we do or think. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, we don't always make the right choices in life because we think we know what is best. Keep us ever ...
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it ... will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
C. S. Lewis
458. Someone Who Loves You
Eph 6:1-4
Illustration
King Duncan
... two boys. Because he was unable to move even his head, the photos had to be jammed between metal knobs so that they hung within view above him--the only thing he could see. The last four months of his life were spent looking at the faces he loved. Philip Yancey writes, "I have often thought of that crumpled photo, for it is one of the few links connecting me to the stranger who was my father. Someone I have no memory of, no sensory knowledge of, spent all day, every day thinking of me, devoting himself ...
459. Loving Confrontation
Matthew 18: 15-20
Illustration
Johnny Dean
... that situation was not the right way to handle it. My motivation was good, but my actions were wrong. And after he left, I knew that here was a friend who would stand beside me in tough times, because he loved me enough to risk damaging our friendship by confronting me with my mistake. Loving confrontation, which is what Jesus calls his followers to practice, is never easy. Many of us would prefer to just ignore it, or not name what it is, especially in the church. Out of some sense of false humility, we ...
460. The Word Love
Matthew 22:34-40
Illustration
Brian Stoffregen
... commentary on Matthew Professor Douglas Hare writes: In an age when the word 'love' is greatly abused, it is important to remember that the primary component of biblical love is not affection but commitment. Warm feelings of gratitude may fill our consciousness as we consider all that God has done for us, but it is not warm feelings that Deut. 6:5 demands of us but rather stubborn, unwavering commitment. Similarly, to love our neighbor, including our enemies, does not mean that we must feel affection for ...
461. They Will Know We Are Christians by Our Love
Matthew 22:34-40
Illustration
King Duncan
... and affection she was shown that day. She never really wanted to be part of the class, but the class showed her how much they cared for her. "I received a lot more than money that day," she reflected, "I received unconditional love and a fresh realization of what it means to belong to the church." Our society bombards us almost daily with the message that we should care only about ourselves. "You owe it to yourself," we hear in advertisements for vacation trips. "You deserve the best," we hear from people ...
462. So Much Extra Love
John 3:14-21
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King Duncan
We're told that when early printers, using handset type, received an order to print a collection of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poems, they immediately ordered hundreds of extra letters L and V for their presses. They knew Tennyson. He used the word `love' so often in his poetry that the average set of type could not possibly supply all the necessary letters. It is with that same kind of extravagant love that God loves us. God so loved the world.
463. Drawn Not by Wrath but by Love
John 6:35, 41-51 
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... Illinois upon seeing the stain near the altar, knelt down beside the boy and looked him tenderly in the eyes and said, "It's alright son. You'll do better next time. You'll be a fine priest for God someday." That little boy grew up to become the much-loved Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. There is the gospel! We are drawn, not by wrath and condemnation, but by love. God is love. God draws us by love. That's what Jesus meant when he said, "No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me."
464. I Love You More than Salt
Mark 9:42-50
Illustration
King Duncan
An ancient king once asked his three daughters how much they loved him. One daughter said she loved him more than all the gold in the world. One said she loved him more than all the silver in the world. The youngest daughter said she loved him more than salt. The king was not pleased with this answer. But the cook overheard the conversation, so the next day he prepared a good meal for the king, but left out the salt. The food was so insipid that the king couldn't eat it. Then he understood ...
465. Spoken Without Love
Mark 9:38-41
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... . Chlorine, on the other hand, is the poisonous gas that gives bleach its offensive odor. When sodium and chlorine are combined, the result is sodium chloride. What is sodium Chloride? Salt. Common table salt. The substance we use to preserve meat and bring out its flavor. Love and truth can be like sodium and chlorine. Love without truth is flighty, sometimes blind, willing to combine with various doctrines. On the other hand, truth by itself can be offensive, sometimes even poisonous. Spoken without ...
466. The Rewards of Loving
Illustration
Keith Wagner
... son's baptism, a ragged old man came to her, and offered to grant her one wish on behalf of her son. Thinking only the best for her baby, the woman wished that her son would always be loved by everyone he met. The old man said, "so be it," and vanished. It turned out just as he said. As the boy grew, everyone loved him so much that he never lacked for anything. Yet, things did not turn out as expected. As adored and admired as the young man was, he experienced a terrible emptiness within him. He could have ...
467. Sometimes Love Does Not Count The Cost of Its Commitment
SOS 8; Luke 14:25-35
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... mother, forgetting herself entirely, took the little one into her arms to keep her from choking to death. Rasping and struggling for her life, the child said, "Momma, kiss me!" Without thinking of herself the mother tenderly kissed her daughter. She got diphtheria and some days thereafter she died. Real love forgets self. Real love knows no danger. Real love doesn't count the cost. The Bible says, "Many waters cannot quench ...
468. Love a Fellow
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Show me a church where there is love, and I will show you a church that is a power in the community. In Chicago a few years ago a little boy attended a Sunday ... others just as good nearer his home. "They may be as good for others, but not for me," was his reply. "Why not?" she asked. "Because they love a fellow over there," he replied. If only we could make the world believe that we loved them there would be fewer empty churches, and a smaller proportion of our population who never darken a church door. Let ...
469. What Does Love Mean?
Humor Illustration
... is when you kiss all the time," said one. "Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss." "Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne," said another, "and they go out and smell each other." But one of the children summed it up very much like Jesus: "When my grandmother got arthritis," she said, "she couldn't bend over and paint ...
470. Obedience Is the Gateway for Love
Luke 1:17
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Jennette F. Scholer
... at the Keller household, Annie Sullivan wrote, "I am convinced that obedience is the gateway by which knowledge, yes and even love, enter the mind of the child." With this remarkable insight, Sullivan had the courage to teach Helen to obey - to sit at the table, to eat properly, to fold her napkin. It was by first learning obedience that Helen learned the concept of language and also grew to love her teacher. Annie Sullivan's words speak to us as we reflect on Zechariah's and Mary's questions. "Obedience is ...
471. Tough Love
Illustration
King Duncan
... get with it.'" It makes me glad I'm not a giraffe. But the author's point is, of course, that the mother giraffe is engaged in tough love. There are certain demands that every parent must make for the welfare of his or her child. There are certain rules that must be enforced. No loving parent is going to accord a child absolute freedom. Such freedom could be deadly. Every loving parent has to say "No" from time to time. It's not easy. Sometimes it really does hurt the parent more than it does the child. But ...
472. Love to Life
Luke 13:10-17
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... of us are seized up. But in treating each other as Jesus treats this woman, as a son or daughter of Abraham, as a child of the King, we are released from our prisons. We are free. Jesus loves the locked up to life. Jesus loves us to life. Will you love a person to life this week? Will you let Jesus love YOU to life this week? COMMENTARY In the “back-to-school” shopping ritual, one of the most important, and expensive, family purchases is a new backpack. Does it seem to you too that every year the load ...
473. Love of Money
1 Timothy 6:3-10
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... the evil effects of the desire for wealth. Second, he brings all of this into focus on the false teachers, who vividly illustrate the truth of what was said in verse 9. For, Paul says, now as supporting evidence, in this case the common proverb is quite right: The love of money is a [better, “the”] root of all kinds of evil. This text neither says, as it is often misquoted, that money is the root of all evil nor intends to say that every known evil has avarice as its root. A proverb very much like this ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... they] do not forget the Lord” (6:12). Forgetting what God has done would seriously impoverish Israel’s spirituality, for pride takes over as they begin to think that it all happened by their own strength. Fearing God is one of the best ways to express our love and devotion to him (6:13). Moses contrasts slavery in Egypt (6:21) to service to God (6:13). Israel’s deliverance from bondage is to set her free to confess and serve a wonderful Lord. Idolatry, which is a form of covetousness, must be avoided ...
475. Love Is Everywhere
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Editor James S. Hewett
... be misfiled. He searched among Faith and Fasting, between Healing and Heaven. Perhaps it was sandwiched by Christology and Christian Ed. After all, these have to do with Love don't they? But it wasn't there, nor was it found after Money or ahead of Missions. When he stopped to reflect, the Holy Spirit solved the mystery. The Love file was scattered, yet not misfiled. Parts of it were found under Patience, Kindness, Humility, Trust, Hope, Loyalty, and Perseverance. But the pastor found the greatest part of ...
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