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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King Duncan
... of rock and roll, Elvis Presley. He still does to this day. Wise's love for Elvis has driven him to bizarre lengths. He even had his face lifted and his hairline contoured by a plastic surgeon to make himself look like Presley. Wise once explained his passion to reporters. Presley, he said, had been his idol ever since Wise was five years old. "I have every record he ever made," said Wise, "and pictures in the thousands. I even have a couple of books in Japanese and Chinese and some leaves from his front ...
452. First Things First
Philippians 3:12-4:1
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King Duncan
... he languishes there in chains in Rome toward the end of his life? He wants to be like Christ. He may be in chains, he may be executed at any moment, he may never again get to visit his friends in the churches he has started, but one passion fills his mind and heart. He wants to be like Jesus. “But one thing I do . . .” he writes. This one thing consumed Paul and ultimately made him the most influential man who ever lived, after Christ himself. “I want to know Christ . . .” Let me tell you how great ...
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Edward Inabinet
... received produces overflowing joy and gratitude. Out of that gratitude we give to God and others. Our giving relates us to the great purpose of God as He deals with sin in people''s lives, loves them and redeems them. When the passionate Christ comes into people''s lives they, too, become passionate about the work of God. They don''t have the time or desire to argue about whether or not to tithe. You see, the New Testament never commands a tithe, but can a Christian who has been bought from sin and eternal ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... when the worshipers partook of the feast they were literally eating the god, taking the god within themselves. In addition, in the ancient Mystery Religions also offered communion with, or identity with, some god. All of the Mystery Religions were, in a sense, passion plays. They were mythological stories of a god who lived and died and rose again, mythologies which prefigured the actual event which later took place in the death and resurrection of the Jesus Christ. These Mystery Religions offered a form of ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you!” (Matthew 21:31) How’s that for a shocker! To those who were beaten down by life, Jesus was tender and compassionate. To those who were doing the beating down, he was passionate in condemnation. Indeed, he called them a “brood of vipers”! (Cf. Matt. 3:7; Matt. 12:34; Matt. 23:33;Luke 3:7) Jesus seems to have hated the sin without hating the sinner. We, on the other hand, usually hate the sinner and enjoy gossiping about ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... of his zeal these days. We live in a day when the committed are intolerant, and the tolerant are uncommitted. Irish poet William Butler Yeats wrote that: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.” That sure seems to be true. I’d like people with about 10% of the passion of Simon the Zealot. Zeal is like fire; in a certain amount it warms and gives life; too much burns and consumes. When it comes to church members, I’d rather have a few over-zealous ones whose ...
457. Are We Able?
Mark 10:35-45
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Donald B. Strobe
... they be given places at Jesus’ right hand and His left, but the fact that, strictly speaking, the ones on Jesus’ right hand and His left are crucified!! Pondering this Gospel account, he went to Oberammergau to see the Passion Play. In his own words, he said, “The most moving scene in the Passion Play was at the Crucifixion and the most moving moment in that scene was one where a thief turned to Jesus and said, ‘Remember me when Thou comest into Thy kingdom.’ Jesus, seeing both the faith and the ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... narrative in Chapters 14-15 remain. What difference does that make? It means that Jesus’ words on this occasion were uttered in the shadow of the cross. They are actually an overture to His passion and death. The woman’s action is praiseworthy because out of her poverty and without reservation she gave her whole living to God. Her gift foreshadows the one Jesus is about to make: His very life. In Mark this poor widow becomes a type of Him who, “though he was ...
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Eric Ritz
... on any battlefield, that their words, unfittingly spoken, caused great damage and destruction--just as a sword or bullet. To make matters worse, this war they could not BLAME on a pagan army--but on their own puffed-up egos and poisoned tongues. They were defeating themselves with their selfish passions and pursuits. This should not be in the Christian community. When you deal with conflict, you must some how stop the vicious cycle, and replace it with something greater. James knew he must expose the ...
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Eric Ritz
... what her inheritance as a daughter of Abraham could do for her. FAST FROM CRITICISM--FEAST ON AFFIRMATION. SECONDLY, FAST FROM PLAIN CONVERSATION AND FEAST ON POSITIVE ACTION. Max Lucado shares, "How many congregations have just enough religion to come together, but not enough passion to go out? If the doors aren't locked, they might as well be. "Upper room futility. A little bit of faith but very little fire. "Sure, we''re doing our part to reach the world. Why, just last year we mailed ten correspondence ...
461. Holy Vexation
John 2:12-25
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Robert Noblett
... the salvation business and all that we do should be soaked to the core with, and radiate to the greatest extent possible, a passion for making available to folks the good news of what has come to pass in and through Jesus, who for the Christian ... the needs of my soul! There is a time for holy vexation, a time to rise up and remind the church that its fundamental passion is its abiding love for God and the things of God. Something that Harry Fosdick wrote in l952 sounds amazingly applicable today: The real ...
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David G. Rogne
... whether we understand how it happens or not. Each of us needs to be born anew, from above. There is in each of us a spiritual nature, a higher nature if you will, which is brought to life when we reach out beyond ourselves, beyond our own immediate passions and desires, beyond our self-serving, this-world point of view. When I again asked, "How does this happen?" the second thing Jesus did was to refer to an incident in the history of my people. Centuries ago, as the people of Israel were making their way ...
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George Bass
... to the question of what he had done for Christ. He left the gallery at nightfall, but a new day was dawning for him. From that day on, he devoted his heart and soul, his life and his wealth - all that he had - to Christ, declaring, "I have but one passion; it is Jesus, Jesus only."3 The sight of the crucified One "high and lifted up" on the Tree made a sudden and permanent change in his life, and the resurrection bore fruit then and there in his heart and soul. So it is, then, that the crucified Jesus ...
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Curtis Lewis
... day he didn't have to get out of bed was the first day he really desired to get up and start living for his own reasons. He realized a purpose for living and a passionate call to serve others. The book of Deuteronomy recognizes that the people of God will be faced with crowing roosters who will stifle and harm the purpose and passion of the nation. Our scripture for this Lord's Day focuses on the function of the prophet in the life of the nation. The prophet of the Old Testament did not serve as has often ...
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Richard Gribble
... , and those who lose their life for my sake will find it" (Matthew 16:24-25). Jesus did not walk to Calvary in handcuffs and leg irons; he went voluntarily. If we are to follow him, then we must be willing participants in his life, passion, and death. Ash Wednesday is the beginning of a special journey that assists us in obtaining a more complete and closer relationship with God; it is the period of preparation for our annual homecoming. Like all homecomings, our journey to Holy Week requires concerted and ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... gospel in every nook and cranny of the world. But if we don’t respond to that, there’s every reason for us to have fear of that judgment. I close with this. In 1980, Jeri and I attended the Passion Play at Ober Amigal. It was a rare experience of that once each decade presentation of the passion and death of our Lord by the people of that little small German village. A story of another man experiencing the drama is forever etched in my mind. He went backstage at the conclusion of the drama to meet Mr ...
467. Being Christ
Ephesians 1:15-23
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Maxie Dunnam
... militarism. This goes beyond individuals and groups and nations, it affects all races and sexes, the rich and the poor. We do well to consider that word from the epistle of James, this is scripture. “What causes is war, and what causes fightings among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members? You desire and do not have so you kill, and you covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask, you ask and you do not receive because you ask wrongly ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... are worried about him because they know all to well that death may be Rome’s judgment against him. But Paul has risen above any anxiety about death and his prison confinement and suffering. The driving passion of his life made everything else, even imprisonment and possible death, pale in impact. What was that passion? There it is in verse 12. ‘I am made confident in the Lord because of my imprisonment and am much more bold to speak the word without fear.’ ‘So, what then matters - only this – that ...
469. Getting It All Together Inside
Psalm 51:1-19, 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24
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Maxie Dunnam
... . I’m not able to get at the stirrings there, they’re too hot to handle, too complex to contemplate. Just when I think I have it all together, that I know myself and have given all to you, some unnamed power surges from my depths, some long-forgotten passion contorts to life and sets my whole being on fire. I know, or I say I know, I know that you’re the God of the mornings and evenings and mountain peaks and the sea. But God, my soul has further horizons than the early morning, deeper darkness than ...
470. The Secret: Christ In You
Colossians 1:24--2:5
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Maxie Dunnam
... say, "No, we don't know." And she would tell them the story of Jesus. Twenty-four young men became pastors due to the work of this blind woman, touched by the contagion of the light in her which Christ brings. What does that say about our passion to communicate the mystery, to share the secret which Christ wants to be an open secret? Are you enjoying your share in the mystery, but failing in sharing the mystery. My experience has been, and Christians through the ages witness to this: The more we seek to ...
471. Proclaiming The Gospel
Philippians 1:1-11
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Maxie Dunnam
... were worried about him because they knew altogether too well that death might be Rome's judgment against him. But Paul has risen above any anxiety about death, or his prison confinement and suffering. The primary passion of his life made everything else -- even prison and death -- pale in significance. What was that passion? It is stated with bell-ringing joy and trumpet-like clarity in verse 18: "What then? Only that in every way...Christ is preached; and in this I rejoice." In his effort to reassure his ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... presupposed was a disease. Deity surely could not be less unruffled and imperturbable than ideal men. Hinduism has never been able to relate the love of God to the love of men. Love in Buddhism promotes an abstention from harming, but it does not engender a passion for healing. But so far as the God and Father of Jesus Christ is concerned, it can be said, "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound" (Romans 5: 20)." (John A. Mackay, God's Order: The Ephesian Letter and This Present Time, New York, The ...
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Maxie Dunnam
Elie Wiesel is one of the great story-tellers of our time. He is a Jew who has a passionate memory of the Holocaust. He tells stories with a clarity and a passion that sets your soul on fire. In fact, a collection of his Hasidic stories is entitled "Souls on Fire". Let me read you the introduction to that book: "My father, an enlightened spirit, believed in man, My grandfather, a fervent Hasid, believed in God. The one taught me to speak, ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... 's he up to?" Well the jump is purposeful. Today is the first Sunday of Lent and we turn to that section in Luke's gospel that speaks to us during this particular season. Lent is the period of time on the Christian's calendar when we look at the passion and death of Jesus. It's a time when we examine our discipleship and pay close attention to the call of Jesus that we must give all if we are to follow Him. Last Sunday, we talked about the "Word and words". We focused on Jesus' inaugural speech in his ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... to be bishops. When their goal was not realized, their disappointment was so bitter that it colored their whole life. We could name other forces within that can become Satan's instrument to bring destructive results. Pride. Jealousy, Sexual Lusts. Ambition. Drive for security. Passion for acceptance. So we need to pay attention to the inside because that's where evil gets its stronghold. Joseph Campbell in his book The Power of Myth says that “The ground of being is the ground of our being, and when we ...
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