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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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501. The Energies of Love

John 13:31-35

Illustration

Edward F. Markquart

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the Roman Catholic theologian, once wrote: "Sometimes after the mastery of the winds and the waves and the tides; after the mastery of the sun and the sea and the laws of gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And when we harness the energies of love, for the second time in human history, we shall discover fire." … What if we harnessed atomic fusion? Wow! But what if we harnessed the energies of love? The world would then be transformed.

502. Love of Christ

Matt 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27; John 13:34

Illustration

G. Curtis Jones

... challenged the visitor. They talked for hours. Finally the merchant left with Paul's blessing. Outside the prison, the concerned man inquired, "What is the secret of this man's power? I have never seen anything like it before." Did you not guess?" replied Timothy. "Paul is in love." The merchant looked bewildered. "In Love?" "Yes," the missionary answered, "Paul is in love with Jesus Christ." The merchant looked even more bewildered. "Is that all?" Smiling, Timothy replied, "Sir, that is everything."

503. Observable Love

John 16:12-15

Illustration

Leslie B. Flynn

... , Christian believers suffered considerable persecution. In his book, Fire on the Mountains, Raymond Davis tells of the love demonstrated by believers for each other during this period of affliction, which in turn made a major impression ... fellow believers and church groups that enough remained to feed the unbelieving prisoners also. This observable love, vibrant though nonverbal, brought many to seek the Lord. Such love was previously unheard of. As a result, the word spread far and wide. Non-believers sought ...

504. God Loves Me

Luke 15:1-32

Illustration

Mark Trotter

... in God, just that God no longer frequented the neighborhoods that she frequented. She was taking voice lessons at the time. Her teacher gave her an exercise where she was to read out of some religious pamphlet. The reading ended with these words: "God loves me." She finished the reading, put the pamphlet down. The teacher said, "I want you to read that last sentence again." So she picked it up, read it again, this time somewhat sarcastically, then put it down again. The teacher said, "Read it again ...

505. More vs. Love

Luke 16:19-31

Illustration

Leonard Sweet

... ? The problem with our world, our nation and our church can be summed up in one word: More. "More" has become, as Laurence Shames has put it, America's "unofficial national motto." We want more of everything: more fun, more money, more excitement, more love, more programs, more church members, more, more, more. "More is what Americans are used to, what we perceive as normal, here in the land of the escalation clause, the built-in increase. More is the way we think about 'success.'" And more is what America ...

506. Love Your Enemy

Matthew 5:38-42

Illustration

Dr. Martin Luther King

In a sermon written in a Georgia jail and preached just after the bus protest in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., after noting that hate is just as injurious to the hater as the hated, said this about loving your enemies: "Of course this is not practical; life is a matter of getting even, of hitting back, of dog eat dog…My friends, we have followed the so-called practical way for too long a time now, and it has led inexorably to deeper confusion and chaos. Time is ...

507. Love Your Enemies

Matt 5:38-48

Illustration

Phil Thrailkill

... do about it?' Wade took a new baseball out of his pocket, autographed it, tossed it to the man, and went back to the field to his pre-game routine. The man never yelled at Boggs again; in fact, he became one of Wade's biggest fans at Yankee Stadium. Love your enemies. It might change them, and we know it will change you.

508. Sharing the Love

John 14:15-21

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... of serious about God, aren't we?" Grandpa said, "Yes, we sure are." And the little girl asked, "Why?" Grandpa wrapped the little girl in his arms, hugged her real close and said, "So that I can hug you and tickle you and try to tell you how much I love you and how glad I am that God gave you to us." The little girl grinned and said, "That's cool." I'm not sure that hugging and tickling everybody we meet would go over very well. They might actually come and put us in one of those jackets with ...

509. You Are Supposed to Love Me

Matthew 22:1-14

Illustration

King Duncan

... ." Frederick William frowned, "To avoid me? Why?" "Because I fear you, Your Majesty." Frederick William promptly turned purple with rage and, lifting his cudgel, pounded the other's shoulder, crying, "You are not supposed to fear me. You're supposed to love me. Love me, scum, love me!" Is that your picture of God? Is that your understanding of the Divine? Let me give you a simple pop quiz. When something bad happens in your life, something painful, do you suspect that God is secretly punishing you? When ...

510. Broken Love

2 Cor 5:18-19

Illustration

Brett Blair

... could have done more.'" Imagine the hurt and anger that must build up. The bitterness and loneliness. Not in Keith but in his dad. That's what you learn as you grow older, at least you hope that children, as they grow, can learn that. That this kind of broken love is not personal, though it feels that way for much of our young life, but it's not. We know it's not. As we get older, we see the damage that exists in the lives of the people we ...

511. Your Father Loves You

Isaiah 53:6

Illustration

James Packer

... law and saith: I find him a sinner...therefore let him die upon the cross. And so he setteth upon him and killeth him. By this means the whole world is purged and cleansed from all sins." The presentation of the death of Christ as the substitute exhibits the love of the cross more richly, fully, gloriously, and glowingly than any other account of it. Luther saw this and gloried in it. He once wrote to a friend: "Learn to know Christ and him crucified. Learn to sing to him, and say, 'Lord Jesus, you are my ...

512. Love at First Sight

Humor Illustration

... her for a mile. Finally, she turned and demanded, "Why are you dogging my footsteps?" He answered, "Because you are the loveliest thing I have ever seen and I have fallen madly in love with you at first sight. Will you be mine?" The young girl replied, "But you have merely to look behind you to see my younger sister who is ten times more lovely than I am." The man wheeled about and his gaze fell upon the homeliest girl that he had ever seen. "What mockery is this?" he demanded of the girl. You lied to me ...

513. A Weapon of Love

John 1:43-51

Illustration

Joel D. Kline

... ." Responding to those who resisted the emerging civil rights movement, King asserted, "We will counter your force with soul force, we will match your ability to hate with our ability to love." And King reminded us that at the heart of Jesus' life and message is the call to be peacemakers and reconcilers. Violence, said King again and again, "never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problems; it merely creates new and more complicated ones." We live in a world thirsty ...

514. Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Great Love

Mark 10:1-12

Illustration

John McCard

... our lives fail to meet the expectations that Jesus has expressed as part of the Father's will in today's gospel. And because we fail at times to live out the vows that our lips might profess, this does not mean that God does not love us or that we are separated from the love that Christ gives us through the cross. This point must be made again and again for Christians because of our tendency to place God's law above God's grace and God's mercy. Let me say it one more time: There is nothing, nothing we ...

515. Discerning In Love

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... is a definite advantage to traveling with such a device, GPS cannot help us navigate our faith and our relationships with each other. Love asks why we are in a particular place at a specific time. Sometimes the difficulties that we experience are because we do not ... our ways. What we think is important might not be so in God’s eyes. We relate to God not through wisdom but rather by love. We must strive to be more like Jesus and act and react as Jesus would. As spiritual people Paul claims that we have the ...

516. Ignite: Burning Love

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

James Merritt

... Ignite.” In the Book of Acts you see the picture of a church the way a church ought to be; a church that has to love God, serve others and share their story. As we come to the 5th chapter and we watch the fire burning in the early church, it is ... never intended for the Christian life to be a parking lot. He meant for it to be a launching pad. When you have a burning love for Jesus Christ, you cannot help but let people feel the heat and see the light. Yes, they will discriminate against you. Yes, they will ...

517. Reading A Love Letter

Illustration

Michael P. Green

Mortimer J. Adler, in How to Read a Book, has observed that the one time people read for all they are worth is when they are in love and are reading a love letter. They read every word three ways. They read between the lines and in the margins. They read the whole in terms of the parts, and each part in terms of the whole. They grow sensitive to context and ambiguity, to insinuation and implication. They perceive the color of words, ...

518. The Awesome Power of Love

John 15:9-17

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... the Carbon Dioxide in our air and convert it to oxygen. They give us food to eat and they make our world colorful. We could not live without plants. They are truly our friends. For quite a while people were writing in magazines about talking to your plants. Plants need love, we are told. They need people to talk to them. They grow better if you talk to them. At least that is what was being said. I feel kind of funny talking to plants, myself. I do know that people need other people to talk to them and to ...

519. Love for the Unlovely

Hosea 3:1-5

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... in order to bring about this change in God’s and Hosea’s families. The story provides no information about when this occurs, but God speaks directly to Hosea, telling him that he should show his love to his adulterous wife, even though another man loves her (3:1–3). This act will mirror God’s deep love for adulterous Israel, who has been following other gods. This means that Hosea will have to buy Gomer, almost like having to pay a second bride-price for the woman who is already his wife. Apparently ...

520. False Teaching and Love of Money

1 Timothy 6:3-10

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... have come to us, to the rich about how they are to fit into the household of faith (6:17–19). Greed is deadly to the soul and ruinous to community. Those who do not have money and those who do have money are equally susceptible to the vice of “love of money.” Those who do not have money dream about what it would be like to have it. (The NET’s “who long to be rich” is a better rendering of the Greek than the NIV’s “who want to get rich.”) Those who do have money find there is ...

521. A Father's Love

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... to revive the patient were fruitless. The nurse observed one of the doctors talking to the daughter outside the room. She could see the pathetic hurt in her face. The nurse took the daughter aside and said, 'I'm sorry." The daughter responded, "I never hated him, you know. I loved him, and now I want to go see him." The nurse took her to the room, and the daughter went to the bed and buried her face in the sheets as she said good-bye to her deceased father. The nurse, as she tried not to look at this sad ...

522. A Child's View of Love

Humor Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

Some children were asked, "What is love?" One little girl answered, "Love is when your mommy reads you a bedtime story. True love is when she doesn't skip any pages."

523. Love, Whatever

Illustration

Charles H. Spurgeon

Once, while riding in the country, I saw on a farmer's barn a weather vane on the arrow of which was inscribed these words: "God is Love." I turned in at the gate and asked the farmer, "What do you mean by that? Do you think God's love is changeable; that it veers about as that arrow turns in the winds?" The farmer said, "Oh, no! I mean that whichever way the wind blows, God is still Love."

524. From Like to Love

Illustration

Joel Santos

... Charles Schulz dined in the home of a friend, the host remarked that he needed to set off his dinner jacket. He disappeared and returned a few minutes with a heavy chain from which a medallion hung, and across the face of the medallion were the letters “love.” Schultz fingered it for a few minutes and then handed it back. With a wry “Charley Brown” smile on his face, he said, “It’s just too hard for me. Do you have one that says, LIKE?” In his honesty, Schultz pointed out an important truth ...

525. Love One Another - the Hospice Movement

John 13:31-38

Illustration

John R. Steward

... task of reading to another who is blind. The blind person would then push the wheelchair of the one who could not walk but who gives directions on where to push the chair. Is this not the new commandment to which Jesus referred? He calls us to be disciples who love one another. We are the ones who are healed and strengthened when we learn how to give and how to ...

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 501 to 525 of 5000 results

501. The Energies of Love

John 13:31-35

Illustration

Edward F. Markquart

502. Love of Christ

Matt 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27; John 13:34

Illustration

G. Curtis Jones

503. Observable Love

John 16:12-15

Illustration

Leslie B. Flynn

504. God Loves Me

Luke 15:1-32

Illustration

Mark Trotter

505. More vs. Love

Luke 16:19-31

Illustration

Leonard Sweet

506. Love Your Enemy

Matthew 5:38-42

Illustration

Dr. Martin Luther King

507. Love Your Enemies

Matt 5:38-48

Illustration

Phil Thrailkill

508. Sharing the Love

John 14:15-21

Illustration

Billy D. Strayhorn

509. You Are Supposed to Love Me

Matthew 22:1-14

Illustration

King Duncan

510. Broken Love

2 Cor 5:18-19

Illustration

Brett Blair

511. Your Father Loves You

Isaiah 53:6

Illustration

James Packer

512. Love at First Sight

Humor Illustration

513. A Weapon of Love

John 1:43-51

Illustration

Joel D. Kline

514. Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Great Love

Mark 10:1-12

Illustration

John McCard

515. Discerning In Love

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

516. Ignite: Burning Love

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

James Merritt

517. Reading A Love Letter

Illustration

Michael P. Green

518. The Awesome Power of Love

John 15:9-17

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

519. Love for the Unlovely

Hosea 3:1-5

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

520. False Teaching and Love of Money

1 Timothy 6:3-10

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

521. A Father's Love

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

522. A Child's View of Love

Humor Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

Some children were asked, "What is love?" One little girl answered, "Love is when your mommy reads you a bedtime story. True love is when she doesn't skip any pages."

523. Love, Whatever

Illustration

Charles H. Spurgeon

524. From Like to Love

Illustration

Joel Santos

525. Love One Another - the Hospice Movement

John 13:31-38

Illustration

John R. Steward

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