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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551. Love the Questions
Luke 20:27-40
Illustration
Brett Blair
... an aspiring American poet. The letters were published in a book titled, "Letters to a Young Poet?" In the letter the "young poet" has many questions about their art form. Rilke doesn't mind. In fact she relishes the questions and says to the young poet: "Love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Live the questions now. Perhaps then someday far in the future, you will gradually...live your way into the answer." Live your way into the answers. I ...
552. Advent Love
Illustration
Bill Bouknight
... the cooler to Victoria's dad and said, "I want you to use this to buy a Christmas present for Victoria." At first he thought he must decline the gift, but something in Ian's eyes just wouldn't let him. The boy's expression was so full of love. So he hugged him and said, "Thank you very much." Thankfully, most of us have not experienced the horror of burned-down houses, but many of us have very definite hurts and longings this Advent season. The Messiah comes to us in the spirit of Ian, offering himself as ...
553. Balance: The Law of Love
Matthew 5:1-12
Illustration
Susan R. Andrews
... . Plato understood that both passion and reason can be life-giving, but only when they are held in dynamic tension, only when each power neutralizes the potential destruction of the other. This morning Jesus tells us that we must balance the passion of anger with the discipline and reason of love. And he tells us that the law of love can best be fulfilled, not through rules, but through relationships.
554. Two Kinds of Love
Illustration
... the other you call Mother. One became your guiding star, the other became your sun. The first gave you life and the second taught you to live in it. The first gave you a need for love and the second was there to give it. One gave you a nationality, the other gave you a name, One gave you the seed of a talent the other gave you an aim. One gave you emotions, ... age old questions through the years, Heredity or Environment which are you the product of? Neither my darling--neither just two different kinds of love.
555. Waves & Waves of Liquid Love
Acts 2:1-13
Illustration
Brett Blair
... to take a seat by the fire, I received a mighty baptism of the Holy Ghost. Without any recollection that I had ever heard the subject mentioned by any person in the world, the Holy Spirit descended upon me in a manner that seemed to come in waves of liquid love; it seemed like the very breath of God. I wept aloud with joy and ...
556. The Loveless Love Goddess
Illustration
King Duncan
... answered with the famous line of Rhett Butler, which I now edit for church, 'Frankly, my dear, I don't care!' That was the last word she heard. She dropped the phone. It was left dangling. "Claire Booth Luce in a very sensitive article asked, 'What really killed Marilyn Monroe, love goddess who never found any love?' She said she thought the dangling telephone was the symbol of Marilyn Monroe's whole life. She died because she never got through to anyone who understood.
557. Hate the Sin - Love the Man
Illustration
C.S. Lewis
... you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life namely myself. . . In fact, the very reason why I hated the things was that I loved the man. Just because I loved myself, I was sorry to find that I was the sort of man who did those things. Consequently Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. . . But it does want us to hate them in the same ...
558. Jesus Loves Him
Humor Illustration
... and religious soul were sitting on their porch discussing a member of the family. "He's just no good," the young woman said. "He's completely untrustworthy, not to mention lazy." "Yes, he's bad," the grandmother said as she rocked back and forth in her rocker, "but Jesus loves him." "I'm not so sure of that," the younger woman persisted. "Oh, yes," assured the elderly lady. "Jesus loves him." She rocked and thought for a few more minutes and then added, "Of course, Jesus doesn't know him like we do...."
559. For the Love of the Ring
Humor Illustration
Two young ladies ran into each other for the first time in weeks while they were shopping. "Oh, it's good to see you," the first one said. "I haven't seen you since your engagement party. Have you set the date for the wedding?" "The wedding is off," her friend said. "I found that my love for him became weaker and weaker, and finally disappeared altogether." "That's too bad," the first one said. "Did you return his ring?" "Oh, no," her friend said. "My love for the ring is just as strong as ever."
560. Firm Love
Humor Illustration
... , else it becomes sloppy. A little boy climbed on a huge rocking horse in a department store. "Come on son,' the mother whines. I must go home to get dinner ready." The lad refused to budge for love or money. Without success the department store manager also coaxed. A psychiatrist walked by and said he thought he could help. Gently he walked over and whispered a few words in the boy's ear. Immediately the child jumped off the rocking horse and ran to his mother. With disbelief ...
561. Love Notes
Humor Illustration
... affectionate. So I got two girlfriends. Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry Cosmetics: A woman's way of keeping a man from the wife. How do most men define marriage? A very expensive way to get your laundry done. Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener. The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. Words to live by: Do not argue with a spouse who is reading between the lines.
562. A Person Jesus Loves
Matthew 25:31-46
Illustration
Steven Molin
... off his cap, and the people recognized that it was their pastor! The pastor began his remarks that morning in this way: "I did not do this to embarrass you or to poke you in the eye. I did it to remind us that this is a person that Jesus loves, and he has called us to ...
563. God’s Sign of Love
Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)
Illustration
Tim Zingale
... seeking forgiveness, but still the father remained unforgiving. She eventually had a son. One day, when the boy was old enough to run and play, an idea came to her. Why not send her son to her father. He would be a living letter telling her father of her love for him and that she still very much wanted his forgiveness. They drove to grandfather's house. The boy had not been there before, but the house was as his mother remembered it. She told the boy to knock on the door. When Grandpa answered, he was to ...
564. Adopted Love
Illustration
Michael P. Green
... for a year to find an agency that would care for this needy youngster. Neither Catholic, Protestant, nor Jewish institutions would take him because he came from a denomination they did not recognize. I could do nothing constructive for him.” If the principles of Christian love had prevailed in the Bronx in 1952, perhaps a good home could have been found for that young, mixed-up lad. In fact, providing a better environment in which to grow up might have changed history. For, you see, the boy was Lee Harvey ...
565. Love letters
Illustration
Michael P. Green
... They never once replied. After ten years of letter writing, Elizabeth received a huge box in the mail. She opened it. To her dismay and heartbreak, the box contained all of her letters to her parents. Not one of them had ever been opened! Today those love letters are among the most beautiful in classical English literature. Had her parents opened and read only a few of them, a reconciliation might have been effected. God’s letter of reconciliation to us can have the same effect. We should open and read it ...
566. The Gift of Love
Isaiah 7:10-14, Matthew 1:18-25
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
... such a time as they could "afford to entertain," they went ahead and invited people to share with them the joy of the Christmas season. * That is the main thing we need to remember this Christmas. It's not how much we have to give that counts. It's the love that goes with the gift. Of course, God's great gift to us was the baby Jesus. That was the greatest gift of all, because it represented God's ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... ’s defeat of the nations but on his saving acts and compassion to Israel (v. 11) and to us (vv. 23, 24). We should probably imagine this psalm sung with antiphonal choirs, one singing the first line of each verse and another singing the second line, His love endures forever. Like the liturgy of Psalm 135, it opens and closes with a call for congregational worship (vv. 1–3, 26). It progresses through Yahweh’s work (generally described as wonders, v. 4) in creation (vv. 5–9; on v. 6 cf. 24:2; on vv ...
568. Now is the Time to Love
Illustration
John Dresches
Now is the time to love. Tomorrow the baby won't be rocked, the toddler won’t be asking why, the schoolboy won’t need help with his lesson, nor will he bring his school friends home for some fun. Tomorrow the teenager will have made his major decision. Love today.
569. Radical, Forgiving Love
Illustration
Editor James S. Hewett
... to me and I will train him." The UN forces granted the request and the father took the murderer of his boy into his own home and cared for him. And today, that young man, formerly a Communist, is a Christian pastor, serving Christ. This is the power of forgiving love that can only be described as superabundant, the kind of love the dying Stephen reflected in the Book of Acts.
He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love.
C. S. Lewis
571. Mother's Hard Task to Love
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Editor James S. Hewett
Kahlil Gibran, in The Prophet, expresses well the hard task of a mother to love completely and deeply and yet always with the task of letting go. "You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you, for life goes ...
572. Revenge or Love
Illustration
Frederick Keller Stamm
... Turkish authorities to work in a military hospital. One day the same Turkish soldier who had slain her brother was brought into the ward. He was very ill, and a slight inattention would ensure his death. One side of her nature cried "Revenge"; the other "Love." The better side conquered, and she nursed him as carefully as any other patient in the ward. The soldier recognized her, and finally, unable to restrain his curiosity, he asked the nurse why did she not let him die. When she replied, "I am a follower ...
Humor
In matters of the heart, Judith Viorst distinguishes between infatuation and love. She writes, "Infatuation is when you think he's as gorgeous as Robert Redford, as pure as Solzhenitsyn, as funny as Woody Allen, as athletic as Alex Rodriguez and as smart as Albert Einstein. Love is when you realize that he's as gorgeous as Woody Allen, as smart as Alex Rodriguez, as funny as Solzhenitsyn, as athletic as Albert Einstein and nothing like Robert Redford in any category but you'll take him anyway." Paul Pearl ...
Humor
There is the story of the man who was watching his fourth football game of the weekend when his wife stepped in front of the television and said, "You love football more than me." He gently pushed her aside, stared back at the set and said, "Yes, dear, but I love you more than basketball."
Sermon
Schuyler Rhodes
... gather six million people in one place there’s generally no shortage of reasons to start marching down the street. Each parade had its own special character. Of course, the Macy’s Parade was the kick off to the holiday shopping season. We used to love to watch the giant inflated floats as they went by in a halting kind of glory. I think my favorite was the giant Snoopy from the “Peanuts” comic strip and cartoon. The parade was truly amazing because high school marching bands and honor guards from ...
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