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
Wayne Brouwer
... . He knows he’ll die sometime. He knows he almost did, just a short while ago. But if his children live on, if they remember who he was, if they carry with them the essence of what his life meant, then death won’t be so bad for him. Nobody wants to die. But death comes easier, if you’re surrounded by children who carry your name. (4) Dan Fogelberg sings about that. His father was a musician too, a “Leader of the Band.” And this is what Dan says: “The leader of the band is tired and his eyes are ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Up until that time she had been afraid that if she surrendered her life to God, He would take away her identity. Even worse, she was afraid she'd become somewhat strange in the process. She thought of religious persons she had known and wasn't sure that she wanted to be like them. She wondered what changes she would have to make in her life: would she have to give up her love of jazz music? Would she have to act religious all the time? Would her friends recognize her? Her worst fear was that her friends ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to expose a ridiculous emotion. There is a drive within the heart of every one of us to have the biggest and best: to be No. 1. Two of Jesus' disciples, James and John, made a request of him ” in private, away from the other disciples. "Teacher," they asked, "we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you." Uh-oh. When someone asks you to grant a favor before specifying what the favor is, watch out. "Grant us to sit," they said, "one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory." So, this is ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... the man said, "I have two complaints about you." "What are they?" the pastor asked. "First," said the man, "when I was chairman of the properties committee, you tried to tell me how to do the job. You should just let the church leaders do their job the way they want." "What is the second complaint?" asked pastor Clot. "Well," said the man, "I don't like the hymns that the song leader picks out. I wish you would tell him to pick more of the old ones." Obviously the man was not aware of the mixed message. He ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... booth with a banner on the top that says "Psychiatric Help--5 cents," and then down below a sign says, "The Doctor Is In." Charlie Brown is her patient. Lucy says to Charlie, "Your life is like a house . . ." In the next frame, she says reflectively, "You want your house to have a solid foundation, don't you?" Charlie Brown has a kind of blank look on his face. Lucy says, "Of course you do." Charlie Brown is still silent--saying nothing. Then in the fourth frame, psychiatrist Lucy says, "So don't build your ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... paid the mortgage, As soon as my kids have grown; As soon as they’ve finished college, As soon as they’re on their own; I want you to use me, O Lord, Use me, O Lord, but not just now! And then comes the concluding verse: As soon as I’ve reached ... retirement, As soon as they’re getting ahead; As soon as I draw my pension, Just as soon as I am dead! I want you to use me, O Lord, Use me, O Lord, but not just now! Through this “third sign” John is saying to all of us, “Quit making ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... last week. How he was moved to pray. The way he told of that whole experience in his book is so beautiful and dramatic and powerful I want you to hear it again. Let him tell his story. “Climbing out of the tub, I knelt on the floor and laid my head on my ... on the cool tub rim. Oh God, I groaned, I’m a failure, a drunk, a liar, and a cheat. I’m lost and hopeless and want to die. Forgive me for doing this. I broke into sobs. Oh Father, please take care of Eva and the girls. Please help them to forget ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... come to welcome you here and to tell you that if there’s anything I can do for you to make your stay here more pleasant, I want to do it.’ Then he asked me where I went to church, and I told him I was a Catholic. He said, ‘Well, I can tell you ... say there will be affected and powerful only as it is a reflection or an extension of my ministry here with you at ChristChurch, and I want you to know that I feel that deeply, the proof of the pudding. The proof of the pudding is in our life together, in our ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... " person here, and every person plagued by an addiction who is not yet in recovery is tormented by the question of self worth. What I want to say to all of us is this: "You are more than you think you are." The back door slammed and the little boy came ... ," the old man said. "Let me tell you a preacher story." It seems as if every has a preacher story, and Professor Craddock did not want to hear another one. But before he could do anything, the old man had drawn up his chair to the table and started to unwind ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... ve ever been tempted as I have been -- to run away -- to quit. Have you ever been in that kind of place? I have. When I desperately wanted to throw in the towel, to throw up my hands. I remember a time early in my ministry. I had gone through some struggles -- tough struggles ... it, that people were going to accept my preaching, it didn't seem that my ministry was making any difference -- and I wanted to quit. Thank God, for a man named Tom Carruth. He had taken an interest in me, had encouraged me and had ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... they can use the tools of their suffering to do battle with the world, and to do battle with others, to get their own way. I remember counseling with a woman who had that very problem with her mother, who was in a nursing home. Her mother did not want to be healed. As long as her mother was in that position, everybody in the family would coddle her, be extra attentive; respond to her at every beck and call. That’s what Jesus was addressing. Some healing is up to you, and Jesus is saying that sometimes it ...
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King Duncan
... take his hat off reverently and hold it over his heart. He then walked slowly up to the front of the church, put his hand on the communion rail and said, “Jesus, it’s Jim.” That was his whole prayer. He didn’t say anything else out loud. He just wanted to touch base. It turned out he worked in one of the nearby factories and was coming there on his lunch hour to pray for strength to serve God in what was a very rough and coarse environment. He could have poured out his soul before God, but he just ...
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James L. Killen
... truly human, we need a purpose to live for that is big enough to be worth the investment of our lives. When we read the newspaper and learn of wars and corruption and suffering and all sorts of things going wrong in our own hometowns and around the world, we want to cry out, "Why doesn't somebody do something about all of this?" God is at work in the world to do something about it -and God calls those who are set apart for his service to participate with God in building a better world. Yes, it can be costly ...
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... show is because we all have the fantasy of finding some treasure hidden in our house. There is a wonderful lesson here, worthy of a sermon. In fact, there is a rabbinic tale similar to this. It is about a man who left his house to find a treasure. He wanted to find the meaning of life, something that he couldn't find in the hum-drum existence of his own life. So he started on a journey to find a great treasure. The first night he slept out under the stars. Before he climbed under his blanket he took his ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... like all practice, it must be regular. There was a concert pianist who said, “If I miss practice for one day, I know it. If I miss two days, the critics know it. If I miss a week, everyone knows it.” Practice. Discipline. That’s essential to prayer. What we want to happen during our times of prayer is that we simply will be still, and open, and there experience the reality of God. We will allow His love to wash over us like the waves of the sea. We will allow His strength to blow upon us like the wind ...
566. It's My Life, Isn't It?
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
Sermon
James McCormick
... saying to them: You love your cars. I know you love your cars. But not just any old way of driving will do. If you want really to enjoy driving your car, you need to take seriously the way the designer and builder intends it to function. Understand how the designer ... in me so sincerely. Whenever I was tempted to be less than my best, I could see Mrs. Johnston in my mind. I didn’t want to be less than she thought I was. Her affirming love placed a claim upon me and shaped my life for good. There was my ...
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James W. Moore
... are you talking about? You can’t tie up milk with a rope.” To which the man answered: “My friend, when you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.” “Excuse-making”… that’s what this parable in Luke 14 is all about. ... but there is one central truth here that we need to notice now, namely this… “We can make excuses for most anything we want to do or don’t want to do, but God sees through them and our excuses may be the very thing keeping us out of the Kingdom of ...
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James Merritt
... . You do not have to audition to sing in God's choir. You see, we listen to the voice, but God listens to the heart, and he wants to hear every heart singing praise to Him. My life flows on in endless song above earth's lamentation; I hear the real, though far off hymn ... is to be "in the fear of God." That is, we are to submit to each other out of a reverence and a love for God. I want to give you ten words that are difficult to say at best, and you can really only learn to say them when they need to be said ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... and all that's left is what might have been. There are three chapters in the biography of any backslider. I share these with you. You are always in one of these three stages. Right now there are some of you who are teetering on the cliff of backsliding. I want to say at the outset, unlike Demas, don't go spiritually AWOL. Don't become a deserter in God's army. Stay in the battle, keep the uniform on, keep fighting the good fight, run your race until it's finished. I. The Stage Of Devotion Now the fact that ...
570. The Only Way to Fly
2 Timothy 3:15-17
Sermon
James Merritt
... you go through clouds of conflict, storms of sorrow, the haze of hurt, the thunder of temptation. If you try to navigate your way through those tough times in your life by feeling rather than by faith, based on the fact of God's word, your plane will crash. I want to share with you practical reasons why you ought to fly the plane of your life IFR, rather than VFR, and why every decision you make in life should be guided by what you see in the instrument called the Word of God. I. Only the Bible Is a Gift ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... the character of the tree that produces it. I heard about a little boy who used to get out of his bedroom any time he wanted to, by climbing down an old fruit tree that stood right outside his bedroom window. Many times he would be banished to his room ... God. Dr. Vance Havner once said, "The church has no greater need today than to fall in love with Jesus all over again." If you want to know whether or not the Holy Spirit lives in you, here's the measurement—How much do you really love God? Incidentally, I ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... ..." You can just hear him now: "One day I am going to hit it big." "One day I am going to settle down to one job." "One day I am going to own my own business." "One day I am going to hit the jackpot." He wants what everybody wants he just doesn't want to work for it. Though this may not please bleeding-heart liberals, this thinking is one of the major reasons for the explosion of the welfare state. As Robert Hicks has wisely noted: "Feeling we're entitled to things without being willing to do the necessary ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... god called Mars, so it came to be called Mars Hill. It was from this rock that Paul preached perhaps his greatest sermon, to his hardest audience, in the toughest setting he ever encountered. Paul was not in Athens as a sightseer; he was there as a soul-winner. He wanted to bring the sunshine of Easter into the darkness of a lost city that is so much like the lost world we live in today, and you're going to see that in this message. As we think about Easter and a lost world, we can learn some very important ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... , and he was executed by a firing squad in Utah. He murdered two people without any cause whatsoever. Just before his execution he wrote these words to his girlfriend: It seems that I know evil more intimately than I know goodness, and that’s not a good thing either. I want to get even, to be made even, whole, my debts paid (whatever it may take!), to have no blemish, no reason to feel guilt or fear….I’d like to stand in the sight of God to know that I’m just and right and clean. When you’re this ...
575. A Concert of Prayer
1 Corinthians 1:10-18
Drama
Leonard Sweet
... about not getting the raise. You deserve it anyway. These things will tell you how much I love you." Some of you are sitting with your spouse. Others of you are sitting with your best friend. Others of you are sitting with a stranger. Whomever you are sitting with, I want you to begin this next prayer time saying to one another: "I love you because...." Then fill in the blank. It may be as simple as "I love you because of your spirit" or "I love you because you're you" or "I love you because you smell good ...
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