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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Donald B. Strobe
... that even after Easter, Philip had a lot to learn. According to the legend, (described in Barclay, op. cit., p. 92) Philip came to Heirapolis and found the people worshipping a great snake. He preached there with great success, which aroused the hatred and enmity of the town authorities. Philip was arrested, stripped, pierced in the ankles and thighs and hung head downwards. Then follows a curious episode. Philip began to get angry about such treatment (who can blame him?) but the other apostles, including ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... the vision to sustain us. “This is my beloved Son; listen to him.” (Mark 9:7) I can think of no better advice. Would that the Church had heeded it over the centuries. Perhaps we would not have used religion to support war, greed, hatred, prejudice, racial and religious bigotry, child labor, and capital punishment. In 1706, Jonathan Swift observed that “we have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love, one another.” Mike Royko, in a column a few years ago said: “Lately ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... than the Christ of the Gospels. I note another interesting sidelight: “Bar Abbas” means “Son of the Father.” Which “Jesus” was truly a “son of the Father..a son of God?” On a hillside in Galilee, in the midst of a hotbed of hatred, the headquarters of the Zealots and the Sicarii, Jesus said: “Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be called the sons of God.” (Matthew 5:9) It is no wonder He got Himself crucified! Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was a distinguished English philosopher ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... .”(Matthew 12:39) Nevertheless, I believe that I have witnessed three out of these five “signs.” I believe that the casting out of demons is something quite different from the wild scenes in movies such as “The Exorcist”—and I have seen the demons of hatred, cruelty, racism, etc. cast out of people’s lives and persons become new creatures in Christ Jesus. Though I myself do not speak in “tongues” a number of fine people I know do, and I respect them, and am grateful that they respect me as ...
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Eric Ritz
... forever stained his presidency with his affair with Monica Lewinsky? Is not the problem in Northern Ireland between Protestants and Catholics--and in the Holy Lands between the Jews and Palestinians--the result of a misguided thirst? Think of the death, destruction and hatred that have resulted from the thirst for power and domination. God has one sketch for human life and evil has another. How many pastors and religious leaders in the 1980s and 1990s alone have fallen because of the wrong thirsts? How many ...
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Eric Ritz
... His only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." It is not true that we must accept inhumanity and discrimination. This is true: "I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly." It is not true that violence and hatred should have the last word and that war and destruction have come to stay forever. This is true: "For unto us a child is born and unto us a Son is given and the government shall be upon His shoulders and His name shall be called Wonderful ...
607. Nightline
Matthew 2:1-12
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Eric Ritz
... times is it revealed in the pages of the Bible that it is the demons and the powers of evil and darkness who first recognized Jesus Christ. The love of God when it is expressed to include the love of the entire human family will always arouse hatred before hospitality. Like Herod, at times the Gospel message attacks our own personal kingdoms and convictions. Truth doesn''t always come easy. This morning I would like to share a story from a book titled, The Whispers of Christmas by Dr. Joe E. Pennel, Jr. Dr ...
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Eric Ritz
... the command, it must start showing the love of God in Jesus Christ so the world can begin to heal. Secondly, to love in the Christian faith and way of life requires commitment. Newspaper columnist and minister, George Crane, tells of a wife who came into his office full of hatred toward her husband. "I do not only want to get rid of him, I want to get even. Before I divorce him, I want to hurt him as much as he has me." Dr. Crane suggested an ingenious plan. "Go home and act as if you really love your ...
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Eric Ritz
... to Jerusalem. But this time, that city, the magnet of all pilgrim hearts, was a thing of omen for Jesus. He understood very plainly that this city meant danger and death. There--whispering behind walls and conferring at the corners of the streets--hatred and bigotry were clubbing together...One might hear their whispered queries, `Will he come? Will he risk coming? And if he comes, can we lay hands on him, and end his mischievous work?'' "As he glanced down that south road, Jesus understood very plainly ...
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Eric Ritz
... first clue to them to see each other as equals rather than enemies. It is told that the Devil herself was having a yardsale, and all of her tools were scattered around the yard with different white stickers indicating the price to be paid. There was hatred, deceit, lying, pride--all with expensive prices. But over to the side of the yard on a display was a tool more obviously worn than any of the other tools. It was also the most costly. The tool was labeled "discouragement." When questioned, the Devil said ...
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Eric Ritz
... larger and more frequent dosages . . . That explains why the bitter complain to anyone who will listen. They want--they need--to have their fire fanned . . . Resentment is like cocaine in another way, too. Cocaine can kill the addict. And anger can kill the angry. Hatred is the rabid dog that turns on its owner. Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist. Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And only mercy is the choice that can set them free." (3) Yes, when we surrender the self ...
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Eric Ritz
... evident we begin to search for God''s next best dream for our life. Perhaps that is because our ego sometimes becomes an altar at which we worship only ourselves. Dr. Fred B. Craddock adds to this insight when he said, "One has but to love to arouse hatred, but to speak the truth to strengthen the networks of lies and deception...It is no mystery why Christ who gave Himself to loving the poor and neglected of the earth would be killed; there are institutions and persons who have other plans for the poor and ...
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Eric Ritz
... just seems to keep coming at us like a tidal wave. Before you can recover from one disaster, there''s already another one headed in your direction. We have had a heavy diet of bad news in the past several months. We have seen the cruelty and hatred in Bosnia. We have seen the suffering and starvation in Rwanda. Despite the recent advances in the peace process in the Middle East and Holy Land, there is still a lunatic running around in Saddam Hussein. Drugs continue to hit our major urban areas like a plague ...
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Eric Ritz
... inhumanity and discrimination. This is true: Jesus said, "I have come that they may have life, and have it abundantly." Today, not someday. We have the confidence that the gates of hell cannot prevail against the church. You see, it is not true that violence and hatred should have the last word and that war and destruction have come to stay forever. This is true: "For unto us a child is born and unto us a Son is given and the government shall be upon His shoulders and His name shall be called Wonderful ...
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Eric Ritz
... our Lord in the 1990''s. I have been amazed at the various people who have been imprisoned in history and how they used their experiences. Adolph Hitler used his time in prison to write his famous book in which he espoused the radical hatred and violence that resulted in great human destruction around the world. John Bunyan imprisoned in England wrote the famous Christian classic, The Pilgrim''s Progress, in which he so beautifully described his experience of the grace of God. Finally, we have the sacred ...
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Paul E. Flesner
... much ambition. For some of us, it is too much greed. For some of us, it is a negative attitude and outlook. For some of us, it is inner hostility and resentment. For some of us, it is a chip on our shoulder. For some of us, it is a hatred that we won't let go of. For some of us, it is even too much religion in the form of false piety and arrogant self-righteousness. The specifics of what God calls each of to change is different. But they do have something in common: we are called to ...
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Paul E. Flesner
... the one to whom they were spoken: "I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations." It is no easy task to bring forth justice in the world, or to work for an end to human suffering, or to bring peace where there is hatred and discord. And yet, that is the mission which is laid upon every person who is washed in the waters of baptism. Justice does not happen naturally. Peace is elusive when the conflict of human wills are involved. Human suffering is easier to ignore because of its ...
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King Duncan
... that’s about all. And that’s sad. Christ really is the life, the truth, the way. When we live with the integrity, the compassion, the dedication with which he lived, our lives really are improved. We are delivered from guilt, from anger, from hatred and from all the baser emotions that tear down our spirit and cause us to live, as Thoreau described it, “lives of quiet desperation.” The voice from Heaven said to the three disciples, “Listen to him.” That’s God’s prescription for a successful ...
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David G. Rogne
... scripture we are dealing with, Jesus has healed a man, and apparently cast out demons. These were good acts, and any unbiased person would have declared them to be so, but the vision of the religious authorities was so distorted by anger, fear, and hatred that they called these good works evil. They called the light darkness, and they tried to persuade others that actions which were obviously good were evil, and done by an evil person for an evil purpose. In this they demonstrated their own blindness. In ...
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Cathy A. Ammlung
... world. Wars and rumors of war, terrorist acts, famines, earthquakes, and plagues are the steady headline diet we ingest every day. Any person of good will, Christian or non-Christian, prays for peace and healing, and is dismayed by the intensity of violence, hatred, suspicion, and sheer human suffering seen on every side. How easy it is to become discouraged to the point of despair: our best efforts at peacemaking are constantly overwhelmed and despised. How easy it is to believe that God doesn't care or ...
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Fredrick R. Harm
... this song at the top of his voice. It was not very convincing. We are really on top of the world when we have mastered the art of self-control, when we are on top of those forces which might draw us down: our appetites, our greed, our hatreds, our anxieties, our fears. It is Christ whose power and love make us masters of ourselves -- and our circumstances. In reality it is Christ- control not self-control, but more of that later. Then, there is our relation to others, "Live a life that is upright." To be ...
622. So Great a Love
Ephesians 2:1-10
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Paul E. Robinson
... or get her a job or stop the affair. Paul speaks in this verse in Ephesians of a different kind of God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. A God who brings life in the midst of death, hope in the midst of despair, love in the midst of hatred, generosity in the midst of selfishness. So great a love, that doesn't wait until one deserves mercy to offer mercy. So great a love, a love which, when experienced by one person, can trigger a domino effect of caring and love. And our job as followers of Jesus Christ ...
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Paul E. Robinson
... then everything was different. The speaker concluded this way: "I'll bet that the church he was in was not perfect. But the love which that man came to know was." Way back in 1930 Dorothy Day said these words: ... it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.1 That kind of love comes from and is maintained only directly from the heart of God, whom we know in Jesus ...
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Curtis Lewis
... struck and killed by a car on a busy street in Tel Aviv. Yuval's parents rushed him to a hospital where coincidentally a little Palestinian girl, whose name was Rim Alija-roushiu, lay dying of heart failure. In a gesture that stretched across prejudice, hatred, and ethnic backgrounds, Yuval's parents offered their son's still beating heart to any child who needed it. After the organ was harvested from Yuval's chest, it was transplanted into Rim's chest. When the surgery was completed, an Israeli mother and ...
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Curtis Lewis
... invitation but with bitterness. His first speaking assignment was to address a pastors' conference with a thousand Japanese pastors. When he stood to speak, these words came out of his mouth: "I hate you, I hate you. I hate you." Cho broke down and wept. His hatred had gotten the best of him. One Japanese pastor, then another, until all one thousand stood up. One by one these Japanese walked up to Yongi Cho, knelt in front of him, and asked forgiveness for what their people had done to Cho and his people ...
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