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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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651. The Proof is in the Roof

Luke 5:17-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... be Life for their friend. And the desire for Life outweighed anything else. Faith is what allows us to handle the unexpected, not to fear change, and to come out of our shells and face God, even in our wretchedness. Faith is what drives us forward in passion to seek the Lord, even when we feel unworthy or when we suffer from the “phobias” of life. If I were to ask you to define “intercessory prayer,” what would you tell me? What IS your definition of intercessory prayer? [You might go interactive at ...

652. Translucent Grace

Mark 9:2-13, Luke 9:28-36, Revelation 1:9-20, Revelation 2:12-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Light of Christ creates within Paul a new creature, a living leukos, a shining, translucent spiritual stone in the foundation of Christ’s living Temple. That light would never leave Paul. It would emanate from his very being and tinge every action and every thought, every passion and every move that he would make. After he is changed by the Light of Christ, Paul could no longer be the kind of stumbling stone that would trip up Christians in the body of Christ, but the kind of living stone that would be ...

653. Identity Crisis

Genesis 32:1-21, Genesis 32:22-32, Genesis 33:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and it’s time to “own up” to his truth. He has no idea who he is. He carries a “blessing” to “lead a nation” that he in his heart doubts is valid from God, because it was secured falsely. He has “gumption” to be sure. Passion. And drive. All admirable traits. But if he wants to cross that “rubicon,” start a new life, and take seriously God’s promise of covenant for a blessed people, he needs to “admit fault” and “fess up.” Jacob is tortured by his own untruthfulness, by his ...

654. Plucked from the Blaze

Zechariah 3:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... impassioned to change a faulty system or found a new way of living? Look at all of the foundations and fundraising activities –for medical research, for better food, for in some way a better and more extended chance at life! This is the kind of passion that fueled people like John Wesley, and like Joshua in our scripture for today. Jewish sources tell us that like John Wesley, Joshua too was saved from a fiery death. While those around him perished in an attack, he was “plucked from that fire,” and ...

655. A Dirt Story

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... by hand. Imagine Johnny Appleseed with a sack of apple seeds slung over his shoulder broadcasting his seed by flinging the seed with wild abandon by hand. By the way, there really was a Johnny Appleseed and, yes, he did have a passion for planting apple trees. We’re told he also had a passion for spreading another kind of seed. Every once in a while, he would take a break from sowing apple seeds and he would sit under the shade of one of his trees and invite passersby to join him while he read passages ...

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Alexander Pope

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Bill Cosby

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Cardinal Newman

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature - that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

F. L. Lucas

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

H. G. Wells

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore de Balzac

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Honore de Balzac

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.

Nicolas de Chamfort

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Rollo May

671. The Rabbi's Apprentice

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... would have expected his apprentices (disciples, that is “learners”) to follow in his footsteps wherever he went, to travel with him, sleep and eat beside him, learn from his interactions with people and from his teachings, and learn to imitate him so passionately that they would think and behave like him instinctively. In a sense, apprenticeship is like learning a foreign language. At first, you need to think about each word or phrase, the grammar and the appropriateness of your response. But soon, your ...

672. The Sign of Noah

Mark 1:4-11 · Song of Songs 6:9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... sacrifice of Jesus. As Son of God and Messiah, God incarnate, the symbol of the dove also exhibits God’s grand “sacrifice of self” in order to redeem His people, His beloved Creation, for whom He would do anything and everything, being the passionate, loving, loyal, and covenantal parent He is. His declaration of love, in His beloved Son, is His ultimate blessing of Creation as “good.” Jesus is the “best” of God’s creative energy, and Jesus as God will become the atoning sacrifice for all ...

673. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Do you know what they kept holding up as their great supreme virtue? They kept saying: ‘We’re a family. We’re together. We live together, fight together, die together. We stick together.’” This motorcycle gang sounds passionate about their concern for one another’s welfare. Are we equally as passionate about our concern for one another? We need to think about that as we gather around the Lord’s Table this evening. This ought to be one of the most meaningful nights of our year both individually ...

674. Here

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... and place, with similarity, specificity, particularity, and partiality. It wasn't that the ''word became flesh" once upon a time, someplace, to some people. It was that Jewish Mary of Nazareth, Galilee had a baby named Jesus in Bethlehem. Here. To witness such passionate divine intensity about the specific and the particular is to realize the possibility that this may just be the way God always loves us and intends for us so to love others. Because God does not disdain being born in a place like Bethlehem ...

675. A Non-anxious Presence

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... seems to be our default setting. Violence in our streets is still a threat. Drug abuse still lurks in the darkness. These foes will not be defeated by paralyzing fear and anxiety. If they can be defeated at all, they will be undone by passionate, well-ordered and committed people, led by non-anxious, faith-driven leaders. The gospel writer Mark would agree fully with Franklin D. Roosevelt, who said, in his first inaugural address: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning ...

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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 651 to 675 of 2415 results

651. The Proof is in the Roof

Luke 5:17-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

652. Translucent Grace

Mark 9:2-13, Luke 9:28-36, Revelation 1:9-20, Revelation 2:12-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

653. Identity Crisis

Genesis 32:1-21, Genesis 32:22-32, Genesis 33:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

654. Plucked from the Blaze

Zechariah 3:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

655. A Dirt Story

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Alexander Pope

Bill Cosby

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

Cardinal Newman

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Denis Diderot

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Denis Diderot

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature - that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

F. L. Lucas

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

H. G. Wells

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Honore de Balzac

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

Honore de Balzac

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

All passions exaggerate; it is because they do that they are passions.

Nicolas de Chamfort

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Rollo May

671. The Rabbi's Apprentice

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

672. The Sign of Noah

Mark 1:4-11 · Song of Songs 6:9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

673. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:1-17

Sermon