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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676. For The Love of God Is Contagious
Mark 7:31-36 · Luke 5:12-15 · 2 Corinthians 5:16-20
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... with joy and happiness. The Good News is that the love of God IS contagious and infectious. CONCLUSION: The Church is made up of all kinds of people, gifted in various ways. Everyone of us is given the ability to love others. Some do it with a passion that just comes natural. They make everyone around them feel accepted. They make everyone around them feel the love of Christ. Because the love of God is contagious, because we've experienced the love of God. We're called to be lovers of others. That's the ...
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Frank Ramirez
... from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains ...
678. Winning the Grand Prize
Philippians 3:4b-14
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King Duncan
... of what God expects from them. In one of his books Bible scholar William Barclay told of a dog he had once owned. Rusty, a bull terrier, would accompany Barclay on walks down through the meadow and beside a stream. When they reached the stream, Rusty had a passion for plunging into the water, locating a rock on the bottom of the stream, getting it in his mouth, and bringing it to the bank. He would carefully deposit the stone some distance from the water’s edge, and then go for another one. Time and again ...
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King Duncan
... . Like Tarzan’s yell, John the Baptist was Jesus’ proof of identity. Last week, we looked at how John’s ministry fulfilled the promise made 400 years earlier that God would send a messenger to prepare the way for the coming Messiah. And John was bold, passionate, completely focused on pointing people to Jesus. But there was some question in John’s mind whether Jesus fulfilled John’s expectations. Actually, he didn’t fulfill anyone’s expectations completely. And John the Baptist, the bold and ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... get the opportunity to work alongside Jesus to lead others to the source of life too. Jesus has chosen you to be a bearer of new life. I read a beautiful story of a young man named Tyler who had just graduated from college. Tyler had a passion for creating a men’s ministry, and he was looking for a graduate program that would equip him for this work. He had applied for graduate programs at various universities, but he hoped he would get accepted to a program in southern California, where he had completed ...
681. Moksha
Romans 8:6-11
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Dr. Ronald Love
... scale? When we engage in the acts of pride, envy, anger, sloth, greed, gluttony, lust, and fame it demonstrates a disregard for God and a disdain for others. I do not promote Hinduism, but it has an insightful understanding of living a life of passion versus a life of virtue. The religion of Hinduism understands the entrapment of living a self-centered life. Hinduism is the oldest established religion in the world and the third largest. At the end of the first century CE, the Laws of Manu were established ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... . I read a wonderful story about a woman named Betty Greene who embodied living boldly for the work of Jesus Christ. Betty was born in 1920. At a young age, she developed a passion for airplanes and for mission work. When she got her pilot’s license at age sixteen, she never dreamed how God could use her two passions to further the work of the kingdom of heaven. At the start of World War II, Betty joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots. These women tested and delivered airplanes, instructed male pilot ...
683. All Sorts of Ways to Murder a Person
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Maxie Dunnam
... and destructive? In his book The Surrender and the Singing, Ray Ashford wrote, “I once watched a man murder a beautiful and intelligent woman. It wasn’t, mind you, a crime of passion in which he took her life with a knife or gun in a single explosive moment of blinding rage. It was, rather, a crime absolutely devoid of passion, a murder within the law and over a long period of time, four-and-a-half decades. It was murder by indifference and neglect.” What a stinging word -- murder by indifference and ...
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Will Willimon
... the direction of your life on mere impulse. And of course, once we do all that, Jesus has already moved on to another town. He may not come this way again; we missed him. But at least we have not behaved impulsively, made decisions out of our passions rather than from our reason. Back to the nets. Education, sophistication does that to people. What if the calling of these disciples happened exactly the way Mark tells it? What if their following Jesus was an act of impulse, a decision of the moment, based on ...
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Ronald Love
... Satan, who has a very strong and powerful evil spirit. But now, as we are able to listen to God, we have the spiritual strength to say “no” to the wily evils of Satan. As Paul wrote the gospels “teaches us to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions…” But don’t only live in a world of “no,” we also live in a world of “yes.” As Paul indicated that we are not alone in our desire to live godly lives, because supporting us is the presence of Jesus. Paul wrote that the Holy Spirit ...
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King Duncan
... knees, praying fervently for a child. It was then she made a promise to God, “Lord, if you give me a son, I will give him back to you.” She was moving her lips without making any sound as she prayed. The high priest Eli, watching her pray so passionately, moving her lips but making no sound, thought that she must be drunk. He said to her, “How long are you going to stay drunk? Put away your wine.” “Not so, my lord,” Hannah replied, “I am a woman who is deeply troubled. I have not been drinking ...
687. The Power of Weakness
Mark 8:27-38 · Psalm 19
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Thomas C. Willadsen
... God understood the parents’ grief and was with them in their time of need. One father bitterly responded: “What does God know about losing a son?”[2] This is what we need to remember: that the God of the earth and stars loves us, passionately, personally, deeply — and that love changes us, makes us into creatures who are strong and brave enough to care for others, strong and brave enough to trust in a power and strength beyond ourselves. It gives us power and strength displayed in the vulnerability ...
688. Night and Light
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
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Wayne Brouwer
... the “Greeks” came, Jesus knew that the “signs” had accomplished their goal, and the world was looking for its Savior. At this point, Jesus declared that his “hour” had come, the time of the full revelation of his glory that would take place through his passion. The scenes shifted, and John 13-20 became “the book of glory.” Here in John 13, we are told that Jesus knew that his “hour” had come, and so he gathered his disciples for a final meal. Following Mark’s lead, the synoptic gospels ...
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Wayne Brouwer
... . I never knew the best of my great- grandma Bolt. I wasn’t there when she played as a child with boys like me. I never watched her giggle with friends or flirt with my great-grandfather. I never experienced the changing moods of her face, a barometer of her passions, fears, and faith. I never heard her sing in church, though I was told she loved the hymns. All I carry with me is the one scary visit of my childhood. I am old enough now to attend funerals and I have gotten well past my early aversion to ...
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Lori Wagner
... mark. In a world in which it’s hard to know who to trust, Sinek lets leaders know (no matter who or what kind they are) that you will never entice people’s loyalty, passion, energy, or commitment unless you resonate with them as an authentic entity who knows who you are and why you do what you do. If people sense in you your passion to change the world in some way, if your vision and purpose resonates with the values and desires that people crave in their lives, if your goal is to strive toward a vision ...
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Jill J. Duffield
... pew with you. It may be someone in your own household or family. Some days it may well be you. It could be one issue you are passionate about or one place in the world you feel compelled to help. Jesus says to you and to me, “Where’s the one?” Do you have it ... Some of the children have autism. Others are physically disabled. Some have behavior problems at school. This particular woman’s one passion is this work. She volunteers one day a week. She works with one child at a time. The children often ...
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Douglas J. Deuel
... opportunity to bear witness for Jesus Christ. The words of testimony that come from someone for whom life is a bed of roses often sound shallow and empty. Someone who has been through various trials and tribulations, though, can affirm the Christian faith with real passion and power. To withstand the storms of life and still be standing up for God's kingdom and the ways of Christ is perhaps the greatest witness of all. William Barclay lost his only daughter in a tragic accident on the eve of her wedding ...
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Harry N. Huxhold
... in Christ then we will keep life. That is not a contradiction. It involves a turning away from serving ourselves to following our Lord Jesus Christ. How You Die We, of course, know how Jesus died. In these Lenten days we meditate upon the Passion and death of our Lord, who was crucified as a common criminal. Accused both by religious and civil communities, he died an ignominious death as an insurrectionist and blasphemer. Both crimes were the highest offense against either the state or the church. We know ...
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George W. Hoyer
... of a new homeward way which was to come. The stand-out sign language came in the life and deeds of Moses. The exodus from Egypt was so clearly a sign of God's favor that Moses and Elijah at the Lord's transfiguration discussed Jesus's saving passion as his exodus which he would accomplish in Jerusalem. But it was Moses himself who clued Israel in on the sign developed in today's gospel. Before his death Moses reminded Israel that God had told him, "I will raise up for them a prophet like you" (like Moses ...
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George W. Hoyer
... entire section. Some argue that the words "eating" and "drinking" are to be interpreted as figures of speech. Then the passage would only be urging hearers to assimilate for their own well-being all that Jesus was about to accomplish in his flesh and blood passion. Some think these were part of John's report of Christ's institution of the sacrament of Holy Communion which otherwise goes unreported in this gospel. In the sequence of John's account these events take place much before the Lord's last supper ...
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George W. Hoyer
... the mind and the mercy of God can compute how it works -- the Son of Man is betrayed into human hands -- inhuman hands, we would like to say. He is killed on a cross. Three days after he is killed, he rises again; he is alive. The result of his passionate service is that every one of us prodigals is welcomed home again, is met by God the Father even while we are a great way off, a God and Father who calls us daughter and son and urges all the heavenly host to rejoice with him "for these my sons ...
697. All Stirred Up
Luke 10:38-42
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Richard Patt
... ever wonder what Mary and Jesus were discussing in the living room? The story doesn't say exactly. Considering the context in which Jesus was traveling, making his way to Jerusalem and the Passover, he may have been giving Mary a preview of his coming struggle and passion. In that regard he may have been further interpreting these events for her -- how the cross and his death were part of God's plan for the world's salvation, and how the Father in heaven would bring all of this to a salutary ending in the ...
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Richard Patt
... of Christianity in certain portions of their everyday lives. Countless numbers of Christian young people may therefore be admirable church members, but they know that they will never say "no" to certain beckoning sexual partners until later in life when their passions cool down. Countless numbers of Christian business people may be pillars of the church, but they know that making a living now unfortunately involves ongoing indiscretions on their part. You get the idea: unbelievers as well as believers go on ...
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Robert A. Hausman
... health, for it means that we are once again engaging God in a dialogue. Isaiah becomes more positive, however, by going beyond lament to reminders. The prophet takes the role of the recorder, the one who calls to remembrance. Instead of lament, we have the urgent, passionate clinging to the promises of God. Instead of despair, we have the hopeful task of reminding God of the covenant. This is done both at the beginning and the end of our text: For Zion's sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem's ...
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Tony Everett
... text to be read on Epiphany Day, the day on which the appearance of the Light of Christ is celebrated. The Light, born in Bethlehem, rises and shines brilliantly from the empty tomb outside Jerusalem. Epiphany, the Day of Light, connects birth, passion, and resurrection in the Church year. The Light has reached us. The Light shines in our lives tonight. In many congregations throughout the world the celebration of this festival begins with a darkened sanctuary. Worshipers are given candles as they enter ...
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