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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51. Almond Joy!
Numbers 17:1-13
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... them uncomfortable with their own mortality. Ever notice that when people are in pain, the first thing out of someone’s mouth is….”it will be better soon!” or “Look at the bright side.” Or “Think happy thoughts!” We have great difficulty and aversion to feeling pain, sadness, mourning, almost as though, if we allow ourselves to feel badly, the world will come crashing in. But Jesus asks us to stay awake….and pray…..in the darkest times, to open our eyes and see….to allow ourselves to ...
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little . . . oh, I admit only a very little . . . of what life is about.
Francoise Sagan
Humor
On one occasion when a precocious six-year-old displayed her aversion to a proper diet, her father exasperatedly asked, "Child, you don't care for meat, vegetables, salad, or milk what do you like?" Turning her wide brown eyes on him, she demurely answered, "Why, I like you, Daddy!"
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... hoping nothing will happen to jar our plan or mess with our day. Often, we get away with it. But sooner or later, we are going to hit a nail, and our best laid plans will become void. It’s kind of funny really that we can be such risk-averse people when it comes to change, and yet such risky, bet-happy folk when it comes to our long-term well-being. But we do this in all aspects of our lives. One of the most glaring ways we sabotage ourselves is by ignoring our spiritual well-being. Some of ...
57. Faith Power
Mark 5:21-43
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... who are willing to take great risks in order to find healing, acceptance, community, and hope. Like Jairus’s well-meaning synagogue friends, we in the church, as we have embraced the ordinary, the expected, and the status quo, have often become “risk-averse.” We are people dedicated to keeping things “the same.” We believe, we know exactly what to expect in our lives and attempt frequently to try to maintain those expectations, so as to keep the order that gives us continuity and comfort. But in ...
Sermon
Will Willimon
... that after divorce, less than half of the children surveyed had seen their fathers in the twelve months preceding the survey. Fathers of children born out of wedlock visit and pay even less. Conservative Christians have got to overcome their aversion to gover1unent programs to aid the poor if families are to receive the economic encouragement they need to survive. Liberal Christians have got to quit neglecting fa1nily and children's issues in our misguided emphasis upon individual liberation and personal ...
59. Amazing Grace
Luke 18:9-14
Sermon
Will Willimon
... a faculty member at some commuter college. And yet, now we're in church, and now we're with Jesus. And now we're not just doing Duke, we're doing the Christian faith. And, if you know almost nothing about Jesus, you do know that Jesus has got this aversion to good kids and high achievers, of the intellectual or the moral type. I wish it weren't so. But it is. Two people went to the temple to pray. One a pious, devout religious person, a Pharisee, prayed, ''God, I thank thee that I am not like other people ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... that perfume as he faces his death is his greatest salve. It may be the scent of death, but for Jesus, it is also the scent of love, honor, commitment, and comfort. For Judas however, the smothering smell of spikenard provokes in him an extreme aversion. Even a panic perhaps. With every breath of that heavy, airless perfume, he is reminded of the deed he has performed. For he already knows, he will be responsible for Jesus’ demise. Smelling that spikenard must have been like the scent of funerary flowers ...
61. What He Said!
Mark 6:30-44
Sermon
George W. Hoyer
... abandon it. You could try to reason with it. Beat on it, perhaps. Now see this Jesus crossing the lake in a boat and coming to a deserted place with his disciples. And whom does he meet? Us. Us without a clue about what turns us over. Us with an aversion to the one thing which gives us life, liberty, and happiness. What is Jesus to do? In him dwells all wisdom and knowledge. By him all things were made. He himself, made as a man, as human as you and I, with arms, legs, organs, brains. The only thing we ...
62. Risky Business
Mark 8:27-38
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... we go home to our safe, secure homes and thank God it was “only a movie.” Our sense of adventure for real life often wanes in the face of adversity. We in the church, while we claim to be mission oriented, have become in real life mostly mission averse. Our inner “warning signal” goes off every time we think about going out into our communities and talking about Jesus. We might as well be lost “in space,” for that is how many of us feel about our culture right now. It feels like a strange and ...
63. Faces at a Funeral
John 18:1-19:42
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... , 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 assisted care centers. What frightens me these days is the thought that there are probably fewer than 25 people alive today who remember my great-grandmother at all. When we couple dozen die, she will be truly forgotten ― a near-century of living, breathing, loving ...
64. Never Satisfied
John 14:8-17, (25-27)
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... and should consider some kind of eye surgery, or maybe a facelift, a gastric bypass. Or a Sono Bello procedure, whatever that is. After all, about 18.5 million other Americans had plastic surgeries or procedures last year. The American Medical Association is not averse to cashing in on our dissatisfaction with our looks. One could do worse, financially speaking, than owning a plastic surgery practice in the US. Just listen to some of the catch phrases that are used to lure you into a plastic surgery clinic ...
65. For Someone Remembered by Many
1 Corinthians 2:9-10 · Matthew 16:13-20 · Mark 14:7-9, 10-12
Eulogy
Richard E. Zajac
... a terrific grandfather and great-grandfather he happened to be. He would make his grandchildren laugh every chance he got, even if it meant putting his false teeth in and out when the grown- ups in the room weren’t watching. And Ken wouldn’t be averse to scaring them, of striking fear in their hearts with his running tale of an alligator lying in his backyard just beyond the drainage grid. And when it came to candy, grandpa had a bottomless stash, as the candy dishes in his home were never empty. But ...
66. For Someone Who Led A Magnificent Life
Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 · 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 · 2 Corinthians 4:6-11 · Luke 24:13-35
Eulogy
Richard E. Zajac
... be greatly impoverished had Bill Stanton not been born. So, too, would be the presbyterate of this Diocese. I don’t need to tell you that Bill was a great mimic. He could mouth the stereotypical accent of each and every nationality and wasn’t averse to using that talent to fool and trap unsuspecting priests. I can remember his calling a mutual friend of ours who had just been named pastor of an Irish parish, with his patented Irish brogue, pretend to be a parishioner decrying the German heritage of ...
Sermon
Dean Feldmeyer
... , hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. 3. Give us each day our daily bread. 4. And forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us to the time of trial.” As protestants, many of us are averse to praying prescribed prayers, especially those written by other people in other times and places. We feel that, if we try to pray those prayers, God will think of us as un-spontaneous and, perhaps, insincere, as though we are plagiarizing another’s work and claiming ...
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