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. Lent 4
Luke 15:1-7, Joshua 5:1-12, Isaiah 12:1-6, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Luke 15:11-32
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George Bass
... the passover, according to the tradition. They remembered what God had done for them, regardless of what they went through! 3. The "Gilgal Passover" marked the end of the manna provided by God; now they were on their own and God gave them a new diet - "unleavened cakes and parched grain" - the "fruit of the land of Canaan." 4. They knew once and for all that God really is faithful and as good as his word. That's enough for us, isn't it? And he feeds us, too, with word, bread and wine. Isaiah 12:1-6 (L ...
52. Standing Up To Death
Romans 6:1-14, Psalm 90:1-17
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Robert Noblett
... thou sayest, "you Sons of men;"for in thy sight a thousand years are as yesterday,a night-watch passes, and thou hast cut them off;they are like a dream at daybreak,they fade like grass which springs up with the morningbut when evening comes is parched and withered. To employ a phrase from St. Paul, as human beings we bear "the image of the man of dust." Our organic systems, bionics notwithstanding, were intended to come to a point of zenith and then decline. This naturalness is conveyed, I think, in a bit ...
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Theodore F. Schneider
... today. There is a modern Jericho, a New Testament Jericho, and the Old Testament site named Tel es-Sultan. The fresh and generous spring known as "Elisha's Spring" is the largest in Palestine. It transforms the area into an oasis in the midst of the parched no man's land of the Judean countryside. Jericho's very name comes from the beauty and bounty of its plants and fruits. Even in ancient times it was known for its rose gardens, dates, balsam groves and tropical fruits. Zacchaeus had done well for himself ...
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Johnny Dean
... time as well as any other time in history. The story takes place in the wilderness. Mind you, this is not the Blue Ridge Parkway, lush green wilderness. This is the desert: lonely, dry, sun blazing overhead, sand burning your feet. The only movement is the parched desert wind. It’s eerie and threatening. You feel like you’re on the edge of chaos looking out over this desolate landscape. The devil comes to Jesus, and there they stand, eyeball to eyeball. "Well, well, well – if it isn’t Jesus, the Son ...
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Carl Hoefler
... willingly to the cross and died for us. He permitted his innocent body to be nailed to that cross of suffering. Nails of iron were driven into his warm flesh. Sharp thorns pierced his bowed head. A pointed spear tore open his unblemished body. His parched lips cried out for a drink. The shock of this sacrifice shook the very foundations of existence. Darkness covered the land as if all creation were hiding its face in shame. But, through the dark clouds of this desolate scene, God the Father reached down ...
Drama
Robert A. Lehmann
... a Jew, who was traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho. Solo 2: A long way on a hot day, Solo 4: The sun was beating down, Solo 3: The dusty, hard ground underneath his feet, Solo 1: No breeze to cool the sweating brow, Solo 2: No relief for the parched lips, Solo 3: Rocky crags surrounded the road. Solo 1: The road was a dusty, winding road. Solo 4: Winding all the way from Jerusalem to Jericho. Solo 2: The rocky crags and the jagged cliffs afforded refuge for robbers, Solo 3: [Echo] robbers ... Solo 4: [Echo ...
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... the bosom of Abraham, which is a place of peace. The rich man is able to see Lazarus enjoying his life, but that’s all. There is a great divide between these two people which makes it impossible for Lazarus to take even one drop of water to the dry, parched lips of the rich man. The pain of the rich man is so excruciating that he begs for an opportunity to go and warn his five brothers. That’s me! He wants to warn me by making a special appearance in my life. The rich man is afraid to trust ...
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... step forward: Bishop Tutu, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dag Hammarskjold, Tom Dooley, Albert Schweitzer. The most famous humanitarians of our time have had a clear sense of being sent by God. God still gives streams of water to the parched. Just ask the farmers of northern Bangledesh where thousands of irrigation pumps have been installed because of your benevolence giving. At the same time, the help most people seek from God today is a spiritual, invisible aid - courage before crisis, comfort ...
59. Sticks and Stones
1 Samuel 17:1-58
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... , about fifteen miles from Jerusalem. A mighty Philistine army was preparing for battle against Saul. Jesse’s three sons had joined the army. David was ordered by his father to take his older brothers a luncheon of cheese, flat cakes of bread, and parched corn. David traveled from Bethlehem and reached the Israeli camp. His older brother Eliab promptly scoffed at his offer to fight. It seems that for forty days Goliath had challenged the best warrior in Israel’s camp to single combat. This is a concept ...
60. Love’s Legacy
2 Samuel 23:1-7
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... fortunes to dogs, cats, or other pets. David left us nothing that we can touch, taste, or try on. He did, however, leave us a will that reminds each of us that we are living in the will of God. David came from a desert tribe acquainted with the parched feel of dry earth. He knew the suffering of those enduring long summer droughts and famine. He knew, too, the joy of gentle rain upon the fields. He tells us that a good ruler is like the rain which makes grass sprout from the earth. An earth cluttered with ...
61. Lent 3
John 5:1-15
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... waters of your Spirit wash over us and fill us: that, with our spirits cleansed and quenched, we may be refreshed and renewed. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Compassionate God, we confess that, because of our sinful inclinations and acts, we lead parched lives with spirits that are dry as death and thirst for you. Forgive us, we pray; lead us as you did the Samaritan woman to the bottomless well of your living water, which you so freely offer us in Christ Jesus; and let us drink deeply ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... might be taken away, and after that he lost count. We find in those letters qualities of sympathy and understanding that would otherwise be missing. An old Arab proverb says that, "All sunshine makes a desert." Because the ground in a desert is dry and parched, nothing will grow in it. When we accept the fact that the rainfall of sorrow and trouble is inevitable, we can grow certain things that sunshine by itself will never produce. Something is missing in life until sorrow enters. Once a great musician was ...
63. Dessert in the Desert
Deut 32:10-12 · Ez 37
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Robert Noblett
... kisses and hugs that are diminishing. When they come, they mean more than they ever did before. Maybe fewer kisses make them dearer; maybe fewer hugs make them even more special; maybe God is never more real than when God brings his living water to our parched lips as we traverse the desert attendant to the "dark night of the soul." Never is kindness more real than when we have known cruelty; never is faith more real than when we have known doubt; never is peace more real than when we have known anxiety ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... until Jesus was ready. Sometimes we could get discouraged in our prayers that we say everyday if we didn’t remember this lesson. Sometimes we have to wait. Let me ask you a question. How many of your are thirsty now? Real thirsty? Are your throats dry and your mouths parched? I thought so. Would you like to have a drink? How many of you could take an ice cube back to your seat and wait until it has completely melted before you drink it? You may have to wait for quite a while. Will you wait? If you do it ...
65. Suffering
John 19:28-37
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Burton F. Blair
... , a soldier went over to the soldiers’ wine and used a sponge and offered it to Jesus. The sharp vinegar taste was offered not for Jesus to drink, but to moisten his lips. The vinegar in the wine would cool the fever of his lips which were, by now, parched by the struggle to breathe. The lips would be dry and cracked. But Jesus refused to take it. "I am thirsty," said Jesus. This is the only word of the seven words from the cross he spoke for himself. So, why would these words be remembered as words from ...
66. Victory
John 19:28-37
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Burton F. Blair
... the cross, we have felt and heard the noise of passion. Jesus prayed for the forgiveness of those killing him. He saw his mother and expressed concern for her welfare. In deep soul pain, he cried out in the silence of God. His parched lips caused Jesus to cry of thirst. But, now, there is something different. After these words, "It is finished," from Golgotha, we are touched by a noisy silence. This silence simply surrounds everything. "It is finished." There is something uncommon in these words. Whatever ...
Drama
Denny C. Wise
... , so let him deliver him ... I am poured out like water ... My heart is like wax. It is melted within my breast. My throat is as dry as the dust, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth." Mother, when I read those words, my mouth also became parched. Adult Voice of Jesus: (as in pain) I thirst. Boy Jesus: That is not all; it gets worse. "A company of evil doers encircle me; they have pierced my hands and feet; they divide my garments among them; and for my raiment, they cast lots." Mother, what does it ...
Drama
Douglas W. Orbaker
... quiet? Reader 1: Jesus was God, above the physical hurts of the body. Leader 2: Jesus was God’s Son. His relationship with the Father didn’t let physical pain interfere. Reader 3: Yes, But Jesus was also man. His lips were dry, His throat was parched. He was thirsty. Reader 4: The divinity of Jesus thirsts for our committed love. Reader 1: The humanity of Jesus thirsts for relationships with people who understand. Reader 2: And the body of Jesus is thirsty. Reader 3: May we lift our committed love and ...
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Leonard H. Budd
... man’s hand appeared in the western sky. The wind began to blow and the cloud grew and darkened and Elijah commanded the king and his people to hurry home before the storm struck. Finally, as the first drops of blessed rain began to fall on the parched earth, Elijah ran up the road toward the royal city of Jezreel. Ahab, had left Mount Carmel before Elijah, but with the miraculous strength from the Lord Elijah outran the king’s chariot. Elijah would be standing in front of Ahab’s house to show the king ...
70. A Little Effort
Matthew 25:14-30
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Brett Blair
... anchored off the coast and all the sailors were stretched out weakly on the deck of the ship. As the Peruvians drew closer, they saw that the Spaniards were in terrible physical condition. They looked the picture of death itself, their lips parched and swollen. They were literally dying of thirst. "Can we help you?" shouted the Peruvians. The Spaniards cried out, "Water! Water! We need fresh water!" The Peruvian sailors, surprised at this request, told them to lower their buckets and help themselves. The ...
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Louis H. Valbracht
... of what he is saying. The Holy Land, of course, is quite dry. When the infrequent rains come, they come in torrents. The muddy waters roll down the streams in angry confusion. The very, next day the weary traveler comes to the brook, lips parched, tongue swollen from the lack of water, but as he spends his last strength to rush to the stream, he finds only dry sand. The brook has deceived him. The waters have failed. The water is gone. Paul experienced this seeming indifference, this silent treatment ...
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Ewart E. Turner
... you have a better nature that would take pride in knowing that a hundred windmills which are drawing life-giving water in India are there because of your generosity. And that in Bangladesh there were 100 wells which you made possible. And in the parched Sahelian countries of tropical Africa, wide areas now produce food because you supplied the irrigation. I appeal to that spark of humanity planted in you by God the Father. Respond to the needs through CROP. Do not remain unmoved by human misery. The life ...
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E. Jerry Walker
... . Caiaphas called for order. "There is no time to waste," he said. "Soon the city will awaken. Before the foolish crowds can rally around him we shall deliver him up to Pilate!" Nicodemus slumped in his seat, closed his eyes, shook his head slowly, sadly, from side to side, his parched soul as rent as the high priest’s mantle ...
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E. Jerry Walker
... The centurion moved to the outer edge of the hill, sat on a huge boulder, aware that the sky had continued to darken and now the sun was completely obliterated by the roiling black clouds. The wind, whipping up from the eastern slope of the hill, was parching and he felt a compelling thirst and he wondered what it would be like to hang upon a cross. Nothing he could imagine would be more horrible than this, and he had seen many blood chilling results of the torturer’s art. A living body, breathing, seeing ...
75. Home Economy
1 Kings 17:7-24
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Alton F. Wedel
... exiled, and if the God who makes the rain and dew and sets the chemistry of soil in motion to produce the crops is banished, then there will be no rain or dew. The Drought So there was drought. For three long years the land was parched, and if we remember Minnesota in three weeks of rainless skies, maybe we can understand what happens in three years. There were no crops, the soil cracked and turned to dust, the streams dried up, and famine gripped the people - thirst, starvation, hunger, malnutrition - all ...
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