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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776. Proper 5
Genesis 12:1-8, Hosea 5:1-15, Hosea 6:1-6, Matthew 9:9-13, Matthew 9:18-26, Romans 4:1-25
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Russell F. Anderson
... is the father not only of the Jews, but of the Moslems and Christians too. He is our father in faith. Unfortunately, not all who belong to Abraham's family share the faith of our father. Lesson 1: Hosea 5:15--6:6 God, the spurned lover. Hosea paints a passionate picture of God. He is not so much the judge or the sovereign, demanding obedience to the letter of the law. No, he is like the lover who has been betrayed by his beloved. Hosea's painful ordeal with his own wife is a metaphor of God's relationship ...
777. Reformation Sunday
Jn 8:31-36 · Rom 3:19-28 · Jer 31:31-34 · Ps 46
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Russell F. Anderson
... separates us from God. The way that God looks at sin is radically different from the way that the world views the infractions of its laws. Sole Gratia! Sola Fide! This was the war cry of the Protestant reformers. Grace alone! Faith alone! They passionately supported Paul's position: "For we hold that no man is justified by faith, apart from the works prescribed by the law" (v. 28). Christ alone saves us. Critics of the doctrine of justification point out that it removes any incentive for righteous living ...
778. Transfiguration
2 Peter 1:12-21, Daniel 7:1-14, Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 17:1-13
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Russell F. Anderson
... he is pleased. The written word of God is confirmed by the incarnate Word, who shines as a light in a world of darkness. Epistle: Philippians 3:7-14 Paul regards all his accomplishments as rubbish in comparison to the value of knowing Christ. It is his passion to share in Christ's sufferings and death, so that he might also share his resurrection. He has not yet completely taken possession of this new life in Christ, but he presses on like a runner straining for the goal line. Gospel: Matthew 17:1-9 Jesus ...
779. Christmas 1
Galatians 3:26--4:7, Galatians 3:15-25, Colossians 3:1-17, Hebrews 2:5-18, Isaiah 61:1-11, Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18
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Russell F. Anderson
... radical individualism? In the action movie, The Last of the Mohicans, there is a scene where some buckskin clan colonials are being badgered by a dandified British officer to join in the fight against the French for control of the land. When the passionate entreaty hit an icy wall of indifference, the officer became furious: "You call yourselves patriots and loyal subjects of the Crown." Hawkeye, the half-Indian hero of the movie tersely responds, "Don't call myself subject to much at all." Have we become ...
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Ronald Lavin
... our egos make, so that we may see and hear and understand whereas before, we have been blind and deaf and dumb. Consider still another story about the discovery of our sin and the salvation offered by the Alpha and Omega. A tourist who took in the passion play at Oberammergau, Germany, went backstage at the conclusion to meet Mr. Anton Lang, who played the part of Christ. After taking a picture of Anton Lang, the tourist noticed in a corner the great cross which Mr. Lang had carried in the play. "Here, dear ...
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Ronald Lavin
... . All lead to our personal destruction. We need right paths. "He leads me in the paths of righteousness" refers to right paths where dangers are lessened. God doesn't want us taking wrong paths where certain death awaits for us. The path of sexual passion brings sure death. The path of materialism brings sure death. The path of feeling sorry for ourselves brings sure death. God leads us in righteous paths. Even taking the right path has its difficulties. While walking the right path, we must go through "the ...
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John A. Terry
... the earth." (Van Blair) "Blessed are the humble-minded for they will possess the land." (Goodspeed) "O the bliss of the person who is always angry at the right time and never angry at the wrong time, who has every instinct, every impulse, every passion under control because he himself is God-controlled, who has the humility to realize his own ignorance and his own weakness, for such a man is a king among others." (Barclay) "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." (RSV) ____________ 1 ...
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John A. Terry
... sincerity, admitting to God all our faults and giving God all of the garbage and baggage of past sins so we can get to what is really important. To be pure in heart is not to be heartless. It requires we have heart with all of the passions and emotions and longings. It is not simply using our will and forgetting our heart. Jesus was not trying to eliminate our emotion. Its purity comes with the discipline which keeps emotion from ruling our lives. The pure in heart have integrated the mind, emotion, and ...
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Harold Warlick
... to that judgment on Golgotha where God says decisively, "You are not my people," in light of Jesus Christ illuminating our destructive, rejective ways? Hold to history, then and now, and see the pain in the heart of God. Ah, but see the utter foolishness and passion of God from Hosea to Christ to the present in the reversal of the prophecies of doom. Yahweh forgives, Christ redeems, not just the individual, but the world God is married to. The people of God are reconstituted. That's the good news of Christ ...
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Timothy J. Smith
... servants, still not going home to be with his wife. David's plan failed once again. It seemed as though nothing would get Uriah to visit his wife, certainly not David's deceitful efforts. Uriah remained a faithful soldier. What started out as spontaneous passion developed into a complicated plot to cover up David's sin. King David was getting desperate. Something had to be done as soon as possible. As Uriah slept David paced the floor above him devising one more sure-fire plan. Before morning David wrote ...
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Zan W. Holmes
... -American church tradition that "the Lord can make a way out of no way!" Another witness comes to mind. Mary McCloud Bethune was born on a farm July 10, 1875, near Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the fifteenth child of former slaves, yet she acquired a passion for education that would help redeem the lives of poor and oppressed blacks. In 1904 she moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, and took $1.50 and opened a school, which at its inception had four little black girls and her son as its student body. Her ...
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John A. Stroman
... City. Who would deny that our century is not possessed of an evil spirit? Look how powerfully destructive an evil spirit like greed can be when it is let loose in human life. Our environment is suffering from economic exploitation resulting from greed. A passion for wealth has produced a disregard for the world of nature and human survival. Greed can be so destructive to human life. Tonya Harding is a talented and gifted figure skater who competed recently for an Olympic gold metal. She was surrounded by ...
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John A. Stroman
... of Jesus the Messiah. How appropriate that it should be the gospel lesson for today. We have come to the end of Epiphany and we are on the threshold of Lent with the observance of Ash Wednesday this week, which leads us into the passion of Jesus. Luke tells us that this experience occurred while Jesus was praying. "And as he was praying, the appearance of his countenance was altered, and his raiment became dazzling white." This is a pattern that Luke discovered early in his writings about Jesus' life ...
789. Clean House
John 2:12-25
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Harry N. Huxhold
... accuse Jesus of being guilty of a sin which all of us dislike very much? Then, of course, there is the additional problem of finding this story in the beginning of the Fourth Gospel, whereas the other evangelists place it in Holy Week at the beginning of his passion. Could it be true that Jesus cleansed the Temple twice? Is John right and the others wrong? Or is it the other way around? Or could there be another reason why John places the story where he does? There is good reason to think that it is the ...
790. Hate Evil
John 3:1-21
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Harry N. Huxhold
... grumbling and rebellion against God and Moses. Moses interceded on their behalf. God heard the prayer and instructed Moses to prepare a brazen serpent upon which the people could look and be saved. The Same Condition The reason that Jesus saw a parallel between his own passion and the lifting up of the brazen serpent was because the conditions were the same. Whether it was Jesus who said it, or the evangelist who editorialized about it, the fact is that "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so ...
791. The Sponge And Wine
Mark 14:1--15:47
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Harry N. Huxhold
... approval of those efforts, we should be all the more sensitive to the manner in which the evangelists relate that attention that was given to sedate our Lord for his crucifixion. A Routine Courtesy While the evangelists give us some details concerning the passion of our Lord, more than any other portion of his mission and ministry, by today's standards we have sparse information. What we do have, then, is all the more important. The fact that each evangelist mentions something about the sedation of Jesus ...
792. The Meek
Psalm 37:1-40
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John A. Terry
... inherit the earth." (Van Blair) "Blessed are the humble-minded for they will possess the land." (Goodspeed) "O the bliss of the person who is always angry at the right time and never angry at the wrong time, who has every instinct, every impulse, every passion under control because he himself is God- controlled, who has the humility to realize his own ignorance and his own weakness, for such a man is a king among others." (Barclay) "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." (RSV) 1. Charles R ...
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John A. Terry
... sincerity, admitting to God all our faults and giving God all of the garbage and baggage of past sins so we can get to what is really important. To be pure in heart is not to be heartless. It requires we have heart with all of the passions and emotions and longings. It is not simply using our will and forgetting our heart. Jesus was not trying to eliminate our emotion. Its purity comes with the discipline which keeps emotion from ruling our lives. The pure in heart have integrated the mind, emotion, and ...
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Richard A. Jensen
... 11:1-11 the story shifts to Jerusalem where Jesus, the son of the owner of the vineyard, will be killed. (See Mark 12:1-11.) In Jerusalem Jesus is openly proclaimed as the Christ. The secret is out! The tragedy begins! (See Jesus' own predictions of his passion: Mark 8:31-32; 9:30-31; 10:32-34.) Following the heading of the Gospel there comes a quotation from the prophet Isaiah. There is a problem here in that this quotation cannot be found in this form in Isaiah! The quotation, rather, appears to combine ...
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Richard A. Jensen
... a reminder of what happens to preachers who threaten established authorities. The confusion between Jesus and John insinuates that a similar fate awaits Jesus.1 John precedes Jesus. He is a model of what will happen to Jesus. We might consider this story to be the "passion" story of John the Baptist. John the Baptist's story ends here with his burial by his disciples (6:29). When Jesus died there were no disciples to be found. He had to be buried by a stranger! In Mary Ann Tolbert's reading of the typology ...
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Richard A. Jensen
... for preaching. Mark has only three stories that deal with bread. Jesus feeds two multitudes with bread and he breaks bread with his disciples on the Passover (Mark 14:22-25). This text, this institution of the Lord's Supper, will be part of a long text on Passion or Palm Sunday (Mark 14:1--15:47). What this normally means is that Mark's stories of Jesus and bread never get told! The lectionary accounts for this by including four Sundays on Jesus and bread from the Gospel of John! Still, Mark's story does ...
797. Parables of Growing Seeds
Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29
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Richard A. Jensen
... questions today. Faith is constantly confronted with the fulfillment gap between the promises of Jesus and the reality of our faith-lives. Mark knew this very well. He presents Jesus, therefore, as the One who must suffer. (See Mark 8:31; 9:30-31; 10:32-34 and the Passion story!) Mark's Jesus is the Crucified. Mark's Jesus is the One who reveals himself in dying on a cross. Mark knew that the Sower himself would one day be sown in the earth. And yet there is hope! Seed that is sown will spring forth and ...
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Robert D. Ingram
... restrooms, clean the cupboards in the church kitchen, tune up the church van, polish the pews, remove the cobwebs up near the ceiling, clean the blades of fans, and on and on it can go. Drama and Movement Have an adult group present each of Jesus' passion predictions (Mark 8:31-33, 9:30-32, and 10:32-34). Have them also present Jesus' instructions on discipleship, and show how the disciples do not understand Jesus' meaning. Ask the youth group to prepare a puppet presentation that is a modern retelling of ...
799. October 2-8
Mark 10:1-12
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RobertT D. Ingram
... than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends." Left: Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. Right: Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. Left: Love is strong as death, passion fierce as the grave. Right: Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. Left: Love is patient. Right: Love is kind. Left: Love is not envious, or boastful, or arrogant, or rude. Right: Love does not insist on its own way. Left: Love is not ...
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Thomas Peterson
... ” quality of life-together brings me a vision of a just world. The voice of Jesus, champion of justice, comes through to confirm my vision. Finally, a regular diet needed to sustain life is an ordinary diet. As I ponder our present-day world, with its passion for conspicuous consumption, I know something is flawed about it, not of the truth. To buy for vanity; to work for prestige; to sell one’s soul for success; and, at the same time, to fail to enjoy it all, instead living lives of great stress ...
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