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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Sermon
Lee Griess
... to others. There are plenty of people worse than us. But the truth of our moral and spiritual condition becomes evident only when we compare ourselves to Jesus. In the light of his life, our lives look awful! Sure, terrible wrongdoing, grisly crimes, sins of passion and violence may not be part of our personal history -- but what about our neglect of the poor, our passive acceptance of injustice toward others, our silence in the face of hurtful gossip, our failure to reverence God as we ought? When we look ...
Sermon
Lee Griess
... our knees and to use our tongues to give him praise, for he offered himself for us. We used to call this Sunday Palm Sunday and so it is. But in recent years, our lectionary has instructed us to think of it more as "The Sunday of the Passion" and rightly so. For somehow today the triumph of his entry is diminished by our knowledge of the tragedy to follow. Somehow our shouts of praise are tempered by the cries of "crucify him!" that would echo in the streets later. Our voices may sing, "Hosanna," but our ...
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Larry R. Kalajainen
... of his great-grandmother, whom he doubted he would find it very easy to really like if she were still alive. She was the epitome of a dour, ultra-strict Scots-Irish Protestant who didn't have the greatest sense of humor in the world. But she did have a passionate love for God and a wonderful and powerful life of prayer. One of my friend's earliest memories is from the time when he was about three or four years old, his parents were away and he was sleeping at Great-grandma's house. He remembers waking up ...
Sermon
Gordon Pratt Baker
... lurking behind every rock. Moreover, when the moment for action had struck, whatever its nature, he seized it with the tenacity of a hawk snatching its prey, pinioning its challenge with a moral judgment as piercing as that bird's talons. Undoubtedly such a passion for the spiritual on John's part stemmed from his earliest days. For both his father, Zechariah, and his mother, Elizabeth, were priests of the order of Aaron, a lineage of no lesser distinction. At the same time, however, for reasons of his own ...
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Warren Gregory Martin
... out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use in my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, smiles, tears, of all my life! And if God choose, I shall but love thee better after ...
Sermon
Erskine White
... a young couple just getting married has a lot to learn about love. The truth is that every married couple always has a lot to learn about love, no matter how many wedding anniversaries they have celebrated together. When we speak of love, we speak not of sentiment or passion, but of the depths and mysteries of life. When we speak of marriage, we speak not of a product but a process. Marriage has been ordained by God for many purposes, and one of them is to provide us a place where we may learn to be fully ...
Sermon
Paul L. Sandin
... exchanged today are voluntary and equal, the same for the man as for the woman. Regard them not as burdens to weigh you down, but as winged hopes and promises to bear you up into a more happy and abundant life. Remember, true love is not the passion to possess or to rule, but the desire to give and to bless. Let no secrets divide you, no jealousies come between you, no differences bring bitterness in your hearts. Remember that in true love, your sorrows are cut in half, and your joys are doubled because ...
Eulogy
Jonathan W. Schriber
... are here this day, this hour to remember, to thank God, to celebrate new life. The life that is ____________ now, in the fullest and grandest sense, the life that is ours -- all through Jesus the Christ. In these final days of Lent, as we are vividly reminded of the passion of our Lord we take to us the tremendous price of our redemption, and can only love him more. And in the power of the cross, our sins were paid for, our lives bought with the precious blood of the Lamb. He who said to Martha -- I am the ...
834. "The Bitterness Of Betrayal"
Mark 14:43-52, Psalm 55:1-23
Sermon
R. Sheldon MacKenzie
... Jesus by daylight in the temple. Their bravery after dark with a paid guide was an empty cowardly charade. He was arrested by his own people. Just as he had been betrayed by his closest friends. The bitterness of betrayal was a significant part of his passion. In fact, some teachers have suggested that what took place in the orchard at night was more painful than all that took place before noon the next day! There was a tremendous lot behind the text which reads:"They all forsook him and fled." Mark wanted ...
Sermon
R. Sheldon MacKenzie
... interrogation by his enemies, and in view of the sly attempt to destroy him by innuendo. And all of it against the background of a mob so stirred up that it clamored for his death. The rejection of Jesus, begun in the first scene of the passion story, reached another level in this passage. He who had been rejected by his friends, his disciples and his religious leaders, is here rejected by the people of Jerusalem. The figure of the Man from Nazareth, alone now in spirit as well as in body, rejected ...
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Clement E. Lewis
... . He got his power and his message from God the Father, and he reported to him on how things went, and he inquired about how he might plan for the greatest advantage for the kingdom's good. People felt a need for him because he had a passion for souls, and practiced compassion for persons of every status level. He instilled in others a sense of their own need for a deep personal faith. We know that as Christians, in imitation of the Master, it becomes our privilege to share a vital message, to maintain ...
837. Proper 20
Mark 9:30-37
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B. David Hostetter
... . We can be devious rather than straightforward, hypocritical rather than sincere, unforgiving rather than merciful, cruel rather than kind. Forgive the bitter jealousy that leads to quarreling, the selfish ambition that destroys those who are in the way, the ungoverned passions that lead to disorder and evil of every kind. Temper your justice with mercy for the sake of your obedient Son, Jesus our peacemaker. Amen. Declaration of God's Forgiveness Hear the Good News! God comes to those who welcome even ...
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Larry Powell
... from your mouth was inconceivable. Nerves are tense. Faces strain in hateful expressions. An awkward feeling presses down now upon the relationship. Words! Cutting and slashing words. See what they have done. And suspended there in your throat, dangling between passion and compassion, pride and reason, are two words waiting their time: "I'm sorry." Possibility words, sometimes impossible to say. Words which remove fear. Here is a person sitting anxiously in a hospital waiting room. A friend or relative is ...
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W. Robert McClelland
... is a worldly grace. It is to be understood carnally because that is how it comes to us. The church has always had trouble accepting that fact. In the early creeds of the church, for example, God was spoken of as having no body, parts or passions. It was offensive to think of a Supreme Being in those terms. Spiritual? Yes! And certainly, heavenly! But theologians have been embarrassed by the frank anthropomorphism of the Old Testament which speaks of God using a body to walk in the garden, smell the incense ...
Sermon
W. Robert McClelland
... to earn our worth. Work is assumed to be the source of our identity and worth. The person who enjoys work may be even worse off than the person who finds it dull and tiresome because the tendency is to make work an all consuming passion. Some of us, literally, work ourselves to death trying to prove our value. A workaholic minister friend of mine delayed needed by-pass surgery until his vacation just so he could continue working; doing those "necessary things," without which his church and the kingdom could ...
841. Reformation Sunday
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
Sermon
George Paul Mocko
... up his ninety-five theses on the door of the Castie Church in Wittenberg. And Jeremiah, Paul and Luther would all agree that none of those answers is the path to God. Not that they didn't believe in decency; surely they did with a passion. Nor that they didn't know the transporting experience of prayer so central in mysticism; they all reported that. Not that they weren't reasonable people. All three would qualify as among the clearest and most brilliant thinkers of their particular time. So reason, the ...
Sermon
Barbara Brokhoff
... , whatever we "give up" is infinitesimally small when compared to the magnitude of the Savior's sacrifice on the cross-tree, but still it does in a tiny way let us experience some of his suffering, too. An American businessman went to Oberammergau to see the famous Passion Play. He went backstage to meet Anton Lang, who then played the part of Christ. Noticing, in the corner, the great cross which Mr. Lang carried in the play, the tourist stooped to lift it to his shoulder, but he couldn't move it even one ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... Brother Hughes, you will probably conduct my funeral. I want you to promise me that when I die you will say very little of George Heath, and very much of Christ. Tell them of him!" Count Zinzendorf had the same conviction about it when he said, "I have one passion, it is he." One More Warning: Not Everyone Will Like It! But you need to be warned: people won't like it if you take their gods away. You see, it is far easier to make matinee idols (or television celebrities, or "jolly good fellows") out of our ...
844. Ascension
Acts 1:1-11, Mark 16:1-20, Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49
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John R. Brokhoff
... lift up my eyes to the hills (Psalm 121:1)." 3. The Ups in Jesus' Life. The ascension is not the only time Jesus went up. His entire life was a matter of going up. He went up to the Mount of Transfiguration. He went up to Jerusalem for his passion. He went up to the Mount of Olives for prayer in Gethsemane and later for his departure. Our redemption depends on his going up: "I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself (John 12:32)." For a Christian, life is not a "downer ...
Sermon
Leonard H. Budd
... it is their home, their homeland. To speak of home is to speak a universal world. Boundaries are so artificial, mere ink dots upon some paper map. But homeland, that has the pulse of life. Of course, we love our native land. But others do their own, and with the passion we know. This day the world is at the communion table. Some ignore it, or revile it. But it is a sign of God's love for his world. We are part of it, but only part. We are not in a corner all by ourselves. We are in the ...
846. Liquid Hope
John 7:25-44
Sermon
James Weekley
... storm that came out of nowhere. (Matthew 14:22-23) In Cana he changed water into wine in no time flat. (John 2:1-12) He healed the blind, the lame, the paralyzed in Jerusalem in a pool of water. (John 5:1-13) Good so far. Then in the passion drama Jesus' water-logged ministry appeared to hit dry dock. He who was always dishing out a cup of water to the thirsty, was now suffering from a Death Valley thirst. Centuries earlier the words of King David would choke forth: "I am poured out like water, and all my ...
847. A Woman's Place
Genesis 2:4-25
Sermon
Erskine White
... or, "A woman's place is anywhere a man's place is." Ask a chauvinist and a feminist what the Bible says about a woman's place and chances are that both will be wrong. Needless to say, Christian women and men can be deeply and passionately divided on questions like these. So, I hope this sermon will teach some basic Biblical wisdom and help open some minds on both sides of the "sexual dividing line," answering old questions in new ways. Forget what you've heard the chauvinists and the feminists say. Remember ...
Sermon
Erskine White
... of our young people are not afraid to be seen with these kids. Their friends ask them, "Why do you hang around with So-and-so; nobody likes being with her?", but our young people do it anyway. This innate sense of goodness and compassion - later on, a passion for justice and righteousness - this is a sign of the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, and She is present in our church. Another word for Counselor is "Comforter." The Holy Spirit is a Comforter and don't we know it! Don't we know it in the church, when ...
Sermon
Erskine White
... demonstrate against us by the millions. I've travelled quite a bit in my life and seen this for myself, but you don't have to travel - just look at the evening news on any given night and see how many people around the world are passionately anti-American. In Europe, millions of people who have been our "allies" now consider us an obstacle to peace. In South Africa, they protest against us even as they protest apartheid. In Asia, the "huddled masses" view our military and our multi-national corporations as ...
850. Come The Judgment Day
Jeremiah 16:1--17:18
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Erskine White
... we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." [John 1:9]). The idea of judgment is also abused in the conservative, fundamentalist church, where they trivialize God's judgment by privatizing it. In other words, they are passionate about personal "sins" like drinking and dancing but are nearly oblivious to social sins like discrimination and injustice. They are incensed at sin in the bedroom but indifferent to sin in the marketplace. In Jesus' words, they "tithe, mint and dill and cummin ...
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