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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851. Choose Life!
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
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King Duncan
... . If we abuse the freedom we have, we pay the price. You may know the story of a man who had been caught driving 40 miles per hour in a school zone. He was fined $100. The clerk offered him a receipt when he paid his fine. “Why would I want a receipt for a traffic violation?” the man growled. “Oh,” the clerk replied, “with four of these you get a bicycle to ride.” That’s a sad truth about life. You do the crime, you do the time. Pastor Ed Sasnett tells about a family of six named Ferguson of ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... answer is.” Dr. Norman Vincent Peale answered like this, “What I really think you need to do is to get down on your knees and tell God that you are a sinner and ask God to forgive you and change you.” That wasn’t what that man wanted to hear, but it is what many of us need to hear about our lives. There is a universal need for repentance. Perhaps that is your need this morning. The people who heard Simon Peter’s sermon asked, “What shall we do?” Peter responded, “Repent.” That is always ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... HIM TO DO. Jonah was a prophet. God told Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh to hold a preaching mission. But Jonah didn't want to go. Nineveh was a foreign city with a reputation for evil ways. The Ninevites weren't Jonah's kind of people. No way was Jonah ... proclaim the message that I tell you." After spending three days in the belly of a whale Jonah decided this time he better do what God wanted him to do ” but his heart wasn't in it. You can tell when someone's heart really isn't in the task before them. ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... his home town of Bloomington, Texas. It was a spectacular extravaganza the whole town attended. The tent was open, the floor was sawdust. The build-up of the preacher's message came at a slow pace, but his point was unmistakable and highly personal. He wanted them to worry about their status in the next life. The preacher questioned the strength of each person's faith. One night during the revival while, he was sitting on a wooden bench with his grandparents, the preacher had worked himself up to a furious ...
Sermon
Timothy J. Smith
... time off from college to help with the family. "I don't understand," his mother says. "No one in his right mind would approve," his father tells him. "What in the name of God...?" his mother exclaims. "Well, that's just it," Ian says, "I mean, I don't want to sound corny or anything but it is in the name of God." Ian tries to quote some Scripture: "Let us not love in ” `what' ” in just words or tongue, but in...." "Ian, have you fallen into the hands of some sect?" his father asks. "Of course, we have ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... blackboard there were two problems that I assumed had been assigned for homework. I copied them down. A few days later I apologized to Neyman for taking so long to do the homework — the problems seemed to be a little harder than usual. I asked him if he still wanted it. He told me to throw it on his desk. I did so reluctantly because his desk was covered with such a heap of papers that I feared my homework would be lost there forever. About six weeks later, one Sunday morning about eight o'clock, [my wife ...
857. The Gift Of Freedom
1 Peter 1:13-2:3
Sermon
Landon Winstead
... a whole new life. He also refuses to discuss the details of how he obtains new identities for these people. As he says, "I'm an agent for people who want to change their life. People are bored. They want to escape. They want adventure." Since 1991, he has created whole new lives for over 500 customers. (1) Many of these people desperately want to be free. What do you bet, however, that after a short time with their new identities, they begin having the same old problems. Freedom is a state of mind. YOU ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... writer Robert Orben has a great line. He says, “Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral." We all feel that way at times, but that's not how we want to feel. We are more comfortable with J.B. Phillips parody of Jesus' beloved words: Happy are the “pushers": for they get on in the world. Happy are the hard-boiled: for they never let life hurt them. Happy are they who complain: for they get their own way ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... the only one who doesn't have to! But the rest of us do, don't we? We carry business cards around with us. Because we want other people to know who we are. Because we're hoping that somebody will notice us. Because we're still pushing to find an identity all ... we'll ride in to go up to heaven?" The whole car resounded with laughter, and when they reached the top and got off, everybody wanted to meet “this little man who's going to heaven." It reminds me of a story Ted Menten tells. Ted is a very special kind ...
Sermon
Frank Lyman
... t have regard for God without regard for God's people. This poor widow proves to be a hero for she has dogged persistence. She wanted the judge to hear her case so she keeps at him, badgering and pestering him until he hears her case just to be rid ... have a nice day? We confuse prayer with magic. Magic is an attempt to manipulate supernatural powers so we can get what we want. Prayer is spiritual surrender so that we can become instruments of the divine will. That's really what the third commandment is all ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... am destitute, spiritually destitute. I could pick up the phone and call any bank in Houston and borrow any amount of money to do whatever I wanted to. Just on my name, Reverend, just on my name! Do you understand? I could borrow it on my name only." The man then leaned ... how love for our children can help us regain our focus in life. All of us are under pressure to succeed in life. All of us want to be the best we can be. We are all juggling balls in the air. There is nothing wrong with that--as long as we ...
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King Duncan
... to give them a dynamic new purpose for their lives--they did not hesitate. They dropped everything and followed him. AND MY GUESS IS THAT, GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY, YOU AND I WOULD TOO. Let's face it, most of us would like to get something more out of life. We want that abundant life that Jesus promised--and we've come to discover in our life experience that the affluent life is not the abundant life. We thought it was, but it's not. How we long for God to speak to our lives and give us a new understanding of ...
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King Duncan
... still others, one of the prophets." Then Jesus asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered him; "You are the Messiah." Now notice the next verse. And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him. What's that about? Why didn't he want people to know who he is? We have cable channels praising Jesus' name 24 hours a day, and yet he was telling the disciples to be quiet about it? This is certainly something to think about, isn't it? If this had been the only time that Jesus told ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... mountain with Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. Carpe diem--seize the day! Let's just stay here in this glow of glory and forget about the life down below in the valley. Isn't that a tempting thought? Sometimes, we get settled in a spiritual comfort zone and we don't want to leave it. The sanctuary is so lovely, the worship is so fulfilling. All my Christian friends are here. I get to sing familiar hymns and listen to familiar Bible stories and hang out with people who are just like me. It's all so cozy, it's all ...
865. The Competitor
Genesis 25:19-34
Sermon
King Duncan
... gone to Frankie Crosetti, his shortstop. "Frank," McCarthy said, "I'm not satisfied with the way Lou Gehrig is playing first base. He's too lackadaisical. I want you to help me. From now on, charge every ground ball. When you get it, fire it as quickly and as hard as you can to ... You missed the point entirely. There wasn't a thing wrong with Gehrig. Crosetti was the one who was sleeping. I wanted to wake up Crosetti." (3) How to motivate people. It's a difficult proposition. It's a question every manager ...
866. Amazing Grace
Romans 5:1-11
Sermon
Edward Inabinet
... done. His father himself had done those chores. Wayne was so filled with relief and wondering gratitude, the only thing he could say over and over again was this: "You did this for me, you did this just for me, Father, you did this just for me." * Dear friends, I want to tell you today that Jesus Christ died on that cross just for you, just for me and just for every individual on this planet. As someone said, if we had been the only one here he still would have done that for you and for me. Paul says since ...
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Edward Inabinet
... do but we do them anyway. We desire to do them and we go ahead and do them." Then she said, "Can anybody tell me what sins of omission are?" One little fellow raises his hand. He gave her this definition for sins of omission: "Those are the sins we want to do but we haven''t gotten around to them yet." Well, that sounds like a good answer, but he''s wrong, isn''t he? Sins of omission are the greatest sins that the people of God commit. Because of procrastination we never get around to doing those things we ...
Sermon
Darrick Acre
... will go through this holiday season and miss His coming. We will enjoy the lights and the greenery, we’ll have a lot of fun with gifts, but we’ll miss Christ, who’s coming to us. Brother and sister, I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to miss Him. Not only does John the Baptist call us into the wilderness to hear a message, but he also calls us there to show us a lifestyle. When we follow the progression of Mark’s gospel story we read that Jesus comes, is baptized, the Spirit descends, and ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... can remember being stood up before a group of adults and having our parents ask us to recite something we’d just learned in school. Or being made to sit down at the piano and play some stupid little piece for our family’s friends. We wanted to shrink into the woodwork and become invisible.. How humiliating! Frederick Buechner describes the boy in these words: “Jesus...puts his hands on his shoulders so he won’t make a run for it. The child stands wide-eyed, more than a little scared, much more than ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... your life from God''s book and in God''s house as a part of God''s family, under guidance of God''s Holy Spirit, everything you do will be crooked. Do not allow the seductive powers of temptation to divert you from the road of life that God wants you to travel on. Do not yield to it. I believe it was Dr. R. Maurice Boyd, former pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, who said, "Yielding to temptation is treading on our own dreams and God''s great dream for our lives." LASTLY, TO MASTER TEMPTATION ...
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Eric Ritz
... . Open up your life to Jesus Christ and see the growth that can be a reflection of your saintly citizenship. If we are to reflect the image of Jesus Christ, I think it would be safe to say we would be a mighty oak. SECOND, PAUL DID NOT WANT THE PHILIPPIAN CONGREGATION TO BECOME CONFUSED WITH THIS REALITY OF DUAL CITIZENSHIP. Their ultimate and highest loyalty was always to God and His kingdom. Paul knew that it would not always be popular to follow the way of the cross in our earthly journey. Alan Paton, in ...
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Eric Ritz
... my family is smiling at me. I think Chuck Swindoll was right when he wrote, "If patience is a virtue--it is RARE and REMARKABLE. We Americans have our own version of the Lord''s Prayer that we utter at anxious moments--Lord, give me patience . . . and I want it right now." (1) On Saturday, July 15, 1944, Anne Frank made a remarkable entry in her dairy. Anne was 15 years old then, and with her family and others, had been in hiding in an attic room for more than two years. Three weeks after this entry, the ...
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Paul E. Flesner
... many of us as young people used to think they were naive? However, over the years I have discovered that is what faith is like. To put it in the words of a modern phrase, to trust in God does mean to "let go and let God." I want to tell you a story about a conversation between an African convert to Christianity and the missionary to his village. I think we have much to learn from Christians who live in places where native, animistic religions battle with Christianity for the hearts and minds of people. One ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... and me. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus who took the form of a servant. But not many of us want to be servants, do we? Yet, it is clear as we read the New Testament that this was the most distinctive quality of Jesus’ ministry style, ... style to which he calls us. Listen to Jesus. “The disciple is not superior to his teacher, nor the slave to his master. Anyone who wants to be great among you, must be your servant. Just as the son of man came not to be served, but to serve.” Not ...
875. Soul Drain
Psalm 63:1-11
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Maxie Dunnam
... bring himself to us and in bringing himself to bring God. He came to give us the power to be and do all those things God wants us to be and do. So John could also say, to as many as received him, to them he gave power to become children of God. ... us in the dark, involved in every moment of suffering and pain, frustration and despair. Now I believe he’s there as mystery. And I want you to hear that. I believe he’s there as mystery. Sometimes we don’t understand what God is doing. Sometimes we don’t ...
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