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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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76. Faking It or Making It?

Matthew 16:21-28

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King Duncan

... . Let me tell you about a young man named Mike Cohen who was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 18 years old, but intense chemo and radiation treatment eliminated the leukemia, and Mike returned to the active lifestyle of a healthy young man. He became an avid hiker and biker, taking cross-country trips on his bicycle to honor the cancer doctors who had saved his life. What he didn’t realize was that the aggressive treatments for his leukemia had damaged his heart muscle. By the age of 33, Mike’s heart ...

Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

Charles Baudelaire

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Hume

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows. There is no code of conduct to help beginners. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.

Sophia Loren

81. The Beginning of Wisdom

Prov 9:10

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Abdul Kassem Ismael (A.D. 938 to 995) was the Grand Vizier of Persia. Legend has it that the avid reader was so enthralled with literature and learning that he never left home without his personal library. The 400-camel caravan carried 117,000 books and must have been more than a mile long! Nevertheless, Ismael’s camel-drivers were also librarians, each responsible for the books on his camel, ...

82. The Word Above All Earthly Powers

John 8:31-36

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Albert G. Butzer III

... earned by good works but comes as a free gift of God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ. He is the namesake of the Lutheran Church, the Protestant denomination that followed in his footsteps. Perhaps most important of all, Luther was an avid translator of the Bible. He believed that the scriptures did not belong exclusively to church professionals, so he translated the Bible from Latin into his local language, German, thereby making the scriptures accessible to anyone who could read. Thanks to Johannes ...

83. How Faithful Are We?

1 Corinthians 11:23-25

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Richard Gribble

... up in your bird book. There were some gulls as well. Remember how the gulls used to fly off to meet the fishing boats returning to harbor. They seemed to know which boats were gutting fish and which were not. “I used to wish you were not such an avid fisherman, Arthur. I was often lonely. Some days the ladies would josh with me and say they were golf widows but that I was a fishing widow.” Mrs. Dowson began to weep, the tears running down her cheeks. “I saw you even less at home those days. It wasn ...

84. Missional Discontinuity

Mark 6:30-44, Mark 6:45-56

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Dean Feldmeyer

... or unstructured, with our friends and our families, playing, talking, listening, laughing, and just basking in the warmth of their love. We need the spiritual nourishment that comes from prayer, meditation, corporate worship, and the study of scripture. An old friend of mine, an avid fisherman, had a bumper sticker on his truck that said, “If you’re too busy to fish, you’re too busy.” In the stories we heard the gospel writer, Mark, made the same case for eating. If you’re too busy to eat, you ...

85. Time to Listen

Matthew 17:1-9

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... an agonizing and shameful death. They needed to see, if only for a moment, the resurrected Jesus in his glory and majesty. They needed to know that God’s story would end in victory and everlasting life. We all need that assurance. Some of you grew up as avid fans of the Harry Potter book series. It is an international best-seller, read by people of all ages. When the fourth book in the series, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, was available for pre-order, it set a new record for pre-orders on Amazon ...

86. The Rant

Matthew 23:1-12

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Lori Wagner

... with hearts of gold and the wisdom of the ages. Those who had love and passion for God’s people and a soul that loved the church. As Jesus shows us, it’s okay to be passionate. You can’t have faith and an avid commitment to changing the world for the better without passion. Sometimes, when you see power, status, institutionalism, arrogance, money, and titles taking precedence over simply loving, passion can set things right. As you go forward in this tumultuous time, be brave, be courageous, above ...

87. The Mother of All Yard Sales

Luke 12:13-21

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Dean Feldmeyer

... , goofy looking design of this particular tee would increase your drive by three to five yards. He was selling them faster than he could ring them up. I remember a conversation I had with my Uncle Waldo, my dad’s brother, when I was a little boy. Waldo was an avid fisherman with a tackle box big enough to park your car in, or so it seemed to me. He and I were fishing in a boat on a lake one day and I was looking through his tackle box at all of the dozens of fishing lures he had in ...

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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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76. Faking It or Making It?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

Charles Baudelaire

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

David Hume

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

David Hume

Sophia Loren

81. The Beginning of Wisdom

Prov 9:10

Illustration

82. The Word Above All Earthly Powers

John 8:31-36

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

83. How Faithful Are We?

1 Corinthians 11:23-25

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