Sermon and Worship Resources

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

Showing 76 to 100 of 2415 results

76. His Triumphal Entry

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Brett Blair

... in Matthew. The Gospel records that when Pilate’s soldiers mocked Jesus putting a staff in his right hand (meant to be a king’s scepter) they then took it from him and struck him on the head with it “again and again.” Is it any wonder the movie Passion of the Christ was rated R? The Gospels themselves should be rated R. We have sanitized the crucifixion so we can hang pictures on our walls and show it to our children. All in all the death of Jesus was a horribly violent event. But the violence and ...

77. Building A Church

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... life, but their impact on the world has been minimal. We need a shared purpose. We need to be centered in prayer. But there's one thing more we need if we are going to be the church Christ calls us to be--and that is a selfless passion. During a tour of France, the German poet Heinrich Heine and his friend visited the cathedral of Amiens. As they stood in admiration before the church, the friend said, "Tell me, Heinrich, why can't people build like this anymore?" The poet replied, "Friend, in those days ...

78. A Call to Servanthood and Suffering

Mark 10:46-52, Mark 10:35-45, Mark 10:32-34

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... the glory of God. We are called to place self last and to make Jesus first (Phil. 2:3). 3.The healing of Bartimaeus is “the gospel in a microcosm.”10 As the final event of Jesus’s earthly ministry, this healing story provides a segue to the passion event. Jesus responds to the blindness of all humankind by healing this man, linked to Isaiah 9:2: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light.” Jesus is illuminating all people with the light of God and is offering them the truths of his ...

79. The Spirit Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... Pentecost marks the beginning of a new spiritual movement in Christ; a movement birthed through the fires of the Holy Spirit; a movement steeped in the spirit of hope, renewal, and spiritual transformation. It is a movement where souls are on fire with the passion of the Holy Spirit and the Church today more than ever needs to recapture that spirit. If the Church is to survive the next millennium it must recapture some of the praise and enthusiasm it had two millennia ago. The spiritual energy and vitality ...

80. The Precepts of the Lord

Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:7-14

Sermon

... or her own conscience, what is basically right and wrong, why then are the Ten Commandments necessary? The thirteenth-century theologian Thomas Aquinas asked this question. He concluded that an external code of ethics is needed because people are all too often inwardly led astray by passion and ignorance. For this reason, God has provided an objective revelation of Natural Law, as embodied in the Ten Commandments. They tell us what we could figure out on our own, naturally, were it not for our ignorance and ...

81. A Scream And A Laugh

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... "screaming inside him, what he is laughing with joy about. This truth of the gospel and inner experience of Paul is wanting to get out in a special way, and the way it gets out in this one sentence is no less a work of art and a statement of passion than that of a painter who would put it on canvas. Hold your breath as you listen again to verses 13 and 14: "He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of ...

82. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... standest in the rising sun, And in the setting thou art fair. What art thou then? I cannot guess; But tho’ I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power, I do not therefore love thee less: My love involves the love before; My love is vaster passion now; Tho’ mix’d with God and Nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more. Far off thou art, but ever nigh; I have thee still, and I rejoice; I prosper, circled with thy voice; I shall not lose thee tho’ I die. CXXXI O living will that ...

83. Jesus Announces His Impending Suffering and Death

Matthew 16:21-28

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... But as Matthew makes clear, Jesus as the Messiah comes to “give his life as a ransom for many” (20:28). The shape of the Gospel story itself makes it impossible to separate Jesus as Messiah from the climactic arc that moves from his ministry to his passion and death. Preaching the cross continues to be an unexpected and, in many ways, unfathomable message. The one who is expected to come to conquer Israel’s enemies and reign in God’s stead will, instead, be crucified. The shape of the story tells us ...

84. The Servant of All's Second Prediction

Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:33-37

Sermon Aid

Richard A. Jensen

... were discussed together. Here we might move from this story of the disciples' lack of faith and understanding (rocky ground disciples) to the story of their final days with Jesus as told in Mark 14. Mark 14:1--15:47 is the text for the Sunday of the Passion. Only rarely do we take the opportunity afforded by this larger text to discuss the behavior of the disciples in the last days. This Sunday is as good a time as any to link their behavior in Gethsemane and the trial to their rocky-grounded behavior as ...

85. Comfort the Disturbed/ Disturb the Comfortable

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Carl Jech

... will be totally in keeping with the spirit of Jesus if we are stirred up by discussing and pondering the issues we have been considering and will continue to consider in the Easter season. We should learn from the basic complaint lodged against Jesus in our passion story from Luke, that he was stirring up the people with his teaching. We should learn not to fear and condemn those who stir us up with their message, with their teaching. (You should expect your pastor, your priest, to upset you once in a while ...

86. The Sermon in the Supper

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... , And Jesus crucified for me. But even could I see Him die, I could but see a little part Of that great love which like a fire Is always burning in His heart. Every time you come to church and receive the bread and wine, you are proclaiming the Passion of that Person in whom we see the human face of God. The Sacrament announces the message of the Cross, telling us, in Leslie Brandt’s inspired phrase, "the high cost of loving!" III The Sermon in the Supper is a message about a Promise. After telling his ...

87. Where Is Your Heart?

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... distribution business in the history of the New York Daily News. With a force of two hundred delivery boys, he signed up more than ten thousand homes! Desire made it happen. And ever since, he's looked for desire. (5) What is it that you are passionate about? For some of us, passion may be reserved for a hobby or a sport. Joe Jacoby of the Washington Redskins was once quoted as saying, "I'd run over my own mother to win the Super Bowl." To which Matt Millen of the Oakland Raiders replied, "To win, I'd run ...

88. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Booth there was. And if there is any power of the Salvation Army today, it is because God has all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life." That's what it means to have a passion to follow Jesus. Do you have that passion? We asked the question earlier: When the rooster crowed, and Peter was confronted with his own denial, what did he think of Judas. Judas had not yet hanged himself. I don't know, but my hunch is that Peter might have thought, "I'm just like ...

89. Call Waiting

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... was the same. Finally the son had enough, and, when the same mantra began, he cut off his mother with exasperation, and with great passion he told his mother, "Mama, I don't want to keep people from dying, I want to show them how to live."1 This ... all of God's people." And so, Martin Luther King, Jr., was able to give voice to the voice of God through the voice of his own passion. "I have a dream that is deeply rooted in the American dream ... I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a ...

90. Freedom In Christ

Galatians 5:1-15, Galatians 5:16-26

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... philosophies. We find it also in writings of Philo. For instance, Philo commends “the light of Isaac—the generic form of happiness, of the joy and gladness which belongs to those who have ceased from the manner of women [Gen. 18:11] and died to the passions” (On the Cherubim 8 [Colson and Whitaker, LCL]). See also Philo, On Husbandry 17. Plato writes: This then is why a man should be of good cheer about his soul, who in his life has rejected the pleasures and ornaments of the body, thinking they are ...

91. Jesus Clears the Temple

John 2:12-25

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... the passage in Psalm 69, no less than the remembering of Jesus’ riddle, is postresurrection and has in view Jesus’ Passion. This is seen by the future tense of the verb: Zeal for the house of God will consume Jesus, that is, it will bring ... about his death at the hands of the temple authorities. Only after his Passion could his disciples “remember” the passage in this way. Similarly, the riddle about the temple can only be solved by one who ...

92. “Zeal for Your House Consumes Me”

Psalm 69:1-36

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... consequences of rejection and rebuke. Note that it is for God’s sake that he bears reproach. 69:9 zeal for your house consumes me.See 2 Samuel 7 and 1 Chronicles 28:11–29:5 for David’s preparations for building the temple. David had a great passion for building the temple, and while the story in the books of Samuel and Chronicles is clear on this matter, the idea that he was misunderstood for it seems to be an additional insight to the story. 69:12 Those who sit at the gate.These are probably ...

93. Living to Please God

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... Christians to self-control (Acts 15:20, 29; 21:25; 1 Cor. 6:12–20; Eph. 5:3; Col. 3:5; and especially 2 Tim. 2:21–22, which also speaks of the body as a “vessel” [see ESV, NRSV] used in “honor” and “sanctification” instead of being dominated by passions). A person is to keep control of his or her body in holiness before God and honor before the community (Rom. 12:10) and God (Rom. 2:7; 9:21; 1 Pet. 1:7; 2:7). Paul starkly contrasts the life of sexual self-control that leads to honor and ...

94. Marriage

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... have been anticipated by many of his preceding remarks about Christian freedom and the aim of Christian life. His point is fairly simple: The time left is short (or, limited by God’s current actions), so the believers are to live life fully for God. The passion of Paul’s confidence in God and the urgency of his appeal for full devotion are still pertinent, even if one does not anticipate the imminent demise of this world. 7:32 Paul’s tone becomes more leisurely, and his sentence are briefer and at ...

95. Run Away Bride

Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 22:1-14, Hosea 1:1-2:1

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... praise, let’s praise with true joy of a heart in love with God! When we give thanks, let’s give thanks with the true gratitude of a humble spirit! When we pray, let’s pray with the true earnestness of a heart bound to God in love, passion, and commitment! God knows if we are just “going through the motions.” God mourns our emptiness of heart, for Jesus is the Bridegroom, waiting and hoping for His Bride to return His love and to dance with Him into everlasting Life. His is the Love that never dies ...

96. Caring for the Vineyard We Did Not Plant

Matthew 20:1-16, Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... house in a new place! Time for renovations. Time to put down roots in a “vineyard” they did not plant, to restore people to life in a town they did not build! Are they up for this new project? Are they game for this new contract? Do they have the passion for it? The strength? The daring? The heart? The people say they do. At least they say they do! The contract is sealed there at Shechem –for a mission in a place those people did not build but will now take the time to get to know, learn to love ...

97. Lust - To Discipline The Eye And The Heart

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... , though, is not against human sexuality or even against the physical attraction between a man and a woman. Remember, the Bible quotes us Adam's remark on seeing Eve for the first time. Remember again, the Bible includes the Song of Solomon, a love letter depicting the passion between a man and a woman. In the Bible human attractiveness is not dirty, shameful, or lewd; the attraction between a man and a woman is a gift from God. God created us in his own image as male and female and pronounced it good. One ...

98. Good Friday

John 18:1-11, Isaiah 52:13--53:12, Genesis 22:1-19, Hosea 6:1--7:16, Hebrews 10:1-18, Hebrews 4:14-5:10, John 19:17-27

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... body on the cross. Those who looked on him turned away in disgust and derision. We who are a part of Christ's body carry the infirmities of a sick society. The Silence of the Lamb. "He did not open his mouth" (53:7b). According to the passion story, Jesus did not respond to the attacks of his tormentors. The Lamb went silently to the slaughter. This was not the usual Jewish manner of dealing with adversity. Consider the loud defense that Job made to his accusers. Christ offered himself up willingly as the ...

99. The Sound of Weeping

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... are more apt to be drawn in. If we only watch, we may be mere spectators. So let's try to create a sound picture of the Passion, and let's begin with the sound of weeping. Are you listening? How does if make you feel when you hear someone crying? Have you ever ... people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!" (Luke 13:34) This had been the passionate yearning of his heart, but his people would have none of it. Jesus was crying because he had offered God's love and his ...

100. Palm Sunday

Philippians 2:1-11, Matthew 27:32-44, Matthew 27:27-31, Isaiah 50:1-11

Bulletin Aid

... s plan of salvation. People: Jesus Christ is King! May our lives witness to the devotion we profess. Collect Gracious Father, whose Son allowed himself to be treated as a criminal that we may be treated as sinless: Reveal the depth of love which Jesus expressed through his passion; that we may open our hearts to his rule over our lives. In his name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We find it easy, Father, to praise Jesus as King. But we do not find it easy to admit that our sins betray his authority over ...

Showing results