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
Leonard Sweet
... . In today's gospel text John the Baptist's father, Zechariah, sings a hymn of praise to God, a song that recalls the past promises of God to the people and then describes the beginning of the fulfillment of those promises. The messianic salvation so long awaited by God's people was at last about to come into their midst. Yet Zechariah's hymn reminds his listeners that the anticipated messianic age would be marked by more than God's redemptive actions, more than the messiah's saving presence. In response ...
1052. Out of Order
Mark 6:30-44
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... such an extent that despite witnessing Jesus walking on the water their hearts were hardened and they did not understand. Now that's depressing! Self-Obsessed: But where the disciples really excelled was in being self-obsessed. As soon as they returned from their long mission journey and rejoined Jesus, they burst with news. But according to Mark's gospel these Jesus-appointed, Jesus-empowered apostles did not marvel over the work of God. They didn't rant and rave about the movement of the spirit. They didn ...
1053. Lifelong Disciples
Matthew 28:16-20
Sermon
James McCormick
... wrote: “I asked my teacher what God is like. She did not know. I asked my mother what God is like. She did not know. Then I asked my father, who knows more than anyone, what God is like. He did not know. I think, if I had lived as long as my teacher, my mother, or my father, I would know something about God.” Of course! They knew so much about the things that were important to them. Tragically, their little girl learned that God was not near the top of their list. We are called first to be disciples ...
1054. A New Vision
Matthew 2:1-12
Sermon
King Duncan
... . People of conscience look at our public healthcare system and cry for a new vision of how to care for the uninsured. Scientists look at the troubling signs of rising global temperatures and hope for a new vision of how to stave off a potential crisis. Many of us long for a vision that will again unite us as a people. The vision thing. So important. Many of us need a new vision for our personal lives. Some of us are bogged down in a sea of guilt and regret. Others of us feel something is missing from our ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... , it does include accommodations for his servants and staff . . . all 600 of them. When money is the only thing that talks, you are listening to the gurgling, death-knell sounds of a society. When money is the only thing that talks, kindness and compassion go for long walks. When money is the only thing that talks, the voices of the weak and poor are drowned out. When money is the only thing that talks, the complexity of harmony is silenced by the monologue of greed. When money is the only thing that talks ...
1056. The Lonesome George Church
Matthew 4:23-25, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... to the “sin of a dying church.” 3) Strategic Prayer efforts. For churches to “comeback” from their turtleback status, they need to rediscover the power of the spiritual, most specifically, the power of prayer. A disciple-making community is a praying community. When Jesus said, “As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work” (John 9:4), some scholars have heard echoes of Psalm 90:12: “Teach us to number our days aright,/that we may gain a ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... -worth. Tony said to her: "Well, honey, why don't you come up with something you could say when you meet people that will let them know that you strongly value what you do and you feel that it is dramatically, urgent and crucial and important. Well, not long after that, Tony and Peggy Campolo were at a party… when a woman said to Peggy in a rather condescending tone, "Well, my dear, what do you do?" Tony Campolo heard his wife say: "I am nurturing two Homo Sapiens into the dominant values of the Judaeo ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , and simply lay on his cot sucking his thumb. In a matter of weeks he was dead. (2) Our attitude may determine how long we live or how quickly we die. It also may determine how successful we are while we’re living. Back in the 1950s there ... It is wonderful to believe that, by having the right attitude, we can have a positive effect on our lives. As we said, it may affect how long we live and how well we live. But it is even more wonderful to know we have a loving God watching over our lives who will ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... in Memphis, Tennessee. When Dr. Lee was a very young man, he went to Panama to work and to make enough money to finish college. Before he left, his mother put her hands upon his shoulders, looked into his eyes, and said, "Son, you will be gone from home a long time; but when you come back, I am going to look into your eyes, and I can tell whether or not you have dishonored your father and your mother and your God." Dr. Lee went to Panama. He faced many temptations, but he kept himself clean. When he came ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... our children how to use a gun. How would you feel if your children were taught they could shoot a gun at anybody they wanted to as long as that person was wearing a bullet-proof vest? That is exactly what we are teaching our kids. What we are not teaching them is what ... over. (7:21-23) The lips of a seductive woman are oh so sweet, her soft words are oh so smooth. But it won't be long before she's gravel in your mouth, a pain in your gut, a wound in your heart. She's dancing down the primrose path to death; ...
1061. The Agony of Defeat
2 Samuel 11-12, 1 Kings 15:5
Sermon
James Merritt
... behold." (v.2) Now notice that it was at evening time that David got up. In other words, he had been lying in bed all day long. He was literally asleep at his post. When he should have been fighting he was sleeping. I just want to say to you that if you ... saved, and he married this man's daughter. For a short time they had had a wonderful marriage, but he began to be sick not long after their marriage began. He went to the doctor and learned that he had this terrible disease. Even though he was saved and God ...
1062. I Love My Church
1 Chronicles 29:3
Sermon
James Merritt
... a decision I didn't agree with, that I was going to cut off their funding, they would have all three starved to death a long time ago. But I love my sons unconditionally. Though I may not always agree with everything they do, say, or decide, I'm going to ... to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.' We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war by sea, land, and air ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... " a scratching on the inside that in her mind was really on the skin. Dr. Peale said, "Well, do you know of any other problems she might be having?" He said, "Well, I do know that she and her only sister have been at odds at one another for a long time. As a matter of fact, they are not even speaking, and that could be a part of the problem." Dr. Peale called this woman in and asked her about her relationship with her sister. The story she told was not really complex. Years before, she and her sister had ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... to go behind the cloud while the wind blew up a storm. However, the harder the wind blew, the firmer the old man wrapped his coat around him. Eventually, the wind gave up and the sun came out from behind the cloud and smiled kindly upon the old man. Before long, the old man mopped his brow, pulled off his coat and strolled on his way. The sun knew the secret: warmth, friendliness, and a gentle touch are always stronger than force and fury. You can be wind to your kids or you can be a sun. The sun will work ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... in a showcase, and the judgment of God in a suitcase. They will say things like this: "Homosexuality is all right with God as long as two people love each other, and they will be committed to each other in a monogamous relationship, God will approve of that. Because, ... did my ears hear you say? Why I couldn't succeed if I doubled your speed; My friend, I'm not going your way." As long as I am preaching, I'm going to be lashed to the old rugged cross, preaching the old-fashion gospel, and contending for the ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... He knew what was wrong. For the first sixteen verses Jude has painted a bleak picture. The tunnel has been dark, the road has been long, and the path has been rough. He pulls no punches and he minces no words, and warns of the danger of apostates; false teachers ... urge us to subordinate the maintenance of truth to denominational prosperity and unity. Numbers of easy-minded people, weak at error, so long as it is committed by a clever man and a good natured brother who has so many fine points about him. Let ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... that when I got back to England, the first thing I did was to seek out a pastor and gave my heart to Christ." Not long after that, Dr. Dixon had, what we would call here in America, a revival meeting. He had a half dozen or so people on the ... heart and life to Jesus Christ." At the end of the meeting Peter came to him and said, "Noel, you shared my testimony exactly!" Not long after that Francis Dixon went on a world speaking tour in Australia, and he was so moved by this testimony, that in a Baptist church ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... families. Godless fathers produce godless families. But spiritual fathers produce spiritual families. b. He Made a Demand of His Family Joshua said, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (v.15) Notice that Joshua's children did not have a choice. He said, "As long as my children put their feet under my table, sleep under my roof, and eat my food, they are going to serve the Lord." Dad, if you have children who are living in your home who are not going to church, God is not going to hold them ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... one she liked, and when her father saw the price tag, he basically said to her "you can have the best wedding gown money can buy as long as you are willing to pay back the loan." Well friend, when Jesus comes back, He's going to come back clothed with the best that heaven ... . For he is the one "who is and who was and who is to come." The Lord Jesus is omnipresent both in time and in space. As long as we live, he is with us; when we die, we will be with him, for he is always by our side. He is here today. He ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... strikes the ground, and it will ricochet into the air at terrific speed, spinning end-over-end until once again it becomes horizontal and completes a circle of about 50 yards. Now as I read about that, it hit me that sin is Satan's boomerang. You can throw it long, far, high, and hard. It might even go out of sight, but it will always come back to you. Veteran gamblers have an old saying, "There's no such thing as a sure thing." But if the Bible is the word of God, and therefore true, then according to this ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... is in the world. The most remote place in the world is in the heart of a lonely person. You don’t have to look around very long to find lonely people. I read a true story the other day that broke my heart. The mummified body of a man named Bill was found ... to His own and His own did not receive Him.” (Jn. 1:11) Think about this. Jesus was rejected by his own family. For a long time they did not believe in Him. He was rejected by his friends. In his hometown, in the place where he grew up, in the place ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... there nothing worth fighting for?’ I couldn’t stand that question.” The second part of St. Paul’s epitaph was this: “I HAVE FINISHED THE RACE.” This language comes straight out of the world of track and field, which Paul loved. It suggests a marathon, a long-distance race. Paul is not claiming to have won the race, but to have completed it. He is saying, “I am not a quitter. I saw it through.” Jesus said the same thing on the cross just before he died, “It is finished.” (John 19:30). He ...
1073. High Noon
Psalm 91:1-16
Sermon
John E. Harnish
... its way, with much still to be done. A central season of life. Later the quiet hush of early evening and the end of the day. Up north on June 21, the hours of sunlight slowly fade into a warm sunset in the late evening. And even long after the sun has disappeared, a lingering glow brightens the horizon, like the sunset years of life, lingering at the end of life's day. Finally, the dark of night. Sometimes frightening, sometimes comforting, always mysterious and wonderful at the end of a mid-summer day or ...
Sermon
John E. Harnish
... choose to follow, it might even mean denying yourself, taking up a cross, following Christ. But the good news is we don't make the journey alone. We join company with one another. If we lose our way, if life seems to baffle us, we won't stay stopped for long. Someone is sure to pick up the trail and the journey will continue. We travel in the spirit of the Christ. We journey under the sign of the cross. The question is: "Are you ready for the journey?" Ready for the journey of Lent. Ready to walk with Jesus ...
Sermon
Lee Ann Dunlap
... stay in the proper place dictated to us by social conventions and traditions, or do we break all the rules and do it "My Way"? That's another "Golden Oldie" we used to play until the record broke. In the end, the goal of the modern spiritual longing is not all that different from that of our ancient ancestors — to be free, but connected, to experience the adventures of the world beyond the everyday and still have the comfort of human love and friendship. The goal is to escape the dirty diapers, but keep ...
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