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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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1076. True Conversion

2 Corinthians 5:17

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Maxie Dunnam

... . We won't ever need these again. Can you use them for something?" Inside the box were several Ku Klux Klan sheets. The sheets were cut down to strips and eventually used to bandage the wounds of black persons in Africa. It could hardly be more dramatic-from symbols of hatred to bandages of love because of the new creation. Nothing else matters, says Paul.

1077. Bah Humbug Department

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George Bernard Shaw

... ; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous, and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; in its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages. We must be gluttonous because it is Christmas. We must be insincerely generous; we must buy things that nobody wants, and give them to people we ...

1078. The Testimony Did Not Lie

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Editor James S. Hewett

... reciting of the Lord's Prayer moved Dr. Kornfeld. One day, while repairing a guard's artery which had been cut in a knifing, he seriously considered suturing it in such a way that he would bleed to death a little while later. Then, appalled by the hatred and violence he saw in his own heart, he found himself repeating the words of the nameless prisoner: "Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us."Shortly after that prayer Dr. Kornfeld began to refuse to go along with some of the standard ...

1079. God Leads a Pretty Sheltered Life

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Editor James S. Hewett

... death gave release." Far out across the plain were hundreds of such groups. Each had a complaint against God for the evil and suffering He permitted in His world. How lucky God was to live in heaven where there was no weeping, no fear, no hunger, no hatred! Indeed, what did God know about what man had been forced to endure in this world? "After all, God leads a pretty sheltered life," they said. So each group sent out a leader, chosen because he had suffered the most. There was a Jew, an African American ...

1080. The Passion of Envy

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Editor James S. Hewett

What we have not poisons what we have… Our urge to acquire things is due less to the passion to possess them than to the vanity of feeling superior to those who envy our possession of them…Envy transmutes other people's base metals into gold… Our envy is the yeast that swells the fortune of others… No form of hatred is as keen as envy. It magnifies the importance of our enemy—and belittles our own.

1081. Setting His Face Toward Jerusalem

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

King Duncan

... and the redemption of creation. That’s why this opening verse about setting his face toward Jerusalem is so important to understand. CBS News journalist Scott Pelley once interviewed a man named Dean Chabot, a former neo-Nazi. Chabot had spent years preaching hatred and violence against Jewish people and people of color. He gloried in the idea of a race war. But through the intervention of another former white supremacist, he began to change his beliefs. He finally realized that he had to get out of ...

1082. What Super Power Would You Choose?

Luke 10:1-11, 7-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... literal Satan. Some do not. For some, Satan is simply a name we give to the spirit of evil that sometimes inhabits the human heart. Regardless of how we feel about Satan, however, all of us will agree that we live in a world in which the power of hatred and injustice and cruelty are all too common. Where is hope in such a world? It is found in those who follow Jesus out into the world. A woman named Carolyn Arends tells of hearing some missionaries speak at her church when she was a child. The missionaries ...

1083. Beauty Tips

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A New Year resolution adapted from a prayer from the World Healing Organization (Blackpool, England): For attractive lips, I will speak words of kindness. For beautiful eyes, I will look for the good in others. To lose weight, I will let go of stress, hatred, anger, discontentment and the need to control others. For poise, I will walk with knowledge and self-esteem. To strengthen my arms, I will hug at least three people a day. I will reach out to someone and touch them with love. To strengthen my heart, I ...

1084. Know Jesus--No Peace

Luke 12:49-56

Sermon

George Reed

... to kill them all then or herd them up and crucify them later. Was it better to make the crowd cower with swift violence or better to let them see the trouble makers suffer slowly? Jesus knew that this peace was not really peace. It was violent hatred that did not count people as being of value. The way for the temple authorities to achieve peace was to cooperate with the Romans so that the temple trade was not disturbed and they could still receive the sacrifices, gifts, and tithes of the people. Jesus ...

1085. All the Way to Hell

Luke 17:1-10

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... for killing three eight-year-olds, the father of one of the victims suddenly rushed at the young man screaming, "I'll chase you all the way to hell!" We can understand the father's fierce anger, but there is something almost prophetic about his words. If we allow our hatred for those who have wronged us to go unchecked, it will eventually destroy us. We will follow our bitterness "all the way to hell."

1086. The Art of Impersonation

Matthew 5:21-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... own and that God has no business interfering with our desires. If you think sin begins and ends with your outward actions, you are fooling yourself. No one wakes up one day and decides to commit murder. The act of murder starts with contempt or hatred or envy or anger or resentment or pride. It thrives in the heart that does not take God seriously. And the same is true for acts of adultery. Adultery violates the sacred nature of marriage. Even more importantly, it violates the clear teaching of Scripture ...

1087. Scrubbing Our Social Media Accounts

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... have peace with God if we surrender our lives to Jesus as Lord. But what does it mean to have peace with God? The Greek word used here refers to having peace, prosperity, to be at rest, or to be one with something. It means that there is no more hatred or opposition between us. We are one with God. We can rest in God’s character, God’s will, God’s promises, God’s provision. True peace with God means there is no reason for fear or conflict or anxiety. And finally, Paul is trying to teach us that ...

1088. You Have a Story to Tell

John 9:1-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... don’t draw people to God. No one is in awe of a healthy, smart, wealthy person who achieves great things. We are in awe of those who overcome hard times, who choose joy in the face of sorrow, who choose love in the face of betrayal or hatred. So every blessing and every hardship, every strength and every disability, every joy and every sorrow in our lives is an opportunity for God to work out His plan through us. Does that mean that God plans everything that happens to us? No, I don’t believe so ...

1089. Hosanna! Please Save Us!

Matthew 21:1-11, Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... the ultimate gift, his life, for the salvation of the world. He left this world not only with open hands, but with nail-scarred hands . . . and it was for us. He knew that those people who greeted him with shouts of “Hosanna!” would soon shout at him in hatred and hostility, but that did not deter him. But fortunately the story doesn’t end here. Holy Week ends with one more h-word, but I dare not say it today. It’s the Hebrew word for “Praise You, Lord!” I’ll let you guess what it is. It ...

1090. The Death of John the Baptist

Matthew 14:1-12, Mark 6:14-29, Luke 9:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . The platter and its opulent authority attests to the ruler of Galilee, he who is “above the law”. It attests also to the status of the women and unfortunately the superficiality of this kingdom. William Congreve wrote: “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”225 What is “holy” has been defiled. What is carnal has been made an idol. The golden or silver platter is the “golden calf” of the banquet. In a sense, the violence committed is done just ...

1091. The Lamb

Luke 19:28-44, Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... your lamb to the priest. What in your life do you most love? Can you let go of it for Jesus? As He let his life go for you? What in your life if you let it go would be a true heart-wrenching sacrifice? Can you let go your hatred of the neighbor who wronged you?? Can you let go your money (asks Jesus of the rich young ruler)? Can you let go the new shoes you just bought so someone else has shoes? Can you let go of your security, your safety, your comfort, your convenience? Can you let ...

1092. Don't Stop Praying!

Luke 18:1-8, Luke 18:35-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Jesus work like your unemployment check? I think not. My friends…we don’t want ultimately to get what we deserve. We pray, because we trust that God will give to us what is truly undeserved –mercy despite our mistakes….love despite our hatred….forgiveness despite our grudges…..love despite our penchant to judge and worship rules and systems. Jesus asks his disciples…..will I find faith on earth in God? Or will you continue to be foolish, chasing after things and worshiping systems that do not ...

1093. Unreasonable Mercy

2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to live with Naaman and his wife. We don’t know if she was stolen from her family, or if out of mercy, Naaman took her to live with them, when her family was killed. But in whatever case, the girl responds not with bitterness or mourning or hatred, but shows love for her “adopted” family. And advocates on his behalf. God too responds in kind to us, even after Jesus’ death at the hands of his peers. Still, the Holy Spirit continues to advocate on our behalf, so that we, unworthy and undeserving as we ...

1094. Who is That Crouching at Your Door?

Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Abel got the God gaze. Cain got no God gaze. Instead of looking at himself to see what may have been wrong with his attitude, he instead lashed out in envy at his brother, who received what he did not. A hardened heart hates a beautiful heart. And the hatred is amplified when others give recognition to that beauty. Just think of the story of Snow White! Because Cain did not feel gazed upon by God, or favored by God, in the way he had hoped, the ferocious appetite of envy began to consume him. Cain threw a ...

1095. Run Away Bride

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

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Better is a dish of vegetables where love is than a fattened ox served with hatred. Proverbs 15:17 If you are a fan of Facebook, you know that by looking at someone’s “status,” you can find out some things about a person: whether they are male or female, where they live, and most intriguingly, their “relationship status.” That is, of course, if they have ...

1096. Tale of the Tares

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... uproot, but to be patient, and to grow in faith, even if those beside us sometimes are doing just the opposite. The words in Greek in the parable of Jesus about wheat and tarers are kalos sperma (good seed) and echthros (those with deep-seated hatred, irreconcilable differences with the way of God or Jesus, those intent on doing harm, those with hostility in their hearts, those at enmity with God). “By their fruits you will know them,” says Matthew (7:20). God (the Divine Sower) is depicted in this role ...

1097. Excuse Me!

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Carl Jech

... ways that hurt and abuse other people, then indeed we deserve the feelings of low self-esteem that will result. At such times we have sinned and we need to pray for forgiveness. But many people have been led to feel low self-esteem and self-hatred over aspects of their sexuality that may not be sinful or destructive at all! To some degree, modern psychology and medicine have been helpful in allowing us to better understand which kinds of sexuality are harmful and which are not. The point here is that ...

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Alexis Carrel

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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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

Showing 1076 to 1100 of 1199 results

1076. True Conversion

2 Corinthians 5:17

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

1077. Bah Humbug Department

Illustration

George Bernard Shaw

1078. The Testimony Did Not Lie

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

1079. God Leads a Pretty Sheltered Life

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Editor James S. Hewett

1080. The Passion of Envy

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

1081. Setting His Face Toward Jerusalem

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

King Duncan

1082. What Super Power Would You Choose?

Luke 10:1-11, 7-20

Sermon

King Duncan

1083. Beauty Tips

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1084. Know Jesus--No Peace

Luke 12:49-56

Sermon

George Reed

1085. All the Way to Hell

Luke 17:1-10

Illustration

J. Ellsworth Kalas

1086. The Art of Impersonation

Matthew 5:21-37

Sermon

King Duncan

1087. Scrubbing Our Social Media Accounts

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

1088. You Have a Story to Tell

John 9:1-41

Sermon

King Duncan

1089. Hosanna! Please Save Us!

Matthew 21:1-11, Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

1090. The Death of John the Baptist

Matthew 14:1-12, Mark 6:14-29, Luke 9:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1091. The Lamb

Luke 19:28-44, Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1092. Don't Stop Praying!

Luke 18:1-8, Luke 18:35-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1093. Unreasonable Mercy

2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1094. Who is That Crouching at Your Door?

Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1095. Run Away Bride

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

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1096. Tale of the Tares

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1097. Excuse Me!

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Carl Jech

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Aeschylus

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

Alexis Carrel

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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