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 your basement will soon find pizza delivery an unfulfilling future and find his or her niche in life. It's the gift of looking down the road, checking out the long-range goal, that makes those toughest mothering-moments simply bittersweet, never simply bitter. Suffering through the hardest days of motherhood is possible because the lifetime of love you have for your children, your family, flows up and over the disappointments of any single moment. The vision that helps any mom get through and go on is ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... -end cubicle; When children disrespect, disappoint, disappear; When the land of promise is more a land of prejudice and locked doors than a land of opportunity and open doors. These are the dreams that, when they dissolve, open us up to bitterness, hopelessness, cynicism, and faithlessness. Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was called the poet laureate of Harlem. He was the first African-American author to support himself solely through his writing. In perhaps his most famous poem, "Dream Deferred," he asks this ...
1103. Palm Pilot
Philippians 2:1-11
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... of Texas tells of being in the city of Hessen in western Germany in May 1995, as part of the 50th anniversary of the ending of World War II. Professor Rodden was privileged to attend a private dinner between two men burdened by a bitter and tragic past. They were the leading members of their families. The first man was the younger brother of the diplomat who had masterminded the conspiracy in July 1944 to assassinate Adolf Hitler. But the conspirators were apprehended. The older brother, Adam von Trott ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... , Jesus experienced the totality of human frailty and fallenness. What an astounding thought. Each of us will ultimately have death in common with Jesus Christ. But if it is the specter of loss, incompleteness and depletion that makes human death appear so bitter and wasteful, the Book of Hebrews' reminds us today that with Christ's own death our perspective on death must be radically changed. Ever notice how when a person of considerable accomplishment dies, the person doing the eulogy is likely to mention ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... God's son, God has taken away the eternally fatal consequences of our foray into the woods. In our life's story, it is Act I that has an unhappy ending, and Act II that ends happily. But the pain still lingers. Though we have the antidote, sin leaves a bitter, aftertaste that lingers for a long time . . . in our mouths and in the mouths of the ones we love. The nightmares don't evaporate when we awake from sin's sleep. So the next time you feel the magnetic pull of sin's lovely, dark and deep woods, ask the ...
1106. Tiny Pencils
John 15:1-17
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... . Citing Jesus' words about being the true vine, the torturers latched onto John 15:6: "If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch and is withered and men gather them and cast them into the fire and they're burned." How bitterly ironic that the twisted hatreds harbored in human hearts warped Jesus' true vine image as fodder to stoke their own evil fires. Jesus used this agricultural image not to speak of bonfires, but to focus on the fruit of that true vine. How can the vine and branches ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... . When Christians believe that God was in Christ, God is thereby proclaimed to be the co-carrier of the costs of creation. In an interconnected world, risks are shared risk, and the creator didn't withdraw from the ethics of sharing risks, even to the bitter end. . . . So deeply has Christ united himself with the role of the victims of risk that God does not only passively endure risks, but is also actively transforming those who lose in the game of risk-taking. For, as it's proclaimed, only the one ...
Sermon
James Caldwell III
... Fever! But there are risks to catching this kind of fever. You wind up spending lots of time and money on basketball. You suffer a near heart attack from getting worked up over a missed shot, or a foul with 8 seconds to go. And of course, there's the bitter agony of defeat. Our Scripture this morning shows there's another kind of fever, and that no matter what the season is, we need to catch it! It's a spiritual fever, the one Jesus had, that's so evident in everything we see and hear in this morning's ...
Sermon
James McCormick
... also led to a lifelong, close, caring relationship. That’s the way it works! Of course, struggle does not automatically and inevitably lead to growth. It does not always take us in good directions. We all know people who have allowed difficulty to make them bitter and resentful. Instead of growing, they regressed. How sad. We don’t have any choice about whether or not our lives will be touched with difficulty. They will be. You can count on it. Our choice is about what we will do with the difficulty ...
1110. Thanksgiving Is a Choice
1 Thessalonians 5:12-28
Sermon
James McCormick
... they had anticipated. The average food ration got down to five grains of corn per person per day. They began with 102 people in their little colony. Only 50 survived that first winter. Then, they had a choice to make. Either they could gather in bitterness and mourn the tragic reality that half their number had died, or, they could come together in thanksgiving and celebrate the fact that half of them had survived. You know what they chose. And that choice was made not because of something outside of them ...
1111. The Imperishable Dream
1 Corinthians 9:1-27
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... dream life? Every one of us has one? But does your dream life revolve around yourself, as in those American Idol contestants? Or does your dream life revolve around God's dream for this world? Ernest Hemingway tells the story of a Spanish man who has a bitter argument one morning with his young son, Paco. When he arrived home later that day, the man discovered that Paco's room was empty--he had run away from home. Overcome with remorse, the man realized that his son was more important to him than anything ...
Sermon
Elizabeth Achtemeier
... of the fourteenth day of the month of Abib (March-April). Passover was and is always a family affair, or if the family was poor, it was to be shared with a neighbor. The lamb was to be without blemish (cf. John 19:36), a year old, and eaten with bitter herbs and unleavened bread. Some of the blood of the lamb was to be daubed on the doorposts and lintels of the house. If any of the meat was left, it was to be burned in the morning. But this first Passover was not a leisurely feast. It was to ...
1113. Bridge Building Belongs to You and Me
Isaiah 9:1-7
Illustration
Brett Blair
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall told this story: There were two unmarried sisters who had such a bitter fight that they stopped speaking to each other. Unable or unwilling to leave their small home, they continued to use the same rooms and sleep in the same bedroom. A chalk line divided the sleeping area into two halves. The chalk divided rooms so that both sisters could come and ...
1114. A New Attitude
Matthew 17:1-13
Sermon
King Duncan
... . We fear what others may think about us. We fear aging, we fear death. We fear people who are different from us. The number of ways fear can cripple us are numberless. Some of us are afraid to show that we are afraid and the result is anger and bitterness and prejudice and cynicism. Do you realize that the bad attitude that many people nurture is simply their way of coping with fear? How we need to hear the voice of Jesus say to us, “Don’t be afraid.” That could happen in this room today. Our theme ...
1115. Advent 1
Matthew 24:36-51, Romans 13:8-14, Isaiah 2:1-5, Psalm 122:1-9
Sermon Aid
Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe
... Jesus might steal if he breaks into our lives. Because of the epistle, the preacher might wish to remind the congregation of an earlier member of the community, St. Augustine, who relates his own conversion to this very passage: I was . . . weeping in the most bitter contrition of my heart, when, lo, I heard the voice as of a boy or girl, I know not which, coming from a neighboring house, chanting, and oft repeating, "Take up and read; take up and read." . . . I grasped, opened, and in silence read that ...
1116. Easter 6
Psalm 66:1-20, Acts 17:16-34, 1 Peter 3:8-22, John 14:15-31
Sermon Aid
Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe
... tested us . . . You brought us into the net; you laid burdens . . . you let people ride over our heads . . . yet you have brought us out . . . "). The capacity of the ancient Israelite mind to acknowledge God as sovereign Lord, without being moved to sheer bitterness, is amazing. Indeed, this psalm is a celebration of God's goodness, not a complaint about God's capriciousness or injustice! The last verses of the psalm allow the psalmist to step forth from the assembly to address God directly in thanksgiving ...
1117. Proper 17
Exodus 3:1-22, Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:9-21, Psalm 105:1-45
Sermon Aid
Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe
... Him, the vastness of His dominion, the sweep of His intelligence, the eternity of His being,—these are overwhelming. There is awful meaning in the words, No man can see My face and live. But when in some unexpected hour, after a fierce temptation or a bitter disappointment or a frustrated undertaking or a long and weary waiting, the still small Voice calls one by name as He called Moses, and offers one an opportunity or illuminates a duty, then one knows that the Redeemer liveth. Then one knows that one's ...
1118. A Fork in the Road
John 20:1-18
Illustration
David E. Leininger
Tom Long writes, "It has been my observation that somewhere deep in the forest of life many Christians come to a fork in the path. Some head in one direction, traveling their last few days in bitterness, shouting at the world for its iniquity, wagging their heads over the sad plight of our time, cursing 'what this world has come to nowadays.' Others, however, are given the gift of traveling the other way, the path of a cheerful confidence in providence...This is the path that knows ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... are just those things to be said… first, to understand them is impossible; second, Jesus does not offer simple solutions to them. What He does offer us is His strength and help somehow to accept what we do not understand. Third, the one fatal reaction is the bitter resentment which forever after meets life with a chip on the shoulder and a grudge against God. The one saving reaction is simply to go on trusting, simply to go on living, to go on working… and to find in the strength and courage to meet ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... , namely this: There is some baggage that we carry around with us all the time that we need to lose, that God wants us to lose. There is problematic baggage in our personalities that can hurt us and hurt other people… baggage like prejudice, resentment, bitterness, jealousy, envy... baggage that hinders us and burdens us and robs us of the joy of life. We have actually brought that concept into our everyday language. We say things like this: “He’s good and talented, but he brings lots of baggage with ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... began to change. The hardened lines in their foreheads began to soften. By the time they got to the last line, “I will cherish the old rugged cross, And exchange it some day for a crown,” the expressions had changed. Where once bitterness, pain and resentment had lived alone, comfort, for just a minute, reigned. That, this young pastor-to-be discovered, was the power of Jesus. When his unlikely collection of parishioners left the mission center, the glazed eyes returned, the lines on their foreheads ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... , demanding our pound of flesh, seething over our grievances, shackled by our silly pride, unbending, unmerciful, unable and unwilling to forgive and forget, and isn’t that tragic? Because the truth is that revenge is never sweet; it ultimately becomes a sour stomach and a bitter memory and a poisoned soul. Jesus knew this… and so, He called for us… to be bridge builders, to be peace-makers to receive forgiveness from Him and offer it to others. This was a key theme of many of His parables. It was a ...
1123. Rise Above It
John 21:15-19
Sermon
James W. Moore
... Disillusionment is the problem that occurs when people try something…and it doesn’t quite live up to their expectations. They feel let down and then turn with a real sense of disappointment, a real sense of betrayal, a real sense sometimes of even bitterness. They accepted the promises. They tried… and yet somehow… they feel it didn’t come through for them. They took the spiritual check to the bank and it bounced… and they become disillusioned! That’s the picture we see in Cleopas and Simon as ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... self-esteem. Healthy self-esteem creates happy people. Poor self-esteem creates hostile people. If you find people who are always negative, always complaining, always unhappy, always criticizing their co-workers, … you can be sure that they have a self-esteem problem. Their bitterness is within. They are unhappy with themselves. But, there is help from God. Simon Peter’s self-esteem had been shot when he denied his Lord 3 times. And even though Christ came and found him and forgave him… still his self ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... and loving toward others. III. THIRD AND FINALLY, MAGNANIMOUS PEOPLE ARE BIG ENOUGH TO FORGIVE AND FORGET. They don’t hold grudges. They don’t seek vengeance. Some years ago, a woman in New England was going through a grief experience… and she became bitter and angry… and for some reason she took it all out on her minister. - She said horrible things about him… started terrible rumors about him. - Wrote cruel letters to him. - And made calls trying everything to get him fired… and he kept on ...
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