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
King Duncan
... a very attractive picture of Christ --who he is and what he has done. We have offered people the grace, peace and love of Christ and millions have responded. Christ has followers in every part of the globe. We have brought countless crowds of people ... so, all we have to do is to read the headlines in our morning paper. More than anything else people need to see the grace, love and peace of Jesus Christ lived out in human form and that will only happen when we who have been buried with Christ in Christian ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... the danger they were in, she began to get her brothers and sisters out of the car and to safety. She dragged both her mother and grandmother out of the car. As she was pulling both them to safety, the train hit the car at 60 mph. Alice's extravagant love saved her family's life, but it cost her own. As the train smashed into their car, Alice was too close, and died a brutal death. Pastor Rouse sums up the meaning of that event for him particularly in the light of the cross: "Our Lord and Savior," he writes ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , not less. But there's one last thing that must be said, in fairness to our text: If you ever have to make a choice, your first loyalty is to God. Everything in this world belongs to God. Our possessions. Our bodies. Our hopes and dreams. Even those we love. Everything belongs to God. Here is where the rubber meets the road for most of us. It's easy for us to be people of God. Too easy. We are like Job before he was afflicted. Remember the story. God says about Job: "Behold a righteous man." And Satan says ...
1104. Amazing Grace
Romans 5:1-11
Sermon
Edward Inabinet
... of this world--that’s what makes grace necessary. Let’s look next at how God makes His grace available. We find it here in verse 6 and verse 8. It says that, "While we were still helpless at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. . . God shows his love for us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us." I want you to take notice of the three conditions that Paul says precede this grace. All of them are found in phrases that begin with the word "while." While we were still or yet weak or ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... checkbook full of blank checks! (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1971, p.46) Now, if Greeley is referring to the lavish love of God, I could not agree more; but I must confess that his metaphor of God’s giving us a checkbook full of ... fate?” His questions were as old as the Book of Job and as new as the latest report from the hospital bed of someone we love. I won’t tell you how Rabbi Kushner handled all of the questions. You can read the book for yourself. But he discovered one thing that ...
1106. How to Look Foolish
1 Corinthians 1:18-25
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... something terribly, terribly wrong with this world if the Son of God ends up on a cross. So keep the scandal in the cross. Also, the way of the cross is the way this world is going to get fixed. The way of the cross is the way of love. He explains it in the llth and 12th chapters. He describes what is happening in Corinth, people separating themselves from others on the basis of the gifts that separated them, made them better than other people. Paul says if you believe that, you are acting as if Christ had ...
Sermon
Mark Trotter
... , that has been hidden from the ages and is now revealed to us by the Spirit. This is the mystery he is talking about: God loves us so much, that God came to us to be with us. The theological word for that is "incarnation." Incarnation means "in the flesh." That ... us as we are, forgave us and gave us new life, and thus revealed that we do not have to be righteous in order to be loved by God. We don't have to have a pure life in order to follow Jesus. We just have to be faithful. He comes to us as ...
1108. Transmission
1 John 3:11-24
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... would like to see transmitted to each new generation? (Making Peace with Reality (Colorado Springs, CO: Nav Press, 2001), chapter 12) A sense of destiny they're unique, special, and have confidence; A sense of purpose they have a mission in life; A sense of love a legacy of love; A sense of security they're safe; family is their refuge; A sense of hope; A desire for godliness a passion for God and the gospel. In today's 1 John text, the author has considered what he most wants to transmit to the fledgling ...
1109. Ephesians 2:4-25
Ephesians 2:4-25
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... to Babylon - an exile they earned through repeatedly mocking God, God's messengers, and God's mandates. This week's Psalm (137:1-6) continues the saga of the exiled people of God. It is a mournful cry of sorrow - a lament for a lost homeland. God's love had meted out harsh disciplinary measures on the people. Yet even as they pined after their home, God was plotting a way to return them. In verse 23 of 2 Chronicles the plan is revealed. Through the authority of an enemy king, Cyrus of Persia, God proclaims ...
1110. Deuteronomy 6:1-9
Deuteronomy 6:1-9
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... 18 to give a two-pronged answer to the scribe's question. Only here in Mark's rendition of this encounter does Jesus recite the line "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one" (verse 29), which precedes the remainder of the command that "you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength" (verse 30). In the Jewish tradition this is known as the Shema - the Hebrew for the first word of this imperative command: "Hear." Since at ...
1111. Ephesians 2:4-25
Ephesians 2:4-25
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... to Babylon - an exile they earned through repeatedly mocking God, God's messengers, and God's mandates. This week's Psalm (137:1-6) continues the saga of the exiled people of God. It is a mournful cry of sorrow - a lament for a lost homeland. God's love had meted out harsh disciplinary measures on the people. Yet even as they pined after their home, God was plotting a way to return them. In verse 23 of 2 Chronicles the plan is revealed. Through the authority of an enemy king, Cyrus of Persia, God proclaims ...
1112. Romans 13:8-14
Romans 13:8-14
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... for temporal guidelines. Even thought the eschaton itself is a nontemporal age, Paul here testifies that it is inaugurated by the passage of time - and that the time is drawing very near. Although Paul does not mention his call to agape-love again in this text, its practical presence is assumed as he describes what proper Christian attitudes of preparedness should prevail. Now, however, instead of itemizing the components contained in the "armor of light" that he requires all Christians to inhabit, Paul ...
1113. Proper 8
2 Samuel 1:1-16, 2 Samuel 1:17-27, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, Mark 5:21-43
Sermon Aid
John R. Brokhoff
... to learn and sing the lament to express their sorrow at the loss of their heroes. It is appropriate to express sorrow when a loved one dies. 2. The mighty have fallen (vv. 19, 25). "How the mighty have fallen" is the theme of the lament. They were the "mighty ... it has funds. Giving is a spiritual matter and it is to this that we turn. Outline: To acquire the grace of giving – a. Express your love v. 8. b. Follow the example of Jesus v. 9. c. Meet the needs of the poor v. 14. 2. How much shall I give? ( ...
1114. Living In The Spirit Of Peace
Galatians 5:22-25, Colossians 3:14-15
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... peace that passes all understanding [that] keeps our hearts and minds in Christ." This Peace, this Shalom can only be born in us through the Love and Joy of God's Holy Spirit which lives and reigns in us. This Peace, this Shalom is one of the fruit of the ... it. And the covenant which I have made on earth, let it be ratified in heaven. Amen. This Peace, this Shalom born through the Love and Joy of God's Holy Spirit, makes all the difference in the world. It makes all the difference in our lives. Conclusion ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... 's not a lot of room for intimacy and pretty soon it all becomes about power and control: the power of control and the control of power. B. Within a strong, functional family where trust and intimacy are prevalent, it's simply about the power of love and how that love influences and shapes lives. Nell Mohney in her book, Don't Put A Period Where God Put A Comma, tells about a young lady named Kathy. There was an aliveness about Kathy that was evident as soon as you met her. She exuded energy and interest ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... distilled wisdom: I am only one – but am one I cannot do everything – but I can do something What I can do – I ought to do What I might do - I will do That’s the only sensible way to live, doing the very best we can, loving as much as we can love, spending what energy we have, but trusting God and others to do the rest. There is a difference between following Christ and being in Christ. To be in Christ was Paul’s favorite definition of a Christian, and Jesus called us to abide in Him. This has ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... they drank from the supernatural Rock which followed them, and the Rock was Christ (I Cor. 10:3-4). What an image: “and the rock was Christ.” If you are a rock, you won’t hurt, you won’t cry, you won’t feel pain, because you won’t love. You won’t laugh either, you won’t know joy, you won’t live very much. But if Jesus is your Rock, you’ll stand on it with a lot of other people holding hands; Sometimes you’ll laugh, sometimes you’ll cry, sometimes rejoice, sometimes you’ll be very ...
Sermon
Steven E. Albertin
... always sound absurd. But the real mystery of the Trinity is not simply its complexity or a strange sort of logic. The real mystery of the Trinity is this: Why does God bother at all? Why does God bother with us at all? Why does God bother to love us like this? Why does God bother to be this merciful, this compassionate, this generous? Perhaps some day we will know the answer to that question. But even if we never find out, it won't matter. She was your typical awkward adolescent. She was convinced that she ...
Sermon
Steven Molin
... Yancy in his 1997 book, What's So Amazing About Grace? They would passionately argue that we are part of a fallen humanity and cannot honestly live righteous lives. They would remind us that Christ's work on the cross means that we don't have to earn God's love, or prove to anyone else that we're good enough. To do so would be to sink back into legalism and negate the redeeming work of Jesus. But what they will not admit is that grace can make us lazy; it can provide for us an excuse to live disobedient ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... stick is a strange, even bizarre image, taken from a rarely read book of Old Testament scripture. But for Jesus’ listeners and John’s first readers, the startling and strange text here is that prefaces the most familiar and beloved passage of the church: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.” The declaration of 3:16 makes it clear that this “Son of Man” who must be “lifted up” is the same as the ...
1121. No ... On
Luke 22:66--23:25
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... and you have a flood. You wanted sunny skies. But when the sun shines, it never seems to stop and you have a drought. You love snow. You pray for a white Christmas. But when it starts, it never stops and you have a blizzard. You are preparing for the grand ... dies on a cross. He goes all the way to the cemetery and joins us in that ultimate state of oblivion, all because he loves us. That will be remembered this coming Friday. It will be a dark day. This sanctuary will be draped in black because that was ...
1122. A Bloody Cheer!
Philippians 2:5-11
Sermon
Steven E. Albertin
... and you have a flood. You wanted sunny skies. But when the sun shines, it never seems to stop and you have a drought. You love snow. You pray for a white Christmas. But when it starts, it never stops and you have a blizzard. You are preparing for the grand ... dies on a cross. He goes all the way to the cemetery and joins us in that ultimate state of oblivion, all because he loves us. That will be remembered this coming Friday. It will be a dark day. This sanctuary will be draped in black because that was ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.” Jesus, the Good Shepherd knows us by name. We are to listen for his voice and follow him, knowing that he will provide for every need. And nothing will every separate us from his love. This is his promise to his people, the sheep of his pasture. 1. Arizona Highways. 2. Dvu, Peter and Kate Nash in Monday Fodder. 3. http://www.visitgateway.org/Services/Messages/2011/03-27-11/I_Am_Gary_Gaertner_03_27_11.pdf. 4. Neil T. Anderson, Victory Over the Darkness ...
1124. The Lifesaver App
1 Corinthians 1:10-17
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... is the “killer app,” as the lingo puts it. But the true “Jesus app” is not a “killer app” but a life-saver app. For the “Jesus app” to be a “life-saver” app it must be available to all, to all who need the redeeming love of God, which is to say, all of creation. The “apps” we download from Google Play or The App Store aren’t generic. They are each highly specific, giving online users exactly what they want at the moment they want it. These electronic “apps” are available to ...
Understanding Series
Arthur G. Patzia
... one body,” and so on. The unity here is a gift of the Spirit and should thus manifest itself in the human spirit. Peace is introduced as the quality or means that forges a bond holding believers together. This is different from Colossians 3:14, where love binds all things together in perfect unity. In Ephesians, peace was obtained when the hostilities that separated Jews and Gentiles were broken down and both races were united in one new man in Christ (2:14–16); here it is presented as the bond by which ...
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