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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Bill Bouknight
... changed my love into a sentiments, maudlin mess of mush; and you never warned my people about judgment, justice and my hatred of sin. Lots of people went to hell because you never sounded an alarm.” When prosperous people like us show callous disregard for the poverty stricken, violence-plagued children of the Memphis housing projects, God’s wrath will be experienced. When a parent neglects a child in his growing years, rationalizing that the extra time on the job buys the family lots of goodies, that ...
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Bill Bouknight
... ." Oh no! Rather He says, "Your sin was a huge thing! A damnable thing! Look at the Cross and see what it cost!" Because of Calvary we have a choice. You can repent of that sin and trust that Jesus paid the penalty for it. Or, you can disregard the cross and pay the penalty yourself. It's up to you." The cross we will celebrate this Friday still casts its glorious shadow across all the centuries, past and future, advertising the most significant choice of our lives. Jesus will either be for you a Savior or ...
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Bill Bouknight
... , “ Easter at the Pyramid event, we do have critics. I have received letters, usually unsigned, that begin this way; “You liberal do-gooders ought to mind your own business.” Because I know that racial reconciliation is God’s business and therefore our business, I disregard such criticism. That’s what I mean by shaking it off like water off a duck’s back. NOW, LET ME GET ON TO THE THIRD PART OF THE BIBLE’S STRATEGY FOR DEALING WITH CRITICISM: KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE BOTTOM LINE, THE RESULTS ...
104. A Cosmic Announcement
Isaiah 63:7--64:12
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Susan Hedahl
... cry in the night of the newborn child unforgettably reminds us of the orphaned state of our own hearts. We listen in spite of ourselves. His cry is ours. His destiny is linked to our future. The birth announcement has each of our names printed on it. With utter disregard for boundaries, the Lord of the Universe proclaims to all people, through time and space, to all that is and is to come: My Child - for you! And there is no darkened corner, which will not hear the word of love spoken. No ear which will not ...
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Donald Macleod
... this slab of ancient history have anything to say to us in this concluding decade of the twentieth century? And more particularly, what basics for living are called here to our attention in this Lenten period? 1. We are responsible to a moral order that we defy or disregard at our peril. We are living in a time when order of any kind appears to be the least of all realities. Indeed it seems at times that the bottom has dropped out of everything. The ideals and hopes that Christians have held dear seem to be ...
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Gordon Pratt Baker
... sheep. At times they had to be protected from themselves. For on occasion one of the flock, becoming confused in the darkness, wandered away. As soon as the shepherd discovered its absence he secured the remainder of his charges out of harm’s way and, disregarding his own safety, searched until he found the straggler, often plucking it from some perilous plight with his crook (cf. Matthew 18:12). How like God the shepherd is, reflects the old poet, seeking and saving his own. It is a thought to warm the ...
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Carl E. Zahrte
... where you are, to bring someone else to Jesus? You sing the hymn, "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds," but then you let that name slip from your lips in angry cursing. You call Jesus "Lord," but then deny that he is your master by your careless disregard for the needs of others and your failure to be his humble, obedient servants. Whether it’s because you are fearful of ridicule or afraid it will get you too much involved, you look for excuses to justify your failure to be his witnesses. Yes, I was there ...
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Brett Blair
... do good. So let's just get it out on the table at the outset of this sermon, the Ten Commandments are not meant to be an end in themselves. Still, having said that, we must also concede that the Commandments are so basic to life that if we disregard them, we court disaster. Look at it this way. Jesus called upon us to go the second mile. But to go the second mile you must first go the first. The Ten Commandments represent the first mile. Love represents the second mile. Both are needed; both are necessary ...
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Brett Blair
... do good. So let’s just get it out on the table at the outset of this sermon, the Ten Commandments are not meant to be an end in themselves. Still, having said that, we must also concede that the Commandments are so basic to life that if we disregard them, we court disaster. Look at it this way. Jesus called upon us to go the second mile. But to go the second mile you must first go the first. The Ten Commandments represent the first mile. Love represents the second mile. Both are needed; both are necessary ...
110. Feet Of Clay
2 Samuel 11:1-27
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Roger Prescott
... he was outside the usual laws. The clean, sparse words of Scripture describe the moment: So David sent messengers, and took her. - 2 Samuel 11:4 Men and women today, caught up in the hurts and pressures of their lives, often succumb to the temptation to disregard their marriage vows and carry on flirtatious exchanges. When that happens we all need to be reminded of the words of Luther: You can’t keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair. David was ...
Drama
Michael L. Sherer
... for him. What’s the matter with me anyway? My family has more than enough of everything. The Sullivans are just scraping by. And now this awful blow to them. Lord, why do you permit things like this to happen? Or, should I be blaming EIC and its greedy disregard for human safety? God, I’ve got to do something about this. But I don’t know what. I’m not even an EIC employee. BILL CHILDS: You going to sign it? EVIE CHILDS: (studying the piece of paper on the table before her) You realize, Bill, that ...
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Ron Lavin
... Anything short of that is as self-defeating as driving your car against traffic on a superhighway. Of course, that doesn’t seem to be so now. As a matter of fact, the opposite seems to be true. At first glance, it seems that those who disregard God and neighbor are the big successes in life. Appearances are sometimes deceiving. Things are not always what they seem. Belief in God The Pharisees in our text believed in God. Many people today say they believe in God. Sometimes people who say that they believe ...
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Ron Lavin
... . Jesus urges that we live in the light of the harvest. Some people live as if there will never be a harvest. Increasingly we have become a secular society wherein people go about their daily business of earning a dollar and caring for themselves, disregarding their maker and forgetting that all must face God when death comes. The parable of the harvest provides a new perspective for those who fear death so much that they pretend that it will never come. To every life comes the inevitable announcement, "the ...
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... ’t seem right either, for we should have to make up for our sins. We want to do that. Set the record straight. And, of course, admitting our wrongs and feeling the need for forgiveness are difficult. To confess our hatreds, our infidelities, and our many acts of disregard is hard! Better to keep them hidden rather than admit them to ourselves or to others. No, if it is true that God has come to be with us in Christ, then we have to see life in totally different terms. No wonder Mary was troubled by the ...
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Gregory J. Johanson
... performance, a missing of the mark. Psychologically, Menninger sees the basis as an "implicitly (or explicitly) aggressive quality," further explicated as "a hurting, a breaking away from God and the rest of humanity ... Someone is defied or offended or hurt - the willful disregard or sacrifice of the welfare of others for the welfare or satisfaction of the self." - a refusal of the love of others - hate. 4) From this grows an understanding of how feelings of guilt can be healed, our next question. Here we ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... the Babe of Bethlehem. God's values in the Word -- the moral standards -- will never, never change. We say this in spite of changing moral values in our day and the new morality. God's commands are for every generation as long as time lasts. Woe to that person who disregards and disobeys them! He will fall on a rock and be crushed. It is good to say this and it sounds good, but it is meaningless to you and me unless we possess the Word of God in our lives. If we do not believe and accept the truth of ...
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Mark Ellingsen
... succumbed to? We have made the esteem of our fellow human beings, especially the ones who exercise power in our institutions, more important than truth. Our text, the whole Bible, teaches that the truth is that our social institutions will not endure. By disregarding this we have set ourselves up for misery and unhappiness. According to Saint Augustine, you and I will only find happiness when we prioritize the values of God’s Kingdom, the power of the gospel, over the values that earthly powers try to ...
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Robert Leslie Holmes
... When we attach our future to what God sees, we can go on forever. So, let’s be sure that we spend our lives “looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary or lose heart” (Hebrews 12:2, 3). II. The Prophet’s Potent Poise “Elijah said ...
119. The ABC Gospel
2 Kings 5:1-27
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Robert Leslie Holmes
... . The weather was so bad it was dangerous to venture outside. Knowing that the family was too poor even to pay his fee, the doctor contemplated refusing to answer the patient’s urgent appeal. Yet, he knew that there was a good possibility of complications. Disregarding his personal comfort and safety, he set out to brave the furious elements. It was well he did, for indeed there were complications and without his help the child who was born that night probably would have died. Later, near the end of his ...
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James W. Moore
... nor comprehends the spoken word. Sometimes she babbles incoherently for hours on end. She is disoriented about person, place, and time. She does, however, respond to her name… I have worked with her for the past six months, but she still shows complete disregard for her physical appearance and makes no effort to assist her own care. She must be fed, bathed, and clothed by others. “Because she has no teeth, her food must be pureed. Her shirt is usually soiled from almost incessant drooling. She does ...
121. When Our Children Teach Us - Sermon Opener
Luke 2:41-52
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James W. Moore
... nor comprehends the spoken word. Sometimes she babbles incoherently for hours on end. She is disoriented about person, place, and time. She does, however, respond to her name… I have worked with her for the past six months, but she still shows complete disregard for her physical appearance and makes no effort to assist her own care. She must be fed, bathed, and clothed by others. “Because she has no teeth, her food must be pureed. Her shirt is usually soiled from almost incessant drooling. She does ...
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Brett Blair
... Christ and now Christ has opened his heart to his sins. And what were his sins? He had regularly cheated the people he tasked, stole from them, and perhaps lied to the state on how much he had collected. But perhaps worse than his miscalculations was his disregard for the poor. Luke tells us that Zacchaeus stood up at some point during the meal and announced to his guest, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four ...
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David E. Leininger
... Rabbi Akiba even went the length of saying that it meant if a man found a woman who was "fairer" in his eyes than his wife was. Given the way human nature goes, you can imagine which school of thought was most popular.(3) In line with this general disregard for women in the ancient world, if a woman were divorced, she did not have many options. There were no "Want Ads" to scour. She could go back home to her parents or move in with some other relative. If that were not possible, she might be forced to ...
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David E. Leininger
... . Ghandi, of course, was a leading light in that movement and a strong believer in its eventual success but ONLY if the struggle were carried on by non-violent means. When word came to him that some of his own followers in the movement were beginning to disregard this principle of non-violence, he announced that he would not eat until ALL their violence was at an end and that they would guarantee that violent acts would not recur. As the days passed, it became obvious that Ghandi was in dead earnest and was ...
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Dr. Chane M. Hutton
... he believed in God but because he suddenly realized that God believed in him. In Lloyd Douglas' novel INVITATION TO LIVE we encounter a woman named Sally who has failed as an actress. She has thrown away her great opportunity because of her conceit, her disregard of authority, and her blindness to her own limitations. Defeated, discouraged, and cynical, she says to the dean, "I'm not even sure that I believe in God." "That's not important just now," the dean replies. "I mean, it isn't quite so urgent ...
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