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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

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101. I Want to See Your Resurrection

John 20:1-9

Illustration

King Duncan

... Zen teacher. Pennington says that at his meeting the Zen teacher sat there before him smiling from ear to ear and rocking gleefully back and forth. Finally the teacher said: "I like Christianity. But I would not like Christianity without the resurrection. I want to see your resurrection!" Pennington notes that, "With his directness, the teacher was saying what everyone else implicitly says to Christians: You are a Christian. You are risen with Christ. Show me (what this means for you in your life) and I ...

102. Everyone Wants a Winner

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

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Bill Bouknight

... to my instructions and you can't help but win. As soon as the race begins, get this horse into an outside lane, because there is nothing here that can catch him, except me and the Duke of Marlborough." You and I have something in common with that Texan. We want to back a winner in every phase of our living.

103. Wanted Men

Illustration

John Newland

... motorist. They asked the man to follow them to the police station, but while en route they spotted a North Carolina vehicle whose license plate and driver matched the description in an all-points bulletin. The officers took off in a high-speed chase, and finally stopped the wanted man's car. Minutes later, as the felon was being arrested, the unlicensed motorist drove up. "If y'all will just tell me how to get to the station, I'll wait for you there," he said. "I'm having a heck of a time keeping up with ...

104. Housekeeper Wanted

Illustration

Staff

... Mrs. Donnelley who loves with him.'" Thursday: "Please take notice that I, the Rev. A.J. Jones, have no color TV set for sale; I have smashed it. Don't call 626-1313 anymore. I have not been carrying on with Mrs. Donnelley. She was, until yesterday, my housekeeper.'" Friday: "Wanted: a housekeeper. Usual housekeeping duties. Good pay. Love in, Rev. A.J. Jones. Telephone 626- 1313.'" Mistakes are inevitable in the publishing business.

105. All I Want Is Water

Humor Illustration

... in a joke that went around sometime back about a man who was crawling through the desert on his hands and knees, desperate for a drink of water. He encountered a man selling neckties. "Would you like to buy a nice necktie?" the salesman asked. "All I want is a drink of water," the man growled. The salesman had no water, so the poor man kept crawling across the sand. Miraculously, out in the middle of that vast desert, he came upon a beautiful restaurant. At first he thought it was a mirage, but as ...

106. How Do You Want Your Eggs?

Humor Illustration

There are some people who are impossible to please. One ill-tempered husband was sullen and silent at the breakfast table. "How do you want your eggs cooked?" asked his wife gently. "One fried and one scrambled," he answered gruffly. When she placed the eggs before him, he was furious. "What's wrong?" asked his wife. "You fried the wrong egg." he snapped.

107. Want to Trade Jobs?

Humor Illustration

At a hockey game, one of the players rammed hard into the boards. As he struggled to regain his balance he gasped, "There's got to be an easier way to make a living." A woman in the front row replied, "You want to trade jobs?" "What do you do?" the player asked. She said, "I teach sixth grade." "Forget it," he said, and he was gone.

108. The Church Has What We Want

Illustration

King Duncan

... he wrote of a place of shelter open to all in Christ. People still need a shelter from life's storms. People still need a place of quiet refuge. People still need a place where they can connect with one another and with God. The church has what most people want today.

109. That’s All I Want

John 10:1-21

Illustration

B. Wiley Stephens

A little girl reciting the 23rd Psalm began, "The Lord is my shepherd; that's all I want." Maybe she missed the wording, but she sure got the theology right. To have Jesus as our shepherd is indeed a blessing. As he moves towards the cross, Jesus holds up this model of the good shepherd, reminding his listeners that a good shepherd would lay down his life for ...

110. Unwanted to Wanted

Illustration

Michael P. Green

In 1944, a forty-one-year-old woman sought an abortion from her doctor. He firmly refused, asserting that abortion was just not right, morally, ethically, or legally. The woman later gave birth to a baby boy and named him James Robison. This unwanted child grew up to become a well-known evangelist. God has a plan for every human life, even those who are not wanted.

111. Finding God when I Want Him

Humor Illustration

Michael P. Green

... storybook and circling the word God wherever it appeared on the page. Stifling her first reaction to reprimand the child for defacing a book, she quietly asked, “Why are you doing that?” Karen’s matter-of-fact answer was: “So that I will know where to find God when I want him.” Wouldn’t it be nice to have her confidence that all we had to do was open a storybook and find God waiting for us? The truth is, we do have such a Book—the Bible.

112. I Want My Mommy

Humor Illustration

Michael P. Green

A little boy was lost during the Christmas shopping rush. He was standing in an aisle of the busy department store crying, “I want my mommy.” People passing by kept giving the unhappy youngster nickels and dimes to cheer him up. Finally a floorwalker came over to him and said, “I know where your mommy is, son.” The little boy looked up with his tear-drenched eyes and said, “So do I … just keep quiet!”

113. Don't Want To Work

Illustration

Michael P. Green

Humorist Ogden Nash captured the bitter truth about laziness: If you don’t want to work You have to work To earn enough money So that you won’t have to work.

114. Getting What You Want

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Editor James S. Hewett

"Be careful," runs the old saying, "or you may get what you want." One who would agree is a man who lived in a squalid tenement on a side street in East Boston. He was a tailor and worked long hours each day to eke out a meager existence. He allowed himself but one luxury: a ticket each year to the Irish Sweepstakes. ...

115. I Want to See

Humor

As the three ladies picked up the menus, each put on a pair of glasses. "Of course, I really need mine only for close reading," remarked the first. "I only wear mine when the light is poor," explained the second. The third was much franker. "I rarely wear mine," she declared, "except when I want to see!"

116. Don't Want To Dissapoint

Humor

... ' mistakes get stopped, electricians' mistakes are shocking, and carpenters' mistakes are sawdust. But just in case you find any mistakes in this magazine, please remember they were put there for a purpose. We try to offer something for everyone. Some people are always looking for mistakes, and we don't want to disappoint them.

117. Wanted: Dead or Alive

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

Did you read the newspaper article about a Social Security office checking up on a recipient? It was in Vallejo, California, and the Social Security people sent this letter: “We want to talk to you about a notification letter in our office that you are deceased. Please let us know if you are.” Senator William Proxmire ridiculed the Social Security Administration bureaucracy, calling the letter “a grave message.” He said in a statement that the officials might be in for “quite ...

118. Christ Wants Us to Know Him and Follow in Self-denial

Luke 9:18-27

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

Call to Worship Pastor: We are invited to join Peter in confessing that Jesus is the Christ, God's anointed Messiah. People: That is our confession, and that is why we have come to worship him. Pastor: Jesus teaches us that such a confession requires a life of discipleship expressed in self-denial. People: May the confession of our lips be supported by the commitment of our lives. Collect Almighty God, our Father, who sent your Son to call us into committed discipleship: Cause us to understand life as the ...

119. "But, Lord, I Didn’t Want To Be Saved in That Way"

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

The encounter between Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria and a leper, and the prophet Elisha is quite a treat. The story opens with Naaman bringing a fortune in gifts which the king had provided him to buy the healing powers of Elisha. It concludes with Naaman asking for "two mules’ burdens of earth" so that he may sacrifice to the true God when he returns home. Two stories from my own life came to me when I began to unpack this text. When I was in seminary there was a young professor whom ...

120. So Just What Do You Want Anyway?

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship The winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs, and the vines are in blossom; they give forth fragrance. Arise, all who are beloved by God, and speed into his presence. (based on Song of Solomon 2:11-13) Collect Lord, your world is beautiful. Your people are beautiful. Your word is beautiful. There is something for all of us, if we will just ...

121. So You Want to Be in the Lead?

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

A million years ago, on October 4th, 1957, the Russians successfully launched Sputnik 1 into space. That made the USSR, not the US, the undisputed leader of space exploration, and you could almost hear the collective thud across the heartland from Long Island to Los Angeles. That thud was the sound of a nation's heart suddenly dropping, stunned and in shock that we were now in second place in our military rivalry with the Soviet Union. But the national response was immediate and intense. In May 1961 ...

122. What I Want

1 Kings 8:1-21, 1 Kings 8:22-61, Psalm 34:1-22

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord rescues them from them all. (Psalm 34:18-19) Collect Constructive God, we come to build this day not with bricks and boards, though you have called us to that ministry, but with hearts and wills dedicated to your kingdom. Amen. Prayer Of Confession But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less this house ...

123. I Think You Said You Wanted An Answer

Job 38:1-7 (34-41)

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Yonder is the sea, great and wide, creeping things innumerable are there, living things both small and great. There go the ships, and Leviathan that you formed to sport in it. All: These all look to you to give them their food in due season; when you give to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things. When you hide your face, they are ...

124. Help Wanted: Only Shunammites Need Apply

2 Kings 4:8-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

It is time to bring back the early Christian tradition of hospitality as expressed in the "Shunammite household." While the story of the Shunammite woman might be an unfamiliar one today, she served as an important symbol among evangelical Christians in the 19th century. In American religious history, there was a tradition known as "Shunammite households" which played a crucial role in the development of frontier faith communities. In the days when itinerancy meant moving on every few hours, not every few ...

125. Wanted: A Lasting Marriage. Only Good Chemists, Bad mathematicians, Expert Soul-O-Flexors Need Apply

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

107 million married persons in the United States are asking the question, "How can I make my marriage last?" The answer is in the details. Here's my favorite "Go Figure!" for 1997: A major status symbol in this greedy-get-more consumer culture of ours is something that no amount of money can buy. You can't inherit it; you can't discover it; you can't even own it. What is it? What is this remarkable commodity that draws gasps of astonishment and admiring glances when it is revealed? It's a miracle marriage ...

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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 101 to 125 of 5000 results

101. I Want to See Your Resurrection

John 20:1-9

Illustration

King Duncan

102. Everyone Wants a Winner

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

Illustration

Bill Bouknight

103. Wanted Men

Illustration

John Newland

104. Housekeeper Wanted

Illustration

Staff

105. All I Want Is Water

Humor Illustration

106. How Do You Want Your Eggs?

Humor Illustration

107. Want to Trade Jobs?

Humor Illustration

108. The Church Has What We Want

Illustration

King Duncan

109. That’s All I Want

John 10:1-21

Illustration

B. Wiley Stephens

110. Unwanted to Wanted

Illustration

Michael P. Green

111. Finding God when I Want Him

Humor Illustration

Michael P. Green

112. I Want My Mommy

Humor Illustration

Michael P. Green

113. Don't Want To Work

Illustration

Michael P. Green

Humorist Ogden Nash captured the bitter truth about laziness: If you don’t want to work You have to work To earn enough money So that you won’t have to work.

114. Getting What You Want

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

115. I Want to See

Humor

116. Don't Want To Dissapoint

Humor

117. Wanted: Dead or Alive

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

118. Christ Wants Us to Know Him and Follow in Self-denial

Luke 9:18-27