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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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1426. On Not Being First

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... . What kind of person? I can't help occasional disappointment, even jealousy on rare occasion, because I'm a human being, raised in a competitive society. Perhaps I'll need to turn to my Savior for forgiveness and charity of spirit. But that's all part of the life-long process of becoming a Christian. Many of us are familiar with Henry Van Dyke's story of "The Mansion." Remember? It's about a very wealthy man who dreamed he died and went to heaven. Met there by an angel, he was escorted to the home in which ...

1427. Rainbow In The Sky

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... . Jesus would later declare that even a sparrow cannot fall but God knows. Somewhere is a poem about Jesus, walking past the long-dead carcass of a dog. As others gave the pitiable sight a wide berth, Jesus drew close, observed the dead creature and ... s help. Suddenly, Mom remembered that she had, among her groceries, purchased a can of pressed meat. Frantically, she tore open the sack, pulled a long key loose from the side of the can and rolled back the metal top. With that she was able to cut the strings of ...

1428. Lasting Impressions

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... that good conduct will strengthen the society in which we live while bad conduct erodes and weakens humanity. Good conduct is in harmony with God's purpose while bad conduct is living in discord without God. We can picture the wise teacher, having lived a long life teaching young students some of the lessons he learned in life. The wise teacher wanted to pass on his lifetime of learning to future generations so they might avoid the traps he fell into. Instead of pursuing riches every waking moment of your ...

1429. Clear Channel Voice

Proverbs 1:20-33

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... have to choose which voices they would listen to. This was one lesson that the students would remember for a long time. Long ago there was another teacher with students distracted by other voices. These students' classroom was the busy marketplace. The ... street, so this creative teacher personified or embodied wisdom as a woman calling out in the street, vying for attention. "How long, O simple ones," the voice of wisdom calls out, "will you love being simple?" The students were more interested in what ...

1430. Jacob And The Night Wrestler

Genesis 32:22-32

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... So I did it and was married. Leah: Jacob, dearest, it is morning. Time to wake up. Jacob: Good morning, my love! I have waited so long for -- what is this! You aren't Rachel! Leah, what are you doing here? I married Rachel last night at the feast! Leah: Laban, my father ... the baby Joseph. If your father comes, I don't want us both caught and killed by him. So go. I'll be along. She looked long at me, then turned and went on across the river. When she was over the hill on the other side, I went back to the fire ...

1431. Moses's New Job

Exodus 4:18-31

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... you two tricks. They may impress people. Maybe they won't. But don't count on them. People will figure it's magic." To make a long story short, He took none of my excuses. God promised to send Aaron, my older brother, to work with me. And Aaron's here with ... have done well WITH you, too. But we weren't given that chance. Forgive the tone of my questions in these past letters. I know your longing for using all your skills. I know your energy and what it can bring about. But I had to slow you down so that you ...

1432. Gifts of Love

John 3:16

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... Does anyone know what that was? I'll give you a hint: it wasn't an apple." The children sit with puzzled looks on their faces, thinking about what God's gift might have been so long ago. As the silence grows, I prod their thoughts: "Two thousand years is a long time, isn't it? What did God give us so long ago? I'll give you another hint. God's gift was a person." Immediately their faces light up with understanding. "Jesus!" several children exclaim together. "Yes, God gave us Jesus, God's son. Why would God ...

1433. Cutting Teeth

Ephesians 4:1-16

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... of beavers. We must all work together in order to build up the church and plan for our future. If the members of the long-range planning committee had to do all the work by themselves, it would be about as impossible as it would be for Buckley to ... other beavers to help him, can't you, Buckley?" As I ask this question, I make the puppet nod affirmatively. "And the long-range planning committee will be depending on everyone here to help them. They may ask for help with planning and making decisions; they ...

1434. The Poor In Spirit

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

John A. Terry

... , their consolation ebbed. Suddenly they saw the reality of their situation. Regardless of the words of the preacher and the teachings of Jesus, they were society's outcasts. The blessings about which they were just taught merged with the cry, "How long, merciful Father? How long?" They were facing the collision between what is and the promise of what is to come. Those listening may not have felt very blessed. The lives of those listening provided little evidence of what anyone would call good fortune. But ...

1435. The Pure In Heart

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

John A. Terry

... always had order. It was he who had failed to see God. Phil concluded this section of his book with a paraphrase of Jesus' response to the request of the disciple Philip, who said, "Lord, show us the Father and we shall be satisfied." "O Philip, have you been so long a time with me and yet you do not know me! No one sees the Father, yet each act and word that expresses His will makes God known. Philip, can't you understand you have been seeing the Father all along as you lived with me? When you understand ...

1436. Who Is My Family?

Mark 3:35

Children's Sermon

... of arms is a special sign that belongs to a family. We don't use coats of arms now very much, but in the times very long ago, very rich families all had them. If anyone else saw your coat of arms, they would know which family you belonged to. It has special ... were all from the same family. Family reunions are fun because usually you get to see people that you haven't seen for a long time. Usually it's at a park or a very large room because there's so many people. Sometimes everyone brings food and they all ...

1437. Bread of Another Kind (Bread of Life II)

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... of their “R & R,” the demanding crowds had already arrived. Back to work again! This is where thousands ate and were satisfied because of the generosity of a little boy. Six, by the time that banquet was over, Jesus was sure the Twelve would get their long-awaited “R & R.” He put them on a boat, sending them out of sight across the lake. Seven, he dismissed the crowd. Eight, he himself went up the hillside alone to pray and rest. Nine, during the night a storm at sea scared the Twelve “out ...

1438. There Is Healing in the Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... or EKGs or blood profiles. You may work with people having these tests. You may work in a nursing home or on a hospital ward. Most of us have had some of these tests done ourselves. I had some outpatient tests done recently. My mother-in-law had surgery not long ago. Most of us have had treatment for one medical problem or another. What I am interested in, at the moment, is those characteristics that give you and me the ability to cope, the ability to say, “Yes!” when asked if we want to live to be a ...

1439. We Haven’t Got To Them Yet

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... everything. I love you more than life itself. I’ll always be true to you.” Theirs is the pure essence of love. Two lives have been miraculously brought together and made one. Then Junior comes along. Junior is one of those unfortunate children who has long-term colic. For months he cries day and night. Poor John, unequipped for playing second fiddle, gets itchy and slips. Having distilled his life down to Mable, John learns that there is much of life he hasn’t gotten to yet. And, Mable, torn between ...

1440. I Saw a New Heaven

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... road at night when an oncoming driver under the influence of alcohol crossed the yellow line, resulting in a head-on collision. In this world no one is guaranteed safety. We must be ready to die at any time. The journey of this earthly pilgrimage may be very long or very short, but its destination for those in Christ is the same. We meet at the throne of God in glory, there to rejoice in his presence forever. There is one more thing that must be noted in the vision in Revelation. John saw “the holy city ...

1441. OK, God You Win!

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... of my terrible performance! In a similar way, Job won because God won. It is always this way when God wins over us. When we have an encounter with God, we come out as winners. Life is never again the same. When Jacob wrestled with God all night long, he won the match by becoming a new person. His name was changed to “Israel.” When Moses had an encounter with God at the burning bush, he was changed from a refugee shepherd to a leader of a nation. When Isaiah had an experience with God while worshiping ...

1442. Forever and Ever

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... enough love in God’s warehouse for people who do not deserve love? Take the case of David and Absalom. Absalom rebelled against his father, king of Israel. He gathered an army and went to war with the intent of killing his father. During the battle, Absalom’s long hair caught in the branches of a tree and he was found suspended in midair. Troops faithful to David killed and cut him down. When the news came to David, he was overcome with grief. He kept crying, “O my son! My son Absalom! If only I had ...

1443. God’s Great Final Day

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... sight. He is described as “ancient of days.” This does not mean that he is wrinkled and bent over or leaning on a cane. It means that he has lived for a long time. In heaven wrinkles and arthritic joints do not apply, for there is no physical body in heaven. The Judge, of course, is God, and he has lived for a long, long time. The best estimate of science is that our solar system is approximately four and a half billion years old. God existed before that. We have never seen a person who is more ...

1444. Learning The Basics

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... , through Christ's love, to love one another unconditionally. To act lovingly toward each other even when we do not like each other. There are times in the family when there is illness, when there has been death, or when spouses have been working long hours apart from one another, when that "romantic feeling" of love disappears. But then there are those moments when spouses do spend time together, vacations, holidays, going out to dinner together, getting away for a weekend alone or spending a quiet day off ...

1445. Changing The Rules

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... case and what I think your sentence should be. I'll be back in 15 minutes. You can just wait right here, I won't be long." The 15 minutes seemed like a lifetime to Billy, forcing him to deal with his crime once again. "Boy, I wish I could replay the tape ... in the affirmative. "Let me tell you why, Billy," Judge Green was speaking softly and tenderly now, "I've known your mother for a long time. Yes, your mother and I went to school together when we were kids. Billy, your father was a fine man, but when he ...

1446. God's Math:Lose Life = Save It

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... but if God is with us we are not in danger. The worst that can happen to us is dislocation from Christ. Hence, as long as we are with the eternal divine logos, the infinite "Word become flesh" in the Lord Jesus, our thoughts come from God, not from ... . time he was required to pull out of his driveway in order to make it to work on time. He wouldn't be doing this for very long anyway, he thought, as he considered that in only six weeks he would be back in school. The day's date was June 29 and on August ...

1447. God As Wisdom

Proverbs 1:20-33

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... us or seems a hostile place, the shocks we experience, the hard-knocks, the care we receive and the care we do not. Our images of God are a complex mix of unconscious material and human experience. They reflect life's most intimate moments and our hearts' deepest longings, so our images of God are often difficult to determine, to describe, to talk about. Now I'd like to push us a little further. How has your image of God changed through the years, or has it? Sometimes, our images remain the same as the ones ...

1448. Who Can Find A Virtuous Woman?

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... , as an anachronism, a leftover from an ancient culture, valuable perhaps for its historical description of domestic life in Israel of the day, but not valuable for much beyond that. We have come a long, long way in understanding who we are as women since this passage was written. We are equal in God's intention. And we have come too long a way and we know it is we ourselves who decides our virtue - we do - not to let some Hebrew sage tell us. And there are other problems with this passage. It is choppy ...

1449. Path To A New Life

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... the only light. But in the city, the darkness comes as if some giant curtain was suddenly pulled tight, blocking out all illumination. It was in that darkness that Ely slowly made his way home through the maze of Jerusalem's streets. He had played too long, and too far from his home. Now two consequences lay ahead of him. One was the beating he would probably receive in arriving home so late. The other was the problem of getting there! Ely turned onto cobbled streets that he thought were familiar, sometimes ...

1450. The M And M Factor

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... to be part of it. He was caught in the midst of it. Life just moved along, engulfing him, whether he was lazy or not. He long remembered that meeting in the middle of the grain field. And whether you want to be involved in it today, you are! That is the point ... love or not. God's love comes to us as a grace, a gift that we never earned. We never earn it with a long list of good works, nor a long list of unbroken laws. God's love and care is given to us. Jesus shared that in the strength he gave to the man' ...

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