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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126. Good Gossip
James 3:1-12
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... this year, lit up by a series of devastating, community-destroying forest fires, it is not hard to understand the kind of searing destruction James intends his readers to envision when he proclaims the tongue to be “a fire.” Parched Palestine was equally susceptible to the wanton destruction caused by wildfires. James calls attention to the communal danger of the unchecked tongue — that it “stains the whole body.” In 1:27 James had cautioned his readers to remain “unstained” (“aspilon ...
127. James 3:1-12
James 3:1-12
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... this year, lit up by a series of devastating, community-destroying forest fires, it is not hard to understand the kind of searing destruction James intends his readers to envision when he proclaims the tongue to be “a fire.” Parched Palestine was equally susceptible to the wanton destruction caused by wildfires. James calls attention to the communal danger of the unchecked tongue — that it “stains the whole body.” In 1:27 James had cautioned his readers to remain “unstained” (“aspilon ...
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King Duncan
... is. Thanksgiving is about seeing life as a gift. It’s not about constantly striving to have more. It is about resting our lives in the arms of our Creator and acknowledging regardless of our circumstances whether we live in the midst of abundance or in the parched land of misery that God is our life, God is our hope, God is the Source of every good thing. There’s a wonderful illustration of this kind of awareness found in Dr. Spencer Johnson’s little book The Present. The Present is about a little boy ...
129. Passing the Test
1 Corinthians 10:1-13
Sermon
Steven E. Albertin
... when they were about to completely bomb the test, God rescues them. In this season of Lent we recall that Christ and his cross are the signs that God is present with us in the wilderness of our lives. When we suffer, when we are alone, when our soul is parched and we long for someone to tell us that all is okay, when we are convinced that God has handed us over to the poisonous snakes because we have once again failed our test, Christ, like that bronzed serpent, is lifted up on the cross to assure us that ...
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Derl G. Keefer
... .[3] God will fill us with courage and hope as we continue to trust him in our hurricanes of life! II. Exist With God In Life's Hurricanes (Jeremiah 17:7-8) Jeremiah says in verse 6 that they will be like a desert shrub that exists in the desert parched land. Their lives are like the unin­habitable salt land that not only lacks water, but is poisonous to most plants, and is lonely and sterile. However, to exist with God is to be blessed by God as verse 7 indicates. The word "blessed" is baruch and it means ...
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David J. Kalas
... who has spent a lifetime eating manna from the desert floor now gazes over the land flowing with milk and honey. There, at that sacred moment on the other side of the Jordan, the Bible reports, "On that very day, they ate the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. The manna ceased on the day they ate the produce of the land, and the Israelites no longer had manna; they ate the crops of the land of Canaan that year" (vv. 11-12). See the old man as he bows his head to pray. His face and ...
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R. Kevin Mohr
... breeze comes up with the hint of moisture and freshness in it; the wind no longer has a dry, baked, dusty smell. A change, we say, is in the wind, and soon, that wind does bring the early and the later rains, the first, to soften the cracked and parched earth and make it ready for plant­ing; the later rains to nourish and grow the crop. Those rains, borne on the wind, will mark the land as renewed in the immediate time of the original hearers of Joel's message. But those wind-borne rains also bring to ...
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Leonard Sweet
... shop way out in the boonies of South Dakota, decided to advertise by erecting a series of “Burma Shave”-style billboards along the route to that amazing new tourist destination called Mount Rushmore. They offered “free ice water” and bathrooms to the parched and pooped summer travelers snaking their way along the hot summer plains. People came for free ice water and rest rooms in droves. But then they stayed for an ice cream cone, a postcard, a doughnut. Eventually Wall Drug became the destination ...
134. Revelation 7:9-17
Revelation 7:9-17
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... them. John also offers a reverb of Isaiah 25:8: “The Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces.” It is not just the physical trials that are negated by the gift of salvation. The human spirit suffers gut-twisting (hunger), parching (thirst), soul-searing (heat) experiences in this world that have nothing to do with food, water, or air temperature. In the heavenly future John envisions, those most wrenching “tribulations,” the trials and tortures that are locked within each soul, are relieved and ...
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Leonard Sweet
... them. John also offers a reverb of Isaiah 25:8: “The Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces.” It is not just the physical trials that are negated by the gift of salvation. The human spirit suffers gut-twisting (hunger), parching (thirst), soul-searing (heat) experiences in this world that have nothing to do with food, water, or air temperature. In the heavenly future John envisions, those most wrenching “tribulations,” the trials and tortures that are locked within each soul, are relieved and ...
136. Be Patient
James 5:7-12
Sermon
King Duncan
... the prophets he surely had in mind was the prophet Isaiah. We dealt with one of Isaiah’s prophecies about the coming Messiah last week. Listen again to another of Isaiah’s prophecies about what lay ahead for his people. He writes, “The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory ...
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Tony Everett
... the campfire with old friends and relatives waiting for folks to come to him to get a blessing. Because he received God’s promise and power, he set off on God’s mission to pull up stakes and go to an unknown destination of desert spaces: parched lands, frozen hearts, and false promises. Abram met with people who didn’t look like him, didn’t think like him, didn’t speak like him; people who were broken, fragile, empty, oppressed, searching. Hey, that sounds a lot like us. And Abram’s mission ...
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King Duncan
... thrust into his side. Every time a church is bombed or a synagogue destroyed or a mosque desecrated or a temple attacked—this is what we should see, Jesus hanging there with blood running down his forehead from the crown of thorns on his head and his parched lips crying out, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” If you think I am simply being politically correct, it shows how messed up you are in your spiritual life. I am not being politically correct; I am being true to the teachings ...
139. Don't Give Up Now!
2 Corinthians 4:16 - 5:2
Sermon
... inside as well as outside of the early church. And yet he never seemed to get discouraged. He was like the guy Larry Olsen cites in his book, Outdoor Survival Skills. According to Olsen this guy had been out of food and water for days. His lips were parched and bleeding. His tongue was swollen. His legs were bruised and his feet were raw. Some of his bones were almost peeking through his skin as he dragged himself across the desert. He was scraped from the rocks and the blowing sand had scoured his back and ...
140. Lying Prophets
Jeremiah 23:9-32, Jeremiah 23:33-40
Understanding Series
Tremper Longman III
... to pursue other gods (see also 3:1–5; 9:2). The NIV clarifies what the Hebrew text leaves unidentified until verse 11 by supplying prophets in verse 10. But whoever specifically are the adulterers the results include a drought that leaves the land parched and withered. The objects of judgment are the religious leaders of Judah, the prophet and priest, though for most of the chapter it is the former who is described as leading people in the wrong direction. Prophets and priests are those who are especially ...
Understanding Series
Tremper Longman III
... Mesha of the Moabite Stone describes himself as a Dibonite, likely indicating that at least at that time (mid-ninth century B.C.) it was the capital of Moab. These people are perched high in glory, but because of the invasion they must move to parched ground. Then the attention of the oracle shifts to Aroer, a nearby city. Here the inhabitants are drawn to the road where refugees are from Dibon and central Moab to the west. In response to their anxious question, “What has happened?” a fleeing man and ...
Understanding Series
Elizabeth Achtemeier
... the temperature begins to rise, so that the plant withers. The sun comes up, blazing forth with its heat on the head of Jonah, and at the same time, Yahweh “appoints” (MT) a sirocco, a hot east wind that blows in over the desert with its dust and that can parch a man to death. Jonah grows faint, as he was faint in the belly of the fish, 2:7 (MT). In short, Jonah is once again threatened with death. He himself has a taste of what the judgment of God means. Once more, therefore, Jonah wishes to die (cf. 4 ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... occasions Yahweh summoned armies to act as agents in bringing trouble to people (the same construction with qaraʾ; e.g., Isa. 13:3). “Drought” signifies not merely the absence of rain (indeed, it is several times used in antithesis to “dew”) but the consequent parched dryness of the soil, especially when dried up by the fierce heat of the sun. And thus the problem is a general one that means disaster for all crops. Haggai again alludes to warnings such as the one found in Deuteronomy 28:51 when he ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... mean all people seeing Yahweh’s glory, so this leveling will mean that the audience will rejoice and glory (a different word) in Yahweh as—the Holy One of Israel (v. 16b). 41:17–20 Once again the Poet recalls the way the community prays, as people parched with thirst looking for water but unable to find it, as people who believe that Yahweh has forsaken them (cf. Ps. 22; 42; Lam 5:20). Once again Yahweh promises to be one who answers such laments, with an abundance that far exceeds what they asked for ...
145. A Prophecy Against Gog
Ezekiel 38:1-39:29
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... Philistia (Jer. 47:2), as well as for the assault of Cyrus the Persian on Babylon (Jer. 50:3, 9, 41; 51:48; Isa. 41:25). Joel 2:20 applies this imagery to a locust swarm: I will drive the northern army far from you, pushing it into a parched and barren land . . . And its stench will go up; its smell will rise. Parallels with Gog’s fate are obvious. Indeed, Joel’s symbolic use of the “enemy from the north” opens this image to the description of any enemy of Israel—and in particular its final enemy ...
Teach the Text
J. Scott Duvall
... why negative language dominates: “no more” death, mourning, crying, or pain. When positive images appear, they are relational: God as the faithful husband (v. 2), God’s tender hand wiping away tears from our face (v. 4), God giving a drink of water to a parched traveler (v. 6), God, the King, giving the kingdom inheritance not to his subjects but to his children (v. 7). On a clear day, spiritually speaking, when we see God as our very life, we are still looking through a dirty window (1 Cor. 13 ...
147. Unnoticed at Your Own Party
Isaiah 35:1-10, Matthew 11:2-11, James 5:7-10
Sermon
King Duncan
... little hope that his people would ever be delivered. The mighty Assyrian army threated from without and sin and corruption were a common companion within. It was a dark and desperate time for Israel. But Isaiah wrote of a time when, “The desert and the parched land will be glad; the wilderness will rejoice and blossom. Like the crocus, it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon; they will see the glory ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... in order to devour them. This is illustrated in the animal world by the leech, whose twin suckers (literally “daughters”) keep crying for more. It culminates in a numerical saying that lists four insatiables: the realm of the dead, the barren womb, parched soil, and fire. The subunit is rounded off by verse 17, which again describes the disrespectful, disobedient child (cf. 30:11) with a sinful eye (cf. 30:12–13) that will be pecked out by, presumably divinely dispatched, scavenging birds. A series ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... sower (4:3, 9), by which Jesus teaches that active involvement or heeding is the way to engage a parable. A sower scatters seed widely on unpromising terrain in hopes of a harvest. Three-quarters of the seed is lost to hardpan, rocks, thorns, and parched ground. Despite these adversities, some seed lands on good soil, and the parable ends, surprisingly, with an extraordinary harvest of “thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times” the number of seeds sown. The harvest is no mere human harvest, in fact, but a ...
150. One Heaven of a Party
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
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Charley Reeb
... from his mouth, the people of God dreamed about what it was going to be like. At first glance, they really do not seem to be very exciting words, but for those who had been toiling in the wilderness, these words were like living water to a parched soul: “When you have come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess, and you possess it, and settle in it ...” (v. 1). When those words tickled their eardrums, all kinds of thoughts blossomed in their minds: thoughts of ...
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