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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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1551. A Night of Farewell - Peter

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... passed very quickly. Now he spoke with such tenderness and understanding that time seemed to stand still. He spoke like a friend going on a long trip, never to return. "Let not your hearts be troubled. You believe in God - believe also in me. In my Father's house are ... has seen me has seen the Father ... and whatever you ask the Father in my name I will give you. Have I been with you so long Philip and you do not recognize me? He who has seen me has seen God." "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; ...

1552. The Household Leader

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... morning as he walked to his office, it was his usual custom to stop at the corner bar for several drinks to start his day. One snowy morning as he walked toward the bar, he heard a sound behind him. Turning around, he saw his five-year-old son taking long strides and doing his best to step in daddy's footprints in the newly fallen snow. The father said, "Son, what are you doing?" The boy replied, "I'm following in your footsteps, Daddy." The father sent his son back home, but the boy's words haunted him all ...

1553. Encounters With Christ I: Jesus & the Man Born Blind

John 9:1-12

Sermon

James W. Moore

... something about it. Jesus is trying to teach us that here. So, notice this… He spits on the ground and makes clay of the spittle and then He anoints the man’s eyes with the clay. Now, if that seems repulsive to you, don’t let it be. Saliva has long been a folk remedy. Ancient people believed strongly in its curative powers… and in a sense, we still do. At least, our children do. A child burns his finger and into his mouth it goes… or a child scrapes her arm and wants mom to kiss it and make it ...

1554. Encounters With Christ V: Jesus and James and John

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

James W. Moore

... money. So, please send the money quickly. But, while he was on the beach in Florida, he got an urgent message that his dad had had a serious heart attack. He hurried home… but it was too late. His dad was gone. A few of his dad’s life-long friends from the lumber mill were gathered in the hospital waiting room. When the young man walked in, Wilbur (his dad’s best friend) hugged him… and as he and the other friends left the room later, Wilbur handed the young man a pile of neatly folded clothes and ...

1555. A Shepherd Returns

Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... believe what we had seen and heard. We thought about it. We discussed it. Were our minds deceiving us? We were too frightened to go, and too filled with wonder to stay. We had to go into the city in that early morning hour. And find, who? The Messiah? The long-awaited Deliverer from God? No, no, it could not be! We had waited for centuries. We had prayed earnestly for his coming, but he had not come. Why, in the name of all that's holy, would his birth be announced to us? "Nevertheless, we made our way over ...

1556. Jesus Reflects -- A Dramatic Monologue

Isaiah 9:1-7, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... somehow I instinctively feel I will be unable to visit it again. I know those who oppose me seek to silence me, and I fear before long they may succeed. But, I did not come here to reflect on such thoughts. I have come to see once again the place where my ... Mary. A bit later, when we were able to stay with some friends in a home in the city, the visit of the magi! I have longed to find and speak to one of them, but unfortunately our paths have never crossed. I look at this cave, hewn by nature out of the ...

1557. Monologue: Mary Magdalene - Liberated Woman

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... had marred our marriage were gone. I thank God that in those last few months, I was able to express my love to my husband; at long last I could try to be the wife such a good man deserved. When my husband died, what did I have to live for? The truth ... , had set me free. I was liberated from the demons of my past; surely God had some purpose for my new freedom. In Israel it has long been considered an honor to support a Rabbi; I had the means to help Jesus and his band. I could learn from Jesus, tell others of ...

1558. Monologue: The Other Shepherd Speaks

Luke 2:8-20

Drama

Robert F. Scott

... us what they'd found: an everyday scene of a mother and a baby -but different -with a holy feeling of God at work. I’ve learned long since that what looks ordinary to me doesn’t mean ordinary when God goes to work. I missed it that night, but I learned it later. The ... That was forty years ago. I was a young man then, just married. And what I have seen these forty years: many a sheep and many a long night. I have seen a man named Jesus. I saw him break bread and hand it out. I ate, and we all ate, 5,000 of ...

1559. Better Than the Real Thing

John 4:1-26

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... behind your back. Here it is! This is the drink that Jesus gives us. Churches who are giving communion and who serve the children will find it helpful to address what the communion service means. And Jesus said if we drink from this we will never be thirsty again as long as we live. Of course he is not talking about this kind of thirst hold on to your throat or point to your throat but this kind of thirst point to your heart. Lift the chalice up before them and say Drink from this all of you. (You might add ...

1560. A Holy Hunger

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... " is hunger. If we come to the Lord's table full of hatred, or greed, or jealousy, or envy, or just full of our own self-centered pride - if we come to the Lord's table after having served the false gods of material wealth and earthly power all week long; then, no amount of rightly performed ritual is going to make communion "holy." The hungry heart is what makes communion holy. Hunger of the stomach or of the heart is not a matter of the will. Sometimes, we can entice people to want to eat by the way in ...

1561. A Baptism of Blood

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... the heart, and ultimately endangers life itself. However, just as surely as someone insults us or betrays us, we can produce a long list of reasons as to why we should make an exception in this particular case of insult or betrayal; therefore, our ... an intensive care unit of a hospital. His mother was dying. He spoke to her softly, "Mother, do you want communion?" There was a long, silent stare and then the pastor's mother answered, "I want to be baptized." The son knew that his mother had been baptized and ...

1562. Preaching Because We Have Something To Say

Sermon

James Angell

... title, "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever," also seemed to leave the people feeling that I had been speaking directly to them - that God was present in undeniable ways. Little is here about lectionary preaching. I am not hesitant to affirm its values, so long as it does not become wooden or mechanical. It doesn't have to be. Yet neither does obedience to a lectionary assure anything except a comprehensiveness of approach to what the Bible has to say. One can still preach from a list and wind up fumbling ...

1563. Ebeneezer: The Satisfied Pig

Luke 15:16

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... pig who wasn't greedy, as a matter of fact, my friend, Ebeneezer the Pig, thinks that people are greedy, not pigs. One day, a long time ago, Ebeneezer was out in his field minding his own business when he heard a lot of chatter from the other pigs. If you ... listen to anybody. He just wanted to have fun. Pretty soon they told Ebeneezer he had spent all of his money and he was a long way from home. Besides, the sad young man thought that no one at his home would ever welcome him back. "It's funny," Ebeneezer ...

1564. Hermon: The Camel Who Was Humbled

Matthew 19:24

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... of the needle and we must enter the city on our knees through the little opening in the great door," said his owner. Sure enough there was a very small door in the big door where a camel could get through if he crawled on his knees, pulled in his long neck and scraped his hump. Only one could enter at a time and it prevented the city from being attacked by an army. "Oh my," said Hermon, "my beautiful garments are going to be made dirty and the other camels will laugh when I come crawling into the great city ...

1565. The Lion Who Learned About God

Dan 6:21-23

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... shaggy and lost it's beautiful color. But worst of all was when the soldiers threw men into their den and expected his shaggy friend lions and himself to eat the man. Oh, how Rehoboam hated that moment when the lions fought over the man. It never lasted very long since the lions were hungry and the men usually died from fright. The man that they threw in the den were always so scared and they would scream and cry until the lions would do what the soldiers wanted them to do with this man, It was awful. I ...

1566. The Box

Drama

Cynthia Mercati Prigge

... , but I really do need help. SECOND PERSON: I should be on my way. I'm late a ready. FIRSt PERSON: It won't take very long. SECOND PERSON: Well ... FIRST PERSON: I promise - it won't take more than a few minutes. SECOND PERSON: All right. What's the problem? FIRST PERSON ... to worry about. Come on - farther - FIRST PERSON: [Opening her eyes] It's no use! I'm afraid I'm going to be in here for a long time. SECOND PERSON: Oh, no, you're not! There's got to be a way - there's just got to be a way to get you out. ...

1567. Natural Or Supernatural?

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... the super car wash; when we can leave behind the plodding pace of the 600 mile an hour 707 or DC-8 jet and enter the supersonic transport age; when our wash goes from white, bright or light, to super white; when the latest, wide screen, four-hour long, reserved seat, two dollar and seventy-five cent movie goes from a spectacle to a super spectacle. And so it is only natural that I should speak of the supernatural. I hope you got that play on words - it is only natural that I should speak of the supernatural ...

1568. The Prodigal Son or The Merciful Father

Luke 15:1-7

Drama

Robert A. Lehmann

... But he let him go anyway. [The son moves away from the group and faces upstage] Jesus: Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took his journey to a far country where he squandered his property in loose living. Narrator: Now, it didn't take long before this son had spent everything he had. Jesus: And there arose a great famine in that land, and he began to be in want. Solo 1: The crops failed that year. Solo 2: So there was no food. Solo 4: And money was tight. Solo 3: Jobs were scarce ...

1569. The Ten Virgins

Matthew 25:1-13

Drama

Robert A. Lehmann

... - unprepared. Jesus: So, when the bridegroom was delayed, they lay down to rest until midnight. Solo 2: Probably a long wait. Solo 3: One can get awfully tired just waiting, with nothing to do. Solo 4: Waiting gets long when you're excited. Solo 1: Especially when waiting for a great event. Solo 3: I do wish he'd ... come! Solo 4: What's taking him so long? Jesus: At midnight they were roused by the shout, Solo 2: "The Bridegroom is coming! Come out and welcome him ...

1570. Waiting for Jesus

Romans 13:11b

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... you are six years old. That means that you will have to wait ten years. Seven years, ten years, eight years -- they all seem like a long way away. But just think, you are closer to driving a car now than you were last year when you were only eight or five or ... he hasn't come. But just think how often you dream about being sixteen so that you can drive that car. While it seems like a long time away, I can promise you that it will happen. I can also promise you that one of these days Jesus will come, just like ...

1571. God, The Enemy

Luke 12:1-12

Sermon

... is to reject what the Spirit reveals to us, to refuse the conviction and deny God's truth. Thus we do not repent, for we say, "I have nothing to repent of." If we will not repent, we cannot be forgiven. And if we persist in that way long enough, we eventually lose the ability to hear the Spirit. We can't be forgiven because we see no reason to repent. Given that definition, it would seem that Timothy McVeigh, with his self-proclaimed unconquered soul, might be a poster child for the unpardonable sin. But of ...

1572. The Friend At Midnight

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... --obviously the father is a reference to God. There can be no mistaking that. But in this parable the neighbor is not God. It would be wrong to assume that the point of this parable is that God grudgingly gives us what we want if we just nag him long enough, and hard enough—just like my children do with me when they want something. Nor does it suggest that God is hard of hearing. God hears your prayers the very first time. What did the psalmist write: Ours is a God who neither slumbers nor sleeps. He is ...

1573. People Get Ready!

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

Brett Blair

... a wedding banquet and there is no way for the servants of that master to know when he will return. It could be that very night. It could be the next. It could be three days before he returns home. Because weddings in Jewish culture were week long events, one never knew how long the stay. If the wine held out and the celebration was lively enough, he could be there all week. But the servants are not privy to the master’s plans. They are simply to be ready when he knocks on the door. On the surface, this is ...

1574. Finding Life!

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

... naked we go" - I know this. A man is born without teeth, not much hair, and eyes that won't focus, and if he remains very long in this world, he will probably leave it without teeth, not much hair, and eyes that won't focus! This sounds like an unpromising start ... the man's wife sent the physician upstairs while she waited anxiously in the living room. The man of medicine was gone a very long time. When he finally came down, the lady asked, "O, doctor, how is he?" And the doctor replied, "I don't know; I can ...

1575. Museum or Mission?

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... nerve in the face of growing resistance toward mission over museum at the grass-roots level. In the same city where can be found the church, with whose story we began, there is another church that made the opposite choice. It didn’t have a long history, as did the first congregation; but it was a prestigious church with a fine building and a loyal, resident WASP-ish membership. In short, it was strong and prosperous - until the neighborhood began to change. Instead of reaching out to the new residents and ...

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