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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1676. Adultery, Cure and Prevention
Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... will say that. A wife watches a movie in which a man says the most romantic things to a woman. Then the wife wonders how long it has been since her husband told her that she is pretty. Or brought her a flower. When did he stop kissing her when he ... received a beautiful letter from a wife in Ohio. She wrote, "My husband is a laborer. He leaves home at 7:00 AM and puts in long, hard days at work. If he can get overtime he grabs it. When he comes home at night, he paints the house, fixes whatever is broken, ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... could before. He said, "I pray. That is the key to it. I never let a day go by without praying. I wish I had learned that long time ago." A third lesson from the Master about prayer is this: YOU CAN TALK BACK TO GOD. God does not hang up on us when we ... the young man, somewhat puzzled. "It never seemed quite proper or reverent to do that." "Okay," said the pastor, "I want you to have a long talk with God before our next meeting. Tell God exactly what it was like to lose a dad at 10. Tell God how angry you ...
1678. The Words We Speak
Ephesians 4:17--5:21
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... to marriage, truth must be assumed in marriage and never violated. If trust is betrayed, it can be recovered, but the process is long and difficult. Part of what it means to be "one flesh" in the Biblical sense is that we keep no significant secrets ... walk." That's good advice. There is a time to talk and a time to let things settle a while. But don't let trouble settle so long that it sours into resentment. "Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. Resolve it promptly." The third ...
Sermon
James Bjorge
... plums dance through your head. When worries have wandered away and left you relaxed, the descending darkness comes like a billowy blanket of down. God has washed behind your years and you feel clean and content as you slip into the freshly washed sheets for a long winter’s nap. No doubt about it, night can be nice. But it is not always that cozy and comfortable. Night can be blacker than a hundred midnights in a southern swamp. Anxiety, fear and pain become like giant mosquitos that attack you in hordes ...
Sermon
James Bjorge
... ." What the woman gave was a real gift. It contained a portion of herself as she forgot herself in this glorious moment of giving. O. Henry caught this truth in a lovely Christmas story. A husband and a wife wanted to give each other the gift that each respectively longed for. The husband wanted a fob or a chain for his watch. The wife wanted a pretty comb for her beautiful hair. Times were hard and money was scarce. So the husband secretly pawned his watch to buy the comb. At the same time the wife cut her ...
Sermon
Don Yocom
... to get away would be much stronger than the urge to be curious about what was going on. But Lot’s wife looked back. The longings and urges were too great. She gave in and lost all God had to offer, and her strength of character was lost. The Bible says ... standpoint of quality. We tend to measure time from the standpoint of quantity. Let us illustrate: When water has stood still for a long time, it becomes stagnant and murky. Let it run awhile and it will clear itself as it passes over obstacles and riffles, ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... from home? [Let them answer.] It is a lot of fun, isn’t it? First you set up your tent, find a safe place to put the food where the racoons and bears can’t get it, and then lay out your sleeping bags. Sometimes you have to walk a long way to find your water and bring it back to camp, but no matter what kind of work you do it still seems like fun. But it isn’t home, is it? Do you remember how good it felt to get home and sleep in your own bed, and walk ...
Drama
Jerome W. Nilssen
... to it from a flask he carries in his jacket. GRACE enters; opens a large handbag, her only luggage, takes out an apple, or some other fruit, and eats. As CAIN drinks, he turns to look at the woman. Finally she notices him, and she smiles. GRACE It’s a long night. CAIN Like usual. GRACE Are we waiting for the same train? CAIN I don’t know. Are we? GRACE I’m going east, I’m taking the first train east. CAIN So am I. GRACE There don’t seem to be many others. ANY others. CAIN (Obliquely) There never ...
Drama
Jerome W. Nilssen
... telephone) Say! That reminds me - the telephone. Would you mind if I used your telephone first? It’d only take a minute. JAREL For long distance there’s a pay phone on the corner. SETH No, this is local. You can even dial the number if you want to ... you’ve got a sure thing. The smart money goes down, into the ground. JAREL Cain never fooled with land. He said it took too long to develop. SETH This isn’t DEVELOPING; this is just taking what the good Lord gives and turning over a few bucks on the basis ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... place, that they are accomplishing some goal, that they are getting ahead of the other rats. But all they are doing is making the wheel spin faster and faster and faster. In order, then, to stay in the same place, they have to run faster. Goal? Do we ever stop long enough to discover what our goal is, or if there is one at all? How often we are like the military officer who was being flown from one tiny island in the Pacific to another. After a while, he wandered up to the pilot’s cabin and asked where ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... test. It is always a judge. What got by in the dark doesn’t get by in the light. I was thinking of this not long ago when we were in a restaurant, and the place was so dark that you couldn’t read the menu without striking a match. I ... rose to blossom in her hair, The day faith died; ‘Now glad,’ she said, ‘and free I go And life is wide;’ And through the long nights, she stared into the dark And knew that she had lied." I thought of these lines a few days ago when a pair of Christian ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... I’ll never get it done in my whole lifetime." You see, he has a reason for living, for living eternally. Will you try something for me? I know it seems uncomfortable in a worship service to do it. I know, however, it’s something that we believe. But how long has it been since we verbalized it? Do you want to see what it feels like to be a Jesus Freak? Despite the embarrassment, the discomfort, and the unfamiliarity, I’d like to have you turn to the person on either side of you and just say to them ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... my notes, I discovered that in four months not one person had said anything important to any other person." The triumph of trivialities! Not so long ago a hostess said to a group of us at a party: "Say, let’s cut out all of this serious conversation. We didn’t ... that I have the least trouble with myself when I am giving myself to some worthy cause." As a young lad, he worked long hours in the brickyard of his father in Philadelphia, and on Sunday mornings, he went to the Broad Street Church of that city. ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... take a decent vacation and see something. This summer we were going to entertain all of our friends at outdoor barbecues. This summer we were going to use the time in a productive way. But now the summer is over; and it won’t be long before the long, long season of boots and ear muffs, slush and snow, frozen streets and frightening fuel bills will he upon us. "Well," we can only lamely say, "perhaps next summer, perhaps next summer ..." Perhaps next summer I’ll make peace with my neighbor. Perhaps next ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... show his children was to make them children of God. You don’t do this by being an indolent, indulgent Sugar Daddy, whose constant concern is to make up, with material gifts and presents, that which you fail to do by your training and your example. Quite frankly, I have long since been weary of being told that I must be a "pal" to my children. In light of God’s word, I never want to be a "pal" to my children. I want to be their father. I am weary of hearing from a multitude of so-called child experts ...
1691. Chapter IV
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... while couched in terms that are not part of my everyday experience, does "jab" my consciousness to make me "remember" that what I have, and am, ultimately are tied up with God and his involvement in my life. For that passage in Job is a part of a long hymn about how God provides for, and cares about, his people. It is he who "binds up" our wounds, delivers from "troubles," and "redeems" us "from death." The fact that we have a "tent," even if it is made of brick and sits in a sprawling suburban subdivision ...
1692. Chapter VIII
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... . It is his lives that we are living, and we are living them out with the breath he gave, on his time, with the bundle of abilities he placed in each of us on loan. The implications of this fact are potent ones that run smack head-on against our long held myth of the self-made man. You know the story as well as I do. We are brought up cutting our teeth on it. A man, with his own determination, pulls himself up by his own bootstraps and makes something of himself. Through self-education, self-reliance, self ...
1693. Marriage is Forever
Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 19:1-12
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... in divorced households are three times more likely to divorce than those from intact families. When we consider Jesus' words about marriage and divorce, here are several truths we can trust and live by: First, God's Plan for Marriage Is A Life-Long, Indissoluble Union. Divorce was never in God's original plans. It was a later invention of sinful humanity. In Matthew's gospel, Jesus condemns all divorce, except for unchastity. Unchastity referred to a woman's having been sexually active before marriage or ...
1694. Pillars of the Church
Exodus 17:8-16, Colossians 3:1-17
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... warmth of the small group, she began to open up, look up, and smile. Toward the end of the year she shared with her small-group that with God's help she had been able to reconcile with a sister- in-law from whom she had been alienated for a long time. Some of God's grace had been mediated to her by some Aarons and Hurs within that small group. Almost every Friday morning on my way to Men's Prayer Breakfast in Seabrook Hall, I pass a small group of men. They meet from 6 until 7 AM in ...
1695. No Retaliation
Matthew 5:38-42
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... to do after you've turned both cheeks." He teaches self-defense. The meaning of "turn the other cheek" is this: don't return insult for insult. In verse 40, Jesus says, "If anyone sues you for your tunic, give him your cloak as well." The tunic was that long, sack-like undergarment made of cotton or linen. Most Jews had two or three of these. But the cloak was much more valuable. It was that great blanket-like outer garment which served as a robe by day and a blanket by night. Jewish law stated that a man ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... unsatisfied. Then our first child came along, and that was fantastic!! What a feeling it was to hold something that precious in my arms for the first time! I was overcome with joy, but, something was still unsatisfied in my heart. Finally, my wife and I had some long talks about this. She felt the same thing. We concluded that perhaps we have a spiritual part of us inside--sort of like an invisible organ in the body-- which must be nourished or we will never be satisfied. That's when we headed to church. It ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... or knife To take some other monkey's life. Yes, man descended, the onery cuss-- But, brother, he didn't descend from us. " We have mentioned two signs that we are made in the image of God: our ability to reason and our conscience. A third one is our longing for eternity. Deep in our psyche, we know that we are transients here on earth. We can't ever really settle down here. All human beings ponder eternity. Some yearn for it; some are terrified by it. But none can ignore it. Why? Because we are made in the ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... the burden of righteousness. Ask Paul, ask Martin Luther, ask John Wesley. All in their own way attempted a life of righteousness and it almost brought them to their knees in despair. We give up. In our own way we say “Lord, we have been going to church for so long and we have been praying so hard, and there seems so little answer, just let us rest and leave us alone.” This Christian life can be a burden. Let me tell you a story. During World War II there was a man in a small town who had volunteered to ...
Drama
Maxine Dudley
... areas of your life that need mending, that are barriers to your loving me. Bring them to me as a child would bring a wound to her father to be healed. As your heart repents, I will give you peace. I will heal your pain, your sorrow. I long to embrace you and turn your darkness to light. I want you to return to me. I love you. (Silence for one minute) (Narrator no. 1 leads participants in a prayer of forgiveness or prayerfully reciting an act of contrition. Upon completion of the prayer or act of contrition ...
Drama
Denny C. Wise
... O God, Lord of the universe, we have assembled here in friendship to relive the ancient quest for liberty ... May the problems of all who are downtrodden be our problems. May the concerns of all who are afflicted be our concerns. May the struggles of all who long to be free be our struggles as well. Amen. Disciples: Amen. Jesus: In this spirit may we now raise our cups. Disciples and Jesus: (Hold up cups high - with right hand only!) Praise be thou oh Lord, who created the fruit of the vine, and who gave ...
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