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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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1676. Who's the Captain of Your Soul?

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Oscar Wilde

... myself be lured into long spells of senseless and sensual ease...Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in search for new sensation. What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. I grew careless of the lives of others. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on. I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber, one has some day ...

1677. Laugh Together, Weep Alone

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... February 25, 1883 issue of the New York Sun. The author was Ella Wheeler, a Wisconsin-born journalist and poet, who received $5 for her work. The poem was published again in May of that year in a collection of Miss Wheeler's called Poems of Passion. The collection was a great financial success. To her dismay, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, (now married) found the poem, word for word, in a book by John A. Joyce, published in 1885. The poem had a different title, "Laugh and the World Laughs With You", but Joyce claimed ...

1678. Two Years to Practice

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... put a down payment on a house when he returned. They corresponded often, but as the lonely weeks went by, she began expressing doubts that he was being true to her, exposed as he was to comely Irish lasses. The young engineer wrote back, declaring with some passion that he was paying absolutely no attention to the local girls. "I admit," he wrote, "that sometimes I'm tempted. But I fight it. I'm keeping myself for you." In the next mail, the engineer received a package. It contained a note from his girl and ...

1679. An Unsaved Life

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Charles Ryrie

... to the opposite of our weapons of spiritual warfare (2 Corinthians 10:4). But the word flesh also has a metaphorical sense when it refers to our disposition to sin and to oppose or omit God in our lives. The flesh is characterized by works that include lusts and passions (Galatians 5:19-24; I John 2:16); it can enslave (Romans 7:25); and in it is nothing good (Romans 7:18). Based on this meaning of the word flesh, to be carnal means to be characterized by things that belong to the unsaved life (Ephesians 2 ...

1680. Historic: The Declaration of Independence

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Staff

... law, " the colonists had not only the right but the duty to revolt. The assembled Continental Congress deleted a few passages of the draft, and amended others, but outright rejected only two sections: 1) a derogatory reference to the English people; 2) a passionate denunciation of the slave trade. The latter section was left out, as Jefferson reported, to accede to the wishes of South Carolina and Georgia, who wanted to continue the importation of slaves. The rest of the draft was accepted on July 4, and ...

1681. A Share In America

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Peter Hay

... finally placed. It came to more than $42,000 for one share in each of the 1098 companies listed on the Big Board at the time. Arnold now took his diversified portfolio into a meeting of Remington Rand's board of directors, where he argued passionately for a sweepstakes campaign with the top prize called A Share in America. The conservative old gentlemen shifted around in their seats and discussed the idea for a while. "But Mr. Arnold," said one, "we are not in the securities business." Said another, "We are ...

1682. The Story of Sarah's Sorrow

2 Corinthians 7:10

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Max Lucado

... . Powerful. And miserable. Her only daughter had died at five weeks of age. Then her husband had passed away. She was left alone with her name, her money, her memories, ... and her guilt. It was her guilt that caused her to move west. A passion for penance drove her to San Jose, California. Her yesterdays imprisoned her todays, and she yearned for freedom. She bought an eight-room farmhouse plus one hundred sixty adjoining acres. She hired sixteen carpenters and put them to work. For the next thirty-eight ...

1683. Bless the Hungry

Matthew 5:1-12

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Staff

... from dysentery, not knowing whether they would survive, every waking hour was occupied with thoughts of eating. Jesus, who also knew the ravages of food deprivation, said, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for RIGHTEOUSNESS." We can understand Shackleton's obsession with food, which offers a glimpse of the passion Jesus intends for our quest for righteousness.

1684. Bigger Not Always Better

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J.I. Packer

When I came to North America, I found that most churches, pastors, seminaries, colleges, and parachurch agencies and agents were in the grip of this secular passion for successful expansion in a way I had not met in England. Church-growth theorists, evangelists, pastors, missionaries, and others all spoke as if: numerical increase is what matters most, numerical increase must come if our techniques and procedures are right, numerical increase validates ministries as nothing else does, and ...

1685. What Are Your Core Values?

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Bob Logan

... the church's ministry. Core values are the 5-10 key statements that reflect the distinctives of a church. Key issues for determining your core values: If the church were really the church, what would it be doing? What makes you angry? What do you get passionate about? How do you invest your time and money? What's your biggest criticism of the church? For what do you want your church to be known? What are the essential functions of the church? Determining your core values: Brainstorm a list of potential core ...

1686. The Ways of the World

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Dave Roper

The Bible defines worldliness by centering morality where we intuitively know it should be. Worldliness is the lust of the flesh (a passion for sensual satisfaction), the lust of the eyes (an inordinate desire for the finer things of life), and the pride of life (self-satisfaction in who we are, what we have, and what we have done). Worldliness, then, is a preoccupation with ease and affluence. It elevates creature comfort to ...

1687. Remember When….

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Remember when... A marriage was likely to outlast all three wedding-present toasters? A drug problem was trying to get a prescription filled on Sunday? Jokes that couldn't be told in mixed company weren't? Paperbacks had more passion on the cover than in the contents? The only person you'd find in a store at 3 o'clock in the morning was a burglar? A whole family could go to the movies for what it now costs for a box of popcorn? (Doug Larson, United Feature Syndicate)

1688. Student Gems

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... ammunition, but keep on firing. A virgin forest is a forest in which the hand of man has never set foot. A city purifies its water supply by filtering the water, then forcing it through an aviator. An active verb shows action; a passive verb shows passion. A census taker is a man who goes from house to house increasing the population. Water is composed of two gins. Oxygen and Hydrogen. Oxygen is pure gin. Hydrogen is gin and water. A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene triangle ...

1689. Nothing of the Kind

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Once in a saintly passion I cried with desperate grief O, Lord, my heart is black with guile Of sinners I am chief Then stooped my guardian angel And whispered from behind "Vanity my little man, You're nothing of the kind."

1690. A Greek Testament

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As a young man at Oxford, Oscar Wilde was being tested on his ability to translate from the Greek. The assignment was to orally translate the Greek version of the New Testament, and Wilde began accurately translating the story of the Passion. His examiners told him that he had passed and could stop, but Wilde went on reading. They again interrupted, but Wilde continued translating. Finally, they got him to cease and asked why he was so insistent on continuing. "Oh, do let me go on," Wilde said. "I want to ...

1691. A Generous Spirit

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A minister of a city church enjoyed a few drinks, but his passion was for peach brandy. One of his congregants would make him a bottle each Christmas. One year, when the minister went to visit his friend, hoping for his usual Christmas present, he was not disappointed. But his friend told him that he had to thank him for the peach brandy ...

1692. How Can I Keep From Singing?

Mark 1:40-45

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Leonard Sweet

... heinous crimes imaginable against the Greek people. “By the time I came to the institute for a summer session, Alexander Papaderos had become a living legend. One look at him and you saw his strength and intensity ‑‑ energy, physical power, courage, intelligence, passion, and vivacity radiated from this person. And to speak to him, to shake his hand, to be in a room with him when he spoke, was to experience his extraordinary electric humanity. Few men live up to their reputations when you get close ...

1693. The Simplex Faith of 3:16

John 3:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... of music. All those “first loves” are special, yet simple. Later, when we’ve studied mechanical design or chemical engineering, mastered culinary skills, wrestled reality into numerical logic systems, or acquired technical skills in art or music, we may still have great passion for a chosen field. But it is a love complicated by complexity, nuanced by knowledge. The simplicity of our “first love” is over-ridden by all the knowledge and skills we have worked so hard to glean and gather. It is the ...

1694. Red, White and Pink

Luke 24:36-49

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Leonard Sweet

... do not eat. Words are required, however, to understand what Jesus’ presence means. “Signs” alone, even the ultimate “sign” of the resurrection, will not engender the genuine faith these “witnesses” must proclaim. Jesus first reminds the disciples of all the passion predictions he himself had made during his earthly ministry: “the words that I spoke to you” (v.44). He then continues his lesson by traveling through all the Torah — that is the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings ...

1695. Luke 24:36-49

Luke 24:36-49

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Leonard Sweet

1696. Practicing the Presence

Acts 8:26-40

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Leonard Sweet

... a strange road to a strange place and offer his message to a strange man. Philip let Christ’s Spirit take preeminence in his life. Philip let Christ’s Spirit be the practice of his life. Philip let that Spirit determine his path and his passion. For the last month we have all been deluged with ”Titanic‑mania.” The one hundred year anniversary of the Titanic tragedy has spawned a new 3‑D release of the film, a National Geographic mini‑sub exploration special, and a fresh upwelling of Titanic ...

1697. How Can I Know God's Will?

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... rest of her activities combined riverboat gambling. Almost immediately her life was completely changed and not for the better. Kate would cross the river daily to Illinois and board either the Alton Belle or the River Queen riverboats to indulge in her new passion. Soon she had emptied the family bank account and pawned her wedding ring. She was still gambling when the house payment was 17 months behind. “The day they came to repossess the house, gambling lost its charm. She drove her 1988 Oldsmobile to ...

1698. Toss Your Cap Over the Wall

Mark 3:20-30

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King Duncan

... . (1) Yet Jordan is considered the greatest player of his era, and maybe the best ever. How did a poor defender and average shooter get to be a five time NBA MVP not to mention earn the reputation as the best hoops player on the planet? Passion? Confidence? Determination? All of these were involved, of course. Michael Jordan, who famously was cut from his middle school team, simply set out to be the best he could be and the rest is history. There is a part of almost everyone that is thrilled when someone ...

1699. I Want My Dollar Back!

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

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King Duncan

... . Frances Ridley Havergal was a young English woman, daughter of an Anglican pastor. She was chronically ill most of her life, and she was not a woman blessed with wonderful gifts of any kind. Yet she desired to give what she had back to Christ. She had a passion for missions. One day she determined that she really had no need of her jewelry. She packed it all up, all save a couple of pieces with some sentimental value, and shipped it off to the Church Missionary Society, and asked them to dispose of it and ...

1700. Walls, Walls, Everywhere Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

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King Duncan

... St. Paul is referring to in specific is the wall between Jews and Gentiles. The first Christian congregation was all Jewish and most of the members would have preferred to keep it that way. But Simon Peter had a vision and St. Paul had a passion, and together they broke down the wall that kept Gentiles out. They began to understand that Jesus didn’t like walls any kind of walls particularly walls that made some people feel inferior or rejected. We sing the old spiritual, “Joshua fought the battle of ...

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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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1676. Who's the Captain of Your Soul?

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Oscar Wilde

1677. Laugh Together, Weep Alone

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1678. Two Years to Practice

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1679. An Unsaved Life

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Charles Ryrie

1680. Historic: The Declaration of Independence

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Staff

1681. A Share In America

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Peter Hay

1682. The Story of Sarah's Sorrow

2 Corinthians 7:10

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Max Lucado

1683. Bless the Hungry

Matthew 5:1-12

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Staff

1684. Bigger Not Always Better

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J.I. Packer

1685. What Are Your Core Values?

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Bob Logan

1686. The Ways of the World

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Dave Roper

1687. Remember When….

Humor Illustration

1688. Student Gems

Humor Illustration

1689. Nothing of the Kind

Humor Illustration

1690. A Greek Testament

Humor Illustration

1691. A Generous Spirit

Humor Illustration

1692. How Can I Keep From Singing?

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1693. The Simplex Faith of 3:16

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1694. Red, White and Pink

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1695. Luke 24:36-49

Luke 24:36-49

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

1696. Practicing the Presence

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1697. How Can I Know God's Will?

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

1698. Toss Your Cap Over the Wall

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

King Duncan

1699. I Want My Dollar Back!

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

1700. Walls, Walls, Everywhere Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

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