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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William L. Self
... in high places of both government and business, of rampant commercialism, and of the rape of the environment give evidence to the leprosy in the soul of our culture. We are a great society of much potential, but we are halted by the leprosy of greed, savagery, and lust. We are mighty people but we are lepers. Naaman traveled all the way from Syria to Israel to seek healing from the man of God named Elisha. Here we have the touchstone by which we may test the supremacy of our faith. It alone is able to purge ...
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Paul W. Kummer
... line up! Can you imagine anyone ever getting the first commandment right and then perfectly keeping the rest? Wouldn't you like to meet that person? You can. You have. He lives inside your heart, dear Christian. Imagine, Jesus never disobeyed his parents. He never lusted after things or a woman. He didn't just happen to forget to return a library book. He never called anyone a "jerk" unrighteously! What is more amazing is that though he never sinned, God understands our weakness and wants to help us get ...
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Paul W. Kummer
... lease? New or used? Is it time to put our child in a private school? Should we close in the garage or save the money for a vacation? Do I really want to join this church? Is this the woman God wants me to marry or am I just in lust? Should Grandpa live on his own or with us, or be put in a retirement home? Should I bail my troubled kid out of jail or show him tough love and make him learn that there are consequences for bad choices? Should I be buried or cremated? Without outside help ...
154. To Bow The Knee
Philippians 2:5-11
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Sandra Hefter Herrma
... one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father." Jesus was not acting under compulsion. He was not satisfying some blood lust of an angry God. He came out of love for us, to lay down his life of his own accord, a ratification of the treaty God wishes to make with us. He came so we would know that we are loved more than words can say. After all, words are ...
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Mark Radecke
... text and the people squirm more than usual. What will he say? What can he say? The passage he has just read proclaims a chain of hard sayings, some of them impossibly harsh, condemning sin and strengthening the commandments. Anger, insulting speech, adultery, lust and swearing oaths are all roundly condemned. But it is the stark prohibition against divorce that has the people wondering what he will say. In the text, Jesus clearly says, "No divorce." The pastor must be faithful to the text. At the same ...
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John N. Brittain
... higher, and more personal interpretation, "But I say to you." It was not enough to avoid murder, Jesus says, one must not think degrading thoughts about fellow human beings. Not only should one eschew adultery, one must not look at members of the opposite sex with lust, and so on. As our world changes, as we mature, we must constantly strive for a deeper level of personal responsibility and a more profound understanding of the world around us and God's role in that world. We should, in other words, lose our ...
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John N. Brittain
... well-spring of living water, Jesus Christ. This is not at all to glorify poverty, but to underscore the hazards of affluence. Not long ago I spoke with a former student who had experienced frustration serving a local church after which many clergy would lust: a prestigious church where, most of the time at least, money seemed to be no problem. The frustration came about because the members of that church -- at least in this clergy person's estimation -- were so self-satisfied that they were not interested ...
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Wayne H. Keller
... psychiatrist, based his psychotherapy on the question of meaning. He maintains that fundamental to our mental and spiritual health is the question of meaning -- not on the sexual drive, as Freud propounded; not on our will to power, as dictators practice; not on our lust for pleasure, as adult book stores suggest; but as our search for meaning as key to everything we are and become. John the Baptist paved the way for that meaning to come and to lodge in our lives. Stewardship Stewardship Challenge: How are ...
159. Lent 5
John 12:20-36
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Wayne H. Keller
... people for the necessity of Jesus' death, and what his death means to us as the church, as the world. ACTS OF CONFESSION Confession of Our Sins Which parts of your attitudes and behavior do you need to bury, and to keep them buried? Grudges, greed, lust, self-righteousness, false pride, and so on. Take two minutes to write them down. How will you go about having a burial service? Collect them in a fireproof container, and burn them, either in the sanctuary or outdoors. (One minute of silence.) Then, offer a ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... which denies any ultimate sense of right and wrong. For many people there are no moral absolutes, no divine commandments to be obeyed, no universal, timeless principles to which they feel obligated. Many people are governed by whatever gives them pleasure or satisfies their lust or ambition or craving for power and notoriety. "Do your own thing so long as it doesn't hurt anybody" is the popular slogan. If it gives you pleasure or makes you happy, it's okay. Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship and ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... embezzlements, the sexual abuse and harassment charges laid at the feet of many of our national business leaders and politicians. Each day the newspapers report some new violation, some new breach of public trust, some new crime fueled by greed and the lust for power. Sometimes leaders in our so-called "enemy" nations and businesses demonstrate a higher morality than our own. Consider another public leader, the Rev. Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, 77, and his wife, Elizabeth, 80. Dr. Van Dusen, an ecumenical ...
162. Hope Against Hope
Jeremiah 33:1-26
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Robert A. Hausman
... , not in intrigue, but in the God who "... has brought down the powerful from their thrones and lifted up the lowly" (Luke 1:52). This text gives us the same challenge given to Israel -- to let go, to relinquish the past. We are like the Israelites, who lusted after the gods, "who said to a tree, 'You are my father,' and to a stone, 'you gave me birth' " (2:27). Only we have said it to machines and missiles, to gadgets and guns, to merchandise and malls. But we are beginning to learn something about letting ...
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Robert A. Hausman
... saves us. Baptism is a great comfort, but it is also a great challenge. In his Small Catechism, Luther tells us that going under the water in baptism and coming out again signifies "that the old person in us should be drowned, together with all sins and evil lusts, by means of daily contrition and repentance; it should be put to death, and it signifies that a new person should come forth daily and rise up, cleansed and righteous, to live forever in God's presence."2 Our whole life, then, is a renewal of our ...
164. What Law is Operating Here?
Illustration
John Killinger
... leaves. Some may find prurience in this passage, but I sense instead a great depth of love and mercy, a recognition of our common humanity, an act of genuine and redemptive compassion. What law is operating here? The law forbidding sexual looseness, voyeurism, and lust? Or is that transcended, in Isabel's case, by the law of kindness and generosity? The latter, I would contend. There is more of the authentic spirit of Jesus in Isabel's act than in all the railing against sensuality and pornography by the ...
165. Lent 4
Luke 15:11-32, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Isaiah 12:1-6, Joshua 5:1-12, Luke 15:1-7
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John R. Brokhoff
... there is a right and a wrong way to associate with "sinners." a. Sinners are bad company.Jesus mingled with the dreges of society: tax-collectors who made themselves rich by demanding exorbitant taxes, women who sold their bodies to satisfy the sexual lust of their customers. These were people who told dirty stories and used profane language. In our day they are the Charles Mansons, the Gary Gilmores, the Himmlers, the Bonnie and Clydes, the John Dillingers. These people are atheists, anti-God, anti-church ...
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Thomas Long
... one would ever find out." Recalling that remark now, it strikes me more like general worldly wisdom than Christian wisdom, perhaps, but it's a near miss. It gets close to Christian wisdom, because our teacher was telling us that, when you take away all the lust for reward and all the fear of punishment -- no one will ever find out -- what you do in life grows out of who you understand yourself to be. In other words, our Sunday school teacher was moving toward a profound gospel insight: Christian ethics grow ...
167. Bad Timing
Matthew 20:20-28
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Thomas Long
... is really ours as well. Ms. Zebedee can perhaps be pardoned for making an untimely entrance into the gospel story because she had no idea there was a gospel story -- but we do know the gospel story. To know the gospel and still to relish the spotlight, to lust for power and reward is a master stroke of bad timing. Admittedly, in terms of drama, the mother of James and John chose one of the worst possible moments to press her case, but when do we think would have been a better time? Read through the pages ...
168. Epiphany 4
1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Micah 6:1-8, Matthew 5:1-12
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Russell F. Anderson
... , Christ can convert our spiritual weakness into strength. The new birth has been compared to a heart transplant. God uses the weakness of our old hearts to get us on the operating table so that he might implant in us new hearts, hearts that no longer lust after things forbidden but long for the living God. WORSHIP RESOURCES Psalm Of The Day: Psalm 15 Who are those who will remain in God's dwelling? Those who walk blamelessly before the Lord; Psalm 37: 1-11 The arrogant, proud people will be replaced by ...
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Russell F. Anderson
... the harmony between heaven and earth. Outline: 1. Ours is a God of peace and harmony 2. Adultery, divorce, stealing, and murder are actions that destroy the harmony 3. Jesus points to attitudes that destroy harmony -- underlying adultery is the attitude of lust -- underlying stealing is the attitude of covetousness -- underlying murder is an attitude of arrogance and scorn 4. Christ came to reconcile us to God and to give us the Spirit of reconciliation Even non-Christians can sometimes teach us a lesson ...
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Ronald Lavin
... the cross. "Jesus, what are you doing up there, stripped and dying like a common criminal? Jesus, why did the Jewish authorities and the Roman authorities do this to you?" we plead. Listen closely to the answer: "Not them. You. Every time you sin, every time you lust or lie, every time you worship and follow false gods or use my name in vain, every time you dishonor someone, or hate someone, or use someone, or covet someone else's possessions . you crucify me. Not them. You." We don't know what we are doing ...
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Donald Zelle
... is as purifying as a hot stone upon the lips, as fresh water that washes away the brackish, as a cool breeze on a hot and humid day. That forgiveness becomes a transforming experience. Those who have been in the depths of alcohol, drugs, lust, compulsive lying, or other debilitating habits can also know what it is to be free from these. Such freedom comes from forgiveness. Those who receive such freedom and forgiveness have an assignment. They have a commission. It is to share the news of a caring ...
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Sue Anne Steffey Morrow
... has offered so much and accomplished so much for God's chosen people of Israel. God doesn't come along to help David out, by somehow breaking down Uriah's soldierly resolve. Might not a merciful God have forgiven David's little lapse of good judgment into lust, lead Uriah to Bath-Sheba's side and saved everyone all the agony that is to come? No, at least not according to the writer of the Succession Narrative. This writer has observed the history and understood God's presence in a very different manner than ...
173. Absalom, Absalom
2 Samuel 18:1-18
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Sue Anne Steffey Morrow
... against the Lord. David's life is spared graciously but God's judgment is pronounced and secured. "The sword will never depart from your house." And since last week, that judgment has played itself out. There has been rape and murder and rebellion, lust and bitterness, strife and dishonesty, cowardice, especially cowardice. It is a grim narrative and the writer spares us no details of the wickedness. Amnon rapes Tamar, his own half-sister, who is sister of Absalom. Amnon is David's firstborn, successor to ...
174. Proper 12
John 6:16-24, John 6:1-15, 2 Samuel 11:1-27, Ephesians 3:14-21
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Russell F. Anderson
... God's will rather than your own desires. Sermon Title: He Looked, Took and Forsook. Sermon Angle: The above verbs aptly describe what David did when he committed adultery with Bathsheba. He was looking from the roof of his palace and saw Bathsheba in all her glory. Lust starts with the look. You can't help but see something at times, but you don't have to continue to look when something arouses your desires. Next, the text says that David sent his servants to Bathsheba and they took her (v. 4). He had no ...
175. Easter 2
Acts 4:32-37, 1 John 1:5--2:14, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31
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Russell F. Anderson
... He clenched the luscious treat in his fist but the neck of the jar would not allow him to withdraw his fist with the fruit in it. He could have freed his hand by unclenching his fist but he refused to do that. He was imprisoned by his lust. The living Lord freed the believers in Jerusalem to release their grip on their possessions. They didn't regard any of their possessions as their own. They shared them freely. Not only did the apostle's preaching testify powerfully to the Lord's resurrection but also to ...
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