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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1776. Chapter VII
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... the baby when it gets old enough to count?" You ask, "Am I going to get trapped into a marriage with someone I don’t really love?" You think, "Will I have to spend the rest of my life paying for what I have done?" And, "What will this mean when the time ... over moments we wish then that we could rub out of our lives. To save us from having that happen, God told the people he loved, "You will not commit adultery." He said that not for his good, but for ours. For if we misuse our sexual drives we can pockmark ...
1777. Servant Worship
Psalm 116:1-19
Sermon
Donald Macleod
... steps he took: 1. "I will take ..." (v. 13a). This is the best way to thank God. What God wants us to do in view of his love for us is simply to receive it. We begin to repay God by accepting willingly what he gives, that is, what he has done and will go ... 15:7 RSV). It is true that our Christian worship involves giving, but more important in the eyes of God is our taking. God’s love and grace are already here and they are his free gift to us. Our offertory response says: All things come of thee, O Lord, And ...
1778. The More Excellent Way
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Sermon
Robert Allen
... by the understudy - and I thought she stole the show. She was vivacious. She was alive. She was enjoying her chance to be a star. At one point in the play, she begins to sing: I’m stuck like a dope, with a thing called hope. While that is a lovely attitude, it’s not exactly what I mean by hope. This is mostly sentiment. It’s like the little boy standing at the window of a pet shop to select a puppy for his birthday present. The father asks, "Son, have you picked one out yet?" "Yes, Daddy," said the ...
1779. Proper 14
2 Samuel 18:1-18, John 6:25-59, Ephesians 4:17--5:21
Bulletin Aid
Paul A. Laughlin
... forgiveness may abound, to the glory of your Kingdom and your Son. In his name we pray. Amen Prayer of Confession Merciful God, we confess that we do not live lives in imitation of you and Christ. We are not always kind, or tenderhearted, or forgiving, or loving. Forgive us, we pray. Implant your Spirit in our souls so that we shall do automatically that which is godly in every situation, and our actions may thus reflect the Kingdom promised by Jesus Christ. In his name we pray. Amen Gospel: John 6:35, 41 ...
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... when we feel like talking about God - I have a sneaking suspicion that He’s not as meaningful to us as we imply! Most of us don’t talk about our wives too much - and the relationship with them is deep and meaningful. Remember when you first fell in love? How you buttonholed your roommate in college and told him about this wonderful girl you had met - how she was just out of this world, and so forth and so on? You don’t talk much like that any more - as marriage finds a different level and there are ...
Sermon
William McKee Aber
... the end of an article. Maybe, for too long, thirty has marked the cop-out - the end of our concerns and compassions and idealism and love. If so, we’ve got a lot to learn. But, God helping us, we can. There are some pretty good teachers on the other side ... , "There are people out there in Southeast Asia ... and we don’t act like we care about them." Maybe all is fair in love and war and maybe women and children are always innocent victims in time of war - but there’s something in the spectacle of ...
Drama
William McKee Aber
... you say so little, Christian? Things do not look good! Jack: (Lowering paper) Look, Sue, some people are bright and ready to go this early in the morning; I’m not one of them. Sue: That’s not the real reason you ignore me. You never tell me you love me any more; you never help me into the car; you don’t remember my birthday - sometimes I wonder why you married me. (adds two BLOCKS) Jack: Well, I didn’t marry you because of your friends! (adds two BLOCKS) Child: (enters room) Mom, I’m all set. The ...
Drama
Ruthanne Cochran
... , the star of the King. They went for many miles so that they could worship him and give him gifts. Child: We give gifts, too. But I also like to get gifts. Father: Yes, my son, but at Christmas we remember others and share with them our blessings of love and joy. Our tree with all its decorations reminds us of these blessings. Child: Let’s dedicate our tree as a gift to time Christ Child. Father: All right! Let’s all gather around it. (Family joins hands around the tree.) We dedicate this tree to be a ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... a mountain of meaning. I would like to spend a few moments this morning unpacking the meaning of it. I This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to Him! There is a mountain of meaning in these words. Let’s look at the first idea: This is my Son. This event in ... ages agreed with this concept. Nor did they take issue with the idea that God was pleased with Jesus’ life. God assuredly would love any man who advocated the things, and did the things that Jesus did. But listen? Listen to him! Ah, that’s another ...
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... can happen for us, too. And when it does our faith will reach a new level. Behind us will be obedience prompted by a preacher’s coercion. Behind us will be a piety as a refuge from life’s problems. And before us will be devotion from love and the spontaneous joy of new life in Christ. Amen Notes from the Homiletician Many communities take pride in a local boy or girl who rises to fame and fortune. Among Ohio cities, Columbus has Jack Nicklaus, Cleveland has Bob Hope, New Concord has John Glenn. Toledo ...
Sermon
Robert G. Tuttle
... energy and guidance. Recently my son, who is a seminary professor in the Midwest, had a young doctor come to him. The doctor said, "Tuttle, I have everything I’ve ever wanted. My practice is excellent. I have all the money I need. I have two cars and a lovely home. I have a wonderful wife and three beautiful children. Why do I want to blow my brains out?" "It seems that all this has been your God," my son replied, "You’ve achieved all your goals. You’ve lived your life. It’s over. But before you end ...
Sermon
T. A. Kantonen
... a judge, has he triumphed, but in the royal purple of his suffering, with a reed as his scepter, with thorns as his crown, and with the cross as his throne. Men have looked upon his mangled body on the cross and caught a vision of the mystery of redeeming love. They have felt his magnetism, they have been drawn to him, and they have stayed with him to the end. At the foot of the cross we feel something of what Lincoln felt at Gettysburg and what we feel at the grave of the unknown soldier, but in a deeper ...
Sermon
Gregory J. Johanson
... s suffering made visible connects with another person’s suffering, through barriers and defenses of every kind. Our wounds, as it were, are our visa into the country of another person’s being, the badge of our own humanity, the sign that love is our wound, and "love is not love until love is vulnerable." Have you found your wounds sometimes to be a bridge into the country of another person’s being? He who would bind another’s wounds must first allow his own wounds to be found. God has only one kind ...
1789. Civil War Isn't!
2 Samuel 18:1-18, 19--19:8
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... his friend Mel White, a well-known evangelical pastor and author who announced to him one day that he is gay. Yancey was floored because he believed then and still believes that homosexual behavior is sinful. He had to somehow reconcile that belief with the fact that he loved his good friend Mel with all of his heart. Yancey writes, "It occurred to me that my own life would be much simpler if I had never met Mel White. But he was my friend. How should I treat him? What would grace have me do? What would ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... may feel that way at this very moment. We hear these wondrous claims of a world in the care and keeping of a loving heavenly Father, then look around and see one catastrophe after another. Still, we stand together and say, "I believe in God, the Father, ALMIGHTY ... of the 22nd Psalm. The words would have been as well known to Rabbi Jesus as "The Lord is my Shepherd" or "For God so loved the world" are to you and me. Just as those passages are so familiar to us, Jesus knew not only the beginning of the Psalm ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... can make penicillin out of moldy bread, -He can make something out of you.” This is the good news of John 3. Because God so loved the world, He SENT His only son to make something out of us… when we accept Him into our lives and commit our hearts to Him ... are other worlds to sing in. You can be re-born from above. You can come alive to the Bible and you can come alive to Love. Give me your hand Nicodemus; I’ll pull you out.” III. THIRD AND FINALLY, TO BE BORN FROM ABOVE MEANS TO COME ALIVE TO ETERNAL ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... one first-grade group and began to question them as to what they had been learning. They had been studying about God and eagerly, the youngsters shared their knowledge. One little boy said God created the whole world and everything in it. A little girl said that God loves us very much. Another little girl said that God had a son named Jesus who came to earth to save us from our sins. Needless to say, the pastor was quite pleased with all the responses until finally one little lad piped up, "I know what God ...
1793. The Birdies
Luke 18:15-17
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... late," was his reply, "I have already prayed for rain." The faith and trust of a little child!(3) Recently, Lloyd Glenn shared something profound that he had learned from his young son.(4) It is a lesson about perspective, but most of all, it is a lesson about love, one that probably could not be learned as well in any other way than through the teaching of a child. It was July 22nd last year. Lloyd was on the way to Washington DC for a business trip. It was all so very ordinary, until he landed in Denver ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... him something." Her father smiles, gives her a big hug and says, "Honey, you already have!" If somehow we can capture that kind of love and selflessness, then it can be said that his light dwells in our heart. Dr. James Dobson tells about a man named Paul ... to take home this morning. If you were to open the box, it would appear empty. Inside it, though, would be the love of Jesus Christ “a love that is still transforming lives 2,000 years after he walked the shores of the Sea of Galilee. If you had such ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... a follower of Jesus. Someone once asked, if you were given a dollar for every kind word or deed which you said or did, and then had to give back fifty cents for every unkind word or deed, would you be rich or poor? Think about it. We are to love kindness. We are also to do justice. Justice is a much larger and more complicated concept than kindness. Kindness is an individual act. I see a person in need and, like the Good Samaritan, I try to help. That is kindness. Justice, on the other hand, is the passion ...
1796. Watch What You Eat
1 Corinthians 8:1-13
Sermon
King Duncan
... -less faith nothing but a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. I am reminded of John Ruskin, the great English art critic of the nineteenth century. Ruskin was a brilliant man with a true love for beauty. His letters reveal his knowledge about and love for the finer things of life. His travels in Italy have provided us with enchanting watercolors of Venice and other cities, as well as drawings of rocks, trees, even hailstones, all testifying to his keen perception of beauty everywhere. Here was a man of ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... which marriage is more challenging. But the secret of a successful marriage will never change. St. Paul writes, "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh...let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. 1. Isaac Asimov, BOOK OF FACTS, (New York: Wings Books, 1979). 2. E. Bendann, DEATH CUSTOMS, (London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1969), p. 199. 3. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1984), p ...
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
... went around healing people who were sick, and forgiving people's sins. He hung out with the people whom everyone else hated and stayed away from. He treated people with respect and kindness. That's a very special kind of love. And many of our mommies also love us with their words and their actions. They tell us that they love us, and they say nice things to us. They help us with our homework, or they fix us supper, or they hug us when we're hurt or sad. These are all great ways that our mommies show us they ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... the basin and sponge and begins to wash. The towel that covers his waist is also the towel that dries their feet." (3) It was the greatest sermon Jesus ever gave! And here we are at the Lord's table this day. There is no pecking order here. Jesus loves each and every one of us the same--COMPLETELY. There are no superstars or dignitaries in this place. We are all sinners saved by the grace of God. Our talents might be different, but our purpose is the same--to share in the building of his kingdom. In order ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... even ask a question like that?" “Because I want you to understand," explained the minister, “That God has a picture of you on His dresser too." (5) This passage contains a warning: we are imperfect judges. Then, it contains a note of hope: only God, who loves us, can properly judge us. And finally, it contains another warning, which brings us to our third point: GOD JUDGES OUR INWARD ATTITUDE JUST AS MUCH AS OUR OUTWARD ACTIONS. Uh-oh. To the rest of the world, we may look like paragons of virtue. By ...
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