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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King Duncan
... and Italy. Leningrad was transported to Jamaica; Montreal to Spain." Many schools are in crisis. I like what comedian Joe Hackman said, "At first I wanted to be a cop, but you have to be 6'1", know karate, and carry a gun. Then I thought I’d be a schoolteacher, ... many people will never accept me as a person, If I have to depend on others for my self-esteem, then I must choose death. If I wanted to live, I had to quit my depression. I had to say my life had value, and I had to mean it. I chose life." John ...
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King Duncan
... my car." Imagine his feelings when Pat said, "Excuse me for a moment, Mike, my other telephone is ringing." It is very human to want to be one up on our best friends. That is true today. It was true 2,000 years ago. Jesus knew that, and he ... been married and divorced three times, what’s wrong with me?" "I’m bright and talented and work hard, but I never get a promotion I want; what’s wrong with me?" I have just found out that my son uses marijuana; what’s wrong with me?"(3) Have you ever asked that ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... -aimed. Mel has always stuttered very badly, except when he sings. He tells about the time he and songwriter Wayne Walker were asleep in a motel on the ground floor. A friend of theirs named Johnny Paycheck, another country singer, needed Wayne’s car keys. He didn’t want to wake Mel and Wayne, so he crawled through the motel window and then tried to find Wayne’s keys. Mel woke up about this time and saw someone fumbling around in the room but didn’t know who it was. He tried to say something but his ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... question that should be forming on our lips and in our spirits is "WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR CHRISTMAS this year in order for it to be an occasion where Christ's message of love and forgiveness is born anew in our hearts and minds, RATHER THAN WHAT DO WE WANT." What is the need in our spiritual lives that only Christ can satisfy? What happens to us when the last turkey scraps are used and the cookies and other goodies have been devoured? What do we then do to satisfy the hunger for the bread of life that got ...
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King Duncan
... the water had evaporated the salt reappeared. (2) Perhaps in calling his followers the "salt of the earth," Jesus meant that once people become his followers there is no turning back. "You are the salt of the earth." What happens when someone decides that they no longer want to be a disciple or follower of Jesus? They are of no more value than salt that has lost its taste and gone bad. In Jesus ™ day salt was not pure salt like we have today, but was harvested with other natural substances that could and ...
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King Duncan
... writes. (Sgt. Rick was 27.) "I'm just now beginning to realize that God has been here with me the whole time. I was alone because I wanted to be. I'm realizing things I never did before. "I long to live right, to be a part of God's world. "I've been ... of the message....He showed me that I was throwing myself into a wall. Destroying myself! I needed to wake up but couldn't. I had to want to. I broke down begging God to make it end. "I woke up! I woke up!...I went to church twice today and God's messenger (the ...
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King Duncan
... never get over it. In her confusion she didn't understand her intense feelings to cause him harm in some way. It is a natural to want to hurt someone who has hurt us. This young woman had never been so hurt before in her life. Deep down, though, she knew she ... spite, hate, and hurt.(1) It's hard to forgive someone who has hurt us. We think of ways we could get even. Sometimes we just want to write the person off and ignore them as if they no longer exist. It's difficult it is to forgive. And yet the one thing ...
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King Duncan
... he died." (4) It was such a simple gesture ” a note, a Bible and a little cash ” but little counts for a lot in the kingdom of God. I don't know about you, but I want to be surprised at finding myself among the sheep on that day of judgment. More importantly, want to possess a faith that's real. I want to take advantage of one of the most joyous opportunities Christ gives us ” to minister to him. 1. Gregory A. Brown, Boynton Beach, FL 2. Leon I. VanWie, Dexter, New York 3. SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. William ...
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King Duncan
... sitting across the desk from a lawyer. The client is saying something like this to his lawyer, "The question of right and wrong is very clear. I want you to cloud it up for me." For Bob everything was crystal clear, and in spite of what his boss said, it was a big deal ... did what he was sent to do, he would end up dying on a cruel cross. "I can handle that," he thought. "It's not something I want to do. But I can handle it. Everything I've taught up to this point would be a lie if I can't follow through on ...
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King Duncan
... . He was alive. Death had been conquered. The Gospel is true. Notice what comes next, though. Luke tells us, "they still believed not for joy, and wondered . . ." Their reaction was the same as yours and mine would be. It's seems just too good to be true. We want to believe. We want to trust. But we can't let ourselves go. After all, we haven't seen his feet, his hands, and his side. And thus we are troubled about the future. And some of us are troubled about the past. We may not even be aware of it. After ...
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King Duncan
... did she know? Jim thought. "Good morning," he said. "Did you sleep well?" "As a matter of fact I did," she said. "What time did you get up?" "Early," Jim said. "I was just thinking about our pledge to the church." "Oh, yes," she said. "Do you still want to put down the same amount as last year?' "Well, I've been thinking," Jim said. "Rev. Andrews does have some exciting dreams for the church. And you know, a church pledge isn't binding. We could always cut it back if something should happen to the business ...
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King Duncan
... . His friends are speechless and leave the house shaking their heads at the man's obvious lack of discernment... The box in that story is the body, and the diamond is the soul. We take great pains to display the box to the world. We feed it, paint it, want it to be attractive at all times. But, sadly, we forget the diamond inside the box. We neglect the soul that is eternal and most precious. How foolish to spend all our energy and attention on the box and neglect the diamond. (5) So it is with those who ...
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Wayne Brouwer
... 't it found in the pluses rather than the minuses? Do you know that a negative Christianity is no Christianity at all? The Hebrew Christians wanted to go back to playing a game, where God was a scorekeeper, and they had to make the grade. Don't you see? says the ... grand mystery of His serenity. The wavelet of eternity has been tossed into your heart. It calls and it beckons you. And you may not want to hear it. But in those nights, when you're silent upon your bed, you feel it. It's like a short story by H. ...
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Timothy J. Smith
... of the farmers to pay their balances off in full. It was a huge relief for them to have part of their outstanding balance reduced. They could hardly believe the landowner was so generous. It was a side of him they had never seen before. One of the farmers wanted to make him "Man of the Year" for his act of generosity. Of course, the owner didn't know what in the world was going on. He never told his manager to reduce balances on accounts. What was his manager up to, he wondered. As the landowner gave more ...
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King Duncan
... them extra assignments or some other means to increase their faith. Then they would feel better about themselves and be able to do what he wanted them to do. Jesus replied, "If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, `Be uprooted and ... . You said that God has something important for each of us to do in our own way. I thought to myself, `I'm not here because I want to serve God. I'm here to get a job, to make money, to look out for myself. I'm going to get out of here and ...
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King Duncan
... divine forgiveness." (2) C. Everett Koop learned to see life from God's perspective. He learned what it was to entrust his life to God ” to accept Christ's love and forgiveness. You and I need to take that same step. The crowds would not let Jesus be Jesus. They wanted him to be an earthly king. He had something else in mind. When he did not fit their preconceptions, they wrote him off. Some of them even joined the crowds who jeered him as he hung on the cross. In a sense, they would not let God be God ...
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King Duncan
... would grow up with so little self-esteem that he or she never dreamed of doing anything great in life. It's natural for us to want to lead the pack, to be the best, to be the drum major in life's parade. In the February 1995 issue of CAMPUS LIFE Wil ... sumo wrestler. The guy's name is Koji Harada, a Japanese teenager who literally went to great lengths to fulfill his greatest ambition: He wanted to be a sumo wrestler. But Koji had a problem. He was only 5 feet 2 inches tall. And according to the Japan Sumo ...
1868. Come Home For New Year's
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
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King Duncan
... No," said Phil, "that was good. When we finally did get to the hotel, the driver owed me six dollars and forty cents." (1) We are beginning a New Year. Like every year, this year will have its ups and its downs good luck and bad luck, if you want to think of it in that way. The person of faith, though, understands that sometimes "downs" are "ups" in disguise. The person of faith also understands that even when it seems that a season of adversity lasts for a long time when it seems like God has been silent ...
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King Duncan
... leaving, she asked if she could wash the car. Get it all ready for the travels. It was a nice thought, of course. But all she wanted was a chance to drive the car. So she opens the garage doors. It was a really small garage. Car barely squeezes in. Mom and ... and shouting: I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry! I'll stay home! I won't go on vacation! If you do something wrong, you want to make amends. And part of making amends might have to do with giving up something significant to you. And so it is with fasting. Great ...
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King Duncan
... bedside of an old woman who lived by herself. She had little money and few friends, and she was dying. She told Shinn that she wanted another woman to come stay with her for such time as she might have left, so Shinn and the old woman's doctor struck ... woman, the mother of a brood of children. She put her head out of the window. ˜Who's there?' she said. ˜And what can you want at this time of night?' They tell her the situation, her warm, Irish heart cannot resist. ˜Will you come?' ˜Sure and I'll come, and ...
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Frank Lyman
... . It takes practice to live the Christ life. It takes commitment, sacrifice! I came across a powerful poem that's an illustration of how we want God on our terms. It goes like this: I would like to buy $5.00 worth of God, please; not enough to explode my soul or distract ... and the closer we are to him, the more ready we are to embrace the un-embraced. We are skating to the place Jesus wants us to be, a place where we are completely fearless, absurdly happy and constantly in trouble, for the glory of God! l. Adapted ...
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King Duncan
... s. Then he was told that a master's degree would take him only so far and he should get a doctorate. So he got his doctorate and went out for a job. He was told they were looking for younger men. (1) Having the right credentials IS important. Employers want to know that you've been to the right school--that you've gotten a proper education. As Dr. Robert Schuller is fond of saying: "œThe tassel is worth the hassle." Of course, it is possible to overdo it. A witty limerick says it best: A girl at Bennington ...
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King Duncan
... vulnerable to injuries, his grades drop, and he acts up socially with drugs and sex. His cry for help goes unheard. Meanwhile, the kid with less talent gets less help and less pressure. He is left to struggle in worse schools combating pressure from gangs. He has to want to play or it isn't going to happen. Despite his father being jailed for drugs and his mother being on and off welfare, he works to stay in school, to stay on the team. Finally he wins a college scholarship and goes on to play ball better ...
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Linda Richard
... from our lives, if we will allow him into our hearts! And Jesus works even better than a computer! The computer sends our mistakes to the recycle bin if we delete a large item such as a document. We can always retrieve the document if we decide we want it back after all. Sometimes we act as though we have only moved our sins to a recycle bin. Later on we retrieve them and worry about them and feel guilty all over again. But Jesus offers a "Complete Delete" feature for our sins! They're totally, absolutely ...
Sermon
Frank Lyman
... ." If we think this only means sexuality, we miss the point. In a good marriage, the couple becomes so intimate, so trusting; that all the veils of pretense are pulled aside. A good marriage is not a battlefield, but a safe haven; not the last place you want to be, but the first place. One of the finest understandings of intimacy was demonstrated by Jean Vanier, a friend of Henri Nouwen's. Vanier would cup his hands as if holding a small, wounded bird and ask, "What would happen if I opened my hands fully ...
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