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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Donald B. Strobe
... earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof!” What belongs to Caesar? What belongs to God? II. THE FIRST CHRISTIANS HAD TO DEAL WITH THOSE QUESTIONS - AND SO DO WE. The Hague Conference of 1930 declared “...that every person should have one nationality and should have one nationality only.” But Christians are called, in a sense, to be citizens of two worlds: the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of this world. Most of the time there is no conflict between the two. But should the conflict ever come ...
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King Duncan
... . If you’re going to lose both your engines, better to do it on a train and not a plane. But I have some even better news for you today. God’s love for you and me is intimate and it is unimaginable. In Matthew 10:29-31 we have one of the most important Scriptural reminders of the love of our Heavenly Father for His children. It tells us how far reaching God’s love is: “Are not two sparrows sold for a penny?” asked Jesus. “Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father ...
178. Patience
Matthew 11:2-11 · James 5:7-10
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Will Willimon
... . Yet the good thing about the old engagement period is that it had a way of forcing a couple to experience one of the toughest demands of marriage from the first, namely, the demand to wait. It told them, during the weeks of having one another yet not completely having, that their whole marriage would be like that, that marital joys like trust, compatibility, mutuality cannot be had instantly, on demand, as if merely wanting something were enough to have it. Now many couples have been living together ...
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James Merritt
... just an answer, He gave, what I believe, may be the greatest statement in all of his ministry: "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (v.6) To get from this country into another country you must have one thing a passport. The Lord Jesus is the passport from planet earth to beautiful heaven. Now listen carefully. Religion is not the way to heaven. Righteousness is not the way to heaven. Reason is not the way to heaven. Ritual is not the way to heaven. Resolve ...
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Will Willimon
... the home folk straight on Vietnam. Just like Jesus, I was! If I did not ask visiting preachers here to try to restrict themselves to the lectionary, we might have twenty sermons a year on this text! With all the odd, unfamiliar passages in scripture, it's good to have one with which we are familiar. Put it to them Jesus, we know who you really are, Son of God, Lord of Lords--pity about those in Nazareth who didn't know. We wonder how they could have been so intractably ignorant.”He is in the very bosom of ...
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King Duncan
... be able to balance a ball on the end of his nose. Life has a way of humbling us, doesn’t it? We think we are impressing people, and all they want is to see us balance a ball on the end of our nose. Our scriptures for today all have one thing in common: we see a man who was humbled. In the year King Uzziah died the prophet Isaiah had a vision. Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up. And the hem of God’s robe filled the temple. Hovering around the Lord, Isaiah saw mighty seraphim; each had ...
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Raymond Gibson
... to steady it. Immediately, Uzzah fell dead because this was seen as an act of irreverence. No man was allowed to look God in the face, not even Moses. All that Moses was allowed to see of God was his backside. To look at the glory of God was to have one’s eyes burned out and blinded. Isaiah was confronted by God in the temple and cried out, "Woe is me! I am a sinner, a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips" (Isaiah 6:5). Even in the New Testament with ...
183. Proper 14
Lk 12:32-48 · Gen 15:1-6 · Jer 18:1-11 · Heb 11:1-3, 8-19
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John R. Brokhoff
... the good news that faith alone gets one in right relations with God. It seems too easy: "Only believe." We insist upon working in cooperation with God for our salvation. Others think they can make themselves approved of God. In this Old Testament passage, we have one of the earliest witnesses to the central theme of the Bible: man is saved by grace. Abraham's faith was reckoned as righteousness. That is, he was in right relations with God by virtue of his faith. The sermon is to show that faith alone ...
184. Prophets and the Powerful
1 Kings 21:1-3, 17-21
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Will Willimon
... if I were on my way to the White House! Can you believe that 1 Kings 21 is the Old Testament Lesson for this Sunday, when we are only two days past our glorious Fourth of July? A little man named Naboth had little in life. But he did have one thing: A little vineyard which he had inherited from his parents, a vineyard which was adjacent to the estate of King Ahab. King Ahab says to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a tennis court, I mean, vegetable garden. After all, it is so ...
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King Duncan
... chancel in the shape of a cross, placed in each window of the church, across the altar rail, across the front of the baptistry. Literally everywhere you looked on Easter morning, you saw Easter lilies! Each year, members of the church were given the opportunity to have one of the lilies placed there in honor or memory of a loved one for a contribution of $5. Imagine-only five bucks and you didn't even have to take them home with you after the service. The church would dispose of them. Everyone just assumed ...
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James W. Moore
... you.” Take up the torch of Christ-like love! This was so important to Jesus… but the truth is… at first the disciples did not get it. They were not tuned in! What Jesus was calling on them to do was a dramatic departure from that “we only have one cup” approach to love that they had been taught all of their lives… to only love those who are just like you and for sure, not to love those who are outsiders or outcasts. But then here came Jesus slaying, “No, no, no… don’t be like that anymore ...
187. One of the Family
Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-18
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... and His ongoing call in our lives. Because that has changed our lives. But there's another part that touches each and every person who has been Longing for Belonging. In verse 11, the writer says: "For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. For this reason Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters." We are the children of God. We belong to the family of God. We belong because Jesus said we belong. We are His brothers and sisters in every way possible. Our true ...
188. Let Them Eat Cake
2 Timothy 1:1-2:13
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Leonard Sweet
... , and baked them a pound cake. Did she feel you said something unkind? Bake a pound cake. Did she feel you quenched the Spirit. There went the pound cake. Did she feel you stole someone’s joy? Here comes a pound cake. Then she would have one of her children or grandchildren deliver it promptly to those she was having unsanctified thoughts about. A pound cake was her way of restoring a broken relationship with you. When the deceased’s daughter sat down, the place sat in stunned silence. No one else ...
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David E. Leininger
... crying out in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’” Mark begins with a word of hope as he harks back to the promises made generations ago that something or someone special is on the horizon. They say that you only have one chance to make a first impression, and the first impression we get of John is weird. He is dressed in the garb of a wilderness man — camel’s hair clothing cinched with a wide leather belt. His diet was wilderness to a fare thee well — locusts ...
190. I Love A Parade
Matthew 21:1-11, John 12:12-19
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Robert Allen
... excited and looking forward to being a part of the activities. My son Jeff was only three years old and he wanted to be in the parade as well. But, he had one serious problem. He didn’t have a bike - not even one with training wheels. However, he did have one of those long green inchworm toys. As he jumped up and down on its back, it would roll down the street. So, we put a couple of streamers on his inchworm, an entry number on Jeff’s back, and he was entered in the parade. All along the parade route ...
191. American Idol
Exodus 20:4-6
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James Merritt
... who has done all these things." (Jeremiah 14:22, NASB) What Jeremiah was saying was, "Why waste time worshipping a created god when you could worship the creator God?" Let me ask you a point blank question. What is your idol? If you are not sure whether you have one or not, answer two questions. First of all, "What do you love the most?" I heard about a wife who had just had all she could take of football. For week and weeks and weeks, her husband had been glued to the television every Saturday and every ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... now a member of the Legion of Courage." The Tin Man a large red, heart-shaped watch made of metal that hangs from the end of a golden chain. A loudly-ticking clock is in the center of the heart. The Wizard says: "good-deed doers have one thing you haven't got - a testimonial. Therefore, in consideration of your kindness, I take pleasure at this time in presenting you with a small token of our esteem and affection." In all three cases, they thought they lacked something; intellect, courageous strength, and a ...
193. The Serpent
John 3:14-21
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John Smylie
... that suggested and pointed to their need for God for wholeness. We have the cross and the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. When we are caught in sin, when our life is full of complaints and dissatisfaction and grumbling against God and his servants we, too, have one whom we can look upon for forgiveness and healing, one who is far greater than a statue of a serpent made of bronze. Our Lord is lifted up so that the whole world might be drawn unto him. John 3:16 tells us God loves the world. Jesus ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... in certain areas, that nobody is perfect except the Son of God. It also reminds us that we are not alone. And that is so true. Hebrews 4:15-16 (NRSV) [15] For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. [16] Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. When life beats us down, when life strips us of our ...
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King Duncan
... loud voice. Still nothing happened. He tried it again the next day. The paper clip still wouldn’t budge. He even promised God he would change his life if the clip would move just a little. Still nothing. A few days later he got up early in the morning to have one last go at that paper clip. He concentrated as hard as he could and ended up hissing loudly at the paper clip, but nothing worked. He was a failure. How would he ever move a mountain with his faith if he couldn’t move a mere paper clip? Finally ...
196. Proper 22
Hebrews 1:1-14, Hebrews 2:5-18, Job 2:1-10, Mark 10:13-16, Mark 10:1-12
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Russell F. Anderson
... us to conceive of him as our brother, because the term connotes equality. Yet, this passage claims that Jesus became our brother through taking on our suffering, sin and death. We can call Christ brother because all those who are cleansed by the blood of Christ have one Father. Gospel: Mark 10:2-16 The Great Satan. The leaders of Iran still hold that the United States is the Great Satan. In a sense, we are their Satan because we are an adversary; we oppose their very narrow world view. Those Pharisees who ...
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John M. Braaten
... Christ. There is, however, the other side of the equation. While we are to be, as Luther said, "little Christs" to the world, we are also, according to Jesus to see Christ in "the least of these who are members of my family (Matthew 25:3 1ff)." We need to have one word of caution. So often we think of the poor, the needy, the dispossessed as persons "out there." If we look around us we will see that there are also many persons who need us "in here." I'm reminded of the story J. D. Salinger tells in Franny ...
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James Merritt
... love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God." Now it is important to understand what the Bible means by the word love. Remember the New Testament was written in Greek. Greek is very much unlike English. You see, in English we really only have one real word for love, and that is love. So I use love in different ways. I can say to you, "I love my wife. I love homemade chocolate cookies. I love the Georgia Bulldogs." Now when I say that, I hope you know that I don't love chocolate chip ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... two extremely eccentric uncles Hub and Garth McCann who are played by Robert Duvall and Michael Caine. Mom leaves and there they are sitting on the front porch. Walter asks, "If my Mom calls, can we hear the telephone out here?" Garth gruffly says: "Don't have one." Walter is shocked: "No telephone?" Then he asks, "Is it OK if I go inside and watch television?" Again Garth gruffly says: "Ain't got one." Walter is incredulous: "No television? What do you do?" About that time a car pulls up the long drive and ...
200. Tomb It May Concern
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
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Mary S. Lautensleger
... will descend from heaven ... and so we will be with the Lord forever" (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). This passage relates to us as much as it did to the Thessalonians, since it deals with the hope of life after death. We do not need to be afraid for we have one another. Death's sting will never prevail because we have the gift of each other here and now and the gift of those who have gone before us later. Out of this reality, we find our encouragement. Nothing can ever separate us from God. So you see, we don't ...
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