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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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2051. The Fellowship of Kindred Minds

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... was worth trying to help. Every Sunday she would make a list on the bulletin of all the grammatical errors I made in my sermon and give them to me on her way out of church. There was a little church who just would not let me quit when I wanted to give up, having grown weary in well-doing. They kept me in the pulpit. You have names for those people. Even now, you can remember their words. In fellowship we are blessed with people who share the journey of faith. “I thank my God every time I remember you ...

2052. Let the Living Begin

John 10:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... here and there, chase after this dream and follow that desire. The hireling, who cares not for the sheep, says go where you want, do what you will, have it your way, you deserve a break today. So we wander without awareness that we are wasting our ... your life away.” II. BUT JESUS IS A LIFE-GIVER. “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the fullest.” He wants to give you a better life than you ever dreamed of. Life is what we’ve been looking for since we lost paradise. Eve ate the apple ...

2053. Marching Forward by Faith!

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , “Is there anybody else up there who could help me?" FAITH. You can't leave home without it. We live by faith not because we want to, but because we have to. We go to a doctor whose name we cannot pronounce, who writes us a prescription we cannot read, that ... to wet the leather. Then pour in the rest medium fast and pump like crazy. You'll get water. Have faith. When you get all you want, fill her up for the next fella. Signed, Desert Pete. P.S. Don't go drinking up the water first, you have to prime the ...

2054. Believe

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the free world. Sometime I wonder, do I trust my God that much? I know, we spend a lot of time in life asking, “Why?” But what is important is not, “Why?” The question is “Who?” Oswald Chambers said, “Never try to explain God until you have obeyed God.” Who wants to be Joseph in the Christmas play? No one does. He has no lines to say or songs to sing. He just stands there. He takes Mary home as his wife, but has no union with her. He takes cold showers to cool his desire and if he doubts, it ...

2055. Living on Full Alert

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17. 20-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... that thirst by our own efforts, even though we constantly try. Only God can supply our deepest thirst for life. When will we learn? We long for significance and settle for things. We stuff our bodies with food and our houses with gadgets, when what we really want is to matter, to drink from the fountain of your true spiritual worth. We long for love and settle for sex. We long to offer ourselves to someone who will receive us as we are, know us at our depths and delight in us. When this proves impossible ...

2056. Positive Living

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... ready to eat. By eight o’clock the food was gone, so you dared not dawdle. That gave them five minutes for a short devotion. His father would say a few comments, they’d read some Scripture, and then they’d always end by saying aloud a certain motto. I want you to listen very carefully to this motto that they recited, as a family, each and every day. I quote, “I’m going to be happy today, though the skies may be cloudy or gray. No matter what comes my way, I’m going to be happy today.” “That ...

2057. From Lust to Love

1 Corinthians 13: 1

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... agape love, it is godly love. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son. Not because he had to, but because he wanted to. Not because he should, he did it because he could. Then Paul in this old poem says, "Love is patient, love is kind. It ... a conference one time and someone said you ought to put your name in this place. So I went home and got Sandy and said I want to read you something. "Howard is patient, Howard is kind, Howard does not envy, he does not boast, he is not proud." She didn't even ...

2058. Reaching Up—Reaching Out

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... together with gospel songs and jingles that he collected or made up. He said something in a sermon all those years also, I have never been able to get off my mind. He put it in a little jingle that goes like this: "Some want to live beside a church and hear the sound of bells. I want to build a rescue shop within a yard of hell." I'm deeply concerned today about those left behind, not only those who might be left behind at the rapture, but those who are left behind day-after-day by the most affluent nation ...

2059. Males or Females?

Acts 18:1-3, 18-19, 24-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , adventurous, spiritual ministry to men. John Elderidge in his book Wild at Heart says men are looking for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, a beauty to rescue and all they get in church is a general suggestion that they be nice. Men want to be dangerous, passionate, alive, and free. Meanwhile the church teaches them to be passive and bored to death. Men have settled for killing time and it's killing them. Howard Macey says, “The spiritual life cannot be made suburban. It is always frontier and ...

2060. Sisters

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... was no different back then. Can you imagine the burden that Martha must have been under? She took pride in filling her role well. She wanted to excel as a host and as a housekeeper. Many of us really admire Martha. We can relate to her. Well, Martha’s sister ... graduates work at least 80 hours per week. I am certainly not knocking hard work. As Homer Simpson once said, “If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Then he added, “Now quiet, they’re about to announce the lottery ...

2061. A Strange Way in and a New Way Out

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... strange that Matthew would tell us of astrologers who use their mantic wisdom to find Jesus. Certainly, Matthew is not endorsing astrology. We need to be clear on that. Even in the church today, some folks are confused about astrology. They are Christians, but they want to make decisions based on their horoscope readings. Matthew is not giving his okay for that. We face the future trusting in God, not knowing what will happen on any given day. Where Matthew may be leading us, though, is to affirm that God ...

2062. Investing in God’s Future

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Chris Ewing

... his ideas, his concepts, his teaching. He leaves them to his followers. All these three years he has been talenting them. Now he's saying, "You want me to come in here and pull some angels out of the sky and set up a revolution? Oh, no. I've been giving you, ... to multiply or to bury — our spiritual capital, to do business with or to reject. When the offering plate comes around today, I want you to take something out as well as put something in. You will see in each plate a stack of "gold ingots" — little ...

2063. A Change of Mind

Exodus 32:1-14

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... in God's own hand. When Moses saw what the people had been doing he became angry. "Moses' anger burned hot, and he threw the tablets from his hands and broke them at the foot of the mountain." Moses was upset with Aaron who gave the people what they wanted. It was time for the people to repent of their sin and wrongdoing and return to the Lord God. Martha Byrne was living her dream of becoming an actress. She said good-bye to the house and church where she'd grown up and moved to Hollywood, California. At ...

2064. A Question of Loyalty

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... to the Lord God. Joshua challenged the people, "Now if you are unwilling to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve." At the same time, Joshua was clear about his own priorities, "as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord." Joshua wanted the people to follow his example. We all need role models whose positive example we can follow. A young woman, Allison, had just returned to her hometown where she was greeted by her younger sister whom she had babysat when her sister was only three to ...

2065. What We Do, We Do to Others, Too

Matthew 18:1-9

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

... maybe it wouldn’t be too bad because no one else will be affected. We think, “If I’m the only one who might get hurt, then why can’t I do whatever I want?” The biggest reason, of course, is that God doesn’t want us to! Any time we sin, we put something between us and God, and that is something we don’t want to happen. We want to stay close to God. But there’s another reason, too. Sin is a little like this fan. Even though I thought no one else could feel the breeze the fan made, someone ...

2066. Compound Interest Your Life

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... prescription for a compound interest life: Make all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can. Here is a useful chart as to how compound interest works: http://www.bygpub.com/finance/InterestCalc.htm For example, if you were to plan ahead for your church or charity, and wanted to provide them an annuity, you could set aside $10 weekly. At 10% interest, that would amount to a gift of $3,370 in 5 years, and a gift of $99,149 in 30 years. That’s the power of compound interest. Some of you are giving to the ...

2067. There's Something about Con Men

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... he was out on the street. Jesus obviously would not approve of his methods, but that’s another parable. Here his purpose is to spotlight the dishonest man’s resolve. He was in a predicament and he took action, and Jesus praised him. And that is what Jesus wants us to do as well. Don’t get discouraged. Don’t sit around feeling sorry for yourself. Pray, yes, in all circumstances, but if there is something you can do for yourself, do it, and God will bless your effort. There is a delightful story of a ...

2068. Finder's Keepers

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... there will be rejoicing over the lost which is found. It really is Finder's Keepers. When you find that which was lost, you want to tell everyone. Isn't that true. Don't you start hollering when you've found the car keys you've misplaced? I know ... There is rejoicing. God throws a party in our honor. And we should rejoice with God. The real problem with the Pharisees is that they wanted to be the Keepers instead of the Finders. And when we sit like the Pharisees were doing, and look down our nose at people ...

2069. It's Just A Little Thing

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... week. One of them (the first one) was for Jesus. The second one was for savings. And the other eight he could spend almost any way he wanted. I wish you could have seen the look of joy on that little boy's face when he gave his quarter to Jesus. It was just ... , every time I shine somebody's shoes, I keep thinking they're shoes that belong to Jesus, so I do the very best I can. I want Jesus to be pleased!" (2) It was just a little thing, doing a great job instead of a good job. But it made all the difference. ...

2070. How's Your Serve?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... trying to exit the interstate at the I35, I20 split. They both had on their blinkers signaling to the other their intent. The each wanted the other one to get out of their way. But rather than slowing down and letting the other guy pass, they both tried ... young man had A SERVANT'S TOUCH. He was a SERVANT. He became an instrument of the Incarnation. Christ entered that hospital room through Him. God wants to use us the same way. But in order to be used like that, we can't try to race ahead of the traffic jam ...

2071. People of the Book

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... . We have the capacity to study mosquitoes. Imagine mosquitoes coming together to study us. It is just as absurd to say that, by forming a study group we are able to capture the nature of God. The Bible is not a book of theology, but of revelation. God wanted to communicate with human creatures. The Bible is God’s attempt to reach out to us. Through the Bible God seeks to reveal His nature and His plan. “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.” The Bible is the most reliable guide we ...

2072. Whose Wife Will She Be?

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... money used, say, to endow a memorial in the loved one’s name, but you can see how this could be appealing to some people. We want to hold on to those we love. A healthier way of dealing with death, however, is to recognize it as a time of transition. It is ... to death is to deal with it as a time of transition. Death is but a journey from this world to the next. One thing we might want to do as we prepare for this journey is to think of those we will leave behind. The death of a loved one is difficult for ...

2073. The Irrational Season

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the time the work-crew arrived, she had changed her mind. She gave the men $100.00 each, instructing them to carry the mule upstairs and to deposit it in the bathtub. After they had dutifully followed her instructions, one of the workers asked why she wanted the dead mule in her bathtub. She said, “Well, for 35 years my husband has been coming home at night, throwing his coat on the rack, grabbing the newspaper, plopping into the easy chair and asking, ‘What’s new?’ Tonight, I’m going to tell him ...

2074. Captured by the Spirit of Christ

Jn 1:29-42

Illustration

King Duncan

... to say that I tried to love and serve humanity." Dr. King concluded with these words: "I won't have any money left behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind." Did Martin King have that level of commitment when he first began his ministry? It's doubtful. He had youthful enthusiasm to be sure. He had strong convictions. He was well brought up, with an outstanding Baptist preacher as a father. But people who ...

2075. The Ad Vent Wheat

John 1:1-18

Drama

Frank Ramirez

... . We won’t go until we get some, And a cup of good cheer. We wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas, And a Happy New Year. Garrison: This Ad Vent works pretty good. What other Ads do we want to get out this Christmas? Courtney: Well, Christmas is about the Baby Jesus. We need to remind the grown-ups of that. Bradley: Yeah. All they do is shop and cook, and sometimes they get very grumpy. And Christmas is not about the Baby Grumpy. Alexis: Yeah, Grumpy was ...

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