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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Sermon
Lori Wagner
... kept him with her, he surely would be killed. She risked sending her child “down river” in order to give him the only chance she could to save his life. [You can hold up a similar basket here and demonstrate what Moses’ mother did.] I imagine her passion, her undying love for her child, her desperate attempt to do the only thing she could to try to save him. She takes a basket made of reeds. She weaves it together with her tears and her prayers. She smears it heavily with pitch and bitumen –a kind ...
2077. Big Spender
1 Kings 10:14-29, 1 Kings 11:1-13, Luke 15:11-32
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... ! In the life of King Solomon, one of God’s beloved kings, known to be exceptionally wise and blessed, we find the same “prodigal.” As wise as he was, Solomon grew more and more addictive of “things.” He could not curtail his passions and needs for filling himself with gold, ivory, horses, and women. His lavish lifestyle was so extreme it taxed his people heavily. His 700 wives and 300 concubines, many of them idol worshippers, finally turned his head from God to “trendy” religions. Solomon ...
2078. The Field House
Isaiah 2:1-5, Matthew 4:23-25
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... can’t stop shouting! Jesus spends a good deal of time asking people to “keep quiet” because his time had not yet come. And yet they couldn’t. They ran to tell everyone they could at every gathering possible, because their lives had become exciting and new, passionate and LOUD! That’s right. Being a follower of Jesus is not about being a field mouse. But about being rip roaring grateful to God for every day of life! For the freedom and space to play and dance. For the opportunity for friends and ...
2079. Seeing with Eyes Closed
Exodus 34:1-28, Exodus 34:29-35, John 1:1-18, Acts 9:1-19a
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... without incurring significant alteration. That’s pretty much the case with the Holy Spirit too. Think about Saul’s encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. Saul is going along in the same mindset he’s had for a while. He’s been practicing a passionate mission to round up Christians worshipping Jesus, and he’s been throwing them in jail at best, killing them at worst. Now, he’s headed for Damascus, where he’s heard there is a significant gathering of Christians. He has a posse with him. He ...
2080. Job and the Mind Storm
Job 42:7-17, Job 42:1-6, Job 38:1--41:34
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... to be in that state of disorder) is beauty, good, and true. Sometimes, we need to allow disorder and messiness in our lives, in order to allow God to re-form us as the Grand Divine Potter of our lives, to fire us up into beings of breath and passion for God’s love and mercy. The metaphors in Job describe the kinds of things going on in the character’s mind and emotions, as is typical in the Hebrew scriptures. As powerful as these forces are, they are no match for God, whose voice is more powerful still ...
2081. The Physician
Isaiah 38:1-22, Matthew 8:14-17
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... most challenged. And it’s the time that we need Jesus the most to “heal” our fissures, to "heal" our doubts, and "to heal" our fears, so that we might be restored in faith, and prepared to rise up and praise God with our loudest and most passionate voice. In every healing story in the scriptures, healing is followed by praise to God, and a revelation of God as our ultimate healer and restorer. And the ultimate in restoration is the restoring of God’s people in relationship and in faith with God our ...
2082. Worship is Your Rest Stop
Genesis 1:1-2:3, Psalm 92:1-15, Luke 5:33-39, Luke 6:1-11, Galatians 3:1-14
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... fresh from week to week, so that we can get up and keep on walking that discipleship road again. God’s rest doesn’t mean you completely get off of the road. You don’t back out of the journey. You don’t give up on your course or your passion for the road. You stay on course to your destination. But you pull over for a moment and take time to refresh your spirit and load up on nourishment for your journey ahead. And there’s no one more nourishing to a tired spirit than Jesus. Worship is your rest ...
2083. Excuse Me!
Exodus 3:1-22
Sermon
Carl Jech
... effect of his poor self-esteem. The older, wiser Moses was more interested in building "his People" up than in tearing the Egyptians down. Jesus said that when we love ourselves, then we are strong enough to love even our enemies. In his film Crimes of Passion, eccentric British director Ken Russell presents us with a caricature of a priest/minister (it's not clear which) one who is riddled with self-hate and self-doubt over his sexuality. He is so tortured with conflicts that in the end his self-image is ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... ? Can you commit to being a witness every day, in every situation, even if you never feel capable, even if you never feel ready, even if you never know how God is working in you to heal and transform the world? In the book Second Calling: Finding Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life, Dale Bourke writes about a conference she attended years ago. She and her friend Bruce planned to drive to the airport after the conference when another attendee asked if he could ride with them. On their ride, Dale ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... grant you that. But people are not going to die to perpetuate what they know to be a myth. Maybe one. Maybe even two or three. But not all twelve. They were not men who had a death wish. They knew what they had seen. They believed in it so passionately that they were willing to put their lives on the line in their efforts to tell the story to others. They were resurrection people. The Apostle Paul wrote: I have died to sin and have been raised with him. This is what I am talking about. The resurrection is ...
Sermon
David & Marian Plant
... as having worth; not worth based on prosperity, worth based on simply being human. Fullness of life grows by volume, like dough with fresh yeast. Fullness of life — the abundant life Jesus was talking about — turns us from metaphorical sheep to passionate believers and doers of Jesus’ new paradigm. Where Jesus leads we follow. He heals our prosperity blindness. We have eyes that can no longer help but see that help must be given without restraint by prejudice, jealousy, or disparity, and help ...
2087. Sheep Just Wanna Have Fun
John 10:1-21, Psalm 23:1-6
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... to as rather unintelligent animals that wander aimlessly away if the Shepherd is not there to guide them. Yet, it seems, given the opportunity, sheep would rather play organized games than simply wander aimlessly through the fields. They apparently have a sense of community, a passion for assisting each other, and definitely a zeal for fun. Open up the gate, and sheep will find a new way to play! Should we be surprised? The human spirit too has a natural inclination for making the best of new situations and ...
Sermon
David & Marian Plant
... which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speeches. Level One intensity and cadence: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to be with you forever....” Level Two stronger intensity, passion, and cadence: “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me....” Level Three stronger still — here is the directive again, for real: Jesus said, “They who ...
2089. True Colors
John 14:15-31, Psalm 66:1-20
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... They don’t seem to have a firm opinion of their own about anything. At least it’s impossible to tell what they really think, because they will agree with whomever they are with. Put them into a room with climate change advocates, and they will passionate advocate for climate change. In the next hour, put them into a room with climate change protestors, and before you can say “flip,” they’ve taken up a sign and have begun protesting along with their peers. You probably also know people who do this ...
Sermon
David & Marian Plant
... the generations. Some generations have a call to have as many children as possible, others claim a responsibility to limit ourselves to one or two. In the beginning for all of us, there was a perception of a plan, even if the plan was only about having a moment of passion. Let’s assume the plan was purposeful; the plan was, for whatever its reason, a hope for something of meaning and of a life well-lived. I don’t know of any parent-to-be who thinks the plan is to have a child who will be full of ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... communities, and loving each other with a sacrificial love that is so contagious that it draws others to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. Francis Chan, the author of the book Crazy Love, visited church congregations around the world and studied what passionate, committed, courageous Christian faith looks like. He told of his conversation with a Chinese pastor who served the underground church in China. For most of the last century the church in China was forced to exist in secret cells because of ...
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Abraham Lincoln
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Abraham Maslow
In many matters children – not ensnared by dogmatism, passion, or erudition – judge far truer than adults.
Adolf Freiherr Knigge
Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.
Akhenaton
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
Alan Keyes
A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein
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