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
James L. Killen
... animals displayed as prizes in carnival games. But happy are those who want more than anything else to live in loving relationships with themselves and with others and with God. Another word for that is "righteousness." They are happy first because they ... with someone who is alive and active, a relationship with the God whom Jesus made known to us, a God who loves us and loves everyone else and who wants us all to love one another. This is a God who is always requiring of us what God knows is best for us and ...
2302. Good to Great
Ezekiel 45:3-5
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... to give 10 percent of our income to the Lord. That’s it! We get to keep 90 percent of it! We think nothing of tipping a waiter 20 percent. Yet God only asks for 10 percent to keep his chosen vessel in the world moving and growing, serving and loving and transforming this world! That’s a good deal. I remember when I first learned about the importance of tithing to the church. I was just a little boy going to Sunday school. My mom would give my twin sister and me money for the offering in Sunday school. I ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... the elder Fonda, “he was perfect!” Now of course Fonda was not perfect. No one is. But his father saw him that way. You and I are not perfect either, but that is the way God sees us. That is what it means to live under grace. God’s love does not protect us from problems. Neither are our problems God’s punishment for our sins. As the Gospel of Matthew puts it, “He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous” (5:45). Sparrows do fall from ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... sides do battle over who is going to win. There is a side to all of us that wants to live the Christian life, do good, love God and others, pray and serve. And there is another side to us that wants to relish in sin – get drunk, run up the credit ... and friends of addicts let me say a word to you about honesty. There is nothing Christian or Godly about ignoring or enabling a loved one who is addicted. You must point out the elephant in the room. I recognize how difficult this is for many people. You have ...
Sermon
Charley Reeb
... hurts? Where is God when planes crash and earthquakes come and people die in car accidents? Where is God and is He involved at all? You may be suffering today and want to know the answer to that question. How do we make sense of suffering if we follow a loving and powerful God? I want to offer some things that have helped me as I have struggled with the question of why bad things happen to good people. My prayer is that they will help you too. We Never Suffer Alone I want to lift up a passage of scripture ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect” (1 Cor. 15:9–10). The consciousness of being God’s chosen instrument is further established by set apart. Paul’s election was understood not as a general truism (e.g., that all people are loved by God), nor in a sense of national pride (e.g., that most peoples consider their nations to play a unique role in history). Like every Jew, Paul knew that God had chosen men and women in the history of Israel to do his particular will (e.g., Jer ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... single heart to worship the one God (v. 10). This may be an echo of the Shema: because “the LORD is one” Israel is called to “love the LORD your God with all your heart” (Deut. 6:4–5; cf. also Jer. 32:39; Ezek. 11:19). The worshiper thus demonstrates that he wants ... men seeks my soul (NIV life). (Note that in v. 4 the speaker had committed his soul to Yahweh.) And as “your love is great upon me” (lit., v. 13), so now “the arrogant have arisen upon me” (lit.). The psalm thus presents the full ...
2308. Visit
2 Corinthians 13:1-10, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Understanding Series
James M. Scott
... that he does have an apostolic right to support (cf. 1 Cor. 9:1–18). 12:15 Having stated that he will not be a burden to his spiritual children when he comes to visit in Corinth, Paul goes on to use this fact as an evidence of his love for them. This intensifies what Paul has said in verse 14: Not only is he willing to support himself during his visit in Corinth, he will very gladly spend(dapanan). The words for you everything I have are not represented in the Greek text, although they are implied. Paul ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... ‘No,’ said Peter, ‘you shall never wash my feet.’ “Jesus answered, ‘Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.’ “‘Then, Lord,’ Simon Peter replied, ‘not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!’” Don’t you just love Simon Peter? Impetuous, never at loss for words, even when no words were needed, but absolutely clueless about the plan of God. “When [Jesus] had finished washing their feet,” John continues, “he put on his clothes and returned to his place. ‘Do you ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... man hanging on a cross, God’s own Son, who is testimony to the way God deals with those who disappoint Him. We need to follow God’s example and with His help let go of our anger and determine to deal with all people with His example of love before us. A news reporter named Aaron Aupperlee once told a story about an angry man named Chris Simpson. After the loss of his first child, Simpson had a lot of bitterness, hatred and anger built up inside. To demonstrate his anger Chris, a 38-year-old garbage man ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... savings. What I’ll do the second day, I have no idea.” Maybe that’s your situation. Of course, it’s no fun to be short of cash. Did you ever see the commercial on TV where a man is sitting in the chair at a tattoo parlor expressing his love to his girl Donna by getting her name tattooed on his arm? Part way through the procedure he asks how much it will cost. “$50,” says the tattoo artist. The man pulls out his wallet and says, “Oh, I only have $41.” The camera cuts to the couple outside on ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... drove to the address they were given and rang the doorbell. Who should answer the door but the humble couple who had stopped to help him on the highway just weeks before? (3) Life does not always work out that neatly, of course, but Christmas is all about love. I don’t know what kind of holiday season this has been for you thus far. I hope it has been the best one ever. Perhaps, however, it has been a difficult time. If so, remember these lessons from Mary’s experience: Life takes some strange twists ...
2313. The Three Bs
Luke 3:1-22, Psalm 29
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... of grace. One in bold palette presents a vivid Lord of lightning and the other, in softer tones, gives us a lavish Lord of love. And both of these pictures are true. In Psalm 29 we meet the voice — the powerful voice, the majestic voice, the voice that ... that God may blast us instead of bless us — if you ever have thought that God is a God of law more than God of love, Luke 3:22 alleviates that confusion. The voice of God speaks once again. But unlike the megaphone voice of Psalm 29 this voice is warm ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... faith. In Luke’s ancient words, and with God’s sobering wisdom, we are being called to figure out what forgiveness and what loving our enemies means. We are called to figure what it means today, while bodies are still being blown up all over the world ... according to our crucified and resurrected Lord, the best way to honor those who have been destroyed through war and terrorism is to love our enemies, do good to those who hate us, bless those who curse us, to refrain from judgment and retaliation, and to ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... of the flowers, the plants, the trees, the herbs, and spices. This is the sweetness of God’s blessings and grace. And it is to this sweet place that God wants to bring us yet again every time we think of him. I don’t know about you, but I LOVE good Italian food. And one of the tastiest recipes in Italian cooking is a superb pesto. Anyone know what pesto is made of? [Allow people to answer ---there are several ingredients that go into a good pesto ---and I have them up here ---ask for a volunteer or two ...
2316. Soul Food
Luke 9:10-17, Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, John 6:1-15
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... mercy, so that we too can take our place at God’s heavenly banquet. The feast is a time of thanksgiving, a time of recognizing our dependence on God’s providence, a time of celebration, for the kingdom has come into our midst today! Does your soul hunger for the love of God today? Are you ready to prepare for God’s “soul food?” I have here today a very special recipe. It’s is a recipe for Barley Flat Bread. I share it with all of you today in hopes it will remind you that only in God will your ...
2317. Grounds for Blessing
Matthew 13:1-23, Luke 8:1-15, Mark 4:1-20
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... last, Jesus tells us, some of you are ready. Some of you here today have ground that is fertile and fresh. You are ready to hear and ready to learn, ready to receive God and ready to enter into a relationship with Him that will bring you such joy and love of life that you can’t imagine! You are ready to allow your life to change. And all of you mustard trees out there. We need YOU to help these people grow, to nurture them, to grow with them, to help them become as tall and beautiful as you are ...
2318. What If It's True?
John 20:1-18 · Matthew 28:10
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... What if Jesus did make eternal life possible for each and every one of us because of what he did on the cross? What if “God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life?” What if it ... man who suffered greatly on earth and yet knew in his soul that there was “something more.” Job knew that God’s love, that God’s promises, were real. His spirit knew that “it was true.” In his moment of deepest despair and darkness Job ...
2319. The Good Husband
Isaiah 54:1-17, Isaiah 55:1-13, Isaiah 56:1-8
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off. “Also the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to Him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants, every one who keeps from profaning the sabbath and holds fast My covenant; Even those I will bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be ...
2320. Elisha's Bones
2 Kings 13:10-25
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... healing power manifests within us and through us. When you allow Jesus to live through you….you too become a vehicle for the glory and the breath of God. The presence of God. The power of God. When you are touched by the power of God, your touch too gives love bones that beam the glory of God to everyone you reach out to! When we allow Jesus to touch our souls, our hearts and our bodies, we grow the holy bones of a Jesus faith, and our lives live the kind of life that walks the talk of Jesus’ mission ...
2321. Wave Riders and Deep-Sea Divers
Jonah 1:1-17, Jonah 2:1-10, Jonah 3:1-10, Jonah 4:1-11
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... And God needed to do a little Jonah-remodeling. Jonah wasn’t ready yet. He wasn’t quite formed enough. He had that fiery temper that God loved to use for preaching! He had a lot of gumption, and get up and go (he sure had get up and go, didn’t he!?). He ... do what he doesn’t want to do, but lo behold, God arranges for him to be swallowed by a giant fish! Now, we all love this part of the story, right? But let’s think about that fish for a moment. Jonah stays inside the “belly” of that whale – ...
2322. Sweet Vine
John 15:1-17
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... in fact a kind of “clone” of the original. Its identity contains the DNA of the origin-al plant. This is what Isaiah is trying to describe to us. God plants the best vineyard….uses good seed to yield the best vines….cares for that vineyard lovingly and loyally. And yet it refuses to bear good fruit, because its identity has been “mutated” from the origin-al. Its genes haven’t changed. But it’s relational DNA has become mutated in sin from that of the True Vine. It is no longer in “grafted ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... gift to humanity—His own Son. The tradition of giving gifts at Christmas time is usually tied to the story of the Magi giving gifts to baby Jesus. But surely the far greater gift at Christmas time is the gift of the baby Jesus himself. “For God so loved the world,” John writes, “that He gave His only Son . . .” There is no greater gift than that. Most of you will remember the late Dave Thomas, founder and long-time CEO of the Wendy’s fast food chain. Dave Thomas wrote a book in which he told ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... gave the right to become children of God . . .” Everyone who receives Jesus as Lord gets adopted into God’s family, and into His love. Simon Hall, a chef in Knoxville, Tennessee, says his family and friends worried about him when he decided to adopt two sons in ... He planned to bring us into His home. Here’s the second thing John tells us: When we look at Jesus, we see God’s love for us. John 1:14 reads, “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” Not just, “I have come to visit you ...
2325. Hope Rises
Mark 9:30-37, 42
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... a true disciple or lover of Jesus. Or you can think of it this way, what words would describe a truly wonderful and admirable human being, the kind of person who astounds you with their kindness and grace. Just one-word descriptions. I’ll give you a hint, “loving” is probably one of them. See how many you can come up with. [Give people time to write while you ponder the “ideal” disciple.] Do you have your list? Call them out! One at a time. Let’s list them. If you’re at home, share them with ...
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