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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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1. Eager For The Journey

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the more our sinfulness is revealed to us. Falling to his knees Peter pleaded, go away Lord go away. I am a sinful man. But Jesus did not go; extended, he extended an invitation and their lives would never be the same again. II They were made eager because first Jesus offered them a change and then he offered them a challenge: Come with me and I will make you fishers of men. My friends, Christianity is a challenge. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise. It has always amazed me that non-Christians look ...

2. Eager for the Journey - Sermon Starter

Luke 5:1-11

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Brett Blair

... that if they could handle these things, the joys of exploration would exceed their wildest dreams. Every single one of them in the group joined Sir Francis Drake that day, some did not even go home to say goodbye to their families, they just boarded the boat eager for the journey. What made the difference in these two groups? Why did the first group turn down the mission and the second jump at the chance? Was the second group different and more adventurous than the first? The answer is: No. It is not the ...

3. The Discipline of Discipleship

Mark 10:17-31

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David E. Leininger

... of life are given, but no effort is made to appropriate them as a part of day-to-day living. And that is the final model we find in this story: a model for failure. Everything looked good right up to the end. The student was eager and enthusiastic with the conviction that this was a worthwhile teacher; the teacher had his priorities straight, was willing to meet the needs expressed by the student with both scripture and love, and then called for commitment...a marvelous picture of the way things SHOULD work ...

4. Proper 8

2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Samuel 1:17-27, Mark 5:21-43

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... giving (v. 7). Here are some indications of a church that is excellent in giving. Outline: 1. It gives freely, not as a command (v. 8). 2. It focuses on the self-giving love of Jesus (v. 9). 3. It has follow-through (vv. 10-11). 4. It is eager to help (v. 12). 2. Sermon Title: Guidelines For Giving. Sermon Angle: Not long ago, I talked with a friend from another state who constantly has problems but won't commit himself to being part of a Christian community. When I questioned him on this issue, he said, "I ...

5. The Forgiving Father (Father's Day)

Luke 15:11-32

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Brett Blair

... not revenge but relationship and restoration. He wants you to return. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul gives us his renowned definition of love. What is the first quality that he lists? Love is patient. III Third, I think that the story implies that God’s love is eager. Jesus made this clear when he said: The father ran and embraced him and kissed him. In first century Palestine no one who had any dignity at all would be seen running in public. But when the father sees the boy he forgets about public impressions ...

6. Preparing for Something Big

Mark 13:1-31

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Paul E. Flesner

... in faith because he was coming back again! I am not advocating a change in the customs used to celebrate Christmas. I am suggesting that we need to change the manner in which we prepare to celebrate Christmas. I believe we need to recapture the sense of eager anticipation about the second coming of Christ which was present in the early church. During this Advent season, we need to listen to God calling us to look beyond "today and tomorrow" to the time when Jesus will come back and usher in God's kingdom in ...

7. Paul's Chains Advance the Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... The only thing that could put Paul to shame would be failure to win his Lord’s approval; that is why he kept “the day of Christ” before him in all that he planned and did. The declaration of the gospel is the duty entrusted to him; he is eager to be faithful to that trust and to do nothing unworthy of it, especially when he stands before Caesar. Personal humiliation is not what Paul fears; he had endured plenty of that already in the service of Christ and was likely to endure more. But he knows that ...

8. Spiritual Gifts and Spiritual Growth

1 Corinthians 14:1-25

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... the trumpet for various commands (cf. 1 Thess. 4:16). Likewise, speech must be intelligible to have effect. Even languages that are intelligible in foreign places, and commonly spoken among such peoples, remain obscure to those who do not understand. 14:12 Since you are eager for gifts of the Spirit. The plural pneumat?n refers to the plurality of gifts, not to a plurality of spirits. This verse connects to 12:1 and clarifies that the “greater gifts” of 12:31 are those that build up the church. 14:13 ...

9. Easter Day

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, Colossians 3:1-17

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John R. Brokhoff

... the stone was rolled away. Peter and John race to the tomb to check out her story. Easter is a time of excitement and eagerness to see and know. It is not an everyday occurrence to have a dead man walk out of a tomb. It is fantastic; could it ... . Like Mary Magdalene who could not wait until sunrise to go to the tomb; like Peter and John racing to the tomb, we need to be eager, anxious, and excited to see if the tomb is empty and Christ is alive. Outline: Why we rush to the tomb of Jesus -- a. To learn ...

10. For The Love Of What?

Psalm 137:1-9, John 2:12-25

Sermon

Erskine White

... sex and alcohol and drugs, the lives of our children are at stake. If we don't form their values in the church, others are all too eager to do it for us. If we don't teach them how to sing the Lord's song, they'll learn another and it won't ... on his legs and the bars on his windows did not prevent him from looking higher to the abiding things of life. He was still able and eager to sing the Lord's song. "Little children," he wrote, "Do not love the world or the things of this world. If you love the world, the ...

11. The Resurrection of Our Lord

Acts 10:23b-48, Exodus 10:1-20, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Colossians 3:1-17

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12. The Ministry of Refreshing

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Various Authors

... that all who are in Asia turned away from me, and among them Phygelus and Herogenes. May the Lord grant mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me; he was not ashamed of my chains, but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me eagerly and found me - may the Lord grant him to find mercy from the Lord on that Day - and you well know all the service he rendered at Ephesus. Timothy may have known, but we don’t know what service Onesiphorus rendered at Ephesus. We do know, however, that ...

13. The Post Launch Slump

2 Cor 8:10-11

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Robert Noblett

... fantasy. The post launch slump happens. It happens maritally, politically, religiously, biologically and ecclesiastically. "You made a good beginning last year both in the work you did and in your willingness to undertake it. Now I want you to go on and finish it: be as eager to complete the scheme as you were to adopt it ..." (2 Corinthians 8:10-11, NEB) Why does our zeal often flag after the hoopla is over? Sometimes it flags because we lose our nerve. Bombastic beginnings have a way of insulating us from ...

14. In The Kingdom Now

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... an ongoing dilemma for us Christians. We have a duel citizenship. Residents of earth, we are citizens of heaven, and we live in the tension of the dual citizenship. Paul expressed it succinctly, for our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly await the coming of the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. In citizenship language in the UnitedState, we refer to some people living within our bounds as alien residents - persons who belong by birth to another country, but are currently choosing to live here ...

15. Easter

Acts 10:23b-48, Colossians 3:1-17, John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... the stone was rolled away. Peter and John race to the tomb to check out her story. Easter is a time of excitement and eagerness to see and know. It is not an everyday occurrence to have a dead man walk out of his tomb. It is fantastic; could it ... . Like Mary Magdalene who could not wait until sunrise to go to the tomb, like Peter and John racing to the tomb, we need to be eager, anxious, and excited to see if the tomb is empty and Christ is alive. Outline: Why we rush to the tomb of Jesus. a. To learn ...

16. The Lost and Found Elder Brother

Luke 15:25-32

Sermon

James W. Moore

... about this new fangled idea. They were not expecting this. They were not expecting the father’s unconditional love. But, you see, this is why Jesus told the parable… to show us what God is like… and how God is always anxious to love, quick to forgive and eager to reconcile. Now, when I was a younger Christian, I used to wish the parable would have just ended here with the party. I used to wish that somehow the second part about the Elder Brother had gotten lost. But, over the years, I have come to ...

17. Gift

2 Corinthians 8:16--9:5, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... since the previous year, as the Corinthian church dramatically illustrates. Therefore, Paul’s boast to the Macedonians about the Achaians seems to stretch the truth. The weak link in Paul’s logic and boasting is, of course, the Corinthian church, since eagerness of that church had flagged during the recent conflict, and the collection had certainly not been completed. The whole point of 2 Corinthians 8 is that the Corinthians should now complete the collection and accept the envoys who will deliver it ...

18. Timothy and Epaphroditus

Philippians 2:19-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... s illness was. It did not matter if they knew it now, for it was Epaphroditus who took the letter to them, and they could see for themselves that he was safe and well. Paul had been sorry indeed that Epaphroditus should run the risk of death in his eagerness to serve him on behalf of the Philippian church. He would have had sorrow upon sorrow if Epaphroditus had actually died. His recovery was a token of God’s mercy to Epaphroditus himself, but it was a token of God’s mercy to Paul also, as Paul viewed ...

19. Pressing on Toward the Goal

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... ”) to be like his glorious body (lit., “his body of glory”)—that is, his glorified body. The bodies that the people of Christ will wear in the age to come will belong to the same heavenly order as his own resurrection body. “The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed” (Rom. 8:19) because their revelation as the sons and daughters of God will be their participation in the glory in which he who is the Son of God par excellence will then be revealed. “When Christ ...

20. Titus Sent to Corinth

2 Corinthians 8:16--9:5

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

21. Suffering for Doing Good

1 Peter 3:8-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... You Suffer for It 3:13 Who among the perpetrators of evil are able to harm believers, provided they for their part are eager to do good, concentrating on doing God’s righteous will? The rhetorical question expects the answer “Nobody!” This is not to deny ... the verbal form of “evil” in v. 12. The word is used in Acts 12:1 of Herod’s intention to persecute the church. Eager (lit. zealous) to do good: cf. Titus 2:14. 3:14 Blessed (makarioi): This same word occurs in the Beatitudes (Matt. 5:10); the ...

22. True Fasting

Isaiah 58:1-14

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... Jacob, but this time the verb does not suggest comfort. In keeping with the present context, once again it concerns rebellion/sin (the words now recall Mic. 3:8). The people have assiduously responded to the invitation of 55:6: day after day they seek me out. They are eager to know my ways: there is a marked contrast here with 42:24 and 55:8–9. So they look like a nation that does tsedaqah and has not forsaken the mishpat of its God. NIV takes the edge off the tragedy and the irony and lets modern readers ...

23. What Are You Bananas About?

Philippians 3:17-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... end. And his advice written 2,000 years ago is just as relevant today. God has given us the tools to stand firm in the Lord no matter what our circumstances. Get connected with a community of believers. Remember that your citizenship is in heaven. And eagerly await the coming of Jesus Christ. God is faithful to His promises, and He will supply the strength you need to stand firm in Him until the day you see Him face to face. 1. “Washburn Rural sent hundreds of bananas after winning State Wrestling titles ...

24. God's Vision For The Church

Acts 11:1-18

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Douglas J. Deuel

... is required if we are to be truly open to God. A woman went to her minister for counseling. She had personal problems that had been going on for several years. After the minister had met with her several times, he suspected that she was not as eager to genuinely work through her problems as she was wanting someone to listen to her. Even more than that, he sensed that she had problems beyond that with which he could help her. So he advised her to seek professional counseling. He even suggested a couple of ...

25. Proper 26

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12, Habakkuk 2:2-20, Habakkuk 1:1-4, Luke 19:1-10

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... look at Jesus. While Zacchaeus sought Jesus, so Jesus sought Zacchaeus "The Son of man came to seek ..." For salvation to become a fact, both parties need to seek. Zacchaeus was open to Jesus, eager to see and know him. Jesus was eager to save a soul. If we would be found of Christ, we need to be curious, open, eager, and receptive to him. 3. Salvation (v. 9). Jesus said that "salvation" came to Zacchaeus and his family. What does "salvation" mean? On the one hand, it means Christ has come into a person or ...

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 1 to 25 of 1245 results

1. Eager For The Journey

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

2. Eager for the Journey - Sermon Starter

Luke 5:1-11

Illustration

Brett Blair

3. The Discipline of Discipleship

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

4. Proper 8

2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Samuel 1:17-27, Mark 5:21-43

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

5. The Forgiving Father (Father's Day)

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Brett Blair

6. Preparing for Something Big

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

7. Paul's Chains Advance the Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

8. Spiritual Gifts and Spiritual Growth

1 Corinthians 14:1-25

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

9. Easter Day

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

10. For The Love Of What?

Psalm 137:1-9, John 2:12-25

Sermon

Erskine White

11. The Resurrection of Our Lord

Acts 10:23b-48, Exodus 10:1-20, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon Aid

12. The Ministry of Refreshing

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Various Authors

13. The Post Launch Slump

2 Cor 8:10-11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

14. In The Kingdom Now

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

15. Easter

Acts 10:23b-48, Colossians 3:1-17, John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... the stone was rolled away. Peter and John race to the tomb to check out her story. Easter is a time of excitement and eagerness to see and know. It is not an everyday occurrence to have a dead man walk out of his tomb. It is fantastic; could it ... . Like Mary Magdalene who could not wait until sunrise to go to the tomb, like Peter and John racing to the tomb, we need to be eager, anxious, and excited to see if the tomb is empty and Christ is alive. Outline: Why we rush to the tomb of Jesus. a. To learn ...

16. The Lost and Found Elder Brother

Luke 15:25-32

Sermon

James W. Moore

17. Gift

2 Corinthians 8:16--9:5, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

18. Timothy and Epaphroditus

Philippians 2:19-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce