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
Maxie Dunnam
... And I am sure," he adds, "that at any instant in the day, God may be present in us as the living Christ." That's what we have to believe -- that's the promise we have to lay hold of. That's the source of our power -- to sustain a long obedience in the same direction. I close with this. My friend, Don Shelby, tells that "On Christmas Day, someone who must have been an E.T.C. seasonal visitor (you know, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas) wrote on the back of one of our pledge cards in the pews the following ...
2. The Long Lonliness
Romans 13:8-14
Sermon
Maurice A. Fetty
... yet we are not of the world -- we are a mind reflective and a spirit roving and free, and a heart looking and longing, like Eleanor Rigby, for fulfillment in another heart. We are mind and spirit seeking earnest responses in other minds and spirits like Reverend ... face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made. The answer to the long loneliness of "strangers afraid in a world they never made" is to be found in Advent, in the coming of God into human history. If ...
Sermon
Mark Radecke
... children are robbed of one of God's most precious gifts -- the unique and irreplaceable gift of their own childhood. The message the child receives: "What I am is no good. They'll love me when I make them proud." (2) The idea of a life-long commitment has become almost unfathomable. The "now" -- the present moment -- is all that counts, and instant gratification is the name of the game. Two months from now is the distant future, so how can anyone seriously promise, "till death us do part" or "forsaking all ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... for her!" (2) That's love, isn't it? It's not, "I love you for what you can do for me." Or "I'll love you as long as it is convenient." No. It's, "I'll love you no matter what. I'll always be there." In the classic Russian novel CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, a ... Moabite woman named Ruth? She is there because of her loyalty to her mother-in-law. Do you see now why I say that Jesus came from a long line of love? AND SO DO WE. That is the heart of our message today. So do we. THAT KIND OF LOVE IS WHAT THE CROSS IS ABOUT ...
Sermon
John N. Brittain
... me. He is a cook at a local restaurant, so if you go there and have a good meal, tell me about it. For me sometimes, a day in the park with little Timmy in some ways seems like only yesterday, but I know it's really been a long time -- long enough for him to grow into an independent adult. My guess is that as a lot of you, especially the freshmen, suffered through plenty of similar reminiscing from your parents as you got ready to come to college. The Old Testament story of the commissioning of Jeremiah as ...
Sermon
Schuyler Rhodes
... and if he wants to come get me, he knows where I am!” In one sense this is about Jesus throwing down the glove of challenge to his adversary. But in another, deeper sense it is about an abiding commitment. For Jesus the call to be in Jerusalem was a long haul kind of thing. It’s not unlike changing one’s life to attend medical school at age fifty. I can hear Marcy now. “You tell all the people who are gossiping about my so called mid-life crisis that I am going to Central America to follow God’s ...
Sermon
Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... you." God would act in time and space, and his faith in God buoyed Elijah's conviction that God would do so. When priests of Baal cried out and their god did not answer, they went into a spiritual tailspin because they knew the waiting would be a long time. Baal acted through the wind and storm but not through the faithful entreaties and prayers of his people. We must remember that for our faith to work we must work our faith. God never said, "Blessed are the idle for I shall idle with them." The lexicon ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... he sees a young, innocent woman. Talk about love at first sight. He promptly falls in love with her. He desperately wants to marry her, but she has vowed only to marry a man with the face of a saint. George Lord obviously doesn’t have such a face. Not long after this, George passes by a mask shop. He goes into the shop and has the owner create a lifelike wax mask that he believes will allow him to look like a saint. He returns to the woman who has won his heart. He proposes and she accepts. This marks ...
Understanding Series
David J. Williams
... heart! I have overcome this world”—and its prince (John 16:33; cf. Matt. 5:11f.; Mark 8:34ff.; John 12:31; 14:30; 15:18–21; 16:11; Acts 14:22; Phil. 1:29). Believers will share in that victory and, in a sense, they already have. But as long as this age lasts, they must not expect an easy life. But Paul is saying something more than this. Trials are a part of God’s purpose for us. Why, we do not know, but acceptance of the proposition that “we were destined for them” does put meaning into life ...
Children's Sermon
... 's born? (Let them respond.) That's right, a baby grows for nine months before it is born. That's a whole year of school! The mom and dad have to be very patient while they're waiting. Our verse today says that God is very patient with us. How long does it take for a baby to grow up to be a man or woman? (Let them respond.) That's right, it takes almost 20 years to grow up, doesn't it! The mom and dad have to be very patient and wait a ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... Pentecost (see Acts 2:10). If so, there were Christian churches in Rome more than two decades before Paul wrote this epistle. 1:9–10 This section and chapter 15:14–33 are the only clearly autobiographical parts of Romans. Paul recounts the history of his longing to visit Rome, a history of expectant hopes and frustrated desires. The God whom he worships is witness to his constant prayers for Rome (v. 9) and longstanding desire to visit the city (v. 11). God, whom I serve with my whole heart has the ring ...
Children's Sermon
... and we keep track of them on the calendar. I brought the calendar with me this morning for another reason. I brought it to show you how long it would take to wait for forty days. Does forty days sound like a long time to you? (Let them answer.) How long is forty days? Is it as long as a year? Is it longer than a week? Is it longer than a month? Forty days is a long time. Now, it depends on where you are during those forty days and what you are doing that makes the time go fast or go slow. If ...
13. A Death on a Long Friday
Isaiah 52:13--53:12
Sermon
Ken Lentz
... an innocent. There was a death that Friday. It was the death of a happy person. Soon after Janet's funeral, the pastor called upon an elderly woman named Martha. Martha had been somewhat frail and weak her entire life, even in her childhood. But she lived a long life, well into her eighties. She and her husband loved the Lord and dedicated their lives and their energies to the work of the church. On the day that the pastor visited her, she shared with him her awareness that she was about to go home to Jesus ...
14. Friendship is a Long Jump
Illustration
David Wallechinsky
... /2 inches, why not make a mark several inches before the takeoff board and jump from there, just to play it safe? Owens did and qualified easily. In the finals Owens set an Olympic record and earned the second of four golds. The first person to congratulate him was Luz Long in full view of Adolf Hitler. Owens never again saw Long, who was killed in World War II. "You could melt down all the medals and cups I have," Owens later wrote, "and they wouldn't be a platting on the 24-carat friendship I felt for Luz ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... try to pinpoint the distress that occasioned the psalm (i.e., is it a psalm of sickness?) are frustrated by its general language. Does “Give light to my eyes” point to a physical or psychological weakness? But this open-ended language helps explain the long-standing popularity of psalms, which can be used for a variety of personal needs. This image may, in fact, derive not from the speaker’s circumstances but from the poetic imagery of a face-to-face relationship evident elsewhere in the psalm. It may ...
Sermon
Donald Charles Lacy
... captain of your own ship? In our prayers it helps to put in the beginning words which are obvious. Lord, you know all about me. Once this is unequivocally admitted, prayers take on the clothes of universal and personal reality. We know where we stand! In the "long view" how much should others know about us? Having dealt with God's complete information bank on us, there is this related question. The sheer fact of the matter is that we are seen many ways by many people. How we perceive God's assessment of us ...
17. Long Live The King
Revelation 1:4-8
Sermon
Patrick J. Rooney
... the death of the king but also the accession of the next monarch through the use of these ancient words, "The king is dead. Long live the king." With these words it is announced that this is not to be the end but the beginning; that the death of ... ruler of the kings of the earth is one who is not bound by the passing of monarchs where the cry goes up, "The king is dead. Long live the king." Instead, this king rules over all kings from the beginning of our time until its very end in that reign of glory that ...
18. All Night Long
Song of Songs 3:1-11
Understanding Series
Elizabeth Huwiler
... and shares some images with other poems in the Song. However, if the Song is a unified work about young lovers and their dreams, it is most likely that this passage is to be understood in the context of their delight in one another and their longing to be together. If firs and cedars could become the beams and rafters of their “house” in 1,:77, then it is not too much to suppose that whatever the setting for their lovemaking, to them it was a royal structure of precious metals and luxurious appointments ...
Sermon
William B. Kincaid, III
... is to go up to the mountain, to experience the Holy One, and to see the world as God wills for it to be. The call of Jesus is also to come down the mountain and into the lives of those who are lonely and oppressed. How long should we stay on the mountain? As long as Jesus tells us to stay. And when should we come back? When Jesus tells us to come back. This is God's son calling, from the mountain and the street corner, from the sanctuary and the soup kitchen; listen to him! 1. William H. Willimon ...
20. Long Range Planning
Ephesians 1:1-14
Sermon
King Duncan
... Porter, The Greeks had a beautiful word for humanity--'anthropos,' meaning the being with the upturned face. "Men are queer things," Porter goes on to comment, "Man is so made that he cannot be content with forever looking down. He may look down a long time, so long that he almost forgets there's anything else, anything above, forgets that he was made for God ” until something happens, some crisis comes. And then he remembers and looks up.(5) That is our only hope ” to look up ” to be reminded of who ...
21. The Kingdom for Which We Long
Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... . The will of God can be known, it can be found. Mark Twain said, “It’s not the parts of the Bible that I don’t understand which bother me, it’s the parts I do understand.” It is the will of God for there to be peace on earth. Long before the time of Jesus, Isaiah prophesied of a day when nations would turn their military weapons into farming tools and people would train for war no more. It is the will of God that children be cared for. We make that promise Sunday after Sunday in this place. Let ...
Sermon
David J. Kalas
... : Distances are very important to us. From the time we are children, we pester our parents from the back seat: How much farther? Are we there yet? But that standard fare from children is not limited to children. When something we hope for as adults seems a long way off, we get discouraged and wonder if we'll ever get there. When we sense that it's close — that we're close, that we're almost there — then we take heart and feel encouraged. The only reason children are always asking, "How much farther?" is ...
23. A Long Shortcut
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Nancy Shulins
... station and the New York Times decide to fire him. His story got attention across the land. He was on the Today Show, the Tomorrow Show, and in People Weekly, among others. He thought he'd lose his home and never work in the media again. Several days later the Long Island Railroad and Bowie Kuhn announced they would not fire him. Then WNEW-TV gave him a job. But not before he admits it was a dreadful mistake on his part and doubtless played a role in his divorce. "I took a shortcut that turned out to be the ...
24. Long-Term Learning
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Elden M. Chalmers
... do it in one sitting or should you break up the time into 10-, 15- or 20-minute segments? Breaking up the time will improve your learning efficiency. There are a couple of additional tips that may help you. First, in serial learning, where you have a long list or a whole chapter to master, the first part will be easiest to remember and the last is the next easiest. So if you want to remember everything equally well, spend a little extra time on the part just past the middle. The last little trick involves ...
25. That First Longing
John 4:5-42
Illustration
Robert Bachelder
... marriage, no travel, no learning can really satisfy. I am not now speaking of what would ordinarily be called unsuccessful marriages, or holidays, or learned careers. I am speaking of the best possible ones. There was something we grasped at, in that first moment of longing, which just fades away in reality. I think everyone knows what I mean. The wife may be a good wife, and the hotels and scenery may have been excellent, and chemistry may be a very interesting job, but something has evaded us." (quoted in ...
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