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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226. Risk Takers
Luke 6:17-26
Sermon
Cynthia Cowen
... 'd be great. I wasn't going to fix a turkey dinner for just Steve and me. Who all will be there?" she asked. "You two, the five of us, the four Fausts, and Andrew Vespa. See you at six o'clock and don't bring anything except your appetite!" Little did Tracy know that God was the maitre d' in charge of this dinner party, and he had used, of all things, a turkey and a snow storm to make the arrangements. After everyone arrived and introductions were made, they sat down for their bountiful Thanksgiving feast ...
227. Holy Ground
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... cost is the overpriced floofy coffee you bought from that boutique coffee bar — what? $5 or $6. Reading John 13 and living like Jesus — priceless! Post-Civil-War America was a country anxious to read about how the other half lived. There was a great appetite for reading, and the many periodicals of the era filled their pages with breath­less accounts of what other people were doing. Phebe Gibbons was a well-known writer for women's maga­zines, and her series on The Plain People, describing groups such ...
Sermon
Derl G. Keefer
... legalism. Legalism is an excessive bondage to the letter of the law that misses the intent of what the law is to do. * Light dispels the sin of antinomianism or those who reject moral law as binding in terms of conduct. * Light dispels the bondage to appetites and vices contrary to God’s morality for humans. * Light dispels the bondage of attitude toward other individu­als. We now see them in the light of Jesus. * Light dispels the fear of Satan and hell. Not to imply that they are not real, but no ...
229. Meal of Death
1 Corinthians 11:23-26
Sermon
Steven E. Albertin
... old Kentucky colonel with a white goatee. There is something to be said for the mother who let her children see the real origin of their evening meal. When they ate their chicken, it meant something much more to them than just a means to satisfy their appetite. Our technological society insulates us from the truth of so much of life. Why? Perhaps because our world with all of its conveniences and pleasures is really the end product of a long line of suffering, toil, and pain. It is not easy to live with the ...
230. When God Tests Us
Exodus 32:1-33:6
Sermon
Argile Smith
... it. Desperate, they displayed nothing less than blind allegiance to the hope that Aaron could craft a god for them to worship. They ripped the gold jewelry from their bodies and their clothing so Aaron could boil it down into a deity. They decided that their healthy appetite for a relationship with God could be satisfied with the junk food of an idol. What they didn’t know was that their devotion to their new deity would turn out to be the source of unimaginable pain for them. So Aaron crafted a god for ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... no peace. If only we could step back and look at our lives through the eyes of faith. Webb B. Garrison once told about a minister who had stopped at a small cafeteria for lunch. The food was delicious. However, he discovered he had little appetite. You see, he was quite angry over something that happened earlier that day: He had been refused honorary membership in the local country club. There was a time, especially in small communities when this courtesy was often extended to pastors. This was in a time ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... last two on purpose, because they relate to something that is a part of our every day life no matter what our race, our creed, our political affiliation, our income or our religion might be. He said, Government is like a baby, an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are these: 'I am from the government and I am here to help.' Government is not a very popular word in our vocabulary today. Six out of ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... .” If the fire of your faith is slowly, but surely being extinguished by the water of doubt, this book in this series is for you. Habakkuk is wrestling with basically one question. It is a question that has caused him sleepless nights, loss of appetite, and unbelievable depression and discouragement. As he is looking at a world that is collapsing around him; a world unbelievably like the one we are living in right now, where it seems like everything not nailed down is coming apart, where it seems like the ...
234. Follow the Directions
Psalm 119:9, 18, 89
Sermon
James Merritt
There is one thing in common with every single person on this planet who has ever been born and who ever will be. It has never been more illustrated than it has in the 21st century. We have an unquenchable thirst and an insatiable appetite for information and communication. We want to know who is doing what and we want to know what people are doing. We’ve never been more saturated with information and more soaked with communication than we are today. From cell phones, to television, to email, to radios, ...
235. The Knot: Tied
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Sermon
James Merritt
... someone through the act of sex. Let me emphasize there is nothing morally wrong with eros in the right context. As we are going to talk about later this year, every marriage needs a very healthy dose of eros - a passionate, emotional, every lusty appetite for the one you are married to. As too many couples find out, eros love doesn’t last forever. There is another word used for love, which is “philos.” We get the word “Philadelphia” from that which means “brotherly love.” That love stands for ...
Sermon
David J. Kalas
... sleep until they finally cracked and died. I do take seriously, however, the profound challenge we face: to maintain an attitude of alertness and readiness when it is so tempting to change into something comfortable, fluff the pillows and call it a day. Our appetites and our culture conspire to distract us, and we are tempted to set aside the work of our long-delayed master in favor of something else — something more immediate, more pressing, more comfortable. But let the rest of the world scramble to get ...
237. Why He Did It
Mark 8:31--9:1
Sermon
King Duncan
How do you react when you anticipate that something negative is going to happen to you? Do you get nervous, do your palms get sweaty, do you have trouble falling asleep, lose your appetite, perhaps? Do you feel like your whole world is turned inside out? Well, I guess it depends on how negative the event is that you are anticipating. One young woman in the South tells about her teen years. She had a very strict Dad who was very loving, but did ...
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King Duncan
... pastor down the road? That’s sort of what Jesus did. Would that makes sense to you? Or imagine there is a crowd with more than ten thousand people to feed; five thousand of that number were men alone (and we know about men and their appetites), and he says to you, “Go feed them with these five barley loaves and two fish.” You would most certainly be incredulous in all of those circumstances. Those instructions do not make sense to the natural mind but, as Paul writes in Corinthians 1:25, “The ...
239. Two Kinds of People
Jeremiah 17:5-10
Sermon
King Duncan
... in the whole world except yourself. It’s so easy to live in a desert. All you have to do is withdraw into yourself. What could be easier than that? Make up your mind that you are the only person in this world that matters--your appetites, your pleasures. Spend your life looking out for number 1. Turn your back on any relationship or reality that requires sacrifice, patience, generosity or love. Continually put up your guard against anything that might have a commitment in it--or a cross. It’s easy to ...
240. Masturbation
Illustration
C.S. Lewis
For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out of himself to complete (and correct) his own personality in that of another (and finally in children and even grandchildren) and turns it back; sends the man back into the prison of himself, there to keep a harem of imaginary brides. And ...
241. The Mighty Have Fallen
Illustration
Michael P. Green
... nearby, and the tree is large, you will get the impression that everything above is coming to earth. The great mass starts slowly to topple, crackling and exploding even louder at the base, until it comes sprawling down with a fearful momentum. The mighty can fall. The deadly saw of appetite or lust or passion steadily cut away the supports underneath until, what once was great, comes crashing down to earth.
Understanding Series
Arthur G. Patzia
... do whatever suits the desires and thoughts of their sinful nature. Literally, the phrase is “lusts of the flesh” (sarx). The word sarx does not imply that the body is intrinsically evil but refers rather to the sinful principles, passions, or physical appetites that dominate one’s life (Gal. 5:19–21). Thoughts includes one’s intellectual and reasoning ability (cf. Col. 1:21). The consequence of such evil and ungodly action is to become objects of wrath. Thus, by following their natural desires ...
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... not to blaspheme. What this means is not at all certain; but in verse 13 Paul describes his former self as a “blasphemer,” and in 6:4 “blasphemies” (NIV, “malicious talk”) is listed as one of the results of the false teachers’ “sickly appetite for controversy.” It is probably the latter, the conscious rejection of God’s grace in favor of arguments, that Paul has in mind here. When this excommunication took place is not stated, but see the note on verse 3. With this paragraph the reason ...
Understanding Series
James K. Bruckner
... that the fruit was “pleasing” and took and ate, is the same as the word translated “covet” in Deuteronomic law (ʾavah, Gen. 3:6; Deut. 5:21; the synonym, used in Exodus, is khamad). In its extreme form, coveting becomes a consuming appetite that is never satisfied. Already this command is radical, internal, and very broad. Inner-biblical development, interpreted by the rabbinic and NT traditions, pushed its meaning into the public and observable realm. No one could be sure to keep this command if ...
245. Proverbs of Solomon
Proverbs 19:1-29
Understanding Series
Roland E. Murphy
... the word used of Adam in Genesis 2:21 and the participle appears in Proverbs 10:5. Here it is induced by laziness (cf. 6:9–11 for another association of laziness and sleep). The result is that one does not earn enough to feed a hungry appetite (Hb. npš). 19:16 Antithetic with juxtaposition of participles. The instructions are those of the wisdom teacher (rather than of God), and it is to him that the ways refer. The death envisioned in verse 16b is a premature death, which is often invoked by the sages ...
246. Sayings of the Wise
Proverbs 22:17--24:22
Understanding Series
Roland E. Murphy
... prefers what for “who.” The vivid language of verse 2a inculcates self-restraint and this is served by the prohibition in verse 3a. The food is termed deceptive, a vague and ambiguous term. Perhaps the one who eats will be the victim of too great an appetite, or perhaps the host is testing the dinner guest as to self-restraint. The topic reappears in verses 6–8, where verse 3a is repeated in verse 6b. The general topic of table manners appears also in Ptah-hotep, lines 119–144 (ANET, pp. 412–13 ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... draws out the implication that the purpose of the rod is to save the child, not kill it (Prov. 23:13–14; Sawyer, Isaiah, vol. 1, p. 109). Assyria indulges in war because of its own warlike spirit, its love of killing and destruction, and its appetite to construct an empire out of lands formerly occupied by independent peoples, in the manner of European powers creating their empires or of settlers in America (v. 7). It is proud of its own military might and confident of its ability to conquer anyone (vv. 8 ...
Understanding Series
John Goldingay
... daughters will return from their scattering all over the world (vv. 4, 9). As we have noted, the return of some Judeans from Babylon in the years after 539 B.C. constituted a partial fulfillment of that vision, but also a whetting of the appetite for a larger-scale fulfillment, and prophets such as Zechariah reaffirm the promise. The number of people who are available to return with Ezra in the mid-fifth century (still leaving many others behind) indicates how it stands yet unfulfilled even with regard to ...
249. Jesus’ Authority to Perform Miracles
Matthew 8:18-22, Matthew 8:23-27, Matthew 8:28-34, Matthew 9:1-8
Teach the Text
Jeannine K. Brown
... the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.2 Putting trust in Jesus and following him are right responses to experiencing his authority. Poetry: “A Tent for a Home,” by Jeannine Brown. This lyric about allegiance and ...
250. Feasting and Fasting
Luke 5:33-39, Luke 5:27-32
Teach the Text
R.T. France
... that overly formal religion can occur, and large areas of Christian church history and of church structures today also show more resemblance to old wineskins than to the new wine of the kingdom of God. There are still “righteous” people in Christian churches who show little appetite for a gospel of salvation for the “sick.” Teaching the Text The pronouncement in 5:31–32 is the climax of the call of Levi and should be the central point of a message on 5:27–32. Jesus did not come to call those who ...
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