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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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251. The Cost of Discipleship

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Philip was hanged Only John made it through alive but he was exiled to a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. The demands that Jesus makes upon those who would follow him are extreme. Christianity is not a Sunday morning religion. It is a hungering after God to the point of death if need be. It shakes our foundations, topples our priorities, pits us against friend and family, and makes us strangers in this world. We sing, "What A Friend We Have in Jesus." But, we must understand that on many ...

252. Christians Trust in God

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... tell us how near or how far our liberators were from our position." As dreadful as their conditions were in that prison camp, he and his friends never lost hope: "We never doubted for an instant that we would be finally free from the threat of death. Free from hunger. Free from the literally lousy conditions in which we lived in which there was seldom enough water to wash our hands, let alone take a bath." That’s the kind of trust which we are to have in God, because it is a liberating force in our lives ...

253. Daily Choice

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Sermon

... that grand fantasy that after forty, life would be different. They had wandered for forty years through the Sinai Peninsula, sometimes starving, sometimes thirsty, often rebellious, but never settled down. That’s not a bad image of what my first forty years were like - lots of hungers, lots of thirsts, and lots of wandering about. After forty years of this kind of existence, I was ready for a Promised Land! So were the ancient Hebrews! Like me, those ancient nomadic tribes dreamed of a life with no more ...

254. God’s Safety Net

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

D. Wayne Burkette

... of consensus in answering that question has divided the church and has pushed some Christians to try to wash their hands of the whole problem and retreat into a religion of purely "spiritual" focus. Because of the magnitude and complexity of the problems of hunger, poverty, and injustice in our world, still other Christians have concluded that the question is purely individualistic, so that as long as you and I are socially concerned and responsive as individuals we have done all we are called to do and be ...

255. Judgment and Justice

Amos 5:18-27

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... , and at the end of a nearly three week stay in mainland China, he promised to keep in touch with them. What began as a routine job for the two national tour guides became a pilgrimage into the Christian faith. They found the way to appease their spiritual hunger in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our business as Christians is to worship God in sincerity and truth, to seek his forgiveness and the renewal of our lives, and then to go out of our churches and our homes to tell the story and give credence to it ...

256. A Day For All the Saints

Revelation 7:9-17

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... and saints of our time need, in Jesus Christ, our Lord. Saints count themselves as being numbered among those who have "washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb." What could possibly be better in heaven, if we have been richly blessed with family, friends, freedom from hunger and want in this life? Only this: God has prepared a haven for us, according to Jesus: "In my Father’s house are many rooms; I go to prepare a place for you, that where I am you may be also." For one thing, eternity will be spent ...

257. Epiphany 4

Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Matthew 5:1-12, Psalm 1:1-6

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... pursuit of justice for all people who are victims of any injustice. Christians have to be involved in setting things right in the world. It is the business of Christians to seek for others what they alone might have - security, freedom from fear, hunger, and poverty, equal rights in matters of race, economics, religion, and political significance. Justice for all is the active concern of God's people. 2. Priority number two: adopting a Christian life-style whose foundation is love for all people, as well as ...

258. Proper 13 & Pentecost 11

Matthew 14:13-21, Nehemiah 9:1-37, Exodus 12:1-30, Romans 8:28-39, Isaiah 55:1-13

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... a miracle: "I am sure that beautiful flowers will bloom out of the rubble." 1. The crisis - and the disciples' concern. The people following Jesus had brought no food with them; they had nothing to eat. No one was starving, but some might faint from hunger. 2. Christ's compassion and power - "You give them something to eat." Five thousand men, plus women and children, were fed miraculously from five loaves and two fish. There was more than enough for all to eat. 3. The crowd's communion - with each other ...

259. Lent 1

Matthew 4:1-11

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... ideas: by Ernest Trice Thompson in the Presbyterian Outlook some years ago: (1) Jesus resisted the first temptation to doubt God's voice (cf. Oral Roberts' hearing God's voice); or to use the powers with which he was endowed to satisfy his natural hunger; or to satisfy the hunger and want of the people as a whole. (2) The second, some think, was the appeal to a presumptuous reliance on the providence of God, based on a misreading of his own holy Word. Jesus could win recognition of his Messiahship by a ...

260. Shipwrecked on Malta

Acts 27:1-12, Acts 27:13-26, Acts 27:27-44

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CSS

... there were only three Christian believers among the crowd of pagans, but in the early church every meal was a celebration of the presence of Christ in the bread and wine. And so it was here. Despite their queasy stomachs after two weeks of hunger and seasickness, the others "were encouraged" and also ate something. When the meal was finished they further lightened the ship by throwing overboard the rest of the cargo (which was also their food supply) and everything that could be moved. A lighter ship would ...

261. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

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John R. Brokhoff

... We take care of our thirty million pets upon whom we spend nine billion dollars annually to feed, clothe, and care for them. It is reported that Americans feed more to their dogs and cats than all the Indians and Chinese eat! It is not only hunger that plagues the Third World but also poverty. Can you imagine your living on thirty cents per day? Well, two billion people have that paltry income. Think of our recent recession with over ten million unemployed who have to live on food stamps and public welfare ...

262. Faith Opens the Door

Genesis 12:1-8

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Robert G. Tuttle

... anxiously, somewhat confusedly, hoping for the best, and believing in nothing very much ... But it is not possible to be wholly at peace. For serenity of soul requires some better organization of life than a man can attain by pursuing his casual ambitions, satisfying his hungers, and for the rest accepting destiny as an idiot’s tale in which one dumb sensation succeeds another to no known end. And it is not possible for him to be wholly alive ... These are the gifts of a vital religion.1 Life is born ...

263. How Fares Your Christian Sight?

Is 6:8-10

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... to creatively address itself to some of the weighty issues with which God’s children have to contend - issues such as poverty, hunger, injustice and ecology. If that period in the church’s life reminded church people of anything, it was the fact that one ... time, as we are beginning slowly and painfully to perceive, is a crisis not of the hands but of the hearts. It is a crisis of hunger - but not a crisis created by any doubt as to our ability to feed ourselves. It is a crisis of cold - but not a crisis ...

264. The Cross Way of Life

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... that the youth of the church would hold a "fastathon" for fifteen hours on Ash Wednesday. The youth offered to fast for adults at a certain hourly rate. The adults were asked to choose a youth they wanted to fast for them. The proceeds would go to the Hunger Appeal. It was a popular project because many would rather pay others to fast for them than to fast themselves. Also, take the matter of tithing. Is it not too hard for the majority? Getting up on a Sunday to go to church for worship is apparently too ...

265. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... gleams golden in the west behind him. He is unaware of the tulips that bloom there by his feet. He is not at all impressed with the heights and ranges and reaches of mind and spirit. He sees all there is of his life in the light of the hunger pain he feels in his stomach. I well remember the time such a man approached me on a Cincinnati street and said the usual thing: "Mister, can you spare a dime?" That was before inflation and certain other changes after which such people usually ask for dollars rather ...

266. A Gospel that Fills the Glove

Sermon

James Bjorge

... in the sunshine of approval. We seek this affirmation. Finally, man has self-actualizing needs. He wants to have a full integration of himself with all his talents, capacities and potentialities put to use. Lyndon B. Johnson stated: "To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all..." While a man is wrestling and struggling in one of these need compartments, a slogan such as "Jesus Saves"; "Repent or Perish"; "Prepare to Meet Your God" means nothing to him. They are merely advertisements which ...

267. The Greatest Story Ever Told

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... a far country during the past year. Let's move to Act II in the prodigal's drama. In verse 17 we read, “But when he came to himself, he said 'How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, but I perish here with hunger. I will arise and go to my Father...’” The words, "But when he came to himself," were often used in a medical context to describe a person who had regained consciousness after fainting. In other words, Jesus was saying that the prodigal had been out of his head ...

268. The Authority of Jesus

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... riding on a donkey." Judas: That’s not the kind of Messiah our people want. Andrew: It may not be the kind they want, but it is the kind they need. The world is tired of war; it is tired of suffering; it is tired of poverty and hunger and disease. Jesus comes offering peace, healing, fullness, and wholeness. Those aren’t the kinds of things you force on people. You don’t overpower them with things like that. You offer; and, you hope that the people are wise enough to accept the gift. Jesus’ entrance ...

269. Proper 14

2 Samuel 18:1-18, John 6:25-59, Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Paul A. Laughlin

... used to support one, if only because, like the doctrine, they point to God’s sovereignty in the redemptive process. Call to Worship Leader: Listen, people: Jesus Christ is the living bread, which gives life to the world. People: THOSE WHO COME TO HIM WILL NOT HUNGER, BUT WILL EAT AND LIVE FOREVER. Leader: That bread is of divine origin and is heaven-sent for the sustenance of all who partake. People: LET US GIVE THANKS TO GOD, WHO INVITES US TO THE GREAT SPIRITUAL FEAST. Collect Life-giving God, who sent ...

270. Making a Meal with Jesus

John 21:1-14

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... ground. I think the thing I want to share with you this morning is that God teaches us that if we are going to get rid of hunger, we must use some of the things that he has allowed us to make so we can raise more food for people in the world. All of ... he did with his disciples on the shore when they ate the fish they had caught in the lake. If we are going to get rid of hunger, so that boys and girls do not die of starvation, we are going to have to work together with the farmers, and with our loving God. I ...

271. What’s Going On in Your Orchard?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... Christ said it also, "You will know them by their fruits." Cast from the vine we will consume ourselves. In the arctic, when the long nights come and the cold grows colder, the wolves prowl, looking for food. Their hunger is a terrible thing, and anything that moves, or is warm, is their food. Hunger sharpens their sense of smell. They catch the scent of blood carried by the wind for miles around. But the eskimos understand the wolves, and they have found a way to deal with them. They melt small patches of ...

272. IN THE HOUR OF TRIAL

Matthew 4:1-11

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John W. Rilling

... , and everywhere when we are hungry and come from our labor to the table. That is why we say grace before meals." Sometimes a pain in the stomach is more effective in bringing a man to his senses than an idea in his head. It was only when he hungered that the prodigal son remembered his father. 2. THROW YOURSELF DOWN. The second hour of trial finds our Lord on the pinnacle of the temple, and the temptation is to win men by miracle. Make them believe! Overwhelm them! John Bunyan said that when he was put in ...

273. Reinforced With Joy

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... camps, they not only experienced an inner joy but were remarkably happy people. They lived without fear. While they were lonely for their families, they were not alone. While they were exceedingly uncomfortable, they were not without comfort. They discovered that hunger, solitary confinement, torture, humiliation, and even the threat of a firing squad could not shake their inward joy. Before he died by hanging on April 15, 1945, Pastor Ewald Kleist wrote to his family: "My mood has often vacillated between ...

274. Waiting

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and down the aisles, make a list, see what it is you want, and then come back and I'll see what I can do for you." Well, she did just that. She walked up and down the aisles, writing furiously. There was peace on earth, no more war, no hunger or poverty. There was peace in families, harmony, no dissension, no more drugs. There careful use of resources. By the time she got back to the counter, she had a long list. Jesus looked over the list, then smiled at her and said, "No problem." And then he bent down ...

275. How Can You Tell When People Are Religious?

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... the child. He prayed with great intensity. He fasted as part of his prayers, hoping that by his petitions and by his avoidance of food he could make God be gracious to him and let the child live. But on the seventh day, in spite of the king’s hunger and all his prayers, the baby died. Fasting, such as King David did, used to be a regular part of religion. People fasted as a sign of sorrow over their sins. People fasted in grief over the death of a loved one. People fasted when they prayed about something ...

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