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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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276. The Pilgrim’s Thirst for God in a Dry and Weary Land

Psalm 63:1-11

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... probably part of the original text and later replaced with ʾelōhîm or “God” when the psalm was included in the Elohistic Psalter). The image of “thirsting” in a dry and weary land graphically portrays the soul’s longing for God as a fundamental appetite of the worshiper. We may wonder how a worshiper could claim, I have seen you in the sanctuary. First, we should note this expression is sometimes used in the OT for the pilgrim’s encounter with God at the sanctuary (see the Additional Note on ...

277. Daniel’s Dream of Four Beasts

Daniel 7:1-14

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... three different kingdoms, three Babylonian kings, or three cities (for details on the various possibilities, see the Additional Note on 7:5). All of these suggestions are attempts to read too much into the text. The ribs only show that the bear has a voracious appetite; it is finishing off its last victim (Collins, Daniel, p. 298). The bear is raised up on one of its sides (7:5) perhaps because it is planning to spring on new prey after finishing the ribs. At that moment, a voice instructs the bear ...

278. A Tribute to a Woman's Love

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... to three years, in a South American children’s home. These babies were well fed, clothed, and had good medical attention. But there was no one to love them or play with them. After several months these babies began to lose their appetites. Their health failed. Within two years, thirty-four were dead and twenty-one were beginning to have numerous physical and emotional problems. These lives were destroyed for only one reason. They were emotionally starved. They had everything but love. Love is essential ...

279. Treasure Hidden In a Clay Jar

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... , we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess. There are two ways to make a person richer,” reasoned Rousseau: “give him more money or curb his desires. Modern societies have done the former spectacularly well, but by continuously whetting appetites, they have at the same time managed to negate a share of their success.” (4) In other words, happiness and contentment are an inside job. Paul says that the greatest treasure is within our own hearts. Here is the second thing we need ...

280. Trusting Authority

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... was born, Cheryl and Sam were faced with the decision every interfaith couple has to make — which community of faith would become their daughter’s spiritual home? Meanwhile, Sam started attending all our adult education seminars and Bible studies, chewing on the faith with great appetite and relish. One day, he called me — wanting to come in and talk with me. I think I knew what was coming, and I dreaded it. The last thing I wanted to communicate to our trusted Jewish friends down the hall was that we ...

281. In Need of a "Rally Monkey"

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... , but those things only satisfy the flesh for a moment.” Albert Pujols has the resources to live anyway he wants. He could live by the standard so popular in our society today, “If it feels good, do it.” He could live only to satisfy his own appetites. So why doesn’t he? The answer is in his faith in Christ: “Jesus satisfies my soul forever.” Do not be a stumbling block to others, Jesus says to his disciples. Then there is a second thing he says to his disciples—forgive those who sin against ...

282. Less Fear; More Fruit

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... is fueled, driven, and directed not by confidence and hope but by fear.[1] This fear culture has been created from several sources: First, is the electronic news media that has grown exponentially in the past thirty years and has a voracious and insatiable appetite for news stories or things that pass as news stories. Often these “stories” which are run for no other reason than to fill the 24-hour news cycle are justified by fear tactics even if the fears that are suggested are unreasonable. An example ...

283. Preparing the Way

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... Laurence to Romeo and Juliet, advice which they ignored: “These violent delights have violent ends and, in their triumph, die, like fire and powder which, when they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness and, in the taste, confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately. All long love doth so.” Years ago, a young woman sat in my office in tears, just two years after I had joined her and her husband in marriage. “He’s not the same man I married,” she sniffled. It ...

284. The Death of John the Baptist

Matthew 14:1-12, Mark 6:14-29, Luke 9:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Herod (male) in contrast to John (male) and women (Herodias and daughter). What does John represent for Herod? Jewishness, heavenly kingdom, and spirituality –God’s sovereignty and the prophetic voice. The women represent his carnal desires (of all the appetites), power, worldly kingdom, the sovereignty of the king, his oaths and their requests, and the importance of his appearances. Likewise, the warmth, mercy, and love of God symbolized in the call for spiritual metanoia (turning and changing one’s ...

285. Fleeced

Judges 6:1-40, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... were exciting under the black cloud seem unmeaningful, hopeless, dark, dingy. When someone is grieving after the loss of a loved one, it’s also hard to see the good in things, to see the light at the end of the tunnel, to taste good food, to even have an appetite. It’s hard to laugh at jokes. It’s hard to imagine being happy ever again. It’s very hard to believe that there can be joy in all of that sorrow. Is that the truth? No. But it’s the way we see things at that moment. That’s ...

286. Shepherd Dreams

Jeremiah 23:1-8, 1 Samuel 16:1-13, Psalm 80:1-19, Psalm 23:1-6, John 10:22-42, John 10:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... watching television in the living room with your boyfriend, girls, and all of a sudden dad needs to make multiple trips through the living room to the kitchen for drinks and snacks. It’s amazing the amount of food that guy can eat! How did his appetite increase like that on this particular night anyway! Right? Or guys, maybe mom needs to invite your girlfriend over for dinner all the while surreptitiously watching her interactions with you to make sure she’s the kind of girl who won’t break your heart ...

287. Why Can’t I Have It All?

Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... as God, enjoying the freedom that God has? The Jewish people call this “poisonous voice” lashon hara, the “evil inclination,” the curse of the tongue. It’s a voice that prompts cravings for reward without investment, the awakening of expectant and entitled appetites, and a deceitful self-image –a dissatisfaction with one’s place within the created world. We have a similar story in our armory of fairy tales. So many of our fairy tales and legends have roots in the scriptures, and this one is ...

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Benjamin Disraeli

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

Bill Cosby

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Charles Baudelaire

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Charles Dickens

Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little . . . oh, I admit only a very little . . . of what life is about.

Francoise Sagan

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Lord Byron

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Quintilian

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Ralph W. Sockman

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

Robert Maclver

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.

Thomas Fuller

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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 276 to 300 of 313 results

276. The Pilgrim’s Thirst for God in a Dry and Weary Land

Psalm 63:1-11

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

277. Daniel’s Dream of Four Beasts

Daniel 7:1-14

Understanding Series

William Nelson

278. A Tribute to a Woman's Love

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

279. Treasure Hidden In a Clay Jar

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

Sermon

King Duncan

280. Trusting Authority

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

281. In Need of a "Rally Monkey"

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

King Duncan

282. Less Fear; More Fruit

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

283. Preparing the Way

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

284. The Death of John the Baptist

Matthew 14:1-12, Mark 6:14-29, Luke 9:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

285. Fleeced

Judges 6:1-40, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

286. Shepherd Dreams

Jeremiah 23:1-8, 1 Samuel 16:1-13, Psalm 80:1-19, Psalm 23:1-6, John 10:22-42, John 10:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

287. Why Can’t I Have It All?

Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Worry is a god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

Benjamin Disraeli

Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

Bill Cosby

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Charles Baudelaire

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

Charles Dickens

Francoise Sagan

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Lord Byron

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

Quintilian

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Ralph W. Sockman

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.

Robert Maclver

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

Riches enlarge, rather than satisfy appetites.

Thomas Fuller

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