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. Easter 2
John 20:19-23
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... church. He empowered the church/us to incarnate himself. No wonder the people never recognized him after his death, not his mother, not the disciples, not the men on the Emmaus Road. He said, before he died, "You will recognize me in the hungry, thirsty, imprisoned, sick." We are resurrected when we respond to such as these, so now, "If you haven't heard it before, you've heard it now. Christ lives, and Christ lives through us. Rejoice and celebrate life!" Planning for Your Congregation I. Other Scriptures ...
277. Easter 3
Luke 24:13-35
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... some barriers that keep us from seeing, and responding to, Christ in our daily lives. Ask, what's your favorite barrier? And how are you willing to let the Spirit of Christ knock it down; so that you will recognize Christ in the hungry, thirsty, sick, imprisoned, whatever form that imprisonment takes? Challenge to the Congregation Suggestion: Say, "It's dangerous to hear the Good News and then not respond. Where and how will you look for, and respond to, the living Christ this week." Jot down your findings ...
278. Proper 17
Matthew 16:21-28
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... ) Invite the people to think of ways they rebuke Jesus, most of which are much more subtle than that of Peter. Perhaps you will want to stimulate their thinking. I can think of several: misplaced anger toward my mate; ignoring the hungry and thirsty; busyness which goes nowhere, etc. You may want to print this prayer: "God, whose love never fails, whose desire is our reconciliation: We confess to patch-work lives, hope and despair, high resolve and weak failure, good intention and bad living, great joy and ...
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... his mouth. When Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, ‘It is finished;’ and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit." (John 20:29-30 [RSV]) Three times in as many verses the same Greek word is used here: "All was now finished;" Jesus was thirsty "to fulfill all Scripture;" and his final words on the cross: "It is finished." We are presented here with another serious pun, the use of the same word with two distinct or overlapping meanings. The Greek word used means "to fulfill," to fill the meaning of ...
280. The Blessing Of Bondage
Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24
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Barbara Brokhoff
... God and also the freedom of choice to live, or not live, within those boundaries. A society lady gave a gala garden party, and among the many guests were two ministers. She was standing by the punch bowl when the first reverend approached, looking thirsty. "I must tell you," she said to him, warningly, "the punch is spiked." "A little spirit never hurt anyone," he answered, filling his cup. The second minister approached. He got the same warning, drew himself up very piously, looked down his nose, and said ...
281. What’s God Going to Do With You?
Hosea 5:1-15, Hosea 6:1--7:16
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John R. Brokhoff
... is more! If and when we return to God, he will refresh us. Thus, our text says, "He will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth." Now that is good news for all of us with tired blood! When we are hot and thirsty, a cold drink refreshes us. When it has not rained for six weeks or more and the grass is brown and the streams are dry, showers are a blessing. After the rain, creation becomes green again with refreshment. We have a tendency to get tired of life. Someone complained ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... and frequently come to the Lord’s Supper for forgiveness and renewal of the covenant. Through maintaining the covenant, our souls are continually nourished. All that has been said about God’s feeding our souls depends on whether we are spiritually hungry and thirsty. If we are not hungry and have no appetite, we neglect eating. Right? So we must ask ourselves: Do we hunger and thirst after righteousness and spiritual food? Are we desperate enough to say with a Psalmist, "As the heart pants after the ...
Sermon
Carroll Gunkel
... real to people who had forgotten that love could live in theworld. William Booth gave vitality to Jesus’ words in Matthew 25. He and his army visited the imprisoned, fed the hungry, clothed the naked, ministered to prisoners, gave water to the thirsty, and welcomed strangers. In so doing, they who had met the Master, enabled others to meet the same Master. Early in General Booth’s ministry, throngs protesting the evangelistic involvement of the Salvation Army often took to the streets in such numbers ...
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Peter Rudowski
... Jesus as he describes that experience. As those things happen to us, Jesus will come and say to us, "Welcome aboard. It’s good to have you here, for you fed me when I was hungry, you clothed me when I was naked, you gave me drink when I was thirsty, you made me feel welcome when I was a stranger in your midst, and you visited me when I was sick." I suspect most of us will feel very surprised, because we did it because we profess Christ and we met needs where they were found.
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Wallace H. Kirby
... , mostly women with long hair. Despite an enormous investigation, there was for a long time little evidence of who he was and why he killed. He left tantalizing and chilling notes on the scene of his crimes. He wrote one to a newspaper reporter. "Sam’s a thirsty lad. He won’t let me stop killing until he gets his fill of blood." Some guessed that the killer named himself after Samuel Colt, inventor of the gun he used. Others guessed he’d made himself the namesake of Samson in the Bible or maybe even ...
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Dennis Kastens
... eventually reap kindness. There is an old legend which comes down to us from the early Christians. It concerns the wicked Herod who slew the little babies in Bethlehem in his attempt to get rid of the infant Jesus. Wicked Herod, as we know, was so cruel and blood thirsty that he murdered one after another of his family including one of his wives and several sons. In fact it was said, "It is better to be Herod’s pig than Herod’s son." Well, the legend says that he had one little grandson to whom he was ...
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Richard Hoefler
... help to the distressed, comfort to the disappointed, relief to the sufferers, hope to the disillusioned, and joy to the sorrowing. Yet God uses our lives to carry that grace and mercy to the needy world. A visit to the imprisoned, a cup of cool water to the thirsty, a loaf of bread or a bag of rice to the hungry are human acts, yet they possess divine proportions. Jesus could have made of the miracle at Bethany a one man show more spectacular than any three-ring circus ever devised by Barnum and Bailey and ...
288. Genuine Imitations
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
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Raymond Gibson
... are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?" (Jeremiah 7:17). This also was the primary point of Jesus’ parable of the last judgment when he welcomed those who would enter the Father’s kingdom: "I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me" (Matthew 25:35-36). That which we believe, that which we hold dear as ...
289. Living Water for a Thirst Soul - Sermon Starter
John 4:1-42
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Brett Blair
... well on the outskirts for a brief respite from the sun's blistering rays. When a woman of the village walked up Jesus addressed her: "Woman, give me a drink." The rest of this sermons answers the following question in three points: How can we find living water for our thirsty souls? 1. She is honest and admits the truth about her life. 2. She is open and accepts the truth about Jesus' life 3. She is enthusiastic and tells others about the truth she has found.
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John R. Brokhoff
... for it. You and I can get to heaven by doing the will of the Father if we will not love man but love God. That sounds foolish, too, doesn’t it? It seems we have been talking about loving our neighbor by feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, and so on. That is true, but we forget what will make us love our fellowmen. It is not a matter of deciding to love people but to love God. Love of God must come first. The first commandment, Jesus said, is to love God with your whole person, and ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... When Alexander the Great was in pursuit of Darius, king of Persia, he made his troops march 412 miles in eleven days. The men were about to die of thirst and could hardly go on. Some Macedonians with mules carrying skins of water came by and noticed how thirsty Alexander was. They filled a helmet with water and took it to him. Alexander looked around on his troops and saw how they longed for a drink. Then he returned the water saying, "If I alone should drink, the rest would be out of heart." The men became ...
Children's Sermon
Wesley T. Runk
... , and there are very few houses along the way to stop in to get a cup of water. Not only that, I would also want you to know that on this trip you are taking there are several thousand other people walking with you and they are as hungry and thirsty and tired as you are and you all need help. Suppose you have walked this far and it has taken you several days, and now you must think about the long walk back with the same conditions? What do you think would happen to you? [Let them answer.] Do you ...
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Kent Moorehead
... . He knew well enough that an ounce of appreciation is worth a pound of blame. So he was forever blessing people. His Beatitudes sound the keynote of his habitual attitude. Blessed are the poor in spirit, they that mourn, the meek, the hungry and thirsty after righteousness, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, and they that are persecuted for righteousness sake (Matthew 5). Now as a matter of fact, not many of those whom he addressed were very humble, or meek, or pure in heart. But he actually ...
294. Adultery, Cure and Prevention
Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11
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Bill Bouknight
... a woman was brought to him by a group of proud, judgmental Pharisees. She had been caught in the very act of adultery. Perhaps she was dragged half naked to Jesus. Quickly a crowd gathered to leer and lust and condemn and execute her. This was a blood-thirsty, mean bunch of people. The Pharisees put Jesus on the spot by asking him what should be done to her. The law of Moses was clear. She should be stoned to death. Yet such punishment was contrary to Roman law. Would Jesus offend Old Testament law or the ...
295. BEGGAR
Psalm 37:25
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Stephen Stewart
... were also many who were legitimately sick or crippled, or in some way unable to hold a job. It was in the role of one of these miserable souls that Jesus referred to himself when he spoke of the last judgment: "I was hungry, and you gave me food, thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger, and you brought me home, naked, and you clothed me, sick and you cared for me" (Matthew 25:35-40). Jerusalem, particularly at the time of the great pilgrimages, was thronged by all the beggars in the Holy Land; they ...
296. CHARIOTEER
Jeremiah 51:21; 1 Kings 9:22
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Stephen Stewart
... racing charioteers, I immediately think of the race in Ben Hur. Remember the sharp scythes that Massala had attached to his wheels? This was a particularly nasty trick dreamed up by the Persians for battle use, and appropriated by the Romans for their blood-thirsty spectacles. I have mentioned the race driver as being akin to the charioteer, and I think there is another occupation that we might add - that of the soldier attached to tank duty. In many ways, their positions and duties coincide with those of ...
297. CHEESE MAKER
1 Samuel 17:18; 2 Samuel 17:29
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Stephen Stewart
... 1 Samuel 17:18 - "also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand ..." 2 Samuel 17:29 - "honey and curds and sheep and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat; for they said, ‘The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.’" Cheese is one of the oldest known foods. Ever since man has learned to domesticate cattle and goats, and use their milk, he has had the knowledge to make cheese. In fact, the making of cheese was such a well-known occupation that ...
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Bill Bouknight
... ." Perhaps the toughest part of God's judgment has to do with what we did not do or say that we should have done or said. The pastor, William C. Duckworth, has offered this modern parable of God's judgment: "For when I was hungry, you were obese. I was thirsty, and you were watering your lawn. I was a stranger, and you called the police and had me taken away. I was naked while you were saying, 'I must buy some new clothes. I just don't have a thing to wear. ' I was ill, and you asked, 'Is it ...
299. A Cosmic Announcement
Isaiah 63:7--64:12
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Susan Hedahl
... such a word to be found and who will speak it with clarity and inclusiveness? Forged in the worship and writings of many cultures, hints of a Savior were spoken in fragile, almost indecipherable form. When Paul visited the people of Athens, he reassured them of what their thirsty hearts already intuited - that the Jesus he preached was the One that had been among them all the time! "Yet, he is not far from each one of us, for ‘In him we live and move and have our being,’ as even some of your poets have ...
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... in a situation like that, we can count on the fact that God is merciful and forgiving. We can count on the fact that by his grace we can both experience forgiveness and forgive others as God forgives us. Psalm 63 has it: "... my soul is thirsty for you ... your constant love is better than life itself" (v. 3). God is often closest to us in time of adversity because it strips away the pretensions, facades, and the diversions which preoccupy us the rest of our lives. Because of this, preparing for the death ...
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