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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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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

Thomas Hobbes

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tryon Edwards

There's one thing to be said for a diet; it certainly does improve your appetite.

E. Wilson

304. Our Faithful Father

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Missionary statesman Hudson Taylor had complete trust in God's faithfulness. In his journal he wrote: Our heavenly Father is a very experienced One. He knows very well that His children wake up with a good appetite every morning. He sustained 3 million Israelites in the wilderness for 40 years. We do not expect He will send 3 million missionaries to China; but if He did, He would have ample means to sustain them all. Depend on it, God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply.

305. Thanks, but...

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... ," said Herbert. "Look," said someone, "Show a little compassion. The man's been in prison now for five or six months. That can get to a person. I went to jail during the last persecution. Sitting there in your cell, all hope lost, a man loses his appetite for life, doesn't care about anything. You have to get that way in order to survive. What you're reading is the indifference of an imprisoned man who's had to detach himself from life in order to make it." "Perhaps," said Euodia, "Paul really meant ...

306. “Until An Opportune Time…”

Luke 4:1-13

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Schuyler Rhodes

... . It is like a vast sea in which we all swim…some better than others. The world had less technology in Jesus’ day but temptation was just as prevalent for him as it is for us today. Think with me about this story. Jesus is tempted by his appetites. The devil says to him, “Go ahead, turn this stone into bread.” That’s a pretty amazing prospect and one that could even appeal to our fuzzy feel good sense of things. And we know his response, don’t we? “One does not live by bread alone.” Then ...

307. Nobody’s Too Good To Repent

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

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Mark Ellingsen

... and I need to repent of our selfishness. The health of your faith depends on recognizing these realities. John Calvin noted powerfully the misery in which we find ourselves: Those who are puffed up with vain confidence and are satiated, or who, intoxicated by earthly appetites do not feel thirst or soul, will not receive Christ.[4] No two ways about it. We need to repent. It’s like the ancient African theologian Clement of Alexandria once said: “For unless a man believes that to which he was addicted to ...

308. A New Beginning

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

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Mark Ellingsen

... to be. Not what is but what will be is what he loves. John Wesley nicely described what this new life in Christ looks like, how we live with our new beginning. He wrote: He [the Christian] has new life, new senses, new faculties, new affections, new appetites, new ideas and conceptions. His whole tenor of action and conversation is new, and he lives, as it were, in a new world. God, men, the whole creation, heaven, earth, and all therein appear in a new light and stand related to Him in a new manner since ...

309. Jesus In Ministry — Us In Ministry

Luke 4:14-21

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Derl G. Keefer

... social issues in life. It went to the heart of the problem…the spiritual. As the redeemer, Jesus called those that day back to a full restoration. Those sitting in the synagogue needed their stomachs filled, but what they needed more was their spiritual appetite satisfied. Christ would do that by taking the emptiness of sin away and letting them feast on the satisfying buffet of righteousness. We need that freedom! The time of letting sin go and let righteousness come in through the person of Jesus! Sin ...

310. Are We Living In The Last Days?

Luke 21:5-19

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Richard Hasler

... the future.” The leader asked the participants to estimate how many years he had yet to live. The answers ranged from thirty years to five years. Those who attended this retreat were then asked to make up a menu for the rest of their lives. What do I have an appetite for? What do I want to taste again and again or for the first time? What do I not want to stomach any longer? What for me, would be a healthy diet for living? Here are some samples from their menus: Want to sing more. I want to visit sacred ...

311. Stop in the Name of Love

Matthew 3:13-17

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... Bucharest, Romania, in 1909. Wurmbrand was a wealthy businessman and a playboy. He spent his time when he wasn’t working going to local bars and cabaret shows. He says of his lifestyle back then, “I did not care what happened as long as my appetite for fresh sensation was fed.” He also didn’t care how many women he lied to or cheated on, including his wife. But then Wurmbrand contracted tuberculosis and was confined in the hospital for a long recuperation. During this lonely and scary time, he began ...

312. Living Bread

John 6:51-58

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Lori Wagner

... troublemakers in our guts? Yeast! Yes! That busy little microbe that makes bread, donuts, and pretzels taste SO good! Not to mention wine and beer! Gasp! Yeast, officially called Saccharomyces cerevisiae are members of the fungus family! Kind of makes you lose your appetite when you think of it that way, doesn’t it? They are right up there with molds and mushrooms! Hardy little critters! And prolific too! As most mold is! With over 1,500 species, yeast has existed for hundreds of millions of years, long ...

313. It’s Lonely At The Top

Mark 9:38-50 · Esther 7:1-10; 9:20-22 · Psalm 124 · Numbers 11:4-29

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Thomas C. Willadsen

... today’s gospel reading was a little puzzling. Jesus talked about how good salt was. It’s a preservative; it can be used as money; it seasons food, (There’s a Danish proverb that one needs only two things to make good food: salt and an appetite.) but what good is salt if it loses its saltiness? Jesus concluded with this enigmatic phrase, “Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.” Mark 9:50 (NRSV). What could Jesus have meant by this? We’ve heard people described as “the salt ...

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