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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Stephen M. Crotts
... comforted me. I was in prison and you visited me." They cut our consciences like a sharp knife. The first time I ever saw real hunger was during a mission journey in Atotonillco, Mexico. I saw a four-year-old boy eating a dead rat. The next time was in Haiti. ... teach him how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime." It does little good to give away a few thousand tons of grain. The hunger will go away for a while but it will return. What we need to give away are know-how, education, and helping hands. We don' ...
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Leonard Sweet
... the few morsels found are barley loaves, the cheapest, coarsest kind of bread made - in other words, the bread of the poor. But this simple sustenance is what kept people going. In Jesus' day the daily bread was the difference between a full belly and clutching hunger. The disciples' concern for the crowd's need for bread, for simple basic food at the end of a long day, was realistic and sensible. Out there at night in that deserted place all would go hungry. Yet Jesus' reply to the disciples demand that he ...
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Leonard Sweet
... gave Israel what was needed for its survival; Israel didn't always trust that God understood what it was they needed. Jesus refused to buy into Israel's doubts and despairs. Jesus refused to let the devil play on either his physical weakness (his hunger and exhaustion), or his spiritual strength (his affirmation as God's beloved Son). Jesus simply remained confident, obedient, and humble in the face of life's reality and God's omnipotence. Staple's, the huge office supply chain store, has a new commercial ...
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Alex Gondola
... have an adequate diet! Isn’t that incredible: a two-percent shift in foods would wipe out world hunger! Most of us waste more than two percent of our food every day. If we could change, and encourage our government to change, maybe 33,000 children a day ... wouldn’t die from hunger. Maybe there wouldn’t be four and one-half million homeless people on America’s streets. Maybe 30,000,000 Americans wouldn’t be ...
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Leonard Sweet
... with each other, shared intimacies, and conversed with each other about matters of life and death. If you listen carefully to this dialog of the dying, you will hear the very same issues, even the very same words, being voiced throughout this postmodern culture. The same hungers and hopes, the same fears and infuriation that pervade our world today are vocalized by this community of the dying. It's the classic postmodern scenario. On one side of Jesus is a thief who gets it. On the other side of Jesus is a ...
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Leonard Sweet
... , heart diseases, strokes, diabetes, and high blood pressure – all associated with high fat diets and low or no exercise lifestyles. So why are so many of us stopping at the take-out window at the same time we're stocking our freezers with "Lean Cuisine?" Are we hungering for something that we just can't seem to satisfy, no matter how many Happy Meals we ingest? The issue is not eating. Jesus loved to eat. He was always going out to dinner, cooking meals for friends, inviting others to join him for a meal ...
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Leonard Sweet
... and elegance. Isaiah's words caution the people of God not to spend their lives and livelihood on trying to attain the goods, the goodies, that Babylon has shown them. Babylon can't offer the people of God true bread. Babylon can't satisfy the hunger of an outcast people. The transitory, tempting excesses of Babylon an empire that didn't know Yahweh, that didn't know God's righteousness and strength, that didn't know God's steadfast, enduring love could never truly satisfy the longing spirit of the exiled ...
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Leonard Sweet
... to step out in faith before the signs came on. It was only when the Israelites are deep in the wilderness, cut of from all other peoples, from any other sources of sustenance, that God provided the morning manna and the evening quail to satisfy their hunger. As the hard and fast rules governing the gathering of this manna made explicit, this miraculous sign, this bread from heaven, is far more than food. So they obediently gathered it day by day. They never hoarded it. They never saved it. They never wasted ...
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Leonard Sweet
... provided an embarrassingly huge amount of food for the crowd that had gathered to hear him. This crowd was far from any village or other food source, but they were unwilling to leave Jesus' wilderness teaching session. The crowd decided that their hunger for truth was greater than their hunger for food. So they trusted Jesus. They made themselves wholly dependent upon Jesus for their sustenance. And God's provisions for them were more than they needed. We don't have a just enough God. We have a God who has ...
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James Merritt
... , God had told Jesus to fast, but Satan told Jesus to eat. Peter Lord has put it well when he said, "Temptation is the devil trying to get you to fulfill a natural God-given desire, or drive, in the wrong way." You see, there is nothing wrong with the hunger drive, the thirst drive, or the sex drive; what is wrong is to make a god out of any physical desire. Satan wanted Jesus to make bread his god. Today, there are people who make the bed their god, so they worship sex. Then there are those who have made ...
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James Merritt
... been filled without Jesus. Now remember nobody could eat another bite, yet there were still twelve baskets left over. Why? Because Jesus is not only all that you need, He is more than you need. There is not a problem you have Jesus cannot solve. There is not a hunger you have Jesus cannot satisfy. There is not a thirst you have that Jesus cannot meet. There is not a hurt you have that Jesus cannot heal. There is not a question you have that Jesus cannot answer. That's why when the pressure is on, if you ...
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James Merritt
... you, winging my way back home after being gone two weeks at a time, I said to myself at least a hundred times, “There’s no place like home.” In fact, the title of that song that he wrote was “Home, Sweet Home.” Everybody hungers for a sweet home. Reader’s Digest commissioned the Roper Center for public opinion research to ask 1,022 American teenagers, ages 16 to 18, several questions. The first, and the most important question they asked, was, “What would bring you more satisfaction, and is ...
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James Merritt
... about a man named Cornelius. We are told that Cornelius was a devout man. He was a religious man. Though he had a hunger for God, he did not know God. In fact, Acts 10: 2 says he was a “Devout man and one who feared God with all of his household who ... gave alms generously to the people and prayed to God always.” Now this man had a hunger for God but he did not have a personal relationship with God but that is what he wanted. As God sent the Ethiopian a man named ...
339. Matthew 14:13-21
Matthew 14:13-21
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Leonard Sweet
... . If anyone wanted to get any dinner, they needed to get a move on, trek back to the nearest villages, and start scaring up some grub. The “hour” that is “late” is the generally accepted time for the evening meal, and as that time “passed” the hunger of the crowd would surely grow. Since the disciples are the first to point out this need, Jesus assigns them the job of feeding the enormous crowd: “you give them something to eat” (v.16). As with the feeding miracle Elisha worked in 2 Kings 4 ...
340. Our Lord's Abundant Table - Sermon Starter
Matthew 14:13-21
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Brett Blair
... generosity and the generosity of the little boy that they brought forth the food they had hidden under their clothes and in their traveling pouches. This way everyone was satisfied. Another theory says that the story is not really talking about physical hunger but spiritual hunger. When the small amount of food was passed around everyone tore off a minuscule symbolic fragment. In this Jesus is said to have satisfied the thirst of the soul not the stomach. I think these questions say more about us than they ...
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John E. Harnish
... in the world since last we gathered at this world table. It has been a year of tsunamis in the Pacific and hurricanes in the South, continued war in Iraq and hunger in Africa, unemployment in Michigan and homelessness in our streets. And in the face of these seemingly insurmountable problems, "Bread for the World" reminds us that "Hunger is the one problem we actually can solve." Jeffrey Sachs is the director of the Millennium Fund of the United Nations—with the goal of ending extreme poverty by the year ...
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John E. Harnish
... hope and the promise of God's coming kingdom, an anthem already being sung by a multitude which no one could number, from every nation, from every tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne, singing in the name of the God who promises that one day: Hunger shall be no more, neither thirst any more, the sun will not strike by day, nor any scorching heat. The Lamb will be their shepherd and will be in the midst and he will guide them to springs of living water and wipe away every tear from their ...
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John E. Harnish
... -42) Several years ago, my brother wrote a book on male spirituality called Passion, Power and Praise. In it he quotes Sam Keen's classic book on men, Fire in the Belly, where Keen says one of our most basic problems is not "..our lust for power, our insatiable hunger for gadgets, or our habit of repressing women and the poor." Rather, he said, it is our lack of joy. He writes: "Most of the men I know are decent, serious and hard-working, and would like to make the world a better place. What they are not is ...
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Leonard Sweet
... by trying to coerce a purely emotional reaction from him. After his 40-day fast how did Jesus feel? Hungry! What should he do about it? Turn stones into bread and relieve his hunger, says the devil. But Jesus does not allow what he is feeling to define his whole self. He is more than a hungering stomach; he is a faithful and disciplined Son seeking divine closeness and spiritual comfort through fasting. The devil's second temptation appeals strongly to the cognitive respondent. The lure of riches, power and ...
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Leonard Sweet
... hold butter and jam. Pre-feminist folklore preached that "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach." Jesus appropriated this wisdom for men and women and took it one step further. The metaphor of Jesus, the Bread of Life, is a metaphor that meets hungering humans where we think we are empty in our stomachs but then points us to where our real emptiness lies in our souls. Jesus' image goes through our stomachs to get to our souls. One thing that makes bread such a good medium and metaphor to convey ...
346. Hello!?
Romans 8:26-39
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Leonard Sweet
... of confrontation ... there is confidence. In the face of the Serpent ... there is the gift of the Cross. In the face of greed ... there is the abundant life. In the face of pollution ... there is God's redemption of all creation. In the face of hunger ... there is a legacy of loaves and fishes. In the face of homelessness ... there is compassion. In the face of hardship ... there is the promise of goodness. Alternative Sermon Idea Simply reverse the sermon theme. Are you prepared for the world to say "Hello ...
347. Luke 4:1-13
Luke 4:1-13
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Leonard Sweet
... - what kind of persona should/could/would he take on during this first real test? The devil hits literally at gut level with the first temptation. Not surprisingly, Jesus' truly human nature experienced truly ravenous hunger after his 40-day fast. But Jesus was not actually starving. This was a self-imposed hunger, willingly endured for religious purposes. Long fasts have always been popular means of bringing oneself closer to God. Thus the devil's taunt was not to a man whose suffering was the result of a ...
348. Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... from the home and family in which he had grown up. And while the son's "confession" in verses 18-19 sounds contrite and genuine enough, a careful examination of the thought process that led him to this confession reveals only one clear motivating force: hunger (v.17). The son decides to return home and throw himself on his father's mercy only because he feels he is starving to death. The father's reaction is so overwhelmingly joyous, so unexpectedly elated, that the reader is rightly stunned. As soon as ...
349. Revelation 7:9-17
Revelation 7:9-17
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... were comforted by traditional images and forms that held out divine hope. Again the flexibility of Greek verb tenses can make these final words of comfort even more vital to their audience. There are good grammatical arguments for suggesting that the future tenses declared in verses 16-17, "They will hunger no more," "God will wipe away every tear," would be understood more correctly by appearing in English in the emphatic present. Thus the seer declares God does dwell with them, believers do not ...
350. Epiphany 2
John 1:43-51, 1 Corinthians 6:12-20, 1 Samuel 3:1--4:1
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John R. Brokhoff
... . Become a new person v. 42. Old Testament: 1 Samuel 3:1-10 1. Sleeping in the sanctuary (3:1-10). Need: There is a hunger among people today for a personal experience with God. People want to know and feel that God is a meaningful part of their lives. Is ... , there was the same lack of God v. 1: "The word of the Lord was rare ... there was no frequent vision." This hunger for spiritual reality and direction is expressed in the cults of our time. This sermon examines Samuel's first personal experience with God ...
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