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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

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426. Suffering Leads to Victory

1 Peter 3:18-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... Spirit does not want my prize bow. One woman suggested, “I know the Great Spirit does not want my special blanket.” And so it went throughout the village; everyone had an excuse to keep what he or she valued most. Among the few children who had not died from hunger was a little girl named She-Who-Sits-Alone. In her tepee she said to herself. “O Great Spirit, it is my warrior doll that you want. It is the only possession I have left of my parents. The doll had a belt made of bone and beaded leggings ...

427. Holy Extravagance

Mark 14:3-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... asked to turn our bare room of fading carpet and broken furniture into a more fitting place of worship. A plan was submitted, not a terribly expensive plan of renovation, but a good one. Would the chapel be renovated? No. "With all the poverty and hunger that exists in the world," said one faculty member, ''how can we, as Christians, justify spending $50,000 to pretty up our chapel?" Let the record show that this person failed to offer a similar objection when faculty salaries were raised each year, nor had ...

428. The Main Business of the Church

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... for God. This is part of the greatness of man, we are told. “As the deer pants for streams of water,” wrote the Psalmist, “so my soul pants for you, my God” (Psalm 42:1). Humanity hungers for God. But the supreme mark of our greatness is undoubtedly God’s search for humanity. In the first pages of the Bible we read, “Adam, where art thou?” and the search continues throughout the Holy Book. Of course, the ultimate symbol of that search is the cross of Calvary. ...

429. Thanks, but...

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... me (but you had no opportunity). Not that I complain of want; for I have learned, in whatever state I am, to be content. I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound; in any and all circumstances I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and want. I can do all things in him who strengthens me. "Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble...even in Thessalonica you sent me help once and again. Not that I seek the gift; but I seek the fruit which increases to your credit...having ...

430. Jesus' Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... with "if you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread," remember that you have heard it before. Temptation is a function of hunger. Is God for us or not? they asked Moses. Let's have bread as proof that God is our kind of God, i.e., a God ... to tell his side, this seems to be his main theme. If you are really God, says Satan, make bread, minister to their hunger, because that's really the object of their worship, the real reason they fall on their knees, finger their rosaries, put their dollars ...

431. More Than Enough

John 6:1-21

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... of age, approximately 3.1 million per year are caused by poor nutrition; 25% of the world’s children are stunted in growth because they don’t have enough of the right foods to eat.4 Brothers and sisters, when 11% of the people are suffering from debilitating hunger while we throw away 40% of the edible food, something is seriously wrong. We need to be better stewards of our resources. We need to discover a new morality of nutrition, a new food ethic for our country. And, as we search to do so, we could ...

432. Faith or Folly

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of God! Use your power to feed yourself and take what you need! Yet, Jesus replies, “One does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Jesus is in the wilderness to prepare. He will not allow his hungers (physical or otherwise) to distract him from his devotion to God or to keep him from relying on God’s providence and sovereignty. Jesus, even the son of God, will respect his “office” and intentionally protect and “cover” the mission until the time of the ...

433. The Way of a Saint

Revelation 7:9-17 · Luke 6:20-31

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... ; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence. Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat down on them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes ...

434. Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?

John 10:11-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the LORD. They will not be caught like an animal by the nations anymore. Those animals will not eat them anymore. No, they will live safely. No one will make them afraid. I will give them some land that will make a good garden. Then they will not suffer from hunger in that land or suffer the insults from the nations anymore. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God. The family of Israel will know that I am with them and that they are my people.” This is what the Lord GOD said! “You are my sheep ...

435. Courage to Break

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is a time of deep inner struggle, of personal tumult, self-questioning, self-doubt, and the agony of wondering if he’s truly doing the right thing in starting on this mission. Is the voice in his head of God? Or of his own selfish desires? Is his hunger and thirst deluding him? Or is he embarking on a foolish path? This time of discernment must end in a time of “brokenness” for Jesus, in which he declines the “easy way out,” digs in the heels of his faith in God as his fortress and foundation, and ...

436. Investing Our Inheritance

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... girl would come running up alongside of him. Tenderly she would slip her hand into his and she would hold on tightly for as long as he would allow. The minister came to understand that even more than the food he bought for her, this little girl hungered for the love and affection he offered. Now, when the minister prays, he often thinks of that little girl. He thanks God for the opportunity to minister to her. Even more, he thanks God for using that little street child from Bombay, India, to teach him of ...

437. A Call To Community

Acts 16:6-10

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... and trembling and he certainly wouldn't go anywhere in the house but the front room. The family wondered if Cocoa had been beaten by his first owner and if that was what caused his fearfulness. No matter. Cocoa was the most loving dog they had ever seen. He hungered for the affection of the children. He loved to have someone pet him. And if you stopped petting before he was ready for you to stop, he would simply put both of his paws in your lap until you resumed your petting and he got his fill. Cocoa wasn ...

438. Topsy-turvy Christianity

Luke 6:17-26, Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

J. Will Ormond

... the moral demands of the Word of God. We need to remind ourselves that these beatitudes and woes were never meant to be rules for the ordering of political life. They have to do, rather, with the kingdom of God. There is no glorification of poverty, hunger, grief, nor persecution in Luke's version of the beatitudes. One is not exhorted to seek these negative positions in order to obtain a blessing. There is no glossing over the reality of present distress. There is no call for stoic endurance. But hope is ...

439. Joseph's Friend

Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... the questions he was asking and they asked me where he had such a background in the scriptures that he should ask such intelligent questions. I just said we had a wonderful synagogue and a good rabbi. That seemed to satisfy them. But nothing seemed to satisfy the hunger that Jesus had to have his questions answered. Some people would get perturbed with him and tell him to go away and not ask so many questions. I never did. I tried to answer all his questions. I sometimes thought that I would not be able to ...

440. A Tree Well Watered

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... 't get any better than this, you will be right. It won't; and that will be your reward! If you think this is the good life, then it will be the best you will know. For this is what you have now -- and what is ahead will be a hunger for truth and a thirst for meaning, and you will not find it. The time is surely coming, says the Lord God, when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine of bread, or a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord (Amos ...

441. What is Love?

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Illustration

John R. Steward

... who begged him to "trade my cold soup for his cube of bread." He really did not want to do it because he himself was very hungry. But it was apparent that this other man was near death. Even though the cold soup would have satisfied Beno's hunger more than the dry bread, he made the trade anyway. "Each day I set the tasteless broth by his bedside and slowly bit off pieces of the bland crust of bread." When the camp was finally liberated, the captives were taken to a hospital and given physical examinations ...

442. Divided They Fall

Hebrews 11:1-40

Illustration

John R. Steward

... whole. No other human being can make us whole. The songs on the radio are wrong. It will never work. Instead, we should "lay aside" this frivolous pursuit and all the other ones that never truly fulfill and look to Jesus. He is the only one who can satisfy our hunger for wholeness.

443. Proper 25

Psalm 65:1-13, Luke 18:9-14, Joel 2:28-32, 2 Timothy 4:9-18, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... who are aware of their need than with the "good" persons who already think they have it made. Those who are self-satisfied and self-righteous are not open to change or improvement. They have already arrived. The person who can be helped is one who hungers and thirsts after righteousness, as the beatitude states it. People who work in the mental health or social welfare areas recognize this truth at that level. An axiom of therapy is that you cannot help persons unless they want to be helped, at least if the ...

444. Blessed Betrayal

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... and John might have spoken next: "We didn't understand. We were jockeying for first place in Jesus' kingdom and didn't know what he meant when he would say things like 'He who would be first must become the servant of all.' We betrayed him by our hunger for power." On and on it might have gone as each disciple confessed his own reason for deserting Jesus on that fateful Friday. But it was to that very group -- who followed with mixed motives -- that Jesus broke the bread and gave it as a blessing. There is ...

445. When It Is Dark Enough

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... Holidays" or "Seasons Greetings." Who will see him? Probably those whose world is darkest: the wretched, the suffering, humble shepherds, astronomers looking for a king they could not find in all their travels. Who will be blessed? The poor in spirit, the pure in heart, those who mourn, and who hunger and thirst for what is right. Before you turn on the lights, remember it is still early in Advent, and Advent is a dark time. How dark? Dark enough to see the stars. "

446. Bowing Before The Mystery

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... the brink of a cliff over which the human race could fall taking everything with it and all by the push of a button. Nor have we learned the essential lessons of life: how to live at peace, how to care for the masses whose lives consist of hunger and misery, how to keep our marriages alive, how to love our enemies. Life has been reduced to charts and megabytes and things which interface. We are the products of input and output and reams of paper which spew from our gadgets at several hundred cps -- that's ...

447. Through The Eye Of The Needle

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... do to inherit eternal life?" At first, he seems to be doing all the right things. He recognizes that his life is still empty, that money is not everything, and he seems to have come to the right place. He comes to Jesus to find an answer, to get his hungers filled, to become a disciple. It's hard to knock someone who's interested in Jesus. That's why Jesus' reaction seems to be so strange. We thought Jesus was in the business of making disciples, but here he seems to brush the guy off. Why? This is not the ...

448. Miracle Five: Healing A Withered Hand

Mark 3:1-6

Sermon Aid

Harold H. Lentz

... his disciples traveled about on foot. They would naturally take advantage of shortcuts. So this day they walked across some farmland that had been planted with wheat. As they were hungry, they reached out and plucked some of the kernels of wheat to satisfy their hunger. But they were seen doing so by some of Jesus' critics who immediately called him to account. But as they were stout defenders of the law, and of the scriptures, Jesus answered them out of their own religious writings. He showed them how the ...

449. Miracle Nine: Healing A Deaf-Mute

Mark 7:31-37, Mark 7:24-30

Sermon Aid

Harold H. Lentz

... And He Charged Them Strictly That No One Should Know This · Christ had his reasons for keeping news of this miracle from spreading. He did not want to attract a crowd of the curious, eager to witness a miracle, but rather to attract those who had a spiritual hungering so that he could build his kingdom. And by now his fame had spread over a wide area, so he did not need a miracle to attract attention to his message. His kingdom could now expand on its own strength. Without giving it much thought we live in ...

450. Will The Real Messiah Please Stand Up?

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

William L. Self

... , from David Koresh and Jim Jones to Nero and Philip of Macedon. Each one in his own style offers a safe civilization to humankind if we would but submit. The problem is that it is difficult to distinguish the false messiahs from the real Messiah. There is a hunger within each of us to say, "Will the real Messiah please stand up?" I. A closer look at some false messiahs. The Germans have a saying that sums up the wreckage left to us by the false messiahs: "Whatever men do, it turns out lousy." They, of all ...

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