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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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26. The Cloak

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

Sermon

Rick Brand

... the stuff around us, the less chance we have to welcome into that space the grace and mercy of God that will begin to quiet that hunger and reduce that drive for acquisition of more and more. Paul says, "I did not use the gospel as a cloak for greed because I have ... God that sends us to the market place looking for something to fill the hole. It is the love and mercy of God that feeds that hunger with a sense of who we are, with giving us a calling to be faithful people, gives us a work to do in sharing the ...

27. Soul Bread!

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and at the end of them he was hungry" (Luke 4:1-2). It was no momentary craving for a snack that Jesus needed. He was hungry for real food. In that time of extreme hunger, Satan tried to break the weakened Savior and undermine the kingdom of God. The passage goes on, "The devil said to him, ‘If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.' Jesus answered, ‘It is written: "Man does not live on bread alone" ' " (Luke 4 ...

28. I Am The Bread Of Life

John 6:24-35

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Brett Blair

... is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. The crowd said to Jesus: Give us the bread from heaven. Do what Moses did and we will be satisfied. But Jesus is saying: I am the bread from heaven. He who comes after me will never hunger. As bread nourishes us physically, so Jesus nourishes us spiritually. As the proud father of a 8-year-old daughter and a 1 year old son, we provide them with all the physical needs that they could have. We feed them, we cloth them, we give them warm bed, and ...

29. Holy Diet

John 6:24-35

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Donald Macleod

... motion of the body, but by the will of the mind." I There are lessons here for every one of us who aspires towards a level of life where a sense of spiritual awareness holds us fast. "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger." Jesus is instructing us here, first of all, about the true nature of life. Note how the word "life" dominates these lines. And Jesus zeroed in that day upon the attention and interest of the crowd by singling out the two elements that meant most to life - bread and ...

30. Where the Bread Loaf Is Not a Stone

Matthew 7:7-12

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Eric Ritz

... food or fun. Life is not just food and fun. The richest can be the poorest if they do not know that; and the poorest can be the richest if they do know that." (2) Jesus knew that the real human hunger, beneath all our other hungers and desires, is the hunger for God. When we deny that hunger for God, or attempt to satisfy it with false and empty substitutes, we end up with only a proud self-righteousness. And something inside of us dies. Please, do not fill your life with "pectin" only to discover how empty ...

31. Those Who Most Need a Blessing

Matthew 5:1-12

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Charles L. Aaron

... we mourn because grief has intruded uninvited into our lives. We find ourselves mourning. Other times we mourn because we see the way the world is, and we mourn because we know it can be better. That kind of mourning can be a choice. By blessing those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, Jesus speaks both to our choices and the things we have no choice over. When Jesus blesses the merciful, he moves fully toward those who make a choice. We do not choose to be wronged, to be violated, to be hurt. We can ...

32. You Can Be Well Fed

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... around are ordinarily the ones who concentrate on how much can they do for others. There is such need in our world, so many hurts to heal and broken lives to mend. Few things are more tragic than a person whose only interest is in feeding his own hungers even at the expense of everyone else's. The largest man who ever lived was a native of the state of Washington. He died a few years ago. Doctors at University Hospital in Seattle estimate that at one point in his life, the gentleman weighed more than 1 ...

33. Proper 12

John 6:16-24, John 6:1-15, 2 Samuel 11:1-27, Ephesians 3:14-21

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Russell F. Anderson

... daunting to us than the prospect of feeding the 5000 did to the disciples. We have only five loaves and two fishes. What good are they among so many? Have we lost faith that Christ can still miraculously multiply the loaves and the fish that we possess? Outline: 1. Hunger organizations appeal for us to help the hungry. 2. Such a pitch is not appealing to many. Why? The need is so great. Resources are limited. The need is not visible to many of us. We rationalize the need away It's somebody else's fault or ...

34. The Sermon on the Level

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

... for us in our cash-centered culture, no thanks! A diet can be good for the physique, and fasting can be a spiritual experience, but hunger isn’t in our bag of tricks. To mourn will be the lot of everyone occasionally, but there’s nothing like a laugh to lift ... mansions, I ask, "Where was I when all this money was being made?" And I remember where I was. "Blessed are you that hunger ... blessed are you that weep." The door that opens widest at my house is the refrigerator door, and if its shelves have not ...

35. Why We Gather At The Table

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Supper, we are repeating an oath of allegiance to Jesus Christ, our Emperor. (4) We are not here tending a dead tradition. We are paying homage to a living Lord. So why do we gather at the table? Because we are a community of faith. Because we have a common hunger. Because we have a common hope. Because we share a common faith. Let us go to the Holy Table to break bread and to drink the cup together. 1. Arthur Ashe, DAYS OF GRACE. 2. Lucinda Hahn, "All He Had Was Hope," READER'S DIGEST, March 1998, pp. 138 ...

36. Finding Plenty in the Midst of Scarcity

Matthew 14:13-21

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J. Howard Olds

... least we know it was a large crowd and that Jesus had compassion on them. Come, let us take a closer look. I. THE HUNGER IS REAL As evening approached, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a remote place and it is already getting late. Send ... his wife, “I think I'm having a panic attack. I haven't eaten for at least 15 minutes." Most of us have no clue about hunger. But our experience does not hold true for the majority of the world. One billion of the world's richest people consume 80 percent of ...

37. God Is Like...Bread

Joel 2:23-30 · John 6:25-35

Sermon

Kenneth L. Gibble

... lies so deep in us we often can’t even give it a name. We feel it mostly as a longing, a yearning for something we once had but have no longer have, or maybe we never had it. Many times we’re hardly aware of the hunger, but at other times it is so intense, so sharp, that we feel it as physical pain. What does Jesus mean when he says he is the bread of life and that whoever comes to him will never be hungry? I must confess to you that I don’t know ...

38. Food For The Body And Food For The Soul

John 6:25-59

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J. Will Ormond

... to the place where the praise of others sounds hollow. We travel the world to discover new wonders but finally lose our sense of wonder and one place begins to look as drab as another. In the last analysis, whether we recognize it or not, our ultimate hunger is for acceptance by and fellowship with God. Jesus Christ offers us this acceptance and fellowship in himself. He invites us to believe in him whom God has sent. "This is indeed the will of my Father, that all who see the Son and believe in him may ...

39. Bread for Everyone (I am the bread of life)

John 6:1-15, John 6:25-59

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... I Can''t Get No Satisfaction." You never can without God. Life is more than an empty dish. Carlo Caretto in his outstanding Book, The God Who Comes, writes "Jesus is Life, and he knows his creature can do nothing without Him; He knows the child would die of hunger without bread. But our bread is God himself, and God gives Himself to us as food. Only eternal life can feed one who is destined for eternal life. The bread of earth can nourish us only for this finite earth--it can sustain us only as far as the ...

40. Plain Talk

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... are not poor, are we not blessed? What's so great about being poor? Do we have any volunteers? Isn't much of our effort exerted and money given to help the poor get richer? If poverty is so blessed, why do we take up offerings to alleviate hunger? If the poor are blessed, wouldn't our Christian duty lie in taking away from them what they have now, so they can be even poorer and therefore more blessed? That interpretation means we have not read carefully. Jesus didn't hold that poverty was blessed; only the ...

41. A Taste of God's Tomorrow

Matthew 14:13-21

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Glenn L. Borreson

... . His mom gave us cookies and milk. It felt like a sacramental meal to me." ("Under the Double-Decker Bed," Tapestry, Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1985, pp. 123-124) Cookies and milk, a sacramental meal. Yes, indeed, a taste of God's tomorrow. Even in our greatest pain and deepest hunger, in the limits beyond which none of us can see or go in certain moments of our lives, there is God. Always for us in bread and wine, sometimes even in milk and cookies. Just as it satisfied the crowd fed by Jesus long ago, so it ...

42. Where Are Your Loaves And Fishes?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of these root hairs would total 6000 miles. What an abundant world! The battle to feed the world's people is not a hopeless one. God has given us the resources. And in some places in the world real progress is being made. For example, when we think of hunger, many of us still think of the nation of India. Yet in 1986, India grew so much grain that it didn't have enough room in its storage facilities to hold it all. And seventeen years ago a famous rock concert was staged to raise money for the malnourished ...

43. Food for the Fed-up

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... food to build muscles with. Just as the body needs food to run a foot-race, so the soul and spirit need to food to run the race of life. Finally, let us consider another meaning of Jesus’ metaphor, “I am the Bread of Life.” Bread satisfies hunger. Have you ever stopped to think just how many expressions relating to food and/or eating have found their way into our vocabulary? “I can’t stomach any more of this!” “He/she makes me sick!” “I’m fed up!” These phrases describe lives of waste ...

44. I THIRST: The Fifth Word

John 19:28-37

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Eric Ritz

... feel your tongue getting stuck to the roof of your mouth. Only once in my ministry did one of my parishioners go on a hunger and water fast. It almost seemed as if her tongue shriveled into a knot. Her skin began to crack, it was so dry. The ... who saw Jesus as a Gnostic Phantom, who simply appeared to be human. To these people Jesus simply appeared to be going through the motions of hungering and thirsting. But if this were true, I don''t think that it would be of much help to us in our journey of faith. ...

45. Are You A Satisfied Customer?

John 6:35-42

Sermon

James Merritt

... didn't God did. Then He pointed out the more important truth that the manna was for the body, but the bread of life is for the soul. Then Jesus dropped the bombshell. "Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst." (John 6:35, NASB) There are two kinds of bread that people can eat. There is physical bread that perishes, that can only feed the body, but there is spiritual bread that is eternal that can feed the soul. There is ...

46. The Good Life

Luke 6:17-26

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... etc.; Matt 5:3–10). This theme, which runs throughout Luke’s Gospel, can produce challenges as well as opportunities for the pastor and teacher. In a society where wealth, privilege, and power are so cherished and sought after, how can poverty, hunger, weeping, and persecution be avenues of blessing? Think of experiences in your life or the lives of others where need and want have actually been opportunities for God’s blessing. Consider also the implications of Jesus’s teaching for the so-called ...

47. Filling the Emptiness Within

John 6:24-35

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King Duncan

... ! 35,000 hours! Which, if you do the math, works out to 8 years of eating non-stop for 12 hours a day! Obviously we get hungry a lot! But do we get hungry for that which will truly satisfy us? We know about physical hunger. But do we know about spiritual hunger? Many of us have a deep emptiness within that nothing physical will ever fill. It is a longing to be connected to our Creator. There is something missing from our lives. Something is missing and in its place we have substituted all sorts of other ...

48. Ask Jacob!

Matthew 6:25-34, Genesis 25:19-34

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Lori Wagner

... bound to the clay from which he is made –the adama. But you know, we live in a kind of Esau like culture, don’t we? People in our culture are exhausted. They are depleted by the turmoil going on in our culture. They are hungry for something more. Their hunger pangs are such today that they will give up anything and everything to fill themselves up, even if that filling we take in isn’t good for us in any sense of the word. We are sailing in a sea of self-gratification. How can we be Christian, worship ...

49. You Feed the Hungry

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Roy Howard

... counted up the loaves of bread and took a rough guess at the number of people. One might have said, “You do the math, Jesus, it doesn’t add up. Send them away, so you can get some rest too.” How can you or anyone else satisfy the hunger of all these people? We would never be as callous — out loud anyway — with the masses wandering across borders in the Horn of Africa. Jesus didn’t send the hungry away. He never does. Undaunted by the magnitude of the need – 5,000 people and only five loaves ...

50. Tempted By Good

Matthew 4:1-11

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Don M. Aycock

... be. He was settling in his own mind what he needed to do and how he needed to go about his work. The concept became clearer to him as the days dragged on. He was to be a Messiah who pointed to the deeper hunger in people, a hunger beyond bread and wine, a hunger for God. And that is the point of danger in the first temptation: concentrate on the physical necessities; focus on bread; feed the people; be a welfare reformer. These are good things, important things. You have been asked to contribute money so we ...

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