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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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51. The Truth about Warren Buffet's Secretary

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... earn at least $1 million a year leave nothing to charity in their wills. (5) We’ve talked about it before, but is an insidious thing that each of us needs to watch out for. Money is like a recreational drug the more you have, the more you crave. There is never enough, even when you have all you will ever conceivably need. In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis told of boy named Edmund who sampled a drug which Lewis called Witch’s Turkish delight. Then Edmund sacrificed all that was good ...

52. When “Vocation” and “Vacation” Are One

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... was just another form of “walking the garden with God.” Throughout his preaching life Jesus regularly trooped out beyond the bounds of “civilization” and sought out the singularity of a private conversation with his Father. Jesus’ inner craving was not for Pizza Hut or Taco Bell. Jesus craved intimate, one-on-one prayer-time with his Father. Walking the garden with God was Jesus’ “vacation.” But when he was walking anywhere, it was still a form of walking the garden with God. And Jesus did ...

53. Everything Must Go: Striking It Rich

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... rich. If you show me anybody whose number one goal is to be rich, I’ll show you someone whose number one god is money. Which is why Paul goes on to say, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.” (I Timothy 6:10, ESV) That is one of the most misquoted and misunderstood verses in the Bible. It does not say, “Money is the root of all evil”, because it is not. There is nothing ...

54. When Is Enough...Enough?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... for material success could crush you, or your family, or your health, or your relationship with God? The wealthy young man in our scripture turned sadly away from Jesus because he had great wealth. Is your craving for material success taking you from Jesus as well? 1. Steven Carter and Julia Sokol (New York: Willard Books, Random House, Inc, 1991), pp. 125, 194. Cited in God’s Little Lessons for Leaders (Colorado Springs: Cook Communications Ministries, 2005), p. 121. 2. (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1992 ...

55. Walking in the Light

1 John 1:5--2:14, 1 John 2:15-17

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... UBS text and Nestle’s, and in most modern translations, v. 14 begins at v. 13c. The NIV and NASB are exceptions. 2:14 On the repetitive language of 2:12–14, see Smalley, 1, 2, 3 John, pp. 66–79. 2:16 “The desire of the flesh” (NIV, the cravings of sinful man) is a phrase common to Paul’s writings but does not occur elsewhere in John’s. In the letters of John, “flesh” (sarx) occurs only here, in 4:2, and in 2 John 7, where the reference is to the full humanity of Jesus, the incarnation (cf ...

56. Trust versus Self-Reliance

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

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Preben Vang

... , as these revealed their dissatisfaction with God’s provisions and their disregard for his zealous love. 10:7 Do not be idolaters. This is the first point in Paul’s four-point list of evil cravings. The reference to the “strong” Corinthians is unmistakable. Participation in a banquet where idol meat was served brought with it the temptation to participate in other elements of the banquet. got up to indulge in revelry. By quoting Exodus 32:6, Paul gives content to the temptations he has in ...

57. Zophar’s Final Words for Job

Job 20:1-29

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Daniel J. Estes

... asserts confidently that the wicked, despite their brief prosperity, will inevitably suffer a tragic reversal. Their greed will lead to cravings that cannot be satisfied (20:20), their treasure will not endure (20:21), and their plenty will be overtaken ... . Thus, the punishment of sinners is not arbitrary or erratic but is a consistent and necessary consequence of doing what is evil. The cravings that drive people to do what is wrong will cause them to eat what will eventually destroy them, just as a fish in ...

58. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

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Daniel J. Estes

... just to get God’s blessing back into his life. In contrast to the adversary’s cynical charge in 1:9–10 that Job craves his prosperity above everything, and that he was just using Yahweh to get the blessings he could gain from him, Job insists that he ... this effort they employ creative and risky techniques, even dangling precariously from ropes as they attempt to reach the treasures they crave (28:4). They use fire to crack open the subterranean rock in order to expose its ore and gemstones (28:5). ...

59. Quail from the Lord

Numbers 11:4-35

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... The next episode explicitly begins with the mixed multitude, described as inferior “rabble,” or a bunch of vagabonds. Their intense craving for meat infects the Israelites and incites them to weep again (11:4). The people prefer Egyptian food to manna ... many dead with a plague. The place is named after the new cemetery there: Kibroth Hattaavah, “The Graves of Craving” (11:33–34). The name provides the Israelites (and us) with a potent reminder of the Lord’s attitude toward greed and gluttony.

60. Proverbs of Solomon

Proberbs 10:1--22:16

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... by noting the specific behaviors that elicit this response. Verse 2 compares the relative worth of “ill-gotten treasures” and righteousness, while verse 3 offers an explanation. The Lord provides for the righteous while preventing the wicked from satisfying their cravings. Verse 4 implicitly qualifies such provision; it may come through diligent labor rather than by just relaxing and waiting for it. Those who indulge in the latter behavior bring poverty upon themselves (10:4a) as well as disgrace upon ...

61. Jesus Made Like His Brothers

Hebrews 2:5-18

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... life in the world equipped him to help his people now in their temptations, an especially relevant point in this sermon to a people under temptation and one to which the author will return (4:15). Heroes are usually either sympathetic or strong. Christ is both, offering understanding, which misery craves, and relief, which misery ...

62. Elephants in the Room: Sexploitation

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... it gives an unrealistic picture of sex and creates an appetite of lust than can never be satisfied. This leads many to become addicted to it. Viewing pornography creates a chemical and physiological response in your body that leaves you craving more. This chemical craving can increase your arousal threshold which often causes sexual dysfunction. So if you think pornography is harmless, think again. If you are looking at it you are playing with fire. As a pastor I have counseled countless people whose lives ...

63. Fire from the Lord

Numbers 11:1-3

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

... about sixty bushels or 2.2 kiloliters—much quail! But before the people could finish enjoying this meat, a severe plague, a result of God’s anger, breaks out among the people and leads to the naming of the place Kibroth Hattaavah, “graves of craving” (v. 34). This narrative is complicated and different in style from earlier parts of Numbers, since much of the plot develops with dialogue. The chapter shows God’s anger at being rejected by the ungrateful people (v. 20) and the consequent danger of ...

64. Stages in Israel's Journey

Numbers 33:1-56

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

... verses describe the movement from Sinai to Ezion Geber at the north end of the Gulf of Aqaba. The first stop after leaving Sinai is Kibroth Hattaavah (see Num. 11 for the account of the people’s craving for meat and their murmuring, which brought a plague; thus the place name means “graves of craving”). Numbers 11:34–35 specifies the place name and the next stop on the journey, Hazeroth. The places listed in verses 18–29 do not occur elsewhere in the OT. Their location is uncertain; perhaps they ...

65. Quail from the Lord

Numbers 11:4-35

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

66. Walking in the Light and the Problem of Sin

1 John 2:15-17, 1 John 1:5--2:14

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

67. Treasure Hidden In a Clay Jar

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... an accurate statement that is. As someone has said, happiness is an inside job. If you do not have meaning and purpose and happiness and peace on the inside, it doesn’t matter what you have on the outside. Wealth and fame will satisfy some of your cravings but they will not give you a feeling of contentment and satisfaction. As someone else has said, “it’s not want you own; it’s what owns you that counts.” More than 250 years ago Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote an essay that still rings true today. In ...

68. In the Light of His Glory

Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... Bird once spent six months in a metal hut at the South Pole. The sun made no appearance during four of the six months he was there. Talk about darkness. Here is how Commander Byrd described that experience in his journal: “I find that I crave light as a thirsting man craves water . . . A funereal gloom hangs in the twilight sky. This is the period between life and death,” Byrd wrote. “This is the way the world will look to the last man when it dies.” Three weeks before the sun was due to shine again ...

69. When Mickey Mouse Recognizes You...

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The recognition of committing the world’s largest case of fraud destroyed him and destroyed many of those around him. (2) My guess is that deep down most people long to be somebody. Jesus understood that. Jesus was a master psychologist. He knew that all of us crave recognition. He knew that the desire for status is an innate part of the human condition. Most of us don’t want to simply keep up with the Joneses—we want to be slightly ahead of the Joneses, the Smiths and everyone else on the block. It ...

70. Scroll Bread and Honey

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... undergoes a radical, permanent, life-nurturing change. [Hold up scriptures.] The scriptures are your bread for the body. This Story is real, down-to-earth soul food. And body food. And mind food. And heart food. Consume this, and Jesus will set you free from all those cravings in life that don’t fulfill you, from relationships that don’t sustain you, from shame and guilt that wear you down, from a past that continues to haunt you in ways that can destroy you. Jesus is here to set you free from all of ...

71. What is Your Golden Calf?

Exodus 32:1-33:6, Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and has gone and married someone else. She never believed he could be alive after all that time. We are extremely uncomfortable with silence, mystery, and what we do not have in front of us at any given time. For us to bond and trust, we crave and need to see and touch something we perceive as “real” to us. The problem with that is that God resides in the realms of the invisible and the interstices of existence. In the case of the Israelites, their “shepherd” had gone MIA! So in their insecurity ...

72. Vendetta

2 Kings 1:1-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in denying the Holy Spirit and trying to deny the one whom God has chosen. Ahaziah does the same. He curses himself when he calls upon Baalzebub instead of YHWH to heal him. Sin is denying our relationship with God. Building an identity on our own desires, cravings, wants and envy instead of trusting God to provide for us, to care for us, and to choose to bless others, as God will. And in doing so, we condemn ourselves. Many of Jesus’ parables tell the same message: we can get consumed by our envy of ...

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Swami Sivananda

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

W. H. Auden

75. Where's the One?

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Jill J. Duffield

... ! Not the war in Syria, not homelessness, not the fact that we have no cure for Alzheimer’s or cancer, not people who’ve lost their communities due to fire, famine of floods, but one pitiful dog gave me a sense of desperation. That darn dog made me crave good news, made me long for beauty, made me feel wholly beaten up and helpless. There is something about the one: one creature, one person, one story that points us to the whole. And, for whatever reason, this one dog pointed me to the whole of lostness ...

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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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51. The Truth about Warren Buffet's Secretary

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

52. When “Vocation” and “Vacation” Are One

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

53. Everything Must Go: Striking It Rich

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

James Merritt

54. When Is Enough...Enough?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

55. Walking in the Light

1 John 1:5--2:14, 1 John 2:15-17

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

56. Trust versus Self-Reliance

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

57. Zophar’s Final Words for Job

Job 20:1-29

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

58. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

59. Quail from the Lord

Numbers 11:4-35

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

60. Proverbs of Solomon

Proberbs 10:1--22:16

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

61. Jesus Made Like His Brothers

Hebrews 2:5-18

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

62. Elephants in the Room: Sexploitation

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8

Sermon

Charley Reeb

63. Fire from the Lord

Numbers 11:1-3

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

64. Stages in Israel's Journey

Numbers 33:1-56

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

65. Quail from the Lord

Numbers 11:4-35

Understanding Series

W.H. Bellinger, Jr.

66. Walking in the Light and the Problem of Sin

1 John 2:15-17, 1 John 1:5--2:14

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

67. Treasure Hidden In a Clay Jar

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

Sermon

King Duncan

68. In the Light of His Glory

Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

69. When Mickey Mouse Recognizes You...

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

70. Scroll Bread and Honey

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

71. What is Your Golden Calf?

Exodus 32:1-33:6, Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

72. Vendetta

2 Kings 1:1-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Swami Sivananda

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

W. H. Auden

75. Where's the One?

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Jill J. Duffield

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