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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Sermon
Carlyle Fielding Stewart
... we are well off. Everything is fine. No problems, worries, poverty, or afflictions. Sometimes the less we have been blessed by God the less we rely upon God and the more we are open to the promises of his word. Not Lydia. She was well off but still had a hunger and a thirst for the Good News of Christ. She was already a worshiper of God, but now she would receive a message of spiritual hope and prosperity; a word that would reach into the depths of her very soul and compel her to Christ. She heard the word ...
Drama
Dave Marsh
... were poor in spirits. Adam: (a little skeptical) Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Dad: If it’s the morning, then the guy who is in bed and has a comforter will be blessed! Adam: (more skeptical) Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Dad: This verse clearly shows that God likes food. In fact, Jesus talks more about food in the bible than any other topic! Adam: Really? Dad: Of course. Trust me. Adam: (really skeptical) Ooookay. How about ...
Drama
Dave Marsh
... were poor in spirits. Adam: (a little skeptical) Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Dave: If it’s the morning, then the guy who is in bed and has a comforter will be blessed! Adam: (more skeptical) Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Dave: This verse clearly shows that God likes food. In fact, Jesus talks more about food in the bible than any other topic! Adam: Really? Dave: Of course. Trust me. Adam: (really skeptical) Ooookay. How ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... , energy, creativity, and money on defending ourselves from one another, just think what we could do. If all the nations of this world could learn to live together in peace without the threat of war, we could take those incredible resources and wage war on hunger, homelessness, disease, illiteracy, and drug abuse. I know it sounds idealistic. I know it sounds like the impossible dream, but I can’t help but think about it. Just think what could be done. Just think what could be done. III. THIRD AND FINALLY ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... even say it is an embarrassing episode in his life because he appears to be unfair. Why blame the tree for not doing something that it was incapable of doing? And yet, here is Jesus, using his power to blast a tree that did not satisfy his hunger. What does the incident mean? Perhaps the meaning is this: Uselessness invites disaster. Contrary to what so much of religion says today, our purpose on this earth is not simply to attain personal happiness. We are to enhance life, to make this earth a better place ...
806. His Teachings
Luke 20:27-40
Sermon
Brett Blair
... man. His question dealt with man’s relationship to God. They were putting the cart before the horse. Today the crowds are still asking the wrong questions and trying to find out the right answers. We talk about pollution and race relations and war, and world hunger and all the while we skirt around the 10 million dollar question: What do you think of the Christ? The story is told of a preacher attempting to put the finishing touches on his Sunday sermon but who was constantly being interrupted by his 6 ...
807. His Trial
Luke 22:66--23:25
Sermon
Brett Blair
... do. But I am wondering if Pilate, like John Baptiste, was ever really able to shake that fateful incident. Especially considering the fact that he eventually committed suicide. I would submit to you that the Pilate mentality is still alive and well today. We look at the issue of world hunger and we think it is out of my hands. There is nothing that I can do about it. We look at the whole issue of war and peace and we think: it is out of my hands. There is nothing that I can do about it. So, we think, if ...
808. Hypocrites
Matthew 6:1-4
Sermon
Brett Blair
... old Hasidic tale about three pious Jews who decided to travel to a distant city to spend the high holy days with a famous rabbi. They set out on their journey, without food or money, intending to walk the entire way. Several days into the journey, weak from hunger and still a long way from their destination, they knew they had made a mistake and they must do something. They came up with a plan. They decided that one of them would disguise himself as a rabbi. That way, when they came to the next village, the ...
809. The Storyteller's Creed
Luke 6:17-26
Illustration
Brett Blair
... about grief and death. The world is full of it." Yes it is! But they do not have the final word. Grief and death are not the end of the chapter. You see, there is a people whose attitude is not changed by its poverty. There is a nation whose hunger does not drive it to despair. There is a bride whose tears do not cause her to lose hope. There is a church which is persecuted but shall persevere. One day this great people called the Church of God will leap for joy because it's reward will be great ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... sea; on frequent journeys; in danger from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. And apart from other things, there is the daily pressure upon me of my anxiety for all the churches” (2 Corinthians 11:24-28). Paul sounds like Jesus. He knew where he was going. He ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... the fate of Lazarus’ birth and the fate of his birth could be changed. Lazarus, therefore, became not a part of suffering humanity but just a part of he landscape. In a word the rich man was indifferent: Indifferent to his plight, indifferent to his hunger, indifferent to his needs. They were the neighbors who never met. Some years ago before the death of Mother Theresa, a television special depicted the grim human conditions that were a part of her daily life. It showed all the horror of the slums of ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... man. His question dealt with man’s relationship to God. They were putting the cart before the horse. Today the crowds are still asking the wrong questions and trying to find out the right answers. We talk about pollution and race relations and war, and world hunger and all the while we skirt around the 10 million dollar question: What do you think of the Christ? The story is told of a preacher attempting to put the finishing touches on his Sunday sermon but who was constantly being interrupted by his 6 ...
813. Beyond Despair
Psalm 43:1-5, Psalm 42:1-11
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... of our world are these: almost half the world, close to three billion people, live on less than $2 a day, and more than one billion live on less than $1 a day. And every day, 30,000 children die due to utterly preventable causes such as hunger, disease, and things like the lack of safe drinking water - things we could change if we ever decided to. "For the first time in history we have the information, knowledge, technology, and resources to bring the worst of global poverty virtually to an end. What we don ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... feed him for a day; TEACH a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." The lesson is that brief acts of charity - sending a donation to a soup kitchen, for example - do SOME good, but more lasting solutions to the problem of hunger will involve more than simply the investment of money. Money DOES solve problems, but only for a while. In 1991, 74 percent of America's entering college students declared that a very important life goal was "becoming very well off financially" - nearly double the 39 percent ...
815. Angels
Psalm 91:1-16
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy" (I, v, 166). Angels. No, we do not begin to have all the details available to us. But if you are interested in angels, be glad - it is a sign of a healthy hunger for the answers to the great mysteries. Listen for God's messengers and messages. Angels. Let us pray. O God, we are grateful for your ministrations to us from whatever source and in whatever form. Prepare us to accept them as they are sent. Then help us to ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... . So the devil gives him everything - wealth, political power, the ability to travel anywhere and be loved by any woman he desires. Faust does it all and he is still not happy. However much wealth he acquires, however many women he seduces, there is an unsatisfied hunger with him. Sounds like Ecclesiastes. By the time we come to the end of the play, Goethe is in his 80's and his hero Faust has aged along with him. Instead of winning fights and attracting women, Faust is hard at work building dikes to ...
Sermon
... 3. Participating in God's activity in the world by a. Healing and reconciling and binding up wounds, b. Ministering to the needs of the poor, the sick, the lonely, and the powerless, c. Engaging in the struggle to free people from sin, fear, oppression, hunger, and injustice, d. Giving itself and its substance to the service of those who suffer, e. Sharing with Christ in the establishing of his just, peaceable, and loving rule in the world. The Church is called to undertake this mission even at the risk of ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... this growing church. Well, I am about to commit the ultimate heresy. I am going to tell you: don’t do it! Do not give to support the program of this church. Do not give because you hear of the urgent need of particular missions. Do not give to alleviate hunger, disease or poverty. All of that comes under the category of what I call giving dangerously. You and I know each other well by now, and you know I love you and what this church has become. I care about your relationship to the Lord, and I want you ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... food on this planet to feed 2-billion MORE people than are currently alive. But what God has done is arranged for a sort of cosmic warehousing system of which we in the West have been given temporary charge. If we are faithful managers, the problem of global hunger can be wiped out. According to the World Bank, it would take a redistribution of only TWO PERCENT of our planet's grain harvest to end malnutrition - TWO PERCENT!(4) But if we do NOT do the job entrusted to us, there will come a day of accounting ...
820. Temptation
Luke 4:1-13
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... which we are called to self-examination, we can note that the temptations we encounter are not new. Indeed, they are common to us all. Memes, for lack of a better word. Yes, there WILL be wilderness journeys - times when we experience physical or emotional hunger, times when we are tired of being ignored and wish someone would notice us, times when we are frustrated at not being able to make a difference in our own life or anyone else's - the same temptations that Jesus felt. The message is BE CAREFUL ...
821. Lips And Hearts
Romans 10:8b-13
Sermon
King Duncan
... for a lover or a Savior. Is your heart full of love or is there still an emptiness? Maybe you need to spend some time feeding on God's word. If God is in your heart, is God also on your lips? The time for silence is over. People today hunger for values; we need to introduce them to the One who is the source of all values. The motion picture Gandhi starred Ben Kingsley as the central character. Rarely has an actor made so impressive a film debut as did Kingsley in Gandhi. He spent months preparing for the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... and a corrupt prison warden for almost three years to secure Tony's release and adoption at age twelve; but her real struggles had only begun. Somehow she had to meet the needs of a boy who still stuffed rolls into his pockets because of past hunger, who lashed out at others because of his emotional scars, and who seemed enticed by every wrong because of his unbridled life. Tony Sanchez was not initially drawn to his new mother. In fact, he seemed more drawn to trouble than to anything else. He accused ...
Sermon
Mark Clark
... match with Esau the Redman had been won by sheer craftiness. The champ knew that Esau had a problem with his blood sugar, so he arranged to wrestle him just before lunch time ” the time of day that Esau always began to look peaked from hunger. Then the Supplanter recalls his favorite match ” for the tag-team championship when he and his partner, Rambunctious Rebekkah had taken on Esau the Redman and Isaac the Terrible. The Champ and Rebekkah were too fast for near-sighted Isaac, and they had somehow ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to Allport, these people have a deeply interiorized religious faith and are totally committed to it. Their love of God is integral and all -encompassing. It is an open faith, with room for scientific and emotional facts. Intrinsic religious faith is a hunger for and commitment to oneness with God and all others. The intrinsically religious have little prejudice or bigotry. They practice what they preach and evidence a striking humility. (6) Now here is what we need to see: GOOD WORKS ARE THE INTRINSICALLY ...
825. Last Words
Luke 24:36-49
Sermon
King Duncan
... PART of my life over again." In 1904 William Borden, heir to the Borden Dairy Estate, graduated from a Chicago high school. His graduation present was a trip around the world. Traveling through Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, Borden was really stricken by all the poverty and hunger he saw. Writing home, he said, "I'm going to give my life to prepare for the mission field." When he made this decision, he wrote in the back of his Bible two words: No Reserves. His parents tried to talk him out of it, but to ...
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