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
King Duncan
... conditioners, water coolers, or refrigeration of any kind. And it was a hot, dry, desolate land in places. Folks knew how it felt to be thirsty. They were thirsty physically--and spiritually. They knew what Jesus meant when he said, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness." That's why they heard him gladly"”they could take the most sordid "deserts" of their lives to him and find streams of living water. The prophet Isaiah wrote that "the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... so much, did God choose to destroy them? Because they had wandered too far away. There was no chance they would return to God. They had no desire to walk with God at all. They had embraced evil in their thoughts, attitudes, and actions. There was nothing left of God-hunger in them. Let me put it another way: if you are afraid that you have wandered too far from God, then you haven't. That fear is a sign that you still desire God's presence. The people of Noah's time didn't have that fear. They no longer ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind? Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together? "Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket? Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God and wander about for lack of food?" God answered Job. Take a moment to reflect on the wonder of that moment ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... and precious and blessed with an inheritance that we can never lose. How does a child of God raise a family? How does a child of God invest his money? How does a child of God treat her enemies? How does a child of God respond to injustice or hunger or violence or death? Doesn’t a child of God reflect God’s priorities and values? Doesn’t a child of God carry God’s presence into any situation? Pablo Casals, world-renowned cellist, once remarked, “Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the ...
Sermon
Darrick Acre
... the people of God get back in touch with God. Deuteronomy 8:2-3 is the text for this understanding, “Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and test you . . . He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with Manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.” The Lord takes His people into the wilderness so they may orient ...
Sermon
Darrick Acre
... child shivers in the cold, waiting for a soup kitchen to serve Christmas dinner, the annual holiday reprieve from life as usual. For a moment, warmth and food will intoxicate his senses. Tomorrow, it’s back to the trashcans and cardboard shelters, back to hunger and homelessness. When will they ever stop wandering from town to town? When will his mom find a good job, so they can move beyond scratching out a meager existence? So this is Christmas. Now how do we pay for everything? We charged and borrowed ...
Drama
Angela Akers
... of Santa and Frosty and reindeer.  I think we''re getting closer now.  So Christmas has something to do with fatness and the color red.  Maybe it''s a Freudian thing.  Too soon to say.  Still, nothing gets my meter ticking, so we leave the school. Hunger is scraping my ribs like a nail file on a cheap, French manicure, so Clyde and me park and pull out our dinners."  Clyde: (Looking over at the "homeless shelter")"Hey, boss, looks like we found ourselves a pretty popular restaurant.  Wanna try it out ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... us, but also like God, and in Him we see Immanuel, “God with us.” What a daring, shocking, utterly incredible piece of news that is! God choosing to dwell, not in a place, but in a Person. In a Person who was tempted and tested, a person who hungered and thirsted, a person who arrived first as a baby, who, as Martin Luther loved to say, cried, who nursed at Mary’s breast, who burped after meals, and who had to have His diapers changed on a regular basis! Luther put it that way, not simply because he ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... friends of a bride or groom thrown together at a wedding, each eyeing the other suspiciously, and realizing that we would probably never have even met one another except for the love we have in common for the bride or groom. (Frederick Buechner, THE HUNGERING DARK, New York: Seabury Press, 1969, pp. 41-42) Well, Christ is the bridegroom and the church is His bride. And we are here together for one reason and one reason only: because we love Him and love His Church. In the “Great Thanksgiving” prayer ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... writers. To Mark, Jesus is simply the carpenter.(6:3) Later on Matthew changes that to the carpenter’s son. No one tells us so much about the emotions of Jesus as does Mark. Jesus sighs, gets angry, gets weary, is moved with compassion, feels the pangs of hunger. In Mark’s Gospel we get the picture of a Jesus very much like us. One fellow Methodist preacher says of Mark: ...for Mark, the real Jesus, the real Christ, the real Lord of our lives, was very much of flesh and blood - very much of emotion and ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... who belongs to Christ belongs to everyone who belongs to Christ.” Frederick Buechner uses the analogy of a wedding to describe the Church: where all sorts of different people are thrown together willy-nilly because they are friends of either the bride or groom. (The Hungering Dark, New York: Seabury Press, 1969, p. 42) They are all different, but their love for the bride or groom unites them. Well, the Church is the bride of Christ, and Christ is the groom, and we are here this morning because of our love ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... is mentioned of the disciples’ own food. They were to act as “deacons” (Acts 6:1-6) Only Jesus presides as host giving thanks (the Greek word here is the same one from which our word “Eucharist” comes). Nothing whatever is said of the disciples own hunger, or of their eating. Their work is exclusively as servants of the sheep. Is this parallel to Matthew 16 where Jesus tells the disciples that their task is to take the Good News into all the world? I have a hunch that it is so. The “seven ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... , all they could do was to discuss! Have you seen the poster which enumerates a whole list of different items, sort of a paraphrase of Matthew 25? One of them is this: “I was hungry, and you formed a discussion group to discuss world hunger. Thank you.” How many times in the history of the church have Jesus’ disciples, face to face with appalling human need, been preoccupied with discussion? “Like a freshman forum, moves the Church of God; brothers, we are talking, where the saints have trod.” We ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... could see the splendor of the Temple spread out before them. It would have been a reasonable time to stop for a “coffee break” and have something to eat. Mark tells us that Jesus was hungry. Mark’s Jesus is nothing if not human. He experiences hunger and thirst, just like everybody else. But then He does something that seems much TOO human. He gets angry at an inanimate object. Have you never done that? I have. I have seen other people getting mad at inanimate objects, too. Especially on golf courses ...
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... To be sure, the perfume might have been sold for a sizable sum, which could have been given to the poor. But (people) are more than mouths to be fed and bodies to be clothed. The poor as well as the rich crave beauty. They have hungers of the soul. They have emotions to be stirred.” (Ralph Sockman, WHOM CHRIST COMMENDED, New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1963, p. 75) Christ Church Methodist in New York City was opened in November, 1933, when America was in the depths of a depression. Bishop Francis ...
916. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman
Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65
Sermon
Donald B. Strobe
... has changed. But what changes for the good there have been have come about because twenty centuries ago into this maelstrom of malice a new accent was heard on a hillside in Galilee: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, those who mourn, the meek, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, the merciful, the peacemakers, etc.” (Matthew 5) It was heard in the pulpit at Nazareth when a young rabbi stood up and said: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach good news to the ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... book in the United States of America according to both U. S. A. Today and the New York Times is a religious book based on a two-verse prayer found in the obscure Old Testament book of I Chronicles? Now, that’s surprising! It is truly a testimony to the hunger people today have for God. The Prayer of Jabez by Dr. Bruce Wilkinson has sold approximately six and one-half million copies. It is a short book which can be read in a couple of hours. And it is an exposition of these two verses in the book of I ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... , so the soul thirsts for God. Jesus knew from his own wrestling match with Satan in the wilderness that the questions of identity, integrity, influence and inspiration and intention are of the utmost importance. They demand an answer. Jesus is saying because your soul hungers and thirsts for meaning and purpose in life--be very, very careful what you allow to come into your life. With gentleness today can I ask you--What are you thirsting for today? What is the one thirst that supersedes all other pursuits ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... way that God intended us to LIVE. Instead of living life with God''s design, we "lust" to live on our own dreams and desires. Dr. Calvin Miller shares in his marvelous writing AN OVERTURE OF LIGHT on page 46: "All lust is strong narcotic Nominating different hungers Which we suppose we need: Wine, wantonness, food and leisure All kill us one link at a time And in the coiling, spiraling still Inch by inch, they do require our lives." I want to share six observations about the ever present reality of Evil in ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... the Lord''s Prayer and also the Serenity Prayer. He mouthed the words, went through the motions, because he was so desperate. Slowly but surely he said the demon of alcoholism was cast out, and he began to see signs of renewal and hope for his life. He began to hunger and thirst for different things in his life. Then, he said, one night as they shared the lines of the prayer, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," he realized that he was now a citizen of a new and greater kingdom ...
921. The Triumph of the Cross
Galatians 6:11-18, Acts 1:1-11
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... make ends meet. There were SICK ONES AND SUFFERERS, all kinds, each with a complaint against God! How could God judge them? they thought. How lucky God is to live in heaven where all is goodness and light--no tears, no worries, no fears, no hunger, no inhumanities. So a commission was appointed to draw up the case against God! It was simple. Their conclusion was that before God could judge them, He must first endure what they had endured in their troubled world! So, instead of God judging them, they judged ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... needs--what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself--if not accompanied by action--is dead or idle." James would agree with this statement written in the late 1970''s by an anonymous Christian: I was hungry and you formed a humanities club and discussed my hunger. Thank you. I was imprisoned and you crept off quietly to your chapel in the cellar and prayed for my release. I was naked and in your mind, you debated the morality of my appearance. I was sick and you knelt and thanked God for your health. I ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... Twenty-third Psalm will always be current--as is every part of God's Holy and infallible Word. Now, listen up, Church: you and I are not cut off from the Biblical images that are shared in this great testimony of faith. There is a deep spiritual hunger in America and around the world for the natural, the authentic, the pastoral, the simple, the real thing. While you and I can never return to an agricultural world, we yearn for and spend billions of dollars for the images and items which bring a certain kind ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... hungry, as a thirsty man who dreams he is drinking and awakens in the morning still faint with cravings." In the Sermon on the Mount, our Lord Jesus Christ does not say, "Blessed are those who are righteous," but he does say, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness." In our understanding of righteousness it is best we never say or reflect that dirty four-letter word--SELF. We are never righteous because of what we have done but rather because of what Christ has done for us on the Cross ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... pleasant to repeat, What seems, each time I tell it, a rumor more complete. I love to tell the story, for some have never heard The things that I could tell them, each vile and juicy word. I love to tell the story, for those who should know best Seem hungering and thirsting, to hear it, like the rest. But when I stand before God, and lay my own life bare. ''Twill be a hard, hard lesson, that there were sins aplenty there. Chorus: I love to tell the story, But if I want to go to glory, I''d better ...
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