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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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951. Christmas and the New Family

John 1:1-18

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... the final measure, if we reject God, we become the children of destruction. When you stop to think of the condition of our world, that isn't too hard to believe. The daily headlines demonstrate how given we are to destruction. War, hate, prejudice, pornography, hunger, poverty: these words are the language of destruction, and they seem to dominate our human scene. It's a far cry from Eden. Something has gone violently wrong. The major part of the Old Testament tells us of God's continuing efforts to bring ...

952. At the Corner of Church and Main

Luke 6:17-26

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David J. Kalas

... the juncture of this world and the kingdom of God. I live my life in this world, but not for this world. Your residency is in Heaven, even while your residence is on Earth. If I live for this world only, then I shall avoid poverty, hunger, sorrow, and ridicule at all costs. If I live for the Lord and his kingdom, however, then I shall follow him at all costs -- even including poverty, sorrow, and such. The Poseidon Adventure, the award-winning 1972 disaster movie, tells the story of a cruise ship capsized ...

953. A Celebration of Love

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... to Cleveland in a packed passenger car thick with cigarette haze and the grit of coal smoke. They were all, he said, going "home for Christmas"--maybe the most beautiful words imaginable–"home for Christmas . . ." "We were bound together," he says, "by an overwhelming hunger" for home. (3) The heart does yearn for home at Christmas. Christmas is a family celebration. We have a God who humbles Himself and a young couple who cling to one another as they await the birth of their son. And we have the lowly ...

954. On Defeating the Devil

Luke 4:1-13

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Frank G. Honeycutt

... Man Who Lives (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), p. 51. 2. Fred Craddock, Luke (Louisville: John Knox Press, 1990), p. 55. 3. Hidde Hoekstra, Rembrandt and the Bible (Weert, Netherlands: Magna Books, 1990), p. 298. 4. Mark Buchanan, "Go Fast and Live: Hunger as Spiritual Discipline" The Christian Century (February 28, 2001), p. 16. 5. William H. Willimon, "Not for Men Only" The Christian Ministry (March-April 1998), p. 39. 6. Martin Luther, "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" Lutheran Book of Worship (Minneapolis ...

955. Passing From Old to New

Joshua 5:13--6:27

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... a taste of "the glorious liberty of the children of God." God has kept his promises to her forebears. The life of slavery, with its hopelessness and bondage, is in the past. The long forty-year trek through the wilderness, with its thirst and hunger, its deadly serpents and dangers, is behind them. The seemingly difficult passage through the Jordan has been accomplished with the help of God's miracle. Israel, the wandering people, now has a home, commandments to guide her in her new life, and a relationship ...

956. Awake to Glory

Luke 9:28-36

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... to receive the vision of the glory of God. Spiritually, as well as physically, we are what we eat. Our contemporary society feeds us a constant diet of that which is secular. We have to put forth special effort to find food which will nourish the deepest hungers of our lives. Part of the secret is frequent attendance at the house of worship. This is no commercial; it is simply a statement of the facts of life. We are bombarded all week long by voices that dull our sensitivity to God and to the eternal ...

957. Power For Christian Living: Am I On My Own?

Romans 3:3-5

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Maxie Dunnam

... Wesley to describe his experience: “Thine eye diffused a quickening ray I woke, the dungeon flamed with light; my chains fell off; my heart was free, I rose, went forth and followed thee.” “Extraordinary power was given me,” he said. “I survived hunger and beatings, and I decided to become a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ.” Can you imagine? Not only converted in prison by reading the Bible – but called to preach – and more, receiving power which enabled him to survive until released ...

958. The Word Of The Lord Lasts Forever

Isaiah 55:1-13

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... Most High God. Leader: It is good to proclaim his constant love every morning, People: and his faithfulness every night. Leader: The mighty deeds of the Lord make me glad. People: Because of what the Lord has done I sing for joy. Collect O God, we come to you hungering and thirsting for the Word of Life. We know that you are merciful and quick to forgive, and so we bow in humble contrition before you, and pray that in this time of worship your Spirit will show us the path that leads to Eternal Life with you ...

959. God's Mercy

Isaiah 55:1-13

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... is better than life itself, and so I will praise you. Leader: I will give you thanks as long as I live. People: I will raise my hands to you in prayer, and I will sing glad songs of praise to you. Amen. Collect O Lord, our God, we hunger and thirst after righteousness. We spend our time and money following the ways of the world, but we have no satisfaction. We come to you, merciful God, seeking that which only you can give, knowing that you can provide the sustenance that will give us true life. We come ...

960. Anointing The Feet Of Jesus As A Sign Of Our Love

John 12:1-11

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... with you goes with us as we reach out to the community to serve your people. Thanks be to you, O God. Amen. Offertory Prayer Lord, accept these gifts of money as tokens of our allegiance to the building of your kingdom. Use them to alleviate the physical and spiritual hunger of the world. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Hymns "My Jesus, I Love Thee" "I Love To Tell The Story" "Jesus Is All The World To Me"

961. Who Is My Neighbor?

Luke 10:25-37

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... , and money to show your love through us to those in need. Amen. Prayer Of Confession O Merciful God, how many times we have found excuses to pass by those in need when we could have helped. Open our eyes that we may truly see the poverty, the hunger, the loneliness all around us; and motivate us to minister where we can as if we were doing it unto you. Amen. Offertory Prayer We bring these gifts to you, O Lord, because we know there are needs we cannot meet alone. Working through your Church, may they ...

962. What Making a Difference Looks Like

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... those who mourn; then the experience of standing powerless and unable to make anything happen, blessed are the meek; and finally a craving for God that is as sharp as the ache of an empty belly and as demanding as dehydration. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” What is blessed about the path is that it refocuses life on God and on the satisfactions that only come from above. There is no ought here and no obligation; Jesus is simply describing what ...

963. Going Hard against the Grain

Matthew 5:33-37

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Phil Thrailkill

... . PreachingToday.com search under Matthew 5:38-42. 8. The Canadian Mennonite, September 4, 2000, 11. 9. Exodus 22:25-27, DT. 24:10-13, 17 10. Charles Talbert, Reading the Sermon on the Mount (Columbia, SC: USC Press, 2004), 88-93. 11. For a critique of GroupThink, see George Hunger III, Christian, Evangelical & Democrat (Nashville, TN: Abington, 2006).

964. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

... not hard to find. The Sermon on the Mount is peppered with commands. Love your neighbor as yourself, turn the other cheek, seek first the kingdom of God, give up judging, first take the log out of our own eye, lay up treasures in heaven, hunger and thirst for righteousness, become pure in heart and a peacemakers, be the salt and light he intended, seek reconciliation, avoid the lustful look, praying and fasting and giving for God alone, forgiving others as we wish to be forgiven, quit serving wealth or the ...

965. The Price Of Forsaking God

Jeremiah 2:1-3:5

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... , that in the sharing we, too, might be strengthened. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Offertory Prayer Heavenly Father, on every side we are beset by the cries of the needy. Accept these gifts, we pray, and through your Church may they be used to alleviate the spiritual and physical hunger of many. Amen. Hymns "Breathe On Me, Breath Of God" "And Can It Be That I Should Gain" "O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go"

966. Oh, God!

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ; 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 spread his tent over them. “Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst. The sun will not beat upon 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 ...

967. The Seven Delightful Blessings of the Word of God in the Believer's Life

Psalm 119:169-176

Sermon

Michael Milton

... part of your life and your world. You long for God to be known in your family. You long for God’s salvation to come to your workplace, your school, and your friends. Jesus said those who long are happy and favored by God: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied” (Matthew 5:6). The Word gives us hope that in Jesus our longing will be filled. Salvation is on its way in every area of life. This world is under the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. The Word ...

968. Only One Thing Is Needed

Luke 10:38-42

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King Duncan

... are engaged in doing good works, both at home and in the community. You are responsible, hardworking, law-abiding people. And I am thankful for you. But do you still have an emptiness within? Do you sometimes feel that you’ve lived your life in vain? Do you hunger for something more? Maybe it has something to do with your understanding of Christ. He is more than a good teacher, more than a prophet. He is the very source of our lives, and he is the promise of new life in the Spirit. Someone has described ...

969. A Place of Honor

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... Canadian journalist asked him, "Why?," here is what Cardinal Léger had to say, "It will be the great scandal of the history of our century that 600 million people are eating well and living luxuriously and three billion people starve, and every year millions of children are dying of hunger. I am too old to change all that. The only thing I can do which makes sense is to be present. I must simply be in the midst of them. So, just tell people in Canada that you met an old priest. I am a priest who is happy ...

970. Traveling to the Mountain

Isaiah 2:1-5

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... look at present conditions, we do not find very much that reassures us. Our nation is suffering a thorough-going breakdown of morality, with violence and wrong, selfishness and cynicism surrounding us on every side. Our world is full of poverty and hunger, wars and rumors of war, and whole populations subjected to tyranny and massacre. And try as we will to ameliorate conditions and to introduce some healing and good in society and world, any corrections we make seem like pitiful contributions compared to ...

971. A Holy Way for Us All

Isaiah 35:1-10

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the desert and wilderness are figures for life without God — its dryness, its thirst for something, its death. Contrarily, the references to water and the abundant life that it gives are figures for the life with God — its satisfaction of thirst and hunger, its vitality, its wholeness and permanence. Other biblical passages immediately spring to mind in such a connection — the fact that those who follow the will of God are like trees planted by streams of water, that never wither and that bring their ...

972. Loch Ness, Locusts, and Bread

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17

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Bill Mosley

... and children's movies, and the syrupy songs, somewhere in that mess there is the original idea, the cause for the celebrating, that God sent his Son Jesus to become one of us in the Babe of Bethlehem. That God shares in the plagues of locusts and the hunger and suffering and pain, and even death, but also the growth and strength and joy and life. That's what all the celebrating was about. The same with Easter, six weeks from now. In the midst of all the hoopla, God gets lost sometimes, and it seems like ...

973. When Jacob Got a Vision

Genesis 29:15-28

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Arley K. Fadness

... , hungry. Jacob is cooking a pottage of red lentil soup and the aroma drives Esau crazy. Jacob sees a vulnerable brother and pounces upon the opportunity. Jacob deceives Esau by bribing him with a bowl of lentil soup for his birthright. Esau's hunger submits to the trickery. On another occasion, Jacob lies to his father and by scheming, with his mother's help, steals Esau's rightful blessing. Old father Isaac plans to give his eldest son the Elder Son Blessing. Conniving Rebekah encourages Jacob to cover ...

974. Grace for a Complaining People

Exodus 16:2-15

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Arley K. Fadness

... nowhere. The people murmur against Moses. "If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread: for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger" (Exodus 16:3). Centuries later, Jesus would remind the multitudes whom he had just fed with five loaves and two fishes and who wanted to make him king, "Do not work for the food which perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son ...

975. Seeing Just Enough of God

Exodus 33:12-23

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Charles L. Aaron

... seems to have had all he can take. Are we reading too much into this to ask if he is wondering if this whole thing has been worth the effort? He has been through the conflict in Egypt, the danger of the Sea, the trudging through the wilderness, the hunger and thirst, the complaints from the people, and now this. The people he has been leading aren't mature enough, aren't strong enough, aren't brave enough to keep the faith in a time of uncertainty. We get some confirmation of Moses' doubts in a scene just ...

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