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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King Duncan
... you had hoped financially, don’t give up if you are hurting emotionally, don’t let go of my promises if you are anxious about someone you love . . . I have not forgotten you and this is not the last word on your situation. You are mine and your hunger will one day be satisfied and your weeping will one day turn to laughter. If you are rejected by your friends because of your devotion to me, take satisfaction in this . . . that is the way the world has always treated those who would go the second mile in ...
Understanding Series
Michael S. Moore
... leftover grain (lit. ears of grain, shblt). In Israelite society the poor have a legal right to glean at harvest time (Lev. 19:9–10; Deut. 24:19). To the average U. S. citizen, this might seem to be a quaint tradition. The problem of hunger, however, is central to the plot of this story. In the Canaanite myth of Aqhat, for example, Danil (a Boazlike figure) inspects his famine-stricken land and finds upon it a single, blighted “ear of grain” (shblt). Dismounting from his donkey, he kisses it hungrily ...
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Thomas Long
... can do it; the hardest word is that we cannot do it, not on our own strength. As Dag Hammerskjold once said, "How frightful is our poverty when we try to give others something of ourselves." There is a certain congregation that, for the past ten years, has taken a hunger offering on the last Sunday of every month. During the singing of the final hymn, members of the congregation stream down the aisles with their offerings and place them in baskets on the communion table. Half of the money goes to local ...
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Alex Gondola
... . (Taken from Descending Into Greatness by Bill Hybels and Rob Wilkins. Copyright (c) 1993 by Bill Hybels and Ron Wilkins. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House). Jesus said, "I am the bread of life." Jesus is the Bread that satisfies our deep-seated spiritual hunger. It seems to me, hearing that story told by Bill Hybels about his friend, Angie Garber, that Angie has learned where to find Bread and how to pass it on. It seems to me that her life, largely empty of possessions and honors, is still ...
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Mark Radecke
... the child who has been born king of the Jews?" Herod summons the chief priests and scribes and they provide the answer: Bethlehem. "Hunger for God is a common human trait and deserves respect wherever it is found,"1 someone has written. The Magi exemplify such hunger. That hunger impels them to travel a long way. Their religion points them in the right direction. But neither their hunger nor their religion is capable of bringing them all the way to God incarnate in the Babe of Bethlehem. Short of the goal ...
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Harold Warlick
... for us."2 For people like us -- ever thoughtful, ever reasonable, and ever realistic -- the evergreen wreath of Advent, the special music, the candles, the flowers, and the best efforts of the preacher are necessary. Our wedding rehearsal is necessary as we sit in the darkness and hunger for the bride or the groom of life to come to us. All our hopes twisted together make enough hope to live by, hope enough to see beyond the faded leaf and give us the courage to wait for more. And this waiting is not easy ...
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Dean Lueking
... very few of us know anything about first hand. But there are others in our world who know the month of March to be the time of hunger, since the granary has emptied and the new crops have not yet produced. Hunger is a terrible ordeal, making the human body vulnerable to every other assault of disease besides withering the spirit. Jesus knew that hunger. Bread First, or Word First? "If you are the Sop of God, turn these stones into bread." In what does the first temptation consist? Not theological arguments ...
83. Training Session
Matthew 5:1-12
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... was preceded by a film clip on television which showed the singers and performers actually seeing the tragedy on the spot. Harry Belafonte and others toured the refugee camp at Mekelle, Ethiopa, which is essentially a "feeding camp" set up to alleviate some of the hunger and suffering. They helped to pass out biscuits and bread and T-shirts to the children. Marion Jackson said that, despite what they had seen and heard, it is still a shock to discover the extent to which "something like this exists in the ...
84. Christ the King
Matthew 25:31-46
Sermon Aid
... said, "There is an irony in well-to-do American congregations praising God for his many blessings while millions who helped make those blessings possible starve." (source unknown) Stewardship Challenge Try this: Someone once said, "Only the well-fed get tired of hearing about hunger." Hunger doesn't go away when we take a picture of it, or after we've finished talking about it. Neither does our responsibility; we are accountable for all that we have, and all that we are. How will we respond this coming week ...
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James W. Robinson
... drive to work, and my wife enjoys the drives we are now taking in the country. When we look out over the countryside, it is like seeing a reflection of God." That’s where the pursuit of purity will lead. C. And then there are those who hunger and thirst from their rigorous climb for righteousness. A beatitude from this second trio of peaks has the same reassuring word for them, "This is the trail. This is the way. Walk in it." The righteousness that they so intensely desire lies within their grasp. God ...
86. Proper 12
2 Samuel 12:1-31, Ephesians 3:14-21, John 6:1-15
Bulletin Aid
Paul A. Laughlin
... hungry. People: WE MEET IN THE NAME OF A CHRIST WHO FILLS THOSE WHO ARE SPIRITUALLY EMPTY. Leader: But our Christ showed concern to feed the literally hungry as well. People: FOR CHRIST IS THE FULLNESS OF GOD, AND IN HIS COMING KINGDOM EVERY KIND OF HUNGER WILL BE SATISFIED. Collect God of boundless abundance, who have shown in Jesus’ feeding of the hungry a concern for all our needs, instill in us your Spirit; that, following the example of Christ, we may work to end both the literal and the spiritual ...
87. Proper 15
2 Samuel 18:19--19:8, Ephesians 4:17--5:21, John 6:25-59
Bulletin Aid
Paul A. Laughlin
... in the world. People: IT IS DIFFICULT FOR PEOPLE IN A WEALTHY NATION TO UNDERSTAND THE REALITY AND SCOPE OF STARVATION IN THE WORLD. Leader: As tragic and alarming as that kind of hunger is, there is another equally insidious and fatal kind of hunger. People: IT IS SPIRITUAL HUNGER, AND IT AFFECTS US ALL, UNTIL WE FIND AND FEED UPON THE LIVING BREAD, JESUS CHRIST. Collect Life-giving God, who have sent us heavenly food in the person of Jesus, teach us to feed on him in our hearts; that by faith we may ...
Sermon
... them when they arise, as a part of the wholeness of living. The way in which we deal with negative experiences is just as important as striving to escape them. The fiction may be that somehow they are escapable, that somehow they can be avoided. "We have to experience hunger and want to know that only God can help us." But how does one know? You could not prove it to someone who was not ready to believe it. You could not engineer it to happen. Some, in fact, instead of being filled by God, turn bitter and ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... one of our guides. The next day we took a long trip in a very noisy bus. One of our guides came and sat by me. She began asking questions about Christianity. I thought she wanted to argue; but soon I discovered that, out of her repressed spiritual hunger, she really wanted to know. A child of God, deprived of the reality of faith, wanted answers that only faith can give. She had seen friends and loved ones die. She was told, "There is nothing more: they are dead!" But she wondered about the mystery of death ...
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Brett Blair
... bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” Satan has misunderstood mankind and therefore misunderstood Jesus’ need. To be sure, he sees that he is hungry. What he does not understand is that there is another type of hunger. It is the hunger for righteousness. Jesus is feeding himself on the Word of God. Satan has challenged Jesus to feed a hungry world. What Jesus is saying is that you cannot know what is good unless you first read the scriptures. We are created to please God ...
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James W. Moore
... it, to “Repeat the sounding joy.” I think I know why… I think it’s because each one of us has deep down in our souls... ...An incredible hunger to come home to the good news of Christmas, ...An incredible hunger to come to the manger, ...An incredible hunger to feel and celebrate the redeeming, forgiving, sustaining love of God, ...An incredible hunger to be in the presence of God… And that is why Christmas is so special because it reminds us that God is indeed with us. In every circumstance of ...
92. Sunday Dinner
Leviticus 19:1-37
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David E. Leininger
... to belong or be loved - Sunday dinner takes care of that. In a way, that is what we are about to do as we gather at the Lord's Table. The bit of bread and sip of juice will not do much to fend off physical hunger; but the hunger we all feel, the hunger for connectedness, for community, for family, for assurance that we are not alone in this world is surely fed. How does it happen? No one can explain it. As John Calvin said, "I rather experience it than understand it." Once when a preacher was marrying a ...
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Brett Blair
... bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” Satan has misunderstood mankind and therefore misunderstood Jesus’ need. To be sure, he sees that he is hungry. What he does not understand is that there is another type of hunger. It is the hunger for righteousness. Jesus is feeding himself on the Word of God. Satan has challenged Jesus to feed a hungry world. What Jesus is saying is that you cannot know what is good unless you first read the scriptures. We are created to please God ...
94. Internal Medicine
Matthew 6:16-18
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King Duncan
... you drive less than you have the means to buy? Can you develop a relationship with someone else without jumping into bed before marriage? Can you do it? Can you do it? You know what?! You won't know till you've tested your soul the way fasting tests the hunger of your body. You and I are gripped with powerful diseases of the flesh beyond which we're often willing to admit. And the medicine of fasting is one way to check out just how deep the cancer cuts. There's a second thing that fasting can mean to us ...
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King Duncan
... fed up with the shoddiness of our lives and our world. We're tired of buying products that barely last through their warranty period. We're irritated by sales and service people who don't seem to care whether or not we're satisfied with their product. Our hunger for excellence extends to the way we treat our bodies. We love to see the discipline and precision of the Olympic athletes. We're saddened when we realize that our own bodies fail to measure up, and we double our efforts to get in shape. There seems ...
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Stephen M. Crotts
... 66:16 David says, "Come and hear ... and I will tell what he has done for me." So in that spirit today I want to share with you my testimony. In the text Jesus promised, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger." I have known hunger. But in Christ I've known satisfaction. Here's my story. What I Was Saved From Most testimonies begin something like mine. "I was born at a very early age." Seriously, I was born into a Christian home. No greater privilege could one ask for than a mother ...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
... , and those who believe in me shall never thirst" (John 6:35). We need that bread of life and that living water, don't we? As our scripture lesson says, we have for many days spent our money for that which does not feed our hunger for goodness and our labor for that which does not satisfy our longings. Buying and selling, laboring and longing, the world's rewards have not fed our souls, and there remains within us a restless desire -- for what? Surely for God who created us to live in fellowship with him ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... they last long enough. Jesus went through this in the wilderness for forty days; his words are not theoretical but experiential. He uses a physical experience to point to one that includes the body and goes beyond it. He indicates the object of our desire as a hunger and thirst for righteousness, which means not just right human conduct but the action of God that breaks in to make things right again. He is speaking about deep cravings in the soul that come out in our prayers and in our dreams. This is the ...
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Phil Thrailkill
... a new set of lenses, and here is what we see. First, that we are frail creatures, all of us, dependent on topsoil and seed and soil and pollination and climate and rain and farmers and bakers and finally the end product bread to sustain us. Physical hunger for bread and social hunger for someone to eat it with are as basic and you can get. We are not self-sustaining or self-made. We are creatures who stand between a few miles of atmospheric oxygen above us and few inches of topsoil beneath our feet, both of ...
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James Merritt
... . Again, He can look us in the eyes today and say, "I know exactly how you feel." Incidentally, why didn't Jesus also say, "I hunger?" He must have been famished. Again, it had been at least two days since He had had anything to eat. The reason why He was ... 14) That is just another reason why I want to go to heaven. For Revelation 7:16 says that in heaven "they shall neither hunger nor thirst anymore." I heard the voice of Jesus say, "Behold I freely give The living waters; thirsty one, Stoop down and drink, ...
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