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
Leonard Sweet
... But God gives us both enough cresting waves to keep us encouraged and enough "grace builders" to keep us humble and growing. Martin Luther said we need constantly to see ourselves as "weak in faith, cold in love, and faint in hope," which makes us hunger and thirst for God and prevents the self-righteousness that gets us in so much trouble (see Martin D. Dietrich, ea., Devotional Writings, Vol 43 of Luther's Works (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1969, 172). Reaching the crest of the wave and riding with the ...
1077. Shame on You
1 Timothy 1:12-17
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... . He used his guilt as a goad - as a reminder of what he needed to make up for. And he used his own lowliness as a foil to help him elevate Christ before others. Feeling a sense of shame for our environmental mess, the on-going horror of hunger and homelessness, and the pornography of violence is only the first, most basic step we need to take in our own moral rehabilitation. While no one person can rectify all those evils, there are things we can do individually. Guilt as a goad might motivate us to do ...
1078. Waiting - Sermon Starter
John 1:1-18
Illustration
Brett Blair
... of Christmas was simply waiting for it to come. From Thanksgiving to December 25 seemed more like an eternity than a month. Days seemed like weeks. Weeks felt like seasons. Time seemed to stand still. Waiting is foreign to our society. It seems unnatural. We hunger for immediate gratification. The idea of delayed satisfaction is a stranger to our thinking. The symbols of our unwillingness to wait are all around us. Fast food chains boom because we don't have time to eat. We stand in crooked lines, then yell ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... "21C" as a hinge moment in history? Or is it just a good excuse for a big party, a sigh-of-relief celebration that we somehow managed to survive 20C? What the tragedy of Heaven's Gate has brought into sharper focus is the spiritual hunger that is consuming our culture in these latter decades of this century. The Search for Soul Postmodern culture is entheogenic, which means "the birth of the divine within." There is a massive Soul Search, a huge quest for personal spirituality, a "widespread turning inward ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... "21C" as a hinge moment in history? Or is it just a good excuse for a big party, a sigh-of-relief celebration that we somehow managed to survive 20C? What the tragedy of Heaven's Gate has brought into sharper focus is the spiritual hunger that is consuming our culture in these latter decades of this century. The Search for Soul Postmodern culture is entheogenic, which means "the birth of the divine within." There is a massive Soul Search, a huge quest for personal spirituality, a "widespread turning inward ...
1081. Hear the Vision?
1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... "21C" as a hinge moment in history? Or is it just a good excuse for a big party, a sigh-of-relief celebration that we somehow managed to survive 20C? What the tragedy of Heaven's Gate has brought into sharper focus is the spiritual hunger that is consuming our culture in these latter decades of this century. The Search for Soul Postmodern culture is entheogenic, which means "the birth of the divine within." There is a massive Soul Search, a huge quest for personal spirituality, a "widespread turning inward ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... "21C" as a hinge moment in history? Or is it just a good excuse for a big party, a sigh-of-relief celebration that we somehow managed to survive 20C? What the tragedy of Heaven's Gate has brought into sharper focus is the spiritual hunger that is consuming our culture in these latter decades of this century. The Search for Soul Postmodern culture is entheogenic, which means "the birth of the divine within." There is a massive Soul Search, a huge quest for personal spirituality, a "widespread turning inward ...
1083. The Trace of Grace
Ephesians 2:1-10
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... "21C" as a hinge moment in history? Or is it just a good excuse for a big party, a sigh-of-relief celebration that we somehow managed to survive 20C? What the tragedy of Heaven's Gate has brought into sharper focus is the spiritual hunger that is consuming our culture in these latter decades of this century. The Search for Soul Postmodern culture is entheogenic, which means "the birth of the divine within." There is a massive Soul Search, a huge quest for personal spirituality, a "widespread turning inward ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... "21C" as a hinge moment in history? Or is it just a good excuse for a big party, a sigh-of-relief celebration that we somehow managed to survive 20C? What the tragedy of Heaven's Gate has brought into sharper focus is the spiritual hunger that is consuming our culture in these latter decades of this century. The Search for Soul Postmodern culture is entheogenic, which means "the birth of the divine within." There is a massive Soul Search, a huge quest for personal spirituality, a "widespread turning inward ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... , the blood and guts of Christ's loving sacrifice has never been so powerful or so pertinent. People are spiritually starved and frantically searching for any crumbs of hope and compassion. Some of us got excited a few years ago when this spiritual hunger awakened in the wider culture a renewed interest in angels and other spiritual beings and bearers. But the newfound popularity of the witness of these spirits of goodness and power really has not brought this culture any closer to Christ. At best, angelic ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... Jesus' healing powers. All the text tells is that those who had enough faith to "sit down" received all they could possibly want from Jesus' hands. Children don't yet see generations of hatred and animosity. They see common needs, common desires, common hungers. Remember Yitzhak Rabin's funeral? What do you remember? The tears and testimony of his young grand-daughter spoke the most eloquently and passionately for the dream of peace for which her grandfather had just given his life. Her words breathed life ...
1087. Waging Wisdom
James 3:13—4:8
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... "21C" as a hinge moment in history? Or is it just a good excuse for a big party, a sigh-of-relief celebration that we somehow managed to survive 20C? What the tragedy of Heaven's Gate has brought into sharper focus is the spiritual hunger that is consuming our culture in these latter decades of this century. The Search for Soul Postmodern culture is entheogenic, which means "the birth of the divine within." There is a massive Soul Search, a huge quest for personal spirituality, a "widespread turning inward ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... "21C" as a hinge moment in history? Or is it just a good excuse for a big party, a sigh-of-relief celebration that we somehow managed to survive 20C? What the tragedy of Heaven's Gate has brought into sharper focus is the spiritual hunger that is consuming our culture in these latter decades of this century. The Search for Soul Postmodern culture is entheogenic, which means "the birth of the divine within." There is a massive Soul Search, a huge quest for personal spirituality, a "widespread turning inward ...
1089. An Advent Attitude
1 Thessalonians 3:9-13
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... "21C" as a hinge moment in history? Or is it just a good excuse for a big party, a sigh-of-relief celebration that we somehow managed to survive 20C? What the tragedy of Heaven's Gate has brought into sharper focus is the spiritual hunger that is consuming our culture in these latter decades of this century. The Search for Soul Postmodern culture is entheogenic, which means "the birth of the divine within." There is a massive Soul Search, a huge quest for personal spirituality, a "widespread turning inward ...
1090. Stable-Time
Luke 21:5-38
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... "21C" as a hinge moment in history? Or is it just a good excuse for a big party, a sigh-of-relief celebration that we somehow managed to survive 20C? What the tragedy of Heaven's Gate has brought into sharper focus is the spiritual hunger that is consuming our culture in these latter decades of this century. The Search for Soul Postmodern culture is entheogenic, which means "the birth of the divine within." There is a massive Soul Search, a huge quest for personal spirituality, a "widespread turning inward ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... "21C" as a hinge moment in history? Or is it just a good excuse for a big party, a sigh-of-relief celebration that we somehow managed to survive 20C? What the tragedy of Heaven's Gate has brought into sharper focus is the spiritual hunger that is consuming our culture in these latter decades of this century. The Search for Soul Postmodern culture is entheogenic, which means "the birth of the divine within." There is a massive Soul Search, a huge quest for personal spirituality, a "widespread turning inward ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... always in pocket. We don't have time to wander around, to walk about or to scratch our heads saying, "Now what was I looking for?" But this culture is looking for something - desperately. There is a quest for some sort of awakening, a deep hunger for spiritual renewal, lurking behind all the scheduled chaos that fills postmodern life. Not all recognize they are even searching for something more to add to their lives. But there are a few who have become so consumed by their spiritual needs they have "dropped ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... the weeping woman anoint his feet with ointment and tears rather than engage her in any discourse. He stood before the crowds, and before preaching his great "sermon on the plain," he healed them and soothed those with troubled spirits. When it was simple hunger that stirred the people's spirits, he provided them with loaves and fishes. Unlike other powerful, charismatic figures, Jesus was never "full of himself." The Philippian hymn makes it clear that in order for Jesus to be the Christ, in fact, he had ...
1094. Drawing Lines
Luke 16:19-31
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... line - for a circle has no beginning and no end - that Jesus wanted to call attention to in today's gospel parable. The rich man, during his life on earth, had drawn his lines very tightly about himself and his possessions. The poor Lazarus lived in misery and hunger "at his gate." He was of no concern to the rich man because his agony lay on the other side of that man's line. Upon reaching his new territory - his own torment in hades - the rich man suddenly finds himself now on the wrong side of the ...
1095. No Reserves, No Retreats, No Regrets
Romans 1:16; 2 Cor 11:21-33
Illustration
Adrian Dieleman
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 no avail. He ...
1096. Courage to Face the New Year
Luke 2:21-40
Illustration
James Kegel
... beyond. The Shepherd's have left us; the heavens are dumb; There's no one to tell us why Jesus has come. It ends: But God's in His heaven, and Jesus has come To show every sinner he's welcome back home, To be this world's Saviour from hunger and fear, And give us new courage to face the New Year. We have courage to face this New Year because of Jesus. He is Immanuel—God with us and for us.
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... people—even for such an unselfish project. After all, the Make-A-Wish program was for children who were truly terminal, whose death sentence had been signed and sealed. John’s parents insisted he focus his energies on fighting the cancer, not on fighting hunger and homelessness in Africa. By April 2007, however, the tumor started growing and spreading throughout John’s brain. John grew frailer and his time grew shorter. At last it was time for a visit from the Make-A-Wish people. Sue Fenger came to ...
1098. Planting the Seeds
Jn 1:1-18; Mt 11:1-19
Illustration
Brett Blair
... and down the aisles, make a list, see what it is you want, and then come back and I'll see what I can do for you." Well, she did just that. She walked up and down the aisles, writing furiously. There was peace on earth, no more war, no hunger or poverty. There was peace in families, harmony, no dissension, no more drugs. There careful use of resources. By the time she got back to the counter, she had a long list. Jesus looked over the list, then smiled at her and said, "No problem." And then he bent down ...
1099. Mark 6:30-44
Mark 6:30-44
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... alleviate this ennui that he begins teaching the multitude. In fact he is so caught up in ministering to the hearts and minds of the crowd that Jesus forgets the demands of the body. It is not until the disciples (whose exhaustion had given way to hunger) remind him that it's high time they eat, that Jesus even considers this detail. The focus of this story now shifts from Jesus, the good shepherd, to the disciples, the bad sports. They are tired, hungry, cranky, and their quiet time with their teacher has ...
1100. John 6:24-35
John 6:24-35
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... eager to be separated from the one who had miraculously provided them with free and plenteous food. The throng is not looking for the word of God. They are looking for their next meal. Jesus attempts to turn their appetite for bread into a hunger for the imperishable food of eternal life. Since this whole dialogue sets up a discussion of the Eucharist (6:51-58), the imagery of eating remains essential. But Jesus' first efforts to get this stubborn crowd to think with their heads instead of their stomachs ...
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