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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James Merritt
... means "pleasure." I really believe when you are close to God and right with God, nothing will give you more pleasure than reading the Word of God. One of the things I pray for every day in my own life and for my family is that we would have a hunger for God's Word. King David, who wrote many of the Psalms, had a literal love affair with God's Word. Listen to these words, "I delight far more in what you tell me about living [in Your Word] than in gathering a pile of riches." (Psalm 119:14, MSG ...
1152. Misled By Beauty
1 Samuel 15:34-35, 16:1-13
Sermon
Stan Purdum
... in much the same way. The root word for beauty is the also the root for the word "beatitude." The beatitudes are the statements of Jesus that begin "Blessed are those ..." and go on to talk about states of spirituality, such as "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness...." So we can see that in God's eyes there is true beauty in the spiritual state of a humble person who is sincerely seeking righteousness. Yet one more thing this story from 1 Samuel invites us to learn is about the ...
1153. Stopping Pettiness
Mark 9:38-41
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Jerry Goebel
... hold our behavior and conversation to a higher standard and we will either grow to meet those standards or begin talking behind their backs as well. Let us hope it is the former. 4. Maintain the habits of faith. We must maintain the habits of faith: a. Pray constantly, b. Hunger for God's Word, c. Maintain a small group of accountability, and d. Be in personal relationship with "least of these." Attending to these habits keeps us from becoming small-minded and hard-hearted.
Sermon
Gary L. Carver
... felt like saying: "Oh, I hope Christ is the truth about God, and I am afraid he is not." At other times he felt like saying: "I am afraid Christ is the truth about God, but I hope he is not." So is the ambivalence of the human heart — we hunger to be in touch with the mystery of Godness, yet at the same time we fear such ultimacy. Phillips Brooks was right about Bethlehem: "The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight." And this is as good a place as I know to leave you ...
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Donald Charles Lacy
... have been famished. It would not take nearly forty days for you and me to reach that stage. Could we even go one week or ten days? In the depths of our souls we have, at least, some answers. It sure would be "tough stuff." Imagine all of the hunger pangs to be experienced. Visualize all the days of good cooking that we could not enjoy. It begins to be not only a potentially inconvenient experience, but one of honest-to-goodness discomfort. We know what our Lord's point is, don't we? He wants us to shift ...
Sermon
John Wayne Clarke
... year, as we celebrate Thanksgiving, may we each see God for who God really is and see ourselves as who we really are: People who have been blessed beyond our wildest dreams. We have been given the Bread of Life; we know this bread and have had our only lasting hunger satisfied. May we now be truly thankful to the God who deserves our thanksgiving!
1157. Triumphing over Obstacles
2 Corinthians 5:20-6:10
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... wherever he went. In his corpus of letters and in the Acts of the Apostles, we learn how he persevered through many other hardships. In today's lesson, he states many of the afflictions he endured: incarceration, beatings, riots, significant labors, sleepless nights, and hunger. We also know he was shipwrecked and forced to flee from those who sought his life. Paul somehow realized that suffering and adversity were part of his lot, and that in order to carry the gospel message to the Gentiles his task would ...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
... suffered" (Hebrews 5:8). John, the seer in the book of Revelation, also says there is a very important reward that comes from this high level of faith. These people will stand before the throne of God and worship the Lord day and night. They will hunger no more, nor will the sun strike or scorch them. God will shepherd these people, guiding them to springs of life-giving water. God will wipe away all of their tears. Jesus' whole life and ministry was, in many ways, a constant negotiation of various hurdles ...
1159. When Christ Is King
Colossians 1:11-20
Sermon
Donna Schaper
... intimations of a truth that, in its fullness, forever eludes and transcends them; a truth, however, that is willing and more than willing to impart itself in its sufficiency for the here and now, and to those who ask for it humbly and in solidarity with all who hunger and thirst." The king Christ starts out humbly enough for us to grasp. He starts out as a child. This strange royalty has to be acknowledged. A boy who grew up in Los Angeles as a Mexican immigrant speaks this way of Jesus: As a young child I ...
1160. The Gospel According to the Hebrews
Mark 10:17-31
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William Barclay
... this command. The Lord said to him, Why do you say that you have obeyed the law and the prophets? For it is written in the law, "You must love your neighbor as yourself," and look you there are many brothers of yours, sons of Abraham, who are dying of hunger, and your house is full of many good things, and not one single thing goes out of it to them." And he turned and said to Simon, his Disciple, who was sitting beside him, "Simon, son of Jonas, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... last to let a grieving spouse sit alone. We should be the last to write off the children whose parents have failed them or thrown them away. We should be the last to ignore the homeless camped out along our streets. We should be the last to allow hunger to gnaw at the bellies of our neighbors. We should be the last to shrug our shoulders at ongoing environment degradation. We should be the last to let despair grind down the powerless. We should be the last to condone cruelty of any kind, to any living thing ...
1162. Ashes and Bugs
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... best of what we planted, just when our gardens are starting to show promise! They are voracious and relentless. When the prophet Joel spoke to God's people, the memory of a plague of insects was still fresh; precious crops had been destroyed and hunger reigned. But God promised the people joy beyond disaster, and full gardens despite devastation. God's Word brings hope. In our own struggles, despite heartbreaking setbacks, there is the promise of hope, as well. And it all begins on this day, Ash Wednesday ...
1163. Essentials
Isaiah 50:4-9a
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... alive. Suddenly those people in other countries became real, as he showed their faces and told stories about them. They saw real suffering and anguish, a need for teachers, doctors, nurses, evangelists — caring for people of all stripes. They saw a need, a hunger for the gospel. The young people grew excited. A few bearded elders cautioned the rest, but soon Dunker youths were traveling to India, Africa, and China, baptizing people in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And they realized ...
Sermon
Stan Purdum
... , has its root not in how we act, but in what we let our minds dwell upon. Proverbs puts it succinctly when it says, "For as [a person] thinkest in his heart, so is he" (Proverbs 23:7 KJV). So this commandment warns us to examine that which we hunger after. Greed, envy, jealousy, and lust and similar ugly thoughts are the sources from which bad deeds spring. This commandment calls us to put our minds on better things. Well, just exactly how do we do that? We may be able to control our actions, but how do we ...
1165. For God All Things Are Possible
Luke 3:1-6
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John P. Jewell
I asked a group of high school young people to write headlines they would love to see and here are the top six from the group: Peace declared all over earth! Hunger and poverty to be eliminated by year's end! No reports of child abuse in the US for over a year! Religious tolerance at an all time high! Vaccine for all forms of cancer discovered! Officials to investigate complete absence of violent crime! "Wonderful dreams, but not very realistic," you ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... does a God like this, an omnipotent God who created and owns the whole universe; what does a God like this want? What does a God like this require of us? There it is. Offer to God a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. Listen. Listen. God’s hunger; God’s deepest longing is satisfied by our love and gratitude. Does that make you stand at attention inside? I mean does that make you feel tall inside? That the God of the universe, the one who created and owns the world is satisfied, his deepest longings ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... and Worship. But one Sunday he protested and asked: "Where does it say that you kids should always get something to eat and drink right after church?" Without batting an eye, his daughter said: "In the Bible, Daddy. Jesus said, 'Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness.'" (1) I'm not exactly sure she got the correct interpretation of that passage but it's obvious that she was familiar with Scripture. And it's obvious she learned that Scripture in Church and a Christian home. But why ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... . [16] He would gladly have filled himself with the pods that the pigs were eating; and no one gave him anything. [17] But when he came to himself he said, 'How many of my father's hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger! [18] I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you; [19] I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me like one of your hired hands." ' [20] So he set off and ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... is verse 2 and part of verse 3. "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul." I believe one of the reasons this Psalm resonates with so many people is because there is a deep spiritual hunger in their lives just like there is in America and around the world today. We yearn for and spend billions of dollars each year trying to fix ourselves or conform to some amorphous shifting image of what we should be which society has painted for us. We spend ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... exercise. What perhaps saved Taylor is the fact that he is autistic. It is speculated that what saved him may have been that he fixated so completely on one detail in his situation that he managed to block out fear and hunger, and consequently did not panic. None of the dangers or distractions‑-wild animals, mosquitoes, heat, darkness, loneliness or frightening sounds‑-could cause him to do anything that would worsen his situation and prohibit his eventual rescue. (5) Focus. Ask any athlete about ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... . This gift, The Right Gift which God has Chosen for us sent wrapped in swaddling clothes, is a gift of hope. A gift from heaven reminding us, in part, that "We are NOT Alone." And in a world filled with loneliness and despair, fueled by abject poverty, hunger and disease, the terrorist threat of attack and war, we need to hear that "We Are NOT Alone." God wants us to remember and know that there IS Hope. There is Forgiveness. There is Grace. There is Redemption. And it all comes through this Gift which God ...
1172. How Does Jesus Show He Is the Greatest?
John 2:1-11
Illustration
Sigurd Grindheim
... purpose when he performed his first miracle? Why couldn't he have intervened in some of the many political conflicts of the time and put an end to war? Why couldn't he have done something with the world's food supply and put an end to world hunger? Why did he choose a small town wedding where he had to provide some more wine? These people had been partying for days and they had probably had enough to drink already. Why does Jesus choose to provide wine at a rural wedding when he would reveal his glory ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... of faith, the power of the cross. The Beatitudes Jesus offered were and are a manifesto for how to live “out of control lives.” Blessed are the poor in spirit Blessed are those who mourn Blessed are the meek Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness Blessed are the merciful Blessed are the pure in heart Blessed are the peacemakers Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake Blessed are those who hand over their controllers. Have you handed over yours? Can you tale your ...
1174. What the World Expects of the Church
Luke 15:1-7
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Brett Blair
... reflected on this event and wrote these words: It will be a long, long time before I can forget that newspaper headline. So much of the world's future depends on the faithfulness of the "People of God" to the "Great Commission." There is a deep hunger across our land as countless people grope for answers to the deepest questions of the human spirit. The message of Christ speaks to these questions, bringing hope and light to people who now stumble in the dark and live in despair. Our world will be changed ...
1175. How Much to Spend on The Poor?
John 12:1-11
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Richard Meyer
... at Duke University. Willimon tells of the time the faculty of Duke was discussing a proposal to renovate the seminary chapel. They had received a modest proposal from the architect. But, would the chapel be renovated? No. "With all the poverty and hunger in the world," said one faculty member, "how can we as Christians justify spending $50,000 to pretty-up our chapel?" Of course, this person failed to offer similar objections when faculty salaries were raised each year, (a figure that collectively exceeds ...
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