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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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1176. Resurrected Following (Series: Living on the Resurrection Side of Life)

John 10:1-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... shall not want.” Do you know the Shepherd? Have you found Him to be good? Have you discovered He is all you need? I. Follow the Good Shepherd Who Knows His Own By Name The sweetest sound to any ear is the sound of your own name. It is the hunger of the human heart to know and to be known, to be recognized, to be called by name. I must confess that I have done a poor job of calling people by name through the years. I can recognize a face much easier that I can call a name. Sometimes ...

1177. When God Is Like a Mother

John 14:15-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... faith was Mary nursing the infant Jesus while looking out upon the world. In a time of plagues, wars, and malnutrition, the Virgin’s breast was a symbol of God’s loving provision of life. People were invited to find comfort in the bosom of Mary. There is a hunger in the human soul to lean on the everlasting arms, and nurse from a fountain that never runs dry. Our souls long to be rocked in the bosom of the Almighty. Let some soul near despair in the lowlands of strife be so filled with the Holy Spirit ...

1178. Celebration (Series: Fundamentals of Family)

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... days, we are going to make it to a place where tears are wiped away and disease will reign no more. One of these days, our sins and sorrows will be put behind us and our temptations to roam will be no more. One of these days, justice will prevail, hunger will end, the wicked will be separated into eternal punishment. One of these days, we will find ourselves finally home, home to a God who made us, home to a Christ who saved us, home to the Holy Spirit who will empower us to live like we ought to live ...

1179. Resurrection Power (Series: Living on the Resurrection Side of Life)

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Lucado tells about accidentally discovering that his West Texas hometown owed his parents some money. As Max chased down the stray cash, his mind began to dance with what he might do with the sudden “wind fall” of profit. Maybe he could end world hunger, wipe out AIDS, solve international hatred. Then the voice on the phone said, “Yes, Mr. Lucado, looks like we owe you 3.50. After a long pause Max asks, “Three hundred fifty million, three hundred fifty thousand?” “No,” said the clerk, “Three ...

1180. Drink Deep

Mark 1:4-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... everything. It cleans us up and gives us a starting over point. And it reminds us just how much we are loved. And all we're asked to do is drink deep from the water of life. Conclusion There are a lot of things in the world for which we hunger and thirst. But we know, from Jesus' teachings that it's only the living water which He offers that can quench the thirst of the soul. The water which He Himself experienced at His own baptism. "If any one thirsts, let him come to me and drink." The invitation is ...

1181. Discover the Perfect Gift of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Gift, The Perfect Gift which God has Chosen for us and 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 Perfect Gift ...

1182. We Are Weak, But He Is Strong...

Romans 8:26-39

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... ... there is the gift of the Cross. In the face of temptation ... there is the gift of Christ's faithfulness. In the face of greed ... there is the abundant life. In the face of pollution ... there is God's redemption of all creation. In the face of hunger ... there is a legacy of the loaves and fishes. In the face of homelessness ... there is compassion. In the face of hardship ... there is the promise of goodness. In the face of whatever comes our way, God Holds us and provides the Strength we need to be ...

1183. Radical Love in the Neighborhood (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... brings him to an inn, and takes care of him. Love is PERSONAL. It is one thing to herald the dawn of a new earth, it is quite another to lend our hands to the binding of a present wound. It is one thing to hold a conference on hunger; it is another to feed the homeless. It is one thing for denominations to pass resolutions about health care in Tennessee. It is another thing for pastors to raise their out-of-pocket deductibles and open clinics with the savings. We can complain about the response time of 911 ...

1184. Does Love Really Make the World Go ’Round? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the federal manipulation of interest rates? Some might say that power makes the world go ’round. That might be why two smart men would spend 2 million dollars each trying to be elected mayor of Nashville. A job, mind you, that pays $136,000 a year! Hunger for recognition and status is in our blood stream. For a growing number of the world-wide pornography peddlers, sex, at least a perverted version of it, makes the world go ’round. Pornography is now a 13.3 billion dollar business. Porn web sites draw ...

1185. Pursue the Life That Really Is Life

1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 1 Timothy 6:6-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... won the race. It was Talladega, one of the biggest races of 2001. Tim Shutt says "When we won, the first thing that came to my mind was that verse. God wanted to show himself to me." (3) Now listen to the words of Jesus: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled." Pursue righteousness. II. Godliness A. Godliness. We don't hear that word very much any more. We used to hear about Godly people and Godly lives. Maybe it's just the word that's gone out of fashion because ...

1186. More Than We Are - Graduation

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , but the Indians felt that, being white men, they had superhuman power. Cabeza de Vaca felt that they had no such power. “But we had to heal them or die,” he wrote. “So we prayed for strength. We prayed on bended knees and in an agony of hunger.” Then they blessed each ailing Indian - and saw that the sick were being healed! “Truly it was to our amazement the ailing said they were well. Being Europeans, we thought we had given away to doctors and priests our ability to heal But here it was, still ...

1187. Where In the World Is God?

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... pastor raised me in the faith. But I have searched for God in every crater, in every destroyed home, on every corner, in every friend in my foxhole, and in the sky. God did not show himself even though my heart cried to him…on earth there was hunger and killing, from the sky came bombs and fire, only God was not there. No, my father, there is no God, for if there is, where in the world is he?” (Last Letters from Stalingrad, edited by Franz Schenider, and Charles Gullans.) That’s the question, where in ...

1188. A Guide for Growth

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... illustrate: Colin Morris is one the leading Methodist preachers in England. A few years ago he was serving as a missionary in Zambia. One day a Zambian dropped dead not a hundred yards from the front door. The pathologist said he’d died of hunger. In his shrunken stomach were a few leaves and what appeared to be a ball of grass. Nothing else. In the mail that same day the Methodist Reporter journal of British Methodism, was delivered to Mr. Morris. The magazine was electric with indignation, consternation ...

1189. More Than We Are

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... they, being white men, had super-human power. De Vaca felt that they had no such power. “But we had to heal them or die,” he wrote. Now listen to De Vaca: “So we prayed for strength. We prayed on bended knees and in an agony of hunger.” Then they laid their hands on and blessed each ailing Indian and saw that the sick were actually being healed. “Truly it was to our amazement,” he wrote, “the ailing said they were well. Being Europeans, we thought we had given away to doctors and priest our ...

1190. The Wise Men: Going Home Another Way

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... for his disdain of religion as he held his firstborn son in his arms and was overwhelmed with awe at how God sculpts the contours of the human ear. A Swiss writer tells when it happened to him: We were hiking and in good shape. I felt neither fatigue, hunger or thirst, and my state of mind was equally, healthy, and there was not a shadow of uncertainty about the road that we should follow. All at once I experienced a feeling of being raised above myself. I felt the presence of God – I tell of it just as ...

1191. A Sunday Kind of Love

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , and Holy Ghost,” the triune nature of the Godhead isn’t something too many of us consider as part of the daily expression of our faith. But it is. At least it should be. For that’s the kind of faith, hope and love this world is hungering for. Experiencing God as Father, God as Son, and God as Holy Spirit, is what keeps our faith fresh and makes it possible to rebirth Christ into the world every day. A few years ago Reba McEntire brought back a song Jo Stafford and Ella Fitzgerald independently made ...

1192. The Gospel of Marah

Exodus 15:22-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... us and our children and our cattle with thirst? (17:3) Detours, Dead Ends, and Dry holes. That really captures the wilderness saga of the Israelites: God’s continuous deliverance, but Israel’s lack of faith, their shallow trust. Their basic needs of thirst and hunger brought them often to despair and to long for the flesh-pots of Egypt, rather than depend upon the Lord. That overall picture brings us to our particular focus. What a dramatic seesaw of prevailing moods. The first 21 verses of this chapter ...

1193. Fresh Every Morning - A Test

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... their triumph over Pharaoh - as they looked back and saw Pharaoh’s army drowned on the seashore - but now, they were hungry, and though God had delivered them out of the boney hands of death, they could not believe that He could satisfy today’s hunger. Unbelief has a short memory. And discontent perverts our perspective. The Hebrews began to wish for the fleshpots of Egypt. They could remember and savor in their mind the security of’ food and shelter and clothing that they had had back in Egypt, but ...

1194. Opening and Closing Doors

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’s use the words interchangeably to make the point. We need to worry about situations which are not as they should be. The world – that’s such a big issue – but it demands our attention. We need to be concerned about the problem of world hunger and nuclear war. You remember Robert Kennedy’s favorite word? “Some men see things as they are and ask, ‘Why?’ I dream of things and say, ‘Why not?” Change comes when there are enough people who take that latter stand —— they have a vision of ...

1195. When You Want to Run Away

Psalm 11:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and looking at the pictures, Sheila came across a drawing to illustrate the famous passage of Paul’s letter to the Romans — you remember that passage: Who, then, can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble do it, or hardship, or persecution, or hunger, or poverty, or danger, or death? As the scripture says, ‘For your sake we are in danger of death the whole day long, We are treated like sheep that are going to be slaughtered.’ No, in all these things we have complete victory through him ...

1196. He Leadeth Me

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... righteousness, for His Name’s Sake. And we must follow, even when it appears unpatriotic, even when it puts us at odds with family and friends. Issues of justice and peace in South Africa, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, and Poland; issues of poverty and hunger, pornography and unemployment in Memphis – are issues along the paths of righteousness for our Shepherd’s namesake. III “He makes me lie down in green pastures.” “He leads me beside still waters; he restores my soul.” “He leads me in paths of ...

1197. In the House of the Lord

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... table before me.” In Old Testament Judaism to eat with a person was the deep of identification and acceptance. That’s the reason the Pharisees became so angry at Jesus for eating with Publicans and sinners. Eating was not only a means of satisfying hunger but an experience of intimate affectionate love. That’s what the Shepherd Lord who has become our banquet host offers – his providence, expressed in love and daily care. Will you believe it? We sit at the table of God’s daily providence. So when ...

1198. Jesus' Baptism: Affirmed by God

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... s come to a final consideration. What is the message in this for us? Edward Farrell, a friend of mine, is a Roman Catholic priest who serves an Inner City Parish in Detroit, He’s written some marvelous books - one I would especially recommend entitled Prayer Is a Hunger. Ed is a part of a small group with whom I meet each January. I’ve told you about this group. We call it the Ecumenical Institute of Spirituality. It’s an important group for me. Though we meet only for three days once a year, sharing ...

1199. My Name Is Legion

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... again, this was but the final outcome of years of restlessness which he had never learned to express creatively. He was a man in desperate search for inner peace. He hadn’t found it in people or things. Nothing he could do or be would suffice. His hungers drove him until he became the unacceptable sociopath that he was, unfit for self or anyone else.” (Ogilvie, Ibid., p. 99). I keep warning you. Don’t think only of the extreme condition of Legion. Think of the path that led him there, and see if his ...

1200. Simon

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that we incorporate it into our own lives, and we can hear the cry of people in this world The people in Mozambique who made the headlines of newspapers - millions dying of starvation as a civil war rages and other nations of the world plot their response to hunger on the basis of political ideology. We hear the word of Jesus — “Let him who would be my disciple take up his cross and follow me,” and we get nervous in our spectator role of being among the 6% of the world’s population in a country that ...

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