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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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126. The Story behind the Glory

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... to redeem those who were under the law" (vv. 4, 5). In the comic strip, Hi and Lois, the next door neighbor and his wife are seated in the living room. She speaks up, "Thirsty, get away from that TV set. You watched golf yesterday afternoon, tennis last night, and now baseball. Get out and see the real world," to which Thirsty responds, "I don't like the real world!" And, sometimes that's true of us. We don't like the real world. But, of course, the remedy is not to retreat into fantasy or entertainment ...

127. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... care, Salaam, Karen.”2 Karen fulfilled what Fred Smith said we should seek, “It is important,” he counseled, “as we go along in life, to create thirsts that death will satisfy.”3 Or, as someone important once said, “Blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness; they shall be satisfied.” If God uses this message as he has on me, the effect will be to create some deeper cravings and make you increasingly intolerant of the junk food that is so popular in our day. TURNING TO THE ...

128. Bad Apples

Matthew 25:31-46

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... .) But do you know what he will say to the goats? (response) He will say, get away from me. I was thirsty and you gave me nothing? (to drink) I was hungry and you gave me (nothing to eat) I needed clothes and you (did not clothe me) Now, I am convinced ... that you are all sheep. When you see someone who is thirsty you do what? (give them something to drink) When you see someone who is sick you try to? (take care of them) Let’s always be ...

129. How to Deal with Friends, Foes, and Fools

Proverbs 27:6

Sermon

James Merritt

... alone. We must be pro-active and demonstrate love to them. Solomon said in Prov. 25: 21-22: "If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; For so you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you." Is your enemy hungry? cook him a hot meal. Is your enemy thirsty? give him a glass of homemade ice cold lemonade. The result? You will "heap coals of fire on his head." What does this mean? Charles Swindoll explains: In ancient days, homes were ...

130. A Bridge over Troubled Waters

Psalm 23:2

Sermon

James Merritt

... .” Now again to understand this verse, you need to understand what the shepherd does for the sheep. Sheep begin to graze and feed about four o’clock in the morning. But by ten o’clock in the morning the sheep are hot, they’re tired, and they’re thirsty. Now sheep can’t drink while they’re hot, nor when their stomach is filled with undigested grass. So the shepherd has to make them lie down and rest. Now sheep don’t like to lie down. They are like little children. You know a little child does ...

131. The Revelation Code V: Cruisin' Toward the Dream

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... you…everyone…come to the wedding feast." Come, Chevy drivers and Ford owners and maybe even Dr. Z. Come, "Chicks with Classics" and "Crazy Car Guys." It doesn't matter if you drive gas-guzzlers or Smart cars, muscle cars or minivans. If you are thirsty, just come to the waters of life and drink. Come, east-siders and west-siders, young and old, rich and poor, male and female, gay and straight. Come, immigrant offspring and Native Americans (after all, we are all one or the other). Come, Arab and Asian ...

132. The Ultimate Soul Food

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , just as they did 2,000 years ago, Jesus as the Bread of Life and as Living Water suggests to our hungry, thirsty bodies and souls that in the bread and water he provides is the basic sustenance necessary for life. Bread and Water. Far ... for eternal life" (John 6:27). "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty" (John 6:35). It's both easy and hard to get. The Samaritan woman at the well, who is tired of drawing water every day (John 4:15 ...

133. Onward Christian Hell-busters

Matthew 10:40-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Pride Parade participants reached the front of St. Mark's Church, they were met with an unexpected surprise. On that hot and steamy June afternoon, the church had set up a small oasis offering cups of cold water to all the marchers who felt hot and thirsty and tired. In no time, the water was gratefully guzzled down, and St. Mark's UMC had transformed its image in the face of that neighborhood. What a difference from the other nearby church that bordered the parade route! That church sent out its message ...

134. Jesus' Good News of a New World · Part 2

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... me and said, “You’re dehydrated.” We had been working in the heat during the day, and then sleeping in the heat at night. I thought I was drinking enough fluids, because I wasn’t thirsty. My mouth wasn’t dry, but the rest of me was. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for God’s right order. We can be thirsty for God’s right order and not know it. That’s why we need Jesus. He shows us our true condition, our sin-sickness. His way, truth, and life, are Bread from heaven that satisfies the ...

135. God Is Like a Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Illustration

Frederick Buechner

... are more than just a few ways, needless to say, that people like you and me are like sheep. Being timid, greedy, foolish, and half holy is only part of it. Like sheep we get hungry, and hungry for more than just food. We get thirsty for more than just drink. Our souls get hungry and thirsty; in fact it is often that sense of inner emptiness that makes us know we have souls in the first place. There is nothing that the world has to give us, there is nothing that we have to give to each other even, that ever ...

136. The Kingdom Is Not K-Mart

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... not worth his salt." Salt has very many wonderful qualities: salt purifies, salt preserves, salt penetrates. As salt, we are to give every lost sinner a taste of Jesus and a desire to come to Him. Just as salt makes you thirsty for water, the salt of the disciple ought to make someone else thirsty for Jesus. But, the world is not going to be attracted to Jesus by half hearted followers. The world will never be willing to do business with Jesus until they see that His followers mean business with Him. I wish ...

137. The Evangelist Has a Shady Past

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... but she was tired of carrying a heavy water jug back from the well each day. This Jew was promising her a source of water that would never cease flowing and that sounded good. The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” Then Jesus surprised her again. He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” Whoa, he hit a nerve. “I have no husband,” she replied. Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no ...

138. John 4:5-42

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... (Genesis 48:22). For centuries the well had furnished the flocks and families of the patriarch with fresh water. Here John’s gospel emphasizes Jesus’ simple humanity. After walking all morning in the heat of the midday sun, Jesus was tired, hot, hungry, and thirsty. As this most sacred personage in Christianity rests at a sacred spot for both Jews and Samaritans, a most un-sacred individual approaches. A Samaritan woman comes to Jacob’s well at midday. She comes at a time when no one did “chores ...

139. Thanks for the Memory, Bob

John 6:24-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world" (vv. 32-33). "Please, Jesus, give us this bread." He answers, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty" (v. 35). Jesus says remember me when you eat and drink. Why especially then? Because we need the reminder of the true source of all we need: * When our starving spirit needs nourishment, we have it in Jesus. * When our hungry heart needs sustenance, we have it in Jesus ...

140. The Water Witcher

Matthew 11:1-19

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... away you go. Joey: How long will it take, Grandpa? Willard: A couple of hours. Joey: Whew, that’s a long time. Willard: When you’re tired, Joey, just take a break. We’ll pump some water from the well over there and get a drink when you’re thirsty. Grandma sent along some chocolate chip cookies. (They paint in silence for a while.) Willard: Let’s play a game, Joey. Joey: Okay, what’ll it be? Willard: Let me tell you a story. You guess if it is fact or fib. Joey: I love your stories, Grandpa, but ...

141. Life’s Take-Home Final

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... before the throne. Instead Christ chooses this very moment when his power and majesty are fully revealed to redefine his presence. Christ the King is not some all-powerful despot. Christ the King is the one person we encounter in our life who is hungry, who is thirsty, who is alone, who is alien, who is naked, who is sick, who is imprisoned. Christ the King is found in all those who are walking embodiments of human frailty and even human failure. In other words, Christ the King is found in each and every ...

142. Advent 3

Isaiah 12:2-6, Zephaniah 3:14-20, Luke 3:1-20, Philippians 4:4-7

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... is no reason to be afraid (3:15), that God’s love will give new life (3:17), and that God will be joyful with them (3:17-18). In Isaiah, the idea of being unafraid shows up along with the image that “fresh water brings joy to the thirsty” (12:3). At the other end of the continuum, John the Baptist berates the people as “snakes” and assures them that punishment is sent from God (Luke 3:7). While “guilt trips” worked well back then, they don’t today. So the question the people ask is vital ...

143. Epiphany 8

Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15, Isaiah 55:10-13, Luke 6:39-49, 1 Corinthians 15:51-58

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... emotion. Death may take us to our eternal home but for those left behind there is hurt. The victory in death is that suffering has ended for the one who is absent from the body. The Isaiah passage is an antidote to Paul: come everyone who is thirsty; life can be experienced. Jesus is an antidote: I have come so that you may have life. Building a lifestyle as described by Jesus in the Sermon on the Plain/Mount gives us meaning and satisfaction. Another possible title/theme might be a local bumper sticker: Be ...

144. Passing the Test

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... you had left in your life. Your children, you had such high hopes for them, only continue to disappoint you. You wake up in the middle of the night crying because you never thought that your life would turn out like this. You are in the wilderness ... thirsty, hungry, alone ... even God seems to have forsaken you. This wasn't supposed to happen to Christians. This wasn't supposed to happen to those who believe in God. Wasn't going to church and saying your prayers supposed to fix all this stuff? This is not ...

145. Endurance

2 Corinthians 11:24-27, 2 Timothy 4:6-8

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... , as well as from the Gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the seas. And I have faced danger from men who claim to be believers but are not. I have worked hard and long, enduring many sleepless nights. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm. — 2 Corinthians 11:24-27 (NLT) How many times do you have to be tied to a pole and beaten to within an inch of your life until you call it ...

146. Restarting Joy - Rejoice

Isaiah 55:10-13

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... that desire in the heart of a human being, and put the desire in that heart so deeply, that he or she will truly be hungry and thirsty for it. Only then does it take on meaning. You have to seek that. You have to want it. And I guess beyond that, I want ... that desire in the heart of a human being, and put the desire in that heart so deeply, that he or she will truly be hungry and thirsty for it. Only then does it take on meaning. You have to seek that. You have to want it. And I guess beyond that, I want ...

147. Revelation 22:12-14; 16-17; 20-21

Revelation 22:1-6

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... a dark night. Just as the stars shine down upon the whole world, so the appearance of Jesus, the “bright morning star,” is a transforming illumination offered for all people. The universal nature of the invitation in v.17 is clear: “And let everyone who is thirsty come, Let anyone who wishes to take the water of life as a gift.” The Lord invited Adam and Eve to “eat” of all that was offered in Eden. The Ascended Christ now affirms that all are invited to drink at the fountain of redemption so ...

148. Is the Lord Among Us or Not?

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Tony Everett

... appears, the easier it is to focus only on the discomforts of the present and to yearn for the pleasures of the past. Is the Lord among us or not? Tell us! Show us! Right now! In our text today, the folks had had enough… again. They were thirsty… again. They complained to Moses… again. “Why did you bring us out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” (Exodus 17:3). In Numbers 20:5 they called their present location a “wretched place… no place for grain, or figs, or ...

149. Crucified, Dead, and Buried

John 19:17-27, John 19:28-37, John 19:38-42

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. (Ps. 63:1) First of all, there is surely an irony in the fact that he who claimed to satisfy all thirst (4:13–14) himself became thirsty for the sake of those in need (cf. 4:6–7). Yet however great Jesus’ physical experience of thirst may have been, his last, and deeper, personal need was the need to rejoin the Father (cf. 13:1, 3). It was his death, not merely his thirst, that would allow ...

150. Distress and Help

Isaiah 33:1-24

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... 23) will be harvested (the latter word occurs only once more in the entire OT). The nations had been warned about their thirst remaining unsatisfied, and Judah had been warned about not satisfying the thirsty (29:8; 32:6). The reference to when people pounce uses a similar word to the word for “thirsty,” though with a different meaning. 33:5–6 Yahweh is now confessed rather than addressed. Another key theme in earlier chapters has been the declaration that Yahweh will be exalted, rather than the human ...

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