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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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1526. For The Love of God is Creative

1 Corinthians 2:6-12 · Psalm 8

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... forgiveness and grace. God saw the mess we had made of our lives and out of God's creative love and compassion for us, who were created in God's Image, God entered into our exile and experienced everything we experience; our loneliness, our fear, our hunger, our pain. As Jesus, God entered our lives and experienced everything we experience. Through Jesus, God walked where we walk. God knows what we go through first hand, and God loves us because of it and in spite of it. CONCLUSION: Good old Mr. Wilson and ...

1527. For The Love of God is Giving

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... do you get? Oh, you get a great meal and good service but four to six hours later you are hungry again. All God asks for is a tithe, ten percent. Through Christ Jesus, God's own Son, God offers us the Bread of Life, so that we will never hunger again. God offers us the well that springs up inside so we can drink deep and never thirst again. We get all of that and ninety percent, too. It sounds to me like tithing is a bargain. Years ago, Bishop Fulton Sheen was interviewing Jackie Gleason on a television ...

1528. In the Wilderness of Temptation

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . The more he eats of this enchanted Turkish Delight, the more he wants. He doesn't know that this is the wicked queen's plan. The more he eats, the more he will want, and thus he will eat and eat until it kills him. It would never satisfy his hunger; it would never fill him up, it would simply kill him. C. S. Lewis give us a metaphor for temptation and sin. That's exactly how sin is. The temptation is to give in but it never satisfies, it only enslaves. B. We're all tempted from time to time ...

1529. Which King Do We Worship?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... to the bone so she could continue to sponsor her overseas children. And members of her church who were aware of her sacrifice also sent donations to help. Carolyn keeps a photo on her fridge of her holding baby Lusitania, the child who died of hunger, to remind her of why she makes this sacrifice. (6) So what about you? When your choice to follow Jesus conflicts with your comfort, your status, your success, your security, which will you choose? You’ll never know which kingdom is your priority unless the ...

1530. Through the Heart of Jesus

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... in our day . . . right up until the time they crucified him. And in the midst of all this excitement, Jesus turns and directs these words quite surprisingly to his disciples: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. “Rejoice in that day and ...

1531. Welcome, Joe!

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... off. And the father didn’t wait for his son to make the long journey to his doorstep. He didn’t wait for his son to repent or apologize. He didn’t wait to see the red, swollen, tear-filled eyes or the young face now hardened and haggard from hunger and shame. While the son was still a long way off, the father ran to him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. William Muehl tells a story of a five-year-old boy who had made a ceramic dish as a Christmas gift for his parents. As the ...

1532. Winning the Grand Prize

Philippians 3:4b-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... without first informing their families, to go out in a small boat to do some fishing in the ocean. Unfortunately, their motor failed, and the currents swept them out into the vastness of the Atlantic. Within hours they no longer could see the coastline. Weeks of hunger and thirst, sunburn and fear passed by as they struggled to survive on the few fish they were able to catch, and the meager amount of rainwater they could capture. Both men were strong and fit, but six weeks after the start of their ordeal ...

1533. The Teacher

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Will Willimon

... they were (4:38). The teacher raised a little girl from the dead (5:35), fed a thousand people with just a few loaves (6:34), and cured a man of epilepsy with just a touch (9:17). He can still the tempest in your world, he can feed your hunger. Come, be taught by Him and be healed. ENCOUNTERING THE TEXT: Today's gospel is set in a synagogue in Capernaum on a Sabbath. The synagogue was Israel's unique invention, possibly during the exile, as a place of teaching, a place where· the tradition is passed on and ...

1534. Fertilize Your Faith

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the days he walked the earth. He is a Creator and Artist of Fertilization. Just as God resurrected people, places, lives, and even Jesus from the dead, God can also re-fertilize your heart with life-sustaining faith and nourishing love, sating your hunger for truth and your need for relationship, so that you too become a healthy, fruitful, life-bearing gift to everyone around you. A church that is barren has no future. And our churches today are in many cases victims of the soulless sprawling institutions ...

1535. First World Problems

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the world that they have earned a strange nickname: First World problems. First World problems are inconveniences, not threats. They come from having too much of everything and not enough gratitude for anything. All of us are familiar with Third World problems: poverty, hunger, lack of adequate health care, etc. But what about First World problems? A blog writer nicknamed Cheeky Kid collected a list of “100 Funny First World Problems.” I’m only going to read a few of these. I won’t ask you to ...

1536. We Have Waited

Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . I have chattered nervously lest they be left with only silence. I have wanted to cry, “Peace,” when there was none. I have wanted to stuff something in them, even if it wasn't nourishing because I am frightened by their awesome, gnawing hunger. But, we have waited, waited like embarrassed advance men who have arrived far too early to make things ready for the celebrity, the prima donna who is always late. Archie Bunker, in fevered argument with his agnostic, meathead, son-in-law, is asked, “Archie ...

1537. Being Different

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

John Jamison

... no one gave him anything.” It is the picture of loneliness. But finally, Luke says, the young man came to his senses and realized that even his father’s servants were in better shape than he was. It also seems that there was more than simple hunger involved. The young man began to realize that he had hurt his father, had shamed him and needed to somehow make up for that mistake. Let’s remember what happened next. Word spread through town quickly. Someone traveling on the road had seen the young man ...

1538. First Responder

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... isn’t talking about petty requests like a new car or a gold watch, a better job or a ton of money. He’s talking about issues of “justice.” Think about it. God has always from the beginning of time responded to his people’s call of pain, injustice, hunger, and despair. God heard the cries of his people from the shackles of Egypt. God heard the cries of Abel from the very ground where Cain struck him. God heard the lament of Adam, even when he was hiding in the trees. God heard the lament of mothers ...

1539. A Last Appeal

Luke 23:33-43

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... wine. Halfway up the cross was a projecting piece of wood that took the weight off the criminal or else the nail would have torn through his hands. Criminals ordinarily did not die immediately though hung on a cross; they often were left to die of hunger and of thirst, sometimes being left for a week or more. They were deliberately exposed for many days so that their plight would be an example to others not to take for granted the Roman overlords. [2] Regarding the theological meaning of the cross, the New ...

1540. Shiny Objects

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... . And that’s why this encounter in the wilderness was an essential test for Jesus’ ministry. What was he willing to endure, what was he willing to sacrifice to take on his role as our Savior? The devil offered him a quick and easy way to end his hunger, to prove his identity as the Son of God, and to gain instant and unlimited power. Jesus didn’t have to be fully human. He didn’t have to experience our weakness and fatigue and conflict and suffering. He didn’t have to die. The devil was testing ...

1541. What, Then, Would You Be?

2 Corinthians 5:20b—6:10

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... the good life. This was Paul’s hope in sharing his story with the Corinthian Christians. Paul listed nine sufferings that he endured for the sake of the gospel. These are: afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger. He placed these before the Corinthians asking if they were willing to make the same sacrifices. Paul was asking if they would surrender the worship of false gods to accept the challenge of obedience to the gospel message. Paul was ...

1542. Invictus

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews, in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city, in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers. I have labored, toiled, and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked. Besides everything else, I faced daily the pressure of my concern for all the churches.” Somewhere in that list you and I should find ourselves. Prison—perhaps we are imprisoned by ...

1543. The Challenge Of Simplicity

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

John Jamison

... a bag one of his aides had picked up at the Tiberius coffee house and pulled out a nice pineapple scone he started to munch on while he sipped his caramel cappuccino with extra foam. Jesus looked at them and said: Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Righteousness isn’t the same thing as being right, however right the Pharisees might be in enforcing the old laws, they the exact opposite of righteous. Righteousness means justice. Jesus was saying that you can create as many laws as ...

1544. Equipped for Our Calling

Matthew 9:35-10:8, (9-23)

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... ’s first mission trip, so she wanted to be prepared. She had packed her largest suitcase with as many clothes, shoes, and cosmetics as she could stuff in it. When she arrived in Mexico, she was shocked by the poverty she saw. She had never known hunger or suffering or injustice. God planted a deep sense of compassion in this young woman on the mission trip. He awakened a new sense of calling in her life. When her parents picked her up at the airport afterwards, she wasn’t carrying any luggage. She ...

1545. How Much Should We Pack?

Matthew 9:35-10:8, (9-23)

Sermon

William G. Carter

... to this house!” It makes no demand. It requires no decision. It simply announces the salvation that Jesus came to bring. As someone puts it, “When you speak like that, you release God’s good news into the air. God offers peace to all within hearing. Anyone hungering for such wholeness is free to respond on their own terms.12 When you go into a town, said Jesus, tell people the truth. You can eat with people and heal the sick. You can paint their houses and mow their lawns. But don’t forget to speak ...

1546. Seeing Is Believing

Isaiah 9:2 · John 1:14-18

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . Lewis. Thank God! For we are men and women, flesh and blood. We live here, on earth, not in some spiritual Shangri-la in the clouds. Here, with junior's spilled cereal and with a cancer that will not heal, and pain that will not go away, and with gnawing hunger and parched lips. This is where we live. And this is where, as the Bible tells Jesus' story, God meets us. Israel had always seen food as a gift of God. Thus the Jews gave thanks before meals. Israel's God is the God who gave food in the wilderness ...

1547. Be More Than You Are

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... verge of despair, but the Indians saw them as gods who possessed super-human power. Cabeza de Vaca felt they had not such power, writing, “But we had to heal them or die. So we prayed for strength. We prayed on bended knee and in the agony of hunger.” Then they blessed each ailing Indian -- and saw that the sick recovered. “To our amazement the ailing said they were well. We were more than we thought we were! To be more than I thought I was -- a sensation utterly new to me.” Isn’t that an exciting ...

1548. If There Isn’t Enough To Go Around

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

William G. Carter

... more are hungry for something more. A man named Kevin recently returned from a trip to Ethiopia. His church is building a relationship with a congregation in Ethiopia, and he went to the country to meet people in the church. He returned shocked by the hunger in Addis Ababa. In the capital city, there is a sea of humanity begging for money or food. Most beggars are little children. The guide said, “Stay away from them and watch out for pickpockets.” At one point, someone bumped into Kevin and stuck a ...

1549. Hark, The Herald... What?

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... within called, “Is that you, angel?” The minister replied, “No, but I’m from the same department.” Angels. No, we do not begin to have all the details available to us. But if you are interested in angels, be glad - it is a sign of a healthy hunger for the answers to the great mysteries. Listen for God’s messengers and messages, even from a wild-looking character from out in the desert who is the last one we would ever imagine at this time of year when we raise our voices with “Hark, the herald ...

1550. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

Sermon

King Duncan

... witches today in Paris, France than there are Roman Catholic priests. Since that is traditionally a Roman Catholic stronghold, such a statistic is disturbing. Some people contend that the resurgence of interest in the occult and witchcraft is a sign of our society's hunger for the supernatural. I am not sure. Perhaps such people are looking for a cheap thrill. We really do not know what the New Testament means when it speaks of casting out evil spirits. Is it referring to mental and emotional illness? Would ...

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