Many people are satisfied to come to church to read from the menu, to have somebody describe the menu, and then go home.

Dr. Tony Evans says that's a recipe for spiritual malnutrition.

How do you know the soul is starving to death because you're living a dissatisfied life?

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Spiritually speaking, if your life isn't full, it may be because your stomach isn't empty.

Today, Dr. Evans talks about the benefits of being spiritually famished.

Let's join him in Matthew 5, verse 6.

We live in a day when most of us don't have to worry about being hungry for very long.

The access to food in the Western world is replete.

Not so in biblical days when there were no freezers and refrigerators,

and you had to hustle after your food day by day,

because it couldn't be preserved typically for extended periods of time.

We've all seen third world countries with babies with bloated bellies

hungering and thirsty,

passionately desiring to be fed by life sustenance of food and water.

Those folk are different than we are today

or where we live because they're desperate.

We may be inconvenienced

by the time it takes to get in our car

and go to McDonald's.

Those folk are desperate.

Their longing is much deeper than you and I have to deal with.

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