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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3176. Ash Wednesday
Joel 2:1-11, Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, 2 Corinthians 6:3-13
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... Cry to Thee" Second Lesson: 2 Corinthians 5:20b--6:2 (3-10) Theme: Be reconciled to God Call to Worship Pastor: Hear Paul's plea to the church: Be reconciled to God on behalf of Christ. People: God's grace has come to us in Christ. We do not want it to be wasted. Pastor: Then let us give our lives to Christ, who took on himself our sins, that we may be forgiven. People: The day of salvation is here! We commit ourselves to Christ as our Lord and Savior. Collect Gracious Father, who made your Son share our ...
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Glenn L. Borreson
... is a way of life for Americans. McDonald's hamburgers and Swanson's dinners have not yet replaced "mother and apple pie," but they are vying for position. When my family gets into our aging Pontiac to travel for the major part of a day or more, we want to get to our destination quickly. The time we have always seems too short. So we pause to eat along the way at our favorite fast food restaurants, expecting almost instant service, usually receiving it, and then being on our way again. For a brief time this ...
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... in as an understudy for God himself are far from satisfactory. That's true of most replacements for the real thing. You don't want margarine if you can get butter, You don't want imitation powder if you can get cream, You don't want instant if you can get brewed coffee, You don't want Pepsi if you can get Coke (excuse me, if you think it should be the other way around), - and you don't want angels when you've been used to having God! Nothing else, absolutely nothing else can take his place! "If You Don't Go ...
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... of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh." I want to begin this morning by reading an important letter to you (Note: Please amend this letter so it is appropriate for your congregation): Dear ... presence of Christ either because we don't care that he's here or because we don't really believe he is here. But I want to assure you with all my conviction and all my might that Jesus Christ is present with us today in our celebration of Holy ...
3180. Communion Is Repentance
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
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... cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. A young soldier, who had just been promoted to the rank of sergeant, wanted to impress a private who came into his new office. The private saluted the officer and was about to speak when the sergeant said, "Just a minute soldier. I have to return an important phone call to the General." He picked up the telephone, dialed a number and said ...
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... , I’m not trying to pass the buck (or should I say "talent?"). But I feel compelled to note that Five-Talent and Two-Talent have had an easy life compared to the defendant. One-Talent: (interrupting his attorney, speaking with emotion to the Judge) I only wanted to protect what I had. That’s all. Is that so terrible? I’m no more guilty than everybody here. Narrator: The silence in the courtroom is heavy with feeling as all who have come to the trial realize that they could easily be the defendant in ...
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... woman, we fail to make our commitment to Jesus Christ. We instead prefer to stay in the background, where we are safe. We stay there often because to seek Christ first requires a commitment which we feel that we are not able to make, or simply do not want to make, because our energies are channeled in so many other directions. Like this woman, we remain anonymous and on the periphery of the life of the church. This is a natural human tendency to which most of us are subject at one time or another in our ...
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Harold Warlick
... enough money and he believed. The machine let him down. He can't understand. He is angry at the machine. He shakes it violently. He kicks it. He speaks harsh words to it. In tears, he declares that's the last time he'll trust a gumball machine. What he wants doesn't always come rolling out even if he has the correct faith and pulls the proper lever. He gets the red ball because the machine does not have his welfare at heart.3 If Jesus taught us anything it should be that God is not a gumball machine. God ...
Children's Sermon
... place for them to live in it. The only answers that we have for questions like this are in the Bible. Jesus talked a lot about the Kingdom of God, and when he did he said some things that we can think about. For instance, there were some people who wanted to know how the Kingdom of God would begin and how large it would be. Jesus told the story about the mustard seed and how, when it was planted, it was the smallest seed that he knew; but when it grew it became such a large plant that the birds ...
Children's Sermon
... Jesus was very important. Jesus knew that he needed men like John, and he said so many times. John was like the water that you need to make the soup, but it is not as important as the things you put in it to make the kind of soup you want. Maybe the next time you see a can of soup or smell the soup cooking on your stove, you will remember how important we said the ingredients were that made a certain kind of soup. I hope you will also remember that while the water was not important, it really ...
Children's Sermon
... how God is going to do everything, and we can't even understand it all. But then, we don't know how God does a lot of things now, but he does them. When Jesus does come back, we want to be sure that we are ready for him. We want to show him how much we love him and how much we have wanted him to come back and be with us. Today we have ornaments to remind us of Christmas. Just like ornaments tell of Christmas coming, so there will be signs from God telling us of the coming of Jesus ...
Children's Sermon
... you see that person? It is you, isn’t it? Isn’t that a beautiful person in that mirror? That person you are looking at is a child of God. You are made in God’s image, to be like him, and to look like him. That is what Jesus wants you to do - to be a disciple, to be a person who loves the way God loves, and who learns the way of Jesus. Prayer: Let’s ask God to help us do that. O God, help us to be disciples, so that other people can see Jesus and your ...
Children's Sermon
... will be the boss of his or her life. You are already faced with that question even now at your age. Who is the boss? And, I want to tell you that you will be facing this question the rest of your life. It is simply a matter of how you are going to live. ... How are you going to decide how to live, what to do with your life, and how to make your decisions? I want to tell you there is only one person in the world who is worth giving your life to. That person is Jesus Christ. If you will make ...
3189. Managing Our Memories
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
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Leonard W. Mann
... final earthly week. The next day he would die on a cross. He would be leaving them as his witnesses in the world. For them, there would be trial and danger and suffering. So he was saying to them: Wherever you go out there, whatever you do, whatever happens, I want you to remember me. It is natural, I suppose, as one approaches death, to have a sentimental wish not to be forgotten. And one may say, "Please do not forget me when I am gone." Most of us feel a need to be remembered. In the upper room that ...
Children's Sermon
... bad cough. The cough medicine overcame the bad cough. It won, and I am glad. Cough medicine is a little like doing good. Jesus taught us that there are several ways to make bad things stop happening to you. Some people like to do bad things to you. If you want to, you can do bad things back to the people who have done them to you. Maybe you can make them quit, but usually they forget that they did it first and they just blame you for starting it, and since they did something bad to begin with, they keep ...
Children's Sermon
... of your family they remember your name and think about the good times that you have had together? (Let them answer.) I want people to remember me. I want them to remember the gifts that I gave them or the places that we visited together, or even the games we ... because her old one is being torn down. There are all kinds of names on my list to help me remember the names of people whom I want to pray about. Every once in a while I will pull out my card list and take a quick look at another name and say a prayer ...
Children's Sermon
... to show him how you honored him, what would you do? (Let them answer.) That's right, you would salute him. Let's all make a salute. We will pretend that there is a general coming by us and we want to honor him. (Lead the children in a salute.) Let's pretend that we want to honor someone else. Suppose you were invited to meet a king or queen. How would you show your honor to a queen or a king? (Let them answer.) That's right, you would bow or curtsy. That's another way of showing your honor to another ...
3193. The Called Ones
Matthew 4:18-22
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Joe Pennel
... dealership in order to attend a theological seminary in preparation for ordained ministry in the United Methodist Church. I recently heard his wife say, "My husband came home one day and said, 'You will be very surprised at what I am about to say, but I want to sell the business and go into the ministry'!" Within a few days, the business had been sold, and the family began tramping along another path. "We have never been happier," said his wife. There was, for this family, a call and a response. Life, for ...
3194. A House for God
Matthew 7:24-29
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Gary W. Houston
... I think of sand I think of the many times I played in a sandbox as a child. I remember my cousin Janis had a neat sandbox. We would take our buckets, wet down the sand just enough to make it stick, and mold castles. It seems automatic to want to build sand castles, not houses. Castles are really grandiose houses, aren’t they? When I think of houses I remember our house being built out on Highway 58 near Bedford. Two carpenters worked for several weeks to build this house. It was built board by board upon ...
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Gary W. Houston
... in the loving eyes of Jesus Christ. That is tremendous when you stop to think about it. Jesus Christ came to save us not only from destruction, but from each other and from our divided selves. He came to pull us away from condemnation and judgment of others. Christ wanted and still wants for us to let the good part inside of us to grow and to allow the bad part to slowly die. We can not simply tear out the bad in our minds and psyches and become saints over night. If we do we will do more damage than good ...
3196. Proper 15 & Pentecost 13
Isaiah 56:1-8, Psalm 67:1-7, Psalm 78:1-72, Exodus 16:1-36, Romans 11:11-24, Romans 11:25-32, Matthew 15:21-28
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... world. Exodus 16:2-15 (C) - "A Heavenly Hand-Out." 1. Times were tough in the wilderness. Things were so bad that some wanted to return to Egypt, but there was no going back. God knew what his people were suffering in the wilderness. 2. God ... call and gifts are intended for all people. The Jews first heard the gospel, but it was soon preached to the Gentiles, too; God wanted it that way. 2. Good because of goodness. There is some truth in those lines of Frederick Faber's hymn, "Greater good because of evil ...
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... another kingdom not of this world and higher than their own? Don't you see that the shadow of the Cross will fall over Jesus even at the moment of His birth? People with power will pretend to praise Him while they plot to kill Him! No, Gabriel, if you want this Child to live, I wouldn't advertise too much when and where He is born. Least of all, don't tell the kings and queens where He is. "Go back to your office and try again, Gabriel," God said. "You've been seduced by the celebrity culture and confused ...
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... : Let us listen with our ears, see with our eyes, and be open with our minds. All: Speak to us, Lord, and we will hear what you have to say; we will act on what you show to us. Acts of Confession One pastor used this prayer (you may want to revise it for your particular situation): "O God, we come with mixed feelings today. Some may feel sad because of a marriage going nowhere and fearful of making a change; or with fears of rejection, disapproval, or criticism by those closest to us, or lonely because a ...
3199. Proper 16
Matthew 16:13-20
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... and then ask, "What have we done to the Christ?" 1. Often, we make our decision, form our opinion, build our theology, and then, find Scripture to justify our image. 2. However, either God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, or he wasn't. Perhaps you will want to use C. S. Lewis' response to the person who insists, "I am ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher; but I don't accept his and others' claims for him to be God." Lewis responded with "Either Jesus is who he claims, or else he was ...
3200. Proper 27
Matthew 25:1-13
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... ." Act of Recognizing our Humanness and Receiving New Life Suggestion: Introduce the act of confession with this statement by Albert Guerard: "I have often thought what a heaven this would would be if only we treated our fellow humans as we treat our dogs." You may want to print the following prayer to pray with the congregation: "Eternal Spirit, who called into being all that is and who gives vitality to all that will ever be, I admit that I am caught up in the isolated corner of my own little world. I ...
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