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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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326. Prayers for Epiphany

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Rolland R. Reece

... souls, O Lord, we turn to you. Our dark and empty mood leaves us frightened of the possible outcome of our days. We abhor the thought that we would become a shell, a front, a flat picture completely devoid of any depth or dimension. Our emptiness isn't our desire. We have run and are running now in life's race hoping to win a coveted winner's wreath. It isn't that we have set our sights on hollowness, or that we wish to become shallow. Nonetheless, we find ourselves far from the spiritual home we dreamed of ...

327. Advent 3

Luke 13:1-9, Exodus 3:1-22, 1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Isaiah 55:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... fig tree was given one more year to produce and then the end if it did not produce the fruit of repentance. f. The patience of God in giving sinners one more chance, a little more time to repent. Behind this patience is a God of love who does not desire the death of any one person. "God so loved the world ... that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life." 3. "Of what use were you in this world?" 13:6-8. This is life's most searching question. Did your life count for anything? A ...

328. Proper 20

1 Timothy 2:1-15, Jeremiah 8:4--9:26, Luke 16:1-15

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John R. Brokhoff

... : 1 Timothy 2:1-7 1. All (vv. 1, 4, 5). Universality is repeatedly emphasized in this pericope. Christianity is for all people. Prayers are to be offered for "all" persons from the top of kings to the bottom of the poorest. It is God's desire that "all" people are saved including communists and capitalists, atheists and agnostics. Christ's sacrifice was a ransom for "all" creatures. He died for the whole world of past, present, and future. For this to become a reality the church is given a mandate through ...

329. How Much Sin Is Too Much?

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

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William B. Kincaid, III

... God, I have no idea where I am going ... the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire.3 1. Lewis Grizzard, A Heapin' Helping of True Grizzard (New York: Galahad Books, 1991), p. 326. 2. Elie Wiesel, Night (New York: Bantam Books, 1960), p. 3. 3. Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude ...

330. Proper 8

Romans 6:1-14, Romans 6:15-23, Jeremiah 28:1-17, Genesis 22:1-19, Matthew 10:1-42

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Russell F. Anderson

... stop the oblation, no substitute for this ultimate sacrifice. It was a sacrifice on top of a sacrifice. Christ had already offered his life to the Father in a perfect sacrifice of obedience. It's not that God needs our sacrifices or even desires them. What God does desire is a sacrificial spirit within each one of us. The supreme sacrifice of Christ was not offered to placate an angry God, but to elicit within us the willingness to give freely of ourselves and our substance. Old Testament: Jeremiah 28:5-9 ...

331. Christmas 2

Mt 2:13-23 · Jn 1:1-18 · Eph 1:3-14 · Jer 31:7-14 · Is 61:10--62:3 · Ps 147

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Russell F. Anderson

... grace. Gospel: John 1:1-18 The light of the Divine Logos becomes flesh, to bring life to those who dwell in the darkness of sin. All who receive him are given the power to become the children of God, who like the Christ are born not from human desire but through the will of God and by his grace. Gospel: Matthew 2:13-23 The Holy Family flees to Egypt to escape the jealous wrath of King Herod, being warned by an angel. After Herod dies, they make their exodus back to Israel but not Judah, since Archaelaus ...

332. The Righteous

Sermon

John A. Terry

... s apartment was located on the edge of the rich area. Spike called on the pastor of this fashionable church and told him of his desire to join. "My dear man," said the pastor, with more than a touch of superiority, "I do not think you would be happy here, ... reward. To hunger and thirst for the world to be right is the source of the blessing. To hunger and to thirst indicates an intense desire. It is like the expression, "I want it so bad I can taste it." But it does not mean we have achieved what we have ...

333. The Peacemakers

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John A. Terry

... , seeing their only hope coming through the conflict of arms. Yet even in war, the deepest longing is for peace. Saint Augustine said, "Peace is so great, that even in this earthly and mortal life there is no word we hear with such pleasure, nothing we desire with such zest, or find to be more thoroughly gratifying." Everyone is for peace just as everyone is for motherhood. But often when mothers lovingly do things they should do, their children do not respond in love. In the same way, when we do the things ...

334. The Righteous

Psalm 107:1-43

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John A. Terry

335. The Peacemakers

Ephesians 2:11-22

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John A. Terry

336. The Banquet

John 6:25-59

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Robert Salzgeber

... tells the people that they did not have to play ritualistic and posturing games to get his Father's attention. He says that his Father desires to be close to them. He says, "I am the living bread ... the bread I will give you is my flesh ... I give it so ... blood lives in me, and I live in himwhoever eats me will live ..." In order to make his point of how close his Father desires to be to the people Jesus says quite literally, "Eat me. Consume me. Put me on. Wear me. Take me into yourself. Participate with ...

337. The Spiritual Organ Of Corti

Mark 7:31-37

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Robert Salzgeber

... reservations. His attitude at the time was that he simply wanted to learn more about the issue. He did not necessarily desire to do anything about the problem. Then, right smack in the middle of the seminar, a well-known member of ... with. If we pray and ask for a meaningful ministry, God just may answer that prayer by dumping us into a mission field where we do not desire to be. But that's exactly what he had asked for to begin with; a meaningful and challenging ministry. My friend got exactly what he asked ...

338. Tough Faith In Tough Times

Luke 18:1-8

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Larry R. Kalajainen

... not operate by human time-clocks. God sees the end from the beginning, and he answers the cry of his people speedily, but speedily in relation to God's own knowledge of the situation and according to his own timetable. It is our impatience and our desire to have every problem solved immediately that leads us to experience the situation as justice delayed. I heard a story which illustrates how we often confuse God's timing with ours. A country newspaper had been running a series of articles on the value of ...

339. Eating Living Bread

John 6:25-59

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William E. Keeney

... when they make demands that go contrary to conventional wisdom and human prudence. 2. Flesh or Spirit. (vv. 55, 58) A. Doing What Comes Naturally. Do we simply follow our biological impulses? B. Doing What Comes Spiritually. Living in Christ helps us overcome natural desires and to live according to the Spirit. C. Being Fully Human. Jesus was truly human. If we partake of his nature and character we manifest what it means to be truly human. 3. True Food. (v. 55) A. Malnourished. Living according to false ...

340. Lessons for Lent 3

John 2:12-25

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Russell F. Anderson

... heart (v. 20). This would seem to relieve humans of responsibility for their actions. However, elsewhere in his epistles he maintains our accountability for our actions. These verses reveal our powerlessness to consistently do God's will, even if it is our fervent desire. Gospel: John 2:13-25 In the synoptic gospels this account of the cleansing of the temple comes toward the end of Jesus' life, conducted after he entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. This came as the immediate cause of his arrest. In John ...

341. Proper 15

Ephesians 4:17--5:21, 1 Kings 3:1-15, 1 Kings 2:1-12, John 6:25-59

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Russell F. Anderson

... : Wise Up. Sermon Angle: Paul teaches the flock to "Be careful how you live; not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time." In other words, "Wise up!" Those who are wise do look up to the Lord and the things of God. The wise desire to know and do God's will and fill their day with good and uplifting activities. The wise are filled with God's Spirit. The unwise devote themselves to the unfruitful works of darkness (v. 10). One might say that the unwise wise-down, while the truly wise wise ...

342. Advent 4

Luke 1:26-38

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Russell F. Anderson

... his special abode has been the Tabernacle. Some scholars regard much of this passage as a later attack on temple worship inserted in the original material, though their arguments are not completely convincing. The text is a wordplay on the word house (Hebrew bayrith). David desires to construct for the Lord a physical house but is told that God would himself make of David (his family) a house, defined as family or dynasty (v. 15). The Lord would carve out for his people a place of safety and security (v. 10 ...

343. The Importance Of Asking The Right Questions

Luke 20:27-40

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Larry R. Kalajainen

... we will not experience the very security we seek. At a church-growth workshop the leader, Bill Easum, who himself grew a church from 29 members to over 2,400 members, said that too often the questions churches ask themselves are questions that are motivated by a desire to maintain whatever is comfortable. That's why some wag has said that the seven last words of the church are "We've never done it that way before." Bill Easum spoke of the three greatest sins of the church, and one of them was, "We're more ...

344. Love One Another (or Strike Up The Band)

John 13:31-38

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Lee Griess

... the youth, mow the grass. And all of these things are of vital importance to a congregation. They are wonderful and important to our life together. But if we do not do them out of love for God, if we do not love one another, we miss what God desires most of us. Lucy stands with her arms folded and a resolute expression on her face, while Charlie Brown pleads with her. "Lucy," he says, "you must be more loving. The world needs love. Make this world a better place, Lucy, by loving someone else." At that Lucy ...

345. God Doesn't Ask A Fig Tree To Produce Bananas

Luke 13:1-9

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Lee Griess

... guilty conscience and grieve in the awareness that we have failed to live up to the expectations of God and those around us. Confession is good for the soul -- yes, we know that -- but how can we develop a true sense of heartfelt remorse for our sinfulness and a real desire to change our ways? Most of us are willing to confess our sins as long as we don't have to change. We are willing to admit to a blemish or two on our moral complexion but nothing that can not be cosmetically covered up with a coating of ...

346. A New Command

John 13:31-38

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Lee Griess

... , so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. This is my commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you. This is my will for you. This is what I expect. This is my desire for all people -- that my joy may be in you and your joy may be full. Love one another. What a model for successful living! When the play Peter Pan first premiered on the London stage in 1904, author Sir James Barrie began to hear complaints from parents who were ...

347. How To Deal With Frustration

1 Kings 8:22-61

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Robert Allen

... his going. Something barred that door of hope against his entrance, something moved him in another direction and he was left frustrated with a vision of what might have been. Perhaps, the most poignant or dramatic instance of frustration in the Bible was the desire of David to build a temple for God in Jerusalem. All of his life it had been David’s intention to erect a house of worship for the Hebrew people. But, the wars and disasters and conflicts prevented him from fulfilling that dream. However ...

348. Hostage Crisis

1 Kings 19:1-8

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... this crisis. People punished and persecuted for doing the right thing, for exemplifying all that is good and right and just. The crisis is one where good is held hostage to evil; where the innocent suffer at the hands of the deceitful and diabolical; where people desiring to live forthright and upstanding lives are made prisoners of fear, uncertainty, and loss of hope and faith in the power of God to transcend and deliver them. This is a crisis of great magnitude, for Satan is at war to make hostages of the ...

349. It's Performance That Counts

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

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Larry Goodpaster

... to love the things that God loves, in the way God loves them. Taking our cue from Christ, we are to be makers of peace and workers for justice. We are to share mercy, even as we have been the recipients of God’s mercy. We are to earnestly desire, even hunger for, right living, and in so doing point others toward the source of life and hope and wholeness and rightness in their living. Practicing the love of God is not an emotional response that is either turned up or allowed to cool off depending upon our ...

350. Doing Our Homework

Matthew 9:9-13

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Larry Goodpaster

... the moment, the lesson comes from their book! It is from the prophet Hosea, a writing they would have had to read and study in their schools growing up. “Go and learn what this means,” Jesus charges. And here is what they were to go study: “I desire mercy, not sacrifice.” With that, the Pharisees leave, leaving us to wonder if they ever learned their lesson. Where does that leave us? None of us would claim to be so unenlightened as those Pharisees appear to be. At the same time, I take it that this ...

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