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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3651. Christmas 1
Matthew 2:13-18
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... , not because we are adequate or worthy, but because of his Grace. Pastor: Why have you come today? Ministers: To glorify and to enjoy God! Pastor: What do you need now? Ministers: Power to live an authentic life; freedom to be honest and open, released to love; joy to communicate; hope to begin again, and daring to become involved in the wounds of the world. Pastor: These are gifts (the best of the Christmas gifts) to be discovered in the Giver of Life. God is here as promised. Come, let us celebrate new ...
3652. Lent 2
John 3:1-21
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... worth than the children in Africa. All of us believe that about our children. To prove that, we need only listen to our prayers. Charge to the Congregation Suggestion: Keep before the people, the essence of Lent, which leads to the cross and crucifixion. Jesus loves us as much as he loved the Samaritan woman. The only difference is that her sins were more obvious than ours. Planning for Your Congregation I. Other Scriptures Psalm 33:4-5, 18-22 Psalm 105:4-11 Genesis 12:1-8 Romans 4:1-17 2 Timothy 1:8-10 ...
3653. Proper 5
Matthew 9:9-13
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... to practice it." You may want to use this litany: Pastor: We have made confession of our greatest sin. For those who take God's promise of forgiveness seriously, in the name of Jesus Christ, I declare the forgiveness of all your I-Centered lack of love for all. Ministers: Christ, we thank you for your promise. We believe; and now, we are better equipped to seek forgiveness and reconciliation. Message with the Children of All Ages Try this: Tell the story of how Jesus called Matthew; and tell the story of ...
3654. Proper 8
Matthew 10:1-42
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... ! Amen! Be it so! You may want to continue with this prayer: Praise be to you, Lord. Invade us with the power of your love and create in us a love for you and one another. Come and possess us so that our wills may be obedient to your will for us. Show us the ... Road Less Traveled, Scott Peck.) Follow with this printed prayer: O gracious Lord, I have been so forgetful this past week of what love and forgiveness mean in my life. I have been reluctant to respond to my neighbor's needs. I have talked behind his/ ...
3655. Proper 9
Matthew 11:25-30
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... how each does this. For those especially courageous, ask them to write their thoughts on paper. (Give them at least three minutes to do so.) You may want to pray following the silence. Then to introduce the assurance, you may choose to use Scott Peck's idea of love, which is to stop rescuing others and begin nurturing them so growth can take place. Perhaps you will want to ask the congregation to share how it does this. You may want to ask two or three people to be prepared to do this. (Although I have ...
3656. Proper 27
Matthew 25:1-13
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... : Wise and foolish maidens and the parable of the talents. Pastoral Invitation to the Celebration One pastor began this way: "We cannot love God whom we have not seen unless we love our fellow humans whom we do see. Love doesn't necessarily mean like. Love means that we seek the same for the other that we have received for ourselves. There is no such thing as loving God without loving our neighbor. We will discover during this worship what this means." Then, invite the congregation to shout out a word of ...
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... passed over from Death to Life." Let us pray: Lord, be my consolation; Shield me when I must die; Remind me of thy Passion When my last hour draws nigh. Those eyes, new faith receiving, From thee shall never move; For he who dies believing Dies safely in thy love.6 Suggested Hymn: "Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands" (vs. 1-3) 1. The Greek verb used here is in the perfect tense, inferring that the present state of things is the ongoing or permanent result of an action in the past. 2. Hebrews 2:9. 3 ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... forth from my mouth." When it comes directly out of one’s mouth, it is pretty hard to get more personal, right? Jesus said that out of the heart, the mouth speaks. God’s Word comes out of the heart, his very being, from inside, from a heart of love. Moreover, the mouth cannot speak a word unless there is breath that flows through the voice box. Ever try to speak while holding your breath? In the Bible breath and spirit are one, coming from the same Hebrew word. The breath of God is the Spirit of God ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... ! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any." In the good times of life, it is easy to believe in and love God. When all is going well, there is no reason to question or doubt the existence or nature of God. When all is well, we take God ... comes to all who rebel against God. When we sin, we are subject to the wrath of God. However, because God our King is one of love and mercy, he ultimately brings order out of chaos, victory out of defeat, and good out of evil. There is the good news of the ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... and joy in knowing Christ will give them life. The bereaved, like Lazarus, are all bound up with false ideas of death and heaven. The living are to unbind and release the dead that they might go to Christ in heaven. To the dying and the bereaved, God shows his love and concern by using us to comfort people with the good news of eternal life. Did anyone ever tell you a story and forget the punch line? Has anyone ever presented a situation and then never told you how it turned out? We have a case like this in ...
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John R. Brokhoff
... is that it is separation from God. A soul apart from him means death just as a branch dies when torn from the vine. God is love and to be separated from him means to live in hatred. God is hope and to be apart from him spells despair. In the biblical sense, ... are under this false impression. The soul apart from God continues to exist, but it is away from God - from life, light, and love. The opposite of this is an existence of darkness, despair, and misery. This is the horror of death, an eternal hell. The ...
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Peter Rudowski
... this mobile society doesn’t have to end just because the company comes and says you are to be transferred. AT&T has made it possible for us to reach out, to touch someone, to be ministers in our own right. AT&T has made it possible to speak of love and joy and encouragement to the people who mean so much to us. Today is Pentecost - fifty days after Easter. Today is the day God sends the Holy Spirit to us. Today is the birthday of the church. If we were to summarize that very famous portion of Acts, that ...
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George Bass
... to take up their cross daily" and "to deny themselves" - while rejecting the temptation to gain personal glory by the works they do in the name of Jesus. All deeds of mercy and loving kindness come through the inspiration of the love of God; they are not merely formulated in human hearts and minds. The very call of God to all his people to love each other and serve one another in his name reminds us that all glory, laud, and honor that might accrue to us in Christian service belongs to him, not to us. The ...
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George Bass
... of world we are living, with all of its alienation and seemingly hopeless situations, we desperately need to see Christ as the Son of God who became King of Kings and Lord of Lords when he died on Calvary. That’s why we sing: Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim Till all the world adore his sacred name. It is really that we lift high the Christ - and his cross - as we are about to enter the last part of Pentecost and approach the climax of that long season, the Festival of Christ the King. If ...
3665. The Three Faces of God
2 Corinthians 13:11-14
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Robert G. Tuttle
... Christ. They move together Toward the Kingdom of God Through the Holy Spirit. Or, to put it another way God, the Father, the Creator, commands obedience by the fact of Creation. Christ, the Son, the human involvement of God, reveals redemption by the fact of Love. The Holy Spirit supplies the power and the guidance to be, by the fact of Indwelling. A confused person came to me asking: "Can you sort out the Trinity for me? Jesus taught us to pray ‘our Father.’ We complete our prayers in ‘Jesus’ name ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... of their birth is a land of strangers ... They are in the flesh, but they do not live after the flesh. They pass their days on Earth, but they are citizens of Heaven. They obey the prescribed laws, and at the same time surpass the laws by their lives. They love all men, and are persecuted by all ... They are poor, yet make many rich ... To sum up all in our world - what the soul is in the body, that are Christians in the world.4 For a moment we glance at a bit of praise from an unexpected source. Albert ...
3667. JUNK FOR JESUS
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John H. Krahn
... you," we must be willing to first hear and then act upon his command to "Feed my sheep." That is, reach out to each other and communicate God’s love through both words and actions. Anything less than a wholehearted willingness to turn our lives over to God for his use is to, in effect, offer junk for Jesus. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Christian martyr during the Second World War, says it so poignantly, "When Christ calls a man, he bids ...
3668. FORGIVENESS: PART II
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John H. Krahn
... able to read the minds of others, how painfully evident our inadequacies would become. Forgiveness is something we need both from God and from one another. Those around us also need to be touched by our forgiving love. Someone who abused us may very well not deserve our love but needs it. Someone who irritates us by an obnoxious personality does not deserve our love but needs it. Someone who has shunned our every effort of kindness does not deserve another effort but might need it. "But how hard it is to ...
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Robert G. Tuttle
... north and south or an east and west. How can we know the truth about life? What did the creator have in mind? What does he now have in mind for us? What is God’s structure of life - his pattern for human relationships? What does he mean by love, beauty, reality? Where does the whole picture fall together? How does the stream flow - from where to what place, and what are the landmarks along the way? We seek the map. Because we are convinced that there is a structure that fits both the nature of God and the ...
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Harold Warlick
... and do something with them. They are his for he made them: God expects us to live with dignity, to face situations in which others are inclined to run away and to take handicaps and turn them from liabilities into assets. Yes, God expects us to live with virtue. He loves us, to be sure, when we do not. Yet he expects us to live with virtue. Life is sacred. It is a trust from God. No one should go through life marching to someone else’s cadence. We have to march to our own beat and tap those resources of ...
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... long in the marketplace was now at peace, with money to take home to his family? Why did not the older brother rejoice that the prodigal was now restored, set free from the rags and hunger of the far country? If only we had but a tincture of God’s love would we not be glad, as heaven is glad, that the lost sheep is safe in the fold, delivered from briars and wolves? Or are you jealous because I am generous? God asks." (Interpreter's Bible on Matthew) It’s tough to give up our idea of earning what God ...
3672. The Level Ground Beneath The Cross
Romans 3:21-31, Romans 3:9-20
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Bill Bouknight
... level. No one is good enough to make it to heaven without a Savior. No one is bad enough to be off limits to the Savior's love. Let's express it another way. My chances of going to hell without a Savior are the same as that of the worst drug dealer in ... sinners stand on level ground beneath that Cross. There is a second great democratic truth in this text. It is this: We Are Loved Equally By Jesus Christ. One of the most wonderful sentences in the New Testament runs from verse 23 through verse 25. Of course, ...
3673. Honoring Parents
Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 15:1-20
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Bill Bouknight
... only to them, we were not among the 1.4 million abortions that happen annually in America. The human being has a longer period of infantile helplessness than any animal. Even if a baby is fed and cleaned and clothed, it will die if it is not cuddled and loved. Someone loved us. You don't have to wait until Mother's Day or Father's Day to say thank-you to parents or other elderly relatives. Make it a point to say things like this: "Dad, I remember some of my earliest fishing trips with you. You knew I couldn ...
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Bill Bouknight
... worship. With a beautiful smile and a joyous spirit, she praised her all-sufficient God. I will never forget her last sentence, and as she spoke it, I don't think there was a dry eye in the sanctuary. She said, "I am thankful for a husband who loves me and let's me know it; for a son whose childlike faith never ceases to inspire me; truly my cup runneth over." Real thanksgiving honors that One who is our security even when the ground beneath us is shaking. It lifts up Christ who will be sufficient whatever ...
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James Bjorge
... ." The chaplain then read from Romans 8:1 to the men, "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." A silence similar to the quietness on a Palestinian hillside many years ago settled down on this group of war weary men. A light of love seemed to envelope this sacred spot where a Gift was being given that night. Men’s basic need of a Savior had come into focus and they were responding to that Savior who could fill the need. There is no doubt about the fact that when a person ...
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