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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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2201. Christmas 2

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Ephesians 1:1-14, Ephesians 1:15-23, John 1:1-18

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... : It is God's plan for each of us to be a part of his family, and enjoy a new life blessed with his fatherly love. People: Praise God for his grace and kindness which he has bestowed on us through Christ our Lord! Collect O loving Father, who desires to give your children new life through your Son, Jesus: Convince us to accept him as Lord and Savior; that we may enjoy new life as your children. In his name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Father, we are your children only because you have poured out your ...

2202. Epiphany 7

Isaiah 49:8-26, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, Matthew 5:27-30, Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 5:33-37

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... Appears" "The Church's One Foundation" Gospel: Matthew 5:27-37 Theme: Sin begins with inner motives Call to Worship Pastor: Jesus taught that sin begins with our inner motives where the Law is unable to give direction. People: God knows the secrets of our hearts; and he desires that we surrender our wills to him. Pastor: Our relationship with God is determined by how we feel in our hearts. That is where we must get right with God if we are to be true to him. People: We justify ourselves by the laws we have ...

2203. Epiphany 8

1 Corinthians 4:1-21, Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:38-42, Leviticus 19:1-37

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... But we are guilty of many unneighborly acts of injustice; and we carelessly violate their right to depend on us as neighbors. Forgive us for pretending to love when we use people to our advantage, and then mistreat them when they displease us. Give us the desire to express genuine love and concern for one another as you have commanded. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Hymns "At Length There Dawns the Glorious Day" "O Brother Man, Fold to Thy Heart" "These Things Shall Be" "Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life ...

2204. Jesus' Invitation To Drink Living Water

John 3:1-21

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... grown up in the church. We feel at home here. Perhaps that familiarity hinders what God would like to do with us. Pastor: God would like to satisfy our thirst by revealing our sins so he can forgive us. Then we can really worship him! People: We desire to empty our lives of all distractions, that God may fill us with his presence! Collect O God of love, who offers an everflowing fountain of forgiveness: Fill our emptiness with your love; that in drinking freely your water of life, we may know the joy of ...

2205. Thursday in Holy Week

Exodus 12:1-30

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... on our behalf. Pastor: When Jesus washed his disciples' feet, he set for us the example of humility which he expects us to follow. People: May our communion with Christ confirm us in a life of humble service to others. Collect Most merciful Father, who desires that we humble ourselves in willing service to our fellow man: Help us to follow Christ's example of assuming the servant role, that we may not let ourselves become proud or self-righteous in our faith. We pray through Christ who humbled himself on ...

2206. Good Friday

Hebrews 4:14-5:10, John 19:17-27, Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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... time, because our Lord's death brings God's gift of new life. Collect Father in heaven, who grieves over the sins of humanity, yet whose love provides forgiveness in the atoning death of your Son: Convict us of our sins against your love, and convince us of your desire to forgive, that our Lord's death may fulfill your purpose in our lives. In the name of Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession What pain and sorrow we must bring to you, Father. And yet what love you pour out to us! Forgive us for what we ...

2207. A Desperate Question

Matthew 11:1-19

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George Bass

... who is being sought by her friends and lovers, but Roberta who is doing the desperate seeking. Roberta is the wife of a very successful spa and tub salesman. She lives in a luxurious apartment house in New York City, and has about everything anyone could desire. But her life is empty; it has no meaning, no purpose, and, to make matters worse, she gradually comes to the realization that her husband is in love with himself, not with her. His greatest pleasure is to watch himself in the commercials he has made ...

2208. Reflection Time

John 1:1-18

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... For the past several years, she writes, she has been observing a kind of financial Lent: "I give up plastic (credit cards)." But she has been disappointed in herself and has determined that it has been a "phony" exercise: "To be frank, my plan was born out of a desire to strengthen my moral fibre as much as my financial picture." It hasn’t worked, she concludes: "This is not a phony poverty vow: Let’s all pretend we’re poor and eat on a welfare budget this week for the bourgois fun of it. It is rather ...

2209. Christians Trust in God

Matthew 6:25-34

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Joe Pennel

... to do his duty before God and can give a good reason at all times for what he does ... His actions are placed in the world, but are subject to the will of God who is the Creator of the world and yet in His Infinity outside it ... To desire these things: that is true love," and is truly, as Jesus put it, "seeking the kingdom of God and his righteousness."50 Those who trust in God above everything else don’t worry needlessly about food, clothing, and shelter; they find ways of supplying them to others, as ...

2210. Jacob’s Dream - A Dream Come True W. Dexter Moser

Genesis 27:1-40

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... and Esau felt Isaac would die, decided that she could not wait for the Lord, but must act for him; or her favorite son would lose the blessing. Could it possibly be that the Lord was using her vision of what she thought he meant? Was she impatient in her desire for this son? You and I can recall the later words of Isaiah which she, of course, did not know: "For my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher ...

2211. Remember Toward the Future John M. Cobb

Exodus 12:1-30

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... and nothing in the head ... Thus, when a human being has nothing - and I mean in reality nothing, although he might think that he has everything - when something essential is lacking there, then that person becomes restless, and there gets to be an inner desiring - for what exactly he does not know. People today are searching for something, but they don’t know exactly what for. I’ve heard that a person can also see something like that in animals, in livestock. For example, when there is a deficiency ...

2212. Prayer in a Pinch

Matthew 14:22-36

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... for mercy, we are open to hearing what we need to hear. Sometimes the jams of life happen for other reasons, even while doing what we are supposed to be about. I would contend that Jesus' own prayers in a pinch often resulted from his very desire to do the will of God. The crowds for instance, pressured him because he was God's healer - with a genuine compassion. People yearned to hear him speak because he spoke with authority. And when he prayed that agonizing midnight prayer in Gethsemane, it was because ...

2213. The Power and the Glory

Matthew 20:20-28

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... would really live. This city is Hollywood, and it symbolizes glory. Wherever one lives in this land, these two cities symbolize attractions of great influence in our lives. Whether we ever get to either place, we know that what they represent is part of us. It is the desire to have power over others and the wish to have glory and recognition. This matter of the heart is also the subject of the fuss in the gospel we just heard. Here we find a mother looking out for her sons, asking Jesus if James and John ...

2214. Easter 3

Luke 24:13-35, Acts 2:14a, 36-41, 1 Peter 1:17-23

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... " "Jesus, Thine All-Victorious Love" "Lord, I Want to Be a Christian" "Take Time to Be Holy" Gospel: Luke 24:13-35 Theme: The Emmaus Road Call to Worship Pastor: What a happy morning! The risen Lord is with us, wanting to reveal himself to us. People: We desire that more than anything; because too often we go through life wishing he were nearer. Pastor: Christ is always by our side trying to make his presence felt, but too often we are on "the road to Emmaus," and do not see him. People: May our eyes be ...

2215. Ascension

Luke 24:46-53, Acts 1:1-11, Ephesians 1:15-23

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... has accepted that commission to baptize and teach in the name of Christ. Pastor: Our Lord has not left us alone to carry out that assignment. He is with us at all times to help us in our ministry. People: Inspired by our Lord's presence, we desire to share the gospel with our world. Collect Gracious Father, whose Son has commissioned his followers to go into all the world with the gospel: Guide and uphold the church with his presence, that we may reach the unreached with our Lord's message of redemption. In ...

2216. First Sunday After Pentecost

Deuteronomy 4:32-40, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, Matthew 28:16-20

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... in obedience to your will that we may experience the fullness of life to which you would save us. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession We have experienced your revelation and redemption, O God; but our response lacks the obedience which you desire. Forgive us when we forget your love and ignore your presence with a life of indifference and independence. Give us a clear understanding of the ways in which you give yourself to us for our benefit, that we may give ourselves to you in faithful ...

2217. Proper 9

Matthew 11:25-30, Romans 7:7-25, Exodus 1:1-22

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... life and peace our Savior gives. In his name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession You know our frustration, Father: We want to be righteous, but we are possessed by sin. Forgive us when our human nature makes it so difficult for us to express the righteousness we desire. Cause us to depend more on Christ to enable us to live the life of the Spirit; that we may not continue with our minds controlled by our human nature. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Hymns "Be Thou My Vision" "Dear Master, in Whose Life I See ...

2218. Harnessed Power

John 20:19-23

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Richard L. Thulin

... . The Spirit's energy is not given away as a private possession. It is not some kind of electrical charge that will animate the disciples awake or asleep. Nor is it some kind of power source that the disciples can call upon for whatever purpose they desire. It is energy given for, and connected to, the assigned task. It empowers the act that has been commanded. It guarantees the reality of the forgiving act. The forgiveness the disciples give will be as real as that given by the Jesus who sends them. The ...

2219. Invincible Harvest

Matthew 13:1-23

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... ' story is exactly what we have been talking about. The kingdom of God is coming in the fullness of God's splendor. We are to announce that coming in trust and with all patience. We are to do this in spite of all evidence to the contrary and against all desires to rush it or to force its appearance. We are called upon simply to announce ... to trust ... to persevere. 1. Interesting data in this regard can be found in Journal of Communication, Winter 1985/Volume 35, Number 1.

2220. No Weedless Garden

Matthew 13:24-30

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Richard L. Thulin

... heaven is the farthest thing from any of the children's minds. "How many of you lust after the flesh?" a fiery pastor may ask his congregation. Only a few hands tremble upwards, even though everyone present knows the addiction of his or her own intense desires. These may not be the best examples, but they may be good enough. We know the right religious answers to questions about heaven and lust and a hundred other things. And when the time comes to openly admit our condition, it is often the "right" answer ...

2221. The Call to Servanthood

Isaiah 42:1-9

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... been promised. The one, who faithfully enfleshed the words of the servant in Second Isaiah, feeds us his broken body and his shed blood for the forgiveness of our sins, for the strengthening of our faith. Here the risen Lord meets us because he loves us, because he desires that we be strengthened, that we be upheld to be the servant people of God in the world. In our text the servant is to bring forth justice to the nations. The servant is to be the mediator between God and all the peoples of the earth. The ...

2222. God's Glory Manifest

Exodus 24:1-18

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... Peter does not understand and wants to capture the glorious moment by building booths on the mountain height. The glory of God is the manifestation of the divine presence to God's people. There is an attraction for us in the epiphany of God. We do desperately desire the cooling touch of God's hand to our fevered brow of worry and pain. We eagerly await the delivering action of God to burst us loose from all that restricts and binds up life in our slaveries. We earnestly seek the glory of God manifest to ...

2223. Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Exodus 19:1-25

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... art in heaven (the God far above us in sinlessness and power), holy be your name." Make no mistake about it, the Transcendent God is not an angry God; neither is he a master we somehow have to convince that we need to approach him. Rather, he desires with all of his great heart of love and mercy to make it possible for us to see him and enjoy his Presence. Dr. Menninger tells the story about President Thomas Jefferson and a group of companions who were traveling horseback, cross-country, and were obliged to ...

2224. Communion Is Real Presence

John 1:1-18

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... us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. It is said that King Charles V, the king of Scotland, many years ago, wondered what life was like for the people of his kingdom. In a desire to better know them and to more graciously govern them, he would occasionally exchange his royal robes for common clothes and walk from his lofty palace into the soiled streets. Completely disguised as a commoner, he walked through the market place, worked in the fields and ...

2225. Communion Is Remembering

Luke 22:7-38

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And when the hour came, he sat at table, and the apostles with him. And he said to them, "I have earnestly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; for I tell you I shall not eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God." And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, "Take this, and divide it among yourselves; for I tell ...

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