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We ask you, God, to help and defend us.
We ask you, God, to help and defend us. Deliver the oppressed, pity the insignificant, raise the fallen, show yourself to the needy, heal the sick, bring back those of your people who have gone astray... -
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Prayers of the People, Form VI
The Leader and People pray responsively In peace, we pray to you, Lord God. Silence For all people in their daily life and work; For our families, friends, and neighbors, and for those who are... -
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The desire to feel loved is the last illusion: let it go and you will be free -
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Neither the hair shirt nor the soft berth will do. The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. -
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What Do You Need Most?
Teenage prostitutes, during interviews in a San Francisco study, were asked: “Is there anything you needed most and couldn’t get?” Their response, invariably preceded by sadness and tears was unanimou... -
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Adapted from Psalm 86 (ESV)
Leader: Come, let us enter into God's presence. People: Lord, I am here, waiting. Let me hear Your voice; for I am poor, and needy in spirit. Be gracious to me, gladden the soul of Your servant,... -
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Pursuing the Common Good Throughout History
Pursuing the common good has been a strong marker of the Christian church from the very beginning. The early church had many habits that they became known for, of course—including meeting frequently, ... -
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So we learn early on that lack is embarrassing. Our pain is uncomfortable not just for ourselves but for those around us. Our need is obscene and offensive to a world that prides itself on its self-re... -
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Habit Loops
According to the groundbreaking book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, his research tells us that cravings drive our “habit loops.” Some of us crave escape or relaxation through the habit of a g... -
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We are a society that despises lack. We despise weakness and need and insufficiency. We turn the other way and pretend to be watching oncoming traffic when the red light halts us and the beggar reache... -
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I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know. -
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God of mercy, we ignore the needs of
God of mercy, we ignore the needs of people around us all too often. We get caught up in our own issues and forget that there are millions of people who struggle for basic necessities on a daily basis... -
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A Different Perspective on the Narcissus Myth
In his important book When Narcissism Comes to Church, professor and therapist Chuck DeGroat makes an important connection between shame, narcissism and addiction by looking at the myth of Narcissus. ... -
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Gracious God, you call us to a life of
Gracious God, you call us to a life of intimate relationship with you and with one another. You call us to a life of community, where we actively seek the needs of others before our own. We acknowledg... -
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Looking to Be Filled In All the Wrong Places
The more I use stuff to fill up my hungers, the more distance I put between God and myself. And as I continue to fill up my infinite hungers with finite things (when I run through the Starbucks drive-... -
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When I don’t have any [food to bring my family], I borrow, mainly from neighbors and friends. I feel ashamed standing before my children when I have nothing to help feed the family. I’m not well when ... -
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Blind to Love
All addictions begin in shame. They don’t begin with troubling behavior—a binge on porn, a night of overdrinking–but with a sense of lack or limitation. An addict may be loved deeply, but sense of lac... -
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A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult... -
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Aren't you like me, hoping that some person, thing, or event will come along to give you that final feeling of inner well-being you desire? Don't you often hope: "May this book, idea, cou... -
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Only the hungry search for bread. Only
Only the hungry search for bread. Only the thirsty look for water. This is a place for those who are hungry and thirsty in spirit. Only those who ache for meaning will pursue it. Only those who ye... -
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The Nebulous "They"
George Herbert Mead, an influential early 20th-century sociologist, coined the term “generalized other” to describe the vague group we consider when shaping our actions. How often do we behave a certa... -
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The impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. -
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Gracious God, you love us deeply yet we
Gracious God, you love us deeply yet we take your love for granted. Rather than trusting you, we trust the gifts you have given us. We confess that our misplaced hope and reliance is on money, intelli... -
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The attentions of others matter to us because we are afflicted by a congenital uncertainty as to our own value, as a result of which affliction we tend to allow others’ appraisals to play a determinin... -
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The Greeks used to say that people in need are ambassadors of the gods. -
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An Uncle Tries to Buy Salvation
A little girl once wrote a letter to an advice column in the Newspaper. In it, she tells a story about her uncle and aunt. “My uncle was the tightest man I ever met.” She said. “All his life, every ti... -
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The Hamster-Wheel of News Coverage
For all our hunger for the next bit of breaking news, we quickly forget it once we’ve extracted the emotional charge it can give us. We are soon hungry for the next outrage, the next unbelievable head... -
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The Search for Satisfaction
In this excerpt, musician and author Ginny Owens shares a childhood exercise that only makes specific what all of us as human beings struggle with, the desire for wholeness: I wish you could know my ... -
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Father God, too often we show
Father God, too often we show preference to those who appear to have it all together, to those whom we consider complete: the self-motivated, self-made, and self-sufficient. We honor the rich and look... -
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Almighty God, we take pride in our
Almighty God, we take pride in our self-sufficiency while we look down on the weak who cannot provide for themselves. We praise others for their efforts, yet we demand perfection from our own families...
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Top_level_categories by Reference
Genesis
Exodus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Ruth
1 Samuel
1 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (4)
- Ps 2 (2)
- Ps 8 (12)
- Ps 9 (2)
- Ps 10 (1)
- Ps 13 (1)
- Ps 14 (2)
- Ps 15 (1)
- Ps 16 (4)
- Ps 17 (1)
- Ps 18 (1)
- Ps 19 (26)
- Ps 22 (5)
- Ps 23 (16)
- Ps 24 (7)
- Ps 25 (5)
- Ps 27 (13)
- Ps 29 (1)
- Ps 31 (1)
- Ps 32 (7)
- Ps 33 (2)
- Ps 34 (32)
- Ps 36 (4)
- Ps 37 (8)
- Ps 39 (2)
- Ps 40 (2)
- Ps 41 (2)
- Ps 42 (11)
- Ps 43 (2)
- Ps 44 (1)
- Ps 46 (19)
- Ps 49 (2)
- Ps 50 (5)
- Ps 51 (28)
- Ps 52 (1)
- Ps 55 (1)
- Ps 63 (1)
- Ps 65 (3)
- Ps 67 (2)
- Ps 69 (1)
- Ps 71 (1)
- Ps 72 (1)
- Ps 73 (5)
- Ps 74 (1)
- Ps 77 (2)
- Ps 78 (5)
- Ps 82 (7)
- Ps 84 (1)
- Ps 85 (2)
- Ps 86 (4)
- Ps 88 (1)
- Ps 90 (7)
- Ps 92 (1)
- Ps 94 (3)
- Ps 95 (1)
- Ps 96 (5)
- Ps 98 (1)
- Ps 99 (1)
- Ps 100 (2)
- Ps 101 (1)
- Ps 103 (9)
- Ps 104 (5)
- Ps 105 (1)
- Ps 106 (2)
- Ps 107 (1)
- Ps 111 (2)
- Ps 115 (1)
- Ps 116 (2)
- Ps 117 (2)
- Ps 118 (4)
- Ps 119 (24)
- Ps 121 (5)
- Ps 123 (1)
- Ps 126 (1)
- Ps 127 (3)
- Ps 128 (1)
- Ps 130 (3)
- Ps 131 (1)
- Ps 133 (3)
- Ps 136 (4)
- Ps 139 (26)
- Ps 143 (2)
- Ps 144 (2)
- Ps 145 (4)
- Ps 146 (2)
- Ps 147 (4)
- Ps 150 (1)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
- Prov 2 (4)
- Prov 3 (30)
- Prov 4 (8)
- Prov 5 (1)
- Prov 6 (2)
- Prov 7 (1)
- Prov 8 (2)
- Prov 9 (1)
- Prov 10 (4)
- Prov 11 (6)
- Prov 12 (5)
- Prov 14 (8)
- Prov 15 (7)
- Prov 16 (13)
- Prov 17 (5)
- Prov 18 (12)
- Prov 19 (7)
- Prov 20 (2)
- Prov 21 (4)
- Prov 22 (6)
- Prov 23 (2)
- Prov 24 (3)
- Prov 25 (3)
- Prov 27 (5)
- Prov 28 (7)
- Prov 29 (7)
- Prov 31 (5)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (20)
- Isa 2 (2)
- Isa 5 (1)
- Isa 6 (14)
- Isa 7 (3)
- Isa 9 (13)
- Isa 11 (2)
- Isa 25 (4)
- Isa 26 (8)
- Isa 28 (1)
- Isa 29 (2)
- Isa 30 (8)
- Isa 33 (2)
- Isa 40 (25)
- Isa 41 (15)
- Isa 42 (3)
- Isa 43 (16)
- Isa 44 (5)
- Isa 45 (6)
- Isa 46 (1)
- Isa 47 (1)
- Isa 48 (5)
- Isa 49 (3)
- Isa 50 (2)
- Isa 51 (1)
- Isa 53 (21)
- Isa 54 (3)
- Isa 55 (37)
- Isa 57 (4)
- Isa 58 (5)
- Isa 60 (3)
- Isa 61 (13)
- Isa 64 (8)
- Isa 65 (1)
- Isa 66 (3)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Joel
Amos
Nahum
Zephaniah
Matthew
- Matt 1 (7)
- Matt 2 (4)
- Matt 3 (4)
- Matt 4 (9)
- Matt 5 (47)
- Matt 6 (43)
- Matt 7 (13)
- Matt 8 (5)
- Matt 9 (5)
- Matt 10 (8)
- Matt 11 (15)
- Matt 12 (6)
- Matt 13 (21)
- Matt 14 (10)
- Matt 15 (6)
- Matt 16 (9)
- Matt 17 (5)
- Matt 18 (10)
- Matt 19 (12)
- Matt 20 (4)
- Matt 21 (6)
- Matt 22 (16)
- Matt 23 (12)
- Matt 24 (5)
- Matt 25 (20)
- Matt 26 (5)
- Matt 27 (7)
- Matt 28 (17)