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| Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church | June 16, 2013 |
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To your awareness, what is your most primary and consistent longing?
How does this longing affect the way you live your life and is the object of your longing achievable in the present?
Reflect on and/or pray for ways that God may meet you in your longing in the present. |
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Sunday's Message
To The Thirsty
The Rev. Matt Gough, preaching
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Friends,
As another academic year finishes we pause and celebrate the volunteers who make up the heart and soul of the ministries at Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church. We have much to be thankful for and the vitality we experience is rooted in the fact that our thanksgiving begins and ends in our devotion and worship of the God who loves us. I hope to see you in worship this Sunday at 7:50 a.m., 10 a.m., or at 5 p.m. There is a brief congregational meeting scheduled to follow the 10 a.m. service.
Grace & Peace,
Matt Gough |
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Theme for the Day
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"The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays."--C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters |
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Scripture Passages
Revelation 21:1-6
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; mourning and crying and pain will be no more, for the first things have passed away." And the one who was seated on the throne said, "See, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true." Then he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life.
Exodus 17:1-7
From the wilderness of Sin the whole congregation of the Israelites journeyed by stages, as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. The people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the Lord?" But the people thirsted there for water; and the people complained against Moses and said, "Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?" So Moses cried out to the Lord, "What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me." The Lord said to Moses, "Go on ahead of the people, and take some of the elders of Israel with you; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it, so that the people may drink." Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel. He called the place Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled and tested the Lord, saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?" |
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