... interpretation is that the soul represents the whole person. Man does not have a soul; he is a soul. On December 25, 1747, John Wesley strongly urged the Methodists to renew their covenant with God. His first covenant service was held on August 11, 1755. The ... law." (The Interpreter’s Bible [New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1951] , Vol. 7, p. 847.) "In its original context [Leviticus 19:18] has to do with a man’s fellow Jew. It would not have included the Gentile, whom it was quite permissible to ...
... change and become like children, you will never enter the Kingdom of heaven. The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child’ " (Matthew 18:2-4, TEV). Sir Isaac Newton, the British scientist and mathematician, lived from 1642 to 1727. He gave the world three things: a new mathematics; a new insight into the nature of ... in God, and yours is the victory ... because the Spirit who is in you is greater than the spirit who is in the world" (1 John 4:4, Barclay).
... ‘Good master [answered Zacchaeus] - I saw - mirrored in your eyes - the face of the Zacchaeus I was meant to be!’ " John Oxenham has written about this dimensions of God grant us wisdom in these coming days, And eyes unsealed, that we clear ... present. This is the wisdom which looks beyond, "not on things which are seen, but on things that are unseen" (2 Corinthians 4:18, TEV). In one of his stories, "The Higher Pragmatism," the American writer O’Henry faced the question we are facing today: "Where Can ...
... was being tried by the authorities for adultery Jesus challenged the one who was without sin to cast the first stone. Then he asked a famous question "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" (John 8:10). The woman was given a way back in. All the disciples, with the exception of Judas who sawed off his own limb, were given a way back in as a result of Jesus’ ... back in. ... the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. (Proverbs 4:18)
... we want at one grand event does not sustain the demands reality puts upon human existence to make dreams come true. * Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windemere’s Fan" Act III, quoted in John Bartlett Familiar Quotations 18th Ed. (Boston: Little Brown & Company, 1980), p. 675. Not to get what we want is equally as tragic. We all know people who longed for love, success, ... justice until at last, ... the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. (Proverbs 4:18)
... night of his earthly life. His instructions were so important that all four Gospels report them at some length. One-fourth of the Gospel of John is devoted to that eventful night in the Upper Room. You can read it in chapters 13 through 17. Among the first words Jesus said ... what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge" (Ephesians 3:18-19). Look at the BREADTH of Jesus’ love. It is as the sea. People set narrow limits for their love - limits ...
... him is not condemned; he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. (John 3:16) The bow is still in the clouds, and the Cross yet hangs above the altar as God’s signature upon his irrevocable covenant. If ... Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me" (Luke 18:22). Unwilling to give up his reserves and affix his signature to the covenant, "he went away sad." What do you hold in ...
... a man of valor; a man of war; a man prudent in speech; a man of good presence, and the Lord was with him (1 Samuel 16:18). His training as a shepherd and as a warrior was excellent. Not only young people, but all of us would do well to continue to study ... out of the brook was doing the most significant work of the day. - Eugene H. Peterson* (*Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work, John Knox Press, 1980, pp. 187-188.) Conclusion David didn’t engineer his appointment to Saul’s court. It seemed, in fact, to ...
... demons know that Jesus is the Son of God who was manifested for this very purpose, "that he might destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8). The deity of our Lord and Savior Jesus is made manifest to us not only by virtue of the fact that the demons recognized ... of tragedy this demon can cause to happen. Plano lived through the nightmare of multiple suicides. Six young people, aged 14 to 18, took their lives, leaving that community wondering what in the world was going on. A boy and a girl, both 17, killed ...
... ago: "And the Lord said, It is not good that man should be alone. I will make a helpmate for him" (Genesis 2:18). There is an old Swedish proverb: "Shared joy is a double joy. Shared sorrow is half a sorrow." The wisdom of Paul ... out of isolation." Some people take a devilish joy in not liking people. In his book, How to Live 365 Days a Year, Dr. John A. Schindler says, "Some people dislike everybody: They dislike practically everyone from the President, whom they have never met, to their next-door neighbor ...
... life on earth. Death is real, but the believer relies on the word of his Lord, "If a man has faith in me, even though he die, he shall come to life" (John 11:25, New English Bible). The life to which he comes is to be with Christ and to be "changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to another" (2 Corinthians 3:18). But heaven in its eternal fullness, the God-relationship in its perfection, awaits the final triumph of Christ and the resurrection of all the dead. Then God’s purpose for his whole ...
... standard of living, our opportunity to make the most of our capacities. In the 1962 Thanksgiving Day proclamation, President John F. Kennedy summarized well the meaning of Thanksgiving both for our nation’s past and for its future: "Over ... radiates into the world. We do not give thanks in the spirit of the Pharisee, "I thank thee that I am not like other men" (Luke 18:11). Franklin D. Elmer in a little poem "On Giving Thanks" expresses the true spirit: "Shall I thank God For bread, And for the safety Of ...
... has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free” (Luke 4:18). Jesus stood and said, “This is the day! God will win over poverty, captivity, blindness, and oppression.” So as he heals here in chapter ... anonymous. But according to Jesus Christ, the future belongs to them. 1. Fred B. Craddock, Luke (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1990), p. 87. 2. Thomas G. Long, “Preaching God’s Future: The Eschatological Context of Christian ...
... and for me. 1. Leonard Griffith, Ephesians: A Positive Affirmation (Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1975), p. 15. 2. Fred Anderson, “Discovering Your Destiny,” The Madison Avenue Pulpit, 4 January, 1998. 3. David Buttrick, Preaching the New and the Now (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998), p. 18. 4. As told by C. A. McClain in Good News for Off Seasons (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1979), pp. 23-24, 31-32. 5. Ibid. * If you are to this point in your quest for authenticity, you will note that in the ...
... are full of pain, and their work is a vexation; even at night their minds do not rest. This also is vanity. — 2:18-23 All life is unjust, the Preacher of Ecclesiastes laments. But it is especially unjust for the oppressed: Again I saw all the oppressions ... life will not prevail! 1. Martin Luther, Christ’s Resurrection and Its Benefits (n.d.), in Sermons of Martin Luther, ed. John Nicholas Lenker (8 vols.; reprint ed.; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1988), Vol. II, p. 224. 2. Albert Camus, The ...
... placed at the top of the cross (Euseb., "Hist. Eccl", V, 1; Suet., Caligula", xxxviii and "Domit." x; Matt., xxvii, 37; John, xix, 19). Slaves were crucified outside of Rome in a place called Sessorium, beyond the Esquiline Gate; their execution was entrusted ... Eccl.", I, viii; Schol. Juvenal., XIV, 78; Niceph., VII, 46; Cassiod., "Hist. Trip.", I, 9; Codex Theod., IX, 5, 18). Thereafter, this punishment was very rarely inflicted (Eus., "Hist. Eccl.", IV, xxxv; Pacat., "Paneg.", xliv). Towards the fifth ...
Jeremiah 31:7-16 Ephesians 1:3-14 St John 1:10-18 A few days ago, in the middle of the week, I had come to the conclusion that I would have nothing to say to you this morning. I felt drained. The developing news of what was happening in south east Asia was just too much. What can you say in ...
... well, why bother? Roll the dice and take your chances. There are several stories in scripture that sound like they fit right in with that mindset. In Joshua 18, land distribution is determined by casting lots; in Nehemiah 11, they cast lots to see who would be the first settlers in Jerusalem after the exile; then there ... Sources, 1979), 134 in Homiletics, J/S, 94, p. 5 2. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, 1995 3. Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall, 1981 4. Genesis 45:5-8a 5. Acts 2:22-24 6. Romans 8:28
... Jesus' commandment to "Love your neighbor as yourself." It is worth our attention. Listen to a portion of it. Leviticus 19:1-18 Solid teaching, not only for ancient Israel, but for any society that would be truly moral and just. In the midst of ... for family, for assurance that we are not alone in this world is surely fed. How does it happen? No one can explain it. As John Calvin said, "I rather experience it than understand it." Once when a preacher was marrying a young couple, he put the usual question: "Do ...
... turn water into wine, but has never been able to turn whinING into anything. Sometimes we might NEED snakes. There is a story of three men who live on a ranch out West, the father John, the sons, Jake and Joe. They never had any use for the church until one day Jake is bitten by a rattlesnake. The doctor is summoned, but the prognosis is not good. Jake is going ... 1984/ Jan 1985 quoted by Brian Stoffregen, via Ecunet, "Gospel Notes for Next Sunday, #3147, 3/3/97 9. II Kings 18:4 10. Helen H. Lemmel, 1922
... leaves the king's presence, but instead of going down to his house he spends the night with the palace guards. You see, as one commentator has it, "Uriah belonged to the John McCain school of war: as long as his fellow soldiers were out in the field, he himself would abstain from the pleasures of civilian life, including relations with the Missus"(6) (which ... , 2000, p. 33 2. I Samuel 13:14 3. I Chronicles 11:4-6 4. Homiletics 5. cf. II Samuel 23:18-39 6. Homiletics 7. Deuteronomy. 23:9; I Samuel. 21:4-5
... shepherd...Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Amen! ________________________________________ 1. Carlos Wilton, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ, via PresbyNet, "An Encounter with the Shepherd," 11/25/90 2. Hebrews 13:20 3. Matthew 18:12-14 4. John 10:11 5. Bible Illustrator for Windows, diskette, (Hiawatha, IO: Parsons Technologies, 1994)
... they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone" (11,12). There is Jesus' comment in Matthew 18:10: "Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for, I tell you, in heaven their angels continually see ... us and this whole world so much that God's own son Jesus Christ came to redeem us. Twice the angel messenger in Revelation tells John, "Do not [worship me]! I am a fellow servant with you and with your comrades who hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God!" (Rev. 19: ...
... charge; I am thankful that JESUS CHRIST IS LORD! Happy Thanksgiving. Amen! 1. Carlos Wilton, via PresbyNet, "Bottom Drawer," #4004, 11/18/99 originally found in Family Circle Magazine 2. "Thanksgiving in America" by May Lowe from the book, Thanksgiving, Copyright (c) 1907 ... . Abraham Lincoln, October 3, 1863 6. Colossians 3:15-17 7. Albert Curry Winn, A Christian Primer, (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990), pp. 79-80 8. "For One Soldier's Family, a Double Funeral," The Washington Post, via ...