... John the Baptist human or divine?” They thought they had Him, but actually, He had them. If they said that John’s work was of divine origin, then why had they not listened to him? And John pointed to Jesus! If they said that John’ ... belief that “Sheol cannot thank thee, death cannot praise thee: those who go down to the pit cannot hope for thy faithfulness.” (Isaiah 38:18) Job believed that a “man lies down and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he? As waters fail from a lake ...
... New York: Pocket Books, 1994). 9. C. H. Spurgeon in Faith's Checkbook, Christianity Today, Vol. 32, no. 5. 10. Quoted in "Reflections," Christianity Today, June 2, 2000. 11. Mark 2:18-20. 12. Book of Discipline 2000, para. 321, question 16. “Fasting has been a part of Methodism from it's early beginnings. John Wesley considered fasting an important part of a Christian's life and he personally fasted weekly. To Wesley, fasting was an important way to express sorrow for sin and penitence for overindulgence ...
... to worry. Because, He is the good shepherd... II. God Will Guard Me When I Face Difficulty "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep. (John 10:11, NASB) Jesus repeats something in this passage of scripture four times. He says four different times that He "lays down His life for the sheep." He says it in verse 11, 15, 17 and 18 and that is why He is not just a shepherd and that is why He is not even the shepherd, but that is why He is the good shepherd. Sheep are totally ...
... us of our Perfect Future or if you will, our Future Perfect life and faith. Let's look at the passage of Scripture for today, John 20:1-18: [1] Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the ... Father. But go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' " [18] Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord"; and she told them that he had said these things to her. I ...
... time, "Simon son of John, do you love me?" Peter felt hurt because he said to him the third time, "Do you love me?" And he said to him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my sheep. [18] Very truly, I tell ... find some." They do and another miraculous load of fish. That's the FISH part. II. Forgiveness A. But there's also the FORGIVENESS part. John was the first one to realize who Jesus was. And when he told Peter, "It's the Lord!" Peter dove in and swam to shore ...
Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24
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Lori Wagner
... and God’s Angels Warn Lot and His Family (Genesis 18 and 19) Shimei Casts Dirt Upon David for His Deeds (which David Attributes to the Lord) (2 Samuel 16) Elijah Confronts Ahab and Jezebel (1 Kings 18) Psalm 30: The Lord Turns Wailing into Dancing Psalm 44: ... ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?” But Jesus turned and ...
... now is standing there with arms wide open. He’ll welcome you, no matter what you’ve done. There is no secret, John, what God can do.” John Wayne listened, obviously moved, and then said: “Stuart, you ought to make that into a song.” The actual song was written as ... of Jonah Blessed is the One Who Trusts in the Lord and Not in the World (Jeremiah 17:1-18) Desire Gives Birth to Sin but God Saves (James 1:1-18) Jesus Saves Sinners of Which I am the Worst Says Timothy (1 Timothy 1:12-17) Jesus Sees ...
... had placed a crown of thorns upon his disheveled head. Are you king? Pilate's questions t0 Jesus is preceded in John by Annas' interrogation (18:13, 19-24). Annas was high priest and related to Caiaphas who John says was "high priest that year" (18:13). One was supposed t0 be high priest for life. See what John is doing by saying that Caiaphas was on duty "that" year? It's John ' s caustic comment on what the Romans had done to Israel's religious leaders -- had made them meaningless quislings, mere puppets ...
... message of the cross is foolish-ness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God." (v.18) The cross not only saves some, it separates all. You see, the cross is the great divide. People don't mind religion. They don't mind ... to make you all that God wants you to be. I remember when I was in high school, I was assigned the task of reading John Bunyan's classic allegory The Pilgrim's Progress. If you have read it, you remember the scene of the hero whose name is Christian. ...
... David was playing the lyre…and Saul cast his spear at David, for he thought, ‘I will pin David to the wall.'" (I Samuel 18:10-11) And unfortunately, King Saul is still with us. Tell me…how long are we going to tolerate violence against our children ... we tolerate the violence of King Saul against all of our children? Just this morning in the Free Press, our School Superintendent, John Hoffler, commenting on the death of one of our children, asked the same question: "One of our children has died and she ...
... be wiser than you are. [17] Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. [18] If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Believe it or not, much of this was encompassed in ... WV; Alliance, CA; Candle, AK all understand the 4th point the kids learned this week. God loves me. I will love God and others. In John 15:12 Jesus said, "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you." Pauls says, [16] "Live in harmony with ...
... he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses.” (Matthew 18:16, ESV) Go back to that lost child in Wal-Mart. Suppose at first you go looking for your child and you can’t find that child what ... the path to reconciliation. [1] C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity,(New York: MacMillian, 1952), p 104. [2] John Ortburg, When The Game Is Over It All Goes Back In The Box, (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2007), 216-217. [3] Jim Cymbala ...
... like Moses, that is) "from among their own people; I will put my words into the mouth of the prophet, who shall speak to them everything that I command (Deuteronomy 18:17-18)." After our Lord's resurrection, Peter made the sign connection of "that prophet" and Jesus clear to the Israelites of his day and also to us. In Solomon's portico he and John had healed a man lame from birth. They told the crowd that it was the name of Jesus which empowered the miracle. And then Peter identified Jesus with the prophet ...
... I send you." Some Christian groups have applied these words about our forgiving sins only to the original twelve disciples or (more commonly) only to ordained ministers. But neither here in John's gospel nor in other places (for example, Matthew 18:18, Luke 24:33, 47) is it clear that only some Christians are to speak words of forgiveness. John commonly distinguishes between "the twelves" and a larger group of disciples; "disciple" is more of a generic term for any and all who followed Christ and it is to ...
... you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, therefore, the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you (John 15:18-20)." Basic to all of Jesus' teaching was the assertion that all of us have worth in God's eyes; more worth than the lilies of the field, or the birds of the air. The poor, the meek, those who mourn; all are to be blessed. Those who are ...
... Century. No one felt guilty about it. But now light has come and it is sin. And this is the whole idea of sin in John’s Gospel. It is the REFUSAL of light. This is the trouble, you see, with almost every one of the besetting sins in our society. They ... her to do just as you are doing? Will you want her to feel that you just don’t know what it’s like to be 18 in 1991?" And suddenly her proud, defiant face crumpled. She lowered her head and in spite of herself, she blushed. And then she spoke, and her ...
... do the law, to live justly with their brothers and sisters, and to love mercy. Another streak of common sense meets the requirements of God’s long-range purposes (Amos 5:18-24). (4) John the Baptizer was central to a major revelation. God was about to bring the traditions of prophecy to a major conclusion. The dove descended on Jesus at John’s baptism and the voice of God made clear that this man Jesus was God’s Son, the very Word itself. Certainly the long-range consequence of the prophetic tradition ...
... it leads us to humility and compassion, but more than anything else it leads us to a sense of mission. In the last act of John Van Druten's play, I Remember Mama, there is a scene about a man named Uncle Chris. Uncle Chris has just died and the ... Instead he helped in other ways. I will read the last page of his notebook. ˜Joseph Spinelli 4 yrs. old. Tubercular left leg. $317.18. Walks now. Estes Jensen, 9 years old, club foot, $217.50. Walks now. Arn Solefelt, 9 years old, fractured knee cap. $442.16." Just ...
... of doing to communicate that, but we did, and the three of us were soon on our way. As I settled down into the backseat, John driving, and our German guest beside him in the front, I was almost instantly confronted with the thought that I ought to share some sort ... undaunted in his belief that even confused and impure motives do not annul the power of the gospel. Listen again to verses 15-18. Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will. The latter do it out of love, knowing that ...
... her house, just as Prisca or Priscilla, with her husband who is mentioned second, is the leader of a household church in Rome (Romans 16:3). The first witness of the resurrection and therefore the first apostle was a woman, Mary Magdalene, according to John (John 20:11-18). And in Luke, it is the faithful women, who remained at the cross when the other disciples deserted Jesus, and who first discovered that Jesus' tomb was empty (Luke 24:1-12). Women played an important part as supporters and leaders of the ...
... we are each a mixed bag, but that God is not like us in this regard. God is not a mixed bag. “God is light,” claimed John, “and in God is no darkness at all.”15 All that is good in your life is from God. Our children may find us receptive one day ... found in Jewish and pagan sources, only in the negative form of “what you do not wish others to do to you, do not to them.”18 That is a wise defense against evil, but Jesus was after more than that. Not that we would just not do harm but that we would ...
... and the Word was God." (Jn. 1:1) In the beginning was Jesus, before the beginning was Jesus, because Jesus was God. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. On down in verse 18 John said, "No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him." (Jn. 1:18) Now the word declared is the Greek word that gives us the word exegesis. Jesus is the exegesis, or the translation of God. That eternal word that was with God, was translated into an earthly word ...
... started with Tragedy but ended in Triumph. A Cross Eyed: Triumph that shines forth from the Empty Tomb even today. As we continue our journey of Cross Eyed: Faith by focusing on and through the cross, we celebrate a day of Cross Eyed: Triumph. Look at the Passage. John 20:1-18 (NRSV) [1] Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. [2] So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom ...
... faces of all those gentled people and said, “You know, a fool would have swallowed that.” We come today in our preaching through John’s GospeI to the 17th chapter. It is one of the most majestic utterances of Jesus. A farewell discourse, coming just before his death ... read again verse 16: “They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.” Now, go on with verses 17, 18, and 19: “Sanctify them in the truth; thy Word is Truth. As thou did send me into the world, so I have sent them into ...
... the hands of he Son or refuse Him. They argued about the meaning of life: Jesus met them with a declaration, “The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life” (John 6:63). No more debate is necessary; one is compelled to listen and obey, or to refuse to listen and reject. (D. T. Niles, That They May Have Life pp. 18- 1 9) No wonder the New Testament writer said: “There’s no other name given under heaven whereby men must be saved, save that of Jesus Christ.” He is our sufficient provision ...