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Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.

Cordell Hull

2. Holy Waste

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... perfume on Him. My friend anointed me with love - and thousands of dollars couldn’t buy that kind of gift. And the timing of it was so perfect coming at a time when I desperately needed to be affirmed and lifted up. Sometimes it’s inappropriate to be sensible, and we need to look for and capture those special moments that may not return – we need to act on our love impulses - not deny and strangle them. III Now a final thing Mary and her act of holy waste teaches us: The best is the only appropriate ...

3. Orderly Worship

1 Corinthians 14:26-40

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... forbidding in verses 34–35. Some suggest that he opposes only idle chatter or gossip. However, the verb to speak (Gk. lalein) is not, as some commentators suggest, equivalent with “to chatter.” The verb does not name an activity that is distinct from other sensible speech or prayer or prophecy. Through the rest of chapter 14 “to speak” clearly and consistently refers to inspired speech (see vv. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 13, 18, 19, 21, 23, 27, 28, 29, 39). The vocabulary employed in these verses does ...

4. Idol Feasts and the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... also Rom. 11:25; 12:16; 2 Cor. 11:19). Here the sarcasm is less pronounced, but given the pattern of Paul’s usage of this word, probably present. Paul’s declaration indicates that the wisdom he trusts is not merely human judgment, but the sensibleness of Christ. Pondering Paul’s words “in Christ” will result in thoughtful decision and wise action among the Corinthians, who were failing in such activity at the time Paul wrote them. 10:16 The way in which Paul constructs the lines of this verse is ...

5. Gifts of Prophecy and Tongues

1 Corinthians 14:1-25

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... n agapēn; lit. “you [pl.] pursue love”). Having said that the Corinthians should be zealous for the greater gifts of grace (12:31), now Paul is more specific in this new declaration. He tells them to “pursue love.” The NIV’s paraphrase is sensible. Love sets the path or charts the course, and the Corinthians are challenged and privileged to follow that path in pursuit of God’s own end. In brief, after 14:1a admonishes the Corinthians to “pursue love” (reiterating the theme of ch. 13), at 14 ...

6. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... important aspect of biblical exegesis in any age to allow our own experiences to enter into the interpretive process and thus to highlight incongruities of life and text that we must explore, it is nevertheless wrongheaded, in my opinion, to allow our own sensibilities to rewrite the text in ways that obscure or undermine its original intention. If, by our modern standards, Job is an unthinking exploiter of the poor who excuses his exploitation by virtue of his attention to the needs of the poor in largely ...

7. Take Up Your Cross

Luke 8:1-15

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Robert V. Dodd

... All other roads may promise smoother riding, but they are dead-end trails. Going the long way around may seem like the safe, sane, and sensible thing to do at the moment, but "There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death ... the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." The road less traveled by may not seem like the easiest or most sensible way. And it certainly isn't the most popular route. But it is the way that makes the crucial difference in our lives. And I ...

8. You Do Have A Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

James W. Moore

... you stay with it. Maybe the same is true with prayer. Maybe it just takes a lot of practice and you know, I think it’s worth it. If Jesus felt the need to pray regularly, how much more must we need to pray regularly. II. SECOND, JESUS PRAYED SENSIBLY AND SO CAN WE. Jesus prayed with intelligent common sense. He did not use prayer as some magical device to get some selfish wishes. Hoover Rupert spoke to this when he said, "How easy it is to blunt out a desperate prayer… ‘O Lord, make the brakes hold ...

9. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... How often do we hear it?, "Everybody else does it!"..."You can't fight City Hall"..."What does it matter anyway"...."Nobody will ever know the difference." But they will -- and God will. It's very important that our conscience is sensitively alive, that we retain a sensibility of sin, a pain to feel it near. So never allow your mind and heart to be dulled to the crowing of the rooster. III. And now this final word: A passion to follow Jesus is still our primary need. Despite his denial, he was fundamentally ...

10. Yellow Lights

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... need to use our left ear to musically access the surroundings. Can you hear even if you can't see other cars coming? Is there someone else who is asserting their own right over yours? Is there a pedestrian who is crossing the street? Sometimes being sensible, listening to reason, is just not the right choice. It's a message from only one side of our brain, one side of our spirit. Truth is stereophonic. Truth both thinks good and sounds good. The TxDOT tract declares, "Drivers who run red lights are saying ...

11. Proper 26

Mark 12:28-34, Hebrews 9:11-28, Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... c. Opportunity Agrippa (Acts 26:28-29). 3. The question to end all questions (12:28, 34). Need: In today's gospel Jesus answers his last questions. When the people heard his answer, they dared to ask no more. The scribe asked a sincere and sensible question, and Jesus gave him an appropriate answer. The scribe agreed with the answer and Jesus agreed with the scribe's evaluation of the commandments. When you get the answer to what a person's ultimate responsibility is to God, you need ask no more questions ...

12. What Must Be Taught to Various Groups

Titus 2:1-15

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... . 3:8, “have a good character”), and self-controlled (cf. 1:8; 1 Tim. 3:2). This last word, sōphronas, which is a favorite in the PE, is repeated below of the younger women (v. 5) and younger men (v. 6). It has especially to do with being “sensible” or “sound-minded” (see disc. on 2 Tim. 1:7). They are also to be sound (cf. v. 1 and 1:13) in the three cardinal virtues of faith, love, and endurance (hope?). These three words occur together in the exhortation to Timothy in 1 Timothy 6:11 (cf. 2 ...

13. Haman's Plot to Destroy the Jews

Esther 3:1-15

Understanding Series

Timothy S. Laniak

... months in the Persian calendar (2:16) to the names in the Hebrew calendar (“Nisan” and “Adar”). Haman is unaware that he is setting cosmic forces into motion that will seal his own destruction and annihilate his own kin. Even Persian sensibilities would have been aroused with the announcement of the unlucky “thirteenth day of the twelfth month” (v. 13). Having received providential direction, Haman approaches Xerxes with a plan to rid the king of people who threaten the empire. His accusation is ...

14. Apostles of Christ

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... in Corinth would need to be evaluated against the generally recognized way of life in Christ Jesus that had been laid as the foundation of the Corinthians’ faith (3:10–15). 4:18–20 These verses form one long, complex sentence in Greek, but the NIV sensibly follows the versification of the text and renders Paul’s lines in three related sentences. First, he names the problem in a specific way. Up to this point he has addressed the congregation as a whole, but now he narrows his focus to isolate some ...

15. Marriage

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... he does not think humans ever save themselves or one another; God does the saving through Christ. These lines are best and only understood to say that God may work through a Christian spouse (as is explicit in v. 14) to save an unbelieving partner. A sensible paraphrase of Paul’s rhetorical appeal might read, “How will you ever know, if you don’t give it a chance, whether God will work through you to save your spouse?” Additional Notes 7:12–13 These verses form a pair of balanced sentences in Gk ...

16. Food Sacrificed to Idols

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... short-sighted. Nowhere in such exercise of personal freedoms is priority given to others over self. No consensus is sought in such arrangements. So Paul says that when one group’s exercise of freedom or pursuit of rights becomes a scandal to another group’s sensibilities, then the free people should be aware of the problem they are creating. His statement stings; it does not gently raise a hesitation. The force of the statement is so direct that no one should miss Paul’s point. 8:10 This verse creates ...

17. The Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... in the previous section of the letter (vv. 2–16). In this section Paul is even more blunt. He says the Corinthians’ gathering is not for the better but for the worse; the results of the congregational assembly are negative. To paraphrase sensibly, one might say that the congregational assembly did more harm than good. 11:18 Paul explains why he is unable to praise the Corinthians in their assembling. He has heard particular information about their gatherings. Although he names them as a church (see ...

18. Week Four Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... Gandhi's challenge was too great for many. In the 1960s Martin Luther King, Jr., challenged all Americans to truly profess the precepts of the Declaration of Independence, that all people are created equal. Dr. King was controversial; he challenged the sensibilities and moral attitudes of a nation. As with Gandhi, many found Martin Luther King, Jr., too much to handle. In the late 1970s Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador challenged the prevailing attitudes toward the poor and helpless of society. Romero ...

19. Raised Voices

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... and it could get us all killed. REBECCA: But ...! HANNAH: God doesn't work that way. He doesn't take his people out of one bad situation just to put them into another even worse. If he truly wanted to help us, he would do something sensible. REBECCA: This isn't sensible, to get out of Egypt for good? HANNAH: Certainly not! He should change Pharaoh's heart -- he's capable of that, isn't he? -- and make him love us. Then we could stay here in Egypt and enjoy ourselves. There are wonderful things to be had ...

20. Advent 3

James 5:7-12, Isaiah 35:1-10, Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... she should remarry. I did not deny the offensiveness of this teaching but tried to soften it. It didn't work! The offense could not be erased. Let's face it: Jesus wasn't the expounder of a politically correct gospel that soothed everyone's sensibilities! His words sear our souls and prick our consciences. He makes us feel uncomfortable; he brings us face to face with our dis-ease concerning our spiritual state. John the Baptist was a fearless prophet who died because he would not compromise his loyalty to ...

21. Lent 1

Mt 4:1-11 · Rom 5:12-21 · Gen 2:7 - 3:7 · Ps 32

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... . This points out some other factors that made the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden attractive. It was good for food (promised to fulfill bodily needs), was pleasant to look at (appealing to aesthetic sensibilities), and was desirable to make a person wise (attractive to the intellectual sensibilities) (v. 6). Lesson 2: Romans 5:12-19 (20-21) The power of one. In this era of mass media and mass marketing, we are tempted to discount the power of the individual. Yet, history is laden with ...

22. Investing God's Gift

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... for him to have done so, given what we are able to discern of his character and method of governing. Certainly the notion of a king carrying out such vengeance upon his opponents would not have shocked the sensibilities of people in Luke's day. I'm not sure it really shocks our sensibilities as much as we might claim. After living through or reading about Stalin's purges of all those suspected of opposing him, or the Chinese government's brutal treatment of dissidents at Tienanmen Square, or even the more ...

23. Raised Voices

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... and it could get us all killed. REBECCA: But ...! HANNAH: God doesn't work that way. He doesn't take his people out of one bad situation just to put them into another even worse. If he truly wanted to help us, he would do something sensible. REBECCA: This isn't sensible, to get out of Egypt for good? HANNAH: Certainly not! He should change Pharaoh's heart - he's capable of that, isn't he? - and make him love us. Then we could stay here in Egypt and enjoy ourselves. There are wonderful things to be had here ...

24. Who Is This?

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

... Jesus." He says, "There's really no need, as you don't believe in him in any case...." He then commends the slave for his sensible behavior, and orders that he be rewarded. Barabbas then wears the disk with the crossed out name of Jesus for the rest of his life ... want to carry the name of Jesus as long as it is fun, as long as it is easy, as long as it is the popular and sensible thing to do. We will profess the name of Jesus when we need a healing, or whenever we are in the midst of a crisis situation. Indeed ...

25. Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Romans 11:33-36

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... and strain the brain and lead to endless argument. Useless questions - maybe. Why maybe? Why should there be any doubt? Why concern ourselves with questions which have no satisfactory answers? No sensible person would waste time struggling with the unknowable, the incomprehensible, the unanswerable. At least, no sensible Christian would. There are so many questions that must be answered, for which there are no solutions, that challenge our faith and our discipleship. Questions like, "How shall we feed the ...

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Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.

Cordell Hull

2. Holy Waste

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

3. Orderly Worship

1 Corinthians 14:26-40

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

4. Idol Feasts and the Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

5. Gifts of Prophecy and Tongues

1 Corinthians 14:1-25

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

6. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

7. Take Up Your Cross

Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

8. You Do Have A Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

James W. Moore

9. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

10. Yellow Lights

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

11. Proper 26

Mark 12:28-34, Hebrews 9:11-28, Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

12. What Must Be Taught to Various Groups

Titus 2:1-15

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

13. Haman's Plot to Destroy the Jews

Esther 3:1-15

Understanding Series

Timothy S. Laniak

14. Apostles of Christ

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

15. Marriage

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

16. Food Sacrificed to Idols

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

17. The Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

18. Week Four Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

19. Raised Voices

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Drama

Pamela Urfer

20. Advent 3

James 5:7-12, Isaiah 35:1-10, Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

21. Lent 1

Mt 4:1-11 · Rom 5:12-21 · Gen 2:7 - 3:7 · Ps 32

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

22. Investing God's Gift

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

23. Raised Voices

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... and it could get us all killed. REBECCA: But ...! HANNAH: God doesn't work that way. He doesn't take his people out of one bad situation just to put them into another even worse. If he truly wanted to help us, he would do something sensible. REBECCA: This isn't sensible, to get out of Egypt for good? HANNAH: Certainly not! He should change Pharaoh's heart - he's capable of that, isn't he? - and make him love us. Then we could stay here in Egypt and enjoy ourselves. There are wonderful things to be had here ...

24. Who Is This?

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

25. Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Romans 11:33-36

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

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