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226. Ambassadors For Christ

2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10

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John B. Jamison

... right before our reading, Paul reminded the Corinth church of the core reason they were created in the first place by saying that anyone who is with Christ is part of a new creation; one that no longer regards anyone from the old human point of view. Rather than try to argue with the polished and practiced preachers or the miracle workers, he simply said that those things we used to use to evaluate people just didn’t count anymore. Looking and sounding fancy, being able to do fancy things just didn ...

227. Made Perfect In Weakness

2 Corinthians 12:2-10

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... WEAKNESS AND STRONG IN HIS WEAKNESS. I. Weakness In Strength What does he mean when he says: "We are made perfect in our weakness. For whenever we are weak then we are strong." From a worldly point of view, that doesn't make sense. How can we be weak when we're strong? But remember, we do look at life from a worldly point of view. You and I are heirs of the Kingdom. You and I have experienced Alpha and Omega moments that have changed how we think. We belong to God. And God's way is different. In the upside ...

228. Hungering for Some Time Off

Mark 6:30-34, 53-56

Sermon

King Duncan

... day or two. But Jesus didn’t seem to be annoyed. He took it all in stride. In fact, he stayed there with the crowd and taught them. Maybe he knew why the crowd was there to see him. Let’s try and take a look at this from their point of view for a moment. Let’s focus, first of all, on the crowd’s hunger. There was something about Jesus that made people want to be near him. There was something missing in their lives that they couldn’t obtain through their day-to-day living. They were looking for ...

229. The Sadness Of God

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

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E. Carver McGriff

... were to accumulate a lifetime of misdemeanors and felonies with the knowledge that eventually we would be held to account for them and, worse, have to pay a legitimate price for them, our future would seem unbearably hopeless. Of course, there is that theological point of view which believes this, which seems to find some strange comfort in the idea of Hell, but it's often to be noticed that those who hold this view seem to feel that they themselves will somehow be exempt. This is the heart of divine love ...

230. Christ the King The King On His Cross

Luke 23:26-43

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Alvin Rueter

... We have such a thirst for it. If we don’t find justice with God, then where else? Umpires and referees make questionable calls in our sports. We call them biased or blind or both. They may be neither one. They just made an honest mistake. Or, from their point of view, it looked different than it did from ours. Whatever. It’s clear we long for justice on the playing field or the rink or the game floor and that we don’t always get it from human beings. Not in our courts either. We have a great judicial ...

231. “Until An Opportune Time…”

Luke 4:1-13

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Schuyler Rhodes

... to a safe distance is wrong. Accommodation as a way of dealing with temptation also allows us to become mired in the swamp of relativity. This is the process of refusing to take a stand and saying that “all points of view are valid.” Friends, let’s be clear. If a given point of view leans into murdering whole populations, it isn’t a valid perspective to be discussed over tea, it’s evil. The third way of dealing with temptation is the way of Jesus. In the passage before us the devil really ...

232. Job’s Opening Soliloquy

Job 3:1-26

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... taps into the frenetic adrenaline rush of discovered treasure and is powerful in Job’s mouth for describing a sufferer’s hunt for death. But efforts are frustrated. Death does not come, and light floods in. Shifting back to the first-person point of view, Job soberingly describes his own pain (3:24–26). Sighs are his food; groans are his water. His fears are realized. Rest—a theme throughout his soliloquy—is all he desires, yet his final words are painful: “but only turmoil,” literally “but ...

233. Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness

Ecclesiastes 4:1-12

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Huwiler

... is possible to read this verse, “The fool folds his hands but eats his meat” (i.e., still has food). In this case, the fool would be affirmed, something that Qohelet never does elsewhere. Commentators disagree, too, about whether 4:5 expresses Qohelet’s point of view or whether it is a popular proverb, quoted to be rejected. In the latter case, the logic of 4:5–6 would be: [Some say,] “The fool folds his hands and ruins himself”; [but I say,] “Better one handful . . .” There is even a third ...

234. Standing On The Shore

John 20:1-18 · Mark 16:1-8

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Elaine M. Ward

... but the film closed in triumph. The boys, in recognition of their appreciation for the teacher's efforts, "rose up" to stand on their desks, as he had shown them his way of seeing things from a different point of view. Resurrection is the story of how Jesus "rose up" to help us see from his point of view. Pastor Merrill could not be comforted enough by reading only Isaiah but also Lamentations at the funeral of Owen Meany. The fingers of his pale hand moved in and out of the shaft of sunlight, like minnows ...

235. Eyes on the Prize

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1

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Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... Christ to give him hope. After all, it was the resurrection that fired that first group of men and women disciples. After the crucifixion of Jesus, they had been filled with fear and despair, and they were in hiding. The resurrection changed everything about the point of view of that first generation of disciples. It fired their bodies and their spirits and their imaginations to see a whole new way of life. It was only later that the church went back to reflect upon the meaning of the cross and on the death ...

236. Paul's Vision and His Thorn

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... :19–26]). During this experience, while completely unaware of the whereabouts of his body, Paul was nonetheless brought to a form of consciousness in paradise and enabled to see and hear “things that man is not permitted to tell” (12:4). From the point of view of Paul’s opponents, it is entirely proper for “a man like that” to boast about the privilege of receiving such a vision (12:5). But Paul is unwilling to take this view, or to allow the Corinthians to think that this experience constitutes ...

237. Making a Name for Ourselves

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... James’ suggestions. Instead, he chose a verse from Psalm 8 and had it inscribed on the main door. That verse asked, “What is man that thou art mindful of him?” Between those two lines lay a great distance between the human-centered and the God-centered points of view. Arnold H. Glasow in the Wall Street Journal said that if we had our way, most of us would choose the front of the bus, the back of the church, and the center of attention. Those ancient people who build the Tower of Babel wanted to be ...

238. What If He Shows Up?

John 2:13-22

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Mark Trotter

... you see what a preacher is up against? This is not an easy job that I have. I have concluded that you've got three choices. You can ignore those texts that contradict one another, and pick out only those texts that support your own personal point of view. That's one option. The other is, you can rationalize them, explain them away. Say, "Of course what it says is not what it really means. What it really says is this..." Or you can accept the contradictions and assume this radical thesis: the contradictions ...

239. Jesus Heals a Paralytic

Matthew 9:1-8

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... that he could restore the paralyzed man to health, he said, Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven. In the ancient world there was a widespread belief that sickness was the result of sin. Barclay cites Rabbi Chija ben Abba as representative of this point of view: “No sick person is cured from sickness, until all his sins are forgiven him” (vol. 1, p. 327). In John 9 Jesus’ disciples ask concerning the blind man, “who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” (v. 2). Note that ...

240. Proper 24

Exodus 33:12-23, Matthew 22:15-22, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, Psalm 99:1-9

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... true character of Paul and his companions. (The latter matter, the missionaries' character, anticipates a later theme of the letter.) In vv. 6-7 the writers remind the Thessalonians of the origins and character of their faith from a human point of view: They faithfully imitated the apostles, and in turn, they themselves became faithful examples to other believers. Verses 8-10 recognize the striking results of the gospel finding its place among the Thessalonians. There has been a geographical spread of the ...

241. Epiphany 3

Psalm 27:1-14, Isaiah 9:1-7, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17, Matthew 4:12-17, Matthew 4:18-22

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... feast days in honor of Peter and Paul respectively. Prior to the reforms of Vatican II, January 18 was the feast of St. Peter's Chair at Rome. The intent of the celebration was questionable as an ecumenical event, however, from the Protestant point of view, because, as one missal commentary put it, "this feast can be considered a liturgical evidence of the primacy of honor and jurisdiction attached to the chair of Rome." (St. Andrew Daily Missal, Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, ed. [St. Paul: E. M. Lohmann Co., 1953 ...

242. The Wedding Guest

John 2:1-11

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Mark Trotter

... time for his glorification. John believed that time would be when he is lifted up on a cross. Glorification means that you will see his divine nature. Jesus, himself, said later in the gospel, "When I am lifted up I will draw all people to myself." The point of view of the Gospel of John is, that before that time not everybody will see his glory. Which means, not everybody will see who he really is. I'm not sure that even when he has been lifted up that everyone can see his divine nature. Obviously, they ...

243. Lent 1

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

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... already on thin ice. Text or pretext? It is interesting that in both the temptations and the rebuttal of the temptations, scripture is employed. Satan took certain passages out of context and made them pretexts to deceive Jesus into accepting his point of view. In rejecting the temptations, Jesus also used scripture but in its proper context. Do we use the Bible to support our preconceived ideas and our established behavior patterns or do we permit God's Word to shape and inform us? PREACHING POSSIBILITIES ...

244. Taught by a Golden Calf

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... . Here people would gather, and eat, and talk in small groups before the roaring fireplace on Canadian winter evenings. But the most memorable thing there was a sign over the fireplace. It said “Do You Want to Be Right or Well?” That sign summed up the point of view of the director and ministry of that whole place. The director was sure that most people had to make a choice. They could struggle to be right in the eyes of others and in their own sight. That would take a lot of energy. Or they could ...

245. What Will They Think Up Next?

Luke 1:26-38

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Mark Trotter

... realities of this world, the inevitable disappointments humans experience. In the real world, the world that you and I live in, the promises of God will almost always appear ludicrous. Which is why some theologians point out that from a literary point of view, the Bible is really comedy. If you use the classical distinction between tragedy and comedy, the Bible is comedy. Tragedy implies inevitability. It is about fate moving toward a predictable end. That is what tragedy is about. You see a Greek ...

246. Same Question, Same Answer

Luke 3:1-20

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William G. Carter

... t you tell me what you want me to do?” It is a sobering challenge for preachers, and it’s a good question for the rest of you to ask. Perhaps you have gone to a meeting where some important topic is discussed and debated. Various points of view are given. A consensus begins to form. Soon, everybody is nodding his or her head in agreement. “Yes, something needs to be done!” Just then, somebody raises a hand and says, “I move we adjourn.” And nothing more ever happens. Or say, for instance, that ...

247. You Are There

Mark 1:21-28

Children's Sermon

... will need to review the story and all think of questions that the reporters could ask all the people involved. The focus is not only on the facts of the story, but on the feelings of the characters and on seeing the story from different points of view. The children may not have had practice in acting in an ad lib style, so practice in exploring feelings and lots of suggestions from the teacher will probably be necessary depending on the ages of the children. Parents: When you watch news reports with your ...

248. True Christian Faith seen In Its Works

James 2:14-26

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... who is aware that Paul claimed that a person “is justified by faith apart from observing the law [or “works of the law”]” (Rom. 3:28). Indeed, Paul even quotes the same passage that James has cited (Gen. 15:6) in favor of his point of view. To be sure, the problems being dealt with are quite different—Paul is attacking people who think that salvation is tied to doing the Jewish law; James addresses people who think that salvation brings no responsibility. But Paul’s “works of the law” is ...

249. I Need

Luke 10:38-42

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Dave Zuchelli

... what is better. (Luke 10:42). What she (Mary) had received could not be taken from her. I have to admit at that point, I would have become somewhat annoyed with Jesus if I had been Martha. Not only was he taking sides with my sister (who from my point of view had done zilch), he was also implying that what I was doing could be taken away from me — it could be lost. Really? I was the one waiting on him hand and foot and it amounted to nothing? In today’s world I would have been thinking, “Shots fired ...

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Jean Piaget

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