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251. Personal Requests

1 Corinthians 16:5-18

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... definite article “the” as if it were a personal pronoun is common or normal in Greek, and that understanding or translation is acceptable in this verse. Exactly what Paul means by this phrase is unclear. Perhaps he does intend to indicate certain basic matters of belief, such as those already registered in 15:3–8, but he may well mean to indicate the dynamic relationship between the Corinthian believers and the Lord that was a matter of trust and not simply a point of doctrine. 16:15–16 Paul passes ...

252. Listening and Doing

James 1:19-27, James 1:1-18

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... . It must end in death. There is only one escape, and that he gives in a contrasting chain in the following verses (1:16–18). 1:16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers. Deceived about what? Does this verse end the previous paragraph and refer to a belief that one could blame God or harbor desire or sin without any consequences? Or does it refer to a deception about where testing comes from (1:13)? Or does it head the following paragraph and refer to a failure to realize that God gives good and brings ...

253. Uncertain Certainties

John 20:19-31

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John Jamison

... more for us at the same time. As they were huddled in their secure little hiding place, still filled with doubts and questions, we are told that Jesus came and stood among them. Over the next few minutes, their paralyzing fears were beginning to be transformed into the belief and confidence they would use to unlock the doors and windows and go out into the streets to change the world. It would be a few more weeks before they were fully ready to do that, but it began here. All except for one guy. His name ...

254. Time to Pick a Side

Luke 12:49-53

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King Duncan

... any competing commitments. Certain options are off the table. That’s why some people are commitment-phobes. They have a hard time committing their heart, their energy, their time, their money, their future to a cause, to a relationship, to a belief. Commitment is scary. It requires discipline. It requires sacrifice. It requires giving up what feels good right now for what satisfies forever. Some people never make that step. J. P. Moreland, in his book Apologetic Reasoning and the Christian Mind, tells ...

255. Re-Gifted but not Returned

Matthew 3:13-17

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Dean Feldmeyer

... of love. Not until the last verse does the song say, “come Spirit, come” and then asks that our inward spirits be guided by love. For all we know the lyricist could be talking about the spirit of love. In her hurry to renounce her belief in God, the young lady also renounced any belief she may have in love, a renunciation that, if she’s like most college age girls I have known, she probably had no intention of making. So, what kind of gift is baptism exactly, and what can we do with it once we have ...

256. Nicodemus Came By Night

John 3:1-21

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David & Marian Plant

... Adonai, the Creator God of the heavens and the earth, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with a human man executed by their Roman oppressors. The time had come when the Jesus way became so very different than its Jewish roots — so radical in its beliefs about Jesus of Nazareth — that Jewish followers of Jesus were forced out of the synagogues as blasphemers. We hear the echo of their plight in Jesus’ reproach to Nicodemus: “I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet ...

257. Sitting Shiva Behind Closed Doors

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Lori Wagner

... its oppressors. As the story begins, “you” are in mourning, not just for Jesus the man, but for all of the hopes and dreams for the future that you thought this man represented. “You” are likely a follower already, but you’ve been disappointed. Your belief in Jesus as the Messiah has been dashed with the reality of his crucifixion and burial. You don’t really understand what Jesus had been trying to say about the Hebrew scriptures and the prophecy He needed to fulfill. Your assumption is that He ...

258. Elisha's Bones

2 Kings 13:10-25

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Lori Wagner

... feel it. But the importance of living our faith with our hands, and feet, and everyday acts requires more than just belief. It requires deep faith from the marrow of our bones. Bones are a beautiful Hebrew metaphor. They represent for the Jewish people “the whole ... person.” What you are in your bones, you are in your entirety. In your core. What are your core beliefs? What do you really believe when it comes right down to when it matters? Those are the “bones” of your faith that hold ...

259. The Redemptive Side of Suffering

Hebrews 5:5-10

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Richard Gribble

... need to be faithful to principles and obedient to God and the path the Lord set for him to follow. In April 1943 Bonhoeffer’s books, essays, and talks led to his arrest for insurrection. He was ordered imprisoned, but this only strengthened his beliefs. It was at this time that he wrote his most famous work, Prisoner of God: Letters and Papers from Prison. Implicated in a failed July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, Bonhoeffer was transferred to a concentration camp in Flossenberg, Bavaria where on April ...

260. A Non-anxious Presence

Mark 4:35-41

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Dean Feldmeyer

... of faith is paralyzing fear, the inability to move, or to act on those things that we claim to believe, in the face of danger. I can believe that you are able to push me across Niagara Falls on a tightrope in a wheelbarrow and that belief requires nothing of me. Faith, however, requires me to actually get into the wheelbarrow. Faith is that which allows people and institutions to be the non-anxious presence in the midst of anxiety and fear. It allows us, as individuals, to act decisively when others are ...

261. No Turning Back

John 6:56-69

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Frank Ramirez

... woman at the well got it. She was able to look beyond the literal meaning of “living water,” a moving stream that never ends, to the spiritual meaning of the term, and as a result, despite her brokenness, she was able to lead her whole village to a belief in Jesus. The man born blind got it. The religious experts didn’t. Some people get it. Some don’t. Some people came to Jesus expecting they would no longer have to work to earn their daily bread, that Jesus like Moses could rain manna down from on ...

262. Close! But No Cigar!

John 3:1-17

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... this conclusion. I was very happy with the idea that God didn't exist, and had no interest in me. And yet at the same time, I could not turn away. . . You can argue yourself, on the basis of pure intellect, right up to the precipice of belief, but then you have to decide. I don't believe intellectual argument alone will push someone across that gap . . . This is supernatural truth. And in that regard, the spirit enters into this, not just the mind.” (6) And that brings us to the final insight we learn ...

263. Into the Light

John 1:1-14

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Lori Wagner

... Off,” Forbes,https://www.forbes.com/sites/annapowers/2021/12/30/scientist-use-light-and-a-nobel-prize-winning-method-to-turn-dna-on-and-of/?sh=7c1243683e39. [2] “Scientists and Belief,” Pew Research Center, November 5, 2009, https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2009/11/05/scientists-and-belief/#:~:text=and%20June%202009.-,Numbers%20may%20not%20sum%20to%20100%20due%20to%20rounding.,the%20other%20major%20scientific%20fields. [3] “Importance of Light in Our Everyday Life,” IMPOFF, October 23, 2020 ...

264. To Cross Over

Romans 4:1-5, 13-17

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Dr. Ronald Love

... God before he acted. Faith comes before actions. What is significant with this act of faith is Abraham established the belief in one God as the supreme ruler of the universe. This is called monotheism. Up to this point all religions ... believe in the power and presence of God. Before we can embark on any ministry or mission for the church we must first be empowered by our belief in God. We also learn from Abraham that it is our faith in God that will sustain us during our difficult times. It is our faith in ...

265. Why Doesn’t God Prove Himself To Doubters?

2 Peter 1:16-21

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Charley Reeb

... God is a not a science experiment. God is a personal being. God is not an object to be observed; God is a spiritual power to be experienced. How do I know that? Well, let me share a few reasons why I believe this: Proof Of God Doesn’t Guarantee Belief In God It’s impossible for God to prove his existence. Why? Because God gave us the freedom to think. Any so-called “proof” God might give the world would be explained away by skeptics. For example, let’s say God did send a comet in the sky to write ...

266. The Mud Room

John 9:1-41

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Lori Wagner

... seems to be upside down and inside out! What we imagine to be true, clear, and obvious deceives us. What seems muddy, hard to understand, miraculous, and that in which we need to suspend our systems of knowledge in order to embrace “faith and belief,” represent cleanliness and purity. For Jesus, “clear as mud” makes a whole lot of sense! In order to “see” and “know” Jesus, we need to make things muddy. We need to muddy our certainties, muddy our expectations, muddy what we believe to be true ...

267. The Cost of Commitment

Genesis 22:1-14

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... antique, and he asked the man if he could have it. It only had a broken rung, and Victor knew he could fix it. The man said, “No.” Then he threw the chair into a Dumpster, permanently breaking its frame and ruining it. This moment reinforced Victor’s belief that people are no good and God didn’t care about him. A year later, Victor’s anger and sadness finally drove him to burn out. He drove down to the Missouri River one icy-cold day with the intent to throw himself into the water and either ...

268. What Heaven Will Be Like

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... ask the state to pay it in my behalf since I can't work and am a ward of the state.” (1) That’s pretty creative, isn’t it? I got drunk and committed a crime, and I want someone else to pay me for violating my religious beliefs. A judge dismissed his case as “ludicrous,” but she also commented that this was an “innovative approach to civil rights litigation.” (2) In my estimation, this is a crazy idea for a lawsuit. But I can understand Robert Lee Brock’s reasoning. We all want some excuse ...

269. Be Near, Ye Faithful

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24

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Ronald Love

... from our hymn reads, “O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord.” Even though this is the twenty-first-century, we cannot dismiss Satan as a real demonic power whose intention is to separate us from Christ. Paul, with a strong belief in evil spirits, was concerned that Christians remain faithful to God until the second coming. Martin Luther is considered the father of the Protestant Reformation. This is when a significant number of Christians left Roman Catholicism, most of whom resided in Germany ...

270. His Own Knew Him Not

Luke 4:14-30

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Will Willimon

... gap of time was what the German philosopher, Ferdinand Lessing described as “the ugly, wide ditch.” Here we are in our time, and there, two thousand years away, is Jesus. “How can an event, once significant in its time, be significant for all time?" asked Lessing. Belief would be easier if just for a moment we could climb aboard our time machine and be there. Yet, if mere time were the problem, why did the folk at Nazareth not see? Why didn't they know him? They didn't know him because they knew ...

271. We Live in Hope

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

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Bonnie Bates

... embrace. I knew the presence of the risen Christ, forgiving and loving me, in a way I could never, had never, and have never known it again. Yet, of all the readings and studying and learning about Christianity I have done, this one experience is the certainty on which my belief in the resurrection rests. I do not know how, but I know it to be so. Paul shared his certainty in the resurrection with us, but went even further. Not only is Christ risen, but we will all be risen in Christ as well. This is the ...

272. A Call To Community

Acts 16:6-10

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Douglas J. Deuel

... of God's Spirit. He was prevented from going to some areas. Then he was directed to others. But Paul remained faithful, seeking to allow God to direct him. The whole idea that God directs our lives is contingent on the belief that God has a plan and a purpose for our lives. Belief in God's providential care for our lives leads us to seek God's will and to make choices that would be pleasing to God. Abraham Lincoln was severely criticized by a group of clergymen as he was considering signing the Emancipation ...

273. One Bride For Seven Brothers

Luke 20:27-40

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J. Will Ormond

... as they pose their questions in the form of an absurd hypothetical story about one bride for seven brothers. The Sadducees are using an old trick. Instead of putting forth strong evidence for their own position, they are seeking to make Jesus look ridiculous and his beliefs seem absurd. They raise the question of resurrection from the dead. Their story is based on a law in Deuteronomy which says that if a man dies childless his brother is to marry the widow and raise up children in his brother's name. In ...

274. Seeing With New Eyes

Isaiah 6:1-13

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Tony Everett

... rapidly overcoming the number of the baptized in many areas of our nation. There is a growing number of the "sentimentally religious," who find ultimate meaning in a variety of new age beliefs and gatherings. A recent survey of Presbyterian baby boomers indicated that there was little difference in the beliefs of persons in the two largest categories: "moderately active in any congregation" (29%), and "uninvolved, but religious" (21%). That's one half of those Presbyterians born after 1946. There's little ...

275. When Wisdom Cries Out

Proverbs 8:1-36

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... of the land. Wisdom is crying out for love in the families of this land. The term "family values" has received much ridicule since the statement of Dan Quayle, but the truth is, nothing is needed more today than the practice of those beliefs and values which make strong, viable families. The disintegration of every society in some form or another can be ascribed to the dissolution of the family. As the primary social unit, the family provides cohesion, stability, and training for its members. There is ...

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