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251. Parable of Two Businessmen

Luke 6:38

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Staff

One man advertised his product in all the leading magazines using all the superlatives regarding his service, his quality and his ability. The second businessman put advertising in second place of importance to the importance of giving genuine quality, real service and personal consideration. Said the first businessman, "With all the advertising I pay for I can't understand why customers drive by my door to that smaller place of my competitor?" But when customers were asked their opinion they said, "Go to ...

252. ADVENT 1

Jeremiah 33:1-26, Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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... , how shall we receive him and what manner of people shall we be? It is a common human desire to be in proper condition when a great one comes to us as a guest in our homes or as a visiting dignitary to our community. We think of proper dress, quality and quantity of food, and of adequate briefing about the renowned person. In this text Paul tells us what kind of people we need to be when he comes. Since his coming will be unexpected, it means we need to be the proper kind of people now. Outline: Are you ...

253. Advent 2

Malachi 2:17--3:5, Philippians 1:1-11, Luke 3:1-20

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... you respond to God reveal your relationship to God. In the days of Malachi, the Levites were subject to judgment for their faulty offerings. "Right offerings" reflect right relationships to God. Outline: What is a right offering? a. An offering is right because of the quality of the offering. God deserves only the best, without spot or blemish. b. An offering is right because it is proportionate. God tells us a tithe is his share of the income. c. An offering is right because it is motivated by love. "God ...

254. Proper 12

Lk 11:1-13 · Col 2:6-15 · Gen 18:20-32 · 2 Ki 5:1-15

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John R. Brokhoff

... need to keep praying. 3. A God Who Loves to Give. 11:11-13. Need: We often think of God's unwillingness to give. So, we use prayer, especially persistence, to eke out of God some favor to answer our needs. To get this answer, we are concerned about the quality of prayer and the prayer. This is unnecessary according to Jesus in the text. God is more willing to give than we to ask. Outline: God loves to give A. Good gifts - vv. 11, 12. God, like a good father, gives only good gifts. If one asks for a fish ...

255. Second Sunday in Advent

Isaiah 11:1-16

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... and consequences of the One who comes Exegetical Note This description of the ideal Davidic king (i.e., the hoped-for Messiah) contains three pairs of desired qualities: wisdom and understanding (intellectual), counsel and might (political), and knowledge and fear of God (spiritual). All of these derive, not from the ruler's innate abilities, but from the Spirit of God that will be upon him; and the righteousness that will "gird" him will bias him toward the poor ...

256. Salvation: Authentic and Powerful

Amos 5:18-27

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King Duncan

... are fought as we grow in the Faith both individually and collectively. We move to another area that is, at times, misunderstood. Justice and Righteousness Main Features "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream" have a literacy quality to them which, almost singlehandedly, carries us into the presence of God. The phrasing ranks with the best in world literature. Over the centuries we might question the way in which they have been used. Yet, to spend pages doing that ...

257. Advance into Europe

Acts 15:36-41

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CSS

... a native of Thyatira in Asia, but had set up her own establishment at Philippi as a weaver or importer of expensive cloth which could be used for the special robes worn on formal or ceremonial occasions by both men and women. Thyatira was famed for the quality of the purple dye it produced and must have been Lydia’s source of supply. Lydia became Paul’s first European convert. Her heart was opened to the Word of God and she asked to be baptized, with her whole household. The fact that the meeting was ...

258. Claim Your Ministry

Matthew 20:20-28

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Robert Bachelder

... had turned this world’s understanding of kingship on its head by emptying himself, taking the form of a servant and leaving the royal robes in the closet. To this they drew a corollary, that their king’s royal priesthood must share his qualities, that servanthood must define the shape of the Christian community, and that its leaders must be servants of the servants of God. It is asked by churches which practice apostolic succession: What is the authority for the ministry of the Reformed churches? They ...

259. Shepherding One Another in a Collapsing World

Romans 9:1-29

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Robert G. Tuttle

... move toward a deeper commitment?" "Do I recognize the fact that joy is the mark of Christ? And if I do not have that joy ... am I coming to grips with whatever there is in my life that is shutting me off from that joy?" Are we growing in these qualities of Christian shepherding? Am I good at shepherding in my family, with my friends, where I work? Or am I a blank? A friend of mine, Dr. Tom Stockton, asks, "Does your golf foursome know you are a Christian?" "Do the girls with whom you play bridge realize you ...

260. Converting the Converted

Matthew 10:1-42

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John R. Brokhoff

... of being human. For many, wrongdoing is not a sin, only a sickness. The point is if we of the church are as sinful as people in the world, how can we help the world to be virtuous in all its dealings? If the church does not exhibit a higher quality of life, we are all lost and hopeless. Can’t you see, therefore, why Jesus ordered his Disciples to begin their work with their own people before going out to the world? Conversion Is a Process In our text Jesus sends us out to our own people, to the church ...

261. Nag, Nag, Nag!

Matthew 15:21-28

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John R. Brokhoff

... , menial tasks. A customer once wrote to Stanley Marcus of the Neiman-Marcus store in Dallas, "There’s a very nice-looking woman whom I frequently see in your store picking dead leaves from plants. Surely you can find a better position for a person of such obvious quality." In his reply he pointed out that the only higher position he could give the lady was his own position, because she was his mother, a member of the board of directors. It was not beneath Jesus to take a towel and basin and wash the feet ...

262. Drastic Surgery

Matthew 5:27-30

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Herchel H. Sheets

... that it was so valuable that it would be worth the loss of a hand or a foot or an eye. He was thinking, though, of real life - not the cheap kind that is most commonly experienced. He was thinking of a kind of life that is so rich in quality that one dare not count any sacrifice too great to attain it. James Baldwin says that most people, in action, are not worth very much. "And yet," he says, "every human being is an unprecedented miracle. One tries to treat them as the miracles they are, while trying to ...

263. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

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Kent Moorehead

... items: The crucially important element of style. A person’s style is made up, not of just one, two, or ten ingredients, but of all he is. It is the "tout ensemble," the all-togetherness, that total combination of personality qualities that gives him uniqueness - his essential spirit. One may be fairly familiar with a person, yet never discover any distinctive style. Some persons seem to be devoid of any uniqueness or readily recognizable individuality. You may have considerable biographical data about ...

264. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12

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Kent Moorehead

... nation is guiltless. It all seems fantastic, you say? Perhaps, but doesn’t it make better sense than the opposite emphasis - and its inevitable consequence of a Third World War? A third major emphasis of the Master’s was upon inner quality of character, rather than upon outer quantity of possessions. By personal example, as well as by specific declaration, he stressed the supreme importance of personal integrity and social rightousness. These were the values that mattered most. "What shall it profit a ...

265. Pilgrim Living in a Vagabond World

Matthew 7:13-14

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Leonard Mann

... , wishing to be modern and non-authoritarian, replied, "If you can cheat and live with yourself, I suppose that’s all right." The boy didn’t cheat, and neither did he do very well; the grade card he took home wasn’t exactly of the summa cum laude quality. Upon returning to school, he approached his teacher again, saying, "I think hereafter it will be easier to cheat and live with myself than not to cheat and try to live with my grandmother." That boy had a problem; he needed help; he was lost in the ...

266. Name Above Every Name

Luke 2:21-40

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Leonard Mann

... name of Jesus with them wherever they went. And you and I may, do this also, and we should. They considered themselves honored to bear it, and so should we, and as we bear it, care for it well. We have said there is a magic, a wonder, a miracle quality about this name. But how? why? what is it? Let me try to answer this question with one illustration of the unique significance and authority of the name. I would speak with you of the singular role this name plays in the mighty drama of prayer. You and I need ...

267. Remember Lot’s Wife

Luke 17:20-37

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Don Yocom

... That’s the right spirit! "We know that in everything God works for good with those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose" (Romans 8:28). Over a period of time as we press forward, things clarify. God measures time from the standpoint of quality. We tend to measure time from the standpoint of quantity. Let us illustrate: When water has stood still for a long time, it becomes stagnant and murky. Let it run awhile and it will clear itself as it passes over obstacles and riffles, has a chance ...

268. A Reason to Hope

Lamentations 3:1-66

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Michael J. Anton

... new super jetcraft, all to save the stewardesses a few steps and us an hour. All in the name of prestige and increased employment. Which is to say, in our inventive age, we cannot come up with other ingenious projects which would not have such a destructive effect on the quality of life. We live in grim days. To us at least, they are the grimmest ever. And someone in the pew may be thinking, "Look, pastor, I know the times are grim. I read the papers. I watch the news. And most of it is bad. And I didn’t ...

269. How Could A Love So Right Go Wrong?

Genesis 24:1-67, Genesis 27:41--28:9

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Bill Bouknight

... caution your children not to give out personal information to any one on the Net without your permission. Providing love and discipline in a consistent, equitable fashion takes time and energy. Some parents say, “Well, I don’t have much time with family, but it’s quality time.” That is usually a cop-out. There is an old song by Harry Chapin that one hears occasionally on the radio. It’s entitled “The Cat’s in the Cradle.” It tells about a busy father who never has time to play ball or go ...

270. Restoring Our Sense of Priorities

Exodus 20:1-21

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Donald Macleod

... out our accountability to God; the next six embrace our duty to humankind. These six are not, however, mere social actions with no greater moral claim than "Be kind to grandmother and the cat." They are the outgrowth of the first four. In other words, the quality and meaning of our worship of God find their results in the kind of treatment we make and give to our fellow human beings. If our worship is perfunctory, then our service to other persons will not be praiseworthy. It is not worthwhile to know what ...

271. Service Beset by "What’s the Use?"

Isaiah 49:1-7

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Donald Macleod

... persuade us to see also the worth of ourselves. Too many people are inclined to treat themselves as non-entities, as mere statistics in the human struggle, and forget to believe and see that they are members of God’s great family and that the quality of the whole depends upon the quality of each single unit in it. If you believe that this universe is merely an accident or that life is (as one student put it), "a bad joke that isn’t even funny," then it is folly to be concerned about one’s self or ...

272. Blessed among Women

Luke 1:39-45, 1 Samuel 2:1-11

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Erskine White

... a person, and it is that part of Mary we want to recover this morning. What was she like? What kind of woman would be chosen by God to bear His Son, and what kind of woman would have the faith and grace to do it? There are the usual qualities we traditionally think of. For example, we think of Mary as someone who was willing to take risks. She risked rejection by Joseph and even stoning by the other men in her village for being pregnant before she was married. She risked her own health and even her life by ...

273. The Marvelous Style Of Jesus: Truth And Love

Matthew 22:1-14

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Joseph M. Freeman

... see one choosing to retreat from further involvement and exhibiting fear of the demands of relationship. I have often observed that one of them, quite frankly, does not yet have the maturity of personhood truly to see and to appreciate the gifts and qualities the other person carries and is willing to offer. The more immature person in the relationship simply cannot see the gift package in the other and is not ready to continue to build the relationship. Indeed, s/he takes flight from any deeper sense ...

274. Terminally Distracted Or Decisively Prepared

Matthew 25:1-13

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Joseph M. Freeman

... to realize the importance of being more reliable and responsible. Because this person has been decisive about spiritual growth and commitment, matters in his/her life that wear on people and responsibilities will in time be addressed as well, for they affect the quality of his/her love and commitment. He/she, over a lifetime, becomes more decisively prepared, both spiritually and naturally. But for the person in case one, that of the person who is a natural initiative-taker and is very responsive in matters ...

275. The Path of Dignity

Drama

William Grimbol

... on straight paths" ... "be at peace with everyone" ... "live a holy life" ... these are the attributes that constitute the character of dignity. Dignity is spiritually bonded, fused in faith to the qualities of determination ... struggle ... suffering ... strength ... endurance ... courage ... righteousness, and these are the qualities that reflect discipleship. READER 2 Dignity, as a label, can be applied only to those lives that strive to be disciples ... to live a holy life ... to seek first after the ...

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