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301. Easter 4

Acts 13:13-52, Revelation 7:9-17, John 10:22-42

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... deity. In the gospel Jesus says he and the Father are one. In quoting a psalm, Paul in Lesson 1 says Jesus is the Son of God. In Lesson 2 Jesus is in heaven at the right hand of God sharing the glory of the Godhead. How important is this understanding for the average person? Only when we see Jesus as God, can we explain his perfect life, his prayer power, his miracles, and both his resurrection and ascension. If he is not God, how can he send the Holy Spirit? This may boggle the mind: How can two be one ...

302. Christmas 1

Lk 2:41-52 · Col 3:12-17 · 1 Sam 2:18-20, 26

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John R. Brokhoff

... he needed to be in his Father's house. In spite of his miraculous birth, in spite of the angels' message, in spite of the witness of Simeon and Anna, they did not understand that he was the anointed one of God. If they had understood this, they would have realized that his place was in the temple. But then, who of us would understand that a normal twelve-year-old boy was God's Son? 4. Obedient (v. 51). The Christ child of twelve was obedient to his parents. Jesus would rather have stayed in the big city ...

303. Jeopardy, by Jeremiah

Jeremiah 23:9-32

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Richard F. Bansemer

... Lord will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his mind. In the latter days you will understand it clearly." What can we do with an angry God? Occasionally on Sunday one of the many "angry God" passages of ... in the first place, as the person who has a plan, a grand design, deep, and holy that in days to come we will fully understand. The following numbers have something in common, even ‘though every day the numbers change. Listen to them and see if you can discover what they ...

304. Do We Want to See?

Luke 6:17-26

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Wallace H. Kirby

... watching a sunset paint the landscape. "It is glorious, isn’t it?" said the artist. "Yes," said the lumberman. "I figure that allowing for cutting and hauling, it ought to work out to about eighty cents a foot." Have you ever heard someone say: "I have never been able to understand why she married that man. For the life of me, I can’t see what she sees in him." What we see in this world depends on what we want to see. Jesus says the pure in heart see God. The meaning we usually give to purity of heart ...

305. A Thinking Person’s Thankful Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

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Raymond Gibson

... Philippians 1:9). The King James Version says it even more vividly: "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment." When we consider the charter members of that little church at Philippi, it’s easy to understand why Paul would first pray that they should grow in love. Do you remember who they were? St. Luke lists them in the sixteenth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. First, there was Lydia and all the people of her household. Lydia was a Jewish business ...

306. Facing the Glory Road

Matthew 20:17-19

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Louis H. Valbracht

... death? Did men cross the Western Ocean and settle a new continent without pain or death? Did the wagons follow the Santa Fe Trail without struggle, fear, famine, or fever? Did men learn to fly without ever failing or falling? There are always a few who understand. And in the middle of a culture whose idea of roughing it is to turn the electric blanket way down, there are those who get tired of their automatic transmissions and go back to shifting gears because it makes them feel needed. And then, there are ...

307. Right Next Door

Mark 12:28-34

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Robert F. Crowley

... HIM WITH IT. IT IS A SPONTANEOUS OUTBURST DURING WHICH SHE VENTS HER WRATH) It's Tammy, isn't it? ISN'T IT? STAN: Honey, I ah ... CHLOE: Answer me! You with Tammy! How could you? STAN: It -- it just -- happened. CHLOE: Stan, you're sick. STAN: You don't understand. It's not my fault. CHLOE: I understand. I finally understand. I understand you very well. STAN: It -- it just -- happened. CHLOE: (TOTALLY IN CONTROL) I ...

308. God’s Wounded Healers

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

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Gregory J. Johanson

... are you lonely?" I looked down at him and nodded. He dropped his rock and came over and hugged my leg, and the two of us stood there for a moment, looking out over the water. Henri Nouwen gives us some language and concepts to help us understand our loneliness. He says: When we are impatient, when we want to give up our loneliness and try to overcome the separation and incompleteness we feel - too soon we easily relate to our human world with devastating expectations. We ignore what we already know with the ...

309. Light from the Word

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

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Harry N. Huxhold

... to the people before they entered into the Promised Land. That we know as Deuteronomy, which means the Second Giving of the Law. Ezra’s reading was a repetition once more of giving of the Law as a way for God to make a claim on this people. The Hebrew understanding of a reading of the Law as the word of God was that one should relate to it as though it were being read for the first time. That is to say, the reading of the word would have the same effect or power as though God were revealing it ...

310. The Apostles' Creed: "God...Almighty"

Mark 15:33-41, Mark 15:21-32

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David E. Leininger

... being among the angels and the happiness of my father who was already there. This argument failed to quiet my rage. "God loves us all just like his own children," Bessie said. "If God loves me why did He make my father die?" Bessie said I would understand someday, but she was only partly right. That afternoon, though I couldn't have phrased it this way then, I decided that God was a lot less interested in people than anybody in Morrisonville was willing to admit. That day I decided that God was not entirely ...

311. Does Jesus Care?

Luke 7:11-17

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King Duncan

... what I have to say. God works with man and man with God. Not one alone." "I still have arthritis. But it doesn't have me!" That is the testimony of countless others. I have problems but they don't have me. Why? Because there is One who sees and understands and is able to meet my every need. Sometimes we're on top. Sometimes we're on the bottom. "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into the heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in ...

312. A Faithful Follower I Would Be

Luke 14:25-35

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Timothy J. Smith

... the play, the businessman wanted his wife to take his picture with it. Handing the camera to his wife, he asked her to take his picture while he lifted the cross to his shoulder. To his surprise he could hardly budge the cross from the floor. "I don't understand," he said to Mr. Lang. "I thought it would be hollow. Why do you carry such a heavy cross?" Anton Lang's reply explains why this play draws people from all over the world to that little Bavarian village every decade. "If I did not feel the weight of ...

313. Passions

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

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Frank Lyman

... Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28) Paul's resolve to "know nothing" except Jesus Christ and him crucified, was not an anti-intellectual statement. It was his understanding that all truth flows from the knowledge that God in Jesus Christ loved people so much that God gave God's only Son. This was Paul's new language. As he was writing this letter to the Corinthians he may have recalled the experience he had in ...

314. Eavesdropping On Eternity

Luke 9:28-36

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King Duncan

... that would temporarily cover the people's sins, Jesus will now be the perfect Sacrifice that takes away the sins of the whole world. He didn't understand that Jesus would have to suffer and die. He didn't yet understand that he, too, would suffer and be persecuted for preaching the truth. He didn't understand that Jesus' kingdom was eternal and for all people. He didn't understand that the Messiah came to seek and to save the lost. There's not a lot of glory in that job description. Instead, there is a lot ...

315. Forgiveness: Human and Divine

Matthew 6:12-15

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Edward Inabinet

... . Our sin has been removed, our guilty state in his eyes is removed forever. The guilty feelings may come again, but the guilty state that meant we lived under his damnation and his doom, under his eternal condemnation, has been taken away forever. And then we can really understand what the Bible means when it says that when we do sin as a Christian we can confess to God and he will take away that sense of estrangement that sin brings between us and God. When we do sin and we do have a guilty feeling, that ...

316. Hope in the Shadows

Mark 13:1-31

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Darrick Acre

... the sting of shame, when the past dominates us, we have hope because there is one who has come, is coming, and will come again; one who forgives us, redeems us, and offers us salvation; one who rescues us from whatever we need to be rescued. Jesus wants us to understand this truth as a truth that applies to the end time and to all of time: the Son of Man will come. In the midst of everything going wrong, the Son of Man has come, is coming, and will come again. The coming of Jesus to our lives isn’t ...

317. Through God's Breathed Word

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... primary source, the primary channel through which God's grace comes to us. III. Then there is this second truth: When our hearts are open to receive God's grace, our wills are softened to do God's bidding. Get the movement now. When our minds are open to understand the Scripture, our hearts are open to receive God's grace. And when our hearts are open to receive God's grace our wills are softened to do God's bidding. Now I know it's easier to use Bible language than to obey Bible commands. Still I insist ...

318. A Prophet Among Them

Ezekiel 2:1-3:15

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Maxie Dunnam

... of it, and to inspire us to continue the practice. I spoke to God for a person and was given the marvelous opportunity of speaking to a person for God. How is the test stirring in your mind and hear? “Whether they hear…? How do you resonate to my understanding – that as prophets/priests our task is to speak to the people for God, and to speak to God for the people? III Go back to Ezekiel. In the record of God’s call in chapter 2 and 3, there are some lessons, directions, and promises for us. First ...

319. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

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Maxie Dunnam

... ,” those “dark nights of the soul” when we cry with the psalmist, “I feel like an owl in the waste places.” And yet, we still have to “pay attention” – always remembering who we are – that we’re God’s called out, and seek to understand how we are to lead out of that “calling,” to be prophet/priest, to be as concerned about being as doing, to seek integrity of performance and identity. So comes the next word – abandonment. Formation is a dynamic process in which we seek more and ...

320. An Extraterrestrial Celebration

John 13:1-17

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King Duncan

... nice to know, isn’t it, that the Lord’s Supper has been celebrated by a man on the moon. It’s much more critical to know that we have this rite to celebrate because God came down to earth. This is a rite initiated by the Master himself. Understanding that is particularly significant when we read John’s portrayal of that first holy communion, which we know as the Last Supper. John tells us that it was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go ...

321. Joy in the Journey

119:129-136

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Michael Milton

... in terms of gaining God’s attention, or another’s attention, with our holiness? Psalm 119:129-136 is intended to give you joy in the journey. Pe Your testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them. The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commandments. Turn to me and be gracious to me, as is your way with those who love your name. Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get ...

322. Now Here Is the Plan

John 12:20-36

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Maxie Dunnam

... The Trinity." That title was put on the web site, and I have received mail from all over the world now with people telling me what the Trinity means. If they had read the sermon, and not just the title, they would have learned that I really do understand what the Trinity means. I know the doctrine of the Trinity. But I was suggesting that the doctrine conceals much more than it reveals, because God cannot be captured in a doctrine. There is a depth to God that will never be comprehended by us. We call that ...

323. The Power of God

Ephesians 1:15-23

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Rick Brand

... is not a possibility, to say that child abuse cannot be stopped, to throw up our hands and to say that we cannot reestablish discipline in our schools, to say that there is nothing we can do to help our young people come to a joyful and affirming understanding of sexuality within commitment, to say we cannot feed, with all the resources and food on this earth, all those in Africa who are hungry, is to deny the power and the potential of the love of God. Paul prays for the church that it might have a spirit ...

324. This Is Not Rocket Science

Acts 2:1-8

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Mark Trotter

... people will be joining the Church, as simply as I can. The expression, "This is not rocket science," is used when somebody has made something too complicated, much more than it needs to be, or for some other reason, fails to comprehend what is relatively simple to understand. The reason I know the phrase is because it has been addressed to me with some frequency. It occurred to me that anyone who belongs to the Church ought to be able to articulate what the Church is here for, what it means to belong to the ...

325. You Have Outwitted Me

Hosea 11:1-9

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Mark Trotter

... presence. It was always there, from the beginning. But as her life moved toward the end, and to Auschwitz, her description of her relationship with God became more intimate, the words she used more the words of a covenant. It was as if she didn't need to understand, because she knew God understood her. She didn't need to know why God let this happen, because she knew God did not want it to happen. It wasn't God's doing. God was on her side. Indeed she sensed God's presence with her, beside her. Which ...

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