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326. Transfiguration

Psalm 2:1-12, Matthew 17:1-13, 2 Peter 1:12-21, Exodus 24:1-18

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

... Jesus and the respect of the disciples, he heightens the divine elements of the story (the cloud itself is "bright") as he plays down the human limitations. Unlike Mark, Matthew does not say Peter spoke in ignorance. Thus we see a strong theological bent in this narrative, as well as a rich Christology and ecclesiology, through focusing on the disciples' reverence. Matthew emphasizes other of his major concerns in this passage. (1) The mountain motif, already seen in the Sermon on the Mount and repeated at ...

327. What Does It Really Mean to Be a Christian?

Mark 10:17-22

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James W. Moore

... Me, come and join Me, come and walk with Me… and you’ll have a richness of life that’s just indescribable.” The young man turned and walked away sadly. Can’t you see him? Shoulders slumped Eyes downcast Feet trudging away in sorrow Just bent over… the picture of defeat Emotionally spent… Because he knew Jesus was right, but he just couldn’t do it. He couldn’t drop everything and put Christ first. He couldn’t make that commitment… and he missed the new life that only Christ could give ...

328. That's What Jesus Does for Me

Psalm 139:7-12

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James W. Moore

... corner… even at the dropping off places of life. II. SECOND, AT THE PLACE OF DARKNESS… at the place of trouble, God is there for us also. In the last week of November in 1990, our daughter, Jodi, became extremely ill. She was nauseated, dehydrated and bent double with abdominal pain. The doctor took one look at her and put her in the hospital… all day Monday and Tuesday they ran tests, but no luck. They could not pinpoint the problem. Meanwhile Jodi was hurting more and more and getting weaker and ...

329. Recognizing Christ

Luke 24:13-35

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King Duncan

... he came over to her bed again. “That labor took it out of you; you look different.” “Must have been the air conditioning in the delivery room,” Lidia mumbled sleepily. “Oh, I am just so happy you had a baby girl!” he happily repeated as he bent down to kiss Lidia on the lips. All at once, in her foggy state, it dawned on Lidia. “Sir, I believe you have me confused with your wife. She is still in the delivery room!” He, of course, was horribly embarrassed, especially when the attending nurses ...

330. Always Alongside Us

John 14:15-21

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... crammed lines and lines of font so tiny and so numerous onto that single sheet that you had to wonder how they could read it. But Steve walked in with a single blank sheet and a friend who was a senior student and who had an ‘A' in logic. Steve bent down and placed that single, blank sheet of paper on the floor next to his desk. His expert friend stood on the paper. The professor noticed the extra body in the room and asked what he was doing. Steve piped up, "You said we could bring in what ever we ...

331. Against All Hope

Romans 4:1-25

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King Duncan

... Listen to her chilling words: “I was astonished. Any ignoramus with no special medical knowledge would know I had bronchitis, possibly verging on pneumonia, not hepatitis, an inflammation of the liver with symptoms entirely different from mine. What sort of ‘doctor’ was this young man? I bent down to look at him through the opening of the small window. I saw a country lad no more than twenty years of age in a soldier’s uniform. I realized he was not a trained doctor at all but had been given the job ...

332. Someone Who Loves You

Eph 6:1-4

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King Duncan

... time on a visit to his mother--who had been widowed years earlier, in the month of Philip's first birthday--they spent the afternoon together looking through a box of old photos. A certain picture of him as an eight-month-old baby caught his eye. Tattered and bent, it looked too banged up to be worth keeping, so he asked her why, with so many other better pictures of him at the same age, she had kept this one. Yancey writes, "My mother explained to me that she had kept the photo as a memento, because during ...

333. Making a Difference

Matthew 9:35-10:8 (9-23)

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Author Unknown

... don't get back into the deeper water, they will die." The other man replied, "I understand that part, but look at this beach. It is covered with starfish. There must be thousands stranded out here. How do you feel that this will make a difference?" The native bent over, picked up another starfish, hurled him out to sea, and with a smile on his face said, "Made a difference to that one!" There are thousands who need the Lord and need the care of Christians. Each one of us can "make a difference" to someone.

334. To Tell The Truth

Exodus 20:16

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James Merritt

... like the piercings of a sword." Jeremiah said that a lying tongue is like an arrow shot from a bow. He wrote of his lying enemies, "Their tongue is an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit." (Jere. 9:8) He said also, "And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies." Jeremiah compared the tongue like a taut bow, flexed with incredible power; and when released sends an arrow of a lie right into a man's heart. Do you remember I told you the word devil means "slanderer?" Webster defines slander as "the ...

335. Freedom Faith Brings

Galatians 5:1-15

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James Merritt

... ?" To his surprise he said, "Oh no, I want you to set them all free." He said, "Did I hear you correctly, sir?" He said, "You heard me. Cut the strings from their legs and turn them loose. Set them all free!" With a quizzical shrug, the old farmer bent down and snipped the strings off the quail. They were freed, at last. Do you know what happened? Those birds simply continued marching around and around in the same old circle. Finally, the man had to shoo them off. But even when they landed a few yards away ...

336. The Truth about Truth

John 8:31-32

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James Merritt

... in the therapy of sin. We believe that taboos are taboo. We believe that everything is getting better despite evidence to the contrary. The evidence must be investigated, and you can prove anything with evidence. We believe there is something in horoscopes, UFOs and bent spoons. Jesus was a good man, just like Buddha, Mohammed, and ourselves. He was a good moral teacher although we think his good morals were really bad. We believe that all religions are basically the same at least the ones that we read were ...

337. How to Deal with Friends, Foes, and Fools

Proverbs 27:6

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James Merritt

... spent the day doing some last-minute Christmas shopping in Tijuana, Mexico, a few miles below San Diego. As they returned to their car one of the ladies glanced down in the gutter and noticed something moving and squirming as if in terrible pain. As they bent down they noticed what appeared to be a dog what they thought was a tiny Chihuahua struggling for its life. It was breathing heavily, shivering, and almost dead. They felt so sorry for this little animal they couldn't just drive off and leave it there ...

338. In Defense of the Offense

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

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James Merritt

... 1917 by the Soviet government, represented industry and agriculture. They were crossed to signify the union of worker and peasants of factory and field. Nazi Germany had as its symbol the swastika, which has been traced back some 6000 years. The arms of its cross are bent clock-wise to symbolize either the movement of the sun across the sky, or the cycle of the four seasons. It then became a symbol of the so-called superior race. Well, Christianity also has its symbol, and its symbol is very simply not just ...

339. What to Wear to the War

Ephesians 6:13-17

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James Merritt

... Toxicologists at the Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, began studying the effect of dead snakes after admitting a patient who had been bitten by a snake while gardening. The man had cut off a rattlesnake's head with a shovel, and when he bent down to pick up the snake's head it bit him. For almost a year these doctors focused their research on what they called "the dead snake bite phenomenon. They discovered 15% of people being admitted for a snake bite were bitten by a dead snake ...

340. How to Handle the Mess of Stress

Exodus 18:23-27

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James Merritt

... of dusk. He was working six days a week with no vacations and no time off. He was the first workaholic in recorded history. His fuel tank was empty. There's an old Greek motto that says: You will break the bow if you always keep it bent. There is nothing, I believe, that perhaps causes more stress than simply trying to overload the load that we can carry. In the 19th Century the maritime industry was having a difficult time with recorded ships sinking in heavy seas. In 1880 Samuel Plimsoll of the United ...

341. Bitterness: How to Overcome What You Undergo

Hebrews 12:14-15

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James Merritt

... I can say with a clear conscience I've never done anything to the man, I simply got blamed because I was the pastor. I simply said, "Brother, whatever I've done to offend you, I ask your forgiveness." He mumbled something and walked away, slumped shouldered, bent over, talking to himself, still pouring bitterness out of his mouth. That is exactly what bitterness will do to you. Bitterness will cause you to burn down your house to kill a rat. Someone once said that "to carry a grudge is like being stung to ...

342. Hazardous to Your Wealth: Myths about Money

Malachi 3:7-12

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James Merritt

... and pour you out such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it." If you wait until you can afford to tithe, I've got news for you—you never will. You'll be like a couple I read about in a poem one time: The bride bent with age leaned over her cane, Her steps uncertain need guiding; While down the church aisle with a wane toothless smile, Came the groom in a wheelchair gliding. And who is this elderly couple thus wed; You'll find when you closely exploit it; That this is that rare most ...

343. Sowing Tiny Seeds

Matthew 13:31-35

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King Duncan

Nancy Cornice remembers as a child hearing the tip-tap of a cane on the sidewalk. It was an old man "bent from the years" his rough, knotted hand purposefully clutching a cane." But this old man had a peculiar custom as he roamed the streets of this small town. When this gentleman saw a child he would stop, reach into his pocket and give the child a picture of Christ. "He ...

344. An All-Night Wrestling Match

Genesis 32:22-32

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Bill Bouknight

... the sin of pride. Those words, empowered by the Holy Spirit, nailed Colson right between the eyes. Colson left the Phillips home that night under real conviction. As he drove away, tears started to flow. So, he pulled over and stopped on the side of the road. With his head bent over the steering wheel he prayed his first real prayer, “God, I don’t know how to find you, but I’m going to try. I’m not much the way I am now but somehow I want to give myself to you.” For the first time in his life ...

345. Living By Faith In A Time of War

Judges 6:1-40

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Bill Bouknight

... troops went home. Imagine how Gideon felt when 2/3rds of his army walked away. Then God said, “Gideon, you still have too many troops.” So, God designed a little test. He told Gideon to watch how the men drank water from the little stream nearby. Those that bent over and lapped up the water like a dog were sent home. But those that scooped up the water in their hands and drank that way were kept. Just 300 troops drank from their hands. The Lord said, “That’s all you need, because I’m going to win ...

346. A Defiant Response to a Dangerous Theology: Does God Desire to Wipe Us Out?

Gn 6:1-8. 9:6-17

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... a bow, you don't hang it up by the string. You hang it by the wood. That way the curve of the bow is turned upward….the way a rainbow appears in the sky. All things considered, I do not believe God sent the tsunami….meant the tsunami….or bent the tsunami to use as an instrument of his avenging will. I do not believe it is God's intent to wipe "them" out….or wipe us out. But the sad fact remains, many were wiped out. And will be again. So, doesn't God care? Of course, God cares ...

347. From the Tomb

John 20:1-18

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John E. Harnish

... again…we've all been there, haven't we? Standing beside an open grave which has taken away our loved one, standing beside an open pain which has sapped our strength, standing beside the tomb of broken dreams and failed hopes, standing beside a broken world that seems bent on its own destruction—a world of too many crosses, too much brutality and war, hunger and strife, a world full of weeping. Like Mary, we stand by weeping, because we simply don't know what else to do and we don't have a clue as to ...

348. Why We Need to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

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King Duncan

... ? portrays a self‑righteous man named Fouke, who is betrayed by his wife. Superficially he forgives her, but secretly he hates her. Every time his secret hatred boils to the surface, an angel pops a stone in his heart, until the man is stooped and bent with their weight. When we carry anger and resentment toward someone else, the person we really hurt is ourselves. Philip Yancey writes: “Not to forgive imprisons me in the past and locks out all potential for change. I thus yield control to another, my ...

349. Pray, Baby, Pray

Philippians 2:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... is that black holes happen in our lives all the time. There are frequent collisions between opposing forces that can slam us down and suck out our soul if we let them. These vortices of extremely destructive energy are part of the downward bent of incarnation, that broken state of creation theologians call “sin.” It is one thing to experience this brokenness in the form of global forces that ambush us — like “war,” or “greed”, or “pollution,” or “hate,” like 9/11, 9/15 (the Economic ...

350. Philippians 3:4b-14

Philippians 3:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... to Torah laws, all 613 of them, were prerequisites to a life lived in Christ. Paul perceived this Judaizing influence to do nothing less than undermine the lordship of Jesus and the lodestar of justification by grace through faith. The Judaizers were bent on enthroning Torah and tradition above the person of Jesus the Christ. In our text this morning, Paul addresses the Judaizers, who gloried in their genetic genotype and religious phenotype, on their own grounds. No one was more familiar or religiously ...

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