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326. Turf Fights and Rewrites: That's What Stiff-Necked People Are Made Of

Luke 2:21-40

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Lori Wagner

... and Proclaim His Salvation Psalm 99: Those Who Have Called on the Name of the Lord Psalm 145: Praise God’s Holy Name Psalm 147: God Names Even the Stars The Lord Calls Forth Even the Stars (Isaiah 40) God’s Betrothal with Israel and Future Consummation (Hosea 2) The Wedding Supper of the Lamb (Revelation 19) Image Exegesis: What’s in a Name? / The Lamb and El Shaddai “The Lord does not look at the things humans look at. Humans look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” (1 ...

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Jean de La Bruyere

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Oliver Goldsmith

330. Don't Forget the Best!

Luke 2:21-40

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King Duncan

... those present for “Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall” were some performers whose names are etched in our memories—Carol Channing, Rock Hudson, Spencer Tracy, Hedda Hopper, Henry Fonda, and Julie Andrews. Everyone present that night knew that Judy Garland was the consummate performer—that she would sing until exhausted and depleted. Garland felt she owed everything she had to her every audience. In this concert she sang a remarkable twenty-six songs—giving her all in every song. A live album was made ...

331. Hail, King!

Jeremiah 23:5-6 · Psalm 93 · Revelation 1:4b-8 · John 18:33-37

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Will Willimon

... worst, and serpents' eggs ready to hatch in the Thirties, the Pope proclaimed that Jesus Christ is King, ' 'the goal of human history,...the joy of all hearts, and the fulfillment of all aspirations....drawn together in this Spirit we press onward toward the consummation of history which fully corresponds to the plan of his love: 'to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth''' (Eph. 1:10). (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, #45, p. 947, Flannery.) When the lights ...

332. Feasting on Love

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... we never before had. We became like animals before going into mass hibernation. We stocked up on and mass consumed food. Only now as we are gradually emerging from our hideaways and caves are we returning to a more normal consummation rate. Our relationships are improving. Our community time is being restored. We are recovering from what felt like mass trauma, grief, and depression. We are awakening our ability to think about more vital and important things like recovery, relationships, growth, creativity ...

333. Sword of the Spirit

John 6:56-69 · Ephesians 6:10-20

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Lori Wagner

... , that is, the “voice” or mouthpiece of God. It is commonly used to indicate times when the “Lord speaks the living word to inbirth faith,” according to Strongs Lexicon (4487). "So faith proceeds from (spiritual) hearing; moreover this hearing (is consummated) through a rhēma-word (4487 /rhḗma) from Christ" (Strongs). Spiritual “hearing” goes along with the divine infusion of faith within a listener. The words of Christ are an auditory vehicle. What Peter is saying is that Jesus’ voice, his ...

334. Mary's Witness

Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)

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King Duncan

... second lesson Mary would share with us is God is working in difficult circumstances. Read through the Bible and you will see that God never chooses the easiest path to accomplish His will. Jesus was born to a young couple who hadn’t even consummated their marriage yet. Don’t you think Mary and Joseph’s family and friends and neighbors wondered and worried and gossiped about Mary’s premature pregnancy? And Jesus was born during the reign of King Herod, a ruthlessly ambitious ruler who was willing to ...

335. Jesus Meets Our Needs

John 2:1-11

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Derl G. Keefer

... portrayed over and over again through the image of the marriage covenant (Hosea 2:7). The fullness of the messianic age was prophesied in Isaiah and spoken of so beautifully through the symbol of marriage (Isaiah 62:5), and the vision of the consummation of all history will be celebrated in the marriage of the ‘Lamb and his wife’ when glory is given the Lord-God omnipotent (Revelation 19:7 NIV).” Fredrikson went on to suggest, “How highly suggestive then that Jesus’ first miracle, inaugurating the ...

336. What We Learn from Love

Matthew 1:18-25

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King Duncan

... the prophet: ‘The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ (which means “God with us”). “When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him and took Mary home as his wife. But he did not consummate their marriage until she gave birth to a son. And he gave him the name Jesus.” Amazing! The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, God in the flesh, came as a little baby to a poor couple to save his people from their sins. From the very beginning ...

337. Secret Swerve

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... yet showing. By the time she would, they would be in Bethlehem, married, and the child would be safe. He would appear to be born just a bit early, not enough to draw attention. No one could know. While everyone else would think the marriage consummated and celebrate an immediate pregnancy, Joseph would vow not to touch her until the child was born. The dance had begun. They slipped out of Nazareth making their way to Bethlehem. During that time period of the census, many people were in the area of Bethlehem ...

338.

Psalm 134:1-3

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... a decisive wordplay. As worshipers are commanded to “bless the LORD” (vv. 1–2), so he is in turn invoked, May the LORD . . . bless you (v. 3). Relationship with Yahweh is a mutual one: we bless him; he blesses us. Verse 3 contains what is a consummate irony for all and a stumbling block for many, especially in a pluralistic age. Yahweh is the Maker of heaven and earth—he is universal. Yet his source of blessing is from Zion—it is particular and contingent (cf. 128:5). What makes this particular ...

339. Body

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... :17, he declares: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” Hence the renewal that Paul envisions is not just a matter of outer versus inner, but also of past versus present and future. The consummation of the renewal process takes place at the Parousia, when the bodies of believers will be redeemed (Rom. 8:23), that is, resurrected and conformed to the likeness of the Son of God (v. 29), and the whole creation “will be liberated from its bondage to ...

340. Daniel Interprets the Dream

Daniel 2:24-49

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... context, it is hard to avoid this eschatological meaning, since in the vision all the kingdoms are destroyed by the final kingdom of God, which will have no end. Here and in 10:14 (NIV “in the future”), it should be understood as pointing to the consummation of the ages. 2:29–30 These verses are a doublet of verses 27–28. One would expect the dream account to follow immediately after verse 28: Your dream and the visions that passed through your mind as you lay on your bed are these. Instead, verse ...

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326. Turf Fights and Rewrites: That's What Stiff-Necked People Are Made Of

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Jean de La Bruyere

Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.

John Lyly

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Oliver Goldsmith

330. Don't Forget the Best!

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

331. Hail, King!

Jeremiah 23:5-6 · Psalm 93 · Revelation 1:4b-8 · John 18:33-37

Sermon

Will Willimon

332. Feasting on Love

John 6:24-35

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