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4001. Jonah Flees from the Lord

Jonah 1:1-17

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the sea,” repeating the verb “hurl” from verse 4). When he goes down in the hold to fetch some of the cargo, the ship’s captain discovers Jonah sleeping a deep sleep (cf. Isa. 29:10; Gen. 2:21) among what were probably bales and jars. In an ironic touch, he awakens Jonah with the same command that Jonah had received from God, “Arise! Call . . .” (cf. MT 1:2). That word of God is pursuing Jonah, try as he may to escape it. The captain summons Jonah to pray to your god and then calls Jonah’s god ...

4002. The Lord Promises to Bless Jerusalem

Zechariah 8:1-23

Understanding Series

Pamela J. Scalise

... the other nations will seek the Lord. In a bold move, they will grasp the hem of one Jew’s robe. This physical action lays claim to a desired relationship (cf. Ruth 3:9; 1 Sam. 15:27; Ezek. 16:8). By faith the woman suffering a long-term hemorrhage touched the hem of Jesus’ garment and was healed (Matt. 9:20–22; Mark 5:25–34; Luke 8:43–48). The hem of a garment was an extension of a person’s identity (1 Sam. 24)—a place where evidence of sin (Jer. 2:34), or consecration to God (Num ...

4003. Timeout at Tiberias

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... is now the director of the laboratory at Pfizer. She oversees all of the efforts of the lab researchers in Research and Development. She said, “We have to help researchers understand that only a tiny minority of them--over their entire careers--will ever touch a winning drug. We need our employees to realize that being faithful and focused on our projects in the midst of seemingly insurmountable failure is as important as almost everything that we do.” Did you catch those words about being faithful and ...

4004. When Jesus Prays

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... a failure, but he’d be wrong. Because I think he’s achieved a success far beyond riches and fame.” Looking at her former teacher the governor gestures with a sweeping hand and continues, “Look around you. There is not a life in this room that you have not touched, and each one of us is a better person because of you. We are your symphony, Mr. Holland. We are the melodies and the notes of your opus. And we are the music of your life.” (8) It’s a beautiful film and I know that the analogy is ...

4005. A Grayhound and a Kite

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... at him. Was it chance? (3) Well, that depends on your theology. It certainly was not chance that Professor Schweitzer responded to God’s call. It is evident that God had been working on him for some time. And even though Schweitzer’s commitment touched millions of believers around the world, it was a gradual thing. There was nothing very dramatic about it in the beginning. That’s the way God normally works--through the normal processes of daily living. If you are waiting for something spectacular to ...

4006. A Squirrel Crossing a Busy Street

Romans 5:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... can sometimes hurt, we can embrace those hurts if we understand that God is using them to make us into a new creation--one fit to live with Him forever in the Kingdom of God. Monica Dickens, in her book Miracles of Courage, tells a touching story about David, a 2-year old with leukemia, who was taken by his mother, Deborah, to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, to see Dr. John Truman who specializes in treating children with cancer and various blood diseases. Dr. Truman’s prognosis was devastating ...

4007. People Who Are Down on Themselves

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

... rabbi. “Gentile dog!” the young rabbi snarled. Then, without warning, he spit on the front of Jamie Buckingham’s shirt. Whirling away, the young Hasidic rabbi made his way back to the fountain where he had washed his hands moments before. Having been touched by a gentile, he obviously felt unclean and now felt forced to go through the ritual purification once again. Jamie Buckingham says the effect of being cursed and being spat upon by this ultra-religious individual was dramatic for him. He says he ...

4008. People Who Procrastinate

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

King Duncan

... put off turning to Christ, it is unlikely that we will ever heed his call. That is our nature. We could be so much more effective in how we use our time if we could but center our lives in him. And there are people’s lives that we can touch, that we really can help, if we act before it is too late. Satan’s most effective tool--tell them there is no heaven? No. Tell them there is no hell? No, not that either. Tell them there is no hurry. My friends, there are some things in life about ...

4009. What In the World Am I Going to Do with You?

Hosea 5:15, Hosea 6:1-6

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... come up here for a moment. Let me measure you to see how tall you are. (Measure someone.) Here's something all of us can do. I read that in Borneo years ago, children were considered old enough to go to school if they could reach over their heads and touch the opposite ear. Can you do that. Let's try it. That's another way to measure your growth. The most important kind of growth is spiritual growth. That is, are you growing into the kid of person God is pleased with. That's much harder to measure. For ...

4010. Not Having Seen Him

1 Peter 1:8

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... with the television? That's what I want to know. Of course, there are no wires. Electronic signals travel through the air. But we can't see them, can we? We can't feel them. How can we know they are there? We can see the TV change when we touch a button, so we know they are there. A verse in our Bible praises people who love God even though they have never seen Him. I've never seen God, have you? Nobody has seen God and yet we know He is there. We see His beautiful work everywhere--in ...

4011. Jesus Heals the Official’s Son

John 4:43-54

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... this indictment. It is uncertain whether the royal official (Gr.: basilikos, lit., “royal”) was a Gentile or a Jew. The theme of healing at a distance (therefore without physical contact) recalls two synoptic narratives in which Jesus, as an observant Jew, heals Gentiles without touching them or going to their homes (i.e., the daughter of the Syro-Phoenician woman, Mark 7:24–30/Matt. 15:21–28; the Roman centurion’s servant, Matt. 8:5–13/Luke 7:1–10). But in each of these cases, part of the ...

4012. Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

John 6:1-15

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... five barley loaves and two fish (v. 9a), and with these Jesus feeds the whole crowd (vv. 10–13). All the Gospels are specific about the five loaves and two fish, but only John tells the story of the anonymous youth who brought them. The human interest touch is most easily explained as an actual recollection of what happened. Though certain aspects of the narrative are reminiscent of the story of Elisha and twenty loaves of barley bread in 2 Kings 4:42–44 (e.g., the emphasis on what is left over), the OT ...

4013. Jesus Goes to the Feast of Tabernacles

John 7:1-13

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... , his brothers urge him to go to Judea so that your disciples may see the miracles you do (v. 3). It is unclear what they have in mind. Does their proposal assume the existence of a definite group of Jerusalem disciples with whom Jesus has been out of touch for a while? Are they urging him to take steps to regain the followers who had recently (6:66) turned away from him? Against both of these possibilities is the fact that Jesus’ brothers seem to speak of your disciples (v. 3) and the world (v. 4) almost ...

4014. The Impending Departure II

John 16:5-16, John 16:17-33

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... began with Peter’s “Lord, where are you going?” in 13:36, but here Jesus makes the specific statement that none of you asks me “Where are you going?” (v. 5b). The reference is not simply to questions but to the specific question that touched off the whole discourse comprising 13:36–14:31. It is as if Jesus shows awareness of 13:36 but makes a conscious effort to do things differently. Such a development from “questions” to “no questions” might be appropriate if it made the point that ...

4015. Crucified, Dead, and Buried

John 19:17-27, John 19:28-37, John 19:38-42

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... is only formal because in the psalm “vinegar” is given with hostile rather than merciful intent: “They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.” In any case, the purpose of the account in John’s Gospel is not to describe a touching act of love toward Jesus but to emphasize that his real thirst was quenched, not by the pitiful momentary refreshment a Roman soldier was able to supply, but by what immediately followed, his return to the Father. A stalk of the hyssop plant: lit., just ...

4016. The Second Appearance and Its Sequel

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... of a week. The meaning is that the appearance took place on the next Sunday after Easter (cf. v. 19). 20:29 Because you have seen me, you have believed. There is no question either about Thomas’ belief or about the basis of it. Jesus does not say that Thomas touched him, and there is no evidence in the text that his skepticism went so far as actually to accept the challenge laid down in v. 27. He believed because he saw, just as the rest of the disciples did (vv. 20, 25; cf. v. 8).

4017. Paul's Chains Advance the Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... , Paul’s presence in Rome as a prisoner awaiting trial had really served to advance the gospel. He was a distinguished prisoner, a Roman citizen exercising his prerogative to have his case heard by the emperor, and he made sure that everyone who came in touch with him knew that it was on account of the gospel that he was under house arrest, and not because of subversive political activity or criminal conduct. 1:13 Throughout the whole palace guard, he says, and to everyone else who has anything to do ...

4018. Timothy and Epaphroditus

Philippians 2:19-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... Timothy’s example when he visits them. They probably held a special place in Timothy’s affection, as he had been in Philippi when the gospel was first preached and the church first planted there. 2:21 Even among the Christians with whom Paul was in touch at the time of writing, there were too many who put their own interests before those of others, or were more concerned about their own interests than about those of Jesus Christ. There were some indeed in Rome at the time who were preaching the gospel ...

4019. Pressing on Toward the Goal

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... had no awareness of the call to Christians to exhibit a higher standard of behavior than that which their neighbors observed; they were content for their mind to be on earthly things. There was, in fact, no reason to think that they had ever been touched by the grace of God proclaimed in the gospel; their lives were far from yielding the fruit of the Spirit. Additional Notes 3:18 Before the enemies of the cross of Christ P46 inserts “watch out for” (Gk. blepete, borrowed from v. 2). Polycarp quotes ...

4020. Children of God

1 John 2:28--3:10

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... as claiming the law as their special possession (7:19a, 49, 51; 12:34; 19:7). 3:6 As was discussed in the Introduction and in the comment on 1:1–4, what the author and his community are claiming is continuity with those who had heard, seen, and touched Jesus, not that they had actually done so themselves. 3:8 Jesus accused his opponents of being of the devil in his debate with “the Jews who had believed in him” (John 8:31) and who claimed to be children of Abraham (8:33, 37, 39) and children of ...

4021. God’s Love and Ours

1 John 4:7-21, 1 John 5:1-12

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... to ground the community’s assurance in the historical tradition of the Johannine community and of its eyewitness, the disciple whom Jesus loved (John 21:24). Our faith is based on an actual event, personally experienced (“heard,” seen, “looked at,” “touched,” “appeared to us”; 1 John 1:1–3), not on wishful thinking or on projected hopes. When the writer says, we … testify, he is standing with his mentor, the beloved disciple, and with the other elders and apostles, who witnessed “the ...

4022. Joy at Believers’ Walking in the Truth

3 John 1:1-14

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... are crucial to the author in maintaining solidarity among the house churches which are threatened by the secessionists and their teaching. Gaius is called upon to see the current situation in sharply antithetical categories of good and evil, of being from God or out of touch with God (has not seen God; cf. 1 John 3:6, 9–10; 4:1–6). The negative, destructive behavior of people like Diotrephes and the false teachers must be avoided, while those who do what is good, who thereby show that they are from ...

4023. Wanderings in the Desert

Deuteronomy 3:21-29

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... and give the whole book a forward look toward life in the land. This is confirmed again when the book of Joshua opens with a repetition of Moses’ encouragement to Joshua, placed this time in the mouth of God (Josh. 1:1–9). 3:23–25 There is a touching pathos in the way Moses turns from his encouraging words to Joshua, who has a bright future ahead of him, to his own sad longing to be allowed to share that future. I pleaded is a strong expression meaning to beg for grace and mercy out of desperation (cf ...

4024. Driving Out the Nations

Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... and implications (see p. 108). Having “come in” and arrived at its climax, the chapter now takes us “out,” returning us to the point of entry—the destruction of the Canaanites. 7:12/ And so, we take the first step back from the center and touch on the promise to the forefathers. This promise was not dependant on Israel’s qualities, but the future enjoyment of its benefits was dependant on obedient response to the God who made it. Again we see that obedience to the law was not the means of ...

4025. Exclusion From the Assembly

Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... refer to Deut. 23) and look forward to an Israel redefined and extended by the ingathering of hitherto excluded people. This was an important factor in the missionary theology and practice of the early church (cf. Eph. 2:11–19). There is, perhaps, a touch of divine humor in the fact that among the earliest notable converts was one who was both a eunuch and a foreigner—and was reading Isaiah! (Acts 8:26–40). The claims of kinship (Edomites) and hospitality (Egypt) allowed the grandchildren of resident ...

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