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4351. Kohathites

1 Chronicles 23:12-20

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... duties (24:3); he sets apart the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun for special service (25:1); and he appoints officials (26:32). In concluding these lists (27:23) the Chronicler makes the point that David did not count those below twenty years of age, for “the LORD had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.” 23:1 The opening clause when David was old and full of years indicates that the end of David’s reign is near. David now makes his son Solomon king over Israel. Although the ...

4352. Merarites

1 Chronicles 23:21-32

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

4353. Rehoboam Fortifies Judah

2 Chronicles 11:5-17

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... this inclination, they were walking in the ways of David and Solomon (11:17). The continuation of the Davidic-Solomonic kingdom is not so much dependent on the political support of All-Israel as it is constituted when All-Israel is “seeking the LORD.” Additional Notes 11:5–12 Israel Finkelstein (“Rehoboam’s Fortified Cities,” pp. 96–107) shows that the city list provided in these verses does not correspond to any Iron Age reality but fits the period of Hasmonean rule, probably in the days of ...

4354. Asa's Last Years

2 Chronicles 16:1-14

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... (the thirty-sixth year) things drastically changed: Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah (16:1). In self-defense, Asa immediately sought alliance with Ben-Hadad king of Aram (16:2), sending to Ben-Hadad as inducements silver and gold out of . . . the LORD’s temple and of his own palace. The turnaround for Asa is dramatic, at least initially. When Baasha learned of the alliance, he stopped building Ramah (16:5). Asa carried off timber and stones from there to build up nearby Geba and Mizpah (16:6 ...

4355. A Prophecy Against Jerusalem

Isaiah 22:1-25

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... for them if they do not turn. It is another sharp way of trying to bring them to their senses and to warn the hearers of the terrible consequences of following their example. Again the warning is grounded in the fact that the one who speaks is the Lord, the LORD Almighty (see vv. 5, 12, 15). The title came previously at 3:15, then in a similar cluster to the one here in connection with Yahweh’s putting down the Assyrians in 10:16, 23, 24. Jerusalem either has the comfort of this three-titled God for it ...

4356. A Law Written On Our Hearts

Jeremiah 31:31-34

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King Duncan

... . That’s enough silliness for the day. But we do want to give some thought to the Law. Our lesson for the day is one of the most beautiful and important prophecies in the Hebrew Bible. It is from the prophet Jeremiah: “The days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though ...

4357. Everything You Need to Know about Love

John 15:9-17

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King Duncan

... began with--the story of Moses Mendelssohn, the small man with the large hump on his back. Remember he told the girl he loved, “I believe that at the birth of each child, the Lord says, ‘That boy shall marry that girl.’ But in my case, the Lord also added, `But alas, his wife will have a terrible hump.’ “At that moment I called, ‘Oh Lord, that would be a tragedy for her. Please give me the humped back and let her be beautiful.’” What does love look like? It is like a man taking on a hump on ...

4358. Close Calls

Mark 4:35-41

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Ron Lavin

... his mother's nails had dug in when she pulled him to safety. "That close call gave us a new perspective on life and God," Mike's mother said. "At first we doubted God, but now we have reordered our priorities; we've gone back to church and put the Lord first." Most of us don't experience close calls that extreme, but we know what close calls are. Life has a way of dishing out close calls of one kind or another and yes, when that happens, even the best Christians at first may ask: "Does God even care?" Later ...

4359. In It for the Long Haul

John 6:60-69

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King Duncan

... in love with her. He desperately wants to marry her, but she has vowed only to marry a man with the face of a saint. George Lord obviously doesn’t have such a face. Not long after this, George passes by a mask shop. He goes into the shop and has the owner ... by the grace of God you are here for the long haul. You have placed yourself in God’s hands and you say with Simon Peter: “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One ...

4360. Be Ready for the Possibility of the Resurrection

John 20:1-18

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R. Robert Cueni

... It did not occur to her that this could be anything but the work of grave robbers. Even the appearance of angels did not get her to stop looking for a dead Jesus. The story continues that when she came out of the tomb, Jesus was standing there. The Lord spoke to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” (v. 15). At first, Mary Magdalene still did not get it. She mistook Jesus for one of the cemetery gardeners. She even asked Jesus if he was the one who moved the body. A moment passed ...

4361. Saved Alone

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Editor James S. Hewett

... rooms in anguish, as anyone would have done. But this was not all. For as he shared his loss with His Lord, a loss which could not be reversed in this life, he found, as many have, that peace which indeed passes all understanding. Toward morning he told a ... friend named Major Whittle, "I am glad to be able to trust my Lord when it costs me something." Then, sometime later, as he reflected on the disaster at sea, he wrote this hymn: When peace, like a river ...

4362. Setting His Face Toward Jerusalem

Luke 9:51-62

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King Duncan

... Jesus. (7) I can only imagine the pain of those parents at losing their daughter, but I can also imagine the hope and joy they had in knowing that their daughter made that decision to give her life to Jesus. When she chose Jesus Christ as her Lord and Savior, she died to her old life and discovered eternal life through him. Setting your face toward Jerusalem isn’t easy. It means giving up your own agenda and comfort to follow God’s will. For Jesus, Jerusalem meant humiliation, and defeat and death. But ...

4363. A Mystery

John 16:12-15

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Robert C. Cochran

... telling us to pray in the name of Jesus, and Jesus suggesting we pray to the Father through the Holy Spirit. What should we do? I think we should take Pastor Marty’s advice and seize the opportunity we have been given to enjoy God, to delight in the Lord, to dance in the Spirit. You don’t have to fully understand something to love it. The late Cardinal Cushing once related that, when he was a parish priest, he was summoned to a store to give last rites to a man who had collapsed. Following custom, he ...

4364. Less Fear; More Fruit

Matthew 3:1-12

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Dean Feldmeyer

... faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.” The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the ... lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” (6:1-5) This is the fear, the awe, the wonder, the reverence that leads not to despair, but to hope, not to ...

4365. Surprised by Joy

Luke 2:8-14

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Dean Feldmeyer

... passages that are attached to this season. There’s no escaping it: It’s about joy. In chapter 61 of Isaiah that is always read at this time of year, the prophet’s message is one of “good news to the oppressed.” He will “greatly rejoice in the Lord.” And not just with his mouth but with his “whole being!” Christmas, for him, isn’t so much a baby shower as it is for us, as it is a wedding reception. Everyone puts on their finest duds and dances, sings, eats, drinks, and celebrates. This is ...

4366. Can These Bones Live?

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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Brant S. Copeland

... have become a living, breathing, vibrant multitude, Ezekiel is told, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.’ Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and raise you from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you home into the land of Israel . . . And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land ...

4367. The Law of Unintended Consequences

Matthew 5:13-20

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King Duncan

... by God, they lost that relationship. Later, God gave the Law to Moses as a way to bring Israel back into relationship with Him and with each other. God’s law was always rooted in love. The first Mosaic Law, the first of the 10 Commandments is “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.” The Law establishes a relationship with God and serves as a reminder of God’s love for us. This is the God who set us free from slavery ...

4368. Sitting Shiva Behind Closed Doors

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . So, she ran to Simon Peter and the other disciple –the one Jesus loved so much—and she said to them, “They’ve taken our Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they’ve laid Him.” So Peter and the other disciple set out for the tomb ... the head and the other at the feet. They said to her, “Madame why are you weeping?” She replied, “They have taken away My Lord, and I do not know where they have laid Him.” After she spoke, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did ...

4369. Born of the Spirit

John 3:1-21

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Lori Wagner

... ’s Waters of Redemption (Isaiah 35) The Pregnancy of Salvation (Isaiah 42) The Restoration Through Womb, Water, and Spirit (Isaiah 44) The Womb of Redemption (Isaiah 49) Redemption with Water and Spirit (Ezekiel 36-37) From the Womb of the Creator/Redeemer Lord (Job 38) Rebirth and Renewal Through Jesus (Titus 3) Nicodemus’ Visit with Jesus Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a ...

4370. Messengers

Matthew 1:18-25

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Lori Wagner

... birthing salvation. It’s a message for all of us that God’s True Message is a message of Life for all people. Each and every one of us has a “message” from God. Each and every one of is called to be a “messenger” from God. Jesus Christ the Lord is God’s own Message and Messenger in One, God’s voice incarnate, here to show us the way to new and abundant life, and one day lead us into eternal life. And it’s our job to celebrate and sing that message to everyone we can. “Good news! Jesus ...

4371. Even in Our Hiding

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

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Lori Wagner

... child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.” When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he ... mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and go to the land ...

4372. Don't Stop Praying!

Luke 18:1-8, Luke 18:35-43

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Lori Wagner

... some time, he refused. But finally, he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’” And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the ...

4373. Deep Faith

Genesis 6:1-8:22, Genesis 5:1-32

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Lori Wagner

... does not pursue life for his own purposes. God saves Noah and his family because of their trust in God and faith in God’s promise. In a sense, God saves the Noah family because of their “potential.” Pregnant potential, one might even say. The Lord shut Noah and his family in the box for the duration. After that time, the ark’s passengers emerge from the watery deep ready to repopulate the earth with faith-bearing, life-bearing, God-fearing creatures. The animals collected, as well as Noah’s family ...

4374. House of God

Ephesians 2:1-10, Ephesians 2:11-22

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Lori Wagner

... on the Story Lectionary Major Text You Are Members of the Household of God (Ephesians 2) Minor Text God’s Promise to Flourish the House of David (2 Samuel 7 / 1 Chronicles 17) Psalm 84: Psalm of Praise for the Courts of the Lord Psalm 18: The Lord is My Rock The Mountain of the Lord is the House of the God of Jacob (Isaiah 2) Jesus Teaches His Disciples and Many Others On a Mountain in Galilee: a Weeding Out Story (Matthew 4:23 through 7:29) Jesus Choose His 12 Apostles and Then Teaches Them Among Others ...

4375. Clear to Enter

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, John 20:19-23, Matthew 28:1-10, Luke 24:1-12, Hebrews 10:1-18, Hebrews 10:19-39, Genesis 3:1-24

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Lori Wagner

... Jesus says only one thing in reply to that man: “Today, you will be with me in paradise (which means in the Garden). With ME, he says, which is kind of like saying…. “Man, you’re clear! Allow me to escort you in!” J.R.R. Tolkien, in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, wrote about the Doors of Durin, the secret doors that led into the Mines of Moria in the realm of the elves. The doors were hidden, sealed shut, and would only open to those who spoke the password! Inscribed upon the doors were the words ...

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