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426. The Dangers of Being Religious

Mark 7:1-23

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Stephen M. Crotts

... or humility? In 49 A.D. Paul, a Pharisee, converted to Jesus Christ, went up to Jerusalem to discuss the gospel with the apostles. Of the meeting Paul wrote, "They added nothing to me." Such arrogance began to melt, however, as the Holy Spirit began to work on his character. Six years later he called himself "least of the apostles" and confessed, "Now we see through a glass darkly" (1 Corinthians 13:12). In A.D. 60, he wrote, "I am the least of the saints" (Ephesians 3:8). In A.D. 65, "I am the chief of ...

427. Playing A Role Or Being A Truth

Matthew 16:21-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... find ourselves in commitment to God and to the person God means us to be, low we are free. The world then cannot squeeze us into its mold. Arthur Miller, despite his moral character, is one of the great play writes of our day, and he says that the symbolic meaning of character for him is determined by the kind of commitment a character makes to life or refuses to make. In all of his writings, Miller seeks the moment of commitment, when a man separates himself from other men, when he chooses his own star out ...

428. A Fragrant Offering

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Maxie Dunnam

... ago I struggled with some of it. One of his finest novels is The Sound and the Fury. That novel chronicles the moral disintegration and decay of a Southern family named Compson. Through all the conflict, the waste, and the destruction, there is one character who stands like a rock of towering strength, and whose presence moves like a steady light in the lowering darkness. It is Dilsey, the faithful servant who has watched and wept as she worked, prayed and agonized in silence as she tried to help, through ...

429. Sweet Little Jesus Boy

Luke 2:1-7

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Maxie Dunnam

... we'll find out what Christmas is and why we are brought out of the box for such a 'short time.'" (The Upper Room Disciplines, 1991, p. 375). It is only a children's Sunday School skit, but its meaning haunts me. Have we been unmoving and unmoved characters in the Christmas drama? Mere figurines that will be "put away" tonight, and not know what it was all about -- this Christmas we have celebrated. It's a haunting thought -- that Jesus would come and any of us wouldn't know who he is. More than haunting, it ...

430. Power For Christian Living: Am I On My Own?

Romans 3:3-5

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Maxie Dunnam

... anoints the messenger, confirms the word, prepares the hearer, convicts the sinful, enlightens the blind, gives life to the dead, enables us to repent and believe, unites us to the body of Christ, assures us that we are God’s children, leads us into Christ-like character and service, and sends us out in our turn to be Christ’s witnesses. In all this the Holy Spirit’s main preoccupation is to glorify Jesus Christ by showing Him to us and forming Him in us. John Stott, ed., Making Christ Known: Historic ...

431. Dealing With Your Enemies

Luke 6:27-36

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King Duncan

... HE IS KIND TO THE UNGRATEFUL AND WICKED. BE MERCIFUL, JUST AS YOUR FATHER IS MERCIFUL . . .” (Emphasis added) WE CAN SHOW GRACE TO OTHERS BECAUSE GOD HAS GIVEN GRACE TO US. We love because we have been loved--not because we deserve that love, but because of the character of God. God is love and those who have God within them are possessed by the Spirit of love. That is our only hope. That is the world’s only hope, that the Spirit of Christ will one day dwell in every heart. Then there will be no wars ...

432. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... and small and empty and stupid, and that is just what God desires. Only when our hands are empty can we catch God dropping a blessing on us, or even better, for someone else. In many of his cartoons Charles Schultz of Snoopy fame has two characters standing outside at night, staring at a field of stars. "Let's go inside and watch television," Charlie Brown says in one. "I'm beginning to feel insignificant." No, Jesus says, stay outside; feel the feeling more deeply than ever. It is the truth, “Blessed are ...

433. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

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Phil Thrailkill

... that the silent are not off the hook and the verbal alone condemned. In each of the parts the use of the passive voice indicates that the one who acts upon us is God, as in “Judge not, that you not be judged (i.e. by God). The cast of characters in this process of moral correction are therefore five: 1) me, the self-appointed, self-righteous judge; 2) the one I am condemning in word or action; 3) the God who judges my judging as wholly presumptuous and out of place; 4) the Jesus who is kind enough to ...

434. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

... the benefactor. Don’t make the mistake of confusing spiritual gifts and spiritual fruit. They are related but distinguished. Spirit gifts are the power of Jesus poured through us for the needs of others, whereas the fruits of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5 are the character of Christ being formed in us over time for our sanctification. Spiritual gifts come and go in a moment; fruit takes time. Ideally they go together: open to the power, and full of love and wisdom. But it is not always so. Which is why ...

435. Thank God for Dads

Galatians 2:11-21

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King Duncan

... to Jerusalem to try to join the disciples, they were all afraid of him. They knew his reputation. There was nothing loving about the Paul they had heard about. And that is just the point. The old Paul was dead. Now there was a new Paul, fashioned after the character of Christ--loving, forgiving, accepting, caring. “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” That was ...

436. Night Moves

Genesis 32:22-32

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Mark Trotter

... . We are not looking at that story this year in the cycle, but it is the third story in the cycle. It's a wonderful story where Jacob meets his equal, his future father-in-law, a man named Laban, who is as devious and has as questionable a character as Jacob does. The story of Jacob and Laban is sort of the Olympic Games of dirty tricks. They are both world-class tricksters. Jacob wins that contest, too. Jacob leaves Padan-Aram a wealthy man with two wives, Leah and Rachel, who are Laban's daughters. He has ...

437. A Kingdom that Can Not Be Shaken

Hebrews 12:14-29

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King Duncan

... we find ourselves in such a place? There are two truths that make the kingdom of God accessible to us: The first is the CHARACTER OF GOD and the second is the CROSS OF CHRIST. WE ARE PART OF AN UNSHAKABLE KINGDOM BECAUSE OF GOD’S GREAT LOVE FOR US ... cares, His heart is touched by my grief; When the days are weary, the long nights dreary, I know my Savior cares. (6) That is God’s character. That’s who God is. God cares about every one of us. God not only sees us in our need, but God’s heart is touched ...

438. If You Can't Stand the Heat

Luke 14:25-33

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Mark Trotter

... wanted to be some place else. But his sense of duty, his sense of loyalty, his sense of personal responsibility led him to do his best in situations he would rather have avoided. Toughness of character--that's what we think of when we think of Harry Truman. But something has happened to the American character in the last fifty years. Philip Rieff has called it "the triumph of the therapeutic," by which he means that the ethic that is appropriate for therapy has now become the ethic for the whole society ...

439. Proper 9

Gen 24:1-67, Zech 9:9-13, Rom 7:7-25; 8:1-17, Mt 11:1-19, 25-30

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John R. Brokhoff

... rate of failure than first marriages. In this Lesson, we see what constitutes a wise choice. Outline: How to find the right one to marry or remarry – a. Have common background and interests - vv. 37-38. b. Seek guidance in prayer - vv. 42, 48. c. Test for good character - v. 44. d. A heart and mind's desire - v. 45. Epistle 1 – Zechariah 9:9-12 Reason To Rejoice: 9:9-10. Need: People are for the most part truly unhappy. This is also true with church members. In recent years, the emphasis in the church ...

440. As Long As It Is Day!

Matthew 18:21-35

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Stephen M. Crotts

... word for "jailers" is literally "tormenters" or "torturers." We are tormented in prison when we are unforgiving! Years ago, on a television show, a comic character was angry with another fellow. He said, "I'm tired of him slapping me on the chest every time he sees me. I've ... . I've got me three sticks of dynamite strapped to my chest. Next time he hits me it'll blow his arms off!" The first character was about to find out that his grudge was going to cost him as much or more as it was going to cost the other ...

441. Yellow Lights

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... 's head: one red with horns and a tail, the other clothed in fluffy white with wings and a halo. Evil and good - a devil and an angel - would argue and harangue overhead, trying to entice the character to choose their side. Since these were goofy cartoon characters, inevitably there was a wrong choice made the first time around. The trouble for Donald, Sylvester, Alvin, and all the rest of us, is that sometimes bad ideas and bad advice sound so darn good! The bad can be presented so that it seems simply ...

442. Experience the Mystery

Colossians 1:15-23

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Leonard Sweet

... inhabit their lives until you understand them, unravel them, become one with them if you want to uncover the mystery that they hide. The New Testament is our mystery text. It tells a dramatic story. It gives us all sorts of colorful characters. It offers a complete set of all the usual suspects. As the gospels and epistles unfold their tale, however, the mystery that is the heart of this story is only slowly revealed. In the gospels Jesus constantly drops lead-weight hints to his dense and often lightweight ...

443. Easter 2

John 20:24-31, John 20:19-23, 1 Peter 1:1-12, Acts 2:14-41, Psalm 16:1-11

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