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451. Success: Ultimate and Unlimited

Revelation 7:9-17

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... and ecclesiastically - has been attained. What is evident is the work of the Holy Spirit, continually enabling Christ’s Body to be One. J. Ralph Shotwell, in his book, Unity Without Uniformity, says: "The postdenominational community Church movement is not hostile to denominations. It appreciates the good that has resulted from God’s workings through denominations. However, it believes that God is calling us into a new age, a post-denominational age, an age in which even greater good can eventuate ...

452. Security: Deeply Personal

Ezekiel 34:1-31

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... separation. It is in sin and sins we separate ourselves. "But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility" (Ephesians 2:13-14), speaks to our plight with gravity and yet tremendous hope. "He is our peace" is the keynote for all immersed in our Lord’s call to be One. We are not being cared for by institutions or the most finely-tuned committees and executives. He ...

453. Kingdoms In Conflict

Daniel 2:24-49

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Bill Bouknight

... the Supreme Court, declared, "We are a religious people whose institutions presume a Supreme Being." But now the Court practices what one dissenting justice described as "a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive or even active hostility to the religious." (1) Recently Steve Hayner, president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, declared, "We have had more challenges to our basic right to exist in campus settings during the past two years than in the previous fifty-five years combined ...

454. The First Council

Acts 15:1-21

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... church where innovations were made and missionaries sent out, not the more traditional and pedestrian group at Jerusalem. So Paul and Barnabas faced a different situation from that in Galatia, where they were strangers who had to confront entrenched and hostile authority. At Antioch, they were the leaders. When the Jerusalem delegation challenged them, Paul and Barnabas stood up boldly for their work even though it meant "fierce dissension and controversy." According to Paul in his letter to the Galatians ...

455. Striking Silversmiths Start Riot

Acts 19:23-41

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... down to Corinth, where he spent three months, during which he composed a letter to the Romans. Titus had possibly been a shade too optimistic. Strong forces at Corinth were plotting against Paul and threatened his life. The reason for this and what the hostile Jews planned to do can only be guessed. Since the discovery of this plot seems to coincide with Paul’s departure from Corinth, it may have been the usual unimaginative procedure by which Jewish gangs got rid of their enemies. They would find out ...

456. Let Yes Be Yes!

Matthew 15:21-28

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... . Ironic, isn’t it? God’s people struggle to find ways to "do evangelism" in a world of unresponsive people. Yet, when some people leap the hurdles and approach God’s community, too often they are treated as this woman was - indifferently, or with downright hostility; as though they didn’t have the right theology or ethnic stock or smell. Stop and think a moment about the enormity of the miracle that must take place before someone estranged from God will turn and open up and let the cosmic "Yes!" be ...

457. Which Way?

Matthew 16:21-28

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... or prison. Groups have organized to go into the cells, to get to know the inmates, learn to know their story, learn to listen to them, share themselves with them. Sometimes the first reception given the outsiders has been filled with anger, scorn, hostility, or stony silence. But as time goes by and as the volunteers persist, the quiet miracles begin to happen. Barriers begin to drop. Acquaintances are made. New friendships form. Forgivenesses are asked. Hope springs to life again. A future is embraced, and ...

458. Jesus Gives Us Tomorrow!

Acts 1:1-11

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Barbara Brokhoff

... disciple must have felt that day, "I cannot live without you." And Jesus says, in effect, "You won’t have to!" They would, even though his physical presence was gone, still be led, guided, comforted, encouraged, and empowered. Christ was not abandoning them to a hostile world. He was promising them the Holy Spirit which would be a living grace for the days ahead. Someone once asked Dwight L. Moody, "Have you enough grace to be burned at the stake?" "No," was his reply." "Do you wish you had?" Moody said ...

459. Scenes From a Marriage

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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Craig Erickson

... . The genius of Bergman’s screenplay lies in his ability to show how otherwise desirable virtues can be destructive to human relationships. Open communication? Sure. That’s what you want in a marriage. But in Bergman’s film, it provokes a defensive hostility that causes the marriage to unravel. How about "being in touch with one’s own needs"? Again, essential to a healthy marriage. But in Bergman’s characters, it degenerates into self-centeredness. Sexual attraction? This is also nice to have in a ...

460. What’s God Going to Do With You?

Hosea 5:1-15, Hosea 6:1--7:16

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John R. Brokhoff

... a broken relationship with God and our fellowmen. Our fears and worries are symptoms of our separation from God. The impossibility of permanent peace among classes, races, and nations proves how broken we are in our human relationships. For a world so divided with hostility, God promises to heal our brokenness if and when we return to him. How can God do this? Remember that God is by nature love, and love is the greatest healing power in the universe. Love restores a broken relationship by forgiveness. The ...

461. Is Your Sin My Business?

Ezekiel 33:1-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... tells Ezekiel that he is to be a watchman to warn people of the consequences of their sin. In his day, the Jews had the custom of building watchtowers in their fields and vineyards for a person to keep watch at harvest time to warn of approaching hostile people coming to steal the harvest. Today we still believe in having watchmen to warn of danger. The USA has an early warning network located in the Arctic to tell us of approaching planes or missiles. At great expense we have built AWAC planes which have ...

462. Forgive To Be Forgiven

Genesis 50:15-21

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John R. Brokhoff

... offender, treat him/her coldly and do not speak to the person, it is not likely the offender will ever ask for our forgiveness. Rather, we should have the attitude of kindness and openness toward the offender. When he/she sees the goodwill, kindness, and lack of hostility, the offender will be moved to come to us and say, "I’m sorry I hurt you. Please forgive me." Jesus used this method with Zacchaeus, who as a chief tax collector was a notorious sinner. When Jesus saw him up a tree as he passed through ...

463. Out of the Barnyard

John 11:38-44

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Robert Bachelder

... needs always to take the stand of Caleb and Joshua who said: "We are well able to overcome." We need to fly out of our comfortable barnyard with the boldness of Dr. Daggett. With Christ at our head, we need not fear the earth’s hostile powers any more than the venerable divinity professor feared His Majesty’s soldiers. In Eugene O’Neill’s play, Lazarus Laughed, the resurrected Lazarus laughs at the Roman emperor Tiberius when he threatens to put him to death. Lazarus laughs because he knows no one ...

464. Loving Unconditionally

John 13:31-38

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Robert Bachelder

... hands of petty, small-minded people in his hometown. When he left his town, he left his religion behind as well. It is easy to make the point that religious people can be unattractive and even quite dangerous, that at times they reflect more hostility than love. Through the centuries, for example, there have been Christian theologies which say it is better for a person to be dead than to live outside the Church. St. Augustine, the fifth century churchman to whom our civilization owes so much, was a great ...

465. Telling the Right Story

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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George Bass

... origin, its significance for the faithful, and its architectural evolution and reconstruction down through the centuries. Rome seems to remember little about St. Mark and how much his Gospel must have meant to the early Christian Church - its life and worship - in the hostile environment of the first three centuries of the Christian era. Rome also seems to have forgotten, as some scholars insist today, that St. Mark was the gospel of the Church of Rome and was used as an early gospel lectionary in Christian ...

466. Why Are We So Split Apart?

Matthew 5:9

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Wallace H. Kirby

... , and restore right relationships between people. Our third relationship is our relationship with God. This may be a relationship of fear and alienation in which we try to hide from God, as Adam did in that Genesis story. It may be a relationship of enmity and hostility, because of our circumstances for which we blame God. It may be one of complete indifference in which we essentially live as if God does not exist. But when we can see the Creator, the Sustainer, the Governor of the universe, a God in whose ...

467. Pardon for Sin

Romans 5:12-21

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Dennis Kastens

... his employer. On a conscious level he does not wish his employer’s good and resists his authority. At a deeper level he hates his employer, unconsciously wishing for his death (which, of course, is wrong). But he does not realize the full depth of his hostility. He may say on the surface, I don’t wish him any bad luck, but underneath he may unconsciously wish his employer’s demise. By defense stratagem he may manage to conceal the death wish and to obscure the full magnitude of the hatred which gives ...

468. Journey To The Cross III: Jesus And The Extravagant Woman

Mark 14:1-11

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James W. Moore

... Mississippi. They lived along the banks of a very swift and dangerous river. The current was so strong that if somebody accidentally fell in, they would likely be swept away to their death downstream. One day this tribe was attacked by another hostile Indian tribe. They found themselves literally with their backs up against the treacherous river. They were greatly outnumbered. Their only chance for escape was to cross the current, which would mean sure death for the children, the elderly, the weak, and the ...

469. Journey To The Cross IV: Jesus and Judas

Mark 14:43-52

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James W. Moore

... . How often that happens. We miss the message. Jesus came preaching love, not force; forgiveness, not vengeance; mercy, not cruelty; kindness, not hatred… and we, like Judas, are still missing His message. We still believe in power and force. We still have too much vengeance and hostility in our lives. And we excuse ourselves by saying… He didn’t really mean it.” Well, He showed us He meant it on a cross! So if we don’t want to be a traitor to Christ, then we dare not, we must not… miss His ...

470. Journey To The Cross VI: Jesus And Pontius Pilate

Matthew 27:11-26

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James W. Moore

... the other side of the coin, look at Jesus!! He stands there poised, confident and unafraid. He is facing death, but His strength never wavers. Just think of it... an unfair trial for an innocent man, lies, plotting, conniving, bribed witnesses, political intrigue, jealousy, hostility, hatred, a mob scene... and in the face of it all, Jesus exhibits an amazing quality of inner peace and strength and calm. They betray Him, deny Him, taunt Him, beat Him, curse Him, spit upon Him and nail Him to a cross... and ...

471. "I Don’t Want to Be Perfect - Or Do I?"

Matthew 13:1-23

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Robert G. Tuttle

... when we feel that our separation is deeper than usual because we feel we have violated another life, a life which we have loved or from which we were estranged. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our hostility, and our lack of direction and composure have become intolerable to us. It strikes us when, year after year the longed for perfection of life does not appear, when old compulsions reign within us as they have for decades, when despair destroys all joy and ...

472. The Gospel According to Christ’s Enemies

John 11:1-16

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Richard Hoefler

... prophecy spoken not by the disciples of Christ, but by the chief representatives of his enemies. Gossip points out that, "In the New Testament there are not four Gospels, only ... There is a fifth ‘according to Christ’s enemies.’ "18 Yet these words of hostility testify to the truth of Jesus the Christ as much as anything spoken about him by Christ’s friends. This is the amazing aspect of the gospel: that even the words of those who loath Christ, seeking only to discredit and destroy him, still ...

473. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... to Israel."12 Theodore P. Ferris presents this interpretation in even a stronger manner as he suggests in his sermon: Throw away your picture of Jesus as the idealized man, the man who never spoke a harsh word; the man who was never tempted by any deep-seated hostilities that plague us; never torn by the dark passions that tear us to shreds; the picture of Jesus that shed all his Jewishness when he was a boy ... There is a better picture of Jesus, of a man growing up into the stature of a mature human being ...

474. A Liturgical Drama For Advent

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Tom Eberle

... do you know? Light: Because I have heard this conversation a million times before. Man: See, I’m not the only one who loses his keys. Light: Not that conversation. I’m talking about the muffled discourse that takes place between locked doors. I see the suspicion and hostility that grows from those strained words unable to find a human ear. Woman: I suppose you’re going to tell us what’s wrong with us. Light: No, I’m just going to ask you to unlock the door and enter the light of each other. I’m ...

475. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR LENT

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Tom Eberle

... a coincidence that the Greek word for martyr in the early church soon moved from the meaning of one giving witness to the faith, to one who also gave his or her life for it. Spiritual discipline takes place in a world that is hostile to the Christian Faith. Suffering is a natural consequence of such discipline. From this standpoint, the confusion of Lent as a season of discipline with the remembrance of the sufferings of Christ was partly unavoidable. Second, the church must confront its own sinful humanity ...

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