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James Merritt
... subjects; it is not science versus religion. Instead, they are both trying to give an answer to the same question: how did life arise in the universe? The truth of the matter is this - Genesis 1:1 which plainly states that behind this universe is a divine designer deserves to be put to the test by examining the evidence just as much as the theory of evolution. Get this down. The debate is not between fact and faith. The debate is not between science and religion. The debate is between their science and our ...
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Larry R. Kalajainen
... of learning. If we don't know something, we look for someone who does and we ask. The only dumb question is the one you don't ask. We learn by asking questions about what we don't know. While no question is a dumb question if it is designed to help you acquire knowledge or information which you don't currently have, there are questions which are the wrong questions to ask, and which, if asked, will actually prevent us from learning what we need to know. We see two examples of these kinds of questions in our ...
28. It's My Life, Isn't It?
1 Corinthians 6:12-20
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James McCormick
... to a banquet of consequences. And we don’t always like the taste of them. If I believe anything, I believe that God has designed this world to function in a certain way. If we cooperate with God’s intentions, by and large life is good. But if we ... are free to take another way. But if we do, we’ll miss it. We’ll blow it. We’ll mess it up - because God has designed all of life to function according to His way. I imagine some of you are thinking, “My, that’s narrow minded. Why won’t a number ...
Teach the Text
Preben Vang
... , you may choose a rod and reel, a bat and ball, a golf club and golf ball, a bow and arrow, a climbing rope and harness, a mixing bowl and spoon, and so on. Display the two components and remark about how differently they are designed and made. Suggest (playfully) that there might be some out there who believe that rods are more important than reels, since the manufacturer made them farther reaching than reels, or reels than rods because they make great clicking noises and carry line. Others might believe ...
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Charley Reeb
... Thomas Aquinas, who sought to discover the cause for the origin of our world. The first part to this argument states that every event has a cause (nothing comes from nothing). For instance, this pulpit did not just appear out of thin air; it was designed and created by someone. Aquinas believed that if we go back far enough we can find the first event which is the “first cause” for all the subsequent events. The second part to Aquinas’ argument is that things move because they are moved by something ...
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King Duncan
... tear. When we asunder part, It gives us inward pain; But we shall still be joined in heart, And hope to meet again. Amen. 1. “How casinos get you to spend more money” by Brad Plumer, Vox Updated, Mar 1, 2015. Citing Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll (Princeton University Press, 2014). 2. “Ben’s Big Decision,” Now I Know! by Dan Lewis, http://nowiknow.com/bens-big-decision/. 3. “Tully: Second chances — one man’s story of redemption,” by Matthew Tully ...
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Larry Powell
... a hospital in some far-away place. A church visitor makes a call to a shut-in or prospect in the name of Christ and that gesture extends far beyond the person who made it. The human body and the body of Christ - both are rather ingeniously designed. SNAKES, BIRDS, AND LILIES I remember reading that a highly poisonous snake called a "krait," considered more deadly than the cobra, bit its handler. But here's the switch; the snake, not the handler, died! It is alleged that the snake died from the stress of the ...
33. Romans 8:26-30
Romans 8:18-27
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Leonard Sweet
... outweighs any sufferings and persecutions. Thus even those events that appear “evil” are experienced as part and parcel of a divine design that can never be less than “good.” The ultimate victory of the “good” is outlined by Paul in a tightly knit ... things. The second half of today’s text, vv.31-39, continues Paul’s case for hope and champions the divine design for “good” to ultimately triumph. In the first portion of this argument Paul boldly asks the rhetorical question, “If God is for ...
34. When I Grow Up
Ephesians 4:15
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James Merritt
... Charm Me - I Will Choose Faithfulness Over Compromise What I mean by possibilities here are temptations, because just as God uses trouble to teach us to trust Him, God uses temptations to teach us to obey Him. Now, understand what temptation is. Temptation is a situation designed by Satan intended to harm us. God never tempts us to do evil. James 1:13 says, "Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am tempted by God'; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone." (James 1:13 ...
35. Hidden Potential
1 Samuel 2:12-26
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Derl G. Keefer
... wants. Charles Swindoll relates that the late Dr. Donald Barnhouse of a generation ago once came to his congregation and made a bold statement, “Prayer changes nothing!” There was hushed silence throughout the church. Swindoll writes that Barnhouse’s statement “was designed to make Christians realize that God is sovereignly in charge of everything. Our times are literally in his hands. No puny human being by uttering a few words in prayer takes charge of events and changes them. God does the shaping ...
Understanding Series
James K. Bruckner
... and pitch it outside the camp some distance away, calling it the ‘tent of meeting.’ Anyone inquiring of the LORD would go to the tent of meeting outside the camp” (Exod. 33:7). The tabernacle brought the place of meeting into the midst of the camp. The Lord designated the entrance to the tent of meeting and the space above the cover of the ark specifically as the places of meeting (25:22; 29:42–43; 30:6; Num. 12:5; Deut. 31:14–15). 25:1–9 The Lord instructed Moses to take a freewill offering to ...
37. The Law of the Temple
Ezekiel 43:13-27, Ezekiel 44:1-31, Ezekiel 45:1-12, Ezekiel 45:13--46:24
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... , the priests in Babylon would assemble in the first five books of the Bible their own “law of the temple and the people,” bringing together traditions going back not to their last independent king, but to their foundation as a society under Moses. But the designation of the law code in 43:10–46:24 as “the law of the temple” is suggestive. Perhaps we find in the final form of Ezekiel 40–48 a “first draft” of the Torah: an attempt to give expression to Israel’s polity, which is founded ...
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Preben Vang
... likely.6 More likely, Paul is genuinely concerned about the church’s identity, and his statement here should be understood in light of his fuller statement in 11:1—be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. His self-description in 4:9–13 is designed to make this point. Put differently, it was because Paul’s life so clearly reflected that of Jesus (4:9–13) that he was able to call the church to imitate him. Other patrons (or sophists) the Corinthians may have looked to as worthy of imitation apparently ...
39. House of Stone
Psalm 118:1-29, Isaiah 18:1-7, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, 1 Peter 2:4-12
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Lori Wagner
... with the holy Breath of Creator God. Those built into a spiritual “house” are God loyal and God focused, lit with the Light of God and glowing with Resurrection Life. Just as the Messiah is built upon the Torah (five smooth stones) as the Stone designated by God, we are built upon the Living Foundation Stone of Jesus and His resurrection hope. When we “rub shoulders” with Jesus, He forms and shapes us into a Living House of God. Incarnation is transfiguration. When Jesus lives in you and you in Him ...
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King Duncan
... came with little golden crucifixes hanging from the laces and pockets of holy water from the Jordan River that have been prayed over by a priest. The designers claim that they made the shoes to mock the idea of shoe companies partnering with celebrities. And who is a bigger celebrity than Jesus? Daniel Greenberg, one of the designers behind the “Jesus Shoes” said, “We asked ourselves, ‘What would a shoe [collaboration] with Jesus look like?’ Obviously, it should let you walk on water. ‘Well, how ...
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Alton F. Wedel
... and had him wake up to a woman. It began before that in the heart of the Creator God when in the last and most mysterious of kindnesses he would bestow, he designed the counterpart and complement - someone like him, yet not identical to him - a counterpart of equal rank. This was the crowning act of goodness in a series of creative kindnesses that God designed. "It is not good that the man should be alone!" It is not good that the man should think of no one but himself, seeking nothing but his own, be self ...
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King Duncan
... one year from now I will be 182 hours better informed about God ™s Word than I am right now. Change takes place through desire and design. But we also need a dynamic for change. That is, we need power-power that is not our own. Of course this is where St. Paul ... he is a slave. Only a person who takes risks is free. You can change. The formula is simple. There must be desire, a design, a dynamic, and a sense of daring. But it can happen. Of course, the most important change that any person can experience is ...
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King Duncan
... asks his son, “that all of this could happen by accident?” Then Gary Greenberg realized the absurdity of his own question. He began a spiritual quest seeking to answer the question whether there might be not only a design to the universe, but also a designer.* Of course, there is a Designer. Who could doubt it? Science tells us how; faith tells us why. There are historical truths and there is spiritual truth. We walk by faith, not knowledge. Jesus said to Thomas: “Because you have seen me, you have ...
Understanding Series
Gordon D. Fee
... as the people of God by using OT language (e.g., Ps. 105:43; Isa. 65:9, 15; cf. his use of “saints”). In Paul’s view those who have put their trust (faith) in Christ are therefore the true continuation of the ancient people of God. Such a designation is surely intended for the ears of those who are in churches where the errors have a decidedly Jewish cast to them (see esp. 1:10, 14; 3:8–9). His apostleship is also “with a view to their coming to know the truth” (NIV, for … the knowledge of ...
Understanding Series
Leslie C. Allen
... , but probably antedates its use by the Chronicler. For a comprehensive study of extant priestly genealogies, see J. R. Bartlett, “Zadok and His Successors in Jerusalem,” JTS NS 19 (1968), pp. 1–18, esp. pp. 1–6. 7:6 In Nehemiah, the NIV renders Ezra’s designation as “scribe” (Neh. 8:1, 4, 9, 13; 12:36), but in Ezra 6 it paraphrases teacher. Earlier scholarship argued that in the letter in vv. 12 and 21, “scribe of the Law of the God of heaven” was a title relating to Ezra’s previous ...
46. Worship and Humility
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Teach the Text
Preben Vang
... neuter and cannot well refer to bread as such, which is a masculine word in Greek.[7] Rather, it refers to the self-sacrificing event of Jesus—an event so outwardly dishonored by the Corinthian elite’s behavior. They have taken the event Christ himself designed as a constant reminder of his self-sacrifice (“do this in remembrance of me”) and turned it into an event for self-glorification. 11:25–26  new covenant in my blood. This points to Jesus’s self-sacrifice and power to reconcile (cf. Col ...
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Daniel J. Estes
... , Yahweh does not have to yield to Job’s demands. It is Job who will need to bend to Yahweh, and not the other way around. We are always creatures who live within the Creator’s world, so we must humbly accept our place in God’s sovereign design for his world. Yahweh compels Job to look at Behemoth, an unspecified but awesome animal. This powerful beast cannot be overcome by other animals or by humans, and even the raging rivers do not thwart it. This animal is again a vivid reminder to Job of just how ...
Understanding Series
Leslie C. Allen
... , but probably antedates its use by the Chronicler. For a comprehensive study of extant priestly genealogies, see J. R. Bartlett, “Zadok and His Successors in Jerusalem,” JTS NS 19 (1968), pp. 1–18, esp. pp. 1–6. 7:6 In Nehemiah, the NIV renders Ezra’s designation as “scribe” (Neh. 8:1, 4, 9, 13; 12:36), but in Ezra 6 it paraphrases teacher. Earlier scholarship argued that in the letter in vv. 12 and 21, “scribe of the Law of the God of heaven” was a title relating to Ezra’s previous ...
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Stephen M. Crotts
... If you can afford such care, these things are changeable. And it is no sin to try to make oneself as attractive as possible.\nDesigned To Serve A Purpose\n Not only does the Bible point out that the Lord prescribed how you look, it also teaches that God designed you with a specific purpose in mind. He made you with certain abilities and even disabilities so that you could accomplish his plans for your life. You can see this in Acts 9:15 where God called the apostle Paul to serve him and refers to the man as ...
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Larry Powell
... other means a new morning, a new task, a new ability, a new gift from God." Every person makes this choice. The Holy Spirit will convince the world of righteousness when we become convinced that the great work of the kingdom is not something which is designed for the Holy Spirit to do alone. "Concerning judgment (v. 11)." Christians have long professed to believe in a day of accountability. Such a day is not marked on the calendar nor even claimed to occur in proximity to some speculated date. All the more ...
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