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... violence, who themselves fall beneath the attacks of the enemies that their good intentions and deeds have created. Some time ago, George Cornell, who writes for the Associated Press, wrote a five-part Easter series "about persecution in the modern world and the prototype of it in the crackdown on Jesus." It was titled, "The Horror and the Hope." One of the persons he wrote about was the Rev. Dmitri Dudko, a Russian Orthodox priest who had been attracting large crowds in Moscow, "something of a religious ...
27. Proper 6
Genesis 25:19-34
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... advantage over other people; pushing to get to the head of the pack. Esau, earthy, relaxed, caught up in the moment, is willing to give away his spiritual heritage to fill the hunger of his stomach. It is not difficult to see how these two brothers are prototypes of modern people. Our only hope comes from the fact that he who calls us never said, "Be certain that your lives are pure and spotless and your motives beyond reproach, and then you can come and follow Me." If he had, there could be no followers ...
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... bore a son." Perhaps this was meant to enrich the bloodline, but it may also have been God’s way of telling them that he is the God of all people, not just the Israelites. Ruth became not only the great-grandmother of King David, but she also became a prototype of the young woman who was to be mother of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. Mary, too, "found favor" - not with Joseph alone, but with the Lord God of Israel, as Ruth must have done to be used by God in this very special way. Both women not only bore ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
... . And that’s the definition of faith, according to Hebrews 11:1: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." Faith always sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible. Abraham, then, becomes the prototype of all disciples and Christians who forsake everything and follow Christ. Peter said to Jesus, "Lo, we have left everything and followed you." Note that it was certainly far from easy for Abraham to obey God, nor was it ever promised to ...
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Carroll Gunkel
... she heard the Bible read and prayers offered, in each moment, she met the Master. She met the Master in the needs of her fellow human beings, and with each meeting, became more of a friend of his. Hiltgunt Zassenhaus was not a prototypical Christian, in that formal religion was practically nonexistent for her. Even before this traumatic time, she was not generally to be found in formal worship services or at the celebration of the sacraments. Like so many humanists of Europe in her time, her spirituality ...
31. Salvation as Hope
Romans 13:8-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
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T. A. Kantonen
... There are various kinds of bodies, earthly and heavenly, perishable and imperishable. Yet there is a continuity between the earthly body and the heavenly body just as there is between the seed sown in the ground and the new sprout which rises from it. The prototype of the new body is the resurrection body of Christ. God will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body. The perishable will thus put on the imperishable, and mortality will put on immortality. The resurrection of the dead is followed by ...
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Kent Moorehead
... first murderer. This man has been called the corrupt father of all vice and murder. He has been designated one of the most vile criminals of all time. His name was Cain. And the phrase, "the brand of Cain," is in itself an anathema. He is considered the prototype of all criminals. The evil that he did lived after him all right. Suppose we try to dig up some of the buried treasure, the good that has been interred with his bones. Consider the motive, and seek to understand how this crime came about. Cain was ...
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Richard L. Eslinger
... the covenant people how to discern among the prophets. A prophet, Deuteronomy proclaims, will (first of all) be like Moses. "The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you." Moses, who spoke these words, was a leader of Israel and the prototype of the prophets. So if we are going to look in the right direction for a true prophet of the Lord, it is important to know how it was that Moses was the prophet par excellence. What was it about Moses that made him a prophet? Well, for ...
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Ron Lavin
... he was asleep and did not care about her. Many can identify with those feelings. Many have experienced unjust suffering. Job was an upright man. You all know his story. Even those of you with little biblical training have heard of Job. He is the prototype in our culture for unjust suffering. A man of God, doing his duty faithfully, tending his farm, taking care of his family, worshiping faithfully, praying regularly. And then, whop! He turned the corner and along came a Mack truck and down he went. Then ...
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Maurice A. Fetty
... of God, he is the heavenly visitor, the God who comes to dinner but who exits just before the going gets tough. Radicals and revolutionaries picture him as a zealot who has come not to bring peace, but a sword. But to others he is the prototypical pacifist who advises us always to turn the other cheek. In his book, The Passover Plot, Hugh Schonfield has Jesus staging his own crucifixion, intending to escape, but killed by the unexpected spear-thrust of the Roman soldier. Harvard's Harvey Cox has Jesus as a ...
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Harold Warlick
... to produce the first humanity; the second creation had its origin from heaven and brought a new nature to humanity.4 What a babysitter. Paul explained in understandable terms his concept of the resurrection of the body as a plan of God. Christ was first but Christ was a prototype for all in the final victory of God.5 You and I do not know all there is to know about life and death. We are uninformed. Paul’s method remains applicable to us. Jesus is gone and we are here. But take heart: where Christ is, we ...
37. Temptation Island
Genesis 3:1-24
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King Duncan
... fruit for the fruit's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent, says Twain, then Adam would have eaten the serpent. Christian comedian Brad Stine says, "It's hard being human. Look at the prototypes, Adam and Eve. That's a lot of pressure, being the first people. You make one mistake, everybody hears about it. You're constantly answering embarrassing questions about how you messed up: "˜Okay, for the five millionth time, I was sitting around, minding ...
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Mark Trotter
... But in Christianity the proclamation is just the opposite. It says we don’t have to find our way to God, because God has found his way to us. What is unique, Montefiore said, is that God seeks us and God finds us. That is why the classical, prototypical Christian experience is, “I have been found.” “I once was lost, but now am found.” And nowhere is that proclaimed as clearly, and as beautifully, as in the 15th chapter of Luke. The Gospel of John will pick up Ezekiel’s theme of the good shepherd ...
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Mark Trotter
... Jesus day they did not qualify it. They took Deuteronomy raw. They believed that wealth was a sure sign of God's blessing in your life. Now a rich man comes to Jesus. Everyone in the first century in Palestine would immediately recognize who this man is. He is the prototype of the good man. Once more, he can prove it. He's got wealth, he's got the credentials, which was to say, he was living the kind of life God wants him to live, and therefore God has blessed him. In Mark he is simply referred to as a ...
40. The Problem with Busybodies
2 Thessalonians 3:6-15
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King Duncan
... would return to Madame Doublet’s and write two reports for her: one containing confirmed information, one containing unconfirmed gossip. Copies of these reports were a hot commodity in the French salons of those days. They may have been the prototype of all tabloid journalism today. (1) Pulitzer Prize-winning author Clifton L. Taulbert recalls his childhood days growing up in a predominantly black community in the Mississippi Delta. Taulbert claims that the best news in the community always came from ...
41. This Thing Is Not a Watch
Matthew 17:1-9; Proverbs 29:18
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James L. Collier
Several decades back an inventor had a daring vision for a better kind of watch. After working on his idea for some time and building a prototype, he decided to go to Switzerland, the world capital of watch making, to seek backing for the manufacture of his new design. When the renowned Swiss watchmakers examined his invention, they said, "This is not a watch. It doesn't have hands to tell time. It just has little numbers. ...
42. Advent 1
Matthew 24:36-51, Romans 13:8-14, Isaiah 2:1-5, Psalm 122:1-9
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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe
... a positive expectation of the coming of that day, and it declares directly that no one but God alone knows when the day of judgment will come. In vv. 37-41 the story of Noah (from Genesis 5:28-9:29—see especially Genesis 6) becomes a prototype of the world situation faced by the Christians, but notice that in Matthew's reference to "the days of Noah" the focus is not on wickedness as it is in the Genesis account, but on the lack of concern with impending judgment. The problem addressed in Matthew ...
43. Paul’s “We-With” Body-Building
2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Timothy 4:9-18
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Leonard Sweet
... live and die with God (2 Cor. 7:3). We suffer with God (Romans 8:17). We are crucified with God (Romans 6:6). We are raised with God (Ephesians 2:6). According to Robert Dale, “We-with relationships are our theological prototype for connecting.” (Dale develops this “we-with” theme extensively in his Sharing Ministry with Volunteer Leaders [Nashville: Convention Press, 1986], 56-68). Paul had several different we-with body-building practices. We run across them in our lectionary reading this morning ...
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Donald Charles Lacy
... me about the only thing we can understand and accept is his insistence on complete accuracy by physically touching two places on the Master's body. He was unmovable and the history books remember him as someone who not only demanded proof but one who would become a prototype for all of us. Is there anyone you know who hasn't heard of "doubting Thomas"? Thomas kept his end of the bargain and did not argue. We may not accept this in glowingly positive terms. In fact, this may be more of a deal with God than ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... . About 2,500 homes are clustered around a small, pedestrian-friendly shopping area. Celebration is connected directly to the Walt Disney World parks and resorts. It was one of the original communities developed as part of Walt Disney's vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT). The idea behind it was that it was to be completely user friendly and on the very edge of the cutting edge of every area of technology. Though no longer a Disney property, for the most part, Celebration has ...
46. I Have Been Found
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
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Mark Trotter
... to God. But in Christianity the proclamation is just the opposite. It says we don't have to find our way to God, because God has found his way to us. What is unique, Montefiore said, is that God seeks us and God finds us. That is why the classical, prototypical Christian experience is, "I have been found." "I once was lost, but now am found."
47. This Is the Day!
Psalm 118:1-29
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King Duncan
... what I want to do . . . to give back. What is happening to me?” (3) What was happening was that God was fulfilling God’s promise. God can take that which was broken and make it whole. A few years ago engineers in Switzerland created a prototype for a car that runs on garbage. They discovered that leftover food scraps can be fermented into a usable fuel that produces less pollution than regular gasoline. Today there are hundreds of these vehicles on the road that run on this biodiesel fuel that is, fuel ...
48. Burned Beef
Isaiah 42:1-9
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Tony Everett
... and I love you" (Isaiah 43:4). Wow! Precious! Honored! Loved! Why? Just because God declares it! Today we celebrate the baptism of our Lord. Today our lessons remind us of God's choice to name and claim and keep us as God's own children. Today we celebrate the prototype — the example of God's first choice ... Jesus Christ, God's own Son in whom he was well pleased. Let's look again at our text in Isaiah today. Keep in your mind God's choice of another messed up, fouled up, ready to give up group of sinful ...
49. Captive Free!
Romans 7:15-25a
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Steven E. Albertin
... by forgiving him a huge debt. He orders the servant thrown into prison. Then Jesus wraps up the story by warning his hearers that this is what God will do to them if they do not forgive as God has forgiven them. This is a classic story with the prototypical good guy versus bad guy story line, a plot filled with tension and a resolution of the tension with a happy ending. The bad guy, the unforgiving servant, gets what he deserves. And we, the listeners, utter a sigh of relief. All is well as the sun goes ...
50. Santa Claus
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Charles L. Allen
... some lands it is the Christ Child who is believed to distribute gifts and blessings, although the name Kris Kringle, a popular variation of the German word "Christkindel" — which means "Christ Child" — is now commonly associated with Santa Claus. The real prototype of the modern Santa was a fourth-century bishop of Myra in Asia Minor, St. Nicholas. Little historical information concerning him has been preserved, yet about his name has clung a wonderful world of lore and tradition. Legend tells us that ...
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