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26. Do Not Let Him Find You Sleeping

Luke 12:32-40; Mark 13:1-37

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Brett Blair

... . So I quickly returned to the bench where Alypius was sitting, for their I had put down the apostles book. I snatched it up, opened it, and in silence read the paragraph on which my eyes first fell: "Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying, but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof." I wanted to read no further, nor did I need to. For instantly, as the sentence ended, there was infused in my heart ...

27. Service

Mark 10:35-45

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Warren Thomas Smith

... ; to-morrow blossoms And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes afrost, a killing frost; And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do. I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide ...

28. Building An Understanding Of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

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King Duncan

... of a twelve-man squad of teenage boys, armed and in uniform, brought terror to people's hearts. Whether it was a Red Army squad in Berlin . . . or a German squad in Holland . . . or a Japanese squad in Manila . . . that squad meant rape, pillage, looting, wanton destruction, senseless killing. But there was an exception: a squad of (American) GI's, a sight that brought the biggest smiles you ever saw to people's lips, and joy to their hearts. "Around the world this was true, even in Germany, even--after ...

29. In A Time Of War

Exodus 20:1-21

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King Duncan

... , Waste of Wealth, Waste of Blood and Waste of Tears, Waste of Youth's Most Precious Years, Waste of Ways the Saints Have Trod, Waste of Glory, Waste of God, War! (2) And it's true. This war, any war, represents not the will of God but the wantonness of humanity. Regardless of how this conflict turns out, we have failed. It's been two thousand years since the Prince of Peace walked the sands of this same Middle East that is producing so much conflict today, and still we can find no better solution to our ...

30. The Other Woman

Genesis 21:8-21

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King Duncan

... the children of Israel, Isaac's son, see themselves as heir to God's promise. Should we be surprised that the people of Islam want their place in the sun just as you and I want our place in the sun? And regardless of the recklessness and the wanton destructiveness of their extremist elements, the children of Ishmael have a God-given right to that place. While so many of us sympathize with the state of Israel in the current conflicts in the Mideast, let us not forget that the people of Islam are children of ...

31. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

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Donald B. Strobe

... disposal to fight against it. In Jesus’ day there was a whole sect (the “Zealots”) who believed that any and all means were permissible in fighting against the hated Roman occupiers of their land, much like the terrorists in our own day who justify the wanton murder of hundreds of innocent people in the name of a supposedly “higher cause.” “You’ve got to fight fire with fire,” they say. But the problem with this is that if we fight fire with fire, then everybody gets burned! If we become a ...

32. The Lord's Prayer: Deliver us from Evil

Matthew 6:5-13

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Eric Ritz

... . Instead of living life with God''s design, we "lust" to live on our own dreams and desires. Dr. Calvin Miller shares in his marvelous writing AN OVERTURE OF LIGHT on page 46: "All lust is strong narcotic Nominating different hungers Which we suppose we need: Wine, wantonness, food and leisure All kill us one link at a time And in the coiling, spiraling still Inch by inch, they do require our lives." I want to share six observations about the ever present reality of Evil in our world and in us. FIRST, THE ...

33. Up and Running

Mark 1:9-13

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Robert Noblett

... exploit, misuse, and abuse. Sadly in every calling there are those who succumb to these temptations: teachers, ministers, business people, doctors, social workers, psychotherapists, mothers, fathers, grandparents; in the ranks of each there are those who abuse trust and behave in wantonly selfish ways. We fool ourselves if we think the seeds of such are absent from us; always they are there. Therefore the agenda? Admit they are present and then consign them to our internal jails and throw away the key. And ...

34. Oskar’s Cruelty

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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Bill Mosley

Schindler's List is a true story of World War II. It focuses on the heroism and self-sacrifice of Oskar Schindler, a Catholic from Krakow, Poland. Schindler goes from wanton war profiteer to a conspirator who tries to free condemned prisoners from concentration camps. In one sequence, we see Jews being herded like cattle onto freight trains, hungry, hot, and thirsty. The train is taking them to the death camps. The German soldiers are lolling about the station docks and ...

35. A Case for Living Together

Revelation 7:9-17

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Leonard Sweet

... welcomed, except in terrorist zones. Individual friendships across cultures, made easier by the Internet web of connectedness, seem to be thriving like never before. But America the myth, the dream, is now the monster. America the nation is the galumphing galoot, the wanton, witless interloper on the international landscape. Americans may be welcomed guests, but increasingly we're being told to take the ideals of America back where they came from. And we don't get it. How can every country in the world not ...

36. The Dash of Discipleship

Luke 3:1-20

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Leonard Sweet

... God. But the form of his conceiving took on a different expression. For a disciple of Jesus, the dash between your birth date and death date is the dash of discipleship. And the identity of a disciple is to be on a mission: conceiving the prince of Peace for this wanton, war torn world. Is it still for unto you is born a Savior. Or is the dash of discipleship becoming real: for IN YOU is born a Savior. How will Christ be born in you this Advent? Christ is born in you . . . when you conceive food at a soup ...

37. 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

... , I know not which, coming from a neighboring house, chanting, and oft repeating, "Take up and read; take up and read." . . . I grasped, opened, and in silence read that paragraph on which my eyes first fell, "Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof." No further would I read, nor did I need; for instantly, as the sentence ended—by a light, as it were ...

38. Not Always A Saint

Luke 24:13-35

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Brett Blair

... Eagerly then I returned to the place where Alypius (his friend) was sitting; for there had I laid the volume of the Apostle. I seized, opened, and in silence read that section on which my eyes first fell: ‘Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying; but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh...' No further would I read; nor needed I for instantly at the end of this sentence, by a light as it were of serenity infused into my heart ...

39. Shame on You

1 Timothy 1:12-17

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Leonard Sweet

... for easy answers to life's pain: 'Grow up.'" We need to "grow up" collectively as well as individually - to learn to feel a sense of shame and responsibility for the things we do as a city, a nation, a world. For decades we have wantonly wasted and hideously abused our environment. Ravaged landscapes and a savaged ecosphere testify to our prodigious gift for destruction and decimation. As our ozone holes grow larger, our water supply grows fouler and our wildlife grows scarcer, it is high time to feel a ...

40. Tremendous Trifles

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

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Leonard Sweet

... around us. Senseless violent crimes are splattered across the news every night. Atrocities of war and incidents of "ethnic cleansing" continue to spread like plagues across whole countries. Or, we see how cultural covetousness has led to the rape of planet Earth and the wanton abuse of her precious natural resources. But each of these terrible acts can be traced back to a tiny trifling beginning the rooting out of one of God's commandments in favor of some self-directed focus. The most frightening trend now ...

41. Enemies of Promise

Matthew 3:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... ? He has stayed humble. In fact, Graham himself has a saying that he uses over and over again with prospective candidates for ministry: "If you keep humble, the Lord will use you." The linkages between the words "hubris" (from the Greek hybris, wanton violence or insolence) and "nemesis" (from Nemesis, the Greek Goddess of retribution and vengeance) are more than etymological; they are also theological. If one's ministry is based on exaggerated pride and self-confidence (hubris), one is sure to find the ...

42. Matthew 14:13-21

Matthew 14:13-21

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Leonard Sweet

... appearance of followers. It seems, in fact, that the only place Jesus could successfully meditate in privacy was while drifting offshore for "when he went ashore," there was "a great crowd" (v.14). The sharp contrast between the wanton violence that occasioned John the Baptist's death at Herod's hands with Jesus' instantaneous "compassion" for the intrusive crowd suggests that Matthew was intentionally emphasizing the difference between messianic authority and the abusive power practiced by human despots ...

43. 2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17

2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17

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Leonard Sweet

... suggest that this "temple" is heaven itself, relating the "lawless one" to the tradition of the dragon storming heaven. Both of these explanations, however, seem a bit too expansive for Paul's purposes here. The "lawless one" will be known by his wanton self-aggrandizement and the establishment of some center for his power and self-worship. From verse 5, the reading skips to verses 13-17, where Paul turns his attention away from wrong-headed ideas about the Parousia and instead celebrates the rightness ...

44. Genesis 1:1-2:4a

Genesis 1:1-2:4a

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Leonard Sweet

... human culture - the unique relationship that is to exist between the human being and the rest of the created cosmos. It is hardly necessary to elaborate on how our post-fall perception of God's gift of "dominion" (better translated "trusteeship") has wreaked wanton destruction and disregard for this planet and our creaturely co-inhabitants. For a scholarly look at the impact of this text on history see Jeremy Cohen's Be Fertile and Increase, Fill the Earth and Master It: The Ancient and Medieval Career of ...

45. Ephesians 2:1-10

Ephesians 2:1-10

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Leonard Sweet

... of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath" (v.3). This is not some prudish condemnation of sexual appetites and physical pleasures. With both body and mind completely indulged, the human spirit was wantonly selfish doing whatever the body wanted, whatever the mind imagined, without regard for anything or anyone else. That, the author states, is what makes us all "by nature children of wrath." God's anger, as described here, is not an emotional outburst ...

46. Barking Dogs and Daily Bread

John 2:12-25

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Leonard Sweet

... for the outcast and oppressed overflows into anger at the trade in sacrificial animals in the great courtyard of the Temple, the religious, social, and commercial center of the city. Jesus’ temple tantrum may be directed at least in part against the wanton selling and slaughter of animals at huge profits for the high priests and their temple merchant cronies. A house of prayer and peace had been turned into a den of thieves and violence. Gore Vidal wrote in Live from Golgotha, “[Jesus] lowered ...

47. What Would Jesus Say About War?

Matthew 5:1-12

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J. Howard Olds

... ? In addition to these traditional Just War teachings there are also guidelines presented by that school of thought for conduct during a conflict and they include: 1. Discrimination—Respect for the rights of enemy people, which rules out atrocities, reprisals, looting, and wanton violence. 2. Proportionality—The amount of damage inflicted must be strictly in proportion to the ends sought. The war’s harm must not exceed the war’s good. Has the case been made for a Just War against Iraq? While this ...

48. Heart Religion

Mark 7:1-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... defiled; and what defiles a person is his actions, which are the product of his own heart. Jesus then lists those things that come from the heart of persons making them unclean. He talks about fornication and theft and murder and adultery and covetous deeds and guile and wanton wickedness, and envy and slander and pride and folly. We don’t have time to look at that entire list. Let’s glance at a couple of them, though, In order that we will not escape the fact that they apply to us. Coveting is one of ...

49. The Great Inescapable Question of Eternity

Mark 8:27-38

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... way, sometimes interfering in ways that were harmful. There have been all kinds of weird notions about Jesus expressed in the writings of humankind. Shakespeare, for example, in King Lear gave expression to some of this kind of thinking when he cried out,"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport." It is our Christian belief that Jesus of Nazareth fully disclosed God — who he was and what he did and what motivated him. That disclosure reveals God's love for us. Further, we ...

50. This Gospel Is for Our Children

Mark 10:13-16

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... hands of the forces of England. It was the Battle of Culloden. If you have seen Mel Gibson's movie, Braveheart, you will remember the era. Not satisfied with driving away Bonnie Prince Charlie and killing many Scots and bringing wanton destruction, the English army added insult to injury by forbidding the Presbyterian Scots to ever again wear their kilts, the national costume that signified their family heritage. In addition, the English forbade the Scots from worshiping in their traditional Presbyterian ...

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