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501. Grain Offerings

Leviticus 2:1-16

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... poor, and each one of them puts God’s big question in human flesh. The question is addressed to everyone. We do not have to understand theological explanations; we do not even have to be Christian to hear it. It is part of the silent interrogation that God is always carrying on.7

502. A Prophecy Against Egypt

Isaiah 19:1-25

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... It is prose, not verse; it cannot be set out as lines and half-lines and it lacks the parallelism that characterizes verses 1–15. The passage tells of five features of “that day.” First, in verse 16, in that day the Egyptians will be like women carries on the theme of verses 1–15 and might be considered with that section. Again we read of Yahweh’s planning at work. Yahweh’s hand is uplifted as once it was stretched out at the exodus. But the last people who reacted like women to catastrophe were ...

503. Stargazers

Luke 2:21-40

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Lori Wagner

... Jesus. They worship him; the king seeks to kill him. Once the word is proclaimed, once the epiphany has occurred, there is no other choice: we either worship or destroy . . . the encounter with Jesus cannot leave us unchanged; for good or ill we cannot carry on as before.” * The Messiah Star! It was the star that changed everything. That “sign” of the coming messiah signaled a great hope for the world. It was a sign that things would change, that God’s will for the world would be put into action ...

504. Imagine This

Matthew 3:13-17

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John Jamison

... , learning all of their interpretations. It’s just my imagination, but I can see this proud young man wearing his Pharisaic robes, honing his skills by arguing the intricacies of the laws with the other students, feeling the importance of his role as the one carrying on the traditions of his ancestors. I can imagine he might have been a bit impudent at times, even arguing with his teachers about some finer points of the various laws. In my mind, he could be a bit cocky, sure of himself, convinced that it ...

505. The Great Reveal

John 12:20-33

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Lori Wagner

... remember that no one lives and thinks within a vacuum. Jesus, obviously a highly learned man understands the philosophies of his day, enough to use them, debate them, and illustrate metaphors that can help people understand his unique message. This technique was carried on also by Paul, and John Wesley. Note that Plato’s idea of “God’s blueprint” (his theory of forms) saw the soul as the immortal “true seed” sown inside of the mortal body is in stark contrast to Jesus’ Jewish, later Christian ...

506. Step One - Honesty

Luke 8:26-39 · Proverbs 23:29-35

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John A. Terry

... rather strange gospel story. I am not going to explain how Jesus sent the demons into the pigs and all that was described in the gospel story. What we can say is that the man described is one whose life was clearly out of control. Most of us manage to carry on with life; at least we do so outwardly. The man here described in Luke would in the 1960s be in a psychiatric hospital or, today, a street person. What we also know is the reaction of people to this man who was, as the text says, "clothed and in his ...

507. The Other Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32

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Brett Blair

... , or some civic group, or attending a training session for church school teachers, or in the kitchen preparing a meal. You can always count on them; they are always there. And the truth of the matter is that most of the worthy causes in America today could not be carried on if it were not for the elder brothers in society. I’ll tell you something else about this elder brother. I don’t think he was really a mean person at heart like he has been portrayed. In fact, I don’t doubt for a moment that he was ...

508. Promise or Threat?

Matthew 24:1-35

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... . We know the risk involved, but still we agree to continue to meet secretly for worship and fellowship as Christians. In spite of fear and harrassment, and even an occasional arrest of one of our members, we covenant with each other to carry on with the practice of our beliefs. Now imagine that one Friday afternoon, just before the workday ends, you are informed that all Christians, including yourself, should not bother to report for work on Monday. It seems that your employer can no longer withstand ...

509. Born to Play Second Fiddle

Luke 1:57-66

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George Bass

... like to forget about John the Baptist; we can recall his birth, the few facts we have about his life, and what we know of his mission, but maybe we had just better forget about the circumstances of his death and his head - severed from his body - carried on a platter to Salome during Herod’s banquet. That’s a bit too much, and so we settle for the celebration of John’s birth. God Marked John for his Purposes Before His Birth Zechariah might simply have settled with Gabriel for a normal, healthy child ...

510. Faith As Healing Energy

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Robert G. Tuttle

... be the Church! A man who has meant much to me in my own spiritual growth was Dr. Albert Edward Day. Dr. Day was for years pastor in a great downtown Methodist Church in Baltimore, Maryland. There he had an intense prayer group which carried on a very effective healing ministry. Dr. Day would send patients to the doctors at Johns Hopkins for examination and confirmation of healing. The doctors would send patients to Dr. Day and his prayer group. It was an effective combination of medical skill plus faith ...

511. Deformed, Disfigured, and Despised: A Marred but Magnificent Messiah

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... in the bank and no armies marching behind him by day and by night. He has no large following. His disciples are a rag-tag bunch. He quit his job as a carpenter. He is homeless and jobless. He is friendless and wifeless. He has no children or posterity to carry on his name. He walks everywhere he goes. He is not a citizen of Rome or a rabbi in the best of our traditions. He goes to banquets with sinners. He attracts the blind, lame, deaf, and dumb. He heals the sick. He casts out demons. He raises the dead ...

512. A Most Successful Sermon

Acts 2:14a, 36-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... house, but who has offered him only the chair in the hallway. There the Lord sits dressed in his overcoat, holding his hat in his hand. He sits waiting minutes, then hours, days and even years to have access to the rest of the house. Meanwhile the host carries on business as usual while Christ sits out in the hallway. You get the picture. The baptism that you and I need is a baptism of the whole person--all of our attitudes, all of our actions, all of our dreams and all of our desires. Christian faith is ...

513. The Secret Of His Success

Galatians 2:11-21

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King Duncan

... the Gospel to the Jews. Even later there would be false teachers who would put Paul on the defensive as to his credentials and his fitness to speak for the body of Christ. It must have sometimes seemed awfully futile and frustrating to St. Paul to carry on. To make matters worse there was that thorn in the flesh about which he wrote. Was it malaria? Some scholars think so. Others suggest epilepsy. "I have pleaded with the Lord three times for it to leave me," Paul wrote. There was no medication to control ...

514. Partners In The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

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Brett Blair

... by climbing the sheer granite face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park. On the seventh and final day of his climb, the headlines of a local newspaper read like this: SHOWING A WILL OF GRANITE. Accompanying the headline was a photo of Wellman being carried on the shoulders of his climbing companion Mike Corbett. A subtitle said, "Paraplegic and Partner Prove No Wall is Too High to Scale." What many people did not know is that Mike Corbett scaled the face of El Capitan three times in order to help Mark ...

515. Hope For The End Times

Luke 21:5-38

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King Duncan

... , in times of our greatest need, we will receive strength from beyond ourselves. That strength comes from God. Jesus warns the disciples that the days ahead will be difficult. But they are not alone. And neither are we. BECAUSE HE IS WITH US, WE CAN CARRY ON EVEN WHEN THE WORLD AROUND US IS FALLING TO PIECES. There were times in the disciples' lives when everything seemed to go wrong. People rejected their message. Some even tried to kill them. There were times when they did their very best and no one ...

516. Who Are Your Gentiles?

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Landon Winstead

... on the water pump. The intimidated schoolteacher was too dumbfounded to talk. Especially when she read the words on the back of his leather jacket: "Hell's Angels --California." As he finished the task, she finally got up the courage to say, "Thanks so much," and carry on a brief conversation. Noticing her surprise at the whole ordeal, he looked her straight in the eye and mumbled, "Don't judge a book by its cover. You may not know who you're talking to." With that, he smiled, closed the hood of the truck ...

517. What Do You Really Know?

John 16:5-16

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King Duncan

... God doesn't let you see a year or two into the future, because you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself. But He's charitable. He only lets you see one day at a time. When times get tough, there's no choice except to talk a deep breath, carry on, and do the best you can." (2) Lee Iacocca, theologian. Don't misunderstand me. I'm not making fun of Iacocca's suggestion. In fact, I think he's probably right. There are some things it's better for us not to know. Suppose, for example, you knew with absolute ...

518. Taxes and Tightwads

James 5:1-6

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Eric Ritz

... was to somehow cross the rushing river. They huddled together and those who were physically strong picked up the weak and wounded and put them on their shoulders. The little children, the sick, the old and infirmed, those who were ill or wounded, were carried on the backs of those who were strongest. By faith, they waded out into the river and much to their surprise, they discovered that the weight on their shoulders actually helped them to keep their footing and to make it safely across the river. Yes ...

519. Dealing with Criticism

1 Corinthians 4:1-5

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James L. Killen

... lose and meanness will be the winner. Try not to be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good (Romans 12:21). Be ready to pay the price for decisive action. On the night before he died, Jesus told his disciples many things to prepare them to carry on the work that they had begun together. Among those things was the warning that they would encounter opposition and hatred. He said, "If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me before it hated you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love ...

520. A Time for Penance and a Time for Partridge

Ps 100, Col 2:1-7

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... now…. "an intricately complicated one that comes at the end of a bitter harvest and yet finds something sweet to celebrate." "For the first time in a long time," she writes, "we are now pilgrims, finding ourselves stripped down to bare essentials and a single carry-on bag to sustain us in this strange new world." So it should be no surprise that people are making a special effort to get home this year….dust off the fine china….unfold the good napkins….and make time for a sometimes-messy conversation ...

521. No More Camping Out

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... , except that he was the son of Abinadab, and that in Hebrew, his name means strength. Well, Uzzah and his brother, Ahio, were driving this cart containing the Ark of God while the rest of the crowd was getting kind of excited. They were singing and carrying on and "dancing with all their might" (2 Samuel 6:5) as the procession moved on to Jerusalem. With all the noise and celebration one can only imagine that the oxen pulling the cart would get a little nervous. Maybe they halted or reared up; maybe they ...

522. Baby Blues

1 Samuel 1:4-20

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Mary S. Lautensleger

... hadn't known that a long, difficult journey awaited them. They had assumed that new life was just around the corner. After all, that's what women were for, having babies. In Hannah's day, every wife was expected to give birth to a son who would carry on the father's name and bloodline. In this way Hebrew men lived on after death. Women in the ancient world did not enjoy the myriad of lifestyle choices open to women of our day. Motherhood was the epitome of every woman's experience. If they were unsuccessful ...

523. Broken Pieces

Matthew 1:3, 5, 6

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James Merritt

... known as "late Er." Now this is where it begins to get a little complicated. The law required that if a woman became a widow with no children she was to be given to one of the husband's brothers so that she could have children to carry on the family name and preserve the inheritance. One of her brothers in law, a man named Onan, was given this duty and this responsibility. The problem was he refused to fulfill what the law required, would not have relations with Tamar and consummate the relationship, so God ...

524. Magnificent Fools

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... . An adventure that led him from one fiery ordeal to another - through the blistering sun and sand of the desert, and the raging storms of the sea; beaten by the Jew, stoned by the Romans, thrown over city wall after city wall for dead; carrying on in the magnificent spirit and with the more than human strength of one totally committed to Jesus Christ and the cause. There is something foolish about that kind of life, isn’t there? Something absolutely absurd - but gloriously so, magnificently so! When I ...

525. The Door of Prayer

1 Timothy 2:1-8

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J. Howard Olds

... Then we'll do it together." That's exactly what they did. To pray is to bring our heavenly Father out of the stands into the midst of human need. It is leaning on Him when we are not strong. Let Him be your friend. He will help you carry on. It is God's desire to bring individuals and families into saving faith. It is God's desire to bring people off addiction to drugs, sex, money, status. It is God's desire to deliver people from racism, sexism, nationalism, and consumerism. It is God's desire to bring ...

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