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526. Food For The Body And Food For The Soul

John 6:25-59

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J. Will Ormond

... see the Son and believe in him may have eternal life; and I will raise him up on the last day" (John 6:40). Just as the human body needs food to sustain life, so the soul, the essence of our being, requires food to promote life that has eternal quality. Such food must be everlasting and beyond the reach of decay and death. Where can such food be found except in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ? When by faith we receive his life into our very being his life begins to nourish us and he abides ...

527. An Awesome Homecoming

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Tony Everett

... and hope, overcoming our bondage to sin and suffering, and uniting us in a community bound by baptism, not by ties of family name, race, gender, or geography. Perhaps our Christmas expectations need a different focus. Perhaps there is a deeper quality to homecoming. Remember those Christmas trees ready for the trash? Many Christians strip the limbs and fashion a cross from the remaining trunk. The cross is prominently displayed during the Lenten season, in preparation for the triumph of Easter. The true ...

528. When Wisdom Cries Out

Proverbs 8:1-36

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... every room and family meals are seldom, if ever, shared. Parents don't take time to talk with their children to educate them and be educated by them. Parents appear oblivious to what's troubling their children. Wisdom cries out for genuine dialogue and quality time as families are like ships passing in the night. One writer said the greatest inheritance we can give our children is a little time each day. My father related the story about how his father cautioned him about hanging with the wrong crowd, but ...

529. Advent 1

Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22

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William E. Keeney

... at best. Christianity offers another possibility. The sum total of life is not found in the flesh. It is realized most fully in the spirit. Life in Christ transcends the vicissitudes of this world with all its threats and dangers. Life in Christ gives a quality to life that makes it worth the living, even if it is the only experience of existence we may know. In addition, the Christian faith gives promise of a new dimension of existence beyond that experienced in this world. Life in Christ is only a ...

530. Proper 13

Luke 11:1-13, Hosea 11:1-11, Colossians 3:1-17, Psalm 107:1-43

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William E. Keeney

... . Children's programming in hours when children are most likely to be watching encourages them to pressure parents to purchase foods, toys, and other products that often are not the best values. Prime-time programming is not based on the highest quality programs but the ones that attract an audience with the highest purchasing power. Good stewardship of wealth should guide Christians in their choice and support both of the programming and the buying of products advertised. The discipline of limiting desires ...

531. Weather Signs

Luke 12:49-53

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William E. Keeney

... of the Davidic kingdom. 8. "Interpret the Present Time." (v. 56) The Greek has two words for different kinds of time. Chronos is a quantitative measure of the rate of change, such as in minutes, hours, days, and years. Kairos is the quality of time. Certain occasions presented crises. They had unusual potential for good or evil. Jesus saw the present time fraught with opportunity for the kingdom. CONTEMPLATION Issues and Insights 1. The Paradox of Peacemaking. Jesus came as the Prince of Peace. The angels ...

532. God On His Knees

John 13:1-17

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Don M. Aycock

... heard, in the first verse of scripture which we read, that Jesus loved his people: Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love. Herein was the outer limits of his love, a love which is uttermost in quality. You see, the hardest thing for us to accept is our acceptability before God. We might know that he loves the great saints of the world. We might even believe that God loves our church leaders. But down deep inside, where belief really matters, we have not ...

533. What To Do With A Self-willed Child

Luke 2:41-52

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Charles H. Bayer

... I know do. He tried to get the last word -- something about needing to be in his father's house. Mary's response is mercifully not recorded. I do not want to paint a negative picture of this lad. There are a number of remarkable qualities he expressed: independence, seriousness and perhaps most of all, a curiosity about ideas. If there is anything which frightens me about our younger generation it is that so many of them seem curious about practically nothing. Their attention span is as long as a television ...

534. Getting and Giving

John 13:31-38

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Glenn E. Ludwig

... nagged each other in ways that distressed their wise and loving parents. They often argued about who would get the larger inheritance. "Perhaps we have spoiled them," said their mother. "They are too often concerned only for themselves." "This is not a good quality for future generations," said their father. And so the parents discussed how to prepare their children to be the next rulers of the kingdom. When the children were old enough, the emperor and the empress called them to the throne room. "Our gift ...

535. Rich Toward God

Luke 12:13-21

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John G. Lynn

... 's great miracles that he sends his sun each day to burn off the fog in southern California or break through the early morning haze over the bay. The predawn beauty of the early morning is rarely appreciated for its ability to seduce and yet obscure perceptions. The quality of light in that hour is amazing. A murky sort of light, it blends in with the early morning haze and the mist from the face of the earth. Nothing is very clear in that hour before dawn. Trees look like giant ghosts. A man walking in the ...

536. Thankful Living

Joel 2:18-27

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John A. Stroman

... how can we have disregard for God's creation? Because God has created the earth, it has a worth all of it own. This is my Father's world ... His hand the wonders wrought. Creation is precious because of the one who has given it to us. The quality of our thanksgiving, compassion, and concern extends to even the animals of the land. We do not equate animals with people, but when they are killed for human necessity it is done with the least amount of suffering. As Christians we use animals in ways to conserve ...

537. Friendship? Yes, Please!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Stephen M. Crotts

... ! But didn't Solomon say there was synergy and encouragement and comfort in friendships? And so it was that Ruth, in helping Naomi solve her problems, found that she also solved her own. Talking, sharing, dreaming, crying, hoping, scheming, and laughing with Naomi, Ruth's quality of relationships came to the notice of Boaz who asked for her hand in marriage. Charles Dickens wrote, "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else." We get cold alone. But together we can stay warm ...

538. Mirror, Mirror ON The Wall . . .!

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Stephen M. Crotts

... was told that the letters stood for the sentences, "Please be patient with me. God's not finished with me yet!" \nThe Frame Around The Character\n The Bible also teaches that we should learn to see our bodies as picture frames. They are frames around inner qualities which God wants to develop. Now you will notice that the purpose of a picture frame is to draw your eye into the painting itself. If a frame is too gaudy, it calls attention to itself instead of the picture. Likewise our physical bodies are not ...

539. Miracle Four: Healing A Paralytic

Mark 2:1-12

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Harold H. Lentz

... the house. This created a problem for a quartet of men who were carrying a badly crippled friend, expecting to put him down before Christ in the hope of a cure. But those who bore the pallet were not to be thwarted by the crowd. They possessed two qualities: persistence and ingenuity. The houses of that day were one-story buildings with a flat roof. There would be stairs on the outside of the house, leading to the roof. This made it possible for the inhabitants to escape the heat of the house on a warm ...

540. Miracles Seven and Eight: Healing An Issue Of Blood & Healing The Rulers Daughter

Mark 5:21-43

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Harold H. Lentz

... s world. They are the future doctors, lawyers, teachers, writers, and political successes. To gain for them the necessary self-confidence, we must contemplate their future accomplishments and show them our respect. It is essential to avoid making judgments based on external qualities rather than on native worth. It is also true that we must not get laughed out of our religious convictions, but remain loyal to Christ in spite of any scoffers who would try to ridicule us. Life After Death · Death is humanity ...

541. Have I Got News For You!

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

William L. Self

... a trumpet but in many cases on a violin. When Christians try to rescue this message from the secular community, we make it a soothing, gentle lullaby. Religion becomes a spiritual aspirin tablet to be taken with a divine cup of warm milk. Such qualities are symptoms of a sick religion to which this song of Isaiah orchestrated for trumpets brings a tinny response. This was written to grace the occasion for trumpets, for the anointing of one of Israel's kings, possibly good king Hezekiah. Its measures contain ...

542. In The Beginning God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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William L. Self

... create which is never used to denote any human activity. It is reserved only for the prerogative of God. The biblical writer is clearly attempting to express something specific. He is saying that what God is creating and making here possesses a quality fundamentally different from anything created and made by human artists or architects. The human artist must wrest the image from the material, which itself sets limits to the freedom that the artist has with it. Near Clarkesville, Georgia, on the banks of ...

543. The Highest In The Lowest

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

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John A. Stroman

... forget the stark realism of the brutally human aspects of this birth. This loving and heavenly atmosphere faced tragic and difficult times. Look closely, for this that surrounds Mary and Joseph is a parable about life with all of its heavenly and human qualities. It is much like our lives, where there is the blending of the heavenly and the earthly, joy and sorrow, anticipation and disappointment. Heaven Touches The Earth Look where heavenly glory touches the earth. It happened in the birth of a child on ...

544. Advent 1

Isaiah 63:7--64:12, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Psalm 80:1-19, Mark 13:32-37, Mark 13:1-31

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William E. Keeney

... power of evil in human society? Do we believe that God is active both in history and in nature? We have a difficult time in our scientific culture believing that the power of nature has any purposefulness to it. It seems to operate without regard to any qualities such as right or wrong, justice or injustice, evil or good. Yet nature does seem on balance to support life and goodness rather than death and destruction. How do we read the signs of power and embrace the way of Christ in love, reconciliation and ...

545. The Fruitful Vine

John 15:1-17, 1 John 4:7-21, Acts 8:26-40, Psalm 22:1-31

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William E. Keeney

... cared for the livelihood of his people. 4. "Removes Every Branch." (v. 2) Any branch of a vine that does not bear fruit draws nourishment away from those that do. If they are permitted to remain on the vine, the crop will be smaller and of less quality. So a good vinedresser will remove the non-bearing branches. 5. "He Prunes." (v. 2) Pruning is necessary to force the vine to produce new growth. It is on the new growth that fruit develops. The more new growth, the greater the harvest. 6. "Already Cleansed ...

546. Remembering Who We Are

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

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Robert P. Hines

... . First fruit giving in an agricultural community means giving to God from the first of one's harvest, not the last. The first grain that was harvested was given to God. They didn't wait until they had harvested every field and saw how much they had and what the quality was like. Before they knew what they would have after the harvest, God got a share. This is living by faith. This is what it means to be the people of God. Giving from our first fruits teaches us to trust in God for all we need. People who ...

547. The Star - Conversations

Matthew 2:1-12

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... you know the appropriate gift? Second Wise Person: It is difficult to know the best gift. You might conclude that gold, myrrh, and frankincense represent what is basic for survival. Think about the intended use of gold, myrrh, and frankincense. Consider the quality of these gifts -- the purity of the metal and the rare ingredients found in holy recipes. I invite you to reflect upon your choice of gifts. One must consider the giver, the receiver, and the occasion. Interviewing A Bystander Interviewer: What ...

548. Exercise Your Spiritual Gifts

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... is those who have been set apart or consecrated in the name of Jesus Christ. The introduction closes with Paul's familiar greeting: "Grace to you and peace ..." Grace represents the unmerited favor with which God loves them, and peace symbolizes the quality of life they now have through their relationship with Jesus Christ. Our main focus is upon Paul's prayer of thanksgiving. Though the Corinthian Christian may appear to be insignificant in the eyes of the power brokers of the community, Paul informs them ...

549. You Can Be A Livesaver

Luke 10:25-37

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Michael B. Brown

... . Quickly he recognized their needs to be far beyond his training. So, he referred them to an office in a nearby city where two pastoral counselors work, two people primarily supported by their denomination. Thus, they offer sliding fees that make quality care accessible to anyone. In that office Brenda and Brett received marriage counseling and Parent Effectiveness Training. Brenda was advised how to secure affordable day care, enabling her to find a job. Brett was counseled about controlling his temper. A ...

550. Awake, Christ Is Coming

Romans 13:8-14

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Richard Hasler

... anxiously when would be a convenient time for Mr. Roosevelt to pose for the picture. "Now," the president snapped back. The finished painting has Roosevelt standing at the foot of the stairs, his hand on the newel post. An outstanding picture has caught the dynamic qualities of this man of action. Was the president trying to tell the artist, "Moments come and go ... Here is the time, seize it, do your best"? Now, in the beginning of the Advent season, is the time to return to the present. Our Lord wants ...

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