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576. Breaking News: The Middle East

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... chemotherapy was Alfred Gilman, who was a Jew. The discovery of streptomycin which was the first drug active against tuberculosis was developed by Dr. Selman Waksman, who was a Jew. He also coined the term “antibiotic”. Modern day physics operates around the theory of relativity which was discovered by Albert Einstein, a Jew. I could go on and on, but we have indeed and are indeed experiencing the blessing of the Jewish people. God also promised them a land as an everlasting possession. After being ...

577. On the Ropes: Round 3 - Defending God

Habakkuk 3:1-19

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James Merritt

... just luck that it wasn’t you? It was God. When you are going through tough times look back and remember the works of God. III. Persevere In The Worship Of God I will be the first one to tell you that all of this I know sounds good in theory, but you are probably sitting there also saying, “But, meanwhile back at the ranch I still don’t have a job, I am still battling cancer, my spouse still hasn’t returned, my bills still aren’t being paid, and frankly I am scared out of my mind.” If Habakkuk ...

578. Family Re:Union - Inverting the Pyramid

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... of the household, he buries himself in his work. All of that results in a dangerous mix of the marriage being pushed down to the bottom of the barrel. Even with a godly family, a Christian family, a church going family the pyramid, at least in theory, looks like this: God Children Marriage The center of gravity in the home becomes, not the marriage relationship, which was really the beginning and meant to be the foundation of the home, but it becomes the children. The result is when the children move out ...

579. Up Close & Personal: Seeing Clearly

Isaiah 6:1-13

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James Merritt

... Einstein? That is correct. I don’t know how much money you put down on this, but it had better not be your tithe! Albert Einstein is considered the most brilliant person of the Twentieth Century and one of the most brilliant people who ever lived. His Theory of Relativity, though now some have called into question, has formed the basis of how scientists viewed time and space for over a century. Yet for all his brilliance he said this, “I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this, but ...

580. Up Close & Personal: Open the Doors

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris. Chuck Norris can drown a fish When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the Earth down. Chuck Norris doesn't need Twitter, he's already following you. There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures that Chuck Norris has allowed to live. Now in addition to having never met Chuck Norris, I’ve never had the opportunity to meet an earthly king. There are several good reasons for that. Number one - I can’t get ...

581. God Will Provide the Resources

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... ) Pete Maurin believed and Dorothy Day believed that when it comes to meeting people’s needs, it’s never a question of resources. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. When it’s God’s will, there is most certainly a way. There have been many theories offered over the years about how Christ was able to feed all those thousands of people with only five loaves of bread and two fish. One of the most common explanations is found in a best-selling book of the 1940s titled The Robe. The Robe was written ...

582. A Lesson from Jay Leno's Mom

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... day quietly in God’s presence listening to what God would like for us to be doing? When we truly love someone we want to spend time with them. So too is it with worship. Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish Christian philosopher who developed a theory about worship. He termed it the “theatre of worship.” He pointed out that too many people attend worship services as if they were attending a play. They see the ministers, musicians, and choirs as the actors and themselves as the audience. Looking at it in ...

583. Changing Times

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... recollection of the judgment dimension of the day of the Lord, but spoken in a way that serves to remind Israel that condemnation and punishment are not God’s last word to them. 2 Peter 3:8-15a It is not helpful to probe too far into theories of origins with this letter. If tradition stands, this is a communication from the apostle Peter in his last years before being executed at the hands of Nero around 64 AD. There are a number of challenges to this view (none insurmountable), and any good commentary ...

584. We Are Not The Light

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... ; for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For darkness shall cover the earth and thick darkness the peoples; but the Lord will arise upon you, and his glory will appear over you.” As in many psychological theories of human experience, the light and the dark dwell very close together. As the Chinese character for crisis has it, this moment is a combination of danger and opportunity. Certainly, it was a theologically challenging moment to realize that God was saving God’s ...

585. Why He Did It

Mark 8:31--9:1

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King Duncan

... brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.” Some of us have a difficult time with traditional theories of the atonement that Christ had to die in order to fulfill an ancient prophecy or that Christ had to die in order to ransom us from Satan. The idea that Christ was a sacrificial lamb slain in our place is also very disturbing to us. And yet the very ...

586. Dust in the Wind

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Timothy Cargal

... s focus on the divine activity in this rapprochement is most clear in 5:21. It is what God has done in making Christ “to be sin who knew no sin” that in turn transforms us to “the righteousness of God.” If the end results of Paul’s theory of atonement are clear, however, the mechanism by which this reconciliation is accomplished is anything but. How is it that Christ is “made to be sin”? Is it simply by being incarnated in sinful human nature, or is all human sin somehow imputed to Christ on ...

587. Prescription on a Pole

John 3:1-21

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David J. Kalas

... heal a snakebite. In that sense, we might be inclined to give this remedy the label of “miracle.” We might also label it an act of faith: to trust and obey God’s inexplicable prescription. Moreover, God’s chosen remedy is a strange one not just in theory but also in detail. If we grant that the bitten Israelites can be healed by looking at some erected thing, what thing might we choose? What symbol would we guess or select? Not this one. We are surprised to find that the remedy recalls the malady ...

588. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... Is there anyone you are bitter against? Dr. David L. Brown tells about a man who died with bitterness in his heart. His name was Sigmund Freud. As you probably know, Freud was one of the most influential psychotherapists who ever lived, though many of his theories have not held up very well over the years. But Freud was not a happy man. Armand M. Nicholi, M.D., professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, tells us that Sigmund Freud died at the age of 83, a bitter and disillusioned man. Tragically ...

589. Right Answer - Wrong Conclusion

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... great tragedy. Tragedy is a great teacher. Years ago Dr. James Dobson had some interesting things to say about the great astrophysicist, Dr. Stephen Hawking. Dr. Hawking has been called the most intelligent man on earth. He has advanced the general theory of relativity farther than any person since Albert Einstein. Unfortunately, Hawking is afflicted with ALS Syndrome (Lou Gehrig’s disease). It will eventually take his life--though he has already lived longer than anyone ever dreamed. He has been confined ...

590. God's Pattern for Sainthood

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... stretched wires of various lengths that vibrated and trembled from time to time. A second mouse ventured forth and came back telling of hammers--many hammers dancing and leaping on the wires. The mice decided they must revise their old opinions. The theory they developed was complicated, but complete with evidence. In the end, the mice concluded that they lived in a purely mechanical and mathematical world--a world simply of wires and hammers. The story of the Unseen Piano Player was relegated to mere ...

591. Conquering the Highest Peak

Illustration

Robert Jastrow

... in tracing the chain of cause and effect backward in time.… Now we would like to pursue that inquiry farther back in time, but the barrier to further progress seems insurmountable. It is not a matter of another year, another decade of work, another measurement, or another theory; at this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the ...

592. Einstein Failed - You Can Too!

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... at the Polytechnicum in Zurich, Switzerland, though a year later he tried again and succeeded. Later he received a doctorate from the University of Zurich, yet obtained only an obscure job as a patent examiner in the Berne patent office at first. Who was he? The man who formulated the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein, one of the greatest geniuses who ever lived. He never let early failures defeat him!

593. Teaches One Thing, Practices Another

Illustration

Francis Schaeffer

... would die shortly.” John Cage “believes” one thing, but practices another. In doing so, he is an example of the man described in Romans 1:18 who “suppresses the truth of God,” for when faced with the certainty of order in the universe, he still clings to his own novel theory.

594. The Ark Brought to the Temple

2 Chronicles 5:2-6:11

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... Chronicles 6:41–42 is an addition that quotes from Psalm 132:8–10. This section and 1 Chronicles 16:8–36 are the only parts of Chronicles that include quotes from known psalmic material. O’Kennedy (pp. 163–68) provides a thorough discussion of theories on why the Chronicler included this specific quote here. For our purposes, however, only two of these possible reasons need to be emphasized. A prominent theme contained in the words is now arise, O LORD God, and come to your resting place, you and ...

595. Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam

2 Chronicles 10:1--11:4

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... differences in this section of Chronicles has sparked a debate on whether the Deuteronomistic History was really used by the Chronicler or whether both the Deuteronomists and the Chronicler rather made use of a common source, each in their own way. This theory has not found general acceptance, so one may still assume that the differences between Chronicles and 1–2 Kings derive mainly from the Chronicler’s own ideological agenda. How are the royal Judahite narratives (2 Chron. 10–36) structured? M. A ...

596. The Fall of Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... engages in another process of intergroup categorization that differentiates All-Israel from the Persian imperial context. At the end of this commentary one should be reminded of an aspect discussed in the introduction: The Chronicler did not subscribe to a theory of the contingency of history. History, and therefore also the continuation of the past into the present and future, can and should be interpreted theologically. The existence of the Yahweh community and All-Israel is not simply a function of ...

597. Jesus Taken Up into Heaven

Acts 1:1-11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... been a Christian. Began: Some scholars regard this word as meaningless, the redundant auxiliary of Aramaic idiom. But in this context the sense I have suggested here seems the more likely. That Acts was simply the continuing story of Jesus tells against the theory proposed by H. Conzelmann, The Theology of St. Luke, that Luke divided history into three periods, of which the history of Jesus was “the middle time” and the events related in Acts the “period of the church.” In reality, the whole two ...

598. Peter Heals the Crippled Beggar

Acts 3:1-10

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... of arrest, threat, defense, release, and rejoicing. This has led to speculation that these are simply different versions of the same incident, with yet another appearing later, in 12:1–9, that shares with chapter 5 a story of an escape. But in assessing a theory like this it must be remembered that the author (assuming that he was who we think he was) was not far removed from the people about whom he was writing. In other words, there were living checks and controls on all that he wrote, sufficient ...

599. The Believers’ Prayer

Acts 4:23-31

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... your servant, our father David: This probably represents the meaning intended by Luke, though the Greek is decidedly awkward, if not “absolutely ungrammatical” (BC, vol. 4, p. 46). The difficulty may be due to its being translation Greek. C. C. Torrey, on his theory of a written Aramaic source, reconstructed the text to mean “that which our father, your servant, David said by command of the Holy Spirit” (pp. 16f.). Bruce believes that the only way to translate the text as it stands is to take David ...

600. The Apostles Persecuted

Acts 5:17-42

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... the course of the gospel cannot be hindered by prisons or bonds, since God’s arm is strong enough to burst the locks of prison doors” (J. Jeremias, TDNT, vol. 3, p. 176). More than this we cannot say, except to add that the objection to any theory of divine intervention on the grounds that nothing was achieved by it is entirely unwarranted. To the apostles it must have brought great encouragement at a time when they needed it most. And had the Sadducees eyes to see it, it might also have shown them how ...

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