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701. The Now-ness of Eternity

Zechariah 7:1-14

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... new to most of you, but I have cherished it as both provocative and intriguing. It states that if you and I could maintain sight of this scene in this moment in time and be swept away from it at the speed of light, we would see it as forever remaining the same, unchanging. As I ponder this, I find myself thinking that God is unfettered by time and space and has the perspective of infinity. In his sight, therefore, every moment and movement of our existence must be fixed in his awareness. It is all a part of ...

702. Fixing The Fox!

Luke 13:31-35

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John R. Brokhoff

... It is God who decides what is right and wrong, and man is ultimately accountable to him. Thus, a Christian says that he will continue to live by God's absolutes, the Ten Commandments. It does not matter whether most men around him lie, cheat, steal, and murder. He will remain true to God's morality, the Ten Commandments. He will refuse to cheat in his business. He will not lie; he will be true to his word. He will honor all men and respect the person of every man to the extent that he will not harm but only ...

703. If Only We Would Confess ...

Ezekiel 18:1-32

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Wallace H. Kirby

... what God intended to do with them and why. Up until the time of the second Hebrew deportation to Babylon and the destruction of the temple in 587 B.C., Ezekiel chastised his people for their unfaithfulness to God and foretold the doom of those remaining in Jerusalem and the land of Judah. Like his prophetic predecessors, Ezekiel made it plain that God did not desire the doom and destruction that the Hebrews were facing. With anguished cry Ezekiel says in the name of Yahweh, "Why do you Israelites want to ...

704. The Passion of Our Lord

2 Corinthians 5:21

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... the Way of Sorrows, to Calvary, Golgotha, the Place of the Skull, to be crucified. And in the ancient world, there was no crueler form of execution than this. The cross was normally divided into two parts: the upright portion called the stipes, which normally remained in the ground; and the cross-arm called the patibulum, weighing about 110 pounds, normally carried by the condemned man, which would be hauled up and placed in a notch in the stipes. It is this that Our Lord carries along the Via Dolorosa, as ...

705. Thanks, Lord

Luke 17:11-19

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... so the lepers could gather on the outside and see into the Lord’s table. These openings were called "leper squints," and through these the lepers were able to watch and to worship. There is evidence of these leper squints in some of the old churches remaining today. As callous as it was, in the Middle Ages, when a person was diagnosed as a leper, the priest would take the sick person into the sanctuary and read the burial service over him/her. The person was considered dead. Leprosy is never referred to ...

706. My dear friends, let us play.

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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Kendall McCabe

... that you are dust." Dust that has been animated by the very breath of God, breath that fills my body and gives utterance to my tongue. I may live my life turned in some other direction than its source, or I may seek to remain in communion with the One who gives me being; remaining in communion is prayer. It is simple reliance on the One who breathed life into me and unto whom my life will return, because nothing can separate us from the love of God. Prayer is not words uttered in proper order; prayer is the ...

707. Breath for Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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... fascinating but does not produce faith, we have missed something. What Ezekiel wanted to say through that story to the people of Israel is a word I want to say to you. The context of our human condition has changed but the content of the faith remains the same. Israel had experienced joy and prosperity in their land. They had thought that this would go on forever, that they could celebrate and enjoy life, that they could plan and do whatever they wanted. They were the people of God and believed they would ...

708. He Who Vindicates is Near

Isaiah 50:1-11

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... has need of it" and no questions would be asked. In the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem we see one of the eternal truths about this man. You simply cannot take him for granted, ignore him or remain neutral concerning him. He is so dynamic and powerful a character and presence that when we hear his words we cannot remain unimpressed. As we see the procession and look at the crowd, we might see ourselves represented there. There are still many, even in our day, who say, "Yes, we need help, but is he the one ...

709. Who are these Kings?

Isaiah 60:1-22

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... of the Lord in Jerusalem. Isaiah looked at historical fact with the eyes of faith. He interpreted this decree of the Persian Emperor as the end of dark times for Israel and for the world. God would no longer allow a shadowy cloud of exile to remain over his people. He would be sunlight for their darkness. This decree was not just a clever military strategy on the Persian’s part, said Isaiah. This was the Lord God of Israel rebuilding Jerusalem and the temple so that all nations could worship there. All ...

710. A Faith To Live By John D. Mauney, Jr.

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

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... log cabin was built there, but for some reason it was never occupied. There it stood for many years - a beautiful mountain lodge by the side of the road, well-built and ready for use - but it remained empty. Many lives are like that mountain cabin! We dream fine dreams, yet we fail to follow through. Our lives remain empty and useless, while all about us are cries for useful, happy, and productive lives. We must be dedicated to God and filled with a vital faith to live by! And our text from Deuteronomy 4 ...

711. But Where is the Lamb? John W. Cobb

Genesis 22:1-19

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... New Testament: "Believe and thou shalt be saved" "I will give you another comforter. He will lead you into all truth." The ultimate climax of the Genesis story is to be found, not in the God-arranged sparing of Isaac, but in the assurance that God would remain true to his promise that in Abraham would all the nations of the earth be blessed. Isaac would be spared to be the descendant through whom that would be accomplished. And so, one more important episode was added to Abraham’s saga leading him to be ...

712. Pilgrimage of Faith John M. Cobb

Exodus 3:1-22

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... what you should do. I think that a lot of those Israelites did not especially like being slaves in Egypt - no doubt about it. But I think that a lot of them liked even less the prospect of worshiping God and the risk that that entailed. And so they remained slaves - until God - out of pure grace, for none of them deserved it - until God - with great signs and wonders brought them out. And still some of them wanted to go back: away from the freedom of God, and back to a godless society, back to the security ...

713. Remember Toward the Future John M. Cobb

Exodus 12:1-30

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... lamb shall be without blemish ... [And] the whole assembly of the congregation shall kill their lambs in the evening ... [You]20 shall eat the flesh that night roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs ... And you shall let none of it remain until morning, anything that remains until the morning you shall burn." Note all of these details, the instructions! And then, further, verse 14: "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations ...

714. Communion Is Reformed

Luke 22:7-38

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... transubstantiation and in the practice of withholding the wine from the laity. But in the midst of the Reformation, he rejected both the doctrine and the practice. He wrote that transubstantiation "is a monstrous word for a monstrous idea. The bread remains bread and the wine remains wine." (Theodore Tappert, The Lord's Supper, p. 12) Since the bread and wine do not actually change into the body and blood of Jesus, Luther argued that there was no reason to withhold the chalice of wine from the congregation ...

715. Communion Is Running No More

Mark 9:42-50

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... second one said, "Sir, I could get within six inches of the edge without your having to worry a bit." The third applicant remained silent. When pressed for an answer, she replied, "Sir, I would never risk your life or mine. I would seek another route." ... 7:19 we read that when we confess our sins to God, he casts them into the depths of the sea. And that's where they remain. They're gone! I once read about a missionary named George Woodall, who used that verse from Micah in a unique way. When a person came ...

716. Promise or Threat?

Matthew 24:1-35

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... , what must we do? The answer is found in the words of our Lord himself. He says, "But he who endures to the end will be saved." (v. 13) The New Testament Greek word translated "endure" literally means, "to stand one’s ground in affliction." It means to remain steadfast and not give up even in the face of difficult odds. The answer is to persist in faith and hope. The answer is to believe that no suffering or heartache can last forever. The answer is to confront the gloom and doom of this life with the ...

717. Round Trip to Bethlehem

Ruth 1:1-22

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... size of their mortgage. Her children had moved away, and they were not in a position to help her. She sold her home before she lost it and moved into smaller living quarters, where she is able to cope a little better than she would have if she had remained in the larger home. This is not an uncommon story with many women, who are widowed and have no adequate source of income, is it? And that story has been repeated over and over again in our time, not simply through death but as the result of divorce. But ...

718. The Cracking Point

Mark 12:1-12

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Harold Warlick

... of the press noticed that someone ran by him and inadvertently brushed against one of the socks. It fell into the water and was gone. The Senator went over to the railing, picked up the remaining sock and threw it overboard. The columnist was impressed. He confessed that if it had been him he probably would have brought the remaining sock home. "I have a ... drawer full of single socks ..." he said. "That's my problem. My life is full of single socks. I've got to clean out these good for nothing things and ...

719. Christian Values Temptation

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

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... foundations and forsake them. Women: Pity can lead us to imagine that we suffer more hardships than anyone else ever has and that we have earned the right to sin a little. Lord, remind us of the hardships you endured during your sinless life on earth. Men: We need not remain in the path of temptation for God has provided a way of escape. Lord, teach us to look for and use the escape route. It is false courage to needlessly ...

720. Shaped by the Future

Matthew 24:36-51

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Joe Pennel

... century Christians believed that the Christ who had come before would come again, but they did not know when. They lived in tension between the past Incarnation of Christ and the future consummation of all things in Christ at the end of time. How to live in the "meantime" remained a persistent issue of the early church. And how to live in the meantime is our problem today! How are we to live if we do not know when God in his power will come into the world? If we knew the Kingdom would be coming on a certain ...

721. Searching for Peace

Matthew 10:1-42

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... signed more than two hundred treaties of peace. Each treaty, simply another scrap of paper, was broken more easily than consummated. From the years 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1860 more than eight-thousand treaties of peace, meant to remain in force forever, were concluded. The average time that they remained in effect was two years. In his address to the United States Senate in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson said, "The League of Nations is the only hope of mankind." How futile and tragic such hope has proved to be ...

722. Come and Find Rest

Matthew 11:25-30

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... I will imbue you with the spirit of life, and you will be stayed by the perfection of vital activity. We get pathetic and talk about "suffering the will of the Lord!" Where is the majestic vitality and might of the Son of God about that? The fact remains that many of us fail to obtain necessary rest from daily tasks. I believe that a major problem with both clergy and laity is burnout. For example, one person serves on committees for year after year then comes the time that he or she is completely exhausted ...

723. Epiphany 2

Psalm 40:1-17, John 1:29-34, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Isaiah 49:1-7

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CSS

... to him for baptism, that he knew him because God had informed him that "He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain ... baptizes with the Holy Spirit." (John 1:33) John declares that he had actually seen this man anointed by God, and he is ... was how John knew Jesus' identity ("He who sent me to baptize with water had said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'") 5. "I have seen and I am the witness that he is the Chosen One of God." (Develop ...

724. Epiphany 6

Deuteronomy 30:11-20

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... . But we have been affected by, and have bought into, the residue of Joseph Fletcher's situation ethics. His theological system was not devised as much for the age we live in as it was by the theological mind-set of people living in this era. What remains of the older and time-tested moral and ethical standards of the Bible? Is there any such thing as sin anymore? Are most preachers like Phyllis McGinlely's Dr. Harcourt in the poem, "This Side of Calvin": And in the pulpit (he) eloquently speaks on diverse ...

725. Lent 4

1 Samuel 16:1-13, Psalm 43:1-5, Hosea 5:1-15, Hosea 6:1--7:16, Romans 8:1-17, Matthew 20:17-19, Matthew 20:20-28

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... might get into in life; the world has received mercy in his death and resurrection. 3. Life ordained - God has prepared places for those who love Jesus, life in the kingdom which shall last forever, and he has given them work to do as long as they remain on the earth. He ordains all of his own people for service in the kingdom. They know that his blessings are abundant and eternal, because they have already received "a foretaste of the feast to come" in the meal that celebrates the death and resurrection of ...

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