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51. TAILOR

1 Chronicles 4:21

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Stephen Stewart

... biblical times. There were other similarities: for one thing, these ancient tailors had a very high standard of living themselves. Of course, for the prices they charged, they could afford to live well! And that certainly follows through today. The world’s high priced designers are often known for the luxury in which they live. Further: these tailors worked from their own homes, or went to the homes of their clients. No cheap shops for them! And that’s rather typical of couturiers too. Can you see the ...

52. Man, Give Me Some Bread: I Want To Make Sense Out Of My Life

John 6:25-59

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King Duncan

... all God's people, if they would sense their significance in Him, then we all could become more aware of His purpose in us." (2) That would be the ideal, wouldn't it? To feel the majesty of God in such a way that our own lives are ennobled. To design a worship service that so lifts up God that we as God's people feel lifted up as well? What are our motives for coming to Jesus? THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE TODAY WHO WILL FOLLOW ANYBODY, ANY GURU NO MATTER HOW MISGUIDED, WHO WILL OFFER SOME MEANING FOR THEIR LIVES ...

53. Advent 4

Isaiah 7:1-25, Matthew 1:18-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... News. Why? Because of who Jesus is. Paul sees the humanity of Jesus, a real human being, totally human in every respect, as a descendant of a human David. But, Paul claims Jesus is more than human. He is at the same time the Son of God who was so designated by his victory over sin and death. Through the ministry of this Jesus, the world has been freed from the bondage of sin. 3. To be (v. 7). Paul tells who he is and what or whom he preaches. Who are the people in the church at Rome? Paul identifies ...

54. Trip Questions

Matthew 22:15-22

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Leonard Sweet

... trap door would open and I'd be swallowed whole: a) Why couldn't we have been born old and grow younger? b) Why sleep? I'm saving this one for when I get to heaven. You made life so short to begin with, God, why isn't sleep a design defect? You want us to spend one-third to one-half our life dead to the world, dead to life? c) Why death? No, I can come to terms with death. But why painful death, why slow death, why children's death, why the suffering of the innocent? You start ...

55. The Gospel of Marah

Exodus 15:22-27

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Maxie Dunnam

... right there, on the surface, hard to miss even by those who try. So, don’t let the forthright simplicity of these truths as I state them dull your mind to their profound meaning. I First, in life we come often to Marah. Marah is not only the designation of a geographical location three days journey from the Red Sea in the wilderness of Shur; it is a place on the life map of all of us. It’s not geographical, but circumstantial. The Hebrew adjective, Mar, from which Marah comes, means bitter. In the Old ...

56. Let's Take This from the Beginning

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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James Merritt

... part of the assignment that God has given us and we are to do it for His glory and for His honor and we are also to do it as we reflect His image. In other words, the first part of the story tells us that there is a divine design and there is a purposeful plan to all of life. Don’t miss the fact that we are to reproduce ourselves. From the beginning God had a plan called “marriage.” God had a plan to reproduce life called “procreation.” Even the way that God did it shows a divine ...

57. The Credibility of the Gospel Paul Proclaims

Galatians 1:11-24

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... (cf. Hengel and Schwemer, Paul between Damascus and Antioch, p. 37), the city to which a zealous Jew would go in order to study Torah. Note also that in 1 Thess. 2:15 there is evidence for the churches in Judea (not Syria) being persecuted. 1:16 The designation of Jesus as God’s Son was one of the earliest Christian descriptions of Jesus. The pre-Pauline confession in Rom. 1:2–4 gives evidence that at the beginning of the faith Jesus was understood to be God’s Son. For a discussion of the meaning of ...

58. Warning Against False Teachers of the Law

1 Timothy 1:1-11

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... certain things. Thus he who gives commands is himself under command. The source of Paul’s authority is God our Savior and Christ Jesus our hope. It is Paul’s habit especially in the salutations to qualify the mention of God, but only in the PE (Pastoral Epistles) does he designate God as Savior. This title has its roots deep in OT piety, where God is often referred to as (my) “Savior” (Deut. 32:15; Pss. 24:5; 25:5; 27:9; 42:5, et al.; cf. Luke 1:47 and Jude 25). Here the emphasis is on God as the ...

59. The Son Superior to Angels

Hebrews 1:1-14

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... of the glory of the Almighty; … she is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness” (RSV). Other NT writers hold a similar view of Christ. In the prologue of the Gospel of John, Christ is designated “the true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world” (John 1:9), in whom “we have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father” (John 1:14). For John, as for our author, Jesus expresses the ...

60. The Tabernacle

Exodus 26:1-37

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... . The weavers could have used one color for the warp and two colors alternating in the weft (perpendicular threads) in a pattern. The result would be a regal tricolored cloth into which they wove, or worked in by some other method, the cherubim design. The dimensions of each of the ten panels of “tent fabric” were to be four cubits wide (approx. 6 ft.) by twenty-eight cubits long (approx. 41 ft.). The fabric featured cherubim worked into them by a skilled craftsman. “Worked into them” is, literally ...

61. Israel’s Ill-Placed Confidence

Amos 5:18-27

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... Negev makes up a fair amount of Israel’s southern kingdom, Judah. It is very rocky and also includes plateaus and wadis, which are dry riverbeds that can bloom after rains. Its most important city is Beersheba (see Gen. 21:14, 22 34), which often designates Israel’s southernmost border, as in the expression “from Dan to Beersheba” (e.g., 2 Sam. 17:11). Transjordan pertains to the area east of the Jordan River, the area through which the Israelites had to pass before crossing the Jordan on their way ...

62. Thanksgiving and Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... Where the rank and file were slow in giving proper recognition to those members who displayed such qualities, they were urged to do so; the potential leaders might indeed be mentioned by name (as in 1 Cor. 16:15–18). There was no one official designation for church leaders in the Pauline churches. In Thessalonica they are called “those who work hard among you, who are over you in the Lord and who admonish you” (1 Thess. 5:12). It may have been the Philippian Christians themselves who referred to their ...

63. The Focus of Christian Worship

1 Corinthians 14:26-40, 1 Corinthians 14:1-25

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... Jesus’s words in Matthew 7:22–23. 14:39–40 be eager to prophesy . . . in a fitting and orderly way. In a final concluding remark, Paul reiterates the primacy of prophecy over tongues and reminds objectors that both are gifts from God’s Spirit designed to empower the church as Christ’s body (14:1). The key to safeguarding against self-indulgence is order, although order without passion fails to build up Christ’s body (1 Thess. 5:19–21; Eph. 4:30). In the words of Garland, “The Spirit of ...

64. Marriage

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... Greek text suggest the two sentences are questions, to be rendered as in the NIV, although other translations make statements out of these lines. Yet the energy of the argument at this point favors the form of a set of rhetorical questions that are designed to drive home Paul’s point. Nevertheless, the basic sense of the sentences is clear, and either way, what Paul says may seem peculiar at a glance: Do Christian husbands and wives have the power to save their spouses? Certainly not. One sees from Paul ...

65. Peters Confession to Christ

Matthew 16:13-20

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... to his disciples is, Who do people say the Son of Man is? As the parallel in verse 15 indicates, Son of Man refers to Jesus himself and not someone yet to come. Throughout the Synoptic Gospels (fourteen times in Mark alone) it is Jesus’ self-designation. The purpose in posing this question is not simply to learn what others are saying but to correct in the minds of the disciples a misconception of Jesus’ role. The disciples respond to Jesus’ inquiry, saying that some believe him to be John the Baptist ...

66. Going Into Labor

Mark 13:1-8

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Frank Ramirez

... . 277 homes were destroyed by 250 million gallons of rushing water. It was all seen live on local television! Afterward there were recriminations and finger pointing. Who knew what and when? The dam’s designer, for instance, who had also designed another dam that had failed, was adamant that his design was perfect, and that the fault lines meant nothing, when he pushed the project through. Afterward, his was a minority opinion. What may be most important to remember, however, is that although hundreds of ...

67. Proper 16

John 6:25-59, John 6:60-71, 1 Kings 8:22-61, Ephesians 6:10-20

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Russell F. Anderson

... Christians are satisfied to stick to the elementary things of Christ. To continue as his disciples we must move on to not only graduate studies but to daily field work in his kingdom. Outline: 1. Explain how the difficulty of university courses is designated by numbers. 2. Jesus was leading his disciples beyond elementary courses in discipleship to graduate studies. 3. Many of them dropped out because it was too hard (v. 66). 4. Have we been satisfied with the elementary things of Christ and dropped out ...

68. Creative Preaching

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... from fine wool. Then I held up a piece of brand new bond stationery paper. Both items had value in themselves. Next I held up a $20 bill. It was old and crumpled, so the paper wasn't worth anything. Since it was all covered with letters, numbers and designs, one couldn't even use it for note paper. By itself it was worth nothing. Yet it was by far the most valuable of the three items. Why? Because a higher power said it was. It was valuable because the United States government said it was, simple as that ...

69. Fleshing Out The Word

Luke 10:1-24

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Larry Powell

... enough that of all things in the universe, the hinge article, the thing with which the Spirit of God does business, the thing which shall cause the total plan of God to work (or not work) is persons. Oh yes, some other things are well designed, ingeniously made, but they are not supremely pivotal. Instinct. We have all read and pondered about the swallows which annually make their way back to Capistrano. We know that when it is winter in California the swallows are in South America. Then, following the ...

70. Turning the Corner on the Very End

Mark 5:21-43

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James Weekley

... comfort, a greater light, a higher hope?" The late Senator Everett Dirksen once answered that question with a larger question. "If there be a design in the universe and in the world in which we live, there must be a Designer. Who can behold the inexplicable niysteries of the universe without believing that there is a design for all mankind and also a Designer?" Would God really go to the trouble to fabricate the wonders of this world - the stars, the intricate flowers, the unique snowflake - if he didn ...

71. God’s Ultimate Concern

Exodus 20:1-21

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Walter Kimbrough

... relationship with God, which places us in a faith relationship with our neighbors. We are being guided, therefore, in a faith response to God. The third function of the law is to provide a basis on which God can discipline the people. Religion is designed to help the individual bring some discipline into his or her life. Everyone needs a life that has order in it. “Disorder” brings about confusion and chaos. “Order” opens up the door of possibility. We serve a God of order. It is this God, therefore ...

72. "Because I'm God"

Job 38:1--41:34

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John P. Rossing

... people waiting, and then when he does reply to their cries it's to pull rank or to make fun of their complaints. So is God a tyrant? Perhaps, but this passage reminds us that if God is the absolute ruler of the world it's because he is its designer, creator, provider and sustainer. Returning to the analogy of parents, God is like a parent who tells his children, "As long as I provide the roof over your head, the clothes on your back and the food on your plate, I will also make the rules, and decide what's ...

73. Ode to Wisdom

Job 26:1--31:40

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Alton F. Wedel

... And where is the place of understanding?" (v. 12). In this age of new enlightenment, in our high tech society, this Ode to Wisdom simply doesn’t fly. When God came down from heaven to survey the Babel tower that the people back in Genesis 11 had designed, he was both amazed and amused. This colossal tower, with its head in the heavens, would become a colossal flop, just as all of our colossal towers have become since then. This symbol of human greatness would become a symbol of human folly, just as all of ...

74. The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread

John 6:25-59

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King Duncan

... when they unearthed the Dead Sea Scrolls. Among all the shards of pottery, and scraps of papyrus and parchment, was a shopping list . . . evidently a housewife's notes of what she needed from the market. Jesus' word for DAILY was on the list. It was the designation of a category, the items she needed to purchase every day in the agora, the marketplace. Bread, before the time of preservatives, needed to be baked daily. Like manna, it could grow moldy the next day in arid climates, as well as damp ones. Thus ...

75. How Much Do You Trust God?

Genesis 22:1-19

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King Duncan

... -looking instrument which had dropped out of the sky was used for. Not knowing what to do with it, they had put the plow on a pedestal and were worshiping it! The plow was designed to help them farm. It was designed for use in the fields, not to be revered. It was designed to strike deep in the African soil. It was designed to help the people, to nourish the people, to make them healthier, to make their quality of life better. But the members of that primitive tribe didn't know that, so the plow became ...

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