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726. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... trait of Paul’s personality is an indomitable will. Whether as persecutor of Christians or as campaigner for Christ, he is a zealot. His missionary career is marked by "great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watching, hunger" (2 Corinthians 6:4-5). When he lists in detail the obstacles he had to conquer (2 Corinthians 11), he is inclined "to boast a little," confident that humanly speaking his boasting is based on solid achievements and that he ...

727. Salvation as Personal Experience

Romans 9:30--10:21

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T. A. Kantonen

... man believes with his heart and so is justified" (Romans 10:10). Faith is not an accomplishment of any kind but simply taking God at his word when he offers salvation as a gift. It is that childlike receptivity, spiritual poverty, acute concern, hunger and thirst after righteousness, which Jesus in the beatitudes makes the one entrance requirement into the Kingdom. This is the attitude which opened the door to paradise to the thief on the cross and which led the Philippian jailer from the verge of suicide ...

728. EPISODE 1: THE FIRST WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... . JESUS: You think this is my mission? JOHN: You fed 5,000 people once, but what good does that do if the next day they’re hungry again? JESUS: This is the kind of kingdom men want? JOHN: It’s the kind of kingdom men need. JESUS: Freedom from hunger, sickness, and fear? JOHN: This is what men are waiting for. Give it to them, Lord, and they’re yours. You’ll be the fulfillment of their hopes. You’ll be the king of the world. JESUS: A bread king? Gaining the allegiance of men’s bellies? No, I ...

729. EPISODE 2: THE SECOND WEEK IN LENT

Drama

Robert Clausen

... JUDAS: Not if we strike first! Others may die, but you’ll be king! JESUS: You don’t understand the spirit which is to fill you. I haven’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. JOHN: Lord, how can you save people from suffering, hunger and misery if you’re dead? JUDAS: We’ll show them yet, Lord. Those long-nosed churchmen will take orders from us. JESUS: Those long-nosed churchmen will cause me much suffering. I’ll be betrayed into their hands. JUDAS: No! JESUS: They’ll turn me over ...

730. The Time of Our Visitation

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Leonard Mann

... to wonder about Jesus. I cannot tell you if his faith faltered or if he simply wanted reinforcement of it. Maybe the wonderful things he had foreseen weren’t happening as quickly as he had expected them to. Anyway, sitting there in Herod’s jail, John’s heart hungered for a clear answer to the basic question: Who was Jesus? So, as we read in Matthew 11, John sent messengers to Jesus with this question: "Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?" Let this be said for John: Even in jail ...

731. To Bethlehem and Beyond

Luke 2:1-7

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Leonard Mann

... able to separate me from the power of science." But the last thing that Wells wrote before his death was a pessimistic, gloomy, and despairing book titled Mind at the End of Its Tether. O how desperately humankind needs to learn the language of God. We deeply hunger, most of us, for some word from beyond. We can understand the outcry of Zophar the Naamathite when, in conversation with the suffering Job, he exclaimed, "O that God would speak" (Job 11:5). Most of us from time to time have reason to know what ...

732. It will Crumble into Dust!

Isaiah 12:1-6

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Jon L. Joyce

... from. In one story of the Holy Grail, a knight rode forth in searth of fulfillment. He came to a singing brook, deep meadows, trees plentiful with fruit. But even as he ate the fruit, it turned to dust. No feeding of the flesh could satisfy his deepest hunger. Further on he saw a home, a lovely woman standing in its open door, her eyes innocent and kind and all her bearing gracious, and he thought that surely the love of a woman and the shelter of a home would be his answer; but she, too, fell into ...

733. The Temptations

Luke 4:1-13

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Jon L. Joyce

... , both within and outside the church, continue to demand this or that from the church as a contingency upon their membership and participation. This temptation may also be seen as a strong drive for results - the American result-itis and seemingly insatiable hunger for bigger and better, where numbers and dollars rather than personal ministry and relationship count. No matter who says, "Show me by doing such and such," the contemporary church must be faithful to the ministry to which she is called and to ...

734. The Perfect Gift

Galatians 3:26--4:7

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Bill Bouknight

... people, he must have pondered at length over how to express his love to the world. God knew that if he sent 10,000 more educators, the people would simply become more ingenious in their devilment. God could have dropped tons of food to alleviate all hunger, but the people would have hoarded it rather than sharing it. God could have sent a powerful general to clean up the mess by force. But God knew that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. As soon as the good general was gone, everything ...

735. Controlling Our Cravings

Luke 12:13-21, Exodus 20:1-21

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Bill Bouknight

... . The Hebrew word for "covet" is "hamad." It means to desire or to crave or to grasp for more. Is it wrong to desire or crave anything? Of course not. The Bible tells us to desire wisdom and faith. Jesus said we would be blessed if we hunger and thirst after righteousness. Is it wrong to desire possessions and wealth? I think we would agree that there is a certain gaudy materialism so fashionable in Hollywood and elsewhere that is obscene in a world in which 40 percent of the human family lives at some ...

736. God Got Personal

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James Bjorge

... on the planet have tended to disagree. They have seen evidences of God’s fingerprints left here and there on the furniture of earth. Man still longed for a God to touch them ... to let them know that he cared. Humanity has always hungered for the personal word. No other kind of word takes its place. Humans were not made for turbines and machines. Hearts hunt for other hearts and nothing else really satisfies. Each Christmas season the Christmas cards flow into the parsonage. They are all gratefully ...

737. Christmas Concern

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James Bjorge

... . Then I look at Jesus and see that he was involved with people in such a way they couldn’t miss the fact that he cared. Jesus didn’t just preach about leprosy; he touched the leper in love. Jesus just didn’t give a loud lecture on hunger; he fed the people who had empty stomachs. Jesus didn’t merely talk about lingering loneliness; he went to people’s homes and sat down for supper and an evening chat. He really cared about people. I get a little annoyed at those who shout about preaching only ...

738. How Do You Like Yourself?

1 Peter 3:8-22

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Louis H. Valbracht

... expressed purpose of glorifying God in their lives and making that glory bear flesh as they expressed it in the lives that they lived for each other. When you answer the call to the Kingdom, you, literally, supply all of the needs and the hungers and the emptinesses of the self. You make yourself fit to live with yourself, because you are lifted out of the trivialities and into significance, and, therefore, into self-esteem. For no man can esteem himself unless his life is significant. John Wannamaker of ...

739. Perhaps Next Summer...

Acts 24:1-27

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Louis H. Valbracht

... and finally achieved. Marriage is a PLEASURE to be GRABBED! In the philosophy of a Swinburne, who says: "Seize the cash - let the credit go." I see couples being married today with no other qualifications for marriage than that they are two bodies that are hungering for each other. They have no more business getting married than a couple of infants in cradles. Oh, they’re always going to finish college after marriage - perhaps next summer. They are going to accomplish the things that they set out to do in ...

740. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... him his inheritance on the spot, being unwilling to wait for the old man to die! Taking the money, he leaves the father and heads for the bright lights. The boy proceeds to blow every dime he has, ending up feeding pigs with his own stomach growling with hunger. There he must sit, surrounded by hogs, and no one caring enough about him to give him anything better than the hogs ate. Have you ever wondered about why the father, if he really loved the boy, didn’t stop him from leaving home in the first place ...

741. Never Underestimate The Power of a Cup of Cold Water

Matthew 10:1-42

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Brett Blair

... we now call Iran.). 12. Matthew was first stoned and then beheaded. What sacrifices! And I ask you why? Why did they choose to die this way? Why desert your father and mother, your wife and child, and your home? Why put up with the constant humiliation, and hunger, and persecution, and defeat town after town after town? I’ll tell you why, because, in the words of Apostle Paul, they were held captive by the words and teachings of Jesus Christ. It is Paul’s way of saying they were slaves to Christ. It is ...

742. What Is Heaven Like?

Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35

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Brett Blair

... 1 As Christians we understand that imperceptible things have real influence, but we live in a society that is enamored with bigness. We have gone beyond big churches to mega-churches. We are over whelmed with and bedazzled by huge social problems such as world hunger and children in crises. As a result, we sometimes overlook the tiny seed problems that are at the root of so many of these difficult situations. As you may know the Shuttle program has been grounded for several weeks due to cracks in the fuel ...

743. God’s Chosen Country

Isaiah 40:1-31

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Susan Hedahl

... certainly been a clearer sense among Christians in the past several years about the nature of the gifts we might share with one another. Christmas cards, for example, will arrive saying, "A gift has been given in your name to the World Hunger Fund, or (name familiar church agency)." Christians are turning to those gifts, material and spiritual, which more clearly reflect the Lord they worship. Peace-maker, healer, promoter of justice - our gifts to give in the Name of the Jesus Child! What a responsibility ...

744. Rediscovering Our Spiritual Dimension

Genesis 17:1-27

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Donald Macleod

... national interests. It lies in the inclination of the average man or woman who is content to live in a two-dimensional world. President Goheen, formerly of Princeton University, once said that much of the unrest among America’s youth has tended to "show a hunger for some spiritual dimension which is all too scarce in contemporary adult American life." In his book, The Research Magnificent, H. G. Wells told of a young man who regarded his life as one long succession of days that became more and more filled ...

745. What Does God Expect Of You?

Micah 6:1-8

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Robert Allen

... is a difficult word to live because there is so much injustice in our world. We live in a world where there is violence and the innocent suffer. We live in a world where there is hatred and people are hurt. We live in a world where there is hunger and people are starving. We live in a world where there is prejudice and people are denied their basic human freedoms. Doing justice in our everyday lives concerns the passion that you and I must have to see that every person has a decent opportunity to live their ...

746. Create Your Own Happiness

Matthew 5:1-12

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Robert Allen

... of the Sermon on the Mount that we call the Beatitudes. He begins each phrase in poetic fashion as he says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit ... Blessed are those who mourn ... Blessed are the meek ... Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness ... Blessed are the merciful ... Blessed are the pure in heart ... Blessed are the peacemakers ... Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake. The word "blessed" is literally translated, "how happy." Apparently, Jesus was telling his ...

747. Religion In A Nutshell

Mark 12:28-34

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Robert Allen

... his eyes. He spoke with a heavy Irish brogue because he had only been in America for a few years. While he was in school, he was also pastoring a Catholic church in the heart of Newark, New Jersey. If you want to talk about urban blight and poverty and hunger, all you have to do is to take a trip up and down the streets of Newark. On one occasion, Sean heard that a family in his parish was hungry. Because of a bureaucratic foul-up, a mother with five small children had no food and no hope of getting ...

748. Is There Life After Christmas?

Luke 2:21-40, Isaiah 12:1-6

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Erskine White

... shall fall, while those who are meek shall rise and inherit the earth. Those who are complacent about all that is wrong in the world, who tolerate injustice and unrighteousness in the name of immutable "laws" of human nature shall fall, while those who hunger and thirst for what is right shall rise and be filled. Those who commit the obscenity of war, who use instruments of destruction against their neighbors shall fall, while those who are peacemakers shall rise and be called the children of God. Those who ...

749. Courageous Preaching

Isaiah 50:1-11

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... theologian’s flower has been called the "hedge" and wise old Joe Sittler talked about coming down on an issue "with both feet planted in mid-air!" Yes, strong sermons will evoke disagreement, but I believe there remains in our congregations a deep hunger for more plain talk from the pulpit. Our people are getting weary of words that distort and conceal. Some of the reasons for the strong sermon reaction in our text is that the exiled people had adapted, adjusted, and assimilated in their new environment ...

750. The Path of Integrity

Drama

William Grimbol

... , even more than we fear the "faith-fact" that our bloated status as old yeast sinners now threatens to extinguish the earth’s resources ... to devour the world in a desperate drive toward a final fire ... and to leave us blinded to the myriad "hungers" of our world ... for food - for shelter - for protection - for healing - for hope. We are a people who have lost some of our integrity, because we have overdosed on yeast. We are too proud of our bigness ... our grandeur ... our opulence ... our wealth. Do ...

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