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726. Easter 7

Acts 1:1-11, Psalm 47:1-9, 1 Peter 4:12-19, John 17:1-5, John 17:6-19

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... Eleven did as Jesus had commanded them, went to an upper room, and, along with "the women and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers," ... "with one accord they devoted themselves to prayer...." The Seventh Sunday of Easter, despite its new of orientation, remains - and always will be - the Sunday after the Ascension of Our Lord. It is the final act in the drama of Jesus' resurrection from the dead. 1 Peter 4:13-19 The writer of 1 Peter could have been given the mantle of the prophet, according ...

727. Proper 18 & Pentecost 16

Ezekiel 33:1-20, Psalm 119:1-176, Psalm 95:1-11, Psalm 115:1-18, Exodus 19:1-25, Romans 13:1-7, Romans 13:8-14, Romans 12:9-21, Matthew 18:15-20

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THEOLOGICAL CLUE The eschatological framework of the church year remains in place, but it does little or nothing to reveal any theological clue for worship and preaching or any ... and the presence of angels in the empty tomb - and the risen Lord?) 4. The people kept their distance. Only Moses and Aaron could ascend Mt. Sinai; people and priests had to remain at the bottom of the mountain, if they were to live. That was enough. (Only a few saw the risen Lord; the rest of us find life "at a distance" from Christ ...

728. A Glory Revealed in Truth and Faithfulness

John 19:28-37

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... of the human race. It is finished.... God’s Son has given and sacrificed his body and life as a payment for sin. Sin is wiped out.... death is overcome and heaven is unlocked. Everything is fulfilled and finished, and no one need argue that something still remains to be fuifilled and perfected.2 Look up, then, at Jesus lifted up on the cross. Let Jesus’ words be fulfilled in you: "If I am lifted up from the earth I will draw everyone to myself." (John 12:32) God showed how much he loved the world ...

729. Hail! Your King!

Mark 15:1-15

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... No, please, I have my sons. I don’t even know this man. I haven’t done anything. GUARD: If he can’t carry it, you will. Take it up and fall in. (The cross-carrying will be very slow and deliberate. Simon will speak but the guard will remain unaffected, as these are Simon's inner reflections. He pauses after each thought.) SIMON: Good Lord, so this is Jesus! I never would have thought. (Shudders) He bleeds all over. Oh, why am I here? I never had anything to do with him. Why aren’t his disciples here ...

730. The Precepts of the Lord

Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:7-14

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... in an external, objective code, is always there, always the same. No matter what goes on in the human family, the Law remains, there, over all of us. It is not swayed by our excuses and justifications, nor is it sympathetic to what we claim are ... positively to identify sin. It teaches us the sure knowledge of right and wrong. The Laws of God (just like the laws of nature) remain operative, in effect for everyone, all the time. They are never suspended - not during war, not during a night out on the town, ...

731. Sovereignty: God’s Domain

Zephaniah 1:4-13

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... Lord says, "I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." (15:5) Apostasy rears its ugly head when this relationship is severed. If we become and remain apostates, he lays before us the results: "If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned." (15:6) The sovereign God will not permit us to pervert his truth and receive ...

732. HE DOES NOT WILLINGLY AFFLICT

Lamentations 3:1-66

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... in a normal voice] I’ve been here so long. They said they would come back to get me; but it’s been so long. 1: I’ve got to get out of here! [Pushes forward, out of the chair into a standing position. Is unsteady for a moment, but remains standing. Looks around; takes a step forward; looks around. Finally feels confident enough and runs out] 2: It’s been so long. They said I could leave if I wanted to ... [Realizes; stands up, very tentatively; is a little shaky, but ...

733. Advance into Europe

Acts 15:36-41

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... he was simply quicker than Paul to see Mark’s excellent qualities. Later on, Paul came around to the same view. But as Barnabas and Mark sail off aggrievedly to Cyprus, Barnabas drops out of the story. This is the last time his name appears! Perhaps he remained in Cyprus for the rest of his life, for it was his native soil. Mark also drops out of the narrative, but only for a while. While Paul was critical of Mark, there is no indication that Mark ever felt serious resentment against Paul. However, about ...

734. Jailbreak at Midnight

Acts 16:16-40

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... Asia Minor, troublemaking Jews in Thessalonica sent agents to Berea, stirring up and inciting the people. For Paul’s safety, he was whisked off with a bodyguard or escort to the comparative security of Athens, some 300 miles away, while Silas and Timothy remained with the congregation at Berea in spite of the danger. Paul must have welcomed the opportunity to visit Athens. He was an intellectual, a great writer and speaker, a deep thinker, a student of religion and philosophy. He had a special interest in ...

735. Revival at Corinth

Acts 18:1-17

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... completed the ritual fulfillment of the vow. Among those he left behind at Ephesus were Aquila and Priscilla, both of whom were well able to take care of themselves and to earn their living in a strange city. While it may have been mere coincidence, their remaining at Ephesus provided the foundation for the development of a congregation there. Of Aquila we know only that he was a native of Pontus, a Roman province on the southern shore of the Black Sea. Of Priscilla, we know only that she had lived in Italy ...

736. Striking Silversmiths Start Riot

Acts 19:23-41

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... , he sent two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, ahead of him into Macedonia. Shortly after they left, a major shift in the situation at Ephesus took place. Paul’s teaching had been tolerated and even welcomed by the Ephesians so long as it remained in a purely religious context. When it began to swell in influence so that it affected the city’s commercial and economic interests, opposition developed from an unusual source. One of the big industries in the city was the fashioning of silver statues of ...

737. Shipwrecked on Malta

Acts 27:1-12, Acts 27:13-26, Acts 27:27-44

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... same time, it was only human for Paul to chidingly remind the crew that if they had followed his advice in the first place, they would not now be in this predicament. Paul’s words were not enough to still the sea, however, and the ship remained at the mercy of the wind and waves to the fourteenth night - just two weeks after they had left Fair Havens. Most of this fortnight had been spent without food, certainly without any cooked or prepared meals, without much sleep and under bitter weather conditions ...

738. Pastor or Priest?

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John R.W. Stott

... clergy "priests" (common as the practice is in Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Angelican circles) gives the false impression that their ministry is primarily directed toward God, whereas the New Testament portrays it as primarily directed towards the church. So "pastor" remains the most accurate term. The objection that it means "shepherd" and that sheep and shepherds are irrelevant in the bustling cities of the Twentieth Century can be best be met by recalling that the Lord Jesus called himself "the Good ...

739. Returning: Real or Ruse?

Hosea 5:1-15

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Barbara Brokhoff

... in our godly sorrow for sin and in the resultant change in the quality of one’s life. It is certainly true that the church is the place for sinners, but not for sinners who are determined to remain sinners, and not for obstinate sinners who have no regrets over their sins and no intention other than to remain in them. One could almost say, "Unless we change, we have not really returned!" Returning for Radical Change Bishop Dana Dawson was once called to a church to receive a group of young people into the ...

740. "A" Lamb to "the" Lamb

Exodus 12:1-30

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Barbara Brokhoff

... the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire - its head with its legs and its entrails. You shall let none of it remain until the morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. For I ...

741. Scenes From a Marriage

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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Craig Erickson

... that has survived over the ages because God possesses an inexhaustible reservoir of grace. No matter what humans do, even those who have entered into this marriage through baptism, God remains faithful and true. He continues to give himself through a promise that is always there. God’s eternal will, to bring people into lifegiving communion with him, remains unchanged. Ash Wednesday is a little scene from this marriage. It is not a pretty scene. It is a dramatic one. The symbol of signing the cross on the ...

742. A Book Which Reads Us

John 4:1-26

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Robert Bachelder

... history. As no other book does, it tells us who we are and whose we are. It is not so much a book which we read, as a book which reads us. To read the Bible is to embark on a voyage of self-discovery. This is why the Bible remains important even in the twentieth century. It often is said that we live in a secular culture, that religion is on the wane, and that the Bible’s significance has declined. This is sheer nonsense! In some quarters the institutional church may be on the wane, but the search for ...

743. The Grace of Disillusionment

Matthew 26:69-75

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Robert Bachelder

... . He was so sure of himself that he could say in Jerusalem he was willing to die with Jesus. Of course when the hour of testing came, he failed miserably, and the layers of his pride were peeled off like onion skins until nothing remained. Then "he went out and wept bitterly." This was a great thing for Peter, however. Profound Christian living always begins in tears of repentance. Karl Menninger writes that a suffering conscience can bring about an experience of repentance which leads to a higher level ...

744. The Role of an Angel

John 20:10-18

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George Bass

... way or another - perhaps to be put on public display to prove that he was still dead? She really shouldn’t have been afraid of the inside of a tomb, especially a grave that have never been used before. If it had been a tomb which contained the remains of others, she might have had reason to shrink back and shield her eyes from viewing the shroud-wrapped bodies of now-dead human beings. And she had seen Jesus in death; he shouldn’t have changed too much in less than three days, should he? His eyes had ...

745. Pardon for Sin

Romans 5:12-21

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Dennis Kastens

... (all the tragedy he brought upon the race, including grim death itself) on the human scene, but then he proceeded to supercede Adam’s legacy. He allowed the legacy to have its "first word," but then he came in with the "last word." He allowed "death" to remain, but he came on the scene with the "resurrection" from the dead. In other words, his way of overcoming death was not by removing it, but by enduring it and coming forth as "alive" in the Resurrection above it. This is why Christ suffered death. He ...

746. Salvation Through His Suffering

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

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Dennis Kastens

... and choked. The missionary worked on the island for thirty years. He had a cork leg. Little did he know that the tragedy which cost him his leg years before would be used to give him entree among cannibals for a third of a century. As we remain in contact with the resurrected Christ, operative through his church and through the means of grace, we have the bonafide access which we need in dealing with every extremity of life which may come our way. Knowing that in the end we shall be victorious enables us ...

747. A LITURGICAL DRAMA FOR ALL SAINTS’

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Tom Eberle

... box, because I don’t think we’ll pull it off. Oh, we’ll tip our hats to a few of those Christian heroes, and say it was certainly sporting of them. But to believe we move arm in arm with all those vapory saints - nonsense! We will each remain in our own box, and when the service is completed we will again take it home with us. Minister: But what if, during these minutes of worship, we are lifted from our boxes? Suppose we find ourselves swept up in a parade of believers, stretching from father Abraham ...

748. Bezaleel

Exodus 35:30--36:7

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Warren Thomas Smith

... , a Sunday morning dawned. The evening before had been one of the worst of the air raids. A particular section of the city had been badly hit. Ruin was on all sides. At one corner stood the remains of a once beautiful church. The building had been completely destroyed, only the altar remained. But there on the altar was a vase of fresh flowers - just placed - and candles had been lighted. How easy it would have been for Bezaleel to have fashioned everything with lackluster plainness. There are some poor ...

749. The Witch of Endor

1 Samuel 28:1-25

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Warren Thomas Smith

... , much to the joy of religious leaders. Years passed, and Saul was nearing his end. In despair, he longed for advice from the deceased Samuel - old critic and friend who could bring a word from God. When Saul asked for a surviving witch, he was told one remained at Endor, a small town six miles southeast of Nazareth. Taking two men, Saul trekked to the forbidding lair in disguise. Picture the scene: darkness was broken by a small fire in the damp cave. The king asked the astonished woman to call up a spirit ...

750. Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

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... in Mexico and other Latin American countries. Additional ads were ordered, marketing efforts were stepped up, but sales remained stagnant. Sales directors were baffled. The car had sold well in the American market; why wasn’t it ... Nicodemus ever come to a saving faith in Christ? Tradition says that he did, but we do not know for sure. It is certainly possible that he remained on the fringe. Millions do. But I like to think that once a person has truly looked into the eyes of Jesus nothing can ever really be ...

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