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801. Don’t Burn The Cookies!

Luke 21:25-36

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Cynthia Cowen

... a reindeer with his head cut off!" The countdown to Christ's return began the day of his birth. An infant born in a Bethlehem stable grew up. Jesus walked this earth preparing its people for the greatest gift ever given. Salvation — a free gift to us but a costly gift from God. Following the givingof the gift, he returned to his Father with the promise to come again. When will that happen? No one knows the time, not the angels nor Jesus himself. Only the Father knows the time. The hour is not recorded ...

802. Put on Some Clothes

Colossians 3:1-17

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Leonard Sweet

... . Laws won’t change us. Only love will change us. The love of Christ instilled within our hearts is what gets poured out upon this broken world in the actions and attitudes of our lives. The consumerism craze of Christmas is a horrible parody of the true Christmas gift offered to us on that first Christmas night. Under a star in a little town called Bethlehem, the One who made all things is “made of a woman;” the One who had no beginning is born; the One garmented in light is wrapped in hand‑me-down ...

803. The Healing Fountain of Tears

Revelation 7:9-17

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Leonard Sweet

... could be washed, dried and folded. For free. Who said it first — “Cleanliness is next to godliness?” If that’s true, if cleanliness is next to godliness, then how many of us live in evil houses, drive ungodly cars, and shake unholy hands? The gift of cleanliness. We don’t think about cleanliness until it is gone. Your sink stops up and the dirty dishes start to accumulate until they take over the kitchen. Your washing machine dies and suddenly you have no clean underwear and the laundry room turns ...

804. Acts 2: 1-21

Acts 2:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... and familiar is also found in today’s text from Acts, which endeavors to describe the coming of the Holy Spirit and the Spirit’s empowerment of all it touches. In the Acts 2 text Luke describes the sound and appearance of this promised, new gift from the ascended Jesus as “like the rush of violent wind” and as “divided tongues, as of fire.” This comparison process also extends to alternative commentators on this text, for whom the description of the Holy Spirit’s first arrival is seen as the ...

805. Filling the Hole in Our Hearts

Acts 2:1-21

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King Duncan

... in it.” God desires to see His reflection in our lives. Scripture tells us that we were created in God’s image. When we went astray, he sent His Son to save us from our sin-distorted lives. After Christ’s death, resurrection and ascension, God sent us the gift of the Holy Spirit to work in us, bearing witness with our Spirit, to help us be restored to a right relationship with God. When that work is accomplished, God will be able to see His reflection in our lives. All of this is what we mean when we ...

806. An Announcement in Song

Psalm 98:1-9

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King Duncan

... We can put away the lights and the tree and the candles and the holly and all the ornaments. But it is harder to put away, “Silent Night, Holy Night,” and “O Come, O Come Immanuel,” and “Away in a Manger.” Music is one of God’s greatest gifts to us. To me, it is one of the surest signs of God’s existence. Does anybody here truly believe that blind evolution would have given us voices that blend together as soprano, alto, tenor and bass to make the most pleasing sounds on earth? Music is from ...

807. Peacemaker

Luke 2:8-20

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James Merritt

... practical with you today. I want you to take someone a security blanket by being a peace maker in someone’s life. I want you to re-gift peace and take it to them. Let me give you three practical ways you can do that. To someone who is far from God, why don’t ... everything out for the good of those who love Him, of how you will be there for them if they need you and you can re-gift to them the peace of God? Then, maybe in your own family you are at war with someone or there is a friendship that has been ...

808. Priscilla, Aquila, and Apollos

Acts 18:18-28

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... and that Priscilla and Aquila should find it necessary to explain “to him the way of God more adequately” (v. 26)? If the “disciples” of 19:1–7 are any guide, then we must suppose that he did not yet know of the Pentecostal event—the gift of the Spirit in token that the age of salvation had come (see notes on 2:17ff.)—and the significance that it gave to baptism. For unlike John’s, which merely anticipated the age of salvation, Christian baptism belonged to the new age, marking (among other ...

809. Made Alive in Christ

Ephesians 2:1-10

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... regeneration (Titus 3:5), and baptism (Acts 22:16; 1 Cor. 6:11; 1 Pet. 3:21). Since grace and to some extent faith are gifts of God, the readers are reminded that their salvation is not due to human effort and cannot, therefore, lead to spiritual pride. The principle of ... created us in Christ Jesus to do good works (cf. 1:4, 6, 12, 14, 15). The whole context, which emphasizes God’s gift of grace and faith, as well as the stress upon being God’s creation in Christ, prohibits one from taking good works in ...

810. Manna and Quail

Exodus 16:1-36

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... had succeeded in using their grumbling as a lever and opportunity to show God’s own glory, to train them in trust, and to give them a source of daily bread as well as weekly rest. We should not underestimate the weight and enduring influence of this gift and the command no one is to go out to gather bread (i.e., not to work). This first observation of the Sabbath not only provided a paradigm of working and resting, but it also established the previously unknown seven-day week. The impact of this paradigm ...

811. Leaders and Prophets Rebuked

Micah 3:1-12

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... Bible makes himself available only to whom he will (cf. Isa. 1:15), and it is with the faithful who are humble and contrite in spirit that God chooses to dwell (cf. Isa. 57:15; Ps. 51:17). Because the false prophets and diviners and seers will lose their gifts from God, they will be shamed before the people and will cover their lips (the NIV incorrectly reads faces), verse 7. To cover the upper lip was a sign of mourning in Israel (Ezek. 24:17, 22) and was a gesture required of lepers (Lev. 13:45), but here ...

812. Abram in Egypt

Genesis 12:10-20

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... offer a defense, Pharaoh ordered Abram to take his wife and go. Abram realized that Pharaoh had some basis for condemning him and that, being an absolute monarch, he acted with a degree of mercy in letting both of them leave Egypt with all these gifts. To end this infuriating situation Pharaoh ordered his men to escort Abram and his wife with their possessions out of Egypt. Aware that God was watching over Abram, Pharaoh wanted to guarantee their safe passage and to make sure that they left Egypt. God was ...

813. Jacob Apprehension in Meeting Esau

Genesis 32:1-32

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... terms tie these two passages into the flow of the Jacob narrative. Jacob meets the angels or messengers of God (mal’ake ’elohim), and he sends “messengers” (mal’akim) to meet Esau. There is a play on “camp” (makhaneh; 32:2, 8, 10, 21) and “gift” (minkhah; 32:13, 20; 33:8, 10). Two terms for grace reverberate the sounds from these last two words: khanan (“give graciously,” 33:5) and hen (“favor,” 33:8, 10). Throughout this story “face” (panim) is a key term (32:19–20, 30; 33 ...

814. The Appointment of Leaders

Deuteronomy 1:9-18

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... this land is clearly one of the most central themes in the whole book and indeed is a key factor in Israel’s theological understanding in the whole Hb. Bible. It had two major dimensions, of which the first is expressed in this verse: (a) divine gift; (b) divine ownership—the land still belonged to Yahweh as ultimate divine landlord (cf. Lev. 25:23). Modern study of this theme owes much to the seminal study of von Rad, “The Promised Land.” See also Brueggemann, The Land, and C. J. H. Wright, God’s ...

815. Firstfruits and Tithes

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... the land would have to be taken by armed struggle, any more than it overlooks the fact that the fruit of the harvest would have to be gained by hard labor. But the prior reality is God’s grace. The land itself and the fruit of the land are gifts of grace and that must be acknowledged. Thus, the Israelite is called on to make two liturgical declarations. The first (v. 3) is a simple acknowledgment of fact—I have come to the land that the LORD swore to our forefathers to give us. This historical fact is ...

816. Riddles and Metaphors

Ezekiel 15:1-8, Ezekiel 16:1-63, Ezekiel 17:1-24

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... against Jerusalem, the text revises that accusation in verses 30–34. Jerusalem is not a prostitute—she is far worse! Prostitutes at least get paid, but the insatiable lust of Jerusalem prompts her to pay her lovers (vv. 33–34). Indeed, the word the NIV translates “gifts” in verse 33 refers to an allowance given to the wife by her husband. It is little wonder that the Lord is driven to wrath. 16:35–43a The wanton, brazen behavior of Jerusalem leads to the Lord’s judgment. In verse 36, the NIV ...

817. The New Heaven and New Earth

Revelation 21:1-27

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... dressed for her husband. Significantly, the new creation is both a place and a people. The holy city, or new Jerusalem, comes down out of heaven as a gift of God (Isa. 52:1; 61:10; 62:5; Rev. 3:12; Gal. 4:26; Heb. 11:10; 12:22; 13:14; cf. 4 Ez. 8:52; T. Dan ... God (also 7:17; 22:1, 17; see also John 4:10; 7:37–38; Isa. 55:1). This life comes “freely” or “as a gift” (d?rean) of God’s grace. Sixth, God assures “those who overcome” or conquer (ho nik?n) that they will inherit the blessings of the ...

818. Vows, Redemption, and Tithes

Leviticus 27:1-34

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... belongs to God (Lev. 27:26). Similarly, God expects Israel to give him a tithe of crops and herds (Lev. 27:30–33). God has given Israel the land. In gratitude for the blessings of the land, Israel is to give God tithes. It is assumed that the gift is the literal commodity or animal, though for a price one can substitute money (v. 31). Animals tithed must be a random sample of the herd/flock (v. 32), and not just the weaker animals (v. 33). Other things expected by God are things “devoted” according to ...

819. Portions for the Priests and the Levites

Numbers 18:8-32

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... not limited by the covenants. Even if we are not under a tithing “law,” the law of love should move us in that direction. The Barna Group’s statistics suggest that many of us should be more generous than we currently are. The gifts we give to God are holy. News Story: In 2008 Donald Ray Robinson was sentenced to three years in prison for stealing three hundred thousand dollars from Lane Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Cleveland, Ohio.3He illegally mortgaged the parsonage and also ...

820. Daniel Interprets the Dream and Confronts Nebuchadnezzar

Daniel 4:19-27

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... the Text Greatness comes from God, whether used for good or for ill. Film: Star Wars. God is the source of all human greatness, whether we use it for good or evil. In George Lucas’s Star Wars films (1977–2005), two of his characters most gifted in “the Force” are Jedi knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. Both are respected and admired for their power, which comes from the same source, and are in many ways comparable in their abilities, having once been master and pupil. Yet Obi-Wan uses his ...

821. Daniel in the Den of Lions

Daniel 6:1-28

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... , Bach (1685–1750) is widely revered as one of the greatest composers of all time. His vast portfolio of compositions includes an immense number of chamber, organ, keyboard, and choral works, many of which are still instantly recognizable today. Bach was clearly gifted with an extraordinary talent for music, yet he was also a devoutly Christian man who remains to this day a true example of a person distinguished for his accomplishments yet testifying always to God as the giver of his abilities. To this ...

822. The Time Is Now!

Luke 24:50-53

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... know He lives: He lives within my heart." That is true but it is not the best part of its truthfulness. The best part of its truthfulness is that he was witnessed ascending on high and "when he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive; he gave gifts to his people." (When it says, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.) (Ephesians 4 ...

823. Nothing Is Impossible with God!

Luke 1:26-38

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Charley Reeb

... , he came upon the letter and opened it. It read: “This will introduce Jan Paderewski, who plays the piano, for which he demonstrates no conspicuous talent.”[1] What if Paderewski had opened the letter in the beginning? He may not have believed that he had the gift God had blessed him with. He may not have performed that first recital. He may not have become who he was created to become! What if Mary had listened to her doubts instead of listening to God? The world would be a different place. Did you ...

824. Pop Verses!: Philippians 4:13

Philippians 4:13

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Charley Reeb

... Philippians 4:10 Paul is expressing how happy he was to receive their big check to help with his ministry. As Paul was preaching the gospel everywhere, there were no cell phones, emails, or texts. There was just snail mail. And so Paul’s special friends mailed Paul a gift to help him and this warmed Paul’s heart. It was the only way they could show Paul they loved him and believed in him. This made Paul very happy. But Paul was very quick to point out something. Take a look: I am not saying this because ...

825. Paul's Longing to Visit Rome

Romans 1:1-17

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... his missionary labors, i.e., that in Rome he may see new converts and deeper conviction in faith. Another possibility is worth considering, however, especially since charisma and karpos normally refer to specific phenomena. It is not to be discounted that the spiritual gift which Paul hopes to give and the harvest which he hopes to reap are subtle references to the need for reconciliation between Gentile and Jew in Rome. We have noted that following the repeal of the edict of Claudius when Jewish Christians ...

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