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951. Jesus Tempted In Us

Matthew 4:1-11

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David O. Bales

It’s good to be here with you. Ten days ago my wife and I were visiting our daughter and son-in-law in central Mexico. In Mexico City they took us to the National Palace in which hangs a painting of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. I’m intrigued by this painting. Hidalgo was leader in the Mexican war for independence from Spain; but, by the time people wanted a portrait of him, he was dead. Half a century later Joaquin Ramirez painted a picture of him but used his own brother’s face. The face of one’s brother as ...

952. Jesus Goes to the Feast of Tabernacles

John 7:1-13

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

For the third time (cf. 5:1; 6:1) a narrative begins vaguely with the words after this. The remark that Jesus went around in Galilee (v. 1) is probably intended as a summary or a general characterization of his ministry, acknowledging the truth of the synoptic witness that Galilee was indeed the location of most of Jesus’ teaching and healing activities. The narrator probably assumes that Jesus lived in Capernaum with his mother, brothers, and disciples (2:12; cf. 6:59), using that town as the base for his ...

953. Messiah’s Community

John 20:19-31

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Wayne Brouwer

In his widely-read testimony, Man’s Search for Meaning, famed psychiatrist Viktor Frankl remembered a terrible day during World War II. He was on a work gang, just outside the fences that hid the horrors of Hitler’s infamous Dachau death camp. “We were at work in a trench,” wrote Frankl. “The dawn was gray around us; gray was the sky above; gray the snow in the pale light of dawn; gray rags in which my fellow prisoners were clad, and gray their faces.” Frankl told how he was ready to die. It was as if the ...

954. Whistling Jesus

John 15:1-17

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Leonard Sweet

No one casts a longer shadow throughout the course of one’s life than a mother. Will all our mothers stand? We honor and celebrate you for the sheltering shade of those shadows. Back in the mid‑1950’s Theodor Geisel railed and revolted against the boringly banal primers forced on first time readers. His books, penned under the now famous name of “Dr. Seuss,” transformed reading to our little ones from dull and dreary tales of “Dick and Jane” to the lyrical fun of “The Cat in the Hat.” Adding to this new ...

955. Chapter I

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

"I am the Lord your God ..." Exodus 20:2 A few years ago I had the opportunity to return to the homestead where I spent some of the happiest days of my youth. It is a farm situated in the midst of the wheatgrowing country of Pennsylvania, where my grandparents once lived. Shortly after I arrived, I walked out to a little knoll that overlooks the fields and sat down beneath the huge old walnut tree that has stood there for over a hundred years. From there I looked out over the fields. The wheat at the time ...

956. A New Command

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Lee Griess

John 13:1-17, 31b-35 In his book Life Looks Up, Charles Templeton remarks how ironic it is that the course of human history has been affected so positively and negatively by events that have occurred in two small upper rooms. One of them is a drab flat in London's Westside, dirty, curtainless, with stacks of articles on the table and worn manuscripts, aborted attempts wadded up in the trash can. Seated at the table a man labors over a writing, a writing that would overthrow governments, enslave millions of ...

957. A New Command

John 13:31-38

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Lee Griess

In his book Life Looks Up, Charles Templeton remarks how ironic it is that the course of human history has been affected so positively and negatively by events that have occurred in two small upper rooms. One of them is a drab flat in London's Westside, dirty, curtainless, with stacks of articles on the table and worn manuscripts, aborted attempts wadded up in the trash can. Seated at the table a man labors over a writing, a writing that would overthrow governments, enslave millions of people, and ...

958. What Difference Does It Make?

John 14:15-21

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Billy D. Strayhorn

I ran across a story this week about a seven-year-old granddaughter who said to her grandfather, "In this family we are kind of serious about God, aren't we?" Grandpa said, "Yes, we sure are." And the little girl asked, "Why?" Grandpa wrapped the little girl in his arms, hugged her real close and said, "So that I can hug you and tickle you and try to tell you how much I love you and how glad I am that God gave you to us." The little girl grinned and said, "That's cool." I'm not sure that hugging and ...

959. Desires Bring Hope

Luke 16:19-31

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John G. Lynch

An old man died in a Manhattan brownstone some years ago. No one in the neighborhood knew much about him. Some neighbors thought he was odd and eccentric. Most ignored him altogther. Just a silly recluse, they said. When he died the newspapers sent a reporter to his brownstone home. Inside they found newspapers and magazines stacked to the ceilings. Narrow corridors wound in a maze throughout the house. When the papers and magazines were removed, furniture of all kinds, including 17 grand pianos were found ...

960. Anger - Eleven Ways To Blow Up, Seven Ways To Cool Off

Matthew 5:21-26

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R. Curtis Fussell

What is your AQ? Not your IQ, which is your so-called intelligence quotient, but your AQ, your Anger Quota? Everyone has an AQ. Everyone has a point, a threshold, whatever you call it. If the right buttons are hit, you will get angry and start to growl, and that's your AQ, your Anger Quota. Of course, you and the people sitting around you don't look like you could be angry. As far as you and I can tell, everyone here looks calm, relaxed, quiet, and composed. But under that cool composure there's the ...

961. Salvaging Our Lives

Genesis 29:15-30

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If you have ever made an in-depth investigation of your family history, a genealogy, then you probably came across some ancestors who would qualify as so-called "black sheep of the family." Among my own ancestors my father came across a family will dating back to shortly before the Civil War. In that will it speaks of my great-great-great-grandmother selling off slaves. In fact, the will indicates that the slave family she owned was to be divided up at her death. When I first heard about this I was shocked ...

962. Seder Service: The Passover Haggadah

Bulletin Aid

Robert L. Linder and Rabbi Sol Ester

The Passover "A program of fellowship for adults and/or youth in Christian congregations desiring a better understanding of the heritage and the meaning of the institution of the Sacrament of Holy Communion." This work was inspired and initially written by Rev. Robert L. Linder while pastor of First English Lutheran Church in Toledo, Ohio. He was assisted by Jewish leaders of the community. It has since been revised by others, including Rabbi Sol Oster of Lima, Ohio. BLESSING OF THE FESTIVAL CANDLES Before ...

963. Don't That Just Beat All?

Mark 2:1-12

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Johnny Dean

Of all the wonderful gifts that God has given us, one of the greatest is friendship. It certainly makes my own personal “Top Ten” list. When we’re going through some emotional or physical trial of life, friends can help to reassure us that God is there with us, and we don’t have to face any obstacle life throws in our path alone. I remember my two best friends from my high school days - Larry and Freddy. We were “The Three Musketeers” in those days. Wherever you saw one of us, the other two were not far ...

964. The Crowing of a Rooster

Matthew 26:31-35, Matthew 26:69-75

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Wallace H. Kirby

I sat with a farm family a few weeks ago for the noonday meal. The scene outside the kitchen window was typical of rural eastern North Carolina. There were open fields where this particular farmer grew corn. Leftover husks lay where he had broken the land for spring planting. While we were eating, one family member called our attention to a flock of birds that had landed in the field out back. We all turned to look, and the area was covered with blackbirds. "I'll bet there are five thousand birds out there ...

965. Hunger, Health, and Happiness

Luke 14:1-14

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One sabbath when he went to dine at the house of a ruler who belonged to the Pharisees, they were watching him. Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, "When you are invited by any one to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him; and he who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give place to this man,' and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place ...

966. Proper 24

Lk 18:1-8 · 2 Tim 3:14--4:5 · Gen 32:22-30 · Ex 17:8-13 · Hab 1:1-3, 2:1-4

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John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Habakkuk 1:1-3, 2:1-4 In a world of adversity the righteous live by faith. Habbakuk and Yahweh are engaged in a dialogue. The prophet, a contemporary of Jeremiah, served during the reign of King Jehoiakim (608-597 BC) and during the last days before the Babylonian conquest. Under Jehoiakim conditions in Judah were horrible - lawlessness and oppression. In the light of these conditions Habbakuk goes to Yahweh with a complaint: Where is he? Why does he not answer? Why doesn't he do something about ...

967. Forgiveness

Luke 23:26-43

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Burton F. Blair

Two others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." Luke 23:32-34a The Brothers Karamazov is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian author, at the close of the nineteenth century (1880). It is a story about a father and his sons as they struggled to ...

968. Like Trees Walking

Isaiah 6:1-13

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Gregory J. Johanson

A Diplomate in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and a Supervisor in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, HELEN E. TERKELSEN is currently Director of the Lex King Souter Center for Pastoral Counseling and Pastoral Care in Fall River, Massachusetts, as well as a teaching supervisor and adjunct faculty at Andover Newton Theological School. In the midst of these and other related duties, she claims to be doing what she would rather be doing more than anything else. This sense of ...

969. David and Bathsheba

2 Samuel 11:1-27, 12:1-31

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David E. Leininger

Sexy story, eh? We get lots of them these days. Parental Discretion Advised. In the comics Blondie and Dagwood are watching television. Dagwood remarks, "Boy, there sure is a lot of nudity on TV lately!" "I'll say," Blondie replies. They continue to stare at the TV, eyes wide open. Says Dagwood, "Darnedest tire commercial I've ever seen."(1) Uh-huh. If it is any consolation, as our lessons this morning indicate, a preoccupation with sex is nothing new, especially in high places. And if you were either ...

970. Caught Up In A Dream

Matthew 4:12-17

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King Duncan

A few years back there was a movie titled, Tucker. It's the story of a man who tried to fight the Detroit automobile industry by attempting to introduce a car named after himself. In one scene, Tucker is talking about how his mother came from the old country. She was Italian and had a very heavy accent. Tucker remembered that for years when he was young she said to him, "Don't get too close to people, you'll catch their dreams." What she was really saying in broken English was, "Don't get too close to ...

971. God, The Promise Keeper

Luke 3:1-20

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King Duncan

Psychologist John Trent tells of one of the greatest disappointments of his life. John's father abandoned the family when John was just a baby, so his mother raised John and his brother by herself. One day, in his junior year of high school, his dad called. Both John and his brother played high school football, and their dad had seen their names in the local paper. He wanted to meet the boys after the game that week. John says that he barely slept the night before the game. All his life he had dreamed of ...

972. Undercooked Turkey and Unwrapped Presents

Hebrews 2:5-18

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Leonard Sweet

For the major holidays, my great-aunt Edith's home was the usual site of our family gatherings. Unfortunately, two of those family celebration days, Thanksgiving and Christmas, involved preparing a large turkey with all the trimmings. Aunt Edith was an extremely proper, formal and capable hostess. While a fairly good cook, she missed the class that taught how long it took to get a twenty pound bird completely done, and how you could tell when it was done. On several festive occasions, I distinctly remember ...

973. Proper 11

Mt 13:24-30, 36-43 · Rom 8:12-25 · Ps 139 · Gen 28:10-19a

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

OLD TESTAMENT TEXTS Genesis 28:10-19a is the story of Jacob's dream at Bethel in which he sees a ladder extending from heaven to earth, receives the divine promise of progeny, and then responds to it, while Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 is a confession about the breadth of God's presence, which extends from the depths of Sheol to the heights of the heavens. Genesis 28:10-19a - "Putting Conditions on Visions" Setting. This is the second lesson from the Jacob cycle. The trickster Jacob has been living out the ...

974. The Secret Of Our Confidence

2 Timothy 1:11-12

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Bill Bouknight

Hear we are on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and I wonder if you feel very thankful. Some would reply, “Brother Bill, some of us are more thankful than others. It depends on one’s circumstances.” You know, it’s easy to celebrate Thanksgiving when your family is healthy, your income is ample, your stocks are ascending, your favorite team is headed to a bowl game, your sinuses have overcome the Memphis grunge, and your aches and pains are minimal. But that kind of thanksgiving can be awfully superficial. ...

975. Easter 2

Acts 4:32-37, 1 John 1:5--2:14, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

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John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Epistle: Acts 4:32-35 Here is a picture of the apostolic church. In this passage we see its oneness. They were one in belief: "believed were of one heart and soul." They proclaimed one message: "gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus." They were one in having received grace. They were one in physical resources: common property and each receiving according to the personal need. It was a Christian community they had all things in common: faith, witnessing, property. Epistle: 1 ...

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