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76. Proper 8

Luke 9:57-62, Galatians 5:16-26, 2 Kings 2:1-18, Luke 9:51-56

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John R. Brokhoff

... , the next picks up. In the 1994 Olympics the torch was ignited in Olympia, Greece, and one after the other carried the light to Lillehammer, Norway. When the mantle falls on us or the torch of God's truth is passed to us, we have the responsibility and privilege to carry on the work of God to the next generation. c. Going out in a blaze of glory 2:11. How shall we leave this world with a whimper or in a blaze of glory? Elijah was taken to heaven in a chariot of fire pulled by horses of fire. When the ...

77. I'll Never Forget That Night

John 13:1-17

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Wayne Brouwer

... phrases his words in these verses that the formula for recalling Jesus’ institution of the Lord’s Supper was already a common and ritualized liturgical construct by 53 AD. Paul was in Ephesus on his third mission journey and was carrying on extended correspondence with his unruly former congregation in Corinth. Recently three leaders from that church (Stephanus, Fortunatus, and Achaicus) had carried to Paul a report of the divisions and moral problems in their home congregation, along with a list of ...

78. The Sound of Joy

Genesis 17:1-27, Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 18:16-33, Matthew 28:16-20

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Lori Wagner

... us. Sarah’s mission was to be the Mother of Nations, to bear the son who would continue the lineage of those who are dedicated to God and vow to be the light to other nations. Abraham’s mission was to be the Father of Nations, to carry on the lineage partly by moving where God wanted him to go, and by fathering the son who would be next in the lineage of God’s “missional” people. Perhaps “chosen” people should better be called “missional” people, for this people would be the Light to draw ...

79. How Jesus’ Friendship Makes Your Burdens Light

Matthew 10:1-42

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Mark Ellingsen

... Luther put it this way. Therefore every Christian, if he has accepted the gospel, may well rejoice that he is in the hands of this Christ and need not be troubled by his sins, if he has accepted the gospel, for Christ, under whom he lives, will carry on from there.8 Later in the sermon Luther made a related point about friendship with Jesus: Moreover, he [Christ] not only refreshes us in the anxiety and assaults of sin, but he will be with us in all other troubles; in hunger, war, famine, and whatever other ...

80. Proper 10

Lk 10:25-37 · Col 1:1-20 · 2 Ki 2:1, 6-14 · Deut 30:9-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... mantle represented the Spirit, authority, and power of the prophet. The mantle was transferred to Elisha who with the same power and authority carries on the work of God's prophet. It is a necessary part of the continuing work of God in the world. The workers ... Angeles. When the mantle falls on us or the torch of God's truth is passed to us, we have the responsibility and privilege to carry on the work of God to the next generation. c. Going Out in a Blaze of Glory - 2:11 How shall we leave this world - with ...

81. A Disciple After God’s Own Heart

Genesis 22:1-19

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Lori Wagner

... of his faith. In biblical times, the test of the son is made through testing the father. For this “test” of Abraham is also Isaac’s test. It’s a dilemma that will test the heart and faith of both father and son. For Isaac has been chosen to carry on the covenant line, to be the bearer of Abraham’s promise by God to be Father of God’s peoples. Does Abraham have the gumption to go through the motions of what God commands in faith, knowing God has no intention of letting his son Isaac die? Does ...

82. What's In a Name?

Matthew 16:13-20

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Lori Wagner

... at times, fearful and doubting at others, obstinate and outspoken, this fisherman was also extremely loyal to Jesus, even to a fault. He had many flaws, as we saw in his denying of Jesus during his trials. And yet, Jesus needed him to be able to carry on the mission and build believers after his impending death. He needed to empower Peter. Calling Simon a rock, a bedrock, or foundation rock, was like instilling in him the courage, the strength, and the optimism that he had the character to handle the job of ...

83. Proper 6

Genesis 25:19-34

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... enough to convince Esau that Jacob's preparations would be marvelously suitable for his hunger. The literal translation of Esau's demand is, "Give me some of that red ... that red." It never ceases to amaze, when one thinks about the people God has picked to carry on his work. Someone once said: "How odd Of God To Choose The Jews." But the fact is, as soon as God decided to break into history, he selected a peculiar group of people. His choice of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their children has been a contant ...

84. The Sponge And Wine

Mark 15:33-41

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Harry N. Huxhold

... that would have dulled his pain would not have been adequate for all that Jesus felt, but Jesus did not want it to interfere with what he wanted to feel for us. We Did Our Best Interestingly, the evangelist Mark records the harangue that was carried on by the criminals crucified with Jesus, the passersby, the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes in order to convince themselves that Jesus was not the Son of God or the promised King of Israel. All of these people taunted Jesus with the same temptation ...

85. The Sponge And Wine

Mark 14:1--15:47

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Harry N. Huxhold

86. The Promise of a Son

Genesis 15:1-18

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... legacy and share it with his people. This faith would be the cornerstone of a new nation and a new people. The promise of a son would symbolize hope for the future. In Abram’s time a fundamental question was asked: “Will I have a son to carry on my legacy and secure hope for future generations?” What good is that land without a son? What good is an inheritance without a son? What good is the present without hope for tomorrow? A son would secure the future because he carries and transmits the seed of ...

87. Elihu

Job 32:1--37:24

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... appearance of this formula to introduce the very first speech of Job [3:2] that opens the dialogue section and is thus not responding to a preceding speech by another.) This connecting formula links what Elihu is about to say to the discussion carried on in the earlier discourses. Although 31:40 recorded the end of that dialogue, the same connective formula softens the apparent intrusion of the Elihu discourse. We will see, however, several more instances of this formula in the Elihu speeches where he is ...

88. Parabola

Luke 10:25-37

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Lori Wagner

... , who one day took her eyes off of the place in the sand where she buried her eggs. Lo and behold, when she finally remembered where she had hid them, a predator had come in the night and stolen her babies away. Heart stricken, she had no family to carry on her lineage. Now let me give you some background –a bit of a “provenance” about the ostrich and her egg. The ostrich has a poor memory, the original “bird brain” about the size of a pea. When she lays her eggs in the desert, she buries them in ...

89. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

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Maxie Dunnam

... of a saint, or a carbon copy of some great leader, but rather to call forth the rich diversity of gifts within us, and to empower the expression of those gifts. Imitation is deadly. I like the story about Bernard Shaw. He was an agnostic, but carried on a correspondence for many years with a cloistered nun. It is one of the strangest relationships in history, probably, but also one of the most intriguing and beautiful. Here is Shaw, the intellectual, the playwright, a man of the world, a man of considerable ...

90. Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

Habakkuk 2:2-20, Habakkuk 1:12--2:1

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... ” (the word occurs only here) is related to the verb for borrowing and lending. So Habakkuk speaks of Babylon as a trading nation that has made its profits by imposing extortionate trading terms. Habakkuk asks, How long . . . ? But “how long are you going to carry on doing this” may more likely be Habakkuk’s point, to judge from verse 7. The question is a warning. Babylon is going to find this rebounds on it, so it would be wise to change its ways now. In effect Habakkuk then likens Babylon to ...

91. Prayers for the Sundays After Easter

Bulletin Aid

Rolland R. Reece

... success. Please don't take from us the pursuit of our dreams, but enable us to see what we can do right here and now to meet the real needs of real people. We lift up to you who we are, what we have, and what we can do, to carry on a ministry to others in keeping with your will. Let us not despise the size and the scope of our gifts, but rather honor what we can do in your name. Enable us to be faithful to the tasks and opportunities that are set before us. We pray through Jesus ...

92. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

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Phil Thrailkill

... their ethics. It is a call to sift the good from the bad, the noble from the shameful, to honor through them the God who gave us life and access to this faith and its grand vision of the kingdom of God. We do not honor them by carrying on their prejudices but by letting them go. On top of all that, we were Christians, though we most often thought of ourselves as good Methodists, and so there was always a stinging in our conscience concerning the gap between the faith we celebrated on Sundays and the myths ...

93. The Woman, the Son, and the Dragon

Revelation 12:1--13:1a

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J. Scott Duvall

... a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time. Another divine passive (“was given”) emphasizes God’s protective care for his people. The woman is carried on eagle’s wings to a place of spiritual refuge in the wilderness. Throughout the story of Israel, the image of an eagle is sometimes used to symbolize God’s protective care (e.g., Exod. 19:4; Deut. 32:10–14; Isa. 40:31). Once again, the ...

94. Body

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... for him to continue living in order to carry out God’s purposes (cf. Phil. 1:21–24). 5:9 Paul draws an inference (So, dio) from the fact that he has both the hope that he will dwell with the Lord and the knowledge that he must presently carry on in his mortal body. Paul does not put his own preferences first. Like the synoptic portrayal of Jesus in Gethsemane (Mark 14:36 par.; cf. John 12:27), Paul subordinates his own will to the will of God. To please God in all things is the apostle’s highest ...

95. Are You a Lemming or a Lassie?

Luke 12:13-21, Luke 12:22-34, Luke 12:35-48, Luke 12:49-53, Luke 12:54-59

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Lori Wagner

... ran the path less worn, they would undergo ridicule, persecution, they would have disrupted lives, less security in this world. But the reward would be worth it. For they would be God’s true shepherds. Jesus also sternly cautioned them –the most responsibility for carrying on Jesus’ ministry of God’s truth lay in their hands. THEY as disciples already knew better, unlike many who had not yet been taught. For them to turn away from God would be oh so much worse an offense! He needed them to listen ...

96. Judgment of Israel's Neighbors

Amos 1:1-2:5

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the announcement of judgment on the foreign peoples immediately surrounding Israel, and his purpose in doing so is entirely theological. These foreign nations posed no serious threat to Israel’s life in the time of Jeroboam II, although that king may have carried on sporadic border warfare with the Arameans on the northern border of Gilead (1:3) and with the Ammonites on the southern border of that tribe (1:13). Amos’s theological purpose in beginning with the foreign nations, however, is to show that ...

97. Paul's Charge to Timothy

1 Timothy 6:11-21

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... ) or in Christ’s life (v. 13) form the basis of the appeal, the argument of the paragraph itself is easy enough to discern. Paul begins with a series of four imperatives (vv. 11–12), exhorting Timothy both to avoid the sins of the errorists and to carry on the present struggle of the faith until the final triumph, and to do so by keeping his own calling and confession before him. This leads to a solemn charge (vv. 13–14), which in turn leads to a final doxology (vv. 15–16) full of rare descriptions ...

98. Leadership in Israel: Judges and Kings

Deuteronomy 16:21--17:7

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... false charges as to make sure the genuinely guilty are punished—a concern that is equally relevant in modern times. Fourthly, the trial and execution are to be conducted in public (v. 5; the city gate is the open space where all public business is carried on), not in some secret court where “witch-hunt” mentalities could fester. Fifthly, there must be more than one witness for the prosecution (v. 6). This obvious precaution, which is expanded in 19:15–21 and was known to Jezebel (1 Kgs. 21:10), is ...

99. Law Courts

Deuteronomy 16:18-20

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

100. Mission and Rejection in Galilee

Mark 6:14-29, Mark 6:7-13

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... of suffering” and addresses discouraged Christians who were “surprised” by the hard times (4:12) but needed to realize that such trials are used by God to strengthen one’s faith (1:6–7; cf. James 1:2–4). Illustrating the Text Discipleship: carrying on the ministry of Jesus Hymn: “Living for Jesus,” by Thomas O. Chisholm. In this great twentieth-century hymn of commitment we read in the second verse that in light of what Jesus has done, Such love constrains me to answer His call, Follow ...

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