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76. Pilgrimage of Faith John M. Cobb

Exodus 3:1-22

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... , as well, others came later.) However, those who did make it found Central Russia a forbidding region of mountains and dry barren valleys ... [These] new villages undoubtedly experienced the most trying ordeals of all the German settlements in Russia. The climate here was hot and dry, and the soil could be made productive only by irrigation. Epidemics of fever were frequent in the early years and killed off hundreds of settlers. The neighboring Persians and Kurds often attacked the new villages, plundering ...

77. It Takes More than Sun to Grow

Matthew 13:1-23

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... the soil there will be no harvest. Secondly, we turn our attention to the seed. We all know that any old kind of seed is not okay. You and I can not get corn from sunflower seeds, can we? The seeds need to be the right kind for the particular climate and soil conditions. We have all seen signs in years past that say Jesus is the answer. That sounds good, but it is simplistic. Let us suppose someone is seeking the solution to three plus three. The answer here is not Jesus, it is six. We need to sow the ...

78. Steadfast and Faithful

Genesis 9:1-17

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... be more accurate if it were assumed that the earth revolved around the sun. Nor was Charles Darwin ever nominated for Protestant Layman of the Year. Nonetheless, the Judeo-Christian tradition and its Rainbow Covenant have provided an underlying intellectual climate within which the modern sciences have had room to flourish. The Rainbow Covenant was a religious breakthrough of the first order that continues to pay rich dividends for humanity, thousands of years later. That’s what the biblical writers did ...

79. "Gone Fishing!"

Luke 5:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... than mine. It happens on the Sea of Galilee. That beautiful body of water and is still full of fish today. It is really a fresh-water lake, 13 miles long and 8 miles wide. Because it is 680 feet below sea level, it has almost a tropical climate. Nowadays the area around the sea is sparsely populated, but in Jesus’ day, there were nine towns clustered around the Sea, none with less than 15,000 population. Jesus noticed two boats down by the shore, one owned by Simon Peter. Jesus asked if he could use a ...

80. It’s How It Ends That Matters

Matthew 21:28-32

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... location from anywhere connected by a highway. East Coast, West Coast, Central States, the South ... you could get here from any of those regions. Every highway on that map is a direct route to our town for someone. On the way, the scenery and the price of gasoline, the climate, and the shape of the road surface would be different from one route to the next. But any of them could lead here. The pilgrimage of faith is much like that. God lays a map before us, with a push pin or a paper flag affixed to mark ...

81. Peter’s Net

Luke 5:1-11

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Richard F. Bansemer

... it relates to his faith. It was a narrow little lake, about thirteen miles long and eight miles wide, a big splash 680 feet below sea level. Now it is nearly deserted, but in Peter’s day nine villages lived on its shore, and the tropical climate was pleasant. Jesus was there changing his style of ministry. Until now he had preached at the synagogue, but this message is being proclaimed at the seashore. The synagogue will soon forbid him to speak. Offshore Jesus teaches from Peter’s boat, for Peter was ...

82. Faith A New Potential for Life

Romans 4:1-25

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Robert G. Tuttle

... , resentful: husbands not loving wives properly, wives not loving husbands; parents not loving children; children not loving parents. People, uptight in the home, uptight at work, uptight in the neighborhood, uptight in all human relationships. Christian faith lets in a breath of air from another climate My parents loved me, and I knew that they were loved by God, and I began to love. We, in the Christian church, owe it to the world to accept this love of God, or we cut off the channel of God’s love into ...

83. An Altered State of Consciousness

Romans 5:1-11

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Robert G. Tuttle

... wind like the blast of a great horn swaying them to strange words? What are these bright impossible crowns of flame, this pouring light - it hurts - dear God, it hurts like being born. We can’t believe it now, women and men forced in scientific climate to bloom by pure reason; yet ever and again something shatters our isolating gloom: we ask askance, where does it come from then, this alleluia light? What shakes this room?6 "What shakes this room? What makes new life possible? Nothing! Nothing, but God ...

84. On Being Lifted Beyond Ourselves

Romans 8:18-27

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Robert G. Tuttle

... joyfully realized: "All history will find its consummation in Christ." He is the builder; we are the agents. When this is fully realized and acted upon by the churches of today, there will be a new and powerful breakthrough in the moral and spiritual climate of our world. The basis for this breakthrough, J. I. Packer reminds us, will be a new and "vivid awareness of the divine love." When the experience of this divine love becomes the obsession of the contemporary Christian, and flows through the life and ...

85. Shepherding One Another in a Collapsing World

Romans 9:1-29

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Robert G. Tuttle

... to love others (especially after Pentecost); under their witness others began to love others. The movement of love continues and is redemptive. In fact, heaven is like this: total love, total trust, total intersupport, because God is present. Hell is the opposite climate: nobody loves anybody except self; each used all other persons for his own purposes. Nobody is loved for there is no loving spirit there. Pascal thought that this lack of love was Jesus’ chief concern: "Jesus Christ did nothing but teach ...

86. The Joy of Being a Caring Person

Mt 25:31-46 · Lk 16:19-31

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Robert G. Tuttle

... for us. "Love ye one another, as I have loved you." When his spirit possesses us, Christ actually spreads his love through us, thus scattering his love about in our world. This love changes things. It changes me and my family. It changes others. It changes the climate of life. This is the kind of Kingdom that Jesus is building, and that no one has yet been able to grasp fully nor understand totally. The Kingdom of Christ is simply a world of a different spirit - a totally caring spirit. But how does this ...

87. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

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Robert G. Tuttle

... I meet throughout the day. If, on the other hand, I can wake up prayerfully, joyfully, thankfully, with exciting thoughts, it is likely that I will have a creative, uplifting effect on all those I touch throughout the day. Christian overtones could change the climate of our world. The secret is the secret of Christ: oneness with God, unlimited love of people, constant thoughtfulness. And the multitudes followed him. He won them by what he was. And Jesus sent his disciples out into the world to win people to ...

88. God and the Weather

Matthew 5:45; 16:2-3 · Psalm 18:7-11; 46:1-3, 11

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Robert Noblett

... bloom. In the fall what was green becomes crimson or yellow or brown. And in the cold of winter, nature again prepares for its annual journey. You can count on that process to take place, and while there may be a wide variance in seasonal climate, we nonetheless have four distinct seasons. Once more we see nature as controlled, and in nature’s regulation we see God’s consistency. Thoreau saw nature’s harmony and wrote of it in his journal on the 13th of November, 1858: It is wonderful what gradation ...

89. What Gives You Away?

Judges 12:1-7

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Barbara Brokhoff

... she ain’t said nothin’ yet!" Sometimes when we talk it is not just "nothings" - it is worse. It is gossipy, critical, judgmental, and condescending to others. Sometimes it is grumbling and complaining. This is not a minor offense for a Christian. It can spoil the whole climate of your life. It takes the joy out of service to God and others, it destroys unity and fellowship. It is a plague to the church. If a fellow Christian is at fault, we are not supposed to gossip and sit in judgment, we are to pray ...

90. The Unemployed Embalmers

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Louis H. Valbracht

... , DESPITE ALL OF THIS, these women were on their way to embalm a dead body. Of course, they were hurrying, but it wasn’t out of any joy or anticipation. They were trying to beat the rapid deterioration of the human body in that tropical climate. Like three undertakers, they were all immersed in the details of the interment. Who would roil away the stone? What oils and spices and preservatives were the best? Certainly nothing but the best would do. Faithful? I’m afraid not. They were completely, utterly ...

91. Pilgrim Living in a Vagabond World

Matthew 7:13-14

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Leonard Mann

... and start walking. For instance, if each citizen who sometimes bemoans the moral conditions of our time really got down to the business of practicing public and private morality in all areas of life, instead of exempting areas they make exceptions of, the social climate of this nation would be transformed in six months. Let me repeat it: Good things happen when good people stop wailing and start walking. Permit me to tell you another story - and you can read this in your Bible in chapter 7 of 1 Kings ...

92. Unwrapping Presents ... and People

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James Bjorge

... laugh and cry together. We can fail and be forgiven. We can shake off the masks and be ourselves. When Sidney Lanier was in his mid-thirties he developed tuberculosis. He knew his life would be shortened. He went down to Glenn County on the coast where the climate was milder. Sitting there one day, looking out across the marshes, he wrote one of his finest poems: "As the marsh hen secretly builds on the watery sod, Behold, I will build me a nest in the greatness of God. I will fly in the greatness of God ...

93. Freedom Can Be Frightening

Leviticus 25:8-55

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Louis H. Valbracht

... . To have life say to us: "And you are Christ’s," that’s too serious, much too serious. And yet, wherever we look in life, we can’t have the one without the other. Remember that liberty has only one value - it provides the climate in which we can exercise our loyalties, our responsibilities. Without that, liberty is useless and lawless. When will we understand, fellow citizens of these United States, that liberty is not lawlessness. It is answering the most demanding law there is - the law of love ...

94. Chapter IV

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... we eat corn it usually comes from cans, and the kernals could just as well have been made as a synthetic, as was the teflon that lines the pan into which we pour them. We get those cans in the super markets where the shelves are kept full, and the climate is controlled, by men. We often never see the fields from which that food-stuff came. It is the manager of the store, not a farmer and God, that we are tempted to think of as our provider. And what is true in relationship to our food often is true ...

95. Chapter VIII

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... away in the men’s restroom, trying to figure out some novel way to pad his expense account to give his wallet a boost! Certainly this fictional scene does not describe all families. But it is not all fiction, either. It does point out that the ethical climate for theft is getting more congenial, and that the willingness to steal is becoming more common as it does. So, with fewer twinges of guilt people are able to steal more, and steal it with aplomb. So, when our car gets a minor dent in its fender ...

96. Free to Be

Acts 4:23-31

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Michael J. Anton

INDEPENDENCE DAY For 197 years this country called America has attempted to provide the soil and the climate in which freedom and independence can grow. For almost two centuries the U. S. of A. has become a haven of refuge for immigrants seeking an escape from repression. Our country has been a mecca for persons interested in breathing the fresh air of freedom. This experiment in democracy, of ...

97. APOTHECARY

Exodus 30:22-33

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Stephen Stewart

... cosmetics was favorable, except in excessive use. Perhaps the most common cosmetic in the Bible is ointment, which, again, was often perfumed. This was different from the anointing oil, which was reserved for religious ceremonies. Rather, it is necessary in a hot, dry climate to keep the skin soft and moist; the perfume was used to counter-act body odors, in a land where water was at a premium! Eye paint is mentioned, but generally in connection with harlots. Possibly the Jewish women learned the art of ...

98. THE VINEDRESSER

Isaiah 5:4; Matt. 21:28

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Stephen Stewart

... were allowed to be planted in the vineyard, but this apparantly had been allowed to lapse by the later time, because we read of the man who had a fig tree in his vineyard. Vines required constant care to keep them productive, even though the climate and the soil of Palestine were excellent for their growth. Hence they were pruned every spring, and the ground was ploughed and kept free of weeds. Pruned branches were gathered and burned. A part of every vineyard was the tower for the watchman, a winepress ...

99. Running a Marathon

Hebrews 12:1-13

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Bill Bouknight

... some names you would expect, like Billy Graham and Mother Teresa. But I believe it will also include a less famous person, a Methodist named E. Stanley Jones. When Dr. Jones first went to India as a missionary, he had great enthusiasm. But the humid climate and never-ceasing work weakened him. He had a nervous breakdown. He went to the mountains to recuperate. A year later returned to his work and had a second nervous breakdown. Dr. Jones returned to the United States to recover. After in the States, he ...

100. Just A Whisper

Isaiah 9:1-7

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Frederick C. Edwards

... fragile thing. Can it have the power to change anything? In the eighth century B.C.E., Ahaz, King of Judah, faced the armies of two kings advancing to attack Jerusalem, and a state of mind bordering on panic seized the king and the people. Into that climate of fear came the prophet Isaiah, who met Ahaz one day as he was inspecting the water supply of Jerusalem in anticipation of the siege of the city. Isaiah called upon Ahaz to have unwavering faith in Yahweh, so that the kingdom would not fall. The sign ...

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