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76. A Daffy, Magnificent Hope

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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... a rusty pot that boiled its citizens. He ate scrolls and burned his hair to shock people into paying attention. But there was a method to his madness. For Ezekiel, also, was doggedly hopeful. He had two missions in life - to warn Israel of God's displeasure with her disregard of him and then, after she suffered his wrath and sat stewing in exile, to offer the promise that he would save her. In our First Lesson, Ezekiel, in a vision, is led by God to a valley of dry bones, a symbol for Israel in exile. God ...

77. The Focus of Fitness

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

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... that God would say, "I am not pleased with my people. I think I will destroy them." But then the people repent and turn from their evil, and God does not destroy them. The other alternative is when God intends to make his people great, but they disregard his Word and disobey him. Having no other choice, he destroys them and starts over. This principle is similar to the experience that dozens of young people have in making preparations for their exhibits at the County Fair. Trudy is a good example. She is in ...

78. Honest to Goodness Religion

Hosea 4:1-19

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... become the "Un-Generation." They are: Unfaithful Unloving Unfit Unrighteous Unworthy Unkind Uncaring Unfair Unforgiving Unlawful Unknowing Unconcerned Unholy Unscrupulous Unpleasant As the Lord looks around at his people he sees moral chaos and degenerate behavior. There is a flagrant disregard for God’s law, the Ten Commandments. God’s people are characterized like the crowd that gathered in the busy section of a large city. High up on a narrow ledge of a hotel building, a young man was threatening ...

79. The God Who Doesn’t Give Up

Hosea 11:1-11

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... has failed to do his or her part. Some of the same feeling of exasperation can be seen in Hosea 11. Instead of a contractor and an undependable worker, however, here it is rather the picture of a father, and a son who is undependable. This son chooses to disregard everything his father has taught him. In fact, this son seems bent on his own destruction and there’s nothing that the father or anyone else can do. Listen to this lament: When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son ...

80. God's Glory Manifest

Exodus 24:1-18

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... God be present with and for traitors, prostitutes, adulterers and homosexuals? Could the divine glory be manifest in people and institutions and activities that we would too easily judge as being demonic? We are terrified when people we despise or ignore or disregard become channels of the gracious lifegiving water of God's grace, flowing into our lives to free, to forgive, to forge new possibilities and new opportunities for us and other people. The glorification of Jesus in John's Gospel is his being ...

81. The Divine-Human Nexus

Matthew 25:31-46

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... anxious about our own performance and perfection is the degree to which the grace of God is an impossibility for us to comprehend and apprehend. By the same token, the freedom that is ours in Christ Jesus is not the freedom to show either callous disregard or even benign neglect toward the needs of others. What the whole counsel of God tells us is that human beings are to love one another "not because (Jesus) tells them to with threats and promises - not from a regard for themselves, however subconscious ...

82. The Singer and the Siren

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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... each day, in the kitchen with the girls playing Bunko, at the bowling alley with the boys, and at the workbench, or over the water cooler at the office. In whatever form of power politics we are playing, let us not forget what David so blithely disregarded. He forgot that the postman rings twice. The death of Uriah was balanced with the death of the child. Truth breaking leads to grave consequences. The Reverend Maltbie Babcock was on target when he sang that this is "My Father’s World." God is running an ...

83. Lent 1

Matthew 4:1-11

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... have done for us in Christ, we are moved to confession. The realization of your calling to us to be ambassadors of reconciliation, modeling to the world what it means to know you and live by your grace, lifts us out of self-concern to a holy indignation for the disregard we have had for the needs of others and society. We wonder what people would discern you and the new life in you to be, by the chapter we have written in our lives this past week. We have spent more time in worry than in seeking your will ...

84. Respect: Lesson for Victorious Living

Ruth 4:1-12

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... these things, pondering them in her heart." (2:19) One of the major trouble spots in the cause of Christian unity is the role of Mary in our Faith. The problem is many Protestants have not so much shown her disrespect as they have disregard. The problem with Roman Catholics is two-fold. One, they have centuries of adoring her. Two, since Vatican II they have attempted to give her some small place in the hopes their, sometimes labeled, excesses would be corrected. I find the Orthodox, through their concept ...

85. Turn Out the Lights! The Party's Over!

Daniel 5:1-31

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Bill Bouknight

... to march into Babylon on the dried up riverbed of the Euphrates River. That very night King Belshazzar committed suicide. Is there a message from all that for us moderns? Oh yes. All of us are sinners, and the wages of sin is death. Those who disregard Christ are not condemned in some future time. The condemnation is now. Listen to Jesus’ words in John 3:18—"Whoever believes in him (Jesus) is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of ...

86. If You Are A Disciple of Jesus Christ

Luke 6:17-26, Luke 6:12-16

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Bill Bouknight

... -Extenders. St. Paul expressed it this way: "All this is from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation." (2Cor. 5:18) Now if you are a seeker, just investigating a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, please disregard what I am about to say. We're just thrilled to have you here, listening, watching, and seeking. What I'm about to say is for disciples of Jesus Christ, those in a personal relationship with him. I'm talking about people who have confessed ...

87. Returning: Real or Ruse?

Hosea 5:1-15

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Barbara Brokhoff

... to God should be just that same kind of "all out" determination! It should be born of an extreme and urgent awareness of need of his pardon. Human hearts are fickle, and we are capable of turning again and again away from God - and to a disregarding of his laws. How marvelous to know that the mercy of God is always available! But healing and renewal have lasting effects only when they are sustained by solid commitment. Then, and perhaps only then, do we begin to live as "changed" persons. A dear friend ...

88. Have This Mind

Philippians 2:1-11

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Craig Erickson

... the evil powers of this world which corrupt and destroy the creatures of God?" Implied in this renunciation are those tremendously powerful forces that are hurtful to human society and to God (including racism, militarism, consumerism, sexism, bigotry, and wanton disregard for the environment). 3. "Do you renounce all sinful desires that draw you from the love Of God?” Evil corrupts the personal life as well, tempting us to give in to hatred, back-biting, jealousy, envy, strife, dissension, lust, self ...

89. Father Damien

Luke 17:11-19

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Carroll Gunkel

... would help the lepers meet the Master. Dr. E. Stanley Jones told of a Hindu leper who said: "All others said ‘go.’ Only Jesus said ‘come.’ The people of Molokai - through the ministry of Father Damien - were enabled to hear Jesus saying to them ‘Come.’ "3 His complete disregard for his own well-being led his bishop and others to urge him to rest. Damien’s respectful but emphatic response was: Rest! I have no time to rest when there is so much to do and my time is so short.4 A sense of holy ...

90. The Three Faces of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

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Robert G. Tuttle

... they are "created" beings, then life’s relationships collapse. Francis Schaeffer, contemporary European theologian, speaks of "the Creation Principle" in one of his recent books.2 He says that herein lies both the collapse and the potential healing of the human situation. He says disregard the "Creation Principle" and a person does not know who he is. He could be one of a hundred different inclinations, or he may follow any one or several of the various urges that drive him. There is no creator, so I am ...

91. The Importance of Unity

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

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Hubert Beck

... you the one center for your life together, and submerge your gifts, your interests, your emphases, your concerns under him. Note again, that is not to say they were to ignore their gifts, forget their interests, lay aside their emphases, permit their concerns to be disregarded. No, all those things could remain so long as they were submitted to the lordship of Christ, and that all life together was lived in the light of the grace offered them in Christ. Is not this, after all, a long way of saying what ...

92. Journey To The Cross V: Jesus and Simon Peter

Mark 14:66-72

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James W. Moore

... and discipleship… profanity is not one of them! Now let me hurry to say that profanity is more than verbal expletives: the problem is much deeper than that. Profanity is treating holy things or human beings, or sacred relationships with contempt or disrespect or disregard. Our words may be profane, but more than that, we can be profane in our attitudes and in our actions… and none of that portrays discipleship. Now, let me bring this closer to home. Let me be more specific. Let me underscore some of ...

93. An Unidentified King

Matthew 21:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

... for tickets to the Super Bowl or some rock concert. Jesus was a fascinating, unpredictable character. He displayed a wide range of emotions: compassion for a dying leper, exuberance over his disciples' success, a warm hospitality that callously disregarded racial and cultural boundaries, and blasts of anger at cold-hearted legalists. Jesus had inexhaustible patience with individuals but no patience at all with institutions and injustice. No wonder he still mystifies and intrigues peoples across the world ...

94. Love of God and Love of Country

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Harold Warlick

... . Henry is a ruthless man. He loves his country but, like most superpatriots, hates ninety percent of the people who live in it. He is living proof that to love one’s country over loving God is a total disaster. Bob loves God, yet totally disregards all scriptural references to Christian citizenship. He is living proof that no matter how ascetic and moral are a person’s ambitions, if he cannot become a good citizen in a free country his labor is in vain. Both Henry and Bob are bewildered over Jesus ...

95. Grace, Salvation, and Redemption

Romans 8:18-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Romans 5:1-11

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T. A. Kantonen

... Christ is described as "obedient unto death, even death on the cross." This interpretation is true so far as it goes, but it forgets that the vocation to which Jesus was faithful unto death was not only to reveal God but to reconcile men with God. It disregards the context of Paul’s reference to the obedient Christ, that he is sovereign Lord, co-equal with God, who assumed the form of a servant to carry out God’s iedeeming purpose for mankind. His death was not merely that of a man who remained goad ...

96. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

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T. A. Kantonen

... lifeless formalism and traditionalism into which the churches tend to fall. But if it is to produce lasting results and not evaporate into transitory emotionalism, as has been the case with many holiness movements in the past, it cannot afford to disregard the theological guidelines which Paul offers. Such great chapters as Romans 8, 1 Corinthians 12-14, 2 Corinthians 3, and Galatians 5 must be studied anew and the apostolic insights must be applied constructively to the present situation. Three of these ...

97. Because He Lives

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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Bill Bouknight

... poverty, racism, sexism, and use of masculine pronouns. Why is this? Part of the answer has to do with the swinging of the pendulum, trying to make up for past distortions. Earlier in this century, some religious leaders focused on heaven only, disregarding totally the conditions of this world. The church stood by in cowardly silence while labor was exploited by industry, particularly in textiles. The church did not raise a clamor of conscience during the Holocaust. The church did very little to prevent the ...

98. Put the Cross on Top

1 John 4:7-21

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Bill Bouknight

... only passport to heaven for any of us sinners is the grace of God. We can and should provide medical, emotional, and financial assistance to AIDS victims. But we must do more. What kind of friend would we be if we considered only a person's next six months but disregarded his eternity? We must share with our friend who has AIDS the fact that all of us are terminal cases. All of us must die and spend eternity somewhere. We have a Savior who died for all of us sinners. If we repent and claim him by faith, our ...

99. A Time for Tears

John 11:17-37

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Louis H. Valbracht

... of sentiment, gestures of respect, the courtesies of kindliness, open displays of love - we’ve tried to make ourselves believe that these were beneath the dignity of a sophisticated and manly culture. Well, we’ve about had it. Such repressions of honest feelings, such complete disregard for the tragedies of life aren’t to be passed off. In the solemn situations of life, they can be downright destructive. A young man said to me at his mother’s funeral: "Pastor, I know I’m not supposed to cry, but I ...

100. Chapter VIII

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... to skin it, well - why not? Perhaps the main reason that we steal more these days is that we have lost, to a large degree, the sense of sanctity of both the individual and the things that are his. We have lost sight of the fact, or disregard it, that property, for instance, represents the fruits of labor, ability, and time that come from a man’s life. A dollar bill represents, in compact, transferrable form, a man’s time and skills. It is the moments of his life that he has bartered away in exchange ...

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