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Revelation 3:1-6

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J. Scott Duvall

... , then the Greeks under Alexander the Great, and finally the Romans. In AD 17, however, this influential city was devastated by a severe earthquake and became indebted to Rome, which financed the reconstruction. Artemis, the mother goddess associated with reproductive power, was the patron goddess of Sardis, which may have contributed to its preoccupation with immortality. A massive temple to Artemis rivaling the one in Ephesus was begun but never finished. Sardis also had a thriving Jewish community with ...

77. Uncleanness Due to Childbirth

Leviticus 12:1-8

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... needed to offer a purification offering. Forty days is about the period of time necessary for the womb to undergo the process of devolution and destruction followed by regeneration during which it goes from being uninhabitable/dysfunctional (for reproduction) to being once again restored to “wholeness” and full sexual function. With that return to wholeness and life comes a renewed state of cleanness. It is not only childbirth but also other bodily emissions that symbolically represent movement toward ...

78. Purification after Childbirth

Leviticus 12:1-8

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

12:1–15:33 Review · Leviticus 12–15 moves to physical ritual impurities that originate in human beings. These include healthy or unhealthy flows of blood from reproductive organs (Leviticus 12, 15), emissions of semen or unhealthy genital flows of other kinds (chap. 15; cf. Deut. 23:10–11), and skin disease (Leviticus 13–14). Numbers 19 includes the impurity of corpse contamination. These impurities are not mere physical dirtiness but conceptual categories excluded from contact with the ...

79. Various Laws

Leviticus 19:1-37

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... , calls for honesty (19:11–14), fairness (19:15–16), and love rather than hate (19:17–18). The second half of the chapter commences: “You shall keep my statutes” (19:19). Again, topics begin with a connection to creation in terms of reproduction of animals and crops (from which come materials for garments), human beings, and new fruit trees (19:19–25). Respect for the holy Creator also rules out eating meat over or with (life)blood (19:26a), divination that seeks knowledge of the future ...

80. Concluding Exhortations

Hebrews 13:1-25

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... through the blood and the flesh of bulls and goats. These remarks would be particularly appropriate directed to a community influenced by a form of Judaism like that given expression at Qumran, where great care was taken to organize the sect as a reproduction of the camp of Israel in the wilderness. No doubt such a separation will be intensely painful for these believers, all the more because they will be marked by their former brethren with the stigma of a betrayal of the ancient faith. But loyalty ...

81. Purification After Childbirth

Leviticus 12:1-8

Understanding Series

W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

... and a mystery, particularly from a male perspective. These offerings celebrate the move from the dangers of childbirth back to full community in faith. The offerings for cultic purification attest to the sacredness of life rather than implying that reproduction and birth are disgusting or evil. The text understands that life is beyond human control. The mother was vulnerable during this time. The whole burnt offering also points to the dedication of life. Interestingly, the sacrifices required are the ...

82. Job's Reply to Bildad

Job 9:1–10:22

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... is obvious. God oversees and supervises the mysterious growth and development of the child from conception to birth, insuring that the body is formed and jointed appropriately. You gave me life. Life is not simply an accident of human reproduction, but the gift of divine creation. From the moment of conception and birth Job has experienced the kindness (khesed, “loyal covenant love”) that characterizes God’s enduring relationship with his people. God’s providence (Heb. pequddah, “administrative ...

83. We've Got a Friend in High Places

1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28, Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... much alike. (5) Then Pastor Markquart makes this observation: “What the Bible is saying is that Jesus is identical to the Father. Christ is the same substance of the Father, the same nature. If you want to know what the Father is like, look at the genetic reproduction of the Son.” That is the first reason we celebrate Christ the King [the Reign of Christ] Sunday. Christ revealed to us the nature of God. But there is another reason this day is so important to us: In his death on the cross Christ made it ...

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

Brigitte Boisselier

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Edgar Allan Poe

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

Martin Luther

88. Imperfect Perfect Copies

Humor

Copy machines are capable of making rapid reproduction of human error, perfectly.

89. Fertilize Your Faith

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... apathy. Complacency, not passion, is the opposite of discipleship, though frustrated passion can lead to complacency. Complacency is the bane of today’s denominational Church.The western, American,denominational church is undergoing, as my colleague Len Sweet puts it, a “reproduction problem.”[1] It is failing to reproduce disciples of Christ who “bear the fruit” of the gospel in the “fields” of God’s global world. When you don’t bear fruit, you can’t produce “seeds” that continue to ...

90. First Things First

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Will Willimon

... , how fragile life can be, how close the chaos. I have my happy family now, my home, a new job, health…but all of it floats, just barely sometimes, over the abyss… ''Cancer,'' I read in TIME, ''is basically the normal reproductive processes of the body gone crazy for some strange reason. Normal cells go crazy, normal cellular checks and balances malfunction and the destruction begins.'' Isn't this a layperson's explanation for simple, everyday, horrible, primordial, disfiguring—chaos? It's frightening ...

91. Living the FIRE Life

John 17:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... for the journey –it’s ours always. This sense of “life” will give us energy, purpose, drive, and passion in everything we do. Life. If you look up the definition of “life” you will find that it’s the capacity for growth, reproduction, activity, and continual change preceding death. In the Old English, the etymological definition also notes that life is spiritual existence imparted by God through Christ to the believer.[1] The word comes from the indogermanic (PIE) root leip––to stick to or ...

92. Walk the Talk

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... all that God intended it to be. God began an experiment––a really “good” creation. But God created it in a way, so that it would be our job to bring it to fruition, to continue to propagate it, to continue its vitality, creativity, growth, and reproduction, to nurture it, and to develop it as a people together. God would help and guide those committed to this vision and mission. But getting our attention proved harder than God must have imagined. Jesus had his work cut out for him! In today’s ...

93. Bearers of the Seed

Mark 16:1-20

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Lori Wagner

... face the fact that we have been poor “procreators.” We have lost the most important message in scripture –to “bear fruit and multiply” the gospel to all of creation. As Len Sweet likes to say, “the most deadly problem you can have as a church is a reproduction problem. And we have failed to reproduce the faith in our children and in others.” We are a church who has gone barren. We have forgotten how to be seed bearers, bearers of the gospel! Our minds and hearts are to be a “hag,” a joyous ...

94. Living Bread

John 6:51-58

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Lori Wagner

... a church is filled with life? It has the ability to reproduce! Everything alive that will stay alive must continue to reproduce! Without the ability to reproduce, a living being will wither away. Abiding with Jesus ensures a church’s reproductive power! Imagine a community teeming with life-giving, spiritual followers of Jesus, sharing in covenant, compassion, and love, perpetuating that love and energy generation after generation! This is the kind of “yeast” that Jesus can provide. This is the kind ...

95. Swimming Against the Tide

Luke 6:27-38

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Lori Wagner

... , loving is not dependent on reciprocity. Everyone who has teenagers knows this all too well. And….Jesus tells us….if all of this great wisdom is not enough to help us be the kind of disciples who can navigate the currents of culture wisely and reproductively –there’s always the Jewish concept of “measure for measure.” It’s kind of kind our conception of “karma.” Trust me, he says, what you do will come back to you. Behaving badly never benefits anyone in the end. But love well –and you ...

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76. Message to Sardis

Revelation 3:1-6

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

77. Uncleanness Due to Childbirth

Leviticus 12:1-8

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

78. Purification after Childbirth

Leviticus 12:1-8

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

79. Various Laws

Leviticus 19:1-37

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

80. Concluding Exhortations

Hebrews 13:1-25

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

81. Purification After Childbirth

Leviticus 12:1-8

Understanding Series

W. H. Bellinger, Jr.

82. Job's Reply to Bildad

Job 9:1–10:22

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

83. We've Got a Friend in High Places

1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28, Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

Brigitte Boisselier

Edgar Allan Poe

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

Martin Luther

88. Imperfect Perfect Copies

Humor

Copy machines are capable of making rapid reproduction of human error, perfectly.

89. Fertilize Your Faith

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

90. First Things First

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Will Willimon