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976. A Glory Revealed to Faith Alone

Numbers 21:4-9

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... me; "You were madly bent on ruin, "But, I said, - It shall not be: "You had been for ever wretched, "Had I not espous’d your part; "Now behold my arms outstretched "To receive you to my heart. 4. "Well may shame, and joy, and wonder, "All your inward passions move; "I could crush thee with my thunder, "But I speak to thee in love: "See! your sins are all forgiv’n. "I have paid the countless sum! "Now my death has open’d heav’n, "Thither you shall shortly come." 5. Dearest Saviour, we adore thee For ...

977. Salvation: Authentic and Powerful

Amos 5:18-27

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King Duncan

... what is occurring, there is enough accuracy in it to tell us the Holy Spirit will not be bound by categories. Christian unity continues to learn from Judaism about justice and righteousness. In Gates of Prayer: The New Union Prayerbook, we read, "Kindle in us a passion for righteousness. Grant us the vision to see that only justice can endure, and that only in being just to one another can we make our lives acceptable to you." In the same book, we also read, "May He whose spirit is with us in every ...

978. Kingdoms In Conflict

Daniel 2:24-49

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Bill Bouknight

... the church, is an "alternate culture," in the world but not of the world. Though the Kingdom started small, it grows rapidly. It is a society that welcomes all persons regardless of race or status, that demonstrates justice and mercy, that hates sin with a passion but loves the sinner even more. It is a cross-cultural society whose only entrance requirement is this confession---"I am a sinner whose only hope is that Jesus Christ died for me." How amazing! God revealed all that through the dream of a pagan ...

979. Is Jesus Still in the Healing Business?

Luke 4:38-44, Luke 4:31-37

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Bill Bouknight

... folks. Even at daybreak they wanted him to stay there for more healing. But Jesus said, "No, I must preach in the other towns too." Jesus was not just a healer. His main mission was to seek and to save the lost. His primary enemies were sin and death. His passion was to win eternal souls for heaven rather than just improve health conditions on earth. So, he had to do more than heal. He had to preach and to die and to rise again. I believe that Jesus is still in the healing business. I see Jesus healing in ...

980. "Gone Fishing!"

Luke 5:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

If fishing is one of your passions, you will love our scripture lesson for today. Though I prefer hunting to fishing, I have a soft spot in my heart for fishing because of a childhood experience. I was about 10 or 11 years old. One Wednesday afternoon Papa took me with him to a nearby pond to ...

981. If You Are A Disciple of Jesus Christ

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

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Bill Bouknight

... Jesus had not saved you? There are no benchwarmers in the Kingdom of God. Everybody is on the field with a vital task, even if one is homebound and can do nothing more than pray daily for the church. If you write down two or three of your interests or passions on a piece of paper, with your name and phone number, and get that to me or to an usher, I will see that someone on our staff contacts you with a suggestion for a meaningful ministry. Rebecca Pippert, a gifted layperson from Washington, D.C., tells an ...

982. The First Council

Acts 15:1-21

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... in which the apostles and elders prayerfully considered the matter. It marked the first official meeting of Christians from different places and different backgrounds to try to decide an important question on which honest opinions differed and which had aroused passions sufficient to split the church. No decision was reached for some time. There was much debate - the council lasted three weeks, so there was obviously much speechmaking, prayer, and the airing of many diverse opinions. Everybody was given a ...

983. Paul in Chains

Acts 21:27-36

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... Jews, when he warned them that because they had hardened their hearts and rejected the Son of Man, the "Gentiles would come into the kingdom." When Paul spoke of the Lord sending him to the Gentiles, the crowd could no longer contain its passions. They raised their fists and resumed shouting. Luke notes that they threw dust into the air and waved their garments. This threatening action compelled the tribune to stop Paul’s speech. He ordered that Paul be taken into the barracks and interrogated, to find ...

984. "I appeal to Caesar!"

Acts 24:1-27, Acts 25:1-12

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... which he would preside. However, a change of venue could not be made without the consent of the accused and Paul saw no purpose in standing trial at Jerusalem where the bias and prejudice of his accusers could sway a decision. The trial would stir up passions in the city and would almost certainly result in damage to the Christian cause. If he were convicted, the Jews would have a free hand in persecuting Christians. If he were set free, their vengeful nature could lead to the destruction of the property of ...

985. Communication

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An older woman with bifocals came up the church aisle. A big, six-foot-five man grabbed her, kissed her passionately, and knocked her glasses off. She said to him, "Do it again, and then tell me who you are." He had communicated.

986. This God’s For Real!

Matthew 16:13-20

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... things in riddles. This was probably symbolic talk like so much else they’d heard from him. The story of Peter’s denial of the One whom he had once confessed as Christ, Son of the Living God, is commonplace to all of us who know the Passion Story. The contrast between these two stories is obscene but not surprising. Opting for a "Living" rather than a lifeless God is risky business. It leads straight to unpredictability. But even as we count the cost, it is incumbent on us to consider what the benefits ...

987. For Christ’s Sake, What’s Going On?

Matthew 18:15-20

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Michael L. Sherer

... communication. Some folks think that Christians automatically should sense what’s on each other’s minds now that they’re "one in Christ" or have "the mind of Christ." Some of the same folks think that, once a Christian, all the passions common to the world - such as competitiveness, rancor, jealousy, greed, pride, and anger - somehow melt away. If Christianity embraced the concept of perfectibility this side of heaven, that might make some sense. Much to the contrary, however, Christian teaching has ...

988. Faith isn’t Easy - But it Works!

Genesis 12:1-8

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Barbara Brokhoff

... the place where he met him for conversation. Now we, many years later, the followers of "the Way," build and make altars wherever we go, to call on the name of the Lord. Sometimes at that altar, we praise and adore the Promise-maker; other times we passionately entreat and petition him, and then still other times we offer sacrifices of self and substance in thanksgiving to him - but in it all, we turn in simple, child-like, trusting faith to our God and to no other! His Presence is our certainty that the ...

989. Listening or Hearing?

Matthew 13:1-23

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Dennis Kastens

... the blessing of Calvary can fall and be imbedded upon your soul." So, with this glorious prospect in mind, the prospect of the Word of God yielding one hundred-fold in our lives, we plead: "Weed out the thorns. Don’t let the lusts and passions and glitter of this passing world crowd out the things of eternity. Plow up the hardened time schedules where there is no daily ten or fifteen minutes in all the twenty-four hours for meditation and spiritual nourishment. Pulvarize those sterile rocks of fruitless ...

990. The Lacking Christian?

Matthew 14:13-21

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Dennis Kastens

... the dark cloud is passed and we review the trials and troubles, we shall say that we lack nothing (Psalm 23:1; Deuteronomy 3:7; Luke 22:3-5). On the cross, Jesus atoned for our sins and made satisfaction for our misdeeds by his substitutionary passion and death. In his resurrection, he expresses the Heavenly Father’s acceptance of this payment for our rescue from condemnation and our passport to a blessed eternity. Acts 20:28 states that we were bought with his own blood, and Matthew 12:47-50 declares ...

991. Bad Good News Won’t Sell!

Jeremiah 28:1-17

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John R. Brokhoff

... frustrations without hurting someone. In place of a set of absolute standards, we have developed a culture of narcissism. We have just passed through a "me decade," and still our preoccupation is with ourselves in looking out for Number One. Our main passion is self-fulfillment that is based on an ego-centered mentality. In a poll by Daniel Yankelovich in 1982, eighty percent hold a self-centered philosophy. The evidence of the results of forsaking God and his moral standards is overwhelming in abundance ...

992. Sick Of A Sick Society

Jeremiah 14:1--15:21

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John R. Brokhoff

... or 1.8 million miles past the sun. Why are we going in debt and living beyond our means? Is it not greed? We are not content with our wages or with what we have, because we think that life consists of the abundance of things possessed. Money is our passion, for we think it is the answer to our problems. But is it? Does material well-being make us happy? In a current magazine, a twenty-eight-year-old woman says, "I’m young, healthy, live in a condo by the sea, drive an expensive foreign sports car, eat out ...

993. As Good As God

Leviticus 19:1-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... it was a holy day. He was sure that to commit a crime on a holy day was a mortal sin! He fell on his knees in the snow, crossed himself repeatedly, and thought, "Tomorrow will do just as well." This type of holiness was seen in the passion story of Jesus. The Pharisees at Jesus’ trial would not enter the Roman praetorium lest they be defiled. It was apparently all right with them to cry for a man’s murder but not permissible to step into a pagan courtroom! Furthermore, they asked Pilate to break the ...

994. Victim or Visionary

John 19:28-37

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Robert Bachelder

... something more for yourself? There are many voices which say we must be content to be victims. It seems to me that Freud, who powerfully shaped the modern consciousness, said just that. He said essentially that people are sick animals, dominated by untamed passions, victims of irrational instincts. There are many voices which echo his understanding and which prophesy our collective doom. I do not feel I need to catalogue these for you, for when you turn this afternoon to your paper, I am confident you will ...

995. Jacob’s Jabbok

Genesis 32:22-32

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Richard F. Bansemer

... , power, cattle, children. He had it all, and he had it because he knew how to calculate and deal. He was shrewd and cocky. He was arrogant and prosperous. His way of living worked for him, except for one desire he had not fulfilled, one great passion and ambition, very noble, very high. He wanted to have his life rightly related to God. He wanted God’s approval and blessing. Jacob was a boy no longer, and long ago, those first experiences with God had passed. They were important and they were pleasant ...

996. Job’s Joy

Job 38:1--41:34

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Richard F. Bansemer

... . We have a phrase, "The patience of Job," and by it we refer to the ability of this man to bear his suffering tolerantly, nobly, and without complaint. But it is all a lie. It is one huge mistake. Job was no patient sufferer. He was a passionate sufferer. He did not hide his grief and bear it quietly. He complained bitterly before the throne of God and challenged God to debate his cause with him. The patience of Job would better be phrased the perseverance of Job. He persisted, but not patiently. The story ...

997. Born to Play Second Fiddle

Luke 1:57-66

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George Bass

... our baptism. While it is true that baptism is a kind of ordination service for all believers, nevertheless, many of us are called to special kinds of service - and at later times in our lives. Shortly after 1200 A.D., Domingo de Guzman was praying passionately to Mary in the church named after her, Notre Dame of Paris. At about the same time, Francis of Assisi was preaching to the birds and establishing the Christian order that bears his name. Suddenly, as Domingo prayed, there was a blinding flash of light ...

998. A Person Approved by Christ

John 1:43-51

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George Bass

... by Jesus Christ - "you shall see greater things than these" - and that’s exactly the way it was. But there was more to Jesus’ promise than what he implied about the dimensions of his own ministry; Jesus promised him that he would witness his passion, death, resurrection, and ascension, although Bartholomew surely didn’t know what he was talking about at the time. To be sure, he probably recognized Jesus’ reference to the old and familiar story of Jacob’s dream (Genesis 28:12 f.), in which he saw ...

999. He Bore Our Sins

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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Dennis Kastens

... a half mile route ... struggled painfully up flights of ancient granite stairs enroute to the Corsican version of Calvary. Meanwhile, the villagers and tourists - 15,000 of them last year - gathered along the route to mock and jeer. No, this was not a drama or passion play. The hooded figure was that of a conscience-stricken French sinner whose identity was known only to the local curate. From wherever he had come, the man was there voluntarily to atone for his sins by enacting the role of Christ making his ...

1000. Salvation Through His Suffering

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

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Dennis Kastens

... s foundation, Jesus of Nazareth. And all this our Savior endured. He deliberately courted the conflict; he took the battle to the enemy; he accepted the cross as a part of his consecration for the sake of our salvation. Though he suffered beyond all telling, yet the evil passions of people did not bear down upon him and finish him off. Jesus laid down his life of his own accord. The prince of this world, Satan, had nothing on him. Jesus chose to drink the cup of suffering to the dregs. He was the master of ...

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