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1026. The Invitation

Isaiah 55:1-9

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... importantly, when we fail to sense our true need and understand the real truth about God, it can be a detriment to our very lives. This is why God says to us: “My ways are not your ways. My thoughts are not your thoughts. My ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts” (v. 9). “I know you better than you know yourself. I created you and know every hair on your head and every intricate line on your fingers. I designed you for the purpose of being in relationship with ...

1027. In the Event of Power Failure

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... remembered a picture in a textbook. It showed Niagara Falls in the middle of winter, and much of the water was frozen. Big lightning-shaped forms of water were at a standstill. There was no movement, no action, no power. As my friend reflected on the picture, he thought how disappointing it would be to go to Niagara Falls and not hear the roar and feel the power of the water, but only see the great Niagara frozen. Can you relate to that image? Frozen power. Maybe you have felt like that after a full day of ...

1028. Defeating Discouragement

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... often cries herself to sleep at night thinking that three years ago she had a corner office. Now, she has a sore back from cleaning tables. She doesn’t know how much longer she can do it. There is discouragement. They were happily married for twenty years, or so he thought. He came home one day and she was gone. There was a note on the kitchen table that read, “I don’t want to be married to you anymore.” It took his breath away. He can’t wrap his mind around it. He hasn’t slept in weeks. There ...

1029. True North

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... get tangled up. We find ourselves in a mess wondering how we got so lost. We went to worship. We read the Bible. We prayed. We thought we were doing the right thing. We followed the rules. Where did it all go wrong? How did it get so confusing? How did we ... Now, count on a lawyer to stir the pot and cause trouble! You can hear the sarcasm, “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest?” He thought, “I got him. No matter what he says he’s going to be trapped. He can’t get this right! If he says one ...

1030. Pop Verses: Proverbs 3:5-6

Proverbs 3:5-6

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... obstacles and clear the path. But you have to trust him to do it. Moses did. When Moses got to the edge of the Red Sea he thought he was at a dead end. When the children of Israel were finally set free from Egypt after 400 years of slavery, they started marching out ... to make a way where I see no way? Examples…every time I look back and think. I did not see that coming! I had not even thought of that! How did that happen? How did I get here? It has to be God. And it happened because I was willing to put my ...

1031. Giving and Receiving

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

Tom Garrison

... not the only challenge to be sure. Others in communities everywhere may need to learn how to use their own faith more vigorously. If the crisis that "turned the world upside down" left some who had been strong in a position of need, it also catapulted some who had always thought of themselves as weak into a position of power. If too much of any good thing becomes a bad thing, it is equally true that too little of a good thing is also bad. One of the hopes I have for our world in the days ahead is that not ...

1032. Joseph: The Righteous Carpenter

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... making this decision and Jesus being born – the time Joseph had to wait. We don’t hear anything about this but I believe those nine months Joseph had to wait were the most pivotal nine months of his life. Can you imagine how many times he doubted his decision and thought of bolting? “I’m basing all of this on a dream! What if when this child is born he looks like the milk man? Look at the way my friends and family look at me in public. They don’t believe me. I can tell. I wouldn’t believe me ...

1033. Paul's Longing to Visit Rome

Romans 1:1-17

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... enters his role as exalted Lord. The NIV rendering of verse 4 (he was declared with power to be the Son of God) might suggest that Jesus became the Son of God at the resurrection, although he had not been so beforehand. That is scarcely Paul’s thought. At the resurrection Jesus was constituted Son of God in power, whereas before the resurrection he had been Son of God in suffering. Thus, verses 3–4 are not about Jesus’ promotion or adoption as God’s Son. Both parts of the formula are regarding God ...

1034. Expel the Immoral Brother!

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... builds on that idea. He advises the Corinthians to eliminate the old yeast in order to guarantee that they would themselves be a new batch [of dough] without yeast, that their new life as Christians would be free from immorality or corruption. Paul registers this thought in two bold statements. First, he declares that the members of the Corinthian congregation really are new, unleavened dough. They are what they are by God’s grace, and now they have only to live up to who God has called them and empowered ...

1035. Propriety in Worship

1 Corinthians 11:2-16

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... man rather than to God. The point is that the creatures (man and woman) bring glory to the one from whom they come—man to God and woman to man. The argument is difficult, and all attempts at interpretation run the risk of misunderstanding Paul’s thought. The argument, however, serves a clear point: the women should have their heads covered. 11:8–9 These two verses extend Paul’s argument by taking even more explicit recourse to the creation story of Genesis 2:18, 22. Paul declares that the order of ...

1036. Spiritual Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... he wishes to register with the Corinthians: All these are the work of one and the same Spirit. He states his point, however, with the addition of the recognition of God’s Spirit’s sovereignty or freedom (just as he determines), repeating the basic thoughts about diversity and unity for the fifth time in the span of eight verses while nudging the reflection along with the mention of the Spirit’s determination of the allotment of gifts. Paul will elaborate and explain his convictions about God’s will ...

1037. One Body, Many Parts

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... because of the diversity of functions that are necessary. Over this whole picture, Paul makes a crucial theological declaration: God has arranged the parts of the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be (v. 18). This assertion returns to the thought that was expressed briefly in 12:11—“one and the same Spirit … gives them to each one, just as he determines.” Having made the point about the necessity of diversity in the body, Paul declares the differences to be God’s will and work. At ...

1038. The Lord Speaks

Job 38:1--41:34

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... as a flat, circular plate over which an inverted bowl (the firmament) stood, sealed at the farthest horizon to hold off the chaotic waters above and below the earth. This protective “envelope” provided a secure environment for plant, animal, and human life and was thought to be founded on pillars that extended down into the waters under the earth. Tell me, if you understand. It is not so much Job as all humans (including the friends and Elihu) that must adopt this attitude of humility in relation to the ...

1039. Surrendering to God’s Inescapable, All-Searching Presence

Psalm 139:1-24

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... darkness and night as a hiding place. Here we see the same response to divine omniscience (vv. 1–6) as is evident in Job, namely the desire to be left alone (Job 7:17–21; 14:5–6). God’s scrutiny evokes wonder (v. 6) but also fear. Thoughts of flight need not betray a profound sense of guilt or the fact that the speaker has committed or been accused of a crime. The recognition that we are so scrutinized by another intrinsically makes us want to retreat. We may feel our privacy has been violated or ...

1040. Daniel’s Training in Babylon

Daniel 1:1-21

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... something closer to it. The third year of Jehoiakim would be 606 B.C. From that point down to Cyrus’s decree in 538 to release the Jews would be 68 years. Since the author of Daniel may not have had a precise grasp of those dates, he might have thought it worked out to seventy years. Although the book of Daniel does not mention the return to the land, it does record the dates for Daniel’s ministry. By one account, he continues until the first year of King Cyrus in 539 B.C. (Dan. 1:21). But Daniel has ...

1041. Nebuchadnezzer’s Dream of a Tree

Daniel 4:1-18

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... breaks and verse numbers were inserted in the thirteenth century A.D. and not always in the right places. These verses clearly belong at the head of chapter 4 but were probably numbered with chapter 3 because of the pattern in chapters 2, 3, and 6: it was thought that the praise must come at the end of sections. In the LXX, these verses are moved to the end of chapter 4, probably for the same reason. That the pagan Babylonian king would admit that the heavenly king, Israel’s God, is worthy of glory would ...

1042. The Writing on the Wall

Daniel 5:1-31

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... it up to the first occurrence: “King Nebuchadnezzar your father—your father the king, I say—.” But it is still awkward and redundant; also “I say” is not in the Aramaic. 5:11–12 There is a question of syntax in vv. 11 and 12. The thought of v. 11 continues in v. 12, so there should probably not be a period after v. 11 as there is in the NIV. In Aramaic it reads, “King Nebuchadnezzar . . . appointed him chief of the . . . diviners because a keen mind and knowledge . . . were found in him ...

1043. Suffering for Doing Good

1 Peter 3:8-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... , 24; 3:6, 9, 11, 13, 17; 4:2, 17, 19). The Greek implies “carry out what is good in action.” Seek peace and pursue it: a thought repeated in Rom. 12:18; 14:19; Heb. 12:14. The command is adapted in 2 Clement 10:2 to run: “If we are zealous to do good ... ones who possess the earth” (1 Enoch 67:12). The tradition, based on Gen. 6:1–4, of angelic disobedience was firmly established in Jewish thought (1 Enoch 6:1–8; 12:1–16:4; 19:1; 2 Baruch 56:12) and was placed just before the Flood (1 Enoch 10:2 ...

1044. The Lord Appears to Elijah

1 Kings 19:9-18

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... his journey was over; he had had enough (Hb. raḇ, v. 4). But now he is to fortify himself for a further journey, that will be too much (Hb. raḇ, v. 7) for him if he does not eat. Food was God’s response when, at the end (as he thought) of his journey, Elijah cried “Enough!”; now food is provided a second time so that he will genuinely have enough—to complete his journey! He seems to know what the angel means. He sets out for Horeb, the mountain of God (v. 8; cf. Exod. 3:1). The forty days ...

1045. The Call of Elisha

1 Kings 19:19-21

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

1046. I'm Worried About My Finances

Philippians 4:8-9

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... minds can be like an empty bucket? That's right, we can choose what to put into our minds. Some people fill their minds with fear and worry and anger. They are scared or unhappy all the time because they've filled their mind with scared and unhappy thoughts. But we don't have to do that. We can choose to fill our minds with good thoughts, like love, and joy, and peace, and having faith in God. Just as we can choose to fill our bucket with rocks or with candy, we can choose whether to fill our minds with bad ...

1047. Excuses! Excuses!

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... hurt! And he went crying to his mother, complaining about what his sister had done. The mother came to the little girl and said, “Mary, why did you let Satan put it into your heart to pull your brother’s hair and kick his shins?” The little girl thought it over for a moment and then answered, “Well, Mother, maybe Satan did put it into my heart to pull Tommy’s hair . . . but kicking his shins was my own idea.” (4) Now Mary shouldn’t have kicked her brother in the shins, most of us will agree ...

1048. Extreme Humility

John 13:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... I can ask him who he was sent by.” The Prince then requested that his spiritual advisor be called. “I need to know why this has happened,” he demanded. Eventually, the Prince died with the arrow still in his body. (3) The Prince thought he was in control of his universe. His ego was so strong he thought there was no way he could die, and he was offended that any of his subjects would even try to take his life. But he was wrong--as anyone is wrong who thinks he or she is invincible. He was as wrong as ...

1049. A Divided Family

Mark 3:20-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... about this alleged rift between Jesus and his family, although the writer of the Gospel of John confesses, “For even his own brothers did not believe in him” (John 7:5). Saying they didn’t believe in him sounds a whole lot better than saying, “They thought he was out of his mind.” Why would Mark include this story? It was bad enough, as Jesus became more popular with the common folk, that the religious establishment was growing in its opposition to him. In fact, in this story some teachers of the ...

1050. Such a Little Thing

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... the 5,000. He said that most of the people going even on a short excursion would carry a small amount of food with them just in case they were delayed. This crowd stayed around for hours listening to Jesus teach. They were hungry. There was no way the disciples thought there could be enough food to feed such a mob. But there was a lad who had with him five small barley loaves and two small fish. It might have been a lunch his mother handed him to take with him when he began his journey. It was just a ...

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