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101. Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Exodus 19:1-25

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... when the ark began to slip on the cart, Uzzah put out his hand to steady it and was struck dead. It seems, on the surface, a very unfair thing for God to do. But, remember, the ark symbolized the very actual presence of God. It was always to be carried on the shoulders of the priests (not hauled by oxen on a cart), it was never to be touched by any save those appointed to its care (and Uzzah was not one of them). So, when a mere man, for whatever reason, is audacious enough to presume to touch the Divine ...

102. How to Deal with Friends, Foes, and Fools

Proverbs 27:6

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James Merritt

... explains: In ancient days, homes were heated and meals were fixed on a small portable stove, somewhat like our outside barbecue grills. Frequently, a person would run low on hot coals and would need to replenish his supply. The container was commonly carried on the head. So, as the individual passed beneath second-story windows, thoughtful people who had extra hot coals in their possession would reach out of the window and place them in the container atop his head. Thanks to the thoughtful generosity of ...

103. The Surrogate

Matthew 1:1-17

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Lori Wagner

... her, then he, Boaz, will marry her himself, and therefore gain the land of Elimelech, and his property, along with responsibility for Naomi and Ruth. As a token of this promise, his “arrabon” to Ruth is 6 measures of barley which he puts into her shawl to carry on her back. Just as Elisha is called from the fields by Elijah by placing his cloak upon his back, here Ruth is called into Jewish heritage by means of the barley grain (omer) wrapped in a cloak upon her back. This arrabon is more than just a ...

104. Mark Twain's Briefcase And A Great Mental Attitude

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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King Duncan

... great attitude. ST. PAUL COMPARED HIS TRIALS TO THE SUFFERING OF CHRIST ON THE CROSS. He writes, "Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus . . ." We don't know exactly what St. Paul meant by these words. Some scholars believe that Paul carried on his hands and feet the marks of the stigmata. We have no direct evidence of that. What we do know is that St. Paul identified strongly with the suffering of Christ. Here is where many of us go wrong. We compare ourselves to those people who seem ...

105. A New Continuing

John 14:8-17, 25-27

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David R. Cartwright

... correspond to three fears that surely must have been going through the disciples' minds and hearts. • Fear one: How are we to know what we are to do now that we no longer have Jesus as our teacher? • Fear two: How are we to find the energy and power to carry on his mission, if he's not there by our side constantly motivating us and encouraging us? • Fear three: How are we ever to find a sense of peace and satisfaction in our work if we do not have him around to tell us that we're doing it right? All ...

106. Luke 14:25-33

Luke 14:25-33

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Leonard Sweet

... at thinning the ranks of the casual and the curious who are following him. Another scholar offers a compelling view of these two parables in the Lukan context. He views the stories from the perspective of Jesus himself. Jesus, facing Jerusalem, is seeking committed disciples to carry on the work of the kingdom. It is he who is the tower-builder and the king going to war. He is the one who has counted the cost of building and of the battle. He is determined neither to abandon the building nor to sue his ...

107. Stress

John 6:1-15

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King Duncan

... , the heavier it becomes. "And that's the way it is with stress," he said. "If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavier, we won't be able to carry on. You have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden. So, before you return home tonight," he continued, "put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down ...

108. The Passing of the Peace

John 20:24-31

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George Bass

... , or else the risen Lord and his mission in the world will not be quite real to us. True faith, born of recognition of our plight and true repentance in the face of the good news, finds us conformed to Christ, not the world, and ready to carry on with his work. At the very end of his lectures, D. T. Niles said, "Let me conclude with a story told by a famous French bishop to his congregation ... Three university students of Paris were walking along the road one Good Friday afternoon. They noticed crowds of ...

109. The Fountain of Truth

2 Peter 1:12-21

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James Merritt

... , but he's gone; Spurgeon, a great preacher, but he's gone. One day Billy Graham will be gone. But the word of God will still be here. Preachers come and go, but the preaching of the word carries on. Ministers come and go, but the ministry of the word carries on. Teachers come and go, but the teaching of the word carries on. You see, if we did not have the everlasting eternal word of God, we would be at the mercy of men's memories for what spiritual truth we have. But as we have learned, even from the ...

110. The Role of an Angel

John 20:10-18

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George Bass

... worship took on a two-fold character - it is always a response that includes praise, thanksgiving, and affirmations of faith and love when Christians gather to worship the risen Lord, and also the acceptance of Christ-given mission and service that are to be carried on in his name in the world. It took centuries for Christian worship to take a shape that has endured, with variations and adaptations, to the present age, but evangelism was born fully formed then and there - "... but go to my brethren and say ...

111. The Handwriting on the Heart

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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David E. Leininger

... would they?"(4) At this time of the year, the country thinks of Duke University primarily for the excellence of its basketball program. Coach K notwithstanding, there are some other programs to recommend the school. For example, a few years ago the psychology department carried on an interesting experiment to see how long rats could swim. In one container they placed a rat for whom there was no possibility of escape. He swam a few moments and then ducked his head to drown. In the other container they made ...

112. Judas

Luke 22:1-6

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King Duncan

... who accompanied Jesus did not simply happen by and get lucky. Jesus went off by himself and prayed fervently all night before selecting that inner circle of followers who would study with him, witness his great works, and eventually be responsible for carrying on his ministry. Judas was one of those selected by Christ after this intense period of prayer and meditation. Jesus obviously trusted Judas, for Judas was the treasurer of that tiny company. He bought the supplies and paid the bills. Judas may have ...

113. We Believe in the Holy Spirit

John 14:15-18, 25-27

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J. Howard Olds

... it was a parachute." When the Holy Spirit comes, he will teach you all things (V. 26). Did you have a favorite teacher? What was he or she like? Great teachers awaken us to possibilities, enlighten us to truth, sensitize us to others, and give us tools to carry on. The Holy Spirit is like a good teacher. Has your education made you truly wise? Has your education made you a friend of all good causes? Has your education made you a Good Samaritan to the least? Do you see anything to love in a little child ...

114. The Forward Look

Luke 9:57-62

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King Duncan

... son grew up. He wanted to keep some of the family traditions, but the pace of life had quickened greatly in his generation. He felt that he had no time for elaborate devotions, so he eliminated the time for meditation, Bible reading, and prayer. So in order to carry on the family's religious tradition, while dressing each morning, he just tied his cat to the bedpost! (7) There's a warning there. We cherish many good things in our past, but we want to make certain that we are not simply tying the cat to the ...

115. People Skills

Proverbs 12:26

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James Merritt

... explains it. "In ancient days, homes were heated and meals were fixed on a small portable stove somewhat like our outside barbeque grills. Frequently, a person would run low on hot coals and would need to replenish his supply. The container was commonly carried on the head, so as the individual passed beneath second-story windows, thoughtful people who had extra hot coals in their possession would reach out of the window and place them in the container atop his head. Thanks to the thoughtful generosity of a ...

116. Going Home

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

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Argile Smith

... I first heard about Moses. My parents had the greatest respect for him. They said that he was one of God’s choice servants, and we were lucky to have him as our leader. They never could get over the way Moses seemed to talk with God like friends carry on a conversation with each other. They could never remember a time when Moses didn’t change the atmosphere of a room when he entered it.” All of us will go home one day. Through Jesus Christ, we can look forward to it, and we can rest in the assurance ...

117. Martin Luther: the Shape of Grace

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... in three areas: Bible, priesthood, and salvation. Luther asked that the Scriptures be placed in the hands of the people and in their language so that their lives could be shaped by it. He claimed everyone was a priest in God’s sight and had a ministry to carry on in the world. He held up before the people of his day the fact that we are saved by God’s gift of grace, not by living the life of perfection that would earn it for us. You can still see the Augustinian monastery of the black friars ...

118. Stealth Christians

Mark 7:31-37

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King Duncan

... people, piecing together a Bible translation in their language. The men who committed the murders are all believers in Christ now. And in 1995, Steve Saint and his family settled in Ecuador to live among the Huaorani people and build a hospital there. Steve will carry on the work that his father once dreamed of doing. (5) When you have people living out their faith like that, the Gospel doesn't need any hype. The Gospel message sells itself. That brings us to the second thing we need to see: AUTHENTIC ...

119. Damaged In Transit, But Deliverable

Luke 20:27-40

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King Duncan

... in her life. (3) God does use friends to bring healing when someone has been damaged in transit. Is that not the real strength of the church? Through the years I have heard people testify that at a moment in their lives when they thought they could not carry on, it was the church that gathered around them and surrounded them with love. There are times when all of us find an empty place in our lives where once something precious resided. All of us will know what it is to be damaged in transit. Sometimes a ...

120. The Greatest Wonder Of All!

John 14:5-14

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John M. Braaten

... competent medical training. But it was a sales clerk in a flower shop, a young woman making $170 a week, who - by taking the time to care, and by being willing to go with what her heart told her to do - gave Douglas hope and the will to carry on.1 Wonderful and heart-warming as that story is, the disciples were commissioned to do more than lift up people’s spirits. Their mission was a message, a message which needed to be spoken and written in every tongue so that all people might hear the gospel, the ...

121. The Fruit of Forgiveness

Genesis 45:1-28

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Harry N. Huxhold

... . Surrounded by a bevy of aides who were concerned more about what they could get from him than to care for him, Hughes literally starved to death in Mexico, forlorn and naked. Consequently, the many states in which he had operated businesses had to carry on a serious investigation into all his affairs in order to make distribution of his great wealth. When that was done, Peter Harry Browne and Pat Boeske were able to write a definitive biography of Hughes. Their account of this tortured life stands in rich ...

122. In Spite of Evidence to the Contrary

Romans 4:13-25

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Steven E. Albertin

... the contrary." Paul draws on the ancient story of Abraham and Sarah to illustrate what this kind of faith is. You know the story. Aged Abraham and Sarah, long past the time of child bearing, both aged, gnarled, and withered, were devastated. Not to have children to carry on the family was a terrible fate to suffer in that world. Worse yet, to have no male heir would put the meaning of your life into question. God had promised Abraham a son and many descendants in addition to a land to call his own (Genesis ...

123. Spirit Signs

Luke 12:49-56

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Lori Wagner

... up a stalemate into an ultimately chaotic mess, it’s Jesus. Just look at what happened at Babel! In order for God to get God’s message through, God first needed to divide and separate the strongholds! Sometimes in our faith we believe that the best way to carry on in life is to be absolutely sure of everything we know about Jesus, what God wants, and what the Holy Spirit “should” back us up on. But the truth is, Jesus came to shake up everything we thought we knew and to challenge us to the very ...

124. Easter Consecration

John 17:6-19

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Harry N. Huxhold

... another home that was quite elegant, and at the right time they would find themselves there and everything would be all right. Probably most of us have played with that form of reverie ourselves and discovered that we can lift the gloom and find determination to carry on. However, one day Aaron was invited by a neighbor to pray with her in her sorrow for the loss of her son. He confesses that he had never prayed before. Now suddenly he found new strength as he prayed for his whole family in their desperate ...

125. The Vine That Lives Forever

John 15:1-17

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George Bass

... a patriarch, until that day each would pass the staff of office to the brood of children now murmuring in the courtyard." That sounds a bit like the mission Christ has given to the church: our Lord’s physical presence is gone from the earth, but he expects us to carry on with his work. But we don’t have to live and work by ourselves. Christ’s promise is that we can "abide in him and he in us." We are not alone; the Lord is with us, and his resurrection promise to be with us until the end of time ...

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