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101. Stand Firm

2 Thessalonians 2:13-17

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... . 3:2). The aid God gives is not just for the moment but is eternal. The hope, a constant theme in these epistles (see 1 Thess. 1:3; 2:19; 5:8), is described as “good.” This was far from Greek hopes, which were often no more than foreboding about the future. The Christian’s hope is good.The prayer is that the Lord Jesus Christ and the Father would “encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word” (2:17; see 1 Thess. 3:13). The first verb, “encourage,” in combination with ...

102. The Lord Speaks

Job 38:1--41:34

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... I gave him the wasteland as his home.” The donkey in the wild is free to pursue his own course without having to heed the coercive driver’s shout. This verse describes what may seem a desperate task of eking out a meager existence in a foreboding landscape as an image of freedom from human control as the donkey ranges the hills in search of any green thing. The wild donkey depends only on the providential care of God, who establishes the donkey’s habitat and provides its necessary fodder. Humans are ...

103. Mercy for the Languishing

Psalm 6:1-10

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... the inability to praise God. (To express the depth of despair the psalm does not shy away from poetic hyperbole: literally, “I make my bed swim; with my tears I dissolve my couch.”) Such feelings surface especially at night, when darkness, silence, and the cold forebode the loneliness of the grave. 6:8–10 At this point the psalm makes two dramatic shifts: one is from despair to confidence, the other is from addressing God directly to referring to him in the third person. It is difficult to account for ...

104. The Trustworthy Lord Over Nature, Nations, and Armies

Psalm 33:1-22

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... could not presume on their national security as we might today. But even if this psalm originated out of such circumstances, its application extends beyond them. The psalms frequently use imagery, especially military imagery, to convey the notion that the most foreboding powers that humans can wield pale before Yahweh. They often speak of the extremes of the human condition, such as death, to show that Yahweh’s providence embraces all of life. This psalm concerns various topics that initially do not ...

105. The Seven Bowls of God's Wrath

Revelation 16:1-21

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... Israel on a new exodus into the promised land. What is used here as a metaphor for evil is used elsewhere as a metaphor for divine blessing. Once again, John uses irony to evoke a sense of anticipation: what currently appears to be a foreboding and mounting evil will turn into an occasion of divine blessing. The reader understands that while the army gathers for the battle on the great day of God Almighty to exercise its miraculous power with evil intent, the outcome has already been decided in ...

106. Crisis Management

Luke 21:25-36

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Susan R. Andrews

... signs in the sun and the moon, about stars falling from the sky, about a dark and frightening time when God will come in muscular form to wrestle with the forces of evil — a time so terrifying that people will faint from fear and foreboding. For the listeners of Luke’s original words, these predictions spoke to the very heart of their existence — a time when Jerusalem had been destroyed, when the cruelty of Roman rule was suffocating the fledgling Christian community, and when staying faithful to God ...

Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.

Eric Hoffer

108. Wavering Notes by an Uncertain Trumpet

2 Peter 3:1-18

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Ron Love

... the church and helping others. It is not enough just to have the spirit of love; we must also have the spirit of action. If we are involved while waiting for that day and hour we do not know, it will no longer seem so foreboding. Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf having completed his studies at Wittenberg in 1720, embarked on a grand tour of the continent. To further his education, it was his ambition to visit all the great cultural institutions. During this expedition, his pilgrimage took him to the ...

109. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

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Ron Love

... plan. Therefore, each time the astronauts read the day’s agenda, their eyes also fell upon the word of God. Because of this arrangement, the word of God was constantly kept before the astronauts during their entire journey in outer space. In the foreboding darkness of space looking down upon a light blue colored planet surrounded by a white halo of clouds, and beyond that the brilliance of other planets, stars and moons, the astronauts must have truly understood the words of Isaiah, “The people walking ...

110. When the Way Is Hard

Matthew 26:14-27:66

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April Yamasaki

... death with glimpses of resurrection along the way. Our text begins with Judas agreeing to betray Jesus. Then sandwiched between these opening verses and Jesus’ prediction of Peter’s denial, Jesus shared one last meal with his disciples. The meal itself was filled with foreboding as Jesus predicted that one of the disciples would betray him, and the bread and cup foreshadowed his broken body and his life poured out in death. But there was also a hint of something more as Jesus said to them, “I tell you ...

111. Moksha

Romans 8:6-11

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Dr. Ronald Love

... . Perhaps we see sin each evening on the news; but, the real sin that we must recognize and acknowledge is what the front door of our homes conceals from others. Sin is not absent from the temples of righteousness, as steeples cast a foreboding shadow upon the pretenders of virtue. In the 1970s Karl Menninger wrote a book that was widely read, studied, and discussed. Menninger was a Harvard educated psychiatrist who established the Menninger Sanitarium in 1925 in Topeka. As a psychiatrist he believed that ...

112. Professional Angel

1 Peter 2:19-25

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Ronald Love

... were going astray like sheep, but now you have returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.” Life is not all bad, but neither is it all good. There are many good and happy things in life. Most of us do not wake up each morning to foreboding misery. We find happiness in our families, both nuclear and extended. We also have those special friends who we play cards with and have backyard picnics with. We enjoy going to the public parks, to the zoo, to museums, and to the stadium to watch our favorite ...

113. More Than Just Image

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... in every photo of Bush, Harris ensured there was a slight halo of light around his head. Another commercial featured some of Bush’s best quotes—helpfully outlined in presidential blue—against some of Dole’s worst quotes framed in a foreboding black background. The crowds in Dole’s photos also looked “washed-out” compared to the colorful crowds in the background of Bush’s photos. In another commercial, Harris provided a soundtrack of a crowd responding enthusiastically to a Bush speech with ...

114. Ready for Change

Mark 13:24-37

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Lori Wagner

... saw darkness and worry ahead. What would happen when Jesus had to leave them? Even though they still resisted believing that he would have to die. This was something they just couldn’t wrap their heads around. Still, they could sense his foreboding, the friction all around them growing in their communities and culture, the division among friends and family members, the discrepancy of power between those of status and those rejected by the power-hungry. The vibe around Jerusalem, and even beyond, was high ...

115. “I Will Sing the Lord’s Praise, for He Has Been Good to Me”

Psalm 13:1-6

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... in waves that are constantly decreasing in length, until at last it is only agitated with joy, and becomes calm as the sea when smooth as a mirror.”2 The first mighty wave is the lament; the second breaker, the petition, less powerful and foreboding; and the third, after the storm has been stilled, is trust. Looking at the text, Psalm 13 exhibits a lexical outline. 1. The lament (13:1–2) frames the “house of mourning” by four columns of the agonizing question “how long” (‘ad-’anah). The ...

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