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101. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... s Hellenistic background must be acknowledged, neither must it be over-emphasized. He was, after all, according to his own description, "a Hebrew of the Hebrews" (Philippians 3:5), a Hebrew born and bred. In the words of Archibald Hunter, "Though the surface of Paul’s thought may owe much to Hellenism, its sub-soil remained Jewish."1 With the devout Jews of his time he believed in the one holy and righteous God, in the election of Israel to be his special people, in the Law as the unique revelation of God ...

102. Song of a Philosopher

Psalm 139:1-24

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Gordon Pratt Baker

... art there! If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there thy hand shall lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. (Psalm 139:7-10) Wonder Upon Wonder Just as way leads on to way, so thought leads on to thought; and the philosopher-poet quickly realizes that the Lord’s concern for him has always been there. As a matter of fact, it has been there since before he was born. For astonishingly enough, his name was written in God’s Book of Life while his body was ...

103. OUR LORD DELIVERED UP

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E. Jerry Walker

... . These would be men who hod been directed to come, even paid for their services. The soft smiles on the faces of the others were knowing tributes to the thoroughness of the preparations of the high priest. Nicodemus left the group, stood alone with his servants, lost in thought. He wondered why he had come here. Was it that he had some small hope that others would see the man as he saw him? Like the time he had furtively sought him out at night. He was not proud of himself that he had skulked through the ...

104. Not Your Leftovers But Your First Fruits

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... sustenance of God we would have nothing. Therefore it is a fitting tribute to our God, to his church, and to his ministry to bring the first fruits of the harvest — the first fruits of our income, the first fruits of our time, and the first fruits of our thoughts. For if we prioritize God in these three things we can continue the prosperity that God has called us into. We should give God our first fruits and not our leftovers, for the Lord should be first in all that we give and do for kingdom building in ...

105. The Greatest Discovery Of All

Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35

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King Duncan

... like the wise man I had pictured. He didn't even have a beard!" The wise man asked Ron why he had come to see him. For the next sixty minutes Ron poured out his hopes, fears, anxieties, and dreams. "Now," directed the wise man, "pay attention!" Ron thought perhaps the teacher would place his hands on his head or heart and he would explode in ecstasy. But he didn't. The wise teacher simply rattled off three things Ron should do. Before Ron had a chance to respond or ask any questions the Wise One left the ...

106. Keeping Alert For Christmas

Mark 13:32-37, Mark 13:1-31

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King Duncan

... would provide them with light. The native people had never seen a generator before and did not understand its purpose. To the native it was a machine that made a terrible noise and threw off a lot of smoke. Some of the natives even thought it was inhabited by demons. In mid-December Richards wired their house with sockets and lights and even a set of twinkle lights. The natives gathered around their house since they had never seen such a thing. Many local people would travel, sometimes great distances ...

107. Getting Your Attention

John 2:12-25

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King Duncan

... bench with his grandparents, the preacher had worked himself up to a furious pitch about their shaky loyalty to the Lord. At the height of emotion the preacher reached behind him into a chest, grabbed two snakes and tossed them into the crowd. Apparently, the preacher thought the snakes would be the perfect object lesson. People in the crowd couldn't tell if the snakes were poisonous or not by just looking at them. There was screaming and a mass exodus out of the revival tent. It was a sight to behold. "You ...

108. Angels in the Wilderness

Mark 1:9-13

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Donald B. Strobe

... to popular belief, you and I do not become angels when we die. That’s a relief! In a famous little book entitled “He Sent Leanness,” Englishman David Head gives us the prayer of a “natural man” who says, “...I am not the least bit cheered by the thought of harps. My dear Matilda, who rejected my suit in 1900 for the sake of a common actor, was a competent harpist. To hear the plucking of the strings again can only bring regret and melancholy. ...Lord, I am quite convinced that I shall not be at ...

109. The Amazing Holy Week Equation

Philippians 2:1-11

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Paul E. Robinson

... Paul he was Saul, the Christian hater. But to Paul's credit, he really was trying to do the will of God. He thought this Jesus was a blasphemer and his followers heretics. He had a mid-course correction, however, and his Palm Sunday occurred on the way ... an empty head -- well, sort of. At least there is the intent of leaving room, the intent of filling it, or making it available for God's thoughts, not just our own. So what is it for you today? If we stay in A.D. 33 and wave palm branches, but don't make the ...

110. If Only... Next Time

Isaiah 43:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... an act of the will, a will beyond emotions or what you feel like doing. You can be deceived by feelings." Choosing is crucial--deciding to push the up button of life. That's what I mean when I suggest that we dig a grave and bury our negative thoughts, so that we can plant and cultivate a garden for positive ideas. And then there is this final admonition: look beyond the surface of things to the reality of everything. Get the picture. Four people are seated in a compartment of a train--two on one side, two ...

111. Keeping Our Souls

John 13:18-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... the attention of those to whom He spoke. His words often exploded an emotional bomb in their minds. It was certainly the case in our scripture lesson this morning. “One of you will betray me.” Bang! That got their attention. No doubt it was an explosive thought in each of their minds and they began to search their hearts. But that’s not the only bomb He set off that evening. A second bomb was detonated in the personal encounter He had with Peter. We didn’t read it in our Scripture lesson. The ...

112. This Is Not the Race I Entered

Mark 8:27-38

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Mark Trotter

... old, so she started running and exercising to keep in shape. She said, "I'm not going to look like I am forty-two, or at least I am going to look like a good forty-two." She did well in her running. She was running farther every day. She thought she would try a little competition and entered a 10K race. That's about six miles. Nervous about her first race, she got up early, arrived at the start of the race. To her surprise there were a lot of people milling around, stretching, getting ready. All of a sudden ...

113. A Time for Penance and a Time for Partridge

Ps 100, Col 2:1-7

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... off to war and not come home….even go off to work and not come home….I suspect that some of us are giving a little more thought to "home" than we did just a few months ago. For if September 11 has taught us nothing else, it has driven home a pair of lessons ... can use their fingers rather than a calculator. Pondering all of this yesterday morning, before setting pen to paper yesterday afternoon, I thought: How sweet it is that it is sunny this late in the year….that, one more time, Julie will be home for ...

114. Parades and Crosses — The Challenge of Ministry

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

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Maurice A. Fetty

... seen any visions. He said that didn't matter, and that perhaps God was calling me through these experiences and people. I hope you won't be angry at me, Dad, but I guess that is how I'm feeling." IV Well, what is a father to do? This one thought deeply as he sipped his coffee. Despite his personal heartache, he had a deepening respect for his son whom he loved and admired so much. He realized as he spoke that his own deep feelings about the church and the ministry were being exposed. Yet, he felt he owed it ...

115. The Power of Belief

John 20:24-31

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King Duncan

... his blanket would protect him. But it didn’t give him much comfort when he was confronted with a real and concrete fear. Many beliefs are like that. This year many people have been shaken in their faith in our economic system. Often we discover that people we thought we could trust have betrayed us. What can we believe in or who can we believe in who will see us through every time of need? Only one the man from Nazareth. Belief in Christ can transform our lives and give us the strength we need to tackle ...

116. The Power of Belief

John 20:24-31

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King Duncan

117. A Pair of Ducks and Abundant Life

Mark 8:31--9:1

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King Duncan

... started turning that wheel until my head became dizzy. Then they started to poke and prod, and it hurt! I cried out, ‘Stop!’ But they said, ‘Not yet.’ At long last they did stop the wheel and put me into a furnace. It became hotter and hotter until I thought I could no longer stand it, and I cried out, ‘Stop’ But they said, ‘Not yet.’ Finally they took me out of the furnace and someone started to put paint on me and the fumes from the paint made me ill. It made my head swim and I cried out ...

118. More Than We Are

1 John 2:28--3:10

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Maxie Dunnam

... was a painful, yet joyful experience. The emotional conflict of it was in the fact that here was a baby, leaving his home country and culture, going to a completely different setting, leaving his natural parents, perhaps, never to see them again. That’s a wrenching thought - that one would never know his or her own parents. Yet, at the other end of the flight, in Pennsylvania, in this instance, there were a man and a woman - their name was on the little band around the baby’s arm - filled with joy and ...

119. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... to examine ourselves so that we will rejoice in ourselves. We need to learn to affirm strength. Christian character is not to be thought of in terms of weakness, of self—loss, and/or anemic living. To be forgiven and accepted by God, to realize that He ... added as the final note. They go together grace, mercy and peace. A. And upon the Israel of God means more than a first thought may indicate. The R.S.V. rendering of this verse makes the Israel of God synonymous with the Christian church. Not so with the ...

120. A New Resolve

Philippians 4:1, 4-9

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Scott Suskovic

... you can worry and take tranquilizers?" Paul would disagree. He says, "Don't panic, pray. Be a person of prayer." "In everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God" (v. 6b). Second, guard your thoughts. "Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things" (v. 8). Guard your ...

121. A Man of God

Matthew 1:18-25

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King Duncan

... occurred to me that her name would be a suitable one for Jesus.” (4) That name would also have been a good name for Jesus’ father, Joseph—“the one who swept the anger away.” When someone hurts us, it is so tempting to strike back in anger. He thought that Mary was pregnant with the child of another man, but he did not seek revenge. He was hurt by this apparent break in their relationship, but he did not seek to hurt her in return. Joseph did decide to end their betrothal, but when an angel came to ...

122. Everything Must Go: If I Were a Rich Man

Luke 12:13-21

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James Merritt

... , and their families, and their neighbors, but this man evidently had no friends. He evidently either didn’t have a family or had a family and he didn’t care about them. He decides to do with all this extra surplus what we do with our extra surplus. “And he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.And I will say to my soul, “Soul ...

123. Thanksgiving and Prayer

Ephesians 1:15-23

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... in 1:15. 1:15 For this reason may refer to all that has been said in 1:3–14 about the blessings of God. But the apostle may have something more specific in mind, because he immediately mentions the faith and love of the readers. No doubt his thoughts and prayers go back to the fact that they, as Gentiles, heard the gospel and became God’s people (1:13, 14). The statement ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus speaks strongly against Ephesus as the destination of the letter, for it is ...

124. Made Alive in Christ

Ephesians 2:1-10

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... 2:1–10 and in 2:11–22. The apostle wants to demonstrate that the mighty power of God that was at work in Christ is also at work in the believer; what is true of Christ is also true for each believer in Christ. Unfortunately, this flow of thought is broken by the division of the text into chapters and verses. The Greek text permits one to appreciate the hymnic (liturgical) nature of this section because verses 1–7 form one sentence, and the first main verb does not occur until verse 5 (he made us alive ...

125. Paul's Ministry in Thessalonica

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... ; 25:31). Paul thereby discloses one of the major themes of these letters (cf. 2 Thess. 1:5). In 2 Thessalonians 2:14 the same thought of future glory is found, but what is here spoken of as God’s is there ascribed to Jesus—“the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ ... correlative verb, paradidomi, “to hand down,” in 1 Cor. 11:23; 15:3; see note on 2:13); the second, dechomai adds the thought that they had welcomed what they had received (cf. 1:6; 2 Thess. 2:10). Emphasis is laid on the fact that what they ...

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