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1451. The Singers

1 Chronicles 25:1-31

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... 11:3–19; 1 Chron. 9:1–18); (3a) by the time of the Chronicler the Levitical singers are described in three family groups: Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun (1 Chron. 16:4–7, 38–42; 2 Chron. 5:12; 29:13–14; 35:15); (3b) three groups remain, but Jeduthun has been replaced by Ethan, and Heman has become more prominent than Asaph (1 Chron. 6:31–48; 15:16–21). Since the publication of Gese’s work more detailed studies of Chronicles have been undertaken, some of which have made adaptations to his theory ...

1452. The Remnant of Israel

Isaiah 10:20-34

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... half-hearted account of the remnant’s transformation in 10:20–23 which brought 10:5–23 to semi-closure. 10:20–23 So Assyria is reduced to a remnant, in the most negative of senses, with no suggestion of potential for new growth (“remaining trees” in v. 19 was literally “remnant of trees”). But the downfall of Assyria is not enough. If Yahweh is to have succeeded as Wonder-working Planner, that also requires the raising of Israel. Something must happen to Israel’s remnant. For a moment ...

1453. A Tribute to a Woman's Love

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... grand old name.” To honor her kindness to them, the miners named the stream that passed by her home “Mary’s River”--and it remains Mary’s River to this day. But there is more. When teachers from the United States founded schools in the little river village they, too ... place in the country, away from the bombs, but also away from their families. Even though the children who remained in London faced the very real possibility that their houses might be destroyed and that they might be physically ...

1454. Noah and the Robots

Genesis 9:8-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... clean and start all over. He sent the great flood to destroy all life on the earth. Except he decided to save a remnant: Noah and his family as well as two of every kind of animal on the earth. This is important. God allowed a remnant to remain. God never gives up hope on His beloved people. You and I would give up. We would decide to cut our losses, walk away, conclude that humanity is hopeless. But not God. Francis Thompson called God the “Hound of Heaven” who pursues us “down the labyrinthine ways ...

1455. The Week

Mark 14:1-15:47

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John Jamison

... the Mount of Olives, Jesus said that they would all betray him. In fact, he said that before the sun came up in the morning, Peter would actually betray him three times. Peter insisted it was not true, and they all argued with him and insisted they would all remain true to him forever and follow him to the end of the world. (fade out, pause, then up) Gethsemane is a small olive orchard at the bottom of the Kidron Valley between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives near where the town of Bethany sits. It was as ...

1456. United We Stand

John 17:11b-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... Father, protect them by the power of your name, the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of ... the name you gave me, so that they may be one as we are one . . .” It was important to Christ that the church, his body, remain unified after he was gone from them. Obviously he knew that would be difficult. We enjoy singing, “We are one in the Spirit, we are one ...

1457. No, We're Not There Yet

Mark 13:1-8

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April Yamasaki

... to the opportunities around us, we also need to be patient, to wait, to place our confidence in God. In our text, Jesus was not able to answer his disciples' questions fully. Yet even in the face of unanswered questions, in the face of uncertainty about the future, he remained calm and confident of God's provision. No, we're not there yet, but we know that God goes before us and will sustain us to the end. God grant us grace for this in-between time -- in between Jesus' first coming and his coming again, in ...

1458. Big Bubba Has Your Back

Revelation 21:1-6a

Sermon

King Duncan

... us. He will never forsake us. He is the God who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. Relax. Come out from under the seat. Big Bubba has your back. During the terrible siege of Leningrad in World War II, the city’s radio station remained on the air to reassure the people in this time of crisis that their country had not fallen. When the radio announcers were too weak or cold to play music or recite the news, they would turn on a metronome which monotonously clicked back and forth, echoing through ...

1459. Advice from a Billionaire

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... God reigns in human hearts. “You are not far from the kingdom.” Let’s use an analogy. When you or I go overseas we remain an American citizen. We may be on foreign soil but we take our citizenship with us. So it is that we can be in this ... there is love. And wherever love is, there is God. The kingdom has something to do with love. St. Paul writes, “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” In other words, if you are a citizen of the kingdom of God, it ...

1460. The Three Bs

Luke 3:1-22, Psalm 29

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Susan R. Andrews

... Jesus, it was like a dove — like the Noah’s Ark dove that marked the end of God’s judgment. The fire God, the ire God is replaced by the dove God, the love God. In all of the gospel accounts describing the baptism of Jesus, one question remains unanswered. Why was Jesus baptized? Why did he need to be baptized? After all, according to John, baptism was for the purpose of repentance and the forgiveness of sins. Of what did Jesus need to repent? And what did he need to be forgiven for? Actually, when ...

1461. A Dove Descended

Luke 3:21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... is my son . . .” However, the Gospel of John answers that question. The writer tells us that John the Baptist gave this testimony: “I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him. And I myself did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The man on whom you see the Spirit come down and remain is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ I have seen and I testify that this is God’s Chosen One” (John 1:32-34). What a magnificent scene. In one ...

1462. The Reception was Excellent

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... either. They were sorry, but it looked like the two boys would have to come home. They had put off telling them, hoping for some solution. “Were you disappointed?” Patricia Laye asked. “Devastated,” the businessman said. They both were. They had one month remaining to finish the year, then they could work all summer to earn their expenses. He said his grades were excellent, so he had been guaranteed a scholarship for the next term. “What did you do?” Laye asked. This is when the miracle occurred ...

1463. Speaking from the Heart

Luke 6:43-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... seeds in a garden. These seeds don’t just lie dormant in the dark, collecting dust. According to Jesus, the things we store up in our hearts start to grow, and push through to the surface of our lives through our words and our actions. They can’t remain hidden. They have to be dealt with. Now let me set this teaching in context. First, you’ve got to understand where Jesus was when he spoke these words, then you’ve got to understand to whom he was speaking. Just before this teaching, Jesus had spent ...

1464. The Awesome Power of FUD

John 21:1-19

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R. Robert Cueni

... , uncertainty, and doubt in the first century. They got through it and so can we. When zapped by the power of FUD, refuse to slide into the despair of “oh woe is me — nobody knows the misery I know.” FUD has been and remains a common human experience. Over the centuries, multitudes have experienced failure at fishing and first grade boat drawing. Fear from being threatened, uncertainty about our future, and crippling self-doubt are common to the human experience. When we keep that reality in mind, the ...

1465. Our Oneness in Christ

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... the most radiant expression during our visit, and he sang at the top of his lungs. As we were shaking hands and saying good-bye, I noticed that Brewer walked back into his cell with one of our volunteers. The others began filing out, but this volunteer remained in Brewer's cell; the two were standing shoulder to shoulder, together reading the Bible. I was expected in two hours in Indianapolis for a meeting with the governor, so I walked back into the cell. "We've got to go," I called out, beckoning to our ...

1466. A Strange, New Math

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... minister afterwards for instructions in the faith. But as he entered the building the ushers refused to seat him. "Why don't you visit the colored peoples' church?" he was asked. Gandhi never became a Christian. "If Christians also have differences, I might as well remain a Hindu," he explained. Yes, we have differences -- but in God's strange math 1 + 1 + 1 = One. For those who believe that, their eyes look upon their neighbor in a whole new way. For those who believe that, their arms cannot help but reach ...

1467. Is There Any Hope?

1 Cor 15:14

Illustration

Staff

... three months after her loss, on 17 March 1928, S-4 returned to the surface on huge pontoons. By that time, divers had already removed 32 bodies; two in the engine room and the six in the torpedo room were the only ones that remained. When the compartment that had sheltered the boat’s last survivors was finally opened, personnel found Lieutenant Fitch “lying under a workbench just abaft the starboard torpedo tubes. Over him were two black spots…. These were breaks in the white-painted surface and ...

1468. Saved By the Light

Isaiah 60:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... crews were working 16-hour days to repair the damage. One customer called the customer service line and complained about the power outage, then stopped raging long enough to ask, “How will I know when my lights are back on?” The customer service agent remained silent for a second, debating about the best way to answer such an obvious, even ridiculous question. How will you know when your lights are back on? Finally, she just said, “Um, it’ll be brighter than it is now.” The customer hung up ...

1469. Shockwaves of Joy

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus in the last week of his life. Why didn’t he give up on humanity right then and there? In those last, lonely hours of his arrest and torture and crucifixion, why didn’t he put a stop to it all? Why would he remain faithful when we were faithless? Why would he remain courageous when we became cowards? Why would he still love us when we betrayed him? Because love is God’s essential nature. Love is God’s greatest weapon to defeat evil. Love is why God created the world in the first place and how ...

1470. Lost in Plain Sight

John 1:29-34, John 1:35-42

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... Z, and that elusive evidence of an advanced civilization that supposedly inhabited the Amazon basin in ancient times long ago. Recently, archeologists using satellite, x-ray, and computer imaging technology that Percy Fawcett would never have dreamed possible, have discovered the remains of a warren of villages laid out on a grid of parallel streets and roads. They believe that the community held about 3,000-5,000 inhabitants. And right at the center of the vast complex of streets and homes and businesses ...

1471. Parabola

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... cities lie waste without inhabitant, and houses without people, and the land is utterly desolate; until the Lord sends everyone far away, and vast is the emptiness in the midst of the land. Even if a tenth part remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains standing when it is felled.” The holy seed is its stump. Listen to what Jesus says: ‘You will indeed listen, but never understand, and you will indeed look, but never perceive. For this people’s heart has ...

1472. Soul Food

Luke 9:10-17, Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, John 6:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... would listen politely to a sermon and scripture, sing hymns, and then they would be invited in to the dining area, where they would be fed a meal, enough to fill them. They would sit at their tables and eat with each other. But all too often the servers would remain in the kitchen. More than one time, when I was serving in such a ministry, I had to ask those in the kitchen to go out and sit with our guests. Reluctant at first, eventually they did, men, women, and children. Coming up to one man, who had just ...

1473. Scandal

Matthew 16:21-28, Matthew 17:14-23, Matthew 20:17-19, Matthew 26:1-5

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to see Jesus.’ Philip went to tell Andrew, and Andrew and Philip together went to tell Jesus. Jesus replied to them: ‘Now the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you, most solemnly, unless a wheat grain falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single grain; but if it dies, it yields a rich harvest. Anyone who loves his life loses it; anyone who hates his life in this world will keep it for the eternal life. If a man serves me, he must follow me, wherever I am, my servant will ...

1474. Revised and Revisioned

John 8:48-59, John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41, John 10:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... see, and those who do see may become blind.” Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind, are we?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains. “Very truly, I tell you, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate but climbs in by another way is a thief and a bandit. The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep ...

1475. Here I Am

Luke 1:26-38, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty. He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, according to the promise he made to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever.” And Mary remained with her about three months and then returned to her home. Image Exegesis: Mary’s Song “And Miryam said, Hinei! I am the shifcha of Hashem.” --Orthodox Jewish Bible When encountered by God, it’s not unusual for one to break out in song! Mary ...

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