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126. Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

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Leonard Sweet

... :17-19, drawing a dismal portrait of the lives of those untouched by the knowledge of Christ. Christians are to renounce all marks of a Christless culture, "bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice." Yet the Christlike qualities he enjoins are remarkably simple: being "kind," Tenderhearted" and Forgiving." None of those qualities appear especially heroic or dramatically expressive, but rather work quietly and with dignity to create a community based upon divine love ...

127. Colossians 3:1-11

Colossians 3:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... (v.5), typically identified as "pagan" in character, are listed: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed. The writer follows these with five more negatives (verse 8) that are evils that emerge when humans live in community with one another: anger, wrath, malice, slander and abusive language. The double-listing of five virtues are not given in the context of this week's epistle reading, extending as they do from verse 12 (the first five virtues) and verses 13-15 (the second five). Even though ...

128. Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

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Leonard Sweet

129. Colossians 3:1-11

Colossians 3:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

130. Epiphany 7

Isaiah 43:14-28, Mark 2:1-12, 2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

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John R. Brokhoff

... their questions but they asked them in their minds. Jesus knew this and exposed their thoughts to answer their questions. Certainly the scribes were right in holding that only God can forgive. If Jesus forgives, could he not be God's Son? Questioning with malice results in no good, but honest and open questioning leads to truth. 4. Authority (v. 10). Jesus performs a miracle to demonstrate his authority to forgive. In the minds of the scribes, it was easy to forgive but impossible to make a paralytic walk ...

131. Proper 11

Psalm 52:1-9, Amos 8:1-12, Luke 10:38-42, Colossians 1:15-28

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B. David Hostetter

... beset by temptation. Encourage those who are in danger of losing their faith and giving up the good fight. Have mercy on habitual criminals and those who are victims of addiction of one kind or another. Comfort those who are injured by the carelessness or malice of others; the misunderstood, the misjudged, the defamed, and all who are unjustly used and held down by the inhumane. Be near, O Lord, to the sick and the sorrowing. Uphold all who are trying to bear pain and loss bravely, all who must watch ...

132. Proper 13

Matthew 14:13-21, Psalm 17:1-15, Genesis 32:22-32, Romans 9:1-29

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B. David Hostetter

... bear, and support those on the verge of losing faith and giving up the good fight. Have mercy on hardened sinners and those enslaved by grievous addictions. May these surrender to your higher power. Send true comforters to those who are suffering from the malice of others or by the mistreatment of the careless; any who have been misjudged and misunderstood; and those who are victims of injustice and oppression because of their race, their religion, or their sex. Hasten the day of liberty and justice for all ...

133. Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Leonard Sweet

... fully accomplished. God’s works are “sealed” for the coming “day of redemption” (v.30). Specific examples of foul language are detailed in v.31 — “bitterness, rage, wrath, shouting, slander” as well as the foul motivation of “all malice.” Instead of those community-crushing sounds, the virtues of compassion, of kindness, and of forgiveness are counseled. The motivation for practicing these virtues is the highest possible one imaginable: each member of the community of faith has already ...

134. Tinctures of Truth in the Tincture of Time

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Leonard Sweet

... angry.” There is anger, both the short-fused, everything just went wrong, snappish anger. And then there is the more deep-seated, slow-burning, “bitterness”-“wrath”-“shouting”-“slander” anger, not to mention the deep, stunting erosion of “malice.” The tincture prescribed: a slowly steeped elixir of “kindness,” “compassion” and most especially “forgiveness.” The community of faith is to dose daily on the remembrance that “God in Christ has forgiven you” (v.32), and that ...

135. The Promise that Won’t Be Broken

2 Timothy 1:1-14

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Clayton A. Lord

... true of new Christians. We do not think it is fair that we should have to suffer. In a fallen world the exact opposite is true. Every day ought to be nothing but disaster and sheer chaos. Every day, every moment ought to be filled with malice, hatred, viciousness, and betrayal. The fact that those things only come rather infrequently into our lives is due to the mercies of God. We ought to expect nothing but the direst hardships, but actually we are given hours and days — sometimes weeks and months — of ...

136. Fruitcakes, Fruit-Baskets and New Year’s Babies

Ephesians 1:1-14

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Leonard Sweet

... available. The third fruit is recreated: Everyone knows if you are “wet behind the ears” you are just getting started. It was “wet behind the ears” Ephesian community that had to be told what bad behaviors to ditch (anger, wrath, malice, slander) and what good behaviors to develop (compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience). Those who had been baptized “in Christ” now needed to get our of the water and “put on” Christ, in habits of holiness. The Ephesians needed to embody ...

137. LOST? Looking For Peace

Matthew 18:21-22, Colossians 3:8-15, Hebrews 11:1

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... sign of servanthood and the outpouring of God's Spirit and love in our lives. As you come forward, listen to these words from Paul's letter to the Colossians 3:8-15 (NRSV) [8] But now you must get rid of all such things anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive language from your mouth. [9] Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have stripped off the old self with its practices [10] and have clothed yourselves with the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its creator ...

138. Jesus’ Inaugural Adress

Luke 4:14-21

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Mickey Anders

Every four years the new president of the United States gives his inaugural address. In it, he articulates his program or his plan of action for his term of office. See if you recognize who these inaugural address lines are from, which president said: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his ...

139. Conflict Resolution (Series: Fundamentals of Family)

Colossians 3:1-17

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J. Howard Olds

... ? Are we willing to let go of our hurts and pains, our disappointments and sorrows? Can we bring them to the Lord and leave them there? Revenge may taste sweet with the first bite, but it grows bitter with the second and third chew. You deserve to be free of malice, anger, and bitterness. The time to start is now. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. Brought to you by FaithBreaks.org

140. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... openness of Jesus’ life that he actually communicated Christ through his person. No wonder his prayer is the classic summary of the person in Christ. Lord, Make me an instrument of thy peace, where hate rules, let me bring love, where malice, forgiveness, where disputes, reconciliation, where error, truth, where doubt, belief, where despair, hope, where darkness, thy light, where sorrow, Joy! O Master, let me strive more to comfort others than to be comforted, to understand others, than to be understood ...

141. What is the Future of Marriage?

Mark 12:18-27

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J. Howard Olds

... with some questions confronting us. Are we entering a post-marriage society? Will we change the rules of marriage to accommodate all kinds of relationships? Can we maintain a Biblical view of marriage while granting all persons their civil rights? May love and respect guide us through this debate. With malice toward none, with charity for all, may we be led with a light from above.

142. Sexual Ethics for the 21st Century

John 8:1-11

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J. Howard Olds

... in our moral Lives. “Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more." The Bible makes no distinction between sins of the flesh and sins of the spirit. Paul says in Colossians “Put to death sexual immorality, impurity, lust, greed, anger, rage, malice, slander, lying and put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience." As I was surfing the Internet looking for sermons on this text, I discovered a sermon delivered by a colleague of mine in which he said, “Sexual sin is different and in ...

143. Living on the Easter Side of Life

Colossians 3:1-4

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J. Howard Olds

... I caught a glimpse of what it meant to be a child of God and I have been living into that reality ever since. Have you discovered your purpose of living? Whatcha got on your mind today? Are your thoughts full of lust, greed, anger, rage, malice, slander, or do you concentrate on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience? Do you forgive as the Lord has forgiven you? Does the peace of Christ rule in your heart? These are the thoughts of those whose minds are set on things above, says Paul. These ...

144. Remember: No Deposit, No Return

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... give grace to those who hear. [30] And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption. [31] Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice, [32] and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you. [5:1] Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children, [2] and live in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and ...

145. Matthew 22:15-22

Matthew 22:15-22

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Leonard Sweet

... images. The declarations that Tiberius was “son of the Divine Augustus” and the “high priest” were anathema. Jesus is not fooled by the oily compliments his questioners give him. Instead he instantly identifies their true nature. They are filled with “malice” and thus their compliments reveal them as “hypocrites.” They are not questioning Jesus in search of a wise or true answer. They are hoping to trap him (“peirazo”) into making a statement that would either brand him as a political ...

146. Get the Monkey off Your Back

Matthew 22:15-22

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Leonard Sweet

... The Pharisees and Heroidans who pose their question to Jesus address him respectfully as a “Teacher” and praise him to his face as one who is “sincere,” who “teaches the way of God in accordance with the truth.” But their hearts are full of “malice,” and their words are full of hypocrisy. They are not seeking God’s truth. They are seeking a snare in which they might entrap Jesus and expose him to either the judgment of Rome or the condemnation of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish bureaucracy. Like ...

147. The Real Underdog!

1 Samuel 17:1, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49

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William J. Carl, III

... trying to beat us down, but no matter how hard it tries, Christ is victorious. In the face of Christ, evil doesn't stand a chance. I realize there are times we think we will be overcome by the Goliaths around us — drugs, addictions, envy, greed, malice, and the like — Goliaths in our lives globally, communally, and personally that threaten to strike us down. But when they do, we need to pull this story out and read it again, not because we want to see David, the underdog, conquer the big bully, but ...

148. Getting Through the Grief

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27

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William J. Carl, III

... above any personal animosity he'd had toward Saul. Here we have a foreshadowing of Jesus' "love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you" (Matthew 5:44), and Paul's admonition to "overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21). Purged of any bitterness or malice, David delivers his eulogy for Saul and Jonathan with what appears as true grief for both of them. But, I think there is something more going on here. David is more than just a good politician. David is filled with the Spirit of the living God ...

149. The First Automobile Related Fatality

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Wikipedia

... morning. Arthur Smith, the driver of the taxicab, claimed that a large truck occupied the right side of the avenue, making it necessary to drive his vehicle closer to the car, however he was arrested and charged with manslaughter but was subsequently acquitted on the grounds that he had no malice, nor was he negligent. The passenger of the taxi-cab, Dr. David Orr Edson, was the son of former New York City mayor Franklin Edson.

150. The Gospel According to You

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Arthur McPhee

... chapter each day By the things that you do and the words that you say, Men read what you write, whether faithless or true, Say, what is the gospel according to you? Do men read His truth and His love in your life, Or has yours been too full of malice and strife? Does your life speak of evil, or does it ring true? Say, what is the gospel according to you?

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