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126. Overcoming Obstacles - Together

Luke 2:1-7, Psalm 107:1-9

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... walked in the door, Mom said: "Well, I've got good news." Dad's face lit up and Mom said, "Four of you children didn't break their arm today." After years of research they came up with two major theories as to how men can win arguments with their wives and maintain their respect. Unfortunately, neither theory has worked yet. (1) I remember having a knock down drag out fight with Mary, onetime. It wasn't just a loud discussion like we have every now and then, like all married couples have, this was a go for ...

127. The God Who Is, Who Was, and Who Is To Come

Revelation 1:4-8

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Leonard Sweet

... powerful phrase? The God who is. The God who was. The God who is to come. Old Newtonian physics taught that there were three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. It might have taken until the twentieth century for “string theory” or “M theory” to postulate that there are at least eleven dimensions of space. But in the first century John already knew there were three dimensions of time — present, past, and future, and that God fully and completely inhabited each. The God who is. Christian ...

128. Three Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... will do it, and in our nation that prides itself in such, we abort a million babies each year, and every city in the United States has the poor and the homeless to shame us and to show us the limitation of putting our hope in social theories or institutions. Charles Colson has helped us to see this in a remarkable way. I continue to be annoyed at the perception of the man and his commentary on political and social systems. Watergate happened in 1972. In 1982, the 10th anniversary of Watergate bevy of ...

129. Characteristics of the Church

Acts 2:42-47

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Maxie Dunnam

... against evolution. Now I don’t know whether Professor Ayala knows Dr. Denton, or whether Dr, Denton is a reputable scholar or not – but the arrogance of the person who would suggest that no reputable scientist would believe anything but a traditional theory of evolution is repulsive to me, reflecting a closed mind, not open scientific inquiry. Even so, it’s at kind of arrogance that has intimidated the Church and caused us to surrender to secular humanisms control of education, and laid the foundation ...

130. Asleep During the Big Moment

Eph 5:14

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Wallace H. Kirk

... Among those who had delivered papers to this society during the year were Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin! Now what ever you might think about evolution both those presentations outlined revolutionary theories on biological evolution. The intellectual history of mankind took a gigantic intellectual leap on the theories of Wallace and Darwin, but Thomas Bell missed it all. He was intellectually asleep and thought that nothing vital had happened in that cozy little group. How we miss the big moment ...

131. By Whose Standards?

1 Corinthians 4:1-5

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John N. Brittain

... Price of Success, and in his wife's 1985 biography of him titled, The Wounded Healer. There we read: At first every invitation was accepted as a challenge, as a call from the Lord. But when invitations reached three hundred a year, that theory became ridiculous. Even under control, his was a massive programme of writing, speaking, conferences, broadcasts, visits to cities and towns in America and throughout Great Britain. From 1955 to 1961 he maintained this killing programme and at last, when he was fifty ...

132. Let My Little Light Shine - Sermon Starter

Mt 5:13-20

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King Duncan

... of his manager's encouragement he felt different about it. Something in him was turning around. He found himself pitching the best ball of his career. In the National League pennant drive, he won 13 games out of 14. There are all kinds of theories about how to motivate people. We can do it through guilt, through fear, through shame. But these were not Jesus' methods. Jesus motivated through positive messages of hope and encouragement. Consider our lesson for today. Jesus says to his followers, "You are the ...

133. The Doctor's Brave Volunteer

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Max Lucado

... . Dr. Kane is a crusader against the hazards of general anesthesia. He contends that a local application is far safer. Many of his colleagues agree with him in principle, but in order for them to agree in practice, they will have to see the theory applied. Dr. Kane searches for a volunteer, a patient who is willing to undergo surgery wile under local anesthesia. A volunteer is not easily found. Many are squeamish at the thought of being awake during their own surgery. Others are fearful that the anesthesia ...

134. Historic: The Declaration of Independence

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Staff

... that government was a contract between the governed and those governing, who derived their power solely from the consent of the governed and whose purpose it was to protect every man's inherent right to property, life and liberty. Jefferson's theory of "natural law" differed in that it substituted the inalienable right of "the pursuit of happiness" for "property," emphasizing that happiness is the product of civic virtue and public duty. The concept of the "pursuit of happiness" originated in the Common ...

135. Dr. Gumperson's Final Irony

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Source Unknown

... of an obscure scientist named Gumperson. This gentleman had come up with a theory about life that he formulated into a basic law: That the contradictory of a welcome probability will assert itself whenever such an eventuality is likely to be most frustrating. That sounds pretty complicated, but the sense of it can be easily seen in the following "laws" that Dr. Gumperson formulated ...

136. A Little Privacy Please

Mark 6:30-56

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Charles Swindoll

A research psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health was convinced he could prove his theory from a cage full of mice. His name? Dr. John Calhoun. His theory? Overcrowded conditions take a terrible toll on humanity. Dr. Calhoun built a nine-foot square cage for selected mice. He observed them closely as their population grew. He started with eight mice. The cage was designed to contain comfortably a population of 160. He allowed the mice to grow, however, ...

137. Simple Courage to Raise a Family

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Charles Colson

... to the state. And his ideal state is one where impersonal institutions liberate citizens from all personal obligations. Now, here was a man who himself had turned to a state institution for relief from personal obligations. Was his own experience transmuted into political theory? Is there a connection between the man and the political theorist? It is risky business to try to read personal motives. But we do know that to the end of his life Rousseau struggled with guilt. In his last book, he grieved that ...

138. The Gospel By Starlight

Matthew 2:1-12

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David E. Leininger

... . The magi should not be there, but they were. And what about that star? Astronomers, theologians, and historians for hundreds of years have been trying to determine exactly which star might have inspired the biblical writing. There are two general theories. Some believe the star was made especially for that first Christmas: Poof! A star! Others have been convinced that there was a very special juxtaposition of heavenly bodies to produce a spectacular unique brilliance, never seen before or since. In ...

139. The Fig Tree

Luke 13:1-9

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David E. Leininger

... you believe that all suffering is the result of some evil that the tormented person has done (or if the victim is too young or obviously innocent, it must be the fault of parents or grandparents)? Lots of folks do. Psychologists call it the "Just World" theory — everything that happens is just and right, as it should be, even if it does not appear to be. Such a belief helps folks explain the inexplicable. What do you think, Jesus? "Well, I will tell you what I think ... unless you repent, you repent, you ...

140. The Landlord's Dilemma - World Communion Sunday

Matthew 21:33-46

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King Duncan

... ready for him and his Gospel of peace and justice. It still isn’t. He’s the stone that was rejected; the son who was murdered. But why did he do it? What drove him to lay down his life? Love. That’s the only reason. Theologians have advanced many theories about why it was necessary for Christ to die. Some say it was so he could take the punishment that we deserved. Others have said it was to ransom us from Satan. Others declare that, in order to undo what the original Adam had done in the fall of ...

141. An Announcement for a New Year

Galatians 3:26--4:7

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King Duncan

... until next Christmas, an eternity when you are a child. When you are 60, 70 or 80, a year seems like no time at all. Another Christmas will be here before we know it. It was Albert Einstein who introduced us to the idea that time is relative. Sometimes his theory of relativity has been reduced to the example of a young man sitting for a moment on a hot stove vs. sitting for a moment on the lap of a pretty girl. One moment can seem very long while the other seems very short. That is not exactly what Einstein ...

142. Moving On Up

Mark 9:33-37

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King Duncan

... don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.” (7) Author Calvin Miller was in India when Mother Teresa died. He says he was struck by a ...

143. On Cyprus

Acts 13:4-12

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... 1912 an inscription near Pisidian Antioch that mentions a “Lucius Sergius Paullus, the younger son of Lucius.” In 1913 Ramsay discovered the woman’s name Sergia Paulla on an inscription in the same region. These discoveries played an important part in his theory that the family of Sergius Paulus were Christians (see The Bearing of Recent Discovery on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament [London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1915], pp. 150–72). B. Van Elderen, however, has seriously questioned Ramsay’s ...

144. Ashore on Malta

Acts 28:1-10

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... Melita), but to Melita Illyrica (Mljet) in the Adriatic Gulf (see A. Acworth, “Where was St. Paul Shipwrecked?” JTS 24 [1973], pp. 190–93; but see also C. J. Hemer, “Euraquilo and Melita,” JTS 26 [1975], pp. 101–11). The theory rests on too narrow a definition of the Sea of Adria, which by the tenth century A.D., when the theory was first aired, was limited, as now, to the sea between Italy and the Balkans. In any case, it is too far from the probable route of the ship (see note on 27:27).

145. Personal Remarks

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... the writer, or “I have sent,” from that of the recipient; cf. Eph. 6:22). One may assume he also was to take over Timothy’s responsibilities. 4:13 This little request for the cloak and my scrolls, which puts considerable strain on theories of pseudepigraphy, is at once full of interest and historical uncertainties. The most likely reconstruction (understanding, of course, the hypothetical nature of much that is said) is that on his way back to Ephesus, Paul had been arrested, either in Miletus (v. 20 ...

146. Sabbath Regulations

Exodus 35:1-3

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... 32:1, they “gathered around” (lit., “assembled themselves”) to build the golden calf. Some source critics consider Exod. 35–40 to be a secondary priestly addition, but there is no consensus. See Durham, Exodus, p. 473, for a discussion of alternate theories. In the Heb. text (Masoretic Text), Exod. 25–31 and 35–39 have extremely similar content. In the Greek text (LXX), however, these sets of chs. have significantly different content. For a comprehensive treatment of the differences in the LXX ...

147. The Genealogy of David

Ruth 4:13-22

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

... Scott; Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1968) to designate Ruth as the hero of the story. C. Bremond has a good critique of Propp in “The Narrative Message,” Semeia 10 (1978), pp. 5–55. 4:17a Obed: Sasson (Ruth, pp. 175–78) lists several theories on the origin of this name. 4:17b He was the father: K. Nielsen (Ruth, pp. 21–28) argues the intriguing hypothesis that, far from being an appendix or an afterthought or an introduction to a now lost Book of Obed (the hypothesis of Sasson), the ...

148. The People in Jerusalem

1 Chronicles 9:1-34

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... to Chronicles. Still others regard 1 Chron. 9 as an original part of Chronicles, but one that depends on Neh. 11—a situation that is also reversed by some, so that Neh. 11 is made dependent on 1 Chron. 9. Knoppers indicates that all these theories have largely overlooked the Septuagint version of Neh. 11. After comparing both versions of Nehemiah with one another, as well as with the two versions (Masoretic Text and Septuagint) of 1 Chron. 9, he concludes that both writers made use of an earlier text but ...

149. The Genealogy of Saul

1 Chronicles 9:35-44

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... ventures into describing the relationships among these tribes. The ideology of the Chronicler is inclusivist, but that does not inhibit him from giving his view on the power relations among and status of the different groups. In the language of social-identity theory this can be called a process of intragroup categorization. d. His definition of the All-Israel community is closely related to the lineage of Judah, particularly the royal line of David and Solomon. However, his definition of All-Israel is not ...

150. Jesus Heals the Official’s Son

John 4:43-54

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... stopped overnight on the way, perhaps at Magdala. The servants would probably not have gone out with the good news until the next day, when the boy was safely out of danger. 4:54 Second miraculous sign: This reference, along with 2:11, has been made the basis of theories that John’s Gospel drew on a “signs source,” a collection of miracle stories told to bring people to faith in Christ. It is argued that at one time 20:30–31 or 12:37 (or both) belonged to this source. Later, 20:30–31 was used as ...

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