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1626. Salvation: Authentic and Powerful

Amos 5:18-27

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King Duncan

... Christian unity relish whatever the Lord of the church requires. The authenticity and power of his salvation come to us with "no strings attached." This has a leveling impact on all of us. His salvation just will not be used by anyone or anything for very long. The hucksters, who ply their wares of "Do this and do that in order to be saved," in time, are shown for what they are. In a more acceptable way, pride of self accomplishment has subtle methods of attempting to replace the Creator with the created ...

1627. Success: Ultimate and Unlimited

Revelation 7:9-17

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... - my dear friends in Christ - is arriving! HOPE AND PURPOSE ARE FOUND in indelible ink as we bring to conclusion our visit, based upon this moving passage in the Book of Revelation. Christian unity finds its own consummation as well. Those who have labored long and hard await the honor - some having already received it - given expression by "God will wipe away every tear from their eyes." We know what ultimate and unlimited success is. It is spending eternity with our Savior and Lord. Heaven is for real ...

1628. THE PROCESS

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... began ... 2: That it would be so easy to put aside? 1: I wouldn’t have thought so! 2: [Gets up, picks up the two packages next to the chair] But it is, isn’t it. [Exit] 1: [Does not notice 2’s actions] I don’t know - such a long time; so many memories; it doesn’t seem right. 3: [Enters, carrying one package; sits down in 2’s seat] To move on and leave them? 1: Well, to push them aside ... 3: But isn’t it more like moving on? 1: I hadn’t thought of it like that ...

1629. The Touch of the Master's Hand

Luke 5:12-16

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Bill Bouknight

... all persons to the God who loved them enough to die for them. After there is a love linkage, then lifestyle choices can be worked out in the light of biblical truth and Christian fellowship. You see, outside the love of Christ, the Bible looks like just a long list of impossible demands dreamed up by a narrow-minded, judgmental God. But after we see the cross and what he did for us there, then the Bible becomes a love-letter from God's heart. With the help of Christ, can't we become places of hospitality ...

1630. Advance into Europe

Acts 15:36-41

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... and forgiveness took place at this time, even if it had not done so earlier. Mark’s place as a gospel writer and as a faithful disciple of Jesus is unsullied. Whatever the cause of his "desertion" at Perga, it may well have been justified. Mark’s long career is believed to have included a final period as bishop of the church at Ephesus. Paul watched Barnabas and Mark sail off for Cyprus and realized that it would be needless for him to revisit the churches there. He therefore teamed up with Silas, one ...

1631. Return to Jerusalem

Acts 20:7-12

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... , a journey past some Greek islands that can now be negotiated by steamer in five hours. Ancient Troas or Troy is well remembered because of Homer’s epic stories of its great early glory. Helen of Troy, the beautiful goddess who became an enchanting woman; the long Trojan wars; the episode of the Trojan Horse - what a wealth of mythology and history surrounded the group as they climbed from the ship up the hill and past the remnants of ancient walls. In Paul’s day, the city was already 3,000 years old ...

1632. Lord, Lead Me On

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Ruth Margaret Gibbs

I looked at the mountain. "It is too hard, Lord," I said. "I cannot climb." "Take my hand," he whispered. "I will be your strength." I saw the road. "It is so long, Lord," I said, "so rough, and long." "Take my love," he answered, "I will guard your feet." I looked at the sky. "But the sun is gone," I said. "Already it grows dark." "Take the lantern of my word." he whispered. "That will be light enough." We climbed. The road was narrow and steep, but the way ...

1633. Let Yes Be Yes!

Matthew 15:21-28

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... were not. This woman speaks to us because she speaks for us. She had a serious problem. We have lots of those. She could have given up or gone in the wrong direction. We have those same options. Her example of strong faith ought to inspire us. In the long history of Christian theology there has been an unending tug-of-war between the idea (on the one hand) that "our" faith is (really) God’s gift, and (on the other hand) the idea that faith is our free response to grace. Truth is best served when we see ...

1634. For Christ’s Sake, What’s Going On?

Matthew 18:15-20

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Michael L. Sherer

... . It assumes that disagreements can arise without both parties to the conflict even realizing it. How often has it happened to you that someone insults, or slights, or otherwise humiliates you to the point that you begin to steam and stew about it? You may wait to see how long it takes the person to come and ask for your forgiveness. Or you may begin avoiding that person because you know for sure now that he or she doesn’t like you and can be counted on to do something at least as hurtful to you when next ...

1635. It Isn’t Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

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... , as we learned last week, includes forgiving others to a fault)? What if God gave everlasting life exclusively to those who never ever yielded to the Prince of Darkness? Where would we be? In fact, God gave up trying to be "fair" with us a long, long time ago. In fact, God’s sense of "justice" would have totally obliterated everyone he made, beginning with our first parents and catching up all their descendants in the same broad, angry net. A just God would have started over or just folded up creation ...

1636. Repent Your Way To A Merry Christmas

Matthew 3:1-12

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Brett Blair

... a desperately poor young couple living in New York around the turn of the century. Neither had money sufficient to buy a gift for the other so they each secretly went out and sold something of worth. He sold his prized pocket watch to get her a braid for her long hair. When he presented it to her she removed her scarf to reveal that she had had her hair clipped and sold to purchase a chain for his pocket watch. The thrust of the story is obvious. It is not what you give that is important, but the sharing ...

1637. Kindness That Makes You Sorry!

Joel 2:12-17

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Barbara Brokhoff

... The shocked Texan said, "All right, you name it and you’ve got it." The man said, "I want the guy who shoved me into that pool!" God’s justice calls out for punishment, but more than anything else, he wants to be gentle, not harsh, with us. His longing is to see us repent, so that he can relent of the evil which we have brought upon ourselves. Kindness That Makes You Sorry I came to know Christ as my Savior after hearing many, many sermons and refusing far too many invitations to be a Christian. I’d ...

1638. Laborers Needed for the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

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Dennis Kastens

... is saturated with vocal athesists; they will not gain ground if the pure gospel (which the Holy Spirit needs to do his work) is proclaimed alongside their confrontations. If atheists could overthrow the church, Christianity would have been overthrown long ago. Where can infidels be found more powerful than Voltaire, Hume, Gibbon, Bolingbroke, and Rousseau? Where can one find persecutors more violent than bloody Nero or Domitian? If Christians were to accelerate the proclamation of the gospel, instead of ...

1639. God Is Not Yet Finished With You

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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John R. Brokhoff

... by some automatic, natural selection ending in a human being. It does not really matter how God created homo sapiens, nor how long it took him to create man. The essential fact is that God the Father is responsible for our being what and where ... in me, next year I should be a better person. This is the reason we need to be patient with each other. How long has your friend been a Christian? How long have you allowed the Spirit to have full sway in your life? The issue, then, is not for us to talk or admonish ...

1640. A King Worth Having

Zechariah 9:9-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... in charge, someone to look up to for guidance. That someone is a person’s god. When the Israelites at Mt. Sinai felt Moses and his God had deserted them, they came to Aaron with the demand, "Up, make us gods!" To them it did not matter which god, so long as they had a god to worship and serve. Without a King-God, people are confused and bewildered. In the era of the Judges, it is reported that every person did what was right in his own eyes, because there was no king in Israel. Without a king, there are ...

1641. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

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John R. Brokhoff

... he has given us. Care If We Perish? One night Jesus and his Disciples were in a boat on the Sea of Galilee. It was a long hard day and Jesus was exhausted and went to sleep. While he was sleeping, a terrific storm suddenly came and frightened the men to the point ... in jail. Or, take the case of the Watergate crimes. Of the twenty who served prison terms, only four served as long as one year. Some years later, the security guard who discovered and reported the Watergate break-in was arrested for shoplifting a ...

1642. As Good As God

Leviticus 19:1-37

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John R. Brokhoff

... ago, Barbara and I served as chaplains for a week at the famous New York Chattauqua which is located along the shores of Lake Chattauqua. While there, we heard the story of an eagle which hovered over the lake and suddenly swooped down and caught a two-foot long fish in its talons. Slowly, the bird rose with its ten pound catch, but when it reached about 1,000 feet, it began to descend, until it splashed into the water. Later, both the bird and fish were found dead. Apparently the fish was too heavy for the ...

1643. "When E. F. Hutton Talks"

Jeremiah 26:1-24

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Peter Rudowski

... of Jerusalem, the people would be safe. Keep the building painted and in good repair. Keep the building in the best possible shape. When it comes to the budget, the building is the one category that you don’t have to worry about. Here is security, for as long as we worship in a nice place, God must be close at hand. Yet underneath those beliefs there must have been the uneasy feeling that there must be more than this. Life is more than ritual and buildings. Where do we find fulfillment? How can we improve ...

1644. Gabriel Speaks to Mary

Luke 1:26-38

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George Bass

... creation groaning for its latter day." We need a new world; our world needs to be recreated - not simply according to scientific precepts and technological developments, but according to the divine plan that God was offering to the world when the angel Gabriel spoke to Mary long ago, "Hail, Mary, ... you have found favor with God. And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus." In Jesus, God began creating a new world, and that process will go on in the face of ...

1645. Born to Play Second Fiddle

Luke 1:57-66

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George Bass

... predict the coming of the Messiah, and the one of them who actually saw his Messianic prophesy fulfilled by God. Maybe that’s part of the reason he willingly died to keep faith with God. Like Thomas, he saw and believed - or to put it another way, he lived long enough to see his faith in God justified. God is as good as his word, his promises - and that is more difficult to believe when we live in another time and a different kind of world. It has been given us to believe without seeing - and that’s a ...

1646. The Role of an Angel

John 20:10-18

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George Bass

... t that what the lives of people are to be like if they have heard - and believed - the good news about Jesus Christ, realizing that "because he lives, we shall live also." Mary had a heavy heart on that Sunday morning that we now call Easter - but not for long. It began rather routinely - but all of that changed for her - and for the disciples and for us - when she saw that the stone was rolled away from Jesus’ tomb. And when the Lord himself - not the angels sitting at the head and the foot of the slab ...

1647. No Condemnation!

Romans 8:1-17

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Dennis Kastens

... who worshiped Hauron. Micah undoubtedly looked at these gods and the religions that were connected with them. And after examining them he lifted up his face to the one true God and cried out, "Who is a God like unto thee, that pardons iniquity?" This was long centuries ago. But the difference between the one God and the many other gods is still the same today. You can search the writings of the master-minds and great thinkers of all ideologies and philosophies and religions from Micah’s day to the present ...

1648. Clouds and Son-Shine

Ephesians 3:1-13

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Hubert Beck

... certainty, and they worshiped the child, giving him gifts fit for a king. One wonders how God communicated such a strong drive to these men to go to so much trouble for such a brief visit. We would hardly drive five hundred miles in our cars - a long day’s journey - for a brief visit to one of such unknown character (remember: he had not yet in any way "proved" himself - they simply accepted at face value what they saw!); much less would we have endured this hardship for such a prolonged period of time ...

1649. The Call to Obedience

Luke 22:42 · Romans 1:17 · John 15:10

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Robert G. Tuttle

... he forgives us, we want to follow and obey - and he helps us obey. Obey the best you can by faith. That is all he asks. You long to obey, and this way of life becomes yours. But, are we obeying the best we can? Draw close to God "and he will draw close ... with people who are seeking to serve God. Let God excite our talents to their highest expression. All this is not new. For a long time men have heard the voice of God in such great principles of life as: "Thou shall not kill; Thou shall not commit adultery; ...

1650. Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Romans 11:33-36

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Raymond Gibson

... wonderful things God had done for him - and for you and me as well. But there was another question. a second impossible query, still another interrogative with no answer: "Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?" God had asked it of Job long centuries before and now Paul asked it of himself. Job had not been able to answer that question either. All he did was to confess his humanity before God’s divinity and surrender himself in adoration. That was all Paul could do as well, and he did it ...

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