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1651. Everything Must Go: The Treasure Principle

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... thief could easily break through the wall and steal it. What Jesus was saying was, “Be careful that you don’t put your treasure in what can be ruined, rotted, or robbed.” You can put your money in blue-chip stocks. You can put your cash in a state of art vault, or a government backed-bank. You can invest it in the finest real estate in the world. You can put it in rare pictures that hang on your wall, but either one day it will be taken away from you or you will be taken away from it. Do ...

1652. Jesus Prays for Us

John 17:6-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... accumulated 70 guns in all. (2) Seventy guns seems like to me a little overkill, no pun intended. But this can be a scary world. I don’t know where you turn for protection from the dangers of this world whether to your faith, or to your martial arts skills or to your silver tongue or even to a weapon. In today’s lesson, the writer of the Gospel of John captures the closing days of Jesus’ life and ministry here on earth. In this chapter, Jesus prays for himself and for his disciples. Basically he prays ...

1653. Chickens with Eyeglasses

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Talk about a thorn that could not be removed. She, like Paul, prayed for God’s healing, but healing did not come. How did she respond? For a while she was mad at God and the world. But then God did a great work in her life. She took up art. She began to draw and paint. How could she do that, you ask, being quadriplegic? She does it by placing the pencil or paintbrush in her mouth and using it to produce great artwork. Her life didn’t end with her disability. Indeed, a new life began. She broadened her ...

1654. Poem: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day

Eulogy

William Shakespeare

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or ...

1655. Poem: Sonnet 29

Eulogy

William Shakespeare

... men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself, and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man’s art, and that man’s scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee – and then my state, Like to the lark at break of day arising From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate; For ...

1656. Poem: Music, When Soft Voices Die

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory - Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the beloved's bed; And so thy thoughts ,when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

1657. No Longer Strangers

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... a crowd of people that you didn’t know? Even when you don’t know anyone, something in you wants to relate to someone. And this idea of relating to a stranger in a crowd has been a romantic influence throughout the centuries on literature, art, and music. The Rogers and Hammerstein song says that, “Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger across a crowded room, and somehow you know, you know even then, that someday you’ll see her again and again.” No longer strangers--there is suddenly that ...

1658. Blessed Are the Abnormal

James 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... .” (1) Van Gogh’s governing body in the church agreed with the baker’s wife. They disagreed with van Gogh’s lifestyle and refused to renew his contract. He was forced to find another occupation. And so, I suppose, it was then Vincent devoted himself to art. That baker’s wife was correct, though. Vincent van Gogh was not normal. He was a troubled young man whose life was filled with sorrow. But what does it mean to be normal? She said he wasn’t normal because he tried to follow Jesus. Is that ...

1659. Moving On Up

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... : Writings & Speeches That Changed the World, Edited by James M. Washington (HarperCollins Publishers: SanFrancisco, 1992), pg. 189-190. Cited by Rev. Eldonna Hazen http://www.firstcongmadison.org/sermons/srm102206.pdf. 8. Calvin Miller, Preaching: The Art of Narrative Exposition (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006). 9. Tarbell’s Lesson Commentary, September 2004?August 2005 (Colorado Springs: Cook Communications). 10. (Harper Collins, 1994), p. 159. Cited by Dave Redick, http://preacherstudy.com/bestseat ...

1660. A Small Town Is Blessed

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

... miraculously because Christmas is from God. Frederick Buechner, in his book Listening to Your Life, wrote: “When [this] child was born, the whole course of human history was changed. That is a truth that is as unassailable as any truth. Art, music, literature, western culture itself, with all its institutions and western man’s whole understanding of himself and his world. It is impossible to conceive how differently things would have turned out if that birth had not happened, whenever, wherever, however ...

1661. In Praise of Perseverance

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... to the poor's call for justice, how much more will the God who loves us and cares for us respond to our persistent cry for help? That is the lesson here. Be persistent. Don't give up. Accomplishment requires perseverance. The story is told of an art lover traveling through Scandinavia. He stops to visit a monastery where a famous painting was housed. The traveler hopes to see the painting, but when he arrives, the front door is locked. He uses the huge iron knocker on the door to notify those inside of his ...

1662. An Unforgettable Baptism

Luke 3:21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... you reckon they will scalp us inside here?” Thompson said their Native American guide was justifiably indignant. She stated that scalping was the horrendous method of torture used by Europeans to terrorize the Indians. Native Americans merely learned the art of terror with greater precision. Then she shared this insight from her oral history. When the Christian missionaries came to the Cherokee tribes in the late seventeenth century and told the story of Jesus, the tribesmen were quickly converted. Their ...

1663. Mighty Morphin Power People

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... an unlikely hit,” says Pastor John Ortberg, “originally produced with a very low budget in Japan, then badly dubbed into English. But their appeal was that--while ordinary teenagers by day--when called upon, they could transform themselves into powerful martial arts experts for justice. They would cry, ‘It’s morphin time!’” (5) Friends, its “morphin” time for you and me. This term metamorphoo is only used twice in the New Testament. Once is here in Matthew 17:2, for the Transfiguration of ...

1664. Trust The Equipment

Illustration

Michael P. Green

Pole climbing is an art. In order to climb, one must have a belt that goes around the pole and wear spiked shoes. The secret is to lean back and depend on the belt so the spikes can dig into the pole. Depending on the belt is hard to learn; often a beginner slides down ...

1665. Conditioned For The Journey

Illustration

Michael P. Green

Lord Joseph Duveen, American head of the art firm that bore his name, planned in 1915 to send one of his experts to England to examine some ancient pottery. He booked passage on the Lusitania. Then the German Embassy issued a warning that the liner might be torpedoed. Duveen wanted to call off the trip. “I can’t ...

1666. Trying to Get More

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... and in being able to indulge ourselves in whatever we wanted, then most of us in America should be delirious with joy and happy beyond description. We should be producing books and poems that describe our state of unparalleled bliss. Our literature and art should rival that of the ancient Greeks and Romans and Renaissance craftsmen. Instead we find those who have “things” trying to get more of them, for no apparent reason other than to have more. We find high rates of divorce, suicide, depression, child ...

1667. Examining Ourselves with the Lord's Prayer

Illustration

Staff

I cannot say “our” if I live only for myself. I cannot say “Father” if I do not endeavor each day to act like his child. I cannot say “who art in heaven” if I am laying up no treasure there. I cannot say “hallowed be thy name” if I am not striving for holiness. I cannot say “thy Kingdom come” if I am not doing all in my power to hasten that wonderful event. I cannot say “thy will be ...

1668. Solomon Builds the Temple

2 Chronicles 3:1-17

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... the previous episode, however, Huram-Abi was explicitly offered to Solomon by King Hiram of Tyre to perform these duties. In 4:11 the name Huram occurs twice (in both variations: Huram and Hiram). It is thus clear that he was the designer of all the artful decorations mentioned in the next verses. In 4:18 Solomon becomes the explicit subject of the verb again in accordance with the source text in 1 Kings 7:47. At this point it becomes clear that, although the Sidonian artisan Huram was responsible for the ...

1669. The Ark Brought to the Temple

2 Chronicles 5:2-6:11

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... very closely, with only minor insertions. It is clear from one small section of the episode (1 Chron. 6:41–42) that the Chronicler also had access to another biblical text, namely, Psalm 132:8–10. It is important to point out at this stage how artful the Chronicler’s narrative composition is. An important part of the David narrative was the bringing of the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem. We then heard the promise of Yahweh to David of an eternal kingship, and we read about all David’s preparations ...

1670. Stephen’s Speech to the Sanhedrin

Acts 7:1-53

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... about each of them a distinctiveness that not only fits each to its context, but in some cases, at least, to the speaker’s own writings elsewhere (see, e.g., disc. on 5:30, 13:39; 15:13ff.; 20:17–38). To attribute this entirely to Luke’s art is to give him greater credit than he deserves. In short, there is every reason for confidence that the speeches are genuine reflections of what was actually said, and Stephen’s no less than the others. In this case, of course, there are no external criteria on ...

1671. The Church in Antioch

Acts 11:19-30

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... second. It has been described as “a bastion of Hellenism in the Syriac lands … the inevitable meeting point of the two worlds” (G. Dix, p. 33). This mix of cultures had good and bad results. It gave rise, on the one hand, to the literature and art that won Antioch the praise of Cicero (see Pro Archia 4) but, on the other, to the luxury and immorality that made it as infamous as it was famous. Juvenal blamed Antioch for the disintegration of Roman morality, when, as he put it, “the waters of Syrian ...

1672. Lydia’s Conversion in Philippi

Acts 16:11-15

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... what really happened (cf., e.g., 5:17ff.; 12:7ff.; the Testament of Joseph 8:4; the Acts of Thomas 154ff.; Euripides, Bacchae 443ff., 586ff.; Epictetus, Lectures 2.6.26). Haenchen complains that Luke has told the story “with the full array of Hellenistic narrative art, so that the glory of Paul beams brightly” (p. 504). And there may be something in this as far as its telling is concerned—Luke was an artist. But again we must insist that the form of the story is no guide to its essential historicity ...

1673. Paul and Silas In Prison

Acts 16:16-40

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... 10:18–22) and the girl’s condition, therefore, as something distinctly unwholesome. He uses a verb (translated by NIV as fortune-telling, v. 16) that occurs in the New Testament only here, but is found several times in the LXX concerning false prophets who practiced the heathen arts of divination contrary to the law of Moses (e.g., Deut. 18:10ff.; 1 Sam. 28:8[9]; Ezek. 13:6; 21:29[34]; Mic. 3:11; etc.). Thus GNB, for example, probably conveys the sense, if not the actual words, of Luke’s text, when it ...

1674. Advice About Widows, Elders and Slaves

1 Timothy 5:1-6:2

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... The first clear reference to such a rite is found in Augustine, Letters 55.33. 5:13 Both Kelly and Hanson point out that the word for busybodies is used in the neuter plural in Acts 19:19 as a euphemism for “spells” or “magic arts.” They make the interesting, but improbable, suggestion that this word is “discreetly veiled language” (Kelly, p. 118) for such incantations, and thus to talk of things they ought not to reflects the use of such formulas. Barrett’s and D-C’s suggestion, seeing this ...

1675. Love of Money

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... the whole paragraph is a clear argument and is specifically relevant to the situation in Ephesus (cf. Kelly, p. 138). For autarkeia as a Stoic-Cynic virtue, D-C cite Stobaeus, Ecl. 3, “Self-sufficiency is nature’s wealth,” and Epictetus, “The art of living well is contingent upon self-control and self-sufficiency, orderliness, propriety, and thrift.” 6:7–8 The awkwardness of v. 7 is due to a hoti (“because” or “that”) that introduces the second clause. Various attempts have been made to ...

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