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151. Advent 3

Romans 14:1--15:13, Matthew 11:1-19, James 5:7-12, Isaiah 11:1-16

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John R. Brokhoff

... or to the Parousia. Who is this expected one and what is he like? Is he worth hoping and waiting for? A book titled Profiles in Courage, portrays brave Americans. Admissions of offices of colleges and seminaries often prepare profiles of new students to acquaint the faculty with the lives of incoming students. In Lesson 1, Isaiah draws a profile of the Messiah about 800 years before he came in Jesus. The sermon is to paint a portrait of the one for whom we are preparing. Outline: Consider this profile in ...

152. Easter 2

Acts 2:14-41, 1 Peter 1:1-12, John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

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John R. Brokhoff

... . THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS Gospel: John 20:19-31 1. The resurrection body. Dr. Edward Hobbs, professor of New Testament at Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, told a newspaper reporter, "He didn't know of one school there in which a significant part of the faculty would accept statements that Jesus rose physically from the dead or that Jesus was a divine being." The twofold nature of Jesus' resurrected body is evident here. It is a spiritual body which can enter a closed room. Because of this body, Jesus ...

153. Easter 3

John 20:19-23, Acts 2:14-41, 1 Peter 1:1-12, John 20:24-31

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John R. Brokhoff

154. The Man in the Tree

Luke 19:1-10

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King Duncan

... never thinks in numbers. That’s what Jesus was saying to us in the parable of the ninety and nine. The shepherd doesn’t look and see merely a flock of sheep, a mass, a blob of white. Every sheep is individually prized. A few years ago a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh made a survey among his students and colleagues to evaluate how many persons each one of them knew well enough to remember the first name; the answers ranged from 800 to 1,200. Many adults remember more than 1,200 persons by ...

155. Taking Something Up for Lent

John 3:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... as it's our opportunity to add on, opening ourselves more fully to that unpredictable Spirit which blows where it chooses and that we don't know where it comes from or where it goes. I learned this about Lent from Dr. Kendall K. McCabe, former Dean of Faculty at United Theological Seminary, who taught his students in worship class that the real spiritual discipline in Lent isn't to give up a bad habit that one shouldn't practice at any time, but to give up something good in order to receive something better ...

156. What's Your Status Symbol?

Acts 10:23b-48

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Leonard Sweet

... changing, shifting icons of status differ from north to south, city to city, neighborhood to neighborhood. What boosts your status in one place gets you nowhere a few miles down the road. A 4x4 Dodge Ram quad-cab pickup did nothing for me in the faculty parking lot at Drew University (New Jersey) except elicit mockery and ridicule. But park my pickup outside the Elks Lodge in Davis, West Virginia and...suddenly...I'm a contender! Tattoos and a tongue-ring may not impress your manger at work. But hanging at ...

157. What Is Eternal Life?

John 3:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... Two men are talking about the problems at a particular university. One has a good grip on the English language, and the other does not. The one with an understanding of the language talks abut the malaise in the administration, the malaise in the faculty, and the malaise in the student body. The other agrees and says, “Yeah, and pretty soon there will be mayonnaise all over the place.’ We seem to have reached the point where there is ‘mayonnaise’ all over the place.” Walter M. Brown Jr., “Are ...

158. God Knows Exactly How You Feel

John 19:28

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James Merritt

... Father has given Me?" When Jesus came to Calvary He was offered the same narcotic that the two thieves were offered. Apparently they took it, but He did not. He did not want his senses to be stupefied in any way. He wanted to be in perfect control of his faculties, and to bear the full pain of our pardon. He was going to drink the cup of God's wrath dry to the last drop. Again, He can look us in the eyes today and say, "I know exactly how you feel." Incidentally, why didn't Jesus also say, "I ...

159. It Is Right To Fight When You Fight For Right

Jude 1:3-4

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James Merritt

... twice a day, that they may be ready to give an account of their proficiency therein, both in theoretical observation of language and logic, and in practical and spiritual truths. Princeton University, when it was first founded, made it mandatory that faculty members be convinced of the "necessity of the religious experience of salvation."2 When Brown University was founded, its Charter stipulated that twenty-two of its twenty-nine trustees had to be Baptist, and its President "forever a member of the ...

160. The Loss of the Harvest

Jeremiah 8:20

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James Merritt

At McGill University the engineering and medical faculties had an intramural basketball game. The score was 33 to 34. With about a minute left, the engineers stole the ball, and then froze it with excellent passing and ball handling until the clock ran out. Only when the final whistle had blown did they learn that they were the ...

161. Lengthen the Cords and Strengthen the Stakes

Isaiah 54:2-3

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James Merritt

... 2,107 in ‘96 to 2,450 in the year 2000. Enrollment at Southeastern Seminary has gone from 1,169 in '96 to 1,395 in the year 2000. All six seminaries are led by men of God who love the word of God, who have assembled tremendous faculties and staff and who are totally loyal to the Southern Baptist Convention. In our Missions and Evangelism Agencies our stakes are strong. In the last three years Southern Baptists have averaged over 410,000 baptisms per year. We now have over 10,000 missionaries both at home ...

162. The Marks Of A Spiritual Counterfeit

Jude 1:12-13

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James Merritt

... to a ten-story building and can be up to five miles long. But the amazing thing about icebergs is that close to 90% of the mass will be hidden below the sea’s surface. Apostates hide in the fellowship of churches. They hide in the faculty of Christian universities, and then at the right time they pop up just high enough to sink the Good Ship Grace sailing on the ocean of truth, intending to bring people into the kingdom of God. II. They Are Pretentious Like Waterless Clouds “They are clouds without ...

163. Even in the Grocery Store

Matthew 18:15-20

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... families gathered; it was the social center of the community, too. "Although I never doubted the existence of God," Dr. Rice continues, "I think like all people I've had some ups and downs in my faith. When I first moved to California in 1981 to join the faculty at Stanford, there were a lot of years when I was not attending church regularly. I was traveling a lot. I was a specialist in international politics, so I was always traveling abroad. I was always in another time zone. One Sunday I was in the Lucky ...

164. No-fault Religion

2 Corinthians 5:6-10 (11-13), 14-17

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Maurice A. Fetty

... his personal moral conduct often left much to be desired, he was a very popular lecturer and preacher. Whenever he preached in James Chapel at Union Seminary, the place would be packed not only with seminarians, but also with students and faculty from Columbia and Barnard across the street. Tillich liked to preach about reconciliation, a reunion with oneself, with one's community and with God, and reconciliation is possible, said Tillich, because of forgiveness and acceptance. "He who is accepted ultimately ...

165. Church Slugs

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... again beginning to square off against each other, each with their own check list of politically correct opinions its members should adhere to, if they wish to be members. There are now PC watchdog committees examining the opinions of faculty at universities, employees in corporations and congressional members on the Hill. In the church, self-appointed "guardian angels" or "thought police" are going underground, threatening to leap into congregations and isolate, then ostracize, members who don't fit some ...

166. Advent: Time to Listen

Jn 1:6-8, 19-28

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The famous poet W. H. Auden, once, in his older years, read some of his poetry at Princeton. The hall was packed with hundreds of students and faculty. They had come to hear "the great one." But when Auden (then an old man) began to read, his voice was so soft that even the microphone couldn't pick him up. So people began whispering to their neighbor: "What did he say?" And those who thought they had heard ...

167. Just Showing Up Doesn't Get the Job Done

Matthew 25:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... individuals ...we have been called to "show up." But clearly just showing up is not enough. Be Present. Anyone who has faithfully "shown up" and then blissfully slept through 8 a.m. chemistry lectures, Monday morning staff meetings, Friday afternoon faculty meetings, Sunday morning worship services (!!!) knows that sometimes showing up really isn't enough. Jesus' parable tells of bridesmaids who showed up . . . and slept. They had no "presence" of mind for the moment God had given them. Disciples of Jesus ...

168. John 20:19-31

John 20:19-31

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Leonard Sweet

... presence of his disciples" (v.30), he acknowledges that they have not all been recorded. What has been written, however, has been to help those who have not seen to believe, and thereby avoid the error both of Thomas and all of the disciples whose faith depended upon their sensory faculties and not upon Scripture.

169. Blessed Assurance

Matthew 6:25-34

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Mike Ripski

... and live in shacks we would put dogs in. Yet, if they worry, they don’t show it. What little they have, they share it freely. The late Roman Catholic priest and prolific writer on the spiritual life, Henri Nouwen, felt God call him from his faculty position at an Ivy League University to live with the poor in South America. In his book, “Gracias!” he writes: In many of the families I visited, nothing was certain, nothing was secure, MAYBE there would be food tomorrow. MAYBE there would be no sickness ...

170. No More Static Cling!

John 20:10-18

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Mike Ripski

... , smart. They’ll add one more accomplishment and honor to their college application. Jamie has a condition called global developmental delay. In other words, Jamie isn’t your typical candidate for an honor like “Mr. Anything.” Jamie is viewed by students and faculty as an ambassador for other challenged, “life-skills” students. They say that he doesn’t care whether you’re a cheerleader or super jock. He doesn’t care what clothes or shoes you wear. He just looks at what is in your heart ...

171. Labor Day

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King Duncan

... are feeling like Sisyphus. I hope that you don't wake up every morning feeling like you have to push a giant boulder up a hill. Some people do. Like the teacher who was complaining about her job. She told about her principal who was lecturing the faculty quite unmercifully. One by one, he presented them with a painful list of all their failures, flaws and shortcomings. He chided them for over an hour for all the mistakes they had made over the year. Then he announced that the science club was sponsoring a ...

172. Jesus, The One And Only

Philippians 2:5-11

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James Merritt

... of his brother. He asks for the human heart. He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful! In defiance of time and space the soul of man with all its powers and faculties becomes an annexation to the empire of Christ. All who sincerely believe in Him, experience that remarkable supernatural love toward Him. This phenomenon is unaccountable; it is altogether beyond the scope of man's creative powers. Time, the great destroyer, is powerless ...

173. Mark 8: 27-38

Mark 8:27-30

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Leonard Sweet

By now, your students have returned to their colleges or universities — or will this week. In search of the best departments, the most celebrated scholars, the greatest cutting edge facilities and faculties, students travel far from home to attend the school of their dreams. Soaking in that whole academic atmosphere on campus is a huge part of the collegiate experience. Plus the football games and parties, of course. When Jesus called his disciples to “follow me” he had an entirely different kind ...

174. The Image of Perfection

Mark 10:17-31; Isaiah 64:6

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Michael Milton

I will never forget June Day. June Day was a girl in our class in Junior High School who was always called upon to stand at the board and take names in case any of us acted up while the teacher went out to that strange, mysterious place called the faculty lounge. Basically, the teacher couldn't take anymore and needed a break. And June Day was called upon to police the room. I must admit that during those days I did not like June Day because June invariably wrote my name on the board. But one day when the ...

175. Risky Business

Jeremiah 1:4-10

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Mary S. Lautensleger

... , financial and otherwise, that Christians have made to their communities, but they still eye Christians as a potential threat to government. They allowed the seminary to operate for four years before shutting it down in 2004. After its closing, students and faculty alike scattered throughout the country evangelizing. On the back of Ms. Su's business card was printed, "Turn China into an aircraft carrier for spreading the gospel." God often chooses people to do God's work that others consider unlikely ...

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