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1726. Can It Be Sin to Be Shy?

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... been walking back,” he said. He obviously ran a long way. If you happen on a bear when you leave church this morning, you might be justifiably afraid. However, if you’re afraid of the person seated next to you today, if you’re hesitant to reach out a warm hand in greeting and say, “It’s good to see you this morning. How have you been doing?” then something is wrong. Yet there are people who would rather face a hungry bear than talk to their neighbors. It doesn’t make sense, and yet fear has an ...

1727. Take Your Job and Love It

2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... time monotonously picking coal down there in those dark tunnels. The miner picked up a piece of coal and said, “I don’t think you understand. This is not just a lump of coal. This is light and heat and power. Perhaps it will light a city, or it may warm a home or run a train. I’m not just a miner for the company. I’m helping people I don’t even know have a better way of life.” Because of the drive for clean energy today, many miners are losing their jobs. The principle has not changed, however ...

1728. The Greatest Gift

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... we experience growing pains. Many of you will remember Willard Scott, the irrepressible weatherman on the Today program on television for so many years. Sometime back Scott wrote a book titled, The Joy of Living. A very appealing part of that book is his very warm description of growing up in his family’s Baptist church. Scott tells how on one occasion when he was twelve years old, he took communion and had a most embarrassing thing happen to him. He describes it like this: “In the Baptist church,” he ...

1729. Miscellaneous Laws

Deut 23:15–25:19

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... security is permitted (24:10–13). However, the rights of the debtor are to be respected by not entering a person’s house to select what could be put up as security and by not taking a person’s cloak beyond sunset since it is needed to keep warm at night. A third illustration (24:14–15) concerns paying workers each day before sunset for their work, since they have no resources otherwise to get food and the necessities of life for that day. In the case of individual sins, children are not to bear the ...

1730. A Levite and His Concubine

Judges 19:1-30

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... sufficient for her to be regarded as having acted unfaithfully without her actually having committed adultery with another man. In any event, the Levite, probably realizing that he is at fault in causing her departure, comes after her to woo her back. He is warmly welcomed by the father-in-law and persuaded to stay and enjoy the hospitality for three days. Intending to leave on the fourth day, he is persuaded to stay for yet another night, until he finally insists on leaving on the fifth day. So despite ...

1731. The Lord Rejects Saul as King

1 Samuel 15:1-35

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... victory, Saul sets up a monument in his own honor, revealing an attitude of pride. Then he goes to Gilgal, where he was confirmed as king years earlier (11:14–15) but where he will now lose the kingship. When Samuel meets him, Saul greets him warmly, but Samuel quickly dispenses with the niceties and instead responds by asking why the sheep and cattle have been spared. Saul tries to shift the blame to the soldiers, claiming that the animals were saved so that they might be sacrificed to the Lord. Even if ...

1732. More Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 26:1-28, Proverbs 25:1-28, Proverbs 27:1-27

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... :20–22; 26:22 = 18:8) enjoys adding the charcoal of rumors to fiery quarrels—or igniting them in the first place. The series climaxes in an extensive description of the hateful person (26:24, 26, 28; NIV 1984 “malicious man”; NIV “enemies”), whose warm and witty words disguise a corrupt and conniving heart (26:23–25). Ultimately, however, such people’s hidden and harmful malice will be publicly exposed and recoil upon them (26:26–28; cf. Ps. 7:15–16). 27:1–27 · Proverbs 27 offers more ...

1733. God’s Judgment of His People

Amos 2:6-16

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... in his people. Sixth, wealthy people who have taken a garment as a pledge from a debtor are supposed to return it in the evening (Exod. 22:25–27; Deut. 24:12–13), but these heartless people refuse to return the garment so that the poor person can keep warm for the night. Instead, they take the stolen cloak to the temple with them, an act that does not please God at all. Finally, the seventh rebellious act is that judges steal the wine people have given to the state to pay a fine. These judges would take ...

1734. Blind Bartimaeus Receives His Sight

Mark 10:46-52

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... by asking, “What do you want me to do for you?” (10:51). It is the same question Jesus asked James and John in 10:36, but whereas they asked for superhuman glory, Bartimaeus simply asks for human eyesight. Jesus restores his sight with warm assurance: “Go . . . your faith has healed you” (10:52). The Greek word sōzō, which means both “heal” and “save,” is doubly appropriate here, for the encounter with Jesus has changed Bartimaeus from a beggar beside the way to a disciple on the way ...

1735. Peter Disowns Jesus

Mark 14:66-72

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

Mark concludes the sandwich unit by returning to Peter, who is warming himself by the fire in the courtyard of the high priest (14:54, 66). Verses 66–72 focus exclusively on Peter, who alone of the participants is named. Nights in Jerusalem in March-April require the warmth of a fire, the light from which allows Peter to be identified. While ...

1736. Titus Sent to Corinth

2 Corinthians 8:16--9:5

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... is sending a third brother (who is either a Corinthian or a man whose confidence in them derives from some other background [see 8:22]) in order, Paul implies, to inspire the church with his own zeal. Nonetheless, it is Titus whom Paul commends most warmly as his personal partner and co-worker in the ministry. The other brothers come as “representatives of the churches” and as an “honor to Christ” (8:23). It is therefore both to Paul and to the churches that the Corinthians are asked to demonstrate ...

1737. Paul’s Apostolic Salutation and Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... begins the letter with a standard epistolary greeting: he introduces himself as the writer, names the recipients of the letter, and then adds a short personal note. But even in this standard introduction Paul manages to introduce a strong sense of Christian purpose and a warm and joyous tone with his blessing: “Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ” (1:2). In this introduction, Paul lists Timothy along with himself, not as a coauthor but as a companion (see Phil. 2:19–23 ...

1738. Paul’s Ministry in Thessalonica

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... may have originated with the unconverted Thessalonians (2:14) or perhaps members of the church itself who questioned why the apostles came, left, but then did not return. What kind of people were these men? But the relationship with the church was warm and strong (3:6), and moreover, we have no indication that the critique came from outside the church. Some scholars, however, argue that this section is not a defense. Rather, the language is similar to that of Cynic philosophers who distinguished themselves ...

1739. Making One’s Calling and Election Sure

2 Peter 1:1-11

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... commitment to Jesus better; it also makes it more secure, preventing one from falling away. If we are moving toward the center, Jesus, we are in no danger of slipping back into the pit from which we were rescued. Thus, this action will make sure not only that we are warmly welcomed when Jesus returns as emperor of this world (1:11) but also that we do not fall away and miss out on the rule of Jesus altogether, as the author of 2 Peter believes that some have done (1:9, picked up in 2:1–22).

1740. The Antichrists Are Coming! They Deny Jesus Came in the Flesh

1 John 4:1-6

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... . Docetic preachers (the full-blown gnostic threat was more of a second-century phenomenon) could be distinguished from suitable traveling ministers, however, by testing their beliefs and asking whether they believed Jesus Christ actually came in the flesh. If so, they could be warmly received; if not, they should be kept away from the community and rejected as perpetuating the spirit of the antichrist (4:3), which destroys Christian fellowship. 4:4–6 · Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the ...

1741. I am the Door

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... folds were protected by a strong door of which only the guardian of the door kept the key. It is to that kind of fold that Jesus refers in verses 2 and 3. But there was another kind of sheepfold when the sheep were out on the hills in the warm season, when they did not return to the villages for weeks at a time, at night they were collected into sheep folds out on the hillside. These sheepfolds were just open spaces enclosed by a wall (built of those stones gathered up from the land). In them, there was an ...

1742. Come Clean

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... love? Return to God with all your sins and bathe them in the lather of God’s forgiveness. Return to God with all your vulnerabilities and be drenched in God’s acceptance. Return to God with all your tears and allow God’s warm blanket of grace to dry them all. Come clean and be made clean. 1. Just for Laughs (The Christian Communications Laboratory, 1982), p. 132. 2. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (New York: Harper Collins, 1973), p. 88. Used by permission. 3. Attributed ...

1743. One Heaven of a Party

Deuteronomy 26:1-11

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... , but do we ever consider how they inherently share and give back to the world in which they live and grow? Gaze at a tree sometime and reflect on the beauty, food, shade, and shelter it gives. Climb a tree and remember how it becomes fuel to warm us, timber to house us, medicine to heal us, and material to clothe us. Yet that is only the beginning. Remember that a tree serves as a homegrown air-conditioner by absorbing enormous amounts of heat. In addition, an average shade tree serves as a humidifier for ...

1744. Prayer Changes Things

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... affliction.” A week or so later guess who walked into my office? Howard! He sat down and began to cry. He said, “I have been healed and I believe your prayer healed me. I don’t know if you felt it, but when you prayed for me I felt a warm wave come through your arm and hand and into my body. This was when my healing started.” I don’t claim to be a faith healer but I do claim this: There is power in prayer! Howard’s experience taught me this again. This experience also taught me that we ...

1745. Pop Verses!: Philippians 4:13

Philippians 4:13

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... how happy he was to receive their big check to help with his ministry. As Paul was preaching the gospel everywhere, there were no cell phones, emails, or texts. There was just snail mail. And so Paul’s special friends mailed Paul a gift to help him and this warmed Paul’s heart. It was the only way they could show Paul they loved him and believed in him. This made Paul very happy. But Paul was very quick to point out something. Take a look: I am not saying this because I am in need… –Philippians 4:11 ...

1746. A Love Triangle

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... wide-eyed innocence, "This man is not a brother of mine." Neither rewards nor threats could induce him to perform a service for a stranger. Jesus calls us to a far more inclusive view of who is our neighbor. Charles Wolfe tells of being called out of a warm bed on a bitterly cold and icy night in Albany, New York. His brother was stranded downtown because his car wouldn't start. Then his brother commented about how nice it was have a brother in town. He mentioned how he wouldn't dare ask anyone else out ...

1747. Hallelujah! Come On, Get Happy

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... and other desserts. As a consequence, he says, he has always had a problem with weight. He eventually decided to eat only lean meats, vegetables, and fresh fruits for dessert. One night a few years ago someone took him to dinner and raved about the fresh warm bread as he spread it with butter. Schuller had some. "You must try the steak with béarnaise sauce," said the host. Schuller followed the advice. After the steak, the host continued, "They make the best pie here, with a chocolate crust. You can't pass ...

1748. Paying What's Due

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... after people poured out of Jerusalem to greet Jesus and accompany him with palm branches and shouts of acclaim into the city, agents of two groups that had little use for each other, but even less use for Jesus, joined forces to keep Jesus from capitalizing on his warm welcome into the city. They intended to trap Jesus into taking a stand that would get him into trouble. Their means of entrapment was to be a catch-22 question: "Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor, or not?" If Jesus said "No," he could ...

1749. Thanks-Giving Is Good for Everyone

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... in my study, tears fell from my eyes; tears of gratitude. Then, before I realized what I was doing, I rose from my chair and called her name to show it to her — forgetting for a moment that she was gone. You will never know how much your letter has warmed my spirit. I have been walking about in the glow of it all day long.[3] What more needs to be said on that point? Our thankfulness provides great therapy for ourselves and for others. The third thing I want to say is that thankfulness also opens our ...

1750. The Real Thing

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... clean, prepared a delicious meal, and waited for the visit. In the morning a hungry, exhausted child came to his shop, so Martin fed her and let her rest for a while. At midday an old lady happened by. The woman was cold and shivering. Martin gave her a warm shawl and she went on her way. Then in the afternoon, a barefooted beggar came to his door, and Martin gave him a pair of shoes. But Jesus did not come. When Martin went to bed that night he was disappointed. That night Jesus once again appeared to him ...

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