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1826. No Excuse

Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... go out and see it.’” (Luke 14:18, ESV) Here is a man who claimed to have bought some property and yet he hadn’t investigated it. Nobody buys property that is unseen. If you go to Israel with me you will see that there is a lot of desert, but not a lot of agricultural land. To buy or sale real good cropland was a long exacting process that would stretch over months and sometimes even years, because the farmer had to learn everything he could about this land to make sure he could make money off of it ...

1827. Digging Deeper

Luke 1:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... York, 2001) pp 237-238. [2] See Further, Mark Roberts, Can We Trust The Gospels, (To be added later per Pastor) [3] Sir William Ramsey, The Bearing Of Recent Discovery Of The Trustworthiness Of The New Testament, (London: Hotter and Stoughton, 1915), p.222. [4] Nelson Glueck, Rivers In The Desert: A History of Negev (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1959), p. 136.

1828. Waiting Is So Hard to Do

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... until he was 99 years old before his promised son Isaac was born. The children of Israel waited in slavery for 400 years before God sent Moses to deliver them. God told Moses he would lead his people out of slavery, but then made him wait in the desert 40 years before he was allowed to do anything about it. Joseph, unjustly accused, spent 14 years in prison. Then God elevated him to second-in-command in Egypt. God had David anointed as king, but then David waited for years until the death of Saul before he ...

1829. Don't Give Up Now!

2 Corinthians 4:16 - 5:2

Sermon

... to Olsen this guy had been out of food and water for days. His lips were parched and bleeding. His tongue was swollen. His legs were bruised and his feet were raw. Some of his bones were almost peeking through his skin as he dragged himself across the desert. He was scraped from the rocks and the blowing sand had scoured his back and arms. He was insect bitten and tormented by cactus needles. His skin was blistered by the merciless sun. As he crawled over a little rise, he propped himself up on one bleeding ...

1830. It Was a Dark and Stormy Evening! Father's Day

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... disciples woke Jesus with questions that we have all asked in moments of desperation: “Lord Jesus, don’t you care that my child is sick? “Lord Jesus, don’t you care that my marriage is falling apart? “Lord Jesus, don’t you care that my friends have deserted me? “Lord Jesus, don’t you care that I have no money? “Lord Jesus, don’t you care that I feel so alone? “Lord Jesus, don’t you care that I want to give up? “Lord Jesus, don’t you care that my husband has died? “Lord Jesus ...

1831. Hamburgers Don't Grow on Trees

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... imagining. (2) The Kingdom of God is like that. We may not see it. It may be hidden by the maddening follies of humanity. That doesn’t mean it is not at work. I like John Beukema’s analogy of the century plant. The century plant is native to the desert regions. It is so named because it is a notoriously slow grower. For decades, the century plant will show no signs of growth. It will just look like a scrubby, ugly little bush. Then one day, it will suddenly start growing. It may grow half a foot per day ...

1832. Poem: Ozymandias

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert… Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things, The hand that mock’d them, and the heart that fed; ...

1833. Poem: Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

Eulogy

Thomas Gray

... Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul. Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village-Hampden, that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood; Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country’s blood. The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to ...

1834. A Voice Calls in the Wilderness

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... picture helping us understand the way John’s ministry prepared the way for the ministry of Christ. “And all people will see God’s salvation,” Luke says to us, quoting the words of Isaiah, This was the message of John, the voice in the desert--“salvation has come to all people.” How were the people to prepare themselves for the coming Christ according to John the Baptist? They were to repent of their sins. We read concerning John, “He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a ...

1835. The King Born in a Manger

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... babe of Bethlehem. For what the babe of Bethlehem says to us more loudly than anything else is that God has become one of us. God walked where we walk. God sympathizes with our situation. Years ago, during one of the “welcome home” ceremonies for Desert Storm troops, veteran film star Glenn Ford told a story of his involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He referred to a time when he and a number of combat units were struggling through the steamy swamps of South Vietnam under infrequent, but deadly enemy ...

1836. Pride Is a Noxious Weed in the Garden of Life

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... and frailties of humanity. Pride deludes us into thinking we are God's equal. In his work, Ozymandias, the great English poet, Percy Shelley,[3] writes of the traveler who returns from an “antique land” to tell of a crumbling statue he saw in the desert. Only the legs now rise from the sand. The stone body worn almost unrecognizable and the broken head nearly buried in the sand. And on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, King of kings; Look on my works, ye mighty and despair ...

1837. God's Adopted Children

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... kinds of standard features, such as power steering, power brakes, air conditioning, cruise control, navigation systems and, of course, computers to control everything. But these features make things a lot more complicated than they used to be. Suppose we have car trouble on a deserted road? We open the hood of the car, but what do we see? We probably see a meaningless mass of metal, wires and rubber. I like something author and pastor John Ortberg says. He says, “If my car breaks down, I sometimes look ...

1838. What Did Jesus Do?

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me . . .’” It is true that Christ was in the presence of Judas who would betray him, Peter who would deny him and Thomas who would doubt him, as well as the rest of his disciples who would desert him, but that did not distract him from his mission. These twelve men were the ones on whom he was counting to continue his work. He had spent three years teaching them, correcting them, and at times simply putting up with them. They were not perfect men, but ...

1839. The Impact of Divorce

Illustration

Michael P. Green

Dissolving a marriage is not like dissolving a business partnership, or even like deserting from the army. Indeed, many psychologists have stated that it is second in emotional impact only to the death of a spouse.

1840. God's Omnipotence

Illustration

Brett Blair

... our galaxy, but scientist later discovered it game from another Galaxy close to ours. What was it? It was gamma-ray eruption from a LMC (Large Magellanic Cloud). Imagine that, the strongest energy burst ever recorded and it came across a barren galactic desert between our galaxy and another. Reflecting on the event, astrophysicist Doyle Evans said, “Every time we think we understand the physical laws of the universe, nature seems bent on confounding us.” Nature? Or God? Note: More can be learned on this ...

1841. Satan's Success

Illustration

Michael P. Green

There is a fable that Satan’s agents were failing in their various attempts to draw into sin a holy man who lived as a hermit in the desert of northern Africa. Every attempt had met with failure; so Satan, angered with the incompetence of his subordinates, became personally involved in the case. He said, “The reason you have failed is that your methods are too crude for one such as this. Watch this.” He then approached the holy ...

1842. Prime The Pump

Illustration

Michael P. Green

The story has been told of a man who was crossing a desert in the days of the pioneers. He ran into trouble and was dying of thirst when he spotted a pump near an abandoned shack. He had no water to prime the pump, but he noticed a jug of water near the pump with a note attached. It read: “There is ...

1843. The Smoke Signal

Illustration

Michael P. Green

Long ago, in the days of sailing ships, a terrible storm arose and a ship was lost in a deserted area. Only one crewman survived, washed up on a small uninhabited island. In his desperation, the castaway daily prayed to God for help and deliverance from his lonely existence. Each day he looked for a passing ship and saw nothing. Eventually he managed to build a crude hut, in which ...

1844. Solomon Asks for Wisdom

2 Chronicles 1:1-17

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... assembly, a term that often refers to the organized cultic community. The location indicated here, the high place at Gibeon, links this text to 1 Chronicles 21:29, where it was already indicated that “the tabernacle of the LORD, which Moses has made in the desert, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon.” This information is repeated here in 2 Chronicles 1:3 and 1:5, with additional information about the bronze altar. Here it is specified (probably with reference to ...

1845. Solomon Builds the Temple

2 Chronicles 3:1-17

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... times and not in the exodus event (which was still constitutive for the Deuteronomistic version). This might be an indication that the Chronicler foresaw a future that was rooted in the ancestral promise rather than in the obedience associated with the exodus and desert wanderings. The concurrence of the start of the temple building and the commencement of Solomon’s reign is the same in the two versions, namely, the second month of the fourth year of his reign. The Chronicler adds that it was on the ...

1846. The Fall of Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... its sabbaths. All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it” (Lev. 26:34–35). This idea is continued in Leviticus 26:43: “For the land will be deserted by them and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them.” The terminological similarities are again obvious. The question remains how the Chronicler could interpret the “desolation” and “sabbath rest” of Leviticus positively. Possibly, in his view Judah’s ...

1847. Accusations

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4, 2 Corinthians 2:5-11

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... and from the subsequent context. As far as the traditional background is concerned, an interesting parallel to the idea that the offender’s punishment was sufficient(hikanos) is found in Wisdom 18:20–25, which describes the plague that struck Israel in the desert when they rebelled against Moses and Aaron after Korah’s rebellion (Num. 16:41–50). During that judgment, Aaron is said to have intervened on behalf of the people by an intercessory prayer (Wis. 18:22, 23), so that the destroyer yielded ...

1848. Final Greetings

Colossians 4:7-18

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... . 4:14 Luke and Demas also are included in the list of greetings. Luke’s association with Paul remained intimate and strong (2 Tim. 4:11); Demas, however, chose a different fate at a later point in his life (“Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me,” 2 Tim. 4:10). 4:15–16 These verses provide some interesting information about church life in the first century: First, it is another example of early Christians gathering in homes for their meetings (cf. Acts 12:12; 16:40; Rom. 16:5; 1 Cor ...

1849. An Exhortation Inspired by the Exodus

Hebrews 3:7-19

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... quotation) were the very Israelites who had experienced the exodus. The words angry for forty years (cf. vv. 9f.) are also drawn from the original quotation (see Additional Notes). These people sinned (cf. v. 10) and their bodies fell in the desert, words quoted from Numbers 14:29 (LXX), with the last three words also echoing the original quotation (v. 8). Our author’s point is that those who sinned had been privileged to experience God’s remarkable deliverance from Egypt. This wonderful beginning ...

1850. Trials and Temptations

James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... ’ mind, and in Matt. 6:30 and Luke 12:28 (although with a different application). Though it is especially suited to Palestine, other warm climates would also find the expression meaningful. Some scholars have seen with scorching heat (kausoni) as indicating the sirocco, or hot desert wind, as in Job 27:21; Jer. 18:17; and Hos. 12:1. In fact, it may well be referred to in Ps. 103:16. But this is unlikely (although tempting, for the sirocco is distinctly Palestinian), for the sirocco has nothing to do with ...

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