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176. Why Believe the Bible?

John 17:17

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James Merritt

... of the most interesting, fascinating, and perhaps controversial series that we will ever do that we are entitling, "War of the Worlds". Actually, you could even call it, "War of the World Views." World views act just like contact lenses; if you've got the correct prescription for contact lenses or for glasses then you can see the world clearly and correctly. A world view should provide the correct prescription for making sense of the world just as wearing the correct prescription for your eyes brings things ...

177. The World’s Favorite Scripture

Matthew 7:1-6

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James Merritt

... of a lady who came up to Winston Churchill and she said, "Sir Winston, I don't like your politics and I don't like your mustache." Churchill replied, "Madam, I see no earthly reason why you should ever come into contact with either one." Now if you're not careful you're not going to come into contact with either what Jesus did not say, or what He did say. Now what Jesus was really saying is summed up in verse 5. "Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove ...

178. People Skills

Proverbs 12:26

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James Merritt

... , in the Book of Proverbs, that Solomon describes three types of people. He describes people who will be our friends, people who will be our foes, and then people who will simply be fools. How you relate to those three types of people (that we will all come in contact with) will determine how far we go in life. Here are the three keys on being a good and a wise people person. I. Be Committed To Friends The older you get, the more you realize there are very few things in life more valuable and more rare than ...

179. Jesus: What's in a Name?

Matthew 1:18-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... world. “Hello, this is Lawrence, Kansas, is anyone there?” They plead “Can anyone hear me? Is anyone there?” At the end of the movie there is a sweeping camera panoramic of the devastation and despair; and a shot of those seeking to make radio contact. The music floats almost imperceptibly into your attention as that longing, anguishing plea is sounded again: Is anyone there? Can you hear me? Is anyone there? And the music calls to your mind the words that we sing to it: “How Firm a Foundation, Ye ...

180. A Word to Prodigals

Luke 15:11-32

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King Duncan

... were rotting, he was bruised from a recent beating. But he had ridden on his bicycle for ten miles in the sweltering Arizona heat to find her. They ran into each other’s arms. Jeff had been trying to fight his addiction, but he had been afraid to contact his mother, afraid of how his addiction might hurt her. You will be happy to know that Jeff Mohr moved back to Oregon, got a steady job, and joined Narcotics Anonymous. (2) Michale Mohr’s story appeared in Newsweek magazine. It is a story that is all ...

181. Being Christ by Affirming and Forgiving

Mark 1:40-45

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Maxie Dunnam

... live for Christ. Our hearts need to be full of love for him and since we have to express that love in action, naturally then the poorest of the poor are the means of expressing our love for God. Because it is a continual contact with Christ in his work, it is the same contact we have during Mass and in the Blessed Sacrament. There we have Jesus in the appearance of the bread. But here in the slums, in the broken body, in the children, we see Christ and we touch him” (Something Beautiful for God, pp 113 ...

182. Proper 4

Lk 7:1-10 · Gal 1:1-10 · 1 Ki 8:22-23, 41-43 · Ps 96

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John R. Brokhoff

... 6 the lowest, cheapest form of humanity v. 2. c. He praises an unbeliever's faith more than all others in the land v. 9. 3. Long distance call (7:1-10). Need: The common view is that to get help from Jesus you must come directly in contact with him, make your appeal, and confess your faith. This may happen, but in today's Gospel we have an exception. One needing Jesus' help may secure it by long distance through intermediaries. This will bring comfort and hope to people separated from Jesus by 20 centuries ...

183. The Meals-on-Wheels Temple

1 Peter 2:4-12

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Leonard Sweet

... Do you connect with more people digitally than you do physically? If the answer is “no” to the first two and “yes” to the third, then you are . . . pretty typical. The good news is that now absolutely no one need be cut off from contact with others in this electronic age of “relationships.” The bad news is that if everything in our lives is part of some enormous “social network,” how do we ever differentiate the devotedly “personal” from the digitally “social?” It is fun to have lots ...

184. Our Magnificent, Mysterious, Mischievous God

2 Kings 5:1-14

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David E. Leininger

... break loose, an imminent international incident, a threat to "pick a quarrel," the king of Aram's transparent excuse to resume hostilities. He should know better. That is one more irony. Now we meet a new character - Elisha. Somehow word reaches him (we are not told how). He contacts the Jerusalem court. What is the problem? "Why have you torn your robes? Have the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel" (v. 8). And, while we are at it, king, you might learn the same thing your own ...

185. Skin Game

Mark 1:40-45

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Robert J. Elder

... places where our modern-day lepers are warehoused, out of sight and out of mind. We can be thankful that some attitudes are slowly changing, but there are still too many places where suffering people are shunted off to one side, set apart from healthy contact with the human community, are given every reason to believe that we have given up on them and are willing to let them suffer and die alone or with only the resources of their immediate family to sustain them. The fellowship of the church can provide ...

186. The Heart of the Matter Is the Heart!

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... problem in the church in our generation cannot be made better by any cardiologist's prescription. The heart's biggest problem is that it does not always follow what God says in his word and so it cheats itself and those with whom it comes into contact. This is the problem that Jesus sees in the Pharisees. The Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with ‘unclean' hands?" — Mark 7:5 No one knows ...

187. Epiphany: All about You!

Colossians 3:1-17

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Scott Suskovic

... I've got a pastor friend who does campus ministry and has told me that in the past ten years he has seen a dramatic change on campus. Ten years ago, he could walk the campus, make eye contact, say, "Hi," or chat with a student. Today, no one is talking. They are not even making eye contact. They are listening, watching, or talking — alone and plugged in, alone with these "weapons of mass distraction." Now, despite my ranting and raving, to be sure our high-tech age has enabled more people to stay in touch ...

188. Pastors Day Off

Humor Illustration

A distraught woman tried many times to contact her minister only to discover that it was his day off. She made contact with him the next day and scolded him severely. "Pastor, I needed you yesterday," she said, "and you were not there for me. You have let me down. I cannot believe you would take a day off when so many people like me need you." Then she added, "The devil ...

189. The Man Who Wasn’t There

Acts 16:9-15

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David J. Kalas

... of the man from Macedonia? He still had not found that man. He had shared the gospel with a group of women and received considerable welcome from one. He had set another woman free from her spiritual bondage. But the Macedonian men with whom he had had contact were the slave-owner who had him and Silas arrested, the public officials who had them beaten and sentenced, and the jailer who had fastened their feet to heavy blocks of wood. In pain and in prison, you couldn't blame Paul for wondering if he had ...

190. What If Joseph Were the Patron Saint of 2014?

Matthew 2:13-18

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Leonard Sweet

... the Spirit, a personal word of the Lord. Our faith is not based on doctrines, or inherited rituals, or even on the great words of sermons delivered by learned theologians. We have been promised a stable faith, a faith installed by and instilled with direct personal contacts with God’s spirit. God does not communicate to the faithful by some generic “Reply All” posting. The word of God, the very “mouth of God,” speaks personally to each and every one of us, if only we have ears to hear. The very ...

191. Lost Baggage: Flying Standby

Matthew 7:1-6

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James Merritt

... of the lady who came up to Winston Churchill and said, “So Winston, I don’t like your politics and I don’t like your mustache.” Churchill replied, “Madame, I see no earthly reason why you should ever come into contact with either one.” If you aren’t careful you aren’t going to come into contact with either what Jesus didn’t say or what He did say. There are two words I want you to circle in this verse. It is the word “first” and the word “then.” Those are the two key words in ...

192. God Will Provide the Resources

Matthew 14:13-21

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King Duncan

... His troubled mind is soothed when he but touches Jesus’ robe. Later he finds favor with Emperor Tiberius and is commissioned to investigate, on behalf of the Emperor, the new emerging religion of “Christianity.” This brings him into contact with many of the people who knew Jesus. One of those people he came into contact with was present at the feeding of the 5,000. In this disciple’s telling of what happened that day, it was not that there wasn’t enough food. There was plenty of food. Most of the ...

193. Last Impressions

Matthew 22:34-40

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Leonard Sweet

... all sorts of political shortcuts, liturgical and ritual outlets, and rigorous lists of legal do’s and don’ts. Jesus said no, plain and simple. The way to God is a really a short cut. The way to serve God and be in most intimate contact with the divine is through love. That was Jesus’ final Temple based message to the religious authorities. Jesus’ final word would always be love. At his arrest. At his trial. At his crucifixion. At his resurrection. At his ascension. His final words were always about ...

194. Jesus Casts Out Impure Spirits

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... his childhood and remember painful moments. He told of an incident when he was three years old. He remembered feeling lonely and distressed, and tried to seek comfort in physical contact from his mother. His mother did not have time for him at that moment and he felt rejected. Then the Moonies embraced him repeatedly, giving him the physical contact he longed for. They also stated repeatedly that they loved him (implying, of course, that his mother did not). (7) Who among us has not harbored this feeling at ...

195. What Do You See?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... said, “Sir, I am sorry. There is nothing I can do to help you and besides I’ve got to help these other people.” He said, “You don’t understand. I was on your flight. I’ve lost my passport. I have no money. I have no way to contact my wife and children. Can you just at least call a security guard or phone the embassy?” She just shrugged her shoulders and went back to work. He finally found another American businessman, explained his plight to him, only to be told that he was just another scam ...

196. The Apostles Heal Many

Acts 5:12-16

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... of the nonbelievers to the growing fame of the apostles, Peter especially (cf. 19:12; Mark 6:56). That they should have sought Peter’s shadow was in line with the popular idea of the time that “to be touched by a man’s shadow means to be in contact with his soul or his essence and to be influenced by that, whether it be for better or for worse” (P. W. Van Der Horst, “Peter’s Shadow,” NTS 23 (1977), p. 207). It was downright superstition, yet out of it some may have come to a true faith ...

197. Before the Sanhedrin

Acts 22:30--23:11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... ; he may have been called by someone only when the meeting got out of hand. There is no reason why he should not have been present. The desire of the council members to avoid contact with Gentiles in John 18:28 was under the special circumstances of the festival. Ordinarily they must often have had contact with Roman officials, and at this special inquiry, called for the prefect’s convenience, there would have been nothing untoward in his auditing the proceedings. 23:1 Luke seems to begin with the meeting ...

198. Further Opposition to the Rebuilding

Nehemiah 6:1-14

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... that this information related to a time before the completion of the wall. It begins with a loose time reference, in those days, like 13:15, 23. Tobiah had high-level contacts in Judah, and letters back and forth were evidently the source of Samaria’s constant access to information about Jerusalem. Tobiah’s Judean contacts were members of a family network by marriage and were his sworn political supporters. They lost no opportunity to commend him to Nehemiah and to report back Nehemiah’s stated views ...

199. Israel’s Ill-Placed Confidence

Amos 5:18-27

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... Baasha of Israel. When Asa sent gifts of silver and gold and proposed a treaty, Ben-Hadad I (also known as Bir-Hadad I) complied with Asa’s request and sent his army to attack Israel’s northern cities (1 Kings 15:16–22; 2 Chron. 16:2). Contacts between Ahab and Ben-Hadad II of Damascus are recounted in 1 Kings 20; 22. Chapter 20 notes that Ben-Hadad II gathered a coalition of thirty-two kings to besiege Samaria, but Ahab was able to defeat them. A second encounter left Ben-Hadad II requesting Ahab ...

200. Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

Habakkuk 2:2-20, Habakkuk 1:12--2:1

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... things other than Yahweh. The point about purity is that it means people can come into God’s presence, and the point about the taboo is that it means they cannot do so, the deciding factor being whether there is anything about them such as recent contact with death or with sex that would make their being incompatible with God’s being. So speaking of Yahweh’s eyes as pure involves a strong anthropomorphism. Careful human beings would not want to risk being made taboo, and thus unable to come into God ...

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