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176. The Sign of God

Amos 7:7-17

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Stan Purdum

... his early career decision. He had given his life to Christ at seventeen, and at 23, he was asked by a college president to teach at the college. The president said to him, "It is the will of the student body, the will of the townspeople, the will of the faculty, and we believe it is the will of God for you to teach in this college." But at the same time, he had a letter from a friend that said, "I believe it is the will of God for you to go into evangelistic work here in America." He also ...

177. The Greatest Truth

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

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... on a speaking tour of the United States. On college campuses all across this country, he was drawing huge crowds to hear his very complex answers to the questions of life. When he was speaking at PrincetonUniversity, the great hall was packed with faculty, students, and visitors who came to hear Karl Barth speak. During the question and answer period, one student asked, "Dr.Barth, may I ask you a personal question?" Dr. Barth smiled and said, "Yes, you may ask anything." The student then asked, "Dr. Barth ...

178. 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

... burning at a stake. Our age is worse off because we tolerate false teachings. The trend is to become avant garde by embracing far-out ideas. We may even put a radical teacher with unorthodox views on a seminary faculty. Outline: Today's different gospels. a. Different gospels that are worldly: secularism, materialism, pluralism. b. Different gospels that are religious: Astrology, Unification church, Scientology, Hare Krishna, Transcendental Meditation. c. The true gospel which differs from the rest: John 3 ...

179. Household of Faith

II Timothy 1:3-7

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J. Howard Olds

As speaker and author, Tony Campolo, tells the story, it happened during a sophisticated academic gathering at the University of Pennsylvania which neither he nor his wife wanted to attend. During their mixing among the faculty, a sociology professor came up to Mrs. Campolo and said, “What do you do for a living?" Mrs. Campolo, feeling the compelling task of raising children, gave this reply, “I am socializing two homosapiens into the dominant values of the Judeo-Christian tradition in order that they ...

180. Hunger and Politics

Matthew 14:13-21

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Wayne Brouwer

... So now he wandered in the wilderness of academia, hoping in each class to find a glorious utopia or a grand dream or at least a tiny map that might point toward some secularized Holy Grail. Every term, he called me to describe his latest faculty mentor, a true savior, finally, who was worthy of his devotion. But this Saturday, something was different. There was wistfulness in my friend's voice, and a trembling uncertainty in his words. What if there was no big picture or all-encompassing thesis or unifying ...

181. Mistaken Identity

Matthew 16:13-20

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Wayne Brouwer

... set up statues of gods they thought might be resident there. They even gave the place a spiritual name. They called it the "Gates of Hades." Here, they believed, was the doorway between the realm of the living and the abode of the dead. Those with keen faculties would be able to hear the whispers of the departed and the voice of the underworld gods. It was considered to be a very holy place. But appearances can be deceiving, so Jesus comes with his disciples to test their perceptions. "Who do people say the ...

182. Aprons or Bibs

Deuteronomy 30:15-20

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Tony Everett

... it, but it would not seal. Again and again, the professor followed the directions explicitly. He pressed and he pressed, but still the envelope did not seal. He then began to pound and then to stomp on the flap with the same failed results. Finally, the faculty secretary heard the uproar in the mail room and rushed in to see what was happening. With a twinkle in her eyes and a smile that she could not fully disguise, she took the envelope from the helpless and befuddled professor and said, "Watch and learn ...

183. Set Apart at Christmas

Romans 1:1-7

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John N. Brittain

... martyr he affirmed, "I see ... the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God" (Acts 7:56). Do we really have to drag the crucifixion and resurrection and martyrdom into Christmas? I had a dean years ago who never tired of telling us, his faculty, how "Everything is connected to everything else." He loved the word "synergy" before it was common. He always irritated me because I knew he was right. We like to pretend that we can do something without influencing another area; that various areas of life can ...

184. By Whose Standards?

1 Corinthians 4:1-5

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John N. Brittain

... and was clearly an individual of great intellect. While in the seminary, he developed an interest in psychology and in 1964 was named a fellow in the program for religion and psychiatry at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. After that, he joined the faculty at Notre Dame University. He clearly could have had a stellar career in academe. Over the next two decades, he taught in the divinity schools at Yale and Harvard. But rather than simply advance along the tenure track, he also served as a ...

185. Say Gracias!

Matthew 6:25-34

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Mike Ripski

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 tomorrow. Maybe…maybe not. But ...

186. Family Resemblance

John 14:5-14

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King Duncan

... Chicago. He was seated in the same car with a young lady and her mother and grandmother. The three women had apparently been downtown for a day of shopping, and perhaps sightseeing. The grandmother was in a wheelchair, and obviously had some diminished faculties. Her hearing was not so good, and the mother (her daughter) often had to explain things to her several times before Grandma seemed to understand. The daughter had Down syndrome. During the train ride, her mother made a game with her of finding ...

187. Wrong!

Acts 2:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... simple creation of the mind that invents it,” is often more interesting than correctness. It is in our apparently limitless ability to err, Franklin contended, that “the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.” (See Benjamin Franklin, Report of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, and Other Commissioners, Charged by the King of France, with the Examination of the Animal Magnetism, as Now Practiced in Paris ...

188. Where Would We Be Without...?

Romans 3:21-31

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David E. Leininger

... and Leipzig before becoming an Augustinian monk. He received his doctorate in 1500 and soon accepted an invitation from the governor of Saxony to help organize a new university in Wittenberg, where he was professor of Bible and the first dean of the theological faculty. A year later, he was also elected vicar-general of the German division of the Augustinian order. Meanwhile, on a sultry day in July 1505, Martin Luther was struck to the ground by a lightning bolt and cried in terror, "Saint Anne, help me ...

189. Worth the Wait

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

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Robert J. Elder

... can we mistake the emphasis for today? Joy can be a challenge for churches sometimes. But do we really need someone telling us that the stories about the Christ child are filled with joy? Maybe sometimes. A friend of mine spent years as a chaplain and faculty member at a large university. A group of students asked him to give a talk one evening, and at the end, one of his listeners said, "Your talk was good, but rather depressing. You are so critical." Before he could respond he overheard another student ...

190. A Higher Calling

Ephesians 4:1-16

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Thomas Lentz

... an entire transformation is required — a renewal of the mind (see Romans 12:2). This transformation, this mental renewal does not occur in everyone. You have probably noticed that. It is "a gift of God's grace" (Ephesians 3:7). It is an endowment, a gratuity, a faculty with which some of God's servants are blessed. You may find yourself blessed with it when you believe you are least worthy. Paul said, "Although I am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me...." For those of us who ...

191. The Ear, the Tongue, and the Temper: A Lesson in Spiritual Anatomy

James 1:17-27

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Thomas Lentz

... mount up and fly swiftly like an eagle. The eagle is robust and then dies. If you and I live lives of praising the Lord, we, too, can be robust until the day we die. Examine your speech, James says. Be slow to speak. There is no faculty so capable of uplifting, enriching, and inspiring our fellows as the power of speech. Examine your speech. How often do we have the gentlest, the kindest of words for strangers, and yet save the harshest, most cruel words for those of our own family? "If anyone considers ...

192. Joy Is for Leaping

Song of Songs 2:8-13

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Donna Schaper

... of spring and vacation still important to people? Or have we grown beyond the sensuality of these cycles? A conversation helped me understand that we are most definitely not beyond these cycles. We were with a group of people making the old joke about faculty meetings. "The fights are so hard because the stakes are so small." Surely you have heard this joke. My academic husband differed: He said the stakes about the truth are large. What gets taught is huge. What makes it into the canon and curriculum ...

193. Do Not Forget Your Servant

1 Samuel 1:4-20

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Robert A. Hausman

... intoxicants, and no razor shall touch his head" (1:11). This is a rather detailed way of saying he will be a dedicated priest to the Lord! Hannah goes on weeping and praying silently. Eli the priest is sitting there, watching her. Eli is old, and his faculties aren't that good. He sees Hanna's lips moving, but hears nothing, so he misinterprets what he sees. He scolds Hannah: "How long will you make a drunken spectacle of yourself? Put away your wine!" Hannah respectfully corrects him. "I am not a good for ...

194. Existence Is All Or Nothing

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Gary R. Habermas & J.P. Moreland

... or less endowed. But a thing cannot be more or less endowed with respect to being. What is poorly endowed is poorly endowed and, therefore, is. In cases like a sound gradually fading away or a mind gradually losing consciousness or some other faculties, what is really going on is the alteration of something that exists, not its gradually ceasing to be. Something can gradually be altered in the properties it possesses you can gradually lose your hearing but something cannot be gradually altered with respect ...

195. God Makes No Mistakes

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... corps at Texas A & M University. One night, Bruce was forced to run until he dropped but he never got up. Bruce Goodrich died before he even entered college. A short time after the tragedy, Bruce's father wrote this letter to the administration, faculty, student body, and the corps of cadets: "I would like to take this opportunity to express the appreciation of my family for the great outpouring of concern and sympathy from Texas A & M University and the college community over the loss of our son Bruce ...

196. The Testimony of a Good Conscience

1 Tim 1:19

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C.F.H. Henry

... the sign of a humble soul. For not he who commends himself is approved, but whom the Lord commends, 'says Paul (2 Corinthians 10:18). To walk inwardly with God, and not to be kept abroad by any outward affection, is the state of a spiritual person. Conscience is that faculty in me which attaches itself to the highest that I know, and tells me what the highest I know demands that I do. It is the eye of the soul which looks out either toward God or toward what it regards as the highest authority. If I am in ...

197. The Secrets of God

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John Calvin

Paul begins here to extend as it were his hand to restrain the audacity of humans, in case they should clamor against God's judgments. We cannot by our own faculties examine the secrets of God, but we are admitted into a certain and clear knowledge of them by the grace of the Holy Spirit. And just as we ought to follow the guidance of the Spirit, so where He leaves us, we ought to stop there and fix our standing. ...

198. Out with the Old Rules

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Staff

... thing is that 83 percent of Americans buy into the "new rules," either in whole or in part. But those foolish people are not evangelical Christians, right? Wrong! James Davison Hunter, in his examination of students and faculty in 16 leading evangelical colleges and seminaries, used Yankelovich's earlier questionnaire and concluded that evangelicals are more committed to self-fulfillment than their secular counterparts. "The percentage of evangelical students agreeing with these statements far exceeded ...

199. Guest Speakers

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Good way to introduce guest speakers: Good teachers never die; they just lose their principals. Good principals never die; they just lose their faculties. Good doctors never die; they just lose their patients. Good lawyers never die; they just lose their appeal. Good preachers never die; they just go on and on and on.

200. A Faith That Matters Between Sundays

Romans 3:19-28

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David E. Leininger

On October 31, 1571, an Augustinian monk by the name of Martin Luther marched up to the castle church door in Wittenberg, Germany, where he was on the university faculty, and posted 95 theses or propositions concerning church policy and practice he proposed for debate. Why there and then? Well, the church door was the community bulletin board — notices and advertisements were regularly placed there, just as they are on the bulletin board today at the grocery store. As to ...

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