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2026. It's a Big Ocean to be Lost In

Luke 15:1-32

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Brett Blair

... that is what the Pharisees who criticized Jesus maintained. But Jesus understood God more. He knew God as a Shepherd in search of the one lost sheep. He knew God as a woman searching in the dark, in the crevasses, for that valuable coin. In the end it was Jesus' view of God which prevailed and not his critics.

2027. Image and Inscription

Matthew 22:15-22

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... to God, by virtue both of your creation in the image of God and your baptismal recreation as a child of God. You bear God’s image and inscription just as the coin of the realm bears Caesar’s image and inscription. Viewed from this perspective, the relationship between government and God becomes a little clearer. We see government as something God can use to accomplish his good purposes on earth: his work of maintaining order, waging peace, preventing chaos, restraining evildoers and protecting the ...

2028. "He Who Commands Is He Who Fulfills"

Matthew 22:34-40

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... new beings. By the grace of God and in spite of our faithlessness, disobedience and lovelessness, we share in the resurrected life of our crucified and risen Lord. His unbounded love for us has worked in us a change of heart, a change in the way we view our lives and live them. To the new creature who lives by faith, no longer are the words "love God, love your neighbor" only demands or commands. No longer are they merely prescriptions, but rather also descriptions of our new life in Christ. No longer are ...

2029. Possession is Nine Tenths of the Fall

Matthew 21:33-46

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D. Wayne Burkette

... is conflict. God’s grace is always a lurking threat to the conviction that people must earn salvation through ownership of the truth and control of the one and only way. God’s grace opens the gates of the Kingdom to those who, from the possessors’ point of view, do not deserve it. The gospel of grace denies our ownership of anything and boldly proclaims that even faith itself is a gift. So what makes God’s claim upon life the good news that it is? Nothing less than the mystery that the God who owns ...

2030. Who is Greatest Among You ...

Matthew 23:1-39

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... kind was in progress and three or four of the sales representatives rode down the elevator as I did. It was one of those elevators attached to the outside wall of the parking deck, with sides of glass, so you were afforded a bird’s eye view of the whole area including the entrance to the hotel. I could see a long black limousine parked at the entrance, complete with a uniformed chauffeur who was busily unloading a matched set of leather luggage from the trunk. A young man and woman were being escorted ...

2031. Life in The Meantime

Matthew 25:1-13

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D. Wayne Burkette

... -five, only a handful of people still waited on the hilltop, and a couple of them were asleep. Finally, about three o’clock, someone yelled, "Look, look, there it is!" Like an enormous water fowl, it descended across the bay, nose tilted to afford the pilot a better view of the airstrip. It was majestic in its glide path, awesome in its speed and design. All of us cheered. We had seen the Concorde, and we were glad. It was worth the wait. Maybe we were just in the right place at the right time, and others ...

2032. The Sounds at the Summit

Exodus 19:1-25

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... they had no place to hide. Although some mountains today pose a threat, from avalanches or volcanoes, to the safety and security of people living in their vicinity, they are also places of refuge and safety. Anyone who has been to Edinburgh, Scotland, and has viewed the Castle from Princes Street, has undoubtedly been aware of this. The Castle, built on the summit of a high hill, or a small mountain, appears to be impenetrable from below. It surely was when it was constructed. There were no planes back then ...

2033. The Dimensions of the Decalogue

Exodus 20:1-21

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... ," and adding after another pause, "And I am your brother, too." The seminarian reflects, "I went there to be a witness to Jesus Christ and, instead, I found myself being witnessed to by a young boy. That experience," he insists, "has changed my views on evangelism and missions forever." I suspect that his preaching of the Gospel, probably on some mission field, will be more intimate, more inclusive, because he recognizes that all who confess Christ as Lord, Son of the Father in heaven, are bound together ...

2034. The Surprising Twist to the Story

Ruth 4:1-12

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... of King David, which seems strange indeed. Here the story of Leah and Rachel is not merely repeated but is given new direction. Moabite blood flows in the royal lineage of David and his successors on the throne of Israel. From one point of view, the blood of Israel’s royalty was forever tainted by the blood of heathens, which Ruth contributed by conceiving and giving birth to Obed, David’s grandfather. The storyteller and the Israelite people, regarded this as an act of God. "The Lord gave her ...

2035. The City Unshakeable

Psalm 46:1-11, Hebrews 12:25-29

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... people were marched away to exile in Babylon. No temple, no shrine, no Ark of the Covenant. But there, separated from the city of God, they found that God was just as present. Today, while there are those within Judaism who want the temple rebuilt, others have a view not tied to brick and mortar. Rabbi Pesach Schindler of Jerusalem put it as "we have all our spiritual centers within us. That is where the temple should be built."3 Or, to put it another way, the city of God is a place within, and our ultimate ...

2036. The Distant Bells

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Staff

... garb, tools at hand, heads bowed in prayer, standing amid the clods and stones of a broken field. In the distance, not always observed by every viewer, can be seen the bell-tower of a church. Thinking of that distant spire, Millet expressed the hope that all who viewed the picture would also hear the bells. This was important to him. And it should be important to us. Most of us know about the toil, and the trouble, and the weariness which comes at the end of a long, hard day. But some, perhaps, have never ...

2037. See the Whole Picture

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Staff

A landscape artist, painting, does not always stand at an arm's length from his canvas. He must not limit his attention to the isolated details of what he is doing. Occasionally he steps back to view his work from a distance. He needs to see how his thousands of small brush-strokes fit together to produce an overall result. Likewise, our perspective on life is much improved if sometimes we can step back and see it whole. We can become so occupied with its daily brush- ...

2038. Keeping Our Colors True

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Staff

... with some constant reference, we can deviate and scarcely know it. We need some touchstone to test ourselves by, one that is worthy of what life is, one by which our life-tones can be safely set. So, in worship about once a week, we seek a fresh, clear, undistorted view of our Lord - of his love, his will, his way for us. Then, going forth to the living of another week, we take with us a strong and compelling vision of what our life ought to be. By that vision all our choices and actions are monitored as we ...

2039. Painting Out the Lace

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Staff

... believe that the painting, when first created, was somewhat different from the version which we now see. There was initially, it is believed, an exquisite lace border on the tablecloth. When, immediately upon completion, Leonardo invited a group of art students to view his masterpiece, they were immensely impressed by the delicate design of that lacework. They studied it intensely and praised it highly. Upon seeing the reaction of these young men, the artist took up a brush, dipped it, and made a few long ...

2040. Seeing the Wonder Around Us

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... around us here." Here we are this morning, you and I; here we have paused in the worship of God. During past days, in the ventures of our living, we have traveled our own steep and winding trails. But here we stop to see where we are, to view the landscape through which we are passing, to breathe in the majesty of this circumstance in which our life is lived. In part, this is what worship is: seeing what otherwise we would miss, getting our eyes for a little while off the perilous places at our feet, and ...

2041. Connecting Life's Disconnected Dots

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Staff

... little of this and a little of that, small events and brief moments that occur now and then along the way. And often it is difficult for us to see that these have any meaning, or, if so, what the meaning is. In worship we seek a God's-eye view of what we are; we seek to see ourselves as we are seen by him. This is to see our life in perspective and entire - not as a meaningless scattering of random dots on a blank page, but as a musical score that sings "Praise God from whom all blessings ...

2042. The Perspective Glass

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... City in all its wonder. Seeing it, they are able to overcome the perils of the valley, and make their way on through to victory at last. You know, in a very real way, worship time is perspective time. It is a time for getting a better view of distant glories, for seeing beyond all the immediate things that press in upon us, for having an inspiring glimpse of inviting summits that call us ever onward and upward. May this hour of worship, for you today, be a time when your horizons are widened to include ...

2043. Seeing the Heights

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... them once, and they are there all right." When we know the heights are there, we are no longer prisoners of the lowlands; we aspire, we dream, we try - our souls are possessed by a passion to climb. In this time of worship, if you can catch a better view of the heights, then the purpose of this hour shall have been in large measure achieved. For this is a time of looking up - from wherever we are - through the valley fog, above the low-lying mists, that we may see the heights, the bright summits to which ...

2044. Fifth Point of the Compass

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Staff

... God, in relationship with others, in relationship with life. We need to identify our position if we are to know how to reach our goal. And this is one of the many values of worship - that we may find ourselves, see ourselves where we are. Then we have a clearer view of where we ought to be and a better understanding of how to get there. Wherever it is we are going, we must start right here.

2045. Healing And Forgiveness

Luke 5:17-26

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... fruit that all physical evils, including illness, entered the world. Therefore after the Fall, there developed in the Old Testament the belief that physical evil came from God who was the all omnipotent ruler of the universe. For this reason then, disease and injury became viewed as a consequence and punishment of human sin. They are seen as clearly within the realm of God's control. In Deuteronomy 32:39 God says: "I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal." Disease, as seen as part of God's anger ...

2046. A Joyful New Beginning

John 20:1-9

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... straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Jesus Christ (Philippians 2:13-14)." When people see themselves as immortal and conceive of life as eternal, then they, like Paul, will never view death and defeat as the final chapter in human existence. Our faith then enables us to see disappointments and defeats as simply the conditions of our discipleship. They are the terms on which we must live the life that God has granted to us. Therefore, we ...

2047. What To Do When Everyone's Doing It

Judges 6:1-40

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Harold Warlick

... parties, it was still the minority posture to say "no, thank you" to many things. When you hear or read about a decision handed down by our Supreme Court, the name is announced of the justice who wrote the minority report. Interestingly enough, if you wish to view most of what is now majority law or majority action in our country, you could go through the past four decades of decisions and read the minority reports. Most of the good causes in our way of life began with a minority and grew until they reached ...

2048. Real Strength

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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Harold Warlick

... sexually irresponsible. What we really fear is that our child could become one of the 36 percent of the people who get trapped by life. If that is true, and there is a 36 percent chance that you and I will give in to anything, then maybe we should view the Bible and its teachings in a new light. The Bible is not a book of rules. It is not a literal history or even a precise compilation of biographies. The Bible is essentially a compilation of people who have interacted with God and found a conscience that ...

2049. Is There No Balm in Gilead?

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

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Brett Blair

... are people who believe that America is a special nation, chosen by God above all others for unique blessing. That is idolatry. There is only one nation with which God ever had a special relationship and that is ancient Israel. In Isaiah 40, God says he views all nations as “a drop in a bucket,” “less than nothing” and “dust on the scales,” a statement that is cause for humility.” You see God no longer works through a nation. He works through his people--the church. Paul understood that God’s ...

2050. The Miracle Comes at the Breaking

Luke 24:13-35

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Various Authors

... experienced. Our Scripture lesson for this day illustrates what I'm trying to say. It was late afternoon and evening of the first Easter. Two followers of Jesus were walking a slow and sorrowing seven miles from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaus. By our usual view of things, they were not famous or important people. The one is identified as Cleopas, and we know nothing more about him nor do we learn more of him later in the Scriptures; the other is not even named. But they had loved Jesus very much ...

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