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201. Formula for Eternal Life

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... the one who washes, irons, and mends the students' clothes, cleans the dormitory, fixes what is broken, does the grocery shopping, and takes care of the outside yard. In short, George is a servant in the classic sense of that word. He serves the students and often the faculty and staff of that school from morning until after 8 p.m. each day. He rides his bicycle to work over the dusty and narrow dirt road each day. He returns on the same road each evening after dark, a road with no lighting. One wonders how ...

202. Jesus’ Prayer: The Pause in the Battle

John 17:1-11

Sermon

David O. Bales

... than eternal, now — when we really need it — Jesus prays for us. We can become distracted by things around us: the rising price of gas or the falling value of houses. We can be preoccupied by the things about us: losing our youth or losing our faculties, losing our confidence or losing our reputation. We’re well advised in all situations to concentrate upon what Jesus prays for us. He prays that God protect us in God’s name. Our culture has slowly changed how a person is named. Nowadays many parents ...

203. Stuck in Park

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Tony Everett

... share your own relationship with Christ in the Christian community? Here’s an interesting story. Perhaps you have heard it before. A seminary professor was walking alongside a fast flowing stream. As he was looking for a place to cross safely, he noticed a faculty colleague walking along the opposite shoreline. “Hey, how did you get to the other side?” he shouted. “You are on the other side,” his friend replied. Hmmm… You see, this is often what happens when we fail to meet folks where they are ...

204. Ring Those Bells

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... strung alone the road to Galilee as warnings, left on the crosses for days for the vultures to pick the flesh off the bones, and then the feral dogs below to gnaw on the bones and take them away. During the 7 years from 1861 to 1868, the faculty and student body of William and Mary College in Virginia went home. The school was closed. Only one remained. The college president. Every day, this one man did something that was absolutely insane. He walked from his office to the chapel and rang the bell. NO one ...

205. Five Mission Killers

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... meetings (meetings where memos are read aloud that you could read yourself privately and silently) Recap Meetings (meetings to "recap" meetings held elsewhere). Agenda meetings (meetings to set up more meetings, also known as the "third circle of hell" meetings) Faculty meetings. Meetings-that-make-you-want-to-die Meetings. Fortune Magazine once put as a page header: "Meetings that don’t kill you will only make you stronger, or more depressed." I have some pastor friends who I suspect at ...

206. Living “I Don’t Know” While “In the Know”

Matthew 21:23-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . You all know what “PC” means, although the best example of it was given by Gary Trudeau, the “Doonesbury” cartoonist, at an opening-of-the-year speech at Yale University a few years ago: Dean Kagan, distinguished faculty, parents, friends, graduating seniors, Secret Service agents, class agents, people of class, people of color, colorful people, people of height, the vertically constrained, people of hair, the differently coiffed, the optically challenged, the temporarily sighted, the insightful ...

207. God's Pattern for Sainthood

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... be?” wondered the theologian at this man’s great faith. “I am a king,” was the answer. “And where is your kingdom?” asked the theologian. “In my soul,” answered the beggar, “for I know so well how to rule my faculties, both interior and exterior, that all the powers, inclinations, and affections of my soul are completely subject to me.” “Tell me, how did you learn such great perfection?” asked the theologian with great admiration. “By recollection, meditation, and union with God ...

208. The Peaceable Kingdom

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... management at Duke University, he asked his students to draft a personal strategic plan. He reports that "with few exceptions, what they wanted fell into three categories: money, power, and things...very big things." In fact, said Naylor, this was their request of the business faculty at Duke University: "Teach me to be a money-making machine!" A money-making machine! A machine with no heart! That's the fragmentation of our lives taken to the extreme. So here we are, in a sense, on the brink of another year ...

209. The Remaining Promise of Rest

Hebrews 4:1-13

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... in 4:6. See H. W. Attridge, “ ‘Let us strive to enter that rest’: The Logic of Hebrews 4:1–11,” HTR 73 (1980), pp. 279–88. 4:12 Because in Philo the word of God (logos tou theou) is personified and said to divide different faculties within the human being, some have seen Alexandrian influence upon the author in the present passage. Although possible, such a conclusion is far from certain. The word of God is living because God is “the living God” (3:12). Its dynamic and effective quality is ...

210. Warning Against Falling Away

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... . The words not acquainted with translate the single Greek word apeiros, “without experience,” which occurs only here in the NT. The quasi-technical language of the ethicist in v. 14b is captured well (and quite literally) by Barclay: “it is for those whose faculties are disciplined by practice to distinguish between right and wrong.” The author’s Hellenism is readily apparent here. See H. P. Owen, “The ‘Stages of Ascent’ in Hebrews 5:11–6:3,” NTS 3 (1956–57), pp. 243–53. 6:1–3 The ...

211. The Day of the Lord

2 Peter 3:1-18

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... in Eph. 4:18, “darkened in their understanding (dianoia).” Plato uses Peter’s phrase to mean pure reason, i.e., thinking unaffected by the senses. But in Christian writings dianoia usually does not refer to the mind in the intellectual sense but to the faculty of spiritual discernment (Eph. 4:18; Col. 1:21; 1 John 5:20). 3:2 This verse has a succession of genitives in the Greek, making translation difficult. The problem is often eased in English versions by the addition of through (NIV, RSV; not in ...

212. The Death of David

1 Chronicles 29:26-30

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... final moment: he died at a good old age, having enjoyed long life, wealth and honor. This comment paints a considerably different picture from the one in 1 Kings 1–2. There David is portrayed as frail and feeble, not completely in command of his faculties. In Chronicles, however, David remains the active king until the very end. The section concludes with a reference to three other accounts of David’s reign, namely, the records of Samuel the seer, the records of Nathan the prophet and the records of Gad ...

213. Sermon on the Mount: Giving, Prayer, and Fasting

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... , Jesus teaches, should be defined by a longing for and focus on the kingdom’s arrival. It is the essential ingredient of the church’s life of prayer. Quote: Walter Russell Bowie. Bowie (1882–1969) was the rector of parishes in Virginia and New York, a faculty member at Union Seminary and Virginia Theological Seminary, and author of the hymn “Lord Christ, When First Thou Cam’st to Earth.” He penned this prayer: O God, go with me as I go out into the confusion of the world. It is often hard to ...

214. Two Parables about Prayer

Luke 18:9-14, Luke 18:1-8

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... of prayer to lament over me before you. Her prayers entered into your sight.1 Autobiography: Out of a Far Country: A Gay Son’s Journey to God, a Broken Mother’s Search for Hope, by Christopher Yuan and Angela Yuan. Christopher Yuan, now an adjunct faculty member at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, lived for years as a gay man, a central figure in St. Louis’s gay community and also heavily involved in selling and using drugs. Arrested for his involvement in drugs, he spent a number of years in jail ...

215. The Gospel of God in Christ through Paul

Romans 1:1-17

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... to the uttermost parts of the world, thanks to the ministries of the thirteen apostles, including the apostle Paul. Illustrating the Text The theological orientation of the gospel is the Old Testament. Education: A number of years ago, a Harvard faculty committee declared that “the aim of a liberal education” was “to unsettle presumptions, to defamiliarize the familiar, to reveal what is going on beneath and behind appearances, to disorient young people and to help them to find ways to reorient ...

216. The Coming of the Kingdom of God

Luke 17:11-19, Luke 17:20-37

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... the kingdom lead into a discourse for the disciples on the coming of the Son of Man (17:22–37). Jesus begins by emphasizing that his followers will long to see the days of his future messianic reign (17:22), but such anticipation should not blind their critical faculties (17:23). They should not be misled by those who claim to know where he is, for his coming will be as sudden and obvious as lightning that flashes in the sky (17:24). Furthermore, before any of this can happen, the Son of Man must suffer ...

217. Preparation for Action

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... existence of such a prophetic word is a summons to prepare the mind for action (1:13–21). The proper response to the Scriptures is to get thinking. The Greek for “minds that are alert and fully sober” means “make sure you keep all your faculties fully operational” (Peter repeats the exhortation “be alert and of sober mind” in 4:7 and 5:8). The mind that is girded up, redirected by the Scriptures, will begin to think in a new way. However threatening the present, the fully girded-up mind will ...

218. Judging Others

Matthew 7:1-6

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... believers are not to make moral judgments about anyone or anything. That this is not what was intended is clear from verses 15–20, which warn of false prophets who can be known by the fruit they bear. Jesus does not ask us to lay aside our critical faculties but rather to resist the urge to speak harshly of others. The issue is serious in that God will judge us by the same standard we apply to others. This rather frightening truth should change the way in which we tend to view other people’s failings ...

219. The Parable of the Sower

Matthew 13:1-23

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... at the same time veiling the truth from those whose hearts had already hardened against the message. For those who neither see nor understand, everything comes as parables (i.e., obscurely). They are the fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy about a people whose spiritual faculties have grown dull. Isaiah 6:9–10 is cited almost word for word from the LXX. This is the only fulfillment quotation that is ascribed to Jesus himself. Because the heart of the nation has become callous, they refuse to turn to God ...

220. Who Cares?

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... , I was in prison and you visited me," says the king (v. 36). We are being challenged to do for others what they cannot do for themselves. Noted theologian, author, professor, and speaker Henri J.M. Nouwen made a move from the faculty at Harvard Divinity School to the staff at Daybreak — a residential community for mentally handicapped people. What a dramatic transition this must have been — from working with the world's brightest and best under the spotlight of constant recognition, to laboring almost ...

221. Paul's Longing to Visit Rome

Romans 1:1-17

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... Greek as the mode of communication in the ancient world, and Rome’s currency measured the scale of values. Roman justice was the arbiter of what was right and wrong, who would live and die. The genius which made it possible was the Roman faculty for administration, symbolized by the raised eagle of the Roman standard. In comparison with Rome’s self-evident power, the gospel of Jesus Christ must have been dismissed as something of little consequence. But the power of which Paul speaks is a different ...

222. Job’s Reply to Zophar

Job 12:1--14:22

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... rhetorical questions (vv. 11–12) that introduce a hymn to the power of God in the world of human affairs (vv. 13–25). 12:11–12 In a series of rhetorical questions, Job calls the friends (and, of course, the reader) to a discriminating use of wisdom faculties in the long-term observation of real life experience. The ear must be as discriminating in its reception of words as the tongue is as it tastes food. Not all food pleases the tongue, and some things taken into the mouth will be rejected as unfit ...

223. C. S. Lewis—Cost of a Public Faith

Illustration

Kathryn Lindskoog

... worse. He ended up publicly explaining and openly defending his personal God to millions of listeners and readers. Such undignified behavior embarrassed the hierarchy at his college at Oxford and cost Lewis his chance of ever advancing to a higher position on the faculty—there. Lewis learned that if you speak about beauty, truth or goodness, and about God as a great spiritual force of some kind, people will remain friendly. But he found that the temperature drops when you discuss a God who gives definite ...

224. Shockwaves of Joy

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... and how God will save the world at the last. God’s faithful love will never give up on us. On February 14, 2018, a former student armed with a semi-automatic rifle entered a Parkland, Florida, high school and murdered seventeen students and faculty members and injured seventeen more. Can you imagine the grief and shock and anger and sorrow of those who lost their children that day? Several prayer vigils were held in the community in the days following the shooting. Most of the prayers were for healing ...

225. Trust in Me

Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... .” And to those who believe they are awake, their eyes are closed! Within the dream, there is therefore an “alternate” reality, in which one comes face to face with God on a “spiritual” level. And messages are “heard” and “understood” with a faculty greater than the mere mind (logic). Dreams are visual and aural…..they are like film reels. Did Joseph experience what is to come also in vision? We don’t know. We do know, he encountered a heavenly messenger (Gabriel who also visited Mary ...

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