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1. Lent 1

Mt 4:1-11 · Rom 5:12-21 · Gen 2:7 - 3:7 · Ps 32

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Russell F. Anderson

... to discount the power of the individual. Yet, history is laden with examples of solitary individuals who have impacted the entire planet, either for good or for ill. For example, consider the actions of a simple black woman in Montgomery, Alabama, who refused to cede her seat in the white section of the bus. Because of this simple gesture, Rosa Parks ignited the civil rights movement. Paul points out how the sin of one man, Adam, led to the transgression of all humans and, ultimately, to death. On the ...

2. Ten Friends Drive Us to the Promise

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

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Arley K. Fadness

... that Yahweh is the one who brought them out of Egypt. Yahweh is a holy, jealous God who saves and commands. Yahweh displaces all other loyalties and drives away all rivals. When God speaks, the command is not a suggestion, but a call for a lifetime of ceding all authority over to Yahweh. "I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; you shall have no other gods" (Exodus 20:2). Origin, the second-century North African theologian said, "What each one honors ...

3. God Is Pro-Life

Exodus 20:13

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James Merritt

... its best feminism defends its moral high ground by being simply faithful to the truth to women's real-life experiences. But to its own ethical and political detriment, the Pro-choice Movement has relinquished the moral frame around the issue of abortion. It has ceded the language of right and wrong to abortion foes. Such a position causes us to lose political ground. By refusing to look at abortion within a moral framework, we lose the millions of Americans who want to support abortion as a legal right, but ...

4. Setting All the Idols Down

Hosea 2:14-20

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Schuyler Rhodes

... how Hosea addresses this concern using the story of his marriage. We see a people gone astray after other gods. And we see God's forgiveness upon their return. It begs the questions: Is our relationship with God solid? Do we bow down before idols today? Do we cede power and control in our lives over to entities and processes that are not of God? If so, what are the details? What are the idols? What are the idols that we worship today? What foreign gods do we follow? Perhaps the biggest one is money, wealth ...

5. Jesus Tempted In Us

Matthew 4:1-11

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David O. Bales

... , Doctor Schweitzer went to the unhealthiest climate in the world to care for the neediest of the earth’s people. Friends thought he was crazy. The established church wouldn’t honor his ministry because of his unorthodox views. But the Paris Mission Society ceded a site for his hospital on the Ogowe[1] River in what was French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). There in the African jungle he worked out his belief in “the reverence for life.” He built, equipped, and maintained the hospital with royalties ...

6. The Story of Israel Now and Later

Romans 2:1-16

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C. Marvin Pate

... ) stars Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro and features lush, Oscar-winning cinematography. It also includes one of the great cinematic scenes of repentance and forgiveness. The story examines the events surrounding the Treaty of Madrid in 1750, when Spain ceded part of South America to Portugal. Two European forces win the South American natives over to imperialist ways. The plunderers want to extract riches and slaves from the New World; the missionaries want to convert the indigenous peoples to Christianity ...

7. Keeping Promises

Numbers 30:1-16

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Joe M. Sprinkle

... of the person making the oath. Judicial oaths place the person under divine wrath if that person is guilty of the crime of which he or she has been accused (Exod. 22:10–11; Num. 5:19–22). Other oaths are simply solemn promises. Esau swears an oath ceding his birthright to Jacob (Gen. 25:33). God swears an oath on himself (rather than another god [cf. Heb. 6:13]) to give Canaan to the patriarchs (Exod. 6:8; 32:13). Saul swears to the medium of Endor that she will not be punished for using necromancy ...

8. Yahweh Speaks as the Master Teacher

Job 38:1--41:34

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Daniel J. Estes

... it upon himself to dictate to Yahweh how to run the moral realm of life. Job has no ground for faulting Yahweh for choosing not to act as the retribution formula demands. Yahweh maintains that he alone is in control, and he has no intention of ceding his authority to Job or to any other human. 40:15–24 Look at Behemoth, which I made along with you. Scholars have debated extensively the identity of this animal. The term “Behemoth” is the plural form for the generic Hebrew word for an animal. The ...

9. The Transformative Power of God

1 John 1:1--2:2

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Richard Gribble

... hear, and probably have stated more than once, “If you want to get the job done, do it yourself.” Trusting another is difficult for it necessitates that we relinquish control of some action. We are always “hedging our bets,” worried that if we cede control to another, the chances that we will be disappointed grow exponentially. Thus, because too often people fail to meet our expectations, we have difficulty with trust. Yet, part of the challenge of being a Christian is to place our trust in God. The ...

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