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1. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... But you have said in my hearing—I heard the very words. Elihu declares that he is quoting the very words of Job, but what Elihu says in verses 9–11 slants Job’s position in a simplistic way that does not encompass Job’s total way of thinking. Elihu depicts Job as saying that he is innocent (four times in v. 9) and that God has wronged him (four times in vv. 10–11). With this skewed summary of Job’s speeches, Elihu expresses the friends’ misconceptions of Job more than Job’s actual position ...

2. Marriage

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... pp. 67–81, esp. p. 78 n. 1). Both references to “being called” in this verse employ passive verbal forms, so that the unstated agent in the issuing of the call is understood to be God. Paul is fond of the use of the so-called divine passive as a way of thinking and talking about God and God’s acts. 7:19 Cf. Gal. 5:6; 6:15; Rom. 2:25–26; 3:1–2. 7:21 The second portion of this verse is notoriously ambiguous. The NIV renders the line according to the understanding of the vast majority of scholars ...

3. Playing Outside the Rules

Luke 6:27-38 · Genesis 45:3-11, 15

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Lori Wagner

... you grace equal to your sins? No one wants that. We expect from God total mercy, even while we want equal justice. No, what Jesus is asking of us is still challenging for us today: to throw away our rules-based thinking, and to take on “divine ways of thinking.” To get rid of our rigid boxes and start playing outside of the rules. Cause love always, always plays outside the rules. Always. A warning to all of us. When you demand rules instead of giving love, and then pray the Lord’s prayer, you are ...

4. The Subject Is Salvation

Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19

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James L. Killen

... we really know what the story is about? Do we know what the story is intended to teach us? When we ask those questions, we discover that this is anything but a children's story. It is a profound piece of adult literature that introduces us to a way of thinking about life and reality that may be new and mind boggling to us. It can give us a new way of seeing ourselves in our relationship with life that can both fill us with reverent awe and also lead us to rediscover and take seriously our own responsibility ...

5. Daniel’s Training in Babylon

Daniel 1:1-21

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... unlikely that they were eunuchs. The Bible gives the same requirement for priests (Lev. 21:17–23) and for sacrificial animals (Lev. 22:18–25). The fact that they were to be handsome shows a perceived relationship between beauty and divine favor. This way of thinking was not exclusive to Babylon. Even though 1 Samuel 16:7 warns against looking on the outward appearance as a sign of God’s election, a few verses later David is described as having “a fine appearance and handsome features” (1 Sam. 16 ...

6. Blind Ambition

Mark 9:30-37

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Mark Trotter

... about. I believe that. We may not understand what is meant by "the Son of Man," but they understood what was meant by it. It was the common title for the Messiah in that century. There were several titles for the Messiah, and each title represented a certain way of thinking about the Messiah: who he will be, what he will do when he comes. So when Jesus said, back there on the road, "The Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men, and be killed, and will rise again," they understood what he was ...

7. Weary in Well Doing

2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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Donna Schaper

... in well doing comes from trying to do too much, too big. Forget that. Stick with the small interventions. Another reversal in our thinking is that of prevention. Old ways of thinking have to do with programmatic moppings up of what has gone wrong. I think of the department of children and family services — or of most medicine. New ways of thinking have to do with creating the bodies and world and children that we want now. One is preventive and long term and focuses on wellness; the other is palliative ...

8. Discovering that It’s Not about You

Genesis 22:1-14

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James L. Killen

... our ambitions. If God is a part of the picture we draw of our lives, God is likely to be our God, a little God who, like our friends and family members, serves our purposes in life. I suppose it is natural for us to slip into that way of thinking. We all do it to some extent. Put some faces on these characters now. Put your face on the person in the center. Which are your things? Who are your people? What is your story? Can you understand how Abraham must have come to think that everything that happened ...

9. The Proof Is In the Pudding

Luke 7:18-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... of Jesus Christ. Our open door must be a door to a fellowship that is so grace-filled that people will experience the redemptive power of Jesus Christ. So we talk about the church as the grace-filled dwelling place of the wonder of Christian fellowship. My favorite way of thinking about it is to picture the church as a home of grace. If the Church is a home for grace—if grace is what defines the family of God, then the Church must be a home for all. Recently, as President Carter made his trip to Cuba, I ...

10. Overcoming The Blues

1 Kings 19:1-8

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Robert Allen

... boards and I stood there shaking my head and saying, “That looks like it would hurt.” The instructor looked at me and invited me to give it a try. Now, I knew nothing about karate! However, the instructor explained how karate was primarily a mental thing -- a way of thinking. He told me to put everything out of my mind and concentrate on that board. He told me to keep thinking, “I’m going to break that board.” And that is what I was telling myself. I kept saying over and over again, “I’m going ...

11. Job’s Reply to Zophar

Job 12:1--14:22

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... uses the idiomatic expression, “who will give” (Heb. mi yitten), to indicate the utter impossibility of hope (see the discussion on 14:4 in §47). If only you could . . . is actually an admission that such deliverance will never occur. Job is twisting the normal ways of thinking about the grave (which is actually a reference to Sheol, the abode of the dead). As we saw above (on 10:20–22), Sheol is the place of no return, where all go upon death, regardless of their character in this life. Job takes ...

12. Family Survival

Genesis 37:1-11

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Stephen DeFur

... are my clothes." Your husband says, "Well, they were, but you're bigger than you used to be. You've put on weight. Those clothes are kind of tight on you, but they'll fit the new wife just great! Let's give them to her!" (1) It's another way of thinking about it, isn't it? Yet, somehow this comes as a total surprise to every generation of parents. What we have going on here is not an unusual problem. It happens in every family, but this is not just run-of-the-mill sibling rivalry. Joseph, we're told by ...

13. The Counter Intelligence of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9

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Leonard Sweet

... was in danger of falling out of favor as the Corinthians straggled to out-think and out-perform each other. And it is the heart of the gospel that is the greatest casualty of our “wisdom wars” today in which Christianity becomes a way of thinking, a “philosophy,” rather than a way of living and relating to each other and to the world. Instead of engaging the Corinthians with an intellectual debate, instead of mustering the resources of his impressive learning and apostolic status, Paul assaults the ...

14. Dangerous

John 12:12-19, Zechariah 9:9-13, Zechariah 9:14-17

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Lori Wagner

... radiation. It could never really be a “thing” that would take off. Too dangerous. Some said the same thing about cell phones, and computers, and television, and cars! For most of us, putting our trust in the unfamiliar and unexpected and unknown to our ways of thinking is simply banking on a “wild card.” The problem with that thinking or mode of operation is that every great invention in the world began with a “wild card.” And you need to know this morning, before you go any further, that every ...

15. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

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Harold Warlick

... given them the capacity to do. Without those guides, this powerful animal would have died. Regardless of how strong and brilliant we humans become, we, too, become confused in life and have to turn to others to lead us away from shallow perceptions and ways of thinking. More often than not our guides tend to be our religious leaders and our professors. Teachers and preachers are supposed to be people who know much and have wisdom that can help us solve problems. If you can't follow your priests, preachers ...

16. Ready or Not, Here He Comes!

Luke 3:1-20

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David E. Leininger

... as appropriate motivation. We share because it is RIGHT to share. PERIOD! If you want do right, then DO IT! Jesse Jackson has said, "It is easier to walk your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of walking."(3) Did you hear that? Listen again: "It is easier to walk your way into a new way of thinking, than to think your way into a new way of walking." John would say Amen! "Tax collectors also came to be baptized. "Teacher," they asked, "what should we do?" "Don't collect any ...

17. Joseph – The Promise Believed

Matthew 1:18-25; 2:13-23

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James Merritt

... ) At first sight, there seems to be some confusion, because verse eighteen tells us that he was, "betrothed" to Mary, then verse nineteen tells us that he was thinking about "divorcing her" and then in verse twenty she is called "his wife". In the western way of thinking that is very confusing, if not contradictory, but in Jewish custom it was very natural. We think of marriage as an event, but a Jewish marriage was a process. In fact, there was a three-step process. First of all, there was the engagement ...

18. How Does One Follow Jesus During The Threat Of War?

Matthew 5:1-12

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George Johnson

... being programmed to think war, to justify war. We learn war when we gear our whole economic structure around war and the preparation for war. Isaiah says that when the Messiah comes, when Jesus breaks into our lives, something radical happens. Our way of thinking changes. "Neither shall they learn war anymore." That's our vision and our vision shapes our thinking, our action. Following Jesus during the threat of war means going back to passages like this and reshaping our vision for this world. Following ...

19. Encouragement to Be Faithful

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... faith” for “by grace through faith”). Given the fully Pauline character of v. 7, it seems biased on Hanson’s part to say, “but the word the author uses here, sōphronismos, has a slight element of prudential ethic in it that is foreign to Paul’s way of thinking” (pp. 121–22). A similar thing could be said of the use of enkrateia (“self-discipline”) in Gal. 5:23, if one believed Paul did not write that letter. 1:8 For the concept of “ashamed/shame” in Paul (and the rest of the NT) see ...

20. The Heart -- Our Mirror

Proverbs 25:1-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... means at first thinking what is right. The advertising world knows this and spends millions of dollars to shape our thinking. The problem is they are not presenting right thinking -- but perverted, selfish, self-serving, destructive thinking. There is a way of thinking that will drag us down -- that will destroy us ultimately. It's not unlike the story of the church that placed a special sign on the bulletin board outside the building. It said, "Tired of sinning? Come inside!" Someone scribbled underneath ...

21. Essential Personnel!

Matthew 4:18-22

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William B. Kincaid, III

... and pieces of the truth in order for our understanding of the truth to be complete. At the round table we see ourselves in one another. My experience may shed light on your experience. Your way of approaching something may open up new ways of thinking for me. Even in a congregation of predominantly one race and class, which describes most congregations in this country, opportunities abound to learn from the many people who have responded to this invitation of Jesus. Baby-boomers and people born before the ...

22. Learning to Love

Matthew 5:43-48

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James L. Killen

... want to learn to love, the first thing we need is to get a really good idea of what love is and of what the real thing looks like. If we look to our popular culture, especially the entertainment industry that does even more than we realize to shape our ways of thinking and living, we will get the idea that love is some combination of selfishness, jealousy, and sex. Most of us know instinctively that is not what it is. But what is it? If we want to learn to love, we are wise to look to our Christian faith as ...

23. The Treasure Principles

Matthew 6:19-24

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Bill Bouknight

... of his estate to the ongoing work of the Lord’s church. Make sure that your last will and testament gives glory to God. This morning I have challenged us to claim three biblical treasure principles. All three are directly contrary to the world’s way of thinking. These three are printed in our bulletin. Let’s say them together out loud. • God owns everything and we are his money-managers. • We can serve God or greed, but not both. • When our hearts belong to Christ, the more we give, the happier ...

24. Discerning the Way of God

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

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Hubert Beck

... were willing to pay for whatever fancy passed through their minds. The Christian colony in that city could not help but be affected by their environment, and since undoubtedly some of them had originally been part of that environment, it was hard to shed old ways of thinking and acting. Paul seems to make passing reference already here in this early part of the book to such problems as he says, "We have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the ...

25. Different

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

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James L. Killen

... just keeps on unfolding for those who pay attention to it. Paul said that message of the cross sounded like foolishness to most of the people to whom he was talking. The Greeks had one way of thinking about everything and the Jews had another, but the cross didn't fit into any of their ways of thinking. He said the cross was a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Greeks, something that got in the way of their accepting the Christian faith. The Corinthian Christians must have been tempted ...

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