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John 10:22-30

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Lori Wagner

... to any other sounds. Our pitch, our tone, our frequency all reveal something about what we are feeling and want to convey. Scientists at Berkeley say, humans can detect 24 kinds of emotions just in the human voice.[1] We know that must be true, because when we talk ... s voice in the wind. Listen to the sound of God’s voice in your head. Listen to the sound of God’s voice as you breathe in and out. Listen to the sound of God’s voice through the whir of the fan and the rustling of the leaves on the trees ...

2. The Sword of the Lord

Hebrews 4:12-13

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James Merritt

... you are his own." God breathed into man and man became a living soul. God breathed into this book and this book became a living book. The Greek word for inspired literally means "breathed out." The same breath that gave life to man is the same breath that gives life to this ... you. These so-called scholars remind me of a football player I read about at the University of California at Berkeley. He took a course entitled "A Survey of the New Testament." It was filled every semester because the professor never ...

3. You Can Be Forever Young

Genesis 25:1-11

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Michael B. Brown

... significantly delayed by intelligent diet and exercise. A recent Wellness Newsletter from The University of California at Berkeley notes: "Exercise prolongs life. It also lowers one's aerobic age. Simply put," the newsletter said, "it ... better for others. Do that, and though (like Abraham) we may age, we will never grow old. 3 -- Take care of your soul. Abraham (at age 175) "breathed his last and died in a good old age." He had remained vital and vibrant till the very end. How did he do it? The Bible says " ...

4. The Autobiography of God

John 14:5-14

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Donald B. Strobe

... been some philosophers and some Eastern religions which have attempted to do so. There was that English Bishop named George Berkeley about whom you may have read when you studied philosophy. He lived in the 18th century and he believed ... . In Jesus we see a God whose almightiness consists in His ordinariness, a God who is close to us, beside us, “closer to us than breathing, and nearer than hands or feet,” as the poet puts it, a God who is intimately bound up in our lives, and is therefore relevant to ...

5. God's Dirty Job

Romans 5:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... clean? Do we think we are better than God, who got dirty hands when scooping us out of the dust and clay and breathing into us the breath of life? God wants to use your hands to touch the world. The Incarnation was the greatest “Dirty Job” of all time. It ... of other people that lower us into the earth." Dr. James B Stockinger Prof of Sociology at University of California at Berkeley Vernon Watkins, in his poem “Good Friday,” has these words: “Not in the speculative skies Instruction lies, But in the ...

6. The Ultimate Question

Isaiah 42:1-9

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Louis H. Valbracht

... Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it and spirit to those who walk in it: "I am the Lord, I have called you in righteousness, I have ... few years ago, I remember visiting the bevatron, or as we commonly call it, atom smasher, at the University of California in Berkeley, that great electromagnet which took up about half an acre and used enough electric power to provide a city with heat and ...

7. The Dividing Line

Mark 8:31--9:1

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King Duncan

... matter. "But what about you?" he asks. "Who do you say I am?" I imagine that all the hosts of heaven are holding their breath. For just a moment, time stands still. The fate of humanity rests on this answer. And who should answer, but the headstrong young fisherman named ... Dr. James Strange, iLumina Gold software (Tyndale House Publishers, 2003). 3. Jan Goldstein, Life Can Be This Good (Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 2002), pp. 139-142. 4. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (New York: MacMillan, 1961 ...

8. The FUD Club: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

2 Thessalonians 2:13-17

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Leonard Sweet

... of Samuel, but the bubonic plague is not just some past nightmare. It is still with us, spread by fleas from black rats. When airborne droplets of blood get breathed into clean lungs, it’s called pneumonic plague instead of bubonic plague. And people are still dying of it . . . . You say, well, at least not here in the ... --William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” in The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, newly rev. ed., ed. David V. Erdman (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982), 492.

9. Tattenai's Letter to Darius

Ezra 5:1-17

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... extended to the present. He himself clearly had no objection to the work, which augured well for the outcome—but we readers hold our breath, hoping with the elders for a royal yes. Additional Notes 5:1 Iddo was the family name, mentioned in Neh. 12:16. In the name ... feature of Persian administration. See B. Porten, Archives from Elephantine: The Life of an Ancient Jewish Military Colony (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968), pp. 53f. 5:7 Cordial greetings is lit. “all peace” (NRSV). This ...

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