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Romans 2:1-16

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... : A God will judge everyone equitably (v. 6). B Those who do good will attain eternal life (v. 7). C Those who do evil will suffer wrath and anger (v. 8). C? Those who do evil will suffer trouble and distress (v. 9). B? Those who do good will receive glory ... before judgment fell stemmed from God’s mercy and grace. He was giving his Old Testament people time to repent. I had a barber in Chicago who lived a wild life despite being married and having children. He was a party-going, pill-popping hipster. But one ...

2. The Sign of Immanuel

Isaiah 7:1-25

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... than the present enemy, and/or as one of the two current superpowers. In verse 20, Assyria is like a barber shaving from top to toe, a synecdoche for the grief and humiliation of defeat and exile (see 3:17; 2 Sam. 10:4–5; 2 Kgs. 2:23; Jer. 41 ... the right suggests “when he grows up.” Fulfillment would then be the fall of Ephraim in 721 B.C. But ra’ and tob mean “bad” and “good,” even “nasty” and “nice,” and suggest the much earlier moment when a child has opinions about ...

3. I'm O.k.; You're A Little Suspect

Luke 6:37-42

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King Duncan

... ! What an idiot! But when he jumped out to look, Tim didn't see anyone. As he was muttering under his breath about stupid drivers, a little old lady came out of the barber shop and announced, “I saw the whole thing." Turns out, he was the stupid driver. Instead of putting his car in park, Tim had accidentally shifted it into reverse. No one had hit ... Fleming H. Revell Company, 1974), pp. 44-45. 7. Knowles, George E. A World to Love (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1990), p. 73.

4. Signs and Oracles of Judgment

Ezekiel 4:1-5:17, Ezekiel 6:1-14, Ezekiel 7:1-27

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... enacts God’s judgment upon God’s own people. The Lord commands the prophet, “take a sharp sword and use it as a barber’s razor to shave your head and your beard” (v. 1). The word “sword” is characteristic of Ezekiel, as it appears more times here ... 4 and 5–9 as alternate versions of the same oracle (e.g., Cooke, Ezekiel, p. 75; J. W. Wevers, Ezekiel [NCB; Greenwood, S.C.: Attic, 1969], p. 62). Indeed, for much of this chapter, the LXX is shorter than the Heb. text from which our OT is ...

5. Music as Prescription

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Robert Noblett

... choose from one of the following: Debussy’s Afternoon of a Fawn, Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, Samuel Barber’s Adagio For Strings, or Aaron Copeland’s Appalachian Spring.” Sound surprising? It would be, because we are just at the ... Canticle of the Sun.” (Theology in a New Key) Many years ago a friend who is a musician introduced me to Frederick Chopin’s C Minor Prelude. I would contend that one cannot hear this piece and the words written for it and not feel enwrapped in the presence of ...

6. Working and Praying Go Together

Matthew 14:13-21

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... includes cab drivers, telephone operators, mechanics, press agents, bar pianists, stone cutters, farm wives, priests, dentists, librarians, barbers, and about ninety others. One of the significant impressions the book left with me was that a ... What can we do about all this? We need to pray more. Our theme says, "Working and praying go together." But you are saying inside, "C'mon, preacher! That's preachertalk. We'd expect you to say that, yes. But do you yourself really believe that's an answer?" Well, ...

7. Winners and Losers

Matthew 25:31-46

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King Duncan

... think of yourself as a loser. You’re not, not in God’s eyes. And we need to think closely before we think anyone else is a loser. David Barber, a Lutheran pastor in Honolulu, tells a fascinating story about a man who bore the label of loser. It was in a newspaper story about those who fail. ... ://www.lchwelcome.org/sermons/2005/sermon05‑03‑24.html. 4. Robert C. Roberts, Taking the Word to Heart: Self & Other in an Age of Therapies, (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1993), pp. 156-157.

8. Grace Is What Christ Has Done

Acts 15:1-21

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Barbara Brokhoff

We live in a high-gloss, fix-the-outside, cover-up-the-spots world. We believe in making good first impressions, so we are very adept at cover-ups and shining up the outside. We have cover-ups in politics, in the world of high finance, in big business, and in education. Even if you buy peaches or strawberries from a road-side fruit stand you have to watch lest they have put the smaller, maybe rotten, fruit on the bottom, and then entice you to purchace them by covering it with the larger, more beautiful ...

9. Love without Limits

John 13:31-38

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John K. Bergland

The eloquent preacher Tom Long tells the story of a small church-related college that held an annual event called Christian Emphasis Week. It was the task of the Christian club on campus to invite a speaker who would come and lead a college revival. This particular year they invited a preacher who had come highly recommended. They were told of his dynamism and his unique way of communicating the gospel. The first night of the revival the chapel was filled with the faithful. There were no "animal house" ...

10. Love without Limits

Acts 11:1-18

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Charley Reeb

11. "Something's Coming"

Isaiah 2:1-5

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Robert Beringer

Could it be? Who knows? There's something to anything, I will know right away, soon as it shows. It may come cannonballing down from the sky - Who knows? It's just out of reach ... down the block ... on a beach . . . under a tree,I got a feeling there's a miracle goin' to come true, coming to me! Could it be? Yes, it could ... Something's comin', something good if I can wait. Something's comin', I don't know what it is, but it's going to be great! Something's comin' - don't go away!1 Perhaps you recognize ...

12. The Vine And The Branches

John 15:1-17

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

Just outside Nazareth where Jesus grew up you can see them on both sides of the road. They grow everywhere out of that dry, rocky soil. They are the grapevines mentioned in John 15. When I stepped off the tourist bus to take pictures, I was amazed to see these short stumps of vines lying over close to the ground and propped up with a rock to keep them off the hot red soil. I had pictured in my mind all these years, grape arbors like grandpa’s that ran from the house to the garage in the backyard and which ...

13. Talk! Talk! Talk!

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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Louis H. Valbracht

Text: Jeremiah 1:6 - Then, I said, "Ah, Lord God! Behold, I do not know how to speak ..." Jeremiah was expressing a common need of most of us. One of the miraculous abilities of the human being is his ability to speak to another human being and be understood, that the mind can communicate its thought to another mind or minds by way of speech. But how tragic it is that we misuse and waste this God-given ability. It was in the early years of my ministry that I was one Sunday preaching my sermon, and I had ...

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