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John 10:10 · Matthew 6:33 · Ephesians 3:20

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Robert G. Tuttle

... fully, to call the world back to wholeness of life. Dr. Richard Goodling, Professor of Pastoral Psychology at Duke Divinity School, quotes Daniel Day Williams, "What, then, does it mean to be saved? It means to have one’s life in all its good and ... disease, not believing that God can handle every tissue in our bodies, then the body has a good chance of breaking down. Tommy Lewis tells of seeing a young lady in a retreat situation who looked, from her physical appearance, that she was going blind. As he ...

2. The Writing on the Wall

Daniel 5:1-31

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Ronald W. Pierce

... us for the contexts he calls us to. Children’s Book: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. In Lewis’s book, siblings Peter, Susan, and Lucy receive unexpected gifts when Father Christmas appears in their adventure. Though they are unaware ... halves of a shekel.6 Then Daniel interprets these as verbs. “Mene” means “to be numbered” (cf. Ps. 90:10–12) and is most likely mentioned twice to emphasize God’s active role in determining the now-elapsed days for the king’s rule.7 ...

3. “When Will These Things Happen?”

Luke 21:5-38

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R.T. France

... in a cloud with power and great glory. The language is closely modeled on Daniel 7:13–14, where the prophet sees “one like a son of man” coming ... , at His coming, will take him into His blessed kingdom.”4 Quote: Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis. “I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find ... , and a voice against this whole people!” This was his cry, as he went about by day and by night, in all the lanes of the city. However, certain of the most eminent among ...

4. Trumpets in Church on Easter, The Very Idea!

Mark 16:1-20

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Jon L. Joyce

... among six men. But the chances were the water would get us before we got very hungry. And then I remembered the story of Daniel. The day before, Sunday, after church, I’d had the strongest feeling that God was telling me to read the Bible, just to let it fall open at random. ... kind of "temporal redemption," much like the one envisioned 34 years ago in C. S. Lewis’ theological space fantasy OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET. In Lewis’ novel the earth is the devil’s territory and the prison of fallen man, ...

5. The Woman, the Son, and the Dragon

Revelation 12:1--13:1a

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J. Scott Duvall

... to contemplating Satan, avoid extremes. Quote: The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis. In his preface to this famous, fictional correspondence between Screwtape, a master tempter, and his nephew, Wormwood, Lewis writes: There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race ... half a time” represents the period of tribulation mentioned in Daniel 7:25 and 12:7 and is now applied to the “entire time of the church’s existence” (see comments at 12:6; cf. also 1,260 days, 42 months in 11:2–3; 12:6; 13: ...

6. Daniel: The Problem of Power

Daniel 6:10-16

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J. Howard Olds

... The linens will be washed. The child will fall asleep, but not always! Lewis Smedes writes about traveling from Los Angeles to Michigan to visit his college friend of 30 years who was dying of cancer. “For three days, Cal and I talked about our past and his future as only good ... we are weak, God is strong. III. IT'S ALL RIGHT BECAUSE HOPE IS ETERNAL. The last five chapters of Daniel are full of dreams – dreams of great conflict between the Medes and the Persians, the Babylonians and the Greeks; dreams of ...

7. The Coming of the Kingdom of God

Luke 17:20-37

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R.T. France

... at 5:12–26. The concept here of “the days of the Son of Man” or “the day when the Son of Man will be revealed” probably derives from Daniel’s vision of the enthronement of the “one like a son of man” in Daniel 7:13–14. In view of Jesus’s ... those traveling with full sets of luggage was striking. Sermon: “The Weight of Glory,” by C. S. Lewis. In this beautiful address, Lewis speaks eloquently of the temptation of Christians to confuse the delights of the world with what is ahead ...

8. Haman's Plot to Destroy the Jews

Esther 3:1-15

Understanding Series

Timothy S. Laniak

... should wonder about the motives of the other royal officials at this point. Day after day they were asking Mordecai why he refused to bow to Haman (3:4 ... and the terms used here typically demonstrate reverence for God. Certainly this is the challenge Daniel’s friends face in Dan. 3. But there is ample evidence that ancient Jews bowed ... background for the term pur(im) used in the second millennium B.C. and following, see J. Lewy, “Old Assyrian puru’um and purum,” RHA 5 (1939), pp. 116–24. 3:8 Who do not ...

9. The Four Sacred Chords of Home

Mark 13:24-37

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Leonard Sweet

... that you are emotionally mature; but if you give way to the suggestion of falling, the chances are that you need some major maturation. Every day we face a world where people are telling us that we’re falling, that we’re going to fail, that we don’t have what ... s own self-knowledge. C. S. Lewis wrote once that the only place where we can be safe from the dangers of love is hell. As any parent knows, love is costly. A broken heart is the price of love. But as Daniel O’Leary reminds us, "Loving someone ...

10. Adopted! (New)

Ephesians 1:1-14

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King Duncan

... Lewis, alias David Thornton, went back to square one. He started his family research all over again in light of his newly discovered adoption. (1) Many people have had to deal with what it means to be adopted. For some it has been traumatic--both for them and for their adoptive parents. For others, it has been a life-changing and thrilling experience. One family, named Carter, adopted an eleven-year-old boy named Jeremy. It was an exciting day ... Press, 1991). 5. Dr. Daniel Lioy, Tarbell's Lesson Commentary ...

11. Beasts, Saints and Chaos

Daniel 7:15-28, Daniel 7:1-14

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Paul W. F. Harms

... encouragement of the entire church, heroic and non-heroic members of it alike. C. S. Lewis in his book, The Great Divorce, illuminates how holiness and sainthood have to do ... to pray for a double measure of strength to bear the load. The vision of the Daniel text is the latter: the vision of the sea of chaos, the four beasts ready ... with the Desmond Tutus and the Simon Farisanis and the Gomezes, the African Christians often dying these days by the score. If I am with them, am I not also with you, not only now ...

12. The Angel's Message

Luke 1:26-38

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King Duncan

... for science.” “Angels talk all the way while they’re flying you up to heaven,” says Daniel, age 9. “The main subject is where you went wrong before you got dead.” Sara, age ... kind of grandmother or grandfather all of us should strive to be if we are blessed one day with grandchildren—the kind who gets a big head start on being an angel by helping their ... , the Christmas story would be quite different. “Obedience,” wrote C. S. Lewis, “is the key to all doors.” I read recently about another ...

13. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

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Daniel J. Estes

... psalmist says that the word of Yahweh makes him wiser than the aged. Both Joseph and Daniel confound their elders by their God-given wisdom. In Luke 2:46–47 the boy Jesus ... us that apart from his providence and grace we could never draw a breath or live a day. Christian Year: This is a great place to connect with the idea of the Incarnation and ... ) was a British preacher and writer who was encouraged in his writing by C. S. Lewis. In his book Your God Is Too Small (1952), Phillips discusses the various ways in ...

14. Beasts, Saints and Chaos

Daniel 7:1-14

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... of the entire church, heroic and non-heroic members of it alike. C. S. Lewis in his book, The Great Divorce, illuminates how holiness and sainthood have to do ... to pray for a double measure of strength to bear the load. The vision of the Daniel text is the latter: the vision of the sea of chaos, the four beasts ready ... am with the Desmond Tutus and the Simon Farisanis and the Gomezes, the African Christians often dying these days by the score. If I am with them, am I not also with you, not only now ...

15. Be Hatched or Go Bad

Mark 16:1-8

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Leonard Sweet

... you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” What Lewis is “pecking at” here is this: we must be hatched, or we will “go bad.” We must “break ... of cowering before the threat of death. Easter Sunday is a break-out day. A prison-break celebration. I don’t think it’s any accident that ... then you’re a fan of Cervantes, Voltaire, Thomas More, John Donne, Daniel Defoe, Oscar Wilde, Dostoyevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Diderot, Jack London. But maybe the ...

16. For I Have Chosen You!

Haggai 2:20-23

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Frank Ramirez

... to be able to predict how long this night will last, down to the day! It is not enough to say "soon." They want to be able to set their clock. Haggai's words, elaborated by Zechariah, Malachi, and the prophet who retold Daniel's story, make it clear God will set it all right. But other ... would have put these words into his mouth when on the surface it looks as if Jesus was wrong. But as Lewis also pointed out, this statement proved that God did not cheat when it came to the incarnation. While fully God and ...

17. Christ's Grand Entrance Song

Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

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King Duncan

... becoming our Lord and Savior. And it is the song written on every believer’s heart until the day we see him face-to-face in eternity, when we will be given a new song of ... When God appeared to Daniel with visions and revelations, he said, “As for me, Daniel, my thoughts were greatly alarming me, and my face grew pale” (Daniel 7:28). When ... the glory of God. 1. “This Isn't His Fight Song” Now I Know! by Dan Lewis February 12, 2020. 2. “The Indian Village Where Every Person’s Name Is a Unique Song ...

18. The Messiah and His Glory

Luke 9:28-36, Luke 9:18-27

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R.T. France

... rejection of the Jewish Messiah by the Jewish leadership. he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. Here and in 18:33 Jesus links resurrection to his predicted death. In ... . 9:26 the Son of Man . . . when he comes. The imagery is drawn from Daniel 7:13–14, where the “one like a son of man” comes before God to ... : Till We Have Faces, by C. S. Lewis. This novel (1956), based on the myth of Cupid and Psyche, is reputed by some sources to be one of Lewis’s own favorite works. In it, the ...

19. About Christ

Colossians 1:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... are so many families in which forgiveness needs to be practiced. Pastor Peter Lewis and his wife Valerie were reading through the love messages published in their local paper on Valentine's Day. They came across a touching note from some adult children to their ... to Know by Bruce Larson, Chapter 4 - "Who Will Go for Us, " p. 47. 2. Lewis B. Smedes. A Life of Distinction (Colorado Springs, CO: Shaw Books, 2002), pp. 121-122. 3. Daniel Butler and Alan Ray, Wanted Dumb or Alive: 100 New Stories from the Files of ...

20. The Promise of Dreams

Genesis 37:1-11, Matthew 1:18-25

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Lori Wagner

... from your places of darkness what you cannot face or recognize in the light of day.” Similarly, the movie Shadowlands, a memoir of C. S. Lewis, chronicles how his passionate-less and ordinary life becomes a vivid and extraordinary place of ... your dreams. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Joseph’s Dreams (Genesis 37) Joseph’s Visitation (Matthew 1:18-25) Minor Text Daniel’s Dreams (Daniel 2 and 7) The Lord’s Prophecy According to Joel (2) Psalm 2: God’s Praise to His Anointed Psalm 24: The ...

21. Finding Our Place In All Creation

Job 38:1-18

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J. Howard Olds

... in your prayer concerns, Sandy and I buried our stillborn grandchild this week. Daniel Isaac was our hope who never came to be. For your prayers, compassion, ... with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water and I feel above me the day blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world ... ears had heard of you, but now my eyes see you and I am in awe." C.S. Lewis once said the ancient man approached God as the accused person approaches a judge, but for modern ...

22. The Harvest of the Earth

Revelation 14:14-20

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J. Scott Duvall

... . The “son of man” image is drawn from Daniel 7:13 and refers to the risen Christ in both Revelation 1:7, 13, and the present text. Just as the son of man is seen “coming with the clouds of heaven” in Daniel, so here Jesus is seated on a cloud ... proven true! After all, the most important one, the promise of his Son, certainly has been. One day God will come to judge. Quote: Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis. God will invade. But I wonder whether people who ask God to interfere openly and directly in ...

23. The Sound of Joy

Genesis 17:1-27, Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 18:16-33, Matthew 28:16-20

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Lori Wagner

... sarcasm, not out of rudeness, but out of unexpected surprise! They were, as C.S. Lewis might say, “surprised by joy!” Still, all of these generations later, we are defined by ... Keep You Always Psalm 125: The Lord Abides with you Forever like the Mountains Daniel’s Night Vision (7:14) God’s Authority and God’s Mountain (Ezekiel 28:11 ... of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from ...

24. A Lost Boy

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

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King Duncan

... coming up,” he said. “We’d fuss and fight. Shoot, we’d get into it over nuthin’. “One day we were getting after each other real hard--I can’t even remember what about--when I said ... interfere. We can rebel for all eternity, and God will not seek to overpower our decision. C. S. Lewis said that there are two types of people. First there are those who say to God, “Thy will ... blogspot.com/2010_02_01_archive.html. 2. Rev. Daniel Meyer, http://cc ob.org/sermons/2003/03sermons.htm. 3. (Grand Rapids ...

25. Sitting Shiva Behind Closed Doors

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Lori Wagner

... dialogue, gestures, images, and places in “real time.” If you are a fan of C.S. Lewis, you know that in the Chronicles of Narnia, by entering through the wardrobe doors, you become ... have taught His disciples to look to those, such as Daniel, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Jonah, Moses, Noah, Elijah, Job, and David, ... in a small cottage in the woods. Warm inside, she waited and waited for the storm to pass. Every day, when she would get up, she would look out the cottage window, but all she could see was fog ...

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