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1. Tyre, Sidon—and Israel
Ezekiel 26:1-21, Ezekiel 27:1-36, Ezekiel 28:1-19, Ezekiel 28:20-26
Understanding Series
Steven Tuell
... prime seaport, as well as a nearly impregnable stronghold. Scripture famously celebrates the relationship between Hiram of Tyre and Israel’s first kings, David (see 2 Sam. 5:11//1 Chr. 14:1; 22:4) and Solomon (1 Kgs. 5; 2 Chr. 2:13–15; 4:11 ... are lost beneath the waves. A modern reader may think of the Titanic, famously unsinkable, which nonetheless sank on its maiden voyage (Leslie Allen titles this chapter, “Tyre in Terms of the Titanic,” Ezekiel 20–48, p. 78). Seafarers react to Tyre’s sinking ...
Understanding Series
Leslie C. Allen
... natural son of Pedaiah (1 Chr. 3:19). In both respects he was a grandson of the Judean king Jehoiachin. While his Davidic ancestry is regarded as significant in the messianic oracle of Hag. 2:20–23, it lacks overt significance in Ezra 1–6. ... Chr. 16:41; 2 Chr. 5:13; 7:3, 6. Psalm 107, in its present redacted form, is an illustration of the later hymnic usage: see Leslie Allen, Psalms 101–150 (WBC; Waco: Word, 1983), pp. 60–65. 3:12 This temple: The NIV, along with the REB and NJPS, has wisely ignored ...
Understanding Series
Leslie C. Allen
... natural son of Pedaiah (1 Chr. 3:19). In both respects he was a grandson of the Judean king Jehoiachin. While his Davidic ancestry is regarded as significant in the messianic oracle of Hag. 2:20–23, it lacks overt significance in Ezra 1–6. ... Chr. 16:41; 2 Chr. 5:13; 7:3, 6. Psalm 107, in its present redacted form, is an illustration of the later hymnic usage: see Leslie Allen, Psalms 101–150 (WBC; Waco: Word, 1983), pp. 60–65. 3:12 This temple: The NIV, along with the REB and NJPS, has wisely ignored ...
4. God and the Weather
Matthew 5:45; 16:2-3 · Psalm 18:7-11; 46:1-3, 11
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Robert Noblett
... Thoreau, America the Beautiful in the Words of Henry David Thoreau (Waukesha, Wisconsin: Country Beautiful Corporation, 1966), p. 24. 2. Robert Loveman, "April Rain," Morrison, op. cit., p. 20. 3. Robert Wallace, quoted by Ehrenfeld, op. cit., p. 15. 4. For an excellent discussion of God and the weather, see Leslie Weatherhead, When the Lamp Flickers (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1948), Chapter XV. 5. Nels F. S. Ferre, Evil and the Christian Faith (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1947), pp. 74 ...
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David E. Leininger
... husband or wife, mother and father - I want grandchildren someday (everyone tells me they are FUN). But for me to WILL such things for David and Erin will not make much difference if they will not cooperate. I can train them properly, provide them with all the tools, ... I am waiting, yielded and still.(8) Amen! 1. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987 2. The State, Columbia, SC 3. Leslie Weatherhead, The Will of God, (Nashville:Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1944), pp. 13-14 4. Psalm 139:14 5. Quoted by Jon Winokur, Ed., ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... terribly dishonest thing to say. But Jesus was sure, because He was sure of the eternal love of God that will not let us go. As Leslie Weatherhead once said, “If He does not know, then no one does!” I agree. This is His area of expertise. “Do not let your hearts ... Hope. I know, a lot of people do not look upon it this way. As he neared the end of his life, Henry David Thoreau is reported to have had a discussion with a friend who urged that he consider what might lie beyond. He replied, “One world ...
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Edward Chinn
... to him. "While the child was alive, you wept for him and would not eat; but as soon as he died, you got up and ate!" "Yes," David answered, "I did fast and weep while he was still alive. I thought that the Lord might be merciful to me and not let the child ... ’t deliver you or your loved one from the problem, even then you can choose to hold on and to keep on trusting God. Leslie Weatherhead has given us a striking image of this type of trust in God. He has reminded us that a skeptic could formulate a list ...
8. Where Do Sins Go?
2 Samuel 12:1-31
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Edward Chinn
... made it his capital, and then won a decisive victory over the Philistine army which threatened his united Israel. "One day, late in the afternoon, David got up from his nap and went to the palace roof. As he walked around up there, he saw a woman taking a bath in ... own heart the consequences of our sins. "The Cross is a translation into history of an eternal fact," wrote the late Leslie Weatherhead. In one of his books, Dr. Weatherhead recalled a night when his ship sailed past the island of Stromboli, off ...
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Shirley Gupton Lynn
... believe, and I don't to this day, that God deliberately brings disasters upon us. In his little book The Will of God, Leslie Weatherhead suggests we think of God's will in three ways: God's intentional will, God's circumstantial will, and God's ... . The action to undergird all others is to understand ourselves as loved, forgiven and empowered by Christ no matter what life hands us. Like David, when what's holding us up lets us down, we can choose our action. Dr. Robert Brawley tells of growing up in the South ...
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Robert Noblett
... His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents’ sins.” (John 9:2-3 TEV) The essence of what Leslie Weatherhead once said to parents grief-stricken over the untimely death of their little son in a cholera epidemic must be lifted up ... some day go to where he is, but he can never come back to me.” (2 Samuel 12:22-23 TEV) I have a hunch that David was able to get on with his life because he had first entered wholeheartedly into that period when matters hung in the balance. He probably churned ...
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Stephen M. Crotts
... learn to be friends with each other as we eat and talk, laugh and share and encourage. In chapter 1 of Second Samuel, David learns of his good friend Jonathan's death. As youths they'd covenanted together trading cloaks and swords. They'd hunted and camped ... ears, your insight, your wisdom, your help. Alone I am weak and vulnerable. Together with you I find what I need to go on. Leslie Weatherhead wrote, "He who hugs life to himself loses all joy in living; he's lonely and self-excluded from joy. He who gives ...
12. Broken and Beautiful
Luke 18:9-14, Psalm 51:1-19
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Bill Bouknight
... and correct. That kind of brokenness is sad, too. Ah, but there is another kind of brokenness that is absolutely beautiful. King David described it in Psalm 51: "The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you ... One who is all sufficient? When was the last time you shed a tear of awesome gratitude for the cross? The great English preacher Leslie D. Weatherhead reminds us in one of his books that Jesus labored in a carpenter's shop for twenty years. In his breast a ...
13. How Can We Meet Grief?
2 Samuel 18:19--19:8
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Edward Chinn
... then surrounded Absalom and finished him off" (2 Samuel 18:14-15, The Living Bible). A messenger brought the news of Absalom’s death to King David. "The king was overcome with grief. He went up to his room over the gateway and wept. As he went he cried, ‘O my son, my ... ," says an old Chinese proverb, "the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own trouble." Leslie Weatherhead, the late English preacher, grieved for his mother after she died. One day he picked up her Bible and found ...
14. Getting Rid of Anger
Ephesians 4:17--5:21
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King Duncan
... him from time to time, especially as he remembered David’s birthday year by year. It was like he was losing him all over again: David at 20, David at 25, David getting married, David standing at the back door with his little ones clustered around his knees, grown‑up David, a man like himself, whom he will never know. “ ... Tim Anger Leslie Schultz, http://www.lesandhelga.com/sermons/2005/041005.htm.
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King Duncan
... message of Easter is that God has entered human history; God has altered human history; God has exalted human history. Pastor Leslie Weatherhead reflects on what that first Good Friday must have looked like. No one would have called it “good” back ... , October 5, 1992, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, “A Prisoner of Hope.” Cited in “Ministry as the Marketing of Hope,” by David Wesley Reid, The Clergy Journal, August 1994, p. 15. 6. Illustrations of Bible Truths, compiled by Ruth Peters (Chattanooga, TN.: ...
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David E. Leininger
... Christians when Hitler persecuted the Jews or the Dutch Reformed Church when South Africa instituted apartheid. "Frankly," wrote Leslie Weatherhead in The Christian Agnostic, "I often wonder why so many people do go to church. Christianity must ... ...the first pioneers and adventurers into the dark and neglected areas of the earth - the William Careys, the David Brainards, the Hudson Taylors, the David Livingstons - not simply for the sake of pushing beyond frontiers but that the people who live there might ...
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King Duncan
... he was too young to understand its meaning. So he asked David what happens during Holy Communion. David answered, “Jesus comes into my heart.” Dr. Robert Kopp says, “I’ve graded denominational ordination exams and haven’t heard anything better!” (6) As we take the bread and the wine into our mouths, we again take Jesus into our hearts, and we prepare ourselves for that day when we will stand or kneel in God’s presence. Dr. Leslie Weatherhead once told of talking with a member of his church ...
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King Duncan
... ve just been in the presence of the Lord of creation, and that we’re carrying Him with us, makes it very difficult to sink to our lowest levels. The best escape Jesus provides is His own embrace.” (6) David Jeremiah is right. The best escape from temptation is to turn your gaze toward Jesus. Leslie Dunkin once told about a dog he had when he was a boy. This was an unusually obedient dog. Periodically his father would test the dog’s obedience. He would place a tempting piece of meat on the floor. Then ...
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Harold Warlick
... to our lives. The lectionary text for today is an intrusive one. It is closely related to the political ideology of the Davidic monarchy in ancient Israel. A new king is welcomed with all the dazzle surrounding important births and coronations. This celebrative rhetoric ... our own soul when we try to wander around in the shadows of past experience instead of proclaiming a new birth. Leslie D. Weatherhead was the venerable pastor of the City Temple in London, England. In a little volume titled When the ...
20. Proper 12
Luke 11:1-13, Psalm 138:1-8, Genesis 18:16-33, 2 Kings 5:1-27, Colossians 2:6-23
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George Bass
... it as a response to Isaiah's vision of God in the Temple, others would go so far as to call it a psalm of David linked to the beginning of the royal line that God has established in him. Clearly, it is a song of thanksgiving and praise for the ... Count On." In a sermon titled, "Can We Get What We Want if We Pray in Christ's Name?", the late, great British preacher, Leslie Weatherhead, examines John 14:13, "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do." He says: "That sentence certainly sounds like what ...
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James Angell
... own best models, beginning with the year I was born, 1920, have been G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Leslie Weatherhead, E. Stanley Jones, Ralph Sockman, George Buttrick, Peter Marshall, Donald Baillie, James Stewart, and Arthur John Gossip. To allow ... Lewis, Robert McAfee Brown, Ernest Fremont Tittle, John Sutherland Bonnell, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Howard Thurman, Samuel Miller, David H. C. Read, Joseph Ford Newton, Ernest Campbell, William Sloane Coffin, John Henry Jouette, Ernest Gordon, and ...
22. A Thimble Full Of Ocean
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
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Larry Powell
... their sin no more." The water is deep here, but only because we must wade around in the shallows of human understanding. Leslie Weatherhead spoke to his congregation at City Temple about an ant he had observed crawling along the cushions on the edge of ... hear it? Listen! "If we confess our sins...." Erasmus of Rotterdam puts it less gingerly: "You think that lighted taper is a sacrifice. But David calls the sacrifices of God a broken spirit. Of what use is it for the body to be covered with a holy cowl, when ...
23. On His Way
Matthew 21:1-11
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Larry Powell
... of his reputation. At any rate, as they went out of Jericho two blind men shouted to Jesus, "Have mercy on us, son of David!" It was then that Matthew says "the crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent." How are we to account for this rather surprising ... Starry-eyed, we had set out on our way, but for whatever reason, we turned back. Was it because we did not have the time? Leslie Weatherhead was called once to see an old man, over eighty years of age, who was dying. The old fellow was frightened to the ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.” (Isaiah 55:1-3) “I am the bread of life,” said Jesus. “Whoever comes to me will never be hungry.” In those ... lives. Apart from Him God is so vast, so incomprehensible, so utterly beyond us that to seek to feed on God would be (as Leslie Weatherhead once put it) like putting a hungry infant into a cornfield and saying, “There’s your dinner. Go to it!” There is ...
25. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman
Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65
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Donald B. Strobe
... words and actions people haven’t a clue that we have been with Jesus of Nazareth. What was Peter doing there in the courtyard, anyway? Leslie Weatherhead says that he was not denying his Lord, but instead was acting as a “spy.” He believed that Peter followed Jesus and His ... the accent is heard again as Christians dare to tackle thorny issues such as war and peace, racism and social justice. David H. C. Read in a sermon on “The Galilean Accent” says: “In spite of all the sarcasm that is hurled at ...
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