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Acts 17:16-34

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Leonard Sweet

... . We think we’re so smart. We think we have a handle on how the universe works. So why did the builders of the new Yankee Stadium spend five hours and $50,000 digging through two feet of concrete last week? They did this to extract a David Ortiz Red Sox jersey that had been secretly buried in the concrete floor of the visiting team’s dug out. A construction worker, an unrepentant Red Sox fan, had slipped the jersey into the concrete in order to permanently “jinx” the new Yankee stadium. The story of ...

2. Good and Bad “Magical Thinking”

Acts 17:22-31

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Leonard Sweet

... before known. We think we're so smart. We think we have a handle on how the universe works. So why did the builders of the new Yankee Stadium spend five hours and $50,000 digging through two feet of concrete? They did this to extract a David Ortiz Red Sox jersey that had been secretly buried in the concrete floor of the visiting team's dug out. A construction worker, an unrepentant Red Sox fan, had slipped the jersey into the concrete in order to permanently "jinx" the new Yankee stadium. The story of the ...

3. Victim or Visionary

John 19:28-37

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Robert Bachelder

... is that just before this verse we read these words of Yahweh: "I shall pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion." Jesus’ wounding, then, is actually the beginning of life. From Jesus’ ... callous and uncaring. His compassion is the victim of his own miserable history. The climax occurs when his Puerto Rican assistant, a boy named Jesus Ortiz, joins a gang of hoodlums. The gang comes to the shop to rob the old man. Unexpectedly, one of the boys draws a gun ...

4. Uzziah King of Judah

2 Chronicles 26:1-23

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Louis C. Jonker

... to the note about the king’s burial place. Whereas 2 Kings 15:7 mentions that “he was buried . . . in the City of David,” Chronicles says, Uzziah . . . was buried near his fathers in a field for burial that belonged to the kings. His burial was on ... leprosy.” This note is a final confirmation of the Chronicler’s contempt for this king. Additional Note 26:6–8 Steven Ortiz (“Urban City Planning,” pp. 361–81) argues that many of the building projects uncovered by archeologists at Tel Gezer and ...

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