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Amos 5:18-27

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... , “lifted up Sakkuth your king / and Kaiwan your idols, / your star gods.” Understanding the Bible Commentary Series by Elizabeth Achtemeier, Baker Publishing Group, 2016 Dictionary Direct Matches Bear In the Bible, the bear is often paired with the ... humble will inherit the land with him (Matt. 5:5). Light God begins his creation with light, which precedes the creation of sun, moon, and stars and throughout Scripture is an unqualified good (Gen. 1:3 5, 15–18; Exod. 10:23; 13:21). In the ancient ...

2. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 1

Matthew 28:1-10

Drama

Esther R. Russ

... was nothing - nothing except God. Then God created everything out of nothing. However, the dry land and the sea, the sun, moon and stars, the vegetation and the animals were not enough to complete his creation. God wanted to commune with someone like ... with my hands. The messager of God again calmed me, telling me about my cousin. She was in her sixth month of child bearing. "Elizabeth! But she is old now!" He answered me kindly. "Nothing is impossible with God." I had never heard God’s voice with my ears ...

3. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Ron Love

... today. From Chrysostom’s sermon we learn that in Jesus we see God on earth in the flesh. As John leapt in the womb of Elizabeth, we who have seen Jesus also leap and rejoice. On Christmas Day we know that God has come down from the heavens to earth, and ... light blue colored planet surrounded by a white halo of clouds, and beyond that the brilliance of other planets, stars and moons, the astronauts must have truly understood the words of Isaiah, “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light.” ...

4. A Supernatural Leap

Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Leap.” There, it is said that a supernatural stag leaps across the craggy slopes in the light of the moon. The tale goes back to the time of the Native Americans, but it soon was continued by early pioneers ... s people. God’s plan is coming to fruition, and He has poured out His Holy Spirit upon those who will carry out His mission. This meeting of Elizabeth and Mary kicks off the supernatural movement of the Holy Spirit’s power in the world in a physical and incarnational way never before seen or heard ...

5. You Had Better Get It Right

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... agree?" The teacher said, "No, I don't. Are you claiming to know the truth? Isn't that a little bit arrogant and dogmatic?" Elizabeth said, "Not at all. I think it is dogmatic and arrogant to assert that there is not one person on earth who knows the ... the sky is clear and the temperature is 38º Celsius; in Singapore it's cloudy and 70% chance of rain; there'll be a full moon tonight here in Los Angeles…." The man interrupted and said, "You mean your watch tells you all of that?" He said, "Oh yes, and ...

6. Gathered Around The Throne

Revelation 7:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... the love of his heart to her. But that’s not what she told me. I thought she might tell me about that night when the moon spread over the little old farm and how at the fence gate he asked her to be his bride. But that’s not what she told ... on and started across a little cotton patch. My mother sprang to her feet, spilled the beans, jumped from the porch, and cried, “Elizabeth, honey, it’s your father. It’s your father!” “‘And she ran! She ran down by the roadside where my father stood with ...

7. God Knows....Me!

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... He reminds us that the birth narratives of Jesus are filled with the songs of angels and shepherds, Mary and Elizabeth, Zachariah and Simeon. Like a Rogers and Hammerstein spectacular, everyone just seems to burst into song at any given ... Thou whose glory above the heavens is chanted by the mouths of babes and infants. When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him ...

8. Special Delivery

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... guide them around heaven! There they were, marching Jupiter through the sky! Playing catch with Halley's comet! Bouncing the moon up and down every night! Some even thought that the "falling stars" you sometimes see were thrown by angels. They ... was about to do, she became a Messenger, too! She took the Message of Gabriel, and became an Angel for her cousin Elizabeth! She went to tell Elizabeth the Good News, the Gospel, the Message! In the best sense of the word, Mary and Joseph became angels! That's what ...

9. Interior Decorations

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... in a substantive way to an interior reality. Luke's Gospel reminds us that there will be signs "in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth ..." (21:25) - all of creation will reflect the stirrings of its Creator's intentions. On ... it was story-telling, stargazing, rough-and-tumble-living shepherds who were among those invited to attend Jesus' first birthday party. Author Elizabeth A. Johnson has reminded us that "Jesus was perceived as someone who made merry, and his meals were considered a bit ...

10. How Can This Be?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... High will over shadow you; therefore the child to be born will be holy; he will be called Son of God. And now your relative Elizabeth, in her old age, has also conceived a son; and is in the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. For nothing ... for the first time, Bob Edens had sight. “I would never have dreamed yellow is so yellow. I can see the shape of the moon and, of course, the sunrises and sunsets, as well as the stars at night. You could never know how wonderful everything is." Mature faith ...

11. Over the River and Through the Woods

Luke 2:1-7, Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... been used to doing so and was still quite young and able. When she learned she was pregnant, she made a near similar trip to see Elizabeth in the hill country of Judea (probably 4 or 5 days). Then she made the trip back again three months later, only to embark with ... the town of the woman, and a wedding in the town of her man. The pictures of a smooth, flat journey with the moon in the horizon is also not very realistic. Most of the terrain was challenging. They would have traveled through the mountains to ...

12. Christ, Our King

John 18:33-37

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

... us. Seriously, what does the queen do? I’m asking two questions, neither of which I know the answer to: does Queen Elizabeth work? and also what is the nature of her power and authority? Can she create laws, can she veto legislation? Declare holidays? ... telescope on a tripod.[1] I love astronomy. I love looking up into the night sky. Anytime there’s an eclipse, aurora display, comet, super moon, or anything else unusual in the sky, I want to see it and want my family to see it with me. The psalms tell us ...

13. Christ, Our King

John 18:33-37

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

14. “Lord, Our Lord, How Majestic Is Your Name in All the Earth!”

Psalm 9:1-20

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... read Psalm 8 without recalling the language and categories of creation in Genesis 1: the heavens and the earth (Ps. 8:1, 9), the moon and the stars (8:3), the beasts, fish, and birds (8:7–8), and finally, humanity as the culmination of the works of creation ... a question by his American lady correspondent (only Lewis’s letters are published), inquiring whether he attended the coronation of Elizabeth II. He replied that he had not attended, but his further response suggests that he had obviously seen it on ...

15. “Lord, Our Lord, How Majestic Is Your Name in All the Earth!”

Psalm 8:1-9

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

16. Designated Son Of God

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... Are We Designated? So, how are we designated; how are we chosen? People are chosen all the time: chosen to walk on the moon, to sing the national anthem on opening day, to bake the cake, to host the party; chosen for adoption; chosen to read the ... evident that we should give him the name which means "First Man" and David -- the name of a wonderful friend and Israel's greatest king. Elizabeth would have joined us had Adam been a girl, which might have led to our having two "Beths" or a "Betsy" or how about " ...

17. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... Baptizer" (Matthew 11:11; Luke 7:28). What was it that was so great about John - this son of Zacharias and Elizabeth, this leather-clad, locust-eating rustic from the "hill country" of Judea? Actually, it seems to me, aspects of greatness were ... might have gotten a spectacular picture of clouds over Mount Blanc, but he didn’t. He might have returned with a beautiful view of the moon over the Mediterranean, but he didn’t. Well, you and I, my friend, are made to look into infinity, to view the unseen - and ...

18. The Nightmare before Christmas

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of two witnesses as the Law required, and then let her go her way. Perhaps she would return to the home of her cousin Elizabeth to avoid the shame of having the child in Nazareth. One way or another, the nightmare would be over. But we know the story ... was awakened with a start. "Joseph. Joseph. Wake up." "What?" He looked around in the dark of his room, the only light from the moon beaming through the window. He saw the silhouette of a man. But there was something about him that told Joseph there was no ...

19. The Original "Average Joe"

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of two witnesses as the Law required, and then let her go her way. Perhaps she would return to the home of her cousin Elizabeth to avoid the shame of having the child in Nazareth. One way or another, it would be over. But we know the story does ... , was awakened with a start. "Joseph. Joseph. Wake up." "Huh?" He looked around in the dark of his room, the only light from the moon beaming through the window. He saw the silhouette of a man. But there was something about him that told Joseph there was no reason ...

20. The Incomparable Christ

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... -stained god, but through the will and word of this one perfect Lord and Christ. Here is the true sovereign. When Queen Elizabeth II was crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury, he laid the crown on her head with the sure pronouncement, "I give thee, O ... of the 72nd Psalm, Jesus shall reign where're the sun Does his successive journeys run, His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more. Now Paul moves to discuss Christ's relationship to the church. He calls him the "head of the ...

21. Who Is He?

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

Actor Rex Harrison and his former wife Elizabeth were dining with a few friends at the "21" Club. While they were preparing to order, as happens so often ... I came in on the last flight from London, but I don't go on about IT, do I?" "Rex," said his wife, "that was James Lovell. He just came back from flying around the moon." (1) Rex Harrison was embarrassed of course. If he had known who he was talking to, he might have accorded him more respect. But he shouldn't feel too bad about not recognizing James ...

22. Nothing Is Impossible With God

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... generous. If it has curly hair, it will be lucky. If it is born on a Sunday or on New Year's Day or during a full moon, or if it has a full set of teeth when it arrives, it also will be lucky. But if it has only one tooth, it will ... to Mary, "The God of Anything-Is-Possible is speaking to you!" And the angel reinforces this message when he reminds her that her cousin Elizabeth, who was infertile and well past childbearing age, is also with child by God's power. The conclusion to the angel's message is: "For ...

23. A Way Made Ready

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... the Christ to us, John the Baptist becomes an appropriate figure for that celebration. Thus Mark starts not with Zechariah and Elizabeth or Mary and Joseph, but with John the Baptist. Mark declares to us, “Do you want to understand the good news? Do ... In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” God spoke and there was light; waved His hand and put the sun, moon, and stars in place; blew the sea back and created dry land; and sculpted the living creatures into existence. In the beginning, God ...

24. Good Christian Men Rejoice

2 Corinthians 8:9

Sermon

James Merritt

... point to the hundreds of billions of galaxies, and the hundreds of billions of stars; He could point to the sun, to the moon, and to every square foot of planet earth; He could point to every person who has ever lived and say, "Mine! Mine! Mine!" ... on the right side of the tracks to be born in a barn on the wrong side of the tracks. A few years ago Queen Elizabeth II visited the United States, and reporters delighted in spelling out the logistics involved in her travel. She brought with her 4,000 pounds of ...

25. Egypt

Ezekiel 29:1-21, Ezekiel 30:1-26, Ezekiel 31:1-18, Ezekiel 32:1-32

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... of the sea monster, the destruction of the dragon has cosmic repercussions. Its blood and carrion fill the earth (vv. 5–6). The sun, moon, and stars are darkened (v. 7), showing that this is the Day of the Lord (see the discussion of 30:3), when God’ ... practices in ancient Israel, hoping to shed light on the attitudes of ordinary Israelites by looking to this material evidence. Elizabeth Bloch-Smith argues that the evidence of family bench tombs, with lamps and food left for the deceased, supports the ...

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1. Israel’s Ill-Placed Confidence

Amos 5:18-27

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

2. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 1

Matthew 28:1-10

Drama

Esther R. Russ

3. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Ron Love

4. A Supernatural Leap

Matthew 1:18-25, Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

5. You Had Better Get It Right

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

James Merritt

6. Gathered Around The Throne

Revelation 7:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

7. God Knows....Me!

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

8. Special Delivery

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

9. Interior Decorations

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

10. How Can This Be?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

11. Over the River and Through the Woods

Luke 2:1-7, Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

12. Christ, Our King

John 18:33-37

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

13. Christ, Our King

John 18:33-37

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

14. “Lord, Our Lord, How Majestic Is Your Name in All the Earth!”

Psalm 9:1-20

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

15. “Lord, Our Lord, How Majestic Is Your Name in All the Earth!”

Psalm 8:1-9

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

16. Designated Son Of God

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

17. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Mann

18. The Nightmare before Christmas

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

David E. Leininger

19. The Original "Average Joe"

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of two witnesses as the Law required, and then let her go her way. Perhaps she would return to the home of her cousin Elizabeth to avoid the shame of having the child in Nazareth. One way or another, it would be over. But we know the story does ... , was awakened with a start. "Joseph. Joseph. Wake up." "Huh?" He looked around in the dark of his room, the only light from the moon beaming through the window. He saw the silhouette of a man. But there was something about him that told Joseph there was no reason ...

20. The Incomparable Christ

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

David E. Leininger

21. Who Is He?

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

22. Nothing Is Impossible With God

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan