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1 Sam 3:1--4:1

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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... the one sleeping nearby. 3:4 Here I am. Samuel is depicted as one who is ready to obey his master, much like Abraham (Gen. 22:1, 11), Jacob (31:11; 46:2), Joseph (37:13), and Moses (Exod. 3:4) of old. He runs to his master as if eager to carry out his wishes (v. ... moment. God directed me to a correct choice: I thank His providence for the guidance.7 With this declaration, Jane exemplifies the significance of honorable decisions before God, and in time she experiences God’s honoring of her obedience. ...

2. Birthright Blues

Genesis 25:19-34

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Justin Tull

... birthright blues” is a choice. It is not a given! Perhaps some of you are afraid you will leave the service today without a reverent word. You are not a “plain Jane” or a talent waster. You have no “Cinderella” or “Cinderfella” complex. You do not feel short changed, but rather blessed. So where is your example if not Esau or Jacob? You might try emulating the servants with the two and five talents by taking what has been given you and using it wisely, not for your own advancement, but for the ...

3. Family Reunion

Genesis 29:15-28

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Will Willimon

... these reunions only once a year! Uncle Harold's weird political opinions. The nearly Neanderthal ideas of Aunt Agnes. Cousin Jane's biting tongue. When it comes to our families, our real families, things rarely turn out as we envision they ... more time with our families," you don't know whether or not that is good news or bad. So listen to this story, this story of Jacob, Laban, Rachel, and Leah. It sounds so strange and foreign at first, then, before it's over, it starts to sound close to home, maybe too ...

4. First, Last And Always--god!

John 13:1-17

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King Duncan

... they kissed right in church. Is that okay? -- Neil Dear God, What does it mean You are a Jealous God? I thought You had everything. --Jane Dear God, Did you really mean "Do unto others as they do unto you?" Because if you did, then I'm going to fix my brother ... I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth.' The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge." 1. November 2002, p. 94. 2. Bill Hybels. The God You're Looking For (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1997), p. 4. ...

5. Coming Home

Luke 15:1-3,11b-32

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Mark Trotter

... , who all confessed that they had never been close to their father, never received the father's blessing. And then one day, Jane Fonda made a movie with her father, called On Golden Pond, in which they played characters which were very similar to their ... story of Jacob and Esau, twin brothers, the sons of Isaac and Rebekah. They both want Isaac's blessings, they both want the father's blessing. Jacob is driven to cheat and to lie in order to get the blessing. When Esau, his brother, discovers what Jacob has ...

6. The Coat Of Many Colors

Genesis 37:1-11

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King Duncan

... younger brother, Joseph didn't give in to peer pressure and go along with his brothers' immoral behavior. Verse 3 tells us, "Now Israel (or Jacob) loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made a richly ... is able to bring extraordinary good out of our suffering if we will just turn it over to Him and remain obedient. Jane Pauley, the anchor for Dateline NBC, credits her parents with teaching her to take responsibility for her own life. As she says, " ...

7. Dynamics Of Prayer

Isaiah 43:1-13

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Maxie Dunnam

... 13676 tiles. So the wall had become a kind of collage of names. And I began to read them with excitement. John, Jane, Joan, Jose, Fuchita, Lorraine, Eric, Sonya, Billy, Abby, Hubert, Ozzie, and on and on. Amazingly, crowds of people would stop in front ... .” In prayer we wait in the presence of the Lord to be named by him. I don’t mean to get a change of names like Jacob did, but to be spoken to by God. To be impacted by God’s spirit, to receive his blessing or his judgment, his comfort or his challenge ...

8. Is There More Than One Way to Heaven?

John 4:19-26

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J. Howard Olds

... not." Either he is or he is not. We should note that a couple years ago, thanks to the witness of her chauffeur, Jane Fonda herself converted to Christianity and became a follower of the faith. So it is that Jesus offers no choice about his identity. You ... swallow a camel," as Jesus said? What about the millions who have never heard the good news of Christ? Will Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob be excluded from heaven? What about the babies, are they going to be sent to hell? What do you do with the confessional ...

9. A Man Named Pain (Part 1)

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

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Eric Ritz

... the names. Surely, if God had meant for us to plod through these genealogies, Hebrew parents would have named their offspring Dick and Jane or Sue and Bob. We should be so lucky. But forty-four torturous names into this list, the writer halts. And he writes, "Now ... ’s birth. Isaac means "laughter" because his mother bore him in her old age. Jacob means a sup-planter or one who is cunning/clever/one who tricks. We know Jacob tricked his brother right out of his birthright. Jeremiah means God hurls or throws ...

10. Spiritual Blindness and the Way to Overcome It

Mark 8:22-26, Mark 8:14-21

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Grant R. Osborne

... continued with Abraham, asking his wife to pose as his sister so he would not be endangered by Pharaoh’s lust for her. Jacob tricked Esau to get his birthright. Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery because he was his father’s favorite. Again and again ... Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones, why don’t you just keep the ones you got now?” (Jane). “Dear God, I’m an American. What are you?” (Robert).5The perspectives of these kids are cute, but childish perspectives are not ...

11. When God Is Gone

Job 23:1--24:25

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David E. Leininger

... from the most powerful of enemies. Listen to the way it ends: You who fear the LORD, praise him! All you descendants of Jacob, honor him! Revere him, all you descendants of Israel! For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he ... passed away...And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now, the dwelling of God is WITH mortals...with Bill and Bob and Jane and Susan, with Jean and Joan and John and Jack...and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself ...

12. Making Relationships Work

Matthew 5:21-26

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King Duncan

... help. God will help you deal with those feelings of resentment--those feelings of anger. God will help you regain your perspective. Jane Schmidt says that one Saturday morning she awoke to the delightful smell of waffles and the sound of her two small boys ... his thoughtfulness. Later that day, she and her husband were having a heated discussion in their bedroom when their four-year-old, Jacob, stopped them in mid-sentence. Standing in the doorway, he said, "Mommy, try to remember how you felt when you were ...

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