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Revelation 1:1-3

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... who reads the words of this prophecy/blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, do not describe a particular response to what John has written as much as they promise an eschatological reality into which those who obey its message enter, when the time, now near, finally arrives. John Barton has recently argued that in the time of the NT the words of prophecy would have been perceived as containing “mysteries” beyond apostolic instruction and even predictions of future events ...

2. The Lenten License to Steal, Drink, Lie and Swear

Romans 4:1-25

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Leonard Sweet

... against beggarly rudiments. Finally, a fountain of more pure water springing up into everlasting life. (From the “Address to the Reader” prefixed to the Authorized Version of the Bible of 1611, as quoted in John Barton, People of the Book: The Authority of the Bible in Christianity [Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1988], 3.) Lent gives you license to steal . . . Steal time to marinate your mind and soak your spirit in the “oil” of the Word; Lent gives you permission to drink freely ...

3. A Very Special Man

Luke 2:22-40

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King Duncan

... He undoubtedly would use television to get His message out as extensively as possible. According to Barton, Jesus was the ultimate sales manager and motivator. It was Barton's conviction that He came to teach us the principles for being successful and dynamic people ... has? That is why we must let the world know about Jesus. That is why we need to carry on the work of Simeon and John the Baptist and proclaim that he is the Christ. Not because of his appearance. Not even because of what he taught though he was ...

4. Professional Angel

1 Peter 2:19-25

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Ronald Love

... battle of Antietam, told his wife about the heroism of a woman whom he met for the first time. Her name was Clara Barton. Dr. Dunn related how this nurse performed battlefield surgery using only a pocket knife. He told of the time a bullet that passed ... does not preclude the laity from being pastoral in relationship to others. As shepherds, let us go forth with the charge of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism in the eighteenth century, with these words of ministry embedded in our souls: “I look on all ...

5. A Light In the Darkness

John 1:1-6, 19-28

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Charley Reeb

... shatter our ideas of how the world is supposed to operate. I remember several years ago when a man named Mark Barton walked into an Atlanta business office and shot and killed people. The next day the Atlanta Constitution carried a poignant cartoon ... tragedies. We can respond by showing the world the light of Christ that overcomes the darkness. Isn’t that what Christmas is all about? John 1:9 (NIV) states, “The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.” The same light that was ...

6. Are You Troubled by Demons?

Mark 1:21-28

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King Duncan

... killed several people. In the cartoon, a small boy is sitting next to his mother, and a newspaper is lying on the table. The headline reads, “Atlanta Murderer: Mark Barton.” Confused, the boy is looking up at his mother saying, “You said monsters don’t exist.” Monsters do exist, don’t they? (4) Does anyone here remember the name John Wayne Gacy? Gacy was born in Chicago in 1942. We’re told that many times during his childhood he was called a “sissy” and suffered countless beatings at the ...

7. Remembering the Good Old Days

Numbers 14:1-10a

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David E. Leininger

... Jesus - now they're all about sex and social injustice." Depressing, huh? But, there is another difficulty with memory. As John Gilbert could attest, memory is sometimes faulty. I read somewhere of a retired pastor who was giving a young seminary ... woman gurgle it down, but suddenly they heard her moaning again - "Oh, I was so thirsty...SO thirsty." Some people cannot forget. Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross, was noted for not holding grudges. She was once reminded by a friend of a wrong ...

8. So Close ... But Yet So Far

Luke 9:10-17

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Larry Powell

... Poison, had played to 10,000 fans in Barton Coliseum the night before. Now, we live in Little Rock, listen to the radio, read the newspaper, and our parsonage is located relatively close to Barton Coliseum. We were, let us say, close to ... is able to use what is available and use it abundantly. Jesus said, "I have come that you may have life and have it more abundantly (John 10:10)." (4) to experience Christ's presence, Jesus said, "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst ...

9. More Beyond

Acts 16:16-34

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Charley Reeb

... . The reality of this sobering truth hit home in a cartoon that appeared in The Atlanta Constitution after a man named Mark Barton walked into an Atlanta business office and shot and killed several people. In the cartoon, a small boy is sitting next to ... of 1999. 2. Abingdon Preacher’s Annual 1994, ed. by John K. Bergland (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993), p. 31. 3. I am grateful to Maxie Dunnam for giving me this image of the violet. 4. Attributed to John F. Kennedy. 5. True story shared with me by the ...

10. Refuse To Be A Victim

Luke 6:27-36

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James Garrett

... matter what the situation may be. Paul 0. Sand, at a National Conference of Christians and Jews, quoted: “Do More…” by John H. Rhodes. Do more than exist -- Live. Do more than touch -- Feel. Do more than look -- Observe. Do more than read -- ... man, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, was reminded by a friend of a cruel thing someone had done to her years before. Miss Barton seemed not to recall it. “Don’t you remember it?” her friend ...

11. The Measure of Greatness

Mark 9:33-37

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Brett Blair

... is great. Others would say that what makes for greatness is courage, and therefore Clara Barton should be held up as the standard. During the Civil War, Clara Barton earned the honor of “Angel of the Battlefield.” Her work with wounded ultimately led her ... was the one who invited you to come to Jesus. I got you here. Therefore, I am the greatest.” The brothers James and John at this point speak up: “You both miss the point. Greatness is measured by the amount that you have sacrificed. We stood to ...

12. How to Turn the Ballot into a Blessing Box

Proverbs 29:2

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James Merritt

... bribed a gatekeeper and marched right through the gates. We had better learn in America how to turn the ballot box into a blessing box, and we do it by being a righteous people, voting for righteous leaders. For only then can we ask God to bless America. 1 David Barton, Original Intent, pp. 332-333. 2 Ibid. p. 335. 3 Ibid. p. 333. 4 From the Website WWW.ChristianAnswers.net 5 Richard Capel, Finish Strong, p. 15. 6 From the Website WWW.washtimes.com 7 ...

13. Who Do You Say I Am?

Matthew 16:13-20

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Brett Blair

... history of the world. Jesus understood this. I believe that is why in Matthew 11 Jesus said to the crowds “If you are willing to accept it, John the Baptist is Elijah who is to come.” In that one statement Jesus proclaimed that he was the messiah and the end had now come but ... posed by Jesus. Ernest Renan, a French writer, answered it by saying that Jesus was a sentimental idealist. Bruce Barton, an American businessman, said that who Jesus was was the greatest salesman who ever lived. William Hirsch, A ...

14. Called to Be Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

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Warren Thomas Smith

... jumped. We were miles from Cheyenne, and the vastness of Wyoming was becoming increasingly vast. He did not need to stop. Clara Barton was not required to establish the American Red Cross. Elizabeth of Hungary actually violated a law when she took bread to ... the garden for prayer. Later, as the service was being conducted in a private house, Hosier sat quietly as the white minister, John Walker, preached. At the conclusion of that sermon, Hosier took his place behind the chair where he had been sitting. Very ...

15. Clean House

John 2:12-25

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Harry N. Huxhold

... years. What we see is the Lord Jesus in a violent rage driving animals and people out of the Temple. Years ago Bruce Barton, in a very popular book, The Man Nobody Knows, used the story to demonstrate how virile the Lord Jesus was. He surmised ... Body It was in the light of the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ that we can understand this spectacular event. As John had placed this event at the beginning of his gospel to indicate how Jesus had come to replace the former manner of worship with ...

16. A Four Word Memoir

Philippians 1:12-30

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King Duncan

... let her lie. Now she’s at rest . . . And so am I. Or this one from the grave of a dentist named John Brown: Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity! John Brown is filling his last cavity. Epitaphs normally seek to sum up a person’s life in just a few words. If you ... that all there is?” Is that it? And the answer is that without Christ, that really is all there is. Ralph Barton was an outstanding cartoonist who discovered that even fame and fortune were not enough. He left this note pinned to his pillow ...

17. The Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-21

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... rest command when he declared that it was “made for man” (Mark 2:23–3:5; Matt. 12:1–13; Luke 6:1–10; see also John 9). The Lord healed on the Sabbath, giving rest and respite from disease, rather than following a strict observance of the gift as a law. The ... . 24:19; Nah. 1:2. On “a jealous God,” see also Goldman, Ten Commandments, pp. 146–47. On idolatry see Barton, “The Work of Human Hands.” 20:8 For further discussion of the sabbatical principle in Scripture see Miller, “Human Sabbath ...

18. Been Fishin' Lately?

Mark 1:14-20

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Johnny Dean

... or followers, of Christ. We acknowledge that we have received help and leadership from people such as Thomas and Alexander Campbell, Barton W. Stone, and Walter Scott. But we’re not THEIR disciples. We are Disciples of Christ. But the name is ... the life and ministry of Jesus. I suppose it’s possible that Jesus spent several hours talking to Simon, Andrew, James, and John, convincing them to leave a profitable business and venture out with him into the Galilean countryside. But that’s not what Mark ...

19. "Can Do" Christianity

Philippians 4:10-20

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Raymond Gibson

... " - and consider what he did. Consider Dwight Moody - or Mahatma Gandhi - or Theodore Roosevelt - or David Livingstone - or Clara Barton - or any of the host of well-known winners over the most stringent adversities; and invariably you will find ... if we will but take him at his word. He himself said, "And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself" (John 12:32). It was when that wife lifted up Christ in her life and actions that her husband was drawn to Christ. She was able to do ...

20. Mustard Seed Faith

Mark 4:30-34

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King Duncan

... of the trifles. As a Ethiopian proverb puts it: "When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion." The great writer Bruce Barton once said, "I am tempted to think there are no little things." One of the turning points in World War II was the ... it would be taller than ever before. I like that! That farmer was not going to be defeated no matter what. Life is a matter of attitude. As John Milton once put it, "The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n." This is true ...

21. Paul Opposes Peter

Galatians 2:11-21

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... Jewish texts, such as the Letter of Aristeas, that display comfort with Gentiles and Jews eating together (in Studies in Paul and John: In Honor of J. L. Martyn [ed. R. T. Forna and B. R. Gaventa; Nashville: Abingdon, 1990], pp. 170–88, esp. p. ... –16 Many commentators understand 2:15 to be part of Paul’s address to Peter (see W. Schmithals, Paul and James [trans. D. M. Barton; London: SCM, 1965], pp. 72–73). An alternative reading of 2:15–16a is: “we who are born Jews and not Gentile sinners know ...

22. What Makes People Great?

2 Samuel 23:1-7

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Edward Chinn

... principle of all effective living: The person or the institution which serves most, is most helpful, is most useful, is the one that will survive and be counted great! Bruce Barton, the American advertising executive, reminded people that the basis on which the executives of an automobile agency will claim the financial support of its customers is that they will crawl ... in God, and yours is the victory ... because the Spirit who is in you is greater than the spirit who is in the world" (1 John 4:4, Barclay).

23. Identifying Light

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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William F. Dunkle

... Of course, we need not contract every disease to care about curing. That fastidious, slightly effete, little Oxford Don, John Wesley, could profoundly care about weavers and miners and potters, could go regularly into prisons and workhouses, could ... with the self-giving for others of Jesus on his cross. Epiphany’s Star can never be separated from Calvary’s Cross. Bernard Barton’s hymn describes the pain, but also the sublime gift of the Christian life. Let’s sing its assurance. Walk in the light! ...

24. Adam’s Prime Rib

Genesis 2:4-25

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John R. Brokhoff

When William Jennings Bryan went to the father of the young woman whom he loved to ask her hand in marriage, he remembered that the father was a strong religious believer, so he quoted a proverb of Solomon from the Bible: “He who finds a wife finds a good thing.” But the father surprised him by responding with a quote from St. Paul, “He who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains from marriage will do better.” The young man was at a loss for a reply for a moment, but then he came up with this ...

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