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1. We Cannot Not Be Sinners

Mark 6:14-29

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Scott Hoezee

... not grab and grope at the co-worker in the attractive dress. In principle the sinner can, and often does, avoid any particular sin, Brunner noted. But what we cannot do is avoid every sin. We cannot not be sinners. We cannot claim that we have never done it ... of this, too. No less than John the Baptist ended up being killed not because of the machinations of world-class evil or the titanic doings of horrifying figures of towering, marrow-chilling stature. No, John was killed because somebody said something ...

2. God’s Love and Ours

1 John 4:7-21, 1 John 5:1-12

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

... Brunner, The Christian Doctrine of God (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1949), pp. 157–204. 4:9 See G. E. Wright, God Who Acts: Biblical Theology as Recital, SBT 8 (London: SCM, 1952). For God’s sending of the Son used with apostellō, see, e.g., John 3:17, 34; 5:36; 6:29; 8:42; 10:36; 17:3, 8, 18, 21, 23, 25; 20:21; with pempō, used in John ... like Christ (lit., “as he is so also we are”). All six uses of ekeinos (him) in 1 John refer to Jesus (2:6; 3:3, 5, 7, 16). Being like him (cf. 3:2) means walking as ...

3. Faith in the Son of God

1 John 5:1-12, 1 John 4:7-21

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

4. A Lovehope Faith

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... our ability to recognize this "not yet" quality of our faith which enables the quality of hope to spring forth. Brunner ties faith and hope together by asserting that " . . .faith believes what hope expects. Hope expects what faith believes" (77). Hope ... have just published the full roster of responses ("from the Dalai Lama to Rosa Parks, from Richard Nixon to George Lucas, from John Updike to Desmond Tutu, from Timothy Leary to Maya Angelou, from poets to scientists to religious leaders to everyday sages on ...

5. The World's Largest Covered Dish Lunch

John 6:1-15

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... everyone can enjoy it along with some fried chicken and all the fixings, and of course, some chocolate pie.” And so, says Rev. Brunner, Jeff came to the picnic that day as a pauper and stayed to feast like a king. (1) Some people say this is ... . There was no place to hide. And Jesus was moved with compassion by the crowd’s great need. In today’s lesson from John’s Gospel, seeing the great multitude, Jesus asks Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” Philip seemed surprised by ...

6. When Good People Pray

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

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King Duncan

... air, do we not? We need to experience the movement of the wind of God’s Spirit in our life. The great theologian Emil Brunner put it this way: “As children lost in a woods are fearful of the sinister darkness—and then, suddenly, hearing a sound from the ... our identity as a part of the family of God. We should discover that we, too, are children of God. The late Reverend Dr. John Claypool, an outstanding author and Episcopal priest, once told a moving story that came out of World War I. At the end of ...

7. Opening Up Heaven

Luke 3:21-22

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King Duncan

... movement of the air, do we not? We need to experience the movement of the wind of God's Spirit. The great theologian Emil Brunner put it this way: "As children, lost in a woods, are fearful of the sinister darkness and then, suddenly, hearing a sound from ... my brain began to buzz, I was in agony all night. I found out what the trouble was They had my paper clip too tight. John Claypool relates a moving story. It seems that when the carnage of World War I had bled its last, the government of France was faced ...

8. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

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T. A. Kantonen

... confronting these questions we must admit that they represent what Paul would call the "scandal" of the Christian message and that Brunner is right in saying that the doctrine of original sin is a primary form of that scandal for modern man. The ... John is patient, John is kind and envies no one. John is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude, never selfish, not quick to take offense. John keeps no score of wrongs; he does not gloat over other men’s sins, but delights in the truth. There is nothing John ...

9. The Infinite Becomes An Infant

Matthew 1:18-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... You are as much an incarnation of God as is Jesus of Nazareth." Years ago the truth of the incarnation was written by Emil Brunner, "The central truth of the Christian faith is this: that the eternal Son of God took upon himself our humanity." It is not that we ... God go to such extreme and tragic extent that he gave his only Son to die for the world? What is the reason for it? John 3:16 says the reason was love. Because of his love - A. Christ came to reveal God. B. Christ came to redeem lost humanity - v ...

10. Reconciling Palms and Thorns

Isaiah 50:1-11

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Donald Macleod

... , there is the "idealism" group who say, "Well, after all, Jesus gave us a great ideal to live up to." Once John H. Withers of Belfast, Ireland, was discussing this type and remarked, "Never was there a century in which idealism was as ... transforming significance if it becomes for us nothing more than a nostalgic waving of palms and shouting of Alleluias on the Jerusalem road. Emil Brunner has said, "We cannot live without God. But also we cannot live with God as long as our sins have not been removed." Cecil ...

11. One Giant Leap

John 1:1-18, Isaiah 51:17--52:12

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Wayne Brouwer

... religious tomfoolery! That's the great "NO!" of God, says the Apostle Paul. Karl Barth once penned an article in response to something that Emil Brunner had written, and he gave it just this one great German word for a title: "NEIN!" That's what he wrote: "NEIN!" The great "NO ... chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his stripes we are healed! Or think of the message of the Gospel of John: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him might not perish, but ...

12. The Autobiography of God

John 14:5-14

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Donald B. Strobe

... a cosmic puppeteer, then the only proper answer to that question is, of course, “No.” There is no “God” like that. The great Swiss theologian Emil Brunner once replied to the age old question “Is there a God?” with a surprising “No.” He said there is no God if by the word “God ... to Himself through the power of His suffering love. Here, says St. John, is the unveiling of the mystery of all the ages. “The One who has seen me, has seen the Father.” Here is, indeed, the autobiography of God.

13. Be A Good Virus

Romans 8:1-17

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Leonard Sweet

... You can’t keep your hands clean and be a good virus. You can’t live in a bubble and be a good virus. When John Wesley’s lieutenants protested at having to go preach in the slums and prisons and miners’ pits, Wesley said: “You WILL go visit the poor ... where the “bad” are. Second, a “good virus” needs exposure to “bad viruses” for its very survival. Theologian Emil Brunner put this better than anyone: “the church exists for mission as fire exists for burning.” Our very future depends ...

14. The Magic Ingredient

Romans 8:18-27

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King Duncan

... persist and not give up, God will come through for us. As long as there is hope—Christian hope—life is worth living. The late Emil Brunner once said, “What oxygen is for the lungs, such is hope for the meaning of human life.” And he was right. Really, a hope-filled ... Sweet, Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who’s Already There (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2010). 3. John A. Witmer in Roy B. Zuck, Devotions for Kindred Spirits (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1990), p. 259. 4. Contributed. Source ...

15. THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, YOUR SANCTIFICATION

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

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John W. Rilling

Introduction. The English mystical poet William Blake was also a firstrate artist. Once, when asked to sketch a picture of man as he really is, Blake drew a picture of a child standing on the topmost rung of a ladder reaching for the moon and crying impatiently, "I want, I want!" Blake felt that man is a creature of unfulfilled desires. He never is satisfied. "Man never is, but always to be blest." And so life is a series of rungs - infancy succeeded by youth and maturity or perhaps we should say adulthood ...

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