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John 14:5-14

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George Bass

... disciples understood Jesus’ answers to Philip (and Thomas), according to the Bible, which tells of the death of James, the brother of John, and according to tradition, is in the amazing transformation which took place in them after the resurrection and ascension. They suddenly ... as something that can at times be not only welcome but even sacramental. As the theologian P. T. Forsythe once wrote: "Don't die with the others, die with Christ." That, the lesson which the disciples learned from the Lord ...

2. Cross Connections

John 18:1-11

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Robert Noblett

... on the green hill outside Jerusalem."7 Cruciform disciples, likewise, continue to be the best hope for the world God continues to love. 1. P. T. Forsyth, The Person and Place of Jesus Christ (London: Independent Press, LTD, 1951), p. 74. 2. Leslie D. Weatherhead, The Christian Agnostic (New York: Abingdon Press, 1965), p. 113. 3. John Macquarrie, Jesus Christ in Modern Thought (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1990), p. 401. 4. Henri J. M. Nouwen, Reaching Out (Garden City, New York: Doubleday ...

3. Called To Finish What Is Finished

Colossians 1:24--2:5, Colossians 1:15-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... people who have nothing apostolic or missionary, who never knew the soul's despair or its breathless gratitude." I think Dr. Forsythe is right -- and he's right because we Christians do not remember who we are or who Christ is. We don' ... have had to do it if we had been the only people in the world at the time of Calvary. (And He did it.) (Lloyd John Ogilvie, Loved and Forgiven, Regal Books Division, G/L Publications, Glendale, CA 91209, p. 49) Thy sovereign grace to all extends,Immense and unconfined;From ...

4. How Free Are We?

John 8:31-41

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Donald B. Strobe

... human ills arise. He called it “sin,” and said, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.” (John 8:34) Now, right here we have a problem. When most people hear the word “sin,” it brings to their minds a laundry list ... it, but by becoming preoccupied with something or someone else. It is summed up in a striking epigram from the pen of P.T. Forsyth, the British master of epigram, who said: “If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.” Here is ...

5. Free and Faithful

Matthew 4:1-11

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Robert Bachelder

... easy comfort for his creatures, but prefers freedom, goodness, and sin. This picture is drawn, for example, in the Revelation of St. John with his vision of the Christ who says: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears my voice, I ... for us, in the words of Ephesians, to attain to "mature manhood, to the measure of the fullness of Christ." As P. T. Forsyth observed: "The way to the soul’s final greatness lies through its misery rather than through its success." It lies through the misery of ...

6. Epiphany 4

Psalm 15:1-5, Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Matthew 5:1-12

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... piety was not passive, however; for faith was no placebo. Persons fully committed to God were extremely free. One thinks of John the Baptist and Jesus as examples of such piety. Third, from the statement in v. 4 itself, it is not immediately ... to the baptized community, a character into which we grow through our active participation in the celebration of Word and Sacrament. P. T. Forsythe's advice to preachers over fifty years ago could not be more relevant today: Do not tell people how they ought to feel ...

7. How Does Religious Conduct Work?

Mark 7:31-37

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Donald Macleod

... him, and the necessity always to nourish it was among the strongest precepts he gave to his disciples. For us, Peter T. Forsyth put the matter thoughtfully when he wrote, "Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to ... - his tears at the grave of Lazarus; his weeping over Jerusalem as the Passover drew near. His humanness: "wearied (he) sat down beside the well" (John 4:6); "he was in the stern (of the ship), asleep on the cushion." (Mark 4:38) In this way, he was one with us; ...

8. The Vine And The Branches

John 15:1-17

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... both sides of the road. They grow everywhere out of that dry, rocky soil. They are the grapevines mentioned in John 15. When I stepped off the tourist bus to take pictures, I was amazed to see these short stumps of ... A vital sign of the Easter Savior alive after Good Friday is how well his disciples are attached to him, the real vine and source of life. P. T. Forsyth wrote: “Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is around us.” For a few of us, being united ...

9. Down the Up Staircase

Genesis 11:1-9

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Leonard Sweet

... a mobile God. God achieves all this movement through an ongoing process of filling and emptying. P. T. Forsyth (1848-1921) was a British Congregational minister, denominational administrator and seminary president whose social outlook was successfully positive, ... God at Babel or Bethel, Jesus in Gali-lee - the Holy Spirit's presence will descend on a global, universal scale. John Habgood, Archbishop of York, has re-examined the most beloved of Jesus' parables, the Good Samaritan. Keeping in mind Jesus' dual ...

10. Step Four - Courage

Mt 26:69-75 · Acts 9:1-9 · Ps 139:1-6

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John A. Terry

Step four: Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. The psalmist talks of the God before whom such a searching and fearless moral inventory is both possible and necessary. Ours is a God who, in traditional language, is omniscience and omnipresent, a God who knows all and is everywhere. This Psalm is sometimes called the Psalm of the unavoidable God. We believe that before our God there are no secret thoughts or actions. All is known by our God. I remember hearing a lecture one time where ...

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