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Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Robert Salzgeber

... time he was required to pull out of his driveway in order to make it to work on time. He wouldn't be doing this for very long anyway, he thought, as he considered that in only six weeks he would be back in school. The day's date was June 29 and on ... . So when this happened," Trooper Michael pointed to the overturned car, "I came right away because I thought you would agree to a trade. Justin gets to finish living out his life here on earth, you get to be head coach of the greatest football team in the cosmos ...

2. Trapped!

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... through life. When we are tethered to God it makes it easier to resist those temptations that may appeal to our baser instincts, but in the long run bring only heartache and estrangement from those we love and from God. “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is ... guided them, but they will also tell you of the many hours they spent praying as they waited those two long months. Ask Justin Bieber how he is finding redemption after all the mistakes he has made and he will give you the same ...

3. The Plank

Matthew 5:38-48; 7:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a carpenter when among men, making ploughs and yokes; by which He taught the symbols of righteousness and an active life.”--Justin Martyr In fact, all rabbis had a second trade, because you couldn’t make enough money just being part of Temple life ... in his teaching about the “plank,” he would be saying that there’s no way you can see whether something is chaff or wheat as long as you have the plank in front of you and are busy threshing “judging.” The board is in your way. To have the board in ...

4. Advice About Widows, Elders and Slaves

1 Timothy 5:1-6:2

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... than once, which seems highly unlikely. Instructions About Elders As with the preceding section on widows, this section on elders has long been a puzzling one. Besides the difficulties in the meaning of “elders,” there are the problems of context (What is ... the earliest term he uses for church leaders (1 Thess. 5:12; cf. Rom. 12:8); it is found in the singular as a noun in Justin Martyr (ca. A.D. 150; First Apology 1.67) for the one who by then had emerged as the single leader of a congregation. The ...

5. Paradise Promise

Luke 23:33-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , traffic increased, and the town grew, the road inched closer and closer to the front door of the home, which had long since been abandoned. The windows boarded shut, the house in disrepair, and the home precariously perched upon the corner of the ... human beings often come down to personal feelings about who lives next door and how do they look and behave on the surface. Justine was a young teen when she first began to get into trouble. Her family had experienced difficulties, and she found herself acting ...

6. Small Church Communion

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Steven Burt

... God in community. Have you ever wondered what the church service might have been like in the early days of the church? Justin, the Christian apologist, has given us a descirption of the Sunday service at his small church in Rome around A.D. 150. ... gather together in one place. And the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets [scripture] are read as long as there is time. Then, when the reader has finished, the president [preacher], in a discourse [sermon], admonishes and invites the people ...

7. Peter Denies Jesus

Mark 14:66-72

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... indeed happened to Peter [16:7a = John 21:15–17]) can we overcome our failures. 2. Jesus is the archetypal prophet. Jesus the Messiah has long been hailed as prophet, priest, and king, and indeed each is developed in depth in the New Testament (priest in Hebrews, king especially in Mark ... in detail. Illustrating the Text Willing to pay the ultimate price Church History: In approximately AD 165 Justin Martyr and six Christian companions were arrested and brought before the urban prefect Junius Rusticus for ...

8. Life's Final Flight

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... faith. At his trial, a judge asked him, "Listen, you who are before me. Are you a Christian?" "Yes, I am a Christian," replied Justin. "Then," sneered the judge, "listen, you who are called learned and wise and think you know the truth. If you are scourged and ... , and mega-churches with thousands of members. Some are Lutheran, others United Methodist, Presbyterian, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Baptist. As long as they proclaim Christ as the way to God and heaven, they all fly! But never trust a plane or ...

9. A Messenger of Promise

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... must understand the message of the one who prepares the way of the Lord in the light of the covenant which God had long before established with God’s people. The Message Of Change The effect of what the messenger of change is to accomplish is considerable. ... Sacrament of the Altar, because he believed that Christians were able to make the perfect sacrifice. Not all Christian teachers agreed with Justin. We can agree only in the sense that we make the perfect sacrifice by faith. Actually God is the one who ...

10. A Song, A Dance, A Savior

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... , and restore his people. It is Jeremiah the prophet who will bring to those exiles a message of hope. For forty long years he has foretold of doom and destruction which has earned him the nickname, "Old death and destruction." With the beginning ... worked so hard. They had searched six miles square. The fields nearest the house had been searched five or six times each. But little Justin, only two-and-a-half, had not been found. The parents thanked the people for their prayers on behalf of their little boy. ...

11. Sons of God

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... of circumcision. In this regard it is interesting to read Justin Martyr, whose comments indicate the positive way that the church’s rejection of circumcision could redound to women. Justin comments that the inability of the female sex to receive ... that being an heir is not enough in and of itself, if the heir is still a child. While an heir theoretically owns the whole estate … as long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a slave. An inheritance is of no benefit unless one is an adult. 4:2 The ...

12. Freedom In Christ

Galatians 5:1-15, Galatians 5:16-26

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... the punishment due to the worst of society’s offenders. Even the modern symbol of the electric chair does not match what Justin Martyr calls the “despised and shameful mystery of the cross” (Dial. 131 [ANF 1.265]). 5:12 Confident that he has his ... fornication, some by drunkenness, and some by foolish and expensive ambitions which rule cruelly over any men they get into their power, as long as they see that they are in their prime and able to work; so cruelly indeed, that they force them to bring ...

13. Like Fighting a Giant Tuna

Romans 7:14-25a

Sermon

King Duncan

... almost demonic how temptation works. To use just one more illustration from the world of dieting, a man named Justin joined a Weight-Watchers group six years ago to lose forty pounds. He succeeded. He lost the weight and got down to a ... establish positive habits, but it is never too late. Even if it is a simple matter of substituting an hour each day with a long walk rather than sitting in front of the TV, the more good habits you establish the easier it will be to substitute “to-dos” for “to ...

14. Praise to God for a Living Hope

1 Peter 1:1-12

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... occurs again in 1:23, but not elsewhere in the NT). In later times the verb was commonly used of Christian baptism (Justin, Apology 1.51; Clementine Homilies 11.26), but it doubtlessly derived from this verse in 1 Peter. The concept of new birth (also ... are neither all-knowing (Mark 13:32; Eph. 3:10) nor altogether superior to believers (1 Cor. 6:3; Heb. 1:14; 2:16). Long: Epithymein is used of intense desire, for good or ill. The present tense implies that even now the angels are eagerly interested in the ...

15. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... eschatological symbolism of the number eight. Early Christians referred to Sunday, the resurrection day, as the “eighth day” (Barnabas 15.9). Justin indeed associates the Sunday symbolism with the eight souls saved in the ark (Dialogue with Trypho 138.1). 2:6 Condemned ... their ill-doing under the cover of darkness, but are now prepared to carouse in broad daylight, a practice that has long been recognized as a sign of degeneration (Isa. 5:11). They are blots (spiloi) and blemishes (mōmoi), precisely the ...

16. A Converting Presence

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Eden, driven from the garden, and that’s bad news. I like the cartoon character, Brother Juniper, created by Father Justin McCarthy. I don’t know whether you’ve seen that cartoon or not, there are collections of them published in little ... am, who will deliver me. For some of us, the inner conflict is a full scale war. For others who have been on the way a long time and have cultivated more grace, it may be more like gorilla warfare, with pockets of enemy forces holding out here and then, here and there ...

17. War and the Prince of Peace

Isaiah 9:2-7

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . They have witnessed to us about the strong opposition to killing. They are Conscientious Objectors to any military service. Justin Martyr said in the 2nd century, “Jesus was the fulfillment of Isaiah's promise of peace." So, Christians in ... today. I am absolutely certain that the peace we hope for will not be found by bombs bursting in the air, but from a Baby born long, long ago. So it is, that Longfellow did not end his poem in despair. He wrote another verse: Then pealed the bells more loud and deep God ...

18. The Council at Jerusalem

Acts 15:1-21

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... , not to eat any blood itself (v. 20; cf. Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10; 19:26; Deut. 12:16, 23; 15:23). It has long since been observed that these decrees could well be a summary of the law of Leviticus 17–27 that bound, not only Israel, but foreigners living ... were not only issued but observed in the Gentile churches for many years after their promulgation (cf. Rev. 2:14, 22; Justin Martyr, Dialogue 34.8; Minucius Felix, Octavius 30.6; Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History 5.1.26; Tertullian, Apology 9.13; Pseudo- ...

19. Suffering for Doing Good

1 Peter 3:8-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... in the depths of the earth (Jub. 5:6). 3:20 The spirits singled out for Christ’s preaching, specified as those who disobeyed long ago in the days of Noah, are the angels whose fall is narrated in Genesis 6:1–4. The patient endurance of God (Gen ... Tabernacles climaxed on the eighth day (Lev. 23:36; John 7:37); the Lord’s Day early became known as the Eighth Day (Justin, Dialogue with Trypho 138.1). In every example there is an association with the notion of a new beginning. Through water (di’ hydatos ...

20. How to Deal with Friends, Foes, and Fools

Proverbs 27:6

Sermon

James Merritt

... you want to hear, but he will always tell you what you need to hear. In the short run it may hurt you, but in the long run it will help you. If you would like to measure a relationship to determine whether or not it really qualifies as a friendship, here are ... 1 Robert C. Larson, ed., The Best of Ted Engstrom (San Bernadino, CA: Here's Life Publishers, Inc., 1988), 253. 2 Justin Kaplan, ed., Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1992), 230. 3 Larson, 253. 4 Charles R. Swindoll, Living ...

21. Like a Waving Flag

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... what they may provide for us. “Tit for tat.” I owe you, you owe me. We’re “even” as long as we’re evenly indebted to each other. As long as everything “balances out,” we feel things are fair and just. But that is not how a “kingdom” ... then it goes back, and then it goes back, and then it goes back.” In March of 2010, some Canadian artists like Justin Bieber and Drake, Avril Lavigne, Fefe Dobson, Kardinal Offishall, Nelly Furtado, and more, got together and recorded this song as a relief ...

22. A Matter of Trust

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... drivers on the road to stop when the light turns red. We trust the builders of bridges to get it right when they build a long span across a wide waterway. We trust the doctor to be accurate in her diagnosis and the hospital to provide the equipment and the ... been. This is how you rebuild the bonds of trust forgiveness and repentance becoming a new person in Christ. 1. Dr. Justin Imel, http://justinimel.com/mark/uncommonscents.html. 2. http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/23/hating-wall-street-intelligent-investing- ...

23. Boasting

2 Corinthians 11:1-15, 2 Corinthians 11:16-33, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... he is a revelatory mediator on par with Moses. Even without the allusion to 2 Corinthians 2:14, 17, our passage has long been suspected of referring to Paul’s encounter with the divine throne-chariot (cf. G. Scholem), for the text recounts that Paul ... Die Frühzeit des Paulus. Studien zur Chronologie, Missionsstrategie und Theologie (WUNT 71; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1994), pp. 29, 66–79; Justin Taylor, “The Ethnarch of King Aretas at Damascus: A Note on 2 Cor. 11, 32–33,” RB 99 (1992), pp. 719– ...

24. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... the generation that wandered in the wilderness and failed to enter God’s rest (4:6), but who instead desired to return to Egypt. Longing for translates oregomai, a rare word in the NT (occurring elsewhere in the NT only in 1 Tim. 3:1; 6:10). Better, a ... wooden saw) is also attested in the Babylonian Talmud (Yebamoth 49b; Sanhedrin 103b) and in certain Christian writers (e.g., Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 120; Tertullian, On Patience, 14). For the imagery of v. 38, although in a different context, ...

25. The Day of the Lord

2 Peter 3:1-18

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... antiquity to be the basis of all known phenomena. The Greek word can also refer to the heavenly bodies (sun, moon, stars; as in Justin, Apology 2.5). Judaism (1 Enoch 60:12; Jubilees 2:2) and Paul (Gal. 4:3, 9; Col. 2:8, 20) both imply that ... of the parable about building on sand or on rock (Matt. 7:24–27). 3:13 The dramatic events associated with the second coming have long been foretold. But they are not an end in themselves, however desirable the destruction of all that is evil may be. God has a much ...

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