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Luke 6:27-38

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Cynthia Cowen

... boy who has felt betrayed by a friend. He comes home slamming the back door loudly. "That does it!" he yells. "I'm never going to talk to Marc again." "What on earth did he do to make you feel this way?" his mother inquired. "He says he's my best friend, and then he doesn't ... and forgiving of those who have hurt me." Those who work with young people see the emotion behind this process. Jacob B. and Jacob C. were proud of their friendship. They were best buds outside the church and inside. They belonged to God ...

2. An Announcement to a Virgin

Luke 1:26-38

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King Duncan

... be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel ... she will give birth to the Son of God. In the play Green Pastures, which ran for many years on Broadway, playwright Marc Connelly has a moving and memorable scene. The Lord is anxiously looking out over the parapets of heaven, trying to decide what ...

3. The Longest Night

Psalm 143:1-12

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King Duncan

... know that this long dark night of the soul can last for weeks, months, even years. As Virginia Woolf noted so accurately in "Jacob's Room," we experience the death of a loved one not at the funeral, but when we come unexpectedly upon an old pair of ... . A play ran for many years on Broadway that depicted biblical stories in the language of the rural Southern black dialect. It was Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures." A stirring scene in that play depicts the end of Moses' life. He has led the children of Israel ...

4. Body / Ambassador

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... of Israel and the salvation of the world: “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of ... dich zu meiner Rechten!’ Die Inthronisation Christi zur Rechten Gottes und Psalm 110, 1,” in Le Trône de Dieu (ed. Marc Philonenko; WUNT 69; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1993), pp. 108–94 (here esp. p. 142). If the second participial clause in v. ...

5. Tyre, Sidon—and Israel

Ezekiel 26:1-21, Ezekiel 27:1-36, Ezekiel 28:1-19, Ezekiel 28:20-26

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... on a rock in the midst of the waters, Tyre appeared to rise from the waves like some huge merchant vessel. In fact, Jacob Katzenstein (following a proposal originally made by Benjamin Mazar) suggests that Ezekiel based his lament on an old Phoenician poem. Katzenstein writes, “ ... –230 A.D.) cited Ezek. 28 as proof that Satan was created good and became corrupt through his own choices (Marc. 2.10), while Theodoret of Cyprus (393–457 A.D.) wrote, “Forcing the text, someone might apply these things even ...

6. Nicodemus Came By Night

John 3:1-21

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David & Marian Plant

... allow teachings that equated the Lord, Adonai, the Creator God of the heavens and the earth, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with a human man executed by their Roman oppressors. The time had come when the Jesus way became so very different than ... New York: HarperOne, 2014), p 43. 2. The Jewish Annotated New Testament, New Revised Standard Version, Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 163. 3. For the conceptualization of “familiar and trusted truths ...

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