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Ezekiel 15:1-8, Ezekiel 16:1-63, Ezekiel 17:1-24

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... Series 1; New York: Brill, 1993], pp. 169–70; and Blenkinsopp, Ezekiel, p. 76). On the other hand, as Daniel Smith-Christopher notes, we have no reason to think that Ezekiel’s audience was predominately or exclusively male (“Ezekiel in ... enables Israel’s response. Because of your humiliation. Jerusalem’s silence likely relates to another dimension of shame in ancient Israel. Margaret Odell identifies in the Pss. a ritual of complaint, in which the psalmist bases his appeal to God for deliverance on ...

2. "Catch-able" But Not "Fetch-able"

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... intact was the factory warranty for the contents: a $450 stereo AM-FM receiver and tape deck. Now the only mystery is who is Edward Achorn and why did he send Michael and Margaret such a nice Christmas present? We live in a cynical age -- an age of terrorists and corporate charlatans. Who can talk of angels and humble maidens and divine revelation in the same ... 1-2. 4. Philip Yancey, Disappointment With God (Grand Rapids, Mich: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988). 5. From a sermon by the Rev. Timothy J. Smith.

3. He Came To Us

Luke 1:26-38

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King Duncan

... factory warranty for the contents: a $450 stereo AM-FM receiver and tape deck console. Now the only mystery is who is Edward Achorn and why did he send Michael and Margaret such a nice Christmas present? We live in a cynical age"”an age of terrorists and corporate charlatons. Who can talk of angels and humble maidens and divine revelation in the ... : Winston Press, 1985), pp. 1-2. 4. Philip Yancey, DISAPPOINTMENT WITH GOD, (Grand Rapids, Mich: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988). 5. Timothy J. Smith

4. On Names That Preach

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... is coming again. So instead of Elizabeth and Megan Smith, we might have on our baptismal records, Miss "Jesus Is Coming Soon" Smith, or "In the Hour You Think Not" Smith. Or, perhaps Bobby and Annita are concerned with declining morals ... might botch my name. As she called the roll, she would breeze through the more common names -- the Jims and Joes, the Debbies and Margarets. She effortlessly called the names of all the kids, at last coming in the alphabet to my name. If a sustained pause ensued, I knew ...

5. A Strategy For Status Seekers

Luke 14:1-14

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King Duncan

... of the human condition. Most of us don’t want to simply keep up with the Jones we want to be slightly ahead of the Jones, the Smiths and everyone else on the block. There is a popular joke about a fellow named Pat who always wanted a telephone in his car. Finally he got ... to do crazy thing seven become a notorious killer. But pride can hinder us in other ways. I was reading about Margaret Mitchell, the author of that fantastically popular novel about the Civil War, GONE WITH THE WIND. It is said that she ...

6. Predictions of the Future

Mark 13:1-8; Luke 21:5-38

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... earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." A YaleUniversity management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) "Who the h*** wants to hear actors talk?" H. M. ... Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899. "It will be years not in my time before a woman will become Prime Minister." Margaret Thatcher, 1974. "I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious sensibilities of ...

7. Don't Let the Parade Pass You By

Luke 19:28-44

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Bill Bouknight

America’s great child-philosopher, Dennis the Menace, offered this observation as his mother washed his dirty hands: "Margaret’s Mom must like me. I heard her say, ‘I just wish he was my child for five minutes.’" The people of Jerusalem had a similar kind of love/hate attitude toward Jesus ... , 1996. 4. Dobson, James, When God Doesn’t Make Sense, (Tyndale: Wheaton, 1993), p. 153. 5. From a sermon on prayer by Dr. O. Dean Martin, quoted in a book by Dean Smith entitled "A Coach’s Life," p. 259.

8. The Glory Departs

Ezekiel 8:1-18, Ezekiel 9:1-11, Ezekiel 10:1-22, Ezekiel 11:1-15, Ezekiel 11:16-25

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... Presence and Absence in Ezekiel’s Prophecy,” in The Book of Ezekiel: Theological and Anthropological Perspectives, eds. Margaret S. Odell and John T. Strong, SBL Symposium Series [Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2000], pp. 109–14 ... the Lord (particularly relating to the Lord’s rising, or appearing) does occur in the HB; see, e.g., Ps. 84:12 (M. S. Smith, The Early History of God [San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1990], pp. 115–16). Josiah, as part of his reforms, had removed from the temple ...

9. Two Adulterous Sisters

Ezekiel 23:1-49

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... , colorful reliefs have been found on palace and temple walls in Mesopotamia, but how could Oholibah have seen them? Margaret Odell notes that the most likely possibility would be that reliefs for the walls of Assyrian palaces, built to ... Lam. 4:21). As stripping was a means of shaming prisoners of war (see the discussion of Ezek. 16:37–41, and Smith-Christopher, “Ezekiel,” p. 154), this woe is likely directed against the Babylonians. These oppressors, the prophet declares, will themselves be forced to ...

10. Egypt

Ezekiel 29:1-21, Ezekiel 30:1-26, Ezekiel 31:1-18, Ezekiel 32:1-32

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... by the inclusion of two nations mentioned in chapters 25–28, Edom and the Sidonians. On the other hand, Margaret Odell proposes that these particular nations make sense in an Assyrian context. “In their summary inscriptions,” Odell writes, “ ... in ancient Israel, hoping to shed light on the attitudes of ordinary Israelites by looking to this material evidence. Elizabeth Bloch-Smith argues that the evidence of family bench tombs, with lamps and food left for the deceased, supports the notion of an ...

11. Silly Love Songs

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Timothy J. Smith

"I can see no trace of the passions which make for deeper joy," wrote the French writer Stendhal about Americans in his 1822 essay titled "Love." "It is as if the sources of sensibility have dried up among these people," he observed. "They are just, they are rational, and they are not happy at all," he wrote. One cannot help but wonder what Stendhal would say today. It's no secret that relationships suffer in the fast-paced, impersonal world in which we live. We might rightly ask, where has all the love ...

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