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Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14

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King Duncan

... is anyone here who still believes in God, stand up!" The professor and the class of 300 people looked at this young man, shocked, as he stood up at the back of the classroom. The professor shouted, "You FOOL! If God existed, he could keep this piece ... 's one of the reasons we gather like this each week. To say thanks. I read about two friends, Jermaine Washington and Michelle Stevens, who get together three times a month for what they call a "gratitude lunch." With good reason! Washington donated a kidney ...

2. It's A Miracle

John 20:19-31

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King Duncan

... . Mrs. Gonzalez had dug up her whole yard and enshrined the virgin Mary in a bathtub. And, according to Michel, Mrs. Gonzalez had the most incredible roses imaginable surrounding the shrine. Mrs. Gonzalez swore it was Mary's influence ... with you always." She felt complete peace as her friend eased Elaine's broken body out of the car. She didn't panic or go into shock. Throughout the whole frantic evening, Elaine remained calm. She knew she was wrapped in God's love, so she didn't need to fear. (5) Friends, ...

3. Coping with Fear, Worry, and Anxiety

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... the piano off her child. Immediately afterwards she loses that extra strength and cannot budge the piano. What has happened? Under the shock of possible injury to her child, adrenalin has poured into the mother’s blood stream, and under the stimulus of this ... s "letters to God" there is this: "Dear God, If I was God I wouldn’t be as good at it. Keep it up. Michelle." Perhaps the world needs to realize this truth more deeply. Much of our overwhelming fear comes from our confused thinking about what is real ...

4. The Cross We Do Not Want To See

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... s restaurant and picked up his check. "I will probably still tell him not to bring stuff home from the trash," said his fiancee, Michelle Dacey, 25. Randall, 23, said he lifted the cup off a pile of trash, he can't remember what day, exactly, while on ... was a young agent assigned to President Kennedy on that fateful day in Dallas in 1963. When the assassin fired, Horrigan froze in shock. For thirty years afterward, he wrestled with the ultimate question for a Secret Service agent: Can I take a bullet for the ...

5. Presented to the Lord

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... about actor Kirk Douglas’ mother. Douglas, for years one of Hollywood’s most prominent stars, but now known chiefly as Michel Douglas’ father, remembers his mother as a woman who overflowed with encouragement for her children. When he was in ... on him. Through his father’s changed life, and through the love and acceptance of a few kind Christians, Jay writes, “I discovered the shocking secret: God loves me just the way I am.” (5) God does love us just as we are. “When the time of their ...

6. Trials and Temptations

James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... James lived. James continues with a proverb: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. As shocking as this saying is to this modern age of express-your-feelings, it was accepted wisdom in the biblical period: “He ... the body of truth about Jesus that is believed. This first use is most like Paul; the others differ from Paul’s. See O. Michel, “Faith,” NIDNTT, vol. 1, pp. 587–606. To doubt shows that the person is unlike God. God gives sincerely, with an undivided mind ...

7. I am the Man Who Has Seen Affliction

Lamentations 3:1-66

One Volume

Tremper Longman III

... judgment has brought a tremendous reversal. With God’s blessing Jerusalem was a shining city (Ps. 48). Again, the strategy is to shock God with the idea that his people are so demeaned in the presence of the nations in hopes that he would ... see also NRSV) renders the verbs in this stanza and through verse 63 as past actions. Provan (Lamentations, p. 105, citing D. Michel, Tempora und Satzstellung in den Psalmen [AET 1; Bonn, 1961], pp. 79–81; see also Dobbs-Allsopp, Lamentations, p. 126) argues that ...

8. Peace and Joy

Romans 5:1-11

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... amends or turned over a new leaf, but for humanity as rebellious sinners (v. 8) and “God’s enemies” (v. 10). This is a shocking thing to realize, indeed quite an offense to moral people who nurse the idea that their goodness is somehow responsible for God’s love ... the foregoing chapters can be found in Leenhardt, Romans, pp. 131–32; those favoring it as a beginning of upcoming argumentation in Michel, Der Brief an die Römer, p. 129. Dunn (Romans 1–8, p. 243) also regards the unit as a bridge. 5: ...

9. Listening and Doing

James 1:19-27, James 1:1-18

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids