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1. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... His without any reserve, and then we must often go back and renew this same resolution. St. Francis de Sales (A Year With The Saints, p. 2) One of the most inspiring models ... God and bring glory to God’s name. Obedience meant abandonment. Jean-Pierre de Caussade wrote to one who depended upon his spiritual guidance that abandonment ... position for the Spirit to work within us. While we are not to seek ecstasy but surrender, Paul weds the two in a remarkable way. Here is one example of it. They went through the ...

2. United We Stand

John 17:11b-19

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King Duncan

... progress which science has made . . .” The crowd was startled. Then they realized that she had picked up exactly where Pierre had left off when he had been interrupted while reading a paper he had been presenting to them before his ... to the lost sheep. Go call your husband. Go make it right with your brother. Go and learn. Go quickly. Go in peace. Arise and go!” (6) St. Paul set the standard for us over 1900 years ago when he wrote that our job “whether at home or absent, is to be pleasing to God.” (II ...

3. Boasting

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

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... 2.3.6; see also Plutarch, Philopoemen 21.5). 11:26b On Paul’s persecution at the hands of Jews, see Ernst Baasland, “Persecution: A Neglected Feature in the Letter to the Galatians,” ST 38 (1984), pp. 135–50; Colin G. Kruse, “Afflictions, Trials, Hardships,” ... from telling everything that was revealed to him; otherwise, he could never be a mediator of revelation. See also Jean-Pierre Ruiz, “Hearing and Seeing but Not Saying: A Look at Revelation 10:4 and 2 Corinthians 12:4,” Society of ...

4. Boasting

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

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

5. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

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Richard Hoefler

... and miraculously heal all blindness. For Straton, "God in Christ limited or ‘emptied’ himself, as Paul phrases it. Jesus was constrained by his humanity."10 Our Lord had only a limited ... limited time given to us. Pierre and Marie Curie made four hundred eighty-seven experiments to try to separate radium from pitchblends. All were failures. Completely defeated and in despair, Pierre said, "It can’t be ... St. John, The Interpreter's Bible, Vol. VIII (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1952), p. 615. 22. Marsh, op. cit. ...

6. Who Could Forget That?

Mark 14:32-42

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King Duncan

... I Never Knew, Philip Yancey tells a heart-breaking story very much like Christ's humiliation. The story comes from a memoir by Pierre Van Paassen about the years before World War II. In this memoir Van Paassen tells of an act of humiliation by Nazi storm ... against troublesome criminals, slaves and rebels. In Palestine crucifixion was a public reminder of Jewish servitude to a foreign power. St. Paul did not exaggerate when he called the crucified Jesus "a stumbling block to the Jews" and "folly" to the ...

7. Running With Patience

Hebrews 12:1-13

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Allan J. Weenink

... with God, giving his best self in those brief years. The rest remained with the Lord of the harvest. How often St. Paul, the activist, chafed under undue delays, upset plans, and circumstances that he could not control. Rebellion, he finally found, was ... forward up the hill to God. Or again, from more recent history, there is the incident in the life-story of Madame Curie when Pierre, her husband, was ready to give up in despair after the 487th experiment in search of radium had failed. He said, "It can’t ...

8. When You Are Uncertain About Your Salvation

1 Kings 3:1-15

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King Duncan

... Martin Luther. It happened to John Wesley. It can happen to you, and it can happen to me. That is why we need to hear St. Paul's words: "If you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is ... our joy, particularly if we believe that our own merits are what guarantee our salvation. In his memoirs, The Days Of Our Years, Pierre van Paassen records a conversation he had with a Dutch priest who had survived the Nazi occupation and spoke of the Germans with ...

9. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

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Donald B. Strobe

... Jesus were simply and exactly the same. All of the New testament writers, except St. Luke, were Jews. For the Jews, the term “God” meant the Divine Sovereign, the ... , without wiping out that human being’s own humanity. So in II Corinthians, the apostle Paul says, “...in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against ... , and life is made to work out Christ’s way and no other. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin spoke of Christ as the “Omega point” of all creation, ...

10. A Tribute to a Woman's Love

Matthew 22:34-46

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King Duncan

... mother” in the Tamil language. (1) Love is at the center of our faith. Amy Carmichael personified that love. Who can help but think of St. Paul’s great words, “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding ... . At the closing ceremony of the 1988 Olympics, organizers of the games rewarded Lemieux efforts by awarding him the Pierre de Coubertin Medal, a medal awarded to athletes who display an exceptional spirit of sportsmanship. In an interview after ...

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