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1. Is There Any Hope?

1 Cor 15:14

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... aboard marked with a buoy. On the bottom, 110 feet down, S-4’s crew was scrambling to bring the situation under control. Men in the battery compartment stuffed clothing into the two-foot-long gash in the pressure hull, but it was soon clear that the water would not ... attempt had been made to cut through with a cold chisel.” By the time Eadie returned to the surface, 25-year-old Lieutenant (j.g.) Graham Fitch and five enlisted men had been at the bottom of the ocean for nearly 24 hours. All had spent most ...

2. The Storm

Acts 27:13-26

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... equivalent and thus Roman seamen, for want of a specific word, apparently coined this one. It is attested in a Latin inscription. See C. J. Hemer, “Euraquilo and Melita,” JTS 26 (1975), pp. 101–11. 27:15 The ship was caught by the storm and could not head ... were tied longitudinally around the outside of the hull or across the ship inside the hull or longitudinally over the ship from stem to stern to prevent “hogging”—the breaking of the ship’s back (i.e., its keel). “Undergirders” are known ...

3. Holy Wisdom From On High!

Proverbs 8:1-36

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Barbara Brokhoff

... "which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus" (2 Timothy 3:15). In J. S. Bach's masterpiece, Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring, he called Jesus the "holy wisdom from on high." What does this Wisdom mean as related to the ... speak the truth? Wisdom would surely dictate that we exercise great care in speaking only that which is honest and true. Cordell Hull, the American Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944, was reputed to be an extremely honest and cautious man, ungiven to advancing ...

4. Strengthening Your Grip On Prayer

1 Kings 8:22-23, 41-43

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Derl G. Keefer

... served. Solomon's life was integrated with God. This wholeness includes the wholeness of "harmony," living with inner tranquility and peace in a proper relationship to the creator and the creation. This produces a balance in life. The Hulls define it ... petition." It is a list of requests that I cannot do by myself and I humbly need your help, God! Theologian Henri J. M. Nouwen wrote, "Only by deep, strong, and persistent prayer can we escape the illusion of self-importance."[6] Solomon demonstrates that ...

5. Tyre, Sidon—and Israel

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

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Steven Tuell

... J. Katzenstein (The History of Tyre from the Beginning of the Second Millennium B.C.E. until the Fall of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 538 B.C.E. [Jerusalem: Schocken Institute for Jewish Research, 1973], p. 319) argues that Tyre’s ... qrsh, used for the tent home of the god ‘El, which suggests an enclosure rather than a flat surface. Block renders this word as “hull” (Ezekiel 25–48, pp. 56, 59–60). Perhaps “cabin” would be better still. 27:9 To caulk your seams. Nearly the same Heb. expression ...

6. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 15:18--16:4

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Maurice A. Fetty

... of our dearest heroes has been tarnished. For example, my father and his generation were great admirers of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the F.B.I. But recent books and articles have uncovered a variety of ... our lives we do not want exposed to anyone. If the truth be known, could we bear to live with one another? But let's ask the question differently. If the truth can never be known, or if there is no truth, no truth at all, does anything ... Hull, John D. "A Boy And His Gun," Time, Vol. 142, August 2, 1993, p. 23.

7. Traveling Forgotten Mountains

Isaiah 49:8-26

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Paul E. Robinson

... me ... The rhetoric we're all 4used to -- " just trust the Lord, pray more, get counseling, follow God's plan more carefully" -- must give way to the reality of finding God. Dr. Crabb goes on to ... seem to be everywhere. In his wonderful little book, Your God Is Too Small, J.B. Phillips writes, To some people the mental image of God is a kind ... Suddenly, about a mile off the coast they hit a floating mine, blowing the front of the hull away and sinking the ship with most of its crew in minutes. Nick ended up in ...

8. A Faith That Overcomes

Acts 9:32-43

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Douglas J. Deuel

I have always liked the children's story Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. In the story a little boy named Alexander has an absolutely rotten day. The story relates all of the traumatic experiences Alexander faces: waking up with gum in his hair, finding no prize in his box of cereal, having no dessert at lunch, going to the dentist and having a cavity, having lima beans for dinner, getting soap in his eyes from his bath, and having his pet cat choose to sleep with his brother. ...

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