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1. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (i)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to a quest for purity of doctrine. She said it as a kind indictment against other denominations than her own. "My Lord," I said to myself, "what an empty quest. That's what the Pharisees were about -- pure doctrine." The Bible, Friends, is not about dogma; it's not about pure doctrine. It's not even about itself. The Bible never points to itself; it points to God. It is not concerned about words, but about The Word, the Living Word. So, let's don't get hung up on the wrong issues. If it's true, as I believe ...

2. Wisdom Sold Separately

Drama

Dave Marsh

... us with all the wisdom we need. The question is: Whether we know God or not, where do we go to find true wisdom? Universities, books, newspapers, the Bible, friends, the Internet, etc? God will speak to us in prayer and meditation through His Spirit (which whispers to our spirit), through other believers, through circumstances, and, obviously through the Bible. This drama focuses on our vain attempts to find wisdom and while it's over the top (no surprise there!), it gets the point across. Also, the part ...

3. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... simple answers, but Job’s experience reveals that life is more complex than that. Elihu is more hopeful for Job than the friends are, because he holds out the prospect of restoration for Job. He realizes that one of the most important functions of a ... but that his empty prattle evidences he is indeed a fool. How this charge must cut Job to the heart! Theological Insights In the Bible, the night is often depicted as a time fraught with danger (Song 3:8), so it can prompt discouragement and despair (Ps. 30:5 ...

4. Acres of Diamonds

1 Timothy 6:10

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Russell Conwell

... since have decorated the crowns of monarchs. When he had given the moral to his story, I saw why he had reserved this story for his "particular friends." I didn't tell him I could see it; I was not going to tell that old Arab that I could see it. For it was that ... rule as they always should rule, an officeholder is only the servant of the people, and the Bible says that "the servant cannot be greater than his master." The Bible says that "he that is sent cannot be greater than he who sent him." In this country ...

5. Uplifted By The Blues

Lamentations 1:1-22

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... of high school and college ages. Raymond had a good job as an accountant with a large firm. He and his wife were good friends with a number of couples. And to top it all off, Raymond was a committed Christian who worshipped every Sunday and read his Bible regularly. It is with Raymond's Bible reading that the story really begins. You see, Raymond not only read his Bible regularly, he read it carefully. Having worked as an accountant for a number of years, Raymond had developed a very exacting way of looking ...

6. Daniel’s Training in Babylon

Daniel 1:1-21

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... this world to its consummation according to his plan, in his time. We need to trust that just as God provided for Daniel and his friends, keeping them healthy with their simple vegetarian diet, God will take care of us. God may not place us in a palace, but Jesus promises ... does not defile” (Matt. 15:18–20 NRSV). Additional Notes 1:1 Both internal, biblical evidence and evidence external to the Bible seem to suggest that a Babylonian invasion of Judah did not happen as early as 606/605 B.C., “in the ...

7. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

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Daniel J. Estes

... Job dares God to do what is just toward him. 27:6 I will maintain my innocence and never let go of it. Although Job’s friends have repeatedly urged him to confess that he has sinned against God, Job refuses to own up to contrived sins that he has in fact ... bow will be ever new in my hand. In addition to being a familiar weapon of the warrior, the bow is also used in the Bible as a picture of physical vigor and virility. In Genesis 49:24, it is used in parallel with strong arms. In his former state of blessing ...

8. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... He could not see Lazarus with his sores and filthy rags living right next door. The rich man had no one around him to make him uncomfortable enough to notice Lazarus. His clothes, his food, his friends made him too comfortable with his life. He became blind to his ultimate fate. Do you realize there is no place in the Bible where the devil is depicted as unattractive? Most of us do not fail when we are struggling with our woes or wrestling with our problems or swimming through a sea of red ink. We fail most ...

9. What Is God Doing In Our Bad Times?

Joel 2:18-27, Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... Frank, Karen's mind jumped immediately to the book of Joel. After thinking for a moment, Karen, just as her husband Frank had done with Ted, decided that the message from the prophet Joel was a good way to explain to her devastated friend what God was doing. Karen opened her Bible. She told Paula that the prophet begins by describing a great plague of locusts. Karen said that the reason for beginning with the devastation of the locusts and famine was to show that no matter how great a problem is, God is ...

10. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... take it out on the young ones or the old folks. We resort to anger and violence because we feel impotent and scared. Fortunately, our Bible is also a record of how people through the centuries have resolved anger. I turn our attention to the story of Joseph. I like this ... and wrong." Not so. The law of the upward pull and the downward drift is a very big part of life. One of my dearest friends in life was an elderly woman named Ruth Babb. She called me over to her home the very first week I was in the ministry ...

11. Epilogue

Job 42:7-17

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... Job 42:8, literally says, “[I will] not do with you all a morally reprehensible act.” (2) The behavior or concept here in Job 42:8, nebalah, many times throughout the Hebrew Bible refers to morally repugnant conduct (Gen. 34:7; Deut. 22:21; Josh. 7:15; Judg. 19:23; 20:6, 10; 2 Sam. 13:12; Jer. 29:23). Are the friends being accused of morally shocking behavior? If so, what is it? No quorum unites commentators on what it would be. Another direction is to consider that God, in a didactic, wisdom story, is ...

12. Don’t Blow Off What Is God-Breathed!

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the first time, the stories of God’s amazing, audacious, extravagant, saving love for this world. If the Bible had a Facebook page, would you friend it? If so, what kind of friend would you be? The Bible has enough “pest friends,” or general acquaintances. The Bible also has enough “guest friends” who only bring it out on social occasions. What the Bible needs today are “best friends,” true friends of the word of God who are loyal, loving listeners to the “God-breathed” voice of the Living ...

13. Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Daniel 2:24-49, Daniel 2:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... astrologers to tell him what he had dreamt. If you think that sounds awfully primitive, consider this fact. According to one survey, over 200 of the Fortune 500 companies consult astrologers about the best time to do business. Friends, don't put any faith in astrologers, horoscopes, ouija boards, or palm readers. The Bible says, "Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them." (Lev. 19:31) Someone has suggested that the psychic hotline number is 1-900-I-Am-A-Fool. Verses 4 ...

14. We've Got a Friend in High Places

1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28, Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... In his death on the cross Christ made it possible for us to have new life in him. He died that we may live. Harry Ironside was one of America’s best-known Bible teachers in the early twentieth century. According to Dr. Ray Pritchard one of Harry Ironside’s favorite stories was about Czar Nicholas I of Russia. The czar had a good friend who asked him to provide a job for his son. And so the czar appointed the son as a paymaster in the Russian army. This was a position of responsibility. Unfortunately the ...

15. A Day of Passion, Praise and Prophesying

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... and said, “I want what this Jesus offers.” Remember the promise that the prophet Joel made around 700 years before the birth of Jesus? The promise that Peter quoted at the end of our Bible passage today: “And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” That’s what Helen found when her husband’s friend shared his faith with her husband, who then shared his faith with Helen. As Helen says about her journey to faith in Jesus, “You have to love somebody enough to tell them the truth ...

16. Friendship? Yes, Please!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... threw him into a miry pit. There wallowed Jeremiah -- unheeded, rejected, thirsty, and depressed, But he was not friendless. The Bible says Ebedmelech the Ethiopian came and pulled him out and ministered to him. That's what friends are for. In the down times when all the world goes out, a friend comes in. A smile, an arm around a shoulder, a phone call, a listening ear. With a friend, grief is halved, but joys are doubled. Comfort Next, Solomon says that friendship not only brings synergy and encouragement ...

17. Restarting Joy - Rejoice

Isaiah 55:10-13

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... store in a Kansas City suburb. Kelsey graduated ten days earlier from her high school and was well loved by her family and friends. While at that parking lot she was kidnapped and murdered with her body thrown out near a lake several miles away. In a Kansas ... I know is that God put it within my heart to read his word, and if I were going to try and encourage somebody to read the Bible, I would ask them to pray for the desire to read the word. I think only God can put that desire in the heart of a human ...

18. Job Presents Evidence against the Retribution Principle

Job 12:1--14:22

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... his case in God’s hands. Theological Insights In 13:21 Job calls on God to withdraw his hand from him. Throughout the Bible, the hand of God is an image that speaks of his powerful activity. God can use his hand to bring blessing, or God’ ... 31). In a positive sense, in Psalm 139:5 the hand of God is regarded as the psalmist’s continual protection. Teaching the Text Although friends can often help us to understand issues in our lives when we are blind to our own faults, all human insight has its limits. ...

19. Leading a Friend to Jesus

Luke 5:27-32, Luke 5:17-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them." (Luke 5:29) There is a tendency for new Christians to develop friendships within Sunday School classes and Bible study groups. That is fine. But we shouldn’t forget our old friends who are as lost as a goose. Levi didn’t. He invited them to meet Jesus. What kind of friend am I to unchurched John if I play golf with him repeatedly, loan him my car when his is in the shop, and keep his child for him while he and his wife ...

20. Sermons

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... your hand, O King. But if not, be it known to you, O King, that we will (still) not serve your gods nor worship the golden image which you have set up!" "But if not...." These three little words more than justify keeping the story of Daniel and his friends in the Bible! We do not know what God is or is not able to do. You may consider him all-powerful, if you wish. I may consider him limited or self-limited, if I prefer. What we do know is that we cannot count on God for keeping it cool for ...

21. Mother's Day Gifts

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... d rather give my ma a car like that, so she could come to see me once in a while." Then the two men noticed their friend, Bill, just staring blankly at the magazine, so they asked him to say what he would like to give his mother. After thinking for a ... worship, then do it. You should go, not only because of your love for the Lord, but also in obedience to your mother. Children, the Bible says that you are to obey your parents as long as you are unmarried and being supported by them. If you want to offer a ...

22. Are You In the Know

Job 19:23-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... do. They don't have the same world view. They don't even have the same view of history. Many people believe that history is cyclical. That is, it's just a series of events repeated over and over again ad infinitum. Well, the Bible says history is linear; it is a straight line, and my friend, at the end of that straight line you will find Jesus Christ. This world is on a collision course with Jesus. Now part of this world is headed for judgment; part of this world is headed for joy. But all of this world is ...

23. Bildad’s Final Attempt to Answer Job

Job 25:1-6

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... for their failure to answer Job (32:3–5, 11–16). 25:4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God? Once again (cf. Eliphaz in 4:15–19; 15:14–16), the comforting words of Psalm 8:4 are distorted by one of Job’s friends. By measuring humans against the perfect righteousness of Almighty God, Bildad concludes that humans are helplessly corrupt. The Bible does teach that all humans are sinful and guilty before God (Ps. 14:1–3; Rom. 3:10–12), but Bildad has left out of the picture what the ...

24. Grace Upon Grace

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... them over to the cause of good?”2 Pastor Bob Deffinbaugh digs a little deeper into the nature of grace with this story, published from his blog, Bible.org. “To illustrate the grace of God, I have often told the true story of my friend who bought a brand new Jaguar convertible upon returning as a veteran from Viet Nam. While still wearing his army fatigues, my friend set out early one morning driving down a lonely stretch of road in Oklahoma. Deciding to see just how fast his car would go, he allowed it ...

25. The Mechanics Of Prayer

Matthew 6:5-15, Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... feelings. You may picture Christ sitting in the chair next to you. You speak to him as you would speak to your dearest friend. It is warm, personal, and intimate. You tell him how much you love him and share your secrets, hopes, and dreams. This makes ... speak when we are still. He often speaks in a small voice like a whisper. Someone called Jeremiah 33:3 the telephone verse of the Bible: "Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things ...." One of the serious missing links in our ...

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