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James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:7-12, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... healing gifts were not a requirement for selection as elders. Apparently James felt that because of the relationship of healing to pastoral ministry (cf. 5: ... of the spiritual power of prayer, as well as a sign of the authority of the healer (Mark 6:13). It corresponds to healing prayer as water does to baptismal prayer. It is done ... estate and become part of the landed gentry, who had the highest social status. See further S. W. Baron, A Social and Religious History of the Jews, vol. 1, pp. 255–59; F. C. ...

2. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:1-6, James 4:13-17, James 5:7-12, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

3. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:7-12, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

4. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:13-20, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:7-12

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

5. Imitating Christ's Humility

Philippians 2:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... in the Spirit. The tenderness and compassion that they have in Christ are felt for one another. J.-F. Collange (ad loc.) thinks the reference is to ... by C. F. D. Moule “Further Reflexions on Philippians 2:5–11,” in W. W. Gasque and R. P. Martin, eds., Apostolic History and the Gospel, pp. 264–76 ... invited in an oracle to share the throne of Yahweh, sitting to the right side of him. According to Mark 14:62 and parallel texts, Jesus at his trial before the Jewish high priest and his colleagues told them ...

6. You Can Be Happy

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... felt before. She got up out of bed and began serving him. This was her way of saying thanks. But it began with a touch. This is a point that must be made. Happiness is not simply an option we exercise. People who buy self-help books on how to be happy are going to be disappointed. Happiness begins with a touch, a touch of the Master's hand. W ... town that Jesus was there and that he had the power to heal people. By dusk Mark says the whole city was at Simon's door looking for Jesus. They brought their sick, " ...

7. The Son Superior to Angels

Hebrews 1:1-14

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... Background of the New Testament and Its Eschatology (Festschrift for C. H. Dodd), ed. W. D. Davies and D. Daube (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964), pp. 363–93. On ... remote in his transcendence, and the need for angelic intermediaries was felt. Thus, in much of the intertestamental and rabbinic literature the role ... the ascension of the Son to the right hand of God gives him a unique position and name, marking him out as far superior to the angels. 1:5 In order to strengthen the argument of Christ ...

8. Sorry, The Doctor's Been Delayed

John 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... great optimism. Later that summer something happened one morning. While Mark was jogging, he felt all the strength go out of his body. "I practically passed out," Mark recalled. He went to the doctor but the doctor couldn’t find anything wrong with him. For the next two years Mark would go to the doctors and have every imaginable test ... Nelson with Bud Shrake. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988, pp. 218-219. 4. Is There Life After Stress? James W. Moore. Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 1992, pp. 107-108.

9. Trials and Temptations

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

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... agree that the teaching of Jesus is binding on the Christian and that no other way marks out the path of blessing and salvation. Freedom is not license but the ability to live ... to have been widely and loosely used within the early church, which means that each author felt free to adapt it to make his own point. The basis of the structure is probably ... See also Judg. 6:15; Pss. 9:39; 33:18; Amos 8:6; Isa. 11:4, and W. Grundmann, “Tapeinos,” in TDNT, vol. 8, pp. 1–26. The term ought to take pride is ...

10. Listening and Doing

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

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

11. Face To Face With God

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... The bishop himself didn't pray much. After all, his life was quite uneventful. He felt quite selfsufficient. One day, however, life tumbled in on him, and he found himself ... us make three booths, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah." Mark tells us Peter said this because "he did not know what to say, for they ... and TV people were not immune. Their cheers, and tears, mingled with those of Eisenhower supporters. W. Howard Chase turned to his wife with two words: "He's in." (3) Political gimmickry? ...

12. Who is That Crouching at Your Door?

Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

“If thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” — Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Envy is perhaps the deepest root of all evils. Envy is the desire to have what someone else has, to be like someone else, to be given what someone else has received, to obtain what one perceives one deserves. Envy is the opposite of satisfaction in and surrender to God. And it’s at the core of human nature. It’s stimulated by the eye, and desires of the gaze. The gaze here is not the feminist concept of ...

13. Pressing on Toward the Goal

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... mark of the mature to recognize that such perfection was unattainable during mortal life. Let no man think that sudden in a minute All is accomplished and the work is done; Though with thine earliest dawn thou shouldst begin it Scarce were it ended in thy setting sun. (F. W ... and frustrations,” whether in himself or in others (Montefiore, Paul the Apostle, p. 30). If some of Paul’s readers felt bound to admit that they could not express their ambition or attitude in Paul’s terms, let them not despair or ...

14. Gift

2 Corinthians 8:16--9:5, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... of the direct address of the Corinthians as brothers in order to mark the transition to a new subject see 2 Cor. 1:8; 13:11. On Macedonia, see David W. J. Gill, “Macedonia,” in The Book of Acts in Its First Century Setting, Vol. 2: The ... W. J. Gill and Conrad Gempf; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994), pp. 397–417; Rainer Riesner, Die Frühzeit des Apostels Paulus. Studien zur Chronologie, Missionsstrategie und Theologie (WUNT 71; Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1994). 8:2 In A.D. 51, a severe famine was felt ...

15. Searching For Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... doesn't smoke, is prompt, smiles a lot, eats sensibly, avoids cavities and marks their ballot carefully . . . Avoids too much sun. Sends overseas packages early. Loves ... . On the tombstone was the name of a Christian medical doctor, who, all on his own, felt called by Jesus Christ to go there, live there, and die there. The people so admired ... lives, lives of integrity and justice and generosity. We may not wear a bracelet that says W.W.J.D., but that is to be our credo, "What would Jesus do?" And we are ...

16. Never Give Up

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... them for later prosperity. They are successful today because they didn't quit. Some of the happiest adults are people who felt lonely and rejected as teenagers. Sometimes people who hang in there and refuse to fold come out on top. A young ... to you." This marked a turning point in W. Mitchell's life. He got a job in radio, then in television. He returned to his idealistic roots and entered the political arena. Crested Butte, Colorado elected W. Mitchell as their Mayor in 1971. Today, W. Mitchell is one ...

17. Paul's Chains Advance the Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... 2–5, etc.; he adduces many examples of the use of such a formula to mark the transition from introductory thanksgiving to the body of the letter. Cf. also J. T ... missionaries who held up the “divine man” (theios anēr) as an ideal and felt that the humiliating spectacle of Paul in prison gave the lie to this ideal ... be alive; “yet even for such a life, precisely for such a life, to die is gain” (F. W. Beare, ad loc.). If death meant (even temporarily) less of Christ than was enjoyed in mortal life— ...

18. Enough Foolishness!

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... room who has felt dumb in front ... inauguration of President George W. Bush, someone in Danville, Kentucky, managed to pay for a $2 order at a fast‑food restaurant with a bogus $200 bill. This bill featured a picture of President George W. Bush on its face ... able to play tennis and ride a bicycle. This man named Mark, sometimes takes off his hooks and is still able to function using only his wrists. One day Tim accompanied Mark to the grocery store. Mark didn’t have his hooks on. Nevertheless he used both ...

19. Schadenfreude

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

How many of you grew up watching either the originals or the re-runs of Wile-E-Coyote and the Roadrunner? Throughout the series of cartoons, we laughed, as Wile E Coyote was continually foiled in his attempts to catch the super-fast and super sly roadrunner. Time and again, the coyote’s efforts and plots come back to bite him, so to speak, as he blows himself up, plunges off of cliffs, and gets pounded by boulders. Every trick up his sleeve backfires, and he never does catch the Roadrunner! (Beep, beep). ...

20. The Chicken or the Egg

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... through Christ your freely and honestly confessed sins are forgiven. The worshiping minister, the Rev. William W. Kenney, writes: Instead of assurance I felt some confusion. How freely and honestly had I confessed my sins? How free and honest can ... when we finally come to realize that we are forgiven. The very word repent itself means change of mind or direction. According to Mark, Jesus proclaimed something like this: The new age has dawned; get a new mind to meet it. So Jesus went beyond the preaching of ...

21. Favoritism Forbidden

James 2:1-13, James 2:14-26

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... committees would quickly indicate that despite the very negative view Jesus took of wealth (e.g., Mark 10), James’ reproof is still relevant today. The church ought to show no partiality, no concern ... out because their religion made them especially vulnerable—what judge felt bad about being especially hard on the followers of ... 21; 4:12; 5:20 and the general meaning of save in the New Testament. See further W. Foerster, “Sōzō,” TDNT, vol. 7, pp. 990–98. For the prophetic denunciation of piety without ...

22. Faith and Deeds

James 2:14-26, James 2:1-13

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

23. Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesian Elders

Acts 20:13-38

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... , 10f.), though the verb “to know” is distinctively Lukan. 20:19 His ministry had been marked by self-sacrifice. The tears were not for his own hard times (lit., “trials” or “ ... found together in 2 Cor. 1:8 and Phil. 1:17), and he may have felt that, in effect, he was a prisoner already. Compared with 19:21, this passage represents an ... never really succeeded either in the city or in the province (see, e.g., W. Bauer, Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity). This is too harsh a judgment, though ...

24. Wining and Dining with Jesus

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , even when they burned him at the stake for his obstinacy. As he felt the first fires lap his body, he was for the last time offered the ... not Christians at all.” (Karl Barth, THE CHRISTIAN LIFE, trans. Geoffrey W. Bromiley (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1981., p. 80) Strong ... His critics, Jesus said simply: “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is still with them?” Only Mark adds: “As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.” (v. 19b) The image of ...

25. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... righteous, even in the midst of our suffering. Hymn: “Moment by Moment,” by Daniel W. Whittle. This old hymn (1893) expresses the core of the principle that one is kept ... that at the time was the equivalent of a death sentence. Just as Job must have felt trapped by his fate, so too Ben Hur could only believe that he would die in ... As Job examines his own life for sin, he cannot discern how he may have missed God’s mark. Like Job, we need to examine our lives carefully, so that we may honor the Lord in our ...

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