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Matthew 6:25-34

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Phil Thrailkill

... of the kingdom, and another to discover the wonder of God’s provision for that work: “In 1880 George and Sarah Clarke, purchased the lease for the Pacific Beer Garden. Dropping the word Beer, the couple added the word Mission, and launched a ... s image and likeness. We are over all else, not to exploit it but to understand and develop it with respect. I believe, with John Wesley I might add, that the new heavens and the new earth will include animals and plants because it is not less than this world but ...

2. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

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Ron Love

... strangely warmed.” This has become one of the catch phrases that has defined Methodism. It is used today exactly in the same way that John Wesley intended it when he wrote it in his journal. “I felt my heart strangely warmed.” I am assured of my salvation. I no longer harbor any ... its association with an increasing secularized holiday of gift-giving and good cheer. This view was popularized in Clarke Moore’s poem A Visit from St. Nicholas in 1823, and Charles Dicken’s story A Christmas Carol in ...

3. Even Our Business Belongs to God!

Jeremiah 32:1-44

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Mark Ellingsen

... -97, 136-141. 6. Luther, “Commentary on Psalms,” Vol. 40III, p. 280. 7. Martin Luther, Lectures on Deuteronomy (1525/1526), in Luther’s Works, Vol. 9, p. 96. 8. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, ed. G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance (4 vols.: Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1936-1962), Vol. III/4, p. 537. 9. Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994), p. 2426. 10. John Wesley, The More Excellent Way (n.d.), in The Works of John Wesley (14 vols.; 3rd ed.; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1872), Vol. 7, p. 31.

4. Wonderful Opportunities for Mission

Matthew 9:35-10:8 (9-23)

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Mark Ellingsen

... , 1984), pp. 65-69. 2. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, Vol. III, ed. G. W. Bromiley and T. F. Torrance (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1976), p. 64. 3. Rick Warren, The Purpose-Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For? (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2002 ... . Philip Schaff (2nd printing; Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers, 1995), pp. 228-229. 7. John Wesley, The Use of Money (n.d.), L.III.1, in The Works of John Wesley, Vol. 6 (3rd edition; Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1996), p. 133. See the ...

5. Imitating Christ's Humility

Philippians 2:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... value of “Lord”; by God’s decree it has become “the name high over all / In hell, and earth, and sky”—in these words Charles Wesley reproduces in reverse the threefold division of the universe in verse 10: in heaven and on earth and under the earth. 2:10 In Isaiah ... an Aramaic original for the hymn; for attempted Aramaic retroversions see P. P. Levertoff (reproduced in W. K. L. Clarke, New Testament Problems, p. 148); R. P. Martin, Carmen Christi, pp. 40, 41; P. Grelot, “Deux notes critiques sur ...

6. A New Beginning

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

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Mark Ellingsen

... -40. [4] John Calvin, “Commentary On a Harmony of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke” (1555), in Calvin’s Commentaries, Vol. XVI/2, trans. James Anderson (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2005), p. 347. [5] Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, Vol.IV/1, trams. G. W. Bromiley (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1956), p.597. [6] Martin Luther, “The Heidelberg Disputation” (1518), in Luther’s Works, Vol.31, p.41. [7] John Wesley, Commentary On the Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Francis Asbury Press, 1990), p.525.

7. Heart To Heart

Ezekiel 18:1-32

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John R. Brokhoff

... have open heart surgery in which the heart is repaired by bypasses. The first person in history to get an artificial heart was Barney Clark, a sixty-one-year-old dentist of Seattle. Some get pacers to keep the heart on a regular beat. Now a new device ... Christ. His spirit is one of love and goodness and truth and peace. The kind of heart the Spirit creates in us is described by Charles Wesley: O for a heart to praise my God, A heart set free from sin! A heart that always feels Thy blood So freely shed for me ...

8. Resurrection: From Burn-Out to New Vision

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Leonard H. Budd

... pilgrimage can mean returning to some disciplines of worship; a time of private prayer each day and going to church on Sunday. John Wesley and other early Methodists made an intense study of the gospels to discover what it was that gave those early Christians such a ... can find the footprints Of Jesus everywhere.* *William L. Stidger, Christ in Poetry, page 248, edited by Thomas Curtis Clark, Association Press, New York, 1952. Hymn Response "O Sabbath Rest of Galilee" (v. 4) Pastoral Prayer Eternal God, your ...

9. Service

Mark 10:35-45

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Warren Thomas Smith

... if he had remained a dynamic layperson, serving through pew rather than pulpit, witnessing as a lay-leader rather than as pastor. John Wesley admonished his lay preachers to learn to study or "go back to your trade." Francis Asbury taught himself Hebrew and records, "I lodged ... the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. 1. Elmer T. Clark, ed. The Journal and Letters of Francis Asbury (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1958), Journal I:669. 2. The Book of Hymns, number 413 ...

10. A Fragrant Offering

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Maxie Dunnam

... his spasm racked shoulders and mopped the sweat from his forehead. "So, in the end, love comes down to this, I thought: Not some Clark Gable appraisal of Vivian Leigh or some sex symbol's seductive pose, but "Help me sit up." In the end, love is not a ... the Christ, and it is that Christ that I know brought me here. So here it is, Sir, and it is not Ciprian or Augustine, Luther or Wesley. It is the Christ in you, your face, hands and heart that helps me take that first step of the day. God bless you. I love ...

11. Back to School

Luke 2:41-52

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Leonard Sweet

... took them 80 years to become young. " (as cited in Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader [Reading, Mass.: Addison Wesley, 1989], 137). Princeton Professor Richard Robert Osmer's important A Teachable Spirit: Recovering the Teaching Office of the ... fundamental, lifelong task, focusing in the renewal of the mind and heart." A similar appeal comes from Ronald J. Allen and Clark M. Williamson. In their recent The Teaching Minister (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991) the central and centering task of ...

12. Naomi and Ruth

Ruth 1:1-22

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

... commentators, however, find this explanation itself weak and condemn her for “turn[ing] her back on her mother-in-law” (Ruth Rab. 2.9). J. Wesley, for example, sees in her a type of spiritual lukewarmness: She loved Naomi, but she did not love her so well as to quit her ... line 36). Ilmlk is also the name of a scribe at Ugarit (J. C. L. Gibson, Canaanite Myths and Legends [Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1977], p. 102, line 60). On Kilion, the proper name Ki-li-ya-nu is attested at Ugarit and listed in the glossary ...

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