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Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Thomas Long

... objectives, secular therapies, and cosmetic skill cannot save us. Indeed they become burdens to us, heavy to carry, costly to maintain. It is God alone who saves, and part of what it means to be fully human is to wait for his coming. Jesuit priest William F. Lynch has observed that there are two kinds of waiting. One kind waits because "there is nothing else to do." The other is born out of hope. The decision to engage in this hopeful kind of waiting ... ... is one of the great human acts. It includes ...

2. They Also Serve Who Wait

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Thomas Long

... objectives, secular therapies, and cosmetic skill cannot save us. Indeed they become burdens to us, heavy to carry, costly to maintain. It is God alone who saves, and part of what it means to be fully human is to wait for his coming. Jesuit priest William F. Lynch has observed that there are two kinds of waiting. One kind waits because "there is nothing else to do." The other is born out of hope. The decision to engage in this hopeful kind of waiting ... ... is one of the great human acts. It includes ...

3. Boasting

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

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... of his ascent to heaven (cf. 4Q427 f7.1.8–17; 4Q471 f6.4; 4Q491 f 11.1.14, 18). To keep Paul from becoming conceited because of his revelatory experience, ... expression of rage by a mob, stoning was a very widespread form of lynch justice. The pre-Roman Corinthians are said to have practiced stoning (cf. ... hand, the verb can be understood figuratively as signifying “be inflamed with grief.” Cf. William Horbury and David Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ...

4. Boasting

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

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... of his ascent to heaven (cf. 4Q427 f7.1.8–17; 4Q471 f6.4; 4Q491 f 11.1.14, 18). To keep Paul from becoming conceited because of his revelatory experience, ... expression of rage by a mob, stoning was a very widespread form of lynch justice. The pre-Roman Corinthians are said to have practiced stoning (cf. ... hand, the verb can be understood figuratively as signifying “be inflamed with grief.” Cf. William Horbury and David Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ...

5. Eat And Live

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The young black man who shot the father during a drunken spree was lynched for it. The widow of the young father is left virtually penniless. She ... CHRIST. There is something about the Lord's Supper that is akin to the touching of his garments. William Barclay tells us that when Admiral Nelson was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, a party of ... are able to reach out to him. Rather, it is he who reaches down to us. As F. Dale Bruner reminds us, the "Eu" in Eucharist, as the Lord's Supper is often called, means " ...