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    18th Sunday after Pentecost

    Author
    Cody Sandahl
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    Scripture
    James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a, Proverbs 31:10-31, Mark 9:30-37, Psalm 1:
    Summary This is one of those texts where it’s pretty easy to laugh at the disciples. This is the second time Jesus told them he was going to die and then rise again after three days. And yet they wer...

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    17th Sunday after Pentecost

    Author
    Bud Thoreen
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    Scripture
    James 3:13-4, James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a, Proverbs 31:10-13, Mark 9:30-37, Psalm 1:, James 3:13-18, James 4:1-3, 7-8, James 1:16-27, Galatians 5:22, Proverbs 1:7, Psalm 37:4, James 4:3, Philippians 2:1-5, Psalm 121:null, Psalm 30:null, Jeremiah 11:18-20, Psalm 54:null, James 1:16-27, Galatians 5:22, Proverbs 1:7, Psalm 37:4, James 4:3, Philippians 2:1-5, Psalm 121:null, Psalm 30:null
    Preaching Commentary James' Intent James, the brother of Jesus, the leader of the earliest Christian church in Jerusalem, writes this letter to scattered Jewish believers who were going through...

  • Quote

    Author
    Andrew Murray
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Galatians 5:13, 1 Peter 5:5, Proverbs 22:4, Mark 9:35, Romans 12:10
    A faithful servant may be wiser than the master, and yet retain the true spirit and posture of the servant. The humble man looks upon every, the feeblest and unworthiest, child of God, and honors him ...

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    How to Hold a Team Together

    Author
    Bear Bryant
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Mark 9:35, Ephesians 4:2-3, Romans 12:10, Proverbs 27:17, Philippians 2:3-4
    I’m just a plow hand from Arkansas, but I have learned how to hold a team together. How to lift some men up, how to calm down others, until finally they’ve got one heartbeat together, a team. There’s ...

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    Doubt over Faith?

    Author
    Lesslie Newbigin
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Mark 9:24, Romans 10:17, John 20:27, 1 John 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 5:21, Proverbs 3:5-6
    Have you ever noticed that the phrases in our culture favor doubt over faith? The famed missionary and theologian Lesslie Newbigin pointed this out when we speak of “Honest doubts” and “blind faith”. ...

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    The Rope

    Author
    C. S. Lewis
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Mark 9:14-24, Psalm 56:3-4, Proverbs 3:5-6, Hebrews 11:null, Philippians 1:21, Psalm 20:7, James 1:2-4
    You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong as long as you are merely using i...

  • Quote

    Author
    John Ortberg
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Matthew 14:31, John 20:29, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 9:24, James 1:5-6
    We live in an age when belief comes hard because we’re much more afraid of being gullible (believing something that’s not true) than we are of being skeptical (not believing something that is true). W...

  • Quote

    Author
    Mark Twain
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Mark 9:23, John 20:29, Matthew 17:20, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 1:6, Romans 10:17
    Faith is believing what you know ain't so. (1897)Consider checking out our illustrations page on Faith.

  • Quote

    Author
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Matthew 21:21, Romans 10:17, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 9:24
    The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are to subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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