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The Devil Buried the Bones
And I was reminded of an event from my father’s childhood: He was in a Sunday school class, listening to his teacher expound on Genesis 1 and a young earth, and asked his teacher how to make sense o... -
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Religion: Instructions without Power
One Sunday morning a number of years ago my wife piled the children into the family car to come to Sunday school and worship. When she turned the switch to start, the engine wouldn't even grunt. T... -
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Which is the Bible Most Like?
What genre of literature is the Bible? How we answer this question will ultimately determine not just how we read scripture, but how it will ultimately shape our lives. One Sunday school teacher, teac... -
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Sermon Illustration Tuesday (1.15)
Arthur Conan Doyle, the ingenious creator of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, once found great humor in a practical joke he played on 12 famous friends. Each of these men was virtuous and highly respect... -
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Prayer for those who Influence Public Opinion
Almighty God, you proclaim your truth in every age by many voices: Direct, in our time, we pray, those who speak where many listen and write what many read; that they may do their part in making the h... -
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When the Minister is the Skeptic
I grew up as a Christmas and Easter Methodist. Our family called ourselves Christians, but it was not an important part of our lives. I found church boring. When I turned eighteen, something happened ... -
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I think it is one of the tragedies of our nation, one of the shameful tragedies, that eleven o’clock on Sunday morning is one of the most segregated hours, if not the most segregated hour, in Christia... -
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Taking Learning Very Seriously
In ancient Judaism, discipleship was taken very seriously. It was taken so seriously that eager disciples would ty to follow their rabbi (teacher) everywhere they went. Why? Because they wanted to see... -
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The Danger of Service Alone
The fact that our works are done in the service of God is not enough, by itself, to prevent us from losing our interior life if we let them devour all our time and all our strength. Work is good and n... -
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They Were All Laughing at Me
Several years ago, when I was about to speak in a seminary chapel, the seminary’s president introduced me and noted that my sons were with me in the front row. He announced each of their names and ask... -
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Tear it out!
Dr. William Evans, who pastored College Church from 1906–1909, was an unusually accomplished man. He had the entire King James Version of the Bible memorized as well as the New Testament of the Americ... -
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God’s Word and Calvinism vs. Arminianism
It has been my earnest endeavor ever since I have preached the Word, never to keep back a single doctrine that I believe to be taught of God. It is time that we had done with the old and rusty systems... -
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Discipleship is like Learning a Language through Immersion
One of the fastest ways to learn a language is by immersion . This term can mean a few different things, but the basic idea in all of them is that you are exposed to that language in your social inte... -
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K. I. S. S.
Have you heard the acronym “K. I. S. S”? It stands for “Keep It Simple, Stupid.” Paul doesn’t exactly call the Corinthians stupid (in 1 Cor. 15), though elsewhere Paul sounds tempted to do so, when ... -
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Common Things and Cracks in the Surface of Reality
The child became a man and the man became a preacher whose sermons were full of commonplace things: seeds and nets, coins and fishes, lilies of the field, and birds of the air. Wherever he was, he had... -
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Pursuing the Common Good in Community
In 2017 Rebekah Morris was teaching English and journalism at Cross Keys High School, a public high school in Atlanta. Noticing that her students had really important, insightful things to say about t... -
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This-Sidedness and Other-Sidedness
In his excellent little book, A Testament of Devotion , written almost a hundred years ago, Thomas Kelly describes the tension that all ministries must live in; the focus on this world or the wor... -
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For the cramped bewildered years we went to school to learn to know the reasons why and the answers to and the people who and the places where and the days when, in memory of the bitter hours when we ... -
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Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is ti... -
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Deepening Our Attention
Simone Weil, a French philosopher, theologian and activist around the time of World War II, wrote a remarkable essay in which she connects the discipline of schoolwork with that of prayer. She argues ... -
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But He’d Be Wrong!
Reporters Alex Alston and James Dickerson tell a sad story about a church that sought to integrate its ranks: The Mississippi Delta was in a tizzy over rumors that blacks might show up at white church... -
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Preaching in a New Key: Crafting Expository Sermons in Post-Christian Communities
Kate's Crisis: Values vs. Church One damp afternoon during the fall of 2016 I was sharing a pastoral conversation with Kate, a professional artist in her late 20s. Over years of meals and convers... -
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Challenging What We Know
We can “know” something to be true, and then find it is not true after all. I recall confidently assertive to a student that, of course, the name of the region Perea (to the east of the Dead Sea) appe... -
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From [age three] on out, stories will not only entertain you, they will explain you to others and to yourself. -
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Adapted from 1 Corinthians 12 (WEB)
Leader: “Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.” People: “ For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members... -
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Adapted from Hebrews 10:19-25
Leader: Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, All: by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, t... -
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Back in Flatland: Sermon Illustration Tuesday
In 1884, an English schoolmaster named Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a story about a two-dimensional world called Flatland, inhabited by various shapes (circles, squares, etc.). In Flatland, there is heig... -
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Inspired by John 8 and Romans 5
Lord God, we know that you are life, the life which is the light of the world But sometimes we allow the darkness to close in We find ourselves driven apart from you We confess that we do not ... -
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Adapted from Isaiah 60; Ephesians 5
Wake up! Get out of bed! Feel the sunlight on your face! Feel God’s bright glory has risen for you. But the earth is dark. Everywhere we look there is selfishness sin, greed, death, destruction. You ... -
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Gracious God, on Sundays we come to
Gracious God, on Sundays we come to this place and you fill us up with your goodness and light and we are renewed. But when we go out into the world, we fall short in so many ways. We confess that we ...
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Top_level_categories by Reference
Genesis
Exodus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Joshua
Ruth
1 Samuel
1 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (4)
- Ps 2 (2)
- Ps 8 (12)
- Ps 9 (2)
- Ps 10 (1)
- Ps 13 (1)
- Ps 14 (2)
- Ps 15 (1)
- Ps 16 (4)
- Ps 17 (1)
- Ps 18 (1)
- Ps 19 (26)
- Ps 22 (5)
- Ps 23 (16)
- Ps 24 (7)
- Ps 25 (5)
- Ps 27 (13)
- Ps 29 (1)
- Ps 31 (1)
- Ps 32 (7)
- Ps 33 (2)
- Ps 34 (32)
- Ps 36 (4)
- Ps 37 (8)
- Ps 39 (2)
- Ps 40 (2)
- Ps 41 (2)
- Ps 42 (11)
- Ps 43 (2)
- Ps 44 (1)
- Ps 46 (19)
- Ps 49 (2)
- Ps 50 (5)
- Ps 51 (28)
- Ps 52 (1)
- Ps 55 (1)
- Ps 63 (1)
- Ps 65 (3)
- Ps 67 (2)
- Ps 69 (1)
- Ps 71 (1)
- Ps 72 (1)
- Ps 73 (5)
- Ps 74 (1)
- Ps 77 (2)
- Ps 78 (5)
- Ps 82 (7)
- Ps 84 (1)
- Ps 85 (2)
- Ps 86 (4)
- Ps 88 (1)
- Ps 90 (7)
- Ps 92 (1)
- Ps 94 (3)
- Ps 95 (1)
- Ps 96 (5)
- Ps 98 (1)
- Ps 99 (1)
- Ps 100 (2)
- Ps 101 (1)
- Ps 103 (9)
- Ps 104 (5)
- Ps 105 (1)
- Ps 106 (2)
- Ps 107 (1)
- Ps 111 (2)
- Ps 115 (1)
- Ps 116 (2)
- Ps 117 (2)
- Ps 118 (4)
- Ps 119 (24)
- Ps 121 (5)
- Ps 123 (1)
- Ps 126 (1)
- Ps 127 (3)
- Ps 128 (1)
- Ps 130 (3)
- Ps 131 (1)
- Ps 133 (3)
- Ps 136 (4)
- Ps 139 (26)
- Ps 143 (2)
- Ps 144 (2)
- Ps 145 (4)
- Ps 146 (2)
- Ps 147 (4)
- Ps 150 (1)
Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
- Prov 2 (4)
- Prov 3 (30)
- Prov 4 (8)
- Prov 5 (1)
- Prov 6 (2)
- Prov 7 (1)
- Prov 8 (2)
- Prov 9 (1)
- Prov 10 (4)
- Prov 11 (6)
- Prov 12 (5)
- Prov 14 (8)
- Prov 15 (7)
- Prov 16 (13)
- Prov 17 (5)
- Prov 18 (12)
- Prov 19 (7)
- Prov 20 (2)
- Prov 21 (4)
- Prov 22 (6)
- Prov 23 (2)
- Prov 24 (3)
- Prov 25 (3)
- Prov 27 (5)
- Prov 28 (7)
- Prov 29 (7)
- Prov 31 (5)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (20)
- Isa 2 (2)
- Isa 5 (1)
- Isa 6 (14)
- Isa 7 (3)
- Isa 9 (13)
- Isa 11 (2)
- Isa 25 (4)
- Isa 26 (8)
- Isa 28 (1)
- Isa 29 (2)
- Isa 30 (8)
- Isa 33 (2)
- Isa 40 (25)
- Isa 41 (15)
- Isa 42 (3)
- Isa 43 (16)
- Isa 44 (5)
- Isa 45 (6)
- Isa 46 (1)
- Isa 47 (1)
- Isa 48 (5)
- Isa 49 (3)
- Isa 50 (2)
- Isa 51 (1)
- Isa 53 (21)
- Isa 54 (3)
- Isa 55 (37)
- Isa 57 (4)
- Isa 58 (5)
- Isa 60 (3)
- Isa 61 (13)
- Isa 64 (8)
- Isa 65 (1)
- Isa 66 (3)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Joel
Amos
Nahum
Zephaniah
Matthew
- Matt 1 (7)
- Matt 2 (4)
- Matt 3 (4)
- Matt 4 (9)
- Matt 5 (47)
- Matt 6 (43)
- Matt 7 (13)
- Matt 8 (5)
- Matt 9 (5)
- Matt 10 (8)
- Matt 11 (15)
- Matt 12 (6)
- Matt 13 (21)
- Matt 14 (10)
- Matt 15 (6)
- Matt 16 (9)
- Matt 17 (5)
- Matt 18 (10)
- Matt 19 (12)
- Matt 20 (4)
- Matt 21 (6)
- Matt 22 (16)
- Matt 23 (12)
- Matt 24 (5)
- Matt 25 (20)
- Matt 26 (5)
- Matt 27 (7)
- Matt 28 (17)