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Seeking a Better Way
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Genesis 11:1-9 , Isaiah 58:6-12, Jeremiah 29:4-7, Matthew 5:14-16, Acts 2:42-47, Psalm 133:
In the land whose founding metaphor was the mutuality of John Winthrop’s seventeenth-century vision of a “city set on a hill,” we live more and more in estranged, hostile, exclusive enclaves, linked o...
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Slow Down. Be Considerate. Be Aware
Author

Ryan Holiday
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1 Samuel 16:7, Proverbs 4:7, Philippians 2:3-4, Matthew 7:12, James 1:19
In the intro sequence of the beloved children’s show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood , the first interior shot does not show the host. Instead, in the beat before Fred Rogers appears on the screen si...
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Scripture Guide, Matthew 21:33-46
Author

Jeff Volkmer
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Matthew 21:33-46, Isaiah 5:2, Matthew 24:null
The Showdown The key to understanding today’s passage is to be found in Jesus’ previous confrontation with “the chief priests and elders” in Matt. 21.23-32. There, the religious leaders of the Temple...
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Scripture Guide, John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15
Author

Jeff Volkmer
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John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15, John 13:10, John 14:7, John 14:13-14, John 13:31-32, John 14:19-21, John 14:16, John 14:15-18, John 3:8, John 8:46, Matthew 4:8-9, Luke 4:5-6, John 14:30, John 12:31, John 6:12, Ephesians 2:2, John 16:12, John 14:17, John 16:14, John 16:6, John 14:6
Context The Upper Room Discourse Our Gospel reading for today takes place within what has come to be known as the “Upper Room discourse,” a stretch of Scripture unique to John’s Gospel that begins ...
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Pentecost
Author

Jeff Volkmer
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John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15, John 15:26-27, John 16:4-15, John 13:10, John 14:7, John 14:13-14, John 13:31-32, John 14:19-21, John 14:16, John 14:15-18, John 3:8, John 8:46, Matthew 4:8-9, Luke 4:5-6, John 14:30, John 12:31, John 6:12, Ephesians 2:2, Hebrews 12:2, John 16:12, John 14:17, John 16:14, John 16:6, John 14:6
Preaching Commentary Context The Upper Room Discourse Our Gospel reading for today takes place within what has come to be known as the “Upper Room discourse,” a stretch of Scripture unique to Jo...
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19th Sunday after Pentecost
Author

Jeff Volkmer
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Scripture

Matthew 21:33-46, Isaiah 5:2, Matthew 24:null
Preaching Commentary The Showdown The key to understanding today’s passage is to be found in Jesus’ previous confrontation with “the chief priests and elders” in Matt. 21.23-32. There, the religiou...
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Scripture Guide Jeremiah 31:31-34
Author

Jonathan Cornell
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Jeremiah 31:31-34, John 12:16, John 12:23-26, John 12:31-32, Romans 11:26-27, Hebrews 10:5-12, Galatians 6:2
Bonus Content: Video prep session with Jonathan Cornell on Jeremiah 31:31-34 . Ancient Lens What can we learn from the historical context? Covenants and Kings God’s people Israel lived in rela...
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Fifth Sunday in Lent
Author

Jonathan Cornell
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Jeremiah 31:31-34, John 12:16, John 12:23-26, John 12:31-32, Romans 11:26-27, Hebrews 10:5-12, Galatians 6:2
Lent 2021: A 40-day Heart Restoration Heart Renewal Bonus Content: Video prep session with Jonathan Cornell on Jeremiah 31:31-34 . AIM Commentary Ancient Lens What can we learn from the his...
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Second Sunday after Christmas
Author

Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Ephesians 1:3-14, Ephesians 1:1-14
Preaching Commentary One of the things I’ve (Stu) noticed when talking about spiritual growth with Christians of all backgrounds, is a consistent desire to “do better,” to “keep fighting the good fi...
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Remember Who You Are
Author

John Stott
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On May 28, 1972, the Duke of Windsor, the uncrowned King Edward VIII, died in Paris. On the same evening, a television program recounted the main events of his life. Viewers watched film footage in wh...
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How Transformation Happens
Author

James Bryan Smith
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2 Corinthians 5:17, Romans 6:11-14, Galatians 2:20, Romans 8:1-2, Colossians 3:3-4, John 8:34-36, 1 Corinthians 6:19-20, Ephesians 4:22-24, Romans 8:15-16
In The Good and Beautiful God , James Bryan Smith describes a new Christian he happened to know who came to him one day feeling dejected. He was so excited to be a follower of Jesus, but he just co...
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Why? Why? Why?
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William Rowley
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Just after leaving a training session on the ice in Detroit, Michigan, on January 6, 1994, Nancy Kerrigan was assaulted in the leg by a man wielding a telescopic baton. Television cameras captured the...
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Watching the Same Movie Over and Over Again
Author

James Bryan Smith
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Psalm 73:25-26, Matthew 6:21, 1 John 2:17, Colossians 3:1-2, Psalm 63:1
I met a man who watches The Lord of the Rings movies every night. When he told me this I pushed back: “Every night?” He said that when he gets off work he goes home, fixes his dinner, turns on the m...
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Augustine of Hippo
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- The Sacraments
- Word of God
[The Sacraments are] a kind of visible word of God.
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Author

Kline R. Snodgrass
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Matthew 13:, Mark 4:1-20, Luke 8:4-15, Mark 4:30-32, Matthew 13:47-50, Luke 18:1-8, Matthew 13:44
Parables were the means Jesus used most frequently to explain the kingdom of God and to show the character of God and the expectations that God has for humans.
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Speak, Lord, for your servant
Author

Christina Rossetti
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1 Samuel 3:1-21, Psalm 119:18, Matthew 21:28-32, Isaiah 6:8
Speak, Lord, for your servant hears. Grant us ears to hear, Eyes to see, Wills to obey, Hearts to love; Then declare what You will, Reveal what You will, Command what You will, Demand what You will.
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Author

Malcolm Muggeridge
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- Gospel
- The Kingdom of God
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John 14:6, Matthew 13:44, Colossians 1:13-14, John 18:36-37, Luke 17:20-21
Jesus’ good news, then, was that the Kingdom of God had come, and that he, Jesus, was its herald and expounder to men. More than that, in some special, mysterious way, he was the Kingdom.
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Karl Barth
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If man tries to grasp at truth of himself, he tries to grasp at it a priori . But in that case he does not do what he has to do when the truth comes to him. He does not believe. If he did, he wou...
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Kline R. Snodgrass
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Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-20, Luke 8:4-15, Matthew 13:24-30, Luke 15:3-7, Mark 4:26-29
Parables are chisels to create space and enable people to see and understand the in-breaking of the kingdom in a first-century world.
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The Bible & The Land
Author

Desmond Tutu
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Leviticus 19:18, Isaiah 58:6-7, Galatians 3:28, James 2:1-9, Psalm 82:3
There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said “Let us pray,” and we dutifully shut our eyes....
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Francis A. Schaeffer
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- The Image of God
- Dignity
People today are trying to hang on to the dignity of man, but they do not know how to, because they have lost the truth that man is made in the image of God. . . . We are watching our culture put into...
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Author

C. Gene Wilkes
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- The Kingdom of God
- World
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Romans 12:2, Matthew 6:33, Mark 10:14-15, John 18:36, Luke 4:18-19, Matthew 20:26-28, Matthew 5:3-10
Jesus came to show us what life in the kingdom looked like, not how to modify how the world did things.
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N. T. Wright
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- Generosity
- The Kingdom of God
The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.
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Lord, through Your son have ushered in
Author

Austin D. Hill
Keywords
- Coming of the Kingdom
- The Kingdom of God
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Revelation 11:15, 1 Corinthians 4:20, John 3:3, Romans 14:17, Colossians 1:13-14, Matthew 6:33
Lord, through Your son have ushered in a new kingdom. You have invited us into that kingdom and You invite us to participate with You. Please show us Your powerful presence today as we discover more o...
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So Much Straw
Author

Don McCullough
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Proverbs 3:5-6, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Psalm 145:3, 1 Corinthians 2:10-11, Job 11:7-9, Romans 11:33-34, Isaiah 55:8-9
Thomas Aquinas, the famous medieval theologian, created one of the greatest intellectual achievements of Western civilization in his Summa Theologica. It’s a massive work: thirty-eight treatises, thre...
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Author

Alexander Schmemann
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Luke 22:29-30, John 6:35, Revelation 19:9, Matthew 22:2, Luke 14:15, Isaiah 25:6
Man must eat in order to live; he must take the world into his body and transform it into himself, into flesh and blood. He is indeed that which he eats, and the whole world is presented as one all-em...
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Jesus, light of the world, shine your light and your truth
Author

Rachel Clark
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Ephesians 5:8-14
Jesus, light of the world, shine your light and your truth upon us. Thank you for the amazing gift you have given to us: to be called children of God! We worship you today, giving thanks for your gene...
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John Chrysostom
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The heavens were opened to show us that our baptism will open the heavens for us. God is made accessible to us. We can know the Unknowable. We can be changed. A good work is done in us, and we have th...
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Prayer for the Mission of the Church
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Everliving God, whose will it is that all should come to you through your Son Jesus Christ: Inspire our witness to him, that all may know the power of his forgiveness and the hope of his resurrection;...
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Author

Dallas Willard
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- The Kingdom of God
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Colossians 3:17, Romans 12:2, John 15:4-5, Matthew 5:14-16, 2 Corinthians 5:20, Acts 1:8
This impotence of “systems” is a main reason why Jesus did not send his students out to start governments or even churches as we know them today, which always strongly convey some elements of a human ...

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