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Lord, may your glorious Majesty
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John 14:16-17, Matthew 26:36-46, Psalm 32:8, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Acts 9:1-19, 1 Corinthians 2:2, 1 Timothy 1:17
Lord, may your glorious Majesty surround us, the blessed Trinity protect us, and the eternal Godhead preserves us. Your unlimited mercy support us; your loving kindness encompass us; your favor c...
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Scripture Guide, 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1
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Bud Thoreen
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2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1, 2 Corinthians 4:13-18, 2 Corinthians 5:1, Acts 9:1-18, Hebrews 12:2, Psalm 116:null, Romans 12:2, Colossians 3:9-10
Notes on the Passage Besieged from All Angles: The context of this passage is best summed up with the words recorded throughout the letter: Trouble, Distress, Suffering, Hardship, Death at work, Ja...
lectionary

Second Sunday after Pentecost
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Bud Thoreen
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2 Corinthians 4:13-5, 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1, 1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15), Mark 3:20-35, Psalm 138:, 2 Corinthians 4:13-18, 2 Corinthians 5:1, 2 Corinthians 4:7-12, Acts 9:1-18, Hebrews 12:2, Colossians 3:9-10
Preaching Commentary Besieged from All Angles The context of this passage is best summed up with the words recorded throughout the letter: Trouble, Distress, Suffering, Hardship, Death at work, Jar...
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N. T. Wright
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Romans 6:null, Acts 9:1-19, Ephesians 2:10, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 8:1-11
Romans 6 shines a bright spotlight on the dangerous half-truth, currently fashionable, that ‘God accepts us as we are.’ Will ‘God’s acceptance’ do as a complete grounding of Christian ethics? Emphatic...
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You Need Nutrition to Grow: Physically and Spiritually
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Luke 19:1-10, Ephesians 2:10, Titus 2:11-12, 1 Corinthians 3:1-3, John 15:4, Hebrews 5:11-12, Acts 9:1-22
A lack of nutrition in early life can result in stunted growth. Stunting results in lifelong health complications. According to the WHO: Stunting in early life -- particularly in the first 1000 days...
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The Prodigal Should Be Arrested
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Fred Craddock
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Ephesians 2:8-9, Galatians 3:24, Romans 8:3-4, Acts 9:1-19, Matthew 5:17
The law is harsh and cannot help us to receive forgiveness. In Craddock Stories, a collection of outstanding stories by Fred Craddock, is the following account with one who could understand law, but ...
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The Religion Shop Has Been Closed
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Robert Farrar Capon
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Acts 9:1-22, Galatians 2:16, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 5:8, John 4:4-26, Luke 18:9-14
[For Christians] the entire religion shop has been closed, boarded up, and forgotten. The church is not in the religion business. It never has been and it never will be, in spite of all the ecclesiast...
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Peter Wehner
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- Christianity
- Grace
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Luke 23:39-43, Acts 9:1-9, Luke 15:11-32, John 8:1-11, Romans 5:20-21
The greatest and most powerful Christian distinctive is not the exercise of power; it is the offer of grace.
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Augustine of Hippo
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Genesis 12:1-4, Matthew 14:22-33, Acts 9:1-22, Matthew 25:14-30, 2 Corinthians 9:8
For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
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Brennan Manning
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Matthew 9:9-13, Luke 23:39-43, John 8:1-11, Acts 9:1-19, Titus 3:4-5
My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.
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Brennan Manning
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Acts 9:1-19, John 4:1-26, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 5:1-11, John 6:44, Ephesians 2:8-9, Matthew 4:19
We cannot will ourselves to accept grace. There are no magic words, preset formulas, or esoteric rites of passage. Only Jesus Christ sets us free from indecision. The Scriptures offer no other basis f...
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Brennan Manning
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- Grace
- Christian Identity
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Luke 23:39-43, John 21:15-19, Luke 15:11-32, Acts 9:1-22, John 15:5
Living by grace inspires a growing consciousness that I am what I am in the sight of Jesus and nothing more.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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- Grace
- Obedience
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Matthew 11:28-30, Genesis 22:, Acts 9:1-19, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 19:16-22, Philippians 3:7-8, Romans 6:22
Grace is costly because it compels a person to submit to the yoke of Christ and follow him; it is grace because Jesus says: “My yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
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Eugene Peterson
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Acts 9:1-19, Luke 23:39-43, Luke 18:9-14, Matthew 19:16-22, John 15:5, Romans 3:20
We can't save ourselves by pulling on our bootstraps, even when the bootstraps are made of the finest religious leather.
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Jared C. Wilson
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- Grace
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Luke 15:11-32, John 21:15-19, Luke 19:1-10, John 8:1-11, Acts 9:1-22, Philippians 2:13
Grace is not simply about pardoning sinful behavior; it’s also about rewiring the sinners themselves. The grace the Bible talks about is power not just for justification but also for transformation.
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John Newton
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- Grace
- Identity
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John 4:1-42, Genesis 32:22-32, John 21:15-19, Luke 15:11-32, Acts 9:1-9, Ephesians 2:8-9
I am not what I might be, I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I wish to be, I am not what I hope to be. But I thank God I am not what I once was, and I can say with the great apostle, "By ...
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Karl Barth
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- Grace
- Gratitude
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Luke 1:46-55, Acts 9:, 1 Timothy 1:12-17, 2 Samuel 7:18-22, 1 Samuel 2:1-10, Luke 17:11-19, Psalm 100:4-5
Grace and gratitude belong together like heaven and earth. Grace evokes gratitude like the voice an echo. Gratitude follows grace like thunder lightning.
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Karl Barth
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Acts 9:1-19, Luke 23:39-43, John 21:15-19, John 8:1-11, Luke 15:11-32, John 1:16-17
We are forbidden to take sin more seriously than grace, or even as seriously as grace.
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Madeleine L'Engle
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- Grace
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Acts 9:1-19, Luke 23:39-43, John 21:15-19, John 8:1-11, Luke 15:11-32
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.
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Author

Samuel Storms
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- Grace
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Luke 23:39-43, 2 Samuel 11:12, Acts 9:1-22, Luke 15:11-32, Matthew 20:1-16, Isaiah 55:8-9
Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. . . . Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to withdraw it in the presence of human demerit. . . . [Gra...
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Edgar Cayce
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- Fruit of the Spirit
- Grace
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Galatians 2:20, Acts 9:1-19, Genesis 45:1-15, Luke 10:25-37, Colossians 3:12-14, John 15:5, Galatians 5:22-23
Grace is the wonderful spirit that imbues every fiber of our being when we practice the fruits of the spirit: kindness, patience, understanding, forgiveness, love, gentleness, fellowship and endurance...
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Billy Graham
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Deuteronomy 8:2-4, Exodus 16:, Acts 9:15-16, Acts 27:, 1 Kings 19:1-18
The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.
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Phillip Yancey
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2 Corinthians 12:9, John 4:1-26, Jonah 1:4, Luke 19:1-10, Hosea 1:3, Acts 9:1-19
I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come ...

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