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    Jim Cymbala
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    Luke 19:10
    One way to recognize whether we suffer from this disconnection is to look at our concern for people who are dirty... people who are "other"... people who don't fit the core group's i...

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    Ben Witherington III
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    Luke 19:1-10, Luke 7:36-50, Matthew 14:13-21, Matthew 26:20-25, 1 Corinthians 11:28-29, Luke 15:1-2
    We have seen some gatekeeping or fencing-the-table language already beginning to rear its head in this context. One needed to be baptized to take the meal; one needed to repent to take the meal; one n...

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    Duke Kwon
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    Genesis 50:15-21, 2 Samuel 12:13, Leviticus 6:1-5 , Luke 19:8-9 , James 5:16 , Psalm 32:5
    How To Apologize • express sorrow (I’m sorry) • own guilt (I was wrong) • name specific wrongs (I did X) • name impact (I hurt u) • no IFs (sorry if I) • don’t blameshift/defend (but u) ...

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    Marty Boller
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    Luke 19:41-44, Matthew 24:42-44, Revelation 3:20, Luke 19:5-6, Hebrews 3:15, James 4:8
    One of the scariest questions in the Palm Sunday story…. How will I respond when Jesus comes riding humbly into my life? Will I recognize the time of God’s coming to me? Will I recognize and welcome G...

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    Martin Luther
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    Luke 19:1-10, Proverbs 3:5-10 , Malachi 3:10 , Acts 4:32-37, Matthew 10:8, Deuteronomy 16:17
    A man needs three conversions: first of the head, then of the heart, and finally of the pocketbook.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    John 1:14, Matthew 9:36, Luke 19:10, John 15:15, Mark 10:45, Philippians 2:5-7, 1 John 4:9-10
    The ways Jesus goes about loving and saving the world are personal: nothing disembodied, nothing abstract, nothing impersonal. Incarnate, flesh and blood, relational, particular and local. The ways em...

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    David Peterson
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    Luke 16:10, Matthew 25:21, Colossians 3:23-24, Luke 19:17, Galatians 6:9
    Faithfulness in small things is a big thing to God.

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    Bob Goff
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    Matthew 25:35-40, Luke 19:1-10, 1 Peter 3:9, Romans 12:20-21, Matthew 5:43-44, 1 John 4:18-19, Acts 7:
    What I’m learning about love is that we have to tackle a good amount of fear to love people who are difficult. .

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    Bob Goff
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    Matthew 25:40, Genesis 1:27, James 2:8-9, 1 John 4:20, Galatians 6:2, Luke 10:25-37, Luke 19:1-10, John 13:12-15, Luke 17:11-19
    What I’ve come to realize is if I really want to “meet Jesus,” then I have to get a lot closer to the people He created. All of them, not just some of them.

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    Gillian Marchenko
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    Genesis 3:8-10, Jonah 1:3, Isaiah 29:15, John 3:19-20 , Psalm 139:7-12, Luke 19:3-5
    A Christian counselor once commented on people hiding from God. “Think about it. The very first people in the history of the world, Adam and Eve, hid from God when they realized their nakedness after ...

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    Harvie M. Conn and Manuel Ortiz
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    Matthew 5:25, Matthew 23:7, Mark 5:56, Matthew 25:27, Luke 19:23, Mark 12:1-12, Matthew 8:5, Matthew 9:10, Luke 5:27
    One could not live in any village in lower Galilee and escape the effects and ramifications of urbanization.” Life here was urbanized and urbane as anywhere else in the Empire. Did these urban influen...

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    Nicky Gumbel
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    Colossians 3:13, 2 Corinthians 7:10, Acts 3:19, Proverbs 28:13, Matthew 5:23-24, Luke 19:8
    A good apology has three parts: 1. I’m sorry 2. It’s my fault 3. What can I do to make it right? But most people forget the third part

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    Alia Joy
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    Luke 19:1-10, Ephesians 2:4-5, Mark 5:25-34, Psalm 34:18, Romans 5:6
    There is a helplessness in poverty that precedes the move of God in our lives because we understand an aspect of grace that so many miss: we do nothing to earn it. When we understand this, all becomes...

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    Phillip Yancey
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    Luke 19:1-10, John 8:1-11, Luke 15:11-32, 1 John 4:19, Luke 6:35-35
    One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as "those evil people" or "those poor people who need our help." Nor must we search for signs of "love...

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    Brian Loritts
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    Romans 8:38-39, Luke 19:1-10, John 8:1-11, Titus 3:4-5, Ephesians 2:8-9, 1 John 4:10, Romans 5:8
    The question of performance-free love transcends ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status. “Am I forever loved for who I am? Is the background elevator music to our hearts.

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    N. T. Wright
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    2 Corinthians 5:17-20, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 10:25-37, Titus 2:11-14, Matthew 5:14-16
    How we are saved is closely linked to the question of what we are saved for.

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    William Booth
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    Titus 3:5, Luke 19:1-10, Romans 12:2, Ezekiel 36:26, 2 Corinthians 5:17, John 3:3
    To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the i...

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    George Eldon Ladd
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    Acts 3:19-20, John 10:10, Matthew 11:28-30, Luke 4:18-19, Matthew 4:17, Luke 19:10
    Jesus’ message of the Kingdom of God is the announcement by word and deed that God is acting and manifesting dynamically his redemptive will in history. God is seeking out sinners; he is inviting them...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    1 John 4:7-8, Luke 19:1-10, Ruth 1:16, Ephesians 3:17-19, 1 John 4:16
    My weight is my love. Wherever I am carried, my love is carrying me.

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    Matthew 9:9-13, Matthew 8:5-13, John 4:1-26, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 10:25-37, 1 John 4:7-12
    It takes no grace to relate to someone who looks, thinks, and acts just like me . . . The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God — who, after all, loves ornery cr...

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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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    Steve Stockman
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    2 Corinthians 5:17, Mark 2:1-12, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 23:39-43, Titus 2:11-12, Philippians 2:12-13, James 2:17-18
    Evangelicals believe they are saved by grace through faith but then add a man-made waiver that you have to work as hard as you can meet middle-class behavioral patterns to hang onto it.

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    Randy Alcorn
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    Philemon 1:8-21, Ruth 1:16-17, John 4:4-26, Luke 19:1-10, Ephesians 4:32
    The story is told of a little girl who prayed, “Lord, make the bad people good and the good people nice.”

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    Jonathan Swift
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    Romans 12:9-10, Luke 19:1-10, John 4:1-26, Galatians 5:14, Matthew 22:37-40, 1 John 4:20-21, John 13:34-35
    We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to makes us love one another.

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    Bob Goff
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    1 John 4:20-21, Luke 19:1-10, Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 10:25-37, Proverbs 25:21-22, Romans 12:20-21
    Jesus said to love our enemies. I thought I’d get off easy because I don’t have any real “enemies.” I mean, I’m not mad at North Korea or Russia or China. And I don’t think they’re mad at me. After al...

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    Mark 1:40-45, Hosea 1:3, Luke 19:1-10, Luke 15:11-32, Colossians 3:12-14, Ephesians 2:4-5, 1 John 4:19
    There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast”; that a thing must be loved before it is loveable.

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    Jared C. Wilson
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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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    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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    Eleanor Doan
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    1 John 4:7-8, Luke 19:1-10, Matthew 8:5-13, Proverbs 25:21-22, Romans 12:20-21, Luke 6:27-28, Matthew 5:43-44
    Love your enemy-it will drive him nuts.

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    Walter Brueggemann
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    Luke 19:1-10, Matthew 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-17, Luke 19:45-47
    The purpose of that empire, like every empire, whether Babylon among the Jews, Rome in the time of Jesus, or the US empire . . . is to coercively extract wealth for the sake of the center. Zacchaeus s...
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