Image of letters representing quotes

Sermon

Quotes on ancient israel

Bring the gospel to life with our extensive collection of sermon quotes. Search by topic (keyword), scripture passage, and more. Looking for a specific author? Learn from the best communicators past and present. Looking for a specific Bible passage? You can search by book and chapter.

Search by topic, scripture, category etc..

Or browse by a list of topics or scripture references

100 Results in 830ms
Display
Sorted By

  • Quote

    Author
    Peter J. Leithart
    Keywords
    As in ancient Israel, thanksgiving had a liturgical form in the communities of early Christians. In talking about tongues, Paul says that one who does not know the tongue cannot join in the “Amen” at ...

  • Quote

    Author
    Christine Pohl
    Keywords
    [The ancient Israelites cultivated gratitude in their life and worship by] speaking of God’s deeds among the people, and remembering and telling of God’s blessing, wonderful works and faithfulness.

  • Quote

    Author
    Christine Pohl
    Keywords
    In a number of civilizations, hospitality was viewed as a pillar on which all morality rested; it encompassed “the good.” For the people of ancient Israel, understanding themselves as strangers and so...

  • Quote

    Author
    Peter Enns
    Keywords
    Are the early stories in the Old Testament to be judged on the basis of standards of modern historical inquiry and scientific precision, things that ancient peoples were not at all aware of? Is it not...

  • Quote

    Author
    Christopher J. H. Wright
    Keywords
    If you had asked a devout Israelite in the Old Testament period “Are you redeemed?” the answer would have been a most definite yes. And if you had asked “How do you know?” you would be taken aside to ...

  • Quote

    Author
    Christopher J. H. Wright
    Keywords
    Old Testament Israel had some foundational pillars of faith. They were true and robust and God given. The trouble was that people had come to trust in them merely by repeating them, without paying any...

  • Quote

    Author
    Sandra L. Richter
    Keywords
    God did not canonize Israel’s culture. Rather, he simply used that culture as a vehicle through which to communicate the eternal truth of his character and his will for humanity.

  • Quote

    Author
    Ellen F. Davis
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Genesis 3:17, Deuteronomy 11:11-17, Deuteronomy 28:24, Isaiah 16:8, Hosea 4:3
    Overall, from a biblical perspective, the sustained fertility and habitability of the earth, or more particularly of the land of Israel, is the best index of the health of the covenant relationship. W...

  • Quote

    Author
    N. T. Wright
    Keywords
    God had a single plan all along through which he intended to rescue the world and the human race, and that this single plan was centered upon the call of Israel, a call which Paul saw coming to fruiti...

  • Quote

    Author
    Sandra L. Richter
    Keywords
    Contrary to popular opinion, the Old Testament is not a hodgepodge of unrelated materials thrown together by some late, uninformed redactor. Nor has it come to us as the result of an empty-headed secr...

  • Quote

    Author
    N. T. Wright
    Keywords
    Many first-century Jews thought of themselves as living in a continuing narrative stretching from earliest times, through ancient prophecies, and on toward a climactic moment of deliverance which migh...

  • Quote

    Author
    Harvie M. Conn and Manuel Ortiz
    Keywords
    Scripture
    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...

  • Quote

    Author
    N. T. Wright
    Keywords
    The Old Testament oscillates among three things: evil seen as idolatry and consequent dehumanization; evil as what wicked people do, not least what they do to the righteous; and evil as the work of th...

  • Quote

    Author
    Christopher J. H. Wright
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Psalm 72:12-14, Zechariah 7:9-10, Ezekiel 34:16, Proverbs 31:8-9, Micah 6:8, Leviticus 19:9-10
    Yahweh demanded justice for the poor, compassion and equality for foreigners and refugees, systemic redress for poverty, structural mechanisms to protect the homeless and family-less from abuse and de...

  • Quote

    Author
    Alan Roxburgh and M. Scott Boren
    Keywords
    The mysterious choosing of the people of Israel forms the imaginative backdrop to the New Testament concept of election . The mystery of the election of the church is not, as in Augustine’s framing, ...

  • Quote

    Author
    E. Randolph Richards and Richard James
    Keywords
    Ancients married in order to have children, to cement alliances, and to gain strategic relationships.

  • Quote

    Author
    E. Claude Gardner
    Keywords
    To a Hebrew, to remember meant to re-experience in the present the power and effect of a past event.”

  • Quote

    Author
    Jen Pollock Michel
    Keywords
    For as long as there is a compassionate Father, there will be a home, a table, and a feast. This was Israel’s great consolation: exile was the middle act of the drama, but it was not the final scene.

  • Quote

    Author
    Walter Brueggemann
    Keywords
    In the Old Testament there is no timeless space, but there is also no spaceless time. There is rather storied place, that is a place which has meaning because of the history lodged there. There are st...

  • Quote

    Author
    Robert E. Webber
    Keywords
    Scripture
    John 4:23-24, Matthew 25:35-40, Romans 12:1-2, Psalm 96:7-9, Matthew 6:9-13, Hebrews 10:19-20
    Ancient worship . . . does truth. All one has to do is to study the ancient liturgies to see that liturgies clearly do truth by their order and in their substance. This is why so many young people tod...

  • Quote

    Author
    R. W. Church
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:21-23, Psalm 33:18, Psalm 71:14, Zechariah 9:12
    Hope, never destroyed, however overthrown, never obscured even amid the storm and dust of ruin, is the prominent characteristic of the Old Testament.

  • Quote

    Author
    Robert Barry Leal
    Keywords
    Especially in the Hebrew Bible, wilderness is the privileged site where God comforts the Hebrew people or their representatives at times of crisis in their lives. In the wilderness God calls and leads...

  • Quote

    Author
    Mark Scandrette
    Keywords
    In ancient cultures, people knew how to mourn. They tore their clothes. They poured ashes on their heads. They sat in the dirt and raised their voices in lament.

  • Quote

    Author
    Lesslie Newbigin
    Keywords
    Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and...

  • Quote

    Author
    Jacob Milgrom
    Keywords
    [Describing the system of animal sacrifice in the Old Testament] In essence, the system of sacrifice provided a metaphor, a method, for the Israelites to reach God, responding to the deep psychologica...

  • Quote

    Author
    N. T. Wright
    Keywords
    The Old Testament isn’t written in order simply to “tell us about God” in the abstract. It isn’t designed primarily to provide information, to satisfy the inquiring mind. It’s written to tell the stor...

  • Quote

    Author
    A. J. Swoboda
    Keywords
    The biblical creation account essentially served as a theological rebuttal of all the other “gods” who never allowed anyone to rest. In a restless world, Yahweh required rest. Again, imagine what kind...

  • Quote

    Author
    C. S. Lewis
    Keywords
    Scripture
    Deuteronomy 6:6-7, Exodus 32:, Hebrews 12:18-24, Deuteronomy 6:4-5, Exodus 20:1-2, Exodus 19:1-2
    The road to the promised land runs past Sinai.

  • Quote

    Author
    Belden Lane
    Keywords
    Scripture
    2 Samuel 7:null
    Yahweh, unlike the mountain and fertility gods of the ancient Canaanites, refuses to be bound by any geographical locale. All of the 'high places' pretending to capture the divine presence mus...

  • Quote

    Author
    N. T. Wright
    Keywords
    The Old Testament is a story in search of an ending.
Search by Topic

C

S

Search by Reference

Lamentations

Obadiah

Nahum

Haggai

Philemon