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Jesus Discerned Between Invitations
Jesus knew his spiritual journey depended on responsiveness to God’s invitations. Although his job was the most crucial in human history, Jesus did not get compulsive, preoccupied or unable to practic... -
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Seeing Through the Eyes of Jesus
Christian civility does not commit us to a relativistic perspective. Being civil doesn’t mean that we cannot criticize what goes on around us. …Civility is a different matter, though. I can treat ... -
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Jesus and Iron Man
The symbol of judgment and death, the serpent, is lifted up as Israel’s symbol of life. Jesus draws this parallel for us in John, hinting toward the way the tool of Roman execution, the cross, will be... -
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Obeying Even When It is Difficult
Fishermen with any experience on the Sea of Galilee knew that the optimal time to catch fish was during the night in shallow water. During the day, the fish dove deep, where it was far more difficult ... -
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An Invitation to Act
I am struck by all the things Jesus didn’t say or do in response to the litanies of pain and defensiveness he heard from people. Jesus didn’t say to the man, “You sound like a victim to me; what are y... -
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Let Us Not Turn the Cross Into a Metaphor
Let us not mock God with metaphor, analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the faded credulity of earlier ages: let us walk through the door. …………………………... -
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Following Always Includes a Coming Down
Following always involves a coming down, a humbling of oneself and a serving of others. Jonathan Edwards, the Puritan theologian, captured this condescension of God in his sermon "The Excellency ... -
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A Demand as Well as an Offer
Jesus never concealed the fact that his religion included a demand as well as an offer. Indeed, the demand was as total as the offer was free. His offer of salvation always brings with it the requirem... -
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Finally Discovering Lordship
“A young man came to visit me with a question on his mind. He asked, “I prayed to receive Jesus as my Savior, but why has nothing really changed in my life?” I asked him, “Who is running your life?” H... -
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Obey Me Instantly
Bible teacher Donald Grey Barnhouse (1895-1960) told the following story: A young son of a missionary couple in Zaire was playing in the yard. Suddenly the voice of the boy’s father rang out from the ... -
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Lord of Lords
Though lords still exist today in some parts of the world, the term is used mostly as an honorary badge, so it’s easy to forget what the term even means. Throughout history, lords were rulers who had ... -
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Defining What it Means to “Follow”
Jesus made it fairly simple, at least to start. He said, “Follow me.” The word follow, diluted by our culture, begs for a biblical definition. In English, you can follow the directions (or not); you c... -
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Listening Leads to True Obedience
It would seem that hearing is but a narrow channel pouring into the deep sea of doing. Yet the etymological dictionary taught me that the sharp distinction between hearing and doing is the result of h... -
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Sometimes Easy, Sometimes Hard
You have noticed, I expect, that Christ Himself sometimes describes the Christian way as very hard, sometimes as very easy. He says, “Take up your Cross”—in other words, it is like going to be beaten ... -
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Following Can Be Harder than Leading
My experience with following indicates that it can be even more difficult than leading. Following requires humility, risk, attention, awareness and guts. It means serving someone else’s agenda and fol... -
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The Art of Followship
Editor’s Note: The following illustration came from one of my own (Stu’s) sermons, as I was trying to help the congregation make a paradigm shift from the church as a building, to the people of God: ... -
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Jesus’ Hidden Invitations
Jesus’ actions, in and of themselves, often make no sense unless we see them as responses to some hidden invitation—an invitation received from time spent alone with his Father. When Jesus was interru... -
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Jesus’ Most Radical Social Teaching
The most radical social teaching of Jesus was his total reversal of the contemporary notion of greatness. Leadership is found in becoming the servant of all. Power is discovered in submission. The for... -
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A Seed of Wanting to Be the Boss
People in the world naturally want to boss others. Imagine a boy beginning work with a firm. He has a lowly place and is ordered around by everyone. Do this! Do that! Every dirty job is his. He is the... -
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Giving Myself
I heard a story about a little boy who wanted to give God an offering but had nothing to give. He sat on the floor, watching people pass by and place their offerings in large wicker baskets. How he lo... -
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Living for Christ is Hard
My wife, Lauretta, once remarked to me, “I know I’d die for Christ. If I were put in front of a firing squad and commanded to renounce Christ or die, I know I’d say ‘Shoot me!’ That would be easy. The... -
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The Former Chaplain of the U.S. Senate Has a Question
I wonder what would happen if we all agreed to read one of the Gospels until we came to a place that told us to do something, then went out to do it, and only after we had done it, began reading again... -
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A Literal Kind of Following
A rabbi’s followers, known as his talmidim in Hebrew, went everywhere with him, not just to hang on his every word and learn theology from him. They followed him everywhere so that they could mimic wh... -
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An Attitude of a Servant
What he [Jesus] was attempting to instill in his disciples was the attitude of a servant: humility and a willingness to put others ahead of oneself. In that culture, washing the feet of others would s... -
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Not Like Himself
But it wasn’t just his new message that made Jesus irresistible. It was Jesus himself. People who were nothing like him liked him. And Jesus liked people who were nothing like him. Jesus invited unbel... -
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Discipleship Begins with Active Listening
The interplay between listening and obedience expresses itself in our lives all the time. Sound has the ability to “command” us, to summon a response in us, forcing us to take notice. Unlike visual ... -
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Following Jesus Requires Real Commitment
What are you willing to do for love? An instructor for the Perspectives on the World Christian Movement course shared with a class the major hang-up he had to get over before asking his wife to ma... -
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The Most Striking Feature of Jesus’ Teaching
The most striking feature of the teaching of Jesus is that he was constantly talking about himself. It is true that he spoke much about the fatherhood of God and the kingdom of God. But then he added ... -
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An Attitude of a Servant
What he was attempting to instill in his disciples was the attitude of a servant: humility and a willingness to put others ahead of oneself. In that culture, washing the feet of others would symbolize... -
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Hearing the Voice of God in Jesus
If we want to hear the voice of God, we should pay attention to Jesus. We hear God’s voice in the teachings of Jesus as they are portrayed in the biblical gospels. We hear God’s voice through the acti...
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Search by Reference
Genesis
- Gen 1 (109)
- Gen 2 (86)
- Gen 3 (46)
- Gen 4 (16)
- Gen 5 (1)
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Exodus
- Exod 1 (8)
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- Exod 40 (2)
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
1 Samuel
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1 Kings
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1 Chronicles
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Nehemiah
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (27)
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- Ps 48 (1)
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- Ps 50 (5)
- Ps 51 (50)
- Ps 52 (1)
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Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
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- Prov 3 (96)
- Prov 4 (34)
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- Prov 16 (49)
- Prov 17 (31)
- Prov 18 (38)
- Prov 19 (28)
- Prov 20 (9)
- Prov 21 (13)
- Prov 22 (30)
- Prov 23 (4)
- Prov 24 (9)
- Prov 25 (13)
- Prov 26 (10)
- Prov 27 (30)
- Prov 28 (12)
- Prov 29 (11)
- Prov 30 (5)
- Prov 31 (31)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (40)
- Isa 2 (7)
- Isa 5 (6)
- Isa 6 (38)
- Isa 7 (10)
- Isa 9 (35)
- Isa 11 (8)
- Isa 12 (2)
- Isa 14 (4)
- Isa 21 (1)
- Isa 25 (8)
- Isa 26 (19)
- Isa 28 (7)
- Isa 29 (6)
- Isa 30 (44)
- Isa 32 (3)
- Isa 33 (4)
- Isa 35 (5)
- Isa 37 (1)
- Isa 40 (92)
- Isa 41 (39)
- Isa 42 (20)
- Isa 43 (53)
- Isa 44 (6)
- Isa 45 (14)
- Isa 46 (5)
- Isa 47 (2)
- Isa 48 (9)
- Isa 49 (16)
- Isa 50 (4)
- Isa 51 (2)
- Isa 52 (3)
- Isa 53 (72)
- Isa 54 (6)
- Isa 55 (90)
- Isa 56 (4)
- Isa 57 (8)
- Isa 58 (47)
- Isa 59 (7)
- Isa 60 (10)
- Isa 61 (31)
- Isa 62 (1)
- Isa 64 (17)
- Isa 65 (11)
- Isa 66 (5)
- Isa 85 (1)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Joel
Obadiah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Malachi
Matthew
- Matt 1 (21)
- Matt 2 (35)
- Matt 3 (11)
- Matt 4 (54)
- Matt 5 (172)
- Matt 6 (180)
- Matt 7 (84)
- Matt 8 (12)
- Matt 9 (19)
- Matt 10 (34)
- Matt 11 (55)
- Matt 12 (21)
- Matt 13 (38)
- Matt 14 (26)
- Matt 15 (11)
- Matt 16 (42)
- Matt 17 (8)
- Matt 18 (68)
- Matt 19 (21)
- Matt 20 (17)
- Matt 21 (21)
- Matt 22 (30)
- Matt 23 (54)
- Matt 24 (20)
- Matt 25 (95)
- Matt 26 (22)
- Matt 27 (12)
- Matt 28 (39)