Do you get cranky when you are hungry? When I go too long without eating, I become light-headed and my thinking grows foggy. My spirit is willing, but my flesh is weak. A few years ago, the makers of Snickers candy bars produced a series of humorous commercials bearing the tagline, “You’re not you when […]
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Week 45
Study Questions
Use one or both of these questions to introduce the lesson. 1. Have you ever seen or visited European palaces where heads of state reside and work? What are they like? 2. Imagine standing before someone who led a world power or possessed absolute royal authority. (Think: Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, or […]
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Who Will Go?
John Piper tells an engaging ministry story in The Supremacy of God in Preaching. He preached a sermon on Isaiah 6 without one word of application. He wondered if the majesty, power, and glory of God was enough to retain the congregation’s interest without cute little homespun life points. Later he found out that one […]
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Ambassadors of Christ
The church is in the reconciliation business, so you and I must be in that business, too. God “reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:18). Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers” (Matthew 5:9), but in today’s atmosphere charged with political hostility and ideological division, peace is […]
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Persevere By Faith
Jesus had four half-brothers. If they are listed in birth order, Jude (or Judas) would have been number three (Mark 6:3). We know the most about James (Book of James; Acts 15; 1 Corinthians 15:7; Galatians 2:8, 12). We know virtually nothing about Joses (or Joseph) and Simon. During Jesus’ earthly ministry none of these […]
