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This image reveals two dimensions of His fastening hold upon humanity.
Our confidence in missionary labor rests entirely upon the prophecies of God's Word declaring it His will.
Matthew 10:7 presents five critical dimensions of apostolic proclamation, restored from Joseph S. Exell's Victorian exposition: First, *Who* preaches? The disciples Christ commissioned. Second, *What* do they announce? "The kingdom of heaven"—speak of the King in His threefold majesty: King...
Though he led the assembly, Peter assumed no priestly authority.
Christ is King in Zion—the sole Sovereign of His Church by the Father's appointment and ordination.
First, the *phobos* (fear) of preparation for judgment itself.
First, *metanoia* (repentance)—literally "to perceive afterwards"—demanded an entire reversal of opinion respecting Jesus Christ.
In His humanity, Christ emerges as the Rod from Jesse's stem, the Branch from his roots (Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 3:8).
His enemies declared, "There is no help for him in God," when Absalom's rebellion consumed his house—the very judgment God had threatened after David's own transgression.
Yet he frames this through prophecy—Isaiah foretold both the sending and the incredulity.
In Remember the Titans, Coach Boone forces his racially divided football team to room together, eat together, learn each other's stories. Gary and Julius—white captain and Black leader—start as enemies and become brothers.
His gaze pierced beyond mere physical suffering to discern spiritual disease—the scattered, fainting condition of sheep without a shepherd.
Canon Liddon identified three marks of our Lord's words: the divine authority that speaks through them, their elevation above earthly discourse, and their awful depth that pierces the soul.
Exell's Victorian homily isolates four charges against this congregation, each applicable to contemporary faith communities.
In Adam's family stood Cain; in Christ's family, Judas; in the earliest Church, deceivers.
The same Almighty One who fed Elijah in the terrible days of dearth, and who delivered Daniel from the power of the lions, still watches over and provides for His people.
Proverbs 4:25 commands us to keep our eyes "right on" and our eyelids "straight before thee." The wise man, whom commentators identify as Solomon, exhorts careful stewardship of every faculty—each member of our nature requires vigilant guardianship lest any become...
Trusting in riches is spiritually unsatisfactory and necessarily evanescent.
First, its nature: deliverance FROM the guilt of sin, the power of sin, and the punishment of sin; deliverance TO acceptance with God, conquest of evil, and Heaven itself.
The repetition *houtos* (this very one) marks a decisive moment in Israel's history.
The prophet employs visceral imagery: nations flung into the press like ripe grapes, their life-blood spattering upon His garments as He stands knee-deep in the vat, fiercely trampling them to ruin.
The pythoness's masters cared nothing for Apollo or religious doctrine—they opposed the Gospel purely for mercenary reasons.
In Lawrence of Arabia, T.E. Lawrence crosses the Nefud Desert—the Sun's Anvil—where no water exists for days. Men die of thirst; mirages taunt survivors. When they finally reach the well, the drinking is almost religious.
In Cast Away, Chuck Noland survives four years alone on a Pacific island. He loses everything—fiancée, career, civilization. He nearly loses his mind. But he survives, is rescued, and gives a speech to coworkers: "I knew, somehow, that I had to keep breathing.