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15 illustrations for sermon preparation
First, the brotherhood of souls demands mutual burden-bearing.
Luther hesitated to expound such texts before congregations, fearing appearance of avarice, yet acknowledged the duty remains: believers must understand what honor and support they owe their teachers.
He does not say merely "with you," as in other epistles, but specifically "with your spirit," thus withdrawing the Galatians from carnal preoccupations and displaying throughout the beneficence of God.
Maclaren identifies the reconciling principle: what prevents burden-sharing is self-absorption and spiritual conceit.
Growing old, Paul refuses further interference in his calling, appealing to the Master whom he serves and by whom alone he shall be judged.
Efforts to do good are misunderstood and ill-requited; benevolent plans are ridiculed, motives misrepresented, kindness abused, and hopes of success treated as visionary.
First, the believer who imagines himself mature in Christ—perhaps believing he has attained "the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13)—when in reality he remains a babe, deceives himself catastrophically.
But by what standard shall we measure ourselves?
On the evening of February 23, 1807, the House of Commons erupted in something rarely heard within those walls — a standing ovation. Members of...
In the winter of 1906, sanitary engineer George Soper was hired to investigate a puzzling typhoid outbreak at a rented summer home in Oyster Bay,...
This rule is no external constraint imposed upon the believer; rather, it emerges from the new creature itself, the regenerate inner man transformed by the Spirit (2 Corinthians 5:17).
In the summer of 1899, nurses from Great Britain, the United States, and Germany gathered at the International Congress of Women in London with a...
Scholars suggest an eye affliction made writing painful for the apostle, yet he seized the pen himself.
For eight years, from 1856 to 1863, an Augustinian friar named Gregor Johann Mendel knelt in the experimental garden of St. Thomas's Abbey in Brno,...
The Apostle deliberately couples seemingly opposing statements—'Bear ye one another's burdens' alongside 'every man shall bear his own burden'—to awaken our attention and compel deeper apprehension of truth.
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