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9 illustrations for sermon preparation
"He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth" (Psalm 50:4).
Joseph Parker, D.D., observes that instruction often begins with negatives—teaching children what they must not do.
If we are rooted elsewhere, our life will be stunted and unhealthy.
First, they robbed widows materially—devouring their houses under the facade of lengthy prayers, enriching themselves through religious pretense.
John Trapp captures the tragedy with vivid precision: the people were "sticking in the bark, bringing me the bare shell without the kernel." Imagine a worshipper approaching the altar with perfect ceremony, every ritual executed flawlessly, yet the soul behind...
The righteous man's happiness operates through the law of attraction and repulsion: he repels evil (verse 1) and is drawn to meditate upon God's Word (verse 2).
As sap flows from roots through trunk, branches, and the remotest leaf, so genuine piety pervades the whole life of the godly man, imparting its spirit and character to everything he does.
The God who owns all cattle on a thousand hills needs neither meat nor blood from human hands.
Exell's Victorian commentary illuminates three critical dimensions of this truth.
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