By Parson Brown, on 4:55 pm%
Text: Romans 8:18-27
Exegetical Point: The glory of God is revealed in his time and by his plan both universal scale and in the individual.
Focus Statement: God works through creation and us, even when we don’t understand.
Function Statement: That my hearers would trust that the will of God is for their good.
Comments
I used Long’s four . . . → Read More: Sermon – Pentecost 10
By Parson Brown, on 8:20 pm%
If you look at the sidebar you will find a new catagory and a couple of new links. I wanted to give a description of them and why they are on the site as they branch out beyond the narrowly sectarian and purely bible links I started with. It won’t be a common thing, . . . → Read More: New Links
By Parson Brown, on 1:25 pm%
Reading
Joshua 4:19-5:1, 10-25
Romans 12:9-21
Matthew 26:17-25
Meditation
Do not be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good. That is the end of the Romans passage, and it is incredibly hard. The moral calculus says he/she hurt me, so I have a right to strike back. The law even contains the phrase lex talionis, a tooth . . . → Read More: Friday – Pentecost 9
By Parson Brown, on 9:09 am%
Readings
Joshua 3:14 – 4:7
Romans 12:1-8
Matthew 26:1-6
Meditation
In the Romans passage Paul address the body of Christ. Many gifts have been given. Not all the same and not equally distributed, but with some regard to the measure of faith. Those gifts were given to the body of Christ, the church, but they are in possession . . . → Read More: Thursday – Pentecost 9
By Parson Brown, on 12:39 pm%
Readings
Joshua 3:1-13
Romans 11:25-36
Matthew 25:31-46
Meditation
Apologize in advance. This is late and short. The Matthew passage rings with the hiddenness of the kingdom. Those who are in the kingdom, don’t always recognize what they are doing, and those out of the kingdom reply when did we not help you, Jesus. If we had only . . . → Read More: Wednesday – Pentecost 9
By Parson Brown, on 9:12 am%
Readings
Joshua 2:15-24
Romans 11:13-24
Matthew 25:14-30
Meditation
Paul’s central images of the Christian life are communal. He speaks of being joined to the body of Christ. In today’s reading he picks up Jesus’ metaphor of the vine and the branches. Paul is talking about gentiles and jews as wild olive branches and cultivated olive branches. The . . . → Read More: Tuesday – Pentecost 9
By Parson Brown, on 10:10 am%
Readings
Joshua 2:1-14
Romans 11:1-12
Matthew 25:1-13
Meditation
The account in Joshua is one of the Bible’s great confessions, and it comes from the Canaanite Rahab. Rahab hides Joshua’s spies in Jericho. Rahab begs for the life of her family or more aptly her household in the face of the LORD. The spies reply ‘our life for yours.’ . . . → Read More: Monday – Pentecost 9
By Parson Brown, on 9:08 am%
Text: Matt 13:1-9,18-23 (OT lesson Isa 55:9-11)
Exegetical Point: The word, the message of the Kingdom, is received in multiple ways. We don’t know until the harvest (the yield) which is which, but we are guaranteed a crop.
Focus statement: God sends out his Word into all kinds of soil
Function Statement: That my hearers may share . . . → Read More: 9th Sunday in Pentecost – Sermon – The Sower
By Parson Brown, on 10:05 am%
Readings
Deut 31:7 – 32:4
Romans 10:1-13
Matthew 24:15-31
Meditation
The Matthew reading is one that is often referred to by Pentecostals or “Left Behind” evangelicals. We’ve got terrors and false Christs, and abominations and prayers and the sun going dark – quite the sceen. Professor Gibbs would say we miss something. Everything before verse 29 refers to . . . → Read More: Friday – Pentecost 8
By Parson Brown, on 9:21 am%
Readings
Deuteronomy 3:18-28
Romans 9:19-33
Matthew 24:1-14
Meditation
It is not on the reading list, but it should be. Hebrews 11:13 – All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not recieve the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And so in Deuteronomy we have Moses, 120 . . . → Read More: Thursday – Pentecost 8
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