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I. A CALL TO A GREAT (glory reflecting) WORK (Genesis 1:27-28; 9:6-7) “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth...

I had to do it – I knew that. The message that God forgives has a prior condition: that we forgive those who have injured us. “Jesus, help me!” I prayed silently. “I can lift my hand. I can do that much. You supply the feeling.” And so woodenly, mechanically, I thrust...

“In the decades before and after Jesus’ life and death, there were dozens of messianic movements in Israel. In almost every case the messianic leader was killed, in many cases by execution, and after the leader’s death each of these movements invariably collapsed....

1. The King’s Triumphal Entry 2. The King is Pursued 3. The King’s Speech “When you hold a kernel of wheat in your hand, you cannot see what is in it. Quite literally each grain contains, if it is a good seed, a million similar offspring. In planting season, a grain...

I. Put off falsehood . . . and put on TRUTH-TELLING (4:25). II. Stop nursing your anger . . . and cultivate HARMONY instead (4:26-27). “It seems clear that this form of words is a Hebrew idiom which permits and then restricts anger, rather than actually commanding...