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Receiving the Whole of Scripture
A study on why the church plans to hear all of God's word, and gives thanks that it can be read at all.
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Shepherds under the Chief Shepherd
Peter's instructions to elders are an outline of what leadership in the church is and is not.
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Done with sin, alive to God: 1 Peter 4:1-11
A careful walk through the paragraph where Peter turns from Christ's suffering to the shape of a Christian's remaining time.
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Do not be surprised by the fire
Peter tells suffering Christians that the ordeal is not strange, and then tells them how to carry it.
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Peter on the water
The apostle who wrote do not fear their threats once learned that lesson on a lake at night.
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Christ suffered once, and it was enough
The hardest paragraph in 1 Peter still has a clear centre.
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Free people who submit
Peter tells Christians under a hostile empire to honour the emperor, and he means it.
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Stones that are alive
Peter builds a house out of people and sets Christ as its cornerstone.
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Minds ready for action
Peter moves from praise to command, and the first command is about how we think.
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The One Who Commands the Sea
When Jesus stills a storm, his disciples ask a question the song of Moses already answered.
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Who Among the Gods Is Like You?
The song of Moses is Israel's first theology, sung rather than argued.
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Stand Still, Then Move On
The crossing of the sea holds together two commands that seem to contradict each other.
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What Does This Ceremony Mean to You?
The Passover instructions include a script for a question children will one day ask.
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The Exodus Jesus Spoke About on the Mountain
At the transfiguration, Moses appears and talks with Jesus about a departure.
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Darkness That Could Be Felt, and Light in Goshen
The ninth plague draws a line through the land that later Scripture will trace all the way to Christ.
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Then the Egyptians Will Know
The plagues are not mainly about punishing Egypt but about revealing who the LORD is.
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Please Send Someone Else
Moses runs through five objections, and God answers each one before finally growing angry.
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When Moses Tried to Fix It Himself
The first attempt at deliverance in Exodus ends with a body in the sand and a man on the run.
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The House on the Rock
Jesus closed his longest sermon with a proverb of his own, about two builders and one storm.
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A Woman of Strength
Proverbs ends with a portrait of wisdom in an ordinary household, and it repays being read as a whole.
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Buy the Truth and Do Not Sell It
Proverbs 23 turns from warning to a tender word from parents to a grown child.
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If You Seek It Like Silver: A Study of Proverbs 2
Proverbs 2 is one long sentence about what wisdom costs, where it comes from, and what it keeps you from.
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Power in the Tongue
Proverbs repeatedly warns that words are not neutral, and Proverbs 18:21 says it most starkly.
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The Boy Who Grew in Wisdom
Luke shows a twelve-year-old Jesus among the teachers, and then says something remarkable about his growth.
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Wisdom at the Beginning of the World
Proverbs 8 takes wisdom back before creation and shows her rejoicing at God's side.
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What a Father Passes Down
Proverbs 4 opens with a memory of being taught, and turns it into teaching.
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More Precious Than Rubies
Proverbs 3 puts a price on wisdom and then says nothing you own compares to it.
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When Sinners Entice You
The first lesson a father gives his son in Proverbs is about the pull of the crowd.
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Jesus Asleep in the Storm
Mark 4 shows the disciples panicking and Jesus sleeping, and the difference between them is the lesson.
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The Man Who Wanted to Be Made Clean
Jesus touches a leper in Mark 1, and the touch teaches as much as the healing.
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Obedience From the Heart
A study of Romans 6:17-18 and the pattern of teaching that shapes a life.
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Not Under Law but Under Grace
A study of Romans 6:12-14 and why grace is the ground of obedience.
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Jesus Prays for His Friends Before He Prays for Himself in the Garden
Facing the cross, Jesus spends his last free hour interceding for the men who would soon abandon him.
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Sanctify Them by the Truth
What Jesus asks the Father to do for the disciples he is leaving in the world.
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What the Spirit Proves
A closer look at the three things the Advocate will convict the world about.
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I Am the True Vine: A Study of John 15:1-17
Working slowly through Jesus' last great image of himself and the life he shares with his people.
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Remain in My Love
The passage moves from the vine image to a set of plain instructions about love and joy.
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Jesus Gives the Bread to Judas
What Jesus did with the one man at the table he knew would betray him.
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Loving and Keeping
How Jesus binds love, obedience, and the presence of God into one thing.
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Glory in an Unexpected Hour
Why Jesus speaks of being glorified at the moment his betrayer walks out.
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Unless I Wash You
Peter's objection and Jesus' answer show what it means to have a part with him.
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The Boy in His Father's House
At twelve, Jesus stays behind in the temple, and the scene answers Samuel across the centuries.
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The Call of Samuel
1 Samuel 3 shows how God raises up a prophet in a house where no one expects to hear him.
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Two Households at Shiloh
1 Samuel 2 sets Hannah's family and Eli's family side by side, and the contrast is the message.