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1. The Style of Biblical Poetry: Part 2, Imagery & Genre
(OT Writings Commentary/Psalms Commentary)

... that the true God is victorious over all false gods and idolatry. One of the challenges for us is that many images have become dead metaphors to us through extensive usage in hymns and other spiritual ...

2. Edifying, Encouraging, and Comforting Words (1 Cor 14:1-25)
(sermons/2013 Sermons)

1 Cor 14:1-25 show us how prophecy was a greater Spiritual gift than a spectacular gift for speaking in tongues.  Today neither of these gifts continue, but we are still called to desire Spiritual ...

3. Love Is Patient, Love Is Kind (1 Cor 12:31-13:13)
(sermons/2013 Sermons)

... about Spiritual gifts.  Each and every Christian has a Spiritual gift from God and the hymn to love shows that those gifts are worthless apart from love.  So the passage applies to our marriages, ...

4. Elijah to Elisha (2 Kings 1:1-8:6)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Kings Commentary)

... This was a baptismal event – a new Exodus event.  And Elisha asked for a double portion of Elijah's Spirit.  Then chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two and Elijah went up by a ...

5. Feeling Worthless? (1 Cor 12:1-30)
(sermons/2013 Sermons)

1 Cor 12:1-30 concerns Spiritual gifts.  Not everyone is an apostle or a prophet or a teacher or a healer, etc.  Each of the lists of Spiritual gifts in the passage are different because they ...

6. The Heidelberg Catechism
(teaching/general teachings)

... the working of the Holy Spirit...” (Q&A 79).  Saying that it is "his true body and blood" is meant to make our Reformed position more attractive to the Lutherans at the time. Frederick the Elector, ...

7. The Disputations of Malachi
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

... of Judah for breaking covenant by intermarrying with pagans and/or divorcing their first wife.  The disputation also concerns spiritual infidelity to God and calls Judah faithless – Judah has married ...

8. The Unity of Zechariah (with analysis of chapters 7-14)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

... ears that they might not hear.  They made their hearts diamond-hard lest they should hear the law and the words that YHWH of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets” (7:11-12). The ...

9. How Long Is Your Hair? Does God Care? (1 Cor 11:2-16)
(sermons/2013 Sermons)

1 Corinthians 11:2-16 is a passage that most Christians in America today do not know how to handle.  The instinctive answer to the question, "Does God care about the length of our hair and such?" ...

10. How to Read Zechariah (especially Zechariah 1-6)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

... and clothe them in righteousness; seal them with his Spirit, renewing them in the image of God [the high-priest's clothes were symbolic of the IOG]; and restore them as a royal priesthood, heirs of heaven's ...

11. What It Really Means to Be Open Minded (Luke 24:36-53)
(sermons/2013 Sermons)

Luke 24:36-53 shows us what it really means to be open minded.  Some accuse Christians of being "closed-minded," and actually the first disciples of Jesus had closed minds.  We too have had our ...

12. Haggai and the Davidic Covenant Renewal
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

... YHWH” (Haggai 1:13). The remainder of the third oracle states that YHWH stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, Joshua, and all the remnant of the people and they got to work on the Temple. The Temple was ...

13. The Fall of David: 'You Da Man' (2 Sam 10-12)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Samuel Commentary)

... as the new Adam (God made covenant with David that the seed of David would reign forever).  It has been observed that Adam committed Spiritual adultery and now David committed physical adultery and ...

14. David Joins the House of Saul (1 Sam 15:34-20:42)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Samuel Commentary)

... choose the youngest of eight sons.  The world would choose the eldest and strongest sons, but the youngest son away keeping the sheep was YHWH's choice.  “The Spirit of YHWH rushed upon David ...

15. The Bible Miniseries: Episode One
(teaching/general teachings)

... the way that it is worded: “This program is an adaptation of Bible stories. It endeavors to stay true to the spirit of the book” (capitalization theirs). We discover what they mean when watching it and ...

16. Micah: Cycles of Doom & Hope
(OT Prophets Commentary/Joshua Commentary)

... charge is that they lead the people astray for payment.  These prophets are contrasted to Micah himself, “But as for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of YHWH, and with justice and might, ...

17. Is Saul among the Prophets? The Rise of Saul (1 Samuel 8-12)
(OT Prophets Commentary/Samuel Commentary)

... and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.  And when all who knew him previously saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, 'What has come over ...

18. Locusts and Judgment Day -- Joel
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

... in Romans 10:12 to show that there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles as the Spirit was poured out on all kinds of people (“all flesh”).  The verse that says, “Everyone who calls upon the ...

19. Book of the Twelve or Minor Prophets?
(OT Prophets Commentary/Book of 12 Commentary)

... hearing the words of YHWH."   The book of Joel says, “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall ...

20. CPR: Christmas Presents Revisited (Mark 4:18-19, Luke 11:9-13, Rom 12:1-2, Rev 18:11-13)
(sermons/2012 Sermons)

... all of these things in proper proportion in our lives, and to ask for the gift of the Holy Spirit. cpr-christmaspresentsrevisited OR Click here to listen to the sermon preached at Niagara Presbyterian ...