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Lent 3 • John 4:5–26 (27–30, 39–42) • March 27, 2011
By Leopoldo A. Sánchez M. Life is never the same after you drink of this water! The familiar Samaritan woman text is seldom set in…
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Lent 2 • John 3:1–17 • March 20, 2011
By Erik Herrmann “For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified…” It was because of the signs that Nicodemus came…
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Epiphany 8 • Matthew 6:24–34 • February 27, 2011
By David L. Adams The Text as Text The text is in overall good condition, and the few substantive issues do not materially affect the…
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Lent 5 • John 11:1–53 • April 10, 2011
By Robert Hoehner When Confronted with Adversity In preparing to proclaim the biblical truths of John 11, the preacher would do well to keep in…
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Epiphany 7 • Matthew 5:38–48 • February 20, 2011
By William Utech Matthew wanted his Jewish readers to know and believe that Jesus is the promised Messiah and therefore shows him fulfilling Old Testament…
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Lent 1 • Matthew 4:1–11 • March 13, 2011
By John Loum Introduction In general, you find that in Middle Eastern and African cultures food quite often is used in a time for fellowship,…
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Epiphany 6 • Matthew 5:21–37 • February 13, 2011
By Wally Becker This passage is part of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5 through 7. Although, at first glance, the verses in our…
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Tucson and Port-au-Prince: thinking about words, images, and violence
WILL WE? (Photo credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times) A stunningly violent shooting in Tucson, Arizona, and we are talking again about violence and violent…
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Winter 2011 CONCORDIA JOURNAL sneak peek
Check out the Winter 2011 CONCORDIA JOURNAL – a partner issue with Lutheran World Relief – to mark the one-year anniversary of the earthquake in…