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Buzz King: Grace & Joy thru Scripture

Learning about God’s grace from Scripture & Passing that grace on to others.

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Sunday Feb 06, 2022

Forgetting what lies behind

Sunday Feb 06, 2022

Not long ago, I bumped into a man a bit younger than me who had taken a course from me as an older student.  It turned out that he was now terminally ill.  He felt he had tremendous regrets in life, that he had not done the things he should have done.  We talked about Paul - who had once been known as Saul, a very evil man - and who certainly had much to regret, but who was determined to not look at what lies behind.  

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Sunday Jan 30, 2022

For my clothing they cast lots

Sunday Jan 30, 2022

Television and the Internet are filled with ads for online gambling.  We see a man dressed up as Caesar, with thousands of people essentially worshipping him as he proclaims in a loud voice that we should all get on our phones right now, install his gambling app – and start placing bets.  I was raised to believe that gambling was evil, and I compare the modern do-it-from-anywhere gambling world to the father of a friend of mine who, when I was a boy, had to drive all the way to Las Vegas to feed his gambling addiction.

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Sunday Jan 23, 2022

A New Covenant blessing

Sunday Jan 23, 2022

Under the Old Covenant there was an agreement between God and an entire people.  Under the New Covenant, each of us has an individual relationship with God.  We look at the most famous Old Testament blessing: the blessing that Jacob stole from his brother.  We compare this to the blessing that each of us gets from God.

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Sunday Jan 16, 2022

Coffee ice cream

Sunday Jan 16, 2022

When I was a boy, I met my mother's father for the first and only time - and besides him buying me coffee ice cream, which I found disgusting - I learned that he was very anti-Semitic.  We look at 2nd Corinthians, where Paul tells us that each of us has an opportunity to leave our old life behind and being a new life.  I gently challenged my grandfather on his behavior.  Will my grandfather choose to begin a new life?

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Sunday Jan 09, 2022

Listen to him

Sunday Jan 09, 2022

The New Testament uses the Old Testament heavily, as a way of legitimizing Jesus' role as the Messiah and the last prophet.  We look at Moses' statement that a prophet from among the Israelites will rise up - and that we should listen to him.  We see that passage echoed in both Acts and the Gospel of Matthew.  I take a humorous look at a sister at my Catholic grammar school who caught me not paying attention in class, and yelled at me to listen to her.  But the sober truth is that there is only one person to whom we must ALWAYS listen.

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Sunday Jan 02, 2022

Lemonade

Sunday Jan 02, 2022

When I was a very young teenager I got a job installing a sprinkler system in the desert in the summer. I proceeded to have a massive asthma attack.  The reaction of the woman who hired me - and the trust she had in her faith - reminds me of the widow with a young son who gives the last of their food to the prophet Elijah.

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Friday Dec 24, 2021

A Christmas blessing

Friday Dec 24, 2021

We look at the biblical use of a father's blessing for his son (in particular, Isaac's blessing of Jacob) as a metaphor for God's blessing for us.  I also remember, when I was a box boy in high school, being sent around town to collect stolen shopping carts, and a woman cursing at me when she saw me hop the wall into her backyard to retrieve a cart, and how she ended up blessing me.

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Monday Dec 20, 2021

Shepherds

Monday Dec 20, 2021

As followers of Jesus, as people who believe in living the way that Jesus lived - with empathy, forgiveness, and grace for all - we inherit the responsibility to act as shepherds for people in spiritual and emotional need.  I look at a brief encounter where my wife and I came upon a lonely person displaced by a forest fire.

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Sunday Dec 12, 2021

Free!

Sunday Dec 12, 2021

I stood in an ICU room with a young woman whose mother was dying.  She told me about the sacrifice her mother had made.  Fifteen years before, her mother had left home, traveled from the east coast to Colorado, to raise the children of her other daughter, who had died.  Then, the day before she was due to finally go home to her husband and her other daughter - after fifteen years - she suddenly had a massive stroke and would never awake again.  

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Monday Dec 06, 2021

Blessed are those who thirst

Monday Dec 06, 2021

We are told that those who thirst will be blessed, and if we drink the spiritual water offered by Jesus, we will never thirst again.  But how do we remain willing and motivated to search out God in our lives after we have that first, great thirst that is satisfied?  

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Sunday Nov 28, 2021

The first gentile Christian

Sunday Nov 28, 2021

We look at the first gentile who is documented in the Bible as being baptized, and we consider a man who was sick in the hospital and who considered himself a Christian, and yet wanted to finally be formally baptized.  We see that in both cases, an individual must make the commitment and go from being a believer to being a fully committed believer.

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Sunday Nov 21, 2021

Waves

Sunday Nov 21, 2021

I grew up in Southern California.  When I was young, I tried very hard to learn to surf.  I never became much of a surfer: I was tossed around badly by the waves.  We look at the Book of James where we are told that our faith must not be weak, like a wave blown by the wind.  In Ephesians, we are told that our faith must not be tossed to and fro by waves.  We look at the use of ocean waves as a metaphor for the intense power that our faith must be able to withstand.  

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Sunday Nov 14, 2021

A God who is both high and low

Sunday Nov 14, 2021

Many people are turned off to Christianity because they have been taught a narrow, limited "Old Testament" notion of God.  They believe that God is punitive, cruel, self-indulgent, even pompous - the ultimate Hollywood celebrity.  What these people do not know is that the Christian God is indeed the God of the Old Testament (as well as the New Testament), but that God is both high and low at the same time.  Our God will become humble in order to reach down and help us.

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Sunday Nov 07, 2021

700 pounds in the road

Sunday Nov 07, 2021

My wife and I were recently driving up into the Rocky Mountains when we came across a 700 pound bull elk standing in the road, blocking traffic.  He calmly stared down the driver of the first car in a long line of cars all waiting for that elk to move.  We must be like that elk in the road, making ourselves seen, showing the world what it means to live like a true Christian.

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Sunday Oct 31, 2021

Worshipping humans

Sunday Oct 31, 2021

When Paul and Barnabas were evangelizing in Lystra, they were mistaken for Greek gods - Zeus and Hermes.  The people wanted to worship them accordingly.  But Paul and Barnabas know that only God can be worshipped, and so despite the fact that this puts them at great physical risk, they refuse to be taken as gods.  We look at the issue of how we, today, tend to worship celebrities.  They have become our pagan gods.  

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