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Finding Roots Script: Luke 13:22-30 Intro: Summer time is for vacations, new experiences, and a dramatic break with daily routine. For my wife and me it has been a summer of unexpected surprises and new insights. For four weeks we were enrolled at the Ecumenical Institute for Advanced Theological Studies at Tantur, Israel, followed by two weeks in Switzerland. To actually stand in the places where our story of faith was originated and developed was astonishing. At Shechem I stood where Joshua did and charged the people of Israel to remember the Covenant God had created between them. Just beyond that spot were the hills of Samaria to which Jesus referred at a much later time. The rolling sparse hills of Tekoa where Amos had shepherded a flock and was called by God to become a prophet is much like it was in the eighth century B.C. In Upper Galilee during the evening we sat at a table located on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Talking with a waiter we learned how quickly a storm can come up, and were reminded that it was this sea that Jesus calmed, and the one his disciples fished from. Nazareth, Cana, to Peter's house at Capernaum where Jesus had been a guest many times, were places that took events about which I had read and placed them on real turf. We walked the grounds of the Essene community at Qumran with Joseph Saad who had been responsible for excavations of the Dead Sea Scrolls. On the hottest day in Jericho's history we hiked down into Wadi Kelt and understood something of the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. One begins to have a sense of roots. To sit down and hear scholars from Hebrew University and the Albright Institute speak of the latest archaeological finds dating into the 3rd millennium B.C., shocks one into a new sense of time, and a sense of roots. Walking the walls of the city of Jerusalem one could not help but be caught up with the importance of Judaism for any insightful understanding of the Christian faith, and a sense of roots. I. Roots are important to all of us these days. Alex Haley's book by that title has triggered a latent need within each of us to find our identity. To locate the time, place and events of our lives. These roots hold fast to that ground from which they spring, just as Prime Minister Begin leads the Jews to hold fiercely to what they consider to be their roots. A. Where do you come from? Is a probing question, and answers to it are revealing. 1. If we were to answer that we might do so in a variety of ways. I ' ve come from my home, it is lonely. I've come from a week in the operating room, says a surgeon, I don't think I did much good. I've come from vacation with my family and we are much closer now. I've come from grief into new life sparkles a widow. 2. The younger generation thinks of this phrase in a psychological
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Title of Sermon | Finding Roots |
Author | Landwehr, Arthur |
Subject | The Book ""Roots"", the Narrow Way |
Date of sermon | n/a |
Type | Text |
Format | |
Number of Pages | 4 |
Language | English |
Biblical Book | Luke |
Verses | 13:11-30 |
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Collection | The Arthur Landwehr Sermon Collection (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
Identifier | 400 Finding Roots.pdf |
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Title of Sermon | Page 1 |
Biblical Book | Biblical Book |
Collection | The Arthur Landwehr Sermon Collection (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) |
Transcript | Finding Roots Script: Luke 13:22-30 Intro: Summer time is for vacations, new experiences, and a dramatic break with daily routine. For my wife and me it has been a summer of unexpected surprises and new insights. For four weeks we were enrolled at the Ecumenical Institute for Advanced Theological Studies at Tantur, Israel, followed by two weeks in Switzerland. To actually stand in the places where our story of faith was originated and developed was astonishing. At Shechem I stood where Joshua did and charged the people of Israel to remember the Covenant God had created between them. Just beyond that spot were the hills of Samaria to which Jesus referred at a much later time. The rolling sparse hills of Tekoa where Amos had shepherded a flock and was called by God to become a prophet is much like it was in the eighth century B.C. In Upper Galilee during the evening we sat at a table located on the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Talking with a waiter we learned how quickly a storm can come up, and were reminded that it was this sea that Jesus calmed, and the one his disciples fished from. Nazareth, Cana, to Peter's house at Capernaum where Jesus had been a guest many times, were places that took events about which I had read and placed them on real turf. We walked the grounds of the Essene community at Qumran with Joseph Saad who had been responsible for excavations of the Dead Sea Scrolls. On the hottest day in Jericho's history we hiked down into Wadi Kelt and understood something of the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. One begins to have a sense of roots. To sit down and hear scholars from Hebrew University and the Albright Institute speak of the latest archaeological finds dating into the 3rd millennium B.C., shocks one into a new sense of time, and a sense of roots. Walking the walls of the city of Jerusalem one could not help but be caught up with the importance of Judaism for any insightful understanding of the Christian faith, and a sense of roots. I. Roots are important to all of us these days. Alex Haley's book by that title has triggered a latent need within each of us to find our identity. To locate the time, place and events of our lives. These roots hold fast to that ground from which they spring, just as Prime Minister Begin leads the Jews to hold fiercely to what they consider to be their roots. A. Where do you come from? Is a probing question, and answers to it are revealing. 1. If we were to answer that we might do so in a variety of ways. I ' ve come from my home, it is lonely. I've come from a week in the operating room, says a surgeon, I don't think I did much good. I've come from vacation with my family and we are much closer now. I've come from grief into new life sparkles a widow. 2. The younger generation thinks of this phrase in a psychological |