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  • "Think About It" quotation from the latest Berea Page: ​​​“The man in the pulpit faces the pressing temptation to deliver some message other than that of the Scriptures—a political system (either right-wing or left-wing), a theory of economics, a new religious philosophy, old religious slogans, a trend in psychology. A preacher can proclaim anything in a stained-glass voice at 11:30 on Sunday morning, following the singing of hymns. Yet when a preacher fails to preach the Scriptures, he abandons his authority. He confronts his hearers no longer with a word from God but only with another word from men. Therefore most modern preaching evokes little more than a wide yawn. God is not in it.” ~ Haddon W. Robinson, Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages (Baker Book House, 1980), 18​
  • "Additional Thoughts on James" quotation from the latest Opening the Scriptures: ​​“The spirit of the document [James], which in some ways has a timeless quality, shines through the chief theme of its pages; it professes a deep concern for and sympathy with the poor and persecuted (2:1–9; 5:1–6). No NT document—not even Luke-Acts—has such a socially sensitized conscience and so explicitly champions the cause of the economically disadvantaged, the victims of oppression or unjust wage agreements, and the poor who are seen in the widows and orphans who have no legal defender to speak up for their rights (1:27). The rich merchants (4:13–17) and luxury-loving agricultural magnates (5:1–6) are held up to withering and scornful reproach. Not only are their practices condemned as part of their profane attitude that forgets God and boasts in proud achievement. Their treatment of the workers and the needy is just as forthrightly exposed. And, to cap it all, James directs his shafts not simply at their amassing of wealth, nor even at the wealth itself—represented in the grain and the gold and the garments that were their trademark (5:2–3)—which is doomed to be blighted. The rich people themselves will share the fate of their possessions (1:11). This indictment marks one of the Bible’s most thoroughgoing judgments on wealth and its possessors.” ~ Ralph P. Martin. 1999. James. Word Biblical Commentary, vol. 48. Word Books, Publisher, lxvii
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