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God normally provides food, protection, healing, and other blessings through these ordinary people.
Who are our neighbors—or people serving in their vocations
This biblical chapter describes governing authorities as instituted by God and as His servants.
What is Romans 13
This term applies to both believers and unbelievers, although Veith distinguishes between them.
What is vocation.
This short tax collector climbed a sycamore tree so he could see Jesus.
Who was Zacchaeus
This term describes God’s continuing care for and governance of His creation.
What is providence?
The Latin word from which “vocation” comes has this basic meaning.
What is a calling.
The author stated that this _______ is a purely human creation ... which human beings can create for themselves.
What is "meaning"
This person served as both a prophetess and a judge over Israel.
Who was Deborah.
How many smooth stones did David collect before fighting Goliath ("the giant")?
What is five --- but only used one.
Veith uses this phrase to describe the human instruments through whom God remains hidden while accomplishing His work.
What are the “masks of God”
Although God works through authorities, their authority is never this because it remains accountable to God and His moral law.
What is absolute authority?
The secuarizing frame of mind that has been dominant in our culture since the Enlightenment period.
Modernity
This New Testament couple suddenly died after lying about the money received from selling property.
Who were Ananias and Sapphira
Israel’s king who consulted the medium of Endor shortly before his death.
Who is Saul.
A farmer growing grain and a baker making bread illustrate that God normally works through these rather than acting directly.
What are means
According to Veith, what mistaken modern division causes Christians to look for God only in extraordinary religious experiences rather than in ordinary life?
What is the sacred–secular divide—or the separation of faith from ordinary life?
God extends these to those beyond the church, as he rules in the secular realm
What are His power and providential care.
This prophet confronted King David with the words, “You are the man,” after telling him a story about a stolen lamb.
Who was Nathan.
Acts records that this young man fell from a third-story window while Paul was preaching.
Who was Eutychus.
Explain why receiving help from another person does not require choosing between thanking that person and thanking God.
What is: the person genuinely serves us, while God works through that person as the ultimate giver
In Romans 12, in light of evildoers, Christians are told to not do what?
What is to punish.
According to Veith, police officers, judges, and government officials serve as God’s instruments chiefly by preserving this and restraining wrongdoing.
What are justice, order, and protection?
How many wise men does the Bible say visited Jesus?
It does not say—the Bible mentions three gifts, not three wise men.
Although women were not traditionally listed in Jewish genealogies, Matthew 1 lists four women in Christ's ancestry. Name three of the four and explain the significance.
Who were: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba (wife of Uriah)