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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Drug Problems?
The other day, someone at a store in town read that a Methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question, “Why didn’t we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?
I replied, I had a drug problem when I was [...]
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Proven Word
God’s Word has proven over and over again to be true! Nowhere does the Holy Bible discredit itself. But the Bible itself is not its only proof of validity. History has reaffirmed the fact that the Word of God is actually true. Through the avenues of science, we can see the validity of the [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Simple Questions
If one were to ask you a simple question, would you be able to give an explicit answer? It seems our lives are built around answers to the questions of life or at least the seeking out of those answers aren’t as easily recognized as the questions are.
To the teenager, the question seems [...]
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Have You Noticed?
All of a sudden, the world around you has changed. Sin now has new names and church is often nothing more than religious entertainment. People of `Faith and values` seem to be living in a foreign land. When we look around our neighborhoods and nations, we see an alarming decline in morals and a [...]
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Dont Be Dismayed!
We’ve all been discouraged, confused, or beaten down by some ones actions. Many times this happens just after great victories have happened in our lives, as did with Jonah the prophet. Immediately after the great revival in Nineveh, we find Jonah sitting underneath the Juniper tree, wishing he could die! Why did Jonah feel this [...]
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Pray one for Another
As an encouragement cheerfully to offer intercessory prayer, remember that such prayer is the sweetest God ever hears, for the prayer of Christ is of this character. In all the incense which out Great High Priest now puts into the golden censer, there is not a single grain for himself. His intercession must be the [...]
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
A Command Given
Here is a command given, ” and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30
All that a believer has must come from Christ, but it comes solely through the channel of the Spirit of grace. Moreover, as all blessings thus flow to you through the [...]