Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Without sensitivity toward others, a human being ceases to be human. In any advanced civilization, the most cherished social qualities are human traits that encourage sensitivity toward other humans. The fundamental code words for such sensitivity include compassion, caring, kindness, neighborliness, mercy, and understanding. Any person would live in an ...
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Matthew 6:19-34
6:19 "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, 6:20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 6:21 For where ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
John 14:1-10
14:1 "Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in me. 14:2 In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 14:3 And when I go and prepare a ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Christians are constantly challenged to remember that God is not human. God is not the perfect human, or the perfectly developed human, or the human with all supernatural powers. You might say, I never think God is human.
Do you believe that God thinks like you think? Do you believe in ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
I want to focus our thinking today by using a familiar scripture in Luke 18:1-8. I encourage you to read with me.
Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart, saying, “In a certain city there was ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
This evening I want to emphasize that living by faith in God is a journey, not a destination. Faith is a walk with God, not a place that we arrive. Someone sees that we have faith in God by how we act on an everyday basis. They do not see ...
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Every life, without exception, lives through dark hours. No one escapes days when all circumstances say the worst is inevitable. We all experience times when we are overwhelmed with setbacks, losing struggles, and painful realities which dominate our todays and threaten our tomorrows. Sometimes the threats are physical and put ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Every life, without exception, lives through dark hours. No one escapes days when all circumstances say the worst is inevitable. We all experience times when we are overwhelmed with setbacks, losing struggles, and painful realities which dominate our todays and threaten our tomorrows. Sometimes the threats are physical and put ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Once sin was an impossible problem for people. Why? There were only inadequate, temporary solutions for the problem. No one of himself or herself had the power to destroy sin. God's permanent solution had not yet come into existence, and humans were powerless to produce a permanent solution.
In early human ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Occasionally we sing a beautiful song entitled, "Have You Seen Jesus, My Lord?" It begins by asking a question and making a statement. "Have you seen Jesus, my Lord? He's standing here in full view." The song asks if you have seen a beautiful display in nature, or a family ...
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Saturday, August 18th, 2007
I want us to prayerfully begin with a reading. Take a Bible and read with me John 1:1-5.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
God always has communicated His desires in a manner that the listener and seeker could understand. In times past, there have been occasions when God communicated directly with individuals or bodies of people. For example, God spoke directly to heads of households with such people as Adam, Noah, and Abraham.
Through ...
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
What is the greatest feeling that you have ever felt? If you could choose one feeling that you could experience daily, what feeling would you choose?
Let me make an observation. This is given as one man's opinion. For most of us, if not all of us, the greatest feeling that ...
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Monday, August 13th, 2007
The gospels provide us very few views of Jesus' personal life. We are often told of him when is among the multitudes, when he had private discourse with individuals, when he is teaching his disciples, or when he is taking an initiative. Rarely do we see Jesus when he is ...
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Sunday, August 12th, 2007
If you were determined to defeat an enemy, what would you do?
If, beyond doubt, your enemy did something guaranteeing your certain defeat, but in your hatred for your enemy you refused to surrender, what would you do?
If you preferred destruction to surrender, what would you do?
In those three questions, we ...
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