Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
How long has it been since you focused on or gave serious attention to the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) when God spoke those commandments to Israel?
Then God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008
I want you to consider a powerful, common factor that dramatically affects every person's life. No one escapes the impact of this common factor. Everyone is affected by it. The power and influence of this factor are astounding to the point of disbelief.
This specific factor causes more joy in the ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
In the past few weeks, I have shared four lessons on Sunday mornings:
A New Me in a New World
A New People
New People Leadership
Decisions: New People Ownership
In these four lessons, we have noted that Christ died to produce a new people, a people who are unlike any people who existed. Each ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Recently I watched part of a news documentary that had a segment on kidney transplants. It specifically focused on a business in China that specializes in kidney transplants.
China has built a modern, well equipped hospital that utilizes western technology and is specifically designed for transplant surgery. The primary purpose of ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Place yourself in this situation. You have a very important decision to make, and this decision must be made. This decision will affect your future significantly. The truth of the situation is this: it will be impossible for your future not to be affected though this decision. One of two ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Have you ever heard this conversation between a husband and wife?
"I guess we made a bad decision about that, didn't we?"
"What do you mean 'we' made a bad decision? I didn't help make that decision. That was your decision, not our decision."
"Well, I made it for us. I was thinking ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
This evening we will continue to broaden and deepen our understanding of biblical leadership in a congregation. Tonight we want to look at the profile of a man who could become an elder or bishop in one of the congregations on the island of Crete. One of the principal reasons ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
What a week! What a roller coaster ride! Something unbelievably successful happened and created one of the most exciting moments in your life! There was an adrenaline rush that created a fantastic, natural high. It felt so good, so right that you floated above the every day world. It was ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
In churches of Christ we have great concern for doing Bible things in Bible ways. I totally agree that is a good and legitimate concern. But this is the question we immediately confront: how do you decide what is a Bible thing, and how do you decide the Bible way ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Selfishness can be one of those horrible flaws that is obvious to others but is not known to the person who is selfish. Selfishness is defined as excessive concern for self or exclusive concern for self without regard for others. It is a total contrast to selfless. Selfless is defined ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
CHRISTIANITY AND RELATIONSHIPS
(Part 1)
1 Timothy 5:1-8,
5:1 Do not rebuke an older man but exhort him as you would a father; treat younger men like brothers, 5:2 older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity. 5:3 Honor widows who are real widows. 5:4 If a widow has children ...
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