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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
All of us tend to exaggerate our loveableness. First, we exaggerate our personal loveableness by asking what each of us considers a rhetorical question: "Why shouldn't anyone love a person like me?" We tend to think "everyone should love a person like me!" If I love me, why shouldn't you ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
One of the most powerful negative forces that exist in our society today is discouragement. This force is even more powerful in the church. There are likely more people who worship no where, or have changed to a different kind of church, or who are a loud, negative voice in ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Today I want to focus us on the concept of gifts. At first mention, you might not think that is a very important concept. I hope when you finish thinking with me, you will find your insights and thoughts truly helpful.
I suspect all of us have received gifts. What concept ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Have you ever felt desperately alone and completely empty? You felt absolutely nothing inside. Your life was so empty that you could feel the hollowness. You were certain that no one really cared if you were alive or dead. The loneliness was so painful you knew it was obvious, but ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Spiritually, we create an enormous danger when we have sound knowledge of God's facts and truths, but have little or no knowledge of God's purposes. That danger has existed from the time of Adam and Eve's rebellion against God in the garden of Eden. That same danger intensified and rose ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
In the summer that I was eighteen, I preached for the Mount Della Church of Christ, a small, rural congregation in the hills of east Tennessee. Among the families that were a part of that congregation was a family named Wallace. Load Wallace, the father, had served in the Second ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
When the topic of discussion is follower, how would you describe yourself as a follower? Do you know how to follow? What is your concept of following? To you is following keep your mouth shut, try to stay out of the way, and don't create a problem? Is your concept ...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
There are people in life we choose to be with or not to be with.
When we are young, parents commonly choose for us and force their decisions on us. Often children wonder why they can or cannot be around the people their parents approve of or reject. Often children are ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Sacrificing animals, animal blood, the first fruits of a crop, and crop products to God was a way of showing dependence on and appreciation for God. For generations, people who sought God and depended on God sacrificed. Abel sacrificed. Abraham sacrificed. Sacrificial acts were a part of worship for Isaac, ...
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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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