Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Every sincere Christian hungers to improve his or her spiritual understandings. Every person genuinely converted to Jesus Christ wants accurate knowledge. But to possess accurate knowledge, he or she realizes it is not enough to have accurate facts. It is just as important to have accurate understandings. It was the ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
We are too often disillusioned and defeated when our expectations are rooted in the ideal. For example, soon-to-be married Christians commonly expect their coming marriage to be idea. "In our marriage, we won't have problems. We will agree about everything. We will experience nothing but togetherness, happiness, and pleasantness. Our ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2007
What answer would you give this person? "I have heard people talk about Jesus, but I know nothing about him. My family was never religious. As a child, I never visited a church. I have been to a church very few times as an adult. I have heard that he ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
I want to begin this morning by challenging you to use your imagination. Imagine the physical and emotional impact of these circumstances. Suppose that a coalition of Middle East nations successfully developed several nuclear bombs. Suppose by covert action they successfully planted those devises in Washington, DC; in New York ...
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
The most health conscious congregation that I, personally, have ever known is the congregation I worked with in Oxford, Mississippi. Over a period of several years some of the most involved members of the congregation had to have heart bypass surgery or angioplasty procedures. Most of these people were still ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Can there be joy without a cause? Can there be a celebration without a reason? On the night that Jesus was born, just after his birth, Luke 2:8-13 tells us that some shepherds who were close to Bethlehem had a visit from an angel. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the angel ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Each of us has an identical problem in being a spiritual person. The problem? We each are physical. We all have an identical problem in living the life of a righteous person. We are all physical beings in a physical world. Consider two rather simple realities about life in this ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
In the early 1960's I first heard the hymn, "How Great Thou Art." It quickly became one of my favorite hymns. In a very personal, meaningful manner, it gave voice to my deep feelings about the majesty and the greatness of my God.
"O Lord my God! When I in awesome ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
In human relationships, motives matter. We have understood that truth in our marriages, in our friendships, in our relationships with parents, and in the business world. First, consider the business world. This is a well-known statement: "There are no free lunches." In the business world, if someone other than a ...
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Saturday, October 27th, 2007
My Dad used to say that there was no such thing as minor surgery if you were talking about his surgery. He said, "Surgery can be minor if it is on someone else; but all surgery on me is major."
I believe that reflects a perspective we all have. We will ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
Matthew 5:21-48
5:21 Ye have heard that it was said to them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment: 5:22 but I say unto you, that every one who is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the ...
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007
Let's suppose that God spoke to this congregation directly this morning, and that He said this to us:
"You are growing in your faith in my Son. Your confidence in His death, His resurrection, and my power is increasing. You are opening your lives to my Word and my Spirit. You ...
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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Jesus Christ stands at the heart and center of everything we are spiritually and everything we do religiously. We belong to Jesus. Jesus is our Lord as well as being our Savior. We are saved because of Jesus. We are forgiven because of Jesus. We can be children of God ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Quite often when we are driving, we will see a yellow or orange sign that says, CAUTION. We know immediately by the color of the sign and the word used that we are being warned. Though only one word and one color appear on the sign, we understand that we ...
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
I want to begin tonight with a sports analogy that is not specific to any particular sport. I wish to refer to a particular statement all of you have heard if you have ever watched in sporting event in which the teams were tied.
The sporting event may involve two competing ...
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