Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
In this society, as we struggle in our relationships, there is a loud heart cry that few people hear. This heart cry comes from many wives, many husbands, many parents, many children, and many Christians. What is this heart cry that few people hear? You don't have to have my ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
I hope you have had at least one of those moments when you "see" something you never saw before. What you "see" is not new. It has always been there for you to "see." Yet, for some reason (or a number of reasons), you never noticed it before. Once you ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Tonight I want you to consider a third lesson from Matthew 16:13-23. In the first lesson we noted that Peter understood the fact that Jesus was the Christ, the Son of the living God. But he did not understand God's purposes in Jesus. Therefore, he rebuked Jesus when Jesus said ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
God gave you and me, as Christians, some incredible promises. Because we were baptized into Christ, God promised that He would forgive and forget all of our sins (Hebrews 8:12). God promised if we maintain faith in Christ, maintain our commitment to live in God's ways, and maintain a heart ...
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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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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, February 26th, 2008
He is a changed man. From the time he was a freshman in college, all he did was chase women. For him, life existed to have a good time, and to have it any way you could find it. You could not depend on him for anything. He did what ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Let's suppose that this morning you and I worship with a group of Christians in the area where Jesus lived. We are actually stepping back in time to worship with a group of Christians just twenty years after Jesus was executed. In fact, there are a few men and women ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
My Webster's Dictionary defines healing by using the following concepts. To heal means to make sound or whole, to restore, to patch up, to remedy, to return to a sound state. These concepts commonly refer to health where physical health has been lost. However, these concepts can and do have ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
I am not seeking an agreement with my perspective. All I want is to move you to think. I am convinced that when people think, they move closer to understanding each other and God. The result is that faith in God and Christ grows. All I ask you to do ...
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
It is comforting to believe that all people think like we think. They see things as we see them. They reason as we reason. They understand as we understand. Our perspectives are their perspectives. Therefore, anytime they think, or reason, or understand differently, they are consciously rejecting the thinking, the ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
The standard for identifying the kind of faith that God wants people to have is the faith that is seen in Abraham. Rare is the person who equals the faith that Abraham developed. No one surpasses the faith that Abraham developed.
That fact is incredible for two reasons. First, Abraham had ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
When we construct our spiritual concepts, we often begin with basic, accepted definitions that are never questioned or examined. For example, we all agree that unity was one of Jesus' priority concerns. Just before he died, he prayed for the oneness of all who believed in him. We all agree ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
The last few Podcasts we have examined forbearance. Those three lessons are the background for our study tonight.
Obviously, the important question is this: how am I as a Christian to interpret the responsibility to be forbearing? What are the appropriate understandings and practices of forbearance?
I. To establish the context to answer ...
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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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