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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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Focus verse: Hebrews 11:6--Without faith it is impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of those who seek him.
College football is big business in this country. Some of the one-game losses in the top five teams ...
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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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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I have two sons, both of whom work in the "real world." Neither of their work environments are influenced to any significant degree by the religious world. One is the director of a Chamber of Commerce, and one is an accountant in a major accounting firm. My older son preaches ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Read John 6:22-42.
6:22 On the next day the people who remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. 6:23 However, boats from ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
Having faith in God through His son Jesus Christ solves many tensions in a typical life. It solves those tensions in numerous ways. It gives a person's life both an immediate focus and an eternal focus--the whole of life is not focused on the here and the now. It gives ...
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Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Romans 5:1-11
5:1 Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 5:2 Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. 5:3 More than that, we ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
This morning I want to begin with a word association. The word I want you to think about is the word chaos. When you hear the word chaos what other word or words instantly come to mind?
The two words that most commonly come to people's minds when they hear or ...
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Sunday, September 2nd, 2007
The statement, "Thy will be done," is a familiar, acceptable, good statement. That statement to most of us is comfortable and non-threatening. It has a ring of loyalty and devotion about it that should be a part of every Christian's prayer and hope. Most of us would agree that things ...
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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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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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