Saturday, July 5th, 2008
What is the "price" we Christians must pay to be Christians? Jesus indicated in many ways that the "price" existed. The fact that a "price" exists should not surprise us. If his sacrificial life and death on a cross was his "price" for becoming our Savior, it should not surprise ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Do you like to use your imagination? If you build things, you do. If you solve problems, you do. If you are creative, you do. If you provide leadership, you do. If you play competitive sports, you do. If you hunt or fish, you do. There are very few people ...
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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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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
In the process of maturing spiritually, Christians face four primary growth challenges. Those four primary growth challenges are growing in our understanding of God, growing in our understanding of Jesus Christ, growing in the understanding of the Holy Spirit, growing in our understanding of the meaning of scripture.
Each one of ...
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Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Have you wanted to be someone else? As children, we all probably wished we were someone else. A very common fantasy of children is pretending to be their hero or superstar.
As an adult, have you ever wanted to be someone else? Some of us would say, "No, I have never ...
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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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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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Friday, October 19th, 2007
Have you ever heard the expression, "Don't rock the boat!" I am sure most of us have. If one passenger in a small boat unnecessarily causes the boat to "take on water," the whole boat sinks. It is not just the person who did the rocking who finds himself or ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
Genesis 15:1-6
15:1 After these things the word of Jehovah came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, `and' thy exceeding great reward. 15:2 And Abram said, O Lord Jehovah, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and he that shall be possessor ...
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Friday, September 14th, 2007
A common concept among Christians is this: "It is physically profitable to live a godly life." Thus, if a person wants a guarantee of 'the good life,' he or she needs to be a godly person. If a person wants protection against disease, he or she needs to be a ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Have you ever noticed how easy it is for us to hold thoughts and opinions on the same subject that appear to be in total contradiction? We can be both confident and pessimistic about the same matter. We can feel both encouraged and discouraged about the same situation. We can ...
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Christians are constantly challenged to remember that God is not human. God is not the perfect human, or the perfectly developed human, or the human with all supernatural powers. You might say, I never think God is human.
Do you believe that God thinks like you think? Do you believe in ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
This evening I want to emphasize that living by faith in God is a journey, not a destination. Faith is a walk with God, not a place that we arrive. Someone sees that we have faith in God by how we act on an everyday basis. They do not see ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Every life, without exception, lives through dark hours. No one escapes days when all circumstances say the worst is inevitable. We all experience times when we are overwhelmed with setbacks, losing struggles, and painful realities which dominate our todays and threaten our tomorrows. Sometimes the threats are physical and put ...
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