French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, after visiting America in 1831, said, “I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile fields,…
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Mission
The Danger of Compromise – Pergamum
Pergamum was one of the truly great cities of Asia Minor, It was a noted fashion center, extremely wealthy, with a widely varying religious life. Even to this day it…
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Awake and Prepared
Wouldn’t Popeye have been better off if he had he eaten a well-balanced diet every day, including the healthy doses of spinach? That way, he would have been well fortified and ready to face whatever crisis arose, rather than having to wolf down his spinach in the heat of the battle.
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Filled With Light
CS Lewis wrote in his book of theological essays “The God in the Dock” the following. I was standing today in the dark toolshed. The sun was shining outside and…
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Good Samaritan
Quite possibly the best-known parable or teaching of Jesus is the story of the good Samaritan. Likely we’ve all heard verses 30-35 “A man was going down from Jerusalem to…
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Harvest
In Luke 9:51 Luke records that When the days drew near for him to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. It only really takes about…
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Anchored In Prayer
It was 1938 when Darlene Deibler set sail with her husband for a new life as missionaries in Papua New Guinea. I can imagine she dreamt of what any young…
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Next
It is a rare person who doesn’t occasionally struggle with the distractions that are all around us, an even more so in 2020.
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Act 2 The Good News!
In spite of the fact that God’s forgiveness is our greatest need, it’s rare to have someone ask me, with desperation in there voice, “what can I do to be forgiven” It is not the burning question in most people’s minds, but it should be.
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Not Home Anymore
How can we spiritually survive in an increasingly spiritually hostile environment? What do you do when the society looks different than your values? How do we respond when the culture celebrates evil? What do we do when it feels like evil keeps winning? It there any hope for future generations? Is it possible to do more than just survive?
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