There is perhaps no greater battlefield we will ever deal with than our families. When Satan wanted the whole human race to fall, his first order of business was to…
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UNDER ATTACK
The moment, you became a Christian, you entered a spiritual battle. Saying yes to Jesus and His kingdom is at the same time saying no to Satan and his work….
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VICTORY
I guess you could say that death is one of the most democratic experiences in life. Against our best efforts it’s a passage that we all participate in it. We…
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BURIED
I don’t know if there is any truth to the story or not, but the story is told that when Britain faced a critical shortage of silver during the days…
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Shipwrecked
Sidetracks aren’t necessarily bad but can be perplexing and frustrating. Sometimes a shipwreck crashes your plans or dreams on the rocks, and all you can do is pick up the pieces. Shipwrecks are painful and scary, and you wonder, “Okay God, what now?”
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Pay Attention
The American philosopher and psychologist William James once defined human attention as a “withdrawal from some things in order to deal effectively with others, a condition which has a real…
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Fear Not
The story is told about Uncle Oscar being apprehensive about his first airplane ride. His friends, eager to hear how it went, asked if he enjoyed the flight. “Well,” commented…
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Acts Series – The Unknown God
While the philosophers that participated in the Areopagus were primarily interested in the mental exercise of sharing new ideas this day they would be introduced to a philosophy that would change the world more than any other single philosophy in history, the message of Christ and him crucified.
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A Beautiful Mess
What made this doctrinal crisis work out as beautiful as it did was the Church’s AIM.
First, the church in Jerusalem made sure The gospel, was never compromised.
Throughout this debate, the gospel of Christ, the gift of Jesus shed for our sins, the call to repentance, was never compromised. The church understood what people—Jew or Gentile—have to do to be powerfully saved.
This could have been a moment when the gospel of salvation could have been terribly confused, and the church could have divided over doctrinal misunderstandings.
• But the church preserved what Paul would say to the Corinthians in chapter 1, when he said: If anyone pulls the cross out of the gospel in any way, shape, or form, they’re wrong.
• So the gospel of salvation was preserved in this great debate.
Second, they preserved the unity of the body of Christ.
No one walked.
• We don’t hear ourselves well in today’s society.
• We are being so in love with a customized society in which every person wants everything his or her way.
• Whether we’re talking about business and the stores we go to,
• or the clothing we buy,
• or the job we do,
• everybody demands that you do it his or her way.
• If not, they walk.
Back to School Sunday
From the day the students walked into the ninth-grade health class, one blackboard was covered with the names and locations of the major bones and muscles of the human body….
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