Those old enough to remember the opening of “The Wide World of Sports” television program powerfully illustrated “the agony of defeat” with a painful ending to an attempted ski jump….
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Before it All!
Maybe more than any other event in history the birth, life, death, and resurrection of Christ illustrate this ancient spiritual battle and the high stakes it represents.
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Worthy
A story is told of a famous violinist who was to perform at a concert hall of world renown. As he stood before the packed house that night and played…
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Patience and Kindness
In many ways patience and kindness serve as a protection against temptations and wrongs as clothes do against cold. If you put on more clothes as the cold increases you will have the power to endure it because you have insulated yourself from it’s dangerous effects.
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A New Thing
Compared with the renovation God has in mind, our efforts to improve our own lives are as trivial as sweeping a warehouse slated for the wrecking ball. When we become God’s, the old life is over. He makes all things new. All He wants is the site and the permission to build.
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The Strong made Weak.
As a young boy Robert Babcock made a bomb out of some powder, he found in his father’s barn. He had a hard time getting it to go off, but…
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Me becomes We (part 2)
One of my favorite Mark Twain quotes is; Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. But as we all know, it takes…
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The Last Campaign
Over 80 years ago, a crowd gathered on a humid August day to participate in an unparalleled event for its time. Hundreds of thousands of spectators, police officers, and soldiers…
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ARE WE READY FOR THIS?
I’m sure we’ve all heard a story or two about a nightmare wedding. Believe it or not, Jesus told one of his own in which the groom shows up late,…
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The Cost of Opportunity
Unlike most of us, Jesus was not impressed by numbers. When large crowds followed Him He chose to thin the ranks and in Luke 14 He did this by telling…
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