Month: March 2024
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When the Transmission Quits
Life happens. One minute you are driving down the road and the next you hear awful sounds and your truck won’t shift into high gear. What do you do? Life sometimes happens. You can limp your way to the destination, but alas your truck is no longer fit for travel. The next few phone calls…
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Good Sense, Bad Sense, And No Sense At All
Not to oversimplify the topic, but I believe faith can be boiled down into two categories: (1) Faith that responds and (2) faith that doesn’t. There are surely other concepts of faith, but they all fall into one of these two categories. We will consider only one other, and it is an extension of faith…
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Pondering Ephesians 3
For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles—if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you, how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, by which, when you read, you…
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At What Fires Are You Mingling?
This text jumped out at me while I was pilfering through a stack of files on my computer. Now they arrested Him and led Him away, and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but Peter was following at a distance. After they kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and…
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The Death of the Snake King…
I recently saw a headline (not the one I used) that caught my eye (see news article here). There was a man in Malaysia known as the “Snake King” because of his death-defying stunts where he did performances with deadly cobras for the public. Mr. Ali Khan Samsuddin spent more than 25 years working with…
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A Good Brother’s Good Question
I was recently having a conversation with a good brother about life and faith. He has only been a Christian for a few years, and it seems that the subject of service is still daunting to him. Those who honestly approach the Book to learn and grow still struggle to figure things out. Perhaps, it…
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Some Book Recommendations
Occasionally someone will ask me about books to read. Even recently, I was asked for some recommended reading material by some of my fellow preachers. Boy, do I love this topic! I tried to read a book a week in 2022… I didn’t make it. Perhaps, I should make the point, READ YOUR BIBLE. I…
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