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Sundays Are the Best Day of the Week!
The importance of a good Sunday service cannot be undervalued. Sundays are the best day of the week. Hardly will a Sunday pass without me trying to make that point. I say it because I mean it. Sundays are the best of the week. But maybe it would be profitable to say why that is…
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Bonus New Years Day Post
Needing a daily Bible reading plan? Here are a few good ones… Five Day Bible Reading A 52-Week Reading A Chronological Reading
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Praying in the New Year
How much better would your new year be if your prayer life was what it should be? In 2024 work to have a stronger prayer life. Here are some things to pray for in 2024. One idea, focus a single prayer on the subject of the day, while still mentioning the others at least once in your…
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Last Post of the Year
There will be no blog posts next week. Enjoy the extra time off and spend some time in the Word. Starting in 2024, we will revisit the three post per week platform. We might shift to two post per week, at least for a while. Thank you.
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Romans and the Holy Spirit
There is a tendency in the modern Christian world, even among conservative voices, to speak of the Holy Spirit in ways the Bible never does. We must proceed with caution on this matter to avoid the same mistake. We all understand that the term “spirit” is defined by the context. It could be the Holy…
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The End Is Near?
Well, actually, the end is always near… The end is coming, are you prepared for it? In all five of Paul’s “T” epistles: 1 &2 Thessalonians, 1 & 2 Timothy, and Titus, Paul made note of the coming end. He wanted both churches and individuals to be prepared for it. Are you? He gave special attention…
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Situational Service?
Your situation cannot compromise your service to King Jesus. We are so tempted, especially because of the victim culture mentality of our age, just to toss excuses out. “I could be really faithful if…” “But you don’t know my struggles…” “I would, but my unique circumstances don’t allow me…” The list goes on and on,…
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Oh, Oxyrhynchus!
What a fun word to say! Oxy-REEN-cus. Say that at the next family dinner to impress all your loved ones. Oxyrhynchus was an ancient Egyptian City that resided along a canal that fed into the upper Nile River. During the time of Alexander the Great, this became a prosperous Hellenistic City—the third largest in Egypt.…
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First Century Culture
Three considerations of the first-century culture and its peculiarities… It is obvious the first-century world was riddled with paganism and the various influences that brought, but I’m not sure we always appreciate the way that would have impacted the preaching of the gospel. We catch a glimpse of this in Acts 17 while Paul was…
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