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It Remains So To This Day …

“Preach the word!  Be ready in season and out of season.  Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desire, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears […]

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“Am I The One, Lord?”

“When evening had come, He sat down with the twelve. Now as they were eating, He said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.’ And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and each of them began to say to Him, ‘Lord, is I?’” (Matthew 26:20-22, NKJV) It’s that time of the year when […]

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A Worthy Investment …

“He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children, that the next generation might know them, the children yet unborn; and arise and tell them to their children, so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works […]

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Would We Pass The Test?

“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you.  And the people shall go out and gather a certain quota every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in My law or not.’” (Exodus 16:4, NKJV) At one congregation where we worked and worshipped, I had […]

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When The Voice Whispers You Can’t Make It …

“For a righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.” (Proverbs 24:16, ESV) We’ve all been there!  We’ve started some sort of diet only to hop off of the wagon when we pass the first donut shop. We’ve all been there!  We’ve started a new plan for reading […]

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“Come Let Us Reason Together …”

“Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord …” (Isaiah 1:18, NKJV)  Imagine if you can what it would be like to have a personal audience with the God of Heaven and hear directly from Him about life and living … about your life and about the way you are living! Well, we […]

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“Don’t Let Satan Blow It Out …”

“… That you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,” (Philippians 2:15, NKJV) This past week in the State of Texas … literally the entire state from Galveston Bay on the edge of the […]

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His Loving Passion For Each Of Us

“Oh, that they had such a heart in them that they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!” (Deuteronomy 5:29, NKJV) The scene is re-enacted so often.  A loved one or the person himself/herself facing imminent danger … want everything to […]

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Walled Up Hearts …

“Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.  This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like it:  You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39, NKJV) Life is made up of relationships … with […]

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He Wants So Much More Than Respect

Sometimes, not seeing the need to ask for directions has been attributed to men … especially when they appear to be lost! I will make an early confession here that as I was growing up, I watched episodes of the great frontiersman and folk hero, Daniel Boone, who was played by Fes Parker. Daniel Boone […]

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