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What God can do with a motley crew
BY DAWN REED They didn’t look like much. Three “D’s.” Described as “distressed, in debt and discontented,” they weren’t exactly the kind of bunch you’d want to throw in with. Distressed also means “upset, distraught, troubled, worried.” In debt? I know exactly what that is: financial bondage. Been there, done that. Synonyms for discontented are
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Repent and Refresh Part 2
BY GREG CRUM PASTOR, CALVARY TEMPLE “In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.” II Timothy 2:25-26 In these two verses
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Missing church
One fine spring Sunday morning, the Baptist preacher was gazing out of his office window at a nearby trout stream. “Today would be a good day to sneak off and go fishing,” he thought. The weather was perfect, his fly rod had new string, he had very recently heard reports of a good trout run,
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Anger on the golf course
BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH There were times when golf course etiquette was completely traded in for the ever-popular “lose control and act like a madman” routine. There’s something intriguing about watching a full-grown man crumble to pieces over a tiny ball that’s 1½ inches in diameter. I’ve seen guys throw their
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Repent and Refresh
BY GREG CRUM “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord;” Acts 3:19 Acts Chapter 3 begins by telling us of the day that Peter and John were used by God to heal a beggar at one
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A mission trip to Kenya
BY DAWN REED Winnie, about 6 or 7 years old, came to the clinic because she had a toothache. She opened her mouth wide and I saw the problem. Two of her back teeth were broken off. They looked painful. I work for a pediatric dentist. Helping kids get out of tooth pain is my
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A second chance
BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Some years ago, two teenagers with a long history of crime and misbehavior robbed a YMCA on the lowest East Side of New York City. On the way out they saw a young man at the telephone switchboard. They were frightened and assumed that the man must
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Deodorizing the Stink in Life Part 2
BY GREG CRUM “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” I John 5:14-15 Want a productive
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Beware of hasty decisions
BY DAWN REED Decisions made in haste or on emotions don’t usually turn out as planned. I can attest to that. One morning in eighth grade, I did something very, very, very not smart. It seemed like such a cool idea at the time. Trendy even. No one had ever done it before; I would
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Can you pass the test?
BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Even when we come across test questions that seem simple on the surface, we find that they’re often not as simple as we first thought. For instance, the answer to the question, “How long did the Hundred Years War last?’ seems obvious, but the answer is 116
