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Assurance the Bible is true
BY JACK WARD “But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them.” (2 Timothy 3:14) We are always learning. We have spent many years in school learning the basics: reading, writing and arithmetic. And then we went on to learn a skill…
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The Alarm is Sounding
BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH When an alarm is sounded in a building you know there is a fire. You know to immediately prepare to get out of that building or face disaster. Studies have shown that most people die in fires because they ignore the alarm. The alarm is already sounding…
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The advice that Paul gave
BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH If anyone can give us good advice, it would be someone who has been there and done that. If you want to give someone advice on how to drive a car, you had better be a good driver. Did you know that there is no school for…
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Who Will Carry the Standard?
BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Colossians 2:8-10: “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is…
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How Gullible Are We?
BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH A freshman at Eagle Rock Junior High won first prize at the greater Idaho Falls Science Fair on April 26, 1997. He was attempting to show how conditioned we have become to alarmists practicing junk science and spreading fear of everything in our environment. In his project,…
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Have you decided?
BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY CHURCH A man stepped up to the first tee to begin his round of golf. He teed up the ball, took a mighty swing and missed the ball but hit a rather large ant hill; ants, parts of ants, turf and dirt scattered everywhere. He swung again and missed…
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The Inner Man
BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH A man was hired to paint the lines on the highway that divide the lanes. Now the company didn’t have a lot of resources, so he had to do his painting on foot. After the first day at work, his supervisor was very impressed when he learned…
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The greatest thing Jesus ever said
BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Some people have a way with words. They just have such a grasp of language and an eloquence of speech that they are always saying things that are deeply profound. Jesus was a person like that. All through the years of His recorded ministry, one thing about…
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Defending God
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH At Ohio State University, a Christian pastor was a guest on their weekly open forum radio talk show. The host was an atheist. From the start, the callers were antagonistic. They could feel the tension as soon as the lines lit up. One angry woman caller said, “All…
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More Beyond
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH 2 Corinthians 5:8: “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” We are told that when we leave these bodies, we go immediately into the presence of the Lord. As soon as death causes this…
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