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Fear Not
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH There seems to be no limit to our fears. In a Peanuts cartoon strip, Charlie Brown goes to Lucy for a nickel’s worth of psychiatric help. She proceeds to pinpoint his particular “fear.” “Perhaps,” she says, “you have hypengyophobia, which is the fear of responsibility.” Charlie Brown says,…
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We’ve lost the cutting edge
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH “But as one was cutting down a tree the iron ax head fell into the water; and he cried out and said, ‘Alas, master! For it was borrowed.’” (2 Kings 6:5) The ax fell into the water. They lost their cutting edge. How do we get it back…
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Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH We are at the beginning of a very special time of the year. The season that begins this week and runs through New Year has come to be known as the holiday season. The word “holiday” is a shortened form of what ancient people called “the holy days.”…
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Thorns or apples?
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH In a backyard, there once lived an apple tree and a thorn bush. The apple tree produced nice juicy apples that everyone liked to eat. Kids would climb up the tree and pluck the apples. Worms would eat the ones that fell on the ground. Birds would peck…
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How to save America
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH “And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah. For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from…
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He Will Never Let Go
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH There is a beautiful and important scene in the movie Dr. Zhivago. The Comrade General is talking with Tanya. He asks her, “How did you come to be lost?” She replies, “Well, I was just lost.” He asks again, “No, how did you come to be lost?” Tanya…
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How will you be defined?
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH When you come to the end of your life, will your life have been clearly defined? I mean by that. Have you made clear to all of your family, friends and acquaintances what you stood for during your life? Some people‘s lives have been defined by their vocation.…
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Finding satisfaction
BY JACK WARD PASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Someone has called this the “amusement” age. This preoccupation with self and amusement has overtaken us so that in the United States alone, the amusement business has been growing at an average rate of $6 billion a year since 1965. Thrills and chills are available on demand.…
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Potatoes, Eggs and Coffee
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST Once upon a time, a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she would make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed that just as one problem was solved, another soon followed. Her father,…
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Crippled and Blind But Walking in the Lord
BY JACK WARDPASTOR, TOMAHAWK MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH Paul Davis had been the chief procurement officer for the State of Washington in the 1930s-40s–a task that involved the expenditure of millions of dollars and tremendous authority. Tragically, an arthritic condition developed, gradually stealing his mobility, eventually claiming his eyesight and rendering him nearly deaf. His wife,…
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