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How to displease the Lord
Second Samuel 11:27: “But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.” This chapter tells us about the terribly wicked thing that David did. He saw a woman, sent for her and had sex with her. She was pregnant. He arranged to cover it up. When that did not work he sent a letter…
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Why attend church regularly
We know that in the last days evil will wax worse and worse. People will not want to hear the truth. They will not think that church attendance is necessary. Is it our fault? Are we not making the church attractive enough? Are we supposed to entertain people? We have several problems to blame for…
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An Old Way in the New Year
Jesus said in John 14:6, “I am the WAY, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father but by me.” God said about Himself in Malachi 3:6: “Behold I am the Lord, I change not.” The Bible says about Jesus in Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.” Part…
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The Christian’s hope
James W. Moore tells this story: Years ago a military airplane crashed at Sonderstrom Air Force Base in Greenland. Twenty-two people were killed. The runway and the nearby fields were strewn with bodies. It was a tragic and horrible moment. There was only one chaplain on the base at the time. And the entire burden…
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Christmas Grace
Why would God go to all the trouble to endure our bad choices and our flagrant sinning in order to have a relationship with us? Here is a Christmas story as told by Philip Yancey in his book “What’s So Amazing About Grace?” Yancey tells the story of a prodigal daughter who grows up in…
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Many men of science, too few men of God
In 1948, at an Armistice Celebration (Armistice was the declaration of peace at the end of World War I), it was declared Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. So 11, 11 at 11. They did that symbolically because they felt that they were at the eleventh hour. They actually felt if the war continued, the whole…
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Never satisfied
Some people are never happy. A Jewish lady’s grandson is playing in the water. She is standing on the beach not wanting to get her feet wet, when all of a sudden, a huge wave appears from nowhere and crashes directly over the spot where the boy is wading. The water recedes and the boy…
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Where are you in your daily Bible reading?
Thanksgiving in the United States was observed on various dates throughout history. The dates of Thanksgiving in the era of the Founding Fathers until the time of Lincoln had been decided by each state on various dates. The first Thanksgiving celebrated on the same date by all states was in 1863 by presidential proclamation. The…
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Man overboard
One day Hudson Taylor was traveling on a Chinese junk from Shanghai to Ningpo. He had been witnessing to a man named Peter who rejected the gospel but was under deep conviction. In the course of events, Peter fell overboard, but no one made any effort to save him. Taylor sprang to the mast, let…
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Too proud to pray
There was a woman at work when she received a phone call that her daughter was very sick with a fever. She left work and stopped by the pharmacy to get some medication for her daughter. She returned to her car to find that she had locked the keys inside the car when she went…
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