PREDISPOSITION
(Garren Stroud)
I was watching a science show the other night investigating what made criminals, criminals. The researcher began by doing C.A.T. scan on many prisoners who were serial killers. The scan showed an almost exact match on areas of the brain thought to be where compassion and love came from, and found these areas to be shut-down in every subject studied. Then the researcher did DNA testing for genes that might be common and found the so-called "Warrior" gene to be present in every test subject.
At this point in the…
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At the cross, Christ accomplished our salvation, forgiveness, and our justification (Isa. 53; Rom. 5:6-9). We need to remember the cross so it can have a constant and permanent influence on our lives. Each Lord’s Day, we “break the bread in memory of that great sacrifice on Calvary.”
I want to pose a couple of questions in this article. Do you personalize the cross? When we remember the shame and grueling pain our loving Savior accomplished on the cross, do we consider that our sins and iniquities put Him on the cross?
Do we consider that our sins…
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Lessons from Ai
No, this is not another warning of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence.
The apostle Paul wrote, “Whatever was written in earlier times was written
for our instruction, so that through perseverance and the encouragement of
the Scriptures, we might have hope.” - Rom 15:4
Let’s go back and look at the story written in Joshua chapters 6 - 8. At the
beginning of the conquest of Canaan, God gave Jericho to Joshua and the
Israelites in an amazing manner. To…
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AS DEATH NEARS
(By Joe R. Price)
Hospice care is designed to ease physical pain and suffering as death nears. It is a helpful service that offers dignity, palliative care, and comfort to the person approaching death, as well as their families.
Surprisingly, many people will not even talk about death, their own, or that of a loved one. Of course, that does not slow death's approach or prevent its arrival. Perhaps they convince themselves that by not thinking and talking about death they can avoid its encroachment. Or perhaps… -
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The Overflowing Love of God
If you've ever held a cup under a running faucet and watched as the water
spilled over, you've seen a simple representation of God's love for us.
Imagine that cup as our hearts and the faucet as God's eternal spring of
love. His love pours endlessly, and our cups … They overflow.1 John 4:7-21 "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and
whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not
love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was -
LIAR, LIAR!
(Ryan J. Thomas)
Did you know that the Bible is full of lies? It is! If you were to start reading in the book of Genesis all the way through to the book of Revelation you would have encountered the word "lie" or "liar" 168 times. So, it may surprise you to learn that the Bible does in fact contain lies. Now, I realize some folks say things like "the Bible has lies in it" in an effort to denounce the Bible and to put it on the level of merely…
