The Boat

A man was asked to paint a boat. He brought his paint and brushes and
began to paint the boat a bright red, as the owner asked him. While
painting, he noticed a small hole in the hull, and quietly repaired it. When
he finished painting, he received his money and left.
The next day, the owner of the boat came to the painter and presented him
with a nice check, much higher than the payment for painting. The painter
was surprised and said “You’ve already paid me for painting the boat, Sir!”
“But this is not for the…

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…

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…

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

Why do some people not see religious things the way we see them? Why is there so much difference between what we teach and what the denominations profess? Do we not all have the same Bible? Are we not all trying to serve the same God? Do we not all believe in the same Savior? These are perplexing questions, and they are not easily answered to everyone's satisfaction.

Basically, our understanding of the Scriptures differs from the majority of the religious world because we operate on a different principle of interpretation. To most religious people "truth" is relative, adjusting…