As November begins, hunters here in Texas will take to the woods. For many of us, hunting is much more than just harvesting an animal. It’s about being in the fresh air, the sun rising over a dew-covered field, birds chirping and your son or daughter beside you all adding up to make the perfect hunt. As many fellow hunters know, nature has a certain way of getting to you. When you are in the woods, you escape the troubles of your daily life and feel closer to God as you take in His wondrous creation all around you.…
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Psalms 2 speaks of the Lord’s Anointed One who will crush the foes of God with a “rod of iron… like a potter’s vessel” vs 9. This sentiment is echoed in Revelation to the church in Thyatira where it says, “he will rule them with a rod of iron” Rev 2:27.
We are also told the Lord’s chosen servant, Isaiah 42, is one who “will not cry aloud or lift up his voice… a bruised reed will he not break” vs 3. Indeed, it seemed as Jesus lifted the faint hearted by healing them, the Pharisees created more and…
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Few people would question the fact that the Holy Spirit in some way dwells within the Christian. Paul wrote to the saints in Corinth: "What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you…" (I Cor. 6:19). He further wrote, "Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his" (Romans 8:9). There is considerable disagreement, however, as to how the Spirit dwells within a Christian. It is not our aim in this short article to deal with that issue, but we do want to suggest three…
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AM Sermon
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Jesus encourages honesty in His disciples. In Jesus’ time, the prevailing practice is to use oaths to bolster credibility (I swear by the temple!) and occasionally to lie freely (I swore by the altar, not the gift on the altar, so I don’t have to keep it!) So He teaches His disciples not to take oaths at all. “Let what you say be simply, ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil”(Matt 5:37). Followers of Jesus must develop a reputation for honesty so that our “yes” or “no” will be believed.
This means we will need to…
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Two men are religious, and both seem to be sincere, but they never seen to agree on religious questions. A brief look at their applications of the Bible helps to explain their problem.
The first man views the Bible as the complete and final answer to all religious questions pertaining to salvation. For him, a clear statement from the Bible ends all controversy. His simple approach is well stated by a bumper sticker we have seen: "God said it; I believe it; that settles it." In fact, he would agree that God's word "settles it" whether he believes it…
