Wear Your Best Clothes

“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23 What would you do if someone you’d never met stopped you on the street, gripped your shoulder, looked you in the eye and said, “I’d like to ...

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Stop Hitting the Snooze Button on God

“Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall … ” (2 Peter 1:10). You know that feeling when the alarm rings and inwardly you groan? It seems like you just laid down five minutes ago. ...

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Our Hope: Jonah’s Tempest

” ‘Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it; for their wickedness has come up before Me.’  But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.” Jonah 1:2-3 (NKJV) Jonah did do what the LORD commanded him to do–he arose.  But that is as ...

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Grabbing for the Brass Ring

I woke up this morning convicted of a sin from the day before.  After getting right with God, I started thinking about why this particular sin has always been a problem for me.  It’s a personal struggle that I would love to banish from my life once and for all, ...

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When God Lets Bad Things Happen

“How can we trust that God won’t bring any more bad things to us?” This was the question my son asked one morning. As I pondered the answer, I thought about the three Hebrew boys in the book of Daniel. King Nebuchadnezzar made a grand statue, a golden image that ...

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