How to Be Blessed By Joel B. Friends, today I’m going to talk about one of the most famous sermons in history, and that is Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. More specifically I’m going to talk about the beatitudes which highlighted eight categories of blessings. So let’s get started: Matt ...
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We call America the land of the free and the home of the brave. This is our homeland. Should we not provide for our family (our veterans and citizens)? Should we not be guarding and defending our home (our borders) from intruders and thieves?
Read More »America: The Vision of God
Psalm 33:12” Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance.” God gave the United States as an inheritance to its citizens. Why? So we could send missionaries to the rest of the world. God‘s vision for the United States has always been ...
Read More »Placed in the Embers of Love
“Test me, O Lord, and try me, examine my heart and my mind’ for your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in your truth.” (Psalm 26) Who really enjoys taking a test? Not me, that’s for sure. My palms become sweaty, my body temperature begins to rise ...
Read More »Honoring Heroes
The calendar brings us to Memorial Day, the most solemn of our national holidays. Memorials—like all great things—were God’s idea first. God commanded the use of memorials to the children of Israel, and woven throughout scripture are examples of memorials as celebration and worship. Like everything that God commands, it ...
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