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Monday, August 23rd, 2010
I have asked the question of many people: Which ministry is harder, Children’s or Addiction Recovery? Usually I hear back that addition recovery is harder for various reasons. These reasons are all valid: people are set in the ways, they are not always looking for help, the power of addiction, ...
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
This is a sermon that I delivered related to the last post on this blog. It moves more to the scripture talking about Elijah and how he confronted the culture. Next, I challenged the students to follow the Word of God.
A Debased Culture (11MB MP3)
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
We are in grave times. Of course I knew that long ago, but things have been brooding in my mind and heart for a while now. I am kept so busy that I can rarely have a few minutes to myself. I am not sure when this began, but ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
One of the things that bothers me the most is to see people who profess to be Christians, but fail horribly at living the life. The Bible is quite clear about the role of Christian Living. This sermon is about that topic coming from Ephesians 4. It was given to ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
My favorite verse in the whole of scripture would have to be James 1:27. It says, "Pure and Undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world." There is a lot in ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
Here is a nice sermon that I delivered to students at the Baptist Collegiate Ministries at our local community college. This one is related to a message by Chip Ingram which I referenced in the article "Trained to Kill". Enjoy.
Holiness in Entertainment.mp3 (32 Kbps)
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Well, it has been a while since I have posted, and even longer since I sat down to write a new post, but my heart is full with a problem that I perceive. I do not follow politics a whole lot, particularly what the news media pushes all the time. ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Suppose there is a book endorsed as a having "the potential to do our generation what John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress did for his." We would assume the presence of a book that Christians would want to flock to for some keen insights. Well, that book is being flocked ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
We are here again at March 17, a day set apart as Saint Patrick’s Day. What does all that mean? Are we like Alex Jefferson on Adventures in Odyssey who is wearing a green sweater for no other reason than his mom wanted him to wear it because ...
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
(Another post restored from previous blog. I edited a little of this)
We had just finished our small group discussing spiritual gifts which included our usual (though slightly abbreviated) prayer session. We prayed for all sorts of matters, one of them being the children. As we closed the study, ...
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